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Here is what reading to my child has done to my brain: defector.com/here-is-what...
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Unearthing the hidden history of a singular trans punk zine: defector.com/unearthing-t...
By 2013, I had accepted that I was not hot and did need to hang out with other trans people, but I didn’t feel good about it. Except, when I read Gendertrash, I did. I felt like, fuck yeah transsexuals! I felt like maybe transsexuals are hot. I also remember thinking, what if I had read this in 2000 or 2001? My life would have been totally different. And even now in 2025, looking at this zine again, knowing it thoroughly after all the work I put into reprinting it as a book, I still feel this way. I feel my life being changed, yet again. Maybe you will feel this too.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Who is Wilbur Huckle, and why did Mets fans want him to be President in the 1960s? defector.com/wilbur-huckl...
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Tennis deserves better than these worthless metrics: defector.com/tennis-deser...
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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We're live with Colossal Ponderings! www.twitch.tv/defectormedia
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Today on Twitch, join @girinathan.bsky.social @redford.bsky.social and @remas.bsky.social for another episode of Colossal Ponderings. Let's raise our status to the maximum.

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November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The beauty of these spider web designs is clear, but their purpose is hazy.

Why do some spiders make web art? defector.com/why-do-some-...
October 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Mariners manager Dan Wilson fell into the same trap that has plagued bullpen management for decades. defector.com/how-not-to-r...
The takeaway here is that Wilson and Muñoz created this situation for each other—Wilson by giving his best reliever such an overly defined role, and Muñoz by excelling in that role to such an extent that it became inexcusable to confine him to it. This is the paradox of the closer role: It confers a prestige that makes his cage absurd. What kind of bogus logic is it that we make closers out to have some special mentality that uniquely qualifies them to handle high-pressure late innings, yet would at the same time have them turn into mush when brought into early high-pressure situations?
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Podcasts are not television: defector.com/podcasts-are...
Netflix is betting that if it brings some podcasts to its platform, users will begin to associate their favorite shows with Netflix instead of YouTube, where they might have viewed them before. This could plausibly happen. But what users will not get is YouTube's robust recommendation algorithm, nor will they get the sheer magnitude of nearly endless content that exists on YouTube. Netflix is trying to mimic its main competitor without really understanding YouTube's appeal to begin with. Video podcasts are popular on YouTube because of the millions of bored office workers who discovered how easy it is to type "youtube.com" into their web browser, and accept whatever the algorithm serves up to them. Is Netflix imagining that millions of Americans are going to now cook dinner, open a bottle of wine, settle into the couch, and fire up their TV to watch Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe give their predictions for the NBA season?
October 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Is it finally time to give Johnny Cash his due? defector.com/breaking-som...
Here is a good test for any "it's finally time to" blog formulation. Simply insert the phrase "for me" in between "time" and "to." If this makes the headline a better representation of the blog's contents, or a more reasonable description of the overall situation, simply delete the blog and do a different blog about a whole other subject. Alternatively, paste the blog's headline into your personal calendar, so that you remember to do whatever the thing was. Hey, Jon Fasman, don't forget to give Johnny Cash his due today! You haven't taken care of that yet. All of the rest of us have already completed that task, collectively.
October 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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FUNBAG: defector.com/warning-the-...
Chuck: If you could make your farts smell like one thing, what would it be? I think I'd go for Fruit Loops, or another cereal. A: Fresh baked bread. Pleasant but not overpowering. Grocery stores would hire me to fart in their bakery section all day long. It’d be cool.
October 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This is not ideal goalie positioning: defector.com/this-is-not-...
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Two months later, on July 12, the couple were in the area of Bristol, Conn., staying at a hotel. Hill had been yelling at Vaccaro all day because "she was not doing what he wanted her to do," the document said. Inside their hotel room, with some of Hill's other children and family waiting in the lobby, Vaccaro told Hill that she didn't want to go out because she was pregnant and didn't feel well. Hill responded by picking up Vaccaro's phone and throwing it at her face. He then "threw a punch and tried to hit her pregnant stomach, but she deflected it," the document said. Hill also "ripped at her hair and pulled some hair out, then grabbed her purse and flung it across the room," the record said. Vaccaro was very far along in her pregnancy in November of 2024, when the couple along with some family were at their Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., condominium getting ready to leave for a Dolphins game. Hill got angry with Vaccaro while they were in the bedroom, with the rest of their family in the living area, and spat in her face, the document said. She gave birth to their daughter the next day.
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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FUNBAG: defector.com/whats-a-doll...
Neil: At any point in human existence, has a nun ever done a cannonball dive into a swimming pool while a) wearing the full habit, and b) shouting "cannonball!"? I don't mean some smashed Sigma Nu playing dress-up during rush week, but an actual sister of the cloth. My weed buddies and I consider this to be the ultimate impossible question, with the answer hopelessly bouncing between, "Nah, never happened!" and "Well sure, at least once!"
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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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 Treasury who spoke with Defector. defector.com/treasury-dep...
October 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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It's time for Defector Thursday Night Trivia! @lpp.bsky.social is on hosting duties this evening, and he just might let Twitch chat play along...

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October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Camera absolutely wrecked by baseball: defector.com/camera-absol...
September 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Congratulations to Tom Brady on making his first Holy Communion: defector.com/congratulati...
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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FUNBAG: defector.com/confessions-...
I’m British and one of the things I love about Defector is the unexpected amount of UK media that makes its way into your articles. So far this week we’ve had Oasis, the Bake Off, various Premiership shenanigans, and (good lord) Melvyn Bragg on Radio 4. My question is: what British media has Defector tried and really, really hated?
September 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Whose pup is punier? defector.com/sports-yorki...
September 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Sean Kuhn crafted a model to predict how often a particular Guy would be remembered. Here are the MLB Guys who outperformed their projections the most. defector.com/who-gets-rem...
September 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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"It's part HUAC, part Salem 1692, but also partly its own new thing, of this moment: campy, Evangelical, openly and equally hateful and opportunistic, and above all else, shameless." defector.com/charlie-kirk...
It's become clear that Charlie Kirk is worth more to Trumpworld dead than he ever was alive. His fatal shooting last week in Utah has been used as a cudgel in an attempted purge of wrong-thinking liberals and leftists, anyone who dare not treat a hateful YouTuber's death with a supposed civility that Kirk himself never displayed. It has come for students, teachers, police officers, retail workers, newspaper columnists and reporters. It has crystallized as a country of snitches, which is kind of the whole point: In their hope of seizing this moment as their version of a George Floyd–like catalyst to remake civil society to their liking, the right seeks a world in which they can say what they want, and you can only say what they want.
September 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Why is this bathroom so round? defector.com/make-it-nice...
September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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"Powerful people often have the idea that other people's money will naturally find its most productive use if it is moved into their own pockets." defector.com/the-official...
The record currently shows that they instead spend less than five percent of their revenue on direct aid to foster families, and less than a fifth of their revenue hosting one family at a time at their baseball games. When pressed on this, their explanation is that their CFO is unqualified and that they don't have much experience with this. Not everyone should be running a donor-funded nonprofit, is what I'm saying. Some people—the people who have lots of money, say, because they own an entire baseball league—should stick to spending their own money, instead.
September 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Defector has officially been publishing blogs for five years. defector.com/five-years-o...
As for those of you who are already with us, I want to sincerely thank you for making these last five years possible. We hope you’ll stick with us for the next five years, and the five years after that, and share us with the people in your life who might appreciate what we have to offer. That's how I envision Defector's growth and sustainability: not as the consequence of the right number of blogs falling into the right algorithmic slipstream, but as the result of people discovering and sharing it amongst themselves.
September 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM