Willy War IV
@willywariv.bsky.social
I coulda had class! I coulda been a contender! I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it.
The game was different back then, the pace was much slower. If Rudolph was in today’s league, forget about it.
Folks calling Rudolph a system reindeer, ball knowledge is at an all-time low
December 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The game was different back then, the pace was much slower. If Rudolph was in today’s league, forget about it.
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Berserk strip that's been rattling around in my head for a while
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Berserk strip that's been rattling around in my head for a while
I’d compare her to Chris Licht, but he was far more qualified for the title and had the good sense to not put himself on TV.
"According to Nielsen, the Saturday night town hall saw a 41 percent decline in in the key 25-54 advertising demographic compared to the network’s standard programming in that time slot year to date."
Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop
According to Nielsen, the Saturday night town hall saw a 41 percent decline in in the key 25-54 advertising demographic compared to the network’s standard programming in that time slot year to date.
www.independent.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I’d compare her to Chris Licht, but he was far more qualified for the title and had the good sense to not put himself on TV.
Considering this is the first mass shooting at an Ivy, I expect the story to last longer than is typical. Two, three weeks.
December 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Considering this is the first mass shooting at an Ivy, I expect the story to last longer than is typical. Two, three weeks.
I want to feel bad for Lizza, since he did get dogged out terribly, but come on. Think harder.
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I want to feel bad for Lizza, since he did get dogged out terribly, but come on. Think harder.
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This insanity is going to pass (not tomorrow but eventually) and at that point there has to be real accountability for these institutions and decision-makers; at this level, it will likely be social and interpersonal more than anything
"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This insanity is going to pass (not tomorrow but eventually) and at that point there has to be real accountability for these institutions and decision-makers; at this level, it will likely be social and interpersonal more than anything
Could be worse. Baddies is a show where women get drunk and fight for no reason. I’m not sure they even get paid.
Mr Beast's whole shtick appears to be throwing money on the ground and watching as the poors desperately fight over it which is bad enough but he also films it and puts it on Youtube where he makes money from ad revenue
One of the most haunting aspects of Squid Game was that the contestants could leave at any point if they wanted to but volunteered to be tortured to death because they were so desperate for money.
Anyways...
Anyways...
September 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Could be worse. Baddies is a show where women get drunk and fight for no reason. I’m not sure they even get paid.
Recently I wondered what happened to suburban satires (The Burbs, Edward Scissorshands, Happiness, Pleasantville), but these videos make it clear it's because the suburbs won. A whole generation of 30/40 somethings grew up in the suburbs and will always think of it as home.
This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.
September 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Recently I wondered what happened to suburban satires (The Burbs, Edward Scissorshands, Happiness, Pleasantville), but these videos make it clear it's because the suburbs won. A whole generation of 30/40 somethings grew up in the suburbs and will always think of it as home.
Shootings are ARGs now.
Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets
September 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Shootings are ARGs now.
Yes, but only in that they usually apologize on the shooters behalf or provide some explanation. But, this time, the partner is the explanation so that is unique.
Have you *ever*, in all the thousands of shootings in America, heard a word about a friend, roommate or partner of a shooter?
September 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Yes, but only in that they usually apologize on the shooters behalf or provide some explanation. But, this time, the partner is the explanation so that is unique.
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The plotless lives of underground men
On assassins and the limits of biographical meaning.
mattdpearce.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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'Cargo-cult modernism' yes, yes... the perfect description for the sort of people who write like their work belongs in Encounter or the Partisan Review but instead of being about their time fighting fascists in Spain or the crisis of the bomb in the age of anxiety, it's about their twitter beefs.
September 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
'Cargo-cult modernism' yes, yes... the perfect description for the sort of people who write like their work belongs in Encounter or the Partisan Review but instead of being about their time fighting fascists in Spain or the crisis of the bomb in the age of anxiety, it's about their twitter beefs.
A beautiful French woman said it to me the other day, still sound ridiculous. Irredeemable.
I can't explain it, but something about the word "labubu" is disgusting and offensive to me. Just a horrible conjunction of sounds. Get it out of here.
September 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A beautiful French woman said it to me the other day, still sound ridiculous. Irredeemable.
Everyone's a technocrat when it comes to guns in this country. They'll tell you to use your imagination when it comes to destroying capitalism, reforming congress, or open borders. But when it comes to a rifle we need strict, deadeyed liberalism.
I understand how people get so disgusted with guns they just say "ban them all", but that's not a workable policy proposal in the US.
if you want regulation then you'd better have people writing those regulations who understand what a firearm is- in a technical and a legal sense.
if you want regulation then you'd better have people writing those regulations who understand what a firearm is- in a technical and a legal sense.
a. how the fuck are you going to ban something in law without precisely describing what it is?
b. my state (NJ) bans the AR-15, all derivatives, and any "substantially identical" firearms by name (www.nj.gov/lps/dcj/aggu...). anyways, google NJ compliant firearms. it's a lot harder than you think.
b. my state (NJ) bans the AR-15, all derivatives, and any "substantially identical" firearms by name (www.nj.gov/lps/dcj/aggu...). anyways, google NJ compliant firearms. it's a lot harder than you think.
August 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Everyone's a technocrat when it comes to guns in this country. They'll tell you to use your imagination when it comes to destroying capitalism, reforming congress, or open borders. But when it comes to a rifle we need strict, deadeyed liberalism.
I have no real opinions on gun control, it's a dead issue in my eyes. But liberal/leftist defenses of firearms get my blood twitching. "Norway has guns and things are fine. It's a cultural issue." Well I guess the Nordics have a superior culture, Americans are too violent. Can't handle the steel.
August 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I have no real opinions on gun control, it's a dead issue in my eyes. But liberal/leftist defenses of firearms get my blood twitching. "Norway has guns and things are fine. It's a cultural issue." Well I guess the Nordics have a superior culture, Americans are too violent. Can't handle the steel.
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Wow another black person what a coincidence
'Primus becomes the first member of the STB, or its predecessor, the Interstate Commerce Commission, to be dismissed. The ICC was created in 1887.'
www.trains.com/pro/regulato...
www.trains.com/pro/regulato...
Trump fires Surface Transportation Board member Primus - Trains
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump yesterday fired Surface Transportation Board member Robert E. Primus, breaking a 2-2 partisan split at the rail regulator while leaving it two members short of f...
www.trains.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Wow another black person what a coincidence
I’m always surprised people are willing to talk about their mass murdering friends.
I interviewed a half-dozen people who knew Elias Rodriguez and went over countless private messages of his and couldn't find any anti-Semitic remarks
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias...
Read Elias Rodriguez’s Leaked Chats
Accused killer of two Israeli Embassy aides ranted against many things — but not Jews
www.kenklippenstein.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I’m always surprised people are willing to talk about their mass murdering friends.
On one hand, it's true that the guys who've been in the program for years deserve the opportunity. On the other hand, the Olympics approved Flag Football for the NFL players.
May 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
On one hand, it's true that the guys who've been in the program for years deserve the opportunity. On the other hand, the Olympics approved Flag Football for the NFL players.
Basketball is cheap, only requires 10 people, and can be played inside. This meant it was very attractive to cities and segregated schools, which were disproportionately black for obvious reasons. Which led to black star players that inspired other black kids and so on and so on.
this yglesias post is insane, the whole thing is him trying to square the fact that he quite obviously believes in hanania-style scientific racism and thinks trump isn't racist-racist with the need to not agree with nazis
April 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Basketball is cheap, only requires 10 people, and can be played inside. This meant it was very attractive to cities and segregated schools, which were disproportionately black for obvious reasons. Which led to black star players that inspired other black kids and so on and so on.
This all ends with Elon (or Vance) screaming, "the weak should fear the strong" over and over again on CNN.
April 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This all ends with Elon (or Vance) screaming, "the weak should fear the strong" over and over again on CNN.
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"[T]he tragedy of Joshua is that he’s been, has always been, about 90 per cent of the way to greatness."
Wonderful boxing narrative out of @grantamag.bsky.social.
granta.com/the-hurt-bus...
Wonderful boxing narrative out of @grantamag.bsky.social.
granta.com/the-hurt-bus...
The Hurt Business
‘Going unbeaten for a decade or longer is more likely to mean you’ve avoided your chief rivals than that you’re a generational talent.’ Declan Ryan on boxing.
granta.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"[T]he tragedy of Joshua is that he’s been, has always been, about 90 per cent of the way to greatness."
Wonderful boxing narrative out of @grantamag.bsky.social.
granta.com/the-hurt-bus...
Wonderful boxing narrative out of @grantamag.bsky.social.
granta.com/the-hurt-bus...
When the economy fully tanks in April he will pivot to They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
showing my (sigh) age here but the mr. beast stunts sure do bear a lot of similarities to some of the game shows in the book "the running man"
btw I'll give you one guess as to what year that book is set in (it was written in the 1980s)
btw I'll give you one guess as to what year that book is set in (it was written in the 1980s)
mr beast talking about the human lives he has trapped in simultaneous simulations with "cant wait to upload these" is why black mirror can never be as good as it used to be
March 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
When the economy fully tanks in April he will pivot to They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
A lesson I’ve learned from the ongoing Canada v Trump dust up is that Canada doesn’t have nukes.
The former FM suggested the possibility of obtaining extended nuclear deterrence from the UK.
Does Canada have nukes? If not could someone loan them some?
March 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A lesson I’ve learned from the ongoing Canada v Trump dust up is that Canada doesn’t have nukes.
My takeaway from I AM MUSIC is the same I had from Whole Lotta Red. Carti is a very good rapper, maybe even THE rapper of the 2020's.
March 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
My takeaway from I AM MUSIC is the same I had from Whole Lotta Red. Carti is a very good rapper, maybe even THE rapper of the 2020's.
AOC, how do you respond?
SCHUMER just now: "While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse."
March 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
AOC, how do you respond?