John
@epouvantail.bsky.social
Baseball, football, cricket, hoops, music, films and books. #cufc #redsox #baskonia #mcrbball
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Not to get all winsome and nostalgic as an aging millennial but no Ashes opening will ever top Harmy’s wide.
Stayed up with a mate and we both just fell about laughing. Iconic.
Stayed up with a mate and we both just fell about laughing. Iconic.
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Not to get all winsome and nostalgic as an aging millennial but no Ashes opening will ever top Harmy’s wide.
Stayed up with a mate and we both just fell about laughing. Iconic.
Stayed up with a mate and we both just fell about laughing. Iconic.
Made the point earlier that Mani played on two all time great records by two different bands - The Stone Roses and Xtrmntr by Primal Scream.
Just clocked that Kevin Shields and Bobby Gillespie managed the same with that second album.
Pretty mad.
Just clocked that Kevin Shields and Bobby Gillespie managed the same with that second album.
Pretty mad.
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Made the point earlier that Mani played on two all time great records by two different bands - The Stone Roses and Xtrmntr by Primal Scream.
Just clocked that Kevin Shields and Bobby Gillespie managed the same with that second album.
Pretty mad.
Just clocked that Kevin Shields and Bobby Gillespie managed the same with that second album.
Pretty mad.
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Important educational content
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Important educational content
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Sleeping Shepherd, by Titian, 1500–10
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sleeping Shepherd, by Titian, 1500–10
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you're wrapping up your meet-and-greet with Pope Leo XIV. as you shake his hand for the photo op, you surprise him with a Birminghamton Rumble Ponies Spicy Meatballs On-Field Cap. His Holiness accepts with grace, but you are struck with a bone-deep revelation he just asked God to send you to Hell
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
you're wrapping up your meet-and-greet with Pope Leo XIV. as you shake his hand for the photo op, you surprise him with a Birminghamton Rumble Ponies Spicy Meatballs On-Field Cap. His Holiness accepts with grace, but you are struck with a bone-deep revelation he just asked God to send you to Hell
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AMERICA, I'm going to bed now. If you're doing baseball again tonight, can you please have it done by the time I wake up, the other morning was weird, cheers x
October 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
AMERICA, I'm going to bed now. If you're doing baseball again tonight, can you please have it done by the time I wake up, the other morning was weird, cheers x
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All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!
ROOFMAN - Hell of a fun time.
Channing Tatum is amazing and should be in everything. Kirsten Dunst magical as his foil.
Top, top film.
Channing Tatum is amazing and should be in everything. Kirsten Dunst magical as his foil.
Top, top film.
October 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
ROOFMAN - Hell of a fun time.
Channing Tatum is amazing and should be in everything. Kirsten Dunst magical as his foil.
Top, top film.
Channing Tatum is amazing and should be in everything. Kirsten Dunst magical as his foil.
Top, top film.
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Welcome to Dorktown
Mayor, Shohei Ohtani
Mayor, Shohei Ohtani
October 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Welcome to Dorktown
Mayor, Shohei Ohtani
Mayor, Shohei Ohtani
The GOAT.
Just absolutely ridiculous.
Just absolutely ridiculous.
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The GOAT.
Just absolutely ridiculous.
Just absolutely ridiculous.
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Living in UK has aspects that are way better than US (NHS, no guns) but on the flip side you can’t watch October baseball live and the sun sets at 2:30 in the afternoon in the winter.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Living in UK has aspects that are way better than US (NHS, no guns) but on the flip side you can’t watch October baseball live and the sun sets at 2:30 in the afternoon in the winter.
Laughed at him the whole way through. Absolute hoot. #CelebrityTraitors
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Laughed at him the whole way through. Absolute hoot. #CelebrityTraitors
Loved this piece on the enduring, singular brilliance of Rachel's from Alex Deller.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world
The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Loved this piece on the enduring, singular brilliance of Rachel's from Alex Deller.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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Baseball is the best because a guy who looks like this and wears this kinda tee can be the best player in the American League.
September 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Baseball is the best because a guy who looks like this and wears this kinda tee can be the best player in the American League.
More colored liquid
No scent, no skin
More stained paper
More parts per million
Just an absolutely brilliant song.
No scent, no skin
More stained paper
More parts per million
Just an absolutely brilliant song.
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
More colored liquid
No scent, no skin
More stained paper
More parts per million
Just an absolutely brilliant song.
No scent, no skin
More stained paper
More parts per million
Just an absolutely brilliant song.
Our method:
1. Put cat bed in corner to be ignored for a year.
2. Live through global pandemic requiring home working.
3. Reluctantly install desk in said corner after 6 months of procrastinating.
4. Marvel as said bed and corner instantly become desirable territory.
5. Have feet scratched lots
1. Put cat bed in corner to be ignored for a year.
2. Live through global pandemic requiring home working.
3. Reluctantly install desk in said corner after 6 months of procrastinating.
4. Marvel as said bed and corner instantly become desirable territory.
5. Have feet scratched lots
If you would like your cat to actually use the fancy designer cat bed you foolishly bought for him, I am pleased to confirm the trick is just to wait for slightly more than five years after buying it, when it will suddenly start being considered for use.
September 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Our method:
1. Put cat bed in corner to be ignored for a year.
2. Live through global pandemic requiring home working.
3. Reluctantly install desk in said corner after 6 months of procrastinating.
4. Marvel as said bed and corner instantly become desirable territory.
5. Have feet scratched lots
1. Put cat bed in corner to be ignored for a year.
2. Live through global pandemic requiring home working.
3. Reluctantly install desk in said corner after 6 months of procrastinating.
4. Marvel as said bed and corner instantly become desirable territory.
5. Have feet scratched lots
One of the great acting performance of all time IMO.
Two hours on screen alone, about four lines of dialogue.
Totally bleak and utterly riveting.
I think about it all the time, and it was my instant thought upon hearing yesterday's news.
What a final act.
Two hours on screen alone, about four lines of dialogue.
Totally bleak and utterly riveting.
I think about it all the time, and it was my instant thought upon hearing yesterday's news.
What a final act.
Highly recommend ALL IS LOST (2013) if you want to see old guy Robert Redford show he can still completely carry a movie
September 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
One of the great acting performance of all time IMO.
Two hours on screen alone, about four lines of dialogue.
Totally bleak and utterly riveting.
I think about it all the time, and it was my instant thought upon hearing yesterday's news.
What a final act.
Two hours on screen alone, about four lines of dialogue.
Totally bleak and utterly riveting.
I think about it all the time, and it was my instant thought upon hearing yesterday's news.
What a final act.
This is a picture of Uncle Computer from ‘The Bear’.
"I remember reading that and crying. That’s how immature I was."
Joe Buck was devastated by early criticism in his career: 'I cried'
Joe Buck knows his career benefitted from who his father was, but that same pedigree also created challenges for him as a young broadcaster.
dlvr.it
September 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is a picture of Uncle Computer from ‘The Bear’.
Hard to look past hardcore bands for me.
Greg Puciato, Keith Buckley, Jeremy Bolm, Brendan Garrone, George Clark all on my list.
Think Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe and Hayley Williams are all good shouts.
I think MMJ count, so Jim James is in. Guy Garvey from Elbow too, IMO.
Greg Puciato, Keith Buckley, Jeremy Bolm, Brendan Garrone, George Clark all on my list.
Think Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe and Hayley Williams are all good shouts.
I think MMJ count, so Jim James is in. Guy Garvey from Elbow too, IMO.
Who's the "best" frontman/frontwoman of any band that formed after the year 2000?
September 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hard to look past hardcore bands for me.
Greg Puciato, Keith Buckley, Jeremy Bolm, Brendan Garrone, George Clark all on my list.
Think Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe and Hayley Williams are all good shouts.
I think MMJ count, so Jim James is in. Guy Garvey from Elbow too, IMO.
Greg Puciato, Keith Buckley, Jeremy Bolm, Brendan Garrone, George Clark all on my list.
Think Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe and Hayley Williams are all good shouts.
I think MMJ count, so Jim James is in. Guy Garvey from Elbow too, IMO.
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🎶I'm sorry Nick Jackson (woo)
There is no deal
We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy
Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶
There is no deal
We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy
Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea inform Bayern Munich they will not be proceeding with proposed loan of Nicolas Jackson after injury to Liam Delap. 24yo striker travelled to Germany for #FCBayern move but #CFC requested Senegal int’l returns to London 🚨
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Chelsea inform Bayern Munich they will not proceed with Nicolas Jackson loan after Liam Delap injury
Delap sustained a hamstring injury during Saturday's victory over Fulham.
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🎶I'm sorry Nick Jackson (woo)
There is no deal
We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy
Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶
There is no deal
We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy
Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶
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Man United? The international T-shirt brand?
August 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Man United? The international T-shirt brand?