🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Built on Effort, Remembered in Glory, The Andy Robertson Story

Chuck Norris is dead. He was really shitty but Conan playing this clip from Walker Texas Ranger lives rent free in my head forever tbh so there's that.

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Appears to be?

All your calls of the series-winning walkoff [Fox, Fox Deportes, KIRO, Radio Sol, WXYT, WDTW]

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"i just use it to generate ideas"

I can

I can

F1 at 75 A look back at 75 years of F1 history with Getty images.

This is so good...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/...
#F1

Nyhaven #Copenhagen

As Facebook doesn’t value moderating content responsibly, @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver has launched a useful website to help make your accounts less valuable to Meta, with steps on how to limit how your data is used for advertising. Visit: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

Large fishing trauler in the dry dock of the harbour

Dunmore East Harbour, Co Waterford
#Ireland

Front view of a 3 story Castle with a small wooden door in the middle

Waterford Castle Hotel on The Island.
#Ireland

Hey Folks - It looks like the real @mariners.com finally made it here to Bluesky! Let's give them a welcome!

Votecast chart: Did you vote in 2020 for Biden (40%), Trump (40%), or someone else (2%)? (Did not vote: 18%)

First, here’s what we know about how and why Harris lost ground.

Based on VoteCast data, we can estimate ~19 million people who voted for Biden four years ago stayed home.

(40% of those voting in 2024 had voted for Biden in 2020, and 40% had voted for Trump. From there, it’s simple arithmetic.)

Map showing the number of times a location has burned in SoCal and which kind of fire it was: one burning under Santa Ana winds, or one that was a summer, fuel-driven fire without Santa Ana winds. Malibu area had burned at least 8 times from 1900-2017, and has burned twice now since. Image from Kolden and Abatzoglou (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/19

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

Green fields in the foreground with the Boyne valley in the background. Low sun in the sky

Fantastic views from the Hill of Tara across a clear Meath sky
#Ireland

Has Arne Slot created the best version of Mohamed Salah? Arne Slot has done the unthinkable.

A look at Arne Slot's role in Mohamed Salah levelling up this season. www.sportinglife.com/football/new...

3 bottles, tequila, ginger & Jameson black barrel

“you will be visited by three spirits.”

the three spirits:

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 116 123 (Ireland)
0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

Glad you all made it and are enjoying!

Calm lake water with Mount Renier visible in the background on a gray day.

One last walk by Lake Sammamish before the long trip home... the mountain came out to say goodbye.

Tens and tens of dripping chewing gum hanging on a metal rod

The famous Gum Wall in #Seattle

Wenatchee river surrounded by evergreen trees with snow in the foreground

Beautiful Salmon le Sac near Rosslyn Wa

Unreal paths of damaging winds, east of Everett, WA near Forest Glade, WA #wawx #bombcylone #weather #mountainwave #wind

Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau. The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.

lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)

www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

Great that you're on here Alicia!

Sorry for your loss.

Round Tower lit up with green light on a wet night

Wet night in Clondalkin, the Round Tower lit up beautifully #Ireland