@oldcatcherp.bsky.social
Beer, sports, and the downfall of humanity
Grew up with big family Ham, turkey, and covered dish get together but more recently it's been smoked beef rib roast for our little unit.
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Grew up with big family Ham, turkey, and covered dish get together but more recently it's been smoked beef rib roast for our little unit.
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![Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicffnydtpbb2x24cfbblv2qtcwbr37zyw44vtqx47ocj2a26b2j2u@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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PEARL JAMBONI
Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam helped pay for the Two Harbors Youth Hockey Association’s new Zamboni.
What do you call an ice-resurfacing machine partly funded by a ’90s grunge band? A Pearl Jamboni, of course.
Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam helped pay for the Two Harbors Youth Hockey Association’s new Zamboni.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
PEARL JAMBONI
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In s not so stunning admission Secretary Duffy acknowledges he and the people he speaks for are colossal dicks to service staff and others in public spaces - asks his people to completely change their life.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air travelers to be nice this holiday season. A new DOT campaign asks passengers to help each other and thank flight attendants.
The U.S. Transportation Department is urging air passengers to be on good behavior
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air travelers to be nice this holiday season. A new DOT campaign asks passengers to help each other and thank flight attendants.
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In s not so stunning admission Secretary Duffy acknowledges he and the people he speaks for are colossal dicks to service staff and others in public spaces - asks his people to completely change their life.
Great read. Provides some guidance and perspective to the struggles I've felt as an instinctual and intellectual player trying to teach situational play to very young players.
"As much as we’d love to prepare them for every situation before they face it, that’s not how the game works. The only sustainable path is teaching them the patterns underneath the play."
open.substack.com/pub/jrod2003...
open.substack.com/pub/jrod2003...
The Play Isn’t the Point: Navigating 1,512 Game States
In baseball, situational play is too important to treat like a checklist.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Great read. Provides some guidance and perspective to the struggles I've felt as an instinctual and intellectual player trying to teach situational play to very young players.
And here I am using a glorified steel drum and partially burned wood to cook my food. Thank goodness the tech bro corporate overlords are here to save me (as long as I'm willing to pay the subscription and give up all my personal data) from such terrible things like this Christmas roast I cooked.
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
And here I am using a glorified steel drum and partially burned wood to cook my food. Thank goodness the tech bro corporate overlords are here to save me (as long as I'm willing to pay the subscription and give up all my personal data) from such terrible things like this Christmas roast I cooked.
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I just read the article and spent 5 straight minutes laughing. Here's a summary:
- Two not-fully-mentally-developed texan rednecks wanted to recruit homeless people and train them to raid and coup an island home to 90,000 people. They got caught and their lawyer is the bird from Futurama.
- Two not-fully-mentally-developed texan rednecks wanted to recruit homeless people and train them to raid and coup an island home to 90,000 people. They got caught and their lawyer is the bird from Futurama.
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I just read the article and spent 5 straight minutes laughing. Here's a summary:
- Two not-fully-mentally-developed texan rednecks wanted to recruit homeless people and train them to raid and coup an island home to 90,000 people. They got caught and their lawyer is the bird from Futurama.
- Two not-fully-mentally-developed texan rednecks wanted to recruit homeless people and train them to raid and coup an island home to 90,000 people. They got caught and their lawyer is the bird from Futurama.
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
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the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.
Oh no! This was so cool to watch. I was obviously just a tourist, but the community of these surfers was clearly visible even including the outsiders that were trying for the first time.
Munich's famous river wave, the Eisbachwelle, vanished after a dredging in early November. Authorities are working to resurrect the beloved wave but impatient surfers have also tried their own methods. n.pr/43ETW6N
Surf's down! Munich, until now an inland surfing hotspot, has lost its biggest wave
Munich's famous river wave, the Eisbachwelle, vanished after a dredging in early November. Authorities are working to resurrect the beloved wave but impatient surfers have also tried their own methods.
n.pr
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Oh no! This was so cool to watch. I was obviously just a tourist, but the community of these surfers was clearly visible even including the outsiders that were trying for the first time.
I'm reading this as "I'm an unqualified asshole that's too stupid and coked up to present any real thoughts or solutions for our countries problems so my answer is "the commoners are too casual"
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"Sometimes you just have to ask people, Hey, let's go back to an era where we didn't wear our pajamas to the airport. We actually might dress up a little bit"
"Sometimes you just have to ask people, Hey, let's go back to an era where we didn't wear our pajamas to the airport. We actually might dress up a little bit"
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'm reading this as "I'm an unqualified asshole that's too stupid and coked up to present any real thoughts or solutions for our countries problems so my answer is "the commoners are too casual"
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meat raffles have to be the most persuasive argument that buffalo is indeed the midwest
MACtion Meat Raffle is a phrase I didn’t know I needed until now.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
meat raffles have to be the most persuasive argument that buffalo is indeed the midwest
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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lol i am so fucking high i thought this said nicki minaj is speaking at the united nations on behalf of trump
Nicki Minaj is set to speak at the United Nations on behalf of the Trump administration.
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
lol i am so fucking high i thought this said nicki minaj is speaking at the united nations on behalf of trump
Can we please quit calling these 'arrests'? Legitimate arrests involve reasonable suspicion and evidence. The fucking Gestapo in Charlotte are doing nothing more than racist kidnapping.
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Can we please quit calling these 'arrests'? Legitimate arrests involve reasonable suspicion and evidence. The fucking Gestapo in Charlotte are doing nothing more than racist kidnapping.
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If you call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ but support the pepper-spraying and arresting ministers, then thou art staggeringly full of crap.
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If you call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ but support the pepper-spraying and arresting ministers, then thou art staggeringly full of crap.
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I already hated the couch fucker but this level is blasphemy can not be allowed to exist in this world. I would not be here without good Ole vitamin I.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I already hated the couch fucker but this level is blasphemy can not be allowed to exist in this world. I would not be here without good Ole vitamin I.
I don't understand the excitement and support for sports gambling. These companies only exist to steal your money. Much like billionaires, DraftKings and all these other companies aren't your friends. Earl Weaver had it right.
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I don't understand the excitement and support for sports gambling. These companies only exist to steal your money. Much like billionaires, DraftKings and all these other companies aren't your friends. Earl Weaver had it right.
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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we sat down with President Trump so that he could, in this time of fear and uncertainty, hold forth with "the black congresswoman is stupid and the Somalian one doesn't belong here"
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
we sat down with President Trump so that he could, in this time of fear and uncertainty, hold forth with "the black congresswoman is stupid and the Somalian one doesn't belong here"
This is absolutely wild that one of the Edmund Fitzgerald crew members would only be 70 years old today.
Having lived along the Great Lakes for half my life and knowing a surviving family member this is one of those "historic" events that has always hit close to home.
Having lived along the Great Lakes for half my life and knowing a surviving family member this is one of those "historic" events that has always hit close to home.
At 20 years old, Karl A. Peckol was the youngest crew member of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He would now be 70 years young.
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is absolutely wild that one of the Edmund Fitzgerald crew members would only be 70 years old today.
Having lived along the Great Lakes for half my life and knowing a surviving family member this is one of those "historic" events that has always hit close to home.
Having lived along the Great Lakes for half my life and knowing a surviving family member this is one of those "historic" events that has always hit close to home.