Ben Swanson

I think we have to just show some patience - in a few years this could be a the best five-win program in the country

Life is a problem that can’t be solved Remembering Kaleb Horton

have been thinking about @kalebhorton.bsky.social all day. what a tremendous, incalculable loss. this, from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social, punched me in the fucking gut, but i needed it and i’m thankful he did www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town. Forty-five years later, we revisit the story.

I never got to meet Kaleb Horton, save for a few DMs on the old site where I told him how much I treasured his work. Horton was an incredible writer who never got close to the acclaim he deserved. His work is all over Bluesky this AM. Read any of them. This story blew me away archive.ph/RrjPI

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it.

Here are some of his beautiful shots.

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

im the guy who thinks 92% of americans live in new york city, california or texas

Bob Waterfield?

Every guest gets a scented cologne ad

“ai” is a scheme by encyclopædia brittanica to get everyone to buy their cd-rom box sets again

While they were waiting for their division supervisor to arrive, federal law enforcement showed up around 9:30 a.m. Federal law enforcement asked the crews to line up to check their IDs, according to the firefighters. One of the firefighters said members of the crew were told not to take video of the incident. "You risked your life out here to save the community," the firefighter said. "This is how they treat us." In a FaceTime video call from the other firefighter to The Seattle Times, firefighters in their gear were seen sitting on logs in front of federal officers. Some firefighters were dismissed back to their vehicles. One firefighter attempted to walk over to his company vehicle to get something to drink and appeared to have been called back by federal officers. In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing "Police" vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained. According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members. "I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: 'You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.

they drove out to the middle of nowhere on the olympic peninsula to snatch up people working to contain a massive wildfire www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

i could've fallen out of my chair when it said jannero pargo clocked .44%

I'm ashamed two of my players were above .20

Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

now you say “hi dad”

Loved it so much and was not expecting to think about it as much as I have after the fact. I saw someone compare it to George Miller coming back to Mad Max, which felt apt. Injected a lot of life and expanse to that world. Also I’m obsessed with the Young Fathers soundtrack

Did the whales throw up upon seeing all this

I am choosing to interpret it literally and understand it to mean that Ayton will get the $34 million somewhere around Redding

They're called Bond films because they pay off once every 30 years

The slo-mo replays of Tyrese Haliburton’s devastating injury will continue until morale improves.

a nation waits with bated breath

Tremendous television production by ESPN to remind us the most hated studio panel in history is waiting for us at halftime

Lu Dort is an amazing player because his three pointers are either swishing or hitting the superfan sitting in the 9th row

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wow these steals by the Thunder are crazy, I’d love to see some replays on how they’re creating these second-chance opportunities

ESPN: here is tyrese haliburton writhing in pain again

“Enes Kanter”

The most NBA thing possible would be if Kevin Durant gets traded on the day of Game 7 of the Finals.