For a year, @rjcc.bsky.social and I have developed a theory originally based on NBATok/BronTok and eventually expanded to the WNBA: Pro basketball has the horniest fan base and it's not even close. And I say this as someone who says, "I miss Kickette" (the soccer thirst trap site) 5x per year.

All services should now be recovered!

Playing FFTactics is at best a paramilitary management sim. I've played roughly 30 hours. 27 of them were spent in menus and starting a fight over 20 minutes deep bc my healer died and FUCK YOU if you think I'm gonna take the time to train another Orator. It is the single best FF game ever made.

Setup for the comeback #ApexLegends

😮😮😮😮

How connected can one backyard be? www.youtube.com/watch?v=elqn...

Erica Wheeler bucket for the lead

COURT

What makes JD's joke so edgy are actual fisherman worried about getting blown up by the US and posthumously called terrorist drug smugglers. trinidadexpress.com/news/local/f...; www.guardian.co.tt/news/cedros-...

No disrespect to the archivists or op, but i can play every shooter and rts i grew up with, basically as they were or better. I don't ever do it though, they aren't good games now. The kids will have a better shot of playing fortnite og than i do of playing Soviet Strike

[to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic] A Video Producer role has opened at The Verge

First co-byline with @tinanguyen.bsky.social: How Meta quietly filed to create its own super PAC, allowing it (and Mark Zuckerberg) to spend scores of money to run political ads on behalf of their AI interests — and only their interests. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Dennis Schroder when he's playing for the German national team:

Wrote a little something about silicon-carbon batteries and why US and European phone buyers are missing out on the biggest batteries around

No, this is clearly cap circumventing by the Shakers!!! Sister Baxter's no-show furniture sponsorship deal is raising a lot of questions about the contract negotiations

Except....i didn't see the video of that incident on social media. It was autoplaying on the NYT website. This is not an open request to find out where or if anyone else saw it

If you wanted to spend your day resharing and responding to the opinions of the dumbest "people" you could find you could've stayed on Twitter for that

I like arguing with hypocritical people because you don't need to argue with them and can just do ad hominem stuff. And that's where I thrive!

Not a dig at op but really. There are people who don't know that social media existed in 2001, and i don't just mean forums.

From long range! www.tiktok.com/@brodiephoto...

Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

Behind a 24-point game from Natisha Hiedeman and clutch play by Napheesa Collier late, the Minnesota #Lynx come back to defeat the Golden State Valkyries 78-72. Minnesota improves to 33-9 with two games left, now one game away from tying Las Vegas' record 34 wins set in 2023.

They’re so Golden ✨ For the first time in WNBA history, an expansion team is set to compete in the playoffs in its inaugural season.

Classic roster flaw, injuries will do that to you

Ws IN THE CHAT, GUYS! www.vogue.com/article/stud...

Why it’s so hard to make a ‘safer’ football helmet

Just in time for tech event season, we’re introducing Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge Senior Reviewer @vicmsong.bsky.social that will dissect and discuss the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re gonna change your life. bit.ly/4p5ngMD

Since I got laid off in May I've been working with a number of other former Polygon writers to start a new website. I'm proud to announce that we've just launched Rogue.site, a worker-owned and operated games journalism site funded by readers like you.

Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices

It's important during these difficult times that you not focus on what you cannot control and instead work in your community to encourage others to never become a fan of Scuderia Ferrari no matter who is driving for them. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...

If Ferrari had a formula 1 team, surely I'd have heard of it by now. Maybe they should look into that? Weird that no such team exists afaik

Aliyah Boston has saved Caitlin from herself so many times 😭😭😭

Sat down with the head of another startup that wants to “revolutionize” the entertainment industry with gen AI, and I came away from the conversation even more deeply convinced that all of this stuff is a morally and artistically bankrupt scam

The belief that someone else will suffer as a result of their actions is the grand prize. If you (not meaning op) don't get that, you will waste a lot of time wondering why people go against what you think are their best interests.

I'll tell you what, if I were that corner, I'd simply keep running hard through the end zone until I got to the team bus (That I would steal to drive myself home in the middle of the game)

wrote a little something about grief, gaming, and a very good dog www.theverge.com/games/767156...

cinema

Just in time for the emergency pod of the year pca.st/episode/5351...

Every day this account posts a video game that could have been created by AI

Phee back

Apparently Ezra klein reads opinions about AI on bluesky and I'm going to need more detail on how this came to be @ezraklein.bsky.social

Going through being awesome

Look at Rickea Jackson

America

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