Old dad who watches too many movies Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/lw5Z Movies, politics, Indianapolis, baseball (usually Cardinals related), other stuff (not a real city planner, just have some ideas for the White City of Gondor)
MATEWAN is film that all of you should watch. It's a masterpiece that's more relevant now than it was in 1987.
‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movementJohn Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudicewww.theguardian.com
Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
The VergeBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
I hope VT's new strength coach is making players lift bar bells with balls at the end that each say "5 tons"
the death of brick and mortar retail has my kids way too interested in Going Somewhere. They don't have any fear that one of us picking up our keys might mean they're going to TJ Maxx, where they'll have to stand quietly for an hour while I talk to someone I know who also happened to be there.
Reminder that deferrals are deposited in escrow each offseason in the amount current amount equal to the future value of the salary and they not Lloyd Christmas IOUs (Ie $48 ish million for Ohtani’s 2026 deferrrd $68 million owed in 15 years or whenever he starts getting his big salaries)
Christian Rincona lot of “Dodgers pay labor” talk about a team that has not paid the majority of their talent via deferrals
The whole schedule is off. Usually this happens on Sunday night.
The Associated PressBREAKING: President Trump claims Mideast allies have reached parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and says U.S. will hold off on new strikes.
Alec Burleson looks like exactly like a guy named Alec Burleson
Masyn Winn FIRES the ball across the diamond to complete a stellar play 🔥