ST Alpha - Backboarding

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Welcome to SlickerTalk ▲

Kick your heels up, settle in, and get ready for a raucous discussion. The topic is anything and everything: movies, television, politics, music, breaking news, recycled news, orange-colored prediction markets, etc.

Join the Conversation

Suggestions and requests can be sent to team @ slackertalk.com. Or, please use this form to submit a bug report.

Recent News ▲

BlueSky Starter Pack for STers
This is a list of automatic follows when creating a BS account. Special thanks to Kim for setting it up! To bridge your account to the Fediverse, follow @ap.brid.gy (per the Bridgy docs)
the pack

[ SlackerTalk / Beta ] [ SlickerTalk ] [ Dr. S. Talk ]

Live

Down to Post

< Newer

Older >

Posts: 153

@POTUS has been transferred. -- nm - Shaun Jan 20, 08:56 3
- YAY -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:59
- Twitter is safe again! -- nm - Andie Jan 20, 08:58 1
  - Well... -er maybe. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 20, 08:59
Huh. The President is speaking clearly and eloquently. -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 08:56 3
- Make America Once Again The Leading Force For Good In The World - Max Jan 20, 08:59
- Didn't he just say 1963? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 08:57 1
  - (But, yes, it's nice to hear sentences.) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 08:58
And here I am working on our PPP2 application. *sigh* - Spawn Jan 20, 08:55 2
- yeah i've had clients asking about that process this week (PPP2 applications) -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:57
- It's your patriotic duty to collect that booty. -- nm - Max Jan 20, 08:56
Krusty alert! -- (link) - zunkskunk+ Jan 20, 08:52 1
- I saw it and Theresa laughed at me for catching it. :-) -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 20, 08:54
Is that bible in large print? -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 20, 08:51 7
- Family Bible. He's used it at all his swearings in -- (link) - TWuG Jan 20, 08:59
- IIRC it is Biden's Family Bible 127 years old or some such. -- nm - VMan Jan 20, 08:58
- If it's his it very well could be. He's not exactly a spring chicken. -- nm* - spamlet Jan 20, 08:52 4
  - That's the thickest bible I've ever seen -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 20, 08:55 3
    - It's a collection of all of God's healthcare measures. -- nm - Max Jan 20, 09:01
    - I didn’t catch it. It could be a study bible as well (or both study and large print who knows) -- nm - spamlet Jan 20, 08:56
    - It's the original. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 20, 08:55
"The pause is because they're trying to find out next on the schedule. It could be Biden, or it could be Garth Brooks. Could go either way." - Beryllium Jan 20, 08:51 1
- BBC is very confused too. -- nm - spamlet Jan 20, 08:51
No comment on JLo's performance? I thought it was great. -- nm - zork Jan 20, 08:51 4
- "Let's get loud!" -- (link) - Max Jan 20, 09:16
- Loved it and the choice of song to open with. -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 20, 08:55
- I was hoping she'd throw it to Ricky Martin. This whole show is pretty somber. -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 08:55
- I was on a work call that hadn't wrapped. When I saw her at the stairs I went "I have to go watch the inauguration" and ended the call -- nm - MDH Jan 20, 08:53
Are those Biden's kids with him? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 20, 08:50 3
- Yes, and grandkids. Did you hear the baby crying? -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:50 2
  - I thought 45 was in Floridamanland. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 20, 08:50 1
    - :-] -- nm - mud Jan 20, 08:53
I"m hearing cheering in the building :) -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:49
I'm not crying! You're crying! OK, fine. We're all crying. -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 08:49
*Biden smile* -- nm - Max Jan 20, 08:49
Can't help but think how things would have been different if people had worn masks at my inauguration... -- nm - William Henry Harrison Jan 20, 08:48
@VP has been transferred. -- nm - Shaun Jan 20, 08:47
Just called to my dad's house to watch the swearing in. - Loyola Jan 20, 08:47
Okay, now I'm tearing up. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 08:46
So since she got sworn in first for 15 minutes its Trump/Harris? -- nm - eag Jan 20, 08:44 2
- No, the term isn't official until noon. -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 08:45
- No. The swearing in is ceremonial. They’ll officially take power at noon. -- nm - spamlet Jan 20, 08:45
Heh -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 20, 08:44 1
- syringes waiting at every desk for people to inject themselves. -- nm - zork Jan 20, 08:46
16 minutes until the mass arrests -- nm - Dano Jan 20, 08:44
kam seems so nice, good natured. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 20, 08:43
I'm going to lose it. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:40 3
- Yeah. I'm watching at my desk with the sound off and I'm crying. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 20, 08:44 2
  - I seriously wondered how kam kept her shit together as she was being sworn in. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 20, 08:45 1
    - I haven't got mine back together yet. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:51
Holy shit. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 08:39
Please, please remember this is about the song, not you, Lady Gaga -- nm - TWuG Jan 20, 08:37 21
- She killed it. I think it might be better than Whitney's. *Hot take* -- nm - Remlik Jan 20, 08:46 2
  - Gaga's got the luxe voice for sure. -- nm - Max Jan 20, 08:49
  - Stunning. Iconic moment of the inauguration. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:49
- The hell it isn't. Do not question The Gaga! -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 08:46
- Well at least it wasn't a duet with Bradley Cooper -- nm - eag Jan 20, 08:42 2
  - No, no, no. Too sexy! -- nm - spamlet Jan 20, 08:44
  - Now, Tony Bennett, on the other hand..... -- nm - mara Jan 20, 08:43
- *Evita audition* -- nm - Max Jan 20, 08:40
- can't anyone just sing it straight up, at least for an event like this? -- nm - zork Jan 20, 08:40 3
  - She sang it pretty straight, I thought. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:42 1
    - Me, too. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 08:55
  - But that is not what the people pay to see. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 08:41
- Better than most, I'll allow it. -- nm - TWuG Jan 20, 08:39 7
  - Yeah. I'm not a fan of hers, but...that was good. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 20, 08:40
  - I thought it was magnificent. -- nm - mara Jan 20, 08:40 4
    - It's nice to hear a straight up rendition for a change. -- nm - Meg Jan 20, 08:47
    - aye. -- nm - mud Jan 20, 08:43
    - Absolutely. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:42
    - Me too. -- nm - Andie Jan 20, 08:40
  - agree. though that dress was about her and not about the cermony. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 20, 08:39
- lol, yeah, sure. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:38
it's so funny somehow that "lady gaga" was announced at an event like this. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 20, 08:37
Oh dear lord that dress -- nm - eag Jan 20, 08:37 10
- But why is she wearing a Hunger Games pin? - JaxSean Jan 20, 08:39 1
  - you're so funny. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 20, 08:40
- Is that a giant Mockingjay pin? -- nm - zunkskunk+ Jan 20, 08:38 2
  - Totally my first thought. -- nm - Andie Jan 20, 08:40
  - I thought the same, but it's probably the dove of peace? -- nm - jnine Jan 20, 08:39
- that's fantastic!!!! I need to know who did it. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:37 3
  - so the rest of the samples can be burned? -- nm - zork Jan 20, 08:39 2
    - I think it's absoultey magnificent. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:45 1
      - for a different event -- nm - zork Jan 20, 08:47
- is she the mocking jay? -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:37
OMG, GAGA! -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:37 1
- *RAGES* -- nm - 45 Jan 20, 08:40
this is SO cool. -- nm - mud Jan 20, 08:36
please someone, change that god awful space force logo. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:36 4
- Scrap the Space Force entirely -- nm - TWuG Jan 20, 08:38 2
  - but then who will protect us from the alien invasion? -- nm - decline Jan 20, 08:39 1
    - kittens. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:42
- they should change it to a giant gold bird - decline Jan 20, 08:37
Easy Presidential Trivia: Joe Biden will be the 2nd person with a temporal gap between his terms as VP and P. Who is the 1st? -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 08:33 9
- nixon -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:36
- (spoils) - Inigo Jan 20, 08:35
- spoils - Roger More Jan 20, 08:34
- spoil - mud Jan 20, 08:34 5
  - Correct! (spoils) - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 08:39 4
    - I've always thought this was such a statistical oddity. I guess if you're VP and don't jump to the top job right away, you're old news. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 08:43 3
      - How many VPs who did not become President do you think you could name? - Roger More Jan 20, 08:54 1
        
        Cheney, Mondale, Rockefeller, Agnew, Humphrey... -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 08:59
      - I remember the Quayle '98 jokes. -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 08:47
LOL. What was this? -- (link) - mara Jan 20, 08:32
Last minute pardon to Judge Box of Wine's husband. -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 08:31
Apparently it’s snowing here. -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 08:31
An invader is trying to get into our house. -- (pic) - Beryllium Jan 20, 08:29 [Attachment]
I have a google browser window with @potus, @vp, and others waiting to be followed. Looking forward to pushing those buttons -- nm - oblique Jan 20, 08:29 4
- Ugh, just looked. Will they be deleting the previous tweets? -- nm - mara Jan 20, 08:33 2
  - I read that they wipe the accounts before it gets handed off -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 20, 08:37 1
    - I thought they normally don't, but they are going to in this instance - decline Jan 20, 08:39
- good idea! -- nm - mud Jan 20, 08:32
fave moment -- (link) - mud Jan 20, 08:28
watching on youtube (the joint committee channel) and the audio appears slightly desynced. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:27
FWIW, my family always double-masks whenever we're in a public space. - JaxSean Jan 20, 08:26 5
- huh, I honestly hadnt heard of doing that. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:32 3
  - "Doubling masks adds to 'obstacle course' for covid particles" -- (link) - decline Jan 20, 08:35 2
    - And allows you to coordinate your outer mask with your outfit while wearing something more utilitarian as well! -- nm - mara Jan 20, 08:36 1
      - The plain solid T under the button down plaid strategy. -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 08:37
- I've started doing the same. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 20, 08:27
Klobuchar giving her Presidential Inauguration speech -- nm - budice Jan 20, 08:22 2
- Nice dig by Blunt about snow during Klobuchar's speech -- nm - budice Jan 20, 08:26
- Onions have already jumped out of my fridge and started cutting themselves. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:24
Amy Comey Barrett looks like Jenna Fischer -- nm* - Will Hunting Jan 20, 08:22 2
- so she's hawt? -- nm - budice Jan 20, 08:24 1
  - In a disturbing way. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Jan 20, 08:33
see, his eyes are telling us he didnt win. trust the eyes people..... - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:20
What *was* that Melania was wearing as they arrived in Florida? Also, typical Trump, he heads for the closest door of - Meg Jan 20, 08:20 1
- There arrived already? -- nm - eag Jan 20, 08:22
Changes in place already in the West Wing -- (link) - TWuG Jan 20, 08:19 1
- someone now needs to explain cable management to them. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 08:22
I guess its because of 2 weeks ago but i keep looking to see if anyone looks or is acting suspicious -- nm - eag Jan 20, 08:19
Amy's hair looks good -- nm - zork Jan 20, 08:18 2
- You are in an alternate universe. My friend and I were just discussing it would be nice if she had combed it. -- nm - jnine Jan 20, 08:22 1
  - she's in the wind, I give her a pass. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:23
Kamala is en *fuego*. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:17 8
- Dana Bash is on drugs. Kamala is mosst certainly not wearing purple. -- nm - zork Jan 20, 08:19 7
  - FWIW the fashion designer used purple hearts in his "thanks VP Kamala" instragram message. -- (link) - Roger More Jan 20, 08:45
  - I'd call it indigo. -- nm - Max Jan 20, 08:42
  - Looks purplish to me -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 20, 08:21
  - It keeps changing. Her coat did look purple earlier. I don't know if it's the lighting or the cameras. -- nm - jnine Jan 20, 08:20 1
    - I see purple, underneath is a purple-blue. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:23
  - How long have you known you're colorblind? SHe is wearing two shades of purple. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:20 1
    - Against the blue carpet, I saw just more shades of blue -- nm - zork Jan 20, 08:22
I'm watching on vox. they just showed joe and dr. jill. I like her coat. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 20, 08:16 8
- Ella Emhoff (Kamala's step daughter) wins the best dressed award. She is wearing the sparkly coat. Entered with her brother. Looking for a picture. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Jan 20, 08:18 1
  - I agree with this take. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 20, 08:20
- what colour is his trousers? -- nm - mud Jan 20, 08:17 4
  - "First mate, bring me my brown pants!" -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 08:21
  - Gray? can't get a good look. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:19 2
    - coming down the stairs inside, they looked dark purple. -- nm - mud Jan 20, 08:22 1
      - President Big Pimpin'? -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 20, 08:25
- Camilla wears that color a lot. IT's great on both of them. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 08:16

Post a message top

< Newer

Older >

(Disclaimer: This website uses cookies to store identifying information. Please practice safe password usage.)