First time in a very very very long time that I'm sad I don't live in NYC still. (I'm still processing this feeling of rooting for the Knicks, it's weird.)

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

We've started rehearsals this week for a world premiere comedy by Kristoffer Diaz called FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL. Directed by Ashley Rodbro, it's an absurd comedy about...football. And America. And also fake mustaches. There is no place you'd rather be than in Greenville, South Carolina in June!

"Art has always required a tension between the artist's intentions, abilities, and the tools available to them. This holds especially true for anything not ruthlessly optimized." @barryp.bsky.social bringing the heat describing video games. And, also live theater.

Nvidia Wants To Yassify Video Games | Defector

Chip-maker Nvidia became a multi-trillion-dollar company the classic way: by selling shovels in the middle of a gold rush. As the generative AI bubble swelled and distended, Nvidia was there to sell t...

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Shameless self promotion because I'm proud of the lineup we have for our 53rd season:

Announcing Season 53 - Warehouse Theatre

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don't worry, i'm sure once they've finished intentionally crippling our ability to discover and tell each other what they're doing, they'll be satisfied and will stop there

I, along with the rest of the Defector loyalists, was very sad to hear about the passing of Dan McQuaid. They've been posting a lot of his best work and I was thrilled to revisit this piece which still lives rent free in my head. defector.com/livvy-rizzin...

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Did you hear the news? Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk!!! Despite being a 40-year-old man, I am uniquely in tune with the younger generation because I go to the mall. I am more than happy to explain this a...

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“Since you didn’t give me a peace prize I declare war on you” is the ultimate “you called me racist too many times, now I am racist”

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 7mo ago

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.

"Here is another lesson that can be drawn from this: In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent." defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

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On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street.…

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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

"Historical references aren't hard to find, here, even if none are quite exact. It's part HUAC, part Salem 1692, but also partly its own new thing, of this moment: campy, Evangelical, openly and equally hateful and opportunistic, and above all else, shameless."

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It’s become clear that Charlie Kirk is worth more to Trumpworld dead than he ever was alive. His fatal shooting last week in Utah has been used as a cudgel in an attempted purge of wrong-thinking libe...

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the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last yr.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

A nice profile of The Warehouse Theatre and my unfettered thoughts about theater and entertainment. Featuring shoutouts to dramaturgs (no "e") and playwrights creating great television but also still writing plays! www.americantheatre.org/2025/08/05/k...

Know a Theatre: The Warehouse Theatre of Greenville, S.C.

With 150 seats and a budget just under $1 million, this Upstate company stages contemporary classics, classics that feel contemporary, and world premieres.

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Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.

this is so emblematic of the differences of the centrist democrat and the leftist democrat. centrists have nothing to offer and have to rely on fear to gain power while the left actually has a vision for a better world, this is why centrists have to resort to this rhetoric

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · last yr.

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

@jonbois.bsky.social I need a slogan for a play we're producing about football called FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL by a Tony nominated Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright (Kris Diaz). You're a character in it as the only voice of reason. Also the cast is all women. (All of this is true.)

At least 50% of people in Greenville back into parking spots now. I feel like this is what's wrong with America.

i’m here you fuckaas bitch

still insane to me that dreamcorp llc was amazing, had big names involved, and is essentially lost media with no legal way to watch it and all mention of it scrubbed from the old sites

bakoon@bakoon.bsky.social · 3y ago

the library of dream topic binders. from dreamcorp llc

SINNERS is the movie musical EMILA PEREZ wishes it was. I'd produce a live version of this immediately.

As someone who was in Providence for all of this and who is a big fan of the documentary I endorse reading all of this! (This someone may still call his fantasy teams Fort Thunder and Dirt Palace as I was with Mansard when they played both.)

Alex Sujong Laughlin@alexlaughs.bsky.social · last yr.

I can't stop talking about "Secret Mall Apartment" and Providence and how special it was to see the documentary in the actual mall where it all took place and this was really hard to write bc I actually have a lot of feelings about it all what's new defector.com/watching-sec...

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

I for one am glad that Strom Thurmond is the answer to one less trivia question and also probably getting absolutely dunked on in between punishments in Hell