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  1. The Etymology of 'Uncle Charlie': Baseball’s Persistent Lexicon

    What is the origin of the baseball term 'Uncle Charlie' for a curveball? Baseball experts still debate its unclear, anecdotal history as of May 2026.

    #UncleCharlie, #Curveball, #BaseballTerms, #SportsHistory, #BaseballLingo

    newsletter.tf/origin-of-baseba

  2. The baseball term 'Uncle Charlie' for a curveball has been used for many years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Experts believe it came from players talking, not from an official rule.

    #UncleCharlie, #Curveball, #BaseballTerms, #SportsHistory, #BaseballLingo
    newsletter.tf/origin-of-baseba

  3. Richard Youngs + Katie G. O'Neill

    Curveball, Saturday, March 21 at 08:00 PM GMT

    “THE iconic figure of the modern UK underground … Richard Youngs evolves in the shadows where most won’t look, but those who do will forever be dazzled and amazed” – The Quietus

    Enthusiastic Eunuch Proudly Presents

    Richard Youngs

    with special guest

    Katie Gerardine O’Neill

    Curveball (Button Factory)

    Saturday 21st March

    Doors 8pm

    Tickets €20 via https://billetto.ie/e/richard-youngs-katie-gerardine-o-neill-tickets-1769521

    Richard Youngs (b. 1966, Cambridge, England) is a musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. In a career spanning more than 40 years, his diverse and prolific output defies the existence of any definitive biography or discography.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sExWf-FoB0w

    Primarily recognised as a solo artist and writer of extended song, he is also an active cross-genre collaborator. Recent work includes "deep wallpaper" music with Daniel O'Sullivan, and the potentially global site-specific Here Is A Big Place project with Raymond MacDonald.

    Initially a rare live performer, he now embraces the stage.

    Born in Cambridge and raised in the Fens, Richard Youngs began making music at the start of the seventies. His early work centred on the family piano. When this was sold in the late seventies, however, the classical guitar and cassette recorder became his instruments of choice, along with anything at hand that made a sound. From then on he has played any number of roles with bands such as Astral Social Club, Concrete Hedge, No Deserts, Jandek and Future Pilot A.K.A. Recent collaborative work with Andrew Paine, Heatsick, Kawabata Makoto and John Clyde-Evans also show him as a highly social musician.

    His catalogue of releases wanders into all kinds of zones over a vast array of albums on various labels including his No Fans imprint: they include accapella, guitars, pipes or electronics and come out of solitude and in partnership with atmospheres that range from fragmental folk to all-out fuzz.

    Katie Gerardine O'Neill

    Katie Gerardine O'Neill is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin. O'Neill holds a Photography B.A. from T.U.D (2012). She is best known for her audio-visual installations, sound art, theatrical performance, and video.

    Her work seeks to probe the workings of the human psyche and acts as a mode of disruption, troubling and at times providing relief from the physical and emotional restrictions that isolate and alienate the modern individual.

    O’Neill’s uses art as a means of radical self-expression and resistance.

    https://katieoneill.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-beyond

    flypost.ie/event/richard-young

  4. "Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion."

    Brad Bolman for Pioneer Works Broadcast: pioneerworksbroadcast.substack

    #Longreads #Baseball #Sports #Curveball #Physics #Science #Truth #America #Debate

  5. "Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion."

    Brad Bolman for Pioneer Works Broadcast: pioneerworksbroadcast.substack

    #Longreads #Baseball #Sports #Curveball #Physics #Science #Truth #America #Debate

  6. "Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion."

    Brad Bolman for Pioneer Works Broadcast: pioneerworksbroadcast.substack

    #Longreads #Baseball #Sports #Curveball #Physics #Science #Truth #America #Debate

  7. "Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion."

    Brad Bolman for Pioneer Works Broadcast: pioneerworksbroadcast.substack

    #Longreads #Baseball #Sports #Curveball #Physics #Science #Truth #America #Debate

  8. "Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion."

    Brad Bolman for Pioneer Works Broadcast: pioneerworksbroadcast.substack

    #Longreads #Baseball #Sports #Curveball #Physics #Science #Truth #America #Debate

  9. In 2002, a (later identified as an) Iranian spy "Ahmed Chalibi" (aka "#Curveball") convinced (an eager to believe) Bush Administration that Iraq had a #WMD program (including nukes.)

    Sec of State Gen. Colin Powell went to the UN to give a slideshow to convince everyone Iraq was an imminent threat.

    EVERYTHING IN THIS SLIDESHOW WAS WRONG, fake or a lie.
    #MidnightHammer #MissionAccomplishedPart2 #DejaVu

  10. In 2002, a (later identified as an) Iranian spy "Ahmed Chalibi" (aka "#Curveball") convinced (an eager to believe) Bush Administration that Iraq had a #WMD program (including nukes.)

    Sec of State Gen. Colin Powell went to the UN to give a slideshow to convince everyone Iraq was an imminent threat.

    EVERYTHING IN THIS SLIDESHOW WAS WRONG, fake or a lie.
    #MidnightHammer #MissionAccomplishedPart2 #DejaVu

  11. In 2002, a (later identified as an) Iranian spy "Ahmed Chalibi" (aka "#Curveball") convinced (an eager to believe) Bush Administration that Iraq had a #WMD program (including nukes.)

    Sec of State Gen. Colin Powell went to the UN to give a slideshow to convince everyone Iraq was an imminent threat.

    EVERYTHING IN THIS SLIDESHOW WAS WRONG, fake or a lie.
    #MidnightHammer #MissionAccomplishedPart2 #DejaVu

  12. In 2002, a (later identified as an) Iranian spy "Ahmed Chalibi" (aka "#Curveball") convinced (an eager to believe) Bush Administration that Iraq had a #WMD program (including nukes.)

    Sec of State Gen. Colin Powell went to the UN to give a slideshow to convince everyone Iraq was an imminent threat.

    EVERYTHING IN THIS SLIDESHOW WAS WRONG, fake or a lie.
    #MidnightHammer #MissionAccomplishedPart2 #DejaVu

  13. In 2002, a (later identified as an) Iranian spy "Ahmed Chalibi" (aka "#Curveball") convinced (an eager to believe) Bush Administration that Iraq had a #WMD program (including nukes.)

    Sec of State Gen. Colin Powell went to the UN to give a slideshow to convince everyone Iraq was an imminent threat.

    EVERYTHING IN THIS SLIDESHOW WAS WRONG, fake or a lie.
    #MidnightHammer #MissionAccomplishedPart2 #DejaVu

  14. I call this a #CurveBall.
    my last task before activating my out-of-office response for the #L8Sabbatical is to update my time sheet for this week.
    And now the company provided network security stack - zscaler, AnyConnect, CrowdStrike … - won’t let me access the web app.
    #ITsupportHell

  15. I call this a #CurveBall.
    my last task before activating my out-of-office response for the #L8Sabbatical is to update my time sheet for this week.
    And now the company provided network security stack - zscaler, AnyConnect, CrowdStrike … - won’t let me access the web app.
    #ITsupportHell

  16. I call this a #CurveBall.
    my last task before activating my out-of-office response for the #L8Sabbatical is to update my time sheet for this week.
    And now the company provided network security stack - zscaler, AnyConnect, CrowdStrike … - won’t let me access the web app.
    #ITsupportHell

  17. I call this a #CurveBall.
    my last task before activating my out-of-office response for the #L8Sabbatical is to update my time sheet for this week.
    And now the company provided network security stack - zscaler, AnyConnect, CrowdStrike … - won’t let me access the web app.
    #ITsupportHell

  18. @Caelumtangi diu en Leo que
    "A #curveball is a type of pitch in baseball that breaks downward and away from a right-handed batter (or upward and in to a left-handed batter). It is a breaking ball, meaning it has a spin that causes the ball to drop and curve as it approaches the plate."

    Un llançament enverinat, vaja

  19. @Caelumtangi diu en Leo que
    "A #curveball is a type of pitch in baseball that breaks downward and away from a right-handed batter (or upward and in to a left-handed batter). It is a breaking ball, meaning it has a spin that causes the ball to drop and curve as it approaches the plate."

    Un llançament enverinat, vaja

  20. @Caelumtangi diu en Leo que
    "A #curveball is a type of pitch in baseball that breaks downward and away from a right-handed batter (or upward and in to a left-handed batter). It is a breaking ball, meaning it has a spin that causes the ball to drop and curve as it approaches the plate."

    Un llançament enverinat, vaja

  21. @Caelumtangi diu en Leo que
    "A #curveball is a type of pitch in baseball that breaks downward and away from a right-handed batter (or upward and in to a left-handed batter). It is a breaking ball, meaning it has a spin that causes the ball to drop and curve as it approaches the plate."

    Un llançament enverinat, vaja

  22. @Caelumtangi diu en Leo que
    "A #curveball is a type of pitch in baseball that breaks downward and away from a right-handed batter (or upward and in to a left-handed batter). It is a breaking ball, meaning it has a spin that causes the ball to drop and curve as it approaches the plate."

    Un llançament enverinat, vaja

  23. #Curveball, night 0.
    The announcement was made as I was driving in final tent stake. Buddy and I decided to hang around and leave in the AM. Walking around the festival site on a headful, met a guy on the bleachers who had travelled from a far off African country. After unloading his painful story of traveling so far for a cancelled festival, he asked us if we had any requests.

    “Anything from John Ritter’s greatest hits”

    Guy said “I gotchu”, played Cheeseburger in Paradise and disappeared.

  24. #Curveball, night 0.
    The announcement was made as I was driving in final tent stake. Buddy and I decided to hang around and leave in the AM. Walking around the festival site on a headful, met a guy on the bleachers who had travelled from a far off African country. After unloading his painful story of traveling so far for a cancelled festival, he asked us if we had any requests.

    “Anything from John Ritter’s greatest hits”

    Guy said “I gotchu”, played Cheeseburger in Paradise and disappeared.

  25. When life throws you curveballs, make curveballade...

    🤔

    Curve Ballade?

    #curveball #curve #ballade

  26. Leave it to life to throw a devastating #curveball in the last few days of the year. I'm really struggling.

    So here is my plan for #SelfCare today:

    🛏️ Get out of bed
    🥣 Eat
    🧦 Get dressed
    🧼 Wash my face
    🌳 Go outside — whether that be a walk or to the car to go somewhere
    🫶 Do a self check-in and decide where to go from there.

    #Depression #MentalHealth #SelfLove #YouMatter

  27. Leave it to life to throw a devastating #curveball in the last few days of the year. I'm really struggling.

    So here is my plan for #SelfCare today:

    🛏️ Get out of bed
    🥣 Eat
    🧦 Get dressed
    🧼 Wash my face
    🌳 Go outside — whether that be a walk or to the car to go somewhere
    🫶 Do a self check-in and decide where to go from there.

    #Depression #MentalHealth #SelfLove #YouMatter

  28. Leave it to life to throw a devastating #curveball in the last few days of the year. I'm really struggling.

    So here is my plan for #SelfCare today:

    🛏️ Get out of bed
    🥣 Eat
    🧦 Get dressed
    🧼 Wash my face
    🌳 Go outside — whether that be a walk or to the car to go somewhere
    🫶 Do a self check-in and decide where to go from there.

    #Depression #MentalHealth #SelfLove #YouMatter

  29. Leave it to life to throw a devastating #curveball in the last few days of the year. I'm really struggling.

    So here is my plan for #SelfCare today:

    🛏️ Get out of bed
    🥣 Eat
    🧦 Get dressed
    🧼 Wash my face
    🌳 Go outside — whether that be a walk or to the car to go somewhere
    🫶 Do a self check-in and decide where to go from there.

    #Depression #MentalHealth #SelfLove #YouMatter

  30. Leave it to life to throw a devastating #curveball in the last few days of the year. I'm really struggling.

    So here is my plan for #SelfCare today:

    🛏️ Get out of bed
    🥣 Eat
    🧦 Get dressed
    🧼 Wash my face
    🌳 Go outside — whether that be a walk or to the car to go somewhere
    🫶 Do a self check-in and decide where to go from there.

    #Depression #MentalHealth #SelfLove #YouMatter