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The Ottawa Senators have signed Vladimir Tarasenko to a one-year, $5M deal -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 18:20 2
- But where does he stand on the invasion of Ukraine? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 27, 18:23 1
  - I mentioned the $5m right? -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 18:24
Max: Harley Quinn new episodes are up. -- nm - Remlik Jul 27, 18:19
Tears of the Kingdom spoiler. - Qale Jul 27, 18:17
Jeremy Pruitt will be coaching PE at a HS in Alabama for the 2023 season. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 27, 18:09 1
- Good things happen to good people. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 27, 18:16
Amazing Race Canada continues their casting dominance. well done. - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 17:57
EU is investigating Microsoft for software bundling. -- (link) - spamlet Jul 27, 17:42 1
- LOL. Bundling? Pfft. Everything’s downloaded and installed digitally. What can they possibly be sneaking in— TEAMS!!!! GODDAMN TEAMS! - Mop🧹 Jul 27, 18:21
Kylie announces Vegas residency at The Venetian -- (link) - JD Jul 27, 17:31 5
- Guess I’m going to Vegas! -- nm - MDH Jul 27, 18:18
- Locomotion on loop! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 18:16
- Totally unrelated, who’s up for a trip to Vegas in - say - November? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 27, 17:37 2
  - Possible. -- nm - Meg Jul 27, 18:01
  - saturday the 18'th is the grand prix. that week the strip will be a pain to deal with. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 27, 17:45
DTL: Well if we weren't overranked before we sure are now! -- nm - spamlet Jul 27, 17:08 1
- You've replaced the school fight song with Weird Al's version. -- nm - Bari Seldon Jul 27, 17:59
Krusty's "Fucking White people" last night made me laugh -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 27, 17:08 1
- :-) That was the Whitest shit I've seen in a long time. -- nm - Krusty Jul 27, 17:27
Good nap time view -- (pic) - Beryllium Jul 27, 17:01 [Attachment]
I'm watching a horror movie (Infinity Pool, Hulu) whose opening gives me distinct Triangle of Sadness vibes - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 27, 16:59 1
- (and then it gets *weird*) -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 27, 17:23
Ohtani: CG SHO, 2HR. Now 10-Day IL for cramping -- nm - budice Jul 27, 16:57 4
- it's the main reason I would limit myself to 1 home run a day. it's just not worth it. -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 27, 17:05 2
  - 162 would still be the record, too. -- nm - VMan Jul 27, 17:06 1
    - right? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 27, 17:07
- Sports radio is talking one of the greatest day for an athlete. The escape velocity on the second (?) HR was 117 mph. It was a rocket and OF. -- nm* - VMan Jul 27, 16:59
Norman Lear is 101 -- (link) - TWuG Jul 27, 16:56 1
- American icon -- nm - Krusty Jul 27, 17:30
Guys, Cave of Bones on NF is awesome. New doc about ancient humans. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 16:44 6
- heh, I saw NF and thought it was set in Newfoundland :) -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 16:55 5
  - Now shut up and just watch it, it's holy shit. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 17:21
  - Sorry Canucks! to me NF is TN! -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 17:20
  - Same! -- nm - Beryllium Jul 27, 17:00 2
    - NL! -- nm - VMan Jul 27, 17:01 1
      - NewFoundland not NewfoundLand -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 17:52
I'm probably just projecting, but there's something subliminally fascist to me about the new Twitter logo - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 27, 16:43 3
- Someone said it’s a sans serif swastika. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 27, 17:20
- agreed -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 16:54
- That was my first thought when I first saw it :( -- nm - Meg Jul 27, 16:52
Iran attack document Trump showed people and talked about on tape id now the basis of one of the new charges against Trump. -- (link) - TWuG Jul 27, 16:38
Eagles founding member Randy Meisner has passed away. -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 16:24 1
- 77 yrs old, COPD .. yeesh -- nm - mud Jul 27, 16:25
Swalwell called McCarthy a p*ssy several times. Once saying he was a weak man. Apparently they almost came to blows. -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 27, 16:16 2
- please post here when they do -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 27, 16:21 1
  - Boebert and Greene came to slaps on the floor...girls! Girls! you're both pretty..ugly bitches -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 27, 17:59
Never mind, didn’t read down far enough -- (link*) - mara Jul 27, 15:44
The Onion pulls no punches -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 27, 15:35 3
- holy sheet, that's one serious bitch slap...Steven Colbert is jealous he could never get away with that on CBS -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 27, 18:16
- Also -- (link) - Reagen Jul 27, 16:21
- Yeeouch. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 15:43
Joy Behar on Matt Gaetz going to see Barbie: “It’s rated PG 13, seems like his crowd.” -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 15:33 4
- oof -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 27, 15:50
- buwhaa. Why isn't he in jail yet? -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 27, 15:48 1
  - IK'r... they have the f'n receipts and plan... same prosecutors office as with Epstein? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 27, 18:01
- OMG -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 15:43
Colorado at the Big 12 Blowout Party -- (link) - budice Jul 27, 15:29
Morrissey calls out music industry hypocrisy in the wake of Sinéad O'Connor's death -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 15:27 1
- It's okay, Morrissey. We won't be saying the same about your tired ass. -- nm - Qale Jul 27, 18:26
One of my all time favorite Sinead performances, 1997, she has hair - loosilu Jul 27, 15:19 [youtube]
Barbenheimer Pitch Meeting -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jul 27, 15:16 [youtube]
lol NYT -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 15:12
Cook Report's electoral college forecast 1995 v. 2024 (four competitive, large states, just the way the FF's intended it to work) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 15:06
From below, we cut the cord last week. First time in my life without cable. Fine so far! -- nm - MDH Jul 27, 15:06 6
- I would have years ago except they monopolize my building and they are the only internet. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 15:22 5
  - We use the cable company for internet but not for television or phone. -- nm - mara Jul 27, 15:43 4
    - *head slap* if only I'd thought of that! yeah, I can't. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 15:44 3
      - Sorry! -- nm - mara Jul 27, 15:45 2
        
        They MONOPOLIZE. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 15:47 1
        
        Gotcha! -- nm - mara Jul 27, 15:51
Jack Smith has added a second Mar a Lago employee as a co-defendant in the Florida docs case -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 15:03 12
- how to talk yourself into a federal indictment -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 16:33 2
  - "the boss wanted the [video] server deleted" -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 16:34 1
    - that's huge -- nm - rollo Jul 27, 22:53
- Was this what today's meeting with Trump's lawyers was about? -- nm - mara 🍂 Jul 27, 16:06 3
  - no, that's about the upcoming Jan.6 charges .. which is ~100 times more important. -- nm* - mud Jul 27, 16:16 2
    - I know that’s the assumption, but how do we know? -- nm - mara Jul 27, 16:30
    - OTOH, this is probly kinda big: -- (link) - mud Jul 27, 16:19
- Three new felony counts for the despot, one count of willful retention of national defense info & two counts of obstruction -- nm - Jovian Jul 27, 16:00 2
  - Nice. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 16:45
  - added some of the Bedminster docs now -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 16:32
- also: "60-page superseding indictment has been filed with new charges against Trump." -- (link) - mud Jul 27, 15:15 1
  - pdf: -- (link) - mud Jul 27, 15:19
i'd let my kids grow up illiterate before i let their public school teach them a word of PragerU -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 15:00
Peacock has lost $1.36B this year. The streaming platform is expect to lose $3B in 2023 -- (link) - Remlik Jul 27, 14:52 17
- brought to you by the same people who can't find $800m to give their talent a new three-year deal -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 14:56
- It's the service we use most, by a landslide. -- nm - MDH Jul 27, 14:53 15
  - what shows do they have? -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 14:57 11
    - SNL -- nm - mara Jul 27, 15:46 2
      - OH. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 16:46 1
        
        ? Sorry if my post told you something you already know; I just meant it’s the main reason we have Peacock. -- nm - mara Jul 27, 17:09
    - Bravo reality TV -- nm - Strongbad Jul 27, 15:37
    - We watch track and field, movies, Tour de France, murder she wrote, parks and Rex (I’ve never seen it) -- nm - MDH Jul 27, 15:08 5
      - Huh. Well, in the old days when we had prime time TV I may have chosen those, but just as back then, I would not seek them out. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 15:45
      - Columbo! -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 15:11 3
        
        Do they really have Columbo? -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 16:47 2
        
        Prime also has Columbo. But not the ABC movies. -- nm - TWuG Jul 27, 17:22
        
        yep -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 17:18
    - Poker Face -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 14:57
  - are you on Xfinity? -- nm - Remlik Jul 27, 14:54 2
    - Nope. Believe it or not we had RCN. And we cut the cord last week? -- nm - MDH Jul 27, 15:05
    - I'm on Xfinity and apparently I have Peacock and cannot think of a single thing I watched there. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 14:56
Fulton Co Courthouse gettin ready for sumpin -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 14:51
Just finished "They Cloned Tyrone" and while I enjoyed it, it wasn't as comedic as I was expecting based on the trailer. -- nm - Krusty Jul 27, 14:47 3
- So what is it then? Horror? -- nm - spamlet Jul 27, 15:45
- dang it. I wanted it to be a Hot Fuzz/Shaun of the Dead type vibe -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 27, 14:55 1
  - Me too. It had some funny moments but not like those movies which is what I was hoping it would lean more towards. -- nm - Krusty Jul 27, 15:13
Righteous Gemstones renewed for s4. no news yet on the pickup of Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 14:47
Butler athletes say trainer's sexual assaults were 'frequent,' over a 'long period of time -- (link) - Remlik Jul 27, 14:39
sitw(recently)p: this has been my favorite cover of “nothing compares 2 u” - perfect combo. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Jul 27, 14:14 [youtube]
“ USC men’s basketball player Bronny James was discharged from the hospital and returned home” -- nm - The Allfather Jul 27, 14:13
The pickleball comment on B2 reminded me of this from city hall. They really do care about us ;-) - Meg Jul 27, 14:07 2
- Ugh. Pickleballers and their need for new striping. -- nm - Qale Jul 27, 14:09 1
  - Significant that this is over on the westside near Leisure World ?? -- nm - Meg Jul 27, 15:13
Spam, your scrimmage lineup isn't set currently, FYI -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jul 27, 13:51 1
- Ack, thanks. You'd think I'd have sent a scrim before. -- nm - spamlet Jul 27, 13:52
New superintendent of Houston will close libraries in 28 schools, convert them to in-school detention centers. -- (link) - Qale Jul 27, 13:39 9
- TX can't secede fast enough. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 15:46
- Excise this garbage state out of the Union already please. -- nm - Jovian Jul 27, 14:53 2
  - Democrats would never do that to US citizens, and Republicans don’t want to lose the EC votes. -- nm - mara Jul 27, 16:32
  - and then nuke the shit out of it -- nm - Jovian Jul 27, 14:56
- Not The Onion. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 27, 14:50
- Hmmm. The state took over the school district and now the State appointed superintendant wants to close access to learning? That tracks - Pippy Quintas Jul 27, 14:43
- "... Book?" -- nm - Brooks Hatlen, class of 1899 Jul 27, 14:19
- Can't they be both? Have they not seen The Breakfast Club? -- nm - Dano Jul 27, 13:48
- 57 others will be determining on a case-by-case basis. -- nm - Qale Jul 27, 13:40
Til, smoking interferes with bone growth and repair, neighbor lady broke her arm 11 weeks ago, only half healed -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 27, 13:36 2
- gross. Which half? -- nm - Ed Rooney Jul 27, 14:11
- Maybe you can smoke on the other porch/another side of the house, so she can heal properly -- nm - Flavorize Jul 27, 14:09
That Tim McGraw story…I’m glad that Tim seems to be as good a dude as possible. - Will Hunting Jul 27, 13:33
third article in the trades this week I’ve read on the need to come up with an agreed-upon streaming metric for residuals -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 27, 13:32 1
- It's the only right outcome -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jul 27, 13:35
Well this is interesting. I just got the script notice my doctor is trying to change me over to. It’s Venlafaxine, which is Effexor, which is… - Qale Jul 27, 13:04 12
- Oh shit, I've done that one for over 20 years and everything is great until I miss one day. It's horrible. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 14:50
- What I enjoy is when my pharmacy randomly decides to try to give me the generic for my thyroid meds. No I can't just change to - sycor Jul 27, 13:16 6
  - State laws vary. Here, if the doctor doesn’t specify on the prescription, we have to give generic. (Even if you have a history of the brand) -- nm - Tim Jul 27, 13:29 2
    - "Come on, me and the brand go way back." "You're not on the guest list." -- nm - Max Jul 27, 14:12
    - interesting. Thanks for the insight. -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 27, 13:33
  - I don’t think I’ve ever had non-generics. -- nm - Qale Jul 27, 13:19
  - we are also ignoring your request NOT to put child proof caps on. enjoying opening the vials. -- nm - the Pharmacy Jul 27, 13:19
  - But... SAVINGS!!! -- nm - Spawn Jul 27, 13:17
- That day you know more than your doctor. - Spawn Jul 27, 13:05 3
  - Welcome to taking psych meds. -- nm - loosilu Jul 27, 14:58
  - Ugh -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 27, 13:13
  - This is extremely unusual for her. -- (edited) - Qale Jul 27, 13:13
Joe Burrow being carted off of the practice field…. -- (link) - budice Jul 27, 13:02 1
- His coach says it's a calf injury. -- (link) - David Jul 27, 13:18
Wreck me! -- nm - Spawn Jul 27, 13:00 4
- A rarely mentioned Nirvana B-Side -- nm - Flavorize Jul 27, 14:10
- Wreck me? Wreck you! -- nm - Strongbad Jul 27, 13:10 2
  - Sitting at the dark end of the bar,what a beautiful wreck you are -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 27, 13:33
  - 'You Wreck Me' -- (link) - mud Jul 27, 13:32 [youtube]

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