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| 30+ | | Runs on queue | | Facing the consequences of letting hockey teams take over my life from across the Atlantic for a decade. With a sprinkle of F1. There may be gifs |

[saviorified]

boy who always wanted to race but was seen as too tenderhearted for competition by both of his parents and then had to be shocked out of it through his father's hardness / "anger" ... and then literally "handed over" to mercedes and toto at the age of 12 ...

[tbcl]

[userpironi]

Unlike most, a ball player must confront two deaths. First, between the ages of thirty and forty, he perishes as an athlete. Although he looks trim and feels vigorous and retains unusual coordination, the superlative reflexes, the major league reflexes, pass on. At a point when many of his classmates are newly confident and rising in other fields, he finds that he can no longer hit a very good fast ball or reach a grounder four strides to his right. At thirty-five, he is experiencing the truth of finality. As his major league career is ending, all things will end. However he sprang, he was always earthbound. Mortality embraces him. The golden age has passed as in a moment. So will all things. So will all moments. Memento mori.

— Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer

[17waterlillies]

happy anniversary to this incredible set of headlines

[redlipstickresurrected]

Ungfio aka Fio aka Ungfi0 aka Φ• (Chilean, based Chile) - Untitled (Cat Version), 2025, Paintings

[team-orders]

mika hakkinen (2000) & franco colapinto (2026) making double overtakes down the kemmel straight

[transjudas]

never take for granted the moments when you’re not nauseous

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

i need to read everything ever before the end of the summer

[beaft]

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

[beaft]

recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."

in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"

[beaft]

important additions!!!!

[mieux-de-se-taire]

The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit (2011) by Michael Cannell

[let-it-linger]

spaaa

oil on canvas, 16x20

[crybabymarquez]

no caption needed.

[incidentale]

hello the ''silly woman playing dumb at the wheel needing men to instruct her every move to drive a car'' bit the f1 has been pushing with that content creator is so backward especially in the context of the rest of the misplaced ''women in motorsport'' crap they have been pulling in recent memory... like, what are we doing. what's the goal here?

[huariqueje]

Floating - Paul Ferney , 2024.

American , b. 1976 -

Oil on canvas , 36 x 48 in.

[birdplushie]

often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind

[clownfactories]

there should be a second pride month in fall or winter for people who have heat intolerance. no other reason.

[userfish]

hey you 🫵 have you washed your water bottle lately? 🫵 it’s getting hot and mold is going to grow 🫵 wash it 🫵