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suffering from im poster syndrome

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a man in a wrestling ring with a referee behind him . Alt: stone cold steve austin in a wrestling ring with a referee behind him, hitting jeff hardy with a chair
13.03.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

printing this and taping it to a folding chair and smacking anyone that says one vote doesn't matter

13.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this looks like a magazine ad for a video game in 1996

13.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I stopped gambling (mostly) last year and the way the books hound you with notifications/emails to Get Back In The Game should 100% be illegal
like if Coors could text drinkers "15 days since your last beer ... sounds like you need an ice cold Coors Light" and also their phone could give them a beer

13.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 1227 πŸ” 203 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 20

Can this be a solution?

12.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 4450 πŸ” 917 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 43
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tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread
wired: harassing journalists for not making things up

13.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 3640 πŸ” 702 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 69
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First look at the Titans new uniforms

13.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6

ai is for fascists

13.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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jim cramer provides a useful service in being wrong about everything. he's the bellwether for what not to do

12.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I had gone to the local ER, expecting a run-of-the-mill gallbladder removal that would have me back at work by Monday. Instead, they shipped me down to the big regional hospital in Fargo, North Dakota, where an MRI showed a gallstone, yes, but also a 9.5-centimeter tumor wrapped tightly around the main bile duct and several major blood vessels in the liver.

The gastrointestinal specialist was in the room with my wife and me when the radiology report came back. I watched his face drop and his entire demeanor change as he read through it for the first time.

He was an affable guy roughly the same age as me. β€œWe just don’t see this in guys our age,” he said.

I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. As far as cancers go, it’s an especially brutal one: The five-year survival rate is around 10 percent, and most people diagnosed with it are dead within a year. That was going to be me.

Cholangiocarcinoma is deadly in large part because it is so rare: There are only about 8,000 new cases in the U.S. each year. Cancer treatment advances patient by patient, clinical trial by clinical trial. Each patient is a new data point. When there are few data points, the science advances very slowly.

β€œThere are some chemo and radiation therapies that can slow it down a little bit, maybe buy you some extra time, but nothing that can kill it,” the GI doc explained. β€œThe only way to cure it is to cut it out completely, either by surgically resecting the liver or doing a full-on transplant, but by the time most people are showing symptoms, it’s too late for either of those.”

β€œIs it too late for me?” I asked.

β€œI don’t know,” he said.

I had gone to the local ER, expecting a run-of-the-mill gallbladder removal that would have me back at work by Monday. Instead, they shipped me down to the big regional hospital in Fargo, North Dakota, where an MRI showed a gallstone, yes, but also a 9.5-centimeter tumor wrapped tightly around the main bile duct and several major blood vessels in the liver. The gastrointestinal specialist was in the room with my wife and me when the radiology report came back. I watched his face drop and his entire demeanor change as he read through it for the first time. He was an affable guy roughly the same age as me. β€œWe just don’t see this in guys our age,” he said. I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. As far as cancers go, it’s an especially brutal one: The five-year survival rate is around 10 percent, and most people diagnosed with it are dead within a year. That was going to be me. Cholangiocarcinoma is deadly in large part because it is so rare: There are only about 8,000 new cases in the U.S. each year. Cancer treatment advances patient by patient, clinical trial by clinical trial. Each patient is a new data point. When there are few data points, the science advances very slowly. β€œThere are some chemo and radiation therapies that can slow it down a little bit, maybe buy you some extra time, but nothing that can kill it,” the GI doc explained. β€œThe only way to cure it is to cut it out completely, either by surgically resecting the liver or doing a full-on transplant, but by the time most people are showing symptoms, it’s too late for either of those.” β€œIs it too late for me?” I asked. β€œI don’t know,” he said.

For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42. slate.com/life/2026/03...

12.03.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 785 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 26

turns out jesus is too jewish for "christians"

12.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wasnt the movie clerks doing this bit back then

always been this way

12.03.2026 03:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
very old black and white photo of a building with the lettering ED'S ASS WORKS painted on

very old black and white photo of a building with the lettering ED'S ASS WORKS painted on

i needed a laugh so i looked at this picture again

when i was a kid, there was a place called ed's glass works in our town. every once in a while some teens would paint over the G and L and for a few days the sign would read ED'S ASS WORKS and to me that was the funniest thing in the world

12.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 255 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 10

It just struck me, I threw a boomerang earlier

11.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 477 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 2

great. just great. they made gollum hot. good grief.

11.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i am fucking stoked

(titan up)

11.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if i ever run into the noid, it's on sight for that weird little gremlin

11.03.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"

Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"

11.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 10929 πŸ” 3663 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 29

it really makes the notion of hitting a fastball even more impressive tbqh

11.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you ever think about how it takes time for light to travel from an object to your eye, time for the data to pass through your optic nerve, time for your brain to construct a perception of what you have sensed, and time for your conscious self to interpret it, so you're only ever seeing the past

11.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, i got a guy for that

11.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

so many ads, i forgot what movie i put on

it was the taking of pelham 123, thanks, past me

11.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

george, next question

11.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œyoung sherlock” tile that shows old man colin firth

β€œyoung sherlock” tile that shows old man colin firth

ngl this dude looks kinda old to me

11.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lmao this owns

11.03.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"dont bully me, i'll cum"

10.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i cannot imagine how out of pocket the emails you don't put in this column are

10.03.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

got blocked by espn's bill barnwell for replying "bill fartwell" to one of his dumber posts

bluesky really is a sports town

10.03.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0