The Naked Gambler

As described

Made a red cabbage slaw with a carrot and ginger dressing. Really good! Good excuse to eat red cabbage, which I rarely do.

I've been keeping a stock of emergency squeaky ball toys for when I need to give Buddy a bath.

Absolutely fool-proof, he expects a new toy whenever I bathe him so he puts up with it (he's scared of the bath.) Instantly happy, no problems.

I saw Jimmy Smith say he doesn't think Oliveira is a good wrestler and it blew my mind. Even before his championship form, he was easily taking down guys like Stephens, who was a nightmare for the local wrestlegrinders (Bermudez, Elkins etc.)

And he has of course improved massively since then.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

the western press is truly, truly ill.

Letters may get delayed around Christmas time but, outside of that, I can't even remember the last postal delay I saw. It's incredibly rare for me, at least.

after the Rosas Jr. fight I realized the UFC's situation is near ideal for a measured, deliberate approach developing young talent. Events are basically already paid for, labor costs are capped, no real competition to poach talent, and they won't do it because they don't actually like combat sports.

I'm still trying to get a read on deckbuilding in this game. There are loads of cards & relics that encourage slim decks with high chances of going infinite. And yet, there are enemies that add 10 status cards to your deck at once. Not sure how to feel.

This reminds me of one of my favourite videos of all time, so I have to post it.
(Made by the YouTuber 'Youropia'.)

My cat just absolutely carved my dumb ass up. He got startled by a bed sheet and accidentally gave me the worst cat scratches I've ever had. Six of them! I didn't think he had it in him tbh. That little fuck.

Main card Lightweight Ilia Topuria (c) vs. Justin Gaethje (ic) [a] Heavyweight Alex Pereira vs. Ciryl Gane [b] Bantamweight Sean O'Malley vs. Aiemann Zahabi Lightweight Maurício Ruffy vs. Michael Chandler Middleweight Bo Nickal vs. Kyle Daukaus Featherweight Diego Lopes vs. Steve Garcia

THIS IS THE CARD??? UFC is down BAD.

UFC Freedom 250

LOL

Some incredible fouls in the Garbrandt fight. Garbrandt got kicked in the balls so hard that he started vomiting in the cage. His opponent got deducted two points and the commentators can't figure out if he can still win a decision (he can and he did, these guys cannot subtract 2 from 30.)

It's normal* to spend a decade or two frozen in the same age you were when you faced your deepest traumas, but you can't let that drive you towards nostalgia. You must instead watch anime, it's your only chance.

*normalcy may vary

For sale: AI tools, never wielded ($50,000)

I tilt my head back when I take my sleeping pill because I need to wash it down with as much water as possible, as quickly as possible. If it so much as touches my taste buds, it leaves a taste that can last HOURS. The worst taste in the world.

Screenshot from Fire Force, an alleged anime

You can't just take real people and have them strike anime poses, it's cringe, stop it.

Every now and again, an anime comes along with a twist so bad that it could only have come from an anime. Fire Force (a terrible show) achieved this by having the 'twist' that the real world exists alongside the animated world of the show. Live action characters start showing up like Space Jam lmao.

What Dana White Doesn't Want You To Know About UFC YouTube video by More Perfect Union

I teamed up with the good folks at @moreperfectunion.bsky.social to tell the story of UFC’s monopoly and their attempted boxing takeover. Please share far and wide.

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You can help Claude by putting benzos in your USB port. It's the kind thing to do.

On Sept. 11 2001, MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz attempted to board a plane with a bag of fake passpo-

You can freely draw on the map by default in Slay the Spire 2, that's cool.

UFC Is Trying to Sane Wash Their Donald Trump Support And that's not something any of us should tolerate.

@lukethomas.bsky.social says "People didn't just walk away from the UFC who don't agree with Donald Trump... They are embarrassed to have ever been a part of the UFC or MMA fandom."

Me: *Raises hand* That's me. I won't even steal shows, I despise the UFC so much.
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With the amount of spires I'm about to slay? I could be more annoying than ever.

OMG

I GOT THE GOLDEN TICKET. CYA LOSERS.

Guys, please stop refreshing the Slay the Spire 2 store page over and over again.

I mean, I'm going to keep doing it obviously, but you shouldn't be doing it.

Except the UFC brought it back, because guess what, losers, we didn’t market this stupid bullshit just to give up on it. No, this is now a defended, UFC-ordained, totally legitimate championship, to the point that rather than billing Max Holloway as the #4-ranked man in one of the best weight classes in the history of mixed martial arts, it is more important to make sure you know he’s the defending champion of badly fucking mothers.

That’s three championship belts among four fighters, and the fight for the fakest one of them is the most legitimate one booked this year because the guy holding the interim belt already got the shit kicked out of him by both of the people in it and the guy who should be fighting for the belt isn’t allowed to and meanwhile the guy who does have the real belt doesn’t fucking want it.

man, nobody's doing it like Carl right now.

the best fight you can make at lightweight, perhaps the most sensational matchup you can make all year. and yet, the clownshoes way the UFC runs things these days still leaves you with some bitterness.

They say 'women and children first' and I think this should also apply to videogames, perhaps most of all. I assure you that, mentally, I am a child.

So many people are trying to buy Slay the Spire 2 that the Steam payment processor broke and I can't buy it!

Every last one of you, stop trying to buy it until I have it. This is not a request. I deserve the Spire's warm glow more than any of you do.

Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams.