I was able to figure it out, if you were worried about that.
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I was able to figure it out, if you were worried about that.
You're on thin ice counselor
"I have experienced medical death, and am now deceased. My body has died."
If this doesn't force the universe's hand I don't know what will.
Thanks Hunter
Really taken with the idea of someone at an Oasis show, sometime on this tour, learning that Donald Trump has died by having Noel announce the news and then being like "right, then, this one's called 'Some Might Say.'"
My god, it's full of stars.
Man it photographs so well.
Hey thanks
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
Hey man thank you for yours.
He died. He died on the toilet but “not the way you think,” a White House spokesperson said in a brief statement before declining follow-up questions.
Are we doing the Manchurian Candidate activation phase thing here. Because I am about to go on break.
Source for this claim?
Well it's life or death at this moment.
Oh god post a chop suey sandwich to cleanse this
Can't believe that on my first day as a nurse I have been charged with replacing Rudy Giuliani's IV drip of Johnnie Walker Black while he is in intensive care. It's what's keeping him alive. You get into this line of work to take care of people, but you never imagine how important it could be.
[Putting up my dukes in a fight] Meet my good friends Schumer and Jeffries
On the night of August 30, 2025, Mayor Giuliani happened upon a woman drowning in a giant martini,
I don't know I find it extremely believable. I'm sure this is precisely what happened.
BREAKING and also must credit Defector
I am in the blog chair for the last Defector Sunday Shift of the summer, and treated myself by writing about Mark Teixeira's greasy new congressional campaign and Pondering The Void: defector.com/mark-teixeir...
This is what it's all about. Thank you for moving the work forward.
If I'm an investor I would be absolutely pounding venture capital into the AI ghoulspace. Virtual Zombies are already changing the way we live....and it's only going to get better from here. You need only look at the success of The Schizophrenia Machine to see how well it will work.
Wow I'm also thinking about this.
Wow I agree
Michelle I agree with this.
rutger hauer (he was in nighthawks)
I'm going to take this one for a spin for sure.
/to the tune of the “two minutes later” refrain “he was The Hitcher!”
Don't worry about it.
/to the tune of Duran Duran's "Girls On Film" Rutger Hauer
Thank you king.
It's a distress signal
This set is so good. They made it really fast, as I recall, but also obviously with exquisite care.
this site is bad! it's going to fail! its user base has plateaued! it's not making any money! nobody here is smart except for me! everybody here is stupid! nobody is having any good discussions! i don't like being here! ok that's it for now. be back in 90 minutes
Don't worry about it
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
It's two days late but this week's I Hate Bill Maher is out. @davidjroth.bsky.social joined the show and we got some dead Pope talk, followed by Bill Maher begging Richard Perle to be fair. Really irritating and pathetic stuff. Plus, a new reason Bill Maher thinks you're gay. pod.link/1746469734/
Oh, look, it's the troops defector.com/well-he-sent...
You can't compete in the Big Ten without the services of a Warrior Monk.
I'm worth it.
No! No!! defector.com/i-apologize-...
Wow. Incredible. They’re already calling it the most correct take of all-time. defector.com/i-submit-to-...
I should let myself pre-write one sometime when I'm feeling down
Nice to think about, anyway.
She gave her life in defense of the most fundamental American freedom: [sound you used to hear while logging on to dial-up internet followed by a deafening blast of white noise with slurs faintly audible in it]
They no-sold me. Terrible and very unfair.
We had a delightful time talking (NFC) football with Kalyn this week. Drew was literally wearing a Vikings jersey while we recorded and was grinning like a loon. We are back. defector.com/jerry-jones-...
And for this I thank you
(Also while I don't know where you are exactly there's a Regina's in Soho and that is a good sandwich)
That's right
The website that I co-own Defector.com is hosting a RARE sale where you get three months of blogs for just $5! That’s something like 600 blogs for FIVE AMERICAN DOLLARS. Pretty good deal imo and you get to support worker-owned media.
I wrote about the immolation of the CDC defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...
There's so much great writing up on BP today, so bear with me while I thread. Leading off, @stevengoldman.bsky.social wrote a fantastic piece about Roger Clemens, and the need for fascism to make every source of culture about itself. All while still managing to sound like a sports radio caller?
Just woke up to a beautiful, autumnal morning and my brain immediately served up the phrase, "A Pumpkin for Klendathu" Should I be worried? daveandjebarentmean.libsyn.com/122-a-pumpki... @mobute.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social
No, this is a sign that you are becoming wise and strong.
we have a crisis of self-respect in this country, among other things
*pronouncing judgment on kids at the airport through my spotty electrolarynx that’s clearly running out of battery*: “mitochondrial inflammation, mitochondrial inflammation, fat, dork, four-eyes, hot, mitochondrialosis…”
/in a voice that sounds like a fistful of gravel in a running dryer "Look at all these fucked up children."
This is a real work of art in the Youtube Video Essay genre. Funny, witty, hates the people I hate and genuinely insightful. Highly recommend. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...
He's doing the thing smart celebrities do, which is get lots of small cosmetic procedures instead of one big one, but he is doing it so he can look more like Ronald Reagan.
whew, what a blog defector.com/butlerian-ji...
We will NEVER relent when it comes to bringing you the blimp news you need.
*smugly steps on scale* oh yeah
I actually like the decision to do a Subway sandwich here. You won't really feel bad about not eating it, it's light and aerodynamic, and I like the fragmentation effect of the shitty shredduce exploding outwards on impact.
Mind if I hop on the call?
Running out of the bullpen to the Benny Hill theme at unnerving double-time speed. The broadcast describes my arsenal as "zany" and my ERA is a tick over thirteen.
Freezing up when it's my turn to say obsequious stuff to Donald Trump during the meeting where all the cabinet secretaries suck up to him and checking down to the chorus of Meredith Brooks's "Bitch." I know I'm good when he nods after I say "you know you wouldn't want it any other way."
They don't want you to know that Bill Swift is from South Portland, Me.
It's not what you want
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
That's Wings
There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry. [gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...
TRAVIS KELCE AND TAYLOR SWIFT GETTING MARRIED IS A DISTRACTION DON'T TURN AWAY FROM THE DISASTROUS 2025 NEW ORLEANS SAINTS SITUATION
ChatGPT: no, going “Azrael mode” can be dangerous for yourself and those around you. Me: I am the avenging angel of God. The time of purification is at hand. Few shall be chosen. ChatGPT: you’re right. Let’s look at that again with the addition context that you are the avenging angel of God.
I wrote about the state of the screwworms defector.com/make-america...
Thank you bud.
Okay thanks very much
Thank you Maggie.
Thank you bud.
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
Well I did finish it on Friday afternoon
It rocks
love this from @mitchtherieau.bsky.social on the difficulty we have historicizing Obama-era musical trends and how folk-rock in particular was “about the capture of social life”
I finished writing it late on Friday afternoon. But I am growing.
Hey thanks
A classic Hollywood story in that way
I have come to admire him so much. He is just constantly trying new shit, making stuff that interests him, all of it in conversation with everything else he's done. One of the coolest careers I can imagine.
I'm also a big fan of The Hit. I wrote about it for Flaming Hydra last year.
apart from electing a black president nothing has driven more Americans irrevocably insane than the requirement that they participate in the collective good
Yeah he's great in it
I rewatched The Limey after Terence Stamp's death and it was a much sadder film than I remembered. He's amazing in it, and I wrote about that performance and the ghosts of the 1960s that haunt every corner of it. defector.com/seek-and-des...
it's crazy that being like "how do i explain gay couples to my kids?" isn't an unthinkably embarrassing to say in 2025. it's actually incredibly easy to explain, that should be like indignantly saying "how am I supposed to explain to my kids where the sun goes at night? did a bird steal it?!"
"Juice"
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.
If anyone spoke to me in real life using the tone that US Open chair umpires use when they say "please" to get the crowd to stop hooting I'd assume they wanted to fight.
Some really awful posting here, dude.
I feel like Aaron Lewis of Staind is very easy to dupe.