patrick

patrick

@redford.bsky.social

i write for defector

11,552 Followers 473 Following 294 Posts Joined May 2023
1 day ago

devastated that someone beat me to coming up with the Woke Ginger, that could have been an amazing pivot for me

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2 days ago

it's time to share my truth: for years I thought that "Hallelujah" was an original song written for the Shrek soundtrack

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3 days ago

Very special episode of Colossal Ponderings starting in 10 minutes

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Ass'n Up with Will Anderson (Hotline TNT) Podcast Episode · Nothing But Respect · March 10 · 1h 11m

we were lucky enough to have Will Anderson of Hotline TNT on Nothing But Respect this week! tap in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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6 days ago

Her prose has a perma-smirk that would be better utilized as the third most popular writer at a Big Ten SB Nation blog in 2014.

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6 days ago

i’ll be back yeah!

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6 days ago

crazy stuff, i really want those guys and jonas to get into a battle for the Tour podium

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Cycling Prodigy Paul Seixas Accepts The Sport's Defining Burden | Defector When Paul Seixas rode away from Matteo Jorgenson 40 kilometers from the finish of this past weekend’s Faun-Ardeche Classic, he was taking a casual drink. The 19-year-old Frenchman had just shattered a...

Paul Seixas was the best of the mortals today at Strade Bianche. I wrote earlier this week about the cycling prodigy and the career-defining challenge he faces (being a French guy): defector.com/cycling-prod...

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1 week ago

touching grass is not enough i need to Confront Grass

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An Interview With A Tenant Who Doesn't Have Heat In Giannis Antetokounmpo's Building | Defector A tenant in a Brooklyn building owned by Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has not had heat in his apartment since Feb. 23, when a blizzard dropped over 19 inches of snow on New York City. Be...

interviewed someone about what it's like to live in a building owned by a two-time MVP and also not have heat in the aftermath of a blizzard defector.com/an-interview...

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1 week ago

you got this king

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1 week ago

És boníssima, i en dos idiomes tan diferents con el japonès i l'alemany. Com juga sempre en els límits, entre allò que ens és familiar i allò que no, com busca què és la identitat en la frontera! Una autora interessantíssima, la veritat ❤️

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1 week ago

One of my points of pride in my life is that I've met Tawada Yoko multiple times and have a few books signed by her, including a Japanese copy of The Bridegroom Was A Dog where her vertical signature bends because the taxi we were in swerved as she was writing it

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Yoko Tawada Is A Genius In Any Language | Defector There’s always a song to sing, but first a silence must be created for the song to be born in. — Yoko Tawada, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel The best argument I can make for why I like reading...

Yoko Tawada—exophone, master of the "poetic ravine," genius—is my favorite living author. Maybe she will be yours too: defector.com/yoko-tawada-...

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1 week ago

interesting

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1 week ago

just wheeling it alongside

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1 week ago

it looks extremely demanding, but soooo fun

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1 week ago

one of my guys i follow currently riding his bike around the world broke a spoke and derailleur, lost his shoes, & had to walk 27 miles in sandals to the Vietnamese border in one day before his Chinese visa expired, but he got 17 miles in & found parts on an abandoned bike and he made it, beautiful

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Yoko Tawada Is A Genius In Any Language | Defector There’s always a song to sing, but first a silence must be created for the song to be born in. — Yoko Tawada, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel The best argument I can make for why I like reading...

Yoko Tawada—exophone, master of the "poetic ravine," genius—is my favorite living author. Maybe she will be yours too: defector.com/yoko-tawada-...

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How Can You Not Be Romantic About Women's Basketball?  | Defector Most “women’s sports novels” are really novels about girls. In them, girlhood is something mourned before it’s over. Like the games themselves, the books are set to ticking clocks. When the high schoo...

a new WNBA romance novel got me thinking about how romance fandom and WNBA fandom can both feel like expressions of optimism: defector.com/how-can-you-...

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2 weeks ago
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Kalshi Suspended a California Politician and a YouTuber for Insider Trading Leading prediction market Kalshi has revealed details of two recent insider trading cases it flagged to authorities, giving a rare look at how the platform enforces its policies.

NEW: Kalshi announces details into two insider trading investigations. WIRED confirms that one suspended account belongs to California congressional candidate Kyle Langford: www.wired.com/story/kalshi...

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Jeffrey Epstein And His Network Of Rich Freaks Were Obsessed With The Chiropractor | Defector As the number of powerful, wealthy people revealed to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein increases, so too does the coherence of their collective excuse: They only knew Epstein as a genius of math…

Jeffrey Epstein and his network of rich freaks were obsessed with the chiropractor: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...

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3 weeks ago
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Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

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3 weeks ago

definitely, it's a critical rite of passage here

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3 weeks ago

Incredibly heartening that the figure-skating gold medalist almost certainly knows how to do the Thizzle Dance

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3 weeks ago
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Eileen Gu Will Never Be The Traitor JD Vance Wants Her To Be | Defector On Thursday, a certain freestyle skier will clip her boots on and huck herself down the halfpipe in Livigno, to the feverish anticipation of fans in two countries. Though she was born in the United St...

Eileen Gu will never be the traitor JD Vance wants her to be: defector.com/eileen-gu-wi...

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3 weeks ago

The thing I’m looking forward to the most after all the all-star break? That’s right: the product.

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Top right corner. Can't help but wonder if The Simpsons paid subtle tribute to Dan McQuade in tonight's set-in-Philadelphia 800th episode.

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1 month ago

kathryn does a good job articulating the ambivalence i feel toward power athletes in "artistic" disciplines. one additional problem no one is talking about is that he looks too much like jack suwinski

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1 month ago

they play ugly basketball and i dont like to watch it, that's all

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