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*snork* explaining the mandatory quarantine check-in app to my FIL, who deadpans ”yes yes, it’s a repressive government, I’m used to it.” - mafic Feb 26, 03:49
TV PSA: NHL, NBA, MLS, UFC, SNL (John Mulaney with LCD Soundsystem), Great Chocolate Showdown, World's Funniest Animals, The Weeknd (Amazon), -- (edited) - Beaker Feb 26, 03:37
Ukrainian officials are claiming the Russians didn't gain any advantage over the last 24. - Reagen Feb 26, 03:37 6
- But, extrapolating backward... - Max Feb 26, 03:52 5
  - The myth of the fierce Russian Army seems to be dying, kicking and screaming. -- nm - Reagen Feb 26, 04:07 4
    - There conscripts - eag Feb 26, 04:13 3
      - "Your"right. I thought they went to a fully professional military. But they are more than half conscripts, mostly school drop outs -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 26, 11:40
      - They are = they're. -- nm - Diva Feb 26, 05:56
      - Not to mention your fighting people who are willing to stand there ground to there death to fight for there freedom and country - eag Feb 26, 04:18
Russian troops out of gas and stuck on Ukrainian roads. This driver pulls up and jokes, “need a tow… back to Russia?” -- (link*) - budice Feb 26, 02:25
SWIFT lockout seems to be gaining momentum. Cyprus on board, which is big because it’s essentially tiny Mediterranean Russia. -- nm - mafic Feb 26, 01:46 1
- Hard not to read it as "well, shit, we didn't think you'd make it this far. Guess we have to do something." -- nm - Reagen Feb 26, 04:01
Hmm. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 26, 00:53
yikes -- (link) - Jovian Feb 25, 23:34 1
- I just saw recorded video of the missile impact (or of one very similar to that outcome) on ITV, so that may be available elsewhere. -- (link) - Max Feb 25, 23:55 [youtube]
Jeez, two cars shooting at each other at high speed through my suburban nabe, horrific crash with 2 dead by the high school -- (link*) - zeitgeist Feb 25, 23:05
After Putins speach, the government of Mongolia says the insist on reestablishing their historic borders 13th century borders -- (pic) - zeitgeist Feb 25, 22:10 [Attachment] 3
- Perhaps they would be content to accept an NFT of that map -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 22:17 2
  - Not unless Putin accepts one for the Berlin wall, you know he misses those glory days of his youth. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 23:23 1
    - Either that or his next goal is "liberating" Catalonia -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 23:27
I saw the original post re: the “ghost of kyiv” earlier but don’t see any update. the video that was in the story is from a video game. nm but: -- (link) - i.b.! Feb 25, 22:00 2
- The story seemed unconnected from certain videos about it, but also obviously so rich that it was likely false. - Beryllium Feb 25, 22:15 1
  - exactly. -- nm - i.b.! Feb 25, 22:26
5/6. Strategy spoiler - loosilu Feb 25, 21:53 7
- 4 - decline Feb 26, 05:32
- 3 - J Feb 26, 04:15
- 2. (plus some others.) - i.b.! Feb 26, 02:38
- 5/6 - Spawn Feb 26, 01:05
- 4/6 - TWuG Feb 26, 00:12
- My first ever 2 - znufrii Feb 25, 21:57 1
  - 4/6 - David Feb 25, 23:06
This Top Chef competitor is chef at the Dilido Beach Club. Yep, I figured that was a typo :)) -- nm - Meg Feb 25, 21:29
Ukrainian President Zelenskiy turns down U.S. request to evacuate Kyiv, saying: "I need ammunition, not a ride" - AP -- nm - budice Feb 25, 20:44 2
- What a comedian! - Qale Feb 25, 22:07
- Does he get executed, or put on trial and sent to the same prison they keep the guy they poisoned? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 22:02
But I’m a Cheerleader is definitely a movie I feel like I would have watched back when it came out, but for some reason I hadn't watched it until tonight. -- nm* - znufrii Feb 25, 20:24 2
- I haven't seen it, probably for 10+ years but remember liking it, when I saw it -- nm - Flavorize Feb 25, 20:32 1
  - Looking back at the releases that year, we must have decided on Chuck & Buck instead. -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 20:38
I just donated my Thankyou.com points to World Central Kitchen and Discover points to the Red Cross (no WCK option) -- nm - Max Feb 25, 20:07 1
- I just donated a chunk of the money built up in my pay friend account. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 21:59
IOC grew some balls. -- (link) - Mop Feb 25, 19:42 5
- How does invading 4 days after the closing ceremony breach the Olympic truce? -- nm - Ender Feb 25, 21:40 1
  - "...ekecheiria, historically, has been the cessation of hostilities from seven days before until seven days after the Olympic Games" - JaxSean Feb 25, 22:34
- They need to take away the skating team gold medal. -- nm - jnine Feb 25, 21:05 1
  - Mmhmmm -- nm - Pocket Jones Feb 25, 21:28
- That Russia-Poland game, if they let it go ahead, will be fucking wild. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 19:44
More for the rhetoric file -- (link) - Reagen Feb 25, 19:34
Pat King, freedom convoy leader denied bail due to expected probability of reoffendning, despite defense claim of covid vulnerability -- (link*) - zeitgeist Feb 25, 19:29 3
- You know what could reduce his COVID vulnerability..? -- nm - Mop Feb 25, 19:31 2
  - Kyndryl? -- nm - Qale Feb 25, 20:25 1
    - Do not take Kyndryl if you are allergic to Kyndryl. -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 20:27
A fun fancy food story -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 25, 19:18 3
- That certainly is the antidote to that opposite take from the Spanish 3 star disaster -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 20:14
- I want to go there. -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 19:44
- These places are very much Not My Thing, but I'm happy she got what she wanted out of it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 19:35
Simpsons -- (link) - Beaker Feb 25, 18:55
If you come into my checkline and you pitch a fit that my bagger with Downs didn't make your bags light enough, I will tell you to be nice. - Qale Feb 25, 18:28 2
- ugh. that's awful -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 19:06
- Chris and Larry are two of the nicest people in my market, and heaven help anyone who does something like that! -- nm - Meg Feb 25, 18:45
Destiny 2 thing... -- (link) - David Feb 25, 18:25
The Braves made $104m last year. Sounds like a terrible business to me -- (link) - spamlet Feb 25, 18:17 3
- Remember: we don't want to pay Freeman for six more years. -- nm - David Feb 25, 18:28 2
  - One of the guys on the Sox podcast broke down what the owners would have to do to meet the min salary demand. - spamlet Feb 25, 18:42 1
    - As I was just saying elsewhere, the aspirational goal for owners still doesn't add 1% to their net worth. It's madness. -- nm - David Feb 25, 18:48
This is parody, right? Right?! -- (link) - TWuG Feb 25, 18:06 3
- Anytime they go with aluminum foil you know it's cynical, true conspiracy fans use copper mesh. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 19:09 1
  - Got your Copper Fit socks, right? -- nm - Mop Feb 25, 19:17
- The account is at least. -- nm - mafic Feb 25, 18:17
Wait, is Putin really “Poutine” in French? -- (link) - Tim Feb 25, 17:12 3
- Yes, it is - for example… -- (link) - Roger More Feb 25, 21:41
- Uh... wut? - Mop Feb 25, 18:59
- Maybe pronounced the same -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 17:14
My BIL lives in Kyiv. Presented himself at the registration office, said they were giving out AK-47s to everyone who came in. - mafic Feb 25, 17:06 12
- Otoh, there are stories about not having enough guns for the new recruits/conscripted, one said they hope to get some off Russian bodies -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 19:14
- Maddow is talking about this right now. -- nm - Diva Feb 25, 18:15
- Mrs. Zork is a Puke (Ukie-Pole) grew up near the Wolf's Lair and other family are similar. My high school was about 2/3s Ukie descent. - zork Feb 25, 17:46 4
  - If you punch four people on the prairies, at least one of them is probably Ukrainian - Reagen Feb 25, 18:51
  - I had a gf who was a puke and she did not like to be called a puke. -- nm - mud Feb 25, 18:30
  - Yeah, that’s my grandmother’s family too, but they left for Saskatchewan in the early 1900s. -- nm - mafic Feb 25, 17:56
  - She has cousins in Lviv (... or used to) -- nm - zork Feb 25, 17:49
- My best friend from uni's wife is Ukranian. Said her brother got turned back at the border, pointed back to go fight. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 17:29 2
  - Apparently there’s a ban on men 18-60 leaving. Niece and her husband were going to head towards Romania, but canned it when they announced the ban. -- nm - mafic Feb 25, 17:55 1
    - I think it's as low as 15 -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 17:56
- hope hes ok, stays safe -- nm - budice Feb 25, 17:12
- holy crap man. prayers are with him -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 17:08
Dublin: -- (link) - mud Feb 25, 17:05 1
- Fine by me. If our governments won't impose the strictest sanctions ever known to mankind on Russia, then let's make the lives of these Russians hell. -- nm - Mop Feb 25, 19:02
Kyiv getting shelled atm -- nm - budice Feb 25, 17:03
Pope Francis went to the Russian embassy in Rome on Friday to personally express his concern about the war in Ukraine -- (link) - budice Feb 25, 16:58 1
- Did he popeslap a motherfucker? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 16:59
zeit., from bb. I’m so sorry about your mom, sending good thoughts to both of you. 💕 — nm - i.b.! Feb 25, 16:54 4
- I think she needs to be on dialysis -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 17:10 1
  - I hope she gets the help she needs. from my sister’s experience, she’ll feel a whole lot better if she needs it and gets it. — nm - i.b.! Feb 25, 22:05
- word -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 17:00
- indeed. -- nm - mud Feb 25, 16:58
some non wordle -les of the day. - i.b.! Feb 25, 16:51 2
- I have a Facebook group for sharing results from any of the variants - zork Feb 25, 17:16 1
  - might be fun, but I don't fb. :) - -- nm - i.b.! Feb 26, 00:23
now drinking: Old Smokey Blackberry Moonshine -- nm - entering hour 9 Feb 25, 16:46 1
- Yards Brewing Company - Philthy, unfiltered hazy IPA -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 17:09
Nightcrawler! -- (link) - mud Feb 25, 16:38
MTGA: CIRCUITMENDER for 1,000xp -- nm - spamlet Feb 25, 16:23 1
- Thank you. -- nm - Qale Feb 25, 18:33
Sean McVay staying with Rams. $15M/yr was on table -- (link*) - budice Feb 25, 16:18 1
- Looks like $20 million a year. -- nm - jnine Feb 25, 19:42
Maxime Bernier has thoughts but i won't link to that fool...it amazes me he was ** this close to leading the Conservatives -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 16:06 4
- Right now he’s probably wishing he’d stayed the course. -- nm - Roger More Feb 25, 16:43 1
  - counterpoint: those far right lunatics are suckers for grifting -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 17:01
- A resounding rejection on the… 14th ballot? -- nm - mafic Feb 25, 16:33 1
  - I watched that one live. -- nm - mud Feb 25, 16:40
Ukrainian UN ambassador to his Russian counterpart: “I will not dignify Russia’s diabolical script [that is] a letter of application for an upscale - TWuG Feb 25, 15:55 6
- Is New York known for their pretzels? -- nm - Ender Feb 25, 21:37
- Whenever this ends, I hope the exquisite political rhetoric is remembered only slightly less than the horrors and human tragedies. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 25, 16:06 2
  - Yeah, like, shooting down a 200-troop plane is a victory on one hand, but a terrible cost on the other. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 16:08 1
    - Yeah, I'm not celebrating 200 deaths so much as that Russia is finding this to be a lot less of a picnic than they thought. - TWuG Feb 25, 16:11
- heh -- nm - mud Feb 25, 16:00
- eyy, ohhh! -- nm - New York pretzel Feb 25, 15:59
"How can we trust you? You have no idea what is on the mind of your president. Your words have less value than a hole in a … pretzel" -- (link) - mud Feb 25, 15:54 5
- HAH-ha! -- nm - New Jersey bagel Feb 25, 16:05
- Ukrainians have a lock on best use of imagery, so far. The "pocket of sunflower seeds" is up there with some of the best defiant - TWuG Feb 25, 15:58 3
  - Eastern Europeans are metal as fuck. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 16:07
  - Apparently the snake island 13 quote is also colourful in one translation ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 16:03 1
    - Definitely -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 16:05
Michael de Adder is a good Twitter follow -- (link) - Beaker Feb 25, 15:49 3
- That’s a bad take though - I don’t think there’s much doubt about Kavanaugh’s qualifications or experience - Roger More Feb 25, 16:41 1
  - He got appointed specifically because he wrote that donny does is legal because he was president basically offering dictatorial powers -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 17:55
- he lives one street over from me. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 15:56
Jose Andres is headed to Poland -- (link) - Reagen Feb 25, 15:37 3
- "Okay, what do you have?" "We can make lots of bread." "I think I can work with that." -- nm - Max Feb 25, 15:56 2
  - Good bread. -- nm - . Feb 25, 17:44
  - "ooh, I love these empanadas you have." -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 15:58
Reports that Ukrainian air defenses took out a Russian troop transport plane that has a capacity of ~200 soldiers. -- (link) - TWuG Feb 25, 15:32 1
- Air defenses also took out the Russian version of the A-10 Warthog and a helicopter. - TWuG Feb 25, 16:15
“I actually hate EDM. It’s fucking brutal. It’s like somebody fell asleep on the DJ stand.” -- (edited) - JD Feb 25, 15:31 2
- Festival EDM is worst EDM. You have to find that gem where an artist is doing a club. Preferably after hours. -- nm - Qale Feb 25, 16:05 1
  - And they have shut off the power? Agreed. -- nm - Spawn Feb 25, 16:27
Maybe they should go live over there, then. -- (link*) - znufrii Feb 25, 15:06 1
- 1 generation after Reagan and Bush Sr won the Cold War.... - Will Hunting Feb 25, 15:13
Cast Zelenskiy. Jeremy Renner? Shea Whigham? -- (link) - Max Feb 25, 14:53 16
- Ben McKenzie -- nm - Todd Manning Feb 25, 15:51 3
  - 1978 and Jewish, but not super funny. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 16:02 2
    - Zelenskiy's bit was playing piano with his penis, so... -- nm - TWuG Feb 25, 16:16 1
      - which definitely circles me back to Kroll. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 16:20
- David Dastmalchian -- nm - Roger More Feb 25, 15:33
- He was born in 1978, is a comedian and Jewish so, uh *checks list* Andy Samberg? -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 15:25 4
  - ... Joe lo truglio? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 15:28
  - Another option: Jake Johnson -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 15:28 2
    - this -- nm - mud Feb 25, 16:01
    - Nick Kroll (this one isn't bad) -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 15:33
- Tobey Maguire (as he is now, older) -- nm* - budice Feb 25, 15:08
- Frank Grillo -- nm - entering hour 9 Feb 25, 15:06
- Hal Sparks -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 25, 15:02
- Joshua Malina -- nm* - Will Hunting Feb 25, 15:02
- Jon Stewart -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 14:59
- Patton Oswalt -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 14:59

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