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Spencer Fordin
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Digital content at NBA; formerly at MLB.com, Pasatiempo and the Cayman Compass. UF journalism/Independent Florida Alligator alum.
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So systemic discrimination DOES exist! But white guys are the victims of it!

The most intellectually, politically, and culturally lazy cohort in modern history - white guys of mediocre intellect, creativity, & personality who can only ape the theories, language, laws, & struggle of Black people.
Guys, victimhood culture is alpha now
December 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Me: “All that goes in the instant pot! Just one button.”

Trader Joe cashier: “I put that in the microwave. Also one button.”

I think this man just tried to trump me in culinary laziness.
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Jobs in media are disappearing for the most simple reason: most of your fellow Americans don’t subscribe to a newspaper or magazine.

The best advice a young journalist can get: create something for yourself and your audience that doesn’t exist yet. The old paths to success are dead.
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I moved to Sacramento with the best intentions and it didn’t work out and that’s life. Full speed ahead Portland 2026!!!
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Mommy’s alright
Daddy’s alright
They just seem a little weird

open.spotify.com/track/1XWYIO...
Surrender - Live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, JPN - April 1978
open.spotify.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is my first byline for NBA! It’s about Heat guard Norman Powell and his off-court philanthropy

www.nba.com/news/norman-...
Norman Powell gets the grind behind the scenes
Miami Heat guard's Understand the Grind foundation gives back to families in need for the holidays.
www.nba.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
All the people who post about things they would listen to or read or watch on a desert island should maybe go outside more??

You’ll be doing a lot of hiking and palm frond weaving and fishing and crabbing and you’ll have no time for the collected works of AA Milne
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
If you’re an academic posting about how it sucks that football coaches make way more $$ than you, there’s a reason football stadiums are way more full than your lecture halls.
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
If you live in a thin walled building and want to listen to awesome music that will also absolutely bewilder your neighbors, I suggest Meredith Monk

open.spotify.com/album/0tfqOt...
Meredith Monk: Songs of Ascension
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I just moved.

I have no actual furniture.

I really had no need for another camp table.

But Black Friday worked its magic on me.
I love camping gear, and if you're in the market for a camp table, my favorite one is 25 percent off at Dick’s sporting goods!! Get this thing ... it holds 100 lbs and breaks down into a little CD case. Whoever engineered this thing should be a NASA genius if they aren't already.
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I love camping gear, and if you're in the market for a camp table, my favorite one is 25 percent off at Dick’s sporting goods!! Get this thing ... it holds 100 lbs and breaks down into a little CD case. Whoever engineered this thing should be a NASA genius if they aren't already.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
After less than three weeks in Portland I’ve made the executive decision that Portland residents are called Portholes. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I think some of you forgot what happened when a Univision journalist tried to stand his ground. He got dragged out by a thug.

CNN didn’t defend him.

Just read this article.

But in the collective amnesia memory of America, being called piggy is worse

www.cnn.com/2015/08/25/p...
Univision anchor ejected from Trump news conference | CNN Politics
Jorge Ramos, the Univision anchor and journalist, extensively squabbled with Trump twice in testy exchanges at a news conference before his rally.
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
When I was 26 years old, a stranger in a strange land — Canada — I had to fight for my legitimacy EVERY SINGLE DAY as an internet reporter competing against newspapers. Even though I worked for the league’s official website … I had to prove over and above that I belonged there.
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I take way more offense to being called your enemy than I do to being called piggy or ugly, for the record
Everyone upset that the president called someone piggy or ugly has missed the point and lost the plot

He called an entire profession of people — who do nothing more than live their lives trying to inform you — your enemy.

And not enough of you stood up to say that’s absolutely not the case.
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Everybody in the country: Why don’t these reporters stand up in defense of their colleagues in the briefing room?

Also everybody in the country: not subscribing to newspapers, arguing in the comments section of an article they haven’t read, assuming the author is biased or incompetent
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Portland beauty with and without my face in front
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Thankful
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It ain’t cool being no jive turkey so close to thanksgiving

m.youtube.com/watch?v=nl_y...
It Ain't Cool Being No Jive Turkey So Close To Thanksgiving
YouTube video by TheBasisPoint
m.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A kind lady in Portland lent me her food dehydrator soooo … tonight is Fruit Snacks Experiment Round 1
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The bagel shop I like is sold out of bagels by noon; time to try somebody else!!

That’s why we are a free market economy
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Spencer Fordin Presents:

Bachelor Food Hacks

Instant pot trader joe chicken tikki masala

Press one button

Walk away

Profit
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Portland is full of beautiful places to walk your dog including Laurelhurst Park with the super sweet foliage
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Three things about this picture:

(1) my dog is adorable

(2) this hallway is hotel-y or otherwise reminiscent of The Shining

(3) I’m the only apartment in the hall with a welcome mat and it says So Whatcha Whatcha Whatcha Want

#dogsofbluesky
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I just want to talk a little bit more about this woman, because outside of the caymans you might not know who she was.

Carol had a whole life before she became a reporter.

I think she was a librarian or a teacher; when I met her she was well established as the grand dame of grand cayman courts
I’m nothing but a humble sportswriter … when I worked in the Cayman Islands, our legend of a courts reporter — Carol Winker — got sick and couldn’t goto court on a daily basis.

She took me under her wing because she respected me and knew I cared about getting the job right.

I didn’t have to ask.
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM