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Gabe Lerman ・ラーマン ゲイブ
@gabelerman.bsky.social
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NPB evangelist (wrote a travel guide!) and occasional voiceover guy, Mario fancomic writer, implementation consultant at Clariti. He/him.
Profile pic by prawnlegs on Tumblr.
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Gabe Lerman ・ラーマン ゲイブ @gabelerman.bsky.social · 4d
It's available NOW! japanball.com/shop/japanba... #NPB #baseball #Japan
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Seconded. That last line hits hard.
bmhughes.bsky.social Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 8h
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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catbus.phd
feel bad?
try ramen
bowl of nissin artificial roast beef flavored ramen with carrots, onions, cheese, crispy chili flake, chicken + sesame seeds & toasted sesame oil
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
gabelerman.bsky.social
Me a month ago: yeah, I can arrange my workouts to be Sunday/Tuesday/Thursday.
Me today unable to get off the couch: Stupid. Stupid idiot.
November 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
gabelerman.bsky.social
Begging Metrolinx to copy Calgary and Edmonton and install crossing arms at every LRT intersection. Cars can wait - riders can't! You've spent billions on construction, don't cheap out on operations!
swanboatsteve.bsky.social Steve Munro @swanboatsteve.bsky.social · 2d
The TTC has published the schedule for 6 Finch West, and the travel times/speeds are not impressive compared to the existing bus service. stevemunro.ca/2025/11/28/6...
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
gabelerman.bsky.social
I'm positive some of those are Scunthorpe problems.
profanity.accountant profanity.accountant @profanity.accountant · 2d
@gabelerman.bsky.social has swears! They've used 34 profanities in their last 1,183 posts.

🥇 "ass" (6 times)
🥈 "hell" (5 times)
🥉 "ho" (4 times)
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
gabelerman.bsky.social
@profanity.accountant sure, what the hey
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
gabelerman.bsky.social
Oops I'm jingoposting again
The Batman Breaking Gun meme from the Dark Knight Returns comic. An aged Batman is snapping a shotgun in two at the stock, with the words "Black Friday" superimposed over the gun. His line is "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
gabelerman.bsky.social
Queen + Paul Rodgers
Jeff Lynne's ELO
The Who (Quadrophenia + More tour)
David Byrne (American Utopia tour)
The Struts (Everybody Wants 10th Anniversary tour)
theheatheremm.bsky.social Heathen @theheatheremm.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Depeche Mode
Megadeath
Metallica
Green Day
Korn
vanooch.bsky.social Vanessa @vanooch.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

The Weeknd (last summer)
Sigur Ros (in my 30s)
Sinead O'Connor (in my late teens)
Depeche Mode (in my early teens)
Huey Lewis and the News (age 12ish, with my mom)
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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nottaylorx.bsky.social
Fun little evening side quest: the subway and streetcar network in April 1954, but in contemporary style.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
gabelerman.bsky.social
Go follow @banzaibaberuth.bsky.social ! Rob is one of the premier Japanese baseball researchers in the Anglosphere, and his latest book is fantastic.
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
gabelerman.bsky.social
And because it's *stocks* it conveniently leaves out the privately owned AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, etc) that are burning billions of dollars. These numbers are just the hyperscalers, Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave, basically.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
gabelerman.bsky.social
It's available NOW! japanball.com/shop/japanba... #NPB #baseball #Japan
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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mdruker.app
Happy “American co-workers are on holiday” day to those who celebrate
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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defector.com
How a campy 1970s game show became part of Canada's national lexicon: defector.com/how-a-campy-...
How A Campy 1970s Game Show Became Part Of Canada's National Lexicon | Defector
On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he…
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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leftoblique.bsky.social
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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cbailey6.bsky.social
No Is Enough
Canada does not need your permission or your approval to exist.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
gabelerman.bsky.social
Happy to announce that the second edition of the #JapanBall Travel Guide to Japanese #Baseball will be launching on the JapanBall store THIS FRIDAY! It'll be exclusive there for a month, then available on Amazon for Kindle and print-on-demand copies.
1/2
A green-tinted book cover showing a collage of a baseball pitcher about to start his delivery, a cheerleader blowing a trumpet, an "uriko" serving a beer from a draught keg on her back, a batter finishing his swing, and a manager being thrown in the air by his team. Surrounding them are Tokyo Skytree, the Glico man on Dotonbori, and Nagoya Castle. At the top-right is "2026 Edition", along the bottom is "JapanBall Travel Guide to Japanese Baseball," with the author name Gabriel Lerman (me!)
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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sportslogos.net
The nine teams and logos from the freshly rebranded Canadian Baseball League. Our full collection of the league's logo history here: www.sportslogos.net/teams/list_b...
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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davekeating.substack.com
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Friends we just have to get through the next few weeks then free agent season kicks off then we get the WBC.

These are the worst two weeks for baseball every year!!
bnightengale.bsky.social Bob Nightengale @bnightengale.bsky.social · 6d
Dodgers MVP Shohei Ohtani announces that he once again will represent Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic.
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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chanface.bsky.social
It’s official official!

Line 6 Finch West to open on December 7 according to the TTC

www.ttc.ca/news/2025/No...
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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joeycoleman.ca
This thread is worth reading.

In it, Clr Kroetsch notes some of the hateful and threatening statements that he is subjected to.
ward2hamilton.bsky.social Ward 2 Hamilton @ward2hamilton.bsky.social · 8d
November 15 marked a full three years in my role as Councillor for Ward 2. Every year, around this time, I write about another year gone by, what I’ve learned in this job, what people tell me when they see me at a meeting, stop me in the street, or share their thoughts with me in an email. #HamOnt
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not say out. From a long-sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
gabelerman.bsky.social
#ONgov
The Drake Hotline Bling meme, where Drake is shunning the top text and accepting/pointing to the bottom text. Top text is "The Ford government," referring to the Ontario Progressive Conservatives and their premier, bottom text is "Doug and the Slugs," a reference to the Canadian rock band of the same name.
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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wilnerness.bsky.social
Turns out that advice I shared with you yesterday about Google training its AI with your Gmail account was inaccurate.

But it's definitely not opt-in, those smart features were turned on for me.

Still, it looks like it's safe to turn them back on if you want to. Sorry about that!
ernie.tedium.co Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 8d
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM