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@liesandperfidy.bsky.social

armed only with my hatred for moral clarity

putting on clothes. my shirts are always backwards, collars all fucked up. one sock pulled up over my pants leg. tag sticking out from a place it doesn’t even make sense to have a tag. kids pointing and laughing while I try to extract my arm from the neck hole

Jennifer C. Martin@notreallyjcm.bsky.social · yesterday

What's something mundane that you're terrible at? For instance, I'm the absolute worst at being able to read people's special customized vanity plates. They have to be absolutely straightforward for me to get them

everything, every day, gets a little darker and a little more rotten. and every light we left burning, every foundation we leave on which to stand, is that much more to be celebrated.

i am 200% certain that another one of the 4 or 5 media companies remaining will overpay for the right to air 55 year old Randy Orton doing chinlocks

Warren Hayes@mrwarrenhayes.show · last wk.

ESPN won't be renewing its deal with WWE when it comes up in a couple of years, due to "culture and synergy” issues between the two companies, as reported by @bjbethel.bsky.social WWE joined the app just about a year ago. 🤼‍♂️ www.sescoops.com/article/late...

in many ways, Enes Kanter is the Enes Kanter of right wing culture warriors (slow reactions, hopelessly lost defending his own end, everyone on the floor knows exactly what he’s gonna try to do)

If I want to start arguments I sometimes say that science fiction isn't a literature of prediction, it's a literature of extrapolated consequences. If it's 1890, "in the future there will be cars" is boring-ass mere prediction. "Because of cars there will be vast traffic jams" is extrapolation. 🧵

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2w ago

Science fiction writers miss a bunch of things/overinvest in other things because science fiction writers are shit at predicting the future. The ambitious ones attempt allegory, but mostly we're making up cool shit we think can sell to an editor. If we could predict the future, we'd be investors.

Mainstream Sports columnists, as a whole, are largely incurious dipshits. Usually this doesn’t matter when they’re asking “why can’t Ohtani hit more home runs” but the second they have to face any real issues they’re completely fucked

John Canzano@johncanzano.bsky.social · 2w ago

No point in having a columnist if you're spiking columns. This Seattle Times v. Matt Calkins mess blew up like a hand grenade. I'm spilling some tea today. Read:

Do you understand what a dereliction of journalistic duty it is, in an article ostensibly about Sophie Cunningham, to get a quote *from the fucking founder of XX-XY Athletics* but not a single quote from a transgender person or organization bsky.app/profile/itsm...

Meghan L. Hall@itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 2w ago

EXCLUSIVE: "People are like, 'You have a platform. Use it,' and then once you use it, it's like, 'Go back to playing basketball.'” "We can be a great example of how to do both." Sophie Cunningham talks the ongoing WNBA discourse around trans athletes: