this is flawlessly done. And i hate promoting writing that's not mine. Excellent work @christhompson.bsky.social

what a blog! defector.com/eight-years-...

"Yes, I know this sounds like a horrifying idea for humanity and an existential threat to the future of life on this planet but I guarantee you that China is trying to do exactly the same thing and we mustn't let them beat us to the punch!" If you hear anyone speak this way, you're talking to Satan

congrats @owensports.bsky.social !!! itwa.org/owen-lewis-w...

Genuinely hate all those Instagram reels about how great the UAE is because they don't have to pay taxes unlike us silly Westerners. It's from slavery, dawg. What they're glorifying is the master's freedom. UAE glazing is unironically a sign of moral decay present at the highest levels of power.

Trump on the reflecting pool: "If you had a knife, you can't even cut it." Also, Trump on the reflecting pool: "They cut it."

I Bought This After Elon Called That Diver A Paedo But Before He Did The Nazi Salute At The Inauguration

good blog defector.com/the-u-s-is-s...

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

I co-wrote a book of essays about the movie It's A Wonderful Life with @emilystjams.bsky.social! It's out in September. Pre-order it here! www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...

The first step you take on the journey to "abolish the police" is the realization that we could "abolish" 2 soldiers, 4 cops, and a horse from this particular situation, and we would be fine.

it's true that AI is wrong and looks like shit, but personally the most repellent part of it is that the people who use it of their own accord are doing it because they believe what rich people say and do what rich people tell them to do

well done

I just learned that fruit flies have courtship songs? tearing up thinking of them singing out to each other in my kitchen before they plunge to a swift death in my soap and vinegar trap 😭

REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Democrats want you to believe that sending FIVE MILLION DOLLARS of YOUR tax money to MEXICO to “manage” the “Dick Exploding Spider” population is “normal” SAME SENATOR SIX MONTHS LATER: (walking like a saddle-sore cowboy) This is the greatest public health crisis of our lives,

centrist media bros spent the last 6 months telling everyone that Kenyan McDuffie was the candidate of black DC, and now that the results are in, the only ward he won is the whitest one.

Starting to think Mike Brown wasn’t the problem in Sac

Victor Wembanyama at the postgame press conference (dejected): This one's on me. I gotta get taller

All that being said, still sending my absolute worst to James Dolan

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

WASHINGTON (AP) — Appeals court rejects Kennedy Center effort to pause court-ordered removal of Trump's name from building.

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

josh hart owes de’aaron fox a kiss on the lips

this is how i would handle this loss as a spurs fan

if I say unto you “dreamy summer music” what is a song or album that comes to mind? hit me

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

Guy whose company is floundering pitches idea for government to give them giant bags of money. US officials, who are tech stupid and gullible, consider the idea.

good blog defector.com/the-world-cu...

So proud to be on this list! @literaryhub.bsky.social says The Cruelty of Nice Folks:"deftly situates the state’s paradoxical history of outwardly progressive politics and quietly regressive policies within the epoch-making tumult of the past six years"

genuinely very funny that the Knicks made the NBA Finals and it’s on ESPN and Stephen A. Smith doesn’t get to do the broadcast because they hired the TNT crew

whoa what no way, NO way www.82-0.com/share?id=Nr8...

lots of reasons I love working at Defector but the latest is that we decided to increase our freelance rates, simply because they’ve been the same for 5 years and it felt like we should be paying more now

Nice of Carmelo Anthony to show up for the halftime panel straight from his shift Ghostbusting

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

It would be very funny if Masai Ujiri got hired and then immediately fired Jason Kidd and did nothing else.

not the worst thing going on in 'AI' but the pleading tone 'engineers' use to write backend prompts for LLMs is humiliating. "you're a tall, suave genius at summarizing articles and pinky-promised that you'd never make up answers or sources 🥺" get real dude

Somehow a professional sports front office is poaching from @defector.com's business team, so I need to hire a new Director of Revenue. Apply here: apply.workable.com/defector-med...

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Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

We’re on our way to a Patrick O’Brien book.

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jesus FUCKING christ

a great blog defector.com/dianna-russi...

It will be extremely funny if Vance manages to get himself excommunicated before his book on becoming a Catholic releases.

Goddamnit we had a whole set of meetings and PowerPoint decks to tell Roth never to say we are “extruding” blogs.

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

(as a donkey walks by) ah the noble donkey! (donkey moves out of earshot) foolish beast

It's complicated for me because I want the Mets to win but I set up a bot that places a $15 prop bet on every Mets hitter grounding out to second base and have already made $625,000 this year.