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Did Iger just announce Moana 2 for NOVEMBER?! -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 7, 13:36 2
- They've turned the animated series into a movie. -- nm - David Feb 7, 13:51
- yes -- nm - budice Feb 7, 13:39
Disney Revenue: $23.5B vs $23.8B estimate Adjusted EPS: $1.22 vs $0.99 estimate -- nm - budice Feb 7, 13:34 5
- 7% bump after hours. -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 13:54 1
  - *drops mic* -- nm - Iger Feb 7, 13:57
- D+ will be home to TS Eras Tour Film -- nm - budice Feb 7, 13:39 2
  - five additional songs not from the original theatrical or digital release, including "Cardigan." -- nm - budice Feb 7, 13:45
  - yay!!! I can see it!! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 7, 13:43
*spilled my Coke on myself at lunch. Later, at the department meeting...* "Did your pants dry off yet?" "There was a different way you could have asked that!" -- nm* - Reagen Feb 7, 13:30 3
- "The coke you spilled on your pants, were you able to clean that off?" -- nm - Roger More Feb 7, 13:35 2
  - "Have you resolved your coke situation yet?" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 13:58 1
    - "Are you a Wet Leg superfan?" -- nm - Max Feb 7, 14:01
Finally had some sunshine this morning but the rain is expected back around sundown. Then mostly clear through the weekend. -- nm - Meg Feb 7, 13:28
Here is the Queen from last night on The Floor - Jovian Feb 7, 13:16 [youtube]
CDaN "Enty" identified -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 13:10 5
- "Who?" -- nm - Djimon Hounsou Feb 7, 13:33
- I actually didn't know it was still a thing. I haven't believed half of it forever. And this is from that article: - Andie Feb 7, 13:12 3
  - it wasn’t *all* made up - as the article says, he did have scoops and some blind items have matched with subsequent news stories, etc. I used to look - i.b.! Feb 7, 13:26
  - To be fair, even if I was a (mostly true) gossip peddler, I might throw the same disclaimer out as a joke. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 7, 13:26
  - "I'm an entertainment lawyer, and the law says that's entertainment." - Max Feb 7, 13:15
GOP Senators: *kill Ukraine/Israel/Immigration bill they demanded* -- (edited) - Znufrii, promoted Feb 7, 13:08 1
- get em AIPAC! -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 13:15
memo to Chris Murphy: immigration is great for the US economy, actually. thank fucko for torpedoing your awful bill -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 13:05 1
- Over the next 10 years, as clarified in a subsequent tweet. ($7T is obviously still a huge number) -- (link) - Roger More Feb 7, 13:11
Quality tweet. -- (pic) - Volnelk 🍊 Feb 7, 12:46 [Attachment]
live cam on the VEGAS SPHERE -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 7, 12:40 [youtube] 2
- Just took this picture from my hotel room. If you look on the upper right portion where you can sort of see through the top I think I see a person's - pmb Feb 7, 12:47 [Attachment] 1
  - there's a second sphere cam that goes live at 4 pm. it faces west, and looks like crap until sunset. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 7, 12:51
Sphere climber posted a video on Instagram, under the handle "prolife.spiderman," showing him atop the large Las Vegas sphere. -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 12:40 1
- The individual has been taken into custody -- nm - budice Feb 7, 12:41
“I’ve gone through the multi(p)le stages of grief. Today I’m just pissed off.” -- (pic) - mud Feb 7, 12:33 [Attachment] 1
- mediaite.com: ‘I Will… Destroy You’ - mud Feb 7, 12:37
The Happy Fits will be live on YouTube tonight at 8:00 PM EST. They are one of my favorite bands live. -- (link) - Dano Feb 7, 12:18 [youtube]
Ex-Tesla exec leading Ford skunkworks project to develop low-cost EV -- (link) - JD Feb 7, 11:48 2
- Produces car that costs as much as other EVs. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 7, 12:51 1
  - i believe that is the nature of business - Lafarrow Feb 7, 13:05
AEW: is TK’s big announcement a show in Boston where Sasha Banks shows up? -- nm - Tim Feb 7, 11:42 2
- they should keep it a surprise and just have her appear. -- nm - Remlik Feb 7, 11:46
- I figure it'll be related to the Sports Hulu thing. -- nm - David Feb 7, 11:44
When the producer runs into same name booking troubles -- (link) - JD Feb 7, 11:42 4
- lmao, I was listening to this on the radio yesterday morning driving into work. -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 12:56
- There was an Australian comedy show in the 90s that did this as a regular bit. They'd have a musical finale every week with some big name - Roger More Feb 7, 11:57 2
  - Had a friend very excited about getting some comp tix from a casino for an act that turned out was not Kenny Loggins -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 13:24
  - It is great for budgets. -- nm - Spawn Feb 7, 12:04
Grizzlies are trading F/C Xavier Tillman to the Boston Celtics for two second-round picks -- nm - budice Feb 7, 11:38
Hello Down There by Martin Scorsese | Squarespace | Big Game Commercial 2024 -- (link*) - mud Feb 7, 11:36 [youtube]
Disney Earnings after market close today. Webcast here -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 11:34 3
- Swear to God, someone figure out how acoustics work! -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 7, 13:34
- Iger's appearing on CNBC again at 4. -- nm - David Feb 7, 11:40
- price hikes in 3...2...1 -- nm - decline Feb 7, 11:40
Pool your money, Arrested Development fans! -- (link) - David Feb 7, 11:31 1
- There's always money in the banana stand. -- nm - Roger More Feb 7, 11:40
Update on my daughter's SXSW dreams. She's trying to get booked down there to have a reason to be there. She reached out to the head of SXSW who was - pmb Feb 7, 11:25 14
- hopefully Kaela can do more than get her 1 set at the pub they have a deal with on weekends. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 7, 12:18
- yay, hoping they work it out! They are always adding some people last minute -- nm - ty97 Feb 7, 11:37
- nice! you never get anything if you don't push for it. -- nm - Remlik Feb 7, 11:33 2
  - I had this conversation with her yesterday. Her personality is very not pushy, so it's out of her comfort zone, but she recognizes the value. -- nm - pmb Feb 7, 11:41 1
    - I mean, you can't go wrong in life by betting on the unreliability of rock stars. -- nm - David Feb 7, 11:46
- Nice! Keep pushing! -- nm - David Feb 7, 11:32
- are there specific venues hosting the showcases or is it just a matter of finding any spot to play downtown during the fest? -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 11:29 7
  - Tons of 'official' day shows (that aren't showcases) but unofficial shows, plus people playing wherever. It's basically non-stop -- nm - ty97 Feb 7, 11:38
  - There are specific venues for the official showcases. Likely the best places to be seen. Also, I forgot to add, that a label mate from my daughter's - pmb Feb 7, 11:37 5
    - my cousins kid (30s) is in some local bands and advises me this about going indie for sxsw, if that’s a route she might be open to - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 12:14 1
      - Thanks. She has been to SXSW before, but not as performing artist. She got her college degree in music business and the whole program went - pmb Feb 7, 12:40
    - that all sounds really great. -- nm - mud Feb 7, 12:14
    - Yeah if she has connections there to network with, she should definitely go, and I’m sure a performance opportunity will crop up one way or another -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 7, 11:59 1
      - I can't imagine being at SXSW as a musician as a bad thing. A lot of it is the luck of meeting the right person at the right time. SXSW should help. -- nm - Dano Feb 7, 12:07
Speaking of the Super Bowl, does anyone have a good recommendation for an indoor OTA antenna? -- (edited) - Znufrii, promoted Feb 7, 11:17 2
- Can you run a Rabbitears profile? It would help narrow down. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 7, 11:32
- You're in the city, any smallish one from Walmart of something should work for you I'm sure. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 7, 11:26
Kevin Spacey's legal luck has turned around in House Of Cards settlement -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 11:10 1
- This makes sense considering he keeps winning the cases that are behind the reason this settlement was ever required. -- nm - Qale Feb 7, 11:51
starting to think Pudding Fingers rigged Florida’s state sup ct -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 11:08 1
- If a fetus is a person then it should get child support from conception -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 11:43
skyscraper climber worked his way to the top of the Sphere in Las Vegas on Wednesday -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 11:08 10
- "Let's see, mind-bending depth-perception graphic? or the Price Is Right mountain climber?" -- (link) - Sphere programmer Feb 7, 12:40 [youtube]
- LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill said the climber will “be arrested when he comes down.” -- nm - budice Feb 7, 11:32 2
  - "er...if" -- nm - rollo Feb 7, 12:24 1
    - If he has seen enough movies he will put on the parasail he stashed earlier and fly away -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 13:27
- at the top -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 11:26 1
  - moar vid -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 11:27
- I'm currently in a hotel room in Vegas with a room that looks right at the sphere. I haven't seen anything. Nothing I can see right now either. -- nm - pmb Feb 7, 11:16 3
  - here -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 11:17 2
    - Aww. The video cuts right before he's sucked into the giant moving hole! -- nm - Last Of My Kind Feb 7, 11:22
    - Must have gone from a different angle. Also I can't see street level so I can't tell what's going on down there. - pmb Feb 7, 11:20
feds apparently had Goldbrick Bobby and wife wired for sound -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 10:59
Senate prepared to jam up MAGA Mike with a standalone aid bill to Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan lol -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 10:48
LIV Golf advisors tell Congress Saudis threatened them with 20 years in prison if they cooperate with PGA Tour merger probe -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 10:40 11
- I suppose that is a fair bit better than being hatched to death. -- nm - Qale Feb 7, 11:52
- You will abide to our Saudi overlords - Jovian Feb 7, 11:18
- er, wait. I though LIV was a PIF entity and as all Premier League fans know: PIF does not equal the Kingdom - JD Feb 7, 10:48 6
  - "Violating the PIF court order could lead the kingdom to imprison executives and their staffers for 20 years" -- nm - budice Feb 7, 10:49 5
    - 🤣 Ok, I stand corrected or at least clarified. So the PIF can set up rules / orders and then have the Kingdom carry out the enforcement - JD Feb 7, 10:52 4
      - (Khashoggi found out about enforcement) -- nm - budice Feb 7, 10:54
      - or just lure you into any random Saudi embassy and chop you up with a bonesaw -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 10:54 2
        
        like minds -- nm - budice Feb 7, 10:54 1
        
        I think they would have learned from that one and they'd just feed the offenders to the alligators during a PGA event in Florida -- nm - JD Feb 7, 10:56
- so block it (there was a story that PGA is lining up alternate funding from US billionaire shitheels) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 10:45
- just regular golf shenanigans -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 10:42
Canada: Poilievre says he's against the use of "puberty blockers" for transgender children -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 10:36 7
- What I wrote elsewhere about it ... - Beryllium Feb 7, 11:07 5
  - all the old people who are so behind him on this gonna get a rude awakening when their health and dental care is gone along with their OAS -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 11:13 1
    - And that's why I vote for the "too discombobulated to eat faces" parties -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 11:18
  - And that was before I saw this post on mastodon -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 7, 11:09 [mastodon] 2
    - I dread his PMship as much as a 45*/47 prez -- nm* - mud Feb 7, 11:12 1
      - Same. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 11:17
- (also voted against aid for Ukraine again and remains without a security clearance as refuses the security checks required) -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 10:42
ST Super Bowl Food Poll: What will you be eating for the Super Bowl? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 10:30 18
- Chili, queso, veggie dips and veggie appetizers, a couple seafood dips and appetizers, and wings featuring the sauces sent by my Secret Stalker. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 7, 11:22 1
  - 👍👍 -- nm - decline Feb 7, 11:33
- Soup - decline Feb 7, 10:56 2
  - don't watch the Puppy Bowl then... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 10:58
  - 👏👏 -- nm - JD Feb 7, 10:57
- probably leftovers from saturday -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 7, 10:44
- Whatever they serve me on the plane, and then a pina colada later (i will not be watching.) -- nm - Andie Feb 7, 10:41
- In a flash of perhaps misguided inspiration: steak? - JD Feb 7, 10:41
- Whatever the commercials tell me. -- nm - Last Of My Kind Feb 7, 10:39
- Chips n salsa... pizza -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 10:35
- No idea. Not even sure if we’re going to be watching it here or going somewhere or what. -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 7, 10:34 1
  - Might be a good night for homemade pizza actually, if we stay at home. -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 7, 11:14
- Ketchup and jelly meatballs, cocktail shrimp, cheese and crackers. Maybe some buffalo chicken dip. - sycor Feb 7, 10:32
- chicken wings, homemade pigs in blanket, bacon wrapped jalopinos (home grown), mozza sticks, some other frozen appies we have laying around -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 10:31 4
  - We put a little cheese (we use American) in our crescent roll hotdogs. The cheese adds that extra yum. -- nm - sycor Feb 7, 10:33 3
    - interesting. I will pass this along -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 10:38 2
      - you get 6 Mrs Beak points as she was a fan of this idea -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 10:44 1
        
        woohoo! - sycor Feb 7, 10:51
LYC: IMO Unless you're cooking / backing with them never, ever cheap out and purchase cashew pieces in lieu of halves or whole cashews - JD Feb 7, 10:25 2
- 4 months! - Lafarrow Feb 7, 10:53 1
  - They've been mocking me in the work desk drawer (dedicated to snacks) all that time -- nm - JD Feb 7, 10:54
Sen. Marco Rubio: Ignore the Media. Here's the Real Reason the Border 'Deal' Collapsed - (Sure Marco...Ill get right on reading your 'opinion' piece.) -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 10:15 1
- the same Marco Rubio who couldn’t get his own deal passed in the house in 2013 for exactly the same reasons? I guess he would be an expert -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 10:46
Three Newsrooms Imploded Around Me In Under A Year...Here's all the best to our writers. No , really - JD Feb 7, 10:09 2
- *goes to short Defector* -- nm - David Feb 7, 10:18 1
  - 🤣 er, waitaminnit - JD Feb 7, 10:21
LIR krusty. Thanks for the info about goat. - sycor Feb 7, 10:06 3
- Happy to help out and glad you've had a pair to know how they feel. I really like having some pairs with them for warmth and dryness. - Krusty Feb 7, 10:08 2
  - No the OLD 989 from like 2014. It was a hiking shoe but not a boot. I like it so much I bought 2 more pairs before they were retired. (link) - sycor Feb 7, 10:26 1
    - Ahhh. I don't know that model. Probably because they discontinued it. Lol -- nm - Krusty Feb 7, 11:52
Lisa Frankenstein 53% (19/16), Turning Red 95% (273/14), Out of Darkness 91% (29/3) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 10:03
Florida mom says Christian school now expelled her children because of OnlyFans decal on the back of her car -- (link) - budice Feb 7, 09:59 8
- Now, expell all the ones who subscribed to her streams -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 10:24 1
  - I'd like to think that OF's age checking system works better than that -- nm - JD Feb 7, 10:26
- "I pay taxes like everyone else" Um, lady it's a *private* school. I don't think your taxes help here. - spamlet Feb 7, 10:07 4
  - It was definitely to be provocative and drum up business. If no tax payer money was going towards this school, then they have a right to be upset - Epiphany Feb 7, 11:33
  - $8,000 taxpayer-funded private school vouchers say otherwise. -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 7, 10:14 2
    - Point. -- nm - spamlet Feb 7, 11:32
    - Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill in March that expands the state's school voucher program to every student, regardless of income - JD Feb 7, 10:16
- Whoa. That seems to be an unnecessary escalation - JD Feb 7, 10:02
and here I go again -- (link) - JD Feb 7, 09:48 [youtube] 2
- on your own? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 7, 09:57 1
  - Indeed -- nm - JD Feb 7, 09:59
Am I going to have to do this again? -- nm* - Jovian Feb 7, 09:45

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