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hey now, @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social — Notes from Underground is my all-time favourite book, and i am a grown-up who has never smoked a clove in my life. ;-) still plenty angsty, though...

this match was EVERYTHING 😍😍😭

omg that Continental Classic match between Speedball and Fletcher absolutely ripped #AEWDynamite

watching Hangman and Swerve beat the hell out of the Opps is a freaking delight #AEWDynamite

finally starting #AEWDynamite tonight and this women's tag division is going to be the gayest thing in a company that involves MxM Collection and also involves Dalton Castle and i think that's beautiful

Glad to see this. It's shameful that the European Broadcasting Union is allowing Israel to participate even as it commits genocide.

(Also not great how much work PBS puts in to frame the genocide as a real conflict rather than the slaughter of civilians that it is.)

nailed it.

honestly though it's only a matter of time until this becomes nothing but a stan account for Julia Hart's singles entrance music

Buntus Foclora as a name for a Thousand Words baby is brilliant — it's the name of a 1000-word picture dictionary in Irish. well played, Donegal Racing. #DoingHorseNamingRight

i am finally watching @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social from Friday and bathos being a clue on the same board as a whole category about Alexander Pope - but in the category next door - is the best easter egg for a Popehead like me. 😍😍😍

yes - Jetspeed is so good. but i never got into the Bucks at all until this Broke Bucks thing. it's hilarious. and i know they were good all along but they never clicked with me until now.

both Brodido and the Broke Bucks were EVERYTHING this year. and i can't wait to see where Babes of Wrath go...as much as i 😍 both Toni and Mina, i really hope Babes of Wrath take the belts.

did this challenge this weekend. got the absolute worst case scenario of a genre assignment, and am nervous af about anyone reading what i wrote, but at least i didn't see the genre and just throw in the towel immediately? #MicrofictionChallenge250

it's true, this is how i learned 😲

Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’ YouTube video by The New York Times

Culturally normal is a dog whistle.

okay, we've found the situation in which i'm actually cheering for FTR. i didn't think this was possible. #AEWCollision

Text of the 13th Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The clause “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted” is crossed out.

160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery “as punishment for crime.”

We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!

slowbro-ing Collision and man, that spot where Strong just caught Orange and tossed him, i absolutely popped for that. #AEWCollision

part of me is not surprised, because whatever i can think of as the depths of Space Nazi Plagiarbot, they're probably lower.

but also, as someone who has been stalked, i find this frightening and disgusting.

Notes on Your American Canto Draft I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition and everything here has real...

Here’s what a good editor could have done: newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...

yessssss, tasseled wobbegongs rule!!!

...and today is when i realised Korn's cover has become my brain's canonical version of "Word Up".

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

"OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire, cloaked in ethics and bundled with a Terms of Service. The university didn’t resist. It clicked ‘Accept.’"

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

what a cutie, right?! <3

Sometimes Talmudic commentary feels so repetitive. Like if they were looking at the line “she got a big booty so I call her big booty” the commentary would be like “2 Chainz is referring to her this way due to her appearance, she is not actually named ‘Big Booty’”

Tecumseh’s War: A Gentle Soul At The Perfect Time The retired racehorse was rehomed by LongRun after a career which saw him finish fourth in the 2020 Queen’s Plate

i must tell @gloriousalliance.bsky.social about a cute retired horse with a floofy moe whose barn name is...Moe :-D paulickreport.com/horse-care-c...

oh noooooo! i just (as in, like 30 seconds ago) had the opposite thing happen - thought i was safe and then realised quickly that nope, this is in fact the OG version and i am officially whammed.

...two hours later, and i've just gotten Whammed. :-P

it's only December 4 and the Boy just caught me. not the same coffeeshop where i've lost the @littledrummerboychallenge.com the last two years, a different one...but still...dang you, Bing Crosby.