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NBA - WAS trade G Bradley Beal to PHO for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, multiple second-round picks and pick swaps -- (link) - budice Jun 18, 13:34
SEC scheduling -- (link) - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 18, 12:45 [tiktok] 4
- Randomyly, we watched this about an hour ago. -- nm - David Jun 18, 13:33
- Pippy, check out this dude's Southern Driving -- it's superb -- (link) - Will Hunting Jun 18, 13:05 [youtube] 1
  - Buwhhaaa that is perfect - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 18, 13:31
- HAHAHAHA, "Dabo, Kirby and Jimbo -- sounds like the 3 stooges running a meth lab." -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 18, 13:02
Last year in Portland at Nicholas Greek Restaurant with Reluctant cynic and Meg -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 18, 11:45 7
- If that link didn't work try this one -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 18, 11:49 2
  - Great Photo -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 18, 12:01
  - 🤗 -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 11:52
- The Rose n I -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 18, 11:47 3
  - Great pic!! -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 14:21
  - Awww y’all are cute -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 18, 12:01 1
    - **blush** -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 13:17
Even Alex Cora thinks ESPN is ridiculous with the Red Sox- Yankees nonsense -- (link) - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 18, 11:21 4
- When the ratings are higher than for any other matchup you can't blame them for wanting to have the games. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 11:30
- They would have been the national Fox game last night too if it wasn’t rained out. Has anyone looked at the standings? -- nm - Tim Jun 18, 11:24 2
  - ESPN has their dumbass weekly power ranks. Each week's headline the last month "Another AL East team reaches the top 5 (and it's not the Yankees!) - Will Hunting Jun 18, 11:35
  - They were both the Fox and ESPN national games last weekend as well. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 18, 11:25
The Flash $55.1, Elemental $29.5, Across the Spider-Verse $27.8 ($280.4), Transformers $20.0 ($100.6), The Little Mermaid $11.6 ($253.6) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 11:03 3
- I predicted a shade under 300 for Mermaid when it was done. Might be more than a shade at this point. -- nm - Qale Jun 18, 11:08 2
  - It's probably gonna get to $500 million worldwide, which is better than it looked after opening weekend. -- nm - David Jun 18, 11:31 1
    - And the guy from Aladdin is proven right...he made a comment about how it would need legs to match his movie's total - Will Hunting Jun 18, 11:33
William Karlsson may have had a few -- (link) - Reagen Jun 18, 10:53 1
- Art, But make it Sports -- (link) - budice Jun 18, 10:54
Our nonprofit has been doing a lot of fundraising and one of the popular things is raffles. I'm going to put together some - colin Jun 18, 10:14 2
- I'd take a look at the Powell's website and Tender Loving Empire. - ReluctantCynic Jun 18, 10:38
- link? -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 10:30
Managed to find a big sheet of pork skin at my second stop. The porchetta is now all wrapped up in skin. -- (pic) - Ender Jun 18, 09:42 [Attachment] 18
- (I was not expecting the nipples though...) -- nm* - Ender Jun 18, 12:23
- Welp, Dad's in the hospital... This throws a wrench in the works... -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 10:22 13
  - Hopeful he's ok -- nm - budice Jun 18, 10:38
  - Wait, what? I'm so sorry! -- nm - David Jun 18, 10:37
  - Oh no. Hope he gets out quickly! -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 18, 10:35 10
    - The good news is it's not serious, he's just super constipated. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 10:46 9
      - Ok, here's the plan... - Ender Jun 18, 11:05 6
        
        The supposed to let it fridge rest at least 24hrs with the seasoning in anyway :) -- nm - colin Jun 18, 14:08
        
        Good luck to him. Make him drink some water -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 18, 12:03 2
        
        I am told things have "improved", but they're taking some X-rays and an EKG. -- nm* - Ender Jun 18, 12:05 1
        
        They're home now. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 13:03
        
        Glad the meal can be enjoyed in a few days. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 11:37
        
        Oh, and I think I'll cut up the extra skin and bake it up tonight. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 11:12
      - *whew* Hopefully they get things moving and he's out very soon. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 11:01 1
        
        this -- nm - Beaker Jun 18, 11:11
- Nice! You made me go down a long porchetta hole, thanks a lot... - colin Jun 18, 10:05 2
  - I was up way too late the other day watching pretty much ever YouTube video about it. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 10:14 1
    - I'm excited for you!!! It's so good and there's no way it'll come out bad :). -- nm - colin Jun 18, 10:15
I like this hot take -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 18, 09:37 [mastodon] 6
- Not to mention politicians -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 10:32
- The AI that is only trained on pitch decks is going to be wild. -- nm - colin Jun 18, 10:06 1
  - Related, this entire new startup looks like it's end to end conceived and designed by taking to chatgpt -- (link) - colin Jun 18, 10:07
- accurate! see also crypto -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 09:38 2
  - relatedly, the same people that sold crypto on "what are you, a pussy?" are now going after science with the "debate me, coward" treatment. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 10:40 1
    - Kasparov: "The goal is to create doubt and fabricate legitimacy for positions that cannot earn it." (short thread): -- (link) - mud Jun 18, 10:55
I feel bad for laughing but lolBraves -- (link) - Tim Jun 18, 09:32 4
- (Culberson was DFA’d this morning.) -- nm - Tim Jun 18, 09:47 2
  - Oh…oh wow. That’s, wow. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 18, 10:20 1
    - Yup. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 18, 10:36
- never feel bad for that -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 09:37
Roger Corman, still the King -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 09:08 4
- That's fantastic -- nm - prayformojo Jun 18, 09:49
- And still with us at 97! (nm) - Tim Jun 18, 09:27
- Corman produced “Asphalt Wars” in the early 2000s—I think Vin Diesel and company tried too hard to make it “cool”—nods to 70/80s cinema and/or TV - Flavorize Jun 18, 09:25 1
  - They got stupid the last 3 movies. - Will Hunting Jun 18, 11:39
Teamwork -- (link) - JD Jun 18, 08:47
OTD 50 years ago, Joe Walsh released his second album The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get. -- (link) - mud Jun 18, 08:35 [youtube]
BoxOffice: Flash $55.1M 3-day, $64M 4-day -- (link) - budice Jun 18, 08:29 3
- Elemental $29.5M 3-day, $33.3M 4-day -- nm - budice Jun 18, 08:41 2
  - These seem like pretty normal numbers. -- nm - Qale Jun 18, 11:05 1
    - “soft” for Pixars used to be in the $50-60m o.w. range. Disney has wrecked the brand -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 12:21
STIS: some of the keys on daughters laptop stopped working. any ideas why this could happen? was working fine then wasn't -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 07:57 9
- What brand? -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 09:40 2
  - lenovo -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 10:29
  - MacBooks between 2015 and 2019 had a keyboard that was particularly susceptible to catching debris and breaking. -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 09:45
- JTC -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 09:05
- How old is the laptop? And has anyone ever cleaned it? - ReluctantCynic Jun 18, 08:32 2
  - tried the cleaning and check the mapping; seems like not either -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 08:43 1
    - try cleaning again especially under the keys that aren't working. -- nm - . Jun 18, 13:14
- What happened after reboot? -- nm - colin Jun 18, 08:30 1
  - same -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 08:32
HAHA...we got Jason Isbell to talk about his Braves Mt. Rushmore picks... -- (link) - Remlik Jun 18, 07:48
Money Heist BERLIN | Official Teaser | Netflix (December) -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 07:18 [youtube]
Jack Kirby's son posts a statement -- (link) - budice Jun 18, 06:44 1
- Reads better in the original Latverian. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 07:43
Happy Father's Day to all of our ST dads! -- nm - Fuzzy Jun 18, 06:42
Wordle 729 5/6 - Fuzzy Jun 18, 05:57 2
- 3 - decline Jun 18, 08:00
- 4 - rollo Jun 18, 06:43
this is great -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 04:34 3
- Jonah! -- nm - Tim Jun 18, 08:14
- That is fantastic -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 18, 05:10
- Haha! -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 04:36
TV PSA: MLB, USFL, The Cube, The Idol, The Lazarus Project, Joe Pickett, Righteous Gemstones, Endeavour, From, The Walking Dead: Dead City, - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 04:31 2
- Nada. I guess I'll spend a lot of time searching for things to watch tonight. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 05:40
- PSA Don’t watch the Idol. -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 18, 05:11
Unusual Wordle.Took 6. No yellow. -- (edited) - Andie Jun 18, 03:35 1
- 5/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 18, 05:21
I feel kinda bad for Cinemark advertising The Flash all over the place... -- nm - Ender Jun 18, 00:32
George Takai celebrates his 15th anniversary...to boldly go where no gay has gone before.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 00:17
CWS: Vols Baseball bumped into LSU's Paul Skenes - 123 pitches, 40 above 100mph over 7 2/3inn -- (link*) - budice Jun 17, 22:00 1
- Yeah he’s very good. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 18, 06:33
I was just thinking -- how many actors have made a better career off the choices of a single role than Robert Patrick as the T-1000? - Will Hunting Jun 17, 21:03 11
- Bruce Campbell - Evil Dead -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 18, 04:24
- Russell Crowe, Gladiator. -- nm - Loyola Jun 18, 03:21
- Jack Black in High Fidelity? -- nm - LMS Jun 18, 02:40
- He's still got the Harley dealership. -- nm - jnine Jun 17, 23:08
- Shia LaBeouf -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 17, 21:49 3
  - retiring after Indy 5 was a good idea -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 17, 21:56 2
    - What did he do to get booted off TWO billion dollar franchises? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 17, 22:06 1
      - beat up his girlfriend -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 17, 22:14
- I think he's done some good work since then. -- nm - budice Jun 17, 21:11 1
  - he was great in X Files -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 21:13
- Agreed--On the "Inside of You" pod, he talks about post T2...very interesting the struggles. Probably could've had a bigger career too -- (link) - Flavorize Jun 17, 21:11 [youtube]
Future Hall of Famer Joey Votto: School Bus Driver -- (link) - Ender Jun 17, 21:02 1
- I bet he's the cool bus driver who has a radio and lets the kids pick the station on Fridays... -- nm - Ender Jun 17, 21:12
Well... I've been doing some thinking... And I'm now 92% convinced my "skin on pork belly" didn't actually have skin. - Ender Jun 17, 20:48 4
- yep, there is no skin on the pork you showed. -- (edited) - colin Jun 18, 05:41
- Pig skin is difficult to remove, so most folks ask to get a pork belly with it removed. It's like a quarter inch thick - zeitgeist Jun 17, 22:04 2
  - The order tag specifically said "5# pork belly (skin on?)" Stupid question mark... -- nm - Ender Jun 17, 22:21
  - Yeah, this is my thinking. Hoping the Mexicans come through. -- nm* - Ender Jun 17, 22:08
John Oliver is the mascot for the Reddit blackout as /r/pics was threatened to have their mods removed if they ‘didn’t listen to the community.’ - Qale Jun 17, 20:25 3
- /r/gifs as well. -- nm - mafic Jun 17, 21:42
- I put on my robe and wizard hat. -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 21:11
- Same with r/gifs -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 20:26
Val Kilmer just absolutely roasting David Mamet on a public DVD commentary to Spartan is amazing -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 17, 20:19 7
- Mamet is MAGA -- nm - budice Jun 17, 21:03 6
  - NO. NO. ARE YOU SERIOUS -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 21:13 5
    - nmbBook -- (link) - Ender Jun 17, 21:18 4
      - Gross -- nm - Flavorize Jun 17, 21:19 3
        
        That particular book being 5 years pre-maga, is probably a lot better than his new one. *nmbBook* -- (link) - Ender Jun 17, 21:24 2
        
        I see MAGAs are pumping up the ratings for it— 🤷‍♂️—I’m not sure I understand the current MAGA endgame - Flavorize Jun 18, 09:14 1
        
        The endgame is single party rule. -- nm - loosilu Jun 18, 17:06
Ah, i finally have a cohesive subplot for my "novel" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 20:02 8
- why is that in quotes? -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 20:04 7
  - Because I'm ever-self-doubting. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 20:08 6
    - how many pages have you written? -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 20:11 5
      - I did nanowrimo a couple of years ago, and now I'm rewriting it into a first proper draft. Full rewrite. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 20:20 2
        
        You just have to do it. Please note I am saying this to myself right now. -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 21:12
        
        Or, I have 50K words of slapdash ideas written in a travelogue style that I want to convert to a narrative. - Beryllium Jun 17, 20:30
      - Do crumpled up balls of paper count? -- nm - Qale Jun 17, 20:11 1
        
        how old are they? -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 20:14
Let's take a moment to appreciate how 81 year old McCartney, dressed to do yard work, walks into a room. Skip to 1 minute. -- (link) - loosilu Jun 17, 19:43 [youtube] 3
- Conan sure enjoys ripping off Letterman. -- nm - Spawn Jun 18, 09:51 2
  - "ripping off" or following his lead? The Clash weren't ripping off the Pistols. Brahms wasn't ripping off Beethoven. "riffing" off, maybe -- nm - mud Jun 18, 09:57
  - other than fucking his intern -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 09:52
Wow, the driver of the bus of the Pittsburgh Pirates was busted for DUI while driving the team from Chicago to Milwaukee. - Will Hunting Jun 17, 19:23 2
- That's scary. And stupid in many ways including the fact the State Police escort the busses from the moment they leave the ballpark. - zunk takes things literally Jun 17, 21:00
- Bob Huggins? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 17, 19:36
The Azteca Restaurant in the village offered a free souvenir shopping bag to attendees of All Shook Up at the Gem. Guilted me into picking up - Meg Jun 17, 19:10 2
- You know what I picture when I think "Mexican restaurant"? Elvis. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 17, 22:18 1
  - As it should be 😉 -- nm - Meg Jun 17, 22:34
The Friends of the Mouse meeting at Stanley Ranch this week will feature the final day of Splash Mountain. I should go sit in. -- nm - Meg Jun 17, 19:05
I have friends livestreaming on YT at the Golden Knights parade. -- (link) - Peglegpete Jun 17, 18:58 [youtube]

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