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David_j_roth

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The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2h
Incredibly good stuff here: defector.com/resident-evi...
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Accept The Expanding Ball Of Infected Corpses You Cannot Change | Defector
“Here are the main things you need to know about the Resident Evil games,” I explained to my friend Liz over the nonsense of the Digger trailer. “There’s a big outbreak of some kind of mutagenic virus...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me getting questioned like this about whether I watched a G-League playoff game at 11:27pm on a weeknight.
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sarah Hagi writing about the Daily Wire movie 🚨
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Finally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | Defector
I can’t think of a time in my life when the idea of a Muslim terrorist was not the most acceptable societal enemy. As someone who came of age in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of both Iraq and Afg...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will not be there for this one, which is fine because I am not Christian and medically incapable of mingling due to a rare condition that doctors have said is similar to but not the same as "the 28 Days Later thing." I wish my comrades all good luck.
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RandBall’s Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He looks like he’s trying to solve a murder in a town where candy grows on trees
Det. Kelce, Homicide.
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lucy Bloom blog at Defector! defector.com/how-can-you-...
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How Can You Not Be Romantic About An Old Rusty Truck Almost Ruining Your Life? | Defector
You ever need something so badly it scares you to say it aloud, just because the universe might smell that stench of desperation about you and smite your ass back into the existential garbage time you...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wife school
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you're in your forties you can only achieve this sort of gain by drinking three beers in one day.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whispery coffee shop vocal cover of Aerosmith's "Love In An Elevator" at the end of a Grey's Anatomy episode about someone who dies after an elevator accident of some kind.
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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
really sucks how much social media (even just text based ones) has fragmented....bluesky has lib chopped uncs...substack notes has annoying writers...threads and twitter have all the really mentally ill people. That used to be all in one place!
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“You think you got the horses for that? Well good luck and God bless, but I'll tell you this: the last place you want to see me is in the Billboard Hot 100.”
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Michael, I have great affection for you and you live a very rich and interesting life, but you live in a bubble. What you're describing is a self-curated bubble. If you haven't heard the song that's been #1 on the charts for 23 weeks, you live in a bubble and you should probably be aware of that.”
Tom Wilkinson holding 20 baguettes in Michael Clayton
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 27/09/2026
All my Phillies fan friends are so mad their team won the game to hold onto their spot in the postseason, what a beautiful city of normal people.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At this time I am soliciting recommendations for things to do and eat and places to stay in and around Lisbon, Portugal. We have entrusted the broad strokes to Rick Steves as is best practices but I would also love some input from the people in my computer as well.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Taking a break from football on a rainy Sunday to watch a baggy old man skulk down a hotel hallway (?) while a voiceover of him saying the word "globalists" in a Master Shake voice plays. And what's this, I also paid for it? Nice.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
/Walking past Tom Wilkinson's character from Michael Clayton carrying 100 baguettes and muttering to himself on an alley in Tribeca "Hey how's it going?"
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Corbin Smith @corbinsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incredible
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
why would State Farm suggest that Cam Skattebo is insurable
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A really good interview about a very good record.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
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DGM @notredale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jack Lemon with a broccoli cut and iced coffee
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One step closer to the dream of being able to have an extremely unsatisfying customer service experience anywhere in the solar system.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 25/09/2026
Hell Gate reporters are out in the streets talking to the people.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Classic example of a "Hitler guy" in the wild here. defector.com/racehorse-ow...
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Racehorse Owner Told To Rename His Hitleresque Steed | Defector
The Jockey Club, the leading sanctioning body in what’s left of the sport of horse racing in the U.S., sent out a clear message Wednesday to anybody thinking of naming their horse after Hitler: Don’t ...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Grand scheme of things, stuff like this is small ball esp compared to all this gang’s other abuses and atrocities but: I’ll say it again, the broken windows theory of crime is wrong EXCEPT for political and business elites like these. Every failure to crack down hard on the little, hatch act…
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I will never forgive Tucker Carlson for the incalculable damage he's done to the broader community of fast-talking people who like to wear plaid shirts in Maine. But it'd be a lot easier if he went away.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
what is a same sex bathroom dawg
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That's it. I'm "breaking with" President Donald Trump.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's still the newsletter and I recommend it highly.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a great blog. defector.com/i-spent-thre...
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I Spent Three Sweltering Days Shredding The High Seas At Jogging Pace, And It Ruled | Defector
Sisi is a Volvo Ocean 65 racing sailboat. She is fast as hell and built for sickos. She is not a comfortable luxury yacht, I assure you. Sisi is a frightening, angry, 72-foot, 12-ton sea monster.  Sis...
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lol
The documents reviewed by The Post also hint at friction, previously reported by The Post and others, that grew last summer as Trump insisted on expanding the ballroom until it was nearly twice the size of the historical mansion — a size that would seat more than 1,300 guests.In addition to fire safety concerns, Trump’s desired ballroom design did not include enough toilets to accommodate the structure’s maximum occupancy, according to documents, and there were few options for adding more, as the event space occupied most of the building’s footprint. One early ballroom design featured just seven stalls in the women’s bathroom.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now this is my kind of foreshadowing
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 23/09/2026
this was a great piece. what is happening among thought leader-type elites — what has been happening among them for years — is a willing abdication of their most fundamental intellectual responsibilities.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
explaining to cam skattebo that he won’t be able to play with jaxson anymore using the same hand signals they used to tell koko the gorilla her cat died
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Lauren @beavisetc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve been a loyal @defector.com subscriber since they launched but I think the biggest impact it’s had on my life is introducing the phrase “grim men’s evening” to my lexicon. I’ve spread it to my friends, including one who just told me about a “grim men’s business lunch”
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For your safety and that of your teammates, be aware of the risks of Vibe Contamination. defector.com/maybe-the-wb...
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Maybe The WBC Cursed The Redasses Of Team USA | Defector
A baseball season is very long and offers plenty of time for everyone involved to forget the stuff they would rather forget. For that reason among many others, it would make a great deal of sense to h...
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
seeing lots of people flip out about this poll but it’s only a sample of dem voters, not the electorate as a whole
Feelings About Trump Leaving Office
Poll participants were asked "If you woke up tomorrow morning and saw the following news headlines, how would you feel?" for each of the five scenarios listed below.
Reason
Positive
Negative
Net sentiment
To "safeguard the Constitution, a group of U.S. military leaders have removed President Donald Trump from power and assumed control of the United States.
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28%
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President Trump passed away after eating a tainted can of SpaghettiOs®
Canned Pasta
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7%
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President Trump passed away after eating a tainted can of SpaghettiOs®
Canned Pasta with Meatballs
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7%
79%
President Trump passed away after eating a tainted can of SpaghettiOs®
Canned Pasta with Chicken
Meathalle
85%
8%
78%
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Honestly kind of thrilling how shitty Jameis Winston looks out there.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Agree! Seems like we should do everything we can to stop media companies from being controlled by his cronies!
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(Cam Skattebo barges into the MRI tube) “what are they doing to you in here bro”
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Feeling amazing about consuming parodically chalk Guy My Age media while my wife was away. Just hitting the Simulate Late 40s Man option and delightedly watching Master And Commander (I hadn't seen it) and Blade Runner (hadn't seen it in a theater). I love to embody a dozen lame punchlines at once!
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Defector @defector.com · 20/09/2026
This is so fucking embarrassing defector.com/this-is-so-f...
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This Is So Fucking Embarrassing | Defector
I guess the addled corpus of Lee Corso was the only thing keeping ESPN’s college football arm from shedding every last trace of dignity. Because if you tuned into the four-letter network’s College Gam...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I actually came up with the idea of filling the triumphal arch with "sniper ammunition" and drones. My thought was, since it's going to be hollow inside (?) there's a lot of great storage space in there that would otherwise be going unused. Simply put the sniper ammunition and drones in there.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026
Another must-read from @ftrain.com, a profoundly informed (and undeceived) writer on all things A.I. (n.b. Paul is an Ellie award-winning writer, an entrepreneur and businessman, an insightful theorist of the internet of the olden time, etc. etc.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
/confused, tentative "Hello Newman?"
An image of UCLA RB Wayne Knight pointing at the camera next to his name, from the Big Ten Network broadcast on 9/19. It is not the guy who played Nedry in Jurassic Park.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lane Kiffin looks like David Lee Roth's evil son.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is good, and has an appropriately acid punchline. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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