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  Ashley Padilla was on Poehler this week, and recommended the 3rd-generation survival reality show Extracted. Which is like Alone, except the people trying to survive have zero skills, and their access to supplies depends entirely on their idiot family members outwitting each other in basic game theory challenges. We watched three episodes tonight and y’all my brain is SO EMPTY right now. Just absolute blissful thoughtless stillness.

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  Are there any #Carolina #Hurricanes fans who can explain why all the upcoming games are listed as “No Reserved Parking” on ParkWhiz? I don’t remember this being the case last fall around this time, but I don’t go to that many games.

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  On the one hand: Literally every day something occurs to remind me how grateful I am that I didn't wind up with a career in Academia. OTOH: I've lost track of whose money is being spent by OpenAI on compute, but one thing I know is that it's not *their* money. RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/117237491740898173

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  You don't have to buy new music on #BandcampFriday -- today, for example, I bought a few classic Antietam albums: https://antietamnyc.bandcamp.com/

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  I can’t believe I watched Audition last night and then picked Hereditary tonight and DID NOT REMEMBER the little thing they had in common until it was happening.

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  Latino Credit Union Fairy Ring

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  I just watched it and the only part I liked was the 2 seconds in which I thought Callum Turner was Josh O’Connor. RE: https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/i09-ifm0rl1hz/-/a-iZlRYl4gSeGDpGUdG7nDfQ%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0

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  Me, pointing at the screen at 0:16: “there’s the tubular bells!” https://youtu.be/JEquvyaBCLI

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  Zero seconds after seeing these photos (of an album I think I haven’t heard in 30+ years), I said, loudly, “I love my baby cause she does good sculpture, yeah” This is what a good 90% of my brain cells are tied up with. RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116955685384189569

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  YouTube served me one of this guy’s videos literally yesterday and I had no idea of the tragic backstory til just now. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/one-mans-quest-to-fix-every-deadly-guardrail

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  The Clash eternally embarrassed about naming an album Sandinista! https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ortega-says-nicaragua-will-no-longer-hold-elections-2026-07-20/

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  Fuck literally every single person working in this administration. “Gonzales was a private with the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany. She graduated last year from Hebron High School in Carrollton, near Dallas, school officials said.” She died in Jordan. She was a literal teenager.

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  The Atlantic goes long — delightfully, pettily long — on Pete Hegseth’s shitty workout form. RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116952226394041901

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  An hour of Carcass at Hellfest 2026, pro-shot/mixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4cTasxoH8U

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  Few movie scenes make me more uncomfortable (consistently, every time) than this one, from the documentary X: The Unheard Music Here's one of my favorite songs OF ALL TIME and then, there it is, the ghoulish spectre, talent vampire Ray Manzarek, fist-pumping in the control room. (Manzarek produced the first four X albums, some of my favorite records ever, so you'd think I'd feel more kindly towards him . . . but . . . The Doors. 'nuff said.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em...

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  I keep thinking riffs on “this is the future Libertarians want” — people who would prefer not to shit themselves to death can simply individually replicate the apparatus of a functioning state? RE: https://beige.party/@TheJen/116946737198019612

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  First single from the upcoming Jake Xerxes Fussell album, and of course it's lovely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qnfuqEX0QE

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  When I was in high school, PBS broadcast Sherman’s March, the Ross McIlwee documentary. It blew my mind. Somehow, mysteriously, the local PBS affiliate had an equipment room in our high school (???), and the next day I found someone to run me off a VHS dub of the movie. People always talk about life-changing moments, but for real, it’s kind of amazing that I can pin this one down. RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116908932670981829

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  Statistically speaking, no matter which short illness killed Lindsey Graham, odds are overwhelmingly good that RFK Jr made it worse.

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  I would believe that #KiCAD has a perfectly rational way of doing things, and I just need to learn what that is, were it not for the objectively asinine way it handles board outlines, a thing that literally every PCB requires.

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  I have my issues with the Bull City reddit, but they came through with flying colors on this one. https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/1usbk7z/sneak_preview_red_phone_booth_durham/

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  FAETOOTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMQa5zwAoQ

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  Shout out to the rich asshole owner of the Carolina Hurricanes for giving me one more reason to cite when ppl ask me why I’m not a Canes fan. https://youtu.be/16dVEUL1EaM

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  Good article, worth reading. Don’t let this tragically funny, apparently sincere opening sentence put you off: “Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent.” RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116886597410249619

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  This drink, from _beta cocktails_ by Kirk Estopinal and Maksym Pazuniak, is every bit as delicious and easy drinking as you’d expect it to be. Even if you don’t have raspberries (which I do not). Easy Does It 1 oz Plymouth Gin 1/2 oz Aperol 1/4 oz Campari 1 oz grapefruit juice 1/2 oz simple syrup (1:1) 3 raspberries Shakes and strain over a rock. Garnish with 3 raspberries on a skewer. Source: Toby Maloney

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  It's amazing how Sinead O'Connor could transform an objectively terrible idea -- Roger Waters + The Band + The Hooters performing "Mother" -- into something beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rNEeGQJas

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  My spouse is *very* happy that Alex Ovechkin will be back for one more year. I have mixed feelings — the whole chase for the Gretzky record was a huge distraction, and now this year is gonna make Fleury’s farewell tour look like an office birthday party. OTOH, I think the trades and UFA signings are gonna make the 26-27 Caps an interesting (and fun) team to watch. So: we’ll see. I still wouldn’t bet on them to make it past the 2nd round of the playoffs, tho. #NHL #Hockey

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  YES I have been watching all of the video from the #Rush tour with Anika Nilles on drums and YES I just bought a ticket for one of the Charlotte shows. Last time I saw Rush in Charlotte was probably . . . 1984?

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  YESSSSSSS new Wednesday set on KEXP!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZTeelebpPI

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  Had it been sucked into an engine, the experience would have been somewhat spicier. RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/new-york-bat3un55z/-/a-eZlSzaWbTDadHoZEOgWT-w%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0