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why do I suspect that Fox N*** suddenly isn’t going to think crime in SF is so bad, actually -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 11:15 1
- What, a friendly visit and chat? The crime in the streets of San Francisco is the parking tickets the Maga got during the visit -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 11:18
I felt this tweet in my bones -- (link) - ty97 Oct 28, 11:13 2
- *nods* We are living this now as my wife's mother suffers with Alzheimer's. I'm learning how to be a comfort to her as she goes through this - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 11:26
- Yeah, most mornings I have a pause before waking mom up, to see if she is still breathing... -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 11:20
Roadhouse broken down to all the fight scenes. The commentary is great -- (link) - Jovian Oct 28, 11:02
2 years in, Defector continues to do well. -- (link) - Tim Oct 28, 10:59 2
- Alley Lede fees? -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 11:19 1
  - I think that's the company / service that provides the actual nuts and bolts of the site. -- (link) - JD Oct 28, 11:23
How 'mule watchers' evolved from a Truth Social meme into a ballot drop box patrol -- (link) - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 10:55
Tom Brady had apparently never been two games under .500 until last night. Giselle divorced him the following day. - The Allfather Oct 28, 10:40 4
- "I was gone three hours! Are you asking for a divorce?" "Yay! Two Christmases!" -- (link) - Max Oct 28, 11:00 [youtube]
- Naw, I think he unretired when she told him she was leaving last year. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 10:46
- No longer a winner in her mind. CAR@ATL for the NFC South Lead this Sunday -- nm* - budice Oct 28, 10:42
- the poor guy's entire world is crumbling -- nm - decline Oct 28, 10:41
Twitter Engineers being fired via Zoom Meeting -- (link) - budice Oct 28, 10:35 2
- At least it isn't by tweet -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 11:22
- The execs fired last night are walking away with around $200M between the 3 of them -- nm - decline Oct 28, 10:37
more hot mics, Brian Kemp willing to entertain contraception ban in Georgia -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 10:24
Meanwhile this is where the maga media is at with Paul Pelosi. Maybe it was a false flag? -- (link) - Jovian Oct 28, 10:24
I redid all of my subscriptions and now I just realize I may have cut myself off from the World Series. But you know what I haven't done in years? - crash davis Oct 28, 10:23 10
- Can probably get the local radio broadcasts through an app like Audicy. And, like Kilbo said, it's probably broadcast "over the air" on a localish ES - zunk takes things literally Oct 28, 10:48 1
  - I hadn't heard of Audicy (I'm not a big app guy) so I'll have that as a back up plan. Thanks -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 10:52
- btw, when it was the Cubs, I just signed up for a trial of SlingTV and that worked for me to see the games even though I lacked a cable sub -- nm - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 10:32 4
  - I was looking it that this morning. I think most are doing 1 week trials now -- nm - decline Oct 28, 10:36
  - I didn't even think of trial offer & cancel. That is officer thinking! -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 10:35 2
    - Even better if you have multiple email addresses to use or don't feel bad about making them to use them. You can chain together trials if it goes - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 10:37 1
      - I appreciate it -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 10:53
- I’d offer my mlb login but it looks like tv and radio are both blacked out (at least here in Peru) -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 10:31 1
  - Thanks, I'm definitely getting MLB again next year. I appreciate the thought -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 10:34
- Seems ESPN radio is the way to go either AM or online/app -- nm - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 10:31
possibly the (incoherent) blog ramblings of the man identified as attempting to assassinate the Speaker of the House -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 10:19 2
- Have to wonder if these mentality fragile incels are being weaponized...it seems like the Ring video only watch a few ... - zeitgeist Oct 28, 10:39
- You say that like there is a such thing as coherent blog ramblings. (*links my post again*) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 10:26
Oct. 28th birthdays: Joan Plowright (93), Annie Potts (70), Julia Roberts (55), Joaquin Phoenix (48), Frank Ocean (35) - Max Oct 28, 10:17 [youtube] 2
- "We got one!!" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 10:25
- I wanna see Julia Roberts & Matt Smith in a Jake Kasdan picture -- (link) - mud Oct 28, 10:22
heh, "It's like when all the traps get re-opened in ghostbusters." -- (link) - mud Oct 28, 10:15 6
- The moment they say something legally actionable and Twitter doesn't ban them, Twitter's in legal doo-doo. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 10:33 3
  - Section 230 disagrees -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 10:36 2
    - which will be fun to see the pivot on among the Foxerati. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 10:50
    - Section 230 protects internet service providers so long as they take action when they are alerted to illegal content on their service. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 10:37
- it will be the perfect storm...of swindling -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 10:21
- I was trying to think of this exact analogy last night (see also Con Air) -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 10:18
Jets rule WR Corey Davis out vs. Patriots due to knee injury -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 10:11 2
- Damn. He's been a favorite of Zach's -- nm - Krusty Oct 28, 10:44
- CAR RB Chuba Hubbard OUT -- nm - budice Oct 28, 10:11
Example 1 of why the MSN news feed needs to do better: TikTok influencer and mum 'murdered two men in car crash over sex tape blackmail' -- (link*) - Mop Oct 28, 10:08 6
- Don’t read MSN? -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 10:16
- I had to look up what a Skoda Fabia was -- nm - decline Oct 28, 10:12 1
  - That's the hot new goaltender crash was talking about -- nm - prayformojo Oct 28, 10:14
- Example 2 of why the MSN news feed needs to do better: Vegas Woman Who Said She’s Too ‘Pretty’ to Be Arrested Is Arrested for Killing Her Mom -- (link) - Mop Oct 28, 10:09 2
  - i mean, you could stop giving clicks to those stories which they read as engagement then make more of them? -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 10:11
  - Bustami? Really? -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 10:11
Sam Heughan: Going Full Frontal for ‘Outlander‘ Was ’Unnecessary‘ and Betrayed ’My Trust in the Creative Team’ - Mop Oct 28, 10:07
I think Jerry Lee Lewis did just actually pass away. -- (link) - Andie Oct 28, 10:03 3
- NPR reports..now I feel real loose like a long neck goose -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 11:11
- Did you feel a disturbance in the force? -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 10:06
- V confirms -- (link) - budice Oct 28, 10:04
Products with lifetime warranties. Good to remember as we head into Christmas gift giving season -- (link) - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 10:02 2
- Le Creuset pots, I scorched mom's first one she had 30 years. I thought they would refinish it, they sent a new one back. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 11:16
- I swear by Darn Tough socks. They're pretty much all I wear in the winter. -- nm - Krusty Oct 28, 10:46
JWST: Full resolution pic of the Pillars of Creation -- (link) - decline Oct 28, 09:48 [Image] 10
- That’s a great metal album cover. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 28, 10:04 2
  - sci-fi book cover too -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 10:11 1
    - and title, if it hasn't already been used -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 10:16
- Note: This is the MIRI image. For comparison, this is the full resolution (152MB) NIRCam version -- (link) - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 09:56 [Image]
- Gimmee those pillars. I want that pillar -- nm - RDENI Oct 28, 09:55
- Wow -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 28, 09:53
- that is just magnificent -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 09:49 3
  - I'm so glad this project worked. It is truly remarkable -- nm - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 09:59 2
    - I read about NASA deciding which projects to fund and I'm like "Fund them all!" I know that is unrealistic, but they hit homers. - crash davis Oct 28, 10:06 1
      - Though if they have to take money from anything in the future, I'd suggest they move SLS to fixed price contracts like they did with Starliner -- nm - JD Oct 28, 11:20
So how long before this federal judge gets attacked in his home?? - Jovian Oct 28, 09:48 2
- Is this on Twitter already or still TS -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 10:44
- that's disgusting! what an asshole -- nm - mud Oct 28, 10:00
TB Bucs' LB Shaq Barrett suffered a torn Achilles. Done for the year. -- nm* - budice Oct 28, 09:47
Hugh - Music Man Logan - Jackman claiming he couldn't keep up with Sandra Bullock? That's b.s. -- (link) - Mop Oct 28, 09:42 1
- I can buy that at that time. He hadn’t shown anything yet and she was Sandra Bullock. She knew her shtick as solidly as anyone. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 28, 09:44
GM delays plan to build 400k EVs in NA because of battery supply issues (6 month delay) -- (link*) - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 09:39 2
- "We're just not seeing consumer demand for EV products" -- nm - GM in six months Oct 28, 09:53
- Competition is coming... eventually. Maybe. -- nm - TWuG Oct 28, 09:50
PSA: another early London game Sunday. get your picks and FF teams in -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 09:37 1
- Thx. I'm debating starting Gordon (DEN RB) who goes at 8:30am. He's been real hit or miss though my other options there aren't stellar -- (edited) - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 09:51
please correct if I am wrong, but none of the Houston batters who benefitted from the stolen signals got punished, just coaches & mgmt, right? -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 09:23 7
- They didn’t punish them because no one would talk otherwise. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 28, 09:24 6
  - So they could still get in the Hall of Fame but a sports better could not. -- nm - Max Oct 28, 09:56 1
    - Yeah. But we got 100 years of cheats in the HoF. Look up how many hitters took greenies. (amphetamines). There were spitballers - Will Hunting Oct 28, 10:02
  - ABAB! - zunk takes things literally Oct 28, 09:43
  - bah! -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 09:30 2
    - Let’s be honest…most teams cheated. Houston just did it better with better. - Will Hunting Oct 28, 09:34 1
      - I'm still rooting for Philadelphia and Bryce "should have been a Brave" Harper -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 09:42
SITV news network: A new survey finds that 69% of streaming users agree there are too many services and 58% feel overwhelmed by the amount of content -- (link) - decline Oct 28, 09:03 12
- The excess of content is an interesting effect of moving away from linear television. Not limited to essentially 15 hours of programming per week per "station" -- nm* - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 09:35
- I can comfortably settle on amount of content but I'm frustrated when I hear I should watch something and then have to find it - Max Oct 28, 09:21 5
  - Google or Roku search makes it easy in some cases -- nm - budice Oct 28, 09:29
  - honestly that is a big issue - especially because all you people are the best source of 'what to watch' - decline Oct 28, 09:23
  - The "digital TV guide" silver bullet remains remarkably elusive. - Mop Oct 28, 09:23 2
    - I have a tab open for "JustWatch" but I've yet to sign up/ use it. -- (link) - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 09:31 1
      - I use it a lot -- nm - decline Oct 28, 09:35
- Recombination of secondary players in the marketplace that combine to create something greater -- nm - Bob Chapek Oct 28, 09:13 2
  - go back to looting David & Kim's retirement funds, you hack -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 09:57 1
    - Want some Mouse Ears? We are right by Creations Shop. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 28, 10:36
- I could see that response. Won't be paying full price for most of them when promos expire. Im good with VUDU collection and Prime Vid -- nm - budice Oct 28, 09:09
- nice -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 09:05
SFPD believes the Pelosi assault was targeted and the intruder was ultimately looking for Speaker Pelosi -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:57 9
- Why is America so divided? and why hasn't Biden been able to bridge divides as he promised to do?? -- nm* - Fox News Oct 28, 09:20 1
  - ugh -- nm - mud Oct 28, 09:20
- Honestly, I figured -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 09:15
- "false flag! he's a plant from the DNC looking to boost the congressional vote!" -- nm - MAGA rando Oct 28, 09:08
- Last newsstory on him was a DUI a few months back. -- nm - budice Oct 28, 09:05
- holy crap. He was shouting "where's Nancy!" -- nm* - mud Oct 28, 09:02 2
  - obviously just another Normal Tourist Visit -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 09:07
  - the-shining.gif -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 09:05
- So do most of us. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:58
Weekend Plans ? -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 08:50 35
- Absolutely nothing. So, maybe replacing all of ST's web servers (Marvin) with the new one (ichabod) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 09:33 2
  - Horsemen > Martians? -- nm - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 10:19
  - And pumpkin carving -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 10:09
- World Series, some housework, hoping I get outbid -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 09:24
- Try and see Barbarian and/or Triangle of Sadness, clear my PVR a bit. -- nm - LMS Oct 28, 09:24
- Heading to Florida to see my parents! -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 09:13
- PIL tomorrow and yardwork/NFL Sunday -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 09:08
- Survive the election. Lots of praying before Sunday and after, too. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 28, 09:07
- Election protection work. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 28, 09:04
- Yardwork -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 28, 08:56 1
  - Yeah, Fall was slow until a rain we had a few days ago. Now about 50% of the leaves are down. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 09:01
- Halloween retro party tomorrow (going as Lucky Star Madonna because i am too busy for anything else.) And other boring life-catch-up things. -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 08:53 6
  - That's a lazy costume for you? -- nm - JD Oct 28, 08:55 5
    - heh, yeah, it is. -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 08:56 4
      - Heh, yeah. I can easily summon several 80s entertainer looks. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 09:00 3
        
        the mullet makes it easy, right? -- nm - decline Oct 28, 09:31 2
        
        I will have it known that my hair has always been longer on top than in the back. Long or short, it has always been anti-mullet. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 11:21
        
        plus his keytar -- nm - crash davis Oct 28, 09:33
- Going to Morongo to meet up with FH's aunt for a birthday dinner -- nm* - JD Oct 28, 08:53 1
  - One does not simply walk into Morongo. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:57
- Nothing tonight. Media team breakfast tomorrow. Neighbor chili cookout tomorrow night. Sunday church (bells) + confirmation services (sound) -- nm - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 08:53 4
  - what are you cooking? -- nm - decline Oct 28, 08:56 3
    - Nothing actually. This is our first year and apparently they do a sign up to cook (anyone can come eat). There probably won't be any gluten-free vegan - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 09:02 2
      - moocher! -- nm - decline Oct 28, 09:03 1
        
        sing it, brother -- (link) - kilbooooooo Oct 28, 09:06 [youtube]
- fucking cleaning -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 28, 08:52 2
  - lady? -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 08:54 1
    - He just forgot the comma. -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 08:56
- Macchu Picchu! (if I don’t die from altitude sickness first) -- nm - spamlet Oct 28, 08:50 6
  - (O.O) -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 10:50
  - Awesome! -- nm - Krusty Oct 28, 10:48
  - Dude, stop living our best lives. You're making us look bad. -- nm - Mop Oct 28, 09:13
  - Have fun! (Don't die!) -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 09:13
  - Woot! -- nm - JD Oct 28, 08:52
  - amazing!!! -- nm - Andie Oct 28, 08:52

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