Alf Valenti
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Alf Valenti
@AlfVal
Twitter Amateur. I dont get paid for this, and neither do most of you. I've finally given up. #SMOD2028. Oh, Yankees fanatic, even from 1982-1996.
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@kat_maryb Just went to a Dyngus Day celebration and had lots of kielbasa and kraut! If you haven’t heard of Dyngus Day it is a tradition in Polish and other Eastern European countries around Easter. It was brought to the US by immigrants from the region.
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@Roger774501171 I might add Ichiro in there. But of those listed I’d say Deion.
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@whoinvitedjon Buy it and freeze it. We use about 2 lbs a month and it will last in the freezer for up to a year.
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@theRealJoeGato @CynicalPublius I love how every few years they seem to find a bunch of pallets of the McRibs tucked away in a freezer and bring it back.
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When I first started posting on X there was a particular declarative post that generated more passionate outrage and debate than anything else I had ever posted.
I'm going to post it again now.
Ready?
The best fast food item in the USA is the McDonald's Filet-o-Fish sandwich.
Come at me bro.
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@mkhammer It made my heart burst reading this. Thank you so much for your witness. “Be Not Afraid!” There is a reason that Pope John Paul II began his first address with just those words.
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I took this picture on April 5, 2015, the last time my birthday fell on Easter. It was not a great day for me. I fought back tears at church, and not in the overwhelmed-by God's-great-mercy way. Little did I know at the time, my year was going to take much worse turns. But I was newly pregnant with my second child, and though very sick and feeling pretty sorry for myself that Easter morning, I knew I was blessed with this new life and a Savior who loves me. I took this photo because it was a reminder of new life and bread of life, and the light of the world.
Later that year, I would lose my husband while 7 months pregnant. He died in September. My daughter was born in November. A lot of people wonder, and have asked me, how does one keep her faith through those dark days. I always wondered, how could I have made it through without it?
I was angry and scared and so, so thankful I had met Jesus before that moment. I met Him while reading one of those 90s teen study bibles with neon graphics, in my childhood bedroom. In my sad, grey adult bedroom, I woke up panicking in the night, but He was always with me.
I prayed Jeremiah 29:11 to calm myself down: "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord. 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.'" I prayed it even though I didn't really believe it at the time.
It's not that Jesus solved all my problems in this fallen world or fixed my immediate pain right up. But I was in it with Him and with His promises. And he put the kind of brother in my life who would move in with me to help raise the kids for six months. He put parents in my life who showed up every weekend. He put a neighbor in my life who mowed my lawn every week and another who was a SEAL wife and understood grief like few do, and a best friend who could work out my paperwork (death is so much paperwork) when I couldn't.
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts to us in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world," C.S. Lewis writes in "The Problem of Pain." I learned a lot while I was being shouted at.
I think about Jeremiah 29:11 and 11 years ago today. I think about how my little girl who was not yet born then baked my birthday cake today. I think about how she has three siblings now and the most amazing dad— I remarried in 2020 and he adopted the girls. He took all four of our kids to the store to pick out something for my birthday and then let them each choose a walkout song on the karaoke machine as he gave them a Bruce Buffer announcement call when they came down the stairs to present them to me.
I think about how they've gained grandparents and cousins and love and faith. (Our first holiday with Steve's family was Easter, and I took it as a good sign.) I pray they've watched our lives and gained trust in their Lord.
I think about how my patience was tested by them several times today, as the patience of a parent always is, and how infinite my Father in heaven's patience for me must be. I think about how much I love each of them, and how much my heart grew when each was born just to fit it all in, and how much greater still is my Father's love for me. I think about how much I have to learn and how my faith is still not as mature as it should be at this point (occasionally illustrated on this app).
Today in the car, my kids requested "No Fear" by @jonreddick , "Your Way's Better," by @forestfrank , and "Jesus Is Alive, It's a Happy Day" — that one came with sign language by the 3- and 4-year-old, which I recommend for making your heart soar on a Sunday. They listen to secular music, too, but those are their favorites.
One time, reading the Christmas story with my kids, I read "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people," and my eldest (about 5 at the time) said, "Mom, the angel always says that!"
She's right, the angel always says that! It is so hard not to be afraid, but we have a Good Shepherd. Our lives were touched by death, but He has conquered it.
My kids like new worship songs, but I love the classics, and today as on every Easter, I sang "Blessed Assurance," because Jesus is mine. And in the darkest times, He is new life and bread of life, and the light of the world. I am remembering to rejoice in that every day.

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@axlebee @PitchingNinja Watch the highlights of Kerry Wood’s 20k game. Every other pitch looked like this.
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This might be the greatest pitch I’ve ever seen
Rob Friedman@PitchingNinja
Nolan McLean, Ridiculous 84mph Front Door Sweeper. 😳 23 Inches of Horizontal Break. 4th K thru 5...and 🤫
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@Gentleman_Ways I recently went to a nice restaurant with younger friends and one guy was wearing a baseball hat. I took it off his head and reminded him that we were inside and that there were women present. We all got a laugh out of it but I think it matters.
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@iowahawkblog @m_takewaka This type of snobbery is beneath a member of Turds of Misery.
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@m_takewaka The Michelin Guide contains 58 BBQ restaurants, 31 are in Texas. Texas has 19 of the 33 with a Bib Gourmand recommendation, and all 4 BBQ restaurants in the world with a Michelin star are in Texas. The BBQ war is over, Texas won.
guide.michelin.com/en/us/restaura…
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Guy Who Pushed Over Reacher's Motorcycle Announces Plan To Shoot John Wick's Dog buff.ly/rfPdIsL

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@GenTXer2 Kansas. And they were all probably around 23 in this picture.
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I call them like I see them. As much as I dislike Alan Ritchson’s politics, he was 100% in the right as this latest video shows.
The other guy stepped in front of moving motorcycles endangering Ritchson and his kids.
Ritchson tried to remove himself from the situation several times and the neighbor continued to endanger him, even causing him to drop the bike.
If you are someone who is for running over rioters who block traffic and threaten drivers you must also agree that Ritchson had a right to travel freely here without being threatened.
This guy was a male Karen and any red blooded alpha male would have done the same thing in this situation to protect his and his children’s safety.
Don Keith@RealDonKeith
I called it. The guy admits he pushed Alan Ritchson twice before Ritchson defended himself.
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