Chris Demers

Peep the greatest Massachusetts battle rap jam from 2002:

[Chris Demers @LateBloomah]

Found in parking lot in #Florida ⁦@SHAQ⁩ ⁦@Nirvana⁩ #nba ⁦@JimmyKimmelLive⁩ ⁦@TheCousinSal⁩

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During the #nbafinals @swipathefox had so many errors in crunch time, it looked like he was on the @T_Rozzay3 plan.

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@Uber I ordered my ride, and I went outside(-2°) and the ride NEVER showed up. It said they picked me up, and was on the way to my work. There is no support in the app to report this quickly and no number to call.

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@AfricanArchives Do the Right Thing

[moneymosh @moneymosh12]

The Red Sox have now traded Mookie Betts and Rafael Devers for no reason in the span of 5 years 😭😭😭

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Did you guys know @Shanemgillis was in Cheap Trick?

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Still haven’t made Rounders 2! @BillSimmons it’s time to EP That! I’ll gladly be an extra at the poker table like #lennyclarke in the first one.

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

So pumped that Cinemax is showing Rounders right now. It's not on cable enough. If they don't make Rounders 2 soon, I am killing someone.

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Pink is a good judge of character. @pink #kanye

[P!nk @Pink]

Kanye west is the biggest piece of shit on earth. Quote me.

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This tweet aged well. @paytonpritch3 #6thmanoftheyear #pritchplease @celtics

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Last time the Celtics drafted a P squared, they did pretty well. @paulpierce34

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

This student completed the halftime challenge & was supposed to win $10k

but supposedly the insurance company told him they won’t pay him out because his foot was on the line. Cruel world.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

And this right here folks will forever be my favourite Rickey Henderson story

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

And that’s how I met your mother…

[Parth @mr_samosaman]

Dude holy shit I have found my favorite discovery on TikTok in the last six months. This guy wears a mobile production rig and improvises beats for folks to freestyle over on the street. It’s crazy to watch these strangers effortlessly make requests of each other to create art:

“Could I get some piano please?”
@ARIatTWIT

[Chris Demers @LateBloomah]

N.W.A. actually supported law enforcement officers, they just really thought Sting was overrated. #fuckthepolice #jokes @midnight

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima]

Temu literally gives you what you pay for 😭😭😭😭

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A painful shooting cramp in your hamstring is like a reverse #orgasm

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@gaucho2121 @EncoreResortBH Adrina is the GOAT floor person IMHO.

[Jaylen Brown @FCHWPO]

Nah this crazyyyy lol

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson once backed out of a fight because he had a dream he was going to kill his opponent in the ring.

However, after being convinced by a priest, he agreed to fight. He knocked Jimmy Doyle out cold, who was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead the next day.

After Jimmy Doyle's death, Robinson found out about how Doyle wanted to use the money earned in the fight to buy his mother a home. So Robinson saved the money from his next four fights to buy Doyle's mom a house.

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@ReggieMillerTNT genuine reaction makes me cry happy tears for him. @SheaSerrano

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