Dan McQuade
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Dan McQuade
@dhm.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Let Me Tell You About My Uncommon Cancer
Dan McQuade shares what his last year has been like since learning he’s living with neuroendocrine cancer.
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A year ago, doctors told me I had neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas. I’d probably been living with it for a decade. I will likely never be cured. But after a year of surgeries, radiation and monthly shots with a giant needle, I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. defector.com/my-life-with...
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genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
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FUNBAG: defector.com/big-words-ar...
Big Words Are Big Fun | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SF GATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
FUNBAG: defector.com/big-words-ar...
“As there are 139 teams in those four leagues and let's say 20 players per team, this amounts to a little more than a third of all professional players in the country” defector.com/turkish-socc...
Turkish Soccer Is Eating America's Lunch When It Comes To Gambling Suspensions | Defector
America may have invented match fixing back in the first decades of the twentieth century, and we may be bringing it back in this one with new gambling scandals in basketball and baseball, but at some...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“As there are 139 teams in those four leagues and let's say 20 players per team, this amounts to a little more than a third of all professional players in the country” defector.com/turkish-socc...
“If the judge could figure out a verdict in which the school pays the $53 million but Kelly doesn't get it, we as a nation would elect that judge God For Life by acclimation.” defector.com/there-is-no-...
There Is No One To Cheer For In The Case Of Brian Kelly v. LSU | Defector
Somewhere there’s a judge in Louisiana who isn’t hooked into a political machine and can’t be bought by one—maybe. And that is the judge, should he or she actually exist, who should hear Brian Kelly’s...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“If the judge could figure out a verdict in which the school pays the $53 million but Kelly doesn't get it, we as a nation would elect that judge God For Life by acclimation.” defector.com/there-is-no-...
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contribute to our tip jar and enter the raffle to journey on our dime and either watch us flail around in a rented professional kitchen (option 1) or flail around in a rented professional kitchen alongside us (option 2) 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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November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
contribute to our tip jar and enter the raffle to journey on our dime and either watch us flail around in a rented professional kitchen (option 1) or flail around in a rented professional kitchen alongside us (option 2) defector.com/help-secure-...
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Thrown by Jeff Blake. This is what got the Eagles to sign him a few months later.
November 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thrown by Jeff Blake. This is what got the Eagles to sign him a few months later.
I have a t-shirt that commemorates the time 610 WIP destroyed the Vet with a giant football. Touchdown!
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I have a t-shirt that commemorates the time 610 WIP destroyed the Vet with a giant football. Touchdown!
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Grateful for this kind Foot Locker employee for illegally streaming the Eagles game on TikTok tonight while the Disney-Google dispute continues.
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Grateful for this kind Foot Locker employee for illegally streaming the Eagles game on TikTok tonight while the Disney-Google dispute continues.
Ringo on Monday Night Football
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Ringo on Monday Night Football
False starts are the funniest play in football now. The NFL cannot ban the tush push.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
False starts are the funniest play in football now. The NFL cannot ban the tush push.
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The Sacramento Kings are an abomination: defector.com/the-kings-ar...
The Kings Are An Abomination | Defector
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — During the break between the first and second quarters, the Sacramento Kings interrupted one anti-competitive spectacle with another. Six babies lined up to race, only to hear the...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Sacramento Kings are an abomination: defector.com/the-kings-ar...
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Looking over the receipt from a recent hotel stay in Philly and got charged 65 dollars for an “urban experience fee.” 65 dollars to walk around Walnut Street.
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Looking over the receipt from a recent hotel stay in Philly and got charged 65 dollars for an “urban experience fee.” 65 dollars to walk around Walnut Street.
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All the players should bet on sports, they can’t ban everyone.
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
All the players should bet on sports, they can’t ban everyone.
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across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
Man, it’s a rough time for the “Eagles are playing like shit, pass me another beer” guy. He’s selling shirts outside the Sixers game tonight.
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Man, it’s a rough time for the “Eagles are playing like shit, pass me another beer” guy. He’s selling shirts outside the Sixers game tonight.
Wow. What a night. I got a collectible. I will remember the 00-01 team fondly using whatever this is.
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Wow. What a night. I got a collectible. I will remember the 00-01 team fondly using whatever this is.
The Sixers mascots are weird next to each other because Franklin has a big mascot head and Hip Hop has a human-sized head with rabbit ears
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The Sixers mascots are weird next to each other because Franklin has a big mascot head and Hip Hop has a human-sized head with rabbit ears
I had to be here for the return of Hip Hop
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I had to be here for the return of Hip Hop
If you’re wearing this jersey to the Sixers game tonight they should let you in for free
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If you’re wearing this jersey to the Sixers game tonight they should let you in for free
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Lauren Theisen on how to watch hockey: defector.com/how-to-watch...
How To Watch Hockey | Defector
I’m writing specifically about the Edmonton Oilers at the St. Louis Blues on Sportsnet on Monday night, but in broad strokes that will apply to any game you’re watching. First Period The most…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Lauren Theisen on how to watch hockey: defector.com/how-to-watch...
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Honestly a lot of the pies stolen from windowsills were probably taken by animals and not area children. It was a kind of moral panic
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Honestly a lot of the pies stolen from windowsills were probably taken by animals and not area children. It was a kind of moral panic
Five years ago today, they booked the wrong Four Seasons. My on-scene report from Four Seasons Total Landscaping and Fantasy Island Adult Bookstore that day: defector.com/the-trump-pr...
The Trump Presidency Ended Next To A Porno Shop | Defector
PHILADELPHIA — Rudy Giuliani was speaking in the back lot of a landscaping company in an industrial zone of the Holmesburg section of the city, under a hazardous materials sign. Things were not going ...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Five years ago today, they booked the wrong Four Seasons. My on-scene report from Four Seasons Total Landscaping and Fantasy Island Adult Bookstore that day: defector.com/the-trump-pr...
Division II Wilmington University, Dril’s alma mater, just beat the University of Delaware in men’s hoops
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Division II Wilmington University, Dril’s alma mater, just beat the University of Delaware in men’s hoops
We’re watching Sesame Street. My son insists the orange muppet, the one who pals along with the fairy, is Garfield. Is Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue the only canon Garfield/Muppet crossover?
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We’re watching Sesame Street. My son insists the orange muppet, the one who pals along with the fairy, is Garfield. Is Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue the only canon Garfield/Muppet crossover?