Rob Neyer @robneyer

@WCLBaseball Commissioner; author of Casey Award-winning POWER BALL and other things robneyer.com Cascadia, Usonia Joined May 2008

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Architecture Hub @archpng

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A small town in Iceland turned a zebra crossing into an optical illusion. In Ísafjörður, the white stripes were painted to look like floating blocks from a driver’s point of view, encouraging cars to slow down before reaching the crossing.

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Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian

24 hours ago

Only Fans, 1957.

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Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper

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‏ً @omgsidewalks

a day ago

If God really wanted us to use renewable energy, He would’ve put a giant fusion reactor in the sky that bathes the Earth in photons, creates flowing rivers, and causes planetwide wind currents. Checkmate, libs.

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West Coast League @WCLBaseball

18 hours ago

Fourteen teams in action tonight across British Columbia, Oregon and Washington. 🔢 wclstats.com/composite 📺 wcleague.watch.pixellot.tv

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Rob Neyer @robneyer

16 hours ago

Can confirm! Looking forward to joining Harmon in the top of the 4th tonight!

Harmon Johnsen @HarmonJohnsen5

18 hours ago

Overcast skies keeping us cool! @PippinsBaseball trying to even the series against the @AppleSox. Join me and my color analyst (my Dad!) at 6:35pm! youtube.com/@pippinsbaseba… or the WCL Live App

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bronzebust @bronzebust

2 days ago

Suburbs discourse is totally deranged because when some people say "suburb", they mean Glen Ellyn, IL—amazingly walkable, rich, beautiful, cultured, etc. Other people say "suburb" and they mean Texas McMansion hellscape. Absolutely no comparison between the two.

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

2 days ago

Come on, guys. "Amid," not "despite."

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle

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Fans arrive at Oracle Park for the San Francisco Giants game despite the ongoing Pride Night controversy. 📽️: Izzy Nunes/S.F. Chronicle

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Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper

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Joe @electionsjoe

a day ago

I... Wow... Hunter Biden with a really good analysis of what happened last night.

Hunter Biden @HunterBiden

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I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday. 1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away. 2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like

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West Coast League @WCLBaseball

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⚾️TUESDAY HIGHLIGHT⚾️@bhambells phenom Jaden Jackson continued his torrid start with 3 more hits last night, including this 3-run homer. In his first six WCL games, the @UCLABaseball commit has gone 13 for 24 with 12 RBI👀

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T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams

2 days ago

The superiority of the Grumman F6F Hellcat compared to the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, which had, up until 1942, dominated the skies over the Pacific.

isabel @wisepissmage

3 days ago

Cannot even conceive of being friends with a straight man. What do you even talk about

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Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs

2 days ago

The Miami Marlins had “Bring Your Pup to the Park” day and one dog got caught on TV casually enjoying a hot dog, while the dog behind him stared like he was witnessing the greatest injustice of his life

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Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann

3 days ago

i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects my favorite one right now is this guy who built an AI system that listens for birds outside his apartment, figures out what species they are, and paints them on his wall. here's how the whole thing works: 1. a cheap usb mic on his balcony listens for birdsong 24/7 2. BirdNET, Cornell's AI model trained on 6,000+ species, names each bird species from the sound alone (no camera needed) 3. every time it hears one, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image paints that exact bird in the style of an Edo-period japanese woodblock print 4. the new painting drops into a live collage of everything that's been singing outside in the last 24 hours 5. and it all shows up on a framed e-ink display on his wall that reads "heard today" like a little museum placard for his neighborhood knowing which birds visit you used to take a field guide, a trained ear, plus years of patient practice. teddy just glances at the frame on his wall and sees the cardinal came back this morning honestly i'm highly tempted to build one myself haha

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick

2 days ago

In George Washington’s time, most states allowed noncitizens to vote in state and local elections and the entire concept of an “illegal immigrant” did not even exist.

ALX 🇺🇸 @alx

3 days ago

Imagine having to explain to George Washington that America can’t prevent illegal aliens from voting in our elections because a foreign born judge called ‘Sparkle Sooknanan’ said so.

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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter

3 days ago

Schools are giving iPads to kindergarteners and parents have had it.

Kevin T. Dugan @KevinTDugan

3 days ago

Key to this story is that parents who want to opt OUT are getting steamrolled. The same is happening in NYC and around the country. wsj.com/us-news/educat…

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Indy Ball Nation @IndyBallNation

2 days ago

Looking at the Atlantic League standings and each column for the FerryHawks is truly as absurd as the last. 8 wins. 46 losses. 26 GB. 1-29 on the road. L11 streak. 129 fewer runs than any other Northern team and 219 more runs allowed. -308 run differential in 54 games.

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Derek Thompson @DKThomp

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Attn: People who are nostalgic for the Good Old Days of mid-century news media The 1950s news media was pathetic. Corrupt, stupid, gullible, craven, and incredibly pathetic. Reporters for some of the largest news organizations didn't just publish Joe McCarthy's slander verbatim. They collaborated with him to drive the Red Scare because it was good for newspaper sales and career advancement. They even went out to drink whiskey with McCarthy to brainstorm better ways to drum up anti-communism and helped him write his speeches. via Halberstram's THE FIFTIES

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West Coast League @WCLBaseball

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WCL talent on display at the @MLBDraft Combine in Phoenix. westcoastleague.com/wcl-alumni-sho…

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Anish Moonka @anishmoonka

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You cannot grow an apple from an apple. Plant the seeds from a Honeycrisp and the tree you grow makes fruit that tastes nothing like it, usually small and sour. Apple genes are a jumbled mix, so every seed grows into its own kind of apple, the way no two siblings come out the same. That means the apples in the store are not grown from seed at all. They are clones. To grow more Galas or Fujis, a grower cuts a small branch off the original tree and joins it onto a fresh root. Every McIntosh anyone has ever eaten grew from a branch traced back to a single tree that a farmer, John McIntosh, found on his land in Ontario in 1811. The same goes for every variety with a name on the label. The inside is strange too. When scientists first mapped the apple in 2010, they counted around 57,000 genes, more than twice what you have. All of it goes back to one mountain range, the Tian Shan in Kazakhstan, where forests of wild apples still grow. The country's biggest city, Almaty, takes its name from the local word for apple. Bears ate the fruit and dropped the seeds, and traders carried them west along the Silk Road. There are more than 7,500 named kinds. Try a new one every day and you would be at it for over twenty years. Most of us only ever eat about fifteen. For most of American history, the apple was barely a snack. Johnny Appleseed planted his trees from seed, so they grew small, sour apples, good for one thing, hard cider. Right up to Prohibition, an apple grown here was far more likely to end up in a barrel of booze than a kid's lunchbox. When the government started cutting down cider orchards, growers began selling apples as health food and pushed the line about one a day keeping the doctor away. And the apple in your bowl might be close to a year old. The ones picked in fall get sealed in rooms where the oxygen is dropped to about 2%, far below normal air. That puts them to sleep until a store needs them, sometimes ten months later. A cloned branch of a tree someone found two centuries ago, grown from a wild forest in Kazakhstan, kept asleep all winter so it could reach you in spring. Bottom tier is a strange thing to call that.