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right?? not to mention the generationality of it all

From his son’s X.com account: “Bro I used to come home sometimes and my PlayStation would just be gone. And I wasn’t in trouble😭😭😭”

fully and truly wishing the very best of luck to all the authors participating in the [intentionally unnamed by me] pitch event today, but i genuinely do not get the point of these in 2026

A like from an agent = a query request

please see each agent's individual submission guidelines before querying

A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent

these editors do NOT take unagented submissions

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 23h

yeah it pretty explicitly accused people of lying (and about those telling the truth: “if you care to live in a silo, rent is free.”) meanwhile the article you linked above carefully unpacked how many recent chart monsters were also huge cultural phenomena and still reached non-pop-radio-listeners

With incessant news coverage alongside chart and playlist presence, it’s pretty difficult to still claim total ignorance on this one. Perhaps there is a deeper reason why people say they haven’t heard the song and feel the need to make it known: cultural cachet.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 29/09/2026

no they didn’t? they put it several grafs down, but they didn’t exclude it

Mr. McKinsey was a transgender man and accused his wife, Candice Jang, and his in-laws of abusing him because of his identity, according to his filing for a restraining order in December 2025. He said his mother-in-law called him and one of his sons a “pervert” and a “monster” after the boy tried on dresses, and he accused his father-in-law of punching him in the chest while he was recovering from double mastectomy surgery in 2010.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 27/09/2026

the subject was relevant because she wanted a pair of cowboy boots and i like, “baby, i happen to know of *the* best outfitter within a 150-mile radius, because my dad used to work in that one-stop-light town”

The signs outside Tom’s Western Store in Ovid,
Michigan. One reads “COZY UP WITH A NEW CONCEALED CARRY VEST.”

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 25/09/2026

lololololol gift link www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...

Manchester City have been found guilty on almost all of the charges relating to breaches of the Premier League’s financial regulations.

The sanctions have not been decided, with all possibilities remaining on the table, and City are expected to appeal.

City have been found guilty on all but one of the 115 charges, according to sources briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously as they were not authorised to do so publicly.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 22/09/2026

a) my original post started with "idk the stats," because i obviously was just watching the game and not trying to chart his snaps b) per nfl pro, he had the lowest pressure rate of any rams defender with six or more pass-rush snaps. so he might have been winning reps but still had little impact

A screenshot of NFL Pro, showing that in Week 2 versus the New York Giants, Aaron Donald's 5.6 percent pressure rate on 18 pass-rush snaps was the worst among eight Los Angeles Rams defenders who had either at least six pass-rush reps or at least one pressure.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 22/09/2026

anybody know if mutant ai broccoli needs to be kept in the fridge? a fried egg left out on a wooden deck? how about snowy landscapes or ski lodges, am i supposed to put those in my meat-and-cheese drawer? or maybe the commercial jetliner with forward-swept wings, a thing that definitely exists

eBay’s “prove you’re human” challenge, comprised of entirely nonsensical ai-generated pictures.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 21/09/2026

undefeated. by the time the entree comes you can just ask for a box with it

Texas Roadhouse rolls, with the cinnamon butter.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 20/09/2026

i’ve never been a reporter so don’t have a ton of big names but i’ve still got some fun ones

The iOS contacts screen, showing “CO - Chad Ochocinco”

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 18/09/2026

from my column yesterday at @prideofdetroit.bsky.social: this is a ferociously tough spot for detroit, and while they can win it’s an extremely easy L to take in september

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 17/09/2026

i grew up to be the straight guy looking on and going, “this is good. i must defend this” [i do know that’s not what batman is thinking in this scene lol]

Batman looking on at two anthropomorphic animals in love.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 14/09/2026

and yes of course lol. note dad’s bio lol

Sara Moonves (born 1984) is an American magazine editor.[1] She was promoted to editor in chief of W, a fashion magazine, in 2019. Her appointment stirred vigorous scrutiny and discussion, with an article in The New York Times about her titled "The Most Watched Editor at Fashion Week".[2][3]

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Leslie Roy Moonves (/ˈlɛs ˈmuːnvɛz/ LESS MOON-vess; born October 6, 1949)[1] is an American retired media executive who was the chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation[2][3] from 2006 until his resignation in September 2018 following numerous allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and abuse.[4] He has been married to television personality Julie Chen since 2004.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 11/09/2026

as i wrote a few years ago, i’ll never forget—but i’ll always remember: newsletter.tyschalter.com/archive/alwa...

I’ll always remember pulling up my then-favorite Internet hangout and seeing the top post, “THE GLASS DESERT,” full of comments about how we should nuke ‘em 'til they glow.

I’ll always remember the guy who drove his pickup truck into the Islamic Center of East Lansing the day after.

I’ll always remember the U.S. Senate voting 98-1 for a plainly unconstitutional law that to this day allows our police, military and intelligence agencies to spy on us basically as much as they want.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 09/09/2026

it is absolutely not a real word lmao

The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search bar above.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 09/09/2026

just tried a homestar runner reference in outlier and

90 points. You’re the only player who has ever found it.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 08/09/2026

right and like screenshot: “boo, all shiny and plasticky” zoomed-in screenshot: “whoa, gorgeously lit and textured!!”

A screencap of my bluesky skyline, showing a couple of Zelda Ocarina of Time remake screenshots very small in the feed. The highlights on Young Link’s hair look especially plasticky, kind of like Donkey Kong Country.

The same screenshot, blown way up and cropped to just young Link. The wild differences in the way different textures and fabrics and his skin and hair are lit and rendered is amazing, and there are a ton of beautiful details.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 05/09/2026

okay i guess when you play this right after the reset you get a lot more “no one else founds” lol playoutlier.com/s/YNJ5UA

8 finds today no one else found

FINIAL • VORPAL • WEFT • CORVID • PHYLUM • POULTICE • POTASH • SACHET

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 04/09/2026

so hey why are we all sharing a shitty ai ripoff of the new york times dialect quiz/map

My dialect map from the 2014 New York Times quiz.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 03/09/2026

he’ll always be “the guy who wrote a furious letter to the editors of this magazine the next month saying ‘i need smooth jazz, why would you put those words in my mouth, hey “smooth jazz” radio stations don’t listen to them, please play my new album’” to me

The August 1999 issue of “Bass Player” magazine, featuring Stanley Clarke seated with an acoustic bass guitar. The words “WHO NEEDS SMOOTH JAZZ?” are printed right next to him and under his name.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 31/08/2026

i feel like the priss experience is not complete without her on her motorcycle, her shooting somebody, and also her dunking on everybody she knows—but they only give us one .gif per post

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 31/08/2026

who was your first anime crush

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 30/08/2026

all my wishes that that’s exactly how the trip goes. also, um, bluesky informs me that you think you’re writing in welsh?

The post I’m replying to, with a pop-up at the bottom of the reply box that says, “The post you’re replying to was marked as being written in Welsh by its author. Would you like to reply in Welsh?”

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 28/08/2026

over at @prideofdetroit.bsky.social this morning, subscribers got to read my elegy to the pro bowl, with a funny little lions-y twist:

And across the 2010s—a decade of the game being moved around in space and time, changing formats and loud complaints about the quality of play (and players)—Detroit had a lot more stars, but little more recognition. Calvin Johnson (six), Ndamukong Suh (four), and Darius Slay (three) accounted for 13 of the Lions’ 22 Pro Bowl berths last decade. Long snapper Don Muhlbach (two) got more nods than quarterback Matthew Stafford (one), which feels especially ludicrous now that everyone agrees Stafford’s a future Hall of Famer.

Eagle-eyed readers already where I’m going with this: In the last four seasons, the Lions have had more Pro Bowl nominations (26) than in all of the 1980s (17), 2000s (10), or 2010s (22).

They just never got to play in an actual Pro Bowl.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 28/08/2026

i can’t believe it’s been a decade since i was in @riverwalktheatre.bsky.social’s production of it [bonus: my pic from the cast photoshoot] www.wkar.org/arts-culture...

I am leaning up against a graffiti-covered block wall in Lansing, MI. I’m wearing black jeans, a yellow-and-black plaid flannel with a black Jaco Pastorius T-shirt, and I have a very 2016 giant beard and Mohawk.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 25/08/2026

the lions’ rivalry uniforms are a) not good and b) panthers uniforms

A shot of several of the Detroit Lions’ top stars in a parking garage, wearing white uniforms with black numbers/blue trim. The helmets are blue, with black main stripes and silver pinstripes.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 23/08/2026

okay this game is pretty fun

I found a Rarity-81 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER.
EAGLE EYES · 810 points · 10 rare words.
Only 11 players have ever found it in all of Outlier.
3 finds no one else found today.
OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me?
https://playoutlier.com/s/7TSY22

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 22/08/2026

cool, thanks! i got around it

The same screenshot, except the system is happy now that I’ve added an exclamation point to my first name: “Ty!”

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 22/08/2026

folks we have to get back to READING THE ARTICLES. this is no kind of apology or backtracking or acknowledgement of backlash or anything else

J.K. Rowling Y @jk_rowling • Follow
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It doesn't remotely infuriate me. I've always believed that adults with intractable gender dysphoria may only find peace after surgery and taking hormones. I'm glad you're happy.
2:43 AM • Aug 19, 2026

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 21/08/2026

for fiction, the fun and creativity of doing this ourselves is the point. for non-fiction or journalism, i wouldn’t trust anything an LLM generated for any of the below purposes so there’d be no point

Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge.[1] It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to controlling sources of bias and error. These activities are characterized by accounting and controlling for biases. A research project may be an expansion of past work in the field. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 20/08/2026

yeah, that's a good example. and so many modern pitchers being on ucl reconstruction doom-countdown clocks thanks to more extreme velocities

A screenshot of Final Fantasy IV, showing the enemy Ahriman casting the spell "Doom" on Rydia. A grim-reaper figure hovers over her.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 20/08/2026

yeah that was the problem. kamala should have gone anti-trans, that definitely would have won over a decisive 1 percent of voters and absolutely not lost 20-30 percent in the process

The effect of this mobilization on the left is hard to measure, but The Nation was quick to insist that the Biden administration’s Gaza policy likely cost the party Michigan, because many Arabs and Muslims swung toward Trump. The article did not seriously consider whether culture politics, such as Kamala Harris’s support for transgender rights, influenced socially conservative Arab and Muslim voters, even though the city of Dearborn has long been a locus of anti-gay grassroots politics in the state.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 18/08/2026

i was able to do it, but it’s *not* obvious. you have to go to the item listing itself, then scroll alllllll the way down to the bottom:

A screenshot of the bottom of an Etsy.com listing, highlighting the “Report this item to Etsy” button.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 18/08/2026

literallllly just ordered $38.14 worth of replacement ipad stuff for the eldest in the tab I closed before coming here

A screenshot of a confirmation email from the bald devil’s website, showing an order with a glass ipad screen protector and a pack of Apple Pencil replacement nibs coming to $38.14.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 16/08/2026

yyyyyeah. condensed as “mostly filler” into one episode with three other episodes, all the driving stuff cut

An episode guide showing “Goku’s Ordeal,” original episode 125, is condensed along with 123 and 124 into Dragon Ball Z Kai episode 58. I cropped this bit out accidentally but it’s labelled “mostly filler.”

An episode synopsis of Dragon Ball Z Kai episode 58, showing no driving-school antics included.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 14/08/2026

i can’t believe how stupidly this is written. “It will be a flying car with SpaceX-developed technology,” just like elon said—but actually no, it will be a regular car, but they strapped rockets to one of them and then turned it into a drone because it’s literally impossible for humans to operate

By: Suvrat Kothari Aug 14, at 10:29am ET

• Tesla is preparing to showcase the second-gen Roadster as early as this month, per a new report.
• It will be a flying car with SpaceX-developed technology.
• The demo vehicle will be remotely operated due to the noise and force of the SpaceX thrusters.

The Roadster will reportedly be remotely operated during the demonstration because of the noise and force generated by the SpaceX thrusters. Tesla is also expected to show two versions of the car: a standard Roadster and a limited-edition model equipped with the SpaceX technology. The limited-edition model, however, reportedly won't be street legal and could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 14/08/2026

i was so impressed with the musicality of the first verse and then

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