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Casey Neistat’s NYC Marathon video demonstrates how popular he is, at least in NYC. - Mop Nov 9, 22:30 [youtube]
Nevada Senate update -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 22:25
Dominic West as Prince Chuck in 1991 looks like he’s 60 -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 21:52 3
- He looks like he could play John Cena's dad. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 22:10 2
  - especially compared to the kid from seasons 3/4 it’s *jarring* how un-Charles he looks -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 22:12 1
    - West looks distinctly Welsh to me, and Rhys Ifans (actually Welsh) looks like he'd be closer to Charles. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 22:15
Not as flashy as other races but key to the majority. WA-3, where a pro impeachment R was primaried out and the new candidate is losing. -- (link) - Tim Nov 9, 21:40
Finished reading "The Collectors", next up: The Gray Man -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 21:35
shorter Mark Cuban: hey dumbass . . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 21:27 2
- I don’t understand what he’s saying and when I tried to decipher it, I… Zzzzzzzz -- nm - Mop Nov 9, 22:43 1
  - Translation for Mop please? I believe the usual Twitter languages are Takedownian or Clapback-ese. -- nm - con_carne Nov 10, 04:33
Avenue 5 spoils - Beryllium Nov 9, 21:20 1
- Ooh, spoils - Beryllium Nov 9, 21:31
I love this tweet, maybe too much. -- (link) - The Gossip King Nov 9, 20:59
Tried recording another video today, but not at all happy with the audio and the setting I chose. I'd have been better off just recording video of the - Beryllium Nov 9, 20:47
Just looking at ballot measures now. What do the Dakotas have against marijuana? -- nm - Dano Nov 9, 20:04 4
- They are a bunch of sticks in the mud -- nm - rollo Nov 10, 06:12
- the hoopleheads! -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 20:17
- With their four Senators, they have power what need of weed. -- nm - con_carne Nov 9, 20:16
- It's all about their beef with the Simpsons writers room, by proxy -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 20:05
Anyone else know their vote prolly hasn't been counted/certified yet? I sent my ballot business reply mail on Friday. -- nm* - con_carne Nov 9, 19:59 4
- for sure. mine wasn’t mailed until the weekend. I signed up for the tracking dealio, only shows it was sent to me. — nm - b. Nov 9, 20:23
- Mine was mailed on Oct 18, received and counted the next day. Likely it's taking a little longer just now. 'course that was O.C. too :) -- nm - Meg Nov 9, 20:09 2
  - Is all the info a service of your registrar? -- nm - con_carne Nov 9, 20:38 1
    - I'm not sure what the process was. I think I'm signed up with the State and the county registrar. - Meg Nov 9, 21:04
poor Sarah Palin just can't catch a break. remember when people thought she was a good politician? good times, good times. -- nm - mafic Nov 9, 19:22
NYT Xword: Best ever Thursday time of 13:37 (average Thursday is 27:32) -- (edited) - prayformojo Nov 9, 19:19
If things go well, I'll finally be caught up with work by close of business. - The Gossip King Nov 9, 19:19 1
- I want to ask you a question about work at some point (my brother's looking for ideas on how best to put his journalism education to work ...). - Beryllium Nov 9, 20:00
My bus driver just called my mom. I left my phone on the bus today and mama was my phone emergency contact. Heh. -- nm - con_carne Nov 9, 19:01 1
- That's very nice of them. I lost my wallet briefly yesterday at Starbucks. Came back and they had it behind the counter. - Qale Nov 9, 19:17
my bluetooth headphones make on/off sounds best described as "fwinnngggg!" and "fwonnnggg!" the difference is obvious when you hear them in succession - mafic Nov 9, 18:56 1
- My BT earbuds sound like Kim. "Device connected!" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 19:11
oooh, nerd alert! magnetic, grid, and true north all aligned in Britain last week for the first time ever. -- (link) - mafic Nov 9, 18:52 1
- Magexit! Brace for the flip! -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 19:11
"NO. SMOKING." -- (link) - Max Nov 9, 18:50 2
- Imagine if you were smoking a cigar -- nm - Flavorize Nov 10, 04:41
- Do NOT try this at home! -- nm - Mop Nov 9, 19:18
Andor: Stellan Skarsgard performance is nothing short of amazing. he's needs a nomination. -- nm - Remlik Nov 9, 18:41 2
- Tangent: The LAT did a fun "There's gonna be Oscar nominee Jerry Bruckheimer" piece for Top Gun Maverick -- (link) - con_carne Nov 9, 20:48
- He's one of those guys who makes it look easy. And it isn't. -- nm - .🐢 Nov 9, 19:26
Nuggets-Pacers was dysfunctional. Score at end of quarters -- (edited) - prayformojo Nov 9, 18:33 4
- this Pacer team is fun. -- nm - Remlik Nov 9, 18:42 2
  - 14 for 42 from 3 is fun?!? -- nm - prayformojo Nov 9, 18:43 1
    - young young team. Lots to learn. -- nm - Remlik Nov 9, 18:46
- That's like a DTL game in its swinginess. -- nm - Sub-baroner Nov 9, 18:41
18-month 0% APR balance transfer with a fee of 2.99%. 18-month CD with a 4.16% APY - znufrii Nov 9, 18:28
Damn, Andor is really good at what it does. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 18:21 2
- CJ looked at me when the episode ended and said "This. This is what I wanted out of Star Wars." -- nm - Remlik Nov 9, 18:50 1
  - Absolutely. Fan service is a sugar rush but this satiates. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 18:56
Gold coin discovered in Newfoundland could be oldest English coin in Canada -- (link) - Beaker Nov 9, 18:21 3
- nice -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 9, 18:41
- Must have washed up from Oak Island ;) -- nm - Meg Nov 9, 18:31
- cool. -- nm - mud Nov 9, 18:27
The Post: -- (link) - mud Nov 9, 18:17 7
- I definitely encourage GOP insiders to turn on Trump, that'll go well and he'll disappear quietly -- nm - Reagen Nov 9, 18:20 6
  - I'm confident they'll resolve this like grownups. -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 9, 18:24 5
    - They seem a bit stuck. They need his supporters and he’s a negative at the same time. -- nm - Dano Nov 9, 18:33 4
      - "No One Forced Republicans To Do Any Of These Things" -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 18:38 3
        
        Can anyone c&p this? -- nm - Diva Nov 9, 19:27 2
        
        pour vous - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 19:31 1
        
        Thx! -- nm - Diva Nov 9, 19:33
Steve gets it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 18:07 7
- it's almost like he has a movie opening in the next couple of weeks in theatres... -- nm - Beaker Nov 9, 18:34 1
  - Avatar? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 18:35
- The only thing sensible audiences should have learned from going to see Elvis in theaters is that there are better quality options at home. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 18:27 1
  - the Vegas half, where the Colonel mostly disappears, is pretty swell -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 18:36
- I got an HBO Max survey the other day. One of the questions was whether I preferred day and date or delayed release. It was an easy call. -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 9, 18:23 1
  - another reason to restore the window -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 18:36
- I listened to his frrrrrresh air today and found him super humble and genuine. I like him more today than I did yesterday. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Nov 9, 18:14
Live from L.A. He just plowed through an intersection hitting a number of cars and into a gas pump. Shots fired. -- (link) - Meg Nov 9, 18:03 1
- Which car chase, there's a half dozen to choose -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 9, 18:27
"Oh my god, will they be tortured?" "No. They'll just be held in the same room. So ... yes." -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 18:03
wap? "Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to provide free meals for all public school students, according to a call from The Associated Press." - prayformojo Nov 9, 17:38 2
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Nov 9, 17:54
- But if we don't let children go hungry how will they learn to not be poor? -- nm - some Fox News asshole, probably Nov 9, 17:45
fortuitously, Michael Lewis has apparently been following around the FTX dude for his next book -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 17:31 2
- Suggested title: No Moneyball -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 9, 17:42 1
  - Run When You See Me -- nm - Reagen Nov 9, 17:49
Chris Sununu: We can fix policy later. We’re going fix crazy now. -- nm - Dano Nov 9, 17:22 1
- Good luck. -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 18:06
Did we see this Washington Commanders statement about tomorrow—F’ing gross - Flavorize Nov 9, 17:19 1
- The stories that come out about this after the fact are gonna make Wolf of Wall Street look like a restrained think piece on investor relations. -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 9, 17:22
do you ever watch a show and then can't finish it cause you don't want it to be over? -- nm - Beaker Nov 9, 17:09 9
- I haven't seen the last several episodes of better off Ted. I'm saving them. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Nov 9, 17:45 4
  - The second-to-last one is the show's best. The workers get swag for doing their jobs well. Phil and Lem hack it. -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 9, 17:48 2
    - I'm saving them for a really bad day!!! -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Nov 9, 18:15 1
      - If you didn't watch them between 2016 and 2020 you probably never will. - the wrong element Nov 9, 22:07
  - Oh I also haven't finished you're the worst. Samesies. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Nov 9, 17:46
- I didn’t watch season 2 of Scrotal Recall because season 1 was perfection. -- nm - Dano Nov 9, 17:25
- Wonderfalls -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 9, 17:22
- I've never seen the final episode of Almost Human -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 17:22 1
  - Save yourself. That was a painfully bittersweet goodbye. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 17:23
not my observation but it's dead accurate: runoff votes are ranked choice with hundreds of millions of dollars of extra spending -- nm - Reagen Nov 9, 17:08 3
- We'll make the religious right vote against a reverend twice. -- nm - con_carne Nov 9, 19:33
- campaign staff have families too, Reagen. -- nm - mafic Nov 9, 17:17
- it's also no coincidence that these runoffs happen almost exclusively in the Jim Crow states -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 17:11
very cool system where 65% of the votes gets you 89% of the seats -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 17:08
Rachael is on again. thank you MSNBC -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 9, 17:07
Dad worked his local polling place, asked him how it went. - Tim Nov 9, 17:04
Maybe I should decorate my bike with Christmas lights -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 17:01 1
- I mean, not until after the 11th, or maybe not until December -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 17:02
There's...a lot going on in this article. -- (link) - znufrii Nov 9, 16:52
FWIW, I think the best person on the Dems bench for 2024 if it's not Biden is Buttigieg. -- nm - Reagen Nov 9, 16:51 5
- I bet that's where Beto goes next. -- nm - mafic Nov 9, 17:01 2
  - He can't run for anything anymore (neither can Abrams) so I'd imagine they end up in Cabinet jobs soon enough. -- nm - Tim Nov 9, 17:07 1
    - It's true. If beto could win anything, he could be president. He can't win anything. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Nov 9, 18:16
- depending how much you think it hurts v. helps him . . . the Bernie wing *despises* him, at least based on how he ran in 2020 - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 16:58
- he continues to do his go-everywhere thing, keeping himself nicely visible. nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 9, 16:55
Here’s Wassermann on Bobert’s seat -- (link) - spamlet Nov 9, 16:42 9
- No lies noted -- (link) - spamlet Nov 9, 17:00 3
  - On Season 11 of VEEP... -- nm - Reagen Nov 9, 17:05 2
    - “I guess it might be a gain for OnlyFans.” -- (link) - mud Nov 9, 17:41 1
      - Gross -- nm - spamlet Nov 9, 17:50
- I'm leaning towards her winning by literally a few hundred votes. - Tim Nov 9, 16:55 4
  - You say the IM like it’s a bad thing 😂 -- nm - spamlet Nov 9, 16:59 3
    - fair, though someone (not here, just in general) is gonna be mad online over how he votes if he wins. -- nm - Tim Nov 9, 17:00 2
      - Oh people here will be too. -- nm - spamlet Nov 9, 17:00 1
        
        He could sit in Congress wearing a diaper and a napoleon hat and I’d still prefer him to her. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 9, 17:29
Thinking of the snack/sandwich thread on B2. How many had Grandmas that kept a crock beside the stove for the grease (drippings) from the roast, etc.? - Meg Nov 9, 16:23 16
- Mine did, but that was for cooking. The goose or duck grease at the holidays was for slathering on good rye or pumpernickel. -- nm - . Nov 9, 18:39
- I remember my grandma and one of her four close friends named Betty having a long angry conversation about lard on bread, how much better than buter - mafic Nov 9, 17:42
- My mother did that. But she’d use it to roast the potatoes with. -- nm - Roger More Nov 9, 17:29
- We had an old coffee can but it was not for re-using but throwing away. -- nm* - Krusty Nov 9, 17:25
- we had a bacon can...but never used the goo at the bottom. -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 9, 17:02
- We actually used to render the grease from the mutton kidney fat to use in frying and baking. Guess that would be similar to lard? -- nm - Meg Nov 9, 17:02
- nope -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 9, 16:41
- hell yeah. we made gravy out of that stuff. -- nm - Remlik Nov 9, 16:27
- I just threw up a little in my mouth -- nm - TWuG Nov 9, 16:26
- Heck yeah. Grams taught me well. - ReluctantCynic Nov 9, 16:25 6
  - I reserve bacon grease, but I can't use it when cooking for the vegetarians in my home. - psilotum Nov 9, 16:35 5
    - That is the challenge. Luckily, my mom and her friends are not vegetarians. At least not committed ones anyway. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 9, 16:36 4
      - Currently, we have one keto-ish, one omnivore, one pescatarian, one vegetarian with very specific preferences. - psilotum Nov 9, 16:39 3
        
        "We're having this. When you learn to cook, you can make something you like." - Sub-baroner Nov 9, 16:45 1
        
        "The problem is too much democracy." -- nm - Max Nov 9, 16:56
        
        Good Lord ... - ReluctantCynic Nov 9, 16:44
CRIME CRIME CRIME - ty97 Nov 9, 16:10 2
- Crime Time? -- nm - Strongbad Nov 9, 16:47
- ~ crime crime crime, see what's become of me ~ -- (link*) - Beryllium Nov 9, 16:43
the Biden White House should hire Sophie Ota tomorrow and give her the keys to his social media accounts -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 15:58 1
- yup -- nm - Remlik Nov 9, 16:17
Picking up McDonalds on an ebike in 1°C weather -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 15:40 4
- Feels like it's taking longer for curbside pickup than it did to ride here -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 15:43 3
  - maybe you should get your town to pass a lawn requiring them to be faster! -- nm - Remlik Nov 9, 16:25
  - Delivery drivers complain that McD doesn't start making an order until the driver shows up. So always a wait...unpaid too. -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 9, 16:21 1
    - Yes, not an issue for me. I was just cold. 😂 -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 16:38
Mastodon warning -- (link) - spamlet Nov 9, 15:39 [mastodon] 1
- Just like Twitter. Even moreso, the original Twitter dm implementation. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 15:40
Whitmer is funny -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 9, 15:35
*snork* faux Rudy checkmarked account strikes well. nm but: -- (link*) - b. Nov 9, 15:29
Posting again. Looking for honest feedback, what else should I address, what should I remove. - landbeck Nov 9, 15:19 2
- Oh, Landbeck. <hug> I have to run, it's dinner time, but I hope to be able to say something more meaningful later. -- nm - mara Nov 9, 15:24 1
  - No rush. Be honest, and honesty can take time. -- nm - landbeck Nov 9, 15:43
Dolla bills, y'all. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 9, 15:17

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