Alex Sujong Laughlin
@alexlaughs.bsky.social
Tryhard | co-owner Defector
(PSA it’s not the year of the horse until lunar new year in mid Feb)
January 2, 2026 at 12:36 PM
(PSA it’s not the year of the horse until lunar new year in mid Feb)
finally watched les miserables movie version for the first time
yall were so mean to anne hathaway for no reason!!!
2026 is the year of hathassaince
yall were so mean to anne hathaway for no reason!!!
2026 is the year of hathassaince
December 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
finally watched les miserables movie version for the first time
yall were so mean to anne hathaway for no reason!!!
2026 is the year of hathassaince
yall were so mean to anne hathaway for no reason!!!
2026 is the year of hathassaince
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Alexa, 17, has a moving out fund on their Transanta wishlist and we need just $145 to fund it completely www.instagram.com/p/DSODr0fDhL...
Alexa, 17, has a moving out fund on their Transanta wishlist and we need just $145 to fund it completely www.instagram.com/p/DSODr0fDhL...
December 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Next up:
Alexa, 17, has a moving out fund on their Transanta wishlist and we need just $145 to fund it completely www.instagram.com/p/DSODr0fDhL...
Alexa, 17, has a moving out fund on their Transanta wishlist and we need just $145 to fund it completely www.instagram.com/p/DSODr0fDhL...
was just thinking about the era of twitter when we would tweet out-of-context quotes from our friends and sometimes we would post something a little too specific and there'd be this scramble to delete it before their boss saw it
December 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
was just thinking about the era of twitter when we would tweet out-of-context quotes from our friends and sometimes we would post something a little too specific and there'd be this scramble to delete it before their boss saw it
twice in the last week i have cured a vague midday malaise with a steaming cup of hot water. miracle cure!
December 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
twice in the last week i have cured a vague midday malaise with a steaming cup of hot water. miracle cure!
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The duality of Defector
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The duality of Defector
The latest episode of OIYGC is about The BACHELOR and whether it's possible to cheat on it! defector.com/is-it-even-p...
Is It Even Possible To Cheat On 'The Bachelor?' | Defector
So far on Only If You Get Caught, the stakes of the competition in most of the situations we have talked about have been limited to winning and losing games. This episode, something much more signific...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The latest episode of OIYGC is about The BACHELOR and whether it's possible to cheat on it! defector.com/is-it-even-p...
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I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
imagine being 14 and someone tells you that in 20 years, "going to work" would be sitting in a chatroom all day
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
imagine being 14 and someone tells you that in 20 years, "going to work" would be sitting in a chatroom all day
The last episode of the first season of Try Hard is out today. It's a break in format because my guest didn't actually accomplish his goal, at all.
We ended up having a really nice meta conversation about failure and how uncomfortable it is to rely on your people: defector.com/ronald-young...
We ended up having a really nice meta conversation about failure and how uncomfortable it is to rely on your people: defector.com/ronald-young...
Ronald Young Jr. Comes Clean | Defector
I didn’t consider the possibility of failure enough when I was developing this show. For the last episode of the season I was supposed to have a conversation with Ronald Young Jr., he had been wanting...
defector.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The last episode of the first season of Try Hard is out today. It's a break in format because my guest didn't actually accomplish his goal, at all.
We ended up having a really nice meta conversation about failure and how uncomfortable it is to rely on your people: defector.com/ronald-young...
We ended up having a really nice meta conversation about failure and how uncomfortable it is to rely on your people: defector.com/ronald-young...
It was great!! I ran so much faster than I meant to and now I feel destroyed 💀
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It was great!! I ran so much faster than I meant to and now I feel destroyed 💀
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wrote about this shitbag again
defector.com/vaccines-do-...
defector.com/vaccines-do-...
Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says | Defector
On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly upda...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
wrote about this shitbag again
defector.com/vaccines-do-...
defector.com/vaccines-do-...
Tomorrow I'm running my first half marathon in 6 years!! I'm really excited about it!! I wrote this essay about finding my way back to running after I thought my long distance days were over defector.com/falling-back...
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Tomorrow I'm running my first half marathon in 6 years!! I'm really excited about it!! I wrote this essay about finding my way back to running after I thought my long distance days were over defector.com/falling-back...
die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a jilted lover in an ephron film
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a jilted lover in an ephron film
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"What’s left when the rich people lose interest is the work," an important statement. An industry boom will show you who people really are. (Like Ira Glass, who starts this piece insisting that all podcasts should be listened to at 2x to maximize podcast listening.)
I expected this podcast festival to feel like a funeral, but it was surprisingly optimistic. Once you hit rock bottom, you can only really go up.
defector.com/resonate-pod...
defector.com/resonate-pod...
The Bad News Is There’s No More Money, But That’s Also The Good News | Defector
RICHMOND, VA – The audience was booing Ira Glass. It was the opening session of Resonate, a podcast festival founded three years ago by Chioke l’Anson at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute ...
defector.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"What’s left when the rich people lose interest is the work," an important statement. An industry boom will show you who people really are. (Like Ira Glass, who starts this piece insisting that all podcasts should be listened to at 2x to maximize podcast listening.)
I expected this podcast festival to feel like a funeral, but it was surprisingly optimistic. Once you hit rock bottom, you can only really go up.
defector.com/resonate-pod...
defector.com/resonate-pod...
The Bad News Is There’s No More Money, But That’s Also The Good News | Defector
RICHMOND, VA – The audience was booing Ira Glass. It was the opening session of Resonate, a podcast festival founded three years ago by Chioke l’Anson at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute ...
defector.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I expected this podcast festival to feel like a funeral, but it was surprisingly optimistic. Once you hit rock bottom, you can only really go up.
defector.com/resonate-pod...
defector.com/resonate-pod...
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An in-depth look at the video team that helped so many people get into the Zohran Mamdani campaign: defector.com/selling-zohran
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU…
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November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
An in-depth look at the video team that helped so many people get into the Zohran Mamdani campaign: defector.com/selling-zohran
We lost a diva
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
We lost a diva
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
not to brag but i went through a whole 24 pack of pimple stickers this weekend
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
not to brag but i went through a whole 24 pack of pimple stickers this weekend
i've been spiraling about "what is the point of learning" lately so i wrote a blog about it defector.com/learning-is-...
Learning Is More Than Just Collecting Facts | Defector
Earlier this week, I read Horace Walpole’s Castle Of Otronto for the first time. Published in 1764, it’s widely considered the first gothic novel, the cornerstone of a genre that would include future ...
defector.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
i've been spiraling about "what is the point of learning" lately so i wrote a blog about it defector.com/learning-is-...
five years ago i switched to fountain pens because they were "more sustainable" but now instead of losing a $.50 pen every two months now i just lose a $10 pen every two months
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
five years ago i switched to fountain pens because they were "more sustainable" but now instead of losing a $.50 pen every two months now i just lose a $10 pen every two months
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EXCITING NEWS: Only If You Get Caught, a new podcast hosted by me and produced by @alexlaughs.bsky.social drops one week from today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Only If You Get Caught
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.
Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
EXCITING NEWS: Only If You Get Caught, a new podcast hosted by me and produced by @alexlaughs.bsky.social drops one week from today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny
defector.com/treasury-dep...
defector.com/treasury-dep...
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
defector.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny
defector.com/treasury-dep...
defector.com/treasury-dep...
when they tell you publishing is slow they mean S L O W
i've been working on this for five years and we sold it six months ago but now i get to announce to the world! i'm writing a book! never say the word "talent" around me if you don't want a whole ass dissertation!!!!!
i've been working on this for five years and we sold it six months ago but now i get to announce to the world! i'm writing a book! never say the word "talent" around me if you don't want a whole ass dissertation!!!!!
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
when they tell you publishing is slow they mean S L O W
i've been working on this for five years and we sold it six months ago but now i get to announce to the world! i'm writing a book! never say the word "talent" around me if you don't want a whole ass dissertation!!!!!
i've been working on this for five years and we sold it six months ago but now i get to announce to the world! i'm writing a book! never say the word "talent" around me if you don't want a whole ass dissertation!!!!!