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my view is that everyone should be able to earn a living wage doing whatever it is they like. if you love working in a bookshop, you should be able to live a comfortable life doing so. if you loving being a barista, the same. and if you want to do more traditional blue collar work, that’s cool too!

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if anyone wants to help some trans folks today for any particular reason, the UAA Pride Center is have a gender-affirming clothing event next week and i'm planning on running to Costco for stuff after work today. if you want to chip in, here's my PayPal, or I'm on Venmo w the same handle as here

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and I should be able to pick up trash

i think the reason april fool’s day is bad is because it seems to be the day that people try making a joke for the very first time in their lives.

meanwhile, for some of us, clowning is a year-round activity

I think about this EVERY TIME

my favorite kind of save to make? obviously a glove save, but deflecting a puck off one of my leg pads is a close second

the 1A championship has been such a pleasure to cover over the past two years. great basketball and the crowd support for the tourney is unmatched.

my coverage of Fort Yukon's second-straight trophy win here:

this is so bleak

what a lovely family!!

Ahhh I miss cabin trips up there 😭 my first ever backpacking trip was to Upper Angel Creek!

and mine is to remind everyone that roller coaster is also two words.

Don’t forget to wear purple tomorrow in memory of Ashley Johnson Barr

Screenshot of ASAA website showing “1A/2A/3A/4A Basketball” and “1A/2A/3A/4A Girls Basketball”

I would really love to see ASAA stop using “basketball” to refer to boys as the default. It’s a small change to specify, and the girls’ brackets shouldn’t be treated like they’re an Other.

"Fly always did show such leadership skills. glad SHE did something with them"

passive aggressively sending this to tuco & scout like "sure wish you two would put down the dang frisbees and get a real job like racing the iditarod"

Mike Davis was born on this day in 1946.

“At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.”

PRIVATIZING SCHOOLS: “Billionaires created the groundwork for Trump to expand charter schools and promote federal vouchers. Those who benefit from this privatization scheme are not students, families, or taxpayers who support neighborhood public schools.” coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/03/bill...

Every time I come back to this app I learn about a new piece of news that sends me down a spiral, I need there to be more balance with shitposting and jokes on my feed

i appreciate this platform but i do wish there were some jokes on here

The ESPN Zone! This particular one was in Baltimore and was photographed by user "crispyteriyaki" and posted on Flickr in 2007: https://www.flickr.com/photos/crispyteriyaki/517169299

ESPN Bet is reportedly a huge disappointment for the company, which is good because it's high time that ESPN get out of the gambling racket and go back to their roots: opening a series of sports-related bar-and-grills throughout the country.

I need him

Murkowski joined in trying to advance a bill banning trans students from playing in pretty much all organized sports and activities, including chess, according to their gender identity.

#akleg

I’m not out and about today, but I’m there in spirit!

2019 THROWBACK✨

Cc: @akclee.bsky.social #uglydogs

remember when someone was like "that's really mean to call the dogs ugly" and we had to explain it 😂

a goalie paradox: having one of your worst games and one of your best games in the same week

Then she asked me a question I hadn’t considered before. What is the difference between a bias and expertise? In a previous newsroom she worked in, there were a few people who had pilots’ licenses. When a plane crash happened, those people were looked to as experts. Similarly, newsrooms seek to hire people with military experience, seeing that as expertise as opposed to bias. Many news outlets sent reporters to cover Hurricane Maria who were either Puerto Rican or had lived in Puerto Rico. Ho believes she’s a better business reporter because she worked in banking for three and a half years. So why do we consider some lived experiences — being a woman, being a person of color, being queer, having had an abortion — biases, and others expertise? From: https://longreads.com/2018/03/29/is-journalism-a-form-of-activism/

The next time someone calls a reporter "biased" or an activist — especially someone who is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ+, an immigrant, and/or disabled — ask them to articulate the difference between bias and expertise: longreads.com/2018/03/29/i...

oh, realizing I might be wrong about the closure being PE related...but the point stands

some of my favorite childhood memories with my grandma are going to joann, combing through the drawers of sewing patterns and picking out fabric, buttons, and ribbon for clothes she'd expertly make for my dolls.

private equity sucks.