Tom Breen
@tombreen.bsky.social
UConn news director, former reporter, occasional traveler, very occasional writer, opinions are my own
Bobby Brown’s theme song for “Ghostbusters II” is a better song than Ray Parker Jr.’s theme song for the original movie
Mortifying enough that this soggy mop darkened the doorstep of a fine restaurant right here in the City of Village Charm, but if any of his online freaks tell him about Willington Pizza I am going to destroy the internet
"the elite aren't the people with money, status, power or influence. They are people who I disagree with."
DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️@daviemoo.bsky.social · 19h agoShe got a private sit down with the first Labour prime minister since 2010. She funds groups who have changed literal laws. She’s got a 2 part documentary coming. She has so much money she set up a foundation to defend people from lawsuits. What is not elite about that you fucking morons.
Not to get too theological, but if I find myself in the afterlife with most of those guys, we’ll all be much too busy being on fire to talk politics
Another day, another couple of guys on the pickleball for seniors Facebook group threatening to kill each other
holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.
"It's in the trees! It's coming!" One week from tonight, we'll be screening a very good movie on a very appropriate date at the Stray Cat Film Center!
Year of Monsters: Demons! // The Horror Pod Class — STRAY CAT FILM CENTER
What could have possessed us to continue our Year of the Monsters film series by showing a movie about demons in October? What movie, you ask? That's a surprise, but we'll give you a few hints: It's o...
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you ever see something and realise you're just too old and tired to really dig into it any further
Your Scary Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 4d agoMalfoid is quietly becoming a symbol of the West's cultural counter-revolution.
I can’t really explain why, but that documentary on the Theranos founder just exudes bad vibes for me
Recently had a plumber come to the house to fix something. This guy was really chatty, and as he worked he was telling me a lot of stories about his job and the weirdest houses he's visited. At one point, deadly serious, he said more people get stuck in washing machines than you'd expect.
if you notice your favorite news outlets have misguided coverage of the issues that you know about, you should be smart enough to recognize that it isn't just *your issues*
No Denny, we’re running on a platform of Giant Skeleton for all. A Giant Skeleton in every yard. This is how we win the War on Christmas decoration creep.
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 3d agothere are too many big skeletons in yards during halloween season now. it's too much. everywhere i look another fifteen foot skeleton. we have to stop the sale of giant skeletons until we figure out what the hell is going on.
Remarkable how much dignity the survivors have shown. Alas that others have not.
Simon De Cogan@psymon1.bsky.social · 3d ago
This young woman is one of our greatest and most delightful sports weirdos
Take Flight@takeflightwnba.bsky.social · 3d agoHappy Birthday Paige Bueckers 🥳
I love candy more than almost anything and this article made me wanna organize a march on Hershey
New York Magazine@nymag.com · 4d agoMany people in writer Rachel Handler’s life felt that something was amiss, that commercial chocolate didn’t taste the way it used to. For our Cover Story, Handler spends several months tumbling down a chocolate vortex to find out why. www.grubstreet.com/article/choc...
It’s a tired argument at this point but it is genuinely funny that this organization can’t bring itself to even directly condemn who said it, and not for the first time either. They’ll bend over backwards for Trump and Musk but pretend college students are Hitler.
BBC Scotland shutting down gets about a paragraph in this Guardian article and a photo of an English aristocrat, great
