Had a lot of fun turning back the pages of time, literally, to what womenβs tennis wanted itself to look like in the 1980s.
We talk about the tennis calendar all the time; this time itβs different.
Free for all to read at Bounces, but please subscribe!
www.benrothenberg.com/p/the-women-...
people need to stop covering this, the magnetic fields have so many other good songs.
avalon emerson did such a great job with βlong forgotten fairytaleβ, could do with more of that
a/s/l?
DAP, a key partner in Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahimβs ruling coalition is reconsidering βits role in the pact ahead of the next election, a senior leader said, as frustration mounts over the governmentβs βresponse to a scandal at the anti-graft agency.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
It is truly insane that a Doctor Who *spin-off* created this. Not even the main show. That's how powerful the Whoniverse brand was in 2009.
Not trying to make a wider point here, just, yeah, maybe I am. That powerful!
Anohni's sublimest, best moment, still. An absolute pinpoint perfect song through and through.
Malaysia's parliament fails to pass bill limiting PM's tenure to two terms - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
kpop has been so dire lately that it's so good whenever a relatively straightforward banger becomes a hit. great video, too
youtu.be/zhHB4dZTChw?...
And I reckon it was written in the stars / So you can take it up with Jupiter and Mars
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg7z...
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20 whole years⦠scaling my very own mt heart attack here
very good but also very depressing interview
SCOTUS Live: US Supreme Court rules against Trump's tariffs reut.rs/4rwqR7x
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.
In other words, like most AI hype β it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
'i don't like this sex scene because it doesn't advance the plot'
skill issue tbh. fanfic writers have been using background glances between two unnamed extras to advance plot since the 60s. if you can't advance plot with a whole sex scene you're not gonna make it in the fiction mines
R.I.P. legendary pop songwriter Billy Steinberg.
He co-wrote "Like A Virgin," "True Colors," "Eternal Flame," "So Emotional," "I Drove All Night," "I Touch Myself," "I'll Stand By You," and more classic hits.
stereogum.com/2489382/lege...
Anyway, I am happily all about it.
CNY update: still sleeping through booming fireworks, but now waking up cause I dared to swing the door close
BBC News screenshot with the subtitle "Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate..."
Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake
And a happy year of the whores to you all
The culture has now moved on to "South Park predicted it" which is a scary place to be...
They're at it again! They read Philip K Dick stories where you have to argue with your toaster to get bread or neogtiate on price with your apartment door to open and think, "Yes, this is cool! This is the work that I will devote my life to!"
Toddler told me I was her Valentine, and the feeling was⦠10/10. Would have this specific child again. Another one? Are you NUTS??? Do you know how tired I am?
If you liked Neil Patrick Harris in "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle," then you will LOVE James Van Der Beek in "Don't Trust The B*** In Apartment 23"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEV-...
the olympics: where you can go directly from teenagers hurling themselves dozens of feet in the air on a snowboard to people ice dancing in extremely extra fashion to Madonna's Vogue
I know the summer olympics is bigger but god I love winter
Post a banger thatβs not in English.
A classic (and I wish more kpop still sounded like this)
youtu.be/DeuejYoRbps?...
Breaking news at Bounces:
Serena Williams is going to gain reinstatement to tennis before the end of this month, when she will have completed her six months back in the tennis testing pool.
The Serena comeback is now officially official.
www.benrothenberg.com/p/serena-wil...
Elmo @elmo Β· 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! β€οΈπΆπ° Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
ah they've still got it π€
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzw6...
MotoGP takes over downtown Kuala Lumpur in glitzy season launch www.reuters.com/sports/motog...
MotoGP season launch stage set up in front of the Petronas Twin Towers in KL
always nice when I get the rare occasion to cover something outside my usual beat
