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Variety: CNN to Pull Back on Original Series, Films -- (link) - MDH Oct 28, 08:48 1
- :-P -- nm - mud Oct 28, 08:50
Rihanna - Lift Me Up -- (link) - mud Oct 28, 08:43 [youtube] 1
- Very pretty -- nm - Epiphany Oct 28, 08:47
Perfect -- (link) - ty97 Oct 28, 08:31 2
- je suis Hugo Chavez -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:34
- OFFS -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:32
This week's The Remix opens with Wet Leg, but worth staying for the Apollo 440 one too. -- (link) - LMS Oct 28, 08:27
EU approves ban on new combustion-engine cars, vans by 2035 -- (link) - Beaker Oct 28, 08:19 1
- California makes, the world takes -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:20
Tom Brady/Gisele Divorce official -- (link*) - budice Oct 28, 08:07 26
- all I know is Brady needs to eat a sandwich this season. Looks like he lost 50 pounds -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 08:46 1
  - Divorce will do that to you. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:47
- Sad -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 08:33
- Hope one more pointless season was worth it, Tommy Boy. -- nm - Barynn Oct 28, 08:25
- He’s a moron. “We reached this decision after much consideration…”. Such horseshit. - Will Hunting Oct 28, 08:18 8
  - Especially when it's one more season at the end of a ridiculously long and successful career. I'm sure there had to be other issues, but it's an - pmb Oct 28, 08:28 6
    - Apparently not the only flare-up in the marriage re:his football career. She had wanted to pursue stuff and wanted him around more. -- nm - budice Oct 28, 08:36 1
      - All I know about them I learned from ST as I can not stand the guy. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:42
    - All the talk is all of their friends , his and hers are like, “WTF man?” -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 28, 08:34 3
      - He left a pregnant girlfriend so there's at least another data point of being self centered -- nm - JD Oct 28, 08:35 2
        
        Meh…they split in December 2006. She gave birth in August 2007…it’s possible they didn’t even know? - Will Hunting Oct 28, 08:38
        
        Suprisingly well-handled according to Bridget Moynihan. -- nm - budice Oct 28, 08:37
  - Yep and this season is also validating her point -- nm - eag Oct 28, 08:25
- Ravens get results -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:09
- that seemed insanely fast. -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 08:08 10
  - I have a feeling that this is just their initial filing - decline Oct 28, 08:26
  - Indeed. Like beyond what the court system is capable of fast -- nm - JD Oct 28, 08:23 8
    - If the two agree on everything, it can happen quite fast. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:27
    - Trump-level prenup = nothing to litigate -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:25 6
      - My divorce was done via a mediator and essentially there was no litigation but there was still a couple of weeks to have the paperwork filed with the - JD Oct 28, 08:27 5
        
        Well, the post just says that terms were settled. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:29 4
        
        No, Brady says "my wife and i finalized our divorce". But he might be misusing terms, of course. -- nm* - Andie Oct 28, 08:41 2
        
        They can both be true. My ex and I could have used that term to our friends and family (and I guess press if they'd cared) but legally we weren't - JD Oct 28, 08:49
        
        I could easily see in *his* mind that being agreed to terms. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:48
        
        Ah...that's true. It's Adam who applies the perhaps legally inaccurate headline -- nm - JD Oct 28, 08:32
- Pete Davidson be like -- (link) - Beaker Oct 28, 08:08
I think I know this, confirming though: If a stock has an ex-dividend date of 10/20 with a pay date of 10/30. If you sell on 10/25, you still get div? -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 08:07 3
- Yes -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 28, 08:13
- yes -- nm - decline Oct 28, 08:08
- Yes -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 08:08
Farhad Manjoo - We Finally Have One Cable to Rule Them All (why the USB-C is the Meryl Streep of cables) - crash davis Oct 28, 08:06 2
- That's how it is supposed to work. The current reality is that the actual cables, while having the universal USB-C connector, are not all the same -- (edited) - JD Oct 28, 08:19 1
  - but I don't want no Winona Ryder cable! -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 08:32
Next ST gathering? -- (link) - Spawn Oct 28, 08:05 3
- as close to Hookers And Crack as we'll get? -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 08:08 2
  - Indeed. I would suspect(hope) hookers would swarm the place! -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:14 1
    - Sigh, apparently the lake is fenced off from the public -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 10:55
breaking sitwap Intruder Assaults Nancy Pelosi’s Husband in Their San Francisco Home - crash davis Oct 28, 07:59 2
- Jeebus: The suspect attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer, two people briefed on the incident say (Paul is in his 80's) -- nm - decline Oct 28, 08:14
- ah, I see decline has that further below -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 08:00
Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash - crash davis Oct 28, 07:56
Due to web surfing via LMS' gimp post, I'm wondering what it must be like to be arrested on suspicion of gimping and not being the gimp. - JD Oct 28, 07:54
What Happened to Hu Jintao? The former Chinese leader was abruptly escorted out of a highly choreographed meeting of the Communist Party elite. H - crash davis Oct 28, 07:51 1
- nice knowing you Hu, I hope you enjoy that farm upstate -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 07:52
Kyiv’s forces press their advance in the south and work to hold off a Russian assault in the east. - crash davis Oct 28, 07:35 6
- Moscow adds 1,000 troops to defend the key city of Kherson, Ukraine’s military says. - crash davis Oct 28, 07:36 5
  - A government-connected Kremlin critic’s flight from Russia raises questions about who is still safe. - crash davis Oct 28, 07:37 4
    - Putin. Putin is safe. - Spawn Oct 28, 07:39 1
      - your IM made me laugh, because it is true -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 07:42
    - China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, offers robust support for Putin. - crash davis Oct 28, 07:38 1
      - A Pentagon strategy document outlines more dangerous challenges posed by Russia and China - crash davis Oct 28, 07:39
review - The Man Who Became the ‘Lion of the Senate’ John A. Farrell’s “Ted Kennedy” is a sympathetic take on a complex life. - crash davis Oct 28, 07:30
Google needs to immediately release a means of sharing embedded capsule headlines. I feel uncomfortable even reading headlines shared through Twitter. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 07:28 5
- Because the answer is Google scraping more websites and stealing their data? -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 08:04 1
  - Websites provide info summaries via Opengraph, and the robots file dictates whether they're willing to be scraped. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 08:10
- I'd like to understand more about what this means? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 07:52 2
  - The Twitter embeds on ST... I don't want to click them. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 08:18 1
    - so don't, ya snowflake -- nm - mud Oct 28, 08:32
Well, that was slightly concerning - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 28, 07:22
I see the changeover on Twitter is going well -- (link) - Jovian Oct 28, 07:16 4
- Trolls gonna troll. At least one of those accounts is already banned though so... -- nm - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 07:21 1
  - It was banned due to poor spelling, not content. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 07:52
- I wish the website blocker would block embeds as well. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 28, 07:21 1
  - If you're using adblock plus, you can add a custom filter of : slackertalk.com##.twitter-tweet - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 07:39
finished The Expanse Leviathan Falls. Great end to one of the best book series I have read. -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 07:09
*Sigh* CNN saying Republicans might flip 30 seats in the House—Wasn’t there supposed to be a big, Pro-Choice voting surge? Republicans paying for the - Flavorize Oct 28, 06:38 25
- MSNBC said 2 weeks ago that the trend of voters is switching to Republicans suddenly like *that* -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 11:29
- they're the Worker's Party now -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:20
- We’ll see. -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 28, 07:25
- The House has little control over whether people have the right to an abortion, US Senate and the states have that now -- nm - con_carne Oct 28, 07:23
- I'm holding out dwindling hope that polling is not to be trusted due to an increase in voter turnout. I guess we will see. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 28, 06:59 3
  - I'm personally not making any predictions. Just going to see how it plays out -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 07:00 2
    - I try not to ever make predictions, especially about the future -- nm - mud Oct 28, 07:06 1
      - Oh I have plenty of predictions. I just normally dont say them out loud because of jinxes. - Jovian Oct 28, 07:10
- Inflation/gas prices ('kitchen table economics' are always important) + heavy gerrymandering. - ty97 Oct 28, 06:59 2
  - our economy grew by 2.6% last quarter and unemployment is at a 50-year low. "economic anxiety" is just vaguesplaining what they really want to vote - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:28
  - Because raising kids you didn't want to have is cheap *taps finger to temple* -- nm - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 07:03
- no see gas is $4 -- nm - mafic Oct 28, 06:57
- Blue state dems are unperforming (people care only about inflation). Red state races are closer due to Roe. - MDH Oct 28, 06:56 2
  - Or maybe Red State Dems are closer to what the populace wants? -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 07:45 1
    - unrig all the districts first and then we'll see -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:10
- Voters have the attention span of a gnat. -- nm - Tim Oct 28, 06:43 8
  - Yep. Hopefully I'm wrong but seemingly the Democrats "peaked too early" -- nm - Dano Oct 28, 06:52
  - which is why the decision to overturn Roe was leaked by conservatives. - Jovian Oct 28, 06:45 6
    - Republicans being seen as champions of the working class is flabbergasting, to me. This time, people are choosing: cheaper bread>Social Security - Flavorize Oct 28, 06:52 5
      - its not that flabbergasting really. Its been proven that a large part of Americans want fascism. Or some are too apathetic to realize that's coming. -- nm - Jovian Oct 28, 06:54 4
        
        It's human nature (the Niemoller issue) and not just Americans. - decline Oct 28, 07:00 3
        
        Yep. I just never imagined it would be the Republican party to embrace it. -- nm - Jovian Oct 28, 07:08 2
        
        Alan Moore wrote a legendary comic series in 1985 based on the premise that Nixon never gave up the White House - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:12 1
        
        But at least then we got Doctor Manhattan. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:32
- Apparently the economy became a bigger worry again as those things happened "too long ago". (NM) - Marlowe Oct 28, 06:41
On October 30, 2002, a cancer-stricken Warren Zevon returned to the ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ stage for one last performance -- (link) - Beaker Oct 28, 06:32 1
- “You’re reminded to enjoy every sandwich and every minute playing with the guys, and being with the kids.” -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 06:38
watch out for potential Ant Man 3 spoilers out there on *blank* maybe cast as *blank* in it -- (edited) - Beaker Oct 28, 06:31 4
- That has been going around. Anything new/solid? -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 07:33 2
  - probably just the same rumours only somewhere where I spotted it :) -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 07:34 1
    - I have only seen him in the one role so my mental image of him is pretty much the opposite of the way I see Reed. - Spawn Oct 28, 08:41
- Oh, I *love* that. Please don't let it be an alt-universe version -- nm - TWuG Oct 28, 06:55
Framed: 3/6. Moviedle: 1/6. Actorle: X/8. - Marlowe Oct 28, 06:29
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do something: 'necrobotics’ -- (link) - decline Oct 28, 06:20 1
- Precursor to Universal Soldier? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 07:50
Kanye claims he lost $2 billion in a day -- (link) - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 28, 06:08 4
- Did he look behind the fridge? -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 07:48
- Time to fake another jewelry robbery -- nm - Flavorize Oct 28, 06:14
- Mike Lindell is impressed. -- nm - pmb Oct 28, 06:14
- A good start. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 28, 06:12
North Somerset 'gimp' sightings: Teen describes freaky encounter - LMS Oct 28, 06:08
Fuzzy's post last night and the recent work announcement that we would not be returning to office made me put in an application for this guy. -- (link) - Dano Oct 28, 06:05 1
- awesome -- nm - decline Oct 28, 06:07
Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked at the couple's home in San Francisco early Friday morning -- (link) - decline Oct 28, 06:05 2
- That couldnt be anything to do with how he is dragged through maga media could it? -- nm - Jovian Oct 28, 06:46
- hate this stuff, it's scary. -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 06:36
TV PSA: MLB, SWAT, Gold Rush, Capital One College Bowl, Penn & Teller, UnXplained, Fire Country, Who's Line is it Anyway?, Blue Bloods, AEW Rampage, -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 05:58 6
- UK has finales of Ghosts, Am I Being Unreasonable, Prof T, as well as Celebrity Gogglebox, Graham Norton -- nm - LMS Oct 28, 06:10
- Big Mouth, Acapulco, Run Sweetheart Run, Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues, Devil's Hour, Central Park, Jon Stewart, Shantaram, Frankenstein Chronicles, -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 06:00 3
  - Garcia!, Drink Masters, Bastard Son & the Devil Himself, Great British Baking Show, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, Chris Wallace, -- nm* - Beaker Oct 28, 06:01 2
    - All Quiet on the Western Front, Wendell & Wild, Shards of Her, Wild is the Wind, Resurrection, Becoming Abi, Lincoln Project, Graham Norton, -- (edited) - Beaker Oct 28, 06:03 1
      - 2) All Quiet on the Western Front and Garcia! (if we get it) -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 06:17
- Go Phillies!!! -- nm - decline Oct 28, 06:00
This is excellent -- (link) - decline Oct 28, 05:31 1
- Wow -- nm - Epiphany Oct 28, 08:14
Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years -- (link) - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 28, 05:30 3
- I will not comment on geometric modern art. .... today -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 07:25
- damn climate activists! -- nm - Dano Oct 28, 05:42
- Ha! -- nm - Krusty Oct 28, 05:35
4/6 - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 28, 05:04 11
- 4 - 496 - GregW Oct 28, 10:59
- 4 - rollo Oct 28, 08:28
- 4/6 - Marlowe Oct 28, 06:40
- 4/6 - TWuG Oct 28, 06:16
- Same - spamlet Oct 28, 05:55
- Almost lost it. 6/6 - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 05:42
- 4 - decline Oct 28, 05:37
- Waffle 3/5 - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 28, 05:09 3
  - 2 - spamlet Oct 28, 05:56
  - 1/5 - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 05:51
  - 2/5 - decline Oct 28, 05:41
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 28, 04:10 [Attachment] 1
- LEFTNIC - The alias used when trolling those who believe a certain big lie -- nm - .🎃 Oct 28, 04:32
Prince Harry is releasing a memoir? And it is called "Spare"? Pre-ordering time!! -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 04:06
wake up! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 28, 03:31 1
- How did you do that -- nm - con_carne Oct 28, 03:40
Can't you hear me knockin'? Ahh, are you safe asleep? Can't you hear me knockin'? Yeah, down the gas light street, now -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 02:09

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