📺 Telemundo TV commentator: "We are one of the only networks in the world to NOT show ads during the World Cup cooling breaks."
"We prefer the old school way. We should be able to see what the players do. We show fans, people enjoying, not the corporate direction of football."
Hard to overstate how incredible NYC feels living through a collective experience like this Knicks run. You feel it during moments of struggle too like Sandy, Covid, 9/11, the blackout, but when the city is unified in joy shit is magic.
I've been building communities for over a decade. Real ones. Loyal ones.
The kind brands dream about and platforms exploit.
And in that decade I watched the same story play out over and over.
Build. Get banned. Rebuild. Get wiped. Repeat.
Last year, I was in the audience when someone asked psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou how it's possible to "do kink in this moment." I wrote about her answer for @Parapraxis_Mag
“In the twenty-first century, leather imagines a world in which interpersonal violence is only ever consensual, but that revolution hasn’t happened yet.”
-@k8bushofficial on the politics of NYC’s leather scene