sean kuhn
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- i love the morandini bit; i'll forever hear his name in dan's voice from the harry kalas impersonation he does around the 37:00 mark in here: pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...
- this week, lauren and maitreyi have been recirculating old dan bits from our daily newsletter. they are great; you can read them here: defector.beehiiv.com/p/the-cipher...
- this week, lauren and maitreyi have been recirculating old dan bits from our daily newsletter. they are great; you can read them here: defector.beehiiv.com/p/the-cipher...
- a blockbuster in the sense that the principals haven’t been a going concern for years
- magic are getting k*lled by the thunder which is bad but did free me up to dig through numero group soul compilations to find the track with drums mixed crazy-style like the rims in OKC tonight youtu.be/v7Ya6lZIb_Y?...
- the wicker man (1973) is a yarn about a community working together in response to the arrival of an outside police force
- orlando has made an advanced theoretical breakthrough: what if you have the skilled 6’10” 250 lb guy set screens and roll or slip to the hoop
- man i am choked up about this. my mom is a retired CWA member from pittsburgh; they’re now trying to do a defector to the PG 😭 cwa-union.org/news/release...
- Reposted by sean kuhnUnfortunately they did not capture Dan's tribute on the broadcast but the in arena feed did get the audio
- Reposted by sean kuhnAlso remember this and have a laugh. I think it was Dan’s favorite thing that ever happened.
- Reposted by sean kuhnI’ve been thinking about Dan non-stop, and what I’ve come to understand is just how much I admired him. Dan built his life and moved through the world in a way I wish I could emulate more easily. I’ll keep trying, and in moments when I succeed I’ll think of him again. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
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- Reposted by sean kuhnI have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...
- Reposted by sean kuhnJarrett Stidham is a PROBLEM!! 🤯 ALL PASSES 😵 RUNS 😱 TDS 🥵 2025 SEASON 🤪🔥🫠
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- i’d be delighted to replace the shoutout to local venture capitalists (?) in our airport with a photograph of a corrugated drainage pipe.
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- when your wife goes on the record to compare you to les moonves <<< www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- Reposted by sean kuhnI wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...
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- as a stupid bit i committed to doing an extra set of curls each time desmond bane hits a three but he’s taking the fewest threes and making the lowest rate in his career so now i’m dealing with the double whammy of not being jacked and the magic offense still being ass
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- regretfully i have begun drafting paolo’s letter of recommendation to julius randle vocational college
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- favorite albums this year:
- "you made me realise" type beat parannoul.bandcamp.com/track/soft-b...
- felis hallwayfoodus
- kawhi hoops like you'd imagine the and1 logo would
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- slow, humid afternoon; going back for more eliana glass elianaglass.bandcamp.com/album/e
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- earned my first, tiny reporting credit in this all-timer of a blog for knocking on the door of the alleged CEO of alleged "record label" Rich America and handing that guy's confused wife an envelope of documents about the investigation and asking them to contact chris 🥲
- A comprehensive and maddening history of Color Star, would-be titans of just about anything: defector.com/a-comprehens...
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- who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products
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- loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default
- never in a million years would have guessed john buck (24 PAs as a waiver deadline add in 2013) was the veteran teammate in question:
- smart to make this out of stress ball material because it sure spikes my blood pressure each time i see it
- i asked @davidjroth.bsky.social to write a "a quick 2-3 graf sub appeal" based on his typically excellent blog earlier this week. because he can only be himself, roth turned in 600 original words, trimmed down and reproduced here. if you also liked reading this, consider a sub: defector.com/products
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- the problems and solutions here are structural but at some point you've simply gotta have enough respect for yourself and other people to not take money to shill like this
- defector does vital work in this space:
- this is excellent: