And ended its bonkers phase. #OTwinner

This game has entered its bonkers phase.

Actually, game 2 is Tuesday (that's unsual), also on ESPN (or your local MSG). There are an unusual number of offdays in that series. Game 3 is Thursday in Boston, and Game 4 on Sunday afternoon, also in Boston. The next 3 are only if needed.
Welcome to playoff hockey! It's the best!

This is only game 1!

When I moved back to the northeast, after 15 years in Texas and Florida, it was the forsythia more than anything that made me feel like I'd come home.

Very

Mastectomy patients who want a femme silhouette.

If the photo on the left isn't a metaphor for our times…

Two players over c. 20 years do not make a trend. That said, one of my proudest moments as a fan was joining in on booing John Rocker as he trotted in from the bullpen in Bridgeport when he was making a brief attempt at a comeback with the LI Ducks, back in 2005 (eep!).

I've learned, as an adult, to use both, and, while some of my non-spinning friends might disagree, I wouldn't describe myself as skilled, certainly nowhere nearly as skilled as friends raised where spinning is part of the fabric of daily life

As a quasi-industrial production tool, a wheel is certainly more efficient than a drop spindle. But drop spindles are portable, so spinning can take place throughout the day, at multiple locations.

Pretty sure that was the one!

Worst coffee I've ever had was some Dunkin at a MassPike service area.

Wait, what???!??!??

For me, it's even further back. I remember it from Usenet back in the mid-late 1990s.

I was 25, my first stint as a TA in grad school in Texas, and, yeah, it was super weird.

When I was 10, I figured out that I'd be 48 in the year 2000, and that seemed impossibly old.

This year's Swedish hockey sweaters are a definite downgrade.

Turns on Olympic hockey game; looks at goalie matchup; looks at score. Welp, that probably won't last.

I haven't been watching the Olympics, but thought I might watch some of the Canada mens hockey game, but it looks like it's effectively PPV, so that's a big no. (At least the US game yesterday was on a channel I already pay for.)

It was, indeed. Amazing staging and choreography, and *very* political (in a good way).

Especially the take on "God Bless America"—all of the Americas.

That was fucking amazing!

I have friends who haven't been rallying or calling who have been knitting or crocheting red hats.

It's moving a whole bunch of people from doing nothing to doing something. Maybe they could do more, but we all had to start someplace.

When I was working, cheap ball point pens may or may not have come home with me. And I do have the freebies. But I also enjoy looking for something with purple ink at Staples. And I'm still looking for the perfect mechanical pencil.

I got "potato", and lodged an objection. Second try is "compassionate", and I'd rather try to live up to that than to "potato"

Very much so. There's a huge difference between being aware of something and wallowing it, and an informational post turns into rage-bait after the first few times it's been reposted.

Yeah, I was wondering why that labeler hadn't gotten it.

I am strongly tempted to block anybody who posts screenshots from Truth Social. Less than 5 minutes scrolling Bluesky, and I've seen the same deranged post a dozen times, half in the dark mode that hurts my eyes. Enough already!