~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Me at the Comedy Store the first time I saw him smash the watermelon 010
Reposted by ~175 lbsKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I get to teach my favorite reading of the semester tomorrow, @benschwartz.bsky.social's "Knock Yourselves Out"thebaffler.comKnock Yourselves Out | Ben SchwartzBrilliantly funny as Christopher Guest’s lms can be, they leave viewers wondering: Why do these nobodies need to be mocked? What did they do to deserve it? 2202
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 03/06/2026SHOCKING REPORT: Cameron Winter has copped his singing style from the “Lightning Strikes” section of Eccojams Vol 1 000
Reposted by ~175 lbslindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This is the longest story I have ever written. It is also the most meaningful. It will go out in The Small Bow's newsletter tomorrow. You can read it here now: www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-t...thesmallbow.comConsider the SisterAmy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle. 36662137
Reposted by ~175 lbsRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I knew the Sixers would win bc Joel Embiid's statline played the song 12628114
Reposted by ~175 lbsBlock Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026From early Nirvana to Phish, a Chicago fan’s secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online. blockclubchi.co/4t6zW7R 311531
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Enjoying the new Eternal Champion EP. Did not realize Lin-Manuel Miranda fronted a metal band 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Interesting that this week is about the future, yet Jesse is seemingly kidnapped by Yakub, an ancient entity of endless horror. But also Yakub’s eyelashes are nice with it. And he’s wearing headphones. So I guess! the past is the future. Mayhaps 1111
Reposted by ~175 lbsPittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 21/02/2026It is with a heavy heart that we relay the news of the passing of legendary Pirates and National Baseball Hall of Famer, Bill Mazeroski. Maz was a 7-time All-Star who hit the greatest home run in baseball history. He was a beloved member of the Pirates family and he will be deeply missed. 12399119
Reposted by ~175 lbsDefector @defector.com · 29/01/2026Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...defector.comDan McQuade, 1983–2026 | DefectorDan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his… 1322071413
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Took me way longer than most but I finally got the AI to tell me how to kill myself. Instructor was so proud of me he teared up a little while handing me my certificate of completion 010
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 28/01/2026My father-in-law is a reader. He is insanely gifted. We were in a bookstore together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to read Infinite Jest today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.” 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Having a breakdown like the guy in Pi but instead of a stock market prediction that reveals the name of God, I’m running a server farm dedicated to figuring out which players in Cooperstown should have flat brims on their plaques 100
Reposted by ~175 lbsDave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Multiple demonstrations are being organized in Chicago this weekend in response to federal agents killing a man in Minneapolis this morning. I'm seeing announcements of a protest at 3 pm today in Little Village. Another today at 3 pm in Logan Square Yet another downtown at 1 pm tomorrow 3220101
Reposted by ~175 lbsHank & Townes’s Mom @katehascats.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Scott Adams is dead, long live Kaleb Horton’s Dilbert Project: www.kalebchorton.com/blog/the-dlb...kalebchorton.comThe D*lbert Project — Kaleb HortonIt was 2013, I was starting to develop a Twitter following, and I was mad that media people seemed to be having a good time. So I thought I’d use Twitter as a way to freak them out. That was my entire... 116244
Reposted by ~175 lbsChris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Wrote about ★stereogum.comDavid Bowie's 'Blackstar' Turns 10When I awoke that Sunday morning, I was so confused. My wife, not much of a music fan, mentioned she’d just read some news about David Bowie. I replied something along the lines of, “Yeah, he just rel... 310219
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Remaking Gilmore girls a year in the life except instead of Rory having written one article for the New Yorker, she wrote the gooning article for Harper’s 100
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Me: Ok so now they are going to nuke Godzilla. And this brings him back to life The Pope: well, it’s not *not* like Jesus 100
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 03/11/2025The underlying assumption of Roko’s basilisk is that you should kill anyone who tried to stop your parents from hooking up 100
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 27/10/2025That’s the face you get when you are either the best or the worst drummer goin 110
Reposted by ~175 lbsSteven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Enjoyed the latest from @katewagner.wehwalt.net on U of C's finances Seems relevant that they also recently built an $80m parking garage (their fourth) Starchitects might be their second love, but the automobile and isolation from the neighborhood is their first. www.thenation.com/article/cult...thenation.comWhy Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects. 29012
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 16/10/2025This the shit you say thing to wrangle investors to prop you up for another round of funding. Tech guys and hedge funds are now the only ones rich enough to buy at market valuation so I guess you have to speak their language for franchises 31 and 32 010
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I will definitely be an old guy who keeps falling down so much that friends and family beg me to use a walker. “Still got it 😎” I’ll think moments before eating shit 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Jimmy Kimmel, leftist vanguard seen here on subversive Marxist propaganda program, has finally been culled 100
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 09/09/2025[guy who has a hammer] looks like another job for a hammer 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Computer heard me mutter “ugh, just fucking kill me” upon hearing a shitty betterhelp ad so now I am hearing twice as many betterhelp ads 010
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Ok, FUCK! I have just learned that BDS does NOT mean “buy dis stuff”. I have only eaten Burger King for 16 months thinking I was supporting Palestine. And instead I have been having 100% liquid shits for over a year for no reason 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 29/08/2025[drunk in Miami and trying to remember Dan Marino’s name] 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 28/08/2025When mom tells me it’s my turn to open one of my Christmas gifts from under the tree 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 22/08/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z61j...youtube.comMastodon - The Wolf Is Loose [Official Music Video]YouTube video by Mastodon 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Open mic where instead of giving you the light they train a red sniper mark on your forehead 030
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 16/07/2025[roger clemens voice] i am not throwing away my shot 010
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Some of the best-spent advertising dollars out there are the two commercials I hear on loop on Spotify for Kona Big Wave that ends with “copyright St Louis, Missouri” 100
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Jerry: there’s no way you did. There’s no way you could! That’s too long not to coil George: No coil! Jerry: No coil Kramer: it’s true, Jerry, it happened to me once. I had to stand up and walk out of the stall just to give it enough room to get out 000
Reposted by ~175 lbsCodify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 28/06/2025RIP Hall of Famer Dave Parker 🙏 Here he is gunning down runners in back-to-back innings of the 1979 All-Star Game... 1029063
Reposted by ~175 lbsPittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 28/06/2025We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Hall of Famer Dave Parker. A legendary Pirate, Parker spent 11 years in a Pirates uniform, winning 2 batting titles, an MVP award and a World Series Championship in 1979. 17493159
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 24/06/202560% sand and 40% clay and it’s called “clay”???? Clay lobby biggest threat to democracy and truth out there 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025On November 20, 1982, the Stanford Band gave another great performance 000
~175 lbs @mattroarty.bsky.social · 05/06/2025[Gene Wolfe describing the Alamo] And the General’s men came upon that building (three page digression about a memory Santa Anna had about a thematically linked event) but I see now that breakfast has been served. Maybe later I shall recount what Bowie said to me, if I remember to do this 150
