Matt Veverka

Matt Veverka

@mattveverka.bsky.social

Deconstructed Christian, pro universal human thriving, engineer (he/him)

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This is how I feel about offsides in soccer. I don't care about 2 inches of a shoulder in front. If you can't tell in real time, play on

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Not every occurance in a sports event should be a "lets check the tape in ultra slow motion" opportunity for litigation. Sometimes just have an experienced, knowledgable guy who was watching it make a determination.

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NWSL+ is the #NWSL, so let Jessica know this is unacceptable jberman@nwslsoccer.com “Jordan Angeli needs to be pulled from broadcasts immediately. not only is her bias of being a Summit owner problematic, but her following and endorsement of a hate group XX/XY is disqualifying. remove her now”

andré, but scarier@andre-carlisle.bsky.social

wild behavior to have jordan angeli in studio after what happened in portland last night

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wow, JKR & HBO must be scared shitless about the backlash to the new HP series. I can't wait to cancel my HBO subscription on December 1st – you should too!

Dr. Catherine Strickson@brigitteempire.bsky.social

My ‘I don’t want trans people dead’ T-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Reading these replies and quotes makes me really happy for everyone who found a fuller and more joyous life through transition, and really mad that so many people want to deny that opportunity to others

May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄@goddessblade.bsky.social

Why did you transition? Right answers only

Also, like 8/10 of my recent reads have been by female authors because @lilithsaintcrow.com @marthawells.com and @tkingfisher.com are fantastic

Matt Veverka@mattveverka.bsky.social

Ugh 🙄 Lonesome Dove is fine, I think it's really worth noting that the more traditionally masculine characters are pretty miserable. Capt Call who is stoic and driven by duty and who experiences no joy or pleasure in life. His relationships are all fucked because he can't face his own feelings

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Texas U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico is calling for an AI dividend: "we cannot allow all the gains of this innovation to accumulate at the top… you see this in Alaska, they have a statewide dividend for their oil and gas resources."

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we’re launching new onion sports socials! if you love sports check it out and maybe give it a follow

Onion Sports@onionsports.bsky.social

Player Profile: Pete Crow-Armstrong theonion.com/player-profi...

The effect of transition on bodies is completely absent from this conversation. I wonder if it actually has nothing to do with athletic performance 🤔

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com

well first you should learn about what hormones actually does to bodies in transition. then you can work from there. basically start with a 10% drop in every athletic ability and go from there.

Worth noting that Paños played really well tonight. Best I've seen her look so far, well earned clean sheet 👏🏼

NWSL Analytics@nwslstat.bsky.social

San Diego Wave FC: 2 (2.03 xG) vs Kansas City Current: 0 (1.26 xG) #SDvKC | #MakeWaves | #KCBABY | #NWSL | 🤖⚽

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Love that the Spirit players can bring their babies and a caregiver with them when they travel, but I wish this article made it more clear this isn't just a "league policy," it's a contract provision the players negotiated for themselves through their union, the NWSL Players Association.

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social

I've been curious about the balancing act that professional female athletes have to deal with when they become moms, and @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social does a great job explaining how four Washington Spirit players have managed it — with help from their teammates: www.washingtonsun.com/sports/spiri...

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Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.

This is like the Rosetta Stone of American politics

David Roberts@volts.wtf

The fight for true egalitarian democracy is *intrinsically* a fight against conservatism. That is the core truth that the entire edifice of both-sides media & political institutions is meant to obscure.

Excellent thread:

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

1. Liberals have a bad habit of putting the views and values of Republicans at the center of their attention. We do it without thinking about it, because it's normal. And it's normal, because I think we tacitly accept the argument that our views and values can't be broadly persuasive on their own.

And Milo got the BEST treatment ICE has to offer. He went back to his own country where he'll be safe after a very short detainment. Imagine the rest who suffer far worse

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

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This is an edit made by a #wnba fan (@loslynx on the clock app). I’m sharing this because the league could have done this but they chose to lean into antagonism as a motif when the camaraderie and sisterhood is what makes the W so unique.

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Find a local coffee shop

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.

The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head Excellent... Worst day of your life so far Gotta learn to listen, Lou I'm so hungry I could eat at Arby's I am so smart, S-M-R-T

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I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

That said, I think at this point, we can conclude that fascism is a latent political force in basically every country, to a greater or lesser degree and so you need to be thinking, "what if my country goes fascist? what if a neighboring country does?" and plan for how to avoid or deal with that.