Growing up, I used to despise the way Americans talked about America. The desperate need to assert supremacy in every sphere ("USA number one!"). The blind conviction that they have "freedom" and nobody else does. The smugness, the self-satisfaction.
But of late I've increasingly seen the opposite, and, honestly, that seems equally toxic.
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que golazo de estados unidos! mallory swanson takes a great touch on the penalty spot to receive the pass from michelle cooper and puts it away to bring the uswnt even with Spain!
gol de estados unidos! ashley sanchez is in the middle of a 20 goal season in nwsl and makes it clear she intends to be scoring in Brazil next year with a great run and a great goal in the 49th minute in a friendly against Spain to put the uswnt on the board 2-1.
RE: https://noc.social/@todayilearned/117366165042634277
Well, I guess the time has come to follow @til instead now? It was a good bot while it lasted.
Athenea clearly didn't watch the clip of Soph getting a red card vs Boston. That's how we're calling hair pulls
Is that Ashley Sanchez's music I hear? She's been in the kinda mood where she might could score a hattie #uswnt
Sometimes you don't know if someone is too nervous to come out as trans, or if they just don't realise it yet...
It's a real chicken or egg problem.
Jon Hamm dropping “Baby Horse” on Jeopardy! is elite ball-knower behavior 😭🐎
The People Making D&D and Magic Are Unionizing
There’s some pretty significant news coming out of the folks working at Wizards of the Coast, and this one has less to do with a new D&D book or the next Magic: The Gathering set and more to do with the people actually making those games. Workers from the Dungeons & Dragons team and Wizards’ Studio X have announced that they’re forming unions as part of United Wizards of the Coast, working with the Communications Workers…
https://www.dicemonkey.net/2026/10/06/the-people-making-dd-and-magic-are-unionizing/
Fun Fact: If you have a Mastodon account long enough you get tenure and can't be blocked
Personally I think it would have been more fun if Sanchez had scored the Courage goal and Fishlock had scored a brace and the Reign had won 2-1 but it's always fun to be at Lumen and I finally got a Reign bobblehead to complete the Seattle women's sports triumvirate #ReignFC
As a cyclical swiftie please here’s my PSA, live laugh love how you wish and don’t let me stop you, but you DO NOT have to buy everything she puts out!! If you like her music like I do just stream the songs you like, buy a nice vinyl if that’s your jam, call it a day! I hate manufactured scarcity 😭
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RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117311315748802405
My theory on why there is so much mansplanation here is that there aren't people you can safely explain to. If you're an explainer on mastodon, your options are eight phds and six authors; if you explain, it's inevitably a mansplanation. Elsewhere, there are normies so you can vent your explanation energy to without mansplaining. Here, even on topics I do know about, if I try to contribute to a relevant discussion, I embarrass myself because everyone here is the smartest person I've encountered.
what if the real rocco's basilisk was the billionaires we made along the way
RE: https://mastodon.energy/@AndrewHenry/117294938917904587
Even if it turns out poutine is the orange chicken of canadian cuisine, la belle patate will always be on my list of places I have to visit every time I'm in Vancouver because poutine is amazing