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NDP wins majority in Manitoba (Manitoba’s first First Nations premier and second Indigenous premier (1st was in 1887)) -- (link*) - Beaker 🍺 Oct 4, 04:58 1
- I guess running on leaving murdered Indigenous women rotting in landfills was a bad idea -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 4, 05:00
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (link*) - prayformojo Oct 4, 04:25 [Attachment]
Wordle 837 4/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Oct 4, 04:06 2
- Wordle 837 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Oct 4, 04:26
- 4/6 - Fuzzy Oct 4, 04:07
Forbes drops the donald from the 400 list as he is 300m shy of the last spot with an estimated 2.5 billion -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 4, 02:29
Kevin McCarthy: Another Trump property that went out of business. -- nm - Mastodon Oct 4, 02:16 1
- GOP should have been forced to carry him for his entire term. -- nm - colin Oct 4, 03:42
attn morning crew: power billions is 1.2 casino window closing at noon... include your nic and draw date 10/4 -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 4, 01:16
Local island county had 30 job openings, zero applications, now they offer 4 day work week same pay, jobs filling fast. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 23:13 1
- I was going to ask which island county, but then I looked at a map. It's literally called Island County. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 23:33
Why did the cowboy adopt a dachshund? - JD Oct 3, 22:40
Venice tour bus plunges off a bridge onto electric lines, catches fire, 20 dead, rest injured -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 3, 22:33
OMITB finale was great -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 22:19 2
- I really enjoyed the season though spoilers ahead - Krusty Oct 4, 04:43 1
  - And I have one major issue with a plot point... spoiler - Krusty Oct 4, 04:46
Connections #115. No mistakes - TWuG Oct 3, 22:16 8
- This one was weird. Purple jumped out at me right away in 5 seconds. - Dano Oct 4, 05:16
- Perfect - znufrii, vice president Oct 4, 04:59 1
  - Minor quibble spoils - znufrii, vice president Oct 4, 05:01
- one silly mistake - crash davis 😺 Oct 4, 04:21 1
  - Same. Overthought things. - VMan Oct 4, 04:55
- no mistakes - same order as twug - prayformojo 🐵 Oct 4, 04:11
- That was a struggle. - David Oct 3, 23:55 1
  - Yeah - Beryllium Oct 4, 00:29
Still looking at Christmas options. Do I have to do this again? -- (link) - Meg Oct 3, 21:58
Colorado (wisely) looking to tax car owners by the pound -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 3, 21:29 3
- only $29? we pay 10x that for mass transit excise tax with annual registration. (and it will be 20 years before they extend down to us) -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 22:36
- That’s a really good idea -- nm - JD Oct 3, 22:33
- Did the subsidies on larger vehicles get rolled back at any point? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 21:37
.nm -- nm* - hollywood big shot Oct 3, 20:52 3
- nm - Spawn Oct 3, 20:54 2
  - m - mafic Oct 3, 21:22 1
    - _ - mud Oct 3, 21:48
ha ha: the wedding date in the 1991 Father of the Bride is apparently January 6th -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 3, 20:50 1
- "Oh, that's fun" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 21:05
I just booked a couple of rides on Italian trains, so there's that. -- nm - ty97 Oct 3, 19:54 2
- do they run on time -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 19:54 1
  - Gonna find out! -- nm - ty97 Oct 3, 20:06
Strikeforce Five was the gem to emerge out of the strike (and SAG-AFTRA is still striking, so you never know). - Mop🧹 Oct 3, 19:50
Hakeem just needs 10 R house members to vote for him and preserve the institution of the people’s house (see how dumb that sounds?) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 3, 19:46 1
- Isn’t the number 5? -- nm - Dano Oct 4, 05:03
Ahsoka: that was one of the best lightsaber duels in Star Wars. Also, spoilers - Mop🧹 Oct 3, 19:28 4
- My short thoughts (spoils) - eag Oct 3, 19:47 3
  - word - spoilers - Beaker 🍺 Oct 4, 04:48
  - Spoils -- (edited) - Beryllium Oct 4, 00:47
  - Agreed. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Oct 3, 20:48
*pins the #mbpoli hashtag to a column in mastodon* ... handy feature. Now I'll know how the manitoba election turns out. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 18:39 2
- example post -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 3, 18:47 [mastodon] 1
  - pin like nobody's watching. -- nm - mafic Oct 3, 19:30
"'Misterioso' does not mean you don't know what note you're singing." -- nm - Overheard at choir rehearsal Oct 3, 18:26 9
- Ha! -- nm - Diva Oct 4, 06:03
- So having looked it up, how the heck does one actually do that, singing wise? Imitate a theramin? Start singing the Scooby Doo theme? -- nm - JD Oct 3, 18:33 7
  - Wife claims the imitate a theramin thing. She’s the choir member so that’s good enough for me. -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 19:03
  - Could be worse -- (edited) - znufrii, vice president Oct 3, 18:48 5
    - "ciclo con fruta" -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 19:31
    - WTF? Is Tony the Tiger your conductor? -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 19:05 2
      - It’s the composer’s fault. Our conductor is just as confused as we are. - znufrii, vice president Oct 3, 19:16 1
        
        Kellogg’s Opus - it’s grrrrrreat! -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 19:19
    - A swirl of flakes??! 🤣 -- nm - JD Oct 3, 18:56
Temp Speaker is petty. -- (link) - TWuG Oct 3, 18:14 16
- GOP's Last Dance? -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 18:57 1
  - turns out you *do* have to live like a refugee -- nm - rollo Oct 4, 06:34
- Naturally. -- nm - Qale Oct 3, 18:26
- I read this like three times...uh...well....you do you. OH! petty, not pretty -- nm - JD Oct 3, 18:26
- Pelosi bringing up Hastert in order to basically say "it's not fair" - maybe she & the dems will see that these gremlins are not actually politicians - Beryllium Oct 3, 18:25 10
  - Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 3, 20:32 [mastodon]
  - She was almost murdered in her office. I'm pretty sure she knows. -- nm - David Oct 3, 19:57 6
    - So are you saying that her call for fairness is intended to mislead them into thinking what I stated? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 20:05 5
      - What I'm saying is that she of all people knows how vile her opponents are. They tried to KILL her. -- nm - David Oct 3, 20:11 4
        
        So why is she seemingly expecting them to politic, and seemingly confused when they don't? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 20:33 3
        
        Two seeminglies don’t make a seemly wrong. -- nm - Qale Oct 3, 22:10
        
        She isn't. She's just pointing out that they're assholes and she isn't. -- nm - TWuG Oct 3, 21:17
        
        it's a maddening question -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 3, 20:37
  - playing to DJT rules which is those who follow rules are suckers...jeez just look at McConnell stealing a SCOTUS from 44 then pushing another via 45 -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 19:54
  - 💯 to the IM -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Oct 3, 18:35
- What about any of this is traditional anymore? -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Oct 3, 18:25
Police shooting aross the street from my Denny's. About a mile south of Disneyland. -- (link) - Meg Oct 3, 18:13
Ahsoka time -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 3, 18:05
"I like the way you think, Matthew Broderick." -- nm - David Oct 3, 17:56
PCs remind Manitobans no one can see you jerk off in the voting booth -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Oct 3, 17:18 1
- not satire (CBC article here) -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Oct 3, 17:19
man, Hijack is a great series (on Apple) -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 3, 17:04 2
- I liked it as well -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 3, 19:04
- I enjoyed it. - psilotum Oct 3, 17:59
The lettuce outlasts McCarthy -- (link*) - budice Oct 3, 16:55
The Doctor Who Magic set is revealing cards and nerds are going to love the flavor in the cards. -- (link) - Tim Oct 3, 16:53
Ha! -- (pic) - TWuG Oct 3, 16:52 [Attachment] 1
- Pretty good— -- nm - Flav— Oct 3, 18:19
NFL meeting week 4 with Annie Agar -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Oct 3, 16:51 [youtube] 1
- Hee!! -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Oct 3, 18:10
My take on all of this House drama -- (edited) - Fuzzy Oct 3, 16:50 5
- Here's an idea. And I know I know, it will never happen. But since it's the GOP who has a broken house (so to speak) - ty97 Oct 3, 17:56
- Speaker election (the first one at least) is scheduled for next Wednesday -- nm - ty97 Oct 3, 17:54
- Making the GOP look like a clusterfuck unable to govern is never a bad thing. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 3, 17:47 1
  - and has the added benefit of being true -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 3, 17:49
- They're talking the week off and will reconvene next week. -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 17:45
this is the oddest stadium addition I can think of, but also fitting. Gillette Stadium gets a 220ft tall lighthouse addition. - tRuMaN Oct 3, 16:37 3
- Finally an end to the ships crashing into the stadium. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 16:48
- No giant razor? -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 3, 16:41 1
  - Hoody probably took that home with him to use on his outfits. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 3, 16:41
I keep forgetting to thank pixie for mentioning that L.A. Law is on Prime. - Todd Manning Oct 3, 16:36 2
- You’ll remember one day. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 3, 16:41 1
  - I've wanted to rewatch it for so long. -- nm - Todd Manning Oct 3, 16:47
Funniest article of the year so far. (Child shot, but....I stand by this) -- (link) - colin Oct 3, 16:32 5
- if you can think of another way to get a crowd attention other than a gun, I'd like to hear it. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 16:46
- It happens. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 3, 16:41 1
  - Haven't we all made a blank out of gunpowder and glue with the intention of firing a warning shot at a wedding and shot a kid? -- nm - colin Oct 3, 16:43
- We need to give every kid a gun so they can fight back. -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 16:40
- Maybe in prison he'll have time to learn how to whistle. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 16:35
Baron -- when I run that script, I only get 1 guy as the text file -- Justice Vergara - Will Hunting Oct 3, 16:17 2
- I just ran it as is and it gave me everyone. Make sure the indenting is correct. Image attached. -- (pic) - Baron Hardcoden Oct 3, 16:57 [Attachment] 1 1
  - My indent spacing was wrong -- wow -- that's gonna take some getting used to. -- thanks. - Will Hunting Oct 3, 17:09
Rate Mark-Paul Gosselaar as an actor -- nm - rollo Oct 3, 16:13 3
- Fiiinnneeee as a mo fo - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Oct 3, 18:19
- On a scale of Pauly Shore to George Clooney, he's a Michael Weatherly who just hasn't been handed the reins yet. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 16:18
- I can say that he had an outstanding scene in Happy Endings - so good that the other characters even commented as such -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Oct 3, 16:15
Kari Lake apparently is running for senate in AZ -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 3, 16:09
Is my count right? Democrats need to get 5 Republicans on board to get a Speaker of their choosing? - Dano Oct 3, 16:04 2
- You'd need someone with enough political ambition to be speaker and no ambition beyond this term. Tough square to circle. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 17:09
- Same math as January. Simply isn’t going to happen. -- nm - spamlet Oct 3, 16:12
McCarthy says he won't be running for speaker (again) -- nm* - budice Oct 3, 15:54 13
- At this point, I wouldn’t even be surprised if Jade Cargill becomes the next speaker. -- nm - Qale Oct 3, 17:19
- Inverse Cramer strong -- (pic) - budice Oct 3, 16:15 [Attachment] 2
  - Is that real!? LMFAO. -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 16:20 1
    - it real he deleted -- nm - budice Oct 3, 16:31
- "speaker’s election will be held next Wednesday." - report -- nm - budice Oct 3, 16:11 1
  - Thursday, Friday, Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday..... -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 3, 18:17
- That Happened -- nm - A Memoir Oct 3, 16:07 1
  - Heh -- nm - con_carne Oct 3, 17:58
- aww -- nm - mud Oct 3, 16:06
- McCarthy will speak at 7:30p -- nm - budice Oct 3, 16:05
- Uh huh -- nm - spamlet Oct 3, 16:01
- Leaving to attend to his health and spend more time with family? -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 16:00
- It's on his resume and checked off his bucket list. I wonder if he resigns. -- nm - pmb Oct 3, 15:55
So when does Mitch try and rein in his Sith apprentices? -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 15:45 2
- Mitch was deposed by his own caucus on the Ukraine spending funding getting stripped out of the CR it passed -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 3, 15:48 1
  - His guys realized that the House had bungled it so badly that a clean CR was the only way to avoid being blamed for the shutdown. - Will Hunting Oct 3, 16:18
In advance of the vote John Cornyn apparently called the people trying to oust McCarthy 'terrorists' - ty97 Oct 3, 15:33 5
- I'd prefer seditionists. -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 15:41 4
  - Porque no los dos? -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 3, 15:56
  - you can only call them Terrorists if they come from the Terror region of France -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 3, 15:42 2
    - It's spelled "terroire." -- (edited) - loosilu Oct 3, 15:49
    - Since 1/6 I've been trying to explain to certain people that traitors does not apply. The whole MAGA movement is essentially sedition. -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 15:48
So, essentially my reading is the (most violent) inmates have taken most of the asylum. None is trusted enough to run it. The staff is basically - VMan Oct 3, 15:33 2
- Basically - ty97 Oct 3, 15:34 1
  - Hunter!!!! -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 15:35
Well, I mean, at least they censured Schiff. -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 15:29
Astute -- (link*) - ty97 Oct 3, 15:27 4
- :-D -- nm - mud Oct 3, 15:51
- Meghan Trainor tricked us! -- nm - Qale Oct 3, 15:43
- Ala Howard Stern - MTG probably got to an orgasm. -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 15:40
- Ha! -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 15:38

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