"We are at a rock concert of a ski race here, this is like Swan Lake" ???

Liz Lemley is young enough that she could genuinely have been named after Liz Lemon

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

It's interesting that ratings for the Olympics are up to Sochi levels, and this is definitely backed up by the amount of social media interest which seems way higher than Beijing or Pyeongchang. Timezone seems like a potential answer but events in East Asia can be aired live in primetime in the US?

Conservatives live in such a media bubble that they straight up do not realize that the outrage bait they consume wasn't actually big news... nobody who isn't mainlining Newsmax knows who Iryna Zarutsksa is, she's the new Tony Bobulinski

I went back to Twitter briefly today because I felt I had to comment on this and I immediately got 1000 likes, still got it

The other major issue with it is that it's usage in Spanish is based on a completely different reckoning of the number of continents that makes substantially more sense if you live in Latin America than it does if you live in an Anglophone country

Curling not being an Olympic sport until 1998 is frying me, how can that possibly be?

Uhhh can someone give me more information on this

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Unfortunately this is much better than my thread was because about half the people responding to this one believe it's true

Wikipedia hasn't made an article for a summer X Games since 2022 or a winter X Games since 2023

Let it be known that I pioneered this genre of post

I think there are quite a few people who think they loved the political message of the halftime show who would be substantially less enamored if they knew it had included a call for Puerto Rican independence that rested on the idea that Hawaii should be independent too

It's funny how Bad Bunny keeps making a point about America as a hemispheric concept and people keep misinterpreting this as "patriotism"

The Olympics are objectively the greatest spectacle we have because you can just tune in at any time, day or night, and watch, live or tape-delayed, any random event and be completely enthralled... every single day for two weeks

Harsh review of Kid Rock's performance

Seeing a lot of posts rushing into baseball season, it is college basketball season now

Live look at Mike Macdonald defeating Mike Vrabel

This validates Michigan's national championship, by the way

so happy for Jay Harbaugh

It's so funny how the Patriots are the plucky underdogs who aren't supposed to be here after an incredible rebuild and nobody cares because it all happened too fast

I will never forgive the Harris campaign for wasting Tim Walz

The vibe of the Halftime Show

Anyone else see that ad with Epstein and Charlie Kirk in Agartha on the TPUSA All-American Halftime show?

what the fuck

can we admit that T-Mobile has the worst ads of any major company? Not a single one of their 4-5 campaigns is good

it's the AI

Darnold is no JJ McCarthy

oh is there a sportsball on

It's his night

Half the players don't even say their college anymore and the broadcast doesn't even list them, college football doing incredible

Responses to this were predictably obnoxious, as ever this app remains most useful for people who want to filter everything through an ideological lens and use it as an RSS feed of journalistic commentary

Checked the ESPN account here, no posts in 10 days for anything. Searched Duke and UNC and found no good clips of the final buzzer beater. No private accounts and half of you have never understood what a joke is. No wonder I stay on twitter, dear God

The Super Bowl and the Olympics are a major test of my commitment to this app, no real discourse or discussion. The official ESPN account here hasn't posted in like two weeks.

Japan is so fucking cooked, man. It's completely over for them

Are we ready for a half-Australian president?

Give the Swiss goalie a medal

Chicago PWHL team when

I totally get this tbh it's just an evolution on the idea that watching or caring about TV is declasse

The opening ceremonies in Milan were interesting because I feel like they portend something about the way the Olympics will operate going forward. Scaled down, not trying to do a version of Beijing 2008 or London 2012 every single time out. Indistinguishable from something you could've seen in 2000

they should do a Winter Olympics split between Lake Placid and NYC

Just want to say that I'm a Palestinian Arab and it's weird *to me* to talk about AIPAC, DMFI, et al in these terms. I get that Shor is a Jew but I don't really think about the political terrain like this.

it's so funny watching all the athletes in like these huge winter coats and parkas in Milan where it is 50°

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

childhood is thinking the Summer Olympics are cooler because they have more countries and events, adulthood is realizing that the Winter Olympics are cooler because the events are just way better

it's so funny how the Czech Republic wants us to call them "Czechia" but outside the Olympics nobody does

I can't believe this was confirmed by the Epstein files

they should do a season of The Pitt set entirely at a Steelers game where some sort of disaster happens