WWE mass releases are always odd. I can't get my head around how you could run a wrestling company, have Kay Lee Ray and the Motor City Machine Guns under contract, and then just decide that actually you'd rather not.

Keir Starmer has the full support of the board.

My attention has been drawn to this delightful image.

Wrestling in South East London, this Sunday! Looking forward to tarting myself up and getting back behind the microphone, and I hope to see some of you there - there's not nearly enough graps south of the river, let's make this one count! 🎟: www.tickettailor.com/events/headd...

The collapse of higher education in this country at the hands of uncaring governments and the management class will one day be looked upon as more boneheaded and self-destructive than Brexit, a needless sabotaging of a sector that we actually excel at beyond our means, for shallow political aims.

Never mind that, how tall are these bosses?

enjoying listening to some drunk Australians finding previously undiscovered vowel sounds in their pronunciation of "Lime Bikes".

I looked into this a bit more and the same archive has a photo of a Stasi officer's birthday party where everyone had to dress up as a demographic they spied on www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

i wrote about the insane 80s Palladium RPG Ninjas & Superspies, featuring: karate wizards, spiritual AIDS, and cyborgs with real race-changing action! 1900hotdog.com/2026/04/punc...

listening to the Behind The Bastards series on Jimmy Savile is fascinating. There's the grim experience of listening to people find out about his crimes in real time, but there's also the effort of trying to explain him to make sense in a US context - the idea that you would have to *explain*...

I already have two dozen ideas for podcasts that I haven't got around to doing anything with, and can barely find the time to write the one that's actually a going concern, but listening to Broken Veil again really makes me want to do something Fortean and possibly fictional.

It’s the 120th anniversary of the death of Richard Munslow, believed to have been the last sin eater in England. That is, he would visit bereaved families and eat some bread and possibly drink some ale which had been passed over or placed on the body, and thus absorb the deceased’s sins. Obviously 🧵

I like it when wrestlers are actually angry about losing, and when losses have actual consequences, but that's at least two weeks in a row on Dynamite where a promo from the loser has taken precedence over hearing from the winner. This is still MJF's story, the Ricochet feud is still Jericho's story

If you liked this you're gonna love genders.wtf

I only have one interaction with Chucky T that I can remember, and it was him somehow having made it back to his merch table before the MC had even finished announcing that his team had won the match, and Chuck laughing so honestly and for so long at the MC announcing, "The Vigilante Swamp Monster".

I've put up a new print on my website. I'm not expecting to sell many of these, but when I get a bee in my bonnet about something I have to see it through, and I really can't express enough how much I fundamentally don't care about a Bigfoot. www.chickenscratch.co.uk/shop/bigfoot...

if i lived in popeye town and one day i saw a ropy little sailor punch a huge guy so hard his skeleton flew out of his mouth thats the only thing i would talk about for the rest of my life

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

turns out that I am also on both of these lists, and the descriptions are perfectly "I'm not mad, don't put it in the paper that I'm mad". Just exquisite loser behaviour.

I cannot rate Broken Veil highly enough. The best narrative podcast I have ever heard, the format is perfectly observed, and the world they're building is beautifully Fortean.

the elite aren’t powerful politicians or billionaires. common misconception. the elite is anyone i think is cooler than me, funnier than me, more artistic than me, or generally anyone i resent for daring to be happier than i am despite my immense wealth and political clout

Who benefits from the anti-London propaganda? Why are the lies so pervasive?

diners, drive-ins and terminator dives

What's A Smoke Wolf? Nothing much, what's a smoke wolf with you?

You all still want more wrestling, right? www.tickettailor.com/events/headd...

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

WERNER HERZOG CAMEO TALKING ABOUT HIS LOVE OF THE CATATONIC LINDA MCMAHON STORYLINE YET AGAIN!!! LET'S. FUCKING. GO. (I'm disappointed that he didn't call Vince "the owner of the wrestling concern" this time, though.)

Here's the thing - making humanoid robots is only ever a vastly expensive way for tech bros to play out sci-fi fantasies. There are precious few tasks in which a human-shaped robot would be a better solution than a) a human, or b) a robot designed to be ergonomically best suited for that task.

Michael Jackson's career trajectory

The Wonder Years: FUCK ICE! FREE PALESTINE! PROTECT TRANS YOUTH! Also The Wonder Years: Thank you for the money, Mr Levesque.

at risk of spending all day sharing and agreeing - wrestling largely only has itself to blame, but I hate that count-outs, DQs, and time limit draws are considered "non-finishes". They are a booked finish as much as any other, and treating them as *inherently* bad cuts off an avenue of storytelling.

Also, nobody's grading you. The last time most of us wrote something was for school. Or perhaps work and waiting for feedback. That's not happening to your first draft. It's just for you.

If you're comparing it to the books you read, you're comparing apples and oranges. They've had multiple drafts, edits, etc. You didn't see their first draft or their first blank page.

I love this, because the American approach (particularly since the WWF expansion) always insists that referees be small and practically invisible, to make the wrestlers look bigger and more important. But there's just as valid a psychology in "the ref needs to be able to physically handle himself".

Vulture, who has been hanging out with a bad crowd: Dad, what do we eat? Vulture dad, who is also the band Kansas:

Gosford Park (2001) Gosford World (2015) Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Seeing Man Like Dereiss running spots with Masato Tanaka was maybe a more surreal part of Wrestlemania weekend than seeing Sandman, Vampiro, Bill Alfonso, and Mick Foley working with The Invisible Man.

JK Rowling’s support of transphobia has been absolutely catastrophic for the entire world. She funded a far right movement, tested, weaponized it—and it is a cancer eating away at multiple societies. She normalized a lying narrative about people that will plague future generations. She is a curse.

The Legacy Wing was initially created for them to put dead black guys in without paying them, just to say "we are a diverse company. Look Brickhouse Brown is in a wrestling Hall of Fame!" But now it seems like they are also putting in guys like Sid, so they can let his family know he meant fuck all

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

A reminder that we did this. (And had to pay Mirror Group Newspapers for the copyright of the text, one of the finest rights payments I’ve ever approved.)

Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

At an old job, a mate and I used to have to do the post run - carrying a big sack of post from the office to the Post Office. We would usually take the scenic route. We once stopped for ice cream. When we moved office, we were quick to ensure that we kept hold of that job, and that given we were...

How disappointing to see one of the biggest history podcasts asking for editors to have experience using AI picture and voice generators. History media is impacted enough by slop and nonsense, and many talented artists, writers, filmmakers and designers put out of work. Awful.

it's funny, I was at a show with some non-fans, and when a wrestler was cut open, one asked, "when did they apply the fake blood?". The other replied, "probably when the ref put those gloves on to do it". That made more sense to them than the reality, that the ref put on gloves *because of* the...

catching up on Collision, before I take the plunge into whatever Wrestlemania weekend stuff I check out. I complained at Dynasty about Cage & Cope just being the Adam Copeland show, and lo and behold on Collision it's *just* Cope doing the show open promo to try and carry this storyline.

The reality is almost always that they're the same pricks who insist that they got bad marks because they "didn't write what the teacher wanted", or that the teacher marked them down for not agreeing with their opinion, and in every instance their work is empty, shallow dogshit.

Made a new short thing about a film I absolutely love - 1968's Targets, featuring Boris Karloff against a much more modern monster. youtu.be/9dFjyw8Dd5w?...

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if Bluesky is working now, a bit of catch-up on AEW Dynamite thoughts: - MJF not knowing he was in a title match today is cute, & MJF as a heel looking dumb enough to have missed every announcement and mention of the match is fine, but it does call into question the logic of a lot of other booking.