Perry Barber
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Perry Barber
@umpireplb
Baseball umpire She/her
Above It All Beigetreten Ocak 2025
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@PaulaMatiz2 @annamlulis Thanks for the shot of truth, Paula
I laughed at your "loathes" line, but I also wish people would tone down the insults, which aren't a persuasive way of getting someone to agree with you. Your anger is valid, but it misses the mark when you use it as a cudgel to berate others.
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@annamlulis You freaks always make it about you. FYI- he supports LGBTQ and loathes Trump. ‘Loathes’ means ‘hates’ for all you 2 digit IQ kids. He didn’t even grow up here and he’s catholic, you losers.
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@annamlulis Excellence sprouts from many seeds, Anna, not just the "christian" ones
But hey, okay, this Pulisic dude, don't know when I've ever seen an athlete so devout-looking 😍

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@SoveyX Homosexuals have families too, you know
They also have faith - that one day they'll be able to live their lives unbothered by people like you who choose to believe gay people don't "represent" America. THAT is a choice, being gay is not.
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@MastrXYZ It's okay to cry over her, sweet little angel
Your last, best gift to her will be letting her go, while her last best gift to you will always be remembering her with such love.
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Some of you will probably laugh at this, and many will not understand it.
My 17 year old cat is not doing well, and we will probably have to let her go.
Kidney failure, almost from 1 day to the next. 2 days ago she was still running around like a young cat.
I am a grown man, and this is breaking my heart. At the same time I have to find a way to explain to my children that this is part of life, even when it feels brutally unfair.
17 years.
She has been with me for almost half my life.
Through 4 different homes, different chapters, different versions of myself, from having no children to having 3 children.
She was always there. Every day she came to me, wanted to be close, climbed onto my arm like it was the most normal thing in the world.
She never scratched 1 of my children.
Never hurt anyone. A proper little lady.
Call me soft if you want. I do not care.
There are things in life you only understand once they are suddenly standing right in front of you.
The quiet loyalty of an animal is one of them.
No words, no demands, no drama. Just presence.
For 17 years she simply existed next to me, through stress, change, exhaustion, bad days, good days, moving boxes, new rooms, crying babies, growing children and all the silent moments.
And now I have to watch her become weak almost overnight.
I have to look at her and somehow decide what kindness means when every part of me wants more time.
Love makes you want to hold on. Responsibility forces you to let go before suffering becomes the price of your own selfishness.
So yes, I am devastated over a cat.
A 17 year old little soul who followed me through almost half my life, never asked for anything except closeness and food, and gave my family nothing but gentleness.
Laugh if you want. I will grieve her properly.
This picture is 17 years old, from the day I picked her up.

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@PerryBackwards @MastrXYZ From another Perry whose beloved Lucie In The Sky With Diamonds got out and ran away last August and is presumed unrecoverable, I send warm purrs to speed your Big Guy on his way, and to comfort you.
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@UmpireAuditor Is it really necessary for UA to constantly imply umpires are so incompetent that they "blow" difficult calls, and so corrupt that they "gift" teams with purposely inaccurate calls to favor the other team?
Doing so degrades UA's performance, not the umpires'.
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@HunterBiden Your dad loves you unconditionally, which is so very beautiful and touching.
I think you must make him and Jill very proud. Hell, you make ME proud, and we're not even related.
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To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
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@OGofImpact @NancyMace But Stuart, she didn't "stand tall" for abused women and children because she genuinely cares about them; she cares about making headlines for HERSELF any way she can, and that was one easy way to fool voters into believing she actually has a soul and some ethics worth voting for
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@NancyMace Hold your head up. You stood tall for all women, and also for children that were abused and raped, no matter who did the abusing and raping. That is a far greater legacy than winning an election.
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@NancyMace So since you're such a "rookie," Nancy, you have a lot to learn, yes? Maybe pay attention to this attractive non-tattooed lady from S. Carolina with 3 kids who actually IS a rookie, you might learn something about what makes a candidate worth endorsing⬇️
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Bri Gillis@Bgilly13
Dems have been looking for their message for years, and @AnnieAndrewsMD just did it (in under two minutes). Take note 📝
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@ninavars Here's another choice, Nina
Educate yourself, make sure your children are educated, and ditch your ginned-up paranoia about beheadings, burqas, and stabbings. Learn some compassion and empathy, teach those things to your kids, and all your lives will be infinitely less scary.
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@Donna_H67 @SirBylHolte @Jollybgood Living your life as if "men" in a women's bathroom are inherently "creepy & dangerous" is a sad commentary - on YOU, not on trans people.
Guaranteed they have zero interest in alarming or hurting anyone, only in doing their business, then getting as far away from you as possible
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@umpireplb @SirBylHolte @Jollybgood Yes, we do. Men in the women's room is both creepy and dangerous.
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JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR:
I never cared that you were trans.
Until you started rubbing it in my face.
I never cared what color you were.
Until you started using your color to get extra "rights" that none of us have.
I never cared about your politics.
Until you started condemning me for mine.
I never cared where you were born.
Until you tried to erase my vote and steal our jobs.
I never cared that your beliefs were different.
Until you declared mine wrong.
Now I care.
My patience and tolerance are gone.
And I’m not alone.
There are 80 million of us who feel the same way.
That's why we voted for Trump.
Can I be any clearer?

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@_waywardpilgrim @MikeJGreiner Sodomy is nothing to be proud about?
Neither is being stupid.
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@MikeJGreiner Sodomy is nothing to be proud about. Democrats are sick.
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disgusted by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Pittsburgh Pirates@Pirates
Pride Night at the ballpark! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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@MikeJGreiner Why are you "disgusted" by the Pirates, Michael?
Please explain it to us like we're all children who haven't yet been taught to hate and condemn for no reason.
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🔴 It appears that removal of an extra unwanted name from the Kennedy Center's facade has been halted, but before it started to rain there were reportedly more than 30,000 people there to witness the renovation.
youtube.com/live/icQVE8vV0… via @YouTube

YouTube
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@SirBylHolte @Jollybgood Women don't need to be rescued from "space invaders," Sir, we much prefer to make our spaces safe for people who are picked-on, bullied, and demonized for no reason other than that they challenge prevailing biases about what a human being is. Go save someone who needs it, dude.
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@SirBylHolte Could you be any clearer about what an ignorant dimwit you are? Doubtful. Good job, Sir.
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@BasedBlondex I doubt Taylor Swift worries about what makes her appealing to people who can't control the impulse to spew ridiculous, pathetic venom like this toward her. By all accounts, she is kind, generous, and wildly successful. Can the same be said of BasedBlondex? Signs point to NO.
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