I started trying to imagine a pro wrestler who's a tech bro nepo baby, and then I realized they already kinda did this with Terrence Taylor, the Computerized Man of the 90s.

I've been a professional software engineer for 20 years. I fail to see why it's fine for devs to rely on "vibe coding" to build apps, but somehow bad for the end users to rely on vibes when they blame outages on vibe coding. Bluesky told its users the app runs on slop, the users believed them.

Lot of discourse on #wrestlesky about CM Punk's "pipebomb" promos, and if they've gone stale. I'd say it's more like the pipebomb has been exposed. We used to be fooled by it, and now we know better. It's the verbal equivalent of stomping your foot while you throw a fake punch.

You don't need me to tell you the threat itself is a national disgrace, but it's worth noting for posterity that this half-assed tyrant can't even finish a genocidal supervillain monologue without adding "or maybe not, we'll see," to cover his ass just in case he chickens out at the last minute.

Really admire WWE's strategy to get people to pay $2,000 for a 2-day ticket to Wrestlemania to see CM Punk and Pat McAfee not fight each other over whether the ticket prices are too damn high.

Saw the Mario Galaxy Movie, enjoyed it plenty. Not too deep, but I don't understand why anyone expected it to be. If you're mad it doesn't conform to your weird headcanon that's a skill issue.

There was a Passover-themed haiku contest at the community seder. My entry, which received a solid round of applause: Frogs frogs frogs frogs frogs Frogs frogs frogs frogs frogs frogs frogs Frogs frogs frogs frogs frogs

made the mistake of giving jezebel a little tiny piece of egg white the other day and now this is the look i get any time i eat an egg

Me when you're bravely explaining why Ghostbusters II is better than the first movie, or how 4 is the best toaster setting, or some other damn thing.

Nancy 4/4/26 … Olivia Jaimes part 7, the epic conclusion

Watched NJPW Sakura Genesis and I am very concerned about Yuto-Ice. Instead of losing and whining about management and AEW, he delivers an excellent match, gets the crowd super-excited, and wins. Can't believe Bushiroad would allow this kid to diverge from the established business model.

This is a good question, but unfortunately the most core identity I can come up with for WWE is "traditional pro wrestling would be better with more mainstream celebrities," which is exactly what they doubled down on Friday night. To them, this *is* "fixing" it.

Something kinda darkly amusing about WWE's "who is Randy Orton's mentor" storyline in 2026 having a promo where Cody Rhodes compares it to WCW's "who is Hall and Nash's third man?" storyline in 1996. I can't even imagine Hall and Nash bringing up, say, Gene Kiniski vs. Lou Thesz.

Bad day at work, AMA (except about work)

This sounds great until you read about Jim Irwin's lunar epiphany, after which he spent the rest of his life searching for Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat. Everybody wants to grab a politician and make them look at the big picture, but not the same big picture.

Currently reading, at an alarming pace: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER by Adam Becker. It's really connecting a lot of dots between the effective altruism weirdos, the LessWrong/Roko's Basilisk weirdos, AI evangelist weirdos, human extinction alarmist weirdos, and Peter Thiel.

Can't believe I lived long enough to see an Edge & Christian reunion and they're arguing over which one gets to do the one-man con-chair-to. When you guys *invented* the move, you *both* swang the chairs! In concert! #AEW

My grandfather used to make ice cream with one of these, it was noisy as hell and made real soupy ice cream. Decades later I found out you can make good ice cream with it, he just liked it soupy.

Very excited for WWE fandom to take up the longrunning AEW discourse of "Is the show you paid for too long? I fell asleep trying to 100% it, so I don't think you should get so much value for your money."

Seems kinda weird to fixate on "Challenger trauma" as some uniquely GenX experience, as if a) Boomers and elder millennials didn't also go through it and b) there were never any other spaceflight tragedies.

Best new wrestling sign

We did it everybody we enshittified going to the moon

I just realized Mer-Man never got the Hollywood call for the #MOTU movie. I didn’t clock him in any trailers. He’s an OG Snake Mountain lackey and they didn’t use him? He must have a really fucked up browser history.

I was kinda thinking Ospreay vs. Omega would be cool at AEW All In but I don't know if I wanna see them fight if they're both going to be like "oww, my neck/tummy, I'm not supposed to get physicality in it!"

Oh no... oh no! BONK! #tjpw #tjpwGP26 #wrestleUNIVERSE ➡️ wrestle-universe.com

Spotted at the No Kings protest in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. Clever!

my cat's always suuuper chill about going to the vets #caturday #cats #cat #comic

Never seen the Invisible Man bust out a pedigree before! (And technically I still haven't.)

My parents were out of the house that night, so I watched WCW on the living room TV, with WWF on the kitchen TV, so I could experience the simulcast in stereo. Raw was on a seven-second delay, which gave Vince's promo an epic echo. And everything went downhill from there.

lmao

Talking Mario movie with B and I was explaining how Peach, Daisy, and Rosalina all basically look the same. I was trying to remember if there was a fourth, until and I realized my brother and I made one up in a fancomic in like 1991.

Mods asleep post illegal Cow Tools:

Getting hype for the Mario Galaxy movie and remembering that the fandom is really weird and particular about every single character.

It takes a lot of star power to save the galaxy. Don’t miss The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. In theaters April 1.

AEW has teased the idea RUSH and Darby Allin could destroy the ring too many times, now they HAVE to do it. Do the Big Show/Brock Lesnar superplex spot. To hell with the laws of physics.

#4) AEW Collision, July 19, 2025 at Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, IL. #aew #photography #wrestlesky 🤼

Absolutely insane. They're like "we’re reviewing what happened to make improvements" as if this wasn't obviously one of the first problems they needed to solve during R&D. The fact this wasn't nailed down before they got approval for the pilot program is embarrassing.

horrible discovery

They can't say "we heard you" if they didn't listen. AEW wants her to be there. They want to ignore the backlash. But it's out of their hands, because Ronda will only show up when she wants to be there. So there's nothing left say about it except "she's always welcome," which they already said.

It's incredible to me that nobody in WWE, AEW, TNA, ROH, or GCW tried to do one of these as a "cinematic match" in 2020, just for the hell of it. You'd think Cody Rhodes would've pushed for it.

Saw Project Hail Mary last night and it was really really great. Gonna go ahead and give B full credit for this one since I was dragging my feet on seeing the movie because I haven't read the book.

Every March since 2012

They told him you can't wear that stuff to the ring unless you've finished law school, so he said "Oh yeah? We'll see about that!" I mean, actually he said "GGRRAARR URRGH NNYARRGH!" because he's a mythical bull creature from Parts Unknown, but you get the idea.

Turned on the UK-Iowa St. game and there are Reese's logos everywhere. I actually have some in my kitchen. I am now eating them. I'm not made of stone. Go Cats.

PROTIP: If your question for the pro wrestling reporters is "have you heard that the promoters might do a thing I wish they would do?" the answer is no.

Of her remaining title belts, Mercedes Mone is scheduled to defend the PTW title on March 29 (Kozłów, Poland) and the WPW title on March 31 (Winnipeg, Canada). That leaves the APAC title and the belt she received for winning the 2025 Owen Hart Cup. Mone has said she'll return to AEW after 3/31.

The Adoration of the Wieners (Carnitas, Denied), iPhone and unexpectedly good lighting, 2026