Calkins is a pretty terrible writer, but I'm sure not having an editor will help.

Sometimes it's hard to gauge how much a game will remain (and remain, and remain) important immediately after playing it. I'm confident now — 1000xRESIST remains.

sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now!@sunsetvisitor.studio · 15h ago

1000xRESIST is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch 2. After all the compromises made on Switch 1, this feels like a full circle moment. PC quality, high resolutions, and haptics have come to the portable experience.

That would certainly explain a lot of things

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · 16h ago

Hello to you, too, New York Times

everyone come thru to Báhn Mì XO in west seattle! theres a guy here who figured out why the moon landing must have been faked

If a baby hands you a toy telephone to answer, that's a sign of great respect in their culture.

construction season is so beautiful

this is like something that would happen to Tracy Jordan

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

The National Association of Black Journalists gives Stephen A. Smith the “Thumbs Down” award for his “recurring public pattern of disparaging public commentary directed at prominent Black women across politics, sports and media.”

joshua báez could’ve hit 2 more home runs today in his major league debut, but he stopped at 3 home runs out of respect for jayden daniels. classy.

In honor of Devon Witherspoon signing his (deserved) big deal, let’s revisit one of my favorite plays of the 2024 season

politician who frames all social issues with respect to the size of basketball. climate change = it's bigger than basketball. voting rights? roughly the size of basketball

crying laughing bc i know there are people who will see this and get so pissed they throw up

Got a dream piece today: I profiled Deb Perelman aka @smittenkitchen.bsky.social about 20 YEARS of food blogging www.weareravenous.com/smitten-kitc...

The Blogosphere Came and Went. Smitten Kitchen Is Still Here.

Deb Perelman has kept Smitten Kitchen going through the rise and fall of blogging, the pivot to newsletters, and the looming specter of AI. She has no intention of stopping.

weareravenous.com

she is my new emotional support white boy hooper (white boy hoopers can be girls)

Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter@realbachscore.bsky.social · last wk.

Typical WSJ profile: Tech founder gets up at 4 am, does aggro-Pilates, drinks lemon water. Paige Bueckers WSJ profile: Gets up at 9:30, eats waffles + scrambled eggs with cheese and bacon, naps. www.wsj.com/style/paige-...

Zach Neto is the big boss of value-neutral Statcast set-up/swing descriptors: 
 -99th percentile close to pitcher
 -99th percentile close to plate -100th percentile attack angle steepness -90th percentile “pull” attack direction -99th percentile in-front intercept point -90th percentile wide stance

The legend Robin Lopez

This is wild. Josh Harrison on the Pirates' broadcast talking about how much he hates pickles, the food. Almost got in a fight because a teammate put a pickle in his jacket. He hates pickles. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

The Pirates' Josh Harrison is the king of the pickle

Prolonging a rundown is an art, and there's no better basepath virtuoso than Harrison, who understands baseball's most important pickle principle: Until you're out, you're safe.

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crying weeping sobbing that @sohini.bsky.social and Sarah Borus, our beloved summer interns, are departing. follow them and read their work! defector.com/the-defector...

The Defector Interns Say Fogo de “Ciao” | Defector

Sarah: All summer long, we’ve been saying “Thank god there are two of us,” whether we’re hyping each other up to send jokes in Slack or encouraging each other to ask members of the staff to chat. But ...

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And yet

god there is so much money in making shit that's useless and sucks shit. oh well

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2w ago

$20 million, god damn www.inc.com/rob-walker/t...

The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete - defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...

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Feel like Liberty Mutual is really overestimating our collective appetite for insurance lore?

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

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It's a real sting having your rights stripped by a movement that's barely even astroturfed so much as a bot farm and newspaper column-based phenomenon

terryhorstman@terryhorstman.bsky.social · 3w ago

A sincere thought I had yesterday: where are the transphobes even gonna hold this? There’s no where feasible to even do it… Today: I guess six friendless bigots don’t need much room

I think about this @cespedesbbq.bsky.social classic far too often youtu.be/yob2Kjt26mQ?...

LETS TALK ABOUT WET EGGS

YouTube video by Céspedes Family BBQ

youtu.be

I'm not a fan of "this legend from 20 years ago actually wasn't that good" stuff but I'm absolutely here for the Favre revisionism

sure, i'm scared, but imagine how that ratchet strap feels

I was just about to publish an article titled "The Best Place for an 0-2 Slider Is Down the Middle" and then this happens. Just my luck.

MLB HR Videos@mlbhrvideo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Kody Clemens' walk off grand slam (19)

I've got an idea

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Gunther von Hagens, the scientist behind the popular and polarizing traveling exhibitions of human corpses, has died at 81.