BlakeG

✝️ | Creative Director | Visual Designer

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

I firmly believe Gifs are my love language

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

@wreckeminsider @CodyC64 @RockinPregame @TexasTechFB @TexasTech Sunbelt?

[Xbox Archive @XboxArchives]

One of the greatest game trailers of all time

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

@DiscussingFilm This is just the @Halo warthog run

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

@ajdillon7 @PokemonGoApp You gotta go to GoFest, my dude!

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

Long post incoming, because I think it’s important that someone says this…

I know and love a lot of addicts. I worked in the field at one point and I have family members who are clinicians currently working in addiction treatment.

The weaponizing of Sorsby’s addiction by Texas Tech has been disgusting, and the passage below heavily implies that TTU’s support of his recovery is dependent on him being a football player.

If TTU genuinely cared about Brendan Sorsby’s recovery they wouldn’t have waited until after a judge ruled he could play football to set these support systems up. And that’s before we even address what type of trigger a $5 million check could be for a gambling addict who supposedly gambles due to anxiety and will now feel the pressure of showing he was worth the money and backlash.

If Sorsby’s gambling is truly the manifestation of a generalized anxiety disorder as they have claimed then the least productive thing for his recovery is to turn him into a national story and a focal point for a lot of people who are rightly worried about what this means for the competitive integrity of all college sporting events.

There is a word for swooping in and fixing things for an addict so they don’t have to face the natural consequences of their actions— “ENABLING”

A player being punished for being an addict is not the same thing as him facing the natural consequences of crossing boundaries that he a) knew existed and b) took measures to circumvent.

I believe wholeheartedly in the disease model of addiction, and I have compassion for addicts who are trying to make a healthier lifestyle into a new habit. Texas Tech has created a false dichotomy that paints those supports as being dependent on Brendan’s football eligibility.

Not playing football does not equate to him being expelled from the university. These supports should never have been dependent on his being part of the team.

I don’t believe anybody at Texas Tech is actually making Brendan Sorsby’s addiction recovery the most important thing here. If they were, they never would have put him in this spot. They just want you to back off because they think it will help them win a few more games, and that part of this story feels way grosser to me than anything else.

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

Sorsby gambled underage in Indiana and Ohio. Transferred to Texas Tech, and sent money to out-of-state proxies to place bets on his behalf while located in Texas, which is a federal crime

When I lived in Texas it viewed itself as a law and order state. Apparently AG Ken Paxton is more interested in flushing competition integrity for tens of thousands of student athletes.

None of these people have a single ounce of shame. There will be calls for federal action against Sorsby now, as it might be the only way to maintain the public trust in college sports.

As I explained below, it Texas Tech gave a shit about Brendan Sorsby the person they would be handing all of this much differently

[Cruz Oxenreider @TheRealCruzOx]

Texas Tech has now replaced Notre Dame as the most hated team in College Football going in to this season.

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Alabama is the first D1 school ever to make the CFP, WBB Tournament, MBB Tournament, WCWS, and CWS in the same academic year.

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

@TechAthletics @TexasTechFB Looks like a new team to hate watch this fall.

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

Roll Tide 🐘

Alabama is the only D-I program to make the CFP, men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournament, WCWS and MCWS‼️

[Sam Monson @SamMonsonNFL]

Aaron Donald owes it to science to unretire and line up next to Myles Garrett just to see what would happen.

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

This guy’s right, I should’ve invested in $BTC when I was 12

[Kamikaze Cash @kamikazecash]

Hating on boomers for having market opportunities is wack and weak.

Boomers got nailed by the dot-com bubble followed immediately by the Global Financial Crisis.

Millennials hit adulthood just as the GFC bottomed and had early access to $BTC.

If you’re a millennial or Gen Z and on the struggle bus, stop hating on the boomers. They’re all in their 70s by now and most of them are out of the workforce and downsized their house.

Start by assessing your resources available to you and make incremental changes until your finances are on track.

Otherwise, when the boomers are dead, you’ll still be struggling and have to move on to hating GenX.

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

@NickyPerkss Was this supposed to go to the right and dude cut back into three tacklers 😂 insane he made it out but I guess that’s what got him in the nfl haha

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

@JoelAbenhaim @littlebbyslug Publicly available data?

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

Daily Google users are about to hate this imo. Making search more complicated rather than more simple

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles

• Search will be centered around a reimagined ‘intelligent search box’

• Starts next Tuesday

(via @TechCrunch)

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

@JoelAbenhaim @littlebbyslug It’s actually way more expensive and less effective as a whole. It’s certainly more effective for getting data and doing menial tasks, but it’s horrifyingly inaccurate in a lot of instances

[Robb Allen @ItsRobbAllen]

My wife and I did the whole Ramsey thing when we were in debt and wanted to get out.

The first thing we did was completely move to cash for everything possible.

My wife had a habit of going to Target because she needed paper towels and coming home with two new outfits and some tchotchkes to put on the mantel.

She then started taking just enough cash with her to pay for whatever it was that she wanted and took notes about the things she wanted to buy so we could budget for it later.

We went debt-free, minus our mortgage, during a time when I was unemployed.

During this time we would eat out maybe once every couple of weeks. We were doing heavy meal prepping, tons of coupon cutting, and watched our budget like a hawk.

We still ate well and enjoyed life. My daughters never went hungry or without.

Eventually it became such a habit that we no longer missed the hundreds of money-sucking crap that we used to spend on.

But it took effort. And I'm just afraid too many people are looking for an easy button here to make everything better.

That easy button unfortunately will make everything worse.

[BlakeG @BlakeGuffin]

Oh my goodness

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@Jesus_Tha_Goat Crimson out or grey out would be much better