Oh weird! They must’ve starting taking traffic and moved it inside the paywall. I wish I could get the graph, which is the gist of the article, but the thesis is that when you match players to their registration, the NHL has the most registered Republicans, at ~60%, than any league other than the MLB.

Come join us in !womenshockey@reddthat.com ! The PWHL is in full swing.

You could tell we really missed Knight and Bilka last night.

Feels like we come out sluggish every game and don’t turn it on until we get scored on the first time. I thought for sure we’d find the back of the net for a third goal in that third period, but it just never came together for us.

Last place in the standings, first place in attendance. You win some, you lose some. Also, loved this for Tejralova:

The captain of Czechia’s team, defender Tejralová was the only Torrent Olympian who didn’t medal. She earned a double roar Friday after she was introduced, then opened the scoring for the Torrent. She tapped a feed from Danielle Serdachny past Kirk (20 saves) to make it 1-1.

“It was a great play from (Gosling) and (Serdachny). I’m grateful for that,” Tejralová said. “But I would rather get the three points.”

There’s a lot of people who come to fedi looking for this spot — maybe it makes sense to see if programming.dev is willing to host such a community?

For those of you who don’t follow the USL (I suspect most c/football subscribers fall into this category), this is fallout from South Georgia Tormenta folding two weeks before the season starts: https://www.tormentafc.com/news/2026/02/23/statement-from-tormenta-fc-on-the-2026-season/

USL is currently in works to implement pro/rel from USL1 (the 3rd tier of American soccer) through to the new USL Premier league (a competing first division with MLS), and this chaos is raising questions about seriousness of the logistics behind that plan. The USLPA is the union that represents the players.

I think unfortunately we’ve lost a lot of that older meaning as it’s been crowded out by a more racially charged usage.

The word sardonic used to mean what we now use sarcastic for — verbally ironic. Sarcasm comes from the Greek “to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer” and meant “bitterly cutting or caustic” when it first entered English. For me, although I understand that hypothetically you could have sarcasm that doesn’t have this inherently negative bent to it, the word still retains a fair bit of its original connotation for good reason.

I dunno about your district, but we usually have some pretty good candidates through the DSA on our ballot: https://platform.dsausa.org/

In her first appearances with the new mutants in the 80s, the most fun thing about her was her inability to avoid manifesting her teammates deepest fears.

She’s one of the new mutants. Her best storyline is the Demon Bear storyline from the 1982 New Mutants, starting with issue 1 and going through number 20.

Just a little good news:

His order generally sustains the status quo, returning reservoir and flow levels to what they were last year with some small increases. The groups that sued for the injunction celebrated the order, and said the ruling was needed to prevent salmon extinction in the basin.

“Salmon need help now, and we’re encouraged the court has granted immediate, commonsense relief that will help protect imperiled north-west salmon and steelhead,” said attorney Amanda Goodin, who works for Earthjustice, an environmental law organization that represented the plaintiffs.

The whole movie is included in the article and is under a minute. Worth a viewing, imo.

I really liked this one. I think I really could see our current ai in the antagonist:

“I think that it’s inherited our worst attributes,” said Verbinski of the film’s AI antagonist. “It’s much, much worse than wanting to kill humans. It wants us to like it. It demands that we like it. I think part of that has to do with being tasked in its formative years to keep us engaged. A lot of people talk about, what is AI doing to us? But there’s not a lot of conversations about what we’re doing to it. This entity being born, it’s being tied and bound and manipulated and told, ‘Let’s look at the humans and what do they want, what do they need? What do they respond to most? What do they hate?’ All those things are going to be hardwired into its source code. It’s going to have mommy issues, we’re going to have to put it on a couch.”

We need to build so many more homes, but can we please do it where they won’t immediately burn down again?

For now, though political will for these types of changes is lacking. Oregon, for example, repealed its wildfire hazard map and related building codes after backlash from property owners. And, if California’s experience is any indicator, less than a year after the catastrophic 2025 fires in Los Angeles, city leaders moved quickly to rebuild in areas with very high wildfire risk and continue to push back on statewide defensible space requirements.

If comprehensive reforms remain politically infeasible today, policymakers can still lay the groundwork for them by giving northwesterners access to honest information about the rising risk of fire. This means helping renters and homebuyers know the hazard wildfires could pose to their homes and allowing insurance prices to adjust (both up and down) to reflect actual risk of a property burning down. All the while, legalizing more homes in safer parts of the Northwest can ease some of the pressure pushing people to move into harm’s way.

Huge benefits for small cost if we design with this in mind:

It is incredibly easy to press a button on the remote and watch the room temperature drop by 10 degrees Celsius in a matter of minutes. However, perhaps we would not be so reliant on this sudden cooling if our cities offered high-quality and accessible urban design featuring vegetated surfaces, shaded areas, or water elements that help reduce overall urban temperatures. The revitalization of the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul is a practical example of how we should approach our cities. Following its revitalization and integration into Seoul, it was observed that temperatures along the river decreased by between 3.3°C and 5.9°C compared to a street just a few blocks away.

In addition to urban considerations, when it comes to architectural strategies, passive mitigation of high temperatures relies on several well-known yet perhaps equally underestimated measures. These include shading (via vegetation or built volumes), reflective surfaces, generating thermal mass through materials, proper solar orientation, and cross ventilation. Research suggests that combining these passive strategies can result in an average internal temperature decrease of 2.2°C, a 31% reduction in cooling load, and a 29% energy savings.

Hint: It’s more than you think:

In Chicago, for instance, reimagining those right-of-ways could open up nearly $8.3 billion in redevelopment potential within three miles of the Windy City’s epicenter; in Boston, it’s $16.3 billion.

And in both cities, the annualized household costs of maintaining infrastructure over its lifestyle and paying the costs of driving are north of $23,000 a year — a price so few residents are willing to actually pay that local governments are struggling to fill their potholes.

“What we typically hear in the press is that congestion costs us billions of dollars a year,” Kennedy adds. "But whatever the number might be, it’s usually a scare tactic that’s multiplied by the entire population. When you start breaking that number down per household or per capita, the number is actually not that big — and it’s dwarfed by the overall costs of having to own and operate several vehicles per household, as well as all the infrastructure to go with it.

“We need to get some numbers out there that [show] why our municipalities are effectively broke, why the roads are so bad, and why we have to continually cut services and raise taxes just to tread water as a municipality,” he continued.

Somewhat reassuring:

“There is no permit pending with the City of Tukwila. There has been no application, nor has the federal government awarded any type of facility to operate within the city of Tukwila or within the a city in the greater Seattle area,” Brandon Miles, Tukwila’s Director of Strategic Initiatives and Government Relations, told the Council Monday night.

And also:

“This is a first step. What else we can do? I don’t know. We’ll find it, because, you know, one council member does not have the power to make change. It takes a group of us, but I know as one person, I am committed to making sure that this doesn’t happen under my watch,” Tukwila Councilmember Verna Seal said ahead of the vote. “I am more than in favor of us passing this tonight, and figuring out what else we can do, because it’s not going to stop here. It’s not going to stop here, so we just have to keep it up.”

14% is not a lot of percents, but it is not zero percent.