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In a rare win, my yearly sub to Paramount Plus pays off in granting the upgrade to Showtime without additional payment. -- nm - Qale Jun 27, 09:20 7
- bad news: Paramount pulled everything off Plus -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 09:26 1
  - Worst News: They’ve never added more classic Nickelodeon. Like, where’s the rest of You Can’t Do That On Television? -- nm - Qale Jun 27, 09:30
- I've got the email saying I'm getting Showtime and the rate will be $119.99/year. Is that what I've already been paying? - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 09:25 3
  - $ 10? are they crazy??? -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jun 27, 09:32 1
    - I'll let it slide. Although I get it... if they keep increasing it just $1/month, no one minds. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 09:47
  - I paid $54.11 for a year back on November 24th which feels like a Cyber Monday deal. -- nm - Qale Jun 27, 09:29
- 😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 27, 09:20
In these new books on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, experts try to predict how the end of the war will play out. - crash davis 😺 Jun 27, 09:10
Chicago looks like pictures from china with the air quality today. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 27, 09:04 5
- It was pretty hazy coming into work today. I could go take a pic on the roof if you want to see -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 09:13 2
  - I’m actually sitting at ORD right now. - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 27, 09:32
  - So it is a hazy shade of summer? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 27, 09:18
- I love the competitions between New York and Chicago. "No, *WE* have the worst air quality!" -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 09:08 1
  - Your air is as thin and crappy as your pizza! -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 09:19
Since June 6 and Pete Alonso's "throw it again please!", the Mets have gone from 6.5 games back from Atlanta to 16. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 27, 09:00 1
- I think they’ve quit on Buck. -- nm - Tim Jun 27, 09:09
25 years of scientific research ruined when cleaner turns off a beeping freezer -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 27, 08:51 5
- OK, let's start with the manufacturer of the freezer and the lab techs who opted to not address failing equipment. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 09:08 2
  - (read the article) edit: actually read the bbc article -- nm* - decline Jun 27, 09:09 1
    - Evidently, the lab went to extraordinary measures to prevent shut down and the employee went to equally extraordinary measures to shut it down. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 09:24
- oof -- nm - JaxSean Jun 27, 08:54
- poor frozen Ted Williams head -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 08:53
Five Nights at Freddy's trailer -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 08:49 [youtube] 1
- Oh is the new Elm Street comedy/horror reboot? - Jovian Jun 27, 09:38
ST Poll: How many "chuggas" precede a "choo choo?" -- nm - Dano Jun 27, 08:46 19
- Is this Australian Locomotion or American Locomotion? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 09:26
- Anything less than 4 is incomplete. Anything more than 4 is gilding the lily -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jun 27, 09:09
- How many ooga-chakas should precede a confession that you just can't stop this feeling? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 27, 08:56 1
  - As many as it takes, obvie. -- nm - Spawn Jun 27, 08:58
- 312.50 -- nm - Spawn Jun 27, 08:53
- depends on how close you are to town or whether you just saw bison covering the tracks -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 27, 08:53
- 4x, where x is a positive integer. -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 27, 08:52 1
  - Forex, for when you're dipping your wick in crazy... -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 27, 10:56
- 6 -- nm - decline Jun 27, 08:49
- Eight. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 27, 08:49 4
  - This -- nm - Strongbad Jun 27, 09:02
  - That's what I do -- nm - Dano Jun 27, 08:49 2
    - that seems like an excessive amount of chugga-ing -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 08:50 1
      - CHUGGACHUGGA chuggachugga CHUGGACHUGGA chuggachugga CHOOO! CHOOO! -- nm - JaxSean Jun 27, 08:51
- depends on how many times you've said it. first time is 2 chugga chuggas; but the more you do it the more chuggas you can add -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 08:47
- two to get started. four when you are really hauling ass. -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 08:47 1
  - This. -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 08:55
- Twelve. -- nm - Qale Jun 27, 08:47 1
  - This. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 27, 08:48
I had a free Cineworld voucher so I've used it to book an IMAX screening of Oppenheimer. My colleague asked me what it was about. - LMS Jun 27, 08:43 3
- is boredom the answer? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 08:48
- And you said "The famous composer" just to mess with him. -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 27, 08:47 1
  - Mr Oppenheimer's Opus: it was a little loud, but changed the world -- nm - Beryllium Jun 27, 08:53
James Crown (billionaire, chicago ties, obama appointed to intelligence advisory board) died on Sunday in a racetrack crash -- (link) - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 08:39
Um. Ok. I have now found two 1 inch paper cutout photos of me around our office. First one was on the first floor in/near our water fridge in the - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 08:22 [Attachment] 15
- you are being pranked -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jun 27, 09:07
- Company yearbook? Maybe something for a website and they needed to scan your photo -- nm - Flavorize Jun 27, 08:38 5
  - well, the photo is printed and cut out of my company photo so...probably not :) -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 08:48
  - or it's simply a stalker -- nm - decline Jun 27, 08:47
  - Or—did you get promoted? Or going to get promoted? I can see photos being passed around so they know who you are -- nm - Flavorize Jun 27, 08:46 2
    - I wondered if it was something related to our "scholars" program (we recently did the picnic with them) where we work with high school students, etc. - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 08:49
    - "don't let this motherfucker back in the building" -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 08:46
- aliens -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 08:32
- Dust for fingerprints. - ReluctantCynic Jun 27, 08:28
- dartboard target -- nm - Remlik Jun 27, 08:26
- Go home. - Spawn Jun 27, 08:25
- oh, that's not creepy .. at all. -- nm - mud Jun 27, 08:24
- I don't know what you did to Meg, but her minions know what you look like now. -- nm - TWuG Jun 27, 08:24
- clearly someone is planning a heist using fake ID claiming to be you. Obviously. -- nm - Andie Jun 27, 08:24 1
  - I vote for this -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jun 27, 09:34
Lordstown Motors files for bankruptcy. -- (link) - TWuG Jun 27, 08:13
YouTube is testing out a new games portal. Not a games *streaming* portal. A *GAMES* portal. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 08:10 2
- It's going to be how YouTube Music replaced Google Play Music. YouTube Games will replace Google Play Games. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 09:02
- A dumbed down, rebranded Stadia? -- nm - JD Jun 27, 08:19
Roseanne Barr goes full antisemite - Jovian Jun 27, 07:59 5
- Oh, Theo... Jenntucky Fried Chicken. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jun 27, 08:59
- "IT WAS A JOKE!" non-apology apology in 3... 2... 1... -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 08:11 3
  - She’s trying to bait him into an argument/reacting—when he’s “right, right” just cruising past it—she jumps on the one thing he said Jews/Hollywood -- nm* - Flavorize Jun 27, 08:41
  - That's what someone was saying in the comments, and said to "watch the whole interview". Well, the whole interview is pretty off the rails, too. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 27, 08:20 1
    - I'm deeply curious about the "Matt Damon with a mullet" host. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 09:46
Random Green Thumb Poll: How many living plants (inside) can you see right now? -- nm - Andie Jun 27, 07:58 21
- Three...but we moved a few from the front window to outside on the porch, like the spider plants -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 27, 10:51
- Twelve. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 27, 08:28
- Cut flowers in a vase on the conference room table. I mean, they *were* alive, right? -- nm - Spawn Jun 27, 08:26
- 0 at work -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 08:14
- zero. I have one plant (bathroom, spider) which I got only so I could have a disco ball planter -- (link) - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 27, 08:14
- at work: 5. -- nm - Andie Jun 27, 08:12
- right now: 2. If I was at home around 30ish - decline Jun 27, 08:09
- None. Our cats chew any house plants to death. - TWuG Jun 27, 08:08 8
  - We had that issue as well. We put the plants on shelves they couldn't get to and put hooks over the windows to hang some plants they couldn't reach. -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 27, 08:21 6
    - yeah, we have a few on tall plant stands, and with thicker leaves (Tallulah would chew on thin spindly leaves.) We gave away more than one plant that - Andie Jun 27, 08:25 1
      - We gave away one as well because Callie was always trying to get to it. I like having them in the kitchen and living room but there are limited - Krusty Jun 27, 08:34
    - smaht -- nm - mud Jun 27, 08:23
    - Our cats get onto cabinet tops 8 feet up. There is no safe place for plants in our house -- nm - TWuG Jun 27, 08:22 2
      - Yeah, some cats can't be stopped and leap so high there's nothing you can do. -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 08:33 1
        
        I had to take down a beautiful macrame hanger because it was withing easy jumping distance. -- nm - Meg Jun 27, 08:39
  - Same -- nm - Meg Jun 27, 08:19
- zero. my green thumb died a long time ago -- nm - JaxSean Jun 27, 08:00
- Nada. They're in a different room. -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 07:59
- one -- nm - mud Jun 27, 07:59
- 0 -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 27, 07:58
- Zero -- nm - JD Jun 27, 07:58
Also LYC: Installed a CloudFree tasmota smart switch last night. Very nice. Took a few minutes to figure out the various options I wanted to set - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 07:46 1
- getting close to kilboAI that'll auto-post on ST. -- nm - budice Jun 27, 07:56
CNN story: A bolder CNN is emerging after the ouster of former network chief Chris Licht -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 07:42
Sen Voldemort warns all you reds to stay away from Florida -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 07:42 9
- Oh yeah, well effffff youuuuu, we're going to Disney lan....oh I see what you did there, ok fine, I'm staying away with my tourist $$$ -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 27, 10:54
- So, if you’re a registered democrat or you register as a democrat, you’re going to be harassed? -- nm - Flavorize Jun 27, 08:39 2
  - I will report back and let you know if I get harassed. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 27, 08:50
  - one reason we might not go back -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 08:40
- Florida is actively working on becoming a shittier shithole. -- nm - loosilu Jun 27, 08:02
- Don't Say Commie -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 27, 07:57
- I do appreciate how they have all just double down on hard on the fascism. -- (edited) - Jovian Jun 27, 07:50
- Ok. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 27, 07:49
- Tourism, pfft. Who needs it? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 07:43
Celebrity chef Rick Bayless is concerned that the Bear’s portrayal of toxic kitchens is concerning. -- (link) - Mop Jun 27, 07:31
damn RIP to another mf'in G -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 07:23 2
- Damn—that’s sad. Terrible picture of him too—looks like he wanted a spray tan, but they talked him into applying a layer of mud, instead -- nm - Flavorize Jun 27, 08:44
- oh man...that guy was on everything -- nm - Remlik Jun 27, 08:14
Independent State Legislature Theory: Rejected! -- (link) - TWuG Jun 27, 07:22 15
- Thomas and Alito are so thoroughly corrupted, they really need to go. -- nm - Jovian Jun 27, 07:48
- phew -- nm - Jovian Jun 27, 07:38 5
  - Roberts never gives the full loaf: "This gives SCOTUS the ultimate say over the meaning of state law in the midst of an election dispute -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 07:50 4
    - Given most of the states in question are lurching hard right into parody, isn’t the USSC retaining some level of oversight best? - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 27, 07:56 2
      - It's tough to trust this court not to pull another Gore v Bush. -- nm - TWuG Jun 27, 08:09
      - (they're not going to deploy it against the right-wing states) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 07:57
    - yea, this wet blanket isnt going to dispel my relief on this. -- nm - Jovian Jun 27, 07:51
- Good. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 27, 07:30 2
  - Gorsuch joined Alito and Thomas in going along with the scam -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 07:44 1
    - Wonder if anyone has given him free vacations as well that we’re going to find out about soon. -- nm* - znufrii 🦄 Jun 27, 07:45
- whew -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 27, 07:25 1
  - it would be a good day for California to also disbar the Claremont Institute shitheel who has been pushing this illegal nonsense for years -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 07:28
- Roberts wrote the opinion personally -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 07:23 2
  - can you ELI5? The whole "state courts have power" and "federal courts don't" summary in the twitter thread left me more confused -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 07:31 1
    - As I read it: State courts can review state legislative actions re: elections. Federal courts cannot review state court decisions simply because they overturn state legislative intent re: elections. -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 27, 07:38
*sigh* I spent way too much time last night arguing with AI about rhyming and losing - oblique 🌈 Jun 27, 07:08 2
- I was happy that I could feed it a list of plu codes, tell it to ignore the numbers and make it alphabetical. - Qale Jun 27, 07:20
- My AI / is stupid / Who's with me? / Just say "aye." -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 27, 07:18
GSP offers to train Elon Musk after Jon Jones backs Mark Zuckerberg -- nm - budice Jun 27, 06:59
I've mentioned how I have a new primary care physician. Here's a pretty remarkable story about him. -- (link) - Coach Bearond Jun 27, 06:51 1
- Pretty freaking amazing -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 27, 10:48
VF: How Ukraine Viewed Russia’s Aborted Coup - mud Jun 27, 06:22
offs, I need something from a client's website, and our IT is blocking it due to suspicion of malware. - tRuMaN Jun 27, 06:00 1
- Hey, maybe it’s just terribly put together. -- nm - mafic Jun 27, 06:28
30 NFL Stadiums in 30 Days- Day 26: Seattle Seahawks -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 05:39 [youtube]
What is Stefon Diggs wearing on his feet (wrong answers only) -- (link) - Flavorize Jun 27, 05:36 9
- He’s got the conch. He gets to speak. -- nm - Qale Jun 27, 07:18
- a broach? or a pterodactyl? -- nm - Diva Jun 27, 06:56 1
  - 100 Baron points. -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 27, 06:57
- Can't improve on the original -- nm - rollo Jun 27, 06:27
- Josh Allen's tears -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 27, 05:45
- Steel-toed Kraft LunchBags -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 27, 05:44
- His dad's Timbs? -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 05:38
- Here’s the photo for the non-Twitter crowd -- (pic) - Flavorize Jun 27, 05:37 [Attachment] 1
  - Toll House Timberlins -- nm - JaxSean Jun 27, 07:27
Happy birthday, Amy! Happy birthday, Nuditarian! Woo hoo!!! 🥳🎂 -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 05:29 4
- indeed! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 27, 08:47
- Happy Birthdays!!! -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jun 27, 06:57
- cheers!! -- nm - mud Jun 27, 05:32
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 05:30
Indiana Jones 64% (90/51), Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken 78% (7/2) -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 05:28 4
- Not looking so great for Indy. I was hoping it would be a great end to the franchise. -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 05:36 3
  - 1 was 93%; 2 was 77%; 3 was 84% (this really shocked me being this low) and 4 was 77% for comparison -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 05:53 2
    - Just listened to the Rewatchables about 3. Some reviews dinged it for basically playing the hits. - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 27, 08:11
    - Being below #4 is not a good sign at all. Such a shame. -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 05:55
TV PSA: MLB, America's Got Talent, Deadliest Catch, Superman & Lois, WWE NXT, Gotham Knights, Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge, - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 05:26 1
- wordle 3 - rollo Jun 27, 06:28

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