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No longer talking trash about people's Peloton scores


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🦝Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝's avatar 🦝Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.bsky.social
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Unpopular opinion but I believe that one single session of exercise should produce visible results

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If I got a job as an NHL GM, I wonder if the first thing I would do is trade a bunch of my players for players I was simply already familiar with, even if the data seems to indicate a net loss in value. That seems to be the thing to do.

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Staios really coming into hot with deals that won't really move the needle much one way or another but will produce enormous gnashing of teeth on the ol' Sens Twitter machine.

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Happy for Brannstrom in Colorado. He had to take a pay cut, but he gets to play for a contender. Smart add by them

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Mathieu Joseph: is he good? He's either average or terrible.

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Sens fans are not going to like this Joseph deal.

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Yeah, the cap will go up again, which helps. I hope we can convince G to stick around.

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So, Sens have $4.4 million of cap space to sign Pinto, and next year the $625k credit they receive on the Colin White buyout becomes an $875k cap hit. It feels like someone else is on their way out the door. Also, kind of difficult to wrap my head around this lineup being that near the cap ceiling.

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Look, I don't know how to say this, but on this day, when the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution, my wife and I learned we were adopting a baby. The baby's due date? January 6th. Is this The Omen?

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I mean, it's underwhelming, but they also traded an offensive minded LD, which they didn't need, for a defensive minded RD, which they need, without taking on too much money or term. And they got a pick. I'm fine with it.

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Sens needed better goaltending and to have a better start to the season so they traded for the best available goaltender and hired the coach whose brand is punishing training camps. No matter what happens this season we can't say they didn't try to do the things.

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Brannstrom seems like exactly the kind of player who gets signed by Carolina for 2x$2M AAV and ends up playing 18 minutes a night and everyone calls Tulsky a genius.

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Every morning like "Judge appointed by President who is on trial in case presided over by same judge rules that President has power to appoint judges who preside over cases involving same President."

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The Haribo event seems like a trap

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Redownloaded the bird app because I wanted to see what people were saying about the Ullmark trade and the impending draft, and holy hell has the "For You" tab ever become a cesspool of conspiracy theory and disinformation.

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Totally. If anything, I'm kind of hesitant about handing Ullmark 7-8 years at 30 years old.

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We thought we were going to have to give up Chychrun for Ullmark and instead we gave up a fourth liner, a late first, and a toxic contract. If Ullmark extends on July 1st, this could turn out to be one of the best deals in Sens history.

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Staios didn't just get rid of the 97th ranked goaltender in GSAE (out of 98!) and bring in the 7th ranked goaltender, he traded the former FOR the latter, and the only sweetener was a late first and some retained salary. That's insane.

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Ottawa announcing the trade for Ullmark 15 minutes before game seven because the league is on notice.

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Whoa, that's amazing. Late first in a weak draft and an enforcer plus the worst goaltender in the league last year with four more years on his deal for a vezina winner. Even if it doesn't work out and Ullmark walks next year, that's worth it.

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The cruelest part of me wants to circle back to everyone who made a public announcement that they are writing a book to ask when it's coming out.

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"Dancing a fine line between fantasy and reality" is an underappreciated construct in its own right.

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Uncle Jeff 🏳️‍🌈's avatar Uncle Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @picklerudd.bsky.social
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So sad that in all the many verses of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, none of them end in Boo-Yah

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We at WTYKY had the privilege of bringing back Brad Allen to break down 2024 NHL Draft from a s̶e̶x̶u̶a̶l̶ Senators perspective. If you've only got 2 hours to listen to one draft preview podcast, you might as well make it this one. welcometoyourkarlssonyears.com/2024/06/22/w...

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The Ottawa Senators are pleased to select, with the seventh overall pick, this dog I bought seven years ago for $150.

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Reminds me of a meeting I had the day after the 2016 election where all we did was look at one another and ask "does anything matter?"

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I regret to inform you that no matter what happens on Monday, your event on Tuesday is not happening

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Like, I kind of think we're basically just the Vancouver Canucks.

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I don't really want to think about the headspace of Sens fans if Staios makes a bunch of dumbass moves in the next couple of weeks. Like, we finally got a rich owner, and they cleared out all the chuds, and what if we're still dumb?

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the software I use to write newsletters: "Now you can use AI to help write newsletters!" Me: "Write this week's newsletter." AI: "Writing a newsletter is fun and interesting. Wikipedia defines a newsletter as..."

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Some roads are longer than others but they all eventually lead to 20 seasons of Deadliest Catch

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Reading that Ottawa and Philly have a trade in place and all I can say is please, please not Laughton.

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It's gotta be tough to produce content day in and day out when nothing is happening

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"I think this patient needs to go to the OR," Wayne Scanlan might say, if he were an ER doc attending to a patient that had suffered a gunshot wound. And I'd agree with him!

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I see Ottawa hockey media has reached the point in the offseason where they literally make up quotes and then say that if the person had said that thing, they'd agree with it.

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Connor Brown's beautiful story pissing all over Vlad Tarasenko's beautiful story is proof that the Senators are the main character of the NHL. This tweet will make zero sense to any casual followers.

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This is the goofiest time of year for hockey coverage, when someone will write on a fan blog "I wonder if Brady Tkachuk will want to be traded if his brother wins a Cup in Florida" and two days later The Hockey News runs a 17,000 word analysis of all of the best fits for a Brady Tkachuk trade.

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I think of Chomsky more than any other writer when I think of my university years, which is interesting because he wasn't on any of my course reading lists. If you were a liberal undergrad in a liberal undergrad program, he was just everywhere.

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I think yoda said that to Luke

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Eric Tulsky becoming the Canes' GM provides hope for all of us people who look like incredible dorks.

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I agree. I have a pretty ok severance package and I would fucking love to get fired.

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When those cages full of crabs come up out of the water, hoo baby, what a rush

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An underappreciated fact about the world in which we live is that The Deadliest Catch has been running for 20 seasons. I don't think that's anybody's favorite show, but also I don't think anybody refuses to admit it rocks.

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Having been steadily promoted throughout my career to the point where I am now running an organization I can confidently report that working never stops sucking. It only takes on new dimensions of suck, and starts sucking outside of regular business hours

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Underrated weekend plan: find a hotel with an outdoor pool way out in the suburbs or by the airport or somewhere very unsexy, book a room on a same-day deal for like $120, hang out next to the pool all day, get a steak at the hotel restaurant, sleep in a very quiet and clean room.

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I've never been a big animation guy but between Scavenger's Reign and Blue Eye Samurai, most other television has really paled in comparison.

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The Ottawa Senators Alumni Golf Tournament is a great reminder that golf shirts accent the absolutely bizarre proportions of the torsos of men older than 45.

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