I call this one "failing to stick the landing on Valentine's Day"

I'm cracking up laughing at this team

Can anybody "keep up" with the team I have made here?

second try - if only I had picked Dame over Giannis for 20s Bucks I could have had Larry Bird.

My final piece on Graham Platner and the US Senate race. At almost 5000 words, it's long but based on several meetings with Platner and others. I'm not arguing with people online, so there are no comments. Life is too short to be stressed. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Win-win trade, works for both sides. Positive sum trades exist! Real figgieheads know

There might be stadiums more accessible than MSG, but I can't think of many. There might be stadiums less accessible than MetLife, but I can't think of many. In summary, New York City is a land of contrasts

1. Everything In Transit - Jack’s Mannequin 2. Folklore - Taylor Swift 3. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen 4. Say Anything…Is A Real Boy 5. Hot Fuss - The Killers

The best politics on here are people who realize that Ed Zitron is mostly wrong and Will Stancil is mostly right and then are as far to the left as you can be while recognizing those two things

If you say “god I fucking hate him so much” everybody knows who you mean but if you say “god I fucking love him so much” there are so many potential options. Karl-Anthony Towns. Jason Mantzoukas. Lewis Capaldi. My dad. This is why love is better than hate

I wonder how many perfect playlists there are. There are at least two. The playlist that has Graceland (Paul Simon) and Graceland Too (Phoebe Bridgers) and the playlist that has The Boys Are Back In Town like 42 times. But there are probably others.

the main criticism I have of both Democrats and the far left is that they don’t hate Republicans enough. So this is great to see

music videos, ranked: 1. Hopeless Wanderer 2. Calamity Song 3. Shot At The Night 4. Freaky Friday 5. In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company 6. Sweet But Psycho what am I missing? The top three are pretty unimpeachable though

Twitter sucks and shouldn’t be used Bluesky is ironically the capitalism of social media sites; it’s not good, but it’s the best one we’ve come up with so far. It is funny to see someone go “Bluesky is a bubble where the top accounts dogpile dissent” and then the top accounts dogpile them for this

I think you want "people who were ahead of their time in ways that hampered them when they played and have had the game catch up to them somewhat" so my top five are Pete Maravich, Marlon Briscoe, Oscar Charleston, Cheryl Miller, and Connie Hawkins

Hey Catholics, can one of you guys get on creating an album of liturgical music called The Pius, The Innocent, and The Piazza San Petro Shuffle

An extremely rare misstep from River to enable QTs on this post

I realize that I have an anecdote that is related to "billionaires" and "knowing who runs a company." One time I was at a party at (billionaire company head's apartment) and introduced myself as "Hi, I'm Gavin, I work for X." And he said "No, you work with X." And I was like..."Whatever you say, X"

fun cast of characters in this voicemail

It takes a lot for me to watch hockey over basketball, but game 7 OT of a team I think is cool versus game 1 of the series I care less about apparently qualifies. Go Sabres

I sort of hope nobody sees this because that's kind of how "being Professor Moriarty" works but it is pretty funny that like 62% of the time when I see a post and I'm like "ah jeez come on, this post sucks" if I check the people that follow them that I also follow the same person comes up every time

Bluesky the sports app needs to step it up - I have not yet found anybody other than myself who has made the obvious 2004 ALCS comparison

Maybe it's something like: Media bosses: like Republicans, love Trump Media rank and file: hate Republicans, love/hate Trump The media loves to *cover* Trump because he does so much shit, and a lot of them think that means they're doing good - but the editorial slant won't let them oppose him

[email protected], some analysis: BLOCKED FOR THIS POST: 40% Communism is bad 30% Please feed my family 20% "Actually my good sir if you Read you will see it is You Who Are Wrong" 10% "Beautiful Lady you Are so Beautiful" LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED FOR THIS POST: 70% Erotica 30% Erotica (furry)

three bacons and three glasses of orange juice. BYO champagne and baby you got a stew goin

Guard, wing, big, stretch four, Adlai Stevenson, tweener

No idea how the thread got to this point but hell yeah @rainbowdaesh.bsky.social @faeelin.bsky.social

Another day working at the Pearl Harbor Memorial. The FBI director keeps asking me if he can snorkel the graves. Buddy, they don’t even let me…oh wait he’s putting on fins

The end of regulation of Pistons-Cavs is a philosophical problem. The letter of the law would probably say that Jarrett Allen fouled Ausar Thompson. But the outcome of the play would have been the same with the contact and without it, whereas calling the foul almost certainly decides the game.

The NBA player with the most career Win Shares is LeBron James, with 276.82. The NBA player with the fewest career Win Shares is Woody Sauldsberry, with -10.7. LeBron James has averaged 8.92 rebounds per playoff game. Woody Sauldsberry averaged 8.93 rebounds per playoff game.

“White people can’t handle spicy food” only partially correct. There are two kinds of white people when it comes to spicy food, ones that can’t handle ketchup and ones that put hot sauce called like “insanity joe’s devilfucking sauce” on everything.

I described the prompt to my sister and she said Mr. Brightside and I said "but what if the song was only known by millennials and has to suck and she said "The Reason by Hoobastank." So I'm confident we're right.

if you’re not a sports person and have never gotten to Remember Some Guys: this is what it’s like

in fact, hoobastank has possibly made me personally unhappy for more minutes of my life than any person i do not personally know

if the criteria includes “the song has to suck” in addition to all the other “millennial ubiquity” requirements then the answer is the reason by hoobastank

A lot of AI criticism makes me feel like someone says “the automobile has been disastrous for society” and I’m nodding along like “yeah I actually really agree, I think that car centric urban design has-“ and then they add “also it’s a scam, cars break down after more than ten miles anyway”

The best episode of television is Dance Dance Resolution (The Good Place, S2E3) and the best contextless episode of television is Chardee MacDennis: The Game Of Games (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, S7E7)

I think my relationship to the work of Bruce Springsteen is similar to my relationship to the work of Jon Bois

THERE WAS A FIREFIGHTTTTT (it's not old, but I feel like the vast majority of people who like it are approx. my age)

I think that the most Bluesky way to describe the Stancil discourse is that his enemies think they are Palestine and he is Israel. He is oppressing them and needs to be destroyed. But actually they are Russia and he is Ukraine. They could all just stop, and this would end.

Extremely proud to say that my new @physicstoday.aip.org feature article is live. In it, I explore the history and context of the rare interviews with J. Robert Oppenheimer recently made public by @aiphistory.bsky.social. physicstoday.aip.org/features/opp...

A lot of the conversation on Bluesky lately, about all manner of subjects, is downstream from the general decline in people believing the statement “it matters whether the things you are saying are true.” Obviously the right abandoned this long ago. But even on here a lot of people just don’t care.

most of the quote tweets of this are people who should learn more than zero things about John Rawls, as opposed to me, who knows one thing about John Rawls.

“The Saga Begins” is better than every Star Wars movie, despite the clunkiness of the line “well we finally got to Coruscant, the Jedi Council we knew would want, to see how good the boy could be”

Piranesi really is that good huh. Not that I didn’t think it would be. I figured it would be. And it is.

i went to block a guy and found that he had blocked me. which, fair enough, that's the best outcome. but also like, hey! i was gonna do that!

Normal thoughts on a normal website.

I unironically think that one of the first acts any Dem president should do in 2029 is "if you were hired after January 20, 2025, you are now fired", and then make them all reapply to find any decent ones we are going to need to dig deep to get all the maggots buried into our flesh out

"Donald Trump wants you to do x job" is not a guarantee that you are not qualified for x job, but it is definitely a sufficient condition for making sure that you don't do x job without being re-vetted by non-fascists