This has been a tough year for cataloguing fun tweets because this place has become a morass of insane bullshit, which has always been the case, but it’s now lacking a certain whimsy. Nevertheless, my FAVE tweets of 2024:
when I was a teenager Ben used my dad’s offices to film some movie in Boston and I got to go the set one day and I remember he was out front so tall so depressed and smoking a cigarette in a suit and he shook my hand so firmly. I went home and touched my cookie like crazyyyyy.
Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) reporting that the Mets have been talking with the Brewers about a potential trade that’d send SP Freddy Peralta back to the Brewers.
LEBRON IS COMING TO PHILLY.
By the power vested in me as the Governor of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a die-hard Sixers fan... I hereby proclaim today to be LEBRON JAMES DAY.
Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love, @KingJames.
I don’t really have the vocabulary to describe this, but there was a Brazilian music video that went viral on here like a year or two ago. it was kinda in the phonk/hip hop genre and the visuals/song itself were…glitchy? Does anyone have any idea what I’m talking about?
Mamdani: In a win for every ice cream lover across New York City, we will work with the state to do away with the frozen dessert permit that requires restaurants to seek out a superfluous second permit for what they’re already doing: serving food.
No more treat-sploitation, as we say.
Right now, barbershops need three licenses to cut hair: one to be a barber, one to own the shop, and one from the city on top of both.
The state of affairs is frankly anti-fade, and we will not stand for it, which is why we will work with the state to streamline these licenses as well.
And to the bingo enthusiasts out there, for too long, the potential earnings of a hot streak at bingo have been capped by arcane rules that no longer reflect how the game is actually being played.
With OPEN, DCWP will remove unnecessary regulations, including prize limits.
These are just a few of the improvements we are proud to announce today as we make it clear we are in the pocket of Big Abuela.