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YakyuNightOwl

@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world

Pacific Rim Baseball in the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

#NoIndex #NoBot #NoBridge

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Osaka Stadium was home to the Nankai Hawks

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gerrymcgovern, to random
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Since 1970, there has been a:

49% decline in marine life

50% decline in insects

66% decline in wildlife

69% decline in vertebrates

83% decline in freshwater species

Birds: 60% decline in Ireland in 50 years

Lions: 90% decline in Ghana in 40 years

Forest elephant: 60% decline in 12 years

Leatherback turtle: 95% decline in 20 years

SEI whale: 50% decline in 20 years (47 left)

Earthworms: 33% decline in UK in 20 years

Mammals:

3% wildlife

97% humans and livestock

Is this progress?

YakyuNightOwl,
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@gerrymcgovern Looking at population statistics, the western world was reacting to genocide in the 1940s like a forest full of lodgepole pines after a forest fire. By 1970, the largest generation of consumers in history were choking on their own tailpipes.

RickiTarr, to random
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99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.

YakyuNightOwl,
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@RickiTarr Live radio was 24/7 urgency, but it doesn't exist that way anymore.

Newspapers don't have the 24/7 urgency of unmovable print deadlines like they did in the past.

There's a lot of hurry out there, but like you said, it isn't as if everyone is part of a Coast Guard rescue, or an EMT rushing to a car accident.

RickiTarr, to random
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Would you rather be alone in a Space Ship with Darth Vader or the Queen Alien from Alien?

Please support the your answer if you feel like it.

YakyuNightOwl,
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@RickiTarr Gotta go with Darth Vader. Where else are you gonna have a chance to hang out with the voice of the immortal James Earl Jones?

RickiTarr, to random
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I wish there was any job I loved as much as Herding Dogs love Herding.

YakyuNightOwl,
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@RickiTarr herding dogs look wistfully as the sloth waves from a hammock

YakyuNightOwl, to random
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35 years ago, a friend and I went to his house and his father met us at the door. He commanded us to sit on the couch and went to the kitchen to get us something cold to drink.

CNN was covering the events at Tiananmen Square, and the peaceful protest was being met with unspeakable violence. We sat together and spoke of past state violence like Yugoslavia in 1968.

Mark Zuckerberg was 5 years old, and was not raised in a culture that treasures democracy, so exactly nobody was surprised by a jog.

YakyuNightOwl,
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How do you remember the events of 1989?

How many white techbros do you need to see doing this shit before it's kinda obvious how they're wired?

Rest all the souls who perished for democracy.

YakyuNightOwl,
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@kevbob Thanks for sharing your memories. It must have been a gift to have someone with regional insight.

We were just about to graduate from high school. It was an unforgettable and unforgivable thing.

Shebeencounter, to random
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The New York Times really said "so-called Palestine"

YakyuNightOwl,
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@Shebeencounter The paper of record from "so-called New Amsterdam" should probably sit down.

darcher, to random
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Speechless.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/05/31/jewish-orgs-pull-support-from-oregon-food-bank-over-gaza-war-statement/

YakyuNightOwl,
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@darcher You don't have to love your neighbor if you've got to curry favor with a country where starvation is a weapon.

Ethnonationalists and Zionists don't care about Oregonians. It's probably time to reciprocate. We don't need white supremacy playing games with our food bank.

YakyuNightOwl, to HashtagGames
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Leave it to Beaver is a show about a family of animals that live around a pond.


msquebanh, to random
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I want to rip out all the ivy & plant native plants around this head.

YakyuNightOwl,
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@msquebanh It's kinda cool to know that a Buddha would look at home in Wrigley Field, but I feel you.

msquebanh, to random
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I've realized most of the things I toot about, start with the letter, P.

Plants
Politics
ParaSports/Para Adventures
Photography
Pets / Pussycats
Protests
People Power
Police

YakyuNightOwl,
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@msquebanh Positive vibes.
Pacific shores.
Plates of deliciousness.

It follows.

YusufToropov, to Oakland
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@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices @Beatlesandworms

I post this in the aftermath of 's 4th of a possible 155 victories in 2024.

Shea Langeliers drops not one, not two, but 3 HRs against Texas.

objective judgment

selfless action

willing, engaged acceptance of all events

https://youtu.be/5VuLMKZiTMY?si=KyvmvEwTf32g_rBX

YakyuNightOwl,
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@YusufToropov @ted_duffield @RuthODay @tabletopmania @cbtryon @Runyan50 @Beatlesandworms @stlcolorbaseball @cwgrody @sendtherunners @aurelia @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices Seconded. Thanks Ted! Giamatti was such a treasure. While the bar remains low, Bart was far and away the best commissioner of MLB who ever served. Rest his soul.

billyjoebowers, to random
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Never made the connection that actor Allan Arbus was married to photographer Diane Arbus.

YakyuNightOwl,
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@billyjoebowers One of the lived experiences that made his role as Dr. Sidney Freedman so believable. Such a sad story.

Although he will be forever in the shadow of Diane, Allan was a brilliant photographer too.

In happier times, the couple was part of a New York circle that included Garry Winogrand.

YakyuNightOwl,
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@billyjoebowers Such a damn good actor, one could be forgiven for not knowing.

It's like finding out Randy Johnson was already an established photographer in college when the scouts were judging his pitching arm.

That's true too.

IveyJanette, to random
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He wants to have a fundraiser at MSG.

That's a lot easier for his flock of adorers. They just have to take the Staten Island Ferry to Fulton St and the 2 or 3 train to the Garden.

Or the LIRR/Metro North to Grand Central,the shuttle and the 1/2/3.

All hell will break loose. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/30/trump-guilty-crime-felony-what-happens-next.html

YakyuNightOwl,
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@LinuxAndYarn @IveyJanette 🎯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzT-hjdnoEc

RickiTarr, to random
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This was a fun one, so let's do it again. What is something you've learned that seems unlikely, even though you know it's true? Here's one I think about a lot:

Sight, while being something something many people are born with, is not an innate ability, but something we learn to do. People who were born blind or were blind for a long time, who get sight, have to learn to see.

YakyuNightOwl,
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@RickiTarr Ichiro is the global hit king. He was born right-handed, throws right-handed, and learned how to bat left-handed by doing daily drills with his father, Nobuyuki Suzuki.

YakyuNightOwl, to random
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ABC: "GUILTY!"
CBS: "GUILTY!"
CNN: "GUILTY!"
NBC: "GUILTY!"

Fox News: "This program was previously recorded for broadcast at this time."

music swells

"The glorious history of velvet cushions is brought to you by the patriarch of pillows..."

YakyuNightOwl, to random
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Donald Trump: 34 felony convictions
Bernie Madoff: 11 felony convictions.
Al Capone: 5 felony convictions
Disenfranchised Voter: 1 felony conviction

YakyuNightOwl, to random
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Major League Baseball wasn't desegregated to a bare minimum of a single Black player on the roster of every team for one game until Elijah Green debuted on July 21, 1959.

Major League Baseball didn't have a Black umpire work a game until Emmett Ashford debuted on April 11, 1966.

Major League Baseball didn't have a single Black manager lead a team until Frank Robinson debuted at the helm on April 8, 1975.

MLB would like fans to forget the pace of progress. Negro Leagues stats are a token move.

YakyuNightOwl,
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The one benefit of MLB accepting the statistics of the Negro Leagues is how three women can finally be inducted at Cooperstown.

Peanut Johnson, Toni Stone, and Connie Morgan are all eligible now without hearing a litany of patriarchal excuses.

If the institution of baseball wants to be taken seriously as a game for everyone, a good start would be inducting these three pioneers.

"A League of Their Own" was for "their own" alone. These women were forced to play with the men and earned a plaque.

YakyuNightOwl,
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@msquebanh Too many people are comfortable with the fact that Black women were excluded, and the lack of outreach to HBCUs while trying to grow the game is rather familiar.

Mo'ne Davis went to Hampton while everyone scrambled to promote Melissa Mayeux. Sometimes the game loudly tells on itself.

Peanut Johnson shared the story of going to an AAGPBL tryout, and being turned away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw-ACi9TPBc

The AAGPBL was segregated wire to wire, and no amount of pinkwashing changes those facts.

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    YakyuNightOwl,
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    @thepoliticalcat @skydog @RickS carves that in marble

    waits for the occupant to get under such an accurate slab

    YakyuNightOwl, to portland
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    Rest in peace, Bill Walton.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxqCt5XJA_s

    YakyuNightOwl, to portland
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    If you are a person with skills, this has potential. No connection to the seller, might be a scam, and all the caveats. On the other hand, that's an interesting project.

    https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/msg/d/portland-rickenbacker-4001-bass/7750916514.html

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