Johnathan Reale

[Johnathan Reale @Jreale]

🎵 I don’t want no guy who can’t get no love from me 🎶

#wreckasongbyevaluatingasyllogism

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JAILBREAK!!!! Oh wait, I’ve been watching the PWHL too much apparently…

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Between Men At Work and INXS, were Australia just late to get the “Yeah, we’re not doing the ‘a sax player is an essential part of a rock band’ thing anymore” memo? (If so, I’m glad.)

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Oh my God. Germany out. Netherlands out. Will BELGIUM be the ones who go through?

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Wow, what was that, about thirty seconds of silence from the announcers in Belgium vs Senegal?

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Or more succinctly: “I can’t believe this thing that’s happened fifty times in the past hour has happened.”

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Are there any group of people who do LESS Bayesian updating than world class soccer players? They react to every single foul call as though it were most unexpected and unfair outcome they’ve ever seen, despite watching similar foul calls having been made 34 times prior.

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Really hoping to see a VAR graphic showing this guy’s ears as offsides.

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@hradzka Whoa, this is the “Pulse” guy?? Excellent! Hope I get to see it in NJ suburbs and don’t need to go to NYC.

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@mtaibbi Intentional unity sounds like a good plan. And it can’t be done if one’s mindset is “Every slight must be avenged.”, you have to be willing to take some lumps. But some of the most influential people in history won the long game because they were willing to do just that.

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@jessesingal “Mad! Libs! I say…”

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This isn’t something that can be quantified or proved, but is this the single strangest isolated pair of words I’ve ever seen engraved in stone? Yes it is, and the period at the end is the icing on the cake. (Cross-posted from IG)

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Playing the audio of the Canadian players singing along to their national anthem in the SA vs. Canada knockout match is the most disrespectful thing we Americans have done to our neighbors since the 2026 winter Olympics.

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@hradzka I enjoyed the peek into the universality of human nature, as someone on the other side of the planet exasperatingly tweets “Kenyans 🙄 , am I right?”

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@jessesingal Interestingly, the BaRpod has given me greater understanding of people’s interaction with one another and how they’re affected by factors like anonymity, being observed, the pursuit of virality, clout seeking, etc.. And I’ve made my life quieter in response to this knowledge.

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@TVietor08 @NFL Truly. We need a LEAGUE like this where different age groups are balanced by raw numbers and compete against each other in a regular season schedule.

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I forgot to explicitly contrast “Silent Army In The Trees”’s loose-with-rigidity-for-contrast approach with “My Tears Ricochet”’s square-with-flexibility-for-contrast approach, but better late than never.

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Something Matthew Good and Taylor Swift taught me: there’s incredible power in switching your vocals between loose / syncopated rhythms, and vocals that land foursquare on downbeats and strong beats. Maybe others are also masters of this technique, but those two are my favorites.

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…she’s locked in in a march until “And I still talk to you / When I’m screaming at the sky / And when you can’t sleep at night / You hear my stolen lullabies” and everything that’s solid in the world just disintegrates.

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Watching Cape Verde vs Saudi Arabia and all these World Cup matches and players and supporters and thinking “I want ALL of you to stay here!”. And if they’d rather go back home (everyone should love their home, after all!), just let’s stay friends, okay? Love, a proud American.

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These are just two examples. They both do it a lot, and it’s something to listen for when you find yourself unexpectedly moved by the way a vocal line is delivered, and you’re thinking “but the harmonies and melody haven’t changed much, why is this hitting me so hard?”.