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Sometimes I think parts of OMITB are unrealistic, but then I see Steven Soderbergh taking credit for Christopher Nolan's big break... -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 8, 22:00 1
- *fires up the DeLorean* -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 22:04
I may not know exactly where Upper Nova Scotia is - but I can confirm it is foggy. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 21:45 1
- upper canada is a thing. upper nova scotia less so. -- nm - mafic Aug 8, 22:00
nobody ever sounds less intimidating than the head coach trying to pump his last-place team up on the first ep of a new Hard Knocks -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 21:42 1
- and i'll never believe that's actually Liev Schreibrer doing the narration -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 21:45
Hey all. There's new music from daughter just out now! First song off her new EP. Give a listen, I think many of you will like it. Also a favor to ask - pmb Aug 8, 21:08 [spotify] 9
- imma just leave it on repeat on my laptop. she could rack up potentially dozens of cents in royalties from me! -- nm - mafic Aug 8, 21:58 2
  - If only it was that much. Thanks. -- nm - pmb Aug 8, 22:09 1
    - Spoken like a parent who expects to pay his child's bills forever! -- nm - David Aug 8, 22:28
- I'm on playthrough #4, but I don't have Spotify. So, I presume I'll hit a limit at some point. -- nm - David Aug 8, 21:33 1
  - I'm not sure that's the case. I think you'll just get ads. Thanks! -- nm - pmb Aug 8, 21:43
- I'm on Deezer, fan #2 :) I'll do my best. This is under a new name from her older stuff? -- nm - colin Aug 8, 21:25 3
  - Yes. She changed her artist name early last year. Re-branding and she was sort of stuck in algorithm hell on spotify because her biggest song (from - pmb Aug 8, 21:32 2
    - Make sense. Good luck to her, I hope this takes off! -- nm - colin Aug 8, 21:33 1
      - Thanks. Fingers crossed. -- nm - pmb Aug 8, 21:43
Connections #59 - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 8, 21:06
sounds like another Clarence Thomas story bout to drop -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 21:05 1
- Ah yes, billionaires. Famous defenders of affirmative action. -- nm - colin Aug 8, 21:27
Wordle 781 4/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 8, 21:01
I just need 11 more flickr faves for the lighthouse photo to surpass my current most-faved photo: a squirrel. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 20:57
Johnny Manziel documentary spoils - Flavorize Aug 8, 20:49 3
- Worth watching if you're not a big NFL fan? -- nm - colin Aug 8, 20:50 2
  - Nope—it’s a car crash on the side of the highway -- nm - Flavorize Aug 8, 20:51 1
    - Got it. I'll probably watch but not subject my partner to it. -- nm - colin Aug 8, 21:20
Watching Eyes Wide Shut for the first time. This movie is WILD. -- nm - MDH Aug 8, 20:18 11
- and Tom Cruise hasn't fucked onscreen since - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 20:19 10
  - who would have been his 'partner' in Maverick? Alfred Molina or Mel Gibson??? -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 8, 20:50 1
    - Jennifer Connolly -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 20:52
  - I'm basically catching up on all of the Cruise movies I haven't seen. - MDH Aug 8, 20:37 7
    - All The Right Moves -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 20:44
    - I just looked up his IMDB page…he apparently was in Young Guns… - Flavorize Aug 8, 20:41 5
      - The "most recent" movie of his that I haven't seen in 1992's "Far and Away" -- nm - MDH Aug 8, 20:44 4
        
        truly some of the worst accent work in film. -- nm - mafic Aug 8, 21:22
        
        Claim the land, MDH! -- nm - The Allfather Aug 8, 21:09
        
        I really quite enjoyed that one. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 20:54
        
        Nice—yeah, that’s an underrated one -- nm - Flavorize Aug 8, 20:45
RIP Digits -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 8, 20:16
Grindr employees unionize, company informs them they cannot host. (Work from home.) -- (link) - Qale Aug 8, 19:59 2
- Corporations, particularly public ones, seem to have an almost fiduciary duty to be evil. - Beryllium Aug 8, 20:54 1
  - Socialist companies generally don't have this issue either. - colin Aug 8, 21:24
Colts: Coach speaks on Taylor and his ankle -- (link) - Remlik Aug 8, 19:55 1
- I think Denver fired this guy as head coach last year. -- nm - The Allfather Aug 8, 21:10
uh, so the Northern Ireland police appears to have mistakenly revealed the identities of all 10,000 of its officers to the public -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 19:48 1
- oof -- nm - Remlik Aug 8, 19:51
“is you really writing a memorandum on a coup d’etat?!” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 19:15 1
- Stop replying to all the stop the steal secrets! -- nm - Qale Aug 8, 19:39
Only 4 teams since 2000 have finished under .500 while having the leader in WAR (per Fangraphs) on their team. -- (link) - spamlet Aug 8, 19:00
This is just a *really* weird dude. -- (link) - Jovian Aug 8, 18:57 2
- It's like V. I'm waiting for him to his skin. -- nm - jnine Aug 8, 20:20
- They rebooted the whole campaign today. It's a disaster. -- nm - David Aug 8, 19:05
so by law Qatar can only do 1 flight/day to major Australian airports. they currently have 2 to Melbourne by setting the technical final destination - mafic Aug 8, 18:48
Looks like Georgia is all teed up for next week -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Aug 8, 18:29 2
- Poor Steven Colbert. -- nm - . Aug 8, 18:56
- See you next tuesday -- nm - rollo Aug 8, 18:43
Make abortion and the culture wars the main issues of 2024, GOP. It’s working. -- nm - Tim Aug 8, 18:24 5
- YUP. -- nm - MDH Aug 8, 18:52
- they'll have to drag the Dem party leaders kicking and screaming into that fight -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 18:27 3
  - It won't take long for established dems in safe seats to start getting primaried out for this. - colin Aug 8, 21:32 1
    - i'm less concerned about front-line reps, that process has largely already happened at their level. it's the theme and message for 2024 from the top -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 21:39
  - Dem Party leaders of a certain age are afraid of everything -- nm - Remlik Aug 8, 18:38
“Free Kevin Brown” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 18:17 2
- I would politely suggest that the announcers not comment on that. -- nm - David Aug 8, 18:22 1
  - or . . . that -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 18:43
Twitter's new Sensitivity Settings for advertisers. -- (pic) - TWuG Aug 8, 18:05 [Attachment] 10
- how much you wanna bet that it costs more to avoid nazis -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 20:51
- "Ya know, based on what *we* say that is." -- nm - Reagen Aug 8, 18:18
- wait, so advertisers want to *avoid* targeted hate speech? -- nm - mafic Aug 8, 18:14 1
  - Apparently conservative ones do -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 18:18
- I am chuckling. I guess my political alignment is Relaxed? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 18:08 1
  - (Oh, nevermind, I see the definitions down at the bottom now. Still chuckling, but now I guess I'm conservative?) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 18:09
- that'll bring em all running back no doubt -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 18:07 3
  - It's like they are admitting the place has become a sewer and you can choose varying levels of muck, but "no muck" is no longer an option. -- nm - TWuG Aug 8, 18:08 2
    - You misspelled musk. -- nm - Qale Aug 8, 18:44
    - Exactly -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Aug 8, 18:20
Ohio -- (pic) - Jovian Aug 8, 17:50 [Attachment] 8
- That sure was a delicious way to flush $20 million dollars down the drain. -- nm - Qale Aug 8, 18:44
- nice -- nm - Remlik Aug 8, 18:24
- Yay!!!! -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Aug 8, 18:21
- Yep. Proud of my state. Makes me optimistic that people actually care about issues. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Aug 8, 18:21
- Awesome -- nm - decline Aug 8, 17:54
- Nice. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 17:53
- They even topped the 60% they would have needed had it passed. -- nm - Dano Aug 8, 17:52
- oh, now Joe Walsh and the Lincoln Project guys are big Roe supporters? - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 17:51
go get 'em, Kari -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 17:46
Three trains, one shuttle bus later, I've made it well, uh, to a merch line outside of SoFi - JD Aug 8, 17:38 3
- gotta get the blue crew neck they're selling for a couple hundred on ebay -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 18:02
- a K line in San Fran too. I used to call the K Ingleside the King Le Side, the L Taraval Leutenant Araval -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 18:01
- "and then you take this K line" -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 17:43
Tory Lanez sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Aug 8, 17:32 1
- 👍 -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Aug 8, 18:23
Hmm. On Wednesday, I could try to get a photo of a CC-130 Hercules flyby. And on Friday, three warships. And a meteor shower. - Beryllium Aug 8, 17:28
Philly: vehicle wedged between a SEPTA bus and a truck. -- (link) - budice Aug 8, 17:23 1
- That’ll happen. -- nm - mara Aug 8, 17:29
loser-that-loses Andy Ngo loses in Oregon: -- (pic) - mud Aug 8, 17:20 [Attachment] 2
- Fuck that guy. Er, I meant to say, who would ever want to fuck that guy? -- nm - Qale Aug 8, 17:36
- ACTIVIST JUDGES! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 8, 17:23
heh -- (link) - Tim Aug 8, 17:14 4
- big Kim John Angelos energy with this schmuck -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 17:31
- nice camera work to cut away before the ball actually lands -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 17:18 1
  - you might have missed him approaching first base otherwise! -- nm - mafic Aug 8, 17:25
- Five stars! -- nm - David Aug 8, 17:17
I have a Bluesky code if anyone has interest. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 8, 17:12 1
- me too: - mud Aug 8, 17:16
Harris Co Judge (which is an executive role, not a judiciary one) is taking some time off for mental health. Her leave of absence leaves... - Qale Aug 8, 17:03
The Lakers Show is so fucking good. - David Aug 8, 16:55 7
- They were down-talking it on the ringer pod (Joe House) kind of nitpicking it to death, but I'm really liking it -- nm - rollo Aug 8, 19:00
- I really want a Celtics spinoff. that Larry Bird actor is terrific. -- nm - Remlik Aug 8, 17:42 2
  - they didn't win enough rings in the 80s to still call it Winning Time - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 19:02
  - He only has one line in the season premiere, and it’s perfect. -- nm - The Allfather Aug 8, 18:48
- I believe it’s called *That* Lakers Show. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 8, 16:57 2
  - This was such a funny bit on the podcast. - Tim Aug 8, 16:58 1
    - My Max searches are hysterical. -- nm - David Aug 8, 17:03
One very bad part of the economy IS consumer debt is now at over a trillion dollars. Part of that story is the rush to increase interest rates. - Qale Aug 8, 16:49 1
- We got 1 more hike probably of another quarter percent. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 8, 16:50
No on 1 running 10 pts ahead of Biden’s 2020 share in Franklin Co’s first vote drop -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 16:43 6
- Wasserman has already called it. He’s seen enough. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Aug 8, 17:01 1
  - cue up the hacky "Barbie Effect" thinkpieces in Politico and Axios tomorrow -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 17:47
- Wasserman's already seen enough (20% votes in). Measure 1 goes down in glorious flames. Nov. abortion rights referendum only needs 50% to pass -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 17:01 3
  - Good. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Aug 8, 17:18 1
    - a year too early to be the maximum boost for Sherrod Brown, unfortunately -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 17:28
  - excellent. -- nm - mud Aug 8, 17:17
When can I start ruining Blood Feud this year? Is it yet too early? - ReluctantCynic Aug 8, 16:38 2
- did you ask the railroad about online access? -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 8, 16:44 1
  - I did. And it's what I've grown to love. - ReluctantCynic Aug 8, 17:24
FBI Most Wanted loses another series regular. Alexa Davalos who plays Kristin Gaines. -- nm - MDH Aug 8, 16:20 2
- She'll always be lightning girl on Angel to me. -- nm - David Aug 8, 16:36 1
  - Oh that’s why the name seemed familiar. I dug her. -- nm - Tim Aug 8, 16:46
Man, there was an EF2 tornado about 2 miles from us yesterday. First tornado in the county in august going back 73 years of records. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 8, 16:14 3
- Yeah, I knew it was going to turn out to be that. Literally 3 miles away. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 8, 16:18 2
  - I'm legit not kidding when I say we've had 2 worse storms this month at my house. - Will Hunting Aug 8, 16:51 1
    - The only thing that happened here was that the garbage cans blew down the road. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 8, 17:00
Hey Z, here you go! - Jovian Aug 8, 16:06 [Attachment] 1
- 💵🎩 -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 16:33
I still have a bunch of my engineering texts for some god knows reason - Reagen Aug 8, 15:59 1
- I finally got rid of my CRC handbook a few years ago -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 8, 16:55
Archer final season trailer (August 30) -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Aug 8, 15:40 [youtube]
tanned(ish), rested, and sweaty -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 15:36
(judge set the hearing for Friday, the excuses of defense counsel notwithstanding) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 15:34 2
- Was there a typo in their blurb or did they just not explain why they "lost friday as an option" in the original filing? -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 8, 15:59 1
  - no explanation that anyone could discern from the filing -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 16:00
WGA/SAG sign o the day -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 15:30
I went to the depot, I looked up at the stars Cried, "some train don't come, there'll be some walkin' done" -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 15:09
Good thing I’m not vegetarian - znufrii 🦄 Aug 8, 15:08 5
- no, chef -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 8, 16:04
- Bastards -- nm - decline Aug 8, 16:00
- Speaking of, I'm meeting a friend for dinner here tomorrow -- (link) - ty97 Aug 8, 15:30
- carrot celery onion (leek actually) should have some in the veggie drawer, lasts a month before joining the other black goo down there -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 15:10 1
  - The whole point of a meal kit is not having to do that. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Aug 8, 15:13
Tim, that retweet cracked me up. -- nm - ty97 Aug 8, 15:05

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