I didn’t hear the Pirates complaining when the Dodgers investing to build a dynasty created the biggest revenue stream the sport has ever seen, trickling the revenue down to make Pittsburgh one of the most profitable teams in the league while losing 90+ games every year 🤷‍♂️

Just drop your kids off at Cabin 1 and leave the rest of the summer to us. See you in 8 weeks!

I’m sorry, you can’t convince me any of these characters are faithful to the original Greek texts.

Went to see the Hadestown movie yesterday. We liked it, but the highlight was Orpheus turning around and a teen girl behind us exclaiming, "Oh no!"

That "they grow up so fast." My kids are good-hearted, smart, charming adults, but man, that took every day of 20 years

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?

“So are we just not going to find out if and when the salad is safe” feeling like a real “our local bridge went out and the Romans didn’t come around to fix it” moment

BLAINE, HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR POWERED BY ANTHROPIC: Understand the assignment much? You made some great demands. They’re filling a duffel with unmarked bills and gassing up a helicopter for you. But here’s the hitch - you need to show them you’re serious. Please kill your oldest and youngest hostages.

The taking 10 years to get home part checks out

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

Just because it’s hot and I’m bored, I’m reposting my contribution to Odyssey discourse:

Homer’s Message to the Writing Staff of The Iliad, Season 2

“Come in prepared to meet our first ever female writer, Cassandra, who just finished her apprenticeship in Crete.”

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My favorite thing in this is when the caption spells "mine" "mahn"

Tim Carvell@timcarvell.bsky.social · 3w ago

Edi Patterson continues to be America’s greatest resource.

every time Andres Cantor says "Reece James"

Rick James and Janet Jackson Impersonation

Alt: Rick James and Janet Jackson Impersonation

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England led by a pinched-looking German, which in fairness has been the case since the 19th century.

So many defenders of Western Civilization clearly hate the civilization part

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4w ago

Vance: A lot of the people who are going and getting 4-year degrees, they're not like engineers and doctors. They have fake jobs

Don’t mind losing to Belgium as long as they’re Flemish and not fucking Walloons

I once again must reiterate my firm belief: You shouldn’t be allowed to be in a tv commercial within twelve months of aggressively campaigning for an Oscar.

No question that the USA is at a low point, but only because we’re tanking for draft picks.

Poch morphing into a southeastern golf dad shows that America still has some soft power left

An unexpected political indicator: piñatas. For the past year, L.A.’s piñata makers have been churning out replicas of ICE agents, a surprising barometer of local politics. Read the full story for free: lamaterial.com/p/pinata-dis...

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Excellent point. Why make yourself sad comparing everyone in power to Beavis and Butt-Head when you can just go straight to the source?

Lew Morton@lewmorton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The good news is, once you’ve paid for Paramount+ so you can watch Trump’s MMA fight, you can use it to watch season 3 of Beavis and Butt-Head, which dropped last Wednesday

Feels like the Nets should just give up and move to Kansas City or something

If only the Spurs’ good-luck charm had made it to San Antonio tonight

Gotta figure FIFA is gonna come down on Scotland eventually for piping in crowd noise.

this is fabulous

Leonard Pierce@leonardpierce.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If I have learned anything in my decades of studying film noir, it is that, just as there are 15 years in the classic noir period, there are 15 different categories of film noir titles

When the team with 3 guys who went to Villanova on it pulls off a miracle

spurs did it up 25 btw👁️

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 2mo ago

ok is anyone like a big Stats guy. rounding on a theory that going hack a mitch in the first half curses you to lose no matter what. like i wanna see the record versus the expected outcome

the “USA 250” badge and “experience Abu Dhabi” badge both on the Knicks jersey…a rich text

The best part of the 2014 Spurs championship was when my brother took the Larry O’Brien trophy to different parks we grew up playing at unannounced and let whoever happened to be there enjoy it.