The worst part? Every English dictionary defines every word in English! You have to already speak English to get the definition for any word! What are you supposed to do if you don’t know any English words at all?

RIP mander.xyz. As best I know, it’s gone offline and no-one has any news of why or whether it will return.

I think this is my first time seeing acute brackets (< and >) to delineate quotations. It’s because they look like « and » but are easier to type?

So much of American political theory is based on the assumption that legislators would never willingly concede power, and I find it puzzling how rarely that assumption holds

The only way to depoliticize Washington’s courts is to return control over tax policy to the legislature. In 1933, five Washington Supreme Court justices seized control of taxation, delivering a political win for their wealthy supporters by overturning a popular income tax. That initial political decision created an unjust, unpredictable tax system and subsequently forced the Court to intervene in everything from school policy to capital gains taxation.

In meteorology, clouds are also physical objects with a size and a weight and a limited lifespan that are subject to the vagaries of nature and time? It seems like a fine metaphor?

Chicago pope sat out Biden/Trump in 2020?!?

The records also show that he submitted ballots in every general election since 2000 except those in 2020 and 2022.

That’s probably her World Cup, too, unfortunately

The club announced on Thursday that Hal Hershfelt has been placed on the National Women’s Soccer League Season-Ending Injury List. The placement comes after Hershfelt suffered a torn ACL in Washington’s October 25 match against the Kansas City Current.

$42k is not enough to live in Seattle

That means the minimum salary for this season should have been $38,245.44. Instead, the league announced a new rate: $42,000. That’s a 13.11 percent increase – much higher than what the collective bargaining agreement had in place.

“You take a sip from you… fuck, my dude, what did you, fuuuuuu”

Good news: I am that kind of bisexual. The still is from an ESPN show called the Pat McAfee show, and they’re doing a segment on college football (which I call gridiron because football is a broad umbrella of sports and I like to specify which flavor I’m talking about, like soccer or rugby or gridiron because I follow multiple sports called football). In college football, because there are too many teams to have them all play each other, the best teams are determined by polls, which ask journalists to rank the best teams. The show is claiming their poll, which is just some dude named Tone, I gather, is “above average” – i.e. you’ll get a better sense of which college football teams are good or bad then from other polls. I am making fun of college football fans because they call their commentators “stooges,” which usually means they’re not very smart, and the crawl misspells the word “program.”

I know and I understand your struggle. It’s feels kind of like she’s breaking kayfabe – previously, she was careful enough with her actions you could think that Taylor from real life was the same as Taylor from her songs, but they’ve gotten far enough apart I can’t conflate them anymore. For many musicians, that wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but so much of Swift’s empire is built on the sense that she gives glimpses and hints and peeks and clues into her most vulnerable places that I struggle to see how she moves forward. For me, I think I’ve moved on from being a Swiftie and now it’s more that there is a bunch of music I still enjoy, and a savvy businesswoman I’m curious about.

“This progrum is a collection of stooges talking about happenings in the”

I take it NCAA gridiron fans are not doing great

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It’s a box of assorted donuts. The brunet prefers plain donuts, but knows the blond likes the jam-filled ones so he tells him there’s a few jam-filled ones left.

While it’s framed in terms of MLS and the Sounders, I thought the metrics might be interesting to a broader audience, although it’d likely take some tweaking to apply to FFP rather than the MLS salary cap

Before we begin to take a look at these stats, let me frame them with the question you should ask yourself when looking at each one.

TERS+: How stable is a team’s “core” over a period of time (we’ll just be looking at full-seasons)

TER$+: What’s the quality of a team’s “core”

TERP$+: Is a team under or overperforming their true level based on their quality and health of its “core?”

TERP$+ Differential: Should a team have expected to perform the way they?

Idk if they will be broadcast

When the puck drops between Canada and USA it’s always a fierce match up, regardless of who is in the lineup. Whether USA easily walks through Canada as they did during the 2025-26 Rivalry Series, or it’s a closer contest is yet to be seen. Canada and USA will play October 28 in Windsor, Ontario, and October 30 in Plymouth, Michigan.

Increasing the amount of allowed charter flights is, to my mind, the single most cost effective way to raise the quality of the product on the field

More charter flights? Of course. Even the lone GM who does not believe they should be unlimited wants more than the current allowance of six legs (three round trips) of charter flights.

Many GMs made business arguments: Commercial travel could add an entire night of hotels, food, on-ground transportation and other expenses based on the availability of direct flight times, one GM said. Several said the league would benefit from creating a partnership like MLS has with Sun Country Airlines as the official charter service of the league.

Not so! October’s been very mild and the hiking is still very good, even if it’s a little late in the season for Rainier

Away from hockey, she wants to see more of the city. “Honestly, just exploring Seattle a little bit more,” she said. “I wasn’t there for that long last year, so I feel like there’s still so much I haven’t seen.”

A hike tops the list, though the timing may not work. “I really want to go on a hike, but now it might already be too late again,” she said. “At the end of last year, I wanted to go to Mount Rainier National Park, but there was still a lot of snow. I think now the timing might be bad again. So, that’s something I would want to do, but I might have to wait until after the season again.”

Many big tech initiatives in the fediverse are funded via nlnet grants. I think they have one open specifically for pairs made up of an artist and technologist to promote content creation currently, but they open fairly regularly.

My city has a crisis team that responds to calls that do not require an armed officer. I would probably call the non-emergency line to request they come out and intervene.