If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

The move for Republicans would be to try to blame Dems for SNAP cuts by blaming the shutdown on them. But they can't help themselves. They hate the poor too much!

My take on the World Series? I support Shohei Ohtani’s role as global ambassador for Oi Ocha. I’m a regular Ito En drinker and I agree with Ohtani’s take: “So much is happening these days. It makes sense to take a break for green tea.”

It's cool that Shohei Ohtani, the best player in baseball, set some all-time MLB records tonight and it's still definitely gonna go down in history as "The Will Klein game"

i am in tears

damn, what a play by Tommy Edman to get IKF at 3rd

Shohei Ohtani, tomorrow night’s starting pitcher, just tied Game 3 of the World Series with his 2nd home run of the night.

[activates stadium mic] After review, the runner was tagged on the testicles, the call stands, the dodgers lose one of their challenge

Seats behind the batters box should be reserved for Baseball Enjoyers and not Paid Weird Shirt Wearers

(nabisco scientist about to get fired) introducing: wheat thicks

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

a baseball player wearing a dodgers uniform is dancing ALT: a baseball player wearing a dodgers uniform is dancing

THIS GAME HAS BEEN BLESSED WITH KIKÉ HERNANDEZ ENERGY

Never forget your roots

Actually, Bluesky educational series aren’t even a thing. So

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

You may disagree with some of Trump’s policies (pointless military invasion of your exurbs, no healthcare, routine savage beatings) but at least his peace deals keep falling apart immediately

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

The generals said "sir are you sure you want to fly the diarrhea bomber over the AI city with the nonsense billboards" and I said [zesty] we've got to shit the hell out of 'em. And no one has more loose stool than me. And actually that was very smart. Making myself the diarrhea president was smart.

The image is taken from an angle, and you can see the ocean tilting 30 degrees in the distance, with a huge crowd in front of it. In the foreground, you can see the giant American flag that is being held up by hundreds of protesters clustered around its edges.

This is the human banner from the air. It's sign made from masses of people standing together to form letters. It reads "No Kings Yes on 50." There is an American flag in the middle and a thick border around the banner. (Prop 50 is a California state proposition to gerrymander the state to create more blue districts, in order to combat the Texas law that gerrymanders their state to create more red districts.)

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Shohei Ohtani Plays The Greatest Baseball Game Of All Time | Defector Shohei Ohtani creates a world in which there are no stupid questions. Could there ever be a two-way player in the majors? Could he become an elite power hitter and a frontline starter? Could he recove...

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Shohei Ohtani Plays The Greatest Baseball Game Of All Time | Defector Shohei Ohtani creates a world in which there are no stupid questions. Could there ever be a two-way player in the majors? Could he become an elite power hitter and a frontline starter? Could he recove...

Everyone roasts me for putting stuff up late on Fridays, but Tom just hung an 11:58pm dateline on Defector and I don't see anyone yelling at him about it. I don't know what it's about, though, I haven't checked that part yet. Gonna post before I do, though. defector.com/shohei-ohtan...

Shohei Ohtani is the first player with 3 homers and 10 strikeouts as a pitcher in a game

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Shohei Ohtani literally just homered out of Dodger Stadium

I mean, it might be the best baseball game ever played by a single baseball player?