Steph (professional Iron Horse Girl)

Anyway, yes, you absolutely can out-walk the bus here, and that's the entire point of this exercise: to show where transit improvements are needed.

When I am somewhere that is not Around Here, everyone feels like they're dawdling to me. In their minds they probably aren't and are really confused when the little gremlin woman whips past them with no real urgency because that's just how she learned to walk.

This is great because this is, in fact, how people walk in New York (I do it too)

If you live in one of the cities this service covers, this could be a good way to help your community *and* pick up some spare cash!

Yes, there IS a framed Wo-Chien card in front of my TV. I like this snail. It's technically my colleague in the world of archives.

I was excited

I was actually ready to try to start exercising again - albeit slowly - but my body said no and cast plantar fasciitis on my left foot (the flat one). So now I am wearing a sleeve on that foot and being careful instead.

Maybe I can still use my rowing machine if I don't push too hard?

Look at all the dog Murphs in the replies! ♡

My Murph is a cat the size of a small dog so I think he counts.

Speaking of train stuff, I'm going to try to get out to Steamtown for Railfest this year, so if you see a little gremlin woman trying to convince heritage railroads to train her in operations as her dad is nearby photographing the NKP Berkshire it's probably me!

This is true, yeah. I'm so used to hiding my hobbies because people were terrible about them when I was younger, but they really aren't too weird and don't hurt anyone...

Also I am realizing that having really weird and specific hobbies narrows my dating pool down a lot. Most people do not treat tracking a specific locomotive like going on safari, they think it's odd and a waste of time

Genuine and potentially really scary question: how do you write a dating profile in this day and age? What's relevant to put in there? Is it like a cover letter for a job?

Anyway, today's complaint is that Simo Häyhä did not snipe from trees. He knew it made it harder to have steady aim if you weren't securely on the ground. And yet, in Record of Ragnarok, he keeps being positioned in the trees. I can already feel a post with references coming but I am at work.

Why can't I ever use my history degree for normal things? Why do I always seek out wildly inaccurate historical media to complain about on the internet as an excuse to talk about the real history instead of writing biographies or something?

It is now time for me to spend my afternoon sobbing over Ichiro Suzuki. I promise I am okay. I think.

You have to flank! You have to ink! In Ranked, even though the objective is different, you still have to use actual strategies instead of just trying to overpower people!

It is extremely frustrating to play this game when you have an actual background in military history. Sigh.

Every time all four players on both teams in Splatoon just rush to the middle in regular Turf to have a shootout instead of doing the objective it feels like 18th century European armies lining up and shooting at each other instead of actually making more effective strategy choices to win

Update: he won

‘Girls belong in baseball’: Minnesota Twins-sponsored 14U team heads to nationals The Minnesota Twins are the first MLB team to sponsor a youth girls baseball team. Players from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are headed to Nevada for the national tournament.

The Minnesota Twins are the first Major League Baseball team to sponsor a youth girls baseball team. Players from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are headed to Nevada to compete with girls teams across the country and world for the Baseball for All National Championships which starts Monday.

(If you think the driving thing is the real reason I've been fixated on Finland for nearly two decades...yes, yes it is.)

If I disappear to Finland for a few years expect me to suddenly come back as the best rally driver America has ever seen.

If I have to leave the US for whatever reason, Finland has always been my top choice for where to go. With social rules that are easier for autistic folks to navigate and actual governmental support for residents it just ticks so many boxes for me.

Also, I'd finally learn to rally.

Sometimes I remember that I have Helsinki as one of my preset locations on my phone's weather app and then I check it and get mad that it's nice and cool there compared to where I am. (Today it's roughly the same as it is here, though.)

This is true and also why the silent film fandom is absolutely bonkers for a skeletal German goth.

this was, perhaps, the most telling, indicative, and damning thing of the state of baseball media — where is everyone else? my story in @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/medi...

A panel from the manga Record of Ragnarok/Shuumatsu no Warukyuure depicting Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä, who likely had over 500 kills in 100 days during the Winter War of 1939-1940. He is using an M/28-30 rifle and is in a prone position taking aim.

Have been losing my mind since yesterday over the fact that Simo Häyhä is currently appearing in a manga series and is fighting Loki as I type this. That is not a sentence I expected to write when I was in college studying military history.

‪Pat McAfee, Dave Roberts went full company men when faced with a tough question by @jenramose.online‬ about why the MLB All-Star Game was back in Atlanta despite no change to Georgia's disenfranchising voting laws.

There are plenty of other reasons, but here's a big ol' transit one.

Look, if you need a convincing argument not to vote for Cuomo: he's why Andy Byford isn't at the MTA/NYCT anymore.

It's almost like people want this or something! Wow!