he wasn't

To punish me, to punish all of us

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I think the thing that makes these posters fascinating to me is that a guy with zero talent sits down at his computer and says “what would make a good title for a breakfast club sequel?” And came up with “Saturday Returns”

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A rare moment of unity between sports fans and wrestling fans, as they join together to say: Him? $60M a year?

Well at least he’s gonna look like a dumb loser

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time

Speaking as a working class kid who was one of the first in the family to go into higher education: it looks like the actual point here is that the political class broadly has decided to hugely hack back access to university. The justifications is spurious and probably secondary to the underfunding.

What must my mail carrier think of me

Another is, for example, that salaries *in the Civil Service*, supposedly running the actual country on our behalf, are barely above minimum-wage until you reach senior management levels. www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/civil-servic...

Cold? How’s about: burn your clothes and furniture for warmth

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

If pro wrestling is “fake,” then explain this

More people now watch AEW Dynamite than CBS at 1135pm. I knew this was going to be a disaster, but holy crap. Production costs of $0 don't matter when no one is watching.

No

Ads from Eerie 23 (1969). Anti-smoking ad at bottom by Frank Frazetta.

mike johnson is legitimately in the running for single worst speaker in the history of the house

Buddy. You’re not a prepper. Give up

He tries to make everything about himself: the 250th, the World Cup, even the NBA Finals. He’s like Karen Horney’s description of the primal narcissist self seeing its own image projected onto the world and then trying to devour the world. Except she was talking about infants

Episodes from years 1, 2, and 3 of AEW Dynamite are now streaming on Tubi—and available to watch for FREE. - 12 episodes (2019) - 53 episodes (2020) - 36 episodes (2021) Available in the US only: tubitv.com/series/3000...

I mostly look for storylines in sports, and right now the NBA Finals is “Team owned by generational buffoon looks set to win, blessed by idiot tyrant” whereas the Stanley Cup final is “Heroic D&D team takes 2-1 lead over treacherous former Whalers team.” Not a hard choice for me

In my entire life I have never seen a world cup with less fan interest and media hype

The iconic Mike Tenay and Don West high five was 20 years ago today.

AEW has more good matches booked for Dynamite (6) than WWE does (5) for their ppvs. AEW's entire strategy is "lots of great wrestling" & WWE seems to have no counter because "produce better content" is too much work.

I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?

The crucial WWE Hall Of Famer Torrie Wilson endorsement shoulda sealed it

The Beeb did do some good work on small fascist groups distributing papers full of Nazi conspiracy theories and so on, but the problem here is the same one as the lads vowing to crush “fake news” in 2016: eventually, you have to admit the key problem is the Sun, the Mail, the Times and the Telegraph

But the Pentagon DID include Jehovah’s Witnesses as a Christian religion, perhaps in a bid to spark a flame war on the Catholic discussion board I moderated in the mid-2000s

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There was a horror book fair in Shelton yesterday

Facebook and X The Everything App are open sewers but I notice we just had a week of politicians from three parties and the national press unifying to very loudly tell the public the police are dangerously racist against white people

this is basically correct. I'll add that theatrical box office is one of the only "objective" measurements of a movie's popularity — stuff can be a "hit" or "bomb" on Netflix and the company will never share their internal metrics with anyone (except some implausible bragging about watch time)

Cuban was being interviewed by Josh Barro, who I once again want to inform everyone blocked me years ago on Twitter for replying to him with images of the smart gremlin from Gremlins 2

Me when they play “Gee Angel” at the pharmacy while I’m waiting to pick up my prescription

Today I saw a guy wearing a shirt promoting, not Metallica, but a Metallica tribute band

A fun aside — MSG, owned by Trump pal James Dolan, tried to tell us that the party wasn’t cancelled because of Trump. And not long after, the NYPD sent an updated statement — yes, it’s cancelled because of the presidential visit. Here are the statements.

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Tony Khan is the only nepo child I respect for this very reason. “He overpays wrestlers to have hour long matches where they put staples into each other’s foreheads boo hoo hoo” ok? Fine? Good for him?

Free Speech Champion(tm) Bari Weiss demanding CBS News smear an American executed by her government for protesting bsky.app/profile/elio...

for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades

I really enjoyed “Backrooms,” and so did the unruly teens I chaperoned. Kind of a 21st century Expressionist film in a lot of ways but not nearly as tedious as that sounds. There was a danger of a bit of “This is about … Grief,” but they swerved on that with an ambiguous ending. Thumbs up

This morning: tag sale for the food pantry. Late morning into late afternoon: Knights of Columbus picnic. Currently: chaperoning a group of teenagers too young to get into “The Backrooms” on their own

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

It appears that nobody wants to hear this and indeed, maybe nobody *can* hear this, even when it’s coming from golden boy.

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For the avoidance of doubt, this is my point. bsky.app/profile/pete...

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.