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Kneecap

This may be ‘old news’ but if you get the chance, go watch the movie Kneecap (Netflix link). It is a semi-biographical story about the real life Irish rap band of the same name and how a Belfast teacher (DJ Provai) joined the brothers Moglai and Mo to form the band. Very entertaining story with an overlay of the ever present tensions of Republic of Ireland, the Brits, and Northern Ireland…

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It's The Economy, Stupid

We are a bit too soon into the current sh*tshow presidency to connect policy decisions to lagging economic indicators like inflation and individual grocery prices, however the early reads on recent decisions are not promising. When you connect the dots on the whole collection of executive orders and decisions that have been distributed, as Paul Krugman is doing, you see a more troubling…

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Incredible Goal in Birmingham NUFC Match

Newcastle played Birmingham this past weekend and it was a dog fight of a match that Newcastle eventually won. Birmingham is no joke and they are in pole position to get promoted to the Championship (hopefully along with Wrexham!) . Even though Newcastle won, there was an an incredible goal by Tomoki Iwata that got lost in the shuffle and briefly tied the match at 2-2. Watch it below and pay…

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Adding To the Discourse

Recently, prominent blogger Jason Kottke posted that he will be turning a lot of his efforts towards featuring and exposing all the skullduggery currently taking place here in the United States. I have pivoted to posting almost exclusively about the coup happening in the United States right now. My focus will be on this crisis for the foreseeable future. I don’t yet know to what extent other…

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Come out to the Coast. Have a few beers. What could go wrong?

As the slow burn coup of the US Government continues to progress, the newly “approved” AG of the US has taken the first step on the retribution tour: The FBI is preparing to disband a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to US elections, a source familiar tells CNN. The shuttering of the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force and planned reassigning of team members follows a…

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The Bruno Effect

About a month ago, Newcastle United walked into Emirates Stadium in London and clinically dispatched Arsenal 2-0 on their home turf, giving Newcastle a sense of inevitability heading into yesterday’s match. Last month’s win in London even led Arsenal’s coach Mikel Arteta to hilariously blame the loss on the types of footballs used in the match (And of course, the Newcastle fans reminded him of…

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Just A Bit Outside

Baseball is full of legendary characters. One of the great ones left us today – Bob Uecker. He had a famously uninspiring six year major league career where he barely hit .200. However, he was smart, cagey, and funny enough to parlay that into an astounding career that included appearing in Miller Lite ads, legendary movies like “Major League” and, most famously, handling the color and play by…

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The Wallpapers Are Updated

I finished updating all the soccer/football league wallpapers on my site after finally getting to Spain’s LaLiga just before New Year’s and then finishing up the Scottish Premier and Championship leagues today. I was very delayed in getting ot all of the leagues this year as I was doing some traveling in the late summer and my motivation to continue updating these leagues is beginning to wane. It…

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Marauder's Map

There are all sorts of fun stories about people acting up or putting on some sort of a show when the Google Maps van and cameras are passing through town. However, this story may top them all: A Google Street View image of a man loading a large white plastic bag into the boot of his car has led to the arrest of two people on suspicion of murder. The alleged crime took place in the sparsely…

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This Is America

An interesting collaboration from, of all places, WeTransfer and specifically, their arts platform WePresent, and the Dutch photographer and film maker Robin de Puy. American. “AMERICAN” is a collection of audio, film and photographic portraits by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Robin de Puy. The series was created in the US between 2022 and 2024. Her images invite us to look closer at and…

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Free Fall at WaPo

The fall out from The Washington Post’s (really Jeff Bezos’) decision to not endorse a Presidential candidate has been swift and severe. From the AP: The Washington Post has lost at least 250,000 subscribers since announcing last Friday that it would not endorse a candidate for president — roughly 10 percent of its digital following, the newspaper reported Wednesday. The Post would not…

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America's Abusive Daddy Issue

An absolutely stellar rant by Cat Valente on how the perception that the media is liberally biased may be a falsehood perpetuated by financial and ratings driven manipulation tactics, dating back to the Iran-Contra Affair in the mid 1980s: Honestly, I’m not even sure how the idea is believable to anyone for more than a minute or two. First of all, exposing Trump and honestly reporting on his…

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AI Comes To Hollywood. And Everyone Freaks Out.

Lions Gate Entertainment studios signed a deal with AI company Runway that provides the AI company with access to the studio’s library, with the goal of using Runway’s generative AI capabilities to help augment and support the studio’s film development and production. Lions Gate Entertainment has agreed to give Runway, one of several fast-evolving AI startups, access to its content library in…

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A Memorabilia Collector's Playground

Image via The NY Times Tim Banazek was, like many of us, bored during the heights of the Coronavirus pandemic and decided he’d assuage that boredom by buying several boxes of old baseball cards. After sharing his purchase on his Facebook feed, a friend from his daughter’s softball team said “You should see my Dad’s collection!”. And woah, was this some sort of a collection! It was so massive…

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Say Your Name

A great site – appropriately named Title Drops – that analyzes all the movies that state the title within the dialogue of the movie itself. Interestingly, about a third of all movies fall into this category according to the site with the trend steadily rising over the past few decades, most noticeably since 2020. The trend of movies falling into this category since 2020 may be skewed a little…

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Timelapse of Plants Growing

You always see how your plants change over time but this video of time-lapse video and photos of multiple plants, fruits, and vegetables is super cool.