Question from moi

I wish people would stop referring to handouts for and collective organization among rich people as "socialism", even as a bit. We have a word for this type of behavior. It's called oligarchy.

hootin' n hollerin' at the thought of Literally Tony Kushner going apeshit on the uptown express

Love this dork

Great to see The Jacob Frey Experience reuniting after releasing their biggest hits in 2020

The first five minutes of Mayor Mamdani are going great

Mattie is a bass shredder, This Pleases Me

Someone needs to inform those boys that they could just do that if they want. If you want a romantic gay cottage trip you can just have that.

You could put Elaine May, Dorothy Parker and William Shakespeare in a room together and they'd never write a punchline this funny.

Our man loves a lab leak theory

US women with THREE STRAIGHT STEALS GTFO

US and Norway women just traded three-rock ends in the final qualifying game for the Olympics curling tournament LFGGGGGGGGG

Olympics bound LFGGGGGGGGG

Look, Shuster seemed in the driver's seat coming out of quals in 2010 and 2014 and we know what happened there, but sweet holy jeezus Casper is a savage

It is surprisingly, delightfully, so so wonderfully good, at every level of its craft. And it is so goddamn horny.

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35 years of flawless content

Main takeaways from STRANGER THINGS s5 e1-4: - What if Pizzagate was true tho - Coming out gives you superpowers - Vecna is Babadook's cousin (no I will not be explaining this further)

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Then, they turn their attentions to Gotham's at-the-death golazo to get them past the Orlando Pride. This game was a tough watch! Can Gotham rely on more offense than Jaedyn Shaw golazos in the Championship?

Our semifinal recaps are up! The guys first tackle the drubbing the Washington Spirit laid on the Portland Thorns.

Missing New York tonight

Right on time: an impending economic crisis arrives on our doorstep and the latest group of 20-somethings gets The Avocado Toast Treatment archive.ph/2TI8J

Strong "Big Guy, Little Guy" energy

*sighs*

MARINE LAYER DEFEATED

"Never-Ending Story" on the organ, so savage

You'd expect Absolute Cranks to get worse as the filters drop but Smoltz refreshingly just wants to talk about the snacks he brought to work

Send the marine layer to jail

Ken Jennings: “it’s what John Smoltz did in the 34th inning of Game 3 of the 2025 World Series” Me: [smashes buzzer with my whole body weight]

114 miles an hour. The other way. And he's pitching tomorrow.

time for the dodgers bullpen vs the jays bullpen

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Always nice to hear from your ex

Love when the teams with the big bats and the shitty bullpens square off in the fall classic

Shirley MacLaine in 1960 for f*&k's sake

A recent thought I had while listening to "Prayer in Open D", which feels as if it sprung from @natalieweiner.bsky.social 's pen: All one needs to touch a Christian God is Emmylou Harris. The rest is black velvet paintings.

A few other players could lay claim to the position, her teammate Jess Fishlock among them. But for me, Lauren Barnes is the #NWSL. Period. Full stop.

To be clear I DO NOT WANT THIS but it'd be very funny if the Jays just wrecked 'em in 4 games

g+ GameFlow: NWSL Regular Season Orlando Pride v Portland Thorns FC on October 10, 2025. #ORLvPOR ⚽️🤖

We played a whole game of soccer across the street and the Mariners are STILL playing

You’re playing catcher. You call for a fastball in the dirt, when all of a sudden you look down

Question from a naïf: What does one do in Las Vegas on a Saturday night that isn't gambling, dinner, a casino show, or a nightclub? Right answers only.

Some picks - TIME (Garrett Bradley) - MEMORIA (Apichatpong) - BEGINNERS (Dea Kulumbegashvili) - THIS IS NOT A BURIAL IT'S A RESURRECTION (Lemohang Mosese) - DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang) - DRIVE MY CAR (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi) - DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude) - EEPHUS (Carson Lund)

Blair expressed frustration that the "Lord Balfour" peerage was already claimed, sources close to the former PM shared.

One of the best transphobic pitchers in baseball history.

Over the last 5 months, I've been working on building an app that allows *everyone* to generate data visualizations using ASA data. From match-level action plots to season-long radar charts, VizHub lets you download tons of different graphics with ease. It's 100% free and public, too. Enjoy!

EMERGENCY POD! Alyssa Thompson's move to Chelsea is official. Was it for $1.3 million? Nearly $1.5 million? $1.65 million? Despite conflicting reports, the guys feel like it was a steep underpay. What does this mean for Thompson and for #AngelCityFC?

Our own @evandavissports.bsky.social tried to make sense of Alyssa Thompson's transfer to #AngelCityFC, which, according to some reporting, is still at the "verbal agreement" stage. The WSL transfer window closes in less than 3 1/2 hours.

Also a blank space on the team's website that only seems to have been fixed today. (Still no mention of the coaching change on their website, either.)