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mlsamy.bsky.social
librarian | Cleveland | Ohio U. Scripps journalism alum | food & cocktails | she/her/hers | #Crew96 | I will still boo Michael Bradley post-retirement
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Parliament (Bundeshaus) in Bern. TIL that while Switzerland’s bicameral system was inspired by the U.S. Constitution, their executive powers are shared by a committee in order to prevent power grabs by any one person 🤔

There’s your empty shelf. US goods imports drop 19.8% in April — largest on record

Me w/my AirPods in, cracking up. DH, looking at my phone: “Are you listening to ACES Radio? In Switzerland? They don’t deserve this. It used to be a pristine country.” #crew96

Climbed 365 steps to the top of the tower at St-Nicolas Cathedral in Fribourg, where a kid was having an extended meltdown. Fribourg is lovely, a medieval city on a hillside with narrow alleys, beautiful architecture, & a funicular that runs on wastewater(!). #switzerland

@crewfancouncil.bsky.social 🚨 Nordecke members and Crew fans, we need your feedback! Please fill out our Cleveland post match survey to tell us all about your experience or give us your thoughts on the match up North. nordecke.com/2025/05/27/c...

"If we want to aspire to something - we cannot do that" Wilfried Nancy walked away from #Crew96 draw with some frustrations as their winless streak extends to 5 games. More in my takeaways from the Nashville matchup in my latest www.dispatch.com/story/sports...

I will always appreciate the optics of a 1/2 empty stadium in Austin, TX. Just 5,300 dorks filing out past a tire reseller, assuring eachother it’s their 2nd downtown. Clark hitting send on another spreadsheet that says SELLOUT. Anthony at home in California, half asleep, choking on his own spit.

Update #crew96

i heard reading is fundamental

Romont is lovely. Very non-touristy, which is a nice break from some of the more-visited cities.

Shot, Shot, Shot, Shot. Were you expecting a chaser? You sweet, stupid summer child #crew96

Home teams nab 1.57 PPG under Rivas but Columbus nabs only 0.4PPG. Oooof. #Crew96

Wilfried Nancy confirmed that goalkeeper Patrick Schulte will be sidelined 2 to 6 weeks with an oblique injury Schulte suffered the injury during warmups ahead of the Charlotte matchup #Crew96

Four pastries/sweets in one day may be a new record for me. Pain aux raisins, erdbeerkuchen, nussgipfel, meringues with Gruyères double cream. #switzerland

As we approach June and Pride Month, I'm asking #Crew96 fans to join in this year's Prideraiser, benefitting Kaleidoscope Youth Center. In the current political and social climate, it's important to support organizations that provide safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth. www.prideraiser.org/r5j8oY7J8eld...

Not sure what’s going on here but they all seem very surprised

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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The perfect read for a day that includes watching cheese being made.

Good morning from Gruyères 🧀

Good morning from Gruyères 🧀

Almost 10k feet up on the Schilthorn in the Swiss Alps. In the 1969 007 film “Her Majesty’s Service” it featured as Piz Gloria, which I kept reading as “Plz Gloria” which made me think “plz Margen” 🦅

#crew96 are 0-1-3 all time on the Bank of America turf and have had to sub off starters due to injury within the first 20 minutes in each of the last 3 matches. All our love to @meckmassive.bsky.social but Crew just need to forfeit the Charlotte road match moving forward

If the #Crew96 organization can decide to punt on an entire competition like the Open Cup because they don’t think the players can handle that many games, I don’t see why they can’t skip one game a year at Charlotte where players legs go to die.

the cows and goats up here really do wear bells 🐮

woman next to me on a train is FaceTiming; she says to whoever it is, “I don’t want to talk about that, I’m on a train, people can hear.” 2 mins later: “If I want to fuck, I’ll fuck. If I want to have sex, I’ll have sex.” Which made me wonder what it was she didn’t want to talk about in public 🤔

The team preaches about being one club, but then they schedule first team events during second team home games. This is actively hurting second team matchday experience and second team performance. #CapyCrew | #Crew96 | #ShootsOwnFoot

We haven’t slept in over 24 hours but the views in the Alps are beautiful.

Cutting down more trees in Ohio’s only National Forest is another disastrous move that will continue to fuel the climate crisis and harm communities throughout Appalachia. www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

lol what did he think was going to happen?

This is the future of book recommendations when libraries are defunded and dismantled. Trained professionals are removed in exchange for this made up, inaccurate garbage. Are you fighting yet?

jfc. Can't wait for patrons to come into the library asking for books that don't actually exist. #libraries

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

The ranunculus are blooming faster than we can cut them. #flowers #gardening

Gang, we're back in the "the goals will come" era. #Crew96

Play The Music! Play The Music! Play The Music! Play The Music! Play The Music! Play The Music! Play The Music! That’s 7 wins for the Capys in the Heck is Plausible derby! #CapyCrew | #Crew96 | #LuckyNumber7

h/t: Two Crow Collective

How many rules has MLS and US Soccer broken or changed for Messi now? I've lost count.

Kei Kamara subs in wearing 85, which is also the number of teams he’s played for.

🎶 Come on Crew let’s sign a 9 It’s really fucking simple