I saw that sea chest pic and was a little homesick!
05.03.2026 03:20
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I saw that sea chest pic and was a little homesick!
I went to coast! It’s a wonderful and weird place to grow up.
Wait do you teach in Cambria?!
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“But with surveillance capitalism as the default business model, “they took the most powerful communication technology in human history and turned it into a slot machine that makes you sad. We're all rats in a skinner box pressing the lever for pellets of validation.”
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Love Melanie and Rebecca—bold, talented, and fierce competitors.
Alysa has been a name in skating for about two Olympic cycles. She came in 6th in Beijing and then promptly retired.
She has been very clear in her return that she now she only wants to skate on her terms, as her authentic self.
The biggest crime is not punishing Tutberidze. Not only have her methods truncated what might have been storied careers of Russian athletes, but she also is heavily implicated in much of the extensive cheating apparatuses that rigged the games briefly made them boring and tragic to watch.
This is why Alysa referring to the competition as “art” is even more than a great mental approach for an athlete; it’s also politically subversive.
She understands that human lives matter more than bread and circuses.
I’m being nationalistic here because much of the cheating was not just athletes competing in the name of the state, but also encouraged, orchestrated, and funded by the state—often to the detriment of the individual athletes involved, who in this particular sport have all been children.
Oh yeah, US shouldn’t be in this games, agreed, 100%.
What I’m saying is that Russia was in that competition in every way that could matter, despite the fact that “the country” was theoretically banned for political reasons, but should have been for extensive cheating.
And the Russians STILL lost.
At this Olympics, Alysa has proven beyond argument to any lingering doubters even after Simone Biles in Paris…
Abuse is not a winning strategy.
Sure, an athlete can falter, encouraging all of us to reckon with our human frailties and vulnerabilities, to confront the real stakes of risk-taking, or even to appreciate what we do have… but those are part of the larger story of sports, not the stories of greatness.
She is kind, earnest, and silly. She’s too messy and weird and old and muscular by skating standards. You root for her because she’d root for you — and in so doing we all get better.
This is what sports and great athletes do. They bring hope and inspiration and motivation.
And THIS is the many layered triumph of Alysa Liu. She was at *that* Olympics! As a young phenom with a triple axel! She didn’t win that way, she won after quitting because it didn’t serve her, and returning when it did. She conquered nerves by caring about her journey, not the outcome.
Trusova, who did make the podium, was inconsolable at having lost gold to her own teammate, despite having landed five quads.
That single Olympic competition was a reflection of the larger failures with her training method —abuse does not create great athletes.
Eteri’s skaters are disposable.
But ultimately not successful, not without cheating or extreme vulnerability.
In 2022, Shcherbakova wasn’t supposed to win. She was a nameless backup to the backup for Valieva (Trusova). Despite having a failed drug test, Valieva was allowed to compete—but didn’t make the podium.
Petrosian was even coached by Tutberidze—the same doping, abusive coach of Sotnikova, Zagitova, and Shcherbakova—whose “method pits her trainees against each other as they keep training through unrelenting criticism, strict scrutiny of their weight and brutal injuries” (WSJ).
There was a Russian competitor who was in medal contention after the short, with a publicized two quads planned for the free. She attempted one, and fell, ending the competition in 6th.
Part two of this video when she brings it to the town is going to be unhinged.
I cannot wait to see a gala performance worthy of TikTok memes that breech containment. I’m so glad that her victory has introduced Alysa’s story and her art to a much wider audience.
And this is what sport and art can teach us: that a better world than we’d previously imagined is possible, that our choices matter more than we may realize, that each of our bizarre blends of tragedy and triumph are vital singular and shared experiences that make us human.
We all deserve to be surrounded by people like Alysa Liu. If we can choose to be more like her ourselves, we can manifest a better world.
The thing about Alysa is that you know that she she’s both genuine and kind. She’s the kind of person who would be even more thrilled at your success than you are.
We need to talk MORE about the ICE death camps. Incessantly. Make it an unavoidable topic.
We need to stop them.
“Drama” is a word for it. 🙄
FBC is a monstrous couple: one is a rape apologist for her former partner, the other threatened to sue NBC because his former partner (who has been an excellent on air commentator since she retired) released a memoir that named him as abusive. If they win, we all lose.
again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this
6. Weiss presents her mission at CBS as restoring trust by elevating centrist voices, which is accurate enough if we understand "centrist voices" to mean "the type of men likely to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein."
