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Carl D. Orr

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Baseball, food, beer, politics, indie rock. Nats, Caps, Mason basketball, JMU football. Horse dad, color guard dad. 11-string guitarist. (he/him)

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Email from Google Gemini with subject "You’re now using Gemini on your iOS device"

Email from Google Gemini with subject "You’re now using Gemini on your iOS device"

Conspicuously absent from this email: any instructions on how to NOT use Gemini on my iPhone. Goddammit.

06.03.2026 14:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No there are exchanges, but they're limited. Can't exchange for some of the bobblehead games, or the entire Yankees series.

03.03.2026 14:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If anyone wants to buy some tickets cheap, let me know. Or if you want to go to a game with me, it'll cost you a beer. Section 312 row C most of the time.

03.03.2026 14:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I got full access to my Nats tickets yesterday, and spend a good bit of time exchanging and putting games up for sale on SeatGeek. The dates of my 20-gamer were NOT kind to me this year (six bobblehead games, none in my package! seven games I have conflicts for already!).

03.03.2026 14:26 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
a fox on our back deck in light snow

a fox on our back deck in light snow

fox news this morning

03.03.2026 11:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder what the Venn diagram of "people who are mad that the Virginia legislature voted themselves a pay raise" vs. "people who think it's fine that the Trump family has made billions off the presidency" looks like.

Probably not a single circle, but you know there's a good bit of overlap there.

03.03.2026 01:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"it's different when we do it"

02.03.2026 16:00 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“It’s different when we do it” wins again

28.02.2026 16:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Oh you've got food? OK then, let's go back."

25.02.2026 15:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sure wish there was a Sean Doolittle type on the team. But guys like him are so rare among pro athletes.

24.02.2026 19:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An older white male ex-athlete telling a female athlete she's Doing It Wrong? NFW

Boomer, have you ever considered just not

24.02.2026 16:21 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

I attribute it to the British Sea Power song “Waving Flags.”

(This is an absurdly esoteric joke even by my standards.)

22.02.2026 20:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If the US scores the winning goal on this power play, after the too many men non-call, we will never hear the end of it

22.02.2026 15:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hades is frickin’ awesome.

20.02.2026 22:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“It’s different when we do it” explains so much

17.02.2026 19:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nextdoor poster: vote no on Virginia redistricting! It’s unfair to Republican voters!
Commenter: ok but what about Texas and other states that are gerrymandered against Dems?
Original poster: It’s unfair to Republican votes!

17.02.2026 19:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Slow pitch softball, I got called out for leaving third early on a fly ball tag up after I stood on the base and watched the outfielder catch the ball. Lost my shit, told the ump he didn’t see it and just gave it to the other team because they asked. Lucky I didn’t get ejected.

17.02.2026 18:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bon Appetit always running articles with the words “humble cuts” and that phrase makes me want to throw things

15.02.2026 19:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

100% a thing that Brak would say

15.02.2026 03:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

C’mon, Baseball Prospectus gave them a 0.2% chance of making the postseason.

14.02.2026 17:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I suspect either sarcasm, or AI-written copy that no one bothered to check.

11.02.2026 15:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Gonna start posting this in NextDoor threads. Will credit HamNo.

10.02.2026 14:12 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I brought this up on Reddit and got downvoted, because of course I did.

09.02.2026 17:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

All yelling at the tv

09.02.2026 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ohhhh they’re doing “American Idiot,” gonna be some fun reactions to that.

08.02.2026 23:09 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I would cancel my subscription except I already did that

04.02.2026 14:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Fairfax County board could take some lessons from this. People complain incessantly about taxes and spending without having any understanding of the county budget process whatsoever.

30.01.2026 19:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Take that may get me ridiculed by NatsSky: I don't think that Kolko and Frandsen are that bad. They're not the greatest, and yes Slowes and Jageler are better. But I don't find this TV team to be unbearable, as many of you apparently do.

27.01.2026 17:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"'It’s different when we do it' is already a bad American habit, and it is one that is dangerously easy to keep applying until something tells you to stop."

Those six words sum up so much of the right-wing worldview. We see it as hypocrisy, but for many of them it's really not.

26.01.2026 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You called that long pass into existence

25.01.2026 20:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0