Everything is pro wrestling now

David Walliams has one of the most “I practice smiling in the mirror every day and still can’t quite get it right” faces I’ve ever seen

You know Vince McMahon is kind of insulted that he never got to go to an Epstein party

That Jake Paul knockout is the most brutal thing I’ve seen in a boxing ring since Butterbean vs Bart Gunn

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

Donkey Kong XII: Contemplation of the Divine Self

Oklahoma ball carriers take bumps like indie wrestlers

It appears that I have found my Wario

my “yes, even the empty margins of our files are redacted” t-shirt answers a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

haha that sucks

Finally a win for the workingman!

Finally some real reporting

I’ll never forget my dad taking me to see the Bostoo Yook Yarters as a kid

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

I lead a rich, full life

Starting the day off right

"CURSED VIDEO: The Movie"

Teens turn to a variety of online platforms, but YouTube continues to stand out. Roughly nine-in-ten teens report ever using it. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the next most widely used platforms.

“Yep, got your email, thanks!”

okay somehow this totally banal observation about the relative scale and influence of social media platforms has made some people extremely mad

It’s perversely impressive that, despite the fact that it almost became immediately clear politics had nothing to do with the murders if Rob and Michele Reiner, the worst people with internet access have been finding ways to shoehorn politics into the discussion

Can we please normalize me getting everything I want while owing nothing to anyone?

It’s amazing what you can find at a junk shop

Quite like how the collective WWF crashout has happened at the same time as the wider right wing grifter crashout.

I want a claymation movie about whatever version of Santa this is. He rides a magic bear with his trusty deer and monkey sidekicks. What are they doing? What mission must they complete to ensure a joyous holiday?

If you’re selling books in a junk shop and you’re using packing tape (!) to affix your price tag to the covers, I consider you the worst kind of criminal pervert

Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...

There’s gonna be a big “inside the disastrous start to Bari Weiss’s CBS tenure” story with some of the most grim quotes imaginable at some point soon

This thing was such a great idea, and the follow through has been even better

Sounds like a good time at the movies

My favorite song from my favorite album of the year. The story of a 1654 British expedition against Spain that began the age of imperial expansion by the government rather than private companies. Also contains the line “John Dee with his scrying mirror necromanced the British Empire.”

Who’s up for a little midcentury COMEDY GOLD?

rare post that gets better with every single word

I think a lot of people don't fully appreciate that this administration and all of the people backing it are in it to make content as content creators

My latest premium newsletter is about FIRE's alliances with the American right, and president Greg Lukianoff's pathetic attempts to justify them.

Verdict on “The Running Man” (2025): Not enough running

Hedging their bets

Me leading my battalion on a suicide mission to win the “take hill 67 parlay” with a 30% boost:

The only news source I trust unreservedly

This is an achewood plotline

The holiday season is in full swing at the Crystal Mall!

There’s nothing so reassuring as getting into an elevator, reading the certificate of operation as it starts to descend, and seeing that the certificate expired more than two months ago

Yeah I read theory

Religious affiliation has been dropping among young people for decades, but there are examples of surging interest on college campuses and in cities. https://wapo.st/4a3Gmhk

I had a very weird time at the barbershop today. There was a golden retriever doing tricks; there was someone saying The Simpsons had predicted that Connecticut would be hit by a devastating blizzard on Wednesday; another person was praising an article that ran on our website this week.

Like clockwork, the Oscarbait movies all come out in December

A beautiful exhibition at the Ballard Institute in Storrs, check it out if you’re in the area

Seeing the street fighter movie to support Hirooki Goto but turning my head when Roman Reigns and Cody show up.

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