We were on the verge of breaking up Ticketmaster, every music fan's dream for the last 4 decades, until Trump intervened www.wsj.com/business/med...
The Trump Intervention That Got the DOJ Off Live Nation’s Back
Antitrust case started out aiming to force the concert giant to sell Ticketmaster. After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact.
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zohran [waving power broker in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh [audience going berserk]
When your wife drinks half a can of seltzer and then just leaves it somewhere
The Momentary Desires of the Wife #48
I guess my biggest take on race is that in "going the distance" the singer seems to describe simultaneously a horse race, a car race, and a foot race without really understanding how any of those things operate
Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room
The prologue of every Stephen King novel published between 1975 and 1988: Under thy shadow by the piers I waited Only in darkness is thy shadow clear. The City’s fiery parcels all undone, Already snow submerges an iron year...--Hart Crane We've got the biggest balls of them all --AC/DC
I think it's nice that the president's most trusted aide is the It's All For You Damien nurse from The Omen. She's qualified and she's doing an amazing job.
i've been going to a weekly support group called Hope but every once in a while they skip a week
I asked you to go to the Green Day movie / you said you never heard of it
Here’s a disgusting workplace joke for you all: I call your girl Microsoft Authenticator because she won’t stop asking me to put two digits in
The thing is that Markey is extremely old and probably shouldn’t be in office anymore but unfortunately the only guy who ran against him sucks shit and young people actually care about that
NEW: Seth Moulton responds to recent polling, says he can still make up ground by turning out young people. The problem: young voters are with Markey. Yesterday’s poll shows voters age 18-35 are breaking for Markey by 23 points. Today’s poll shows voters age 18-45 chose Markey by 51 points.
Flavors used to be infused but nowadays flavors are blasted. This is happening to society as well of course
responding to a diss track with a song called Genuinely Thought We Were On Good Terms
there is absolutely nothing more on the nose than ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen passing away, and *while hurriedly closing out* of their tribute to him, it *hard cut* to the The Pat McAfee Show
Like the piece mentions its opt-in and you can technically do this with a lot of routers, it’s not a hardware feature. That said you should not be using the router you get from your ISP period, that’s a chump move for a lot of reasons even outside of the surveillance state smart home angle.
Today in luxury surveillance.
Initiating a Distributed Approval of Service Attack. Go ahead. Enjoy the website playboy
57 years ago, Judy Griffin's car broke down en route to Woodstock. She poked her head inside a nearby 1967 VW Beetle to ask for a ride... and found Jerry Griffin sitting in the backseat. More than half a century, two sons and five grandchildren later, the couple still haven't left each other's side.
MEET THE PRESS: Do you support birthday cake? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Look, I support blowing out candles, I support having streamers, I want party hats. We are focusing on hard-working middle class Americans having the birthday of their dreams.
I had 120k followers and basically owe my career to Twitter and I left in 2023 and don’t miss it! This place has its issues but one thing that’s nice is it doesn’t throttle links, so people actually click on podcast and stream links. Our Twitch CCV has essentially doubled since we moved here!
"Musk’s meddling in the site’s algorithm to suppress certain kinds of posts and elevate others is well documented. So if your anti-fascist posts on X are still getting views, it’s either because these posts are so toothless as to escape Musk’s notice, or because they are in fact useful to him."
[TRAVIS KELCE INSIDE THE AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS CLOSET] "Oh my God... okay, have you guys seen this one? There's a scene where a golf ball ricochets off the tree right back into the guy's nuts."
Iran doesn’t need to DDoS attack Bluesky. All it needs to do is post is “what if a DoorDash driver got caught by a speed camera on the way to someone who was having a bad day of executive function”
New on the Secret Area: I hate AI vibe coded game projects. Terrible machine translations! Barely functional recompilations! It's a hot mess, y'all. Shares and comments appreciated, as always. asecretarea.com/2026/08/10/a...
AI vibe coded game projects suck. - You Found a Secret Area!
Time for me to rant about the current trend: AI vibe coded gaming projects. Lazy translations! Vibe coded recompilations! It's all here, y'all.
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