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flannerydean.bsky.social
Old enough to remember weekly entertainment tonight interviews with Hugh Hefner in his filthy PJs — the good old days these dbags long for
February 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social
McCarthy was brought down by the mainstream media telling the truth.

Those were the good old days.
February 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
eldercleavage.bsky.social
Just like in the good old days:
two women are working in a kitchen with a sign above them that says kitchen
Alt: Lucy, Ethel, classic conveyor belt sketch, I love Lucy.
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
ferst60.bsky.social
I miss the good old days of sane Presidents
February 9, 2026 at 2:37 PM
bluevirginia.bsky.social
Fmr. VA LG Bill Bolling (R/3x Trump voter): "For the life of me I cannot understand why the NFL would sponsor a halftime show...mostly in Spanish. This is the [USA], where we speak English! Honestly, I’d just prefer a good old fashioned marching band!" bluevirginia.us/2026/02/mond...
Angry conservative white guy fmr. VA LG Bill Bolling (R/3x Trump voter) "Well, I watched a bit of both halftime shows - NFL and Turning Point. I must admit that neither one did much for me, but at least I could understand the Turning Point one, and I did enjoy Lee Brice’s It Aint Easy Being Country In This Country Now Days! For the life of me I cannot understand why the NFL would sponsor a halftime show that was mostly in Spanish. This is the United States of America, where we speak English! Honestly, I’d just prefer a good old fashioned marching band! Maybe “Virginia’s Finest,” The Marching Royal Dukes from JMU; or The Marching Virginians from Virginia Tech. I know, I know, I’m just old, grumpy, and obviously out of touch!"
February 9, 2026 at 2:36 PM
brezwrites.bsky.social
Publicity photo from the good old days.

Nothing says "We're scary guys" like a little demon goat on his hind legs, a two-headed calf (one of which is wearing a crown) and a wolf who's clearly singing his heart out.
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
llamos.bsky.social
I remember that the Department of Justice was tasked with preventing voter interference. Those were the good old days
February 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
bust3d00.bsky.social
Currently listening to danny Kelly whining on and on about the good old days when you could kick lumps out of players and var couldn't intervene.. for the billionth time
used to like him

Now he's a fucking old bore
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
josie.zone
Seriously, this article is like 25% of the reason I decided to become a professional writer

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island in Tahiti. He gets by with a little help from his friends. Brando seems to genuinely like Michael Jackson. They have been friends since the mid-ig8os, and Brando's son Miko is actually on Jackson's payroll; he "handles" things, Miko once told me. It was Miko who put out Jackson's hair when it caught fire, during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in January 1984. Still, when he was asked to introduce Jackson at the pop star's thirtieth-anniversary tribute in September, Brando didn't do it for free. It was on this night that Brando took to the stage and launched into a fairly mystifying speech about tortured children: "That's what this evening is about." He looked at his watch and continued. "I took one whole minute because I wanted to realize that in that minute, there were hundreds if not thousands of children who were hacked to death with a machete." Boos came soon afterward, but so did a check from Jackson, who had flown Brando and three of his guests to New York. When Brando asked me in his hotel room after the tribute what I thought of Jackson, I said (without knowing they were friends), "I think he's talented, but so what? He's just doing an impression of himself from 1983." Brando replied diplomatically, "Well, he does work hard." He also joked about how easy it would be to avoid a second-night encore by heating up a thermometer. When he was considering doing Lying for a Living, Brando was often seen walking around the house with a calculator - in this house, there's seemingly always one within reach - punching numbers compulsively and muttering about "billions." His plan was to film all the classes and sell the tapes through his Web site, the currently dark mar-lonbrando.com. Brando says he is bankrolling the project himself. Why he needs money can only be conjectured. He may still be paying off monumental legal bills that accrued after his son Christian in 1990 killed a man named Dag Drollet, the boyfriend of Marlon's daughter Cheyenne. But profits as… Method actors like to imagine their character's motives when they're get- time, he asks a very beautiful female student, a competitive runner and mod- ting revved up for a role. Brando seems to borrow heavily from his studies with el despite having lost her legs, to come to the front of the class and tell her sto- the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler by encouraging his students to "build a ry of healing and accomplishment. The surreal high point of her story comes life" for their characters and to always think about everything their character when she says she realized that she could run faster if she fashioned her does - even down to "whether you like prosthetic limbs after those of a cheetah. sex and in what way you like it." Many of the tapes reveal a Brando Perhaps it wouldn't seem so weird if Brando weren't sitting behind her on who is extremely sensitive and sup- his throne looking totally poker-faced, portive of his students. His trademark comment after most scenes is "Good. like the facilitator at an AA meeting. (The scene is weirder still since the tes- Damn good." timonial seems so random and unrelat- Philippe Petit, who tightroped be- ed. After she tells her story and is re- I MET BRANDO when I was thirteen. "I'm not sure, but my gut feeling is that you're a ho-mosexual," he said. "Am I right?" tween the World Trade Center towers in turning to her chair, Brando chimes in, 1974, gave up a job and came to L.A. with no money just to attend the classes. "I "And she looks pretty good going could talk for hours about the richness of away." The room erupts with laughter. Marlon and his workshop," Petit told Occasionally the tapes reveal a codger's unwitting political incorrect- me. "At some point he said, 'Give me the ness - ironic for a man once known as a respect of stillness, because people were staunch activist for Native Americans crouching their heads and moving their and other causes. Brando says to me feet too much. He's an incredibly talent- that h… HE IS IN a grouchy mood. "Who wants to see a fat eighty-year-old man pontificate?" he says. never thought of these people as being small. They disallowed you to think in project's director. And he apparently act- of Kaye's. One of them, a Perry Farrell terms of clichés." ed in good faith. In one class, he says he About half the class is black, which is "looked forward to a very long and in- look-alike, sticks up for Kaye, saying that by telling the actors they are boring volved course of action" with Kaye. Kaye is "getting it to an organic place." relevant only because of what happens "Can I ask on day four, when Brando declares as the It lasted three days. On the first day of class, Kaye shows Suddenly Brando says, improv du jour that all the white students up as Osama bin Laden, which, he re- how you happen to be here?" will act black and all the black students portedly explained to a friend, was "I was invited by Tony," the young man responds. will act white. As deliberately provocative as that sounds, the results are actual- meant as "a performance-art piece" "Well, I disinvite you." Kaye - and his meant to teach people "not to be fright- ly interesting: The white men portray entourage - follow the man out the door ened of terrorism." (on Voight says he black men as angry, and the black men found no humor or purpose in the out- in a show of thespian solidarity. Later, at a restaurant where the group has re- portray whites as petty and wimpy. Though Brando calls in sick the day I fit, confessing on tape that it makes him uncomfortable.) paired for lunch in self-imposed exile, Kaye says, "Marlon Brando should be arrive, there is one final class planned at Jackson's Neverland Val- with the Taliban. I think he'd be very comfortable in that world, with a hun- ley Ranch, where the guest list is to include Elizabeth Taylor, Drew dred wives, 14,000 children, no music, Barrymore and Jackson himself. and no one's allowed to speak." Brando told me he also called Bill Two w… MARLON BRANDO [Cont. from 68] shelf sits a video col-lection, unwrapped and dusty, from financial guru Suze Orman: The Power to Attract Money. Once Brando is preoccupied with his tapes, I decide it is a good time to steal away and finally complete my call to New York. When I hang up, the phone beeps from the other room and Bran-do's voice comes over the intercom: "It's Marlon." He coughs hard. I asked him earlier whether I could attend his final class at Neverland. He is calling to tell me I can't go, even though he'd already said I could. There's no use asking him why, but I can't help it. "No," he replies curtly. The conversation wanders to the subject of acting. I suggest that ego is what drives many actors to plod on in the face of the odds. "Acting is the dumbest profession in the world." Brando replies. "Fact: One percent of actors make a living. And it is not constant. They make a living for a given amount of time." "Then why do it?" I ask. "Uh, I don't know. Why do you want to be a writer?" He puts on a stodgy, bureaucratic voice: " "Uh, Jod, we are representatives for the Pulitzer board, and we'd like to present you with this award for your work.' You wouldn't say, 'Well, get the fuck outta here?'" Then, stupidly, I challenge him, pointing out that he himself once famously walked away from an award: In 1973, Brando sent an Apache woman named Sacheen Littlefeather - a.k.a. actress Maria Cruz, a former Miss American Vampire - to the Oscars, to turn down Brando's Best Actor statuette for The Godfather. There is an uncomfortable silence. I can't take it. "Well, I think if I won I'd at least get a date," I say, and he laughs. Brando's laugh is contagious. It's bronchial and mulelike, and it slowly gathers momen-tum. "That's why we do anything," I add, projecting my neurosis. "No, it isn't. That's why you do ev-erything. How old are you now?" "I'm thirty-two." "OK. When you're sixty-two, you're not gonna care." I ask what it is he wants me to write about, since I…
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM
snarky1.bsky.social
Ah ... the good old days.
ashlieweeks.bsky.social Ashlie Weeks, Esq. @ashlieweeks.bsky.social · 1d
Remember when we thought Sarah Palin was the dumbest person in politics

Good times.
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 PM
chrisfell.bsky.social
Beware of bringing down a Labour government over indirect links to Epstein. You will enable a Reform administration that will make Truss’s disastrous few days in power seem like the good old days. Farridge is a racist misogynistic sociopathic grifter, IMHO.
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
jimhasfun.wnyrpg.com
Those were the good old days, when people would dress up to do battle with the evil hand from the world of darkness.
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
usmansmith.bsky.social
CONQUEST grumbled
"Fed up, one of the four horsemen & I get nothing after you lot"
WAR tutted
"It's this brave new world, bomb, maim, kill, starve but they don't have the stamina to invade & conquer"
CONQUEST grunted
"I miss the good old days, Europe was my playground"
DEATH smiled
"Trust in Putin"
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
eddiejc1.bsky.social
The good old' days---when the USA and NATO were partners and allies!
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
mathawthorn.bsky.social
I remember the good old days when a cars inevitable fate was burnt out on wasteland
February 9, 2026 at 12:51 PM
agrippa7.bsky.social
Violence erupts in Sydney because a cop gets embarrassed falling off his bicycle.
Ah I remember the good old days when mounted police would wade in with truncheons flailing like they were charging the guns at Beersheba. I’m loving the 1980s moustache trend. Very Magnum PI/ Lillee/ Marsh/Chapelli
February 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM
metalhydra273.bsky.social
Happy #MetlMonday!
PC issue seems resolved, which means it’s back to business like the good old days. This is gonna be a week of League to add a bit of extra ranked catch up and re-acclimation to high level play.
Next week is the birthday week 🤔
February 9, 2026 at 12:41 PM
debgoldendc.bsky.social
Remember the good old days of classic rock when everyone could understand the lyrics?

youtu.be/xKt75jUuKJY?...
Louie Louie
YouTube video by The Kingsmen - Topic
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February 9, 2026 at 12:40 PM
katrinanavickas.bsky.social
In the queue at the central post office which is very run down. It is or is not moving to the fake WH Smiths. Ladies of a certain age have struck up a conversation in the queue about the good old days of Grants department store when Croydon still had some class.
February 9, 2026 at 12:40 PM
propublica.org
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
ryangermann.bsky.social
When public ostricization still worked... those were the good old days.
February 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
propublica.org
2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”

From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days
The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.” The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
ladyinred50.bsky.social
Those were the good old days when you could go into a pharmacist shop and buy cocaine over the counter
February 9, 2026 at 11:51 AM
fredcritter.bsky.social
Ahhh, the good old days. ❤️
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM
lilypheria.bsky.social
It's so fucking laggy and messy these days. I miss the good old days of tumblr
February 9, 2026 at 10:48 AM