and then there were two

Jan. 26th, 2026 06:51 pm
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God, we really picked the worst year to completely melt down, I'm not impressed by any of these teams. Pat could kick all of their asses if he had knees.

championship Sunday )

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Jan. 26th, 2026 11:59 pm
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Somewhere, in the cold and dreary city of Boston Massachusetts, are a battery that just can't get their hands off of each other.

Words: 734, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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Posted by John Gruber

Good tip from “DifferentDan” on the Realmac customer forum, posted back in November:

I saw on macOS Tahoe 26.1, Apple finally added an option in the Column View settings to automatically right size all columns individually and that setting would persist, but I don’t really like Liquid Glass (yet) so I haven’t updated to Tahoe.

Looks like someone found a workaround however for those that are still on Sequoia. Just open up Terminal on your Mac, copy in the below, and press return.

The one-line command:

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXEnableColumnAutoSizing -bool YES; killall Finder`

(Change YES to NO if you want to go back.)

Marcel Bresink’s TinkerTool is a great free app for adjusting hidden preferences using a proper GUI, and it turns out TinkerTool has exposed this hidden Finder preference for a few years now. You learn something every day. I enabled this a few days ago on MacOS 15 Sequoia, and it seems exactly like the implementation Apple has exposed in the Finder’s View Options window in Tahoe, which I wrote about Friday. No better, no worse.

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Kif Leswing, CNBC:

Nvidia will become TSMC’s largest customer this year, according to analyst estimates and Huang himself. Apple is believed to currently be TSMC’s largest customer, mostly to manufacture A-series chips for iPhones and M-series chips for PCs and servers.

The positional swap will mark a fundamental shift in the semiconductor industry, reflecting Nvidia’s growing importance amid the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out. [...]

Ben Bajarin, principal analyst at Creative Strategies, said he projects Nvidia to generate $33 billion in TSMC revenue this year, or about 22% of the chip foundry’s total. Apple, by comparison, is projected to generate about $27 billion, or about 18% of TSMC’s revenue.

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Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks.

WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your backend requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh.

Simplify integrations with WorkOS Pipes.

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Joe Rossignol, writing at MacRumors:

Apple offers a Share Item Location feature in the Find My app that allows you to temporarily share the location of an AirTag-equipped item with others, including employees at participating airlines. This way, if you put an AirTag inside your bags, the airline can better help you find them in the event they are lost or delayed at the airport. [...] Below, we have listed most of the airlines that support the feature.

Apple’s announcement claims that 36 airlines support it today, and 15 more are coming soon.

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Apple Newsroom:

Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip — the same chip found in the iPhone 17 lineup, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch Series 11 — powers the new AirTag, making it easier to locate than ever before. Using haptic, visual, and audio feedback, Precision Finding guides users to their lost items from up to 50 percent farther away than the previous generation. And an upgraded Bluetooth chip expands the range at which items can be located. For the first time, users can use Precision Finding on Apple Watch Series 9 or later, or Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later, to find their AirTag, bringing a powerful experience to the wrist.

Solid update to the original AirTags, which debuted five years ago. Better range, louder speaker, increased precision. The form factor remains unchanged, so second-gen AirTags will fit in keychains or holders designed for the first-gen model. They even take the same batteries. Pricing also remains unchanged: $29 for one, $99 for a four-pack.

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Posted by John Gruber

I’ve been meaning since last month to link to Apple’s lists of the top iPhone apps in the U.S. for 2025. Here’s the list of the top 20 free iPhone apps:

  1. ChatGPT
  2. Threads
  3. Google
  4. TikTok — Videos, Shop & LIVE
  5. WhatsApp Messenger
  6. Instagram
  7. YouTube
  8. Google Maps
  9. Gmail — Email by Google
  10. Google Gemini
  11. Facebook
  12. CapCut: Photo & Video Editor
  13. Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire
  14. T-Life [“All things T-Mobile”]
  15. Telegram Messenger
  16. Lemon8 — Lifestyle Community
  17. Spotify: Music and Podcasts
  18. Google Chrome
  19. Snapchat
  20. rednote

All app names are verbatim, except for T-Life, where I put the app’s secondary slogan in brackets. I had no idea what T-Life was, but the slogan makes it clear. Interesting to me that T-Mobile’s app is on the list but neither Verizon nor AT&T’s are.1

I hope a million people sent this list to Elon Musk, to rub some salt in his severe case of butt hurt that led him to file an almost certainly baseless lawsuit in August alleging that ChatGPT consistently tops the App Store list — and Grok does not — because Apple puts a thumb on the scale for these rankings because of its deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence. Here’s the thing. Dishonest people presume the whole world is dishonest. That you either cheat and steal, or you’re going to be cheated and robbed. If Elon Musk ran the App Store, you can be sure that he’d cook the rankings to put apps that he owns, or even just favors, on top. Elon Musk runs Twitter/X, and that’s how the algorithm there now works: it favors content he prefers, especially his own tweets. Apple doesn’t publish how its lists for top apps are computed (to keep the rankings from being gamed more than they already inevitably are), but judging by how many of these apps come from Apple’s rivals (e.g., Spotify), there’s little reason to think they’re crooked — unless you think the entire world is crooked.

Google has 6 apps on the list, including 5 in the top 10. Meta — certainly no friend of Apple — has 4 apps on the list, including 3 in the top 10. (Slightly interesting, but unsurprising, sign of the times: the Facebook “blue app” dropped out of the top 10.) The only apps in the top 10 not from Google or Meta are ChatGPT (#1) and TikTok (#4).

Microsoft has no apps on the list. Back in the day, the conventional wisdom was that Microsoft made more money, on average, from each Mac sold than they did from each PC sold — despite the fact that nearly all PCs came with a licensed version of Windows — because so many Mac users paid for Microsoft Office at retail prices. I suspect something like that is true with iPhones for Google. A lot of iPhone users spend a lot of time using apps from Google. I would bet that Google makes more ad revenue from the average iPhone user (who, even if they don’t install a single one of Google’s native iOS apps, probably uses Google Search in Safari) than from the average Android user.

Another company that has no apps on this list is Apple itself. If you look at the daily top list of apps in the Productivity category, you will see a lot of apps from Google and Microsoft. But you won’t find Keynote, Pages, or Numbers, because Apple recuses its own apps from such rankings.

Here’s the list of the top 20 paid iPhone apps in 2025 in the U.S.:

  1. HotSchedules
  2. Shadowrocket
  3. Procreate Pocket
  4. AnkiMobile Flashcards
  5. Paprika Recipe Manager 3
  6. SkyView®
  7. TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome
  8. AutoSleep Track Sleep on Watch
  9. Forest: Focus for Productivity
  10. RadarScope
  11. Monash FODMAP Diet
  12. Merge Watermelon for watch
  13. Streaks
  14. Wipr 2
  15. µBrowser: Watch Web Browser
  16. PeakFinder
  17. Threema. The Secure Messenger
  18. Things 3
  19. Goblin Tools
  20. ¡Verify Basic

There are a couple of real gems on this list — Procreate, Paprika, Streaks (multi-time DF sponsor), and Things are all apps that I use, or have used, and would recommend. But unlike the list of top free apps, where I’d at least heard of all of them (once I figured out what T-Life was), I have never even heard of most of these paid iPhone apps. Household names these are not.

The market for paid apps isn’t just different from the market for free apps. It’s an entirely different world.


  1. This, in turn made me wonder what the subscriber-count standings look like. I assumed T-Mobile was still in third place, but that assumption was wrong. According to Wikipedia, here are the number of U.S. subscribers per carrier as of Q3 2025:

    1. Verizon — 146 million
    2. T-Mobile — 140 million
    3. AT&T — 119 million
    4. Boost — 8 million

    I’m a Verizon man myself, and pay handsomely for it. I don’t even remember why exactly, but I despised AT&T back when they were the exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone. ↩︎

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Posted by John Gruber

Yours truly back in 2009, hitting upon the same themes from the item I just posted about TextEdit vs. Apple Notes:

This, I think, explains the relative popularity of Mac OS X’s included Stickies application. For years, Stickies’s popularity confounded me. Why would anyone use a note-taking utility that requires you to leave every saved note open in its own window on screen? The more you use it, the more cluttered it gets. But here’s the thing: cluttered though it may be, you never have to save anything in Stickies. Switch to Stickies, Command-N, type your new note, and you’re done. (And, yes, if you create a new sticky note, then force-quit Stickies, the note you just created will be there when next you launch the app. Stickies’s auto-save happens while you type, not just at quit time.) It feels easy and it feels safe. Stickies does not offer a good long-term storage design, but it offers a frictionless short-term jot-something-down-right-now design.

Here we are in 2026, 17 years later, and, unsurprisingly, some things have changed. Apple Notes didn’t get a Mac version until Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in 2012. And Apple Notes didn’t really get good until 2016 or 2017. I still use Yojimbo, the library-based Mac app I wrote about in the above piece in 2009, but I don’t use it nearly as much as I used to. I use Apple Notes instead, for most notes, because it has good clients for iPhone and iPad (and Vision Pro and even Apple Watch).

Other things, however, have not changed since 2009. Like the Stickies app, which is still around in MacOS 26 Tahoe, largely unchanged, except for a sad Liquid Glass-style icon. If you still use Stickies, you should consider moving to Apple Notes. There’s even a command (File → Export All to Notes...) to import all your notes from Stickies into Apple Notes, with subfolders in Notes for each color sticky note. Apple Notes on the Mac even supports one of Stickies’s signature features: the Window → Float on Top command will keep a note’s window floating atop the windows from other apps even when Apple Notes is in the background.

(Stickies has another cool feature that no other current app I know of does: it still supports “window shading”. Double-click the title bar of a note in Stickies and the rest of the window will “roll up”, leaving only the title bar behind. Double-click again and it rolls down. This was a built-in feature for all windows in all apps on classic Mac OS, starting with Mac OS 8, but was replaced in favor of minimizing windows into the Dock with Mac OS X. Window shading was a better feature (and could have been kept alongside minimizing into the Dock). With the Stickies app, window shading works particularly well with the aforementioned Float on Top feature — you can keep a floating window available, atop all other windows, but while it’s rolled up it hardly takes up any space or obscures anything underneath.)

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Perhaps at the opposite end of the complexity and novelty spectrum from Federico Viticci’s intro to Clawdbot is this piece by Kyle Chayka, writing at The New Yorker, from October:

Amid the accelerating automation of our computers — and the proliferation of assistants and companions and agents designed to execute tasks for us — I’ve been thinking more about the desktop that’s hidden in the background of the laptop I use every day. Mine is strewn with screenshots and Word documents and e-books. What I’ve accrued the most of by far, though, are TextEdit files, from the bare-bones Mac app that just lets you type stuff into a blank window. Apple computers have come with text-editing software since the original Mac was released, in 1984; the current iteration of the program launched in the mid-nineties and has survived relatively unchanged. Over the past few years, I’ve found myself relying on TextEdit more as every other app has grown more complicated, adding cloud uploads, collaborative editing, and now generative A.I. TextEdit is not connected to the internet, like Google Docs. It is not part of a larger suite of workplace software, like Microsoft Word. You can write in TextEdit, and you can format your writing with a bare minimum of fonts and styling. Those files are stored as RTFs (short for rich-text format), one step up from the most basic TXT file. TextEdit now functions as my to-do-list app, my e-mail drafting window, my personal calendar, and my stash of notes to self, which act like digital Post-its.

I trust in TextEdit. It doesn’t redesign its interface without warning, the way Spotify does; it doesn’t hawk new features, and it doesn’t demand I update the app every other week, as Google Chrome does. I’ve tried out other software for keeping track of my random thoughts and ideas in progress — the personal note-storage app Evernote; the task-management board Trello; the collaborative digital workspace Notion, which can store and share company information. Each encourages you to adapt to a certain philosophy of organization, with its own formats and filing systems. But nothing has served me better than the brute simplicity of TextEdit, which doesn’t try to help you at all with the process of thinking. Using the app is the closest you can get to writing longhand on a screen. I could make lists on actual paper, of course, but I’ve also found that my brain has been so irredeemably warped by keyboards that I can only really get my thoughts down by typing.

Old habits are hard to break. And trust me, I, of all people, know the value of writing stuff — all sorts of stuff — in plain text files. (RTF isn’t plain text, but it is a stable and standard format.) I’ve been using BBEdit since 1992, not just as an occasional utility, but as part of my daily arsenal of essential tools.

But I get the feeling that Chayka would be better served switching from TextEdit to Apple Notes for most of these things he’s creating. Saving a whole pile of notes to yourself as text files on your desktop, with no organization into sub-folders, isn’t wrong. The whole point of “just put it on the desktop” is to absolve yourself of thinking about where to file something properly. That’s friction, and if you face a bit of friction every time you want to jot something down, it increases the likelihood that you won’t jot it down because you didn’t want to deal with the friction.

You actually don’t need to save or name documents in TextEdit anymore. One of the best changes to MacOS in the last two decades has been the persistence of open document windows, including unsaved changes to existing files, and never-saved untitled document windows. Try this: open TextEdit, make a new untitled document, and type something — anything — into the new window. Next, don’t just quit TextEdit, but force quit it (⌥⌘Esc). Relaunch TextEdit, and your unsaved new document should be right where you left it, with every character you typed.

But a big pile of unorganized RTF files on your desktop — or a big pile of unsaved document windows that remain open, in perpetuity, in TextEdit — is no way to live. You can use TextEdit like that, it supports being used like that, but it wasn’t designed to be used like that.

Apple Notes was designed to be used like this. Open Notes, ⌘N, type whatever you want, and switch back to whatever you were doing before. There is no Save command. There are no files. And while a few dozen text files on your desktop starts to look messy, and makes individual items hard to find, you can stash thousands of notes in Apple Notes and they just organize themselves into a simple list, sorted, by default, by most recently modified. You can create folders and assign tags in Notes, but you don’t need to. Don’t make busy work for yourself. And with iCloud, you get fast reliable syncing of all your notes to all of your other Apple devices: iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, even your Watch now.

Sometimes you just want to stick with what you’re used to. I get it. I am, very much, a creature of habit. And TextEdit is comforting for its simplicity, reliability, and unchanging consistency spanning literally decades. But there’s no question in my mind that nearly everyone using TextEdit as a personal notes system would be better served — and happier, once they adjust to the change — by switching to Apple Notes.

Federico Viticci on Clawdbot

Jan. 26th, 2026 05:58 pm
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Posted by John Gruber

Federico Viticci, writing at MacStories:

If this intro just gave you whiplash, imagine my reaction when I first started playing around with Clawdbot, the incredible open-source project by Peter Steinberger (a name that should be familiar to longtime MacStories readers) that’s become very popular in certain AI communities over the past few weeks. I kept seeing Clawdbot being mentioned by people I follow; eventually, I gave in to peer pressure, followed the instructions provided by the funny crustacean mascot on the app’s website, installed Clawdbot on my new M4 Mac mini (which is not my main production machine), and connected it to Telegram.

To say that Clawdbot has fundamentally altered my perspective of what it means to have an intelligent, personal AI assistant in 2026 would be an understatement. I’ve been playing around with Clawdbot so much, I’ve burned through 180 million tokens on the Anthropic API ( yikes ), and I’ve had fewer and fewer conversations with the “regular” Claude and ChatGPT apps in the process. Don’t get me wrong: Clawdbot is a nerdy project, a tinkerer’s laboratory that is not poised to overtake the popularity of consumer LLMs any time soon. Still, Clawdbot points at a fascinating future for digital assistants, and it’s exactly the kind of bleeding-edge project that MacStories readers will appreciate.

Clawdbot can be overwhelming at first, so I’ll try my best to explain what it is and why it’s so exciting and fun to play around with.

Overwhelming indeed. Clawdbot is undeniably impressive, and interest in it is skyrocketing. But because of its complexity and scope, it’s one of those things where all the excitement is being registered by people who already understand it. This essay from Viticci is the first thing I’ve seen that really helped me start to understand it.

【chouse】另外的代价

Jan. 26th, 2026 04:20 pm
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Chase同意帮House做手术,但是前老板得拿出点诚意来

🚗 s5e17背景

*设定起司是cuntboy
*涉及舔穴、指奸

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So far, this appears to be a quite mild case of shingles, from what I've been able to gather. It's annoying and worrying, but it hasn't become more than slightly and intermittently painful. I'm not sure if I'm extraordinarily lucky, or if I'm just young enough to make mild symptoms much more likely. We are also having a cold snap again, though it's not really all that cold, only a little bit below the freezing point and a little bit more snow.
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THE WEEK IN CHAOS

Bad weather brings out a particular divide amongst fans. The Purist, and the Chaos..ist? Better represented as the Domers and the Anti-Domers. Purists, or Domers, want their football as pure strain as possible. They want every game to be Fox only, No Items, Final Destination. No additional factors, as minimal chaotic elements as can be, to make sure that the game played is as pure strain football as possible. That’s why they call for every game to be in a climate controlled dome and get really upset when bad weather rolls in, and makes the football “bad”. These individuals tend to be statistics enthusiasts, data nerds, and hardcore film analysts. It makes sense, these people watch and judge their football based on these data points and factors, and stuff like inclement weather introduces a lot of unknowns you cannot account for or properly judge. Dorks hate variables.

Then there are people like me, who would rather play on one of the stupid smash levels with items turned up to max because that’s way more fun. Does it mean external factors have more effect on the game and maybe not give us the best possible ball? Sure, but that’s part of the fun. By Football Quality standards, Pats/Boncos sucked. As a spectacle of entertainment, I had a great time. You’ll never get pure strain football for a number of reasons and part of being great is handling all kinds of adverse elements. You couldn’t tell what yard line the plays were on. The Patriots uniforms vanished into the snow like the wind. Kicks flew all over the place. Players slipped like cartoon characters. You aren’t going to convince me that wasn’t fun to watch. I’ve seen a lot of boring or bad games happen in ideal controlled conditions. I think I’ve always enjoyed when the weather adds that additional stupid factor. Plus, let’s be honest: the snow didn’t start until the middle third quarter, and the game was quite stinky well before then.

The real chaos factor that ruined this game was Jarrett Stidham, which we were stuck with either way. I think the Broncos win this game with Nix. The Patriots fell back on what has worked in the previous two playoff games: pressure the QB and wait for them to fuck up. It worked again. Stidham beat them on a deep ball early but the Pats locked in and Stidham’s inexperience was on display. Indecisiveness and panic set in, and the Patriots functionally won when Stidham made his big mistake before halftime, giving the Pats the ball in the redzone. The Broncos going for it on 4th early with a very stupid play also may have cost Denver the game later on, because they never scored again after that first TD. Once the weather turned the Patriots managed to run the ball better than Denver, and that was all they needed. The Patriots are back. All of those kindergarteners who have never seen a Super Bowl must be thrilled.

Our second game had more scoring, if you need that to feel alive. It was a thrilling back-and-forth with both teams balling out on offense, making you kinda forget these teams are supposed to have good defenses. Seattle looked to take off early but the Rams mostly kept pace, nipping just at their heels anytime Seattle pulled ahead further. Eventually though it just wasn’t enough. A bad mistake by the Rams special teams gave Seattle a big scoring opportunity, and a tough Seattle stop on 4th down with 3 minutes left and subsequent clock eating drive by the Hawks left the Rams with no time for miracles.

CHAOS OF THE WEEK
Jarrett Stidham effectively lost the game on one extremely stupid mistake. 

CHAOTIC MOMENTS OF THE WEEK
Look at this juke by Kenneth Walker
What a biff by the Rams punt returner

THE VIBE CHECK
-Obviously for this particular matchup, both teams vibes are high. But what about everyone watching them?

The Super Bowl is in Levi’s. 49er fans have to watch the Seahawks or Patriots win in their building. Rancid vibes. Jets fans have to watch the Patriots or Sam Darnold win. Rancid vibes. I’m sure the Vikings fans are having a good time watching Sammy reach the Super Bowl while NINE steps on legos in the locker room.

The Chargers fired Roman and possibly hired Mike McDaniel (should he not take a HC job). That’s an upgrade! The Steelers hired Mike McCarthy! That’s rough buddy! The Bills are imploding in spectacular fashion! Oh no! The Eagles fired Patullo, good! The Packers hired Gannon as DC to replace the Dolphins hiring Haftley…okay? The Falcons hired Stefanski…great! Falcons fans are unhappy about it but I think that’s a good hire. The Harbaugh hire has Giants fans extremely optimistic. The Lions replaced their OC with Drew Petzig, and the fans are…displeased. They could have had McDaniel and they chose this guy? Why?

The Raiders are going to get cornball supreme Mendoza as their QB, but we don’t know who he is playing for yet. The Ravens hired Chargers DC Jesse Minter. Good pick, imo. Ravens need to shore up the defense, the offense is in better shape. The Titans picked Robert Saleh. I like Saleh and I think his Jets chance got derailed for the Annoying One, but I don’t think this was a good fit.

The Browns, Raiders, and Cardinals don’t have a coach yet. One of them will get Kubiak. But it goes to show you these 3 organizations look like bad places to work.

THE NFL HAS AN OFFICIATING PROBLEM of the week
Another Rams NFCCG, another missed DPI? Darnold sails a ball to the sideline and the ball is borderline catchable, but it shouldn’t matter because the Rams guy shoved Shaheed from behind well before the ball arrives. If they ruled that uncatchable despite the ball hitting him in the head with his feet still on the line, that’s horseshit. And to be honest? A ball being uncatchable shouldn’t just allow a defender to hit a WR early anyway. That should have been called. If you commit a flagrant penalty, you commit a penalty, the quality of the throw shouldn’t matter.

Thankfully this time it didn’t have a major impact on the game.

CACKLES OF THE WEEK
SOMEONE CHECK THE FIELD FOR BANANA PEELS

BIG OOF OF THE WEEK
Woolen you fucking idiot. I hate taunting penalties and think this was stupid, but he basically walked to the Rams sideline and practically begged them to throw a flag by jawing at them for too long. The TD throw over him on the next play was a Mortal Kombat brutality.

CHAOS WATCH
I feel like after a year of underestimating and dismissing the Patriots I’ve placed myself in the weird position of being one of the few people who is not automatically dismissing them now. The Patriots absolutely have a chance to win this game. They may not have faced an offense this solid in the playoffs (or even the regular season) yet, but their own defense has done everything they needed to do up to this point. The team is battle-tested against 3 top defenses in the playoffs. They have put severe pressure on all 3 guys so far, and I have no reason to assume they won’t do the same to Darnold. Unironically I think the Rams offense would have been the worse matchup for NE out of the two NFC teams.

Darnold acquitted himself admirably (or should I say Admiraly) against the Rams pressure but pressure still tends to be what hurts him. There’s no guarantee he’s busted every ghost yet, and if the Patriots can disrupt him, that’s a problem.

FRAUD WATCH
I’m done underestimating the Patriots at this point, they deserve to be here. But in the off chance they get throttled in the Super Bowl (I do not think they will), I can tell you exactly what the narrative will be: a soft path through the playoffs because of the offenses they faced. The Chargers, Texans, and Broncos all successfully stymied the Patriots offense well enough to win. But the offenses of all 3 of those teams were shit. The Chargers were very injured on the line and poorly coached, the Texans were poorly coached, injured, and their QB fell apart. The Broncos were forced to start a QB with no experience with shitty weather. If this defense suddenly gets shredded in the Bowl, we’ll know this slate of opponents was a bit illusory.

GIANTS CORNER
Harbaugh is doing pretty much exactly what I was hoping he would: gut the building of all the legacy employees. Arguably the biggest flaw within the Giants organization was the inability to self-evaluate and address festering problems within the team. This is the true value of Harbaugh. He spent years in a functional, effective organization. Now he’s been given free rein to make genuine changes in the building, and he’s doing so.

I don’t know if any of this actually pans out. There’s obviously a chance it doesn’t. It could even get worse. What makes me happy is that the Giants are trying. This would not be happening with Stefanski or McCarthy, or any other new hire. Also Joe Schoen effectively got his ass demoted.

SNUFF FILM OF THE WEEK
Two games this week, both entertaining for different reasons, no snuffs.

DISAPPOINTMENT DUCK
Again, this category doesn’t really work with two games, so I’ll pick a play instead. Sean Payton going for it on 4th down early with a shitty pass outside instead of a run up the middle or taking the 3 points may have cost them the game.

MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM OF THE WEEK
Either offense in Denver/New England. Can’t even blame the snow, that shit sucked before it arrived.

CARTOONS!


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DA SUPABOWL

PATRIOTS vs SEAHAWKS

We got two weeks to discuss it but I am also of the belief this is Seattle’s game to lose. I do not think Seattle is going to have an easy time of it, and I think the Patriots offense will do better than they did against Houston or Denver. The weather was bad in both of those games and the Rams performed well enough against Seattle’s D too.

The biggest and most important question here is the Patriots defense facing an offense with actual scoring ability. They got away with some weak offenses so far. I think the Pats offense can do well enough to keep pace with Seattle…if they can mostly hold Seattle down. If the Seahawks can move the ball on this Pats (especially on the ground) the Patriots are in trouble.

Drake Maye is the truth and the Patriots coaching staff is brilliant and experienced. I give them the edge there. Drake’s inexperience and general lack of production in the playoffs thus far is a concern though. Darnold didn’t need to do much against the 49ers, but he balled out against LA. They’ve also had more experience with Levi’s Stadium, as minor as that is.

This matchup in general makes me groan, I didn’t want to see either of these teams nor have them face each other, but I am genuinely excited for the game and I think it has the potential to be pretty good. I think the Seahawks are just a bit too powerful and win something like 34-28, with most of the scoring coming in the second half after a low-scoring first half.

 

I do not have ideas for the two bets yet, so feel free to request anything.

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Oh, God

Jan. 24th, 2026 02:27 pm
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Chase forgets his phone which is still loaded onto the last porn page where the actors look a bit too much like him and House. It all spirals from there.

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【大谷翔平×你】刺青

Jan. 26th, 2026 04:01 am
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圈地自萌了不要骂我,一切以他单身为前提。作者很脆弱,受不了乙女向麻烦不要看直接关掉,非常感谢。
预警:一夜情,偶像×粉丝,都是自愿的没有强迫性行为。如果都可以的话感谢观看。

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Poetry, by George MacDonald

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A collection of poetry by Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister George MacDonald, exploring themes of faith, nature, redemption, and the human soul.

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