#international baseball

[togglesbloggle]

🔥The ice giants

Oh, this one's tricky. Do people have strong enough feelings about the ice giants for opinions about them to be unpopular? Even NASA doesn't care enough about them to send a spacecraft more than once in a blue moon. I think I'll try to weasel out of this one with the opinion 'all planets are interesting, even Neptune,' on the grounds that uninterestingness is itself the dominant opinion.

The midcentury explorations of the solar system were, in retrospect, kind of crushing for the human imagination. We went from totally unbounded speculations about the diversity of worlds- imagining robust ecosystems on Venus and Mars as late as the 50s and early 60s- to a series of photographs showing cratered, dead, atmosphere-less worlds. And 'realism' became accepting these photographs, building a story of the cosmos that is not just sterile but quite simple, treating the solar system as conforming closely to low-complexity models of planetary formation. Gravity collects micrometeorites and gas particles in planetoids and moons according to the ratios predicted by temperature and distance from the center of the accretion disk; terrestrial worlds close in, gas giants further out, ice giants further still. The planets sort themselves by density, with interior deformation or sortition based on thermal gradients, radioactive decay, magnetic forces; moons find a stable orbit or don't, and that's that.

But the thing is, once you actually get past that superficial Voyager flyby-photograph, these worlds all tend to have dramatic and exciting particularities of their own. Look at Pluto! Look at Titan! Look at Enceladus! Look at Ceres! Probably the most boring and well-studied planet I can think of is Mercury, and even that has cool stuff like solid ice at the surface.

Part of this is just noticing over time that the interface between planets and space (that is, their surface) is not always or even usually the most interesting part of them, and assumptions to the contrary are an understandable but misleading form of Earth-chauvinism.

And a larger share of it, I think, is just that once you get something substantially larger than an asteroid, the combined influence of so much volume, so much mass, and so much time just tends to amplify the variance of your system incredibly far beyond what you'd expect from your 'terrestrial, gas giant, ice giant' template. The model is actionably useful, don't get me wrong, and worlds rarely vary so much that they outright break their category. But nothing the size of a moon or planet is actually simple, and nothing on the scale of four billion years is actually stable. And so each of these things, no matter how straightforward the template, will gradually tilt and totter its way within an unfathomably large space of possibilities to something that is practically speaking unique, and which reveals something new about the cosmos that you can't find anywhere else.

If the ice giants seem simple, it's a reflection of our methods and our technological limits, not the planets themselves. We are, generally speaking, absolutely terrible about investigating gaseous worlds on their own terms- and maybe we simply don't have the right tools or the right questions yet to figure out what makes Neptune and Uranus special. But it's only a matter of time.

#my actual inside-baseball unpopular opinion is that I bet they have complex weather systems at certain characteristic depths #which have the potential to drive complex chemical synthesis #and that a lot of the puzzles with their internal structure and density are resolved through this disequilibrium synthesis #where the slowly changing chemistry alters the characteristic weather depths and vice versa

[cementcornfield]

It's important to fans to understand me, and me understand the fans. I put a lot of work on my English to talk with you guys. And I think I'm doing a good job.

#elly de la cruz #i adore this man #i am genuinely SO impressed with how much his English has improved in less than a year #athletes and language learning and the use of interpreters was already so interesting to me even before i become a Sports Person #considering what i studied in school #and baseball is such a crazy overlap of all that #the most 'American' sport but also so international #and then you think about everything going on with ohtani and his interpreter #which is wild and bringing a lot of attention to the language industry (and maybe not good attention!) #and it's like yeah - interpreters and translators absolutely need to have an ethics code and oversight considering the power they have #but not many people think about that! #anyway i'm rambling whoops #but i fully support interpreters AND athletes learning to speak the languages of the countries they play in #and elly is killing it #which is unsurprising #he is good at everything!!! we're so lucky to have him

[happi-tree]

happy wipweds and happy international women's day! some scary content for y'all bc i have so many Thoughts about her. she's doing normal's makeup hehe 🖤🖤🖤

#anyway do you guys ever think about the fact that scary literally murdered a copy of herself. #that she wanted to take the knife only to stab her other self. the one who outwardly looked and sounded identical #but when pressured showed genuine kindness and compassion and care??? bc like. god. #but yeah in my mind this is some missing scene somewhere in the latter half of the 2 month limbo #hence the baseball cap of shadiness and the album lyrics #anyway. this international women's day i'm celebrating women's wrongs <333 #happi scribbles #fic

[oldshowbiz]

Here Come the Tigers (1978), a shameless Bad News Bears rip-off from American International.

#american international pictures #bad news bears #b movie #baseball #AIP

[darthmelyanna]

#i have a lot of feelings about this #they involve 90s baseball and inevitable corruption #i really don’t want to take away something that people love #but making a ‘perfect’ score part of your brand will lead to inevitable corruption #and as long as the 10.0 exists that corruption will not go away #not unless the powers that be are hauled in front of congress to talk about their personal steroid use #wait no that’s baseball #but the point is that there is no internal incentive to make it stop #that’s the hallmark of corruption

[parasitoidism]

Persona 4 is this bizzare paradox where it handles naotos character poorly. Like objectively. and yet when I played this game I could so clearly see myself playing p4 when I was 15 and immediately speed running the years long process of realizing I was transgender in the span of one 100something hour playthrough of persona 4 because of him that I think I created an alternate reality where this was the case. But it’s still handled badly in the game. But also it

#there’s so many things about his character that I just know would be like the equivalent of getting hit on the head with a baseball bat to #my ~15 year old self #tldr do You know how long I put off being properly transgender because I was worried it was just internalized misogyny

[butmakeitgayblog]

Ok so like… director Lexa headcanons?

Ok here's the thing, there's something about her in those khaki shorts that makes me feel feral and I don't fully understand it at this point in time, so I need some time to reflect on this apparent kink I've developed in the last 48 hours before I can field this one

#anon #alycia debnam carey #like it sailed right past my normal oh she's hot gayness level and went to some core realm of my dykery that I hadnt known she could touch #and smacked every one of my internal gay branches on the way down #and I genuinely don't understand because it's just a white baggy T baseball cap and fucking khakis

[kakusu-shipping]

I’ve abandoned my boy

#Fatgum #Hero League Baseball #Son boy abandoned #I cannot believe the lack of screenshots and gif sets this OVA received do I have to do everything myself #It's because Izuku isn't in it isn't it? Cowards. #Not even Taishiro's tag has screenshots in it and he was the MAIN reason I was hyped for this #Whatever. More reason to watch it over and over I suppose #I love in English Tetsu says 'Come on this isn't funny anymore!' #Did you find being drilled into the ground like a spike funny before??? #Good for him #Taishiro newly a parent of three forgets his newest intern at the baseball diamond #How do you forget Testu though he is the LOUDEST person on the field

[wareham-community-television]

Just a little downtime after setup, getting ready for the Gatemen Game! It will be live on Verizon ch 30, Comcast ch 9 at 6pm. Also streaming on our website!

#wctv #wareham community television #Gatemen #wareham gatemen #rubber duck #Director Duck #summer interns #Baseball #baseball game

[bullseyelover]

BENJAMIN “DEX” POINDEXTER aka BULLSEYE childhood baseball props from daredevil season three

#i may or may have not screamed internally when i saw the word bullseye #idc that it’s a baseball term whenever i see the word bullseye my heart rate goes up #and THE WAY DEX WROTE ON HIS BASEBALL GLOVE THING #AND WROTE DEX ON IT #AND IT’S IN THE BULLSEYE COLORS (black and white) #idk what the arrow is for but maybe it said ‘benjamin poindexter’ on it and he just scribbled it out and put dex instead #dex is very adamant on being called dex instead of ben or benjamin i do wonder why #maybe his dad’s name was also benjamin and he was like i hate that mf he’s dead now so i’m changing it idc #benjamin poindexter #bullseye #daredevil

[photmath]

emily!! r u watching the world baseball classic at all?

baseball?????? what's that???

update: i am watching

#PLAY BALL MFERS #i had no idea there was international baseball??

[muddypolitics]

(via Congressional Intern Attacked With Baseball Bat on Her First Day)

welcome to MAGA-ville

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) confirmed that an unnamed assailant, who's a constituent in his district, physically assaulted two of his staffers on Monday.

#VA #baseball bat #MAGA #attacking political interns

[canadianfruitpunch]

LMAO “the little guy jose altuve”

#mlb international broadcast i love you #baseball #jose altuve

[christianborle]

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#a league of their own spoilers in the tags #I am SCREAMING at max having sex with that guy to see if she’s straight #and he comes immediately???? somehow???? #and then she’s just sitting there like 😐 #i probably shouldn’t have been laughing but I was #I know seeing her family member must have changed something in her #like she’s tying to run away from it #like seeing a trans or nb person she thought like. the internal homophobia hit #like somewhere deep in her she was probably like holy shit u can do that that’s so cool #but she’s scared #also when is she gonna get to play baseball finally #episode 5 and not many good things have happened to her so far :(

[dykefaggotry]

"girl dinner is when you don't eat teehee" "men think about the roman empire women think about their ex best friends and poetry" "✨sapphic love✨ is so pure and innocent and sweet unlike nasty gross Man Lust" "girl math is when you can buy starbucks and makeup because you didn't buy it yesterday so it's free" "I'm going to explain (complex topic) for the girlies! so basically it's like when you go shopping-" "I love women because they're so soft and smooth and feminine and we can talk about girly things and they're not sweaty or hairy or horny like gross men" "women should be unemployed girls don't need jobs men should do all that for us" "ugh girls that don't like pink or being feminine just need to stop being such pick mes and get over their internalized misogyny it's gross"

god save my hairy dyke ass from this hell before I start whacking people's shins with my Girl Baseball Bat. teehee!

[novaceresart]

is path slowly depositing away as time goes on? like not just finding parts missing is it to the point where their body is rotting away slowly due to how the war affected them

Possible spoilers (for DnD folk), and also discussion of grief/trauma

In a way, depending on how you interpret it. The rotting is both from age (being above 100 years old) and from their own means.

They have a... rough relationship with how they were during the war. The warforged were created to be the perfect soldiers, with no need for sleep, for food, or for care, able to persist in even the harshest conditions. They were told this, and many of them know this and accept it: they're soldiers, what else would they be? And Path, being one of these warforged, believed they were a perfect soldier- until suddenly they showed some emotion other than being cold to an enemy, and they weren't a soldier anymore.

To say they have guilt from that is an understatement. The parts of their mind that is rotting away from the guilt and horror they experience has caused them to remove parts. In the days after the battle, they pulled out their transmitter and navigator, in hopes that they wouldn't be able to find that city ever again. Sifting through the ash and fire, they collected armfuls of wire and sheet metal. And slowly, their body began to become sharper, rougher. They believed they had failed, and so it was up to them to "make things right", to get revenge, even if they had to turn themselves into something they didn't recognize.

If they hadn't found Blink, things would have been a lot different. The day they stumbled into the forest and saw their sibling- the first live sibling they'd seen in decades- they vowed to change for Blink. They wanted them to grow up in peace, and so they softened their armor, took off the wire and metal, and did their best to show the world was kind. And yet, they still couldn't escape what the war had done. Over time, their hands begin glitch and spasm, their leg begins to drag, and their sleep cycles turn from hours to days. The damage from the blast and their unwillingness to fix it in favor of revenge now costs them in ways they didn't expect, and their body continues to rot as they try to move on.

When they lose Blink, things change once again. Now, they have no reason to try anymore. The guilt and grief is back; they lost another sibling and failed again. As they search, they find themselves losing limbs and parts, their armor slowly becoming less and less soft once again. With more and more time passing, they wonder if they will be able to make it to Blink again, before they lose too many parts or rot too much, and collapse for a final time.

#ALEX AND LUM. IF YOU READ THIS I WILL HIT YOU WITH A BASEBALL BAT. DONT YOU DARE #nova.txt #path&blink asks #path also doesn't take the best care of themselves #they have a very “whatever it takes” attitude and if “whatever it takes” involves losing parts of their body in order to find Blink faster #they'll do it. #they've already lost an arm/lots of internal bits/their voice/part of their helm and chest #but if any of this means they can get back to blink? then they're fine with falling apart in the meantime. #what matters is making sure Blink stays safe. #path having the worst mental state fr someone get my guy a robot therapist jeez!!