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My town leading the TV news having the worst air quality, 300 this morning, fires and fireworks -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 12:05 2
- SO glad ours is over (at least for now). I had a soar throat for days from it. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 12:44 1
  - I should be wearing my n95, have a box of them still -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 13:27
HBO’s “Insecure” is now on Netflix. Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Six Feet Under, and Ballers landing on Netflix soon. -- nm - MDH Jul 5, 12:03 7
- are they renting them or did they buy them? I've seen different wording in a couple articles -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 5, 12:12 4
  - They're non-exclusive licenses, which means they're available on Netflix and Max. This is probably the model moving forward for non-tentpoles. - David Jul 5, 12:16 2
    - lol everyone pulled all their stuff off Netflix three years ago just so they would have exclusivity for their own streaming platforms -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 12:20 1
      - And now that they have tens of millions of subscribers, they can sell it back, yes. -- nm - David Jul 5, 12:29
  - Zaslav is pimping them out for licensing cash -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 12:16
- in theory this is a good thing for talent (residuals are better the more things sell everywhere) but it's another flop-sweat desperate Zaslav move -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 12:05
- Crossing the streams. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 12:04
Tourist “didn’t realize how old it was” before carving his name into the wall of Colosseum -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Jul 5, 11:58 17
- Throw him to the lions. -- nm - Caesar Jul 5, 12:31
- True story: in one of my college Latin classes, we were assigned graffiti from Pompeii to translate. Some of it was this level of inanity. - Coach Bearond Jul 5, 12:24 1
  - Kilroy hic erat -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 12:45
- A 27-year old oblivious fitness instructor composing that statement is as unlikely as a dating site matching Mary McDonnell to Stephen Tobolowsky. -- nm - Max Jul 5, 12:02 10
  - yep. "i didn't know it was old" and also "caused to an asset which, in fact, is the heritage of all humanity," -- nm - Andie Jul 5, 12:35
  - his shit eating grin in the video says otherwise. He knew exactly what he was doing and didnt give an F. -- nm - Jovian Jul 5, 12:24
  - fun pixie fact: i chatted with Tobo for a few minutes about improv a couple weeks ago after he did a show here. total mensch -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 12:24
  - Agreed! -- nm - Ben Kingsley Jul 5, 12:19 3
    - +1 kilbo point -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 12:21 2
      - My best friend just showed this movie to his kids (ages 21 and 17) recently. They ate it up. - Coach Bearond Jul 5, 12:28 1
        
        It holds up surprisingly well -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 12:31
  - I love that it is "alleged" when there is a video. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 12:03 2
    - It wasn't him. - Shaggy Jul 5, 12:07
    - My client didn't make those scratches, he was trying to clean it. The matching names is a 2000 year old coincidence. -- nm - lawyer Jul 5, 12:05
- Who let pixie out of the country? -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 12:01
- he's too stupid to travel, stay home. -- nm - Andie Jul 5, 12:00 1
  - You don't have to be smart to be a fitness instructor apparently. -- nm - sycor Jul 5, 12:05
the shows I've watched this year: -- (edited) - mud Jul 5, 11:57 4
- How was Hello Tomorrow! ? -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 12:22 1
  - not so great, like they wanted to satirize Philip K Dick -- nm - mud Jul 5, 12:27
- Of those I saw the Last of Us and the Diplomat. They weren’t bad. -- nm - Loyola Jul 5, 12:06
- my calendar: - mud Jul 5, 12:00
GQ is gonna burn for pulling that Zaslav article. The question is: will Zaslav follow? -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 5, 11:54
Tsitsipas beats Thiem in 5th set tiebreak. Great match. -- nm - Loyola Jul 5, 11:54
Martha Quinn opens up about dealing with cancer -- (link) - Remlik Jul 5, 11:47
U-40 Bucket List blow-over -- (link) - JD Jul 5, 11:30 [youtube] 3
- fucking Indiana -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 11:31 2
  - I hate our Gov. -- nm - Remlik Jul 5, 11:45 1
    - On a happier note they decided we no longer have to pay for rental textbooks. Last week I got a $463 refund check out of the blue. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 11:47
update to story I posted about last Thursday (Obama/Trumpet) -- (link) - mud Jul 5, 11:24 1
- CNN: -- (edited) - mud Jul 5, 11:25
what old IP are studios going to want to Barbie-up next? Star Trek XX: The Wrath of Barbie -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 11:23 34
- Pinkula -- nm - David Jul 5, 12:31
- Fast and Fabulous: barb's family -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 12:11 1
  - The Unbearable Pinkness of Being -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 12:14
- Barbiplicity -- nm - Jovian Jul 5, 12:06
- Spiderbarbie: Across the Barbieverse -- nm - budice Jul 5, 11:57
- Top Gun: Barbie -- nm - Flavorize Jul 5, 11:56
- No Country For Old Barbie - TWuG Jul 5, 11:56
- I need to finish my script for Hungry Hungry Hippos -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 11:54
- Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light! - Coach Bearond Jul 5, 11:52
- The Passion of the Barbie. Jurassic Barbie -- nm - budice Jul 5, 11:46 1
  - “And her followers saw the holes in her hands and her feet, and Barbie said unto them; - Loyola Jul 5, 11:50
- Titanic Barbie. Spoils - Loyola Jul 5, 11:44 1
  - spoiler - Spawn Jul 5, 11:45
- Mouse Trap -- nm - Dano Jul 5, 11:44 1
  - Oh... misread the post. The Barbie Centipede -- nm - Dano Jul 5, 11:47
- Flight of the Barbies. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 5, 11:43
- Barbie: First blood. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 5, 11:40 1
  - Gladiator 2 - Loyola Jul 5, 11:42
- The Ballad of Ricky Barbie -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 11:39
- Barbie Poppins. - Loyola Jul 5, 11:39
- The Legend of Barbie Jean -- nm - Max Jul 5, 11:38 2
  - hair is hair! -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 11:38 1
    - "Uh, Charlize, there's a memo here from Mattel that states in no uncertain terms are you to-" "Chop it." "We're all going to hell..." -- nm - Max Jul 5, 11:47
- Barbie's Dream Grindhouse -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 11:37
- Shirley Temple: Catwoman Sigourny Weaver's part in Aliens -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 11:29 1
  - Barb Wick -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 11:30
- Barbie the Barbarian, obvie. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 11:26 1
  - slay, kween -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 11:27
- Mattel has 45 of its toy properties lined up for development -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Jul 5, 11:25
- Barbierella -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 11:24 2
  - hell yeah - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 11:26 1
    - no nips is scary -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 11:27
- He-Man? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jul 5, 11:24 1
  - It's Mattel so why not maybe they end up having an illegitimate child together -- nm - eag Jul 5, 11:31
Stealing other people’s work and passing it off as your own “innovation” is not a recent phenomenon. -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Jul 5, 11:12
MLB-BAL- Colton Cowser to the big leagues. Jackson Holliday, Coby Mayo, Heston Kjerstad, Samuel Basallo on their way -- nm - budice Jul 5, 11:02 2
- Padres DFAd Nelson Cruz -- nm - budice Jul 5, 11:04
- can any of them pitch? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 11:04
Jimmy Cordero, Yankees reliever -- agrees to 76-game suspension for domestic abuse. - Will Hunting Jul 5, 11:01
Tallon Griekspoor sounds like a Wildling from Game of Thrones. -- nm - Diva Jul 5, 10:53 2
- The Dutch are playing a centuries' long prank on the rest of the world with their names. -- nm - Reagen Jul 5, 11:27 1
  - Botic van de Zandschulp has entered the chat -- nm - Dano Jul 5, 11:48
Every Quirky Forensic Pathologist -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 5, 10:52 [youtube]
former Tucker Collins protege given 10p slot at CNN -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 10:49
Mondaire Jones will try to do what carpetbagging Sean Patrick Maloney was unable to even with all of Nancy & Hakeem's money poured into his race -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 10:45 2
- Mondaire is great. Been following his career for a while. -- nm* - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jul 5, 11:09 1
  - i think NY Dems are trying to get the turrible redistricting opinion reconsidered now that they have a non-Cuomo hack as the Sup Ct.'s chief judge -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 11:13
Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets -- (link) - budice Jul 5, 10:32 4
- THANK YOU TOM CRUISE!!! -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 11:09
- oh no but they were Strengthening The Platform - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 10:59
- "Twitter quietly puts footgun back into gun safe" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 10:39
- After breaking the need for a lot of people. -- nm - Reagen Jul 5, 10:35
Hamm-aconda honeymoons in Spain with new wife Anna Osceola -- (link) - budice Jul 5, 10:24 1
- blue? green. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 11:28
I think I may pull the trigger and (finally) get Elden Ring instead of Diablo 4. -- nm - Jovian Jul 5, 10:20 15
- I absolutely loved Elden Rings, but I had to play a less twitchy sort of character to actually complete the game. - Marlowe Jul 5, 11:18
- I've been tempted as well but I'm still playing NMS pretty hard so not looking to buy anything. I got my hardcore achievement for reaching the - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 10:51 9
  - 👍👍. I'm in galaxy 11 Elkupalos now -- (edited) - decline Jul 5, 11:10 5
    - I used the portal method (sunrise x10) to get within 5000 light years of the center. I'm still using the starter ship - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 11:22 4
      - the living ship storyline is a bit of a slog as you have multiple steps that include waiting for 24 hours each time - decline Jul 5, 11:25 2
        
        that's on my list too. I only wish I could figure out a way to "pre-save" games in Calypso so that if I die permadeath I don't have to do - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 11:32 1
        
        I don't think you can - decline Jul 5, 11:40
      - yup. it's the one 'cheat' I use - decline Jul 5, 11:23
  - I thought I knew someone playing this. I almost bought this too but reviews were sort of hit or miss. - sycor Jul 5, 11:04 2
    - I've hardly played it at all since buying it :) That being said, every update brings me back to try again. This time it is finally sticking a bit -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 11:17
    - It's probably my favorite game of all time. I've got well over 500 hours of play time in now -- nm - decline Jul 5, 11:09
- I honestly have enjoyed Diablo 4 more - decline Jul 5, 10:40 2
  - its that Dark Souls style of play that has held me off from pulling the trigger (as I dont have much familiarity with it), BUT - Jovian Jul 5, 10:45
  - follow the rats -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jul 5, 10:42
- I almost bought Elden Ring yesterday during Gamestop's sale. (I messed around and didn't buy anything the sale would go through today) But I do poorly - sycor Jul 5, 10:23
the extremely Pro-Life Wisconsin GOP blocks Gov Evers meningitis vaccine requirement for seventh graders -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 10:15 3
- its staggering to think the amount of damage MAGA has inflicted on this nation in such a short period of time. -- nm - Jovian Jul 5, 10:19 2
  - he wasn’t selling anything 40% of the country wasn’t looking to buy in the first place -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 10:21 1
    - right. he realized this countries dark secret: that we were all mostly 1920-30s Germans. -- nm - Jovian Jul 5, 10:33
Heathers 35th Anniversary | July 30 -- (link) - JD Jul 5, 10:14 [youtube]
Cool -- the dude who won the Vegas WSOP Main Event seat made it through Day 1(b) - Will Hunting Jul 5, 10:11 1
- Awesome! -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 5, 10:44
Barbie beats Mario. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 10:06 3
- A Barbie movie directed by Olivia Wilde would definitely not be for kids. -- nm - Max Jul 5, 10:22 1
  - La Femme Barbita -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 10:36
- ...in bed -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 5, 10:07
VLIR: Long weekend watching. EEAAO (1st time): A. Missing: B+. Silo: A. FUBAR: B-. -- (edited) - oblique Jul 5, 10:02 8
- EEAAO is so polarizing, it seems to me. Either love it or hate it. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 5, 10:08 6
  - I have yet to see it. I keep thinking I will at some point but not even sure where it is streaming. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 11:44 2
    - It's on Showtime. You might have it your P+ subscription was automatically updated. I did a free 7 day trial via Amazon Prime and watched it that way -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 12:15
    - skip it - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 11:46
  - I have never heard a theater so quiet as the scene with the rocks. - Coach Bearond Jul 5, 10:47
  - Yeah, my wife had a lot of people telling her she needed to see it. She wasn't all that impressed -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 10:35 1
    - same with mine while both kids love it -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 5, 10:39
- Indy Finale with family: A+ ending spoil - Spawn Jul 5, 10:08
Anthony Parker, older brother of Candace Parker, is the new GM of the Orlando Magic. - David Jul 5, 09:59
My kids - who were never Barbie girls - are buying outfits to go watch the Barbie movie. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 5, 09:57 7
- My wife and daughter are planning on going. My wife rarely goes to movies. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jul 5, 10:07 1
  - the cinemascores from this are gonna be wild -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 12:18
- my girls seemed super stoked for it too (16 and 19) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 5, 10:02 4
  - it looks fun. the relevant question today is whether it’s “I can wait 45 days and just watch it for free on Max” fun. - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 10:10 3
    - Girls like to dress up for other girls, so this is a theater movie. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 11:01 2
      - i bet that the message of the movie is 180 the opposite of that -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 11:05 1
        
        YUP -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 11:19
ST is smarter: where do I buy a used Iphone X that won't scam me? Anyone here got an extra after the upgrade? I can cash app -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 5, 09:56 6
- X loses updates this fall though. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 12:06
- Craiglist, first look for ads not to good to be true, then search CL for the phone number of the seller.... - zeitgeist Jul 5, 10:16
- swappa is there I've bought older phones when I needed one. -- nm - sycor Jul 5, 09:59 3
  - Probably the safest option if you need that specific model. - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jul 5, 10:27 2
    - Thanks everyone -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 5, 11:02
    - iPhone 7 is the cutoff for iOS 16 (8 still works actually) -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jul 5, 10:37
"STOP THE COUNT" -- (link) - mud Jul 5, 09:55 3
- [1st negative review] [Tom Cruise confused head tilt] -- nm - Max Jul 5, 10:09
- 97% now - 76/2 -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 5, 10:08
- sexay -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 5, 10:01
Hump Day! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 5, 09:54 1
- Feels like Monday part 2 -- nm - sycor Jul 5, 10:27

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