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· Oct 11
Kids Popcorn Podcast
Conversations with interesting people about the kids' movies that matter to them
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Excited to announce I'm starting the Kids Popcorn Podcast, where interesting people talk about movies they watched as kids, and kids movies they find interesting as adults. The first season will launch soon, and I think you'll love these conversations. Subscription links are on popcorn.29sunset.com!
I vaguely remember being gobsmacked by how thick the Madden 94 booklet was. It felt like a damn homework assignment to read the whole thing, and IIRC it had a foldout poster with all the player ratings because they didn't display ratings within the game.
I'm older than you so I can confirm that they came with a little book that had the tutorial in it and you read it on the way home
February 17, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I vaguely remember being gobsmacked by how thick the Madden 94 booklet was. It felt like a damn homework assignment to read the whole thing, and IIRC it had a foldout poster with all the player ratings because they didn't display ratings within the game.
Don't watch a ton of football anymore, but from a purely conceptual level, it would be WAY better to do away with kickoffs entirely and just give the scoring team a 4th and 18 from their own 32. Wanna go for it? Run a play! Wanna kick the ball away? Punt! Wanna trick the other team? Fake punt!
Fourth-and-13 alternative for onside kick will be discussed again this offseason
The new kickoff formation has made it even harder to recover onside kicks.
sports.yahoo.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Don't watch a ton of football anymore, but from a purely conceptual level, it would be WAY better to do away with kickoffs entirely and just give the scoring team a 4th and 18 from their own 32. Wanna go for it? Run a play! Wanna kick the ball away? Punt! Wanna trick the other team? Fake punt!
I don't have a good answer because "guaranteed contracts or you don't have a deal" a la world soccer has its own set of problems, especially if American players are still subject to a draft. But the status quo is horrendous.
This is the worst thing happening in baseball. It is happening all the time and nearly every team is doing it. And a lot of prospect media is complicit.
February 17, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I don't have a good answer because "guaranteed contracts or you don't have a deal" a la world soccer has its own set of problems, especially if American players are still subject to a draft. But the status quo is horrendous.
WHOA
February 17, 2026 at 2:26 PM
WHOA
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AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM
AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
This Brentford-Macclesfield game is terrifying as a Bees fan because, as the announcers have picked up on, they're playing on an artificial surface that looks equivalent quality to a random American high school's.
February 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
This Brentford-Macclesfield game is terrifying as a Bees fan because, as the announcers have picked up on, they're playing on an artificial surface that looks equivalent quality to a random American high school's.
TIL that in 2003, Wayne Franklin made 34 starts for the Milwaukee Brewers, gave up 36 HR and 119 R with a 116/94 K/BB, and yet even after all that, the ostensibly competitive San Francisco Giants brought him in as a reliever and gave him 43 awful appearances in 2004.
www.baseball-reference.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
TIL that in 2003, Wayne Franklin made 34 starts for the Milwaukee Brewers, gave up 36 HR and 119 R with a 116/94 K/BB, and yet even after all that, the ostensibly competitive San Francisco Giants brought him in as a reliever and gave him 43 awful appearances in 2004.
This is exactly like the people who say "being good at drawing is outside the reach of the working class". It conflates access to expensive resources for artistic skill at the same time it breezes right by how you can record and publish songs with built in mics and software on just about any laptop.
What do we think about the assertion in this meme? I know, we think it's asinine, but I'm looking for specific arguments as to why it's asinine.
February 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
This is exactly like the people who say "being good at drawing is outside the reach of the working class". It conflates access to expensive resources for artistic skill at the same time it breezes right by how you can record and publish songs with built in mics and software on just about any laptop.
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That’s Dan❤️🩹🦅
Top right corner. Can't help but wonder if The Simpsons paid subtle tribute to Dan McQuade in tonight's set-in-Philadelphia 800th episode.
February 16, 2026 at 1:55 AM
That’s Dan❤️🩹🦅
Thanks to @battingaround.bsky.social doing an episode about it, last night I watched the Wachowskys' "Bound" (1996) for the first time and let me tell you: this film has the top two all time sexiest scenes in which a woman's doing plumbing work, and they're probably the 15-16th coolest things in it.
February 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Thanks to @battingaround.bsky.social doing an episode about it, last night I watched the Wachowskys' "Bound" (1996) for the first time and let me tell you: this film has the top two all time sexiest scenes in which a woman's doing plumbing work, and they're probably the 15-16th coolest things in it.
This piece demonstrates that its writer doesn't value writing. He genuinely seems to think that writing is a fungible skill and not, itself, part of the reporting process, that the act of writing news might help a reporter better understand their beat.
Look at this shit!
Look at this shit!
February 16, 2026 at 3:56 AM
This piece demonstrates that its writer doesn't value writing. He genuinely seems to think that writing is a fungible skill and not, itself, part of the reporting process, that the act of writing news might help a reporter better understand their beat.
Look at this shit!
Look at this shit!
Lol KAT with a defensive lapse got Vic so mad
February 15, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Lol KAT with a defensive lapse got Vic so mad
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I read the knowyourmeme page about the ASU frat leader and the entire time, I just kept thinking about how we could gather any number of looksmaxxing influencer bros and they'd get absolutely walloped by the best team in my weekly men's softball league.
February 14, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I read the knowyourmeme page about the ASU frat leader and the entire time, I just kept thinking about how we could gather any number of looksmaxxing influencer bros and they'd get absolutely walloped by the best team in my weekly men's softball league.
Annual reminder that Lent need not be about deprivation, but about thoughtfulness. Is there something in my life that I'm doing thoughtlessly, and I can take this opportunity to reevaluate my relationship with it?
As a practicing Roman Catholic, I appreciate the friend who works at a Catholic school and preaches Lent is less about deprivation, more about making time/space for what matters. EG: She asks kids if they can switch from disposable bottles to one reusable bottle, and can they keep it up after Lent?
Wisdom from the Bad Place:
February 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Annual reminder that Lent need not be about deprivation, but about thoughtfulness. Is there something in my life that I'm doing thoughtlessly, and I can take this opportunity to reevaluate my relationship with it?
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Think about how when Newsome says homelessness is a problem, what he means is that it is a visible problem.
He sweeps the camps, throwing out people's meds and documents, forcing them to go be homeless elsewhere, less visibly.
Same with Obama, Biden, and Kamala bragging about deportations.
He sweeps the camps, throwing out people's meds and documents, forcing them to go be homeless elsewhere, less visibly.
Same with Obama, Biden, and Kamala bragging about deportations.
February 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Think about how when Newsome says homelessness is a problem, what he means is that it is a visible problem.
He sweeps the camps, throwing out people's meds and documents, forcing them to go be homeless elsewhere, less visibly.
Same with Obama, Biden, and Kamala bragging about deportations.
He sweeps the camps, throwing out people's meds and documents, forcing them to go be homeless elsewhere, less visibly.
Same with Obama, Biden, and Kamala bragging about deportations.
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American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
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I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.
You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.
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But I didn’t think the bullshit machine would ever bullshit *me*
February 15, 2026 at 12:34 AM
But I didn’t think the bullshit machine would ever bullshit *me*
San Francisco teachers appear to have bodied management and won major upgrades for their new contract. What's not explicit in this piece that otherwise sounds right to me is that the major obstacles SFUSD faces — that our city faces — are downstream of housing.
Build more housing. A lot more.
Build more housing. A lot more.
SFUSD fumbled the teachers strike
The district’s write-the-term-paper-in-the-hallway strategy put it on the back foot from the get-go in this week's walkout
missionlocal.org
February 14, 2026 at 10:24 PM
San Francisco teachers appear to have bodied management and won major upgrades for their new contract. What's not explicit in this piece that otherwise sounds right to me is that the major obstacles SFUSD faces — that our city faces — are downstream of housing.
Build more housing. A lot more.
Build more housing. A lot more.
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Figure skater after falling in most important moment of career: despondent, miserable, suffering
Freestyle skier after falling in most important moment of career: THAT’S OKAY DUDES WOOOOOOOOOOO
Freestyle skier after falling in most important moment of career: THAT’S OKAY DUDES WOOOOOOOOOOO
February 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Figure skater after falling in most important moment of career: despondent, miserable, suffering
Freestyle skier after falling in most important moment of career: THAT’S OKAY DUDES WOOOOOOOOOOO
Freestyle skier after falling in most important moment of career: THAT’S OKAY DUDES WOOOOOOOOOOO
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straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
I forget which year it was, but I have a strong memory of Bill Walton lambasting one of the Celebrity All Star teams for lackadaisical transition defense.
Tacko Fall paid tribute to Richard Jefferson in the All-Star Celebrity Game by playing way too hard against a team of actors, musicians, influencers, and extremely short NBA news breakers.
February 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I forget which year it was, but I have a strong memory of Bill Walton lambasting one of the Celebrity All Star teams for lackadaisical transition defense.
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I read the knowyourmeme page about the ASU frat leader and the entire time, I just kept thinking about how we could gather any number of looksmaxxing influencer bros and they'd get absolutely walloped by the best team in my weekly men's softball league.
February 14, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I read the knowyourmeme page about the ASU frat leader and the entire time, I just kept thinking about how we could gather any number of looksmaxxing influencer bros and they'd get absolutely walloped by the best team in my weekly men's softball league.