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Just don’t feel like feeding the content beast RN

Nothing more common than singing along to angry anti-establishment music from when you were a kid while baking cookies for your nuclear family.

I accidentally violated the Spirit of Curling by putting my broom back on the ice after oversleeping a teammates missed shot in such a way as to make a thunderous clap that everybody heard. I meant nothing by it, I swear! Debris! Cleaning!

Reject foam, embrace corn

And did anyone stop to think that annexing Canada would halve the number of Olympic slots available for our curlers, bobsledders, and mogelmeisters? Winter sports south of Ontario would be decimated! Raise your brooms, poles, and sticks and take to the streets!

Need new curling gloves and thanks to the Canadian #tariffs I can only afford BronzeLine.

Let’s center the people who these tariffs hurt the most: US curlers. The American answer to Jennifer Jones is out there somewhere and she will soon have to choose between grippers and food.

NBC Curling Is Back, Baby: Questions remain about past coverage choices #curling 👇

Skip: I should have given you more broom Vice: Very smooth release, skip should have given you more broom Lead: Eeh, it’s a little swing-y on that side of the sheet Me: I am the worst person to take the ice since a few bored Scots started tossing rocks across the frozen moors 400 years ago

Are my little kids really Generation Beta?

Think about curling … think about curling … leagues, bonspiels, my jerky release on upweight shots, might need a new broom head pad - anything but reading the news.

“But over the next few days, as the TikTok eulogies pour in, notice what you’re not seeing. There have been no #SaveTikTok rallies to speak of. Hordes of angry Zoomers with lip fillers and broccoli haircuts aren’t marching in the streets demanding justice for their favorite short-form video app.”

What if I actually do “get” Zappa but just don’t like it? What do I do then?

Starting to think enshittification isn’t so much about a platform squeezing $ out of eyeballs as it is everyone else with something shitty to show you following the eyeballs.

New year, new league. First week is against my personal nemesis (she doesn’t know this). Totally regular skip most of the time, but when I play her team, she is dialed in and pulls victory from the jaws of defeat Every. Damn. Time. If we can beat her, it’ll be a charmed season.

Hopped on to a bonspiel feed last night. Fourteen viewers, two announcers (who were very good!) Where else can you get that kind of personalized service?

Never quite certain the line between “treating your friends like therapists” and “being a normal person who chews over their problems with friends.” Probably how interesting their problems are.

I liked this article from @dkthomp.bsky.social : www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... “Our “mistaken” preference for solitude could emerge from a misplaced anxiety that other people aren’t that interested in talking with us, or that they would find our company bothersome.”

I stare with rage at the un-drank 4-pack of IPAs I bought when I thought a guy was coming over. Why should he expect I have IPAs and not something I want? I feel ashamed by my weakness and stereotyping of fellow dads.

Hate the inevitable windows update after being away from work for a while. But when you don’t get one, it’s a little worrisome, no?

Saw two highlight-reel worthy shots this week, one on purpose and the other not so much.

Absolutely brazen shade in the changing room last night, but I won’t spill the beans because it’s a sacred space. Just know I want to.

Hoje não seria fácil e realmente não foi, as gurias perderam para a favorita Escócia por 6 x 3 livescores.worldcurling.org/wjbcc/aspnet...

Shout out to Team Nigeria’s🇳🇬 mascot, which could eat a Philly Phanatic as a light snack

Team names for the Wednesday night curling teams this season 🥌

me in my 20s: it’s saturday night! time to go get drunk and party!!! me in my 40s: ah, saturday night. time to enjoy an evening with my family and perhaps enjoy a drink or two me in my 8470s: huh. i think i might be god me in my 98580s: yep i’m god for sure

Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

“Most people who society says are insane, actually are insane.” - @cartoonshateher.bsky.social