Mark Armstrong
@markparmstrong.bsky.social
Former Triangle sports dude. I drive to soccer. Virulent Canadian 🇨🇦 and Utah Ute Don’t ask me to play pickleball. Need painting? wow1day.com
Super triste watching Gabe Diallo have to withdraw from his hometown tournament match vs Darderi. Likely was going to lose, but that was tough. Felix being a 2 seed at home on his preferred surface? Let’s see how he handles this. As always 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I’m up banging through some training for the new WOW Painting OS. Shouldn’t snack. Can’t snack. My bride’s got premade breakfast burritos in the fridge for our kids.
Another former purveyor of joy gets crushed under the wheel. I used to request and receive free games to the TV station I was interning at back in the mid-late 90s. Them were the days
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 20h agoEA 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
it’s actually crazy how every Republican who claims they will stand up to Trump is just a total cuck with a humiliation fetish
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
Love to make my monthly extra car payment. Thanks to all involved for this
Shapo let’s go you demented son of a gun. Great start.
Mike Lombardi's tenure is probably coming to an end at UNC. I think we shouldn't forget that the school still isn't telling us who he met with in Saudi Arabia. You should know that to keep that private, UNC hid behind a law that wasn't even on the books. www.foiaball.com/p/unc-mike-l...
How UNC hid who Mike Lombardi met with in Saudi Arabia
They cited a law that wasn't in effect at the time.
foiaball.com
Turned back the clock and made myself an orange Fanta float with vanilla ice cream for dessert and damn if that wasn’t the best thing I’ve had in awhile. Creamy, fizzy creamsicle milk? Yes please
Guy in an NC State hat at a pickleball tournament. The athletic department should have to release a statement distancing themselves from this
Every Food Lion I can think of around here definitely fits the bill
People selling things they don’t actually own is a plague
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · last wk.Fifa’s president Gianni Infantino is planning to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors under a scheme that could potentially earn him tens of millions of pounds, sources have told The Times
Do we suppose that UNC sat on this to get past ACC Kickoff and then release? Seems likely
Matt Fortuna@mattfortuna.bsky.social · last wk.UNC has placed GM Michael Lombardi on paid leave, effective immediately.
North Carolina’s Lawrence Academy has never reported Black enrollment higher than 3% in a county whose population hovers around 60% Black. It received $518,240 in vouchers in the 2023-2024 school year to fund 86 of its over 200 students. (Published Nov. 2024)
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
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The Odyssey in IMAX tonight. Can confirm. Is fantastic. Whilst heroic in parts, it’s a story of repeatedly getting your ass kicked and running away.
Buglarian correspondent Ivo Ivanov, who happens to live in Lawrence, reveals his favorite moment of the World Cup to Bulgarian TV viewers. Watch this if you need a reminder about what, or actually who, really constitutes the United States of America. (auto-transcribed & translated as usual)
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
King of the Hill new season is so delightful, especially the menopause/Bill episode
Swaggiest 11 year old watching the Final in his Tokyo Flea Market Nakata find
Athletes being real and speaking their minds is a beautiful thing.