#us sport news

[obsob]

once more around the sun!! :3

#mine #cats #happy new year!!! a little late but alas #i didnt like th colours here but now i love them hehehehehheheh #i hope everyone had a good holidays life development for me is i now like ice hockey #in my sports fan era...these greasy sweaty bloody white men...intrigue me #also i got a new diary!! im using th hobonichi cousin in kinda alarmed by it ngl a5 is a lot of space to fill #i tried the hobonichi techo a couple years ago n found it a rlly weird size 2 work in but now.........big page scawwy #im trying not 2 b too insane about it . like relax who cares #if i do cute spreads i will share them :3 #also in th same vein im not setting a book goal this year !! tbh i surpassed my goal last year by a lot and wasnt stressed about it at All #but i get so guilty about not reading sometimes like girl . guilty to who? god? are we catholic now? get a grip #anyway anway im going to toot on my flute and then eat my weight in mac n cheese #love how i had to get a new cork in my flute bc i didnt play for like 10 months n th guy was like play regularly! n i was like yeh will do! #and then did not do that #alas...time escapes me

[reasonsforhope]

"Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) has vetoed a Republican-led ban on transgender high school athletes, saying that such legislation would needlessly harm the mental well-being of trans youth and make the state less safe for LGBTQ+ people. State Republicans reportedly lack the votes to override his veto.

“This type of legislation, and the harmful rhetoric we get by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites’ and kids’ mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our LGBTQ kids,” Evers wrote in his veto message.

“I am vetoing this bill in its entirety because I object to codifying discrimination into state statute and the Wisconsin state legislature’s ongoing efforts to perpetuate hateful and discriminatory rhetoric and policies targeting LGBTQ Wisconsinites including our transgender and gender nonconforming kids…. I will veto any bill that makes Wisconsin a less safe, less inclusive, and less welcoming place for LGBTQ people and kids,” Evers added.

He vetoed the bill in a public ceremony while surrounded by trans advocates, Democratic lawmakers, the mayor of Madison and others, NBC News reported.

The bill would have required public, private, and independent charter schools to designate each team by the gender of its participants, and then require participants to play on teams matching the gender listed on their birth certificates.

The bill would have overruled current policies, established in 2015 by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, that allowed trans students to play on sports teams matching their gender identity as long as they provided a personal letter; supporting documentation from parents, teachers, and medical professionals; and proof of any gender-affirming care...

Last September [in 2023], Evers vetoed a Republican-led bill that would’ve banned gender-affirming medical care for minors."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 2, 2024

#voting matters #tony evers #democrats #united states #us politics #transgender #trans issues #trans sports #trans kids #lgbtq #lgbtq issues #queer issues #trans positivity #lgbtq positivity #wisconsin #republicans #public schools #good news #hope

[i-am-dulaman]

Why I hate Golf

This is the Takapuna Golf Course in Auckland, New Zealand.

It is in the middle of Auckland's north shore suburbs.

According to their website, they are one of the most popular golf courses in Aotearoa and have an annual visitor count of 60,000 people. They don't clarify if that is individual unique visitors or recounts, but lets be generous and say its unique visitors. 60,000, not bad.

This is Eden Park Stadium (the little square on the right) and oh look there's another golf course on the left there, ignore that one for now.

(the above two images are at the same scale)

Eden park has a capacity of 50,000 people. Ed Sheeran was here earlier this year and sold out the two nights he performed. That's 100,000 people in a weekend all in that little red square. 60,000 in a year no longer seems so great.

60,000 people per year is also only 160 people per day. 160 visitors to a golf course that is 470,000 square meters in area. Now the average property size in Auckland is 500 square meters. So the golf course takes up the area of 940 houses.

940 homes worth of land for 160 people.

And that is Auckland housing sizes. Auckland is horribly designed and very spread out. Let's instead look at Barcelona, considered one of the most well designed cities in the world.

This is Takapuna golf course side by side with Barcelona

(The scale is as close to being equal as I could get them, I don't have ArcGIS data for Barcelona so had to use google maps)

Each red square overlaid on Takapuna Golf Course is exactly 133m in height/width, the same size as each city block in Barcelona, road width included.

There are 23 Barcelona blocks worth of space in Takapuna Golf Course with room to spare. About 640 people live in each Barcelona block, that's 15000 people.

15000 peoples worth of homes and living spaces, sacrificed so 160 people can play golf in a day.

Now this is just one golf course in a big city, what's 15,000 people to a city of 1.6 million, who cares right?

Here is a wider shot of Auckland City.

Those red dots? They're golf courses.

There are 16 golf courses inside the metropolitan area of Auckland City (4 not pictured as Auckland is too spread out to get one clean screenshot). Keep in mind these are not rural golf courses out in the country, these are right beside housing developments and shopping malls. And for the record I could not find a single golf course in the Barcelona metropolitan area, you had to go out into the country before finding one.

So lets multiply that 15,000 people by 16 golf courses?

240,000 people.

With Auckland City's golf courses you could house 240,000 people comfortably with some good urban planning.

That is why I hate golf.

#For the record I'm not 100% against golf I just think if you have the time to play the most boring sport in the world #Then you also have time to drive 30 minutes out into the country side to play it #golf courses water usage is a whole other story but they aren't uniquely wasteful so thats why I havent mentioned that #golf courses in dry areas with water shortages are even worse than a waste of space and it doesnt matter if theyre urban or rural #but for golf courses in a place like auckland theyre water usage is generally fine and its the waste of land use that bothers me so #Auckland #New Zealand #Aotearoa #Golf #Barcelona #Why i hate golf #golf hate

[vyeoh]

What if I make a good omens figure skating au but instead of making them go to the Olympics they're literally just regular skaters at some club in Indiana or something

#vio.txt #im soo traumatized i need some traumatized skater representation #aziraphale's a coach who maybe has had a few skaters go pro but these days mostly does learn to skate #crowley is the former golden girl who quit skating after an injury put him at odds with the tides of club politics and opinion #can aziraphale use crowley's begruding love of children and urge to flex on everyone out of spite to reignite his love of the ice? #find out this christmas on the hallmark channel #inspired by me trying to read a figure skating au on ao3 and clicking off because i have too complex of feelings about the sport to #read a glamourized version of it oops #good omens #ineffable husbands #anyways i got new skates so im about to get back on ice after like 4 months 🤪🤪

[purpleshadow-star]

Pic context: Talking about the exy stadium at USC considering the fact that USC is a real school

I love how Nora just invents things in order to avoid complications with real-life things.

Like, using USC's football stadium as the exy stadium too would take a lot of work to figure out how that would be possible. Solution: invent a new stadium!

Having the characters play a real sport that already exists would mean looking into all the rules and regulations and history, etc, and there could be multiple elements of the sport that work against the plot of the story or complicate it in some way. Solution: invent a new sport!

I mean, it gives her full creative control over what happens in the story, and we as readers get to learn about a cool new thing without feeling the need to fact-check every element. Tbh, it makes so much sense to me.

Like, go off! Make stuff up! It's your world. We're just reading and enjoying and becoming obsessed with it!!!

#also the fact that palmetto state university is made up #it's based on an actual college but it doesnt actually exist lol #and again i think that makes sense #it allows us to become immersed in this fiction story even though it takes place in our world #i think having these elements unique to that world also makes it easier to go along with the plot #like imagine if neil was being hunted by his serial killer father and the yakuza while attending the university of south carolina #and playing hokey or lacrosse or smth #the made up stuff helps woth the immersion imo #anyway i just wanted to point out how funny it was that her solution is to make stuff up #like makes sense 100% work smarter not harder #tbh if the series wasnt centered around a fake sport i prob wouldnt have read it 💀 #like im just being real here #so thank you nora for going through the trouble of creating a whole new sport #bc im sure that was the final thing that convinced many people to read it (i.e. me) #anyway rant over #aftg #all for the game #nora sakavic #the sunshine court #tsc #the foxhole court #the raven king #the kings men #exy

[tricoufamily]

no new post nooooo only old blog reposts

#i have the edpression #also realizing there is a severe lack of blood sports content on this blog and forget i have new followers who dont know them #so. lots of them. should have kept my character bios #just use your imagination it's fun #ts4 #ts4 render #ts4 edit #the sims 4 #blood sports #god in order #connor #beckett #nia #lawson #sawyer #jimmy #charlie #adrianna #kellen #lauren #amber #jeremiah #judith #stefan

[avaterpat]

Happy RED FRIDAY 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Remember everyone deployed 💬🇺🇸

#iowa news #minneapolis #minnesota #missouri #sports #united states #us news #us politics #msnbc #fox news #ohio news #columbus ohio #woke

[thornescratch]

Inordinately delighted that Dylan Strome has joined John Carlson in informing various Caps when they're about to hit a milestone or significant stat.

#Not gonna lie I would NOT have initially picked Carlson as a stat head #But given the number of kids he has no doubt he's used to keeping track of shit #Also he's a New England sports fan which... probably explains it #But also Stromer now informing Ovi before he hits various milestones is so charming to me #Team always needs more stats heads and trivia geeks #Alexander Ovechkin #Devante Smith Pelly #John Carlson #Dylan Strome #Washington Capitals

[allthegeopolitics]

Wisconsin governor Tony Evers has vetoed a bill “in its entirety” that would have stopped transgender students competing in sports teams consistent with their gender identity. Assembly Bill 377 called on school boards and other relevant bodies to prohibit transgender and non-binary student athletes from competing in teams or events that match their gender identity, leaving them instead to compete in teams consistent with their sex assigned at birth. In an open letter announcing his decision to veto the bill on Tuesday (2 April) , Democrat Evers wrote that not only did the legislation conflict with several anti-discrimination laws but could also undermine federal legislation.

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#us news #wisconsin #lgbtq news #trans sports

[mantisgodsdomain]

Finally, we get the opportunity to put our Spy Cards worldbuilding in a work. Though there are many questions about such things as "regulation" "how these cards are printed" "who approves a single spy card", and so on, we are here to present a bold new take: this game is based like 60% on obscure roach memory-reading tech that got turned into a card game with absolutely No card-game-related intentions included in the original tech and most of the card vetting is just from the fact that there aren't too many card printers out there and most of them make cards that need to be translated from Roach.

Strictly speaking, as a card game, it is not a terribly good or well-balanced one. It's popular primarily because of a mix of the difficulty involved in getting the data for high-level cards, the fun of seeing the variety of monsters that can be brought to the table, and the incredible amounts of ham and drama that goes into specifically the professional scene.

#we speak #bug fables #bold and new because we think that only maybe three people have even asked questions about the semantics ofc #notable points: professional spy cards is an entirely different thing from competitive spy cards #and the overlap between fanbases means that there is occasionally some REALLY incomprehensible beef about deck composition #also every time that carmina uses astotheles' card in one of her decks she has to pay him royalties #this is because he approached her personally about it. it was an Experience. #the roach tech thing also means that like a decent chunk of high level spy cards players know like. a handful of words in roach #competitive spy cards is generally smaller than professional and involves shit like actual deck composition and like #trying to get ahold of That One OP Card so that you can utterly crush people at the local tournament. actual card geek shit. #professional spy cards is basically wrestling in card game form and does NOT optimize the decks very well #because 99% of the draw of PROFESSIONAL spy cards is that youre gonna watch a whole bunch of people roleplay elaborate storylines #while also playing a game where most professional venues will invest in tech to read card crystals and summon appropriate effects #its a spectacle sport. specifically a spectacle sport where the actual game is mostly framework for Cool Monsters and Interpersonal Drama #carmina is a heel #this might be slightly incoherent but we'll clean it up later maybe. we are taking a break from sketching comms to write rn

[staybeautifulmp3]

-> dan rydell and casey mccall ♡ sports night, pilot (1998). directed by thomas schlamme

#im trying out a new sharpening method! you use a film grain in filters instead of noise #what do we think. #q #sports night #sportsnightedit #josh charles #peter krause #dancasey #userdean #userpunk #amanda.doc #amanda.gif

[kazoologist]

gonna suggest a substantial part of f1 season antics to be having logan read real and true facts about florida's ecology and invasive species to other drivers who experience all five stages of grief with every word

#f1 #formula 1 #logan sargeant #ls2 #kazoo noises #sports posting #babys first f1 season #begging someone to have logan tell the europeans about the GAS problem rearing its ugly head again last summer #or the lionfish. the nutria. tho those guys are kind of a louisiana situation #the iguanas and the pythons that fall out of trees. didnt we find some new species of bugs that are invasive recently? unclear. do know the #GAS situation was sounding ROUGH last summer. cheers to those folks in florida yall are gds strongest soldiers fr fr #im not floridian but i do enjoy the state's people. i also think as the sole american he should use that for evil. #which driver do you think would take the most damage from learning about the snails and iguanas. I think it might kill ferrari's whole team #might kill the french too actually. theres no way theyd handle floridas wildlife well.

[caniscorvidae]

howdy dogblr. after what felt like an eternity, i’ve finally welcomed home Kiwi! i can’t wait to see what adventures we’ll tackle together.

#he’s my first dog as an adult #and my first sport dog #not the best pictures but im using my phone and running low on sleep and time haha #anyways im finally ready to be a full participant of dogblr #this is a side account fyi #kiwi dog #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #10 weeks #2023 #dogblr #new dogblr #op #i love him #my main is archetypalcorvidae

[nco05]

All that manifesting an illegal ruling of the RB19 really backfired on your asses, huh...

#f1 #formula 1 #sports #us grand prix #texas #austin #red bull racing #RB19 #no hate to the drivers #i do not think they were aware #this is mocking the fanbase #what crazy news to wake up to

[kingoftheu]

0/10 had Annabeth's Yankee Cap but not Percy mentioning he's a Mets kinda guy.

#percy jackson disney+ #percy pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo disney+ #annabeth chase #pjo annabeth #pjo athena #athena #new york yankees #yankees #new york mets #mets #all about da mets baby #the symbolism is important here #athena using the yankees shows that the gods are yankees fans and thus asshole #whereas percy is a mets amd thus less so #well maybe posideon is a mets fan to piss off zeus #sports #baseball #major league baseball

[rad-roche]

been enjoying apartment decoration in shadows of doubt. i think i know a decent amount regarding noir and detective media, so i've taken great care to make this as accurate as possible

here's my apartment. notice the darkness, and the 75 expensive paintings of dead dogs

the tasteful wallpaper, offset by the bed in the middle of the room. let's go to the bathroom

naturally, the mirror was broken in a fit of existential ennui, so i've put another dog there. no toilet because i don't deserve one

#shadows of doubt #interior design IS my passion #i live in the unventilated basement of an awful hotel. i only eat burgers from the restaurant #i have stolen a janitor's bucket and use them to play a new sport i've deemed burgsketball #also my character is 4 feet tall