Barry Petchesky

How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Their Many Tiny Legs And Love The House Centipede | Defector If I were a medieval monarch, the house centipede would be my tiniest champion, swiftly dispatching intruders in the still of the night.

They’re cool and useful! Also horrid but mostly useful! defector.com/how-i-learne...

I don't understand why dogs fear thunder. You were WOLVES. You lived outside.

My policy proposal: It shouldn't be illegal to be a billionaire, as long as it's also not a crime to kill a billionaire. If you think you can make $1B in a way that doesn't make anyone angry enough to want to kill you, good luck!

I guarantee this is the most interesting article you will read about chimpanzees putting grass up their butts

Rochester music legend Chuck Mangione has died at age 84 Chuck Mangione, the Rochester jazz legend who created hits like "Feels So Good", has died, his attorney confirmed.

RIP king www.whec.com/top-news/roc...

We lost an absolute legend today.

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

KEXP.org is streaming Sabbath/Ozzy deep cuts all afternoon, if you've only ever heard the singles, you're in for a treat.

A real quick take on Ozzy and Sabbath, who did it first and best.

The original blogger

Believing that em dashes reveal LLM usage just reveals that you don't read.

Defector staff writer Maitreyi Anantharaman's YOU CAN'T SEE ME: INSIDE THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF WOMEN'S BASKETBALL, balancing reporting with criticism to chronicle a power shift in women's basketball-a sport that is seeing record-breaking viewership numbers, growing corporate interest, and the negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement set to transform how the players are valued-with a focus on the star players at the forefront of the sport's rapid cultural rise, to Pilar Garcia-Brown at Dutton, at auction, by Laura Usselman at Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).

interesting weekend! anyway! I’m really excited to work on this book about all the ways women’s basketball players are valued and devalued

Every time I have gone to the DMV in the last 20 years it has been fast and pleasant. Gotta be an all-time turnaround.

Calvin And Hobbes's Gruesome Snowmen Were A World All Their Own | Defector There are only two pieces of media that have made me wistful for a small-town/suburban childhood I didn’t have: A Christmas Story, and Calvin And Hobbes. Before you accuse me of specifically longing f...

Last one(?) defector.com/calvin-and-h...

The "Big Beautiful Bill" Is Trying To Steal A Space Shuttle | Defector The Space Shuttle drips romance. Representing nearly a half-century of human spaceflight—from its conception in 1968, even before the Moon landing, until its retirement in 2011—its design and even its...

I guess I’m just threading all my Bills Week blogs here defector.com/the-big-beau...

We Won A Grant | Defector Keen observers of the independent media space might be aware that we at Defector have done some informal consulting over the years to help other emerging worker-owned publications find their footing. ...

It wasn't necessarily part of Defector's original mission (we needed rent money), but we're all passionate about helping other worker-owned publications get off the ground, and this will help. defector.com/we-won-a-grant

Bill Shapes, Ranked | Defector Let’s rank bird bills, from best bill to least-best bill. 1 (TIED): Toucan Natural selection was cooking when it came up with these guys. Just an insane extravaganza of a bill, it is useful for reachi...

The rankings are final. defector.com/bill-shapes-...

Yeah it’s down, we’re working on it

Bill Goldberg Was A Star From Day 1 | Defector For all its miracles, the internet has had some drawbacks. Before the internet, people generally had more friends, and more lasting relationships; they went outside more, and were more physically acti...

I haven’t watched wrestling in 25 years but tenuous news pegs are what Bills Week is all about. defector.com/bill-goldber...

It's Bills Week | Defector Defector will be turning five years old in September. What better way to squander whatever warm feelings our upcoming birthday will elicit from our dedicated readers and subscribers than subjecting th...

It's Bills Week at Defector dot com, god help us all. defector.com/its-bills-week

They should have 40-year-olds shagging flies for the HR Derby instead of children, and they should set an over/under on the number of shredded ACLs.

A little birdie told me that next week Defector will be conducting one of its universally beloved Theme Weeks…

I’m nervous there will be too many hot babes at the Weird Al show!

The Ozzy tribute show was great, but Tony Iommi deserves statues in every city on Earth.

The cherry blossom La Croix is delicious until it warms up even one degree, at which point it becomes repulsive.

i'll be reading and analyzing all of these responses! i'd love to present your ideas to the rest of the staff. we're especially interested in hearing:

1. about how and where you find stuff to read online; &

2. from people who don't (yet!) subscribe to the site.

would love to hear from as many people as possible

Fun Barry fact, that was actually the first movie I ever saw in a theater.

Just Give Me Some Normal Damn Dinosaurs | Defector It should be impossible—water-from-a-stone impossible, faster-than-light-travel impossible—to make a bad movie about scary dinosaurs. And yet, according to reviews for Jurassic World Rebirth, out this...

Blogged it defector.com/just-give-me...

It works to his advantage when he doesn’t have to write humans talking to other humans.