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Tennis’s premier grass court tournament is back for another year. Last year’s champion, Iga Świątek, is seeded 3rd and is ready to turn around a disappointing year. But world #1 Aryna Sabalenka is hungry for her first Wimbledon title. On … Continue reading Wimbledon 2026 Discussion Thread
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Welcome to the knockout stage! Chat and banter with your fellow Avocados about the World Cup. As always, no region bashing. FIFA and these games are political, but try to engage thoughtfully and consider bringing more politically tinged conversations to … Continue reading 2026 FIFA World Cup: Round of 32
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Welcome to Avocado Plug & Play 2026! This is an attempted revival of Plug & Play, original run by DW in 2020. It’s effectively a gaming counterpart to Scott’s Sight & Sound polls. I want y’all to list your Top … Continue reading Avocado Plug & Play: 2026
Happy Thursday, friends! What games are you playing and what do you think of them? As a bonus prompt, let’s discuss our favorite times that games taught us about a historical event or convinced us to find out more about … Continue reading Weekly Games Thread #2 is Doomed to Repeat History Unless it Learns From History
I’m too tired to write a funny caption this time… Continue reading Guys I Think We Need to Abandon the Idea of Anyone Signing Up for the Day Thread
Lobo! Lobo! A discussion of bounty hunter Lobo! Continue reading Comic Book Conversations: Lobo
Today’s optional discussion topic: National myths. America’s 250th seems like a good time to kick around this subject. On July 2, 1776 the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, formalizing the United States’ breaking away from England. “[Independence Day] … Continue reading The Independent History Thread
This week’s discussion prompt: post-break-up careers of the ‘other guys’, not the main song writer and/or the front person, in bands Have you discovered any new music or new-to-you music lately? Have you rediscovered any old music lately? Been to … Continue reading Weekly Music Thread is the Ringo
Thursday is here, and we’re making sure it’s here on time. This week has been kind of an all-over mess of things going up with a lot of positive legal developments that are admittedly hard to process, but we’re also … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is A No-Show At The Great American State Fair
On Agent Kim Reactivated, Agent Kim’s terrifying wire traps for his enemies make Fred’s traps from Scooby-Doo look like traps that were built by the Care Bears. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – July 2, 2026
An uncanny place to discuss the first three episodes of X-Men ‘97’s second season: “Days of Past Future”, “A Force to Be Reckoned With”, and “Rise of Apocalypse”. Continue reading Spoiler Space: X-Men ‘97 Season 2 Episode 1-3
He-Man would probably be friends with the GEICO Caveman and teach everyone a valuable lesson about how being prejudiced is bad. Continue reading The Night Thread Does Love to Save
Welcome to this week’s thread! As always, anything related to dating, relationships, intimacy and so on is fair game and welcome. And of course, as usual: This is supposed to be a space to talk about intimacy and sex and … Continue reading Dating, Relationships, and Sex (07/01/2026)
Here are today’s contestants: – Ben Crockett, a director of data analytics originally from Laurel, Washington; – Robyn Masella, a victim advocate from Corvallis, Oregon; and – Richard Nguyen, a research attorney from Placentia, California. Richard is a one-day champ … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Wed., Jul. 1
ABC Dancing With The Stars: The Next Pro Hosted by wildlife conservationist and “Dancing with the Stars” Season 34 Champion Robert Irwin, Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro features 12 exceptional up-and-coming dancers who move into one house and … Continue reading July 2026 TV Preview
Hello! Welcome to COTL, a discussion place for the BIPOC community at The Avocado. Posted the first 3 Wednesdays of the month. Greetings fam, HP here at the end of a month of Pride festivities and observance, and at the … Continue reading Color Outside the Lines has Pride
Celebrate America’s upcoming birthday by discussing tolerably Continue reading Tolerable Discussion 7/1/26
Welcome back to the weekly Tabletop Games thread! This thread is where we can talk about all kinds of RPGs, card games, board games, etc. Whether you gather around a physical table in the real world, or use a virtual … Continue reading The Tabletop Games Thread Is Fully Licensed (7/1/26)
For Help and Crisis resources, refer to the link in the Health and Identity tab at the top of the page, or click here Sometimes we need to talk about some things. This is a phenomenally caring and kind group, and … Continue reading Mental Health Thread – July 1st 2026
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! It’s my last week in Japan so I’m going to be incredibly lazy and use the same header image I created for the Day Thread to celebrate Fuma’s birthday and … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (July 1, 2026)
Today’s song is this delightful version of “Norwegian Wood” in Punjabi by British band Cornershop. Continue reading This 07/01 Day Thread Has Flown
Episode #085: Knightfall (Or … “Knightfall – Part One”!) Now that we’ve discussed Superman’s literal death and rebirth, we come to Batman’s symbolic resurrection in the Iron Age: ”Knightfall,” a mega-epic so sprawling we’ll need three episodes to come to … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
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