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Wrote a quick little reax post after Game 1 of IND/NYK for the smallweb basketball people. 🏀

Dallas getting first pick in the Cooper Flagg draft after trading Luka? Rigggggggged. Also, as a Raptors fan I am low-key crestfallen. 🏀

I mean… sure. Why not

Want to read something new and fresh? Something published in the last 24 hours? Sure you do. My suggestion: I don’t know why early 2000s internet is suddenly back, but both Ask a Ninja and Homestar Runner have just uploaded new videos by PC Gamer writer Wes Fenlon (h/t Guy @ thingstoclick.com)

I was feeling good today until the CRA called to tell me that I owe the federal government thousands of dollars (CAD) I do not have because of penalties/interest/etc on the business I shuttered but didn’t properly close. I literally crumpled up on my bathroom floor and ugly cried.

Every time I read the news I want to scream. Like literally scream.

This is insane.

These folks lie about/are scared of everything, huh.

We live in fractious, politically polarized times. And yet I have to believe that we’re all on the same page in thinking that setting public artworks on fire is a bad thing that people shouldn’t do.

Nine days later, no second email. What a joke.

When you’re middle-aged like, you don’t get as many opportunities to do something for the first time. You’ve tried [topping] on a pizza, you’ve visited [city/country], you’ve seen [movie] etc. Today is the first time I’ll ever go to/be at a Blue Jays game (in Toronto) while it is snowing outside. ⚾🥶

I have started, stopped, and deleted about 20 posts today. The gist of the deletia: I do not know how to function in a world where the bad guys always win and people are increasingly morally bankrupt and intellectually empty.

Firing Taylor Jenkins is… insane? You have to figure something was happening behind the scenes in Memphis. 🏀

That these guys think asking AI to Ghibli-fy an image is the same thing as being creative and/or making art explains so much about their entire worldview.

Who among us hasn’t accidentally added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a secret group chat with major NatSec implications?

I need to torch most if not all of my social accounts. There was a time for those platforms and products, but they’re just no good for me anymore. I just don’t know what the point of anything is anymore, tbh.

It’s not the tools. It’s how people use them, and to what end.

As someone who has been (mildly) chastised for not being serious enough on LinkedIn, I’m endlessly amused by how many LinkedInners are happy to post wildly sexist and racist things next to their names, headshots, and employers.

It’s pretty funny that the people who spent years shouting about the Deep State ended up voting for its creation.

A byproduct of America’s descent into authoritarianism is that Azealia Banks is once again tweeting banger after banger. This timeline sucks but at least we have that.

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“NPR’s analysis found that, of its verifiable work completed so far, DOGE has cut just $2 billion in spending — less than three hundredths of a percent of last fiscal year’s federal spending.” (NPR)

Amazon is 100% going wreck the James Bond franchise with underwhelming ten-episode seasons about Blofeld’s early years and Q coming to terms with being autistic.

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Having enough money and power to make the world a better, safer, cleaner, fairer place and choosing not to is a crime against humanity.

I’m not one of those “the front office is so stupid, they should just _____________” fans, and I’ve generally defended the Blue Jays front office as a lot their moves have been good, but not being able to extend Vladdy given the $$$ we were offering FAs might end up being a franchise-altering fumble. ⚾

Whoever first said or wrote “everything’s a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works” truly cooked.

I wonder what I’m going to do with the money I’m going to save by never flying again.

I received this spam/scam message last November and I didn’t delete/report because it’s oddly specific and weird and as such kind of endearing.

I just spent 10 min on Twitter as per my immersion therapy practice. Wild that some people get up, yawn, stretch, do their breakfast routine, and then get on the internet and lie about everything for no reason except to oWn ThE LiBs. Do these folks not have hobbies? Friends? (Don’t answer that.)

I won’t pretend I’ve never posted about athletes, or actors, and writers with the faint hope they’d see (just had flashback to the time Neko Case replied to me on Twitter) but the way so many bros post about and vigorously defend Elon is decidedly parasocial.

I’m not American, but the idea of RFK in charge of HHS is insane crazy Driving Miss Daisy to me.

My partner just sent me this via text sans context. So now I am doing the same to you. Kind of.

My therapist low-key suggested that I stop reading the news and I think she’s right. On the other hand, I don’t want the money I’m paying for the NYT and Apple News+ to go to waste. #sunkcostfallacy #iknowhashtagsdontworkhere

The CaNaDa ShOuLd BeCoMe ThE 51sT StAtE folks are just the biggest losers imaginable, huh.

Jordan Hawkins pitched a no-hit shutout 😬🏀☠️

People who know things about government computing systems are… worried. (The Atlantic)

Didn’t expect NYT columnist Frank Bruni to comment on Cooper Flagg’s moistness today, but here we are. 🏀

I legit think about this Atlantic article every day.

The world is ending so I’m playing with the Trade Machine. 🏀

Another consequence of Luka Doncic getting traded is that the most annoying people on LinkedIn are now going to write 1,000 tHoUgHt LeAdErShiP posts about how no employee is irreplaceable.

Went to check the Mavs subreddit and my tablet melted.

Seriously man what the fuck just happened. How did the Lakers do that? Why would the Mavs do that? They had time! They could have shopped around! Man, Mavs fans must be inconsolable.

I’m assuming Luka gave the Mavs fair notice that he wasn’t gonna extend and they were getting ahead of it. That’s the only rational explanation.

I can’t process this so I’m not going to try. This is insane. If this trade is real we are 100% living in a simulation.

I’m assuming Shams got hacked…

I assumed it was going to happen but I still can’t believe he’s blaming the plane crash on D.E.I.

Draymond would kill it on LinkedIn.

Ayton is so good when he tries. 🏀

It’s wild how Move Fast And Break Things ends up breaking everything, huh.

In re: the current New York Magazine cover story and the attendant social media commentary, a friend said something trenchant and worth sharing: “A good reminder that, for most people, politics are just a personality.”

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These guys love creating features that no one wants/asks for, huh.

It was a Nazi salute and he did it twice because he knows nothing can or will happen to him.

Progresso Soup Drops deliver the classic, hearty flavor of Progresso Chicken Noodle Soup in a format that will definitely SOUPrise fans — it’s a convenient hard candy drop — reminding you of the comfort you can find in a bowl of Progresso Soup.

I need help reacting to something.