The most frustrating thing about this is from 2019-2022 MLS played single elimination playoffs, and that produced four straight absolute fucking banger postseasons, which culminated in the best MLS game ever played (2022 MLS Cup). And the power that be were like "nah fuck that."

Pablo Maurer@mlsist.bsky.social · 3d ago

New: MLS is planning another potential overhaul to its playoff system, one that could involve as many as 20 teams, feature a "double-elimination" component along with a mess of other changes. Nothing finalized yet. Full details from me on @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

one thing that I have seen work is when a vaccine hesitant mom ended up getting her entire family infected with whooping cough

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d ago

The media relentlessly promotes the narrative that progressives are too mean to anti-vaxxers and we must bring them around with compassion. This isn't true and isn't helping. The more public sympathy you show them, the more empowered they are in their beliefs. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/s...

“Naples, Florida-based Chicago radio host” probably the darkest phrase I’ll read all week

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 3d ago

lmao

Hey look it's the libertarian currency that's entirely dependent on government action to gain value

George Pearkes@peark.es · 3d ago

Bitcoin sitting on its biggest two-day gain since March 2, 2025, +11.1% since Tuesday. The 2025 move was on the US crypto reserve announcement, this time it's a Trump meeting with the industry and optimism around the Clarity Act which is awaiting Senate approval (haven't followed its prognosis tbh)

Flavors used to be infused but nowadays flavors are blasted. This is happening to society as well of course

🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...

everyone is missing the boat on this harp thing fwiw. it's not an affair and she is not a nurse. it's way worse: she's elder abusing him. tale as old as time a psychotic weirdo striver has attached herself to an elderly dotard and is wormtonguing him. our american rasputin

even if it were true that you could do the things that pharmaceuticals like this through effort alone it'd still be right to prescribe the medications, because making good things easier to do is good

FOHF@fohf.bsky.social · 4d ago

ADHD medication falls foul of the same purity test as GLP1s. Namely that if people just “tried harder” to not be like that then they wouldn’t need the medication.

lol this rocks actually. Go even further. Make the gas price dynamic. Have radio djs hold call in contests where the prize is gas money. have your kids crying in the back because they have to use the bathroom while you’re stuck in traffic

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 4d ago

GTA 6 Cars Need Gas, According To New Leaks, And Fans Are Split: "They Need To Remove That ASAP" "FINALLY!" "I don't need that" "Hell yeah!"

Hardly joking when I say that I fear that we’re going to need a cultural revolution for a sub-segment of the adult male population

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Seems to me a simple solution to the pervert glasses issue is to snatch them off the face of the guy bothering you and breaking them in half, secure in the knowledge that no jury will convict

A parade of media figures with minds absolutely pickeled by their small cadre of substack friends quote tweeting each other to say “I also agree!” about how the other place engages in group think

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 4d ago

Lmao.

not the point (the point is gwyneth paltrow is a terrible person), but the rsvp is right there and i think we should all respond to it with our feelings on this soiree

Sea Hag@herroyalredness.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is in fact the celebrity I would expect to hold a dinner feting Sam Altman

responding to a diss track with a song called Genuinely Thought We Were On Good Terms

Oh my god

Timmy Boy@tcinternets.com · 4d ago

Spencer, I wish to god you had met Indianapolis Legend Don Davis before he died

"are texas christian nationalists forcing kids to read the bible to give them a thorough education in classical western letters or are they doing it to indoctrinate kids into their fascist death cult" seems like an easy question to answer

Republicans have held an uninterrupted state level trifecta in Florida since 1999.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Byron Donalds: "The reason why so many families have been struggling is because of Democrat policy" (Republicans have had total control of the federal government for nearly two years, and have had total control of Florida for even longer)

To the tune of Kool And The Gang’s “Get Down On It” Jeff Samardzija

The first caveman to ask “how was your day” must have gotten so much pussy

I’m releasing a list of 7000 of my posts that you have to read before anyone can reply to me

IGN@ign.com · 6d ago

Ready for your Avengers Doomsday homework? Marvel has released a watchlist of 15 movies and TV shows you should watch before December 18 rolls around. https://bit.ly/3UmhwmS

MEET THE PRESS: Do you support birthday cake? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Look, I support blowing out candles, I support having streamers, I want party hats. We are focusing on hard-working middle class Americans having the birthday of their dreams.

Why should I do homework for something I’m paying to see?

IGN@ign.com · 6d ago

Ready for your Avengers Doomsday homework? Marvel has released a watchlist of 15 movies and TV shows you should watch before December 18 rolls around. https://bit.ly/3UmhwmS

This piece assumes that there is an overwhelming cultural consensus about going no-contact with conservative parents. There isn’t! There is, in fact, an entire media industrial complex dedicated to telling us that we are too mean to conservatives. A complex to which this piece is contributing!

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

The author decided to stay in contact with her conservative parents and that is fine! The problem is turning this singular anecdote into a half-baked take about Progressive Intolerance. No one thinks every queer person should ostracize their parents! This is not a view that needs refuting.

This has been a slowly metastasizing moral panic for years: Liberals, drunk on therapy-speak, are cutting off their parents over minor slights and miscommunications. There is little evidence of the underlying phenomenon and even less of the cause. Look at this egregiously thin nut graf.

Sailors on the Benfold should have thought about the army

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 6d ago

USS Benfold lost power after ‘engineering casualty’ leaving sailors without galley services, toilets and air conditioning

Opinion: If a parent doesn't love you unconditionally and accept you without reservation because of your sexual orientation, it is up to them to fix their own shit on their own time. Also. Amputation often saves the life of the patient.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7d ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Going no contact is a kind of amputation,” Celeste Marcus writes. “Not only would it be an awful way to treat my father; it would also deprive me and my future family of a connection to the ideas and tradition that made me who I am.”

no one called it 'cutting off family' when these same parents threw their gay kids out of the house. wild how that works.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

lol come the fuck on

In another sign of the ongoing deterioration of society I have now encountered two separate retail employees over the past few weeks who have asked me to wait while they went behind something and cried and then told me it’s because of what a previous customer had said to them

I’m glad Pitchfork gave the Tyga AI album a zero rating but it is pretty funny that they did it 20 years ago for that australian band Jet who didn’t have AI and were ostensibly trying their best

every time some discourse makes me learn the name of another youtuber i email the genx listserv and have them raise housing prices another 3.5%