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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 11h

Scheduled my post-baseball Glenstone Museum day. My feelings about it are very mixed because as much as I enjoy the free art and nature, I can never shake the knowledge I’m on the compound of the ultra-rich with limited cell/wifi service and might be hunted for sport at any moment.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Going to take me a bit to get used to Todd Crocker on the Leafs radio call instead of Joe Bowen.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are larger implications to the City story, but every time I read an update I flashback to those Klopp-era Liverpool teams that lost by one point and imagine a more timely points deduction punishment and I want to wander into the woods to let out the longest primal scream imaginable.

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Mark Zuckerman @markzuckerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This was unquestionably a successful season for the Nationals, who went from 66 wins and a -212 run differential to 77 wins and a +6 run differential. But it also could’ve been more, and they know it, which now fuels them heading into 2027. natsjournal.com/p/a-successf...

natsjournal.com

A successful year that still could’ve been more

The Nationals made some major strides this season. They’re now determined to take it to the next level in 2027.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As someone who was extremely down after last year, this year was an extremely pleasant surprise. See you next year (fingers crossed) with higher expectations.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nasty work by the computerized demon responsible for reward ticket seat assignments to assign me a seat so close to the away dugout during a Mets series.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Got the update on start time 2 minutes after I posted. Extremely pleased I don’t have to leave.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chilling in the nosebleeds with a book but I think the weather is going to outlast my pain tolerance for sitting with my slipped disc unless the radar starts looking radically different.

Nationals Park with the tarp down and very cloudy skies

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Perfect weather, a bananas game, couldn’t enjoy it like I should’ve thanks to that transphobic homophobic asshole but I have Sunday as I do over to savor the end of the season. On a positive note, I’ve always been a “pretty crier” so the usher saw me and went “wow you like great tonight!”

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

FML there’s bird shit all over my seat. Cursed day.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Deleted 1st attempt because I was so mad I didn’t check for typos -I got called a “he-she dyke bitch” plus had a bunch of anti-trans BS rhetoric screamed at me on the way to the metro going to a Nats game. Fuck everyone responsible for anti-trans hate. Going to try to not let it ruin my night.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Philly Opera letting public school students attend dress rehearsals was my intro to opera so I hope the Met lotto expands interest. FYI Family Circle tix are $47 and the view is fine so if you’re within day trip radius of NYC and opera-curious it’s a (relatively) reasonable night out.

Lincoln Center Met Opera view of stage from the highest level of seats with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay playbilll

Same view as previous but from a slightly right of center viewpoint and with a La Bohème playbill

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It was just cool and dreary enough today that my autumn/winter brain kicked in to inform me 7 pm is now “in bed with a good book” and not “lounging by a pool listening to the baseball game” time. Just checked the Nats score and clearly I was right to embrace autumn.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Insane that no one can be bothered to wipe the rain off the camera for the Spirit game. Just a bunch of smudges on a screen.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It always surprises me when I have a craving for a food that I won’t be able to get despite living in a 21st urban environment. Woke up really wanting a London style salt beef bagel.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have to finish my current 1200 page book before buying another, but I just passed China Mieville’s new book displayed prominently in my neighborhood bookstore’s window and had to exercise every bit of willpower I possess to keep walking.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Got to remember people aren’t acting irrationally, they simply don’t have the exact timing between trains memorized nor do they know which car allows for quickest transfer between lines. On a related note, I shouldn’t have to pay hundreds of dollars to get a neurodivergence diagnosis.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not going to lie, I’m kind of mad that I got robbed of a Cavalli start tonight.

Nats Park with a meeting on the pitcher’s mound

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Spent my entire lunch break FaceTiming Greece to discuss last night’s Phillies at Nats game with my uncles and my poor Sports-disinterested mother kept reaching for the wine.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s 5 am in the home country village where most of the family is currently gathered so the roosters should be crowing shortly and so will I.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everyone coming down the Capitol South escalator just looks at the delays and yells “Holy shit!” Again, this is on me for not checking if trains are running more than 20 minutes apart. My usual idea to bypass the Green on busier games by connecting at Metro Center via Capitol South has backfired.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Part 2 of this request, though 2 months on I’m just asking for nothing memorably bad to happen.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ran into another WFH person in my elevator who gave me a “Wow, you look cute today” and I am just wearing a Nats jersey and a pair of khaki shorts so I feel like I really need to up my normal daytime attire of baggy shorts and comic book/band t-shirt if this outfit merits a “Wow” in comparison.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My younger sister does blue collar work and doesn’t really know computers so I got an SOS from her that she couldn’t find evidence of the existence of our favorite childhood video game. In googling it for her I discovered that the 1993 Wacky World of Mini Golf game starred Eugene Levy.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well that was a frustrating Spirit game!

The Spirit shaming themselves in front of the pups

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After many years of following the biggest dude walking with purpose through post-game meanderers, I finally got to return the favor to two large tattooed and bearded dudes who thanked me after they used my crowd wake to get to the front of the red line train in time.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ended up being worth missing my dinner plans

Nats Park from lower bowl on a cloudy day

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Did not check to see if the green line was experiencing massive delays before heading out to the Nats game and that’s on me.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This change seems insane to me and will absolutely make my life much harder but I realize most people don’t keep mental maps of cities in their head.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Got distracted by some fairly large (for early autumn) starling murmurations

Nats Park at sunset with a starling murmuration if you zoom into the sky

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hard to think of a better way to spend a Friday night

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve been to 30 Nats games this season with an 11-19 record. They’ve just disgraced themselves in CA. They’re playing the Angels. It’s September. I am somehow just as excited to go to the Park today as I was opening day. My brain should be studied in a lab for this sickness.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am definitely in the minority of fans in feeling like last year’s bullpen was worse, but inarguably this year’s bullpen has had a much larger negative impact on the team record. Anyway, enjoyed this article (and I’m excited about the Sun in general).

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A bit of a kick in the teeth to be sitting in a Smithsonian and reading today’s news about the institution.

Kaino’s Bridge in the Luce Foundation Center, 200 golden arms representing Smith’s fist at the 1968 Olympics, suspended from the skylit ceiling in a waving line surrounded by balconies.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve given the CYM that opened last month a fair shake because surely most of the DMV area can’t be so wrong. But yeah, the bagels are terrible (and often burnt) and I’ve had hotel buffet eggs with more flavor. Can’t believe I lost my local deli and their bulgogi breakfast burritos for this.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I knew a lot of Stuyvesant kids who were there on 9/11 and were already experiencing weird extreme health conditions as soon as 2003 and finding out they were poisoned at school breathing air we were all told was safe is the first thing I remember about 9/11 25 years on.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Last Friday of the year hanging out on the rooftop pool listening to the free Friday night concert in the street below. Summer is the best and never lasts long enough.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The STC is having a Labor Day sale, so I’m buying some tickets and I have to say I am delighted about the emergence of Ben Turner as a regular as it solves the biggest complaint I’ve had about productions -one big guest actor making all the other actors seem pedestrian by comparison. He’s fantastic.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Extremely funny to me that I have lived more of my life outside of Pennsylvania than in it at this point and have minimal dialect slippage. I lived for 5 years in SLC and that’s the place I sound least like! I think childhood accent retention is supposed to be a sign of stubbornness (guilty).

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The feminist movement that Steinem did much to mainstream and expand is in retreat, with women’s rights and status eroding conspicuously, and I’d like the usual suspects to consider this before they go on their ahistorical little rants about how she was a CIA stooge or whatever.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I used to sound like such a crank 15 years ago when I refused to switch to non-physical media on the basis it’s just renting from companies -I remember one guy looking at my bookshelves and asking if I had ever heard of e-books. Still buy things on DVD and CD/records too. Now I’m vindicated.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Early birthday present for myself secured with a NWSL Final ticket. Now the Spirit have to do their part and make it to the semifinal on my actual birthday weekend. Alas, between renewals and playoff tickets my September budget is the wint tweet, but sporting events(not candles).

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The regulars in my section are futilely booing and shaming the wave participants.

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Wordblindness @wordblindness.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ladies in my section put on fake mustaches and t-shirts with men’s torsos on them and did a little counter chant to the desultory Tarps Off crew

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