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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · May 1

Going to start making up novel or movie titles based on words I missed in the NYT Spelling Bee

Yesterday's is "Gangland Adagio," obviously a cringe memoir by a white teacher about working in the hood

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SlayBeans (or Stephen) @jaybeans.bsky.social · 3h

"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3h

They not only stop selling beer in the seventh but they straight up run out of food and stop serving anything. We were drinking bathroom sink water out of nacho helmets.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3h

As someone who sat through a seven hour, 18 inning playoff game, let me tell u that everyone in that stadium is both freezing and starving lol

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 3h

The winner of this game will travel to Toronto to play Vladimir Guerrero III and the Blue Jays.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 4h

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 4h

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 3h

but then

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 3h

Rob Manfred is sitting behind his desk right now pondering how a Home Run Shootout could wrap this up at a reasonable hour and improve the Nielsen score

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 5h

I’m grateful I can still do things like leave the scooter behind and cover small necessary distances or a few steps with a cane, but I’ve just completely stopped doing things like going to the redwoods or regional parks with my family for a long time now and I need to do that again

zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 5h

until this year I could kind of make do, with lots of rests, but it’s been a swift decline from starting with a rollator in spring to just not being able to cover more than about 25 feet reliably. I’m planning to buy a scooter soon and get my life back, esp things I just stopped years ago

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 5h

anyway the exciting thing about this vacation was I rented a scooter so I got to do lots of things I haven’t been able to in the last couple years, like walk around an aquarium, stroll downtown, go along the cliff tops at the beach, or go into a museum. I hadn’t realized how limited I’d become.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 5h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 5h

I hope soon! today they mostly enjoyed doing laps on the concourse

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 8h

watching a modern cdrama to improve my language fluency and I'm about 10% better in business and social situations and 1000% better at devastating put downs towards my future daughter-in-law who is not the same social class and station as me

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 5h

I’m bummed the last hour of the tea gardens isn’t free anymore, but I love sneaking up the tower for the view! (I wanted to go to the museum but one of the kids is still too young)

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 5h

we also went to the top of the De Young museum observation tower, which is free and one of my favorite SF secrets (it's not signed anywhere, you just walk in through the entrance at the end and take the unmarked elevator up to the top, where it's often fairly empty)

My kids standing at the observation tower window looking out at the park below with the Richmond District beyond

Little Kid with more park and houses in the background plus some of the bay and hills

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 6h

vacation

Little Kid standing in front of the kelp forest tank at the Monterey Bay aquarium

A cute alley with Tudor-style buildings in Carmel

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 6h

energy conservation, long term fat/energy storage, insulation for cold temps

zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 6h

My family, immediately upon returning home from a 5 day vacation that was mostly sitting and relaxing, including sitting on the drive home today:

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12h

So far basically everyone is a loser.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

I regret to say I can totally imagine the SNL sketch where Kavanaugh and Alito and Gorsuch are leaning over Thomas’s shoulder trying to make up rap lyrics for him to include but he’s being as stuffy as possible, while Kagan writes hers solo, spitting fire

zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

KBJ and Sotomayor will find it much funnier to let Kagan write the dissent

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously Alito or Kavanaugh would be way more cringe but they're going to let Thomas write it to show they're not racist (also under the assumption he knows more about rap somehow)

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

I am 100% certain Drake will appeal the dismissal just because we need to get to the stupidest timeline, in which we have to read a Clarence Thomas decision in favor of fucking Drake

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · Jan 16

ANIMORPHS
"Shh.
I'm shifting into
SOUP
MODE"
SCHOLASTIC its Jason Alexander playing George Costanza from Seinfeld going into soup mode for the winter

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