[the-hog-trough]

the yankees are evil and must be destroyed

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[kayandsnay]

Meet the Team: PWHL Seattle Mini-Primer

Hello! I am mostly a lurker and reblogger here but I am a Kraken fan and a newly minted PWHL Seattle fan. I have been paying peripheral attention to the PWHL (takeover tour game was LIT), but now that we are getting our own team I wanted to start digging my teeth in. Posting here to help build the community, but I am brand new to this so please let me know what I missed so I can refine the mini-primer as we go!

The vibes I am getting of this team so far…

Stacked as hell

Everyone watches women's sports

We love lesbians

Thanks especially to krackencord friends for the help getting started!!

Meet the first five...

Hilary Knight #21 aka Knighter

One of the best hockey players of all time 🐐 and Captain America 🇺🇸.

She was captain of the Boston Fleet.

“Signing Hilary Knight was an absolute no-brainer - she’s the heartbeat of any team she joins" Said PWHL Seattle General Manager Megan Turner.

She is a noted Kraken fan and loves the city of Seattle. Notably joined Alison Lukan & Linda Cohn during a Kraken broadcast this season.

She kinda grew up/has family in Sun Valley Idaho so about as local as you can get for this area of the US.

Dating another Olympian - US Speedskater Brittany Bowe (can you say power couple?).

She's 35 but not slowing down yet! Tied for PWHL points leader last season and second in goals. I cant list all her other accomplishments and awards because it would take forever.

Forward, from Palo Alto, California (Also grew up in Illinois and New Hampshire) signed to a 1 year deal.

Danielle Serdachny #92

Second overall pick in the draft last year but played bottom minutes last season (Seattle hockey loves a fresh start).

Seattle GM Megan Turner said: "She’s strong, plays through contact, and she’s only beginning to tap into her full potential"

Regarding her first season in the PWHL: "I didn't have as much of an impact as I hoped I would in my rookie year but I think this fresh start will be really good for me, the opportunity to play." under a new staff and new teammates... I hope I can turn some heads this year." (can't escape the narrative)

Scored the OT game winnee to secure Team Canada the gold in women's worlds last year.

All time leading scorer at Colgate University.

Came from the Walter cup final losing Ottawa Charge.

Forward from Edmonton, Alberta signed to a 2 year deal.

Cayla Barnes #23

LITERALLY ONE APPLE TALL (5'2")

Also coming off her rookie season, was drafted 5th overall by Montreal.

Cali gal who got her start playing roller hockey.

Has a chocolate lab named Hulk.

Another noted queer and dating a goalie!

She led the Victoire in time on ice last season.

Already a two time Olympic Medalist at 26.

Longer term deal, she's gonna be part of the core of the team.

GM Megan Turner "Even as a rookie last season, she played with the poise and presence of a veteran, and we see her playing a key role on our blue line."

Dynamic puck moving defender.

Defense from Eastvale, California signed to a 3 year deal.

Alex Carpenter #25 aka Carpy

The PWHL's all-time third leading scorer.

Her being left unprotected by NY was likely the biggest surprise, she also wore an A for them.

GMMT (is this anything?) says: “She’s an elite two-way player who has proven to be one of the best in the world for years, and she has the ability to take over a game at both ends of the ice. She’s hungry to win and brings the kind of drive that sets the tone for a team."

Patty Kazmaier Award Winner

Was on the US national team, got cut, then won her spot back and helped the team win gold in

Is also queer! Her partner wife is an assistant equipment managers for the Toronto Marlies.

Plays Mario Kart as Mario…?

Eldest daughter!!!! to Bobby Carpenter who played in the NHL for 18 seasons and won 1 Stanley Cups as a player and 2 as a coach with the Devils.

She participated in the 2023 NHL All-Star skills competition

Forward from North Reading, Massachussets signed to a 1 year contract.

Corinne Schroeder #30 aka Schroeds

Shutout QUEEN! Recorded the first-ever shutout in the first-ever PWHL and led the league with 4 shutouts with NY last season.

Noted fan-sign and chant enjoyer.

Sickest pads in in the PWHL.

 GMMT says “She brings poise, confidence, and the kind of elite goaltending every team needs to win, and we can’t wait to see her between the pipes for us.”

Goalie from Elm Creek, Manitoba signed to a 2 year contract.

Sidenote about her hometown...

Population of 339

Claim to fame? Home to the second largest fire hydrant in Canada, and Corinne Schroeder.

No literally she is the ONLY NOTABLE PERSON ON THEIR WIKIPEDIA PAGE).

Additional sidenote, consensus between Sirens fans is that we got their two best players ( sorry u guys okay over there?)

Media to endear you:

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Goodbye videos for Knight, Schroeder, Barnes (second slide), Serdachny and Carpenter. These let us get to know them a little better and some sick highlights.

The past and future GOATS of Seattle women's sports (with special guests retired from the Storm and Reign 👀👀)

First ever jersey video (with Knight and Serdachny!)

Hilary Knight interview on an old Sound of Hockey interview episode 71 where she talks about her connection to the PNW. (I CANNOT FIND THIS ANYWHERE PLEASE HELP)

Bonus big n' lil

Already obsessed with the narratives. See y'all after the expansion draft on Monday!!

[comedownstairsandsayhello]

something has gone deeply wrong when "focusing pragmatically on issues you can influence and working to make life better for yourself and your community" is considered an unserious distraction while "endlessly exposing yourself to media about distressing situations you can't control" is considered political engagement

[silvermoon424]

[catchymemes]

[infinitydivine]

I am not taking a risk

[darlingsstern]

Not risking it pals

[doralimasstuff]

U know what I want potato of luck

[shrewreadings]

Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.

[caitmayart]

potato I will never ask you for anything else in my lifetime please potato for fuck's sake

[academicssay]

Source:

Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation

Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federa

[chaotic-archaeologist]

This is incredibly important. Each of these three issues are almost universal across academic publishing.

[lew-basnight]

These are all companies I work with every day and let me just say, destroy them. Rip their dicks off

[dozydawn]

[rocketmanimissearth]

These are smocking patterns. If you stitch these patterns into flat fabric and then pull the threads to gather the fabric, it will produce these patterns on the finished fabric. Smocking manipulates flat fabric into three dimensions.

The beautiful fabric that looked like dragon scales on costumes in the tv show Game of Thrones were produced by smocking, by sewing a particular pattern into the fabric and then pulling those threads just the right amount to gather the fabric into that pattern.

[hannahp0calypse]

watching Seven Samurai

[hannahp0calypse]

watching Seven Samurai

[posttexasstressdisorder]

THIS IS BIG BIG BIG!  YES!

NO MORE FED USE OF PRIVATE PRISONS!

[ms-cellanies]

President Biden signed the executive order January 27, 2021.  This is the first time I’ve even heard of this.  Here are a couple of links with more info:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/biden-s-order-terminates-federal-private-prison-contracts-here-s-n1255776

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bop-finalizes-moving-inmates-private-prisons/story?id=94281403

[lttrsfrmlnrrgby]

Mug in "Sparrow" is from ANK ceramics in Maine. (No connection, just like their stuff.)

[freediatonicism]

some people’s thresholds for “being a musician” or “knowing about music” are just.. SO WILD

like... a dude will tell a story about his years playing recorder and harpsichord in a baroque ensemble, and finish with “but I’m not really much of a musician.” Sir. What do you think a musician is??

[madtomedgar]

5 states including kentucky (!!) voted to protect abortion access. 3 states did away with slavery (prison labor) as punishment for a crime. 3 states made massive commitments to affordable housing. illinois made collective bargaining a protected right. 2 more states legalized weed. connecticut is moving towards early voting. alabama removed racist language from the state constitution and is investing in statewide public broadband internet. california massively expanded funding for arts and music programs in public schools. colorado raised on the wealthiest in order to provide universal free school lunch to students. georgia may no longer pay cops who are suspended on a felony indictment. massachusetts massively expanded funding for public education and infrastructure, massively expanded dental insurance, and will allow residents to get a drivers license or state id regardless of immigration status. montana will now require a search warrant for access to electronic data. nebraska will increase its minimum wage to $15. new mexico will massively improve and expand senior facilities, public libraries, higher ed, special public schools, and tribal schools, residential utilities (water, internet, electricity). new york is putting 4.2 billion towards climate change mitigation. rhode island is increasing funding for public education and environmental protection. south dakota expanded medicaid.

[smokeandsong]

[godsarecrazy]

Images that make you enter a fugue state

[santaclausdeadindian]

Surrender to cars?

Jesus Christ, when was the last time a swede did anything useful?

What the fuck those streets were before cars, fucking playgrounds and parks with waterslides?

Or did people commute on them, on the level of whatever technology they were on, the vere purpose they were built for since the first city?

I'm trying my best not to automatically dislike artists, I really do, but sometimes I just wish I could send them milking cows or shoveling gravel.

[earlgraytay]

@santaclausdeadindian "What the fuck were those streets before cars, fucking playgrounds?"

Yes, actually.

[description: a black-and-white photo from the 1900s of a group of girls in pinafores standing in the middle of the street; according to the website I found it on, this is a 'street dance'. The girls are talking to each other in small groups. end description.]

Children used to play in the street all the time. And for most of recorded history, that was relatively safe. Running into someone on foot is not going to kill a child, and horses - let alone carriages- were relatively rare.

Streets used to be public spaces. People would hang out and talk in the middle of the road, or set up shop with a little cart at the side of the road. "Right of way" used to mean "your right to take up space on the street, because you are a free citizen and free citizens get to use the road."

[description: a black-and-white historical photo of two children in the middle of a mostly empty street. One child is sitting in a wagon, and the other child is standing, ready to pull it. End description.]

It wasn't until the 19th century that it became common enough for your average joe to own horses that it was unsafe for kids to play in the street (and they still did anyway!). And it wasn't until the early 20th century that people got cleared off of the street in favour of cars- before then, people and horses and carriages had to share the road, and carriages had to go at the same pace as whatever was around them.

We laugh at the insanely low speed limits of the 1910s and 1920s - really, cars can only go at 3 mph?- but they were there for a reason, and that reason was "to keep the roads safe for horses and pedestrians". If cars could go at top speeds on city roads, they'd only be safe for cars, and people couldn't use their public spaces anymore. But thanks to lobbying by the auto industry and a whoooole lot of PR spin, that's exactly what happened.

I'm going to leave you with two pictures. The first is Mulberry Street in NYC, according to wikipedia, in 1900. The second is Mulberry Street today.

[Description: two photos of city streets. The first photo is sepia-toned, from the 1900s. It shows a city street full of people and carriages. The foreground of the photo is taken up by a group of vegetable sellers, and a group of men and young children standing beside them looking at the camera. The second photo is a modern photo of the same street. It is a heavily decorated tourist district, but most of the street is taken up by cars. The sidewalks are crowded with pedestrians, but they're shoved off to the side. End description.]

Little Italy is a tourist district. It is meant to be walkable so that tourists can browse and look at all the little restaurants and window-shop. And yet 75% of this picture is taken up by a fucking car canal, and people- the people this street was built for - are shoved off to the side, so as not to get in the way.

People got forced off the road in favour of cars. People got forced out of public space in favour of cars.

And if that doesn't piss you off...

[freediatonicism]

in 1926 the American Automobile Association (AAA) coordinated support for safety programs to place blame for accidents on pedestrians rather than on automobiles and drivers. (Peter D. Norton, Fighting Traffic, 228–29)

[montereybayaquarium]

📣 Calling all seatizens, we need your kelp!

Through October 6, fill out this simple form to urge federal officials to protect our coasts from oil spills and climate change by saying “no” to new offshore oil and gas leasing.

Together we can make a difference for our blue planet! 💪🌏

[silvermoon424]

I just read this excellent article by The Atlantic about the impact of Covid on immunocompromised people. As an immunocompromised person myself, it really spoke to me. While the article is long, I specifically wanted to highlight the parts taking about ableism.

I am so happy a piece of journalism is acknowledging how fucking disgusting and ableist society’s reaction to the disabled, elderly, and generally infirm has been during Covid. People like me- who are at a high risk of Covid- are treated like burdens. Like we’re dragging society down. Like it’s our fault things aren’t back to normal yet. I have heard some people say things that straight-up sound like eugenics, that we should let “the weak” die.

We’ve made enormous strides but our society still has so little compassion for the disabled.

[melody-sillermoon]

Ed Yong was one of my favorite science writers before the pandemic and he has really been unparalleled with his Covid/pandemic material

I need to actually finish reading this one but I deeply appreciate him amplifying the concerns of the disabled community and immunocompromised people

[rebellum]

This pandemic has really revealed how so, so many people, are actively eugenicists. "It's only the sick and old that will die so we should open things back up" is such a fucked up idea.

[mini-wrants]

The parties are not the same

The parties are not the same

The parties are not the same

[coolxatu]

ok ive said it before but i really really recommend to every american possible that you try to get on medicaid if youre below the poverty line. i see people on here all the time with donation posts whos lives could absolutely be changed by medicaid.

you might have to jump through a few hoops to make sure you have all the right documents but you can even get it while homeless. pretty much the only requirement is that youre below the poverty line.

you can apply with or without disability plus there’s a good number of medicaid providers out there that will even cover trans expenses.

its absolutely worth applying and if you qualify theres a ton of other benefits you can get on top of that like foodstamps and free cellphone service. just find out where your local assistance office is and ask them what they can do to help you it will change your life

[labelleizzy]

If it helps, here’s the federal website:

How to Apply for Medicaid and CHIP | USAGov

Find out if you qualify for Medicaid, low cost or free healthcare for low income families or CHIP for children. Also, learn how you can file

[bread-and-roses-too]

Yeah, my Medicaid insurance has been genuinely great and covered a lot of stuff for my disability like blood work and specialist visits. Generally government programs are kind of shit and annoying but Medicaid is one of the good ones. I also highly recommend SNAP (food stamps) if you’re struggling to pay for food.

[starlightomatic]

Yep, this, and absolutely also food stamps. If you’re unemployed or underemployed you’ll most likely quality, and it’s amazing. You get a certain amount per month on a card that you can swipe at grocery stores like a debit card. It usually covers all human food, snacks, drinks etc except hot pre-prepped stuff, restaurants, and alcohol. Really lifesaving. And you can apply online! Just google “[my state] food stamps” or “[my state] medicaid” and it’ll take you to the website to apply. And sometimes it’s the same application for both.