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Lukashenko hospitalized after meeting with Putin -- (link) - Reagen May 27, 16:57 2
- toxic tyrants turning terminal. -- nm - mud May 27, 16:59
- Did he catch Windowitis? -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 16:58
Just finished Mission Impossible : Rogue Nation. Now starting MI : Fallout. All I ask of any Netflix series is to be as good as the MI series. - crash davis 😺 May 27, 16:45 4
- Need to figure out what we need to watch on Netflix before we cancel. -- nm - JaxSean May 27, 17:06
- I gotta rewatch all of them too -- nm - Beaker May 27, 16:57 1
  - Same -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 16:58
- those two are such gems -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 27, 16:55
sitwap, Fantastic Four /Margot Robbie rumours -- (link) - mud May 27, 16:43 1
- I like maybe 3/4 of that. (spoils) - Will Hunting May 27, 16:58
Cannes Awards moment: Jane Fonda throwing the Palme D'Or Winner certificate at Justine Triet because she forgot to take it -- (link*) - budice May 27, 16:27
CRASH & RC Grand Designs, the streets. ep. 2 -- (link) - Peglegpete May 27, 16:22 [youtube] 1
- Thanks! -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 16:43
I can't believe that lawyer notarized chatgpt output, insisting it was correct and valid. -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 16:17
LA concert alert: Bowl would be better than the Shrine but Underworld returns in September -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 27, 16:10
Shhh! Don’t tell Wet Leg, but they may have been displaced. The Happy Fits just rocked my world at Adjacent Festival. - Dano May 27, 15:45 1
- That's OK, Rhiann....pfm will console you -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 27, 16:40
Platonic is great. Rose Byrne is so funny. (maybe she's just regular funny, and due to her hotness seems extra funny) - mud May 27, 15:22 3
- I believe I was smitten ~24 yrs ago. -- (link) - mud May 27, 15:52 [youtube]
- She was very funny in Spy -- I think she's actually solid for a non-comic funny person. -- nm - Will Hunting May 27, 15:44
- Nice. I think Amy and I will watch it, then. -- nm - Spawn May 27, 15:42
NY: Metropolitan Opera data breach compromised credit card numbers, personal info of 45K employees, patrons: -- (link*) - budice May 27, 15:15 7
- Espionage Operation! -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 15:19 6
  - Just say it…. SPECTRE!!! -- nm - VMan May 27, 15:20 5
    - First we need to rule out the IMF. You round up Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames. I'll interrogate Rebecca Ferguson. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 15:22 4
      - Damn. Hoping I could console the widow Bellucci. -- nm - VMan May 27, 15:24 2
        
        Okay, we'll get Bery to round up Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames. You carry on. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 15:27 1
        
        YES SIR!! -- nm - VMan May 27, 15:30
      - try to be nice. she's also a former Queen of England. -- nm - Peglegpete May 27, 15:24
Hey, i found a compound. -- (link) - Beryllium May 27, 15:11 6
- This one is less interesting, but probably more affordable. -- (link) - Beryllium May 27, 15:43 1
  - Price isn't an object. We'll falsify some documents and set a balloon payment that isn't due until after the z apocalypse. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 15:48
- whats the weird keyhole border on the left? and strange frontage -- nm - zeitgeist May 27, 15:20 2
  - Guessing wetlands, species at risk, pt -- nm - VMan May 27, 15:23 1
    - Yep, the property line runs along the creek so that's some kind of easement for whatever reason. -- nm - Meg May 27, 15:25
- That'll work. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 15:16
I've been to the opera twice this past season and have yet to walk into the middle of an espionage operation. What am I doing wrong? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 15:05 6
- You're doing it in...*checks notes*..Boise? The best you can hope for there is Canadian spies. -- nm* - . May 27, 22:37
- KILL DA WABBIT!! KILL DA WABBIT! KILL DA WABBIT!!!!!!!!! -- nm - Elmer Fudd May 27, 15:16
- I think they caught on and use Broadway shows now. -- nm - VMan May 27, 15:11 1
  - they probably used opera since the location fees and talent rates likely pay more than actual opera so the sets/location/talent is readily available -- nm - zeitgeist May 27, 15:15
- I'm guessing you haven't been backstage.... -- nm - zeitgeist May 27, 15:09 1
  - Very good point! Thank you. I've got to get backstage. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 15:10
Hmm, on all of the canadian internet, I was only able to find a discount on AirTags at one store: Costco. $10 off. -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 14:27 1
- ooh, google shopping showed a second one: cellularshack -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 14:39
lol Ken Paxton -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 27, 13:54 7
- oh, now we're against gainful employment? -- nm - Reagen May 27, 14:01 6
  - like how bad do you have to fuck up to get impeached as a republican in Texas? Ken Paxton bad apparently -- nm - hollywood big shot May 27, 14:15 5
    - That was my favorite part of dipshit Cruz's screed. Like, this is a deep-seated liberal swamp in....Texas? -- nm - Will Hunting May 27, 14:35 4
      - dammit AOC! -- nm - Tim May 27, 14:48
      - "Ronald Reagan would get kicked out of the GOP today for saying this." -- (link) - mud May 27, 14:40 2
        
        IIRC, he signed gun control measures as Governor out there when the black population started exercising their rights to carry weapons. - Will Hunting May 27, 14:55 1
        
        the Black Panthers specifically -- nm - hollywood big shot May 27, 14:59
John Dean: "We're looking at bread crumbs, but it's going to clearly show that Trump, with very clear intent, obstructed justice in this investigation -- (link) - mud May 27, 13:53 4
- They are looking at financial records for him/businesses, I think they are looking for signs that he sold national security secrets - zeitgeist May 27, 14:01 3
  - those were my first thoughts when the first documents were discovered. we'll still never know how many he took then destroyed. just what's left now. -- nm - Peglegpete May 27, 14:14 2
    - desperately grabbing whatever he could get his grubby mitts on, on his way out of the Oval, to use against his many enemies. -- nm - mud May 27, 14:30 1
      - **2 BILLION** investment funds to his daughter/SIL no explanation... and LIV at his golf resorts, what else? -- nm - zeitgeist May 27, 15:12
Something I don’t get about the film Air, about Nike Air Jordan shoes. Spoils -- (edited) - Loyola May 27, 13:40 5
- They knew it was a big deal, but an amazing marketing strategy…so spoils - Flavorize May 27, 14:05
- they were probably making $250k a minute selling them retail once they actually signed Jordan -- nm - hollywood big shot May 27, 13:54 3
  - I understand they subsequently became successful shoes. They made a movie about them. - Loyola May 27, 14:02 2
    - The point was that (spoils) -- (edited) - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 27, 16:52
    - Jordan was very good very quickly -- 3rd in scoring that year. - Will Hunting May 27, 14:40
Wild ‘Succession’ Finale Theory That Ties a Character to an Obscure Major Leaguer Is Acknowledged by MLB -- (link) - budice May 27, 13:37
Fixer-Uppers With Waterfront Views: The U.S. Is Unloading Lighthouses - crash davis 😺 May 27, 12:26 12
- “Why are all the lights on?” -- nm - Lighthouse Owner Father May 27, 12:55
- The US is going to feel really silly when space force fails to protect the GPS network and suddenly lighthouses are back in vogue -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 12:31 3
  - Especially if it was a plot hatched by a Bond villain living in one of the lighthouses. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 12:33 2
    - needs to hook up with the weather machine dude to create all the fog. -- nm - Reagen May 27, 14:02 1
      - Elliot Carver teaming up with Sir August de Wynter? I'd watch that! -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 14:05
- Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light -- (link) - crash davis 😺 May 27, 12:27 6
  - Kelly authorized me to buy this. - Will Hunting May 27, 12:46 1
    - I appreciate Kelly's authorization. I'll have to come visit -- nm* - crash davis 😺 May 27, 15:04
  - This one has great potential, if you overlook it being in Cleveland. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 12:35
  - Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light -- (link) - crash davis 😺 May 27, 12:28 2
    - Stratford Shoal Lighthouse -- (link) - crash davis 😺 May 27, 12:28 1
      - Penfield Reef Lighthouse -- (link) - crash davis 😺 May 27, 12:29
Cannes: Palme D'Or - “Anatomy of a Fall" - Justine Triet -- nm - budice May 27, 12:25 2
- Grand Prix (2nd place) - Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer. Both pictures star Sandra Hüller. -- nm* - mud May 27, 12:48 1
  - Sight unseen, based on what I've read about the films in competition, Östlund is a much better Jury Prez than he is a storyteller. (NM) - Marlowe May 27, 14:21
20 articles of impeachment filed on TX AG Ken Paxton -- nm - zeitgeist May 27, 12:12
First time I've seen, or noticed, that - carriages or cars making multiple trips down the parade route with different riders. They must have - Meg May 27, 12:01
Japanese Moon Lander Crashed Because It Was Still Three Miles Up, Not on the Ground - crash davis 😺 May 27, 11:52 4
- three miles high, and when you touch down You'll find that it's stranger than known -- nm - zeitgeist May 27, 14:03
- Kamakaze!!! -- nm - Peglegpete May 27, 13:41
- Three miles straight up, downtown somewhere - Beryllium May 27, 12:17
- it pulled a Die Hard 2 -- nm - hollywood big shot May 27, 11:54
Luton Town-Coventry spoilers - Volnelk 🍊 May 27, 11:36 2
- My goodness. - Volnelk 🍊 May 27, 11:50 1
  - Everyone's gonna get laid -- nm - Rodney Dangerfield May 27, 12:13
New method of vaccine delivery using a patch can eliminate needles and need for semi skilled medical staff -- (link) - zeitgeist May 27, 11:29 4
- Read about it a few years ago. They were hoping it would work especially in the areas they tested it in. Also doesn't need refrigeration. -- nm - . May 27, 13:26
- Have they met people? I've met people. I don't trust people to put a patch on correctly. - sycor May 27, 11:56 2
  - even today, hell even more so today, people wearing masks have them UNDER their f'n nose -- nm - zeitgeist May 27, 12:55
  - Thank you for smoking. -- nm - Qale May 27, 12:21
Who is actually the worst character on ‘Succession’? We know they’re all bad. But who takes the crown top villain? We asked experts on moral... -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 May 27, 11:27 2
- this kind of analysis misses the whole point of the show. - hollywood big shot May 27, 11:51 1
  - That, or fuck Roman. -- nm - Reagen May 27, 13:06
This post perfectly encapsulates how I was feeling yesterday -- (link) - Beryllium May 27, 11:10 [mastodon]
German police investigate Roger Waters for wearing an SS officer style uniform during a show -- (link) - zeitgeist May 27, 11:06
Bery, I got one of these pillows and I love it. It’s ‘adjustable’ which basically just means they give you a tube with the filling and you decide. - Volnelk 🍊 May 27, 10:52 3
- Neat! Thanks -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:01
- Hey thanks for this! I need a new pillow and it's hard to find one I want to buy. I'm a side sleeper so normally need something a little thicker. - sycor May 27, 10:55 1
  - Yep. And actually you get a bunch. I could use the leftover and tube as a lumbar pillow or something too. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 May 27, 10:57
Cannes: Livestream of Awards Ceremony -- (link) - budice May 27, 10:45 [youtube] 3
- Awards Ceremony on the Brut FB Page - budice May 27, 11:42 1
  - thx! -- nm - mud May 27, 11:49
- thx -- nm - mud May 27, 10:45
FTX Mountain of Evidence: Snippets of computer code. 6 million pages of emails, Slack messages and records. And a small black notebook w/Ellison -- (link) - budice May 27, 10:43 1
- (Caroline, the ex-gf, not Larry the shitheel) -- nm - hollywood big shot May 27, 10:55
India official orders an entire water reservoir drained to retrieve his iPhone...it was waterlogged and he was suspended -- (link) - zeitgeist May 27, 10:35 1
- Gotta get them Insta likes. -- nm - sycor May 27, 10:39
The Great Read - An Iconic Wine Store and the Mystery of the Missing Bottles - crash davis 😺 May 27, 10:21 2
- Wine storage business must attract some shady aholes. - zeitgeist May 27, 10:44 1
  - I think anywhere there is large amounts of money attracts them. I do admire this grift involved blaming Trump for something Trump did legally. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 10:52
Small town life in the middle of Orange County, California. Top left corner is where I get gas, a block south is Stanley Ranch. -- (link) - Meg May 27, 10:21 1
- The mayor's pushing his car down the route ;) -- nm - Meg May 27, 10:29
lol Ken Paxton still has one friend in Texas i guess -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 27, 09:33
28 years later, Windows finally supports RAR files -- (link) - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 27, 09:28 5
- Next up, UwU files. -- nm - Qale May 27, 10:21
- We did it guys. -- nm - RAR files May 27, 09:45
- Our long national nightmare is finally over. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 27, 09:34 2
  - One more checked off the things to do list! Next up, Advanced Minesweeper. -- nm - Microsoft May 27, 09:46 1
    - I'm still waiting for my Improved Clippy™ -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 27, 09:54
WGA Sign o the Day -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 27, 09:25
Queen's catalog could go for $1.1 Billion -- (link) - Remlik May 27, 09:22 4
- "Freddie's real talent was flipping straights." -- nm - David May 27, 10:29
- I thought this was an auction reference to some of Elizabeth's stuff. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 09:43 2
  - Her Magistry was a very nice girl but she didn't have a lot to sing... -- nm - zeitgeist May 27, 11:51 1
    - She did own some fine art. -- nm - . May 27, 13:17
In previous years I've walked down to the boulevard to watch the Strawberry Parade, or even walked the route with the parade. Today I'll be - Meg May 27, 09:14 7
- Ik'r... this weekend is the Seattle Folklife festival, bands at a dozen stages, buskers everywhere. Herds of hurdygurdies. Not gonna... -- nm - zeitgeist May 27, 10:04 1
  - I miss Folklife. Had a few really great exhibit to go with it. One of costumes that was museum quality. -- nm - . May 27, 13:16
- I'd never go there. Strawberries with legs would freak me out. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 09:45 2
  - They're an endangered species here. We paved most of them over :( -- nm - Meg May 27, 09:56 1
    - You'd think with the legs, they could have avoided theat. -- nm - Will Hunting May 27, 14:56
- Did they ban you? Let me know who to write to…I have an English degree and can write a 3 paragraph scolding, with the best of them -- nm - Flavorize May 27, 09:24 1
  - That I could fight. I know people :) My own body won't listen to me :/ -- nm - Meg May 27, 09:29
Ender, thoughts from a longtime Sodastream user - spamlet May 27, 09:04 1
- Thanks -- nm - Ender May 27, 17:05
Pudding Fingers deepfaked into an Office clip as Michael Scott -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 27, 09:00
Wirecutter - The Best Pencils for Writing and Schoolwork By Sarah Witman Updated May 15, 2023 - crash davis 😺 May 27, 08:48 4
- I've always preferred the Ticonderoga. Good for drawing too. On the other hand I've got lot of fancy drawing pencils. -- nm - . May 27, 13:14 1
  - I've got a friend who makes his living as an illustrator. He swears by the Ticonderoga -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 14:20
- I'll ride or die with the Palomino Blackwing 'til the end of my days. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 27, 09:35 1
  - I've been so disappointed with pencil erasers at work. Being a public institution, we buy nothing but the best: Amazon Basics. -- (edited) - crash davis 😺 May 27, 09:41
Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer The violence of his era can be found in his serene masterpieces — if you know where to look. - crash davis 😺 May 27, 08:37 1
- I don't particularly agree with the point of view expressed here. But it is a very interesting and thought provoking piece of art criticism. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 27, 08:40
🎶”It is always nice to see you,” says the man behind the counter. 🎵 -- nm - landbeck May 27, 08:31
$200M soccer match about to begin. Let’s go Luton Town. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 May 27, 08:28
Saturday MoviePass costs - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 27, 08:28 2
- How many points do you get monthly? -- nm - David May 27, 10:30 1
  - 34 for $9.99 -- nm - JaxSean May 27, 11:05

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