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Philadelphians had to talk themselves into Ben Simmons and Carson Wentz in the same year, in case you're wondering why we are the way we are

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

I get that and I like and respect you enough to follow you and I am not trying to be disrespectful or argumentative, but it feels like national reporters often make these sweeping statements about Jalen Hurts from one play and miss all of this

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I get that, but then national people shouldn’t make sweeping statements about players without watching the whole game

Not trying to pick on this guy, but this is why I don’t really listen to most national football people about our football team. This guy didn’t actually watch the game and said *this* game of all games is why people doubt Jalen. A game where Jalen had the second highest passing yards of his career

No “disgruntled AJ Brown” narrative this week.
ESPN might have to lay people off.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

And are you married? I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle. In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it? Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

Shot + chaser

quotes from cybertruck owners

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

I really can’t stand this line of thinking - that if you get ratio’ed its a badge of honor. No room for self reflection? Just straight insistence that you’re right all the time? If hundreds of people disagree with you, that doesn’t give you pause for a second?

This piece is about how the author thinks Bari is a brilliant journalist, and how people who think otherwise simply have derangement syndrome. About halfway through, the author mentions that Bari, her wife, and her sister are close personal friends.

LOL the first few seconds of this are pure chaotic joy and it's perfect.

A meme where baby Gamora asks Thanos whether the Eagles won Super Bowl LIX, he replies yes, she asks "What did it cost?" and he says "everything"

Look man I was sitting in my kitchen on some bum ass bulky TV and watched Joe Carter hit the dinger to crush my soul at age 12. I can deal with some goof totaling shitting his pants

Professional baseball in Philadelphia was a mistake.

Well, this is shaping up to be a catastrophic Philadelphia sports night

The Dodgers pitching was real fucking good and the Bader injury changed the series. Just absolute pain against a great team they could have beat.

Pain

I just think phillies pitchers shouldn’t have to throw four strikes in order to record a strikeout. I apologize if this is a controversial opinion.

If they made a night completely out of the i Am Ready To Get Hurt Again meme it’d look a lot like tonight

I’m so happy we didn’t get swept 😭

I'm not one for prayers, but I'm sending as many positive thoughts for Dolly Parton as I can out into the universe, and you should too.

lol this pic

In his post-match interview, Alex Zverev said court speeds were being homogenized to help Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner reach all the finals.

But all I heard was...

“Taylor swift does nothing for me, exiting the timeline”

GREAT! Do you want an award? A cookie? Maybe the stick out of your ass perhaps?

Good god people. You don’t have to like everything and you don’t need to announce everything you hate. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

it's okay to enjoy something

The absolute effing worst

Nice job taking out the trash, Med

(watching Sunday Night Football go to overtime) PACIFIC TIME BAY-BEEEE