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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Or, more likely, Stuff+ is a malleable metric that has too many moving parts but god knows we should try to bulldoze an analysis using it for a sub population of players (ie those in the playoffs currently) rather than back off of it any time soon.

Eno Sarris @@enosarris.osky.social • 8m
Postseason pitchers had a collective Stuff+ of
105 in the reg season (100 = ave). They've
pushed it to 107 S+ in playoffs.
There's a cost. Their 102 Location+ in regular season → 98 L+ in playoffs.
Better hitters inspire worse locations. But could hard usage also be a factor?

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m talking about Don Henley of the Eagles.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Munk School should be so lucky to have his expertise at their students’ disposal! Diversity of thought!!!

The context of a changing U.S. foreign policy makes the opportunity to study in New York another key asset of the
program.
Hansen explains, "Grasping what's happening in America right now is essential and there's no better place than from within America itself."
Further, the value of learning from within a Canadian context is made more excellent when paired with learning from an American perspective or a European perspective. The opportunity and the community are made richer with that diversity of thought.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No, I’m talking about the Ol’ Miss team mascot Tony the Landshark.

Man with golf shirt sits down, talking into a microphone with a headset on. It’s the Jim Downey meme: I’m talking about Jeff Epstein the New York financier

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No mandates for anyone ever in US politics!

Everyone gets a puppy or diarrhea forever meme

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

But it’s Vitello reading up on bullpen management

Homer Simpson in three vignettes

First he’s reading advanced marketing. Then it’s thrown in the garbage.

Second he’s reading beginners marketing and that’s in the garbage.

Third he’s reading the dictionary and looking up the definition of marketing.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Anyway - it’s probably telling that his view of free/academic speech centres a particular person.

Emmett Macfarlane @EmmMacfarlane
We've done a great job transforming the right of protest into a right of doing whatever the fuck you want without consequence. People have no right to block the mobility of anyone else, including access to a public building.

He is QTing

Sean Craig
@sdbcraig • Feb 11
The President of the British Columbia legislature press gallery, Global's Richard Zussman, tries to enter the BC Legislature as protestors opposing RCMP presence in Wet'suwet'en block all doors of the building.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is interesting. Although I do think it’s reading into Addams’ work a bit. Valverde sees the split less quant/qual and more about universities claiming knowledge domain over journalists/novelists/reformers. She suggests methodology of “miserologists” was variegated

14 "Miserology": A New Look at the History of Criminology

Mariana Valverde

Abstract
In this chapter, Mariana Valverde offers a historical overview of the discourses underlying modern criminal theory. Modern criminology is rooted in a long tradition of "miserology," the study of that "hybrid of moral degradation, physical ill health, spatial marginality, and collective despair... found among the new urban proletariat." That history spans Engels's focus on the "nameless misery" of British factory workers, great 19th-century novelists like Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo, Christian anti-poverty activism, modern welfare dependency discourse, and The Wire. Criminology, however, has lost touch with those deeply situated inquiries. Valverde points to the mid-20th century as a moment of schism between the professional study of crime and crime rates—

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is made even funnier because they disabled comments and quote posts.

Musicology Duck skeets *laughs in Bluesky*

The picture posted is of pancakes with some fruit, powdered sugar and the caption “Pancakes. Something we can all agree on”

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Meanwhile…in North Carolina

Post by Dr Damien P. Williams (@wolven.blacksky.app) that reads:

So, as of June, it is very literally illegal in NC to teach, among other things, that "The rule of law does not exist but instead is a series of power relationships & struggles..." Like... a lot of "anti DEl" shit is silly, but this literally outlaws large swathes of sociology & political philosophy...

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Some people apparently need a reason to post certain words. Here’s a version of her tweet where she kind of knew not to do it. Blocked for it anyway so hopeful she learns something from someone else who has patience for it.

Probably don't need to reproduce it all here.
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Teri Kanefield
@terikanefield.bsky.social
Are you telling me not to post this?
1:13 PM • Aug 9, 2026
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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social • 1m
Some of the words I would think are inflammatory to reproduce. You did make a choice to include them.
Teri Kanefield @terikanefield.bsky.social • 3m
Someone broke into my son's college fraternity and spray pained NAZI swastikas and KKK all over the walls.
Excuse me while my heart breaks.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Some of the words I would think are inflammatory to reproduce. You did make a choice to include them.

Someone broke into my son's college fraternity and spray pained NAZI swastikas and KKK all over the walls.
Excuse me while my heart breaks.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’m no scholar of comic books - but this seems wrong as an inherent thing. Is there a potential for this happening - of course. This is what reactionaries do - resist or co-opt. Maybe it’s that “hero” often signifies a particular type of journey.

Ya boy is working on a thing about how superhero comics are an inherently conservative genre/medium and, well... I'm not wrong.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We probably follow different people on social media. All the objections to my reply are telling on themselves in different ways I think

I cannot swear to know the minds of men like Murphy and Sanders. But, were I a betting person, I'd wager someone else's riches that they know racism and xenophobia are inextricably linked to America's inchoate understanding of class politics. They know that "working class" has become a powerful political totem of its own — a discursive sleight of hand used to separate out white voters' concerns as more legitimate, more materially grounded, more important than other voters' concerns.
These senators are demonstrating a willful blindness that has become endemic in the Democratic Party. Their rhetoric — and the conventional wisdom that flows from it - suggests that we cannot talk about economic solutions without abandoning our commitment to the Black, Latino, gay, transgender and female poor that are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party's base. The conceit at the heart of that belief is that poor white people are too racist, and too uniquely ignorant of their racism, to vote in their best interests. Therefore, Democrats have to accept a little racism to win the working class.
It is an old argument. History will tell you that negotiating with racism or fascism or authoritarianism never ends well.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I study organizations and organizational logic and I’m well versed in the sociolegal literature on human rights. I have seen the book you reference. Here are two that explain the shift I am referencing.

Michael Power book called organized uncertainty.

Elizabeth Popp Berman book called thinking like an economist.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Gee. Wonder why there was a chilling effect on speech on campuses….

Police entering Columbia university on what looks like a medieval siege device wearing tactical gear.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

As I’ve posted elsewhere…not sure this is cheating per the world curling rules:

R9. TOUCHED MOVING STONES
(a) Between the tee line at the delivery end and the hog line at the playing end:
1. If a moving stone is touched, or is caused to be touched, by the team to which it belongs, or by their equipment, the touched stone is removed from play immediately by that team. A double touch by the person delivering the stone, prior to the hog line at the delivering end, is not considered a violation.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I’m not sure if the IOC is using the world rules or something different:

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Cool read. Great to see it described as “going smoothly” considering the loss of 80 lives. But I guess they don’t matter since they aren’t US force men and at least Maduro didn’t get to seal himself away.

Intel would have been crucial. Trump acknowledged his authorization of covert CIA operations in Venezuela in October, and evidently, by the end of the year, analysts had gathered the information needed to make this operation go smoothly. The intelligence would have had to include knowing exactly where Maduro would be at the time of the operation, and the situation around him.

the nature of U.S. cyber activities is only speculation here, a coherent, alerted
Venezuelan command and control system could have cost the lives of U.S. force members and given Maduro time to seal himself in his safe room, creating a problem - albeit not an insurmountable one - for U.S. forces.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

This popped into my feed today top. Someone’s selling it nearby and I wish I had space for it (even though the original series isn’t my fav)

A Hallmark Keepsake called Amok Time. It has Captain Kirk and Spock jousting with each other from the classic episode. The item is outside of the box and both are on display on a turquoise shelf.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Once again Nightengale has cemented his status as baseball knower

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

Album cover for Sarah McLachlan’s fumbling towards ecstasy

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Yep Not my fault the media there doesn’t keep asking him about this shit

Alex Cora allegedly bragged about stealing the 2017 World Series with Astros after joining Red Sox.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Maybe it was popular - kept season stats and had an ultra league where players had special abilities. You could use the missile ability to hit a line drive at a fielder that sent them to the wall, throw a cannonball and had a stadium in outer space.

NES cartridge for Baseball Simulator 1.000

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Miller’s Crossing Clue Jurassic Park

Miller’s Crossing movie poster. It features John Turturro’s character on his knees pleading to Gabriel Byrnes’ character (dressed in black holding a gun). They are in a clearing in the forest.

Clue movie poster stylized as a house with six windows and the front door ajar where you can see the main characters. Clockwise from top right: Madeline Kahn; Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Tim Curry, Martin Mull, Eileen Brennan and Lesley Ann Warren.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Interesting - I draw most of how I think on Columbo from how Valverde analyzes Holmes and Poirot as pushing the genre after it emerges from Poe so this makes sense. Thanks!

Book by Mariana Valverde called Law and Order: Images, Meanings, Myths.

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dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Maybe they still would…

Remarks Honoring the World Series
Champion Toronto Blue Jays
December 16, 1992

This is about as much fun as l've had since the election, I'll tell you. I am just delighted that the Toronto Blue Jays are here. Ambassador Burney was to be here; I don't know that he is. But he's a good man. He's represented Canada well. And that brings me to the subject at hand.

Is Steve -- I can't see -- there's Bobby. Hi, Steve. Bobby Brown is here, an oldtime, longtime friend, the American League president, and I appreciate your being here, and Steve Greenberg, who is the deputy commissioner of baseball and doing a superb job in that very tough office.
And I want to salute Mike Reilly and Joe West, the umpires. Very little good is said in kind about the umpires, but I'm glad to stand up for them. They do a great job. And our Little League champs are here from Long Beach, California. And behind them, I'm told, the Babe Ruth champs, Babe Ruth League champions from across the Nation. So welcome to all of you.

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