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I‘ll update this when I figure out what to use this social network for, which turns out to be #fcunion, Buffalo Sabres doomerism, transport/AvGeekery, and watching the world go to hell in a hand basket.
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Overpromising and underdelivering.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

In Germany atm, saw Bundesliga in person for the first time, and #fcunion did not look like the team I see on TV

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

If you see this, post a fictional artist/band that you would love to see live

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Unreasonably to expect Apple to remember the album art of an obscure artist like (checks notes) Tom Petty.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

@gruber.foo As a cynic my first question is, ‘Does this mean Apple can take the tax deduction?’

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Top #fcunion takeaway today: at least no one on the pitch was hit by a lighter at the Alte Försterei.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a believer in smart policy, but all the finger-pointing in the LA firestorm about hydrant flows and LAFD budgets seems like arguing about the adequacy of Hiroshima's 1945 building code standards. It's a way to evade the big questions.

submitted 49 days ago • 76 comments

This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc. It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.

submitted 52 days ago • 172 comments

Thank you. This gives me something I can hold on to.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

"I hate being edited" — I will insist on misusing words "I love being edited" — I regularly get the color of the sky wrong "I don't need an editor"—I need an editor more than anyone in the history of the written word

submitted 57 days ago • 20 comments

The solution for the struggling offense at #fcunion is clear: yell at them louder. www.fc-union-berlin.de/en/union-liv...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

‘I wonder how many things in the spice cabinet are past their expiration dates?’ was either the right question to ask this morning or the wrong one, I’m not sure which.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

This seems more like desperation than decisiveness from #fcunion . I’m no expert, just a fan who watches every week, but i suspect there’s not much more any coach would get out of this roster.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Apropos of today's merger/takeover news, my '93 Nissan Sentra SE-R was the favorite car I've ever owned. Maybe not the 'best', but definitely the favorite. Also apropos of today's news, Nissan never made another car I remotely considered buying.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

The best Christmas song needs to be played on the 21st of December #gravyday www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMX...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Kevin Vogt, in absentia, cements my sense that he is the most valuable player of #fcunion

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

A really good story.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Went to a concert to see a band I listen to all the time, one that keeps releasing great records and put on a great show, so what do I wake up humming? A song by a band I haven’t thought about for decades. Nothing wrong with The Odds, but they’re no Hold Steady. youtu.be/eimpocAKIv0?...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Undoubtedly a very common distribution though it misses all the Hold Steady live tracks I acquired on @bandcamp.com

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Nice job while it lasts

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes I visit aviation museums. Today I am flying in one: N774UA, the oldest operating Boeing 777 in the world, #2 off the line. I am seated in United’s Economy Minus, so it won’t be pleasant.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

‘The strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich’

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Whether it's Tim Walz expanding his state's school lunch program or Matt Gaetz giving cocaine and Ecstasy to underage sex workers, both sides have taken controversial approaches to feeding children.

submitted 106 days ago • 111 comments