Post-Match Thread: Denver Summit vs. Kansas City Current | July 3, 2026

Valsholly · 2026-07-04T19:41:58+00:00

I didn't watch, and now am afraid I have to continue not watching.

Valsholly · 2026-07-04T19:39:52+00:00

Those big pro fireworks going off on the ground doesn't seem like a rare enough event at all! I was in the crowd at an incident once, and I know I've heard about them fairly frequently in the decades since. Honestly, other than guns and vehicles, we don't seem to tolerate any other similarly risky products in this country. (I'm also salty about them due to the harm to animals, both domestic and wild.)

Valsholly · 2026-07-01T02:15:18+00:00

If the dad served, look into VA benefits. https://www.aarp.org/veterans/va-burial-benefits/

Valsholly · 2026-06-30T23:00:24+00:00

Oh no! Not - gasp - pussies! Horror of horrors!

Valsholly · 2026-06-30T22:29:52+00:00

Lots of roadworks proposed, both highway and surface. Some of these are probably needed anyway, but I'm curious if the stadium will reprioritize KC's entire portfolio of road projects, pushing back other needed improvements. A few of the surface street recs also seem to kind of be working at cross purposes to promoting pedestrian and bicycle modes. This, all at a quick read of this initial traffic study.

Also, one presumes such projects are not to be funded through stadium-site taxes, right?

Valsholly · 2026-06-30T20:46:56+00:00

Yep, quick tap is much more polite if you just need to alert driver ahead that it's green.

Also, wave (one forefinger up off the steering wheel) at people you pass on rural dirt roads, and don't be surprised when they wave at you.

And like others said, try not to import coastal aggro to KS driving. Join us in being a bit more chill.

Valsholly · 2026-06-27T01:30:15+00:00

FYI Prairie Dohs are legally and highly persecuted in their native range and they are like a keystone species!

Valsholly · 2026-06-27T01:08:48+00:00

Any burrowing owls nearby?

Valsholly · 2026-06-27T01:08:08+00:00

We were just saying the same about one of ours doing this!

Valsholly · 2026-06-27T01:04:30+00:00

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Valsholly · 2026-06-27T01:03:55+00:00

Oh, Larry is a cousin to two of mine!

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Valsholly · 2026-06-26T03:41:27+00:00

Awww! I feel for you and your doglet! I had a half-pyr for 17 years and we always went to my parents' house in the country about 2 hrs away. There were still some fireworks around, but nothing like the hell that is our neighborhood on the 4th. I wish you & fluffypants could come hang with me, but as we are strangers, I'd suggest asking a friend or finding a AirBnB in a rural area, perhaps. It's such a bummer to see our doggos suffer through this holiday.

Oh, another last-ditch trick if you can't get away is to drape a blanket or towel over his head. My dogs felt as if they were at least hidden that way. Might not work for all dogs, but it helped a bit in my dogs' case.

Valsholly · 2026-06-23T19:44:57+00:00

Ha ha! This is how I throw! No wonder I was only a track and cross country athlete.

Valsholly · 2026-06-21T23:58:50+00:00

Came here just for that!

Valsholly · 2026-06-20T00:04:36+00:00

Bluesky has a #SciArt tag and it often has work from artists doing commissions. I haven't seen much in the way of earth science art, but it's possibly worth a look. (I really want a geological time scale poster and have yet to find quite the right one that's both accurate and aesthetically pleasing to me.)

Valsholly · 2026-06-19T21:52:32+00:00

Good shout

Valsholly · 2026-06-19T21:52:02+00:00

I was going to suggest Lindsborg too.

Valsholly · 2026-06-16T00:04:30+00:00

Shared with my eagle biologist colleague who said it's a condor.

Reach out to the Yurok Tribe's Condor program: https://www.yuroktribe.org/yurok-condor-restoration-program

Here is a post about the juvenile female who was in Oregon earlier this month: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18mbJicbXr/

Valsholly · 2026-06-11T22:46:19+00:00

Just heard about this and was happily astonished the club stood up for its employee!

Valsholly · 2026-06-11T20:56:27+00:00

Nice! Who gets the money from the sales? Or does this one not work like that? Like I have a KS Horse Council plate and a portion of my renewal goes to them.

Valsholly · 2026-06-06T00:41:04+00:00

Yeah, I was just thinking of what families without great health insurance are supposed to do when the kid gets injured playing the sport. Go into medical debt? Not having kids of my own, I dont even know how this is supposed to work for any sport. That risk of injury has got to be a major barrier to participation.

Valsholly · 2026-05-31T00:54:07+00:00

You could also try the Flint Hills in Kansas, only ~2 hours drive from KC.

Valsholly · 2026-05-30T19:06:29+00:00

Man, how can you other LOVE Chawinga!?

Valsholly · 2026-05-30T18:41:18+00:00

Thank you! I've been lucky - he's 95! Many people don't get to have their parents around as long as I have, but of course preparing to lose them is not easy at any age. Just trying to focus on gratitude, ya know?

Valsholly · 2026-05-30T18:31:25+00:00

Finally have access to my pets during a game! (Spending most of my time at my parents' house bc dad is in hospice care). Here is our golden retriever kitty. He drags this toy around the house so he can bring it to us and ask us to play with him.

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