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matthew @pahuski.com · 6h

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 3h

A surprising sight in St. Clair County, Michigan: A man waving Fixodent denture cream before the county commissioners at an August meeting.

“I am an unfluoridated child,” he declared, “with a set of uppers and lowers.”

Man with wire-frame glasses, blue overalls, and a gray zip-up hoodie waves a tube of denture cream before the dais of the county commissioners at an August meeting in St. Clair County, Michigan.

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 4h

Italian boxer Nino Benvenuti eating pasta and drinking wine on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1967.

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 4h

joey fatone

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not even sure what Modern Rock means at this point but it's cute that right now there is a Zombie a Dracula a Spectre an Everybody Scream and a This Is the Killer Talking. Less cute is that we are in the third decade of this new millennium and Sublime and Limp Bizkit are still relevant.

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 2d

It’s spelled forty instead of fourty because nobody cares about u

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 23h

There is a new CNA at my mom's memory care facility and boy is she intense about her love for Jesus!

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Rereading this 2004 NYMag feature on the exceedingly complicated author Olivia Goldsmith (who died way too young, as she likely wanted) and this is such a scorched-earth story about leaving your publisher nymag.com/nymetro/news...

Ashmead was equally smitten with Goldsmith until, Ashmead says, he incurred her wrath when he edited her 1996 novel Marrying Mom. “Marrying Mom had what I thought were some rather grotesque sex scenes between people over 70 years of age—they had to rearrange their bellies to have sexual intercourse,” Ashmead says. “I asked her to take it out. That was the end of the relationship. She went out the door and never came back.”

Well, not completely. It turned out Goldsmith was as adept at revenge as any of her characters. On Valentine’s Day, Ashmead opened his front door to discover a bag full of candy valentines. However, Olivia wasn’t trying to restart the friendship.

“She’d crossed out all the nice things and written ‘Fuck you, screw you,’ ” Ashmead says. “It must have taken a lot of time.”

She didn’t stop there. “She went on Sally Jesse Raphael once and said, ‘This book would be a lot better if my editor hadn’t gotten so old he’d forgotten what good sex is like,’ ” Ashmead remembers. “ ‘So if any of you have a manuscript with no sex in it, give it to … ’ and she gave my name.”

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 1d

I posted my first Moment on Scruff and I guess I will be spending the remainder of my day corresponding with dozens of men who all live in either Germany or Brazil.

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 1d

Me in the supermarket talking to the bag of Swedish Fish

Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 1d

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to figure out what to wear to the straight people club??

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 1d

Her acting output post-1990* colors what I think of when I think about her but she was actually very interesting and a little weird!

*Baby Boom (1987) was maybe the beginning of the end?

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 1d

I read this post with so much mounting dread that I couldn't prevent a gleefully surprised "Oh!" when I got to the end

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton I loved your book of clown paintings and your direction of Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is a Place in Earth video! Also that one Twin Peaks episode.

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 2d

This David Byrne/Hayley Williams song sure sounds like when you're on hold with a utility company.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe an inflatable frog is my hometown’s symbol of resistance, and yet of course since I am from here I absolutely can

this is old school homegrown “rioting over the airport changing its carpet” Portland freak shit. it transcends the Portlandia mythos. writers would not think of this

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 2d

I can really relate to this song because I'm on the edge the edge the edge the edge the edge the edge the edge.

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 3d

Did one of my neighbors just take up the cello???

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 3d

Tilda Swinton's best role yet.

Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 4d

I love lesbian Bruce Springsteen.

Bruce Springsteen in a shirt, tie, cardigan and leather jacket looking very butch for a 76 year old.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3d

Yeah let’s return to that simpler, better time when the Church wasn’t political [puts two fingers to earpiece] Sorry I’m just getting an update

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

PDF it even if you do own or control the site.

I’ve lost millions of words to hacks, outages, and corporate sales

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 3d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when Nicki Minaj rhymed wiener with Selener.

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 4d

This place needs a napping station.

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 4d

I love lesbian Bruce Springsteen.

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 4d

Banned Books Week is a little different different now that Rhode Island has the country's most comprehensive Freedom To Read act.

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Words with friends - Warwick Beacon

‘Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.’ That’s the theme of the 44th annual Banned Books Week, organized each year by the American Library Association. Since 1982, the …

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