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Barry Petchesky

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The get-in price for abject misery is only like 80 bucks

03.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's been an awful winter, but soon it'll be April! and I'll go to a baseball game and it'll be 50 and gray and damp and the wind will cut through me and I'll be shivering and miserable by the third inning and my hot chocolate will already be cold and I'll think to myself, "this sucks so much ass."

03.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 462 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 3

I don't know anything about game development so all games are basically sorcery, but I started Cyberpunk and it feels like an actual miracle.

03.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 607 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 7

Hyperion, The Terror, Summer of Night all absolutely legendary. Simmons himself got driven crazy by 9/11 but I think his best work would still hold up.

27.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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And then there were three.

23.02.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It doesn't seem right that Milo and Tina just go away forever now that the Olympics are over. They should be named mascots for something else, or perhaps elected to Parliament.

23.02.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3
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Shout out to these heroes.

23.02.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A good bit to do when the weather’s bad is to tell your adopted pet they’d still be sleeping out there if it weren’t for you and they should really be more grateful.

22.02.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 2099 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 194 πŸ“Œ 26
Team USA. (Photo:Alexander NEMENOV / AFP via Getty Images)

Team USA. (Photo:Alexander NEMENOV / AFP via Getty Images)

Many times have I wondered if I'd ever see this in my lifetime.

22.02.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 3374 πŸ” 343 πŸ’¬ 287 πŸ“Œ 56

(handing the most heartbroken, disgusted-looking hockey player a stuffed animal) congratulazioni! enjoy the stoat

22.02.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 1019 πŸ” 164 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 7

At least the Tkachuks were bad enough that I don't have to feel any fondness for them going forward.

22.02.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Toothless Jack Hughes celebrates gold. Photo: Elsa/Getty Images

Toothless Jack Hughes celebrates gold. Photo: Elsa/Getty Images

Yer all right, Jack.

22.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Connor Hellebuyck is the greatest American hero.

22.02.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 171 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

No, I respect myself

22.02.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You’re telling me that once this is over I have to just go back to watching the Rangers

22.02.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2

Guerin being totally validated in taking PK/faceoff guys would be so funny.

22.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
Quinn Hughes looking like a small, bullied monkey.

Quinn Hughes looking like a small, bullied monkey.

Getting Punch the macaque vibes from Quinn here.

20.02.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Why do the biathletes not simply shoot the other guys if they ski past

20.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 893 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 13

In some ways Olympic hockey is very unlike NHL hockeyβ€”starts on time, fewer adsβ€”and that’s good. In other ways it’s very much the sameβ€”JT Miller and Vincent Trocheck play for my teamβ€”and that’s bad.

18.02.2026 23:10 πŸ‘ 843 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 2
photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧡 πŸ‘‡

17.02.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 7693 πŸ” 2094 πŸ’¬ 157 πŸ“Œ 279

Why is the fucking PATCO logo in my most-used emoji on Slack

17.02.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Quinn Hughes

16.02.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s Danβ€οΈβ€πŸ©ΉπŸ¦…

16.02.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 3380 πŸ” 363 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 11

I am not going to be tricked into having an opinion online about Eileen Gu, where people can see it.

15.02.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Big Canada-Sweden Curling Beef, Explained | Defector As a sport most people pay intense attention to for two weeks every four years and then not at all the rest of the time, curling can be slightly impenetrable to the casual viewer; its intricacies and ...

The big Canada-Sweden curling beef, explained: defector.com/the-big-cana...

15.02.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 190 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 38
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Just remembered this piece-of-shit game. The curling was kind of fun though.

12.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 974 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 75 πŸ“Œ 14
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France's Viral Ice Dancing Team Has A Dark Backstory | Defector Blink and you might not have caught it. On Monday, GuillaumeΒ CizeronΒ and Laurence Fournier Beaudry took to the rink and staked their claim to the ice dancing gold medal. Dancing to Madonna’s β€œVogue,” ...

Resharing this because the top teams in ice dancing just took the ice β€” a primer on the dark backstory behind France's viral ice dancing team. They are among the favorites for gold.

Gift link:

11.02.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Children of Memory/the uplifted corvids

11.02.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I Traveled 800 Miles To Eat Breakfast, Lunch, And Pizza At Criss Angel’s Breakfast, Lunch, And Pizza | Defector When I was a very depressed British teenager, I had an unhealthy fascination with America. I found a way to love its contradictions, to explain away the obvious sins not by excusing them directly but ...

by the end of this weekend my phone had learned "cablp" without autocorrecting it. please enjoy my trip report: defector.com/criss-angel-...

11.02.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 683 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 14

They should call her Marie-Philip POULET because she was too CHICKEN to play because she knew she'd get her ass kicked!

(I hope she's healthy and back to 100 percent real soon.)

10.02.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0