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erring on the side of tenderness

Nice to see Republicans comprehensively eat shit tonight, but Jesus Christ almighty why couldn't you dumb motherfuckers (the American voting public) remember this a year ago.

#politics for ts #and that is the extent of my political commentary for the evening #yet again #the weapons grade stupid american voting electorate remembers they hate the GOP #only after they vote them into office #off year elections are notoriously flukey #but this bodes well (?) for 2026 #so we all hope at least #there will almost surely be some sort of constitutional crisis associated with the midterms but let's not think about that

I finally did it… I watched Heated Rivalry. And it’s NOTHING like I expected.

Honestly, I don’t know what I expected but it wasn’t one of the best, most slow burn, and well rounded love stories I’ve ever seen on screen. And it’s all told with so much care and love that I want to kill myself because I’m so fucking overwhelmed.

The music the used throughout the fucking show?!? OH MY GAWD. The delicacy of everything that goes on between Shane and Ilya (of course, while they indelicately ram each other) is INSANE!! Also, they’re both sooo suicidal in such different ways because Shane wants to just die because of his repressed everything and Ilya wants to kill everyone else and then himself because of his repressed everything.

And of course, beyond the story and the writing and the cinematography and the direction, Connor and Hudson have to be commended for completely giving in to their characters. It’s only because they love Ilya and Shane that it gives us the chance to fully fall in love with them as well.

AAAARGHHHHHHHHHH IM JUST SO OVERWHELMED!!!! IM GOING TO GO WATCH THE SHOW AGAIN AND JUST CRY THROUGH THE WHOLE THING THIS TIME AROUND BECAUSE THEY MY BABIES AND I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AND THEY NEED TO BE HAPPY FOREVER AND I’D BURN THE WORLD DOWN FOR THEM!!!!!!

period.

#finally watched heated rivalry #and i understand why everyone’s been going crazy about it #because #yet again #i have become unhealthy attached to two fictional characters #heated rivalry #shane hollander #shane x ilya #ilya rozanov #ilya x shane #heated rivalry shane #heated rivalry ilya #connor storrie #hudson williams

The more I think about both Tkachuks being included on the US Olympic roster while players like Jason Robertson and Cole Caufield didn't make the cut, the crazier I feel.

I keep thinking about the Oakland A's and Billy Beane. When Beane decided to essentially revolutionize baseball by constructing a team based on stats instead of eyeball assessments from scouts, he got a lot of pushback. Old school baseball guys lost their minds if he signed a guy who didn't 'look' like the 'right' kind of athlete.

When his scouts tried to tell him that the player he wanted to draft was too fat, Beane kept saying, "We're not selling jeans here," which has become a kind of shorthand for saying to look at what the numbers are telling you, not what you feel should be right. Reducing the impact of the eyeball test also, incidentally, can reduce the impact of bias (conscious or unconscious).*

Bill Guerin and US Hockey have an old baseball scout problem.

#*for more on this see Moneyball (the book not the movie). and note that this principle has been applied much more widely than just in sports #because it turns out it's also good practice for. you know. business. economics.#or lots of other fields that have many numbers and also many bros whose biases can completely blind them to mathematical realities.#**don't set this aside tho because it's pretty fucking stupid. the olympics are not a random tuesday hockey game in ottawa or whatever #and guerin's love of a heavy hitter (or even just PERCEIVED heavy hitter) does actually lead him to ignore the fact that international play #is ruled and officiated differently from the nhl. one of those differences is a harder line against violence and plays that might injure.#***this is a bigger factor in guerin/ushockey's blindness than people want to think. guerin has straight out said we are not taking the top #individual guys. we are making a Team. which sounds ok on the face of it but is deeply wrongheaded when you realize that this is #yet again #not the nhl. we are not talking about a full season. this is a short format tournament where clubhouse chemistry matters a bit #but MUCH less than it would in the construction of a regular nhl roster.#and a fuzzy metric like 'clubhouse chemistry' is a PRIME site for bias to stroll on in.#and also you named jt miller - having a worse year than all the nontkachuks named above and noted clubhouse destroyer - to the roster.#but he sure is at least 6' tall and he sure is white. he does have that going for him. great job guys. you hypocritical fucks.#jesus FUCK this makes me insane.#anyway.#hockey

au(?) where mira has to get adult braces and everyone finds out. mira is super embarrassed because “ugh now everyone’s gonna think im a dork 😣”

meanwhile an asshole interviewer asks rumi and zoey how they feel about mira with braces and rumis like “??? um. idk. i love her?”. the interviewer asks “the braces dont change your opinion of her at all?” and rumi is super confused and mildly offended. “no? why would they change my opinion of her?”

zoey gets really close to the mic when asked and goes “WOULD. VERY MUCH STILL WOULD.”