Gerald Goodridge
@ghgoodridge.bsky.social
Husband | Dad | Texas Ex | Nerd | He/Him | ✊🏾
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gif connoisseur | In my hood they call it buck
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gif connoisseur | In my hood they call it buck
I wasn’t the best coach, but my smartest move was level setting with parents on Day 1.
“This is my first year coaching. We might suck and lose every game. I just want the kids to have fun and fall in love sports.”
Attitude and effort was the motto.
We started 0-2. Won 6 straight to close.
“This is my first year coaching. We might suck and lose every game. I just want the kids to have fun and fall in love sports.”
Attitude and effort was the motto.
We started 0-2. Won 6 straight to close.
Costs aside, a huge reason youth sports are so broken in this country is that every parent and coach is wired to value victory above all else.
MLS is only now getting around to ideas with youth leagues that were adopted in Europe years ago.
www.goal.com/en-us/lists/...
MLS is only now getting around to ideas with youth leagues that were adopted in Europe years ago.
www.goal.com/en-us/lists/...
February 19, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I wasn’t the best coach, but my smartest move was level setting with parents on Day 1.
“This is my first year coaching. We might suck and lose every game. I just want the kids to have fun and fall in love sports.”
Attitude and effort was the motto.
We started 0-2. Won 6 straight to close.
“This is my first year coaching. We might suck and lose every game. I just want the kids to have fun and fall in love sports.”
Attitude and effort was the motto.
We started 0-2. Won 6 straight to close.
Not going to lie, characterizing this as “woke” and not common decency is why leftists are annoyed with the more public facing “progressives” in this country.
It’s in bed with the bastardization of the term that has powered much of the American regressive movements.
It’s in bed with the bastardization of the term that has powered much of the American regressive movements.
'At a moment when your government is rounding people up and building camps to concentrate them — and you know *everyone in the world knows it* — some ambivalence when you’re at an international competition is not just understandable but unavoidable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Yeah, US Olympians are woke. Deal with it.
Sports have always been political — it's just a question of who's speaking out.
www.publicnotice.co
February 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Not going to lie, characterizing this as “woke” and not common decency is why leftists are annoyed with the more public facing “progressives” in this country.
It’s in bed with the bastardization of the term that has powered much of the American regressive movements.
It’s in bed with the bastardization of the term that has powered much of the American regressive movements.
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NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
February 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
“Don’t call the exterminator to fix the rat infestation.”
It will not work, and is wrong in principle
Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets
It will not work, and is wrong in principle
econ.st
February 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
“Don’t call the exterminator to fix the rat infestation.”
The four-year-old came home from daycare congested and coughing.
Optimistically, I’ve got four days until this virus tries to take me down too.
Optimistically, I’ve got four days until this virus tries to take me down too.
three men in armor are standing next to each other with the words and so it begins below them
ALT: three men in armor are standing next to each other with the words and so it begins below them
media.tenor.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:09 AM
The four-year-old came home from daycare congested and coughing.
Optimistically, I’ve got four days until this virus tries to take me down too.
Optimistically, I’ve got four days until this virus tries to take me down too.
Obligatory, I’m not an AEW guy, but every time I see Stokely, he’s involved in some carrying on in the best way possible.
He might be the reason I become an AEW guy.
He might be the reason I become an AEW guy.
I wonder what happened here, same missing chunk of time on TBS and on Max
February 19, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Obligatory, I’m not an AEW guy, but every time I see Stokely, he’s involved in some carrying on in the best way possible.
He might be the reason I become an AEW guy.
He might be the reason I become an AEW guy.
I’m still so mad thinking about this.
1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, Frankenstein, Animal Farm.
Just a few books that were at least 50 years old when I was in high school 20 years ago that are still incredibly applicable to modern times.
1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, Frankenstein, Animal Farm.
Just a few books that were at least 50 years old when I was in high school 20 years ago that are still incredibly applicable to modern times.
Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...
February 18, 2026 at 11:22 PM
I’m still so mad thinking about this.
1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, Frankenstein, Animal Farm.
Just a few books that were at least 50 years old when I was in high school 20 years ago that are still incredibly applicable to modern times.
1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, Frankenstein, Animal Farm.
Just a few books that were at least 50 years old when I was in high school 20 years ago that are still incredibly applicable to modern times.
The Good, The Bad, and The Muppet
Before the Muppets Know You're Dead
Muppet History X
February 18, 2026 at 11:06 PM
The Good, The Bad, and The Muppet
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
Yes, because a story about members of a rich ruling class being so offended at the idea of a working class man having upward social and financial trajectory that they rigged the system against him has no modern application.
February 18, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Yes, because a story about members of a rich ruling class being so offended at the idea of a working class man having upward social and financial trajectory that they rigged the system against him has no modern application.
The Deftones song where Chino Moreno screams “Shove It!” 24-ish times being called My Own Summer, a phrase he whispers approximately 3 times, bothers me.
February 18, 2026 at 2:49 PM
The Deftones song where Chino Moreno screams “Shove It!” 24-ish times being called My Own Summer, a phrase he whispers approximately 3 times, bothers me.
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The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
Some people should have gone to bed an hour ago but don’t want to, so they’re researching archery.
It’s me. I’m people.
It’s me. I’m people.
February 18, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Some people should have gone to bed an hour ago but don’t want to, so they’re researching archery.
It’s me. I’m people.
It’s me. I’m people.
My unfiltered thoughts on this would violate ToS, but just know that whatever happens to these ghouls is far more kind than they deserve.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 18, 2026 at 12:46 AM
My unfiltered thoughts on this would violate ToS, but just know that whatever happens to these ghouls is far more kind than they deserve.
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*Anthony Mackie picks up his phone and calls his agent.*
RIP
Rev. Jesse Jackson , photographed for @wcp.bsky.social , 1990
Rev. Jesse Jackson , photographed for @wcp.bsky.social , 1990
February 17, 2026 at 8:42 PM
*Anthony Mackie picks up his phone and calls his agent.*
This starts a series of escalations.
You call me big dog, I’m calling you chief. You call me boss, I’m calling you hoss.
I grew up a fat kid in Texas. I know them all. You will not win.
You call me big dog, I’m calling you chief. You call me boss, I’m calling you hoss.
I grew up a fat kid in Texas. I know them all. You will not win.
February 17, 2026 at 10:32 PM
This starts a series of escalations.
You call me big dog, I’m calling you chief. You call me boss, I’m calling you hoss.
I grew up a fat kid in Texas. I know them all. You will not win.
You call me big dog, I’m calling you chief. You call me boss, I’m calling you hoss.
I grew up a fat kid in Texas. I know them all. You will not win.
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I believe I know this story from my family's history in Europe.
Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
February 17, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I believe I know this story from my family's history in Europe.
“So, I typed a text to a girl I used to see…”
What song would you skate to at the Olympics?
February 17, 2026 at 10:21 PM
“So, I typed a text to a girl I used to see…”
“Dad, what did you do before YouTube when you got stuck in a game?”
“Asked my parents to take me to the bookstore so I could read the strategy guide and not buy it.”
I’m why brick and mortar bookstores went away.
“Asked my parents to take me to the bookstore so I could read the strategy guide and not buy it.”
I’m why brick and mortar bookstores went away.
I'm older than you so I can confirm that they came with a little book that had the tutorial in it and you read it on the way home
February 17, 2026 at 9:37 PM
“Dad, what did you do before YouTube when you got stuck in a game?”
“Asked my parents to take me to the bookstore so I could read the strategy guide and not buy it.”
I’m why brick and mortar bookstores went away.
“Asked my parents to take me to the bookstore so I could read the strategy guide and not buy it.”
I’m why brick and mortar bookstores went away.
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Josh Johnson destroying Elon Musk for begging Epstein to come to the pedo island is the funniest shit I’ve seen this morning.
February 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Josh Johnson destroying Elon Musk for begging Epstein to come to the pedo island is the funniest shit I’ve seen this morning.
5-year-old: “Four-year-old puked in the bath.”
Me, running: “Oh no. What happened?”
5-year-old: “He drank the bath water and the butt germs in the water made him throw up.”
Me, running: “Oh no. What happened?”
5-year-old: “He drank the bath water and the butt germs in the water made him throw up.”
February 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM
5-year-old: “Four-year-old puked in the bath.”
Me, running: “Oh no. What happened?”
5-year-old: “He drank the bath water and the butt germs in the water made him throw up.”
Me, running: “Oh no. What happened?”
5-year-old: “He drank the bath water and the butt germs in the water made him throw up.”
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It is absolutely a choice.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
It is absolutely a choice.
The nurse just gathered my height, weight, read my most recent blood test results, asked me if my bladder was full enough to pee, and physically touched me to do my blood pressure, pulse, and temperature.
However, her putting her finger on my forearm tattoo to ask what it was felt awkward.
However, her putting her finger on my forearm tattoo to ask what it was felt awkward.
February 16, 2026 at 11:08 PM
The nurse just gathered my height, weight, read my most recent blood test results, asked me if my bladder was full enough to pee, and physically touched me to do my blood pressure, pulse, and temperature.
However, her putting her finger on my forearm tattoo to ask what it was felt awkward.
However, her putting her finger on my forearm tattoo to ask what it was felt awkward.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes just introduced a superhero that is very clearly Prince called His Purple Highness.
I think I have a new favorite anime character.
I think I have a new favorite anime character.
February 16, 2026 at 10:49 PM
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes just introduced a superhero that is very clearly Prince called His Purple Highness.
I think I have a new favorite anime character.
I think I have a new favorite anime character.
Is Bloody Mary’s extra-dimensional plane included in the square footage?
What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?
February 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Is Bloody Mary’s extra-dimensional plane included in the square footage?