Ted
@takenote.bsky.social
Houstonian. Baseball fan. Co-host of Take Note, a podcast about carrying around a pocket notebook and sharing what ends up there. takenote.space
"Can't you hear the Duquesne whistle blowin'?" - Bob Dylan
"Can't you hear the Duquesne whistle blowin'?" - Bob Dylan
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Ted
@takenote.bsky.social
· Mar 14
The Take Note Newsletter | Take Note Podcast | Substack
Inspiration for keeping a notebook, stationery obsessions, and bookish content. Click to read The Take Note Newsletter, by Take Note Podcast, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Yes, I am old, but I still think that "tennis player whining at their coach in the middle of a match" is like the worst look of all time.
January 20, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Yes, I am old, but I still think that "tennis player whining at their coach in the middle of a match" is like the worst look of all time.
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Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p
www.propublica.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
The difference, from an MLB fan's point of view, between something like Mike Trout's or Bryce Harper's long-term deal is so vast when compared with the short, opt-out deals of today. Shades of the NCAA environment and its constant NIL jumpers.
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/the-...
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/the-...
The Opener: Tucker, Roster Moves, Fan Events
Today's baseball news is highlighted by the fallout of the Kyle Tucker signing and a handful of upcoming roster moves. Read more at MLBTR.
www.mlbtraderumors.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The difference, from an MLB fan's point of view, between something like Mike Trout's or Bryce Harper's long-term deal is so vast when compared with the short, opt-out deals of today. Shades of the NCAA environment and its constant NIL jumpers.
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/the-...
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/the-...
Normalization of the US president "joking" about not holding elections says quite a bit about where we are as a society.
January 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Normalization of the US president "joking" about not holding elections says quite a bit about where we are as a society.
Most of us want to know how to tie cool knots but absolutely don't want to do what it would take to learn them.
January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Most of us want to know how to tie cool knots but absolutely don't want to do what it would take to learn them.
The Night They Caught Gaylord - Part 1 of 2
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The Night They Caught Gaylord - Part 1 of 2
In 1982 baseball’s most accomplished spitball pitcher was finally brought to justice.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The Night They Caught Gaylord - Part 1 of 2
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open.substack.com/pub/project3...
Rewatched Forrest Gump with the kid. I was choking up as the feather floated toward the bus stop in the intro.
December 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Rewatched Forrest Gump with the kid. I was choking up as the feather floated toward the bus stop in the intro.
The American president was best friends for a long time with a notorious depraved pederast who kept none of it secret. If you can defend that, boy howdy.
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The American president was best friends for a long time with a notorious depraved pederast who kept none of it secret. If you can defend that, boy howdy.
Need everyone to stop making new movies, writing new books, or recording new albums until I get caught up. Thanks,
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Need everyone to stop making new movies, writing new books, or recording new albums until I get caught up. Thanks,
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lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE
The stories that my friend Paul finds in the annals of baseball history, seriously. In this edition, we discuss a coach who literally brings a WHISTLE with him to the third base coaching box.
www.project-318.com/p/whistling-...
www.project-318.com/p/whistling-...
Whistling Past the World Series
Hughie Jennings brought a whistle, so some other guy brought a car horn. From there, things got silly.
www.project-318.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The stories that my friend Paul finds in the annals of baseball history, seriously. In this edition, we discuss a coach who literally brings a WHISTLE with him to the third base coaching box.
www.project-318.com/p/whistling-...
www.project-318.com/p/whistling-...
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loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The headline doesn't do justice to this exploration of the creative process...
pitchfork.com/features/cov...
pitchfork.com/features/cov...
Dijon Had a Miraculous Year. He’s Not Finished Yet.
Amid starting a family, writing blockbuster pop albums, and making his acting debut in One Battle After Another, Dijon Duenas spliced together his second album, Baby, and became one of the most compel...
pitchfork.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The headline doesn't do justice to this exploration of the creative process...
pitchfork.com/features/cov...
pitchfork.com/features/cov...
Dijon has that undeniable spark...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDs...
Dijon: Another Baby! (Live) - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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December 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Dijon has that undeniable spark...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDs...
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Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
This 1984 feature on Echo and the Bunnymen and their performance art-slash-show plays super fresh and weird even today. Jools Holland as I have not seen him (only seen him on the variety show, which is great).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN-A CRYSTAL DAY-THE TUBE-PART 1
YouTube video by sunsetz777
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December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This 1984 feature on Echo and the Bunnymen and their performance art-slash-show plays super fresh and weird even today. Jools Holland as I have not seen him (only seen him on the variety show, which is great).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...
If you like baseball history, you'll like our podcast, Clear the Field. The latest episode traces the path of a paranoid Whitey Herzog as corked bat mania encroaches.
www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87
www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87
Cork Hunt '87
Listen now | Accusations and home runs fly as certain Mets' hitters look too good to be true.
www.project-318.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you like baseball history, you'll like our podcast, Clear the Field. The latest episode traces the path of a paranoid Whitey Herzog as corked bat mania encroaches.
www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87
www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87
Joyce Carol Oates out there trying to pull me back in to Twitter.
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Joyce Carol Oates out there trying to pull me back in to Twitter.
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
DJing is funny cause if things aren't going well, you can just...play any one of a selection of the greatest songs of all time.
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
DJing is funny cause if things aren't going well, you can just...play any one of a selection of the greatest songs of all time.
Causing scary and disruptive and dehumanizing neighborhood stand-offs to catch those with felony warrants. Their felony? Entering the country three times. Not the dangerous criminals that ICE would have you believe they are. In fact, they were going to work at 5 a.m.
www.chron.com/news/houston...
www.chron.com/news/houston...
ICE operation leads to tense Houston neighborhood standoff
The hours-long confrontation caused hours of chaos in Pasadena.
www.chron.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Causing scary and disruptive and dehumanizing neighborhood stand-offs to catch those with felony warrants. Their felony? Entering the country three times. Not the dangerous criminals that ICE would have you believe they are. In fact, they were going to work at 5 a.m.
www.chron.com/news/houston...
www.chron.com/news/houston...
The Trump era means we are forced to endure ever more insane moments like this.
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
September 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Trump era means we are forced to endure ever more insane moments like this.
"In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation." mm hmmm
I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...
The United States Of Snitches | Defector
On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...
defector.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation." mm hmmm