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Valkyries Beat @valkyriesbeat.bsky.social · 26m

NEW READING LIST: The best reads from around the WNBA playoffs, PWHL, MLV and more, including a Tiffany Hayes story from the SF Standard and Kenzo Fukuda's Natalie Nakase deep dive. www.valkyriesbeat.com/p/valkyries-...

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Valkyries Insider: Reading List 9/30

This week's reading list from around the WNBA playoffs and more

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 1h

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 2h

Patrick is a stone cold freak for dropping writing this good into the intro of what is a useful, but fairly formulaic Game 2 preview format: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

There’s an element to sports that sportswriters never weary of trying to capture, hacking through the kudzu of metrics and quotations to get at. It’s the paradox of a sense of overwhelming immortality, mixed with a sense of how fleeting that omnipotence is. Athletes hypnotize themselves into attaining it, fans slurp at it like a shallow oasis in the desert, writers build entire novels constructing a world to provide it. The Boston Red Sox lost a pair of games to the Washington Nationals by 15 runs around the end of June, and then seized that invincibility and held it for more than five full weeks, enjoying a run almost unparalleled in the history of baseball. It was like snorting cocaine while on a runner’s high after finding out you’d aced a college final and fallen in love, all at the same time.

Unfortunately, that time happened to be July, and by the end of September it was a happy memory. Baseball took that perfect month and chewed away at it with its sharp little teeth, as it always does, pulling at hamstrings and snapping bones. And on Tuesday, the capricious and hateful gods of baseball took it and provided it to one Ben Rice, handed him the thunderbolts to strike the heroes down. For one day it was the Yankees who were invincible, led by the league’s best pitcher and a hitter whose resting face might best be described as vague concern, even as their captain stood with his elbows on the dugout railing. The New York Yankees are now, today and only today, the greatest team in baseball. But maybe not tomorrow. The gods need fresh meat.

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They Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 55m

I want to hear sad teens from Omaha sing strained lyrics about how much their life sucks over a shitty used guitar. I want to hear insane noise made by a mentally ill trans woman. I want blues from a man who bears the scars of institutional racism. I dont want AI to simulate it. I want the real deal

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SW(rath 🌈🖕🏻) @toasterposey.art · 1h

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 2h

remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

I think a key issue here is that these guys have no idea what 'good' means

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SW(rath 🌈🖕🏻) @toasterposey.art · 2h

"I never thought I would long for the days of Clippy, but here we are." - @britth.bsky.social

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Splinter @splinternews.bsky.social · 3h

Ken Paxton has been privately bad-mouthing Donald Trump in leaked audio, saying the midterm convention hosted by Trump had dragged his poll numbers down. Story: www.jezebel.com/ken-paxton-a... #donaldtrump #donaldjtrump #kenpaxton #texas #senate #midterms

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 3h

whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 3h

sickos.jpg

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

This young woman, just 21, has already been driven out of the state. Another guy in this story has young kids who only know him as Dad and can no longer take his son to the men’s room. Sensitive reporting (as always) by @caseyparks.bsky.social

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Alex DiBranco @alexdibranco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why would some women support misogynist movements? I discussed for this article how such women see themselves as different from the women these ideologies demonize. “It gives them status and elevates them over the oppression they would otherwise face.” But this is an imagined distinction.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 4h

The guy who proclaimed the Iowa Hawkeyes are the Atlanta Hawks also said a month ago that anyone who thinks Michigan fans say "beat Ohio" doesn't know ball. The absolute goat in the crowded "Republicans don't know ball" marketplace. Yes he voted for his govt to control college sports, why do you ask

The Hawks/Hawkeyes guy accusing libs a month ago of not knowing ball

Eric Schmitt
@Eric_Schmitt
“Beat Ohio?”

Tell me you don’t know ball with saying you don’t know ball.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14h

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 15h

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 17h

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 16h

stopped by w/ what I had and motel said if I don’t have remaining $270 by the time upper management stops by in the morning I’ll need to leave 🥲 that buys me maaaybe another 11 hours? b**sts and all help appreciated 💞 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14h

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

IMEU
POLICY PROJECT
The following Senators voted YES on a resolution that would require the State Department to investigate and report on Israel's rampant human rights abuses against Palestinians in the illegally-occupied West Bank, as well as Israel's killing of 9 US citizens since 2022:
• Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
• Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

• Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
• Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)

• Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
• Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)

• Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
• Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

• Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
• Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA)

• Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

• Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
• Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)

• Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)
• Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)

• Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) • Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV)

• Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
• Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)

• Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
• Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

• Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
• Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

• Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
• Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

• Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
• Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)

• Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
• Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

• Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
• Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)

• Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
• Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)

• Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ)
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

• Sen. Angus King (I-ME)
• Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)

• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

• Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

• Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15h

like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15h

“I’m not owned” I yell as i slowly shrink into a corncob. “i’m not owned!”

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 15h

Girardi referencing “It’s not what you want” on commentary. Wonderful

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 17h

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 19h

THREE HOURS left to stay housed and still at $270 to go after fees - anything helps 💞 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

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maya kern @mayakern.com · 29/09/2026

Having trouble picking a final background color for my magpie design. The art was inspired by linocut prints, so I originally wanted a color that resembles butcher-block paper, but now I can't decide! #art #store

Four color variations of a Maya Kern skirt design featuring black-and-white magpies flying through sparkling stars and swooping lines. Each row shows the print laid flat alongside a model wearing the finished skirt mock-up. Background options include warm tan, dusty mauve, deep muted purple, and dark taupe.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Harper Collins tried to claim both my stolen books. Harper Collins published neither.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 20h

A 10-day stretch of 70-degree weather hasn’t happened in the city since 2015 in the beginning of summer and not in October since 2013. The upcoming stretch of weather could snap that skid!

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Sadly Rutschman @flannelgoddess.bsky.social · 21h

Oh shit the White Sox are literally on a mission from God

Letter to Jerry Reinsdorf from the pope

I was pleased to receive the kind letter that you
sent
following the game that took place at Rate Field on August 11, 2026. I am most grateful for this thoughtful gesture.
As I have noted,
"sport can truly become a school of life,
where all can learn that abundance does not come from victory at any cost, but from sharing, from respecting others and from the joy of walking together" (Letter Life in Abundance, 6 February In this spirit, it is my hope that the White Sox will
continue to foster bonds of friendship and solidarity people, and thus bear hopeful witness to the possibility of living and working together in peace.
With
these sentiments, I willingly invoke the Almighty's
abundant blessings upon you and your loved ones.
From the Vatican, 9 September 2026
Leo PXIV

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chelsea bridge @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

thank a trans person today for being in your life while surviving in the face of a world that would prefer we didn't

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 21h

this is only the third time since divisional play both the Cubs and White Sox have made the playoffs in the same season. They both got bounced without winning a series and both times the Cubs didn’t even win a game.

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 21h

i will hunt the liberty biberty for sport

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 29/09/2026

It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...

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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

you have to understand that all ICE does is lie literally 100% of the time

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Solaire Stark, Professional Bisexual Disaster @snowbound-stark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think people with flat tits and people with large tits need to join forces to throw rocks or water balloons at people who can't be decent fucking people about either or. No more Tiddy War. The time for Tiddy Alliances is now

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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👉 Free Art for Three Days 👈 I’m not pointing any fingers...but if you are, then I have made the perfect stock art bundle ^^ Free download for 3 days. Free for personal and commercial use. www.patreon.com/SilverGlass/... or ko-fi.com/s/f9cdee8279 Tell your friends! #ttrpg #stockart #lineart

Shows 8 different pointing hands icons, mostly in fantasy/medieval theme. All made by me.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h

WE LOVE STUDENT JOURNALISTS IN THIS HOUSE

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want to illustrate the emotional range of THE MUPPET SHOW w/ a pair of bits from the same 3rd season episode, featuring guest Harry Belafonte - one of the absolute high water marks of the show. The first bit is a comic sketch built around a performance of “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)”...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It ends w/ Belafonte consoling Fozzie & a performance of "Turn The World Around". The message, & its resonance, remains undiminished... “Do you know who I am Do I know who you are See we one another clearly Do we know who we are” Belafonte would later perform this song at Jim Henson’s funeral.

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