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$27m Monday for Barbie ($!89m total). will cross $200m today, i.e., Xmas holiday weekday numbers -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 25, 04:39
Giants and Saquon agree to terms. 1 year $11M -- nm - Strongbad Jul 25, 04:24 1
- my BF teams thank them -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Jul 25, 04:38
Wordle 766 4/6 - Fuzzy Jul 25, 03:58 3
- 4 - decline Jul 25, 06:14
- 3 - rollo Jul 25, 05:32
- 6/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 25, 04:06
India Hindus angry about the Oppenheimer quote "now I am become death" as insult to their religion (ok its the sex right after) -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 25, 01:43 1
- "India's film censors found no problem with it and at the box office it's the Hollywood hit of the year in India, faring better than Barbie..." -- (link) - LMS Jul 25, 04:42
Jason Aldean will not end up getting the #1 song in the country this week. He’s #2. “Seven” by Jung Kook (former BTS) and Latto get the #1 -- nm - MDH Jul 24, 23:57 1
- haha -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 25, 04:44
Xelon was stopped from removing the Twitter sign at the San Fran HQ because he didn't get permits -- (link*) - zeitgeist Jul 24, 23:33 [Attachment] 1
- Meta already holds a trademark on X (different design) AS RELATED TO SOCIAL MEDIA ETC and Elon's X is a unicode font -- (pic) -- (link*) - zeitgeist Jul 24, 23:38 [Attachment]
I'm just flipping back and forth between the Lower Decks crossover and Futurama's season premiere. - David Jul 24, 22:52 1
- ad astra per fabulas -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 23:08
Padres: Yu Darvish bobblehead night => 7 ER in 4 1/3rd -- nm - budice Jul 24, 21:51
Some lovely pirate on YouTube has posted every episode of Boomtown. -- (link) - David Jul 24, 21:34 [youtube] 2
- I had to look up the cast... Yellowstone -- nm - psilotum Jul 24, 22:25 1
  - The new Justified has a distinctive Boomtown vibe. - David Jul 24, 23:15
Diablo 4 Battlepass gives only 666 of the premium currency when completed. It isn't enough to buy anything. -- (link) - Qale Jul 24, 21:16
Civil War vet to Hitler: "I beat the slaveholders' asses and I'll beat your ass too" -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 20:47 1
- Ancestry.com shows he was living at 2621 N. Hutchinson St. Philadelphia in 1940 with daughters Retta (66) and May (48) and son William (68) - Max Jul 24, 21:04
Starfleet supporting Sag-Aftra... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 24, 20:41 2
- Don't fuck with Shaxs. -- nm - Reagen Jul 24, 20:43 1
  - He will send you to the Black Mountain -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 21:10
Fox N*** tonight: "Maybe Tucker wasn't actually so bad..." -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 20:34 6
- obesity was nonexistent in the concentration camps. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 25, 02:08
- The bottom ticker is remarkable in and of itself since it's DeSantis getting reamed for trying to inject pro-slavery ideas into educational books. -- nm - David Jul 24, 22:51 1
  - not that they need an excuse to attack Kamala like every other night but hence the pushback -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 25, 03:42
- This Republican party rebrand may be worse than Twitter. - Jovian Jul 24, 22:45
- Well that's at least admitting the holocaust happened -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 20:50
- jfc -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 20:36
Ha! -- (link) - TWuG Jul 24, 19:55 [BS] 2
- (no one without a BlueSky account can see these, FYI) -- nm - Reagen Jul 24, 20:05 1
  - For the hoi polloi, then - TWuG Jul 24, 20:08
Jeopardy dirt! - Mop🧹 Jul 24, 19:49 [youtube]
Wall Street *checks notes* gets it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 19:44 12
- *sells more Netflix stock* -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 24, 20:13 5
  - Isn't Netflix the only one who is going to get out of this alive? -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 20:21 4
    - as the article says "cord cutting is coming to streaming" Netflix just might be the last one to feel it most -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 20:30 2
      - Netflix is the one that people say they're going to cancel, but don't. That it doesn't have anything to watch, yet is culturally relevant every month. -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 21:28 1
        
        as soon as The Crown wraps up, i'm dunzo -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 21:31
    - Disney is probably oversold, but deserves the hit. -- nm - Reagen Jul 24, 20:26
- I've always thought Michael Pachter is an idiot too though. He rarely got it right with Nintendo analysis. -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 19:59
- I sent David that exact quote a couple of hours ago. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 24, 19:49 4
  - there have been multiple articles in the trades this week signaling to the studios just figure out an acceptable streaming metric and do the deal -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 19:52 3
    - Barry Diller things executives and top actors should take a pay way cut to end the strikes. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 24, 20:13 [youtube] 2
      - yeah Barry is also suing AI companies for billions that he (probably correctly) contends publishers are owed for using their copyrighted works. funny -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 20:29 1
        
        (actors have already been taking big pay cuts for the past decade, for the record. hence their strike) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 20:31
I saw Oppenheimer next to a large group of Japanese students, which felt super awkward. -- nm - Reagen Jul 24, 19:39 1
- a group of about 15 teen girls walked in just before my screening, and I was briefly concerned I was in the wrong theatre. -- nm - mafic Jul 25, 00:08
Google workers compiled a salary worksheet and it leaked -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 19:30
Futurama S11E1: C+ -- nm - JaxSean Jul 24, 19:05 4
- I agree and I didn't even see it. - colin Jul 24, 20:31 1
  - Oh, they've already done it several times. The mistake in canceling the world's best television series. - David Jul 24, 20:54
- Your post: F- -- nm - David Jul 24, 19:38
- I think there are some valid criticisms, but overall I enjoyed it very much. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 19:21
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are in 2 of Top 3 movies on Netflix's DVD Top 100. -- nm - MDH Jul 24, 18:16 3
- Lesbian Month! -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 18:27 2
  - what year did they make that one? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 18:52 1
    - 1969, obviously. -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 19:11
As of Thursday, we're getting new episodes of Justified, Futurama, and Harley Quinn. - David Jul 24, 17:13 9
- Are all the old episodes of futurama on Hulu as well? - spamlet Jul 24, 17:31 7
  - I'm watching it right now. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 24, 17:56 3
    - Started a re-watch yesterday and just finished S2E14 where Hermes has a breakdown, ends up at a forced labor camp and then comes back to save Bender - Krusty Jul 24, 18:00 2
      - IiRC…. Hermes also streamlines things at the camp so the work is all done by ONE Aussie. -- nm - VMan Jul 24, 18:18 1
        
        Yup. 😆 -- nm - Krusty Jul 24, 18:27
  - D+ in Canada -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 24, 17:36
  - Yes. - David Jul 24, 17:35 1
    - I call it using my resources. -- nm - spamlet Jul 24, 17:51
- Contrary to your IM, - Beryllium Jul 24, 17:25
Talk to Me 96% (76/3), Haunted Mansion nsy, The Baker nsy, Sympathy for the Devil 82% (14/3), The Beasts 100% (37/0) -- nm* - Beaker 🍻 Jul 24, 16:45
Spent the morning working with a new bookstore voluneer and the afternoon monitoring one in his 2nd week. Combined with a power outage affecting both - Meg Jul 24, 16:40
Barbie is the best Toy Story movie not actually made by Pixar -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 16:29
That was amusing - znufrii 🦄 Jul 24, 16:16 2
- They are but they're feds. -- nm - Krusty Jul 24, 16:53 1
  - Hello fellow kids, say do you know where I can score some psy ko delic drugs? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 17:42
Not that the Rockies were going to be buyers anyway but oof -- (link) - spamlet Jul 24, 16:05 7
- goddamn -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 24, 16:14
- Did they piss off a witch or something? -- nm - David Jul 24, 16:13 5
  - They also announced one for a member of the major league staff. One surgeon is going to do them all. - spamlet Jul 24, 16:17 4
    - My favorite part, the surgeon is the team doctor for the Rangers. - Will Hunting Jul 24, 17:42
    - Buy three, get one free? -- nm - David Jul 24, 16:24 2
      - Just like tires! -- nm - Dano Jul 24, 16:55 1
        
        Heres my Groupon -- nm - Dr James Andrews Jul 24, 17:02
Intro to Wrexham Chant Guide being handed out during their current American Tour -- (pic) - JD Jul 24, 16:01 [Attachment]
If (when) the twitter domain actually changes, I think it'll break twitter embeds. - Beryllium Jul 24, 15:52
Heritage Auction of 600+ Batman items -- (link) - TWuG Jul 24, 15:46
"Stock ticker X? US Steel. Up 2% today." -- nm - Kai Ryssdal Jul 24, 15:29 13
- "It's so dumb it's brilliant." "No!! It's just dumb!" -- (link) - Benoit Blanc Jul 24, 16:04
- Lofl -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jul 24, 15:41
- I wonder if he will try to sue them for copyright infringement. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 24, 15:32
- Microsoft apparently owns a trademark on "X" already -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 15:32 9
  - How did he not know this, he's been there six months..oh right, he fired everyone -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 16:12
  - The letter X? This doesn’t seem plausible to me. There are many differently styled X logos. -- nm - mara Jul 24, 15:42 6
    - but test is not identical, just likelihood of confusion in the marketplace -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 15:57
    - US Robotics trademarked multiplication by 2. -- (link) - Bari Seldon Jul 24, 15:53 2
      - What got trademarked is that particular graphic, correct? -- nm - mara 🍂 Jul 24, 15:59 1
        
        *shrug* I just like the joke. Around the same time, IBM got division by 2 (OS/2). Put them together, they owned everything. -- nm - Bari Seldon Jul 24, 16:57
    - Hee! -- (link) - mara Jul 24, 15:46 1
      - Things are going to get interesting at offices all over. -- nm - . Jul 24, 18:29
  - As does Facebook/Meta, though stylized blue/white. So who knows how that plays out. RC, what say you? -- (link) - Max Jul 24, 15:34
I had a secret screening this evening, it was Talk To Me which was a occasionally horribly violent horror movie rather than a scary horror movie. - LMS Jul 24, 15:28 1
- A24 doing its thing, eh? -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 19:29
Pretty effective ad for women’s soccer -- (link) - mara Jul 24, 15:23 1
- well, huh -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 24, 15:44
I assume it would be normal practice for a company to update their style guidelines at the same time as they change a logo, but what would I know -- (link) - Max Jul 24, 15:21 1
- “Our logo is our most recognizable asset” -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 24, 15:28
The Rock has made a "historic donation" to the SAG strike fund keeping actors going while production is shut down -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 15:05 1
- V: how streaming has gutted overscale for actors at every level -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 15:23
It's Monday. I'm not supposed to feel this run down already. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 15:00
another thing that's fun about Barbie is how much of a good sport Mattel apparently was to let Greta roast all the turrible "special" Barbies over the - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 14:48 6
- I keep waiting to flip my position Barbie on that other site (now at $360.90) but the price keeps moving up. -- nm - MDH Jul 24, 14:50 5
  - The OW and CA are both getting ready to delist. Should be nice. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 24, 15:11
  - $500m delist -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 14:54 3
    - LOL. -- nm - MDH Jul 24, 15:03 2
      - 500 might be too high but 430 is a 2.7 multiplier. That’s about the point it becomes necessary to look at the actual numbers imo. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jul 24, 15:36
      - should be up to $300m by end of this coming weekend -- nm* - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 15:06
oh boy wait until the six Content of Their Applications SCOTUS votes hear about htis -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 14:41
stop trying to make X happen -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 14:39
Vegas PD drove off with the gas nozzle still in the tank -- (pic) -- (link*) - budice Jul 24, 14:26 [Attachment] 3
- When lives are in danger, you don't have time to put away your nozzle! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 24, 15:35
- At least it wasn't a leash. -- (link) - Max Jul 24, 14:40 [youtube] 1
  - "tough little mutt!" -- nm - Jovian Jul 24, 14:43
Miami Dade police chief shoots himself in the head following a domestic dispute with wife...local cops had responded earlier, did not take gun -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 24, 14:18 1
- does that mean he won or loss the dispute? -- nm - Jovian Jul 24, 14:23
It's 5:06 PM. I can finally take a shower. - David Jul 24, 14:07 9
- "Delivery for Tony Stank" -- nm - budice Jul 24, 14:22
- It’s like you had hopes Knox County could plan *anything* - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jul 24, 14:12 6
  - But hey, at least Mayor Red Kane decreed that guns are allowed in public libraries. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jul 24, 14:24 1
    - Look, if I want to shoot a book, I don't want to have to check it out first. -- nm - Reagen Jul 24, 14:48
  - Don't worry. We're fine. We're one full street away. - David Jul 24, 14:14 3
    - I should give you guys a few of Kelly’s diabetes supplies to run over to her when she leaves them at home. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jul 24, 14:18 2
      - Nice how you posted this AFTER I did a crabcake run! -- nm - kelly Jul 24, 20:02
      - FWIW, you can absolutely do that if it makes her life easier and safer. -- nm - David Jul 24, 14:44
- could be worse. Elon could be in charge of the water department. -- nm - Jovian Jul 24, 14:10
Joan was quizzical... -- (link) - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jul 24, 14:04 [youtube] 2
- I'm never gonna click this. -- nm - David Jul 24, 14:06 1
  - Your loss! - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jul 24, 14:18
Mara's right. For example, "The actor and the clown, they're waiting for their cue..." - David Jul 24, 14:02 8
- hmmm ok. then were does Que come from? or queue ? neither of those get flagged as being misspelt. -- nm - Jovian Jul 24, 14:04 7
  - Thank you all! My work phone system uses Queue (as the next calls in queue), so this makes sense now. -- nm - Jovian Jul 24, 14:08
  - Queue is a line you wait in, or the verb for waiting in line. Que is Spanish. -- nm - mara Jul 24, 14:06
  - A queue is a sequence. I use this a lot in my writing because when you wait for a Disney attraction, you're standing in a line queue. -- nm - David Jul 24, 14:05 3
    - I was once in a line queue at an ATM machine and a fight broke out. I ended up in the ER room. -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jul 24, 14:07 2
      - Thank god they screen the blood well so you didn’t get the HIV virus from a transfusion. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jul 24, 14:21
      - I'll guess broken ribs. -- nm - David Jul 24, 14:13
  - Queue is a line. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jul 24, 14:05
Oppenheimer, A. Christopher Nolan at the top of his game. Spoils - Loyola Jul 24, 14:01 4
- That film comparison was what I thought of for Murphy in particular. - Bari Seldon Jul 24, 15:18
- and yes (spoils) - Jovian Jul 24, 14:07
- I love this (spoils) - Jovian Jul 24, 14:05 1
  - Heh snap. -- nm - Loyola Jul 24, 14:07
"And hillbillys want to be called sons of the soil, but it ain't gonna happen." -- nm - David Jul 24, 14:00

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