I can't say that I'll be boycotting Chili's as it has been years since I've been in one, and you can't really boycott a restaurant you already don't go to. That said, I'll be happy not to change my habits, transphobia leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I could maybe forgive him if this was his first time managing in the WBC. But it isn't. Plus, he has a whole staff of coaches, and apparently none of them cared enough to learn the rules either, which is even more embarrassing.

I unscrapped scrapping my article about Charles Sonny Burton, and wrote about a different positive aspect of the commutation of his death sentence:

It's another signal that Americans are ready to stop executing people for murders they didn't commit

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It's basically the same rules the World Cup uses. And this isn't his first time managing Team USA.

He just didn't care enough to know because he's arrogant enough to believe Team USA would obviously make it out of the first round so it wouldn't matter if he didn't know the rules.

This is absolutely fascinating.

A MANEL?! In this economy?! #startrek

WHAAAT?! That's embarrassing

Agreed. Which is why old Boomers tend to be fairly meh about Star Wars, young Boomers and Gen X love the original trilogy, and young millennials love the prequels.

It's the same way that most folks' favorite James Bond is based on whichever movie they saw first. No point in arguing about it.

I had to read Elijah Anderson's "The White Space" for a course I'm teaching and I couldn't help but think of how moderation policies on social media platforms increasingly create "white spaces" through policing such that white comfort becomes the norm of the space.

I was getting second-hand embarrassment just from reading it, imagining the judge talking to me that way. I can't even imagine being that incompetent ever.

Man, I love his swing. And he just hit a second homerun, too.

Holy shit PCA!!!!!!

Damn. I hate it when players miss getting to play like this. Even if they are on a rival team.

I just can't imagine wasting so much energy hating something. It must be so exhausting. And hateful.

Exactly! #LangSky #BlackSky 🙌🏾

"‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

in Journal of Sociolinguistics
@riannawalcott.bsky.social @christianilbury.bsky.social

#OpenAccess #Linguisitcs
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One of my favorite things about Ebert was that he was infatuated with Angelina Jolie. If she was in a movie, he was honest in his review about loving it because she was in it

And that's such a human reaction, to love a film just because a favorite actor is in it, yet most critics never bring it up

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

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Edwin Díaz’s entrance *in Puerto Rico* is one of the most electric moments I’ve ever witnessed in sports.

The non-white MLB players have been changing the unwritten rules of MLB slowly but surely, which has made for a more entertaining sport the past 5 or so years.

Unfortunately, Team USA players are pasty white, so it's the same old boring shit, which is just embarrassing.

My senior high school English class had this poster hanging up back in 1994. It was so common to see these posters all over schools back then.

Ironically, TOS tended to be much better at casting older women to play women their own age.

I suspect they thought they'd cast someone Maslany's age so they wouldn't have to do anything to de-age her when Caleb was a young child. But that was probably just an excuse to do what they always do.

I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible

So true. We have a drawer full of so many types, but every time we need one, it takes us forever to decide what kind. Which kind of defeats the purpose.

My mom worked in factories, in sales, in theater, all sorts of stuff. My dad was in the army, so my mom was always having to get jobs that were available wherever we moved to.

Yeah the only Boomer moms I knew who didn't work were older with husbands who had been in the workforce for decades and finally made good pay.

Yeah my Boomer mom and most Boomer moms I knew growing up usually had jobs to help pay for stuff.

I went to 11 elementary schools plus 2 Head Starts, 2 schools in junior high, and 4 high schools.

It took me years to recover from that.

I'm still bad at learning names because I grew up never seeing the point in learning a person's name.

In my experience, the white folks who don't talk about politics are either conservatives or liberals who want to remain friends with conservatives. Lot of my fellow white liberals are not as progressive as they'd like to think. It's a big reason they stay quiet about their racist friends and family.

Incredible