Blake Eskin

For all those celebrating how great Bluesky is, how it’s like it used to be at the other place before it scaled… Maybe it’s like that first Shake Shack burger from Madison Square Park? Before there were hundreds of shacks, including one in Dubai International Airport?

“what is a newspaper, really, than just a bunch of articles that are being used as an excuse for a crossword-delivery system?” archive.nytimes.com/wordplay.blo...

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Hubie Brooks RF-3B-SS Debut: 1980 - Retired: 1994 NYM - KCR - ANA - MON - LAD

“They certainly both like a hairband…” (Grealish and Maddison) “but yes, beyond that, there are many parallels.” #COYB

A vaudeville team prepares for the evils of both drink and prohibition.

AINSLEY MAITLAND-NILES

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I wish the student newspaper would cover the add/drop period for fall semester as breathlessly as the soccer internet follows the end of the summer transfer window

Tarkowski giveth and Tarkowski taketh away #UTFT

“And I think that’s a rather fortunate escape for Bournemouth” is British English for Everton was robbed

A fading southern belle can't choose unexpected snobbery when she marries her boss.

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Curious whether Bonica has received further legal threats post-publication and whether he has any legal protection through Substack or someone offering to represent him pro bono

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A Parisian tailor discovers their friends' marital problems.

Bring back Ange

EPL is back and with it appositives like “the experienced Slovakian,” baby

A Fever-Dream game sounds like something you'd have found at a medicine show out West

Awful for his family. The responsibility for this is not on the media who did their accountability work, not even on the politically motivated 'bloggers'. It's on the people who used him to sell a false message and who didn't do their due diligence.

The slot machine pays off in mysterious ways

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In the days after Pearl Harbor, a woman falls in love with their friends' marital problems.

There is a bug in Messages where I reply to a message, then emoji-react to the previous message and it puts the 👍 on my message instead, and I hate that the other person thinks I'm vain. Or maybe they know the bug too?

It's August, folks. #augustjournalism www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...

After accidentally killing his mistress' husband, a young sailor has no choice but to flee her children with faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past.

There was a time when people like him would have to buy the back page of the A section to put out nonsense like this

So the company that swallowed (and drove a lot of people off of) Evernote, Meetup, and Vimeo is buying Airtable? I can't imagine this acquisition will go any better techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/b...

People rightly love the For You feed but I’ve been trying a “smart mix” from @opentrough.com and it is really good. I have it mixing from For You, Followers, Mutuals and Quiet Posters and it’s nice to get out of the For You bubble a little opentrough.com

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A dancer goes to work as her straying husband when he's jilted.

What a pair

Mizuki's father worked for the American embassy, so he would bring home stacks of comics for his son the cartoonist to learn by. Mizuki's first work is pretty much straight-up copying American comics.

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Maybe the best disclosure sentence I've ever seen www.wired.com/story/epstei...

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John Franco Pitcher Debut: 1984 - Retired: 2005 HOU - CIN - NYM

Tuchel took an edible?

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