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Cyborg in the Donna Haraway sense. Journalist by education. https://aaron.wrotkowski.ca https://www.grappro.com Search The Sweatdown on Spotify

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · Mar 10

Welcome to Bluesky. Here is your copy of the Communist Manifesto and a season pass to AEW Dynamite for some reason.

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 5h

I meant everyone's standard time I'M GOING TO SLEEP

Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 5h

I could beat him in baseball any day

Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 5h

EST stands for Everyone's Time Zone

Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 8h

Oh I definitely expect them to do something to allow the White House around block lists. But there isn't anyone right now throwing a fit. People just saw the dumb shit, blocked it, and walked away.

Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 8h

It's hilarious that over on Twitter there's a bunch of conservatives thinking Bluesky users are freaking out about them here and instead Bluesky users just passed around blocking lists and don't care.

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 8h

You questioned the existence of Lou Thesz on the Wrestling Classics message board and asked where it was when absolutely everyone who went to the classics board in the 90s/00s knew about the Lou Thesz forum. Maybe you didn't intend to, but you acted very much like a bad faith reply.

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 11h

I'm always jealous how you get new years first

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 11h

Samoa Joe has tapped Hangman Adam Page out. It wasn't the Page we see today as world champion, but it doesn't matter. He's done it before. He can do it again.

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#AEWWrestleDream Samoa Joe vs Hangman Page

Hangman Adam Page looks to defend the AEW Men's World Championship against Samoa Joe at WrestleDream 2025.

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 11h

You expect me to believe that these are real time zones? Mountain time? What, does every mountain have its own time zone? Davis Time? One guy named Davis has his own time? You're trying to convince me Greenwich Mean Time is real? One shitty town in Connecticut gets its own timezone? Pishaw!

Big Tom Tom @tombomb0.bsky.social · 17h

It'll be a cold day in hell before anybody from the east coast acknowledges the validity of other time zones

deez driven design @thehippo.dev · 17h

I appreciate that Hangman has done so much work to call it the “AEW Men’s World Championship” to put it on the same level as the Women’s championship

But then also turns around and is like “fuck you it’s EST and Other”

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 12h

"They deserve to live to see me live up to my potential."

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The Good, The Bad and The Hangman | AEW Stories

YouTube video by All Elite Wrestling

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 14h

Large Bean strikes again!!!

Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 17h

One on One.

Timeless Toni Storm tries to get her AEW Women's World Championship back against Kris Statlander.

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#AEWWrestleDream Timeless Toni Storm vs Kris Statlander

Timeless Toni Storm gets her rematch and faces Kris Statlander one on one for the AEW Women's World Championship at WrestleDream 2025.

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 18h

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 18h

I'll tag @edzitron.com in this again but in the replies just because I think he'd have a chuckle about it.

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 18h

This appears to be legitimate so I'll repost it.

WWE is now using AI storytelling and will use it more and more now that Paul Levesque is neglecting his duties to try to get into politics.

So far the best it has come up with is Bobby Lashley (now in AEW) becoming Tensai.

WWE has a contract with Writer AI, a platform which has already been fed WWE content.

Cyrus Kowsari was hired last month as the new Senior Director of Creative Strategy. He had previously been a Producer for Buzzfeed from 2016 to 2022 and for ONE, the MMA company, from 2022 until last month. He was introduced to the creative staff by Paul Levesque.

In introducing him, Levesque said that Kowsari would lead WWE’s transition to AI based story telling and integrate AI into creative services like video and graphics. He said that this shift is inevitable when it comes to creative in pro wrestling.

Kowsari said he would both manage AI storytelling and be a liaison to the White House as Levesque is taking on more duties in politics in some form.

Thus far the AI software has come up with what one person with knowledge of the situation called absurdly bad storylines. They pitched a storyline where Bobby Lashley, who the AI thought was still with the company, could come back as a wrestler who was obsessed with Japanese culture and history.

The feeling is once bugs are worked out that AI will begin to have major impact on storyline direction.

Another promotion previously tested out AI for creative help and suggestions and found it couldn’t understand pro wrestling and storylines.

- WON

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 19h

Can someone who still subscribes to Wrestling Observer confirm if the AI Cyrus Kowsari story was in it?

Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 19h

TLDR never be rude to waitstaff even if they are rude to you. You'll get further being polite in the ways they should have been and reporting their behaviour straight to the manager.

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 19h

The first question a manager will ask is if the customer was a prick. I was nice to my waitress, I was nice to the other staff, and I didn't make a scene. So everything I told them was taken serious. They even told me on the phone (probably shouldn't have) it wasn't their first write up for them.

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 19h

The last time I had a bad experience at a restaurant I never argued, finished my meal, tipped, and when I was walking out I went to the front server and asked them to leave a message for the manager I would like to be contacted about my experience. Treating everyone well is why I got a call back.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

You should sever any relationship, including a close friendship, with someone who is rude to waitstaff.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

You should sever any relationship, including a close friendship, with someone who is rude to waitstaff.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 20h

HOLY SHIT Alexisonfire covered Misogyny by Rusty.

Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 1d

What's the point of playing the rest of the games? Just call it for the Cup final. Best of seven now. Let's go

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 1d

Hell yeah

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Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 1d

My favourite thing of all is that there's so many loose threads for episode 7 so even with this episode being such an incredible high I'm still looking forward to how everything gets tied up. They gotta know Dorsey is involved too now. They saw his name on the 2021 investigation.

Aaron - GrapPro.com @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 1d

I had to flip back to episode 5 because I was convinced he turned down Shelley on the offer to sell the fentanyl. He never says no. It just feels like a no when she says she's a good person.

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