Rest in Peace, Dolly Parton, person beloved by ALL. Dolly guest-starred as herself in The Simpsons Season 10 episode “Sunday, Cruddy Sunday,” which first aired January 31, 1999.

[December 19th, 1980] The comedy film "9 to 5," directed by Colin Higgins, who wrote the screenplay with Patricia Resnick, and starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin, is released in theaters.

Rest in peace, Dolly. Gonna watch you have a blast tormenting Dabney Coleman in 9 to 5 tonight.

"Fuck, man." *sticks cig into mouth* "What?" *finishes drink* "Solo. I'm supposed to collect." "Not that dirtbag." "Yeah." *sighs* "Dude's a psychopath. Shoot anything that moves." "I fuckin' know, man." "Then don't do the gig." "I got kids, man. Need fuckin' schoolbooks." "Good luck, man."

Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday

Just arrived @artofcoop.bsky.social

"WHY DIDN'T SOMEBODY TELL ME MY ASS WAS SO BIG?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

get a load of the state of the back of Trump's right hand. His injured skin is so discolored it's almost glowing.

You're laughing. A bee bit Donald Trump's bottom, now his bottom is big, and you're laughing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

get a load of the state of the back of Trump's right hand. His injured skin is so discolored it's almost glowing.

We've lost the cross border weird show feeder system. You don't cast the guy with great hair to play your medieval vampire detective without his first being the second lead in a recast fourth season of Airwolf that got picked up by a cable channel. Without Kids in the Hall, no Newsradio, etc.

Bess Hamilton@besshamilton.bsky.social · 2d ago

Due South was about a Mountie on assignment in Chicago who regularly spoke with his murdered father's ghost & whose sidekick was a deaf wolf. It was a comedy. Forever Knight was about a vampire, formerly a medieval knight, seeking redemption by working as a homicide detective. Bring back weird.

Sign you have too many aircraft carriers: naming one after a battle Gen. Washington would rather forget.

hush@hush-ndb.bsky.social · 3d ago

10 Initially, this class was named after bays in Alaska, but it was decided that, in keeping with the nature of aircraft carriers, they should be named after battlefields; whilst there were exceptions such as the White Plains, some were renamed after battlefields from the SWW (WW2).

*Apart from the French ship Béarn, which adopted reciprocating engines for its cruising propulsion, the only other aircraft carriers fitted with reciprocating engines were the training carriers USS Wolverine (IX-64) and USS Sable (IX-81), both converted from paddle steamers on Lake Michigan.

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 2y ago

Obligatory mention of wonder weapon (eg "I wonder what they were smoking?") Béarn. Full marks for offensive capability, but if your carrier has resorted to firing torpedoes something has gone very, very badly wrong.

"There's a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician, and a statistician."

So far my favorite part of Reacher S4 is the CIA henchmen who keep showing up for their routine beatings.

Spreadsheet people: me, 2016 medium.com/@hondanhon/i...

The comparison works much better on a regular website than in a thread. Though Warsh strikes me as less heroic and competent than Gary Oldman (in or out of the Batman universe).

EconReporter@econreporter.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yeah, in conclusion, this is me regret spending 2 hours of my life to complete a comic book nerd analogy and desperately how you would click and read it so... pretty please? 🥺

Warde Manuel can go fuck himself for the remainder of eternity.

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 6d ago

Grew up going to Michigan games where they proudly said no physical advertisements in the stadium. It was special. That has now ended. www.nytimes.com/athletic/752...

"Digital activations", ugh. Attending games is already a slog, and the vaunted "fan experience" is once again going to get worse this year. Boo

Maize n Brew@maizenbrewsbn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Michigan Athletics has announced the Leaders and Best Champion Partners Program, a sponsorship initiative that will bring ads to The Big House: www.maizenbrew.com/michigan-ath...

Reacher S4E1 is great: 3 henchman fights, 2 sexy ladies, and 1 bumbling sidekick. Strong open

The IGN article links to 5 complaints, all on Xitter. COMBINED follower count: 4,409 COMBINED following count: 4,376. MAX followers: 1,816 Only two of the accounts have more followers than following. This isn't a trend or whiny fans, this is IGN trawling the bot trench for a clicky headline.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · last wk.

i am ready to end this era of asking a media production’s most toxic, entitled, crybaby shithead consumers what they hated about that production

Fun to see Ufford making fun of Magary for his hopeless Vikings faith like KSK never went away. "Forrest Gump had a better read on Jenny." lol defector.com/why-your-tea...

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Some people are fans of the Vikings. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Vikings. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Yo...

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It's finally here! I can discourse!

"Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of the Bush Doctrine, Dude, at least it's an ethos." That's the problem with hitching your wagon to a cult of personality that worships a Roomba with cerebrovascular disease characteristics. You buy the ticket, you take the ride.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · last wk.

I am finding the weird Republicans/The American Right Don't Actually Care About Empire arc bizarre. I really really would have put being a great imperial power as something that wasn't fake to them, a value they actually held where it being sacrificed would cause very significant discontent.

StarCraft, the full Sarah Kerrigan arc from assassin to hero to weapon to Queen of Blades. Finale is the Toss/Terran stand against the Zerg. HBO wants a new GoT? Get Blizzard on the phone.

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · last wk.

youve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd

This is likely going to be a legacy sequel focused on Mia's daughter, but it would be so much funnier if it was a dark comedy about how Julie Andrews is still alive and Anne Hathaway is stuck in a Prince Charles situation with an increasing number of scandals

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

Shut up! Anne Hathaway took the stage at #D23 and confirmed The Princess Diaries 3 is finally happening.

Unemployment isn't just for philosophy majors. Useful people are stating to feel the pinch.

springfieldians@springfieldians.bsky.social · 2w ago

So Iger and the second Kushner brother are riding AI speculation to buy the Lakers, part of the SF Giants, and maybe more with completely opaque financing. Getting my hopes up for a Lakers/Situational Awareness type fiasco. That'd be fun. club.sportico.com/p/kushner-la...

The Lakers Are a Massive Bet on AI Disruption

Joshua Kushner is buying the Lakers because sports are relatively insulated from the economic havoc looming from the rest of his portfolio. That's not a hedge against AI, it's a doubling down.

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Eben Novy-Williams@ebennovywilliams.bsky.social · 2w ago

The $12.5 billion Lakers deal isn't a hedge against Joshua Kushner's AI portfolio. It's a doubling down. My latest Club Sportico column looks at Kushner's interest in sports, and why it's actually predicated on radical disruption caused by the rest of his portfolio.

I had no idea The Simpsons "antifreeze in the wine" was based on a true story en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Au...

I’m a complete mark for cracker factory content this is what we need to make the new episodes good again just do episodes about this

They are also the reason Ann Arbor decriminalized weed in 1975

Adam Jaskiewicz@ajjaskie.bsky.social · 2w ago

Students participate in our housing market, are subject to our laws, pay property taxes through their rent payments, and navigate our streets just as much as any other resident. Many work here as well. They are full-ass adults and members of our community; they are free to participate in civic life.