Never meet your idols

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Golden for the first time 🥇

#OTD in 1996: We defeated China PR 2-1 to win the first-ever Olympic gold medal in women's soccer.

AT THE DEATH

Red Bulls winning this match on the final kick of the game is peak Leagues Cup

Apple’s sports app says xG was DAL 1.86 - 1.66 NYC so something’s off.

Howdy, I’m Scott.

Random player: Mark Semioli

First he gets green-lit to finally make his passion project about the Jonestown Massacre, and now this. Incredible year for Marty.

Online Store: Great news!! Your package has shipped ❤️ Click here to track it 🥰

Me: [clicks]

Online Store: Whoa whoa WHOA! Slow down, Speed Racer!!! We haven’t even put the sticker on the box yet, JESUS Christ 😬 🛑

Trump post: Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere.

(Receives random cold cuts for Olynyk) Happy with our return on this deal!

My SO once coordinated a craft beer history discussion at a since-closed CC bookstore and Tom was on the panel; he invited everyone to Monk’s afterwards for drinks. Great publican.

Truly imagine if Mamdani had used the word “Shylock.”

It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle.

Trump? Hardly a peep.

When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.

What jobs are being added to the public sector? State, municipal? Because it sure isn’t federal.

YouTube video by ukandanz uKanDanZ - WAR PIGS (Official Music Video)

Have been losing my mind all morning at this absolutely bowel-crushing Franco-Ethiopian jazz-funk cover of War Pigs. Holy shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kVY...

Put her in the actual Basketball HoF in Springfield. If Raptors superfan Nav Bhatia (by all accounts a really great dude) can get inducted, she absolutely should be.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC What we won on Election Day

this is exceptionally well done, h/t @anildash.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjgI...

About damn time!

YouTube video by BBC Music Pulp - Common People (Glastonbury 2025)

Pulp performing Common People at Glastonbury, June 28, 2025

It’s Colbert’s truthiness definition come to life.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump: If Iran rebuilds its uranium enrichment facilities, the US will attack again.

☢️ IAEA Chief Grossi: Iran informed me that they had taken "protective measures" on enriched uranium stock.

He’d win Arlington by 50+ pts vs any opponent.

If Zohran is leading after the first count with 40%+ and Cuomo still in the mid-30s, it’s over. He will pull a lot more #2 and #3 choice votes than Cuomo. Cuomo didn’t campaign for those positions at all.

Win or lose tomorrow, Dems so need Zohran and people just like him and AOC to take over the party. Who’s the last Democrat where people jumped up and down pointing with excitement and glee at the sight of them on the street? Obama was elected *17 years ago*!

David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers. There was no second date.

Kevin Durant traded to the Rockets

Breaking: The Phoenix Suns are trading Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the No. 10 pick in the 2025 draft and five second-round picks, sources tell Shams Charania.

Get breaking news alerts from Shams through the ESPN app: http://spr.ly/633294ZlrT

* MACRON: THE USA WILL NEVER WIN A WORLD CUP WITH PAY-TO-PLAY ACADEMIES

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

ICE crossed a line in LA

Three months ago today, plain-clothes ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil in his apartment building lobby after they'd followed him home.

Free Mahmoud.

Public Image Ltd opening for INXS, Chic opening for Earth Wind and Fire, Gary Clark Jr opening for Clapton