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"It has become a toxic symbol." -- (link) - mud ♪ Apr 21, 09:28 2
- Some may even say it is experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. -- nm - Jovian Apr 21, 09:36
- Folks like Stephen King and Lebron were "gift" blue checks. They didn't want them. -- nm - Mop✅ Apr 21, 09:33
The Theocratic Republic of Texas -- (link) - TWuG Apr 21, 09:24 5
- Boys, we've got work to do. -- nm - Ron DeSantis Apr 21, 10:03
- I’m considering moving to Colorado -- nm - Pippy Apr 21, 09:36 1
  - So are my nieces. -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Apr 21, 09:56
- Texas gets worse and worse every day. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 09:27
- good grief -- nm - mud ♪ Apr 21, 09:25
"Team Hufflenuts" heheh -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 21, 09:22
David Wright walks into a bar -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 21, 09:19 1
- That’s cool. He seemed like one of the good ones. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 09:33
Montana House Speaker: "You will observe the rules of dignity and decorum as we strip you of your rights!" -- (link) - TWuG Apr 21, 09:17
Now I'm treating Twitter like tiktok, where I just wait for the best stuff to get surfaced as screenshots on other platforms. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 21, 09:07 [mastodon]
verified! -- nm - mud ♪ Apr 21, 09:03
Verified! -- nm - Dano ✔️ Apr 21, 09:02 17
- This is the one that fits best -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 21, 09:43
- you owe Bery $8 -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 09:11 3
  - Contributions of that nature are purely voluntary -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 09:23 2
    - < the link is there. -- nm - mud ♪ Apr 21, 09:24 1
      - 👍 -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 09:49
- Verified! (I like this, it's fun.) -- nm* - Andie ☣️ Apr 21, 09:07 11
  - In -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Apr 21, 10:16
  - ok -- nm - decline 🔹 Apr 21, 09:59
  - Verified 🍔🍔🍕🍟🍤🍩🍪🥤🍷🍹🍹 -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 09:48
  - Verified! -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Apr 21, 09:46
  - Berified - Pippy ☑️ Apr 21, 09:45 1
    - i love it. -- nm - Andie ☣️ Apr 21, 09:46
  - Re-verified! -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 21, 09:36
  - Verified! -- nm - mara 🍂 Apr 21, 09:33
  - nice! -- nm - mud ♪ Apr 21, 09:10
  - Verified! -- nm - Spawn🔫 Apr 21, 09:09 1
    - No, wait... -- nm - Spawn🗿 Apr 21, 09:10
Juno Temple in Venom 3. -- (link) - Mop✅ Apr 21, 09:01
Bluecheckalypse continues to be hilarious -- (link) - Reagen Apr 21, 08:59 1
- whole lotta peeps just not getting it. -- nm - mud Apr 21, 09:01
Where's Inigo? Evil Dead Rise with $2.5M last night. How's that looking? -- nm - MDH Apr 21, 08:57
Brewery backs out of making Alt right lager after seeing the marketing -- (link) - Reagen Apr 21, 08:54
NFL suspends 4 Lions and 1 Commanders players for gambling -- (link) - Strongbad Apr 21, 08:29 3
- This is going to devastate my fantasy football bench -- nm - rollo Apr 21, 09:05
- Interesting- they say these guys did not bet on the NFL games (unlike Ridley who bet on his team’s games). They each got a year. - Will Hunting Apr 21, 08:41
- Half the Lions WR room—including Jameson Williams -- nm - Flavorize Apr 21, 08:40
Am I reading this correctly? So accuracy and not intention is the difference between Flagrant 1 and 2? -- (link) - JD Apr 21, 08:23 8
- Guessing Embiid still gets a 1 game suspension—even if he missed, when trying to kick him in the nads, still intent was there -- nm - Flavorize Apr 21, 08:39
- *attempted* kick to the balls vs. kick to the balls. -- nm - Mop✅ Apr 21, 08:37 4
  - But the reality was a clearing out with the arm which is done on nearly every one on one drive -- (link) - JD Apr 21, 08:39 3
    - and Harden, the dirty player he is, uses that fact to mask actual harm. -- nm - mud Apr 21, 08:41 1
      - and if that's the case, the refs got the call correct -- nm* - JD Apr 21, 08:43
    - vs this completely intentional break the leg attempt, scissor kick -- (link) - JD Apr 21, 08:40
- So, the basketball adjacent move got ejected; the physical assault move did not. Cool. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 08:35
- Yeah they don't know. It's a case of getting lost in the finer details and not just basing it off of what you see. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 08:29
Here's the Friday NYT clue that made me laugh for reasons concerning an STer's recent comment -- (pic) - prayformojo Apr 21, 08:21 [Attachment] 1
- I need to call the NYT now. -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 08:52
Wordle Weekly Recap - prayformojo Apr 21, 08:19
Have you ever had a dream where you were playing a game that doesn't exist (or at least, you've never played), and it's pretty fun? - Beryllium Apr 21, 08:05 2
- I dreamed there was a tornado. - Dark Callisto Apr 21, 08:19
- no but i had a dream i made sausage kolaches and mixed crushed up cereal into the dough, topped with crushed up cereal, put a breakfast link inside - colin Apr 21, 08:08
Australia, where everything wants to kill you - even if you are a 13 foot crocodile... -- (link) - decline Apr 21, 07:59 13
- killed by a boat and then someone took the head for the skull -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 10:45
- The scariest part is that a spider did that. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 08:30 1
  - LOL! -- nm - Mop✅ Apr 21, 08:38
- Although in Florida... -- (link) - Roger More Apr 21, 08:24 8
  - fly away ya dumb bird! -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 08:55
  - !!! -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 08:50
  - desantis thinks he is sneaking up on Disney, while Disney is actually somewhere else entirely -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 08:44
  - My Bodyguard II -- nm - Max Apr 21, 08:43
  - What the hell?!? -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 08:38
  - Bird goes back to his family, “you guys will not believe this shit!” -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 08:36 1
    - I want the Jomboy version. -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 08:58
  - whoa -- nm - mud Apr 21, 08:32
- holy shit -- nm - mud Apr 21, 08:12
SITV news network: Victoria Alonso got paid -- (link) - decline Apr 21, 07:56
WaPo: this time he's going Full-on Fascist - mud Apr 21, 07:50 21 1
- "As with so many things Trump, it’ll be sticky to sort out where what he’s proposing is literally unlawful,..." -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 10:52
- There's a bunch there but he couldn't build a wall and now he's going to build Delta City? -- nm - JD Apr 21, 08:03 2
  - If he wants to build a MAGA enclave and keep them away from us, good. -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 08:11
  - he's seeing how well Saudi Arabia is doing with their Neom grift, figures it's a good way to make a cool few billion. -- nm - colin Apr 21, 08:06
- “We’re the party of small government.” -- nm - Tim Apr 21, 07:57 11
  - He's never pretended to be a smaller government Conservative. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 21, 08:04 8
    - no true Scotsman -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 21, 09:54
    - So why does the party that has support him so vociferously? -- nm - znufrii Apr 21, 08:16 4
      - *shrug* -- nm - Strongbad Apr 21, 08:39
      - Because they want power, and will make any change necessary to their beliefs. -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 08:23 2
        
        (It was a rhetorical question) -- nm - znufrii Apr 21, 08:24 1
        
        You will take your answer and like it! -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 08:41
    - He wants to defund social services and beef up security forces that advance his agenda. -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 08:12
    - for 2 or 3 decades GOP pretended to be smaller government Conservative then ceded control to MAGA = perfect fit! -- nm - mud Apr 21, 08:10
  - i see a lot of liberal folks saying that, but i just don't hear GOP members talking about that any more. i think they've moved on. - colin Apr 21, 08:01 1
    - Yeah, I think reality is only a fraction of GOP voters are really small government - Roger More Apr 21, 08:16
- If he makes it back to the WH, these things will all come to pass. It IS the end of the Republic. -- nm - Jovian Apr 21, 07:55 4
  - he'll throw open the doors for everyone with a grudge to take over every bit of government. it'll be a bloodbath, perhaps literally. -- nm - colin Apr 21, 07:56 3
    - It will be the rise of a 'Fourth Reich'. And that's not hyperbole. -- nm - Jovian Apr 21, 07:57 2
      - The one safety net seems to be that he's really, really stupid. -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 08:14
      - we'd have a global financial collapse if all of that happened. good news is he's crossed the line from being a useful idiot into endangering - colin Apr 21, 08:00
Well, I've got red vines, but no Mister Pibb. No crazy delicious for me. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 07:49 1
- (I dunno, red vine twisters or something. They are inferior to twizzlers.) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 07:52
"Russia is what happens when SPECTRE takes over an entire country." -- (link) - mud Apr 21, 07:38 4
- Ya know when a next-Gen weapon threat works best? Before the world sees your military unable to operate last gen’s weapons effectively. - Will Hunting Apr 21, 07:45 1
  - *dull knife clatters* "Oh yeah, well you should see my gun, I just didn't bring it because these pants fit a little tight and my pockets are full" -- nm - rollo Apr 21, 07:52
- The Donald Pleasance version, not the "Blofeld and Bond are brothers" one. -- nm - Roger More Apr 21, 07:40 1
  - Biden and Putin switched at birth! -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 07:41
DTL: If I lose this afternoon (highly likely) the four current active teams in our conference will each have 13 conference tourney titles. - spamlet Apr 21, 07:32 2
- I am looking for my 8th tourney title Togo with my 3rd regular season titlez -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 07:42 1
  - I should probably wait until after the Montgomery game but I think I've unlocked my team with M2M defense - rollo Apr 21, 07:45
U.S. Says It Will Begin Training Ukraine on Abrams Tanks Within Weeks - crash davis Apr 21, 07:23 4
- Three people are injured after Russia says it accidentally bombed its own city. - crash davis Apr 21, 07:25 3
  - I'm shocked they didn't just blame Ukraine. -- nm - Mop✅ Apr 21, 08:37
  - if they admit 3 injured, means 30 dead -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 07:27 1
    - here is the video from it: -- (link) - Jovian Apr 21, 07:42
TMZ running with a story that OBJ has been named as a suspect in a assault -- nm - Flavorize Apr 21, 07:19 3
- So glad all the Giants talk didn't pan out -- nm - J Apr 21, 08:51
- ("Did we just dodge a bullet?? I think we dodged a bullet!) -- nm - Jets front office Apr 21, 07:24 1
  - Heh. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 07:58
Man, the Rams really wanted to not have Allen Robinson. Traded to Steelers with a 7th for a 7th. - Volnelk Apr 21, 07:18 1
- He's expensive garbage. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 21, 07:47
This skiing article has one of the scariest videos I've ever seen. The story has a happy ending, due to companions and adequate equipment. -- (link) - mara Apr 21, 07:18
SlackerTalk has always been my Twitter. -- nm - Dano Apr 21, 07:15 7
- I've told people, if it happens anywhere in the world I'll hear about within minutes rather than wait for the evening news. -- nm - Meg Apr 21, 08:22
- It's pretty amazing how on top of things this place is, considering how small the active group is. And mostly employed. -- nm - mara Apr 21, 07:58
- Verified! -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 07:47 2
  - (wait how do we get verified??) -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 21, 08:20 1
    - $8 -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 08:31
- yep. -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 07:33
- Same. - Reluctant Cynic Apr 21, 07:25
quality tweet -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 21, 07:05 1
- LOL -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 07:27
NYC looking into the overweight of today's monster truck SUVs as a factor in the parking garage collapse -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 21, 07:04 4
- how many fucking SUVs were parked in there? Hopefully no sumo wrestling conventions planned in the same area -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 07:14
- I can already see how this act is going to play out. If you have an SUV and drive into NYC, good luck parking it. -- nm - Jovian Apr 21, 07:06 2
  - Having only been there a couple times, I can't fathom driving anything in midtown, let alone a huge SUV. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 07:09 1
    - I will say that large pickup trucks are not allowed in many parking garages because of their length not their weight. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 07:59
Coming August 29, 2023! Exquisite Exandria: The Official Cookbook of Critical Role - crash davis Apr 21, 07:04 1
- An excerpt from Exquisite Exandria: The Official Cookbook of Critical Role - Lord Eshteross’ Maple Ginger Cookies with Turmeric - crash davis Apr 21, 07:06
This is a very interesting thread of the Mediterranean Sea. -- (link) - Jovian Apr 21, 06:55
Nick Nurse is out as Raptors coach. Breaking. -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 06:54 4
- Goodbyyyyye Nurse! -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 07:47 1
  - hee -- nm - Tim Apr 21, 08:02
- fired too, not a mutual parting of the ways or something like that -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 07:12 1
  - sad -- nm - mud Apr 21, 07:18
Weekend Plans ? -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 06:54 28
- all the f'n yard work I've not done yet -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 10:59
- I'm back to work tomorrow. -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 10:41
- writing, improv class -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 21, 08:49
- Winston the Degu passed away last night. So much will depend on Amy's mood. He has been in decline for a few weeks, so hopefully some relief. But now - Spawn Apr 21, 08:41 2
  - oh, i am so sorry. -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 08:51
  - :-[ sorry -- nm - mud Apr 21, 08:45
- If it stays dry I'll cheer on the London Marathon runners, then Sunday roast in town. -- nm - LMS Apr 21, 08:10
- So much cleaning -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 08:00
- pulling apart my car dash to see WHY the AC isn't working (it's in the knob module, not the compressor). getting a new roof. - colin Apr 21, 07:52
- Picking out paint for the bathroom! Ordering a new toilet! Several hours of work! Filling out forms for Mac's summer program! Watching Jury Duty! -- (edited) - prayformojo Apr 21, 07:52
- Learning Wordpress. -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Apr 21, 07:26 1
  - Good fucking luck. -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 10:41
- I think it'll be pretty quiet here. I'll probably be working on my wool hooking projects. -- nm - mara Apr 21, 07:23
- I was going to work on getting all my fishing gear and kayak ready but I jacked up my finger the other day so now I'm probably gonna sit on the couch - decline Apr 21, 07:21 1
  - that last thing you said there is .. - mud Apr 21, 07:26
- On Sunday, I'll go to see Rusalka, Other than that: chores, hockey, The Diplomat & Meeting Across the River: Stories Inspired by the Haunting Bruce Springsteen Song -- (edited) - crash davis Apr 21, 07:13
- clean up the garage. update our cell phones. -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 07:05
- I'm seeing the mountain goats tonight and going to a sort of art street fair (??) on saturday. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 21, 07:01
- nope. -- nm - mud Apr 21, 06:58
- Vegas for bowling. Perhaps check out the newly openned Punk Rock Museum -- nm - JD Apr 21, 06:58 1
  - that all sounds fun! -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 06:58
- Early night tonight. Early flight tomorrow. Taking 12 students to Orlando for National competition. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 06:58 3
  - what's the competition? -- nm - colin Apr 21, 07:56 1
    - DECA. Marketing students. Wide variety of events but it's easiest to just picture Shark Tank. - Volnelk Apr 21, 08:35
  - may the odds be ever in your favour. -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 06:59
- Scout night at the Phillies game tonight. Might be going to visit baby animals at a farm tomorrow. Street fair in Manayunk on Sun. -- nm - znufrii Apr 21, 06:57
- Dinner tonight with friends. Maybe finally seeing D&D Saturday and then date night. Sunday church. -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 06:56
- Cleaning my place tonight. Friend coming to stay for a couple days tomorrow. Nephew's bday party Sunday. -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 06:56

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