Warlizard @Warlizard

The last thing you see before you lose your virginity to your mom’s divorced friend

News Barron @NewsBarron

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Grooming your babies to be Hollywood stars, living in West Hollywood down the street from my old house in the 2000s and an old Hollywood soap opera actress who wanted to live vicariously through her children and now sadly has no kids at all. 😔😔😢 In raw 2026 memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning, Hayden Panettiere laid bare the profound tragedy of her famous family’s history, stating she “felt fundamentally GROOMED to be a child star” inside an industry that ultimately cost both her and her brother their lives. Long before her children could even walk, their mother, Lesley Vogel—a former soap opera actress who desperately wanted her children to be stars—mapped out a definitive entertainment blueprint for her family. Lesley stepped away from her own on-camera career to act as her children's manager, placing Hayden into baby modeling at just eight months old and applying the exact same playbook to her younger son, Jansen, getting him into the acting industry at just months old as well. Both siblings were raised like little soldiers who could never say no to an audition or a job, completely stripping them of a normal childhood and fueling a deeply dysfunctional family dynamic behind closed doors. To sustain the children's skyrocketing careers, the family anchored their life in a highly scrutinized, compact home base in West Hollywood, California. Just a couple blocks from my old house Her dad, Alan "Skip" Panettiere, was a New York City fire captain—a working-class public servant navigating a chaotic, multi-million dollar commercial world completely outside his element. While he was immensely proud of his children's success, the staggering financial and emotional pressure of a household where a parent manages the children's careers caused their foundation to crack. In August 2008, following a Hollywood charity event, a volatile, alcohol-fueled physical altercation erupted between the parents at their West Hollywood home. Skip was arrested and later pleaded no contest to misdemeanor spousal battery, exposing the hidden toxicity of their home life to the public. This domestic instability culminated in a bitter, multi-year divorce finalized in 2016, during which the parents clashed aggressively over money, leading to lawsuits and a deep sense of exploitation for Hayden. Beyond the parental fracturing, Hayden exposed systemic failures within the industry itself, revealing that television screenwriters actively plagiarized her real-life trauma for ratings. While starring on Nashville, production took her highly private, unfolding agonizing battles and wrote them directly into her character Juliette Barnes' scripts, forcing her to repeatedly act out her worst real-world nightmares for public consumption. Living under the unyielding gaze of the paparazzi, both siblings faced staggering internal battles. To cope with paralyzing anxiety and panic attacks, Hayden began self-medicating, turning to severe alcohol and opioid abuse to numb her brain. Following the 2014 birth of her daughter Kaya, she suffered from paralyzing postpartum depression, describing the ordeal as a living nightmare that ultimately forced her to make the agonizing choice to yield full custody of her daughter to her former fiancé, Wladimir Klitschko. It is incredibly tragic because their mother pushed them so relentlessly toward the spotlight, but instead, the family's world shattered entirely in February 2023 when her younger brother, Jansen, died suddenly at age 28 from “aortic valve complications” which shocked the family who said he was perfectly healthy, leaving Hayden to carry a heavy, suffocating burden of survivor's guilt. Now, just a few years later, Hayden herself is gone, having passed away suddenly on August 16, 2026, at the age of 36. Because Lesley and Skip had no other children, they have now endured the unthinkable heartbreak of outliving their entire family. Might this be a cautionary tale before getting your babies into show biz. 😭

🫪Why does it look like you are roasting ET?🤷🏼

FINN. @BFFinnster58

a day ago

@WilliamShatner . No ultra-processing here, Mister William .

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@RobProvince Barrett-Jackson is going to be interesting this January.

This is the most bizarre shit ever

Nancy Mace @NancyMace

a day ago

@jarvis_best You dropped this: 👑

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Well that sucks. Hollywood is a slaughterhouse of youth and optimism.

TMZ @TMZ

2 days ago

Hayden Panettiere, best known for her roles in "Heroes" and "Nashville," has died at 36 💔 buff.ly/FsOPZze

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@VikingRobVWO Relieve the captain for failure to maintain. I bet the new captain would ensure it's clean.

I was diagnosed with PTSD after a friend was decapitated by an IED, so I guess we're kinda the same then.

Andrea N. Goldstein @an_goldstein

4 days ago

Poor sleep is so normalized in the Fleet that I never mentioned it on my post deployment health assessments and it wasn’t until I left active duty in 2016 that I learned I had a sleep disorder. in 2018 after a month of no sleeping and headaches I was diagnosed with PTSD.

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Two months ago I made an app to show when the next Amsterdam ferry leaves. It uses open data to get the timetable to show when the next ferry is supposed to leave. Unfortunately, the ferries don’t always follow the timetable, or are cancelled and run less frequently. So I was looking into these vessel websites tracking the location of each ship. I could use that in my app. The problem is that these APIs cost hundreds of euros a month for real-time positioning of ships. But then I started looking into how these websites get the ships’ locations and it turns out every ship just sends out its location every couple of seconds. This is mandated by law so other ships can see where every other ship is and prevent collisions. So it turns out for about €200 you can buy an antenna, raspberry pi etc, and constantly listen to all these ships sending out their position. And because the range of these signals is apparently about 50-100 km, I can easily track all the ferries in Amsterdam from my house. Just need to find out whether the signal also travels through buildings/obstruction. Fun hardware project coming up.

100% leadership issue

7% NaCl (Salty) @TwoRulesOfWar

2 days ago

Maybe it’s my time at Camp Shelby, North Fort Polk, Camp Bullis, Fort Hunter Ligget, North Fort Hood, Fort Dix and Camo Navajo and the like that’s has biased me but these don’t look that bad. Theres no feces on the floor, pools of urine, or NMC toilets or showers. I don’t see

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I don’t care enough to answer every hater. If I stopped to respond to every miserable blogger, failed cultural referee and bargain-bin music critic who used my name for clicks, I’d never have time to make music—or fulfill my duties as “The Mayor of Awesomeville.” 🕺 Most of it is background noise. But every once in a while, it’s fun to pick one, drag the reporting into the daylight and watch the narrative fall apart under the weight of the facts it left out. Today’s example: writer Alyssa Fields. Her page: phoenixnewtimes.com/author/alyssa-… Let’s begin with Alyssa’s August 14 article, “The 10 biggest douchebags in country music”: phoenixnewtimes.com/music/biggest-… Honestly? I think the list itself is funny. I like just about every artist on it—a lot. Zach Bryan is the exception; he actually seems pretty douchey to me. But then again, I don’t know him. It’s an opinion piece written to piss people off and generate clicks. Mission accomplished. No problem. All’s fair in love, war and cheap listicles. But there’s an extra joke hiding inside this one: Alyssa’s supposedly fresh article looks an awful lot like a Phoenix New Times article published 12 years earlier—with the exact same title. Here’s Mike Seely and Phoenix New Times Staff’s June 26, 2014 article, “The 10 Biggest Douchebags in Country Music”: phoenixnewtimes.com/music/the-10-b… Same title? Maybe that’s just laziness. But then compare the introductions. The 2014 article describes country music using this sequence: “Booze, chicks, jacked-up pickups, extreme redneck sports, spring break.” Alyssa’s 2026 version describes it this way: “Booze, women, jacked-up pickups, extreme redneck sports and spring break.” She apparently changed “chicks” to “women,” added an “and” and called it a day. Then there’s the closing joke. The 2014 article says Keith Urban was “spared the guillotine” because he can “really shred on guitar.” Alyssa’s 2026 article ends by saying Keith Urban was “spared the guillotine” because he can “really shred on a guitar.” Same title. Same highly specific string of examples. Same “spared the guillotine” closing joke about the same artist for the same reason. A fresh idea? Nope. An original setup? Not exactly. An original punchline? Apparently not. Call it recycling. Call it imitation. I call it a rip-off with updated names. (FYI, All Summer Long is a masterpiece and not even close to this, but go ahead and show your ignorance in the comments haters) Whatever label you prefer, it’s a long damn way from creative. If you’re going to call ten people douchebags, the least you can do is come up with your own title, introduction and closing joke. (Or original production, lyrics and melody) But seriously -  Alyssa’s article about the DOJ’s fight against Live Nation and Ticketmaster is where the problem goes beyond unoriginal writing: phoenixnewtimes.com/music/what-to-… The headline promises readers “what to know” about one of the most important legal battles in the live-music industry. Apparently, readers needed to know about Taylor Swift, Pearl Jam, corporate press releases and personnel drama inside the DOJ—but not that I had testified before the United States Senate just five weeks earlier about this exact issue. I didn’t show up to Congress merely to bitch and moan. I came prepared with specific solutions: Artists should control who sells their tickets and how they are sold. Resale markups should be capped. Existing laws against bots, crooked brokers and speculative ticketing should be aggressively enforced. You can read my actual Senate testimony here: commerce.senate.gov/wp-content/upl… So why didn’t Alyssa Fields mention it? Politics? Laziness? Bias? I can’t read her mind—but I can read her article. The result is incomplete journalism that conveniently serves a very familiar narrative. Taylor Swift says the ticketing system hurts fans? Important. Pearl Jam said it 30 years ago? Historic. Kid Rock sits before Congress, identifies the problems and proposes actual reforms? Suddenly the newsroom runs out of ink. That isn’t “what to know.” That’s what survived the writer’s political and cultural filter. And this isn’t only about one writer. It’s part of a larger media pattern: They’ll cover an issue all day long when the people speaking fit their preferred narrative. The moment somebody outside their political tribe supports the same cause, relevant facts mysteriously disappear. You don’t have to like me. You don’t have to share my politics. You don’t even have to admit you secretly know every damn word to “Bawitdaba.” But journalism is supposed to function even when the subject doesn’t belong to your political tribe. What makes my position especially inconvenient is that I’ve made millions of dollars working with Live Nation. Going after this system isn’t fashionable, easy or personally convenient. It means biting a hand that has paid me because that hand was caught reaching into my fans’ pockets. And I’m not only coming after Ticketmaster. I’m coming after every ticketing outfit that treats artists like inventory and fans like human ATMs. Ticketmaster is simply the biggest hog at the trough. Then the Live Nation trial pulled back the curtain. Unsealed messages showed Live Nation ticketing employees mocking customers while discussing outrageous add-ons—including VIP parking priced as high as $250 in connection with Kid Rock shows: finance.yahoo.com/news/people-st… Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino later called the language “disgusting” and said it wasn’t how the company operated: apnews.com/article/live-n… A jury ultimately found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster violated federal and state antitrust laws by eliminating competition and driving up costs for fans, artists and venues: ag.ny.gov/press-release/… Those aren’t Kid Rock talking points. Those are internal messages, evidence presented in court and findings returned by a jury. And to all the low-rent fortune-tellers who spent months claiming I couldn’t sell tickets and that the Freedom 250 Tour would play to empty seats: How did that prediction age? The tour happened. The crowds came. We had sold-out and packed amphitheaters night after night. Then something miraculous occurred: The same writers who couldn’t stop talking suddenly discovered silent mode. No follow-ups. No corrections. No “maybe we got this wrong.” Their keyboards must have suffered a mysterious mechanical failure when the turnstiles started clicking. Funny how that works. Hot takes don’t scan at the gate. Tickets do. So, Alyssa, disagree with me all you like. I’m from the school of sticks and stones. But your reporting still has to survive the facts. If you promise readers “what to know,” have the guts to tell them what actually matters—even when the facts make somebody you dislike look informed, prepared and correct. You don’t have to like Kid Rock. But you do have to deal with the record. And let’s face one more fact: Hack journalism doesn’t publish itself. The writer owns the words. The editor owns the decision to run them. The outlet owns the standard—or lack of one—that lets the work through. When sloppy, one-sided reporting keeps making it into print, the failure isn’t only personal. It’s institutional. Suck on that, haters. Kid Rock wins again. 🎤 ⬇️ And before you comment, “Don’t waste your time on these haters,” understand this: I didn’t. I had AI help me check the facts, create the links, check the grammar and handle the other tedious shit. As a songwriter, putting a few words together to rip someone—or the media—a new asshole is easy as pie for me!

¿Podría ser "Data Center Fornicator" la canción del verano?

This from Facebook is very funny. I so want it to be for real and an example of Olympic level blooper spotting.

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I guess Lizard People really DO work in the White House.

Arynne Wexler @ArynneWexler

4 days ago

This is like in Men in Black when the aliens disguise themselves as humans

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@SilencerShop I ordered one and the web site is still yelling at me for fingerprints. Is that still required?

@Aella_Girl I tried to listen but whoever that guy is, he's either intentionally obtuse or profoundly stupid. Aella looking puzzled, taking him seriously.

@SilencerShop I ordered a Gemtech for my Mark IV a little earlier. Can't wait to get it.