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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The fact that we've gotten to the point where this man feels comfortable speaking his mind in public is such an indictment of the 21st century as a whole
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb, by Stefano della Bella, 1648
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working towards a 2034 window of contention @whygavs.com · 20/09/2026
unfathomable run for mason montgomery. has not allowed a run in august or september. gave up two runs in one game in july (with a three-run lead), otherwise was also scoreless in july.
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RMJ=H @rmj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm putting @turdguy.bsky.social side by side because... holy shit
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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maitreyi anantharaman @maitreyiaa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No, this guy is right. Indian-Americans should not watch football. Watching football has ruined my entire life.
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coachdonovan.bsky.social @coachdonovan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We can dream, can’t we? @whygavs.com @buccoball.bsky.social @alexkirshner.com
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Spiritually and culturally I don’t think I’ve ever felt more aligned with a group than disgruntled lesbians. Skill issue for Gaines
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No Escalators @noescalators.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Did they get the entry and exit right?
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
(Browns offices after hitting send on the QB1 announcement) great job team. i feel confident we will have the #1 news story of the day about an NFL sex pest in the Eastern Ohio region. give yourselves a pat on the back (a phone buzzes) hold on .......
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
RIP THE LEGEND JONNY TOHM (1941-1883) 365 Careers 19 Victoryies 1.1111111 Average Sports 50-50-50 First Man to be in Ocean 4X World Player (200, 300, 300, 300) First Woman to Vote (1920) America's Most Beautiful Tree (1978) Longest Career (1) Pitched All of It (100)
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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Carly Irsay-Gordon looks like Cruella de Vil got ready for the Kentucky Derby at the NFL Team Shop. Please join me in hating the Colts: defector.com/why-your-tea...
severe-looking brunette woman with dark oversized sunglasses, a blue knit blouse, and an absolutely insane parka with uneven blue, black, and white stripes. It's like WWII-era dazzle camouflage.same brunette woman standing in the rain with a wide-brimmed tan hat and a totally inscrutable rain jacket. It's black, blue, and white in a design that could charitably be called Picasso-esque. The hood is rolled around her neck in a way that looks like a scarf. Whoever finds her clothes HAS to  work full-time at it.
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Brady Klopfer @bradyklopfer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The legend Robin Lopez
Tweet from Robin Lopez that reads: Biggest issue: if you’re being drafted, people are saying “we want you around for 4 years” & I can’t imagine anybody wants Enes Kanter or Royce White around them for even 4 minutes. We’ve seen this illustrated whenever Enes is near Turkey or Royce comes close to logic/reality
Robin Lopez responding to Royce white. White says: lol join the club ROBIN … I’ll slap your big goofy ass, bitch slap you like pootie tang! I will fight over these trans rights.

Lopez responds: yes we get it you love slapping people with women’s names
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Freakin Gemini showing up in my Google Docs this morning
Angela bothering Dwight
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working towards a 2034 window of contention @whygavs.com · 29/07/2026
THE DINGER FACTORY IS OPERATIONAL
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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
by now you shoulda somehow tried to score goal number two
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coachdonovan.bsky.social @coachdonovan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@whygavs.com I bet you didn’t expect to hear “Edinboro Pennsylvania” on a World Cup semifinal broadcast
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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
two kinds of crowd shots today: smokin' hot Argentine babes and the most English-looking guys ever. I'm talking under 40 and pinker than boiled hams or over 50 and surgically removed from a barstool to be there
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The third act of A Christmas Carol, one of the most famous examples of "don't die a dickhead, " was the ghost showing Scrooge how happy everyone was that he died and it was a big motivator for him to stop being a piece of shit and still we got a bunch of dickhead Dems talking up Lindsey Graham
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
FIFA has universally acted to REVERSE Zach Collins's blatant goaltend against Northwestern in the 2017 NCAA men's tournament. The Wildcats will face 4 seed West Virginia, pending whether Northwestern's players from 2017 can get a leave of absence from their consulting firms.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
fireworks outside the visiting team hotel all night.... unprecedented, suspicious administrative ruling undoing a suspension ... sorry world you're on CONCACAF turf now, these concacolors don't run baby
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
there are obviously a lot of issues with the use of replay in modern sports officiating but also one of the most famous moments in soccer history is when a guy just straight-up used his hand to punch the ball into the goal and the ref didn't notice it
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
me when after review number ten paraguay cover his mouth the decision is red card: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! me when after review number twenty the united states committed serious serious foul the decision is red card: Well this sucks. What the fuck.
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coachdonovan.bsky.social @coachdonovan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I had the wonderful luck of sitting in a Paraguay section tonight and my wife captured the pure joy of the older fan in front of us. What an evening. @rodger.bsky.social @mattufford.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social
A Paraguayan football fan screams with joy while holding a Paraguayan flag in a full stadium
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coachdonovan.bsky.social @coachdonovan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
@rodger.bsky.social I live in RI and just got this email from the airport.
Promotional email from Rhode Island’s TF Green airport with a reminder it’s the only North American airport with nonstop flights to Cabo Verde
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Jyoti Mishra @jyotimishra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Well, that was a fucking ride.
A cropped screenshot of an article section titled "Gary Larson cartoon incident" from a Tumblr page. The text describes a controversy involving a Far Side cartoon and Jane Goodall. 

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Gary Larson cartoon incident

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 In 1987 Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzees grooming, in which one discovers a blonde hair and says, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[127] The Jane Goodall Institute called the cartoon an "atrocity" in a letter drafted by its lawyers to Larson and his syndicate. Goodall, who was in Africa at the time, later found the cartoon amusing.[128] 

She went on to name it her favourite depiction of herself in pop culture.[129] Larson offered profits from sales of a shirt featuring the cartoon to the Jane Goodall Institute.[130] 

Goodall wrote the preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy.[131] She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. 

In 1988 Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania.[128] While there, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.[127][132]
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coachdonovan.bsky.social @coachdonovan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Still true
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Clue Heywood @clueheywood.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thrilled to report the Arizona Rattlers CHUG CAM appears to be sponsored by an intervention and recovery center
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
James Dolan having to watch his team go down in flames from a 2-0 lead after inviting Donald Trump to ruin Game 3 for a photo op would be funny and just
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coachdonovan.bsky.social @coachdonovan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
THE BUCS AINT DEAD YET!
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@scuffed.bsky.social sighting on John Oliver
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The Sickos CBB Committee @sickoscbb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
kind of appropriate for Duke to play in a baseball stadium given the number of blown saves they've had recently
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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
hello, it's your child's school! it's the final week of the year, so please attend the English expo, spring sing, the art fair, the PTA gala, the science fair, commencement ceremony, and teachers' picnic. all of these are during the work day. p.s. your kids have half days all week BYEEEEEEE
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
totally normal website. nothing to see here at @defector.com
two headlines. one reading "let birds masturbate" and the other reading "Beam Team’s Esteemed Dreams Once Deemed Reamed, Now Redeemed With New Regimes"
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Adam Gretz @adamgretz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
When the Steelers-Bengals rivalry was at its peak.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
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coachdonovan.bsky.social @coachdonovan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
For most people @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social is an entry into art. But tonight for my 11yo daughter it was an entry into sports. She was flipping through our copy which led to her asking to see the Tyson/Holyfield ear clip on YouTube. What a wonderful book.
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I was going to make fun of people getting worked up about the USMMT world cup roster but I realized that my posts here are public and you can see me getting worked up about the northwestern men's basketball transfer portal and these are exactly the same thing.
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Anyways I'm too busy to get to the wedding Don junior. Working on some documents.
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Jade Van Kley @backlinenurse.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
this the shit I been up to
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A wonderful sentence from this story, describing the video of the man who threw a rock at a seal for no reason getting beat up by a local: "Meanwhile, an unidentified gentleman begins wailing on him."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.
Sean Connery in The Untouchables
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The obvious takeaway from this is that evangelicals are amazing, but I'd also like to note that at least in this shot of the statue his hair looks like Trump is wearing a baseball hat bumped to the side in the classic Fernando Rodney style.
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
(Gianni Infantini describing being a season ticket holder at Old Ryan Field) Yes you could get a whole season for $250, but you were not guaranteed a hot dog bun. At the World Cup you will not be served a loose hot dog in a soda cup. How much is that worth?
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coachdonovan.bsky.social @coachdonovan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
@bootspod.bsky.social justice in case you hadn’t seen this: defector.com/whats-parent...
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What's Parenting Lily Yohannes Like? An Interview With Her Dad | Defector
Lily Yohannes plays soccer with an efficiency that would come off as mechanical if she didn’t have the vision of an artist, resulting in some of the most beautiful dribbling sequences and long through...
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