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I like it -- (link) - Reagen May 23, 05:19 [BS]
I need to find some sort of side hustle for the summer as my rich clients have left early and I'm not going to be bringing in much until Sept. - Krusty May 23, 04:59 5
- masked vigilante -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 23, 05:12
- Hear me out. - Will Hunting May 23, 05:02 3
  - I'll need a new outfit. -- nm - Krusty May 23, 05:03 2
    - From what I’ve read, if you need a (new) outfit, you’re doing it wrong. -- nm - Will Hunting May 23, 05:05 1
      - Heh. Good point. :-) I'll see if Theresa's okay with your idea. -- nm - Krusty May 23, 05:10
Strands #81 - prayformojo 🐵 May 23, 04:49 1
- Same - decline May 23, 05:41
TV PSA: NHL, NBA, WNBA, 911, The Wall, Elsbeth, Grey's Anatomy, Station 19, 1% Club, The Blue Angels, Hacks, Star Trek Discovery, Tires, Evil, -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 May 23, 04:42 3
- Hacks and Wrexham for me. -- nm - Krusty May 23, 04:57
- 911 for the girls, hockey, Evil if we ever get the first 3 seasons up here and Tires -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 23, 04:46 1
  - also Grey's and Station 19 for the wife -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 23, 06:25
edit: Connections Puzzle #347 - *another* freaking x -- (edited) - prayformojo 🐵 May 23, 04:39 2
- Purple is dumb. -- nm - Volnelk May 23, 05:24
- Couple mistakes -- (edited) - decline May 23, 05:15
Now to spend all day second guessing my interview answers while I wait to hear back. Yay! -- nm - znufrii May 23, 04:34 1
- You didn't do that on the way home? ;-) Anxiety sucks. I'm sure you killed and as you mentioned the recruiter thought so as well. -- nm - Krusty May 23, 05:02
Wordle 1,069 5/6 - prayformojo 🐵 May 23, 04:07 1
- 5 - decline May 23, 05:16
No Rwanda flights before election, says Rishi Sunak.(So presumably none after the election either) -- (link) - LMS May 23, 03:16 5
- The idea that you could pick a random country to deport someone to that they're not even from... -- nm - Reagen May 23, 03:33 4
  - I kind of missed the details of this scheme. They want to deport people to Rawanda who aren't from there? - Krusty May 23, 04:48 3
    - The UK would pay them to take the refugees. -- nm - Reagen May 23, 05:15 2
      - There's no way it works out well for either Rawanda or the people being sent there. That just sounds so very wrong. -- nm - Krusty May 23, 05:24 1
        
        Rwanda is considered an unsafe country by international law courts so the UK government passed a bill here naming it a safe country, so they could - LMS May 23, 05:31
The UK election is being held on the USA's Independence Day, while the US election is being held on the UK's Guy Fawkes Night. -- nm - Mastodon May 23, 01:13
Russians on front lines are using bow n arrows to shoot at drones to avoid giving away their position -- (link) - zeitgeist May 22, 22:29
An ESO quest tonight had me fetch kwama eggs on behalf of a dead son whose mother made an omelette salted by her tears, peppered by grief. - Qale May 22, 21:55 2
- yikes, for a second I thought this was an instacart shopping order you had to fill. -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 22:00 1
  - I imagine Instacart is the IRL version of a fetch quest and can be equally as unrewarding. -- nm - Qale May 22, 23:14
why is praising some S.S. officers apparently disqualifying for an avowed far-right candidate in Germany? -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 21:49 4
- I think the spying thing is hurting him more. the nazi thing more pissed the French off. -- nm - mafic May 22, 22:18 1
  - also he's not quitting, he's just not campaigning. he's almost certainly keeping his seat. -- nm - mafic May 22, 22:21
- nazism is illegal... so their right wingers use american confederate symbols and flags. -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 21:52 1
  - sure but everything they advocate as a political platform is a return to Nazism in all but the actual name -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 21:54
From InformationIsBeautiful, using 4-digit pins exposed in security breaches, they’ve plotted the frequency of the most and least used pins. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 22, 21:44 [Image] 2
- lottery numbers are like that, heavily in favor of lower numbers esp birthdates. people start at the top and have fewer picks left at the bottom -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 22:02
- This is pretty interesting. So what you’re saying is I should reverse my PINs. -- nm - Qale May 22, 21:46
Pod Survive America? -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 21:30
WTF Shoshone-Paiute? "Shoshone-Paiute Tribes object to casino" - crash davis 😺 May 22, 21:12 6
- Maybe they think there are enough and they'd rather keep their land for themselves. We're about to open three casinos somewhere and there's a big - Krusty May 23, 04:56
- at least here in Cali, a few years ago the local tribes objected to another tribe teaming up with a big non-indigenous casino company -- nm* - hollywood big shot May 22, 21:15 4
  - Was that the Harrah's casino? -- nm - Meg May 22, 21:38 2
    - i don't think i ever totally figured out who was on each side of the propositions -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 21:41 1
      - Ah no, Harrah's California is "owned by the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians" but managed by Caesars. -- nm - Meg May 22, 21:53
  - That just seems like a whole lot of work for a whole lot of attorneys. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 22, 21:18
Donny's "Tower" is looking like a failing, dilapidated mall, closed shops, 2 floors empty, planters unattended, the waterfall broken, few residents -- (link) - zeitgeist May 22, 21:07
162 times 0.551 is 89.262. Not good enough. Pick up the pace boys! -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 22, 20:57
I was today years old when I learned that Debbie Allen is Phylicia Rashad's sister. - ty97 May 22, 20:33
Obviously hot sweaty shirtless dude helps a lot but this guy’s jump rope videos are cool. -- (link) - Dano May 22, 20:19 [youtube]
if you're in the army is there a maximum number of decorations you can have on your uniform? there's a guy speaking on tv here now with like 8 rows of - mafic May 22, 20:12 3
- Schwarzkopf famously had a huge rack. Chesty Puller had 27. -- (link*) - Max May 22, 20:18 2
  - this is the guy I saw. got Chesty beat pretty handily. -- (link) - mafic May 22, 20:27 1
    - pretty sure one of those is for tidy bed making... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 23, 04:29
I was thinking today that it will be amusing when the Drake is a pedophile song wins Record of the Year at the Grammys next year. - Dano May 22, 20:01
uh wuts that bullshit? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 19:50
Survivor SPOILS - Jovian May 22, 19:46 1
- I said it was the most satisfying and deserving win in 20 seasons. We align. -- nm - amandaphone May 23, 05:22
Can't figure out if I liked the Thursday xword or not. I think 51/49 not. -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 22, 19:38 3
- though I approve of any reference to 1993 classic Poetic Justice. -- nm - mafic May 22, 22:20
- are you sure that tally is free from rounding errors? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 22, 21:24
- the theme definitely cost me time, but I didn't hate it. especially once the grid was full I find it difficult to read them like that. -- nm - mafic May 22, 20:05
When that Atlanta ball club is going like tonight they're fun to watch. Luckily - Last Of My Kind May 22, 19:22
My local meteorologists are still going on about the Derecho. That's good, because it's kind of been a fuzzy term. That's changing as of recent. -- (link) - Qale May 22, 19:02
Americans are delusional about the state of the economy -- (link) - Reagen May 22, 18:49 11
- The alarming numbers are how many Democrats believe it. This and other polls like it are why I'm deeply concerned that Trump is likely to win. -- nm - Inigo May 23, 04:26
- Among other things. (NM) - Marlowe May 22, 21:01
- I read a thread today on this topic that I recommend. I think it helps with context. -- (link) - ty97 May 22, 19:23 4
  - She's a Swonk Wonk! -- nm - Qale May 22, 20:31
  - one of the interesting things I've picked up that's somewhat related is that zoomers have relatively higher wages than any previous generation at - mafic May 22, 19:57
  - (I don't have an account anymore and can't read past the first tweet) -- nm - Reagen May 22, 19:24 1
    - unrolled. - mafic May 22, 20:19
- there was an economist podcast a couple days ago about how people misinterpret inflation that explains a fair bit of this. - mafic May 22, 18:54 2
  - also a chunk of "if inflation is dropping why didn't prices go down" -- nm - Reagen May 22, 18:57 1
    - "That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works!" -- nm - znufrii May 22, 18:57
- i believe a goodly portion of this is the post-Fox partisanship gap -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 18:52
EU to turn 'profits' from frozen russian assets/embargoed funds over to Ukraine, currently about 3.2 billion -- (link) - zeitgeist May 22, 18:41
NCAA agrees to settle its NIL suit for $2.8 billion -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 18:30 4
- How does a nonprofit have $2.8B on hand to pay a settlement? -- nm - Strongbad May 22, 18:47 2
  - Lot's of profit off video games. -- nm - . May 22, 18:53
  - yes. a nonprofit. -- nm - mafic May 22, 18:50
- Some thoughts… - Mop🧹 May 22, 18:45
You can now get frisky with your followers in DMs on BlueSky. -- (link) - Qale May 22, 18:24 3
- so...dick pix? -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 19:07 2
  - No, I think it's only messaging. You can post blue on BlueSky. The moderation tools are fairly good, though on occasion mislabels something as adult. -- nm - Qale May 22, 19:33
  - Are you asking for one? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 19:27
Caitlyn playing in Seattle tonight, they showed b roll of her walking down a hall, she could play a Navee' without CGI, just makeup -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 18:17 1
- courtside seats are 2,500 as the game is moved to the bigger 'climate change' forum and sold out -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 18:43
The Twenty has indeed been updated to include the #1 song in the US by Posty ft Morgan Wallen and I want to tell you why. It's gay. - Qale May 22, 18:10 [spotify] 4
- Malone/Wallen will probably make my Top 20. There will be a Billie Eilish song too. There are several other songs that fall into my last songs cut. - Dano May 22, 19:57 1
  - I wonder how much of that is the Spotify discovery algorithm pushing different songs from the same album/performer to each of us? Friday Pilots Club - Qale May 22, 20:26
- How open minded of Morgan Wallen. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 18:24 1
  - Hehehe. You knew I just couldn't include it without giving him a full dressing down. What a numbskull. Posty's still cool in my book though. -- nm - Qale May 22, 18:35
Zaslav refused to offer $2.4 billion a year to keep their “B” package and is now hoping to pay $2.6 billion a year for what seems like a slimmed-down -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 17:54 3
- he seems like a savvy businessman. -- nm - mafic May 22, 19:11
- How does Hollywood and Wall Street keep giving this bozo a pass? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 18:18
- what a moron -- nm - Remlik May 22, 17:59
7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents -- (link) - Dano May 22, 17:44 6
- about a month and a half late for a marathon in Perth. was still 30C/86F at 6:30pm on that day last year. - mafic May 22, 18:40
- I’d have to slow down my pace a bit, but sure, why not? -- nm - Eddie Izzard May 22, 18:04
- The Amazingest Race? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 17:57
- "Antarct...oh, it's first" -- nm - Tim May 22, 17:51
- I can't decide if Istanbul is cheating or not -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 22, 17:51 1
  - they should add a day and include another one that crosses the Dardanelles. -- nm - mafic May 22, 18:42
Tornado new drone footage... -- (link) - Remlik May 22, 17:30 3
- interesting, that looked like a dozen little 'nados dancing around in a circle, like orcas feeding on a school of salmon -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 18:23
- Fuck that one windmill, specifically! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 18:10
- Reed watched Twister and was like, “The Extreme” huh? Alright, bet. -- nm - Qale May 22, 17:38
Binghamton hotel and Rumble Ponies tickets booked for August! - Tim May 22, 17:27 1
- Cool! -- nm - Krusty May 22, 17:58
Babe Ruth 1932 World Series 'called shot' jersey could/should break the world's record for sports memorabilia in an upcoming auction -- (link) - Peglegpete May 22, 17:16 3
- speaking of a called shot, Babe Ruth bourbon limited edition rye is available for 250$ -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 18:15
- "There are a lot of fakes out there. And you're saying you want-" "100 million." "o-kay..." -- nm - Pawn Stars May 22, 17:28 1
  - Best I can offer you is 15. -- nm - Rick Harrison May 22, 17:36
Rick Tocchet wins NHL Coach of the Year -- nm - Reagen May 22, 17:15
I mean it would stick -- (link) - Reagen May 22, 17:14 [Image] 3
- thanks, ChatGPT. -- nm - mafic May 22, 18:44
- Ewww -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 May 22, 17:54 1
  - That's not glue, Pippy! -- nm - Qale May 22, 20:33
DOJ heading towards breaking up LiveNation-Ticketmaster -- (link) - Reagen May 22, 17:02 4
- now to see how today's kids react to waiting in line at the local Peaches to buy tickets :))) -- nm - Peglegpete May 22, 17:12
- TikTok, LiveNation! -- nm - Max May 22, 17:11 2
  - TikNation -- nm - budice May 22, 17:14 1
    - Hee -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 May 22, 17:55
what was (potentially) your favorite sickle-cell anemia moment? -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 16:57 7
- IIRC, sickle cell protected you from malaria? or some other african fevers???? -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 18:26 2
  - yeah, malaria. sickle-cells are not a welcoming environment for the malaria parasite. -- nm - mafic May 22, 19:16
  - That's the theory. -- nm - . May 22, 18:49
- That would be awesome. -- nm - Krusty May 22, 18:00
- I'm actually working with a researcher right now to push a SCD paper out. Trying to take advantage of the hot market. -- nm - Masked Baron May 22, 17:35
- Such a racist disease! -- nm - Qale May 22, 17:25
- referring to it as "sick as hell anemia" -- nm - Tim May 22, 17:00
Also, from my interview today, in the reception area they had a coffee table book about the Glenfarclas distillery - znufrii May 22, 16:56 1
- Yes!! You did an in live interview?! Fancy! -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 May 22, 17:56
Anya Taylor-Joy's Furiosa press outfit today -- (link) - budice May 22, 16:48 1
- Clearly she needs to drop a few pounds. That dress is straining at the seams. -- nm - Masked Baron May 22, 17:28
And I am crushed that RC did not acknowledge my Tommy Frazier reference. - Strongbad May 22, 16:42 3
- I spotted my error. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic May 22, 16:52 2
  - 1999 is the one that still irks me to this day - Strongbad May 22, 17:20
  - Some guy named Eddie George from Ohio State. -- nm - Strongbad May 22, 17:17
Comic book news - Child's comic story about 'Danger Sausage' goes viral. -- (link) - LMS May 22, 16:36
I just started reading about the "Greater Idaho" movement. Wow. -- nm - Strongbad May 22, 16:34 9
- Now I have a B-52s earworm. -- nm - Dano May 22, 17:35
- I wasn't kidding about the % of the state. A bunch of those counties are under 10k people. -- nm - Reagen May 22, 16:38 7
  - Most of them are larger than Rhode Island, and one of 'em -- Harney County -- is geographically larger than Massachusetts. - ReluctantCynic May 22, 17:02 3
    - we don't believe in counting in Harney County you rich elite professor. There are people here. PERIOD. -- nm - Harney County May 22, 17:05 2
      - And people have been there for 18,000-19,000 years!! -- (edited) - Meg May 22, 17:29
      - It goes 1,2,3,lots -- nm - Reagen May 22, 17:14
  - It's interesting to me to see this on a national level. - Strongbad May 22, 16:41 2
    - The funny thing is that Idaho's attitude seems to be "Uh, we're fine with you absolute ungovernable nutbars staying over there" -- nm - Reagen May 22, 16:55 1
      - I know nothing about that part of the country - Strongbad May 22, 16:57
A shortcut to AI-less google search -- (link) - Reagen May 22, 16:32 2
- nm -- nm* - prayformojo 🐵 May 22, 16:43 1
  - For Firefox, I had to go into the about:Config. -- nm - Reagen May 22, 16:56

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