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doctop.bsky.social
a sign that says “A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HORNY OR SAD THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE AN ARTISTIC DECISION”
December 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
paulreda.com
I got back into Diablo 4 and thinking about this again. Oh I'm not surviving boss battles on Torment IV? Damn, guess I need to do more damage so I can kill them faster.
marykgames.com Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · Jul 23
it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught
December 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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whetmoser.com
sickos: yes
aaronschatz.com Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 4d
Just ran DVOA for yesterday, and this surprised me but the Vikings didn't even come close to the worst offensive DVOA performance in a win.

Vikings were at -38%. Worst offense in a win was Chicago -83% in the "crown their ass" game in 2006.

4 of the 5 worst offensive DVOAs in wins are the Bears.
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
paulreda.com
I knew this in my bones
aaronschatz.com Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 4d
Worst offensive DVOA in a win

2006 Bears Wk 6 vs ARI 24-23, -83%
2002 Texans Wk 14 vs PIT 24-6, -81%
2011 Bears Wk 17 vs MIN 17-13, -72%
2004 Bears Wk 8 vs SF 23-13, -72%
2004 Bears Wk 10 vs TEN 19-17, -72%
2005 Cardinals Wk 7 vs TEN 20-10, -69%
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
paulreda.com
Was wondering, and yes, Qadir is the son of Qadry and nephew of Rocket
kfishbain.bsky.social Kevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 6d
The Bears signed (former Northwestern) TE Thomas Gordon to the practice squad and placed TE Qadir Ismail on practice squad IR.
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
paulreda.com
Me: "It's honestly embarrassing how much people lap up media that's just nostalgia-bait and references to other things"

Also me: <barking and clapping like a seal at Fallout season 2>
December 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
paulreda.com
Gotta hand it to him, he's successfully ended education polarization
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
I love to leave my life of unimaginable luxury at the apex of my profession to travel to the windowless lair of a video game streamer with a room-temp IQ so I can do the most absolute dogshit banter imaginable with him and his lumpy shithead buddies.
cptowers.bsky.social Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 12d
I really think it's important for these millionaire athletes, none of whom are children, to feel great shame for being interested in Adin Ross to begin with. Mookie Betts, you are 33 years old. You have a wife and children. You should not know who Adin Ross is.
cptowers.bsky.social Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 12d
Yo what the hell is going on with LA athletes right now
December 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
paulreda.com
Yeah, you're definitely going to build a billion dollar stadium in Gary, you stupid fucks.
rkalland.bsky.social Robby Kalland @rkalland.bsky.social · 13d
Dying at Kevin Warren issuing a statement about the Bears looking at sites in Indiana for the stadium since Illinois won't give them enough money and putting "this is not about leverage" in it lol
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
paulreda.com
"How come your price is different than it was a year ago?" idk man, how come the streetcar doesn't cost a nickel?
December 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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lookitup.baby
"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked-"
December 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
paulreda.com
He was a scrawny runt whose only fans were young women. Literally 1940s Bieber.
samthielman.com CHOAM for the holidays @samthielman.com · 13d
One of the funnier things about 1940’s-era Looney Tunes is the depth of their hatred for Frank Sinatra
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
paulreda.com
Incredible, absolute textbook "The Missing Missing Reasons" shit.
December 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
paulreda.com
"Baby It's Cold Outside" essentially causing 9/11 is my favorite piece of trivia of all time.
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15d
Back to the Future remake but he ends up in Greeley, Colorado in 1950 at the sock hop that convinced Sayyid Qutb the West was irredeemably decadent and introduces him to a little something called "rock and roll."
December 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
I just can't believe Mel Brooks & Dick Van Dyke buried Carl five years ago & now they're burying his son, the kid they essentially helped raise.
Rob Reiner is the reason the main char- acter on The Dick Van Dyke Show was named Rob. Like his dad, Rob Reiner Additionally, two other pivotal events transpired during that summer when Norman and the Reiners were neighbors. One of them, monumentally, was Norman‚Äôs discovery that Rob Reiner had inherited his father‚Äôs comedic chops. It was an unexpected revelation that occurred randomly one afternoon while Rob was teaching Ellen how to play jacks and he noticed the funny expressions on his face and the inflections in his voice as the young Reiner demonstrated how to toss the ball and pick up the jacks. And then‚Äîeither shortly before or after‚Äîit was also at a dinner party at Carl Reiner‚Äôs house, where Reiner stood up at some point during the evening and pretended to be the host of a TV talk show as he proceeded to interview several of the guests on a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder. When he got around to interviewing Mel Brooks‚Äîwho also began improvising and pretended to be a man who seemed to know everything‚ÄîReiner then asked how he could have known about something that had taken place centuries before. To which without any prompting, Brooks responded that he was two thousand years old in what became the impetus for their iconic comedy routine ‚ÄúThe 2,000-Year-Old Man,‚Äù which they would soon perform that fall on national television on Your Show of Shows. I just thought, Jesus, there’s no way 'm going to be able to be like him. I was in awe of him; he was like a god to me. I remember when I went over to the Van Dyke show with him, he'd go down to the set, and I’d crawl into his office and sit behind his desk. And I used to look around and think, God, look at all this! He’s creating these TV shows, he’s win- ning Emmys, he’s a genius—and I’m inadequate. There I was, thinking I should be able to write for the Van Dyke show—and at 13, that was probably fairly ambitious, but that’s what I thought. PLAYBOY: We suppose you saw a lot of Mel Brooks. Besides Your Show of Shows, he and your father also did the 2000-Year- Old Man routines together for years. REINER: When I was a kid, Mel would be with us a lot. We'd summer on Fire Island, and he'd go onto the beach and round up all the little kids, the real tiny ones, and say, “Follow me”; then he’d lead them in exercises, I mean, not like knee bends or push-ups but these hysterical, bizarre movements. He was funny when he did that; he was like another kid—a big kid. Mel is also serious at times, but he does love to perform, loves to work as a stand- up, to work a room. You know, in 1979, I was in Venice, along with Mel, as part ofa celebrity group to be on The Merv Griffin Show. We're in Saint Mark’s Square, sum- mertime, and there was a huge group of tourists; they’re recognizing all the celebri- ties. But Mel wasn’t getting recognized as much as he would like. All of a sudden, he jumps up in the middle of Saint Mark’s Square and starts screaming, “I’m Mel Brooks; don’t you know me? I’m a big star! Blazing Saddles! Young Franken- stein!” He just started screaming out all his credits! There was this other scene once, which my father told me about, when he and Mel went to France. And Mel had difficulty communicating in French. So one day, they’re in some little town, and Mel gets up on some steps and begins to yell, “All right, everyone! The joke is over! From now on, everybody goes back to talking English!” PLAYBOY: Didn’t your father and Mel used to do a lot of comedy at your house? REINER: There was a lot of shtick going on, but it was always in party situations. Peo- ple begged them to do their 2000-Year-Old Man, and you'd be privileged to be there when they'd do the routine. There were moments in my house that were pure gen- ius; when Mel was on a roll, it just didn’t get any funnier. PLAYBOY: And you'd just watch? REINER: I was young, but I always wanted to hang around and listen. But I’ll tell you, one of the biggest thrills in my life came when I was about 16. I was sitting at home while Mel and my father were working on some new 2000- Year-Old Man material to do on The Ed Sullivan Show. And I came up with a routine! I couldn't believe how exciting it was. The bit was about the deri- vation of applause, who invented it. What the first man who applauded did was this: He saw something he liked, slapped his hands on the sides of his face and said, “O God, is that good!” But then this other guy points out that if the guy is going to do that all the time, he'll slap himself dead So this first guy, when nobody was look- ing, snapped his head back from between his hands—and clapped. Pretty soon, other guys modified it, and eventually, everyone applauded the way we do now. PLAYBOY: Where was your applause in all this? REINER: Just the fact that they used it was enough for me. Here I was, 16, and 1 thought the stuff they were doing, the 2000- Year-Old Man, was the hippest thing around. I’d come home from school and listen to the record every single day. There was a cult of people, including kids, who loved it. And you knew you had a bond with someone if you could throw out a line from the 2000-Year-Old Man and he could tell you the next joke; it meant you could talk with each other. PLAYBOY: What about the rest of the Your Show of Shows crew? Neil Simon, for instance, was one of the writers there. REINER: He didn’t make a big impression on me, because he was so quiet. My father used to talk about how Neil, during the writing sessions, would invariably come up with some brilliant line, the best line. Trouble was, there were such loud, vocal people in there, my father would have to sit next to Neil so he could listen to what he was saying. Then my father would jump up and yell, “He’s got something! He’s got something!” PLAYBOY: In any case, you got to hang out with all those TV stars and comedians when your father took you to work with him—and you were still just a kid. Didn't you get on everybody’s nerves? REINER: Everybody included me and allowed me to be there. I was like every- one’s kid. I was in awe of those people. PLAYBOY: Was the Van Dyke set as boister- ous as the Show of Shows set? REINER: I remember my father and Sheldon Leonard, the producer, fighting a lot. They’d throw cigars at each other. But all it was, really, was two guys being passionate about something. Sheldon used to say, “Polite story conferences lead to polite scripts.” PLAYBOY: But at that age, was hanging out on a TV set more fun than being out in the sunshine, picking up girls? REINER: Well, I grabbed Mary Tyler Moore by the ass once. Confluence of fates began interlinking at an accelerated clip, for Carl Reiner’s son, Rob Reiner, then went to see this Foreign Man in New York at his father’s insistence and heard the eemetation of de Archie Bunker telling de Meathead to get out of de chair and, since Rob Reiner actually played de Meathead on the sitcom All in the Family, and since he was scheduled to host one of the first Saturday Night broadcasts, he was dutifully impressed and told Andy, who, in turn, declared that he wanted Rob Reiner to be the first person to introduce him on the show, which caused certain havoc and embarrassment in that Lorne Michaels wanted Andy on the first show and Rob Reiner was slated to host the third, on which he could then introduce him again, never mind that Andy was very upset about the whole thing. Meanwhile, there was the Uncle Sammy Denoff connection, which Carl Reiner discovered when he next began to recreate the act for Uncle Sammy, who had cowritten countless episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and whose manager was Uncle Carl’s nephew George Shapiro, and he stopped Carl Reiner in mid-sentence and said, “I know that kid! He considers me his uncle!” Also: In New York, Carl Reiner had given George Shapiro’s phone number as well as his own to Andy and one day in early November George picked up the phone and heard, “Ummmm ...” and it was Andy calling to say that he was coming out to Los Angeles after his third appearance on Saturday Night—not one installment of which George had seen, since people in his crowd had dismissed the program as “a poor imitation of Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows” (on which Carl Reiner had become famous)—and this was all getting awfully providential. Andy told him that Budd Friedman was flying him out to work at the new West Hollywood Improv. Friedman, at that time, was eager to display the wares of his New York bumper crop in order to compete with Mitzi Shore’s lock on local talent at her Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard. Shapiro agreed without hesitation to come see Andy when he hit town and hung up and none of this was news to him since Budd Friedman had called him earlier that day to say there was this strange guy from the New York club that he was bringing out and this guy needed a manager and George ought to come see him work, “All of a sudden,” said Shapiro, “there was no escaping this person named Andy Kaufman.” Confluence of fates began interlinking at an accelerated clip, for Carl Reiner’s son, Rob Reiner, then went to see this Foreign Man in New York at his father’s insistence and heard the eemetation of de Archie Bunker telling de Meathead to get out of de chair and, since Rob Reiner actually played de Meathead on the sitcom All in the Family, and since he was scheduled to host one of the first Saturday Night broadcasts, he was dutifully impressed and told Andy, who, in turn, declared that he wanted Rob Reiner to be the first person to introduce him on the show, which caused certain havoc and embarrassment in that Lorne Michaels wanted Andy on the first show and Rob Reiner was slated to host the third, on which he could then introduce him again, never mind that Andy was very upset about the whole thing. Meanwhile, there was the Uncle Sammy Denoff connection, which Carl Reiner discovered when he next began to recreate the act for Uncle Sammy, who had cowritten countless episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and whose manager was Uncle Carl’s nephew George Shapiro, and he stopped Carl Reiner in mid-sentence and said, “I know that kid! He considers me his uncle!” Also: In New York, Carl Reiner had given George Shapiro’s phone number as well as his own to Andy and one day in early November George picked up the phone and heard, “Ummmm ...” and it was Andy calling to say that he was coming out to Los Angeles after his third appearance on Saturday Night—not one installment of which George had seen, since people in his crowd had dismissed the program as “a poor imitation of Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows” (on which Carl Reiner had become famous)—and this was all getting awfully providential. Andy told him that Budd Friedman was flying him out to work at the new West Hollywood Improv. Friedman, at that time, was eager to display the wares of his New York bumper crop in order to compete with Mitzi Shore’s lock on local talent at her Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard. Shapiro agreed without hesitation to come see Andy when he hit town and hung up and none of this was news to him since Budd Friedman had called him earlier that day to say there was this strange guy from the New York club that he was bringing out and this guy needed a manager and George ought to come see him work, “All of a sudden,” said Shapiro, “there was no escaping this person named Andy Kaufman.”
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
paulreda.com
Lol, once stopped here on a road trip to give the kid some air. Felt like we were on The Simpsons.
aoife.bsky.social Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 15d
pullman park
michigan city, indiana
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
paulreda.com
The image I keep thinking of is his daughter Tracy getting the telegram and breaking down in A League Of Their Own
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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annleckie.com
WORD I am really, really tired of "we tease the tragic backstory of the detective" can't a detective just detect, the murder is surely sufficient drama.
alixeharrow.bsky.social alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 16d
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
paulreda.com
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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"Helicopter" at Glastonbury is so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-WL...
December 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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jamellebouie.net
this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life
theophite.bsky.social rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18d
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.

not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18d
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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alastair.is
Convinced we’re going to look back on the current age as one of elite bubbles. Tech CEOs pushing AI products people don’t want, publishers signing deals with authors no regular person has even heard of… the common thread is powerful people existing in isolation from the world around them
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
a lot of people seem to think that television shows are full of secrets and that analyzing shows is about looking for clues to reveal those secrets
December 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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funnythings.bsky.social
Shot. Chaser.
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
50-page, $300 million report by a think tank called Winning Through Victory: Democrats can only win if they frame all their criticisms of Republicans as a "compliment sandwich"

Median Democratic voter: When our time comes we shall not make excuses for the terror
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM