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Elliotte Friedman is reporting that #GoBolts Nikita Kucherov has informed his teammates & the Lightning organization that he will not be re-signing with Tampa Bay and would like to be traded.
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On pending UFA Nikita Kucherov, the reigning Hart Trophy winner, everyone involved seems pretty Zen about the fact he's not extended yet as the season approaches. It'll happen when it happens seems to be the prevailing mood around those talks, lots of time before July 1. He wants to stay, and Lightning want to sign him long term. But hard to predict when exactly it gets done.
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🚨 #BREAKING: Internet users marked the Flock CEO’s lawn as a “public toilet” after it was revealed he redacted public streetview images of his house for privacy.
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Junior Caminero is the first player with consecutive 40+HR, 100+RBI seasons before turning 24 since Alex Rodriguez (1998-1999).
A true superstar, Caminero.
September 11, 2001 — 25 years ago today
Remember the 2,977 lives taken, the families forever changed, and a nation shaken to its core with sudden, unimaginable force.
We remember. We honor. We will never forget. 🇺🇸
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Not meaning to complain too much, but... I've just had this overwhelming feeling lately that so many things are objectively WORSE in 2026 than they were say 7 years ago. Here's a short list of things:
1. Google. I no longer get anywhere near an honest search, mostly either AI or ads
2. YouTube, search is also completely broken, serving only recent things and / or shorts. I guess social media in general just feels more and more pointless and far less about humans.
3. Uber / Lyft, prices are INSANE
4. DoorDash, prices are also absolutely off the charts
5. Rental cars, needed to rent a car yesterday, couldn't do it under a few hundred for 2 days.
6. Groceries are almost $200 every time I go
7. Insurance has sky rocketed for everything. The house in Texas is about 2 times more expensive to insure in 2026 than it was in just 2021
8. Food. Starbucks and Subway sandwiches were never particularly amazing, but now they're not even a shell of what they used to be, and many many others.
9. Online ordering. I feel like I used to kind of know what I'd get. Now there's a decent chance of seeing some AI slop and getting a complete scam of a product with no responsibility
10. Phones. I'm less happy with my phone and getting more and more spam calls now more than ever, and I'm more often either waiting for faceID to work, or accidentally hitting something, or accidentally hitting the camera button, or accidentally changing the background. Like multiple times a day, I'm doing an input that I did not want to do. That didn't used to happen
11. Housing / Rent prices / hotel prices
12. EVERYTHING being "private equity", screw that. Stop chasing profit, chase making good products.
I guess a lot of this is just inflation in general. I'm really noticing the price of things get more and more ridiculous...
But it also feels like a lot of things are just getting worse. Adding features that shouldn't exist, chasing profits over making a good product, adding steps to make something more frustrating to use or order or do. Trying to have AI just simply "replace" something instead of being a tool to help improve it, or a way to just opt back.
I don't know. I'm trying hard to just keep my head down and do my work the old fashioned way, and I just feel like there's this mantra of "hurry up or you'll miss out". I've been enjoying being outside more, trying to be healthy and offline, and it just feels more and more like things aren't what it used to be.
I say this, yet I'm still hopeful for the future. I still think there's incredible things happening and amazing technologies, and exciting things happening in our world. I just feel like if I could hit the rewind button on a few things, I absolutely would. Would you? Maybe this is just part of growing older and feeling nostalgic? I am getting old...
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Nikita Kucherov is the Hart Memorial Trophy winner for the second time in his career! 🏆 #NHLAwards
The Hart Trophy is awarded annually to the League MVP.
ALT Photo of Nikita Kucherov in a Tampa Bay Lightning uniform with the Hart Trophy pictured to the left. Text reads, \"Hart Trophy winner, Nikita Kucherov, #86, RW\".
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This guy is a fucking clown.
Not only is this flat out wrong, it’s incredibly disrespectful to spread BS rumors like this for clicks.
Heddy has been a huge part of the culture change of the Lightning for over a decade, and people want to spread misinformation for attention.
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NEW: Disney speaks out after it was revealed that some of their immigrant cruise workers were allegedly distributing child p*rn.
Last month, multiple Disney workers were arrested by CBP in San Diego, California, which led to outrage by liberals.
A local immigration advocacy group, Union del Barrio, strongly condemned the arrests.
"It is our responsibility as a society, as working people, to really denounce these actions by Customs and Border Protection, by and [ICE], and the prolonged detention of migrant workers, whether it be here in our own community as well as those that work on ships."
According to CBP, 28 workers on 5 different vessels, 26 from the Philippines, 1 from Portugal, and 1 from Indonesia, were arrested for either the "receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing of CSEM or child p*rnography." (NYP)
Not all the workers worked for Disney.
Disney has released the following statement:
"We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement."
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MASSIVE WEDGE #TORNADO southeast of Bude, Mississippi with tornado emergency through Premtiss
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Watching Crozier-Slafkovsky sequence again & I see why Cooper was so angry.
Dach takes a swipe at Crozier & isn't penalized. Instead, it's Matheson for a slash on Point.
MTL fans have spent a lot of time complaining about the refs, but there were bad/missed calls both ways.
