In 2023, Massachusetts legalized online sports betting. We used 3+ years of transaction-level debit card data to follow 2,441 people who placed a bet the week of legalization. Most rarely bet again. But they're not the ones sportsbooks get revenue from. This story is about the ones they do.

The Gambling App Playbook for Bankrupting Young Men

More than half of US men under 50 are betting on sports. But the sportsbooks are making nearly all of their money from a far smaller group betting far more often.

bloomberg.com

Take a Load Off - pg 6

listen up democrats: we did not vote for you for y'all to find common ground and reach across the aisle. we voted for you to crush our enemies, to see them driven before us, to hear the lamentations of their women

Schumer and Jeffries still gotta go.

These are all 2025–26 contributions to his campaign and joint fundraising committees. We followed the money behind the incoming speaker: readsludge.com/2026/11/04/t...

The Money Behind Hakeem Jeffries

Executives at Anduril and Palantir, crypto industry advocates, and investors giving through AIPAC helped fund the Democratic leader preparing to become speaker.

readsludge.com

this shit is so embarrassing. republicans famously respect a guy who will submissively accept them disrespecting him to his face and then suck up to them afterward.

I've also heard that apparently hand written letters sent to your reps are often treated with more weight than a call

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn@unburntwitch.com · last wk.

if you're doing this, please spare 2 sentence to voice support for trans rights while you're at it

if you're doing this, please spare 2 sentence to voice support for trans rights while you're at it

Richard Ferro, MD MSc@richferro.com · last wk.

You want to know what you can do? Like right now? Pick up your phone, and call the two senators for your state. Tell them your name, your zip code, and say you want new leadership when the Dems take the senate majority next year. It will take MINUTES and could make a monumental difference.

You want to know what you can do? Like right now? Pick up your phone, and call the two senators for your state. Tell them your name, your zip code, and say you want new leadership when the Dems take the senate majority next year. It will take MINUTES and could make a monumental difference.

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · last wk.

I just called Jon Ossoff's office and requested that he not support Chuck Schumer as the next majority leader.

happy for her

in new woke ai slop shitlbs will be sent to toil forever in the pronoun mines

@1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · last wk.

THE BLUE WAVE

I'm hearing reports that the newly elected texas politicians will begin their inaugurations by acknowledging that they are governing on unceded republican land

lmao Jefferies couldn't even let people be hopeful for 24 hours before pissing on the parade. Back to hating dems.

I gotta say gang the posting here is extremely unimpressive. Like I know twitter is a hellsite but the posting is way better. Especially right now.

AI slop shitlibs are one of the lowest forms of human life

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2w ago

US Election Night in Canada 🇨🇦🤞

dear god, you mean to tell me hunter biden has been using jared kushner's phone as a laptop this whole time?

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ding ding fucking ding.

dm your ex now. this might be your only chance

AO3 Status@status.archiveofourown.org · 2w ago

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On further reflection, I think I was too hard on this one and too generous with Bloodborne's. I'd either swap them or at least bring them closer together. DS2 still clears them all though.

SapphicSounds 🏳️‍⚧️@sapphicsounds.bsky.social · 2w ago

3. Elden Ring "The fallen leaves tell a story." We're getting somewhere. It's evocative and poetic, but maybe a little fart sniffy, doesn't spark the imagination too well. Also has the distinct disadvantage of not being voiced by Pik-Sen Lim who is the best part of the OG trilogy's. 6/10.

after the big chicago vs new york tgirl baseball game broke containment there were complaints from many local chicago tme trans people that there wasn't a tboy baseball. Queer people, even other trans people are often deeply offended when transfems make shit that is just for us.

HIGH LORD FALCON, OLIVKA RHO@livvywivvyy.bsky.social · 3w ago

oftentimes when trans women make spaces for ourselves, and enforce them being strictly exclusively for ourselves, i see a lot of TME people talk about gatekeeping and asking where they're meant to go and the truth is that quite simply it's not our problem. it's up to you to make spaces for yourself

Fittingly the ranking order of first line quality reflects the ranking order of the writing on the whole imo.

SapphicSounds 🏳️‍⚧️@sapphicsounds.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ranking the soulsbornering games by how good the first line of dialogue is 5. Dark Souls 3 "Yes, Indeed... it is called Lothric." Not gonna mince words, this shit is ass. It's derivative and self referential, which suits it, considering that's most of DS3's writing. 1/10

Ranking the soulsbornering games by how good the first line of dialogue is 5. Dark Souls 3 "Yes, Indeed... it is called Lothric." Not gonna mince words, this shit is ass. It's derivative and self referential, which suits it, considering that's most of DS3's writing. 1/10

Josh Turek, an anti-trans bigot, has tripled down on his transphobia. "I think I have more credibility to talk about this than almost any other politician in the country" Brother, you have less credibility than ~Riley Gaines~ and she has zero credibility. Worst D Senate candidate, by far.

look at what our professors are skeeting dawg academia is so cooked

Jon Green@jongreen.bsky.social · 3w ago

my read of the OP here is a point about how ordinary citizens allocate their scarce attention, not whether what happens abroad matters. if we think it's bad that attention to national politics has crowded out attention to state/local politics, e.g., surely that extends to international politics

there are people who take this man's opinion's seriously. I can only assume the real motivating factor behind this post is he is mad bolsonaro lost

Dan Miller@meelar.bsky.social · 3w ago

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

Many of you know I maintain a list of 32 Democrats who have embraced anti-trans policy or run ads against us. I am not even asking my readers to abstain from all 32. Some have improved, and some may not meet your line. But I ask my readers to draw a line and refuse to elect the worst among them.

The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State

These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.

erininthemorning.com

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Don’t Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans Democrats

The Democratic Party should, and likely will, win big in the midterms. We must not send the worst anti-trans voices to join them.

erininthemorning.com

people seem to be treating this like this is not the most obvious shitpost to ever shitpost?

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lol