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According to a report in April, Russian and Wagner troops have fought - shot and killed - each other. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 11:59 2
- “The problem with mercenaries, is that they need to be paid to start fighting. And, unless you are very lucky, you end up paying them even more to stop.” -- nm* - znufrii 🦄 May 8, 12:13
- ... -- (pic) - Beryllium May 8, 12:04 [Attachment]
who the Nazi targeted at Allen Outlets -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 11:57 7
- you mean this guy? - Jovian May 8, 12:30 1
  - Apparently he had posts on RT website or some other Russian social media -- nm - zeitgeist May 8, 13:24
- Jesus. -- nm - loosilu May 8, 12:21
- How soon before Abbott calls for his pardoning. -- nm - Jovian May 8, 12:01 2
  - Shooter's dead. -- nm - TWuG May 8, 12:37 1
    - posthumously -- nm - Jovian May 8, 12:40
- JFC -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 8, 11:58
Conan has Steven Wright on his podcast this week and it's wild to hear Steven just cracking up after being totally deadpan his whole career on stage -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 11:53 [youtube]
LYC NMS: Realizing now how little of the game mechanics I've experienced, I've lightened my self-imposed restrictions. I'm also finding death is a -- (edited) - oblique May 8, 11:48 1
- It's probably just me but now all I can picture / hear is you playing with Harvey Danger playing in the background -- (link) - JD May 8, 12:32 [youtube]
didn't watch any coronation stuff but did they even say Diana's name once or just pretend she never existed (just like when she was still alive)? -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 11:40 7
- Not surE why they would have? -- nm - loosilu May 8, 12:22
- I mean, they didn't really mention anyone in the ceremony -it was all very traditional and followed a script. Charles barely spoke, and I don't know - Andie May 8, 11:45 4
  - Yeah, I find the notion kind of baffling. -- nm - Reagen May 8, 12:20
  - They cut Camilla's rant about her. -- nm - Spawn May 8, 11:46 2
    - Welcome to the 40th coronation ceremony. I don't know why I was asked to speak, honestly, you know what I'm going say... -- nm - Ricky Gervais May 8, 12:25
    - It will be in the Director's Cut I hear. -- nm - spamlet May 8, 11:57
- Me too but I know Kate wore a pair of her earrings. -- nm - Spawn May 8, 11:40
Got home, Fitbit, you’re drunk. - znufrii 🦄 May 8, 11:37 1
- Writers Guild strike hits home. -- nm - Spawn May 8, 11:40
if - no when - I do 100 miles again, I'll do 50 + 60, but I'll need to do a better job of fueling up before and during -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 8, 11:21
WGA Strike Halts Latest ‘Game of Thrones’ Spin-Off — But Not ‘House of the Dragon’ -- (link) - Remlik May 8, 11:20 1
- still in the writers room stage, the other one's in production (i'd say the quality will suffer but how could you tell the difference really) -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 11:27
Premier League spoils - znufrii 🦄 May 8, 11:12 3
- OK, Forest, now it's your turn. Last best chance remaining -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 8, 11:32
- Fire the board but as for the team -- (pic) - JD May 8, 11:18 [Attachment] 1
  - Damn, Dwight. Why you gotta do them like that? -- nm - JD May 8, 11:30
LIR: Week(end) viewing. Watched Ghosted on the plane to Vegas: C+. Almost finished with Orville S3. Slowly starting to watch new things - oblique May 8, 11:09 1
- We enjoyed S3. Sad there hasn't been a lot of positive news about S4. -- nm - Strongbad May 8, 11:13
"Starfleet Lawyer" (to be fair, it's about 5-10 minutes too long. But it's fun.) -- (link) - Beryllium May 8, 10:48 [youtube] 2
- "How come you have emergency medical holograms but not emergency legal holograms?" -- nm - Max May 8, 11:43
- Law N Order: Starfleet (or would that be an NCIS spin off?) -- nm - zeitgeist May 8, 10:51
Comparing trust in media organizations among D's and R's in 2023 -- (link) - Strongbad May 8, 10:43 21
- Byron Allen victorious! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 8, 11:05
- I didn't see fox on the chart, so I guess they only polled actual news sources -- nm - zeitgeist May 8, 10:56 3
  - n'ver mind, had to open the twit to see the whole graphic, the bigger the audience reach the more polarized, guess nobody read wa examiner -- nm - zeitgeist May 8, 11:00 2
    - Dems trust it far more than I would have expected. -- nm - Spawn May 8, 11:26 1
      - another battlefield conceded without a shot fired -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 11:43
- lol, the weather channel -- nm - tRuMaN May 8, 10:47 1
  - Funny story: A long time back I stopped using TWC website because it became so cluttered with commentary and doom that I couldn't find the weather. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 8, 11:06
- I'm shocked that Republican's don't really trust anything. -- nm - Qale May 8, 10:45 13
  - Shocked in a "there's gambling in this establishment" shocked, or genuinely shocked? - TWuG May 8, 10:51 1
    - You'll be shocked to hear the answer. -- nm - Qale May 8, 10:57
  - Also, how small of a % of the pie "conservative media" actually is. -- nm - Strongbad May 8, 10:49 10
    - That’s certainly a take. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 8, 11:28 1
      - Based on those numbers, a logical one. -- nm - Strongbad May 8, 12:16
    - Democrats trust the NY Post more than Republicans -- nm - Dano ✔️ May 8, 11:17 2
      - Same with National Review - a worrying number of Republicans have just gone way way right. -- nm - Dano ✔️ May 8, 11:20 1
        
        but Dems (unsurprisingly) don't even bother to try and call out corporate-Beltway garbage in real-time to their membership the same way GOP does - hollywood big shot May 8, 11:34
    - A ton of conservative media is also in radio and self-pushed commentators via podcasts or youtube, etc. -- nm - Qale May 8, 10:59 4
      - radio, farmers have to listen to local weather and farm prices, pretty much only local news and get a constant flow of nazi'ganda -- nm - zeitgeist May 8, 11:01 2
        
        Meh, nobody actually lives in those flyover states. -- nm - Strongbad May 8, 11:14 1
        
        relative to the amount of representation they get in Washington, it's true -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 11:40
      - writing THE TRUTH that THEY don’t want you to KNOW -- nm - Tim May 8, 11:00
indiewire: Jonathan Glazer Returns with First Feature Since ‘Under the Skin’ - mud ♪ May 8, 10:41
Kix have announced a final/farewell show 9/17 at MPP in Maryland -- nm - MDH May 8, 10:29 2
- They put on such a great show. -- nm - Inigo May 8, 10:51
- but real Itchheads are going to see them in Steve’s hometown at the Allegany Co Fair -- nm* - hollywood big shot May 8, 10:42
Doucouré twice? and now a bank shot? -- nm - JD May 8, 10:10 2
- Break up Everton! -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 May 8, 10:11 1
  - Another bank shot or maybe that's a back shot? -- nm - JD May 8, 11:13
Sum 41 breaking up -- (link) - budice May 8, 09:55 4
- Divisible by... -- nm - Spawn May 8, 10:12
- That's prime news. -- nm - Dano ✔️ May 8, 10:05 2
  - The square root of love *is* love! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 8, 10:15 1
    - Therefore love is 0 or 1. Thus, love is a Boolean variable. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 8, 11:07
Programming alert: 2023 Eurovision Song Contest starts on Peacock tomorrow at 3 pm ET. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:54
Beaker - mrsjax is dropping an egg now and opening her gift from mrsBeaker, so they'll go Best Friends. - JaxSean May 8, 09:52 1
- will do. Thanks! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 8, 09:59
Severance production in NYC suspended -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 09:51
Thanos ready for his NYTimes rehabilitation profile like -- (link) - budice May 8, 09:48 1
- His head is... off. Kinda Thanos/Nebula/Visionized. -- nm - Spawn May 8, 12:07
Fat Russell Crowe reviews the films of thin Russell Crowe. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:34 [youtube] 1
- I liked this. Thanks -- nm - Pippy Dippy May 8, 10:50
Lucas Shaw at Bloomberg has a nice summary of the "Hollywood CEOs Made More Than $1 Billion While Firing Thousands" narrative. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:32 8
- related unrelated: I really like the town lately which often has lucas shaw as a guest. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones May 8, 10:47 1
  - Yeah, he's a guest on Mondays. Just shows up and tells the host how he's wrong about everything. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 8, 11:16
- Hollywood Studio: We're losing so much money! Us: Really? Can you show us your books? Hollywood Studio: Withdrawn. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 8, 10:04
- to be clear, even with net profits on decline (1) $4b is still ridiculously profitable and (2) Lucas doesn't show how writers pay has been stagnant -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 09:53 4
  - but as dumb as going all-in on streaming has been, they're still not as fucking stupid as techbros (which WGA is actually trying to save H'wd from) -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 09:56 1
    - I know how to save Facebook, but the Metaverse isn't it. - Mop🧹 May 8, 10:02
  - Ah, the magic of charts and graphs. An X-axis with the bottom line at $4 billion. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:55 1
    - heh, yup -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 8, 10:00
To the shock of no one, Republicans love that DeSantis is "owning the libs" at Disney. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:30 4
- They don't care about the result. They wsant to sEE him beat his manly chest. -- nm - loosilu May 8, 12:23
- accept he hasn't really owned them. He's gotten beat down like a gnat at every turn. It is just the fact he " tries"? -- nm - Pippy Dippy May 8, 10:52
- Florida republican voters are racist and bigoted trash. Story at 11. -- nm - Jovian May 8, 09:44
- Because of course they are. Winning or losing is the least relevant part of what he’s doing. -- nm* - znufrii 🦄 May 8, 09:38
Welcome to Monday -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 8, 09:28 [youtube] 1
- haaaah, very funny. -- nm - Beryllium May 8, 11:29
I say again, silly is not unusual. spoil - Spawn May 8, 09:23
I proctored a test at Mac's school today. I know that the school is very ethnically diverse, but it was *maybe* 10% Caucasian. - prayformojo 🐵 May 8, 09:19
Meg 2: The Trench. now she's eating doggos -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 09:16 2
- Now it's gone too far! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:23
- That was the bit last time, it tried, but the dog survived. -- nm - The Allfather May 8, 09:22
Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More -- (link) - decline May 8, 09:12 [Image] 3
- article -- (link) - decline May 8, 09:13 2
  - so cool -- nm - oblique May 8, 11:06
  - that's no moon -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 8, 09:16
hot take: Welcome to the Pleasuredome is actually the best Frankie song on that album -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 09:11 [youtube] 5
- Yeah, that's acceptable. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:49
- Art of Noise was vastly superior. -- nm - mud ♪ May 8, 09:25 1
  - here and there (Moments in Love) but too kitschy with the sampling as a rule -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 09:54
- I can agree with that. -- nm - Remlik May 8, 09:19 1
  - He is dumb because he calls reality a "hot take". -- nm - Spawn May 8, 09:24
full Oppenheimer trailer in summer action movie mode -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 09:02 [youtube] 8
- cannot wait -- nm - Jovian May 8, 10:35
- In full 70mm IMAX. The last movie to be released in full 70mm IMAX was SEVEN YEARS AGO. It was *checks notes* Dunkirk. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:34 [youtube]
- I'm a big fan of Nolan's films but zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... -- nm - Inigo May 8, 09:23 1
  - infinitely preferable to another Inception/Tenet wankfest -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 09:30
- significantly better trailer. -- (link) - colin May 8, 09:17 [youtube]
- I feel like I don't need to watch the movie now... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 8, 09:15 2
  - Did he destroy the world? I need to know! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:21
  - the truth of the Manhattan Project was much more nuanced so hopefully the movie is more shaded than the trailer -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 09:16
4 years for obstructing the joint session of Congress, consecutive to 3 years served for weapons charge. It is unknown at this time whether he will .. - mud ♪ May 8, 08:48
Re: that postcredits scene in GoTG3 (spoilers) - David May 8, 08:47 9
- I did love that. - Jovian May 8, 08:51
- Also, what in the blue hell is a "red-skinned Ratcatcher 2"? - David May 8, 08:47 7
  - heh - Jovian May 8, 08:51 4
    - Other than Cena's utter failure as an actor, nothing from that film has stuck with me after the first 10 minutes. - David May 8, 08:52 3
      - HAHAHAHAHA. he's adorable. -- nm - Remlik May 8, 09:57
      - Harley flowers scene was sublime. -- nm - Spawn May 8, 09:27 1
        
        indeed. -- nm - mud ♪ May 8, 09:27
  - I haven't seen either movie, but the actress who was Ratcatcher 2 in Suicide Squad was in GotG3 -- nm - Roger More May 8, 08:49 1
    - Correct. She is the alien Quill 'flirts' with. -- nm - Jovian May 8, 08:50
Elizabeth Holmes Says Amanda Seyfried Was ‘Not Playing Me’ in ‘The Dropout’: It Was a ‘Character I Created’ -- (link) - budice May 8, 08:44 5
- i agree with her, but that's the story that was being told. The real Holmes was acting that way, so... -- nm - Andie May 8, 09:13
- I mean... yes, but also "a character I created to convince old men to buy into Theranos, who then convinced people with real money to invest" -- nm - Roger More May 8, 08:48
- NYT Article -- (link) - budice May 8, 08:48 2
  - *sycophantic puff piece -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 08:50 1
    - She's due for prison any day now -- nm - budice May 8, 08:55
“Do you know how to delete a page (in Word)? I can delete everything on a page but not sure how to delete the page.” - znufrii 🦄 May 8, 08:36 8
- you have to print to PDF, and just exclude the pages you don't want, then convert the PDF back to a word doc with Adobe. -- nm - colin May 8, 08:37 7
  - The best part is that it’s not the first time he’s asked this. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 8, 08:38 6
    - do people not know about google? -- nm* - Andie May 8, 08:39 4
      - Or just how to use Word on a basic level? - znufrii 🦄 May 8, 08:41 3
        
        i actually know what they are saying, sometimes it can be finicky and you get stuck with a page that should be deleting, but, like, it's not THAT hard - Andie May 8, 08:44 2
        
        Go to the top of the blank page and hit delete until you get rid of the page break, if you want to do it the long way. -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 May 8, 09:02 1
        
        oh, that almost always works, but i do our newsletter in Word and it sometimes gets wonky and i have to do it the more complex way. -- nm* - Andie May 8, 09:14
    - straight to the training room. mandatory training. -- nm - colin May 8, 08:39
Apparently the most watched Twitch stream of all time was the 2nd annual La Velada Del Año II, a boxing event for influencers. So let's do it again! -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 08:34 7
- oh her? good lord...gamingbible needs to renames themselves the offical news outlet of Amouranth -- nm - Remlik May 8, 09:02 1
  - Amouranth's got a video on YouTube of her training. She's going to get murdered. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 8, 09:28
- is that the one Critical Role member did this year? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 8, 08:36 4
  - That was Creator Clash 2. -- nm - the wrong element May 8, 09:38 1
    - ahh, right. Thanks -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 8, 10:11
  - Here's the 2022 card. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 08:38 1
    - One of these days, Uwe Boll will stop ducking me. -- nm - David May 8, 08:50
Hey baby. Made you this deer-tooth pendant. Happy Valentine's Day. nm - Dignan May 8, 08:31 2
- Dark Sue Storm -- nm - Max May 8, 09:17
- Maybe this is where the term "dear" came from? -- nm - Beryllium May 8, 08:35

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