Tom Ley
toley.bsky.social
Tom Ley
@toley.bsky.social
Co-owner Defector Media
My favorite NBA podcast thing is when someone is talking about a bad team and is like “and it’s gonna get worse. I looked at their next 10 games, are you ready for this?” and then they read off a totally normal schedule
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
An incredible story about the stuff guys used to do to entertain themselves before there was posting on the internet: defector.com/wilbur-huckl...
Wilbur Huckle For President: Solving A 61-Year-Old Mets Mystery | Defector
Earlier this year, on a cold Sunday in January, I walked into an antique store in a Washington D.C. suburb. When I go to a shop like this one, I’m not looking for chairs or lamps. My interests are a l...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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For this year’s Tip Jar drive, we invite you to travel to Philadelphia to either judge (easy mode) or bake along with (chaos mode) Kelsey McKinney and Chris Thompson as they take on another timed baking challenge. defector.com/help-secure-...
Help Secure Our Financial Independence By Infiltrating The Great Blogger Bake Shop | Defector
Last year, Defector’s operations geniuses submitted our annual Tip Jar drives for consideration in the Online Journalism Awards category of “Innovation in Revenue Strategy” for mid-size newsrooms. We…
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October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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excellent blogs today at defector. good time to subscribe! defector.com/products
October 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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probably the most fun i've had reading something online in weeks

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Name A 28-Year-Old | Defector
Here is the challenge before you: Name a famous person who is 28 years old. Go ahead. No cheating, no looking it up. Off the dome. Pure, uncut 28-year-old naming. I bet you can’t do it.  Zendaya? 29. ...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bartender accidentally made two extra cocktails and gave them to us for free
October 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Somehow, comedy is no longer legal again.
September 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Obviously this is all horrible but it’s pretty funny that everyone on the right keeps being like “Our vengeance will be swift and unyielding” and “The cry of the Valkyrie calls us to war” and then they just go and get Jimmy Kimmel fired.
September 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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The official charity of the Savannah Bananas has a hard time explaining how its money is spent: defector.com/the-official...
The Official Charity Of The Savannah Bananas Has A Hard Time Explaining How Its Money Is Spent | Defector
Bananas Foster describes itself as “the official non-profit of Banana Ball,” the barnstorming baseball league that hosts the Savannah Bananas. Its mission, per executive director Jolie Chabala, is…
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September 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
[EMPATHY] - You should say something. This is important.

1. “My heart goes out to his family”

2. [Drama - Easy 8] Blow everyone’s minds with an epic and inspiring quote

FAIL

“Rest easy brother, we have the watch, I’ll see you in Valhalla”
September 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Crazy week for indelible images. “Shots fired” TikTok guy… “was dead on impact” TV news girl… Clay Travis sobbing on air after reading an email from a listener whose 20-year-old son is too sad to come out of his room…
September 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...
September 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Ben Johnson trying to get Caleb Williams to make the first read and throw a normal ball
September 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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September 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Calling this one Middle Infielders That I Was Oddly Fixated On For A Time
September 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We're celebrating our upcoming fifth birthday with a big sale! I think the site has been particularly good this week, so take a look at Defector.com and then smash that damn subscribe button. defector.com/defector-is-...
Defector Is Celebrating Its Fifth Birthday By Giving You A Big Fat Discount | Defector
Defector turns five next month. At last week’s offsite meetings, we celebrated that accomplishment and talked seriously about the 10-year mark—how we’re going to get there, and what we want Defector t...
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August 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Free Piss has graduated from stupid vanity project to make fun of to genuinely evil institution: defector.com/the-free-pre...
The Free Press Reports Gaza’s Starving Children Have Pre-Existing Condition Of Being Bombed By Israel | Defector
Musab Al-Debs has lost 75 percent of his body weight. The 14-year-old reportedly weighed 40 kilograms (88 pounds) before he was injured in an airstrike; now he weighs no more than 10 kilograms. In pho...
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August 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM