Ben Sailer

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.

When you want to conduct a genocide without people seeing what you're doing, you kill all the journalists. That's exactly what Israel is doing. They just murdered 5 Al-Jazeera journalists living in a tent next to al-Shifa hospital.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Reed is talented but his drop rate last year was also really bad.

this is history, I don’t care if it’s preseason, it means something to me

Games* is back on the menu, people!

Feed me!

*these would be ~375 word $10 section essays, just to be clear

I’m very specifically looking for books pitches

I am among those looking for pitches for (in my case) the Movies section of Exploits.

Want a little scratch in exchange for writin' about a movie? (Almost any movie?) Hit me up!

who will validate me if not the bots

I hate it, this sucks

I mean technically I think you're right but I can't do that to Queen, they're too good for this

Honestly I read the whole article and I can still only assume you're correct.

All I learned from this is exactly where the boom-stomp-clap genre came from and honestly I'm worse off for having that information in my head.

Love to see cool labels do good.

Is it possible they cut from another position group to carry 7 WRs when Watson returns?

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

Choo choo choose to buy and read this

The cover of the August 2025 issue of Exploits, featuring William Heath Robinson's 1922 art "They Just Managed to Catch the Last Train Home," which depicts people and animals riding a train. Text at the bottom indicates that this issue covers the high cost of videogames, billy woods, The Power Broker, Shutter Island, Loudermilk, and The Campaign Trail.

Get on the cultural train. This month's issue of Exploits includes micro-criticism on topics like the global cost of videogames and Shutter Island.

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It's time for me to finally do what I've been putting off doing, and buy the Minnesota Twins.

I don't smoke but I'd start just to join in

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ICYMI: "[W]hatever Full of Hell accomplishes, it will be done without compromise."

@bensailer.bsky.social ponders death metal band Full of Hell’s future direction in light of their latest album release: unwinnable.com/2025/07/29/f...

low-key one of the best bands of the "orgcore" variety that not enough people have ever paid attention to.

Nobody asked them, but I'm convinced that if they wanted to, Full of Hell could break out with audiences that don't typically listen to heavy music.

That's fascism. He is describing what fascists do to free presses.

that's a potato or possibly a yam if I ever saw one

WIRED is doing some of the most important journalism happening anywhere right now, whether you care about tech or not, and it's the one publication I probably tell people to subscribe to the most (right behind @unwinnable.com).

My fantasy football leagues are reactivating, once again beckoning forth the time of year that I look at my crusty rosters for the first time in months and try to remember what tragedies led me to committing unspeakable acts like starting Aiden O'Connell. Oof. Time to clean a few houses here.

When I die, I want a Viking funeral (everybody gets really excited but then loses in the divisional round to a wild card team)

A screenshot of Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" from the album Black Sabbath playing in the Spotify app.

"Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath is the only way to go right now.

The “most transparent administration in history” is shutting down a branch of government early because that’s how badly they don’t want to release the Epstein files.

The lesson is we never should have tried to move beyond forums and message boards.