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@wtevs.bsky.social

basketballfeelings.com Writer: NYT Mag, SLAM, The Believer, Rolling Stone, SB, Dime, NBA dot com, Yahoo Sports, VICE, Hazlitt, a book, the list goes on brother

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BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

Israel has killed 240+ journalists. People who'd cover a strike that killed their kids and go on to cover the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different.

How many more murders will it take for the mainstream media's cowardly fever to break?

11.08.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 663    πŸ” 320    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 18

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

10.08.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 9548    πŸ” 8044    πŸ’¬ 498    πŸ“Œ 1465
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Throwing sex toys on court at WNBA games is about power, not humor This latest 'trend' is not funny. It's harassment

I wrote about the WNBA and dildogate for Andscape: β€œBy using the sex toy to make their point, the stunt becomes more than just an annoyance or a danger during play β€” it becomes a sexualized threat to the women on the court, an allusion to violence that can keep them in their place.”

09.08.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 273    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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Exits: Something darker Writer Robert Silverman on the Knicks, the authoritarian need of humiliation, outgrowing childhood fears, and Karl-Anthony Towns.

why authoritarian regimes feast on humiliation, the bigoted bent behind β€œzesty KAT”, and outgrowing childhood fears β€” @robertsilverman.bsky.social gives the knicks their β€˜exits’

09.08.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Exits: Something darker Writer Robert Silverman on the Knicks, the authoritarian need of humiliation, outgrowing childhood fears, and Karl-Anthony Towns.

At @wtevs.bsky.social's BASKETBALL FEELINGS, the Zesty KAT stuff took me right back to my own dumb childhood jock dreams and the ugly homophobia that’s seeping into ever corner of the current fascist momentβ€”even the '24-25 Knicks. www.basketballfeelings.com/p/exits-some...

09.08.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 6
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Exits: Something darker Writer Robert Silverman on the Knicks, the authoritarian need of humiliation, outgrowing childhood fears, and Karl-Anthony Towns.

why authoritarian regimes feast on humiliation, the bigoted bent behind β€œzesty KAT”, and outgrowing childhood fears β€” @robertsilverman.bsky.social gives the knicks their β€˜exits’

09.08.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

can we round the dildo dudes up and force them to get chasedown blocked in a game in front of a full crowd, if they somehow get the shot off they don’t go to jail

08.08.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

this whole entire story is at once the most depressing, annoying, incredibly lame and pure loser shit i’ve read in a long time (kudos to @benpickman.bsky.social for having the stomach to report it all), we gotta bring back bullying

08.08.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œβ€˜The sexualization of women is what’s used to hold women down, and this is no different,’ Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said.”

ding ding ding

08.08.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

it’s true, please subscribe to my newsletter

07.08.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Celtics just won a really meaningful award The Celtics’ Curbside Care program β€” which delivers essential care to postpartum mothers β€” has won the NBA’s Social Impact and Inclusion Award

NEW: Black women are 3-4x more likely to die during childbirth than their white peers.

Through the Curbside Care program, the Celtics work to ensure all mothers have access to critical care.

Derrick White is at the center: "He's just an incredible person."
www.celticsblog.com/boston-celti...

07.08.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 341    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 8

like a particular wing of your heaven AND hell

06.08.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

our brains will be so smooth by then we won’t notice we no longer go out, read, have conversations, create, foster relationships, just somehow still think about emails

06.08.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

cool that in 50 years we’ll all be living in desert wastelands terraformed by AI but we won’t have to write emails anymore

06.08.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

can’t stress, as someone who doesn’t have an offseason, how important paid subscribers are to my work and how appreciative i am of them!

05.08.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

really appreciate this, thank you!

05.08.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh i get into the DIY tech resourcefulness and handheld camera angles, mark. i might be the biggest fan of that strangely soothing contest

04.08.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hosted NBA H-O-R-S-E Championships during the pandemic.I called the action off my iPad with a pair of headphones in my family room.

We used innovative tech,as well as Chris Paul Jr. Chamique Holdsclaw’s nephew,Courtney VanderSloot holding iPhones atop ladders for good camera anglesπŸ˜‚ResourcefulπŸ’―

04.08.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

me related: fine
mike conley related: who hurt you so bad?

04.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

5 people unsubscribed after i sent this last night, which, if mike conley related, feels illegal

04.08.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exits: What can kindness count for? In deep appreciation of and for Mike Conley.

the wolves are up next in β€˜exits’, so naturally i wrote about mike conley

specifically: the nba’s fever dream pandemic h-o-r-s-e contest, the photos of conley i have on my phone, and how far kindness can take you (18 seasons and counting)

04.08.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Exits: The one who holds the sky Writer Alex Lewis on Nikola Jokic as Atlas, the trick (and fortitude) of time, and Denver on the mend.

the wonderful @lewisalex10.bsky.social wrote compellingly and personally about the nuggets, with nikola jokic as our modern day atlas, and lessons from his 90-year-old grandmother

04.08.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exits: No reverse or retrospect Golden State has only ever ridden for the horizon, what happens when the sun sets on these Warriors?

just when you thought 'exits' was over β€” it isn't! i just got woefully behind on sharing them here with work travel

here's me on the warriors, a team that has for a long time only ever looked forward, toward the horizon. so, what happens when that sun finally sets?

04.08.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exits: The one who holds the sky Writer Alex Lewis on Nikola Jokic as Atlas, the trick (and fortitude) of time, and Denver on the mend.

the wonderful @lewisalex10.bsky.social wrote compellingly and personally about the nuggets, with nikola jokic as our modern day atlas, and lessons from his 90-year-old grandmother

04.08.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exits: No reverse or retrospect Golden State has only ever ridden for the horizon, what happens when the sun sets on these Warriors?

just when you thought 'exits' was over β€” it isn't! i just got woefully behind on sharing them here with work travel

here's me on the warriors, a team that has for a long time only ever looked forward, toward the horizon. so, what happens when that sun finally sets?

04.08.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

actually just buy a grey hoodie and leave women alone, we’ll find you

01.08.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

just get it together like the rest of us

01.08.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

sorry dude but if straight men can’t figure out how to apply basic rules of attraction (e.g. be thoughtful, wear a grey hoodie sometimes, read books) to make themselves fuckable then maybe they deserve whatever fake crisis of confidence they’re in. i don’t need to read any more essays about it

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the conditions are very much influenced by said latter country

31.07.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

finally some good news in this melting swamp city

30.07.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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