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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 13h

I have watched this probably 30 times today and it never gets old

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 13h

Had to get myself a glass of champagne to toast the Very Good Blue Jays.

Start spreading the news, bitches!

Me, in a cafe in Paris, holding a glass of champagne. Matt’s hand is in the foreground holding a negroni spritz

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18h

too lazy to finish the joke you get the gist of it

the feeding shelter cats to coyotes tweet but changed to "my manager told me phillies keep eating his christian nationalist relievers" because dave roberts sure loves watching his MAGA bullpen get lit the fuck up lately

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18h

bsky.app/profile/blue... "i don't give a shit, we're fucken... fuck yeah, let's go, canada"

Ian Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 1d

Kevin Gausman does not give a bleep about the censors.

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 20h

🫡🫡🫡

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 20h

🥹💕

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James G @orth.ca · 1d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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Alexis G @alexisg.bsky.social · 1d

Meme of two stick figures with the caption:
Yankee downfall happening
me watching because I prayed for it

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 20h

🥰🥰🥰

Ian Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 1d

"Start spreading the news, bitches!"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

vlad guerrero jr is the product of a 30+ year project to concentrate an entire planet's psychic resentment against the yankees into the form of a single human

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah, Lauren!

Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a rugby-themed bar in Paris and I’m the only woman in here (maybe ever?), but the vibes are surprisingly excellent. There’s cool art on the walls and the single-stall toilet was clean. 10/10

A hand-painted rugby player on the mirror on the bar wall

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

The direct address straight to the camera at the end of this is 100% right out of professional wrestling. Finally.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Franzke & LA @franzkela.bsky.social · 1d

The Phillies wearing their powder blues tonight is like when I used to get really dressed up for work when I was really hungover

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 1d

I hope it’s also with a knife and fork - otherwise I’m stumped!

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but I’ve seen so many French people eat their burgers with a knife and fork??

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 1d

Jays fandom was absolutely involved.

But I definitely became more of a fanatic once we started dating and actually got way more involved in the social media aspect of that as a result.

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 1d

Nope - just old school dating apps (OK Cupid)!

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 1d

We’re back in Paris having dinner at a restaurant with a simply perfect view

A restaurant terrace with the Eiffel Tower in full view

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 1d

For fuck’s sake.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d

Councillor Burnside, a former cop, says when he used to do traffic enforcement on Avenue Road he wouldn't stop drivers unless they were doing 75 km/h or over.

"Maybe that was a little high," he admits. "A little high," agrees Gray.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t stop thinking about this.

Here’s what it sounds like:

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 2d

I've found the song here (doot-doots start around 10 seconds) if you'd like to hear the instrument that made me chuckle uncontrollably in a Belgian museum
open.spotify.com/track/6yoB6K...

Fanfrnochova

open.spotify.com

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 2d

I never actually saw HOW it was used, but heard the sound it made and it was nothing like I’ve ever heard in my life lol

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