Appreciate Derrick Henry while you can because I don't know how many more running backs will threaten even the top-10 all-time in rushing yards.

Jesus, how bad is it that even the NYT accurately described something?

IIRC, if The Rapture really happens it’s honestly going to be great down here for a thousand years until everyone gets thrown into the lake of fire. A thousand years without these assholes! It’s actually a pretty good deal!

it's important to make these companies more afraid of people with empathy and good sense than they are of weird fucking brigading authoritarian babies we outnumber these assholes by a wide margin

No childhood hero ever held up better.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

If you are cancelling streaming services it's worth noting that we are currently living in a golden age of thrift store DVDs. Lot's of people have liquidated their collections because of streaming or because of the switch to bluray...

This is how the most epic side quest begins. Do NOT miss this chance.

Every new feature needs a "go away and never do this again" button

I'm really proud to work at a media company that isn't made up of cowards, that can say All of This Is Really Fucking Bad over and over again because it is. defector.com/charlie-kirk...

It’s darkly funny that the search for the shooter’s politics never provided much clarity about *his* politics but brought the politics of a lot of powerful people into sharp relief.

Anyone dumb enough to buy a fridge with a screen deserves what they get at this point.

*stepping out of a time machine in 2007* I come from the future - the most consequential men in society are the hosts of the Man Show, Fear Factor, and the Apprentice

Saving a couple hundred bucks a year with all the subscriptions I’m canceling, so that’s nice.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

I am absolutely gutted to hear about the passing of longtime UFC editorial director Thomas Gerbasi, one of the finest human beings I've ever encountered in any walk of life. R.I.P., my friend.

I remember seeing the social media dogpile over the Olive Garden review and thinking "I would so much rather go have dinner with her than with any of the online losers making fun of her."

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

if i see any post expressing less than debilitating thirst for robert redford i am calling your boss

lol remember in his first term being like "whoa that intern in a photo is doing the white power sign" and now every day is like "the attorney general is prosecuting a first grade teacher for not assigning 'mein kampf'"

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

I know it's easy to give up on a day like this, but just remember: Chuck Schumer is out there Monday to Thursday, literally a couple of hours each day, making sure your healthcare bills are partially subsidized for a slightly longer window than previously anticipated

not sure whether the right understands that we can't be forced to respect them

Honestly she should give this message to the entire BlueSky community

Mazda just ran a commercial where one of their cars raced a horse and won by less than a second Brother for decades we’ve literally measured cars by how many horses it could beat. You’ve just advertised a 1hp car

Radical centrist anti-Bluesky screeds have all the intellectual heft of a teenager's angst-ridden diary post about the cool kids not liking them.

Bluesky isn't a place where trolls come to get mocked and insulted. They love that. Bluesky is a place where trolls come to be blocked and isolated and ignored — which they hate. If you're seeing a lot of shitty people in your feed, you aren't blocking enough people.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.

New item up at @fightisland.bsky.social about the things UFC has quietly tried to shove into the dustbin of history, but I rooted and rustled around in that dumpster and present them now to you open.substack.com/pub/fightisl...

Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

Just so we're clear, Ezra Klein believes that practicing politics the right way is saying things like "gay people should be stoned to death" just so we're clear. Ezra Klein thinks we need more of that.

My parents, who are in their 60s and not terminally online, didn’t know who Kirk was until today and don’t understand why he is getting way more attention than the tons of other shootings that go on regularly that the TV news just glosses over with a quip, if you want an anecdote about normie stuff.

Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.

I know things are hard, and I would never, ever criticize anyone for their individual choices around employment, but I actually kinda do think, deep down, you can't be a real journalist and continue working for outlets that abandon their audience's information needs to placate a dictator.

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

Capitol Hill, Seattle, summer 2000, before Amazon swallowed the entire city: $450 rent for my half of a two-bedroom apartment.

USTA to Broadcasters: DO NOT show Trump getting booed. Streisand effect:

New lesbian stereotype dropping: lesbian clergy prefer beautiful architecture

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

2025, where the NRA is more vocal about transgender people’s rights than centrist Democrats.

meta ai trying to figure it out

Like, really and truly, I have yet to hear criticism of this site from anyone I actually want to see and hear from. Silver, Yglesias, Greenwald -- the anti-Bluesky brigade is loaded with motherfuckers I could go the rest of my life without thinking about