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Doug 🚀

@combatwombatesq.bsky.social

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Soccer, comics, javascript, beer, ttrpgs, video games, corgis I delete my skeets quite frequently because I’m embarrassed that I just said that My teams are: Sounders, Reign, USMNT, USWNT, Ballard FC, Salmon Bay FC, Forward Madison

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 11d

An “unbridled desire to work” is not healthy for workers and other living things.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11d

girl what the fuck. do NOT piss me off with this shit

Updated 1 hour ago • 29,841 readers
Gen Z's employability problem
By Rachel Kleinman, Editor at Linkedin News ¿
Generation Z's values don't align with those of today's hiring managers, writes Suzy Welch, professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, in The Wall Street Journal. According to her team's analysis, just 2% of Gen Z members prioritize achievement, learning and an unbridled desire to work - the values companies prize most in new hires. That disconnect complicates an already challenging professional landscape for young Americans. Recent data shows that artificial intelligence automation is eliminating entry-level roles, a phenomenon that disproportionately affects Gen Z workers.

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 11d

🪦💀💔 forward madison

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 12d

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 12d

Oof. I’m glad he’s willing to do what the team needs, but I’m not emotionally prepared for the resulting deluge of “Rusnak is bad, actually” from fans who don’t watch the games and just look at the stats.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 13d

We worked late tonight coming up with this handy pocket guide to send to NPR.

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" pocket guide. Instructs readers to Watch the Road and Slow Down. Further text humorously insists that watching the road and slowing down are indeed important.

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 13d

I’m not sure if these are ai (explanatory), but these are definitely ai (derogatory)

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 13d

FIFA has confirmed Clutch, Zayu, and Maple as the mascots for the 2026 men’s World Cup, with a bald eagle, a jaguar, and a moose representing the three co-hosting nations: The United States, Canada, and Mexico.

📝 @adamcrafton.bsky.social

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 17d

The result isn’t what I hoped but I still love Georgi scoring

A picture of Sounders Georgi Minoungou holding the crest with the caption “I think Georgi is a pretty cool guy. Eh scores gaols and doesnt afraid of anything”

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 19d

It’s particularly annoying that I have to cancel all this because we were grandfathered into an old Disney+/Hulu/ESPN plan that cost less than Disney is charging for any one of those at this point, but you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do.

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 19d

Went to cancel my marvel unlimited subscription because of the abc/disney cowardice and wouldn’t you know, the unsubscribe button just happens to be broken right now. What a coincidence!

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 19d

Yes, hi, if you are out here asking your boss for a permission slip to do fascism, please be aware that in the final reckoning, it will stand as evidence that you were fully aware you were doing fascism and were complicit anyway. It’ll make things worse for you, not better.

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 19d

Dems ought to be telling people now these letters are worth absolutely nothing.

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 20d

I have deleted
the ads
that were on
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for shopping

Forgive me
they were irritating
so banal
and so intrusive

The Verge @theverge.com · 20d

Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

buff.ly

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 20d

SPD constantly tell us they need expensive new toys to do cool stuff to “protect us” and solve crimes and then immediately bail anytime they have a chance to do cool stuff or protect us or solve crimes.

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 21d

can’t emphasize enough how funny the video is

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 20d

No police injured and no arrests reflects more on the difference between us and uk police than the difference between left-wing and right-wing protestors, though. We shouldn’t use that as a bellwether for our success, since the police can incite violence and arrest innocents to game the numbers.

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 22d

Oh sorry, I was trying to be too clever by half — I meant like “cheers to a good opinion” not “here’s the emoji you’re looking for”

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 22d

🥂

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 22d

I think what I’ve learned tonight is that I should always watch the sounders-miami match on my phone from the beer garden at a slyvan esso show, not only for the vibes but also for the results

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 22d

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky.

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 22d

I'm not gonna read through all the mentions but I know for a fact someone's in there unironically saying "this'll only fix 95.2% of the problem!"

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 26d

Does anyone know what’s going on with the Seattle pwhl team? It feels like we’re getting a little close to hockey season to not have a schedule or logo or sweater or name yet…

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 27d

Wild to me that we’ve decided to let a handful of billionaires claim the fruits of the entire intellectual history of the species just because they’ve been able to finance a file format that compresses it efficiently

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 27d

For sure. That’s exactly what I had in mind with the “if they thought they could get away with it” bit — I definitely think a PL or La Liga playoff would get the European super league treatment from fans.

Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 27d

On the other hand, if they bomb out of the playoffs, I don’t really care very much where they finished the season on the table. Playoffs risk the whole season’s results, and as such feel very much higher stakes than a tournament that is played in addition to normal league play.

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 27d

I think we’re discussing the same thing but just talking past each other a smidge. The playoffs have a different timbre than a tournament because a tournament is additive — if the sounders bomb out of leagues cup or usoc, that doesn’t change how I think about their league play.

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 27d

It makes the regular season into a qualifier for the playoffs and awards the title for the season to the winner of the playoffs, rather than the team that accumulated the most points during the regular season. So, the team that wins the league may have come in 6th place during the season.

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Doug 🚀 @combatwombatesq.bsky.social · 27d

Well, we’ll just have to host a home playoff game so you can make it out to lumen again before the season’s done

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