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now! -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 09:48
Hope Hicks finally found the idiot willing to give her another paycheck -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 09:45 4
- Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, hate me cause I'm throwing in with neo nazis and helping install an authoritarian dictator -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 10:16
- We all could use an in-house mattress at work. -- nm - Jovian Jan 31, 09:48
- She works hard for the money. -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 09:47 1
  - For whatever reason, I don't find her totally useless -- nm - budice Jan 31, 09:47
ThankYou Update: Our 2 friends (Flagship Romance and Kristopher James) made it to the final 5 for the Beach Boys cruise. Thanks for voting! -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 31, 09:40
You all laughed, but: I did not have cheesecake yesterday. Consequently, I was .6lb heavier this morning than yesterday -- nm - prayformojo Jan 31, 09:40
Coaches fired after 22-year-old assistant girls basketball coach impersonates 13-year-old JV player -- (link) - JD Jan 31, 09:39 1
- heh, we always joked about having my oldest do that when I coached the youngest teams -- nm* - Beaker Jan 31, 09:40
On the lists of pain, I'd like to discuss where the following falls: - Beaker Jan 31, 09:38
Whoa! We have snow flakes! -- nm - decline Jan 31, 09:36 2
- *grumble* -- nm - prayformojo Jan 31, 09:37
- Lucky -- nm - sycor Jan 31, 09:36
There is a gay club opening a block and a half from my house. Their description of theme is so insane I have no idea what to say. - MDH Jan 31, 09:34 6
- That seems so...80s -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 10:18
- I see it either failing immediately or having to pivot to the tried and true leather/Levi crowd. -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 09:43 1
  - Zachary "Leather" Levi? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 09:45
- gas mask is the new bag over the head for uggos -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 09:39
- it's that club from Mthreegan 2.0 -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 09:37
- I just picture a bunch of shirtless guys with tats and shaved heads wearing leather pants and jumping around to techo and strobe lights. - sycor Jan 31, 09:36
Speaking of The Last of Us -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 31, 09:20 [mastodon]
Well, getting back on track. ComEd says this month I saved $50 being on the hourly pricing plan - oblique Jan 31, 09:17 1
- I know you have solar and sell some back (I think) to the power company. But do you have batteries for your house? -- (edited) - sycor Jan 31, 09:32
I just cancelled disco plus since the content will all be moving to HBO Max this spring. the guy was like "you'll miss so much content!" - judge indianapolis jones Jan 31, 09:14 11
- What about Chip and Joanna’s 67 shows before then! -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 09:46
- Even if you subscribe, apparently you’ll miss so much content when they take it off. -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 09:44
- Now I want to see what shows would be streaming on Disco+. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 31, 09:17 2
  - DILF Battle, MILF Manor, GMILF House, GFILF Isthmus -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 09:34
  - Saturday Night Fever Island -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 09:22
- "I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob." -- nm - Max Jan 31, 09:15
- they made you talk to a person to cancel? - decline Jan 31, 09:15 4
  - I had to chat them. the cancel button wasn't working. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Jan 31, 09:16 2
    - Paramount did the same thing. It was grayed out. That is some BS -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 09:18 1
      - bug vs feature -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 09:19
  - Right? -- nm - The Allfather Jan 31, 09:15
written in the freshly fallen snow in the courtyard just below my window this AM: '♡ Have a good day' -- nm - mud Jan 31, 09:05 3
- (It is from Asha) -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 09:11
- That would be nice if it wasn't yellow snow. -- nm - sycor Jan 31, 09:10
- nice. :) -- nm - Andie Jan 31, 09:10
A 23-year-old woman in Germany...found a lookalike on Instagram and killed her, in order to stage her own death and “start a new life,” -- (link) - decline Jan 31, 09:05 8
- What was the plan, was she going to assume the other's identity? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 10:26
- Gone Girl on steroids... -- nm - Diva Jan 31, 09:32
- This is literally a major plot point to the JK Simmons thriller Counterpart. -- nm - Mop Jan 31, 09:26 1
  - I started watching that but wandered away for some reason -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 09:36
- That’s…chilling. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 31, 09:12 1
  - FB bought Insta, so, evil. -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 09:13
- ... well that's horrifying. I thought crap like that would be the stuff of dime store pulp novels by this point in time. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 09:07
- and at the same time monkeys are missing from the Dallas zoo? Huh. -- nm - prayformojo Jan 31, 09:06
Getting my money’s worth out of my GEICO roadside assistance coverage today -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 31, 09:05 8
- what are you doing that your battery dies every 3 years? -- nm - decline Jan 31, 09:06 7
  - You really don’t want to know. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 31, 09:08
  - In my case: the pandemic killed my batteries. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 09:07 5
    - (YET ANOTHER reason why The Last Of Us is perfect) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 09:08 4
      - oh you mean like in WD how there's working cars, car batteries and gasoline almost 10 years after the fall? :) -- nm - Jovian Jan 31, 09:17 3
        
        TLOU spoilers for the first three episodes - Beryllium Jan 31, 09:20 1
        
        The show learned much from TWD. -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 09:26
        
        roll start! -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 09:20
finally getting to Get Back (on the rooftop anniversary) Billy Preston showing up is a Han-coming back-for-Luke level plot turn -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 09:00 2
- 100% I think it saved them to at least keep it together for Abbey Road. -- nm - Remlik Jan 31, 09:06
- Agreed. May need to rewatch it. -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 09:02
one of them lottos was over $600m last i saw, just sayin -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 08:49 1
- and i won a whole $2 on it last week on the random $2 I spent on it. - tRuMaN Jan 31, 08:51
Release the Kraken -- (pic) - crash davis Jan 31, 08:47 [Attachment]
"Stripperweb, a twenty-year-old forum for sex workers, is shutting down. No one knows why." - Beryllium Jan 31, 08:46 1
- effin' supply chain. -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 08:46
I used ChatGPT yesterday to find the answer to something I just couldn't wrap my head around on Google. So... yeah. Google *SHOULD* be worried. -- nm - Mop Jan 31, 08:44 2
- Was the question about the connection between the Axiom of Choice and the Banach-Tarski paradox? -- nm - Mony Baroney Jan 31, 08:46 1
  - GET OUT OF MY HEAD! -- nm - Mop Jan 31, 08:48
Mass. Sports Betting went live this morning. -- (link*) - budice Jan 31, 08:34 2
- Welcome to the world of nonstop Sports Betting advertisements during every game, Massachusetts -- nm* - decline Jan 31, 08:37 1
  - California already gets a bunch of ads and sports betting isn't even legal in the state -- nm - JD Jan 31, 08:39
Hello ChatGPT, please write me lyrics and chord progressions for a song that will cause alternating feelings of yearning sadness and uplifted optimism -- nm - Chris Martin Jan 31, 08:32
Ahem... 10 Ridiculously Expensive Products for Boujee Cats -- (link) - Chubbers Jan 31, 08:31 5
- Forget the cat. _I_ want #4. -- nm - Mony Baroney Jan 31, 08:47
- I like the design of the tuft and paw Grove Cat Tower -- nm - crash davis Jan 31, 08:37
- that cat condo is pretty nifty -- nm - decline Jan 31, 08:36 1
  - right? -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Jan 31, 08:37
- *sits on the Dior bag* -- nm - chubbers Jan 31, 08:32
new headline this morning: "Monkeys missing from Dallas Zoo in fourth suspicious incident" - Beryllium Jan 31, 08:27 2
- effin Coldplay. - Spawn Jan 31, 08:33
- Not my zoo, not my monkeys -- nm - rollo Jan 31, 08:29
Oh it's "Alexis On Fire" not "Alex Is On Fire" -- nm - Dano Jan 31, 08:20 3
- It's "There's a Reason Animal Was The Drummer And Not The Singer" -- nm - Reagen Jan 31, 09:05
- Calling 911 -- nm - Alexa Jan 31, 08:25 1
  - Playing Alicia Keys, “Girl On Fire.” -- nm - Siri Jan 31, 08:35
WBD reaches deals with Roku and Tubi to license 2,000 hours of content, including 'Westworld' -- (link) - decline Jan 31, 08:17 14
- I guess Tubi did have the money, they just needed a bulk discount. - the wrong element Jan 31, 10:07
- This list of programming is sad... - MDH Jan 31, 09:02 4
  - Two or three of these things are not like the others. -- nm - Mop Jan 31, 09:25
  - how dare they exclude Welcome to Plathville -- nm - rollo Jan 31, 09:07
  - I heard raised by wolves was good -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 09:05 1
    - yeah but the 2nd season went weird. The Nevers is great, looking forward to more. -- nm - mud Jan 31, 09:07
- Is Roku TV free? Cause otherwise wise screw this. I'm not paying for HBO plus something else to be able watch what should be an HBO show. - sycor Jan 31, 08:56
- In other words, their own FAST service is taking too long. -- nm - David Jan 31, 08:33 6
  - or Zaslav is just a cheap bastard who wants quick bucks instead of actually adding value to the brand -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 08:43 3
    - His moves make sense in the context of trying to raise short term value on a burn it all to the ground in the long term plan -- nm - JD Jan 31, 08:49 2
      - no i fully understand the intention. it just begs the question what the fuck did you buy WB for in the first place -- nm* - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 08:57
      - Ah, OK. So we're all on the same page, then. -- nm - Mop Jan 31, 08:53
  - I don't know how serious they were about launching their own FAST service. - Mop Jan 31, 08:43 1
    - Oh, they are definitely launching their own. They reported it during an earnings call. - The Allfather Jan 31, 08:58
JWST: spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648 -- (link) - decline Jan 31, 08:12 [Image] 1
- looks like its right next door, love the JWST 😺 -- nm - crash davis Jan 31, 08:16
Work annoyance: People who assume you (1) have a laptop and (2) carry it everywhere - Mony Baroney Jan 31, 08:09 7
- Work Annoyance. Having a laptop and do not work from home. But forced to take laptop home everyday anyway. -- nm - Jovian Jan 31, 08:24 4
  - We have a user that has two laptops, one at work and one at home - oblique Jan 31, 08:26 3
    - i have two work computers - i have a desktop at the office and i have a laptop as well (it lives at home) -- nm - Andie Jan 31, 08:57
    - That’s my boss! -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 08:56
    - heh. that makes as much sense as my gripe. -- nm - Jovian Jan 31, 08:38
- Work annoyance: They replaced back in Oct our card readers. These are inexplicably worse as they require you to put it in *upside down*. Also? - Qale Jan 31, 08:14 1
  - No tap to pay? Ewww, get it together! -- nm - ty97 Jan 31, 08:15
Fall Out Boy, Bring me the Horizon, and Royal & the Serpent tour? Yes please. - JaxSean Jan 31, 08:04 11
- I think I like their new song. At any rate, it’s made more an impression than their last album. -- nm - Tim Jan 31, 08:29
- Yeah I'm hitting up this one for sure -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 08:18 2
  - We bought 2 of those Live Nation Summer Lawn passes, so unless they exclude this, we're there 100%. - JaxSean Jan 31, 08:25 1
    - For that line-up I expect there to be plenty of lawn seats available! -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 09:27
- I’d have considered almost any venue in the DC area. Except for that one. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 08:09 1
  - Tampa Amphitheater July 25? Sweat. city. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 31, 08:14
- 1 -- nm - prayformojo Jan 31, 08:08 2
  - I'd recommend a song " don't stop" for your bike ride song list -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 08:19 1
    - 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Jan 31, 08:21
- Royal & The Serpent are going places for sure. -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 08:07 1
  - Having seen all three of the acts in non-headlining fashion, I'm hoping that there's a Royal & The Serpent sideshow when that tour plays the LA area -- nm - JD Jan 31, 08:26
Paging Will Hunting: Lil Wayne has announced a small (club) venue tour - MDH Jan 31, 07:53 1
- Idiot brother. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 31, 08:26
The Pixies with Franz Ferdinand opening have added a second US leg - MDH Jan 31, 07:52 3
- Awful risky for Franz Ferdinand to be out in public in these changing times. What if Russia sends a window cleaner? It could kick off WW3. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 08:21
- That's interesting. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 31, 07:54 1
  - It's educational! -- nm - rollo Jan 31, 08:08
Coldplay has added second shows in Vancouver, San Diego, and a second Rose Bowl show (10/1) - MDH Jan 31, 07:49 8
- Pray that we don't add any more. -- nm - Coldplay Jan 31, 07:52 7
  - let's meet their demands. I can't take this torture -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 08:19
  - Gaaaaaay! -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 07:56
  - Tour has made over $340M and still has a South American stadium leg, a massive European stadium leg, and the West Coast US dates -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 07:56 4
    - and they're working on a new album -- nm - Remlik Jan 31, 08:09 3
      - How many hundreds of monkeys do they have locked away, writing songs? -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 08:16 2
        
        More now -- (link) - Will Hunting Jan 31, 08:28
        
        all of them? - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 08:19
DC Area STers: Wolf Trap has announced its 1st wave of Summer 2023. Inc. Sting (2 nights), Avett Brothers (3 nights), Charlie Puth, & the usual stuff -- (link) - MDH Jan 31, 07:47
Least surprising quote ever: “Outside of that, [David Cronenberg’s] ‘Videodrome’ always rents at the store" - JD Jan 31, 07:44 [Backboard] 1
- You’re welcome. It’s definitely a thing I miss about living in Atlanta. -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 07:57
Hey Jed, how'd you make $100,000 cleaning toilets this year? I know you did I folded your W2 form! -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 07:43
maj's scenario is similar to my old workplace. They knew the merry-go-round was coming on C-Suite denials, so the hand was played as dealt. -- nm - budice Jan 31, 07:42 4
- At least it's $10k and not $750 - spamlet Jan 31, 07:45 1
  - eesh -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 08:20
- Cost Variance / Overage Monthly reports would be sent to Management. Then the uproar, then the reminder, then silence... -- (edited) - budice Jan 31, 07:44 1
  - Yup -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 07:54
focus on charity work is code for lining his pockets while he can -- nm* - Beaker Jan 31, 07:41 3
- Got to launder all those illegal campaign contributions somehow. -- nm - znufrii Jan 31, 07:46 1
  - it's like Brewster's Millions only shady as fuck -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 07:48
- "I still get paid, right?" -- nm - JaxSantos Jan 31, 07:43
Received an HOA check made out to Wells Fargo Bank. - Spawn Jan 31, 07:33 2
- lol. It all goes to the bank. -- nm - budice Jan 31, 07:37 1
  - And it is not even our bank! -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 07:41

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