Imagine telling yourself in 2010 about the current state of ESPN.

People talk about how it’s different after 10k but if you break even 1500 followers on any platform, every single post gets one of these no matter what your subject is or what you think about it

Crazy how you just already know who it would vote for if the weather could vote

Dems in Disarray (laudatory)

If you’re a man in your 30s and have fallen into the trough where it feels hard to make friends, you can still just pick a subject and turn it into comparing power levels. Greatest big man in NBA history. GOATed species of bear. Best electric power tool manufacturer. You can still do this for hours

Cam Coleman is a complete alien. He’s from the future. He’s from the space future

Working on some pretty big campaign ideas

Watching BYU and Texas Tech at the wedding reception but shaking my head so people know I disagree

the entire classical and modern political tradition was designed around 'how do we stop tyrants' and we moderns were like "maybe we're built different"

Georgia had 27% of the turnout of last year’s presidential election for an off-off-cycle election where the biggest offices on the ballot were two seats on the Public Service Commission

I do not regret to inform the chat that things do, in fact, matter

Has anyone ever been excommunicated for posting

It would be so funny if we hit a point in this administration where all the republican senators screen calls from the president

The firing of Brian Kelly and Hugh Freeze so close together at this moment in the turning is a blaring alarm that signals the imminent arrival of Woke 2

I bet a lot of people on Bluesky get the Jennifer Lopez song Waiting For Tonight stuck in their heads all the time for no discernible reason

This is so important in these times

Business concept: you charge rent to people who can’t afford cigarettes anymore so they can inhale your secondhand smoke

*to the tune of american woman* osama bin laden

COCKS UP

I love when the commentator says “they’ve really struggled on third and long.”

Auburn’s elite defense, frustrated after 4 straight losses, has unveiled a version of football where you don’t need offense to win

Legit question for football Americans - How do you fill the 30-50 head coach vacancies in college football that open up within 5-9 weeks while the teams still play?

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

This is really the final word on the thing as far as I’m concerned. I’m tired of parasocial partisan kayfabe and fandom-as-politics

Everything's Computer is what unites both sides

My grand unified theory of contemporary American politics is Everyone Is Twelve for the right and Everything Is Fandom for the left

The lack of even the most basic poetic sense may not be their downfall, but it certainly will not help

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Jesus Christ dude

Hat tip to @hankgreen.bsky.social for his help here. I’ve always believed if we want to make things better it will take a national movement and having a big voice like that on a state level race is a great example of that. We’re gonna make this happen

There’s a lot of things I’m not clear on right but one thing I know FOR SURE is that NO ONE ever said “yeehaw” outside of a movie before 9/11

Yall can make fun of tiktok if you want but the clock app was cooking today

It’s really hard to overstate how badly they’re doing basically everything

I think it’s possible but unlikely theres a version of Sora slop that could ensnare a meaningfully large adult constituency I worry much more that Sora will quickly realize it’s real audience are kids & how those incentives will dovetail with…other incentives underlying that platform

Dude if Paul Finebaum winds up being a senator that might actually be the last thing I ever feel the need to learn

this kind of behavior feels like something akin religious paranoia

GY!BE took their music off all streaming services except bandcamp

Star Wars is the ur-fandom, but no Star Wars media ever had the sheer volume of marketing, promotions, tchotchkes, doodads, and ephemera that Episode I did.

The Trucknuts State

This is the problem with replacing massive social platforms with decentralized ones. The less centralized they are the more each instance & all its users are subject to the whims of much smaller scale tyrants without even the vague check of something like a need for profit on their behavior

It’s crazy how deep in the tank leagues & broadcasters are with gambling firms now. A rapid & complete 180. The backlash to this is building rapidly & they’ll have gotten themselves hooked on an income stream that serves a minority of their audience & will be broadly hated by the rest

I emphatically did not want OU and Texas in the SEC because we already have an Alabama, but it has been great to see Texas stew in a conference that absolutely does not care about horns down

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

Story idea - You wrote a book about how the triumph of liberal democracy over all competing social models would result in a crisis when future generations inevitably forgot why it won. 30 years later, they give you a Gundam

Pretty sure a fellow traveler fucked around a little too hard and accidentally made himself one of the pillars of rapturetok and now he’s working it into convincing all these jibbering hooting Christian Kabbalists that Trump is the literal, single, individual antichrist

When you’re good enough sometimes no one else can fuck it up