Everything posted by sasquatch69
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Christmas 2025
Had a pretty good little Christmas this year. Son is home from his first semester of college, so we’re navigating the dynamics there (he is struggling with it not feeling quite like home anymore, yet not feeling fully at home at school, so we’re trying to help him navigate that with love and grace). My dad is three years into a Parkinson’s diagnosis, and it’s manifesting not with physical issues like tremors, but with mental cloudiness and loss of language facility and processing (proving really difficult to accept for a guy who wrote and spoke publicly for a living). Still, we hosted everyone at our place yesterday for the first time in a while, which was nice, and did Christmas Eve church with my parents as well, which is not common and just felt right.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
SIAP, but this is infuriating (yet not surprising). GOP operatives falsely inflated pro-Crockett polling to stroke her ego into running, in order to weaken the overall D chances against whoever ends up the R nominee. https://www.notus.org/senate/jasmine-crockett-nrsc-texas-senate
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
Every year, I think all the folks watching this drivel will suddenly wake up, as if from a deep slumber, and get hit with the realization they've been duped for all these years. And every year, I am disappointed.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
Haven't seen this elsewhere yet, but Bloomberg rarely gets it wrong. I have a feeling the "routine training flight" mentioned above is related to this. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/us-seizes-oil-tanker-off-the-coast-of-venezuela?embedded-checkout=true
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Shit's Borked
The “a problem repeatedly occurred” crash is particularly bad this morning - happening while logged in on every thread. This is in iOS Safari.
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Trump’s America
From the WaPo story about this (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/building-gets-a-new-name-the-donald-j-trump-institute-of-peace/ ) So, yet again, it's all just window dressing on an empty shell.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
As a new Ark fan this year with a kid now going there, I am amazed at how many of their fans just expect the glory days to come roaring back. So many of them were begging the school to keep Petrino, whose overall record is spotty at best (and didn't win ONE SINGLE GAME after taking over as interim HC). I think Silverfield is a decent hire - as mentioned above, he seems to have a strong football mind and understand the new NIL/portal environment. But the SEC is consistently a meat grinder, so if he can't recruit quickly (and get the Waltons/Tysons/Hunts of NWA to pony up even more for NIL), don't expect much to change. Ark is in good shape in most other sports, and the AD Yurachek has been really vocal about needing to fix funding for football now, so we'll see.
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The Trump Economy
This quote is all you need to know:
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
This feels like dirty pool from Allred operatives. Or maybe just the usual GOP scumbags who feel threatened by a rising opponent.
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SEC Refs Suck
Speaking of crappy SEC officiating, the Razorbacks did themselves no favors yesterday with some bonehead plays, but they were in it the whole game - until the refs decided they shouldn’t be. 18 penalties for 193 yards vs. 4 penalties for 30 yards for Miss. State.
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Surly kids who can't get into UT
As a side note, I'm curious why UTD is not part of the UT system's CAP program.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
How is Bowie HS affected by all this?
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The destruction of America's public education system
Abbott, Morath and the Leg have made that very difficult. So the districts then turn to TREs and bonds, which then the GOP machinery goes into motion to fight. It's happening in several DFW-area districts right now for the upcoming election. Richardson ISD has never had a bond voted down in over half a century, but it may well happen this time.
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Fort Worth is exploding
Bo French is the worst person to come out of TarCo/FW in a long time, and that is quite a distinction given the competition from Tim O’Hare and some other real winners in past years.
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Fort Worth is exploding
I had the Wednesday special at the DT Dallas location about a month ago and it was the best meal I’ve had there in a long time.
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GoFundMe launches fundraising for 1.4m+ nonprofits without permission
GoFundMe scraped public IRS data to create donation pages for over 1.4m U.S. nonprofits - including their logos and options for ongoing monthly donations - without their consent. They stood to make millions off of platform fees until a couple folks noticed it and raised a stink. https://abc7news.com/post/gofundme-created-14-million-donation-pages-nonprofits-bay-area-organizations-had-no-clue/18013410/ They've now reversed course on the suggested 15-17% "platform tip" default - but otherwise acting like it's all just normal. https://thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles/breaking-gofundme-reversing-course-on-nonprofit-pages/
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2025 Celebrity Death Pool
Just coming here to say this. He's alive and well and seems to be doing fine - still married with kids, running a State Farm office, etc.
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A&M at Arkansas - ESPN
At the Ark-aggy game tonight and it was as good a game atmosphere as I’ve experienced. Shame the Hogs have no defense, as the offense kept them in it the whole way.
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RIP D'Angelo
Man, he was soooo smooth. I was a P1 of the Questlove Supreme podcast (also RIP), and he talked so frequently on there over the years about his time with D'Angelo and how formative those experiences were (especially making 'Voodoo'). This has got to hit him hard.
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Trump’s America
@dieworkwear is always a fun follow.
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2025 Random Games thread
Holy crap that call - and pass - and catch by McCallister!
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2025 Random Games thread
Just an aside, but hearing a couple Longhorn Band shorties from the TCU band in this game. Their new director came from the LHB, so that makes sense.
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2025 Random Games thread
Utter crap call against TCU, but then they recover a fumble after the punt and pick up right where they left off on offense.
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Texas -- a failed state
I am so, so, so utterly tired of this performative bullshit from our AG. And now that whole Turning Point media ecosystem is dogpiling TCU (and their obsession on X with this week's in-person Pride events honestly makes me worried for their safety a bit). https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2025-10-02/texas-ag-paxton-to-investigate-tcu-over-turning-point-event-school-says-was-not-booked
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
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