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@coriander they're not supposed to win because seattle becomes insufferable whenever its sports teams win

@coriander i love the mariners but they're supposed to be average. they're supposed to have what looks like a pretty good season but not have the depth to sustain it and wind up losing a lot of late games and coming out solidly average or slightly below. that's what the mariners are all about

@SportsGoblin seattle has always been full of baseball fans they're just usually mildly embarrassed by the fact

@aescling good news it looks like this will be the final season

remember when Obama was like “privatized healthcare is fine”

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@aescling oh i meant it the way one might say i don't believe in hell

@aescling in theatre it is conventional for people to wear very heavy makeup and make exaggerated expressions and movements and for sets to have lots of large, loud yet crude detail because it is important for the play to still be understandable by people sitting far away in the back of the audience

anyway the mario trailer felt like that

it’s at the end because like, it was already on an EP, everyone has heard it, we all know it by now

but it still vibes so hard

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@aescling i thought it looked pretty bad honestly. no sense of subtlety. looked like it was meant to be viewed from 100 feet away instead of a screen right in front of you

my feelings about TSHA music have been somewhat mixed in the past but this one bops

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the exception is whenever judith butler deigns to write a column

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the secret of opinion writing is that the best stuff lives in news orgs who don’t have the money for actual investigative journalism (so good analysis is the only selling point they might have) and it’s written primarily by underpaid people in their late 20’s with a high rate of burnout

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i find this funny because in the 2010’s i was actually pretty into opinion writing and i’m trying to figure out if • it has gotten worse, • the NYT is especially bad, or • it was always kinda shite and i am just more politically conscious than i used to be

my guess is a bit of all three

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actually this is a lie, there was one piece by a professor who was like “actually large protests don’t mean shit if they aren’t either built upon or used as the base for resilient organizing” and that was like, pretty obvious imo but at least mildly impassioned

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i don’t read NYT opinion pieces (i do read their journalism because i get it for free with my job) but the app shows me the headlines sometimes and i have never read one which didn’t sound like it was written by a massive sellout writing for an audience of people with absolutely zero skin in any imaginable game

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