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Defector@defector· Jul 12

"What is the worst advice you received that you actually tried?" defector.com/the-hot-take...

Matt:

What is the worst advice you received that you actually tried?

Defector@defector· Jul 9

I'm not sure there are enough Dundons on the Stanley Cup: defector.com/im-not-sure-...

Defector@defector· Jul 7

Sarah Borus from the Wawa Welcome America Festival in Philly: defector.com/americas-bir...

Defector@defector· Jul 4

"There’s an endless number of AI-generated videos on TikTok encouraging you to buy this hat. AI voices tell you how to 'get it on a triple discount.' Many of the videos feature Nate Dogg singing that he’s 'been to the motherfucking mountaintop,' for some reason." defector.com/we-hold-thes...

Defector@defector· Jul 4

"My first thought rolling up to the low and liminal three-story office park hotel we’re taking over is, 'Wow, look at all those dykes.'" defector.com/finding-frie...

My first thought rolling up to the low and liminal three-story office park hotel we’re taking over is, Wow, look at all those dykes. Dykes behind registration desks, verifying COVID rapid test results, directing other dykes with luggage carts spilling over with duffels, hardshell Pelican cases, and sporting goods bags filled with what cannot be sporting goods. Dykes I know and don’t. Boy dykes and girl dykes and men who used to be dykes and dykes who used to be men, innumerable shades of exuberant faggotry, with canes and wheelchairs and mobility aids, some in leather vests dense with pins and patches, some in titleholder sashes, some in sweats and full beats. They embrace in many-way hugs and scream upon seeing each other, like sophomores back from summer. Across the parking lot, a pair of hoss-type white guys in performance basics are practicing golf swings. They’re there for hours, swinging and swinging in a perverse durational scene.

Defector@defector· Jul 4

Which country has the coolest colors for their World Cup kits? defector.com/a-clueless-s...

Noe:

What country has the coolest colors for their World Cup kits? Not who has the best uniforms, because those change, but who has the best template of colors and patterns to work with? Lots of countries have the generic red/white/blue, but Croatia has the dope checkerboard pattern. Ivory Coast has that neat orange and Netherlands has the construction worker orange. South America has a lot of yellow. I like Argentina, personally.

Defector@defector· Jul 3

"O weevil, I whispered, my mouth dry as the Libyan desert, baptize me!" defector.com/the-passion-...

Defector@defector· Jul 3

David Roth on the Great American State Fair: defector.com/dead-country...

Taken on its face, it is tough to figure out what was even being celebrated here. But it scans much more intelligibly as a characteristically hapless attempt at transubstantiation from Trump himself, an attempt to create an America that's as small and shabby as one of those ruddy second or third weddings at Mar-a-Lago into which the president sometimes wanders and Makes Some Remarks. It aimed to do this by replacing everything that Trump does not like about America, which begins but very much does not end with actual Americans and the things they like, with a selection from the much smaller category of things that Trump himself likes, which is to say cops, Fox News personalities, Vanilla Ice, and hearing people that work for him talk about what a wonderful job he's doing.

Defector@defector· Jun 30

Finding friends, legacy, and leather sluts at New Jersey's finest Holiday Inn: defector.com/finding-frie...

a sign that says "no latex in this elevator"

Defector@defector· Jun 28

Albert Burneko answers a question about kids and lying: defector.com/what-if-your...

More and more I am convinced that a huge part of the work of parenting, maybe even the biggest after the basic keeping-the-child-alive stuff, is the story you tell your children about who they are, about what you treasure in them, and whether they believe you. In turn, the biggest part of the work of growing up is discovering who you are and what kind of person you want to be. Maybe your hope is that you can raise your kids to be resilient, or compassionate, or brave, or imaginative, and so you help them to see themselves that way. Not by puffing them up with a lot of bullshit, but by marking the moments when you see in them what you hope they will grow to see in themselves.

Defector@defector· Jun 28

Summer is for baseball, hot dogs, and watching a bunch of horny teens get murdered in the woods: defector.com/summer-camp-...

From Friday the 13th to watching the trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma on a loop until it's reached feature length—every era, every iteration, every final girl—I've seen probably every summer camp slasher at this point. I've seen Bruce Springsteen's little sister drown a girl in an outhouse (Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers). I've seen Sadie Sink get hacked up by an axe and then, in a miraculous testament to the powers of first-aid training, be resurrected through CPR (Fear Street Part Two: 1978). I’ve seen George Costanza as a horny teenager (The Burning), which was perhaps the most horrifying moment of them all.

Defector@defector· Jun 27

These days, it's hard to remember the old Jay-Z. defector.com/how-jay-z-ch...

There was a brief moment while watching the Roots Picnic when I felt that familiar pang of affection for his ability to still do this, and for reminding me of what those old days were like. But Jay-Z isn't the only person who can speak in Wire references: The thing about the old days, they the old days. I don't know if I could bring myself to care enough to visit Yankee Stadium, or entertain the idea that new Jay-Z music could still be good. Nostalgia, for as powerful as it is, can't make it 1996 again. Life just ain't like that anymore. But I'll always appreciate him for teaching me the difference between a 4.0 and a 4.6 Range Rover.

Defector@defector· Jun 27

"Now that New York state and Erie County have spent $850 million in taxpayer dollars, it's time for the next important step in the process of opening the Buffalo Bills' new stadium: kissing owner Terry Pegula's ass." defector.com/what-does-it...

Defector@defector· Jun 27

Don't let bored football fans tell the story of Caitlin Clark's season: defector.com/dont-let-bor...

One annoying thing about the WNBA season is that it coincides with precisely the time of year when college football and NFL commentators have their most free time. If Fever games constitute your only exposure to the WNBA, I can see why it might feel like the player who has the ball in her hand more often than anyone else in those games is subject to outsized defensive attention. If slow-motion Twitter clips of Clark being fouled constitute your only exposure to the WNBA, I can really see why it might seem like this stuff happens too often.

Defector@defector· Jun 25

Would you eat this guy? What if he were God, or a baby? defector.com/would-you-ea...

a photo of a brown edible robot shaped like a rectangle with arms and two black eyespots

Defector@defector· Jun 24

Mona Khalil, who devoted her life to protecting turtles, killed by Israeli airstrike: defector.com/mona-khalil-...

Conservation takes many forms. It can involve political advocacy or laboratory research. The conservation work Khalil did might best be described as labor. Each day during sea turtle nesting season, which spans roughly May through October, Khalil woke before dawn to walk the beach. She placed metal grates above any eggs she found to secure them from hungry foxes, dogs, and crabs until they hatched. She watched for the tracks of adult turtles and moved eggs away from the surf in times of high-tide flooding. She was trained by scientists from the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles (MEDASSET), presented her data at conferences, and shared it with conservation groups. She held beach cleanups, did television interviews, and wrote monitoring guidelines for future volunteers. She invited families vacationing in the area to join her on her morning patrols and taught them about the turtles, their habitat, and the threats they face.

Mona Khalil, a Lebanese ecologist activist looks at a turtle at a coast in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre 12 August 2002

Defector@defector· Jun 23

Dave McKenna's Alan Greenspan story: defector.com/alan-greensp...

I turn around to head toward the backyard entrance. And as soon as I do my turn, who walks in the front door but Alan Greenspan, all by himself. So we're suddenly face to face, maybe five feet apart, in the front hallway. And when our eyes meet, he starts giving me a slow once-over, worthy of a movie scene, checking me out from top to bottom, from my damp-with-sweat mangy hair to my off-the-clearance rack short-sleeve plaid shirt to my khaki cargo shorts to my over-worn sneakers. Then, as soon Greenspan's gaze gets back to eye level, as quick as a guy in his 80s can do a 180, he turns and walks back out the front door, and while leaving the door open, leans to the side and checks the address on the front of the house against the address on the party invite he'd removed from an inner pocket of his designer jacket. His body language and facial expression scream: I CAN'T POSSIBLY BE INVITED TO THE SAME PARTY AS THIS FAT RATTY-ASS SWEATY UNKEMPT MOTHERFUCKER!

Defector@defector· Jun 21

What's the ideal target for a heist? defector.com/whats-the-id...

Greg:

Which do you think is the best target for a heist? Bank? House? Boat? Museum?

Defector@defector· Jun 20

RFK Jr. just pounding a pint glass full of this stuff. "It's got parameciums," he says. defector.com/promises-mad...

the green forbidden smoothie that is the lincoln memorial reflecting pool

Defector@defector· Jun 17

MLB Pride Nights co-opted and consumed by owners and culture-war freaks: defector.com/mlb-pride-ni...

That's not to say that these four Giants idiots don't feel something like sincere aggravation at having been instructed to don the symbol of something they hate. But to me it is worth noting that, in the best case, there's nothing of genuine value to be gained from putting avowed, unapologetic bigots in Pride gear. The fiction of unanimity won't stand for long, and in any case the fake visual of it is not so very different from Jerry Jones kneeling alongside his players with his horror-show face twisted into history's shit-eatingest smirk of corporate triumph. And the caps, plus a calligraphy pen, empowered these four bozos to upstage the event with their cheap activism.

Defector@defector· Jun 16

It looks like they're brewing Yodas in there. defector.com/promises-mad...

Defector@defector· Jun 16

Why star YouTube influencer Ingrid Nilsen quit her job: defector.com/why-star-you...

Ingrid Nilsen was one of the very first beauty and lifestyle YouTubers, and the work she did in her late teens and early 20s created the blueprint for what the industry has become today. A few of her highlights: She was the first online creator to work with CoverGirl, and she interviewed President Obama. Her coming-out video in 2015 went mega viral, and she invented Vlogmas, which is a daily vlogging challenge still used by thousands of creators every December.

She had more than 3 million YouTube subscribers, and in 2020, she quit.

Defector@defector· Jun 15

Whither Wemby? defector.com/whither-wemby

Victor Wembanyama is maybe just kind of a corny guy. I think we are all going to have to get accustomed to that. His taste in reading material could scarcely be more embarrassing shy of, like, pickup-artist instruction manuals. He seems to go out of his way to cultivate a public Man of Sophistication image, which is among other things hilariously at odds with what he's reading. He can be tediously smug when things are going well—the "I'm in your head!" thing from Game 4 will endure like a tattoo on his forehead forever—and the rest of the time has developed an ugly penchant for dirty shit that is unbefitting a world-class athlete and, again, makes for an unflattering contrast with the whole Serene Warrior Monk thing. Two weeks ago the 2026 NBA Finals seemed like they might be his coronation, and oh boy, were they ever not that.

Defector@defector· Jun 14

"Would you rather see your favorite local sandwich chain close, or be bought out by private equity and instantly become 60 percent worse?" defector.com/60-minutes-w...