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co-owner and staff writer @defectormedia | luis @defector .com | Squid Dad Forever 🇻🇪

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Joined December 2008
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Luis Paez-Pumar
8 months
Happy 9/11 to whoever made the bonkers creative decision to end REMEMBER ME (2010) this way:
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4 years
Louisville burning a Confederate flag over a bourbon barrel. New York telling cops to suck their dicks. Atlanta protecting a Waffle House from destruction. Cities are on brand tonight, let’s go.
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1 year
Ronaldo diving for a penalty in a World Cup? That’s nasty business.
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3 years
There's a long list of fantastic Alex Trebek moments, but this will always be my favorite.
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4 years
Here’s something I never thought I’d say: I just quit my dream job at Deadspin. The last 11 months were the best I’ve ever had, and working with the smartest writers on the internet was a privilege.
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4 years
me after watching Shakira, JLo, Bad Bunny, AND J Balvin on the Super Bowl halftime stage
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2 years
Lewis Hamilton turning a lap 1 puncture into a top 5 finish, he really is the GOAT.
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2 years
Lewis Hamilton got unlucky on a pit stop again, is driving with his back getting absolutely wrecked by the porpoising, and is still gonna finish in 4th place. What a lad.
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4 years
I would rather someone text me that they’re coming to kill me instead of texting me this.
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yana
4 years
I just want to say, a lot of y’all dump information on your friends at the wrong time without their consent. If you know it’s something that could hurt them, ask permission before you decide to be messy. Please.
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29 days
Kim Mulkey threatening to unleash hell on the Washington Post for what turned out to be a bit of a snoozer profile whose main thesis is that the most famous asshole in women’s basketball is in fact an asshole…very funny.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
2 years
Shout out to the person who stole my credit card in New Jersey, drove to North Carolina, and promptly spent $69 (nice) at Bojangles. I hate you, but I respect you.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
11 days
Blackthorne: I am going to get on my ship, which is mine, and hunt Nicolas Batum to the ends of the earth. He will face my fury from one end of this earth to the other. I will not rest until he answers for his crimes. Mariko: The Anjin is sad about the Miami Heat.
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4 years
BABY TOWEL YEAH! is one of the funniest sports things I've ever seen, and I'm not entirely sure why.
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1 year
My dad did not have to pop off this hard in the comments of my Lionel Messi blog.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
4 years
Clyde has made a powerful new enemy.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
2 years
Today I found out that Ryan Atwood is extremely anti-crypto. All hail the real king of The OC.
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4 years
An incredible story in two parts.
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2 months
When historians look back at this era, they will pinpoint this as the moment America slid past the point of no return.
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4 years
Every date in Brooklyn:
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2 years
I would die for Rock Boi. Rock Boi Forever.
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The next chapter in World of Warcraft: #Dragonflight 🐉
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5 years
If there's a Mount Rushmore of action scenes of the 21st century, it has to include: 1) the nightclub scene in John Wick 2) the throne room scene in The Last Jedi and 3) Helm's Deep in LOTR: Two Towers. But what is the 4th?
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4 months
I feel so bad for the people behind me during The Iron Claw, who were there to thirst over Jeremy Allen White and absolutely did NOT know where the movie was going. “I can’t handle this” was said repeatedly in between sobs.
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6 years
[whispering to date while watching the pee tape when the pee first appears on screen] that's the pee
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1 month
I gotta say, I’m shocked that we have a potential gambling in sports scandal on our hands. No one could have seen it coming. (This tweet has been brought to you by SportsBetting, the best place to place bets on sports, even when you don’t want to.)
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1 month
Today is the Super Bowl for the harmlessly annoying people I know who like ALMOST all the same music as me.
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1 year
Andrew Tate truly is one of a kind: I’ve never seen a bigger self-own than “tragically cringe comeback video after a teenager destroyed me online got me arrested for human trafficking” in my life.
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5 years
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4 years
Emily In Paris is the best Netflix show ever made, because it’s so fucking awful that I can’t stop watching it and I think that’s exactly what they wanted.
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1 year
Did Xherdan Shaqiri really just score against Serbia and NOT do the damn eagle? I'm upset.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
4 years
Please do not harass the freelancers. This is not their fault. This is a strategy to make the site, which died the second we all quit, look alive and to trick readers into thinking there is new content.
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Chris Thompson
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Paul Maidment is pulling old freelance bits and republishing them with reset time stamps, in order to make the site appear fresh. there is no note acknowledging the republishing of two-year-old content
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5 years
Unfortunately, my new religion is Ashlyn Harris saying “I’m a drunk white girl on a bar. I HATE IT.”
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Luis Paez-Pumar
4 years
For now, I am available to write or edit once again. Email: paezpumarl @ gmail dot com Deadspin was a good website. Deadspin Forever.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
4 years
Black Friday? More like RED Friday, the day where we all listen to Taylor Swift's RED together.
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4 years
Just got a $25 ticket for drinking outdoors. Shout out to cops for doing the important things while there are NO BARS TO DRINK AT.
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5 years
I think about this photo often. Messi got roasted so hard for looking like a chaperone that after this he grew a beard, dyed his hair blonde, got the awful tattoos, and finally got a stylist.
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5 years
As a general rule, you should not write this way about a kids movie.
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3 years
The thought of MAGA bros buying and listening to Ariel Pink’s music “in support” is going to be the thing that kills me.
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3 years
An umpire ending someone’s season on an incorrect check swing call is how I become the Joker.
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10 days
Taylor Swift backlash beginning once again when the next TV re-record is Reputation? Chess, not checkers.
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2 years
I’m 24 minutes into RRR right now and I am both hooting AND hollering. This is what superhero movies should be like: completely unrealistic human beings doing bonkers shit in settings completely oversaturated with color.
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4 years
Clyde’s first bike ride. Success for him, terrifying for me.
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3 years
Holy fuck, I hope Christian Eriksen is alright. That was very scary.
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2 years
She died as she lived the last year: dead.
@SkyNews
Sky News
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Queen Elizabeth II has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace announces
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3 years
y'all worrying about the super league when you should be worrying about being in league with our super savior Jesus Christ
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3 years
Mads Mikkelsen is stupidly sexy. This is me saying I’ve started watching Hannibal.
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1 year
That was a World Cup-saving foul from Kellyn Acosta lmao.
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3 years
I know I shouldn’t be surprised or affected at this point, but the amount of Instagram stories/posts of people going OUT OUT last night is...extremely demoralizing.
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1 year
@InsaneMoviez if The Menu was good*
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3 years
When England loses but poor Saka misses the last penalty
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9 months
@pattymo This happened to my buddy Eric
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1 year
Kevin Durant is somehow the most normal of the notable members of the Brooklyn Nets organization. My man just tweets too much, no crime in that when the rest of the team is either in the Suicide Squad or completely terrified of basketball.
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4 years
Ray Hudson’s orgasmic scream on that Messi free kick goal woke me up from my nap and honestly I’m not mad at it.
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5 years
open for a surprise
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3 years
I don’t think Fast 9 is the best Fast & Furious movie, or the most fun. I do think, tho, that it is the dumbest one by fucking FAR. I mean that as a compliment. But good lord.
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6 years
Not even a card.
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DIRTY!
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4 years
We're coming for you, Demon Sperm.
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1 year
Me watching Lionel Messi make that insane run and assist:
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1 year
I don’t understand people complaining about Succession spoilers. This website’s only redeeming quality is that it’s great for watching shows live. Just…log off if you haven’t watched the extremely popular and tweeted-about show? I did it last week, and I’m terminally online.
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3 years
I wish I could bottle the feeling of not having a hangover when you were 100% expecting to have a hangover.
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6 years
Turned on FOX just in time to see Robbie Williams give the middle finger to be worldwide audience. God, I love the World Cup.
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3 years
With absolutely no respect and full offense: are you fucking kidding me with this?
@alexmoeflo
Alex Moe
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. @SpeakerPelosi speaking at presser with CBC: Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice...Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous for justice.
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3 years
You can tell that this is a good reason because the people in this photo sure seem to be enjoying the time to process their days, let their minds wander, and explore ideas.
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Reason #3 : Working from home can be too convenient. Commuting gives us time to process our days, let our minds wander, and explore ideas. Additionally, “office life forces transitions and breaks throughout the day.”
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I can’t get enough of the David Guetta video. I will watch it every time it shows up on the TL. The extended cut with a random Robert Pires appearance? Inject it.
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And here we go: it's time for.......SOME! PERSONAL! NEWS! I am joining the wonderfully talented team at @Deadspin as a Staff Writer, starting December 17th!
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4 years
There’s probably no more demoralizing feeling as a freelance journalist than pitching a good idea somewhere, hearing nothing back, and then seeing almost the same exact piece pop up under a staff byline a few weeks later.
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2 years
The Venn diagram of people who love this bit of Christian propaganda from a public university and the people who yell, loudly, to “keep politics out of sports” is a big fat circle.
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Here’s the USWNT singing “Fight Night” because they’re all perfect. IMAGINE having this much power.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
4 years
It's come to my attention to people had not seen this classic 9/11 tweet before, so let's get a little signal boost going for 2010 Chris Jericho.
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Can u imagine terrorists tryin to hijack a plane that the WWE crew was on? Box cutters vs the craziest mofos on the planet? Game over jihad.
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@girlinabasement Where does Hayley Williams fall on this?
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Luis Paez-Pumar
3 years
Is anyone else feeling a stronger physical deterioration this month? I’ve had more headaches, I’m always tired, and I’ve had more joint aches. Is it winter or is it nearly a year of quarantine??
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1 year
Germany going out because Spain stopped trying to score is revenge for 1982! Justice for Algeria!!!!!
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5 years
Honestly, Ashlyn Harris is the real MVP for her instagram stories right now. (ashlynharris24)
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4 years
Primary system is so stupid that I didn't even get to vote for Bernie while living in the most populated city in the United States. Cool cool cool.
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4 years
Lionel Messi is better at soccer than anyone has ever been at anything in the history of the world.
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Bloc Party is absolutely one of the very best bands from this period, and it’s due a non-insignificant amount to how good Kele’s singing accent is.
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Bloc Party Banquet Conan O’Brien 2005
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Bernie saying “Soccer Mommy” is the best thing that has ever happened to me, personally.
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1 year
Cristiano Ronaldo celebrating like a madman for a goal that ended up not being his? The brand is so strong.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
3 years
It’s my birthday, and all I want is cute photos of your pets. I’ll start with Clyde, because it is also his birthday.
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4 years
I have been waiting for months to say this: we're starting a new site! Your favorite idiots will return in September as @defectormedia .
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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company from the writers you missed. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together.
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2 years
Adam Levine to Ime Udoka in the group chat
@ShamsCharania
Shams Charania
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Celtics coach Ime Udoka had an improper intimate and consensual relationship with a female member of the team staff, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium . It’s been deemed a violation of franchise’s code of conduct.
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If it's a crime to talk shit about another writer in a group chat, then the entirety of the media industry is fucked.
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2 years
The best part of getting older is realizing that you never really have to go to a social event that you don’t want to go to. The worst part of getting older is realizing that no one really cares if you go or not.
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3 years
LIONEL MESSI HAS WON AN INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT.
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4 years
@addysbaird I had a bit of an uptick in energy when summer got into full swing and I could bike to see people but the dip in temperature here is reminding me that fall is coming and it has ruined my mental health. It’s extremely tough. Sending good vibes your way. ✨✨
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Hi, we’re Assassination Coordinates, and we’re from Pompano Beach.
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3 years
Defector got an office, and I had to celebrate @david_j_roth on our first day.
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@Yelix Someone called it Meetings: The Show and fried millions of people.
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4 years
I wrote a blog that is in no way relevant to anything in my life right now, no sir.
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Deadspin
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Seattle Sounders advance to MLS Cup, rewarding fans who stood up to those in power:
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She just got mad at me for tweeting.
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4 years
I'm so sorry
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I missed the debates last night. It would be so cool if a funny and incisive website had coverage of it for me to catch up on this morning. Totally unrelated, Splinter was a good website.
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@GrimKim @maggieserota It sure is! Took years but there was finally an article about him.
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Much love to my Jezebel friends, who deserve much better than this. Another pillar of the internet goes down at the whims of an incompetent egomaniac.
@willsommer
Will Sommer
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Media news: G/O Media is shutting down Jezebel after failing to find a buyer. Memo just went out from Jim Spanfeller:
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I could listen to this "OH NOOOO" for the rest of my days.
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4 years
The perfect storm of being hit in the knackers while wearing a microphone. Tears of pain, tears of laughter. Well played Liam. SOUND ON.
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The last time KC beat the Niners, we got COVID, so we have some fresh hell to look forward to.
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stop playing soccer friendlies in football stadiums stop playing soccer friendlies in football stadiums stop playing soccer friendlies in football stadiums stop playing soccer friendlies in football stadiums stop playing soccer friendlies in football stadi
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Luis Paez-Pumar
1 year
This is the dumbest website that has ever existed lmao
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@OnlineAlison
ali segel
1 year
I just wrote “former blue check” in my bio and then a blue check appeared next to my name. I deleted it bc it weirded me out but… coding error? Will someone else try this
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Max Verstappen is just a wall. The Novak Djokovic of F1.
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