Happy 30th birthday to Stakes is High www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImDo...

what the fuck

Hope you all had a good Pride Month. It’s important as queers and allies to resist the forces that try to immiserate our lives and the lives of those we love. Be gay, be strong, be proud. Be proud, not just for a month, but forever. There will always be a place for us on @bloodwork.show

@devintoshea.bsky.social having been passingly familiar with the VP, I was watching the 1962 Cape Fear & this dialogue jumped out at me. Cut to a week later and your episode of @bloodwork.show drops. How’s that for Pynchonesque… My copy of the book arrived today—excited to dig in.

When college athletes get caught taking money, they get a lifetime ban. But schools will still take money from the boosters behind the schemes. At Washington, one man who helped cripple the program in the 1990s is still a major backer today. www.foiaball.com/p/university...

This shit sucks.

Hammer Time

Interesting

In March, I went to watch France and Brazil play a pre-World Cup game—half the game from an on-field VIP club, half from the cheap seats. Today I’ve got an essay out about what live sports are for, which seems like something a lot of us are thinking about right now. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Charles 😞

On John Blanche stuckness.ghost.io/john-blanche/

RIP john blanche, one of the greatest to ever do it

Up at Stuckness: writing about 40k, regimes of efficiency, and what a game even is. stuckness.ghost.io/what-even-is...

I am looking to speak with women (hell yea, brother) who played a DI sport in the past five years in the following states: Indiana, Texas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, WV, Oklahoma, Tennessee. If that’s you, or you know someone, please hit me up

good morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=krX_...

Texas law has an exemption barring the release of information on donors to state schools. Texas gives out sideline passes for football to donors who give over $1 million. Texas law does not have an exemption blocking the release of who got sideline passes. www.foiaball.com/p/texas-long...

Everyone I’ve ever met who was interested in learning more about The Creeper got there based on his New Batman Adventures episode, and to you I say: the comic you actually want to read is Mike Allred’s Madman

Up on Stuckness: on the uses and misuses of Mark Fisher (both the man and his work) in the wake of that rock is back baby piece. stuckness.ghost.io/wwmfd/

RIP to the man who double booked his whole life five minutes after the hour, Ted Turner. channel-6.ghost.io/ted-turner-1...

The GOAT

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Anthropic warns that Charlie Brown could have hoes by Q3 of this year

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Your 2026 EDSBS Charity Bowl grand total is $1,763,317. edsbscharitybowl.com

Are we @repdangoldman.bsky.social posting today? Sure why not. Here's a quick CV. Anyway, vote for @bradlander.bsky.social

Okay I’m not the only person who immediately thought to do this

If you ring the bell enough times in rapid succession it sounds like Antioch the Birthday Spider

And now I post this with no context

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Viral marketing has gone way too far

Today's donation: $87 plus fees. 43 for Max Gilbert's whiffed attempt on a game winning field goal for Tennessee vs Georgia 44 for 44th President Barack Obama, who was in office the last time Tennessee beat Georgia GO DAWGS @newap-georgia.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social

HELP EDSBS CHARITY BOWL DOT COM

Make them kiss @newap-georgia.bsky.social

#HellYesDukeFootball Ahead of UNC in the Money Cannon, too? 👀 @newap-georgia.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

The retailer I get the most questions about from friends and readers is Quince, and it's not close. It carries everything from cashmere sweaters to American-made sofas to Dom Perignon champagne, most of it super cheap. I finally wrote about what Quince is up to. 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Should be eaten immediately out of the freezer, but absolutely elite.

Evan Turner’s voice has a Meatwad-esque quality.

Wrote about Charley Crockett, The Age of the Ram, the idea of outlaw, the echoes of Willie and Waylon, and how you can never escape your past:

New post about people I know who grifted and gabbed despite professing decent politics and how we all bear at least a little responsibility for this nightmare. stuckness.ghost.io/down-on-the-...

I think of this every time I look at the moon.

in medias res

gotta say, there aren't many places out there that have this kinda range these days

I would watch a show where American Pope & Lady Archbishop solve crimes

Social media should be the absolute lowest stakes part of life - pictures of your food or your dog, jokes about how you get fully gone off mids or the Grink. I don't even want to see a negative opinion on here. It sucks that it's become the focus of so much of life, especially for powerful people.

A computer can never pack a bowl therefore a computer must never make a playlist

I wrote about the situation, which I assure you I am monitoring very closely. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Finally, the three shells

Duke first half

The best email Ole Miss' AD got during the Lane Kiffin-LSU saga was this screed demanding he get to coach the postseason. Was it written by a Florida screened-in-patio magnate? Did he cc his wife on the tirade? Did he sign it "Disgusted?" This is college football. You know the answers.

@bloodwork.show any chance y’all can do a patron feed for the pod so that everything is in one place?