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@aceanbender.com

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avi: me, a late-30s white guy with glasses and a mustache. banner: protect trans kids knife. tear down the bo statue. writer on hiatus. me/cfs since 2005-ish. long covid superstar. audhd all-star. disabled at home. he/him.

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ace @aceanbender.com · Jan 19

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

a large, gray ceramic lawn ornament of a frog sitting outside in the snow. it's almost a perfect sphere with bulbous eyes and a wide, slight grin. a patch of snow sits atop its head and runs between its eyes with a small trickle of water running down its cheek like a tear.

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ace @aceanbender.com · 17h

as soon as we started kid pitch i was scared of the ball, i’d be ducking and running

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ace @aceanbender.com · 17h

devastating, will never forget, involved finances

ace @aceanbender.com · 17h

my personal 9/11

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ace @aceanbender.com · 17h

you’re the best

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ace @aceanbender.com · 17h

i almost felt bad about sending that

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ace @aceanbender.com · 18h

if you ever add a prospect who’s clearly scared of the ball, please rename them after me

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ace @aceanbender.com · 18h

post about fighting someone in a department store and one shall appear

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ace @aceanbender.com · 18h

how the fuck does anyone ever hit a baseball

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22h

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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ace @aceanbender.com · 18h

moving the logo down over the chair has absolutely sent me

ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

“B1G”

ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

exactly what i needed, thank you

ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

lmaooooooo

👻 Boo!-ver Street Rag @hooverstreetrag.org · 19h

@aceanbender.com If I may lighten the mood:

B1G using forced perspective to make sure you don't realize the size of this chair or the coach.

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ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

he gave me a check for $100 after the pub date like it was all he could do and it was worse than not getting paid at all

ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

he said this shit when i was working full-time at mgo and making about $25k per year as an “independent contractor”

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ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

turns out the bo schembechler biographer is exploitative, who could’ve guessed

ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

anyway, bsky.app/profile/acea...

ace @aceanbender.com · 20h

when you read the acknowledgments page you’ll come across a number of his former students who put in a massive amount of unpaid work for the opportunity to have their name mentioned, ask me how i know

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ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

the way people casually exploit others because they know the power dynamics of a career field favor them is so prevalent it’s hard to even see much of it until you get out

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ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

there’s something incredibly liberating about not being beholden to a career anymore, even if it was forced upon me by my health

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ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

*depended, i fix my typos

ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

good because he loved to mention to his former students doing unpaid work that his whole life depending on his books selling well as he bought a house in ann arbor and started a family

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ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

unstoppable tag team

ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

none of these words appear in a hallmark card

ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

if you’ve got the book you can see a great pic of the dave brandon protest credited to ace andbender

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ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

one of them was spelling my fucking name wrong in the photos section

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ace @aceanbender.com · 19h

he was so mad that the first edition of endzone had a handful of typos and it was like man maybe you should’ve read it

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