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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 5h

Jane we have to have standards!!

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 6h

Classic Drake fans, never reading to the end of the post

A spokesperson for Drake has announced that he plans to appeal, which is both his right, and also an invitation to the Second Circuit to take
judicial notice of the fact that Take Care was good, Nothing Was the Same was fine, and he hasn't put out a decent album since.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 9h

For years I had wondered how Jay-Z got that picture in the proto-internet era and the answer is INCREDIBLE

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 9h

the highest praise for which a blogger can hope, thank you

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 10h

annoyed that I understand this joke

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🐦‍⬛🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸Dan won't shut up about trans rights & Palestine @verboseminimalist.gay · 10h

"A spokesperson for Drake has announced that he plans to appeal, which is both his right, and also an invitation to the Second Circuit to take judicial notice of the fact that Take Care was good, Nothing Was the Same was fine, and he hasn’t put out a decent album since."

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 10h

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 10h

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

He had 2 carries for minus-3 yards on a team that didn’t score a touchdown, and also I’m an idiot

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

I also drafted Croskey-Merritt for $1 and getting Skattebo wrong feels 10 times as bad as getting JCM right. I don’t really have an explanation for this.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

It’s me, the guy who drafted Cam Skattebo for $5 in our keeper league and dropped him after he had negative rushing yards in week 1 for a terrible Giants team and I concluded he wouldn’t do shit

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

[busts through the wall like the Kool-Aid man, but also visibly limping] Folks, let me assure you...it's over

NBA Daily News @fantasynbanews.bsky.social · 1d

LeBron James to miss at least 3-4 weeks with sciatica on his right side.

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phylan @phylan.website · 1d

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 1d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

The conservative justices who used to extol the virtues of upholding Supreme Court precedent are getting way, way more comfortable talking about how they have the votes to do whatever they want

The Conservative Justices Are Not Even Bothering to Tell This Lie Anymore

Extolling the virtues of precedent used to be mandatory for Supreme Court justices. Now that the conservatives have six votes, they suddenly view it as very optional.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

'There, There' was great, but his follow-up, 'Wandering Stars', was event better—beautiful and gutting and took my breath away more than once. If you missed it, I strongly recommend reading. Really excited to see what he does next.

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 2d

Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Tommy Orange

Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

www.macfound.org

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Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 2d

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

it was beautiful

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

it’s another day

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

When I brought mine in for the first regularly scheduled service interval I grimaced and reflexively prepared for like $500 and the guy was like “oh this is basically just a tire rotation, it’ll take 15 and costs $40” and I started laughing like a maniac

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

please, I’m having a hard time

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

if you’re setting up a joke where you send me Neil Gorsuch’s book I’m gonna fistfight you

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

okay so this ISN’T you with a beard?

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 3d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

okay so we are 100 percent sure this is NOT you?

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 3d

Absolute legend

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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