please please please stop conducting the family interviews that solely exist to poke at the saddest thing that ever happened to whoever was just drafted. as a society, we need to shut these down

If it's a non-binding resolution that establishes her, "independent" cred, you know Susan Collins is ON IT

That's right, Talib Kweli.

Sounds like the expected goals model has some problems

They're making ninja turtles in DC

Incredible things happening in England

I hope someone digs it up

thinking, as I sometimes do, about this quote about Adam Schlesinger

referees are not sports cops because the rules of sport are not an oppressive force of violent state power the owners are sports cops

I’m at war with three juvenile squirrels who have chewed the fuck out of everything in my yard. bought my kids a new water table last week and these fuckers gnawed a hole right through it. I got a motion-activated sprinkler and so far have succeeded only in accidentally spraying myself in the ass

I had to miss all but the last minute of game 4, and reading this really gives me a sense of what it felt like to watch it live

Boy, there are a lot of things you can legitimately knock the US for, but "USA is bad at sports" is one of the wildest takes I've ever seen, LMAO

With her performance in today’s World Cup Opening Ceremony, Shakira has officially appeared at four World Cups, tying her with Maradona, Neymar, and Pele, among others

I will not stand for this CJ McCollum erasure

Ian is correct, as usual

Boring answer, but it's obviously late-00's LeBron for me

Given the difference between the 1st & 2nd halves, I think you have to give the credit to the Wu-tang reunion at halftime, not the pregame sage burners

This was fundamentally Bernie's appeal

Nothing in this thread is wrong, but it seems to be implicitly assuming the WaPo editorial board is earnestly trying to be an objective news source and are being hoodwinked by twitter's algo. The reality is they're just right-wing propagandists trying to help their cause

Correct take

They look good

Los Angeles County literally has a fully transparent vote counting process - the entire count is livestreamed online. This commitment to transparency makes zero difference, mainstream press still credulously repeats GOP info bubble claims of fraud anyway.

Just bad shooting at Trump explains... You know what, nevermind

We should put a pin in it, and it was a great example of why replay is worth it, even if it's often frustrating

They gotta review that, clear offensive foul on Keldon Johnson, no basket

@davidpowe.bsky.social hey, a buddy of mine has a high quality sticker printer, do you think it would be okay to stick some, "in memory of Riley O'neil" stickers to the Riley racks?

My main vehicle is a bicycle

They shouldn't even have included visible stats mode as an option. Ruins the game

NYT should just go ahead and re-brand to The Consent Factory

Yes! It's is a ton of fun through 4 episodes and stars the always delightful Tatiana Maslany, with Jake Johnson in a major supporting role

A lot of the reason companies aren't seeing big productivity gains from AI is that most business problems are fundamentally coordination problems between humans, which AI can't really solve

Ready for some psychic damage?

It was such a great soap opera

I have never watched Blood Diamond because I couldn't forgive what a stupid line this was in the trailer

Love Island is Not For Me, but I adore catching the updates on bluesky

Yourself but as a cartoon

They just got it

The sound you're hearing is thousands of sportswriters furiously deleting their pre-writes

How tf did Wemby block that?

I miss Trash Tuesday

folks i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I do know the perfect name sponsor for the new Bears stadium, though:

I'm hoping there's a game ops guy who's ready to retire and he puts Trump on the jumbotron when a spur is at the free throw line to get the crowd to boo

He's going to switch parties after the midterms

Using a stacked chart for this graphic makes it needlessly confusing. Two clean lines would make everything so much clearer

Tristan Thompson: the Wes Unseld of Cleveland

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

Ladies, if your man isn't texting his friends with at least this much tenderness, you should dump him

Me too but also the Senate primary hasn't happened yet in main, and it does have me wondering how bad the other guy is now that Mills has dropped out