Blackbird, fly away 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌹 🌈 🌻 🏳️‍🌈

I'd boycott, but I've been boycotting for the last 40 years and a few weeks as is.

I scoped the backs of their shirts at one point -- the shirts were all for a nearby fire station.

So of course. Hot firefighters.

Maybe I'll go easy on the details, but this didn't used to be something I was so set and comfortable with. I tell you what, though, I damn sure am now.

(They were too far away to hear)

I couldn't help but contrast them with a group who came in later. Three casual, scruffy young men in matching tight T-shirts with jeans. One had a bitching 'stache.

And you don't know the joy it gives me to just come out and say this -- they were sexy as hell.

Early this morning I happened to notice two coiffed and clean-cut young men who never left each other's line of sight, wearing button-up shirts, ties, and slacks, with nametags like ours (I work retail) clipped to their shirts.

I even (all in good fun) said out loud - "Mormon alert!"

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Good thing members of your party are proposing to cause massive budget shortfalls in infrastructure maintenance. rollcall.com/2026/03/10/d...

Anything to keep Republicans from facing the electoral consequences of their actions, it seems. (And enrich oil companies)

Remembering the initial ads for this game (and how for a while, the BR was called "Fortnite Battle Royale") makes me feel so old.....but the game isn't even 10 years old.

Not bad!

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I quickly lost interest in following Oswalt himself too not long after.

I don't have much, but Patton Oswalt's wife (I believe she's an actress herself, but I can't remember her name, nor can I be fucked to google it) blocked me when I posted a shaking-head gif to her effusive pro-Joe Biden post (this was spring 2020, right when "lockdowns" were starting).

Did they give up on the espresso?

I don't know much about the current NBA -- if he got to the line 43 times in one game, does that mean he's the kind of guy who made about 15 of them?

"Creatures (For A While)" or we riot

Ah. Here it is

Disagree that it's accidental.

They're on the same side, and it ain't ours. One party is pro-corporate, anti-planet, and doesn't give a shit about most Americans. The other is pro-corporate, anti-planet, and doesn't give a shit about most Americans *but with pride flags*.

They can all rot.

How's that "I used to think the Democrats were fighting valiantly and were just outnumbered" copypasta go again?

Max M's, which is 7. No one for the team specific SB squares, so I've got a matching name with an M and....a guy. I really couldn't think of anything.

Mulholland fits all four team/team squares today.

I keep hearing the cat's outta the bag with Josh's stolen base ability, and yet....

Meh. I'm not worried.

??????

All M's

All M's and -- say it with me now -- eight D-Backs. Aaaahhhhhhhhh

(It's a lot of other things, too, but "strange" is among them)

The reason pan-Blackness exists is because it's not possible for people in that ethnicity to know what culture their ancestral heritage is from. Yes, Beavis -- it is all about slavery.

My favourite is "why can't white people be proud of their heritage?" My dudes, you can be. No one gives a shit about your Irish corned beef and cabbage, your German Oktöberfest, your French or Dutch or Swiss or Belgian *whatever*. To have those superseded by pan-whiteness is so strange.

Kuma! (And also Shiggy I guess!)

Heck yeah, Hyphen!

Big Maple!

Biggest midday score drop I can easily recall. (Usually my score goes up a little! 😆)

All M's. Guessing this is our last WBC-themed grid. You'd really have to choose the X axis categories carefully for Australia or Korea to be possible.

Or legendary HOF players.

At least you included my favourite Canadian 🇨🇦