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Some Toronto area stores are closing their beer and wine sections. Why? Because they’re not making money -- (link) - budice Jul 14, 08:00 3
- I remember 3 whole display refers of craft beers now just 4 cans, a case of domestic beers and the other 2 have energy drinks -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 10:12
- "The government allowed retailers to bid margin rates between two and 6.9 per cent." - JD Jul 14, 08:10
- andie wtf -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 14, 08:02
ha ha Dark Brandon raised $72m last quarter -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 14, 07:58 1
- will also forgive $39b in student loans for 800k borrowers -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jul 14, 08:08
You know what time it is - Weekend Plans Poll ! -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 07:55 21
- Grandkids visiting, Culture Club / Howard Jones / Berlin Saturday night. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 08:10 2
  - HoJo is one of the few people I have not seen that I would like to. -- nm - Spawn Jul 14, 09:05 1
    - we saw him about 5-ish years ago at a small jazz club here, just him and a piano, it was *great*. -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 09:46
- Heather & I are getting a hotel room tomorrow night, going to spend an evening revisiting our old stomping ground where we first hung around before -- (edited) - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 14, 08:07 3
  - I dunno, there's an old saying, you can't go back home again -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 10:13
  - Nice! -- nm - JD Jul 14, 08:10
  - fun! -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 08:09
- Tonight: OC Fair, Sat: Bowling club pool party Sun: Round Robin Bowling Tournament - JD Jul 14, 08:06
- watching more trashy TV tonight ( Betrayal! on Hulu), kid birthday party tomorrow, house honey dos -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 14, 07:59 2
  - I read: "House honey dogs" and was like, "mmmm, hotdogs" -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 08:03 1
    - lol. Nathans! I think she just picked my lunch. Pigs in a blanket. -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 14, 08:06
- Water Wizz with the in-laws tomorrow. It's the water park featured in the movies "The Way Way Back" and "Grown Ups". - Diva Jul 14, 07:59 4
  - sweet (I love The Way Way Back) -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 14, 08:08 1
    - me too! -- nm - Diva Jul 14, 08:08
  - Lazy river? Those are the best -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 14, 08:02
  - fun! -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 08:00
- melting, apparently -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 14, 07:57
- Vet appt tomorrow. Drone show Saturday night (weather dependent). Maybe lounge on my balcony and read on Sunday. -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 07:56
- Another whirlwind weekend. Daughter arrives home late Friday from helping with jazz camp at Butler. Leaves Sunday for her own summer jazz camp in Iowa - oblique Jul 14, 07:56 1
  - All that jazz -- nm - budice Jul 14, 07:58
- Working for the most part (major deliverables due for a big project) -- nm* - ty97 Jul 14, 07:55
The Marvels star Iman Vellani is writing a new Ms. Marvel comic titled "Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant" -- (link) - Remlik Jul 14, 07:22 1
- The New New Mutant -- nm - Spawn Jul 14, 07:59
Big serial killer arrest out of Long Island today -- (link) - Jovian Jul 14, 06:55 3
- Sorry, didnt realize that would have a paywall. Here's another article on it -- (link) - Jovian Jul 14, 06:56 2
  - I heard about it on the radio earlier but they didn't have much info. Sounds like we'll get more later on in the day. This is huge news. He's been - Krusty Jul 14, 07:31 1
    - Yep first heard about on the radio as well on the way in to work. - Jovian Jul 14, 07:37
JWST: the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex -- (link) - decline Jul 14, 06:44 [Image] 2
- That's a beauty -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 14, 06:50
- article -- (link) - decline Jul 14, 06:45
Happy 25th to Beastie Boys "Hello Nasty" -- (link) - Remlik Jul 14, 06:11 2
- Just got an email from them about a deluxe edition release of the album. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:29
- It's also the day Cameron Poe flies home... -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:14
WGA and SAG Striking Together -- (pic) - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 14, 06:05 [Attachment] 2
- Nice. -- nm - loosilu Jul 14, 11:05
- Heh -- nm - spamlet Jul 14, 06:06
Europe heatwave: Extreme heat leads to Greece Acropolis closure -- (link) - LMS Jul 14, 05:57 2
- (From noon to 5pm) -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 14, 07:17
- Last Month Was the Hottest June Ever -- (link) - decline Jul 14, 05:58
I think I'm going to buy a pixel tablet on black friday. thank you for your time. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jul 14, 05:49 1
- I dig 'em and that's what I originally planned to buy as my new tablet but the Samsung deal on Prime day made me switch - decline Jul 14, 05:53
LG intents to transform itself into a “smart life solution company” by diversifying its current business portfolio and creating a business model - decline Jul 14, 05:47
go Carlos, go Jannik! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 14, 04:52
LIR food allergies, both my GF's kids have peanut allergies. We just know there are some places we definitely cannot take them. Other places we just - sycor Jul 14, 04:40
Wordle 755 6/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 14, 03:54 2
- 4 - decline Jul 14, 05:23
- 3/6 - Fuzzy Jul 14, 04:01
All of that Magic the Gathering money is being burnt at the altar of Barbie! -- nm - Qale Jul 14, 00:52 1
- Release the Barbie CCG! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 14, 07:46
If you are still on twitter you are funding hate: elon now paying previously banned to return (andrew tate) -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 14, 00:33 [Attachment]
Our bogan neighbour just got home in his new car. Its a Tesla. -- nm - Karl_S Jul 13, 23:37 4
- I think the white Tesla 3 is replacing the white BMW 3 series as the douchebag car of choice. -- nm - mafic Jul 14, 01:00 2
  - Good news! The default color is now silver so you’ll be seeing fewer white ones on the street -- nm - spamlet Jul 14, 03:41
  - for sure in LA -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 14, 02:11
- first thing after getting home, put the drooling, malting dogs (one of which eats its own shit) in the back seat. -- nm - Karl_S Jul 13, 23:40
A Cinemascore for MI7. Remarkably, that ties for the highest Cinemascore in the franchise. - David Jul 13, 23:30 4
- why remarkable? until they settled on McQuarrie as the franchise shepherd, it was a crapshoot from director to director -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 23:42 3
  - Because MI3 and MI4 are both in the conversation for best action film of the 21st century. - David Jul 13, 23:50 2
    - And 5, and 6, and 7-I. All of them are. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 14, 08:02
    - Don't forget 2. Flying doves! And a motorcycle fight! -- nm - sycor Jul 14, 04:46
how Sapporo USA (likely) killed Anchor Brewing Co after 152 years in business - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 23:16 1
- “Fuck those robots,” he adds." -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 23:18
It’s here! It’s here! Troye Sivan’s newest single Rush. -- (link) - Qale Jul 13, 23:05 [youtube]
the writers ass't on Raised by Wolves sent Zaslav a $30k Venmo request for taking his show off of Max. Zaslav actually declined it lol -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 22:58
new five-minute Oppenheimer preview (it really does look tremendous) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 22:48 2
- This is the way Rachel Maddow introduces 2 minute stories. - Max Jul 13, 23:29 1
  - how dare you - hollywood big shot Jul 14, 01:50
SAG members be striking like this, but WGA members be striking like that -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 22:26
spare a prayer or two tonight for the poor REIT investors whose $800b in commercial real estate is ticking like a time bomb -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 22:22 2
- Or...hear me out... what if you converted some of those skyscrapers into apartments? - zeitgeist Jul 13, 22:44 1
  - most commercial buildings aren't really built to be retooled into residential, or not economically feasibly -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 22:47
I still am not fond of The Depths in Tears of the Kingdom. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 21:56
What do Clarence Thomas and slutty teenage girls have in common? - zeitgeist Jul 13, 21:42
Threads is dead— -- (link) - Flavorize Jul 13, 21:39 14
- "Interest over time"? What kind of a metric is that? Are they a bank? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 14, 07:20
- Blue Check goes right into the traaaaash. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 21:54
- I presume it'll cycle up and down, depending on how stupid Elon is being at the time. -- nm - David Jul 13, 21:49 6
  - Paraphrasing from the comments, but they didn’t do anything new. They made a worse looking Twitter 🤷‍♂️ -- nm - Flavorize Jul 13, 21:51 5
    - Yes but also a much, much, much less toxic one. -- nm - spamlet Jul 14, 04:07 2
      - It's only a matter of time before it gets very toxic. The same people that ruin Twitter will ruin every other social media site eventually. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 05:23 1
        
        They’ve said they’ll use the instagram moderation standards and I don’t see a lot of crap on there. - spamlet Jul 14, 06:04
    - some people were fawning about how it only took them three months. - Beryllium Jul 13, 22:18 1
      - in tech only one of those is a problem. -- nm - mafic Jul 13, 23:02
- gotta have a “only my follows” timeline. the generic algorithm is a shit feed -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 21:42 3
  - yep. irritating af without that. -- nm - mafic Jul 13, 23:02
  - Also that is likely a google graph. Do you need to google Threads now vs every Elon story about Twitter? -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 22:25 1
    - yeah it's google search -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 23:23
- hah -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:39
I’m totally anti-landslide but working families who LAPD destroyed their homes blowing up seized fireworks still haven’t been paid for their loss -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 21:37 2
- Betty White? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 22:46
- Exactly, they had no reason to be concerned, they didn't build on a cliff. Authorities need to get off their butts and take care of them. -- nm - Meg Jul 13, 21:56
Oh joy. Reddit is discontinuing coins/awards. I’m sure that’ll go over famously. - Mop🧹 Jul 13, 21:33 7
- Well, I guess I've got 6,300 coins to spend over the next two months... -- nm - David Jul 13, 21:51 3
  - Look at Uncle Scrooge over here. How about you send some to your nephews eh? -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 21:55 2
    - I'm so bad at reddit that I didn't even know when I awarded something, the other person got actual coins. -- nm - David Jul 13, 22:13 1
      - I really like Reddit as it isn’t as poisonous necessarily depending on which sub. Losing Apollo sucked and those in charge there are Zazloving. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 22:27
- It was fine until it proliferated as mentioned into a few dozen kinds. This falls into the standard trap of discontinuing something without having the follow up ready to reveal though. -- nm* - Qale Jul 13, 21:45
- I never understood what coins and awards were about, ignored them -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 21:40
- They're mostly useless. Gold coins would get you reddit premium for a short period of time and the others you pretty much could only gift to other - Krusty Jul 13, 21:39
Red October sub drive maybe for real -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 13, 21:31 3
- Start developing a system to detect the strong magnets needed to make the drive work. -- nm - TWuG Jul 13, 21:53
- Except it’s more realistic because it’s the Americans developing it and not the Russians. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 13, 21:34 1
  - The Hunt For Star Spangled July -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:36
The Edmonton Elks have tied the pro sports record for consecutive home losses with 20 - Reagen Jul 13, 21:08
I had to pause Strange New Worlds because I was chuckling too much. This is ... unusual. - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:02 1
- I am always bemused when I see a crew member with a mustache. -- nm - Max Jul 13, 22:20
Original and replica Disney garages. Our original on top. -- (pic) - Meg Jul 13, 21:00 [Attachment]
lol charging cables are the new catalytic converters -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 20:31 1
- I don’t really find this very lulzy to be honest. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 20:33
Hunter Biden's att'y to fuckface: you want to catch another defamation suit, dummy? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 20:24
Holee effing shit, Ethan Hunt. - Marlowe Jul 13, 20:24
LIR for Qale, linking. What you suggest is the default, in real life it's a crapshoot whether they get it. -- (edited) - loosilu Jul 13, 20:07 1
- I don’t think it’s on the establishment to ensure allergies are taken into account. I’d only go to ones with a proven track record if I had one. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 20:35
Remember Will Levis’ girlfriend, on draft night (when he didn’t get drafted)…he fell to the 2nd round while she got a deal with Burger King 🍔 -- (link) - Flavorize Jul 13, 19:45 4
- No, I don’t. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jul 13, 19:48 3
  - Pic -- (pic) - Flavorize Jul 13, 19:48 [Attachment] 2
    - I don't see what's so special about her. What'd she do specifically to warrant a BK deal? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 13, 20:16 1
      - Looking like Queen - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Jul 13, 20:42
Lionel Messi. He’s just like us. -- (link) - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 13, 19:13 5
- Twitter thinks this is potentially sensitive content. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 13, 20:17
- *slaps Britney Spears just in case* -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 13, 20:12
- That's kind of cool. He's definitely wealthy enough to not do his own shopping. I'm sure he has a chef and I assume house staff as well but maybe not. - Krusty Jul 13, 19:16 1
  - “Leo, go be a man of the people. They will love you.” *not pictured - the 4 security guards around him* -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jul 13, 20:13
- This may be the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jul 13, 19:15
Looking into an alarming rate of Grey whale deaths find 21 million micro plastic particles in one carass -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 19:09 1
- :( -- nm - Andie Jul 13, 19:55
"It's called summer." The familiar asshat replies when discussing heat in July neglects to take into account heat related deaths. 10 in Laredo, TX. - Qale Jul 13, 18:34 2
- This is heart breaking -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Jul 13, 20:59
- *brings a snowball into congress, sneers about global warming -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 19:28
"If you think that man is capable of killing people, email me [email protected]" - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 13, 18:27
Try to explain mom's need for no salt. Low sodium because of her kidneys. The chef comes out and tells us they don't have kidney -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 18:20 1
- uhm...uhm... -- nm - . Jul 13, 19:30
The questions that google suggests you search sometimes (because someone may have asked it?) can be.... -- (pic) - ty97 Jul 13, 18:19 [Attachment] 1
- in Dubai the answer is "barely" -- nm - mafic Jul 13, 18:23
NV so hot that people's rubber soles are melting. An old guy felt dizzy, sat down, felt burning but couldn't get up, got 3rd degree burns -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 18:10 3
- Reporter in Vegas measures pavement at 162deg. Serving temp of meat? -- nm - Meg Jul 13, 18:37 1
  - Of chicken. A steak is terribly well done at that -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 19:07
- this happened to a friend's mother. she fell on the path between the road and her front step and was there for an hour before someone saw. -- nm - mafic Jul 13, 18:15
Star Trek Strange New Worlds hit the top 10 streaming chart.... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 13, 18:07 1
- This week's episode is a great throwback. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 13, 20:21
It'll be interesting to see how DragonCon is affected by the strike. It's not really known for promoting projects, but more downtime debauchery. -- (link) - Qale Jul 13, 18:00 10
- Actors won't be allowed to go. -- (link) - Remlik Jul 13, 18:06 9
  - I've seen that, and yet there's just no way Sulu doesn't come to his annual husband swapping event. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 18:07 8
    - I'm talking with someone who runs a good sized con, as long the actor isn't promoting something current they can do cons... -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 18:18 7
      - a writer/director friend just confirmed this. no promoting. yes they can go as a fan. -- nm* - Peglegpete Jul 13, 20:02
      - That's why I thought DragonCon might be in a better position. It's more diversified overall, and those who come from affected fields can just chill. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 18:42
      - past work is covered as well if it was done under SAG-AFTRA. -- (link*) - mafic Jul 13, 18:22 4
        
        so like, maybe they can go but they can't talk about (almost) any work they've ever done, and can't be credited as "from [series/film]" - mafic Jul 13, 18:28 3
        
        I was thinking they would still come to DragonCon, but to play rather than work. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 19:55
        
        Looking like Panels are a no go. But autographs and pictures are ok -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 19:15 1
        
        it will get tricky. Jamie Lee Curtis apparently plans to still attend Comic Con as a "producer" for Mother Nature - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 19:43
my grandmother once tried to tell a waiter at an Italian restaurant she was allergic to tomatoes. he basically shrugged. -- nm - mafic Jul 13, 17:51 3
- What if she said tomatoes make me vomit on the spot? -- nm - loosilu Jul 13, 20:06
- If she dies, she dies. -- nm - Waiter Drago Jul 13, 18:04
- I'll get you some bread. -- nm - Italian waiter si Jul 13, 17:55
ow...new Taylor Swift vinyl's got MISSPRESSED with 90's electronica.... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 13, 17:51 3
- Aphex Twin? already an improvement -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 13, 19:51
- Collectors items? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 18:11 1
  - For sure. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 13, 18:21

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