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whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

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The Roma lads won again today which means they're going to the Europa League semifinals and also it's time for hugs. I'm sure he would rather have been on the field but at least Ndicka (in the knit hat in the right hand image, hugging his bff Aouar) got to watch his teammates win in person!

I swear I'll shut up about this eventually but probably not until mid-May, depending on how the semis go. I'll try to keep it to a dull roar if we go to the final again.

[ID: Three images from today's Europa League quarterfinal match. Top left, head coach Daniele de Rossi is hugged by team captain Lorenzo Pellegrini after the win; top right, Evan Ndicka, who collapsed on the field and had to be hospitalized for a collapsed lung on Sunday, celebrates with teammates Paulo Dybala, Tammy Abraham, Houssem Aouar, and Stephen El Shaarawy. Below, de Rossi hugs Paulo Dybala during the game.]

#as roma #sorry guys you don't choose the hyperfixation #the hyperfixation chooses you #soccer

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You know what? Acceptable. I usually like the middle evolution best in any case.

[ID: A pair of screengrabs from Tumblr, both headed "Check out these blogs". The first recommends Copperbadge as being "Like Jonphaedrus" and the second recommends Astolat as being "Like Copperbadge."]

If I think of this as jonphaedrus, copperbadge, and astolat being the three evolutions of a Pokémon, it's even funnier.

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BABY they are BOTH on the agenda! The cheese conveyor belt restaurant is the furthest out I'm planning to travel from my home base in Edgefield; it's my dinner stop on day two, where I'm going shopping and seeing the replica Parthenon. I'm excited to see how it measures up to the cheese conveyor belt in London.

Biscuit Love (the downtown branch) is breakfast on Day Three, which is going to be Country Music Hall of Fame in the morning and various explorations in the afternoon culminating in a cocktail at the robot tiki bar.

I'm also seeing the Frist and touring a meadery, among other fun stuff. I am actually pretty excited, and rather pleased with myself -- transit and full-amenity lodgings for under $500 total is very reasonable, and most of the non-food stuff I'm doing is either free or cheap.

I frequently wake up in the night, usually around 1am, after which I'm awake for an hour or two before going back to bed until 4 or 5 am. (Supposedly this is a medieval custom called Second Sleep but I haven't fact checked that.) I usually don't post because usually I try not to get on my phone, but I got sucked in by Southwest advertising cheap flights while I was looking for some white noise audio to fall asleep to.

On the one hand, I'm so efficient that between midnight and two in the morning I booked a solo trip in June to Nashville, including lodging, a three day touring agenda, and hip restaurants to try.

On the other hand, I should probably not have access to travel planning tools at two in the morning.

Well, it's all refundable, so I guess if it's still a good idea in the Real Morning I won't regret it and if I do, all I've spent was time staring at a map of Nashville and planning my angle of attack.

#sam travels

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I know that nobody is on this blog for the football news but:

It's been confirmed that Ndicka had a collapsed lung from being elbowed in the chest by an Udinese player; he'll be fine but he's out for a month or two, and I can only imagine the other player is a mixture of horrified and kind of proud. "I hit a man so hard his lung collapsed" is...not unimpressive.

The Friedkins (owners of AS Roma) have confirmed that de Rossi has been offered the position of head coach/manager permanently -- he was only supposed to be interim through the end of the season, but between Roma's recent spate of wins and his extremely level head during Ndicka's collapse, everyone's been asking if we can keep him and it turns out we can!

Now all we need is for the Chicago Fire to hire Mourinho as their head coach and I will be a happy man. (This will never happen. They can't afford him and Chicago wouldn't care anyway, but leave me my dreams.)

On Sunday, AS Roma had an away game against Udinese; I gave the game a miss because I had other stuff, but I thought I'd check the score after the game ended, only to find it was suspended in the 71st minute. One of the players, Evan Ndicka, had collapsed on the field while clutching his chest.

He's fine; he had to be taken to the hospital, but the injury appears to be from a collision with another player, not a cardiac event. It's always scary when a player falls like that regardless of the sport, but even the talking heads agree this was handled extremely well -- the fans fell silent so the EMTs could work, the coaches and captains agreed to suspend the game, and de Rossi, who is still very new to coaching at all let alone as head of a Serie A team, kept his wits about him, got the EMTs onto the field for Ndicka, and put his players first.

The most touching part of the whole narrative, however, isn't the good behavior of fans and staff or that the entire team all went to the hospital to see him -- it's that his inseparable best friend on the team, Houssem Aouar (on the left in the third picture), petitioned the hospital to be allowed to stay overnight with him. Request denied, but still a very sweet gesture.

[ID: Three images of Evan Ndicka, a center-back for Italian football team AS Roma; in the first he is being carried on a stretcher off the field, surrounded by teammates and medical staff, while in the second he is sitting up in a hospital bed, attached to monitors but with an upraised arm and a smile to show he's all right. The third image shows him in a black suit, entering a stadium before a game, sharing a friendly look with Houssem Aouar, midfielder for Roma.]

#as roma #soccer

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The cryptids love being brushed, and they've discovered that if they catch me at the sink in the morning, combing my hair, I'll give them a quick comb as well. For several months now I've emerged from the shower every day to two impatient cats yelling for their morning salon styling. I got them a smaller, finer-toothed comb than mine, and they know which one is theirs and get excited when I pick it up.

Polk has also been suffering from dry skin, so I bought a bottle of spray moisturizer for cats, and every morning I spray their comb with moisturizer and then give them a brushing. It does make their coats very soft and Polk is less itchy all the time. But what I've realized is that aside from the shower, combing my hair is really the only morning toilette I do. I don't use product, but my cats do.

Which means, functionally, that my cats now have a more extensive morning beauty routine than I do.

[ID: Two photos; the first shows Dearborn the tortie, lying on the sofa amid heaps of pillows, lit by the sun and looking a little wild. The second shows just the face of Polk the tabby as she crouches on the duvet, peering out from under a pair of grey striped pajamas she has nestled into. They both look like they have very soft, sleek fur, because they do.]

#dearborn and polk #cats of tumblr

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I mean, you can't say the review is inaccurate. I'd venture to assert that if you are really determined to buy Banana Republic clothing, a Banana Republic store is one of the better places to do that.

[ID: A screengrab of a Google Maps info page for a Banana Republic clothing store, listing hours and showing photos. Under the review blurbs someone has identified it as a "good place for banana republic clothes purchase."]

#banana republic #shopping

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you cannot advertise to me in a way that matters.

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...."impulsively buying a whole ass vacation on my phone at one am and then immediately meticulously researching and planning out every day of it including all meals" was, incidentally, brought to you by Another Neurotypical Moment With Sam.

I frequently wake up in the night, usually around 1am, after which I'm awake for an hour or two before going back to bed until 4 or 5 am. (Supposedly this is a medieval custom called Second Sleep but I haven't fact checked that.) I usually don't post because usually I try not to get on my phone, but I got sucked in by Southwest advertising cheap flights while I was looking for some white noise audio to fall asleep to.

On the one hand, I'm so efficient that between midnight and two in the morning I booked a solo trip in June to Nashville, including lodging, a three day touring agenda, and hip restaurants to try.

On the other hand, I should probably not have access to travel planning tools at two in the morning.

Well, it's all refundable, so I guess if it's still a good idea in the Real Morning I won't regret it and if I do, all I've spent was time staring at a map of Nashville and planning my angle of attack.

#sam has adhd

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I frequently wake up in the night, usually around 1am, after which I'm awake for an hour or two before going back to bed until 4 or 5 am. (Supposedly this is a medieval custom called Second Sleep but I haven't fact checked that.) I usually don't post because usually I try not to get on my phone, but I got sucked in by Southwest advertising cheap flights while I was looking for some white noise audio to fall asleep to.

On the one hand, I'm so efficient that between midnight and two in the morning I booked a solo trip in June to Nashville, including lodging, a three day touring agenda, and hip restaurants to try.

On the other hand, I should probably not have access to travel planning tools at two in the morning.

Well, it's all refundable, so I guess if it's still a good idea in the Real Morning I won't regret it and if I do, all I've spent was time staring at a map of Nashville and planning my angle of attack.

#sam travels #smartphones are such a menace at two am

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Cats are returning to windowsills and sunny spots on the furniture. Nature is healing.

[ID: Two photos of the cats; left, Polk the tabby is lying on a deep windowsill, fur a burnished gold. Right, Dearborn the tortie is lying on a busy patterned blanket, dappled in sunlight.]

#dearborn and polk

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Really interesting survey and some fun data visualization! I'm going to be mortified if I got some wrong....

graphs survey

Hey folks! I'm taking a class on data visualization/making graphs, and we're doing a survey on how people read those graphs and how best to convey info through them.

If you could spare 12 minutes (estimated; most people seem to take less than that) and take a look at these five graphs (one question per graph), that would be super helpful: Assessing the Perception of Different Designs of Data Visualization

Please only take this if you're over 18, and put Hannah (that's me!) as the name of the person who asked you to take this survey. If you're interested in reading the paper on this that I'm going to have to write in a few weeks, reach out and I can let you read it when I'm done!

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On Sunday, AS Roma had an away game against Udinese; I gave the game a miss because I had other stuff, but I thought I'd check the score after the game ended, only to find it was suspended in the 71st minute. One of the players, Evan Ndicka, had collapsed on the field while clutching his chest.

He's fine; he had to be taken to the hospital, but the injury appears to be from a collision with another player, not a cardiac event. It's always scary when a player falls like that regardless of the sport, but even the talking heads agree this was handled extremely well -- the fans fell silent so the EMTs could work, the coaches and captains agreed to suspend the game, and de Rossi, who is still very new to coaching at all let alone as head of a Serie A team, kept his wits about him, got the EMTs onto the field for Ndicka, and put his players first.

The most touching part of the whole narrative, however, isn't the good behavior of fans and staff or that the entire team all went to the hospital to see him -- it's that his inseparable best friend on the team, Houssem Aouar (on the left in the third picture), petitioned the hospital to be allowed to stay overnight with him. Request denied, but still a very sweet gesture.

[ID: Three images of Evan Ndicka, a center-back for Italian football team AS Roma; in the first he is being carried on a stretcher off the field, surrounded by teammates and medical staff, while in the second he is sitting up in a hospital bed, attached to monitors but with an upraised arm and a smile to show he's all right. The third image shows him in a black suit, entering a stadium before a game, sharing a friendly look with Houssem Aouar, midfielder for Roma.]

#as roma #evan ndicka #houssem aouar #serie a

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This is true -- I'm the most unethical person many of my friends know...not the most unethical person I know.

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"i could fix him" please don't it took a lot of work to fuck him up this bad

#its me #im him

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Radio Free Monday

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways to Give:

insanebluegenius linked to a fundraiser for a good friend, Erika, who is struggling with physical and mental health issues and trying to get into an inpatient program several states away; they're raising funds to help get her to the program and subsidize the cost of treatment. You can read more and support the fundraiser here.

Anon linked to a fundraiser for a friend, dyken, a nonbinary lesbian from Latin America who along with their partner has been having trouble covering bills, food, and mental health treatment; their family is abusive and unwilling to help financially. They are accepting donations via paypal and commissions via ko-fi; you can read more, reblog, and find giving information here.

melayneseahawk linked to Worlds Elsewhere Theatre Company, which has partnered with RFM before; Worlds Elsewhere is a virtual, socially-distanced, charity theatre that makes its shows available for free on YouTube and pays expenses from donations, raising funds for charitable causes. Their newest project, Musica Universalis Book 2: Regenerational Trauma, will be streaming on YouTube and Twitch on April 20th starting at 2pm EST. Donations will go to support this year's Worlds Elsewhere projects and rewards will be provided as they move through the campaign; you can read more at Facebook here or at their homepage here and give to the fundraiser here.

Recurring Needs:

Anon linked to a fundraiser for prototrans, a disabled artist who needs help with rent money; they are also offering commissions. You can read more, reblog, and find giving and commission information here.

thelastpyler is raising funds to help with food, transportation, medication for their family, and other expenses after a string of financial issues; you can read more, reblog, and find giving information here.

Anon linked to karla-hoshi or Hoshi on TikTok, who is raising funds for cancer treatment for her cat Naku; they caught the cancer early and hope that he can survive it, but can't continue treatment without funding, and they have recently had other emergency expenses to cover. You can read more, reblog, and support the fundraiser here.

chingaderita's partner recently lost their job due to a house fire that also destroyed the house; they're raising funds to keep food on the table for a family of nine, to try and get a supply of water to keep clean and do laundry, and for various bills until they can find new work; they also need to purchase a fridge to store their insulin, as theirs has just stopped working. You can read more, reblog, and support the fundraiser here.

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can post items for my attention at the Radio Free Monday submissions form. If you're new to fundraising, you may want to check out my guide to fundraising here.

#radio free monday #charity #philanthropy #fannish community

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saw someone say that they block "ageless blogs" and for a moment i imagined, like, cthulhu having a tumblr