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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 3h

Rosenthal has the bowtie on too tight

#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 3h

Also have one slot open for an expansion team in #WNBA #FantasyBasketball league!

We’re still aiming for a four-team addition to our six-team league, free on ESPN! Come join us!

a female basketball player wearing a jersey that says aces 22

ALT: a female basketball player wearing a jersey that says aces 22

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 3h

I’m in a 24-team dynasty MNBA #FantasyBasketball league with one open team if anyone wants to take over a solid orphan!

Free to play on Fantrax; lemme know if you want more deets!

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 14h

Bonner seems to be who the Aces target whenever they need points this whole series so far… #WNBA

#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 14h

mr. pps over here

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 14h

If anyone who gets to hit the “too small” these days, it’s A’ja

DWB too slim, AT too short. A’ja just unstoppable there #WNBA

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 18h

One of my best friends growing up lived nearby. The place slaps, but I will freely admit it might be the only edge the Bucks have 😂

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 18h

But is yours at a Greek Orthodox church that looks like a straight up UFO? MKE 1, NYC 0

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 22h

I think defense is one of the few awards I actually care about at all haha

The others either have their shticks (COTY is usually for the team no one expected to make the playoffs) or are so nebulous they are just tailor-made for ragebait (MVP, ROTY, All-Rookie)

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 22h

Hot take: Burton deserved First Team honors idc idc idc

I’m not mad about two Lynx in the top-5 but I think VB maybe should’ve bumped Lan, especially as the only true guard on either list

Myles @mylesehrlich.bsky.social · 22h

The WNBA has named its All-Defensive teams, and the Liberty’s Breanna Stewart is named to second team. This makes an All-Defensive nod for the sixth straight season (including all three years in New York) and seventh overall in her career. Another stellar defensive season for Stewie. @winsidr.com

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 22h

It starts off with the set up of the joke, but this is a genuine sentiment:

Only 90s kids (and earlier) will remember that there was an era where the Internet was seen as a frontier of information sharing and hope

Nowhere near the sense now of endless AI slop, surveillance programs, and scam traps

#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 22h

I understand that I am a particular genre of basic white guy, but David Byrne is on my Mount Rushmore at least

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 22h

I got to, for a while, live my dream of being paid to write about sports because I could reach out to someone directly for a chance

I met at least a handful of people who are now genuinely close (and hopefully lifelong) friends

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 23h

I am not defending the existence of the property that uses this inspiration, but I am defending the inspiration

Starlight Express: brought to you by coke-addled plagiarism

#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 23h

My one very niche opinion for the day is that Andrew Lloyd Webber and his entire catalog of works suck, but the idea of a rollerskate musical about anthropomorphic trains is an S-tier banger

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Coach of the Year Nat Fan Club President @donachaidh.bsky.social · 1d

"Even in the 1950s, when the N.B.A. was earning one-tenth (in 2025 dollars) what the women’s league makes today, it paid players 40 percent of total revenue, a startling contrast to the 7 percent W.N.B.A. players get."

#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 1d

Yo, @wagesofwins.bsky.social dropped another absolute banger. Beautifully-illustrated way to show just how badly WNBA salaries are being artificially suppressed by the MNBA’s Hollywood accounting

(Fuck the NYT forever, but circumvent their paywall in the future with removepaywall.com or w/e)

Opinion | What It Would Look Like to Pay W.N.B.A. Players What They Deserve (Gift Article)

Other professional sports leagues give their players roughly 50 percent of the revenue, but the W.N.B.A. players get less than 10 percent.

www.nytimes.com

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Eric @nemchocke.bsky.social · 1d

I'll once again be covering EuroLeague Women over at @swishappeal.bsky.social. Here's a quick primer on the 2025-26 season, including which players are playing where:

www.swishappeal.com/fiba/65450/f...

EuroLeague Women 2025-26 primer: Who’s playing where in Europe’s top basketball competition

The top women’s basketball competition in Europe is, as always, loaded with some of the best international talent.

www.swishappeal.com

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 1d

Yo, @wagesofwins.bsky.social dropped another absolute banger. Beautifully-illustrated way to show just how badly WNBA salaries are being artificially suppressed by the MNBA’s Hollywood accounting

(Fuck the NYT forever, but circumvent their paywall in the future with removepaywall.com or w/e)

Opinion | What It Would Look Like to Pay W.N.B.A. Players What They Deserve (Gift Article)

Other professional sports leagues give their players roughly 50 percent of the revenue, but the W.N.B.A. players get less than 10 percent.

www.nytimes.com

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 3d

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Aug 28

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process:
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah that’s a tough decision. I think I enjoy watching the Aces style more even though I loathe a dynasty. I just can’t get behind the running through screeners, swinging elbows shit PHO does even pre-Phee injury

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 5d

What if the real cosmic horror was the friends we made along the way, you know? Go listen to gutter you motherfuckers

GUTTER @thatguttershow.bsky.social · 5d

beautiful day for GUTTER

Les Edwards. Guy with crazy armor holds a gun. Turret in the distance. Sky is red.

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 5d

Gutter? I hardly know her

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#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 6d

Lol k. Unfollowed then

#FireCathy #SoLongSilver 🌹✊🏿 @jayarr47.bsky.social · 7d

I am so congested and I shouldn’t be at work but today Mrs. Arr finally gets a day at home with no one around

I’m not just a Wife Guy, I’m a Wife Man tyvm

a man says " i love my wife " in a netflix ad

ALT: a man says " i love my wife " in a netflix ad

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