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Francisco needs to sleep
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baseball_rpf_ao3_feedFrancisco Lindor is hasn't been able to sleep for 5 or 6 nights, barely managing an 2 or 3 hours and his performance on the field. His fellow players let him know that fellow big leader Christian Yelich has a sure-fire cure.
Words: 521, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Baseball RPF
- Rating: Explicit
- Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
- Categories: M/M
- Characters: Francisco Lindor, Christian Yelich, Javier Báez, Enrique Hernández
- Relationships: Francisco Lindor/Christian Yelich
- Additional Tags: Anal Sex, Male Homosexuality, Alternate Universe - No Girlfriends/No Wives, Oral Sex, Verbal Humiliation, Feminization
LOWLIFE DOGS
May. 26th, 2025 05:11 ambaseball_rpf_ao3_feedby Anonymous
He shifted his weight, feeling the plug move inside him as he did. “Direction would be… nice.”
“You know how you bend over the plate?”
“What, the thing I do for balance?”
Ty looked at him like he said something insane, jaw slack with awe. “That’s for balance?”
OR: It's just fucking on camera, how hard could it possibly be?
Words: 9548, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 8 of baseball rpf
- Fandoms: Baseball RPF
- Rating: Explicit
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: M/M
- Characters: Logan Gilbert, Cal Raleigh, Ty France, J.P Crawford, Dylan Moore
- Relationships: Logan Gilbert/Cal Raleigh, Ty France/Cal Raleigh, Ty France/J.P Crawford/Dylan Moore
- Additional Tags: oh god where do i start., Author plays Fast And Loose with the 2024 Mariners Season, Sextape, Vibrators, Orgasm Denial, Semi-Public Sex, implied exhibitionism, Anal Sex, Rimming, Psychological Warfare during sex, with each other and also with someone who is literally NOT THERE, i guess bottom cal raleigh if you care. i don't. there's more nuance than that, Light Bondage, idk i think that ty jp and dmo are into some freak shit, Rough Sex, i dont even really know what's in this fic and i wrote it, Oh, Footnotes
How to Make Money on Trump’s Memecoin (Short It)
May. 26th, 2025 11:34 pmdaringfireballfeed_feedTina Nguyen at The Verge:
I interviewed an enthusiastic crypto trader who figured out how to win the contest without losing any money: buy enough $TRUMP to get onto the leaderboard — and then in a separate wallet on a separate exchange, buy $TRUMP perpetual futures that would be profitable if (or as he saw it, when) the value of $TRUMP dropped. Yes, he did The Big Short, except with Donald Trump’s meme coin. “Bet you 10 percent of dinner participants are doing this,” he told me before the contest ended. “Everyone knows $TRUMP price will fall inevitably as more supply comes online in the future and gets dumped on retail.”
Fascinating interview — half hilarious, half infuriating.
The Talk Show: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’
May. 26th, 2025 11:35 pmdaringfireballfeed_feedStephen Hackett, proprietor of 512 Pixels and co-founder of Relay (purveyor of many fine podcasts), joins the show. Topics include: IO (or if you will, io), the new joint venture of OpenAI and Jony Ive’s LoveFrom; the sheer fantasy of “Made in America” iPhones; and Fortnite’s return to the US App Store.
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When the abuse of power is assumed
May. 26th, 2025 09:11 pmslacktivist_feedEvery retailer, every university, and every American is already "in Walmart's shoes."
‘Sony: Because Caucasians Are Just Too Damn Tall’
May. 26th, 2025 10:29 pmdaringfireballfeed_feedHere’s a spoof commercial from the 1990 movie Crazy People, starring Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah, which TMDB synopsizes:
A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital’s patients.
The New York Times would have you believe this is relevant to Apple’s supply chain reliance on China.
The New York Times Digs in on the ‘Young Chinese Women Have Small Fingers’ Claim
May. 26th, 2025 10:20 pmdaringfireballfeed_feedJulia Carrie Wong, a reporter for the Guardian, has a whole thread over on Bluesky digging into the bizarre “young Chinese women have small fingers” line in Tripp Mickle’s New York Times story that tries to pretend that maybe sorta kinda Apple could assemble iPhones in the US. Mickle attributed the claim to “supply chain experts said”. Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander emailed Wong a statement that included the following:
Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.
I didn’t write my piece on Mickle’s story until about a day after it appeared, and I fully expected while I was writing it that the Times would have removed or significantly edited that goofy claim. But no, it was still there Saturday, and it’s still there today. They’re standing behind it.
You know how Peter Navarro — Trump’s crook of an economic advisor who is the mastermind behind this whole tariffs thing — wrote a book that cited a purported expert named Ron Vara, and it turns out Ron Vara doesn’t exist and his name is just a dumb anagram for “Navarro”? I’m thinking maybe the “supply chain experts” behind this notion that Apple assembles iPhones in China because “young Chinese women have small fingers” are the well-known supply chain masterminds Mipp Trickle and Trick Mipple.
Announcing the 2025 Edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club
May. 26th, 2025 09:29 pmlost_teen_classics_feedFull name: Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature Defined As Books Authored By, About or Widely Read By Women in the 20th Century, this year I try to reconstruct the north wall of my childhood public library from memory.
This year I picked four non-fiction deep-cut titles, with the unifying theme of the fact they were all shelved together in the “Biography” section of the public library in the town where I grew up.
First up is Ruth McKenney’s collection of the (slightly fictionalized) adventures of the brainy Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen as they come from the midwest and try to make it big in Greenwich Village. Originally published in The New Yorker, the stories were subsequently adapted as a hit play, movie, Broadway musical, unrelated movie musical, and a TV series. (July)
A tell-all about how she went from teenage fan-club president to nationally syndicated gossip queen, making enemies of the likes of Ryan O’Neal and Frank Sinatra along the way; contains possibly the bluest opening passage of all time. (August)
Libby Holman’s career took her from chorus girl to Broadway star and Jazz singer in the 1920s, as she became an early LGBTQ icon and (non-Black) figure in the Harlem Renaissance; in 1932 she was charged with the murder of her husband, tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, which in turn inspired at least three movies. (September)
And finally, by popular request, our Spooky Halloween Tale, the original totally true story that sparked the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. (October)
REST WEEK
May. 26th, 2025 05:14 pmthedrawplay_feed
I am recovering from a minor injury that requires me to lie down a lot so I am taking the opportunity to rest. But in the meantime, there’s something I forgot to announce!
Anyone who listened to it years ago before hiatus knows I had to cease operation due to an issue that was making it difficult to talk for long periods of time. That issue has been resolved, so me and my old buddy Sam decided we wanted to get back together and chat again. We will not have the same regular weekly update schedule that we had before due to being older and in different places in our lives, but we do hope to pop one out every few weeks or so.
For any newbies, you have about 170 episodes of lore you can sift through should you desire. Also for any newbies, yes we know what Sounding is, that’s why we thought the name was so funny.
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37signals’s Hey Is Finally for Sale (in the US) From Its iPhone App
May. 26th, 2025 04:31 pmdaringfireballfeed_feedDavid Heinemeier Hansson (last week):
Thanks to their fight for Fortnite, app developers everywhere are now allowed to link out of apps to their own web-based payment system in the US store (but, sadly, nowhere else yet).
This is all we ever wanted from Apple: to have a way to distribute our iPhone apps and keep the customer relationship by billing directly. The 30% toll gets all the attention, and it is ludicrously egregious, but to us, it’s just as much about retaining that direct customer relationship, so we can help folks with refunds, so they don’t tie their billing for a multi-platform email system to a single manufacturer.
Here’s Sarah Perez at TechCrunch, the day prior to DHH’s announcement:
Following the decision, Apple updated its App Store policies for the U.S., and apps, including Spotify, Amazon Kindle, and Patreon quickly rolled out new versions of their apps to take advantage of the new functionality.
None of these apps were using Apple’s in-app payments. Users simply couldn’t sign up for paid tiers (or in Kindle’s case, buy books) from inside the apps. This is a win for users, and Apple won’t lose a cent from commissions from any of these apps.
Dangerous Ages, by Rose Macaulay
May. 26th, 2025 12:05 amstandardebooks_new_feedFour women seek to obtain personal fulfillment through different means.
Penric 14 impending
May. 25th, 2025 04:56 pmlois_mcmaster_bujold_feedI am pleased to report that the 14th Penric & Desdemona novella is complete in first draft, as of this afternoon. About 36K words at present.
There is still a ways to go till it's ready for e-publication. It lacks both final title and cover at the moment. The title, I've learned on previous outings, is really needed first to bring the cover into the right focus. Also the artist Ron Miller has not yet had a chance to read the full manuscript, which Ron generally does, bless him.
Title is still circling the field. "Penric's take your kids to work day goes wrong" is alas too long, and jokey, if accurate. "Penric's Ox" is too easy to confuse with "Penric's Fox", and besides the livestock is not really the core of the tale. Best and default candidate so far is the double-edged "Penric's Lessons", although that feels as if it would be better saved for some collection. Growf. I hope something snappier will emerge during the test-reading/editing/wait for the cover phase.
It's been pretty interesting to replace the typical lone-wolf magical protagonist living out his angsty extended adolescence with an actual mature adult embedded in a functional family, and see what that does to genre expectations. My first vision of the older Penric, back before I started all this, was more in the former mode. I'm glad I dropped back and started him at his beginning with what became "Penric's Demon" -- he's a much more engaging character now.
No, I don't know anything yet about Blackstone or SubPress. AFAIK, they've not yet been informed the story exists, though my agent will take care of that soon. But I prefer to have it in final, tidied-as-possible form before submitting it for subrights sales.
And now I'm going to go take the evening goofing off.
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on May, 25
There is still a ways to go till it's ready for e-publication. It lacks both final title and cover at the moment. The title, I've learned on previous outings, is really needed first to bring the cover into the right focus. Also the artist Ron Miller has not yet had a chance to read the full manuscript, which Ron generally does, bless him.
Title is still circling the field. "Penric's take your kids to work day goes wrong" is alas too long, and jokey, if accurate. "Penric's Ox" is too easy to confuse with "Penric's Fox", and besides the livestock is not really the core of the tale. Best and default candidate so far is the double-edged "Penric's Lessons", although that feels as if it would be better saved for some collection. Growf. I hope something snappier will emerge during the test-reading/editing/wait for the cover phase.
It's been pretty interesting to replace the typical lone-wolf magical protagonist living out his angsty extended adolescence with an actual mature adult embedded in a functional family, and see what that does to genre expectations. My first vision of the older Penric, back before I started all this, was more in the former mode. I'm glad I dropped back and started him at his beginning with what became "Penric's Demon" -- he's a much more engaging character now.
No, I don't know anything yet about Blackstone or SubPress. AFAIK, they've not yet been informed the story exists, though my agent will take care of that soon. But I prefer to have it in final, tidied-as-possible form before submitting it for subrights sales.
And now I'm going to go take the evening goofing off.
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on May, 25
Drata
May. 25th, 2025 10:05 pmdaringfireballfeed_feedMy thanks to Drata for sponsoring this last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Automate compliance. Streamline security. Manage risk. Drata delivers the world’s most advanced Trust Management platform.
Sunday reading
May. 25th, 2025 10:00 amslacktivist_feedThe most repetitive passage in the New Testament is also the most ignored passage in the New Testament.
鬥魚、戒指、月亮
May. 25th, 2025 06:17 ambaseball_rpf_ao3_feed曾子祐曾經飼養一隻鬥魚，後來收到一只戒指。現在，他擁有一顆月亮。
Words: 4782, Chapters: 1/1, Language: 中文-普通话 國語
Safe & Sound
May. 25th, 2025 03:02 amnfl_rpf_ao3_feedCooper and Reed always looked out for each other, no matter what. That included when they got injured.
When Cooper faints during training camp, Reed is by his side to help him recover.
And when Reed gets a concussion during a game a few months later, Cooper has the chance to return the favor.
Words: 5355, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English
- Fandoms: National Football League (US) RPF
- Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: M/M
- Characters: Reed Blankenship, Cooper DeJean
- Relationships: Reed Blankenship/Cooper DeJean
- Additional Tags: Philadelphia Eagles, Fluff, Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Injury, Injury Recovery, Time Skips