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Giant Pain in the Ass

@giantpainintheass.bsky.social
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Here to follow journalists that left Gawker, Splinter, Deadspin and Jalopnik, and to vent in relative anonymity.

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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Normal job but strange circumstances: in my early 20s I got a job as a laborer on a concrete crew not because I had any idea what I was doing but because they needed someone without any recent DUIs to drive the pickup with the tools in it on days when the boss had to drive the form truck
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It's Friday night and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS youtu.be/ZJeo61-6Nb0?...
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Polka Singing & Dancing with The Best Polka Bands in Texas!
YouTube video by Polka Music Network
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's what I pulled from the interview transcript. Can someone please explain how giving this answer in an interview is analogous to Harris appearing with Liz Cheney at campaign events? He was asked a question and answered it. He doesn't endorse her in any way that I can see.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Listening to Archers of Loaf for the first time in a while and "Slick Tricks and Bright Lights" came on, and I don't remember this but I'm so glad they let Adam Sandler sing one
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
(Stopping for ice cream while on vacation) I scream You scream We all scream Just endless screaming
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Pulling up to the beach like OH MY GOD THERE'S A DUCK LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Me (indignant and flailing): I'm wearing BUG SPRAY, you ASSHOLES!
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Well I'll be damned. www.82-0.com/share?id=Tu6...
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82-0
Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
It's my (now tween) youngest daughter's birthday so just for grins we got her first onesie out, the one she came home from the hospital in. It still smells like Dreft so I'm standing here at the grill with a beer and some hot dogs and some first-rate chicken and I'm glad nobody can see me tearing up
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I'm like 80%sure this is a bit but whenever I see the claim being made that "wealth is not a zero sum game" I feel compelled to point out that itactually is. All wealth is ultimately derived from matter (material resources) and energy.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
MEAT SNACK
A supermarket aisle sign that reads, "9: NUTS. MEAT SNACK. POPCORN. POTATO CHIPS. PRETZELS. TORTILLA CHIPS."

I am choosing to focus on the "MEAT SNACK" part because everyone is 12 now and I am no exception.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
WTF @welch.senate.gov?! Have you completely lost your marbles? Why on earth are you still voting with them on literally anything (let alone this jackass apointee)?
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's like I always say whenever I go to the eye doctor and get my pupils dilated: AAAAAAFUCKFUCKFUCKDAMMITWHATHEFUCK
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I thought all the conservatives I know hated Kendrick Lamar's performance of "Not Like Us" at the Super Bowl because they're racist assholes with poor taste in music, but as it turns out, that was mostly about seeing Drake as a fellow traveler and the song hitting too close to home.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Speaking as the father of a little girl with an auto-inflammatory condition: I suspect that if I ever meet this limp-wristed little puke in person, he might find that he has a use for it.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Steve Albini
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Still waiting for someone to do it better than B. Kliban.
Two men are stranded on a tiny island. It's raining. One says, "It rains on the just and the unjust alike, don't it?"
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Just saw a lowered Land Rover Defender on big wheels, 20" at least, and I challenge you to go find me a dumber idea* * - not from the current US government, that's cheating
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Ang Lee's Hulk
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
No big yellow slide AND no scrambler at the fair this year?! Thanks OBAMA
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Hell Yeah #bikesky
My bike, leaning on a fence, near a pond
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Hey #bikesky can you reach a point where you've swapped your pedals out enough times that you can do it without bloodying yourself? I don't even know exactly how I did it this time, I thought I was being cautious but just looked down and I'm bleeding again. WTF
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
media.tenor.com
a man talking to a little girl with the words who has stolen the child 's dream on the bottom
ALT: a man talking to a little girl with the words who has stolen the child 's dream on the bottom
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
In the 90s I played in a punk band in Philadelphia and we met GG Allin backstage at a show. Our lead singer's girlfriend offered him a tampon and he accepted it. She left the area briefly, and when she came back and handed it to him he started dunking it in his beer like a teabag.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Just got a call soliciting donations from the police chiefs' benevolent fund or some kind of shit like that, and in this case I think I really do have to hand it to them: their comic timing is fucking impeccable.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
VHS trailers were great and I'm glad to see some being preserved! On this favorite of mine: 1. This looks like it was written and directed by Strongbad. 2. What the hell is Jack Palance doing? 3. "If you wanna dine with the devil, you'll need a looooooong spoon" youtu.be/yxRsSMVig0I?...
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"Cyborg 2" (1993) VHS Movie Trailer
YouTube video by VHSTRADERS
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Lots of scatting on the local jazz radio station tonight and I remain absolutely baffled that there are people in the world who believe that there's a worthwhile distinction to be made between what these "serious" vocalists are doing and Shooby Taylor. youtu.be/wm7SKIlyNuU?...
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Shooby Taylor the human horn Lift Every Voice And Sing FUNNY
YouTube video by noveltysongs
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A close friend of mine is a middle manager in a big, publicly-traded company. They had record earnings last year and their stock is at an all-time high. They just laid off almost 10% of their people.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is going to sound really dumb but I'm reposting this so I can find it to read it later because I seem to not have that red thumbtack emoji on my phone.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
2025 in a nutshell: apnews.com/article/corp...
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
*Seeing Teddy Swims on New Years Rockin Eve* "Holy crap, it's Leon Redbone"
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We never use a tablecloth but have one or four tacks and our car has decided it's great fun to pull on. He likes the clattering sounds the plates make.
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Likewise, I'm sure a few people remember this one but I've never seen it mentioned anywhere:
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Giant Pain in the Ass @giantpainintheass.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
I'm reminded of an excellent interview in the Believer a few years back where Terry Gilliam and Salman Rushdie spent part of it talking about the commercial work they did as a means of funding their art. www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
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An Interview with Terry Gilliam - Believer Magazine
At the 2002 Telluride Film Festival I was asked if I’d take part in a public conversation with Terry Gilliam. I have known Terry a little bit for a long time and admired his work much more than a litt...
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