#yinzers

[prettyplumpkitty]

Saturday.

[elljayvee]

I need other yinzers who have read Murderbot to back me up: the description of Milu in Rogue Protocol is like Century III was just before it closed. Eerily so.

[sapchats]

very very extremely small collection of dream in pittsburgh steelers merch

[najeeharris]

Straight vibes from cutch, as per usual

[voltrons]

bittersweet but i’m so glad i got back into hockey this year. it’s brought me so much closer to my sister and my city and i am so stoked for next season!!!!!! we’lL GET EM NEXT TIME!!!!!! LOVE YOU PENS LB!!!!!!!!! <3333

[rimouskis]

I have hit 0% phone battery like three times in my life... today was that third time

[melusine0811]

The Eat-N-Park Christmas Tree- or "Hope"

I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and there has been a commercial on TV every Christmas for the past 40 years from a restaurant called Eat-N-Park (think Hardees or Big Boy). You know, that comfortable local chain restaurant every town or borough had one of, where you hung out drinking milkshakes on Friday nights after football games or scarfed down pancakes at midnight with your friends after dancing your brains out at the Winter Formal. The commercial itself features a little star trying its hardest and struggling relentlessly to flap itself up to the top of a tree. It tries and tries again, just to run out of strength right before reaching the top, and then flutters back down into the snow. Just when it's exhausted and can't pick itself back up, the tree gladly reaches down and scoops up the star and puts it at the top. The star then is able to light the whole tree as they suddenly glow together.

I love this commercial the most because it reminds me of my grandmother, who died back in 1993 and loved it. For me, it's not Christmas until I see it, and I think of her and how much she loved Christmas--and how much I adored her and still miss her.

But I also love it because it's a message---when we pick each other up, a magical thing happens...we all begin to glow. Notice how happy the little star is and how it is able to do amazing things just out of this simple act of kindness.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year, Happy Solstice/Yule, Happy Diwali, and Merry Festivus. And thank you to all of you who at ANY POINT this year picked me up and made me glow in any way (Yes that means YOU 🦋.)

We may not have talked in a few years and just casually see each other on our dashes, or we may just be mutuals. We may have talked all the time once, and don't anymore because our fandom interests diverged.

Or we may have stopped talking due to other reasons. Let us love one another and then soon FORGET whatever that reason is, because small things never hold their shape. This goes for disagreements with anyone at all. And for me, whatever the disagreement was, it doesn't matter anyway, in the long run---I forgive you because have loved and cared deeply about you. Automatically.

I am almost 44 and my life is probably halfway over. And I am definitely too sentimental. Let me tell you that from these slightly age-lined eyes that most recently saw nothing but darkness for months------

LIFE. IS. TOO. SHORT. People disappear from this world too easily, they slip between your fingers and are gone forever, like my grandma at only 57 years old. And as you get older and older, you stop giving a shit about who said what or what your own doctrine or easily dissolved principles used to be-- you can't even remember.

I am going to leave you with something my boss (principal) told us at a faculty meeting, that changed my outlook:

Almost all negative behavior comes from a place of pain.

Love one another. May you have a wonderful holiday season. (And may your tree survive your cats.🤣)

React to this post in some way to share the glow with me and with others.

[zoe248]

Trilobite of the Day 42

Apatokephalus cf. incisus (Dean, 1966) Lower Ordovician, Floian stage Upper Fezouata Formation (Outer Feijas Group) Zagora, South Morocco 5 cm

*extremely yinzer voice* "Hey Apato, yinz Kennywood's Open!"

[plantanarchy]

Taco's daily hunt for sunshine was fruitful on this first day of spring

[coffee-at-annies]

Lmao pens just texted me they moved up the Monday game up because of the stillers rescheduling the playoff game. I love my city. Solidarity in sports

[pghgraffiti]

💛🖤

[larkandkatydid]

The absolute best thing about every book that talks about any 19th century Republican is how sexy they all were and how erotically enraptured any biographer becomes. And it is now my project to collect examples of this to mourn the tragic fall of what was once the party of Free Labor, Free Soil and Sexy Men into the party of Blake Masters.

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Street musicians, Pittsburgh Pa - in the “Strip District” along Penn Avenue

[najeeharris]

I’m sick of yinzers arguing abt Najee and Jaylen!!! Here yinz go pitting two bad bitches against each other!!

[fivenightsatcorans]

liking pittsburgh for sports is so sad. oh you’ve got the pirates (shit baseball team that sucks)?? and the penguins (good team but the epicenter of hockey rpf)??? and the steelers Okay actually the steelers are good i take it back

[livingof-love]

IMMA START A RIOT 🤙🏽