i’m super extra triple into letting people who have a vested interest in something define for themselves how they would like to be identified, listening to them, then acting accordingly. it costs me literally nothing and is in every way concomitant with being a nice person.

you forgot to mention the key role gawker-as-gawker played in this whole game.

agree this is probably cameron, who sucks.

going to use my “i knew one of them”card here. Elisabeth is nice and conceivably, had rupert let her, have actually done some good with fox. he knew that, so he didn’t let her, and as a reward overpaid for her company by quite a bit (allegedly but not really c’mon) as a make good. to her eternal credit she married a…

you COULD notice, sure, or you could keep making money off of writing about and ultimately lionizing this decrepit organization.

it is hilarious that being a Pats fan is EXACTLY like being a Yankees fan used to be.

the root of brexit is that a bunch of very wealthy people are compromised by some very bad very rich people, mostly russian. so these very wealthy brits, some like rees mogg directly in government, are trying to prevent a january coming-to-jesus moment where the EU forces them to show their tax returns.

uber and lyft are actively destroying everything good about living in manhattan (while admittedly having done good things, at least at first, for the other boroughs.)

yo aaron--greys? really?

i have had to set up 2 way live conversations via satellite for 1080p or higher def. anything over 1/4 of a second between the originating feed and the signal boost to the satellite causes a weird overlap in conversation, where each person “steps on” the other as they start to speak. it’s latency/proximity. now…

this post has too much politics.

i mean, SURE THEY TORTURED MONKEYS TO COVER UP THEIR LIES, SURE THEY LITERALLY CAUSED 10,000s of THOUSANDS OF PREMATURE DEATHS, ACCELERATED CLIMATE CHANGE, AND PUT EUROPE DOWN A DIESEL PATH THAT WAS DISASTEROUS, but they are a good deal, so yeah go VW.  definitely don’t need any context here.

i just keep clicking on this. i feel...compelled. it has no politics. it isn’t navel gazing. it’s just pure premium sports content. it’s like...it’s like barstool, or maybe SB nation! those are both really good sports websites that are also blogs that are also run by really great terrific a plus people who care.

i read at-bat as alt-bat for a second.  seems right.

to be fair, st louis is an actual legit soccer hotbed from before it was cool.  now, good news there, bad news they invented white boy pay-to-play travel teams, but maybe they can overcome that and actually bring POC into the game.

what exactly is portnoy’s complaint here?

of for the love...grey? REALLY?

Jim Spankfeller: “now this is the premium content i was telling all those white dudes about”

It’s sad that an actual revolution in mobility in cities is going on, and because it’s not fancy enough, VCs and Musk have just missed it entirely. it’s called micro-mobility, and it’s scooters, e-bikes, mopeds, delivery e-bikes etc.

again with the greys.  i’ve been commenting on gawker sites for like 8 years. sigh.