Ben Mathis-Lilley
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Billy is correct
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Respect to this guy I’m sure but a “chef” must not make a burrito.
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3 days ago
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I respect all the statistically superior NBA stars (except Luka and Shai bcs. tedious) but it is wild that Brunson simply never stops scoring against the other team’s most freakish athlete. I reflexively feel sorry for him when I see a closeup, like oh no they’re bullying that poor little man
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Surprised to be in the minority here but I think 24 beers in 24 would have been pretty hard even in my heyday
7 days ago
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Check out my cousin in the Journal! First response.
www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
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Opinion | Why Won’t College Students Touch Grass?
Those currently on campus weigh in on why a study found a third of their cohort aren’t involved in extracurriculars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-wont-college-students-touch-grass-a21ec9d5
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BYCTOM
10 days ago
a few years ago, my obviously fake oral history of bill laimbeer's combat basketball somehow got on reddit and a few posters were reacting like it was real despite being mostly about laimbeer being obsessed with cyberpunk world-building
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I miss print but I also love that we have a medium in which you can run this interview at 1,600 words, truly all of which are interesting
slate.com/business/202...
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The $30-an-Hour Blizzard Side Hustle You Didn’t Know Existed
When the city needed digging out, it called its emergency shovelers. One Queens resident describes the pay, the crosswalks, and the yellow snow.
https://slate.com/business/2026/02/new-york-city-blizzard-emergency-snow-shoveler.html
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Rory Blank
11 days ago
Curse of the Burger Bandit
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I feel like Job from the Biblical book of Job Explodes While Shoveling
13 days ago
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This is what I do as work as well except I don’t have a team. It’s tough to pull off but I manage it.
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BYCTOM
14 days ago
oh you went to juliard? great, that will give you a lot of emotional grounding when you run over a henchman with a monster truck and then say "he got tired" by the way arnold would pronounce it chuliard
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Thinking about the time I took my parents to see Bela Fleck and they hated it. An all time upset. We’re talking composite NPR listeners.
14 days ago
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Recreating, from scratch, the idea of a trusted but charismatic personality, backed by a rigorous journalistic organization, who explains the news to you on camera with some people working in the background
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d.ly
17 days ago
while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.
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Whatever NBC is doing here is working
17 days ago
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Mobius Stripper
21 days ago
'Cause it's haunted
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/s...
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Why haven’t humans been back to the moon in over 50 years? | CNN
Humans haven’t been back to the lunar surface since the Apollo moon program ended over five decade ago. The reasons why go beyond science, according to experts.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/science/why-humans-have-not-been-back-to-moon
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BYCTOM
21 days ago
I would like to address the "Miami Incident"
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TWELVE dreams of Dr. Sardonicus? In this economy?
21 days ago
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It better melt crazy on Saturday
22 days ago
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!!!
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Conservatives Are Terrified That People Like Me Are Buying Guns Now. Maybe They Should Be.
We’re here. We’re queer. Increasingly, we’re armed.
https://slate.com/life/2026/02/gun-range-safety-gay-lesbian-lgbtq-trump.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=crm&utm_source=marketing&utm_content=gun-ownership&tpcc=email-crm-marketing-gun-ownership#
22 days ago
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Dinking around looking for live afrobeat on YouTube to put on while cooking and found these guys playing a world class show in what seems to be a church rec center over brunch
youtu.be/UV7JL2ndb3k?...
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BEMBEYA JAZZ NATIONAL LIVE IN DAKAR 2010
YouTube video by Lamin Sanneh
https://youtu.be/UV7JL2ndb3k?si=K5OEhB8jiAA3xwJa
23 days ago
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El Paso isn’t that far from Roswell by local standards
24 days ago
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Not happy with the amount of ground melt I’m seeing today despite the temp. May be time for the space lasers
24 days ago
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Speaking of daycare these cones offend me as a libertarian. If I want to impale my car on the giant rusty drill that fell off the thing I should be able to.
25 days ago
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There’s a street in our town where the radio signal always goes out and it’s not clear why that would be. If this were the 18th century this kind of observation would lead to a world-changing advancement in science. But since it’s now I’m just going to post about it from the daycare parking lot
25 days ago
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Anchorage Man
25 days ago
After he retires we can remember some guys who remembered some guys.
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area man
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What Time Does the Super Bowl Start was wrong
26 days ago
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27 days ago
Ben there was no posting back then. No verticals. No electricity probably. your options were listen to an antisemitic genius poet drone on forever or sit alone with your thoughts and I know what choice I would have made
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This is honestly maybe more poetry than I could handle in one sitting even in a time machine situation featuring the actual TS Eliot
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27 days ago
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USA
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Manuel Excel
28 days ago
Somebody asked me for some football
#takes
the other day on certain of Michigan football’s player and coach additions and I guess there’s no reason not to actually document them somewhere for future reference
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On the one hand I enjoy regional variety so it’s kind of cool that the burrito I just got at the AIRPORT in San Francisco is better than any I’ve ever had on the east coast. On the other hand we could just get our act together.
29 days ago
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Non-partisan endorsement: Aaron is one of the keenest explainers and understanders of American politics out there and this is a good newsletter
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29 days ago
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Interesting. Maybe the worst call in sports history. Ref should be in jail.
about 1 month ago
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The number of guys in the front row who look like Fat Joe is multiplying
about 1 month ago
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nitasha tiku
about 1 month ago
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's
@washingtonpost.com
. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
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Daily printed sports section delivered to households with kids remains my best business idea
about 1 month ago
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Havana Syndrome is also real
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about 1 month ago
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Bill Connelly
about 1 month ago
Almost TWO FULL WEEKS between quarterfinals and semifinals, this sport has no idea what it's doing.
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Asking this coffee shop in Palo Alto if they take Apple Pay as a joke
about 1 month ago
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My son asked me the other day if the guy who plays Danny DeVito in the commercials has any other famous characters. A haunting question
about 1 month ago
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For all of you (*one or two people at most) who asked what I was doing post-Slate: I was helping create a finance and economics newsletter for my new employer — one that regular people can read! — which is now live.
about 1 month ago
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A mountain of snow 15 feet tall at the edge of an elementary school parking lot … that’s good stuff
about 1 month ago
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Dee Phunk
about 1 month ago
The 1990 classic House Party celebrated its 35th anniversary last year. A bona fide classic, it has deservedly received the
@criterion.bsky.social
treatment in all of its zany and energetic glory. I was lucky enough to chat w/ writer/director
@reghud.bsky.social
about its lasting impact and legacy.
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The Surprise 1990 Hit That Redefined “Indie” and Launched a Few Stars
The crowd-pleasing comedy is finally coming to the Criterion Collection.
https://slate.com/culture/2026/01/house-party-movie-criterion-collection-rap-martin-lawrence.html
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Learner Tien! You’re hearing it said.
about 1 month ago
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Really good pull
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about 1 month ago
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A great trend in tennis is the arms race toward maximizing the number of older-middle-aged guys in your box who have an aesthetic that can only be described as “techno Wes Anderson”
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Jim Harbaugh is right on the cusp between Baby Boom and Gen X which is interesting because he obviously doesn’t belong in either (was spiritually born the same year as Douglas MacArthur)
about 1 month ago
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Serious question is there a place besides Google Trends to measure the usage of ubiquity of a meme/phrase over time
about 1 month ago
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