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Why Your Team Sucks 2026: Las Vegas Raiders | Defector
Some people are fans of the Las Vegas Raiders. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Las Vegas Raiders. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the prev...
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Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live Pearl Jam Queens of the Stone Age Thundercat Kendrick The Fugees Rebirth Brass Band Nine Inch Nails Social Distortion Bad Brains Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live Deep Purple No Doubt The Cranberries Alkaline Trio Dispatch Wu Tang Clan Jurassic 5 Paul Van Dyk Bleachers Phish
interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case
"Twist and Shout" is my favourite song about testicular torsion
The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II
Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶
the real reason AI Chat Bots are popular is that it allows a normal person to have a rich person's experience: to give vague instructions to a subordinate and then tell them "no, that's not right" over and over until the subordinate finally guesses right
Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡
we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago
She argues in Italian She sings to you in French She yells at you in German In tones that make you clench The girl is complicated And very hard to please When you disappoint her She
He’s walked under a ladder Told his wife to calm down Saw a face in the sewer And talked to the clown He once finished a meal And swam right away He once met Chuck Norris And pointed out the toupee He’s taken expired Advil And torn tags from a bed He’s
putting a rotisserie chicken on each hand and boxing people at costco
Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.
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Are 'Jeopardy!' Contestants Really That Bad At Questions About Sports? | Defector
There’s a stereotype about Jeopardy! contestants: They can name the stars of 18th-century operas, but not the starting quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. It comes up again and again and again and agai...
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Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
For Big Game week between Cal and Stanford I tracked down the anonymous Oski and Stanford Tree who got into a nationally televised brawl on ESPN 30 years ago that required police intervention. The untold story involves 18 beers, suspensions & lots of blood. My latest: www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
What really happened the night Oski beat up the Stanford Tree
"I must've been 18 beers deep at that point. I was in big trouble."
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ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume