Trent Reinsmith

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For today's issue of @flaminghydra.com, I wrote a meditation on the late, great Shelley Duvall, and how my perception of her otherworldly performance in "The Shining" changed over countless repeat viewings.

The face of terror / When rats ran rampantflaminghydra.com Today: Miles Klee, author of the novel Ivyland and culture writer at Rolling Stone; and Harry Siegel, senior editor at THE CITY, co-host of the FAQ NYC podcast, and columnist at the New York Daily New...

Local man turns bright red, punches the wall and screams at his kids about Jack Black and Kyle Gass while wearing a "Fuck your feelings" shirt...

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Yesss. This is the BlueSky I come for: bsky.app/profile/chin...

Trump holding the Bible was among the highlights of his presidency. It was like watching an orangutan hold a graphing calculator

Crazy... "Pickus went so far as to tell the appellate court that Supreme Court rulings set the precedent that Azzari could legally shoot a '5-year-old,' so long as the kindergartner-aged kid scared him."

U.S. Court of Appeals rules against cop who killed Peyton Ham: defector.com/u-s-court-of...

U.S. Court Of Appeals Rules Against Cop Who Killed Peyton Ham | Defectordefector.com Peyton Ham will get another day in court. This morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., threw out a lower court’s summary judgment in favor of Joseph Azzari, a Maryl...

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"some folk'll never eat a skunk and then again some folk'll" is some david berman shit

Worth a read www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Rise and Fall of Project Veritaswww.rollingstone.com James O’Keefe helped transform U.S. conservatism into a war machine with his undercover videos — then it all imploded

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Caitlin Clark is the modality in which class gets lived in the WNBA flaminghydra.com/issue-110/

Classy basketball / Dollars to donutsflaminghydra.com Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...

Things are just swell...

Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by U.S. government

Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US governmentwww.theguardian.com Ruling leads to claims that BG’s right to free speech unfairly challenged in another case putting rap lyrics on trial

"Needs"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI.

A few years ago a New Zealand Uber driver said he would love to switch places with us and move to the US because he had some family there. Is there a way I can find that guy and take him up on his offer?

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Removing Joe Biden at the last minute doesn't magically transform a bunch of people who all said they'd vote for Joe Biden into an "open convention" www.indignity.net/who-elected-...

Mad Enough to Blog It™ www.indignity.net/who-elected-...

Who Elected the Times Editorial Board?www.indignity.net Indignity Vol. 4, No. 109

UFC made a video that featured a white dude for Black History month and I'm supposed to believe the upcoming event at the Sphere is going to be, according to Dana White, "a love letter to the Mexican people"?

Reviewed "Broiler" by Eli Cranor garbagerock.wordpress.com/2024/06/29/b...

Broiler by Eli Cranorgarbagerock.wordpress.com Eli Cranor won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author for his 2022 book, "Don't Know Tough." In 2023, Cranor followed that with "Ozark Dogs." Both works featured a small cast of ch...

Of course the UFC sold naming rights to its Mexican Independence day event to Saudi Arabia. C'mon now, booking the Sphere isn't cheap...

#UFC306 at Sphere in Las Vegas rebranded as Riyadh Season Noche UFCmmajunkie.usatoday.com UFC 306 will now be known by another name as the promotion has granted title partner status for the first time.

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Every “person” you see in this is a job an actor didn’t get. Every “object” you see cost prop masters work. Every “set” you see is a place no crew was paid to work. The machine that made it was trained with stolen images. Fuck this video. Fuck the ghouls who made it. And fuck Toys-R-Us forever.

Toys 'R' Us uses OpenAI's Sora to make a brand film about its origin story and it’s horrifying

Toys 'R' Us uses OpenAI's Sora to make a brand film about its origin story and it’s horrifyingwww.engadget.com Toys 'R' Us uses OpenAI's Sora to make a brand film about its origin story and it’s horrifyingThis article originally appeared on Engadget at…

Oh wow, can't wait for him and Rob Schneider to tour the worst sportsbars in America.

Lol

Despite the headline, I wouldn't call this a glowing endorsement of the product... “It sounded like what I might say in certain situations.”

“It Was Astonishing”: How NBC Convinced Al Michaels to Embrace His AI Voice for Olympics Coveragewww.vanityfair.com The network will use an artificial clone of the legendary broadcaster’s voice to narrate its daily recaps of the summer event. “It was not only close,” he says of the technology, “it was almost 2% off...

Jimmy Pesto pleads guilty for Jan. 6

Bob's Burgers actor Jay Johnston to plead guilty for role in Capitol riotconsequence.net Bob's Burgers actor Jay Johnston plans to plead guilty after being charged for his role in the January 6th Capitol riot.

Some photos from the train ride between New London, CT and Baltimore, MD

I'm unsure if Timberlake's team of PR fixers is going to get more or less work after the past week.

Giving a cop the mugshot treatment because he arrested a rich person who was guilty and acting like that’s totally normal should be a moment that open’s people’s eyes to the jig.

Dana White said Trump's "migrant league of fighters" comment was a joke, which makes me wonder, what other "jokes" have the two shared...

The thing about UFC and Saudi Arabia is that unlike boxing and Saudi Arabia, the only people winning are the UFC and Saudi Arabia.

So, the two I have from when these were first released are vintage?

Can't say enough good things about this J Crew 1988 rollneck (that's currently on sale!): www.jcrew.com/m/mens/categ...

1988 heritage cotton Rollneck™ sweaterwww.jcrew.com Shop for the 1988 heritage cotton Rollneck™ sweater for men. Find the best selection of men mens-categories-clothing-sweaters-pullover available in-stores and on line.

The first integrated baseball game with an integrated crowd in Alabama had a razor blade giveaway?? pca.st/episode/c190...

Roy Wood Jr. on the Life of Willie Mays, Negro League Celebration, and Bill Belichick's New Girlfriend - The Right Time with Bomani Jonespca.st Bomani Jones weighs in on sports, pop culture, social topics and more, with your comments on Mondays, friends of the show on Wednesdays and Domonique Foxworth on Fridays.

In a normal sport an athlete posting a Hitler meme would get some coverage. Nothing from those who cover the UFC...

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This has been a fun outlet for me, and I've written some stuff there I'm really happy with. More than that, though, it has been reliably excellent to read every day, with a wide array of posts from a very diverse and talented group of people. I'm biased, but I think it's a steal for the price.

It is almost time for our ONE HUNDREDTH NEWSLETTER. How will you be celebrating, and why is it "by complimenting us floridly and at length"?

Kanye West, man...

Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remixwww.newyorker.com How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed by the Japanese master Tadao Ando, into a ruin.

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Love that they took this photo at the exact moment they were explaining to the farmer he was going to get paid in crypto.

Drinking the coffee I got at the Libertarian convention

Story celebrates sportswashing... "Helwani also hosted His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, also on his Vox show, last month" nypost.com/2024/06/17/s...

Top MMA insider Ariel Helwani is a looming free agentnypost.com A rare sports media talent is coming to market soon.

Listening to the new podcast from Reveal and of course some white man who inherited a chunk of a plantation is against reparations because “no one gave me anything… except this…” while referring to nearly 100 acres he was given. revealnews.org/podcast/40-a...

40 Acres and a Lie Part 1 - Revealrevealnews.org Our historical investigation found 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land – only to see it returned to their enslavers.