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Soccer and Music. Ran a club/coached some kids, looking to get back into it. Played guitar in some bands long ago.
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Starting my own merch line from a conversation that came up in therapy.

We don’t need a mayor who feels entitled to the job. We need a mayor who has earned it. That Mayor is Ed Gainey. @gaineyformayor.com newpittsburghcourier.com?p=392200

All jokes and snark and sarcasm aside: I am a migrant. I am not your landlord charging you extortionate rent. I am not your employer underpaying and exploiting you. I have no influence on prices. I did not close down your local third spaces. Blaming me won’t miraculously make your life affordable

Pirates fire manager Cardinals select pope More NL Central leadership notes as they become available.

For @thecup.us: A dramatic stoppage-time winner from Beto Ydrach capped another magical USOC cupset for the Riverhounds at Highmark Stadium. They defeat NYCFC, 1-0. #USOC2025 thecup.us/2025/05/07/2...

turns out an outdoor sports team clad in Black and Yellow in Pittsburgh can give you some real joy and hope in the spring the scenes at Highmark Stadium at the game winning goal and final whistle are amazing

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

36 years ago today the Stone Roses released their eponymously titled album. What a time to be alive. 😍 My all time favourite album. youtu.be/4D2qcbu26gs?...

Now spinning… Achtung Kinder, U2’s less critically acclaimed follow-up to Achtung Baby

Hell of a day for Pittsburgh coaches named Mike Sullivan

Too close to home, The Onion

34 years ago today, 'Dinosaurs' premiered on ABC. (April 26, 1991) 🦖🦕 Created by Michael Jacobs and Bob Young. Voice cast: Stuart Pankin, Jessica Walter, Jason Willinger Sally Struthers, Kevin Clash, Florence Stanley, Sam McMurray, & Sherman Hensley. [📽 via The Jim Henson Company] #OTD #OnThisDay

The radical leftist position that I want my children (and everyone else's!) to survive childhood

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

If all your collection had were these albums, you'd have very a solid collection. loudwire.com/best-college...

“Jim thought after ’92 loss in Atlanta that if we added one or two high-profile guys we would be a dynasty,” former Pirates coach Rich Donnelly said. “Not only couldn’t we add, but we had to subtract ones we had.”

help it's been more than two days and i can't stop thinking about atlanta united giving up one of the worst goals i've ever seen in my life

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Today is a great day to remember when a tyrannical ruler conspired with law enforcement agents & scholars to have a former refugee arrested for “blasphemy” during a campus protest To be fair, he WAS affiliated with the “disciples”

Deep dive on mafia state enabler Merrick Garland here. Written in 2023: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...

A #crab in a fish tank discovered the air pump… and turned it into a personal jacuzzi. Crabs are curious creatures and often interact with their environment in surprisingly playful ways.

For @backheeled.com - I dug through USL's publicly available Franchise Disclosure Documents so you don't have to! Some insight into what it costs to launch and run a professional team in USL at the Championship, League One, and Super League levels ⬇️ The expenses are not for the faint of heart.

Victim complex

Glad the folkes who get paid to write about soccer are allowed to talk about this now.. prorelforusa.blogspot.com/2018/02/now-...

Introducing Liberation Weekend, a two-day music and arts festival taking place in the nation’s capital on Friday, May 30th, and Saturday, May 31st, during WorldPride 2025. Proceeds go to @genderlib.com. Tickets on sale now: linktr.ee/liberationwknd