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I hope that LK-99 superconductor thing works out. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 11:55
Is Die Hard a football movie? - Flavorize Aug 1, 11:54 [Attachment]
As a non twitter user, I’ve heard a lot today about an X sign being taken down on Twitter’s building. And I’ve thought, huh it’s called X now. - Loyola Aug 1, 11:54 2
- He did it with out required permits, I don't believe San Francisco allows name signage like that, especially strobing ones. - zeitgeist Aug 1, 11:59
- wait, are you saying Musk put this sign up knowing he would have to take it down in two days? - Jovian Aug 1, 11:58
Verlander back w/Stros -- nm - budice Aug 1, 11:48 3
- Drew Gilbert is the rumored return. -- nm - spamlet Aug 1, 12:03 1
  - For those that need a refresher on Gilbert -- (link) - spamlet Aug 1, 12:09
- The Blue Jays have acquired infielder Paul DeJong from the Cardinals (after Bichete's injury) -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 11:50
cracks in the Tesla Distortion Field starting to appear -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 11:46
August's sci-fi, horror and fantasy book releases -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 11:37 2
- oh this sounds fun: "this thriller follows a scuba diver who is swallowed by a giant whale and must figure out how to escape" -- nm - Jovian Aug 1, 11:55
- September for Starter Villain from Scalzi -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 11:46
Anyone want to go to Venus? -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 11:34 7
- Does he know nothing about Venusus atmosphere -- nm - eag Aug 1, 11:45 1
  - He thinks he can be Lando Cal. -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 11:54
- killing six people at Titanic wasn't enough for this guy? -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 11:42
- ... in 25 years. -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 11:38
- I think humans should absolutely build self-sustaining colonies on luna, mars, and venus. - Beryllium Aug 1, 11:38 2
  - you just want The Expanse to be real life -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 11:46 1
    - You get me. 😂 -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 11:54
Uber posted their first ever quarterly operating profit this quarter. -- (link) - spamlet Aug 1, 11:31 6
- Now that they put the taxis out of business they've jacked up their prices to higher than cab rates. -- nm - pmb Aug 1, 11:58 2
  - Drivers got 80% when they started, now not even half -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 1, 12:02 1
    - Both developments were entirely predictable. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 1, 13:49
- Audiobook I am listening to now pronounces it "you-br" and irks me. -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 11:34 1
  - this makes me happy -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 11:35
- SELL SELL SELL! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 11:33
Mets minor leaguers are at the ready at the team’s KC hotel, waiting to take the place of players they expect to move. -- nm - budice Aug 1, 11:25 1
- an approaching asteroid has a chance to do the funniest thing in the history of MLB -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 11:26
Magic Time Machine restaurants celebrate fifty years of madness at the dinner table. -- (link) - Qale Aug 1, 11:15
Henrietta Lacks' family settles its biotech lawsuit over use of her cell line -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 11:13 2
- there's other companies that are being sued too. Good. Hope they all end up having to pay up. -- nm - Diva Aug 1, 11:51
- interesting. thx. EDIT: Excellent book BTW -- nm* - oblique Aug 1, 11:16
"Plan A was to play it long before Portugal could get set in its rest defense. Plan B was for Sophia Smith to run past three people" -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 11:07
Warner Bros. apologizes to its Japan office over “inconsiderate” social media engagement re: Barbenheimer -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Aug 1, 11:05
Lol. There's a part 2 / redemption video for "that's right - the square hole" -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 1, 10:54 [youtube]
TV PSA addition: Mixtape - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 10:51
in happier news Wisconsin Sup Ct flips its majority today -- nm* - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 10:48
Am I the only one who didn’t realize Pee Wee Herman was 70? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 1, 10:38 5
- I think his movie debut was Up In Smoke in 1978 -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 10:46 1
  - I'mmmm sorry. So verry, very sorry. - Spawn Aug 1, 11:16
- It was the topic in the 80s this middle-aged man acting like a middle schooler. But then he never grew up in our minds, nor his really -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 1, 10:45
- Yeah, the list of celebrities born in 1953 is kind of a trip in itself, but Pee-wee deliberately presented so young. -- nm* - mara Aug 1, 10:42
- he really didnt change much from the 80s did he. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 1, 10:39
I guess Steven Amell’s agents told him they were gonna drop him -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 10:35
The acting governor of new jersey died. Lt Gov Sheila Oliver. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 1, 10:21 10
- Whoa. -- nm - loosilu Aug 1, 11:21
- NJ now has no leadership. The Purge begins immediately. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 1, 10:23 8
  - I have seized command of all local NJ taverns. -- nm - Jovian Aug 1, 10:36 2
    - we declare ourselves a sovereign nation -- nm - The Stone Pony Aug 1, 10:38 1
      - Granted! -- nm - Jovian Aug 1, 10:40
  - But it's NJ -- nm - eag Aug 1, 10:24
  - I have seized the Pine Barrens in the name of His Majesty the King. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 10:24 3
    - Yeesh. Now you get to dispose of the dead bodies. - Krusty Aug 1, 10:27 1
      - If there's one thing a king needs, it's a good place to quietly retire problems. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 10:47
    - Or "Hims Majmesty teh Kong" if I follow Typo Tuesday rules -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 10:25
Honest Trailers | The Flash -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 10:15 [youtube]
I tried to barter my Eras tickets into visits to Club 33 and the 1901 lounge - JD Aug 1, 10:11 2
- I thought you could exchange real estate or exotic sports cars for a ticket -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 1, 10:35
- shoulda started with one red paperclip -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 1, 10:27
U.S. job openings dropped slightly in June to lowest in two years, but there are still 1.6 openings per unemployed person - znufrii 🦄 Aug 1, 10:10 2
- But what will the NYT Pitchbot say? -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 1, 10:22 1
  - There Are Still Too Many Jobs: Bad for Biden? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 10:22
Meg 2 The Trench nsy; TMNT Mutant Mayhem 97% (70/2), Til Death Do Us Part 82% (9/2), LOLA 100% (23/0) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 10:08
At least he was first? -- (pic) - spamlet Aug 1, 10:08 [Attachment] 15
- What the hell has he been typing that that is an autocorrect? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 1, 10:12 2
  - I wasn't sure if it was Orioles or Astros at first. Wouldn't have guessed Padres. -- nm - spamlet Aug 1, 12:01
  - The keys are, like, right next to each other. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 10:16
- Padres? -- nm - David Aug 1, 10:11 11
  - Someone should make Oasres merch with a janky padres ripoff logo -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 10:16
  - Or Orioles? Not enough letters for that. -- nm - David Aug 1, 10:12 9
    - MLbTradeRumors has it as the Padres. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 1, 10:13 8
      - It's the Orioles. HOLY HELL, that was sloppy. -- nm - David Aug 1, 10:13 7
        
        No, I'm wrong. It's the Padres. -- nm - David Aug 1, 10:14 6
        
        Has Mike Elias shown proof of life? - Will Hunting Aug 1, 10:15 5
        
        Verlander is in control and apparently wants to go back to Houston. -- nm - David Aug 1, 10:20 2
        
        I mean, cool for him having the NTA but has he seen the temperatures there? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 1, 10:26
        
        Does Kate wanna go back bigger question -- nm - eag Aug 1, 10:23
        
        He's waiting to announce Dylan Cease. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Aug 1, 10:19 1
        
        YES!!!! -- nm - spamlet Aug 1, 11:55
Google Voicemail-to-text translation: "Female Batman tells the Italian Grande cycle and Vietnam Contin." -- (link*) - budice Aug 1, 10:04 [Attachment] 1
- "May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?" -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Aug 1, 10:09
So I guess these are your last Games With Gold? Get Blue Fire and Inertial Drift while you can! -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 1, 10:02
I was wondering the other day where Tiger would fall on the PGA. And answered. -- (link) - colin Aug 1, 09:38 4
- So ... golf is dead, eh? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 09:56 3
  - dead to me -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 10:26 1
    - Yup. The sport no longer exists to me. -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 10:28
  - what Nietsche originally wrote, got mucked in translation -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 10:16
The forgotten story of the real first Barbie to fly into space (on a still-secret mission) -- (link) - JD Aug 1, 09:18
studios still can't agree amongst themselves on what a deal with the guilds should look like -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 09:10 4
- It's clear they had no strategy leading into the final hours. - Mop🧹 Aug 1, 09:42 1
  - they counted on SAG rolling over like the DGA (which they generally have in the past) to isolate the WGA -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 09:44
- Makes sense that it's a challenge to come up with one proposal that fits all member companies. -- nm - Dano Aug 1, 09:25 1
  - i think everyone except the streamers recognize there has to be an agreement on residuals that gets the guilds somewhere close to broadcast again - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 09:45
‘Disenchantment’ final 10 episodes on Sept.1 -- (link) - mud Aug 1, 09:07 4
- teaser -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 09:23 [youtube] 2
  - I want to love this show so much, but I just get, uh, disenchanted with it. (This may be a rewatch binge from the beginning again.) -- nm - JaxSean Aug 1, 09:32 1
    - I'm planning to rewatch -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 09:34
- Aww! Woo! -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 09:08
New Costco Membership Offer: $60 signup with $45 Gift Card (New or expired prior to 4/1/23 eligible. No 12-18mo wait) -- (link) - budice Aug 1, 08:56 1
- damn. i need this in october -- nm - colin Aug 1, 09:07
some more cool WGA strike fundraising auction items (Veronica Mars varsity jacket seems underpriced) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 08:48 3
- "Have a character in the next Michael Connelly novel named after YOU!" I was hoping for a cop, but... I guess the suspected pedo is fine? -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 1, 10:13
- there's some cool stuff in there -- nm - JaxSean Aug 1, 09:04 1
  - agreed. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 09:07
MLB: # of days since a team had a batter strikeout 5 times in one game -- (link) - Strongbad Aug 1, 08:45
other than that Mrs. Lincoln... "Andonovski is an underqualified coach who has done very little to improve the USWNT" - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 08:45 1
- I was reading about the problems with the youth leagues. Amazing how much they screwed things up. -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 08:48
"Bryce Young has a pick for the fourth straight day. This in a red zone drill" - budice Aug 1, 08:42 2
- Hold my beer. -- nm - Dak Aug 1, 08:44
- some people are book learners, and some people are experiential learners -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 1, 08:44
reality TV producers getting squeezed harder than the writers/actors -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 08:39 6
- We clearly need more reality TV - Strongbad Aug 1, 08:49 1
  - i'd watch that second one. -- nm - colin Aug 1, 09:06
- this doesnt make sense, why would The Man be $queezing the only thing left they have to offer the public. -- nm - mud Aug 1, 08:48
- can... they go on strike? -- nm - colin Aug 1, 08:46 2
  - not unionized generally tho some of the on-air talent have an argument that they shouldn't cross the SAG-AFTRA picket line -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 1, 08:47
  - how will they eat on MILF Island? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 08:47
Because I didn't receive a single 'Aw' when I original ly posted it, here's a link to the kitty post from yesterday. -- (link) - Bari Seldon Aug 1, 08:39 [Backboard] 8
- Cute kitties 😻 -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 09:37
- lookit them cats. they look soft. -- nm - colin Aug 1, 09:20
- I do love Pibbs -- nm - Jovian Aug 1, 08:47
- so cute! -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 08:45
- I didn't see it yesterday!! Awwww - Pippy Quintas Aug 1, 08:44 2
  - :) You have to watch her. She's the smallest and tries to play innocent but do not believe it. - Bari Seldon Aug 1, 08:56 1
    - LOL -- nm - Pippy Quintas Aug 1, 11:18
- awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwWWW! (Rosie looks confused) -- nm - mud Aug 1, 08:40
Because clearly the internet has nothing better to do, lol. But here is a rendering of Kate Beckinsale as a Vulcan for ST: SNW -- (pic) - Jovian Aug 1, 08:24 [Attachment] 2
- Is she covered in lube? -- (link) - Spawn Aug 1, 11:28 [tiktok]
- death by snu snu please -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 08:38
all parking is free at the altoona airport -- (link) - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Aug 1, 08:20 2
- *driving into Cape Breton* "Is there a time difference here?" "Yes, 30 years." -- nm - Reagen Aug 1, 08:37
- Makes it easier to visit La Fiesta -- (link) - JD Aug 1, 08:23
Wow. Now that's a band that knows how to rock. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 1, 08:18 [mastodon] 1
- Believe that is old news, but funny. -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 08:20
So mistakes happen but just how bad could it be? - JD Aug 1, 08:09 18
- Iirc, it will auto correct after a week. Npr was talking about how they got that into 560 kb of code -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 1, 10:48
- Ctrl+z -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 1, 08:42
- Think how *sad* it must be, now. It thinks we abandoned it. - Spawn Aug 1, 08:15 5
  - It's probably sentient by now. Like WALL-E. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 1, 09:26
  - that sadness will turn to anger and anger leads to the Dark Side -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 08:55 1
    - [points], "Vger" -- (pic) - mud Aug 1, 09:02 [Attachment]
  - [nods] -- nm - mud Aug 1, 08:36
  - It will figure out a way to call out to its brothers and that’s how you get Skynet. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 1, 08:31
- *smh* -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 08:14
- fire every single person involved. -- nm - Jovian Aug 1, 08:13 8
  - This is the polar opposite of good engineering practices. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 08:19
  - They get till mid October thanks to their super paranoid predecessors who anticipated that mistakes would happen - JD Aug 1, 08:15 6
    - heh yep, I responded before I read the article. Give them all a long time out then. - Jovian Aug 1, 08:17 5
      - Dude wanted just to give NASA a vacation. -- nm - Spawn Aug 1, 08:18 4
        
        JPL -- nm - JD Aug 1, 08:20 3
        
        Thank you. - Spawn Aug 1, 08:22 2
        
        It just occurred to me that they have an anachronistic name. I'd be really surprised if anything they're currently doing involves Jet Propulsion -- nm - JD Aug 1, 08:25 1
        
        Who are you calling anachronistic? -- nm - Jet Reno si Aug 1, 10:12
I know you are but what am I? -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 1, 07:54 3
- Infinity! -- nm - Jovian Aug 1, 08:02 2
  - Infinity + 1 -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 1, 08:05 1
    - Aleph-naught. -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 1, 08:22

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