Dart GONNA start

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I just want a Lions/Bills Super Bowl. I don’t root for either team. I’d probably root for the Lions because Dan Campbell is so fucking enjoyable (and because the Bills mafia sometimes very much isn’t), but truth be told I think it’d be a fun game regardless.

Whatever Aikman is on tonight should be mandatory for every color commentator except Brady. Put “he’s got big onions” on my tombstone.

Derrick Henry nearly put himself on IR trying to slam his helmet on the bench

Love to see dudes who actually know just to fall on the damned ball rather than trying to do too much.

Holy shit what a disaster

Aikman reminds me of the dudes in college who would get drunk and suddenly develop a southern accent despite being from a tiny suburb of like…Boston or some shit. I won’t lie though, that line about “them bricks” did make me chuckle.

And of course, the almost certain grifter promising that AI can “save democracy” (which just happens to involve a company that he himself is starting) blocked me for actually discussing AI in terms that don’t treat it as a synonym for magic. It’s a pretty obvious klaxon for an incoming grift.

If you ever hear yourself saying something as ridiculous as “AI can save democracy”, please do yourself a favor and discover the massive, hilariously large gap between what people who understand its limitations think it can do and what people who treat it as a deity or form of magic think it can do.

I am going to personally take credit for this. And I’m still going to hold out on renewing. You have to be willing to let go of boycotts once they reach their aims, I think. But you don’t have to immediately trust people who have shown themselves to be untrustworthy. Let’s see what else they’ll do

The shitty thing about living through this fucking hellscape is knowing that I’m not a great person. I don’t have absolute standards for everything. I don’t need perfectly moral companies. I could live with buying stuff from some of the banally evil ones occasionally. But they chose comically evil.

Fuck you Disney for making me choose between watching out-of-market hockey and supporting you financially. I don’t even watch Jimmy Kimmel. I could have happily gone my entire fucking life without having my life impacted by him in any way, But fuck you, all my Disney subs cancelled.

I don’t even see why anybody paid for a bot network to say shit like this when Ezra Klein will spout the same feckless dreck for no additional money.

I think people underestimated the power of a real person with a Key and Peele football names name

“You can’t blame Russel Wilson for throwing this one”. Fuck off Collinsworth, i can, i am, and i will

lol giants

It’s not wrong to call Mahomes (or any other athlete) “crafty” for trying to whine and fake to get penalty calls. It’s smart, and it’s an actual skill that people develop to win games. It does, however, irk the shit out of me when commentators describe it with any word that sounds remotely positive.

hockey hockey hockey hockey hockey hockey hoc

Today In 1990: Seattle #Mariners outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. playfully steals a catch away from his father Ken Griffey Sr. on a fly ball from Chicago White Sox batter Sammy Sosa at the Kingdome! #MLB #Baseball #History

hahahaha oh no what did i do

This is a bar that pro se sovereign citizens shouting about flag fringe regularly manage to clear.

Geraldo Rivera, Culture Knower

Russ contains multitudes.

lol cowboys

Is there a way to see links you’ve clicked on the Bluesky app? I have to imagine the answer is no, but somebody wrote an article about week 3 college matchups for chaos and correctly called the Clemson/Georgia Tech game out as one to watch and I want to give them the credit they deserve.

I haven’t independently confirmed this. If it’s real, yikes. Only an empty, morally bereft human being would even be thinking about their ratings in that moment. To be happy that you’re now #1 by default is horrifying. To prioritize your bio is unconscionable. And to do so the next day is monstrous

My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

For people who screenshot a post that they like FROM Bluesky and then repost the screenshot ON Bluesky, rather than just linking to the post they liked: why are you the way you are? who hurt you?

“Whoa.”

It’s so incredibly depressing that after a shooting or similar tragedy, one of my first reactions is to hope it’s a straight white christian dude because any alternative is likely to create escalating problems for people from the same minority. And it’s sad how often I’m relieved that I was right.

This is like watching me running an offense in NCAA 26. Nothing but runs and passes to TEs.

Hundy P

The Prime stat view is so, so much better than the default broadcast view. I think it was NBC that swapped to the sky cam view for a bit, and I’m still mad they took it away. You see so much more of the game this way. I wonder if as boomers age out, the Madden view will take over more and more.

Post 9/11 thread for people to post the wildest shit they remember from 01 to 06 I'll start: People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.

Political violence was inevitable. This does not make it good (or bad), but the level of repression and violence that has been turned against large numbers of people always comes with a response. While it will create its own response, the authoritarians likely would have found an excuse regardless.

I’ve never seen the “if you’re ejected before participating in a play, the ejection also counts as a one-game suspension” rule before. And I’m pretty sure nobody will ever see it again.

I am personally responsible for this, by the way.

Not being nice to me, personally, is peak Blueskyism

“I have known several people whose motivations and sexual preferences I will infer from the limited set of choices that I have been present for or told about. These are obviously not anec-data, not anecdotes.”

Is this him? Is this y'all's beloved spider-man? #MarvelComics

I was reliably informed by Matt Yglesias and Nate Silver that Bluesky was terrible. Do people really think you can simply use interesting science a replacement for mealy-mouth centrists silently accepting fascism?

I don’t hate the man, but how can anyone not enjoy such an ostentatious fall from grace a little bit?

Similarly, if you are told that you’re the sort of person who cares more about feeling superior than actually living your morals, you would be an utter moron if you replied about how your position is “objectively” more moral. Confirms the accusation AND proves you don’t grasp what objectivity means

There is a fundamental misunderstanding of the way that governmental power is supposed to operate. People are sovereigns. We grant certain powers to the government. Anything we don’t explicitly give should be considered denied. This framing fundamentally frames authoritarianism as the status quo.

I’m just throwing this out there, but we can move Labor Day to a different date while also ensuring that this weekend is forever considered a federal holiday.