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"Weird Al" Pastor

@emilyadler.bsky.social

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full-time in urban planning/housing, online as WNBA, NCAAW, draft reporter and features writer for TheNextHoops.com // PBWA, USBWA member and voter // ✡️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 she/her

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

it's Awa Fam szn 😤
all the The IX draft board content you've come to know and love — comps, bite-sized scouting reports, talent projections, wingspans, roles — all new for 2026!!!

The IX Basketball @theixbasketball.bsky.social · 1d

It's here! The first edition of our 2025-26 Draft Board, more detail than you can find anywhere else on the best #WNBA prospects in this coming class! www.thenexthoops.com/features/202...

The IX Basketball’s 2026 WNBA Draft Board, V1.0 - The IX Basketball

The IX Basketball's preseason draft board, the most comprehensive 2026 WNBA draft class preview available, from Awa Fam to Azzi Fudd.

www.thenexthoops.com

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Thomas Costello @thomascostello.bsky.social · 1h

Over the last couple months, I’ve asked about Jaloni Cambridge, Syla Swords, their coaches and Kelsey Plum (with help from @howardmegdal.bsky.social) about the 2025 Dawg Class.

Here’s what they said and how their new knowledge is already in use:

www.thenexthoops.com/ncaaw/syla-s...

Syla Swords and Jaloni Cambridge bring Dawg Class to Big Ten - The IX Basketball

After their freshman seasons, Jaloni Cambridge and Syla Swords took their game to Kelsey Plum's Dawg Class. Here's what they said about it.

www.thenexthoops.com

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 31m

Stella how do you find these people

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 20h

thank you!!!

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

not concerned about the gap in minor league instruct?

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

I went through puberty twice... for this?

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

nuh uh, I got the degree to prove mine is PMC

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

Kacey that's amazing 🥹

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Spacey Kacey @kaceyisspacey.bsky.social · 1d

I think its comfortingly nihilistic to assume most cis people don't care about us, but i went to hs in a fairly conservative suburb and yet have received a lot of messages of support from people I haven't talked to in over a decade from there about my bottom surgery. It gives me some hope.

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Matt Bagley @bagleysports.bsky.social · 1d

Clarification: I am citing a LinkedIn post that the Fire quickly deleted. I know that Sarama interviewed last week, and he checks off a lot of the usual boxes (coaching pedigree, connections to Vanja Černivec, connections to Portland).

My best guess? A PR staffer jumped the gun.

Matt Bagley @bagleysports.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Fire have announced the hiring of their new head coach: Alex Sarama.

Sarama worked remotely for the London Lions' front office in 2023-24 (led by Fire GM Vanja Černivec). At the same time, he was an assistant with Portland's G-league team, the Rip City Remix.

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

are you able to report any of the other candidates they've interviewed? haven't seen any mention before

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

had not thought before of HSTS/AGP as just misogyny/lesbophobia through a transmisogynistic lens before and now it makes so much more sense

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

it's Awa Fam szn 😤
all the The IX draft board content you've come to know and love — comps, bite-sized scouting reports, talent projections, wingspans, roles — all new for 2026!!!

The IX Basketball @theixbasketball.bsky.social · 1d

It's here! The first edition of our 2025-26 Draft Board, more detail than you can find anywhere else on the best #WNBA prospects in this coming class! www.thenexthoops.com/features/202...

The IX Basketball’s 2026 WNBA Draft Board, V1.0 - The IX Basketball

The IX Basketball's preseason draft board, the most comprehensive 2026 WNBA draft class preview available, from Awa Fam to Azzi Fudd.

www.thenexthoops.com

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

not to stereotype that we all listen to TMG but this may be of interest

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 1d

never seen "AI slop" interpreted so literally

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 3d

I have a running list of every culture I find out that this is also happening in. we're up to 11.

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 4d

*very serious gender and sexuality studies academic who just published a 300pg book on trans people in oceania without running it by a single one of them voice* the real colonialism is thinking you, a filthy white transsexual, have anything in common with the noble [local word meaning trannyfaggot]

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 4d

its wild how across time, space, and culture we keep finding trans people describing having nearly the exact same experiences trans people have today and academics will bend over backwards to explain why they cannot be trans and how its actually offensive and degrading to even suggest that

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 4d

I'd have not consented to having sex with a few ppl had I known what a prick they were behind lies and deception.

If I or any other woman took this to the cops we would be laughed at and called a slag for not being careful who we open our legs to.

Ciara Watkin is in prison for being transgender.

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 3d

I think I assumed that no one was listening to anything besides the couple big hits that I'd be safe 😅 it was liking pop music that was actually popular that made everything problematic

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 3d

Olivia Rodrigo's "lacy" isn't exactly this premise but it's super homoerotic; same album, "obsessed" def fits

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 3d

I somehow accepted those no problem, but it was Ed Sheeran (the first album; I have taste) and, like, MARINA I couldn't admit to

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 3d

okay but How To Save A Life is a cover-to-cover banger and Snow Patrol had some *damn* good hits

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 3d

it's happened enough and in such varied circumstances that you have a list?????

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"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 3d

I think the Navy section was chanting "refs hate freedom! * clap clap clapclapclap *" after the clock ran and Temple needed to be awarded five secs back??

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 3d

navy has decided to do psyops now

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 4d

🫂<3

"Weird Al" Pastor @emilyadler.bsky.social · 4d

not sure I believe in confidence being a factor there but I get what you're saying. could very well be right