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Patrick W. Reed

@patrickwreed.bsky.social

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Writer, historian & occasional wrestling commentator/referee/oddjobsman Host of the Bunkum & Ballyhoo podcast (@bunkumballyhoo.bsky.social) "Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling", out now: bit.ly/3N1Q73b www.patrickwreed.com

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 8h

Spy vs Spy energy on those top two. Spong vs Spong.

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 12h

Throw in a penalty box and I'm sold!

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 13h

Brooker has one of the most unlikely careers going - the kind of trajectory that's just unthinkable these days.

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 13h

Almost certainly incompetence.

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 13h

NASTY JUDGE KNOBBS

1-900-HOTDOG @1900hotdog.bsky.social · 15h

@seanbaby.bsky.social brings us some Trailer Court Justice today. It's a scripted comedy court show with actors but without jokes. 1900hotdog.com/2025/10/upse...

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 14h

A battle royal in the second one, where you are eliminated by being thrown out of a succession of progressively larger rings.

Penny Merman @idesofmerch.bsky.social · 15h

A series of images I found on my computer labeled "Wrestling solutions."

A roof shaped ring, utilizing an incline. Probably deadly.

A full sized ring inside of a double sized ring. Why not? What do you have to lose?

A ring with vertical ring ropes, attached to an unsecured light fixture. An OSHA violation for sure.

A ring with 9 turnbuckles, instead of the customary 3. This one is fine, no one would have a problem with this one except a whiner.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 15h

the insistence on calling him "Shitler" is so funny. Like, he's already Hitler, but we have to be clear that we mean he's a *bad* Hitler. Hitler in a *bad* way.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 16h

"Violet Stanley" would also be a great name for a Gorgeous George style gimmick.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 17h

This month in 1909 -

Lady Wrestler Violet Stanley, who had recently performed at the Agricultural Hall, Islington was imprisoned for three months for keeping a brothel. She was later done for sex work as Emily Baillie, and in 1911 for using counterfeit coins in Newcastle as Rose Daley.

LADY WRESTLER SENT TO PRISON At the Clerkenwell Police-court on Saturday afternoon, Bertram Young, 26, described as a salesman, and Violet Stanley, 22, a “lady wrestler,” were charged with assisting in the management of a brothel at Caledonian-road, between the 11th and 17th September. Mr Bramall prosecuted for the Islington Borough Council, and Mr. Harry Ricketts appeared for the defence. Sub-divisional Inspector Rogers, G division, executed the warrant, after the usual police observation, and in the coarse of the case it was stated that both the prisoners had travelled the country as wrestlers - the lady having given an exhibition side show in the Agricultural hall. The couple had cohabited together. When the police raided the premises in Caledonian-road a loaded revolver, ready cocked, and two "life preservers” were found there.

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 21h

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 20h

it's 2025 Wes Borland all over again.

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 20h

yes! The celeb version feels a lot more Cluedo

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 21h

yeah, the celebs train with him at Playfight for it now. He was in the tag gauntlet, teaming with Big Damo - I think the last time he did it, it was as "Mr. Dawkins", Ivo Graham's public school wrestling coach. They usually do a good job of pairing comedians with pros.

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 21h

it's genuinely a good laugh; weird seeing it go from niche Edinburgh thing to the Apollo, but it was a fun show. Ed Gamble has better natural heel instincts than half the current scene.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 21h

they could play a 24 hour marathon of Drag Race UK, and still the campest thing on the BBC this week would be Alan Carr mourning Paloma Faith after she's been shut in a coffin by Claudia Winkleman, all soundtracked by Paloma Faith's own INXS cover version.

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 21h

I like how Celebrity Traitors introduces two new wrinkles to the premise, through having traitors not motivated by personal gain, and the different dynamic of the players mostly already knowing each other.

But mostly I like how filling the show with luvvies highlights how relentlessly camp it is.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 21h

I hate that his name has ruined a perfectly good word for a fart so much that there's just no longer anything inherently funny in the headline, "Chairman asked about Trump".

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 21h

Fully unprepared for this being what Davey Havok from AFI looks like now.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 22h

History isn’t just about who was in power, it is also about who were the people. If our focus is solely on who was at the top and what was happening in the palaces, stately homes and Houses of Parliament, we miss the stories of everyone else. And ‘everyone else’ was the majority of the population.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22h

Another case where "everyone is twelve" is hugely instructive - I've been saying since Gamergate that the loudest, most obnoxious voices are always just spoiled little boys throwing a tantrum because they've just found out they're expected to share their toys. And that some toys aren't theirs.

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22h

This highlights how much of reactionary right-wing thought is just entitlement; years ago, a friend's company put out some anti-Trump merch, and people were attacking them and calling them stupid for "alienating half their audience". What makes you think *you* were ever our audience?

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Put on some nice clothes but then looked out the window and immediately felt like a man of slovenly appearance.

A male mandarin duck on the balcony outside my old kitchen, sizing up the women in the river below.

That's not true. When I lived in that house there were always about five male mandarin ducks competing for one female.

These - and the mergansers at the same place - muscled their way into my novel Villager, which I wrote most of while renting this house.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 2d

Wrestling.

Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 2d

I hate framing education as customer service, or as a product to be bought. I would prefer if that weren't the case. I would prefer a serious, spirited defence of the kind of subjects that are relentlessly under attack. But in practical, real terms - it's students' own money, fuck off.