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Wow. Incredible. They’re already calling it the most correct take of all-time. defector.com/i-submit-to-...
You'll have to consider the visiting team would need to be replenished too, watering down the draft quality
Just got home from the Eric Adams scavenger hunt. We had to find 300 children’s teeth hidden in the alley behind Zero Bond, and use them to build “an electric chair for rats.” The winners got to keep the teeth. I hate this city.
The Giants are trying to give me some hope and I resent them for it.
Jumpscare campaign text
One of the more pleasant surprises has been seeing Frank Serpico (a real guy!) become a big and vocal Mamdani supporter.
I sort of suspect this is just how long it *should* take to make a game (given the size of the team) without unhealthy work practices, but the industry rarely allows it.
Great day to remind everyone that The City is one of the best sources of local journalism, a non-profit, and totally free for readers. Also a great day to consider donating. donorbox.org/nycdonate
Four of my favorite nouns in one blog: Hockey, Bruce Bennett, birds, and of course @ddavisla.bsky.social. defector.com/after-50-yea...
I guess you could say the chips are down
Underrated lol: the spokesperson spelling her name wrong
Oh my god lmao
About 10 years ago I stayed in a Washington DC AirBnB and upon arrival discovered dozens of fish tanks containing thousands upon thousands of tiny shrimp. I remembered it this week but inexplicably no one took photos, so the only evidence I have is an email confirmation for “Aquatic Studio Retreat.”
If I had a phone in school I would’ve turned out illiterate. I only had Drug Wars on my calculator and I came close!
i wrote about a sculpture that kinda blew my mind, and AI art, and uhhhhh what it's like being a human defector.com/whats-monch-...
Bought an air conditioner and I'm now swamped with targeted ads for air conditioners. Buddy, this is the point in my life when I'm as far as I'll get from needing a new one.
Reading the Bachman Books in middle school fucked me up but good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsHT...
What the hell man defector.com/giri-nathan-...
I didn't believe in illuminati humiliation rituals until this Andrew Cuomo campaign.
She has never said anything nearly this nice about my writing
Giri’s book is out today. Because he’s her favorite Defector writer, my mom somehow got a galley. This was her early review.
Nailed the box with religious compulsion and psychosexual transference
Bet on a horse named Equus yesterday 👀
What do homeschooled people have anxiety dreams about for the rest of their life?
It’s a little on the nose to be this full-body sore after a Bad Religion show, the official show of middle-aged dudes.
Proud and thrilled that Defector has made it to five years. Come celebrate with us! defector.com/youre-invite...
Having read the detailed plot summary of 'Weapons' on Wikipedia I can give it One Thumb Up 👍
This sounds like a good one, the Loch is the best part of Central Park.
I can’t work under these conditions
They should make a creamy water.
Found this gnarly illustration on Getty while looking for something else, and can't find an excuse to use it on the site, so enjoy. (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)
They’re cool and useful! Also horrid but mostly useful! defector.com/how-i-learne...
I don't understand why dogs fear thunder. You were WOLVES. You lived outside.
My policy proposal: It shouldn't be illegal to be a billionaire, as long as it's also not a crime to kill a billionaire. If you think you can make $1B in a way that doesn't make anyone angry enough to want to kill you, good luck!
I guarantee this is the most interesting article you will read about chimpanzees putting grass up their butts
RIP king www.whec.com/top-news/roc...
We lost an absolute legend today.
it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught
KEXP.org is streaming Sabbath/Ozzy deep cuts all afternoon, if you've only ever heard the singles, you're in for a treat.
A real quick take on Ozzy and Sabbath, who did it first and best.
The original blogger
Believing that em dashes reveal LLM usage just reveals that you don't read.
interesting weekend! anyway! I’m really excited to work on this book about all the ways women’s basketball players are valued and devalued
Every time I have gone to the DMV in the last 20 years it has been fast and pleasant. Gotta be an all-time turnaround.
Last one(?) defector.com/calvin-and-h...
I guess I’m just threading all my Bills Week blogs here defector.com/the-big-beau...
It wasn't necessarily part of Defector's original mission (we needed rent money), but we're all passionate about helping other worker-owned publications get off the ground, and this will help. defector.com/we-won-a-grant
The rankings are final. defector.com/bill-shapes-...
Yeah it’s down, we’re working on it
I haven’t watched wrestling in 25 years but tenuous news pegs are what Bills Week is all about. defector.com/bill-goldber...
It's Bills Week at Defector dot com, god help us all. defector.com/its-bills-week
They should have 40-year-olds shagging flies for the HR Derby instead of children, and they should set an over/under on the number of shredded ACLs.
A little birdie told me that next week Defector will be conducting one of its universally beloved Theme Weeks…
I’m nervous there will be too many hot babes at the Weird Al show!
The Ozzy tribute show was great, but Tony Iommi deserves statues in every city on Earth.
The cherry blossom La Croix is delicious until it warms up even one degree, at which point it becomes repulsive.
i'll be reading and analyzing all of these responses! i'd love to present your ideas to the rest of the staff. we're especially interested in hearing: 1. about how and where you find stuff to read online; & 2. from people who don't (yet!) subscribe to the site.
would love to hear from as many people as possible
Fun Barry fact, that was actually the first movie I ever saw in a theater.
Blogged it defector.com/just-give-me...
It works to his advantage when he doesn’t have to write humans talking to other humans.
I’m willing to catch shit for this but I liked Project Hail Mary (I thought The Martian was *fine*)
It shouldn’t be possible to make a bad movie about dinosaurs, yet apparently they’ve done it for the fourth or fifth time in a row.
Seeing the rest of the country discover Brad Lander has been satisfying. He’s always been like this.
If you've ever wondered about that weird roll-up door across the tracks at Jay St-Metrotech
As a Stuyvesant grad, I say that we must keep Stuy grads out of public office
I’m a lifelong Jewish New Yorker. Antisemitism is real, but none of this has anything to do with it.
I do believe some of these people are genuinely worried. I also believe it's OK to say "Your worries are not valid, because they are not based in reality and we don't have to humor you." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social I know you had to praise Koronet for the big tent but just between us V&T is where it's at, right
I’m just happy New York is getting some national attention for once
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Please… no more campaign text messages… my phone, she is so tired…
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I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow but this speaks to the effectiveness of good old-fashioned IRL campaigning. Just *getting out there*. Mamdani has been everywhere for months, and I've barely seen Cuomo at all until these last couple weeks. That stuff adds up.
The College World Series has been going on for, conservatively, 18 months
🚨🚨🚨 major deadline heading into a heatwave: if you want to apply for financial assistance with A/C from New York State, the deadline is THIS MONDAY, JUNE 23. more info here!
This interview series by @sabs.bsky.social is one of the things I’m proudest of publishing at Defector. defector.com/meet-the-civ...
This fucker ruined D'Agostino and I will never forgive him
This is excellent. You don't have to know or care who Kevin Roose is, either. Just really puts a finger on a certain type of empty, amoral savvy. defector.com/toward-a-the...
Let the cat try some chopped liver and she started *sprinting* around the house. I think she’s seen the face of god.
Today Defector published the final interview in my series speaking with fired federal workers. I spoke with Mary Giovagnoli, who upheld protections for unaccompanied children held in federal custody, protections that the Trump administration wants to revoke. defector.com/an-interview...
This, along with giving blood, signing up for sleep studies, and doing consumer focus groups, was basically how I got through unemployed periods in my 20s.
Not listening to any defense of Thibs that involves the Knicks' historic badness. Some old teams under Larry Brown and Isiah Thomas have nothing to do with who should be coach now!
If the Knicks weren’t going to win a title, the best we could hope for was to invent a new, historic way to hurt us, so this season was a huge success.
Fourth Consort is also fun and fast
I don’t really know how to explain this further but the Savannah Bananas feel evangelical.
Thanks to @substockman.bsky.social for writing a wonderful blog. defector.com/confessions-...
I think it’s probably under-discussed how important the SNY broadcast is to how many new fans the Mets have developed in recent years.
Opening my inbox after the long weekend
I feel like you don't hear so much about String Theory anymore these days.
Men will literally go to therapy instead of watching their team in the Conference Finals.
The New York Knickerbockers
Gun to head, Mitchell might be my favorite MST episode. RIP to Joe Don Baker.
Knicks to the finals, confirmed
I’ve been looking to scratch the Witcher itch for years and this is the first one that’s done it.
I think my favorite videogame core loop is "never do the main quest because you keep finding new side quests on the way." (I'm playing Skyrim for the first time.)
As a proud Temple graduate I can say factually and officially that’s not Philly
Boston would’ve just been evil