open.substack.com/pub/theehgap... Wrote on the Olympics, All Star Games and the UFC’s fall to a legion of Orks with questionable views. Also greatly appreciate @lukethomas.bsky.social and @jedkmeshew.bsky.social for the use of their MK discussion on Sean Strickland from last week

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Amish Paradise/White and Nerdy is the answer depending on when you were born. The Saga Begins is the one I think of first

Mox, Lance, and Billy Bob are all gone. 😭

Maybe I’m just a big dumb idiot but I don’t think proactively voting to fund and support a (theoretically) nicer and more accountable gestapo is the winning idea that many very serious people are telling me it is.

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giving this a monday morning bump

Dan Hooker knows ball

Remember how the Mad Max trilogy was fun and good, but not like, "great movies" and then Fury Road came kind of out of nowhere to be the best movie of the decade? That's exactly how I feel about Bone Temple. letterboxd.com/jmeshew/film...

Black Bag is a perfect film and certainly one of the five best movies of the year, much less the top 10

Board of Peace? What, was Axis of Peace already taken?

“Mike Bobo and Pete Golding matching wits” you wish you had the raw intellectual horsepower of the SEC

Ran my first 10K in 3 months and I want to die

Godspeed to anyone playing against Jonathan Taylor today

Full pumpkin for Daniel Jones. He’s completely lost his confidence and Steichen doesn’t trust him.

Fully support this idea, and I’d like to expand on it: I believe in having low-effort mortal enemies. People you’ve actually met who have wronged you, who you never interact with but nonetheless wish ill. Not in a corrosive way, but as a manner of being

Shocked that Jones is critical of Tom Aspinall. Never could have guessed

You will never convince me that Jalen Hurts is good

I’m closing in on 40 years old. At literally no point in my life has anyone ever told me the US military was too weak. We’ve had the unquestioned most effective military in the world for nearly a century.

Look, if I was allowed to *redacted* a person with no consequences I know who I SHOULD choose, but I’d definitely do Mike Bobo. I hate him so fucking much

Marvin Harrison Jr is real bad

My favorite thread in recent memory

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I'm officially out of a job--they eliminated mine, and I'm taking severance instead of a wildly different title they offered me that's not at all what I was hired to do. Solidarity forever 🌺, and while I take a breather someone come up with some good ideas of work I could do.

the Fantastic Four cast get asked about their own personal fantastic four, which leads to some canned niceties from pascal, kirby and quinn, and an insanely he knows ball answer from ebon.

Alright y'all, UFC Nashville is in the books and it's on to UFC 318. Hit me with your best questions and I'll answer them this week on @mmafighting.bsky.social. Love y'all!

I mean fine but if Mamdani was Spider-Man the editor of the big local paper would have a completely over-the-top and underexplained vendetta against him

Fine, I did it. It was very hard

Since I fortunately didn’t have to go on strike, this is my office for the night. #UFCAtlanta

Unions make companies better.

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I promise you the asks are more than reasonable and yet we’re having to do this.

Less than 24 hours til our @voxmediaunion.bsky.social contract is up. Off to go bargain, but me and my Veesona are ready to strike 😘

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

Hmmm. Seems like every video of the protests show everything is really chill and fine until the dudes with guns and tactical gear turn up. Then it turns violent. Maybe they’re the ones to blame.

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For Jordan

Realized that my old web hosting account lapsed due to an expired CC, so the old feed for the Two Scoops podcast that Jordan Breen and I did isn't working anymore. But I have every episode — free and Patreon — saved in a Google Drive folder, so here they are for now: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Meant to send this last night, but UFC Vegas 107 was terrible and I stopped watching and forgot. It's time for questions! UFC 316 is this weekend, so hit me with your best stuff and i'll answer the good questions on the @mmafighting.bsky.social mailbag this week. Love y'all!

Alright, y'all. It's a rare off week for MMA, which means I need your questions even more than usual. Hit me with them and I'll answer the best ones this week on @mmafighting.bsky.social. Love y'all

UFC 315 is in the books. Got questions? Send them here and I'll answer the best ones this week on @mmafighting.bsky.social love yall.

Thunderbolts is the best Marvel movie in a long time. Florence Pugh is terrific. Put her and Tom Holland in a film immediately and let them carry this next phase.

I can relate to Pope Francis. I, too, would die if I had to shake JD Vance’s hand.

Alright, UFC 314 is in the books and Alexander Volkanovski is once again champion. Send me your questions and I’ll answer the best ones on @mmafighting.bsky.social this week. Love y’all’

EVERY TIME!! They are much bigger than I am in general but I look like an infant doing these pregame previews.

China should do a weekly TV show where they spin a big wheel Price of Right style and whatever it lands on, that’s the response tariff to the US.

How the hell was UConn a 2 seed?