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[sunskate]

CPom- This Week in Skating podcast episode pt 2

Your style this season-- building Christina and Anthony's style-

C: both our programs this year- they feel like us, authentic, easy to skate every day, they're fun, we connect to them a lot. we have to thank our coaches for that. cause they really helped guide us into finding who we are as people and skaters and going off our strengths they're creating our programs

the FD is more mature- how did you get to that point-

A: a lot of that comes from Christina- she's had a huge glow-up the past few years and with Madison being there and showing how to do it, how she would do it. It gives the confidence to Christina to try some of the things Madison provides and shows and I think that has come across in our skating. All the lifts are different and new- we had the time to work each element and make sure it's unique and fluid into the next transition. All of that is a factor in why the maturity has shown up

C: it's both of us. changing coaches lifted a big weight off our shoulders. it's allowed us to be more free and to just be able to dance connect with each other, have fun training. we're training better and having fun and feel authentic to what we're doing. If feels very much like what we're meant to be doing

Anthony did you know your parents skated to Summertime?

A: I knew that they skated to Summertime- they were so happy to see us skating to that. i didn't get to see the program until I visited them after the Grand Prix season. i'm very happy to skate to the same music- Summertime has so much deep history, so being part of that list and being on the same list as my parents it's an honor

So you're getting ready to go back to Japan- what's going through your mind

C: it's one of my favorite countries to go to- i'm super super excited to go next week

A: from what i hear the stadium is huge. this is probably the biggest event that we'll go to. it's an honor to go. the Japanese people love figure skating, it's going to be fantastic

Have your coaches told you what to expect or given you advice-

C: we're trying to approach it like any other competition- to stay prepared, stay in the moment and take it one step at a time. they just want us to go out there and have fun- we're not going there to win, we want to skate our best like what we've been doing in training

A: the best advice i've gotten - to use this competition as a way to progress into next season. to our eventual goal of competing at the Olympics

speaking of Olympics- Christina's citizenship--

C: I have my green card, so it's just waiting at this point. but it should be here before 2026

A: going back to resilience- Christina makes the huge sacrifice of driving every day to London Ontario from Michigan- it's about an hour drive and she goes back and forth every day. It's a huge commitment she does. Especially in weather situations, after hard training, it's a commitment and it doesn't go unnoticed

C: when i'm crossing at 6:30 am, if the border agent is rude, that's not a good way to start my day (laughs) but most of the time they're super nice. if anything the Canadian side asks more questions. The American side is like hey how was training today- when's your next competition?

how long are you training each day in Canada

C: on the ice 3-4 hours, then usually we have an hour of off ice. we don't have much break so it's a pretty short day- so like let's say we start training at 8 am -depending on our off ice, I'll be home 3:00, 4:00. it's totally ok.

[lettuceflower]

dion killing that (evil) 10 year old with absolutely no hesitation is in like the top 5 most iconic things any final fantasy character has ever done

[vampmilf]

i looooove working overtime in the kitchen its like cocaine to me and i dont care about my free time or my sanity at all 😍💖

[woofdadog]

An animation I might or might post on youtube idk yet

[aria0fgold]

I have finished :3 Unfortunately won't be able to get the timelapse tho cuz I was racing against my phone's battery and I won enough just to finish the art but not enough to get the timelapse, oh well, I'll put that in a separate post!

[translatemunson]

not me reading out loud the messages my ex friend sent to me to my bestie while we drive around our hometown… her opinion: straight gaslighting and i’m forbidden of letting that bitch be my friend again. best kind of therapy 🩵

[y-eontan]

💀im almost 100% sure the lady in the office exclaiming "oh! it's 13:30 soon!" realised her mistake because her ass is not leaving

[yunogf]

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[devotioncrater]

hm.

[yvmoveon]

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[pee-com]

the way i could have enrolled in the college the girl next door was filmed.......

WHY DIDNT I DO THAT 😭😭😭

[nicepersondisorder]

therapy appointment in four days. sweats nervously.

[aclownofmyword]

This goes so unironically hard

1981 Joust poster art from the game’s actual designer, Python Anghelo

[taecnoal]

I'm at work i can't feel my toes

[cantofamelico]

literally having to force myself not to talk to him rn because it's 2 am and it's inappropriate and he messaged me first, yes, but i have no control over what i could potentially say

[franavu]

Being a Dutch Jew, here is some information about the violence in Amsterdam that is either common knowledge in the Netherlands, or is from some sources in Dutch that might not be commonly available for an international audience.

First of all about hooliganism, Amsterdam's football club Ajax is known as a 'joodenclub', a 'jewclub', because Amsterdam used to have a large jewish minority, many of whom were supporters of the club, and because several Dutch Jews were members of the team at one point. Ajax supporters take pride in this name. Because of this, there is a good relationship between Ajax and Macabbi, and the match was considered at low risk for football related violence and supporters of both teams mixed freely on the train back to the city center. In fact, only a pro-palestine protest was moved away from the stadium, because the police had recieved information that 'harde kern' Ajax hooligans were planning to stop that demonstration.

On that note, I have seen mixed information on what the Macabbi supporters were singing, but regardless, because Ajax is known as a jewclub, a common chant among the fans of opposing Dutch teams is "Hamas, hamas, alle joden aan het gas," or "Hamas, hamas, all the jews to the gas." Yes, a chant heard at pro-palestine protest is originally from Dutch football. Authorities have been cracking down on it in recent years, but a cursory google found people being arrested over it as recently as may 2023. Somehow, jews have never attacked random supporters of opposing teams at matches where this was chanted. Any Dutch person trying to justify things would be well aware of this.

About media coverage, I get my news about Amsterdam from Het Parool, a left-of-center, Amsterdam-based newspaper, that grew out of a WWII resistance paper. This is the current (about 16:30 Dutch time) front page of the newspaper website. In it the violence is described as an 'antisemitische klopjacht' an antisemitic manhunt. Most articles about it are paywalled, but firefox screenreader mode can bypass it.

Finally, I recognised a lot of the terminology in intenational news coverage from yesterday's press conference by Mayor Halsema (the woman in the picture above), which was also shown live by the dutch public bradcaster. In it an AP reporter asks in Dutch about Macabbi provocations, and they partially quote the police chief's answer, but not Mayor Halsma who came in right after, and said that the violence was in no way justifiable. I'm linking the full YouTube video of the press conference below. It is mostly in Dutch, and I have no idea about the quality of the autotranslation, but at about the 30 min. mark an Al Jazeera reporter asks a similar question in English, and the Mayor's answer in English is very clear.