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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I assumed they were eventually going to get to SOME weird MLS style rule in this situation - the incentives are similar even though almost everyone's numbers are smaller - but this was not the one I would have picked

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

confidential to Normal Island in particular, today

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I think we treat reading and writing, specifically, as learnable (as opposed to visual art and music, which get a lot of the same "innate talent" talk) though this might be a me-specific recollection, I have never been even decent at the latter two (though this never stops me from singing)

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

like, you can arguably do it for Carney because there appears to actually be A Plan and he's articulated it, even though circumstances have required various zigzags that people who held their nose for him at the polls clearly don't like Starmer either doesn't have a plan or isn't sharing it!

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I don't even watch CFB, I'm just here for the Discourse: particularly this Leitch column framing the whole mess as a Teachable Moment, especially since college sports is ostensibly educational though ironically the athletes seem the ones least in need of THIS lesson www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...

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Notre Dame (and others) blame everyone but themselves in CFB’s lawless, leaderless era - The Athletic

Everyone in college football wants a cookie, and they're throwing a tantrum until they get their dessert.

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I think we will someday miss having the MLS season end immediately before the college football playoffs, just for the timely hit of perspective on what a dysfunctional and confusing playoff system actually looks like

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

being able to feel air that cold to any extent is enough to leave you questioning your life choices

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I'm happy for the opportunity Wilfried Nancy has taken but Celtic IN PARTICULAR feels like hard mode because the fans are not used to having more than one other team to worry about

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

well he's French so that'll get him halfway

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

two leg series as if you weren't sick enough of them already

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Abe Kenmore @twitterlessabe.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Humanities students should understand some level of mathematics just like STEM majors should know how to write clearly

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Honestly they absolutely should do it, in the same way other leagues both in the US and abroad name awards after outstanding players from early in their history even if they've been surpassed since just maybe not YET

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I think @mattgurney.bsky.social got to the heart of the world's "USA Problem" "But every single person who departs is being replaced by someone who is totally fine with the new U.S. foreign policy. That will accelerate the process that’s already underway." www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

readtheline.ca

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'

Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

we were, of course, all much younger then and far less inclined to empathy

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

in retrospect we shouldn't have made so much fun of Ted Stevens actually at the time we shouldn't have made so much fun of him, he was pretty much correct if you compensate for "old person talking about thing invented after his prime"

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I would kill to have a public that understands the Internet merely as badly as Ted Stevens did.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

no no Steve it's ARYANISM, not *Arianism*

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

it is so funny we’re back at square one with the streaming services. brief moment of low cost/high budget tv was just the product of another VC cash pit.

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

the thing about middlemen is that everyone hates them but whenever they're removed they just reconstitute themselves because it turns out everyone also hates the cognitive load of dealing with all the individual providers of the vast variety of goods and services and content we want

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Madame is watching Person of Interest off and on after not finishing it the first time and I'm torn about whether to bring this up to her or leave it as a Fun Surprise

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I will only ever remember Varoufakis as the guy Valve hired to research the Steam marketplace so him going pro-gamer mode when it came to all the racism in the new NSS shouldn't be unexpected

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

obviously the federal government is under no formal obligation (collective bargaining agreements aside) to consider this when deciding how much in-office presence should be required from its employees practical obligations on the other hand...

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I am extremely sympathetic to the design of the post-LRT Ottawa transit system as a concept, even though it has made a number of people's individual commutes require more transfers than they used to its actual EXECUTION, thanks to resource constraints from Council, has been borderline unforgivable

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It's extremely funny that this person is getting really annoyed by reply limiting (something I personally also find kinda annoying, but which also exists on Twitter) while abusing "removed by author" (a unique blueskyism)

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It used to be quite good but in a way that wouldn't scale and the unified city government was never going to spend enough to properly scale it, especially once the first mayor who tried promptly lost an election before being able to get shovels in the ground hilarity has ensued

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

so I appreciate the opportunity for further thought, while knowing it will probably remain theoretical in my specific case

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

My initial reaction was that the latter harm would at least be more localised, but I suppose the societal metastasis of the extreme people/responsibilities orientation is the old saw about liberalism refusing to take its own side in an argument, or the Anti-Bedtime Aktion tendency more generally

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

it's usually possible to disambiguate this (hell, there are tools to see through blocks and I don't think it's technically possible to prevent them on this protocol) but with enough friction that I frequently find myself reconsidering my life choices whenever I try

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

but I still think that these different motivations can cause parents to take even the same courses of action in different ways or to different degrees and that the former works out better in the long run for parent, child, and society

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

the nuclear block is probably better for temperature control On Here but it does create situations like this, yes I concede there's room for reasonable disagreement on specific acts representing "you're trying to help them the best you know how" vs "you're trying to force them to be someone else"

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

honestly kind of a shame, look at this cast supposedly the producer submitted the unreleased episodes as evidence to the Spanish court in his trial and honestly I hope someone gets a hold of them someday m.imdb.com/title/tt1152...

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Glow & Darkness (TV Series 2021– ) - Full cast & crew - IMDb

Glow & Darkness (TV Series 2021– ) - Cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

and this is before you even get into INBORN differences from what parents expect that can frequently arise

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

If they sell the team in the offseason it might just happen?

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

new explanation unlocked for @crusaderkings.com AI characters: "honestly they were just Like That, several centuries of hindsight + not having sustained decades of head trauma as a cultural expectation will necessarily be a superpower, sorry"

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

We'll see what the silly season brings I guess!

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Few games have as consistent of a "yeah, that game ruled" hit rate than MLS Cup, especially considering expectations. Another worthy installment tonight.

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I was too busy watching to notice these effects of Vancouver's subs in real time in this level of detail, which is why I'm just Some Guy and Kieran is someone you should follow to better understand the game (and someone I am now following to better understand the game)

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

but Parker, obviously this wouldn't apply to Miami because the rules don't apply to them! (please ignore the insane roster construction that only happens because the rules DO apply to them and only works because they have the literal GOAT as a recruiter)

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

also they lost their most important and player for basically the entire season not sure what the rules had to do with that!

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

he gets it hopefully the city gets it too

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

yeah but the self-loathing US soccer media will absolutely take it in that direction

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Football Manager is more realistic about MLS than I thought, I can never pull off the Cup win in the first season after switching Vancouver to a ball-dominant 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 hybrid either

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

going for it was the right call but Ahmed is not the one you take off to go for it unless he's exhausted And the problem is who DO you switch? Cubas despite his brain fart is still needed, Berhalter is too good at set pieces, maybe a defender but who knows how the team managers 3ATB?

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

honestly it's the Athletic I'm worried about, the mothership have actually been tolerable this week

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

honestly I hope it was because he was feeling something because otherwise I didn't and don't get it Sabbi or maybe even Muller sure but taking Ahmed off in that moment was weird

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

goddamnit my spelling today has been as bad as my team's finishing

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

welp, live by the triple post and die by the triple post it's a game of inches and moments and Miami got them this time, but I'm looking forward to seeing just how Sorensen fits Muller and Gauls in the same XI next season

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tisane al-gaib @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

not going to check what r/MLS is saying about that Cubas tackle (or that giveaway for that matter)

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