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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
.
@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.
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.
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.”
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.
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!
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.
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.
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??
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.
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.
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.
@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. ✨✨
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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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