this inspired me to do my semi regular threads check and you know what
opened threads. saw this. closed threads. perfect app
Jason Kirk
@jasonkirk.fyi
- Co-host @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and @vbs.bsky.social - Author of The Athletic's Until Saturday newsletter - Author of this USAT Best-Selling novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Is_a_World_Without_You
this inspired me to do my semi regular threads check and you know what
opened threads. saw this. closed threads. perfect app
Hardcover and paperback editions editions of “Hell Is a World Without You”
Name physical media you purchased more than once.
Thanos: I am inevitable Atlanta's own X-Man Hijack: lol **SUMMONS ALL NISSAN ALTIMAS**
New on Patreon all at once today: - A mailbag on "college football," whatever tf that is - A mailbag on everything else - @jasonkirk.fyi's kid explains My Little Pony, which is also college football, whatever tf that is Thank you to our dear boosters
My kid made her podcast debut, explaining all the parts of My Little Pony she considers canon. College football and Marvel comparisons followed. I'm going to listen to this every day
My Little Pony as college football | The Shutdown Fullcast
Let's bring on an expert — Jason's kid, Evie, the award-winning scholar and all-district flag football quarterback — to explain one of the f
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CFB 28 about to make you pay your roster's NIL for real
EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest
My job as Jean Grey’s defense attorney remains as easy as ever. You really think you finally pinned one on her huh. Nice try. It’s still all Mastermind’s fault. Is he even in this universe? Doesn’t matter. The defense rests
Me until today: It would be so cool to blow up the moon Me today: Blowing up the moon is for huge dorks
A piece of SpaceX space junk is about to hit the moon at several times the speed of sound. These simulations offer a glimpse of what will happen when it does www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-sp...
Today in the world's greatest free college football newsletter - Florence Pugh vs the Gasparilla Bowl - Lincoln Riley says a lot about society - Nobody asked for a Ted Cruz grab bag - Everybody loves the One Last Job trope
Government-mandated CFB rivalries? Plus, surprise roster turmoil (Gift Article)
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This is the best thing I've read on churches and youth groups since @jasonkirk.fyi's excellent book. Youth groups of my childhood were a mission to shape you into a very specific type of Christian with a specific set of politics. It missed opportunity to teach you how to love others or yourself.
In the 90s and 00s, churches invested millions in youth group, creating a parallel universe for christian teenagers to grow up in and, eventually, change the world. That was the plan anyway. What happened? My first cover story for @sojo.net.
If Lance Armstrong had known about this back in the day he would've modified himself accordingly
Bra boosters are causing a clothing controversy at the Tour de France Femmes Reports suggest teams are urging the UCI to implement checks for riders illegally 'bra-maxxing' for aero advantage in advance of Tour de France Femmes TT: bit.ly/4ciEwcy
becoming a parent has turned out to be a great excuse to learn the entire alphabet. sometimes he’ll ask me what a letter is and i’m like well shit, bubba. let’s find out together
Okay but, like, who cares about men's baseball at this point? women's baseball exists, we don't have to pretend to care any more
let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked
and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!
me in my aunt's above-ground pool after 7 Modelos and 4 hot dogs
Not the prettiest moonsault ever
Funny, but there’s actually some truth to this, because [premise of joke you just made]
just watched this four times in a row and laughed a little harder each time
You know nothing about cheesecake
We've ran off one Barbenheimer director, yes, but what about second Barbenheimer director?
‘BARBIE 2’ might happen with Greta Gerwig ready to begin writing the film. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling & Greta Gerwig are all in talks to return but David Zaslav is currently refusing to pay what they're demanding, calling it “too generous.” (Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...)
The only creative industry that is inarguably both doing well and doing great work right now is "new baseball guy names."
Jhomnardo Reyes is going to the Orioles for Dean Kremer, per source.
Whenever the NCAA pops up to do some old-school NCAA weirdness these days, it calls to mind Val Kilmer saying "I apologize, I forgot you were there"
$20 million college football jersey patches, plus vintage NCAA silliness (Gift Article)
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All I know about her is that she’s Australian, which means she can handle delivering the world’s weirdest accent
Samara Weaving has reportedly been cast as Emma Frost in the new ‘X-Men’ movie (via Deadline)
Even bigger fumble now that they’re doing Ghost Rider. Building toward a Midnight Suns/Sons horror thing is off the table unless they want it to be both rude and wack
Mahershala Ali says he’s moved on from ‘Blade’ “I have moved on … I'm good … you had me under contract … if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie. So we're not doing the movie … They didn't want to do it, so they should answer that question” (via GQ Magazine)