Gym Bro Fisher

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

The Wall Street Journal tweets: "Evidence suggests early humans used primitive sunscreen and wore tailored clothing—possibly contributing to their survival as Neanderthals went extinct." There is then a link to a story.

that's right

Another chin up PR though!

Those didn't cause any acute shoulder pain, but I held it to 3 sets instead of 5 just to be cautious.

Squat 3x5 @ 295 lbs

Incline bench press (warmup only)

Chin up 5, 5, 4

Week 8 Medium Day:

Oof. Tough one. My right shoulder has been really sore since Tuesday, I think because of a messed up power clean rep where I had some weird/incorrect arm pull. Incline bench warmups did not feel good, so I skipped. I'm 42 years old. Gotta prioritize not getting injured further.

Can Bluesky say every word in the dictionary?
I dunno but I plan to find out!

I made a website that tracks every single word said on bluesky (as of yesterday).

Incredible. No notes.

the sluttiest, sexiest thing a man can do is decisively reject right-wing and manosphere redpill ideology in favor of empathy, kindness, and moral conviction

Cat

I’m built similar

I stg every time I hear about some amazing new software paradigm it's just incepting into another sub-dream. Just another layer of stuff we already had. More APIs and tool chains to learn and quirks to adapt to. Cool.

taking this to mean that illinois is developing a nuclear weapons program

Power cleans were hard. Mistimed a couple reps to start and failed them but got it synced up and was able to do 4 sets of 2. Couldn't pull a 3rd rep, but this is still progress.

OHP felt super strong. Next week I'll jump 3 lbs and try 144 lbs for doubles. That will put me on pace for a 150 single.

Squat 2x5 @ 265 lbs

Overhead press 3x3 @ 141 lbs

Power clean 4x2 @ 140 lbs

Week 8 Light Day:

Good workout. I switched from front squats to light back squats because I'm still having some elbow and forearm soreness and wanted to feel good for overhead press. "Light" back squats (80% of heavy day) are pretty heavy now so I only did 2 sets.

Zoomers entering the workforce:

Oh you think AI is your ally? You merely adopted the slop . . . I was born in it, molded by it.

Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is… I am utterly disgusted… I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

At 4p ET/1p PT, we’ll have a one of a kind interview with Bambi's mother. She died in a shooting and was mounted in a ski lodge, but our animators have created an AI version with a powerful message on gun violence. Plus former journalist. @jimacosta.bsky.social - see you later on Disney Prime.

It can be both!

Squat 5x3 @ 330 lbs

Bench Press 5x3 @ 215 lbs

Deadlift 1x3 @ 385 lbs

Week 8 Heavy Day:

Great workout! I was worried about bench because I misloaded last week and did 210 instead of 212.5, so I had to do a 5 lb jump this time to catch up. Went great though!

First deadlift PR since 2024.

Still managing some knee and elbow tendonitis, but doing ok.

if the band comes out with these, you're gonna die in the mosh pit

Love is questionable, sandwich is real.

Sort of a shame that spoof movies went away for awhile because of all the NOT ANOTHER _____ MOVIE MEET THE SPARTANS BLAH BLAH BLAH nonsense because the Mel Brooks/Airplane/Naked Gun genre is such a great hallowed comedy movie tradition that deserves to be honored and done with some class

A screengrab of Reddit. The post details someone passing the UK’s age verification screening using an action figure of Gordon from Twin Peaks.

THEY GOT ME DOING THE AGE VERIFICATION COOP, YOU GET ON THE COMPUTER FOR THE ENGLISH LADS SO THEY CAN LOOK AT THE PORNOGRAPHIES

Thank you

One of the worst things you can do with your time is get really into the world external to the mind

Don't tell me what job numbers I can post. That's between me and my statistician.

Skinner from the Simpsons asking "am I an unfuckable asshole?" and then saying "no, it's the women that are wrong"

I need to write long form. Got some big ideas that deserve better than pithy statements or jokes.

Plus I think it would be good for my mind and attention span to do the work.

Years ago there were a few articles about teen boys feeling anxious and intrinsically bad for being men and everyone did the same thing they're doing now (calling them dumb losers) rather than asking if maybe social algorithms were creating an environment that made them legitimately feel that way.

I'm excited about hitting some big lifts towards the end of the block, so I think I'm going to tolerate gaining a few more lbs over the next 5 weeks.

After this block is over I think I'm going to hold lifts steady and do a shorter (6-8 weeks) more aggressive cut.

When I started this block the idea was to cut some bodyweight on it, which I did initially, but for several reasons (including wanting to keep adding weight to the bar) I've gained back to about where I started.