I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

dawg🥹

Ah man the Johnny Hockey jersey, now I'm a wreck

CONNOR HELLEBUYCK WE'RE MAKING STATUES OF YOU BRO

normies: more Olympic hockey overtime!!!! so exciting hockey fans: once again we are subjected to The Great Travesty

The Orioles, every year:

AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

In college I may or may not have threatened extreme bodily harm on one of my friends because he drafted the kicker I had pegged as a fantasy football sleeper. (The kicker was Kai Forbath, who was, it turns out, not very good. Whoops!)

Sometimes the obvious moves are the right ones. WaPo’s idiocy will be the Banner’s gain.

new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...

(Post a banger not in English) One of my favorite beats, and these dudes can really rap:

Thank you PLD for saving a truly horrendous power play 🙏

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Just canceled my sub. Probably should have done it a while ago, but I wanted to support the sports desk, which was the best in the business for a long time. This sucks!

sports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop

Selsun Blue (2025)

Finally, someone’s asking the tough questions

this advice from @drewmagary.bsky.social is dead on. I've shifted to listening to albums a lot more, it's a major improvement.

Fitting that the people who make products designed to get people to stop thinking can’t come up with a better reason to use those products than “if they don’t, we won’t make any money.” Maybe Nadella should ask CoPilot for help.

This is one hell of a quote. European leaders really are running out of patience.

Guy who does not understand the appeal of college football at all:

This is such a bizarre city-folk conception of country-folk. If you live in the country, you drive to the next town for *everything*. It’s only if you live in the city that that sounds extravagant.

Why does no one have any shame anymore. When did this happen

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

The best piece I’ve seen on this so far:

They return when we need them the most

The Lowdown is the best damn show not enough people are watching. I can exclusively report that FX has ordered a second season of the delightful Ethan Hawke comic mystery series: www.whatsalanwatching.com/the-lowdown-...

Watched this game in between bouts of the worst food poisoning of my life while on a family vacation in the Bahamas. Gary Patterson and I changed shirts at the same time. Will never forget it.

The duality of man

Saturn, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1636-38

This is beautiful, to me

Why is Snoop Dogg performing this halftime show at the orgy from Eyes Wide Shut

Now it’s officially Christmas.

Wrote my annual* list of the best songs of the year, check it out if you like alt-country or the year 2002 or want to discover the next Radiohead before nobody in music circles can shut up about them in 12 months *that I only sometimes actually publish

Wrote my annual* list of the best songs of the year, check it out if you like alt-country or the year 2002 or want to discover the next Radiohead before nobody in music circles can shut up about them in 12 months *that I only sometimes actually publish

A second showing of “Hereditary,” when I sat back and listened to the gasps as people slowly saw that (redacted) was in the corner of the room. (If you know, you know.)

You never really hear about soda bread anymore. What’s up with that

Is that good

The Penn State coaching search is increasingly close to reaching 2017 Tennessee levels of ineptitude, which is really not a place you want to be

There is a free tool to migrate from Spotify to Apple Music and you won’t regret it

Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-conversation-devolves-into-just-stating-th-1840069525/

This video is benign but like. Why is CNN reporting on the firing of a defensive coordinator from a 2-10 football team. This is not news that non-football fans (honestly, non-NYG fans) need to know, and football fans have already heard by now. Who is this for??? Why are they reporting on it???

People who listened to music most days slashed their risk of developing dementia by 39 percent compared with those who did not regularly listen to music, a new study of more than 10,000 people age 70 and over found.

Not that I put much stock into Radar Online, but this is not a serious problem. It’s James Bond. Do people really think all the different versions of Bond happen in the same canon timeline? That’s insane.

Doesn’t even count key contributors like Luke McCaffrey and Javonte Jean-Baptiste. In other words: pain.

The woman screaming into the void about public schools is absolutely killing me

Gonna go ahead and extend this to the rest of the season, or at least until they start playing like an NFL team again. (Not even a good one, just one that shows an ounce of competence.)