As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

This year’s National (USA) Week Without Driving starts tomorrow (via)

The NHL is rolling out a series of short stories on audiobook platforms throughout the season that present real-life NHL storylines in the style of romance novels.

A glitch in the EA Sports FC 27 video game, which saw some women’s players appear in their underwear, will be resolved by a title update, the game’s manufacturer Electronic Arts has announced.

EAFC27, part of the world’s largest football video game franchise, was released in the United States and worldwide on September 25. Users with early access to the game, which went live on September 18, reported that some women’s character models would, in certain cut-scenes, appear without their kits, wearing only black underwear.

At midnight, Taylor Swift released a four-song update to her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, which came out last October and had the cultural impact of a Skechers sneaker drop. Despite juicing its commercial success with several variants on the physical copies for sale, responses to the album from critics and fans alike have been lukewarm at best. Certainly nobody that I know liked hearing Travis Kelce’s dick compared to a redwood tree.

One might think that after reaching the economic pinnacle that was the Eras Tour, the accompanying concert film and Disney+ docuseries, three albums in four years, and a single for the billion-grossing Toy Story 5, Swift would maybe consider chilling for a second. But for better and for worse, this woman is a compulsive writer who must metabolize her life into song. The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore is proof that some ideas should just stay in the diary, the voice memos, or the group chat.

All four of the new songs on this extended edition land with a thud, with the most egregious of the lot being one called “Cleveland!” It’s an attempted rejoinder at Swift’s ever-present “haters” who criticize her looks, her values, and her dancing ability. But she doesn’t worry, because “you only need to find one person in this entire world who doesn’t find you completely insufferable,” and Swift has found hers in Kelce, whom she married at an intimate ceremony in Madison Square Garden in July. Kelce, she writes, has blown her socks off with a trip to Cleveland exclamation point. Gone is the sardonic self-awareness of singles like “Anti-Hero” and “Blank Space,” as is the storytelling and mathematical rhythm work from folklore and evermore. For someone who just a few short years ago wrote songs like “ivy” and “peace” about people who were apparently not her soulmates, the shallowness of these songs that point to Kelce is shocking. “He already took me to Cleveland / And showed me The Heights, so hate all you like / This is the love of my life, hey, hey, hey,” she sings on the chorus. It’s very much giving “I have never EVER been happier!!!”

Taylor Swift has revealed four new songs will be part of “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore.”

Taylor Swift announced that she has a new single, ‘Patient Zero,’ arriving imminently, with her webstore taking orders for CD editions.

Taylor Swift is now the namesake of a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science.

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Taylor Swift is a member of the American Federation of Musicians and SAG-AFTRA, while Travis Kelce is a member of the NFL Players Association.

Adam Sandler was the one who made Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce husband and wife – the comedy legend served as the couple’s wedding officiant!

It certainly looks like Taylor Swift, the biggest pop star on planet Earth, is going to marry Travis Kelce, her three-time Super Bowl champion beau, at Madison Square Garden on Friday.

While neither Ms. Swift nor Mr. Kelce has directly confirmed that their nuptials will take place there, over the past week, my imagination has been reeling with the potential for matrimonial stagecraft that only Ms. Swift could pull off. How many dresses will she wear, and what will they look like? Will Jack Antonoff be a bridesman? Will she perform? Who else will get up onstage? Paul McCartney? James Taylor? MGMT?

And yet, as I consider the expected event, I feel … well … “depressed” is the word.

Hiya mods! The men’s World Cup is once again upon us which means that drunken soccer fans have spilled out of containment and into our streets and online communities. If this is fun for you and your community, wonderful! It is (ostensibly) a tournament for the whole world, and lots of different communities are likely to want to have different kinds of discussions about it. On the other hand, if this is not fun for you and your community, I would like to invite you to send them over to [email protected]. I’ve put a fresh coat of paint on the place, and primed the pump with some posts, so hopefully it’ll help redirect posting from communities that want to discuss other stuff in peace.

I will also mention the great folks over at [email protected] , which is the best general soccer community I’ve seen in my time in the threadiverse (and there have been many), though I won’t speak on their behalf, in case they don’t want a big influx of people who seem to mostly want to post about how much Trump’s World Cup sucks (valid).