“They didn’t believe in you! No one thought you would do it and you proved ALL the haters wrong. He’s too big. He’s too old. His time is up and he’ll never reach as high as he did earlier in his career. And yet, here you are, once again, lighting up the sky. Congrats, big man.”
-Tom Brady, every morning to the sun

I don’t understand the narrative that people doubted this team could win. I don’t think anyone doubted that. I think far more people were resigned to that fact, disgusted by the inevitability, but no one doubted it.

Thanks for your EVE articles. I dont think I’ll be picking it up anytime soon but I have always enjoyed news about the game as dispatches from a parallel universe.

President Obama’s “health care for all” law was officially called the “Affordable Care Act” but has been nicknamed Obamacare in honor of its champion.

You know, I didn’t care about the timing of Dragons, so much as I cared about why is Arya suddenly the worst Stark child.

1,969 pieces? I see what you did there, Lego.

We have Trump because America has a bunch of racist assholes who are willing to screw themselves over economically just to fuck over people of color? Yeah, that sounds right.

• Write messages in a fast and comfortable way: prepare yourself to go back to that “u rote ur txt in teh 90s”, because you’re going to need it. Writing in an alphanumeric keyboard feels weird after a decade break.

This is a great list, and I’m certainly giving Jack a re-watch before Season 5. I think the Three Archers is my favourite - just a really, really well put together episode with a great payoff.

“Artist’s rendering of White House transition of power. Image via Kensington Palace/The British Monarchy.”

.... haven’t pulled this one out in a while, but; Dear Mr. Lasner and Dear Husband of Mr. Lasner,

This has been a brutally difficult show to watch and is all the more enjoyable for it. I hope the ugliness and depression continue. At this point, I don’t actually care what happened to the people who left, I am way more interested in those Leftovers.

I wouldn’t be so sure. If we’re talking about the recent Revis coverage, really anyone could be behind it.

“I don’t immediately jump to molesting her. I wait 10 years. But so we’re clear, I’ve called dibs on that.”

Schilling looks like the truck driver at the counter in some diner in the middle of nowhere ready to tell you how the world REALLY works, which they aren’t gonna teach you in some fancy college.

It's stuff like this wot makes me love io9 so much. I'm actually writing something now that requires a twist at the end, and it will now absolutely be something that the audience sees coming (or should if they're paying attention) and the characters do not.