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I didn't really like last week's lower decks, but I knew it would be worth it for this week's payoff. (spoils) - Beryllium Oct 28, 00:54 1
- also, there's a post-credits microscene -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 00:56
One of the worst things Musk could do is invite DJT back to twitter. - Beryllium Oct 28, 00:21 2
- prepare for the worst -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 01:07 1
  - gorram AFTNZMFers. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 01:13
Between Barbarian and Don't Breathe I'm developing a bad opinion of Detroit real estate. -- nm - Ender Oct 27, 23:45 2
- Now watching Evil Dead. Why do people insist on going down into the creepy basements of their rentals?! -- nm - Ender Oct 28, 00:57
- Barbarian spoilers - Ender Oct 28, 00:43
I've written a blog post about semi-quitting twitter ... :) -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 27, 23:43 6
- Deleted the app a few months ago, and now I have a Firefox extension that remove the overlay - Guigue Oct 28, 05:32
- (Feedback semi-welcome. 😂) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 23:46 4
  - Very good blog -- nm - Epiphany Oct 28, 05:44
  - I think you captured the mood of the moment -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 00:41 2
    - based on Twitter’s profit history over the years the most financially damaging thing I can do to Elon Musk is continue using Twitter -- nm - twitter Oct 28, 01:31 1
      - I've cancelled my paid subscription. Which is unfortunate, because I was apparently "in" at a lower price point. - Beryllium Oct 28, 01:45
A priest, a rabbit, and a minister walk into a bar... - Ender Oct 27, 23:01 3
- ... -- (link) - .🎃 Oct 27, 23:11 [Backboard]
- 👍 -- nm - JD Oct 27, 23:05
- you're dinner -- nm - Elmer Fudd Oct 27, 23:02
Why are the NHL’s Coyotes playing at Arizona State’s NCAA arena? - crash davis Oct 27, 22:44 3
- Team offices at the front, party at the loading dock. -- nm - Ender Oct 27, 23:02
- because both they and Gary Bettman suck. -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 22:51 1
  - (ominous cultist intonation) "Bettman sucks." - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:52
No . . . there is another -- (link) - Yoda Oct 27, 22:18
I’ve had what I suspect is hay fever for closing in on 3 weeks now. Sore throat, congestion, sinus pressure, cough. - Qale Oct 27, 22:16 4
- Hope you get feeling better soon -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 22:22 1
  - Hey thanks Crash. - Qale Oct 27, 22:24
- fwiw I've found echinacea is good for hay fever, if you're not allergic to echinacea. -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 22:22 1
  - Welp, I downed a tablespoon of this without knowing what was in it, so why be careful now?! -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 22:23
Houston/Harris Co GOP boycotts council meetings causing the police and health depts to LOSE millions in funding, cancelling COL raises -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 27, 21:44 4
- They didn't have to worry about the Dems defunding the police. -- nm - .🎃 Oct 27, 22:42
- Yesh. I posted that the other day. -- (link) - Qale Oct 27, 21:46 [Backboard] 2
  - sorry I missed that... good luck surviving the next year -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 27, 21:56 1
    - Right? HPD might take 5 hours to answer a call instead of 4. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 22:12
Well the Canucks will no longer be winless. Great goaltending by Demko -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 21:36
What's the point of clicking "go free" in grammarly if it's just going to try and upsell me after every action I take? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 20:59 3
- Not that anyone other than me will use Edge but that is included in the browser now. -- (link) - Qale Oct 27, 22:18
- This week Bery was stingy, cheap, and parsimonious. -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 21:08 1
  - Indeed. And also, thanks to work & twitter & most likely non-covid viruses, frustrated to the point of vibrating. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 21:23
@elonmusk the bird is freed -- (link) - budice Oct 27, 20:50 4
- It is an ex-bird. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 20:51 3
  - 70k likes inside of 5 mins -- nm* - budice Oct 27, 20:53 2
    - 100k inside of 10mins -- nm* - budice Oct 27, 21:00 1
      - Pining for the fjords, it is. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 21:03
now Northern Ireland has a vote. ho ho ho -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 20:42
Writing a blog post about twitter, considering using some generative art for a joke about "New Twitter". -- (pic) - Beryllium Oct 27, 20:41 [Attachment] 1
- finished version. not quite as wacky as the original. -- (pic) - Beryllium Oct 27, 21:36 [Attachment]
go home and get your shinebox, Tommy -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 20:29 2
- 1/2 back in their division, they'll be ok -- nm - budice Oct 27, 20:36 1
  - There could be a 4-way tie for 1st at 3-5 after this weekend. -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 21:11
NASA says Marsquake recorded in December by lander was an RV sized meteorite that blasted a new crater spewing boulders of barely buried ice blocks -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 27, 20:27 1
- bad news, significant dust is now covering the solar panels and the rover will likely die in a couple weeks from lack of power. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 27, 20:32
LYC/TMI, but bear with me as I relate my day. This was the first day of our 3-day Barn Sale. I arrived for set-up at 7:00am to discover our - Meg Oct 27, 20:20 4
- Yikes! I hope she makes a full recovery. It's nice to hear you had so many kids you ran out of treat bags. Next year you'll make twice as much and - Krusty Oct 27, 20:44 1
  - I really didn't like the ones I did this year. Stuff was so hard to find and junk if you found it. Maybe the supply chain will improve by next year. -- nm - Meg Oct 27, 20:48
- jeez, hope the VP survives this, sounds like months in a rehab hospital -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 27, 20:30 1
  - She has underlying health conditions so this could be very bad :( -- nm - Meg Oct 27, 20:37
I don't know what this is, but my favorite Japanese wrestler is doing it, so... -- (link) - David Oct 27, 20:12 2
- I can't believe you don't know the loach scooping dance. one might almost be inclined to believe you'd never scooped a loach. -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 20:40
- it really is an alternate world -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 20:23
In spite of calls for his resignation, Texas DPS director does not. Worse, says police did not fail the Uvalde community. -- (edited) - Qale Oct 27, 20:01
uhoh. Milo has diabetes and somehow the hospital has my phone number. Milo is missing his appointment! - mafic Oct 27, 19:27
My wife sent me this. I think maybe only one other STer might get what it's about. -- (pic) - Beryllium Oct 27, 19:23 [Attachment] 7
- Confess I had to Google but now I *really* get it :) -- nm - Meg Oct 27, 20:40
- I walked through there yesterday, I'm pretty sure buying the dress and cardigan at Ross would half as much -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 27, 20:03
- Sent it to my wife. She laughed. -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 19:52
- N’s IEP meeting was this morning, actually. I get it! -- nm - kelly Oct 27, 19:24 3
  - I also collect a shocking amount of data with my job. - kelly Oct 27, 19:29 1
    - data is life. I love data. -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 19:30
  - I hope it went well :) This year's IEP for D was soooooo much better than the previous two attempts. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 19:29
BAL TE M Andrews and WR R Bateman OUT -- nm - budice Oct 27, 19:09 1
- don't need em -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 19:48
XFactor -- nm - budice Oct 27, 19:06
I’m not liking what Hasbro is essentially forcing Wizards of the Coast to do in many ways. But I do like the hard push at diversity. - Qale Oct 27, 19:05 1
- one can only hope. -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 19:32
LOL. Chuck Schumer caught on hot mic being candid about Georgia, Warnock vs Herschel -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 27, 19:01 13
- MSNBC anchor was going on about how Graham was talking about Hersh like an object, the definition of a token... - zeitgeist Oct 27, 20:07 3
  - Whataboutism -- nm - Strongbad Oct 28, 04:26
  - Fetterman has much more than a "slight impairment"... -- nm - Ender Oct 27, 22:43
  - it was like a ventriloquist act -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 20:12
- LOL at the trashfire commenters who somehow think "they" automatically means black people. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 20:00
- It won't be so funny if your state actually elects him over Warnock. -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 19:05 7
  - I voted for Warnock. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 28, 04:26
  - Senator Herschel Walker (R-CTE) -- nm - Tim Oct 27, 19:39
  - i, as a lib, would not be owned. but you do you, Georgia -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 19:38
  - no, it's funny because republicans are a trash fire. -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 19:20
  - Yeah. As a former resident, I can’t believe they might elect him either. He has no business anywhere near the Senate. Maaaybe in the House. - Qale Oct 27, 19:11 2
    - naw, they 86'd him, the staff shortage is bad enough without him knocking up half the waitresses -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 27, 20:20
    - Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 19:56
Canucks vs Kraken and I'm not blacked out. Excellent! -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 18:45 6
- I saw the fans walking to the stadium on my way home from work. - psilotum Oct 27, 19:36 3
  - sounds fun -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 19:36 2
    - I recycled my Richard Simmons outfit; always popular -- nm - psilotum Oct 27, 19:48 1
      - sweatin to the oldies -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 20:05
- getting to watch us get our 1st win? -- nm - mud Oct 27, 19:02 1
  - watching your thugs pick fights -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 19:20
Lower Decks finale was great. I remain more impressed with it as a straight Trek show than for its comedy. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 18:43
Elon Musk asks Tesla Engineers to meet with Twitter product leaders and review site code. -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 18:36 9
- i guess now we'll find out if it's possible for a tweet to run over a kid -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 19:47
- how is this the richest man in the world -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 19:30 2
  - I mean seriously, we should all be embarrassed. -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 19:31 1
    - every billionaire is a policy failure -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 19:55
- If we don’t have blink text and animated fire bars, I’m out. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 18:45
- "This site needs 100ccs of code, stat!" -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 18:42
- [snork] -- nm - mud Oct 27, 18:41
- Onion or not onion? And why the fuck would systems engineers know fuck all about Ruby? Completely different worlds. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 18:37 1
  - not onion -- (link) - Remlik Oct 27, 19:01
Prime just dropped all six eps. of The Devil's Hour! .. [marge grrr] -- nm - mud Oct 27, 18:25 1
- oh hell no, I'm not watching this. [hard pass] .. [shudder] -- nm - mud Oct 27, 18:55
Maybe not as newsworthy as the doom of Twitter, but it looks like we're getting a puppy tomorrow -- nm - Fuzzy Oct 27, 18:23 20
- !!!!!!!! -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 27, 18:58 1
  - That accurately describes the mood in our house -- nm - Fuzzy Oct 27, 19:03
- Puppy! -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 18:40
- Nice!! Any specific breed or a mix? -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 18:26 15
  - Shiba inu -- nm - Fuzzy Oct 27, 18:29 14
    - Kawaii inu desu ne! (NM) - Marlowe Oct 27, 19:08
    - Very good dogs. They're also very owner-centric in my experience. - Krusty Oct 27, 18:51 3
      - Good to know. Our neighbor has a black lab pup. We'll lower our expectations of them playing together. -- nm - Fuzzy Oct 27, 19:02 2
        
        You never know, especially if they're introduced when they're puppies. I've known many and they're wonderful dogs that are a lot more playful and - Krusty Oct 27, 19:59 1
        
        You've just described my daughter (minus the sniffing), so it sounds like a great match -- nm - Fuzzy Oct 27, 20:15
    - Meme breed. Much popularity. Wow. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 18:29 8
      - I'm not sure if you're calling me out. Are you calling me out? - Fuzzy Oct 27, 18:31 7
        
        A few years back a family had a web-cam on their shibu puppies as they grew. They became the breed of the year. -- nm* - Meg Oct 27, 18:54
        
        He's saying it's a good choice. In doge. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 18:32 5
        
        Thank you. Some days my age shows. - Fuzzy Oct 27, 18:37
        
        To coin a phrase, that is so fetch. -- nm - Barynn Oct 27, 18:34 3
        
        I see what you did there. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 18:45
        
        Yes! Teach the shiba to fetch. Excellent idea. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 18:36 1
        
        I love this cartoon. -- (pic) - Barynn Oct 27, 18:49 [Attachment]
- 😺👍 -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 18:23
Does the NHL have a tanking problem in 2022-23? -- (edited) - crash davis Oct 27, 18:22 1
- Why nutrition is NHL players' new secret weapon (regular ESPN so you can click on the article) -- (link) - crash davis Oct 27, 18:27
LOL -- (link) - spamlet Oct 27, 18:15
Schroedinger’s Twitter -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 18:03
"Elon Musk has started cleaning house at Twitter .." -- (link) - mud Oct 27, 18:02 6
- You’d think Elon would have at least a Roomba much less a full-fledged Mr. Handy at his disposal. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 18:23
- without any apparent confirmation that he actually closed the purchase -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 18:04 4
  - Bloomberg: -- (link) - mud Oct 27, 18:05 3
    - Reuters: -- (link) - mud Oct 27, 18:19
    - “according to people familiar with the matter” -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 18:07 1
      - hmm .. -- nm - mud Oct 27, 18:16
2016: Facebook is valued at $350B 2021: Facebook is valued at $900B Today: Facebook is valued at $270B -- nm - budice Oct 27, 17:59 6
- meanwhile twitter is the same $40 billion it was a year ago. -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 19:55 3
  - that was only because the stock was being converted at 54? a share, so the price rose as it was literally arb... and - zeitgeist Oct 27, 20:17 1
    - (that's the joke) -- nm - mafic Oct 27, 20:51
  - For now. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 20:01
- That actually feels right. Facebook literally feels less valuable in 2022 than it did in 2016. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 18:24
- And nothing of value was lost. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 17:59
I've never been to Tennessee, but this feels right. -- (link) - mafic Oct 27, 17:51 2
- I need confirmation from our TN contingent -- nm - Epiphany Oct 28, 05:57
- *scratches off a fall visit to Knoxville* -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 18:17
Heh. Speed running a Wire spin-off. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 27, 17:48
Jules Bass (of Rankin/Bass) dies at 87 -- (link*) - spamlet Oct 27, 17:42
If Tom Brady were alive, he'd have completed that throw. -- nm - David Oct 27, 17:31 1
- With every completed pass, his stats go up but his future support payments from Gisele go down. -- nm - Barynn Oct 27, 17:33
so MLB just taking a whole week off before starting the WS? - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 17:24 2
- don't want to get trampled by Brady and Thursday Night Football. -- nm - Beaker Oct 27, 17:25 1
  - Yawp -- nm - budice Oct 27, 17:27

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