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Bruce

@contrasoma

1/2 of @idieyoudie.bsky.social. NJPW podcasts at @postwrestling.com. Blue Jays, science/weird fiction, scotch whisky, beer. He/him. Opinions mine, not employer's. Ⓥ "The Parker Brothers took time to think this all out. I think we should respect that."

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Paul Zaloom, aka Beakman.

Paul Zaloom, aka Beakman.

Dude from Beakman's World looking like he's next in line to run the FBI once Kash Patel gets tossed.

09.03.2026 23:02 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

tired: vibe coding
wired: vibe war

09.03.2026 22:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Proud to have you on board, buddy. <3

09.03.2026 18:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was just thinking that the next actual question I'd like to be asked of TK at the Rev presser was whether he was considering buying/reworking Triller.

09.03.2026 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm not at all a curling person but this is legitimately beautiful.

09.03.2026 05:07 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Big Bill and Bryan Keith's new explicit mercenary presentation has me wondering...is there one specific wrestler or program credited as creating the "will take other wrestlers out if heels pay me" archetype?

09.03.2026 04:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, but that'd be ten minutes back you could spend with your pets, admiring the sunset, or messaging a friend you miss, all of which I regret not doing instead.

09.03.2026 02:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you feel like you didn't get much accomplished or wasted your Sunday, you still did better than me so long as long as you didn't also watch Shota Umino and Chase Owens have the most boring 20 minute two star match imaginable.

09.03.2026 02:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I hadn't! Very Floyd-esque.

09.03.2026 02:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

American kids have to make sense of active shooter drills because they live in a failed state, fuck you for using them as a prop in your own bigotry.

08.03.2026 10:57 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Savage but accurate.

08.03.2026 01:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Kids will want to see the original KroniK!"
"I keep telling you, Clark is 61 years old and Adams is dead."

08.03.2026 00:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his substack depends on his not understanding it".

07.03.2026 15:47 👍 2176 🔁 190 💬 1 📌 2
A man wearing a black windbreaker and baseball cap, both with DEATH TO FALSE EBM stitched in Old English type, and holding a coffee mug reading EBM in the same type.

A man wearing a black windbreaker and baseball cap, both with DEATH TO FALSE EBM stitched in Old English type, and holding a coffee mug reading EBM in the same type.

TASTE THE DRIP OF EBM! (Like, drip coffee, not, y'know, the other drip. Apologies to Container 90 either way.) Anyway, the EBM Day/ID:UD merch run continues for a while longer, again our portion of proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders!

secondtooth.com/collections/...

07.03.2026 22:03 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
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"We need to hope for a YOH win over Douki, otherwise we'll just get more HoT main events."

06.03.2026 23:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Read "The City" as background for my thesis. Great stuff.

06.03.2026 20:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Fuck learning any trade or a body of knowledge which dates back hundreds of years, sink all of your time and money into learning QuarkXPress 6."

"But I'm not a designer."

"QuarkXPress 6."

"But the OS that app runs on was discontinued more than twenty yea-"

"QUARKXPRESS 6."

06.03.2026 08:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.03.2026 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love a lot of the biggies - Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth - but I always hold a candle for Antony & Cleopatra, and my real dark horse fave is Troilus & Cressida. Eternally grateful to Paul Budra for guiding me through Shakespeare's systematic attack on his own culture's worship of the classical era.

05.03.2026 22:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.03.2026 05:58 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kombat Time!

04.03.2026 02:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would bet my eyeteeth that "these cornball antics might play in the sticks, but this is NXT" is an actual quote I heard from Corey Graves circa 2015.

04.03.2026 02:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In light of Sim saying that he said Orr dealt drugs based on seeing a mystery photo from a mystery person, I think it’s important to reflag this.

If this is an uncharitable interpretation, the mayor is free to provide more details of how he ended up seeing such a photo and believing it.

03.03.2026 22:41 👍 241 🔁 54 💬 2 📌 4

A batch of a month's worth of tapings means one flight in/out for whatever talent is wanted/needed rather than an odd mish mash of whoever can/is brought to Dynamite/Collision tapings. Chance to bring outside talent in for a 3-4 episode program, hopefully live to tape commentary from Ian & Caprice.

02.03.2026 02:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Perfect. Suits AEW from an infrastructure perspective, gives the brand a clear identity, and opens up so many booking possibilities.

02.03.2026 01:47 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

When "RitH" mania happened a couple of younger relatives in their teens reached out and asked me all sorts of Kate questions because they'd heard I was a huge fan and had seen her live. It was really cool and sweet and I had a bunch of conversations with them I wouldn't have otherwise.

01.03.2026 19:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Kate and I talk Kevin Knight's profile rising, Andrade continuing to knock out great matches, and Thekla doing Thekla things.

01.03.2026 06:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More interested in Ishii/Andrade and Thekla doing Thekla things than what was in the box? Join us...

01.03.2026 03:09 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MAY’S「ダーリン」MUSIC VIDEO
MAY’S「ダーリン」MUSIC VIDEO YouTube video by crownrecord

He's had women chasing after him like he was The Monkees.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdBd...

01.03.2026 02:52 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Getting Turturro in Lebowski from Thekla's accent and gyrating here. "You got a date Wednesday, baby!"

01.03.2026 02:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0