Former NBA star Paul Pierce said he's "tapped out" financially after losing his job with Fox Sports. The athlete also said he's struggled to keep up with court-ordered payments to his ex-wife and his children.

Paul Pierce has been in the headlines for the last year. Beyond his public dealings with his ex, the NBA champion faced pushback in October 2025 after he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

A source told TMZ that Pierce is "tapped out" and can no longer afford his hefty monthly payments to his ex-wife and children.

Court documents claim Pierce used to receive $119,000 a month from Fox Sports; however, he received his last check in August, and now his monthly income is zero.

Paul said he pays close to $30,000 per month in child support and another $20,000 per month in spousal support.

Additionally, Pierce spends nearly $50,000 a month in bills, including close to $10,000 in childcare, $5,000 in groceries, $7,000 on eating out, $3,200 on utilities, $1,000 on clothes, $3,500 on entertainment, and "various other expenses."

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nba-star-paul-pierce-makes-121000270.html

In my personal opinion (and I’m not attacking anyone who likes The Last Jedi) it’s the “saving what we love” part from that movie. I’m sorry, but I think that scene has many issues:

1)It robbed Finn of a great sacrifice scene which would’ve completed his character arc.
2)It makes no sense logistically, as Rose somehow gets ahead of him despite having retreated previously, and also the First Order just lets them go back to the base without killing them.
3)The entire line is out of place, and the cut to the First Order laser blasting the base door is almost unintentionally comedic.

I know I’m beating a dead horse by criticising The Last Jedi in 2026, but still. This scene beats anything in the Prequels in terms of ridiculousness, and that’s saying something…

Last month I had a serious fruit fly infestation at home so I set up basic DIY traps I found on the internet:

• Fill a glass or another container with vinger with a drop of dish soap, cover it with a plastic wrap and puncture small holes into it. The fruit flies will get inside but not out and drown in the liquid

Then I decided to use various baits instead of common white vinegar recommended in tutorials. I tried distilled vinegar, wine vinegar, white wine, beer and citrus fruit syrup. I set up the traps and let them be for about 3 weeks.

Beer proved to be the most efficient, with white wine slowly behind. Vinegar seemed to work fine on its own but in presence of alternatives, it wasn't very popular among the fruit flies, with wine vinegar being slightly more efficient than distilled vinegar. I added citrus fruit syrup as well just as an idea (they're called fruit flies after all) but only two flies wandered there.

So in conclusion, this DIY trap works well with beer being the most efficient bait.

Breaking news: baby black bear discovers… toes.

(Little guy and his 2 equally fluffy siblings are staying with us temporarily while their main foster is away. Wish I had them longer but let me tell you long haired kittens are a hot mess.)

After almost 6 years of dating my partner, her and I are finally married as of yesterday! Proud to say that she has been the biggest support throughout the years, and has always stuck by my side and shared my interests. I’m a very happy webhead 🕸️🕷️

Just in: Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards will undergo an arthroscopic procedure on his ailing right knee and miss up to two months, sources tell ESPN.

Source: https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/792a3b018e22c

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Mmm milk!

last night's dinner of papa john's jack-o-latern pizza, which I will be having for lunch today too. I know I could have saved the $12 and used it towards bills, but my daughter asked for pizza and I didn't have the energy to cook. Seeing her light up at a fun gimmicky pizza was awesome because I already tell her "no" to so many things.

I'm just so tired. I am at the point where I think about shoplifting more often than not to be able to provide basic necessities for my daughter, or giving up custody to the state because life is not getting any easier. Obviously not going to, because my child's biological father is already in prison and the last thing I need is a criminal record. I don't receive any type of child support, I make "too much" for SNAP, TANF, low-income housing according to social services. I make $21 an hour but it's part-time and capped at 29 hours a week for a job that "doesn't have the budget to make me full-time". My hours are getting cut because I can't work more than a certain amount in a calendar year and I'm close to hitting that limit. Plasma donation was going well at least making sure I could cover all of my bills, but then I lost weight and at 102 pounds, they will not let you donate plasma for safety reasons, gotta be at least 110 pounds to donate safely.

I just went through a 4 round/1 writing assignment interview schedule for a 4 year university and got rejected because they "went with another candidate" lmao. It felt like a kick to the gut. I'm still putting it applications any and everywhere I can. But I either get no calls back for interviews or just outright rejections by their AIs that review resumes. I've paid out of pocket for resume reviews. I have a bachelor's degree. I'd cry to make 40-45k a year at a full-time job and have PTO and not be at the whims of my supervisor and their moods. No one is hiring. I'd even go work retail or fast food if it meant a full-time job with benefits

I budget down to the penny, I shop at aldi and lidl. I use my local buy nothing group. I go to TWO different food banks every month, but they keep giving out less and less. Most days, I'm surviving on peanut butter sandwiches and canned vegetables. Not because that's what I want to eat but that's because that is what the food banks are giving out. I haven't bought ground beef in months, chicken and turkey are rare treats each week. And now our rent is going up. Again. It's getting to the point where one entire paycheck won't even cover the roof over our heads. An entire paycheck, gone, and I'll still owe more before I can even begin thinking about electricity, groceries, gas, or anything else we need to get through the month. I don't know how I'm supposed to keep making the numbers work when they simply don't add up anymore. I can't budget my way out of not having enough money to begin with. How can I take care of my daughter when shit just isn't adding up? I can't not buy groceries, I can't NOT pay my electric bill or put gas in my car. Some days I just want to say fuck it and rage quit and blow up my life and some days the thought of it never getting better makes me want to unalive myself. Having to tell my kid no over and over that we can't do fun things like go to the movies, or trampoline park or having to decline her classmates birthday parties because I can't afford a gift for them or even the gas to drive her there and pick her back up

I want to be able to fill up my gas tank without it overdrafting my account. I want to be able to pay my rent in one go and my electric bill at the same time and not constantly pay late fees on top of the bills themselves. I want to be able to doordash lunch at least once a week like I see my supervisor doing 3-4x a week instead of just not eating lunch at my desk and drinking the free coffee we have and ignoring my stomach hurting. Holy shit I want to be able to take my kid on an actual vacation. I want to be able to buy my kid the Christmas gifts she wants without having to go through toys for tots or other charities. Things are not getting better, and I am so tired of struggling. Had I known 9 years later I would be in this bad of a place and struggling THIS much I would have given her up for adoption. Its not fair to her to live in poverty and have a mom barely making it. I know I'm not the only one struggling but I just feel beat down and tired. I'm only 27 and really thought life would be different for me, for us. I'm just waiting for the day my daughter tells me she hates me because I just fucking suck at taking care of her. I know logically she isn't better off without me, I don't even want to be rich. I just want to make a stable income and be able to afford the basic necessities and maybe some fun stuff on the weekends or over her summer break. Or to be able to cover emergency expenses. Life is just way harder than it needs to be