There has never been a more embarrassing time to listen to anything men making tech to “optimize” their way to love have to say than in the era of Heated Rivalry. And I truly love that for us. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/s...

Saw someone refer to the US as the “subcontinent” and i will never unknow this framing.

Listen, im not paying attention to shit cuz I already knew.

The 2 minute delay it took me to remember what my screename is.....

why do i want you to learn about Lana’s story? first, that there’s no better way to understand Ukraine and russian imperialism than through personal stories of Ukrainians who risked everything to resist it. but there’s also something else. maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/lana-sati

painful loss for the Ukrainian queer family. Lana aka Sati, a fearless, brave hero who sacrificed their life on the Ukrainian frontline so the rest of us in Europe can keep living as authentic selves in peace and comfort.

I agree with @jamellebouie.net: This definitely about gender but as @jenka.bsky.social has told us: it’s also about the end of oil

That Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams had both been individually writing / directing / starring in / editing their own short films prior to Heated Rivalry is really doing nothing dispel the Matt and Ben allegations I called from the jump.

All of this has happened before

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Being antivax but on GLP-1 would suggest otherwise

It is the most bizarre feeling to sit in a doctor's office wearing an N95 and be asked if I'm sick by a maskless nurse who can't stop sniffing. Please, please mask in healthcare settings.

I keep thinking about how Heated Rivalry has captured a level of male sex appeal that the MCU still hasn’t figured out.

I regret to inform you one of the most on point takes I've seen about Heated Rivalry is on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/heated...

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

Following the fall of Maduro, many Russian war bloggers are starting to realize in what bad shape Russia is. The events in Venezuela are unanimously considered a strategic Russian defeat, and they admit that Russia is currently too weak to help any Russian allies.

I just saw a take & I think some ppl are so depressed they dont even know how to allow themselves to enjoy what is probably the most joyful mass experience in movie / TV, and I say this as a person with a film degree, history. If u want to find reasons to be miserable just stick to politics fandom

Its crazy how hard the right has to work and how much money they have to invest to try to win the culture war and then a Canadian TV show abt two gay hockey players made for $28 takes over the world in the course of a month.

Bro supported invasions until he got invaded.

This is so true. The more data we get, the more we're important, unanticipated protection www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h...

Here we go. Christmas vacation is over, baby. The machine is back on.

at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter

My grand unified theory of why people cant stop talking / thinking abt Heated Rivalry is that, functionally, watching it is experiencing falling in love.

OMG 😭 Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure." LIFE SAVING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

A lot really going on for Asian and Russian people seeing trauma cycles be broken watching Heated Rivalry

It’s 2026. If u tell me someone is a “free spirit,” the only thing i hear is “anti-vax”.

I know this has been in the pipeline since long before the pandemic but it is really hard not to feel like Covid normalization in schools walked so measles could run.

A huge part of why Hearted Rivalry has found such success.

Heated Rivalry-2025. What are you gonna do? Everyone’s gonna get it.

Someone posted they've been doing a harder Russian accent than their actual americanized one because of Ilya. A relief to know I'm not the only one who's had this cross their mind.

Seeing my own words from 10 years ago repeated back at me just at the moment that I can easily predict not a single one of the infinite reproductions which will follow in its wake will be able to replicate what Heated Rivalry created precisely because they will be completely inauthentic.

Listen to me. You need to watch the gay hockey show for the Russian cultural content.

Today is the 6 year anniversary of the first WHO report of a “pneumonia of unknown cause” from Wuhan.

Indulging in something joyful is unfortunately a use case bluesky is much worse for than Threads.

They are now playing “All the Things She Said” at hockey stadiums IRL, and I am losing it. That a queer Russian song is queering North American hockey because of a Canadian show is beyond explanation. This is how Communism collapsed 😂

Attacking daycare centers is almost a perfectly representative expression of right wing/GOP politics; the manipulation of American superstition to manufacture a societal panic and create an air of intimidation, with the goal of further entrenching oppressive systems rooted in misogyny and racism.

These two young unknowns with massive talent becoming overnight breakout stars off the back of a low budget sleeper that explodes into a cultural phenomenon is reminding me of how it felt in the Good Will Hunting era. (Boston mentioned.)

Heated Rivalry as algorithmic resistance this club has everything.

The way these hockey guys just immediately buy into the world building of the show absolutely no questions asked kind of makes total sense tho because all sports is, is just buying into a fandom. What could be more natural.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

Hollywood serves up so many big budget, lush spectacles of dehumanization for casual viewing that you can watch once and never see anything of significance. And then a shoestring little show about human-ness comes along that you will find new visual meaning in each time u look closely.

More like yob tvayu smut, amirite

Me, explaining that Russian has like 60 ways to say the word “my“ (Мой, Моя, Моё, мои, моего, моей, моих, моему, моим, мою, мои, моим, моими, моём): “….Maybe thats why they colonized all of Eurasia.”

Its the eve of the 6 yr anniversary to the first WHO report of a “pneumonia of unknown cause” from Wuhan and Mass General out here explaining masking like its new and telling people to wear baggy blues over N95s. At what point does anyone learn a single thing. Like, literally any thing at all.

Straight dudes with hockey podcasts are locked in on play by play reviews of Heated Rivalry episodes, and I think the reason that the target demographic for this show is apparently EVERYONE is cuz we are so starved for anything fucking joyful at all.

What show is this?

Canada saved woke

i finished heated rivalry. woke is so back. they're makin all the hockey players gay now