october 31 etc (let's go blue jays!)
๐ Happy Halloween!
When I was younger I used to be a stickler for the apostrophe, i.e. "Hallowe'en," but eventually I let it go. I didn't want to, though. I was like, "but that's correct! Why wouldn't you do it correctly?"
I was nine years old.
There are a lot of people out there who have been called difficult for wanting things to be done correctly, or tactfully, or with care, or otherwise differently than is custom. When I say "custom" I mean "the norm" and I don't mean anything good by it, and when I say "difficult," I mean all the words people say when what they are really saying "I don't want to think about this so you shouldn't either."
It is hard to go through the world and realize, slowly, over time (and sometimes all at once) that a lot of other people are only comfortable when you see the world like they do. I am not talking about politics even though it seems like I am. Rather, I am talking about the weight people place on things. I am by most estimations a pretty smart and thoughtful guy but the number of times I have been written off as a dumb blockheaded boor because I am a big sports fan would blow your mind. Moreover, the number of times I have reduced people to a handful of salient but ultimately unimportant details and then judged them based on those details is, to my eternal shame, a number well above 0.
Life is interesting because we're all different. Pick any two sentient people on earth and if you eliminate the language barrier, I bet you'd find that those two people, in a vacuum, have a ton of things in common and could put down the foundation for some kind of friendship. This doesn't mean they would be bffs, but it suggests they could coexist in the same space with minimal trouble.
Sameness, on the other hand, is boring. I suppose I get the appeal, but people are far too complex to ever smooth out en masse.
Anyway, today millions upon millions of people are going to experiment with being someone else for a few hours โโ and the younger millions will be rewarded for it. Maybe there's a lesson in there somewhere.
#lightsupletsgo
๐๐ Blue Jays CF Daulton Varsho keeps it real while talking about Dodgers' Game 6 starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto in an interview with Lindsay Dunn and yes you will like this even if you are not a baseball fan. (Twitter)
๐คก๐ช If you've got 28 minutes to burn, this Planet Money episode about memecoins from February 2025 is worth listening to. (NPR)
๐ณ๐ณ Globally, we've "lost around 20 million acres of forest a year for the past several years," but don't blame China bc they're killing the game. (Yale)
๐๐ Gonna keep it a buck and tell you that I am dangerously close to buying this Space Jam jacket. (Poshmark)
๐๐ต Anthony Edwards dropped a hip-hop record ft. Wale, Pusha T, and Quavo. (GQ)
๐ญ๐ญ Mode Orozco's mural of Alejandro Kirk in TJ legit made me teary. (MLB)
๐๐ Elon Musk does not get a lot of things and one of those things is Lord of the Rings, which is funny because like many people who do not get things he is 100% sure he gets things. (WIRED)
๐ ๐ Tweek is a simple little planner tool thinger guy and I like the way it looks and handles so far. (Tweek)
โ ๏ธ๐ "One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is winding down operations by the end of the year, a huge disruption to public libraries across the [United States], some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability to lend books." Like many, I weep for America. (404 Media)
๐งต๐ Dril posts still hit and for that I am thankful. (Threads)
โ โ As much as I like to hear that other people are Blue Jays fans, I really do enjoy hearing that people are Dodgers haters. On that tip, let's check in with Winnipeg Jets goalie Eric Comrie. (Twitter)
๐ฆ๐ฆ You really ought to know about Owl Code. (Defector)
๐ฒ gonna let's
๐ผ go
๐ฑ touch blue
๐ณ grass jays
๐ท now clap clap clapclapclap
Be good to yourself.
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