Jen Thoennes

@SawtoothUlti Good morning! I had to re-download this app for this content.

Game 1 Sexxxtionals against R&D… someone tell me how Big Sky has 11 teams this year 💀

@SawtoothUlti late to the party but still here.

Quarter finals for our 3 fans still following twitter We come out against Dark star in 30

@SawtoothUlti still being on twitter might be weird

Time to get weird 😤

@breaksideulti @UltiPlanet Thanks for sharing your experience and vulnerability.

Evening Breakside out now! It's a little personal so I'd appreciate it extra if you give it a read. Shouthout to the sponsor @UltiPlanet Link in reply!

@Ike_Saul @RhinoUltimate Shout out to your shoutout. Solid analysis and much appreciation to everyone playing ,observing, coordinating, and commentating for giving us fans a good show. Club nationals never disappoints but also—— horns up!

Ultimate Frisbee post incoming: First, big congrats to @RhinoUltimate on their natties win. They played the game/tournament of their lives at the right time and earned not just the W, but the margin of victory, too. Wildly talented, athletic team, and fun to compete against on top of all that. They play the game the right way - fairly, but with fire, and it's never boring. Hard to hate on those guys. I'm typically an all-or-nothing winning type player/coach, but gotta be honest I'm beaming with pride for @PrideofNY today, even with the silver. In six seasons: three finals appearances, five semis, 1 club title, 1 worlds titles, never lost our pool, never out before quarterfinals, and never stopped having more fun than everyone else. This team faced so much doubt, and this organization has faced so much adversity with horrific injury luck, coaching changes, AUDL/Worlds conflicts, the pressure and friction of so much talent, etc... but the group just reinvests every year, and continues to exhibit excellence when it matters most. The next gen of players on our team are absolute studs, and are already adopting and embracing the PoNY ethos. It's an all-time group. The future is bright. And this is such an amazing place to play ultimate. Finally, massive shoutout to @Ultiworld for doing an incredible job covering the biggest tourney of the year. They get so much hate from so many angry social media accounts but the work they do makes our sport so much more fun to participate in. We take them for granted when they just pull off a weekend like this streaming nearly every single game like its just another day at the office. Super grateful to Charlie & the crew, and of course to @USAUltimate (and all the volunteers) for another great tournament in beautiful San Diego. 10/10. Great season. Great ride. ❤️🦁

@Ike_Saul I'm so fed up. As a teacher and mother of 3 I hate to think of ANY of my children facing what happens on the regular across the USA. It's UNREAL and UNACCEPTABLE. I just bought my first activist shirt. (Unless you count the one a friend gave me that says "Don't be a dick." )

My thoughts on the Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia: We have covered so many of these shootings that it is just becoming harder and harder to think of something new to say. This story is familiar: A young man or a teenager is troubled. He has a semiautomatic rifle. There were warning signs. Young, innocent people were killed. Family and friends could have done more. Law enforcement could have done more. Ineffective laws have left loopholes open that made it easier for this to happen. An unhealthy gun culture promotes guns like they are toys. Repeated headline news coverage gives these twisted plots a reality to copy. And then there were the usual media failures (this time, the Associated Press misleadingly quoting JD Vance). We are broken. Our country is a great big beautiful place that is better than most other places in the world at everything from economic growth to press freedom to track and field. But, when it comes to gun violence, we are very, very broken. And with each event like this that goes by, we seem to be losing the will to do anything — besides add more guns and “security” to the equation. All the normal caveats apply: Gun deaths are the leading cause of adolescent death, but suicide is the #1 gun violence killer in our country. Mass shootings usually involve semiautomatic rifles, but handguns are involved in more violence than any other kind of weapon. School shootings represent a small sliver of the number of gun deaths, but they comprise a huge share of the psychological toll gun violence takes on us, especially younger Americans. We now have a society where kids have to learn what to do in "active shooter" drills and many of their schools are looking more and more like prisons, with armed security guards, metal detectors, and doors that lock automatically. Apalachee High was one such school. Armed police were on the premises to stop shootings like this and a system was in place inside the school to lock classroom doors. Those safety measures may have saved lives, but they didn’t prevent a 14-year-old from being able to easily access a gun, walk into his school, and kill two of his teachers and two of his classmates before surrendering. They may have mitigated the damage, if you measure that damage only in lives lost, but they didn't prevent this from happening in the only country where it happens regularly. I've written before about the lack of friction to buy guns and the failure of our gun culture. This story touches on both of those points: In Georgia, there is no friction for a teenager to own a rifle or shotgun. It is perfectly legal, without age restrictions or background checks. It should not be easier for a 14-year-old to carry a rifle than it is for him to get his driver's permit. Period. We don't just have a failure of law — of course, most people would agree that a 14-year-old who threatens a school shooting when he's 13 shouldn't legally be able to access a gun — but we have a failure of culture. The latitude provided to a teenager to own a rifle in Georgia is a holdover from an era with a more responsible gun culture — one built on guns being tools for sport or self-protection — one that is no longer modeled by our most visible gun owners. The gun culture promoted by our political and cultural leaders today undervalues the seriousness of owning firearms, promotes the notion that guns make you tough or patriotic, and plants seeds in the minds of our youth that solving your issues with a gun is always an option. When I was a teenager and learned to shoot a gun I was taught to fear it and recognize its seriousness; I was made to feel the weight of the responsibility of what I had in my hands, and made to understand that this wasn't an activity I was ever allowed to participate in without specific adults present. I am immeasurably grateful that this is how I was introduced to firearms. I know that many law-abiding gun owners across America still approach guns in this fashion. Unfortunately, we also have legislators posing with semiautomatic rifles in front of Christmas trees, blowing stuff up in campaign ads, or saying it's "embarrassing" if their state is no longer the #1 gun state in the country. We have celebrities who throw temper tantrums by shooting things. These things matter on the margins, and they are insidious markers of a corrupted and failed culture. And now we are fighting against gun violence on a whole new front: Prosecuting parents. Jennifer and James Crumbley were the first parents in the U.S. to ever be found criminally responsible for their child carrying out a mass killing. Now the shooter's father in this case is being charged. As I said after Jennifer Crumbley was convicted, I was initially supportive of this pursuit — I think holding parents responsible for their role in securing firearms could increase gun safety and increase the urgency with which parents react to warning signs. But I also got cold feet once I saw the prosecution go down. Crumbley's guilt seemed obvious at first, but the more I learned about the case, the more I understood how we were all benefitting from hindsight. I became far more skeptical of this approach, and especially if it means throwing parents in prison for decades. We cannot solve gun violence with a single change. This will require a holistic societal fix. We need to better enforce the laws we have on the books. We need to support new laws that allow family and friends to easily flag warning signs to law enforcement. We need more robust mental health treatment (for teenagers, especially young men). We need gun ownership and training to be more like using a car and less like shopping at Wal-Mart. We need our politicians and celebrities and cultural leaders to treat gun ownership as a grave, monumental responsibility, not one to be flaunted or flexed. We need all of this together in the long run and each of these as individual victories as soon as possible, and we need to work together to get there. Unfortunately, this means we need a world we don’t currently seem to have — unless we are willing to make it happen as a collective.

@SawtoothUlti Dammit. Giddy up boys.

They sneak half 6-7

Game 1 against @PowderHogs since my last post showed up all weird

@SawtoothUlti Good morning and good luck today!

Game Juan today against Utah Fatstacks

@SawtoothUlti in my head and heart you won the tourney

Hurts to go 4-2 and get 13th but the losses are separated by one point a piece and that’s something to celebrate! Dawgs battled hard.

@SawtoothUlti Break train!!! Do it! Giddy up!

9-9 then another break from the boys in blue 10-9 🤠

Game 3 today against Brawl Ultimate

@NHwang I’m sorry for your loss but also happy for what survived.

The person that rifled through my car took my charging cables, several unopened packes of pokemon cards, but left two huge bagfuls of discs.

@runofthemills10 Sorry for your delay and thank you for your service.

I’m stuck in Denver through tomorrow due to flight delays (shout out Delta) so unfortunately will not have a rankings update until Tuesday night at the earliest

@EugeneDarkstar Even tho I quit playing ultimate it seems I’ve found a way to keep winning. For now at least. I recognize the competition is strong. I’m feeling honored with first place this week.

@EugeneDarkstar Don’t stop tweeting. I’ll bring you treats tomorrow! Hopefully that will be cool enough.

@EugeneDarkstar If I like this, will my ratings go up or down?

@EugeneDarkstar Dammit. I knew wearing my sawtooth and rhino (.gifted) swag to the fields might be a liability today. I just ordered Darkstar gear this week. If you would’ve hooked me up earlier I might not be falling behind in the polls.

@UltiPlanet I mean, someone ate a celebratory hotdog at nationals so there's that.

The nfl opened up celebrations and people started bowling their friends over after a td. Meanwhile frisbee lets you do anything you want and our most creative scoring celebration is kicking it a little bit after you spike it

@frisbeemanny @Ultiworld Often happens to me on a segment I have rewound to rewatch. I figured it was a glitch of the rewind?!

@tirebizfriz ego got big shorted

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