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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 19h

Presumably this gets them two 8-game weekends in December, which are gonna feature some thrilling ball somewhere around 1/3 of the time while the rest of these are gonna be blowouts between badly mismatched teams . . . just like bowl games. www.espn.com/college-foot...

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Under the proposed plan, teams seeded Nos. 1 through 8 would earn a first-round bye followed by a home game. (The No. 1 seed would face the winner of No. 16 vs. No. 17, the No. 2 seed would face the winner of No. 15 vs. No. 18 and so on). Teams hovering around No. 17 and No. 18 would want to move up so they can host a first-round home game (awarded to teams seeded Nos. 9-16), while teams at the bottom are constantly trying to stay in the field or protect their spot.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Tremendous Eagles fandom right after the TD. Go birds

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whiskey Pete dropping this two weeks after the 250th of Nathan Hale is real fucking rich. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_...

Screenshot of the linked wiki showing Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale was executed by hanging on Sept 22, 1776.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Back in 1984, people had to go out of their way to mess with birds, today you can just use that imitate call button on the Merlin bird app.

Far Side cartoon showing a woman in a winter coat pouring what looks like birdseed into a bird feeder on a tree. From inside the home, we can see the bag of birdseed sitting on a chair:

Henry's Fake Bird Seed
"Hours of fun!"
"Birds can't figure it out!"

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Given the "born in the 1900s" demographics around here, I'm shocked I don't see more Far Side posting. Be the change you want to see, I suppose.

One of today's thefarside.com comics. An old person sits on a chair inside a closed observation room. Two scientists sit on stools observing through a window. A third scientist lowers a small child in a birthday hat with noisemaker on a rope toward the old guy.

The child and the old guy are a a split second from becoming aware of each other and the caption reads "At the Crabbiness Research Institute"

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Doubled in yardage and up by 1. Big Integer football, baby!

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Two offensive plays in the 3rd quarter.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, the only new information is credited to one (1) "industry insider" in two paragraphs, including the conclusion. Everything else is links to earlier and already known stories like 60 Minutes resignations and Tony Dokupil being ratings poison. Insider got themselves a nice headline, though.

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The 42-year-old's revamp of CBS Mornings has also been a ratings loss.

"Everyone is wondering how soon it will take the Ellisons to pull the plug once the merger goes through," one industry insider told Radar. "CBS is desperately trying to spin these abysmal launch numbers as a win when the entire industry is laughing at yet the third failure on Bari's record."

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The bright interpretation is 232-77 in yardage while they are a puny 1/6 on third to our magnificent 3/7. Lean on them until they fall. The dark interpretation is you did all that for +3 at halftime on a practiced "you're in here with me" team. The lead means nothing, the yards even less.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lotta game left, but Iowa can't move the ball

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning from Ann Arbor where the skies are clear, the soccer fields are foggy, and the Hawkeyes are in town. Go Blue!

A soccer field with fog over it, some trees in the background have low angle sun.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

True Michigan football Saturday: winning but frustrating football accompanied by a box of new (used) history books that came in the mail.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

His is not a byline anyone should ever take seriously, and especially about MENA.

Book cover of Kenneth Pollack's "the case for invading Iraq"

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is so much more than I was hoping for when I woke up this morning, and I took a nap in between these games. 13/10 football day

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well, stadium filled in at least. Go Blue

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Haha, I just remembered we're playing Oklahoma next week. How did they do in their opener, you ask?

Screenshot of my score app showing #10 Oklahoma winning 51-0 against UTEP.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Good morning from Ann Arbor where it is gray and wet but kickoff is still 12 hours away.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh, DTE, I waited six hours for an "estimate" and then you gave me - and everyone else I know - this. Thirty years of stubborn refusal to face what a warmer atmosphere will do to a power grid and we get multi-day outages for, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of people on Labor Day weekend.

A DTE message saying that they anticipate 65% of people will be back up by midnight tomorrow night, 90% by Saturday, and the rest Sunday

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Coming down in sheets now, power flickered a couple times

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

High protein cockroach milk marketed to dude bros is something I'm going to see in my lifetime. What a time to be alive.

$Screenshot from linked article under the "Chemistry" heading: The authors extracted milk crystals from the guts of D. punctata roach embryos harvested from a brood sac and then performed X-ray diffraction experiments, augmented with free-electron lasers, to determine the protein structure of the crystals—achieving atomic-level resolution. They found that just one roach embryo crystal contained more than three times the energy of an equivalent amount of dairy milk because of its tightly packed crystalline lattice structure, which allows a higher concentration of food to be stored. “This unique storage form of nourishment for developing embryos allows access to a constant supply of complete nutrients,” they concluded. That’s yet another reason why cockroaches will likely inherit the Earth.$

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lawrence Frank, now there's a name I haven't heard in awhile

Clippers President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank is suspended without pay for six months for his involvement with the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for approving impermissible expenses incurred by Mr. Leonard and his family.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And in boat picture news, the AP got a cool shot of her passing Singapore.

The USS Abraham Lincoln silhouetted against skyscrapers and a big ass ferris wheel.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"There's a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician, and a statistician."

Screenshot from the Simpsons with two TV anchors chuckling over three identical astronauts.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's finally here! I can discourse!

A picture of the cover of my print copy of the London Review of Books with "Emily Wilson watches The Odyssey" at the top

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My parents cat Little Big Bear after his trip to vet for summer hairball removal.

A black cat looking undignified with a shaved body

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is bsky and this is also why bsky is good.

Simpsons screenshot showing Bart with Martin and the nerds in their hidden study lounge.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Homer has many many horrible problems."

Screenshot from the Simpsons of a vet showing Marge an x-ray of Homer's skull with numerous injuries

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

His in house financial discussions must be utterly deranged. I hope someone's filming.

Yahoo finance showing Tesla stock down 31% year to date

Yahoo finance screenshot showing Space X stock down 25% year to date

Screenshot from the Simpsons of Mr Burns directing Smithers and a bunch of guys in suits to sink money into that up and coming Baltimore opera hat company. Concluding, "that should set things right again, eh boys?" to a chorus of yesses from his assembled professional sycophants.

He has lost touch with reality and will soon be bankrupt.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Once a werid panty sniffer, always a weird panty sniffer . . .

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Douthat bemoans the moral hazard posed by Jennifer Aniston’s waxed pubic hair (“As with breast implants, it’s another instance of modern women taking their sexual cues from pornography…”).

Douthat philosophizes on why, in his experience, women “have a certain amount of difficulty having orgasms.”

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I like getting old, it beats the alternative and there are upsides, but some things still startle. My youth in the 80s and 90s is getting very far back there. Remember to stretch every day and stay hydrated! We've only got 3.5 years left in the decade.

Picture I took this afternoon of the Rally House storefront with a big designed sign reading "Welcome class of 2030"

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is the only time Manuel is mentioned in this summary. The conclusion doesn't say he's leaving at the end of the year, just that they won't discuss that. So they leaked he's leaving to some reporters and are otherwise hoping this will all blow over. It's 9:30am on a Monday in July.

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What did the culture review conclude regarding Athletic Director Warde Manuel?

The culture review found that Warde Manuel demonstrated important leadership strengths, particularly his commitment to student-athletes. At the same time, it identified failures to quickly and effectively act on allegations of wrongdoing by Athletic Department employees.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New post: Sam Neill Adieu “We need more information.” – Chief Wiggum “Very well. It’s buried at 4723 Maple Valley Road. [Silence] “[Theatrical Sigh] You take Highway 201 south for fifteen minutes. You take a left . . . a left!” – Malloy deadhomers.com/2026/07/13/s...

Malloy, sitting on his prison bunk, looking smug.

Homer, Chief Wiggum, and several other townspeople staring at Malloy in utter bafflement and total silence.

Malloy, looking out from behind his bars at Homer, Wiggum, and the others, rolls his eyes in irritated frustration.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Now, the story: I am not a "talk to the TV" guy, I just sit there. But in the S2 finale, when Helen McCrory (also RIP) finally has the advantage, gun pressed into his guts as he still tries to intimidate her, I leapt off my couch and shouted "Do it, Pol!" right before she pulled the trigger.

Sam Neill and Helen McCrory in the Peaky Blinders S2 finale, their faces are very close, she has just lowered her gun from his neck to his ribs as he creeps on her by recounting the time he raped her.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A brief remembrance for #SamNeill: His role as Inspector Campbell in S1/S2 of Peaky Blinders is one of his best for me. A deeply twisted man utterly convinced of both his own flaws and his own righteousness, who hates himself as much as he hates his enemies.

Sam Neill in his first scene as Inspector Campbell in Peaky Blinders, staring at his own reflection in a mirror, about to tear the Birmingham PD a new one.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Let's remember some guys, like Super Hunk George Brett!

Closeup of July 1984 Playgirl cover promising Baseball's Super Hunks, featuring Ricky Henderson, Steve Sax, George Brett, and Ron Kittle.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Bet there's some still relevant stuff in that article.

The July 1984 Playgirl cover with an article about

Those Kennedy Kids
The Curse of America's most famous family

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And why does the satellite need boosting? It wasn't a technical issue or corruption of any kind. It was our original nemesis: The Sun. (Note on this graphic: the rocket did no launch from Florida, but from the central Pacific.)

Katalyst space diagram from the linked Ars article showing LEO Link Servicing Mission for SWIFT, showing a multi stage drawing where the rocket launches, deploys, connects to the NASA mission, boosts it, then drops off.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Set aside power consumption, hardware costs, and all the circular financing and this is just utter dogshit as marketing. It's a confusing product lineup with inconsistent numbering and wildly different prices. You get more clarity from a kid's lemonade stand. www.404media.co/companies-ar...

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The email points again to Opus 4.7, saying, “Every interaction with Opus 4.7 (and other models in its class such as GPT 5.5) consumes significantly more credits than standard or mid-tier models.” It then provides a breakdown of what Citi employees should use each model for: GPT-5.3-Codex for quick questions, explanations, or simple code generation; the same model or Claude Sonnet 4.6 for code review and “standard chat;” then higher models like Claude Sonnet 4.6 for “architectural reasoning.”

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm talking about the two houses opposite where Pauline dead ends into Main, helpfully labeled "North End Zone Tailgating Party" on Google Maps. I don't think anyone's lived there for over a decade, possibly back to like 2010 at this point. But the front yards sure had lots of Rabhi signs.

screenshot of Google Maps Main and Pauline in Ann Arbor, blue box around the two party houses

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Going to the Charity Bowl event at AADL downtown tonight. This pic is how the shipwrecks section of the shelves looked last night. Disappointed more people aren't doing the reading, but in the spirit of things I was charitable and only checked out one of them.

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Not watching, but haha, eat shit House of Saud

Screenshot of a 3-0 Spain over Saudi Arabia score

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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Enjoying lunch soccer with celebs who don't seem to age! Kermit has never looked younger!

Picture of a TV showing soccer, on the wall are 20+ year old celebrity pictures:Pitt, Cruise, De Niro and Kermit the Frog

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