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it's Knives Out casting announcement season -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 29, 09:33 2
- Yes. Yes they did. -- nm - Landbeck Jun 4, 02:32
- Glen Powell! -- nm - LFG May 29, 09:42
“Before the jury begins deliberations, they’re bringing out two jurors to show them how to use a laptop.” -- (link) - znufrii May 29, 09:09 3
- i assume it's specific software that is being used -- (edited) - Andie May 29, 09:10 2
  - I figured it was along those lines, I was just amused by the wording. -- nm - znufrii May 29, 09:16
  - I was in a grand jury once and there were a number of steps involved related to starting/stopping recordings, for instance. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 29, 09:12
"the price of the brick just went up" -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 29, 09:03 3
- Of course the price has gone up dramatically. Have you seen his bills? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 29, 09:13
- bible not included -- nm - rollo May 29, 09:05 1
  - He'll sign it for an extra mill -- nm - zeitgeist May 29, 11:01
Side note: Ghent is wonderful -- nm - ty97 May 29, 08:50 2
- Nice! I hope you're having a wonderful trip! -- nm - Krusty May 29, 09:15
- Bring out the Ghent. -- nm - Zed May 29, 08:51
I haven’t followed the ins and outs of the trail but the same thing is true today as was at the start: I feel so bad for that jury -- nm - ty97 May 29, 08:49
I hope all those Pro-Palestinian voters that Joe Biden is supposedly losing read this. - pmb May 29, 08:25 17
- yeah kids have always been generally dumb but there's also a political cost to letting IDF bomb tent cities with no apparent consequences -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 29, 08:41 4
  - they're not bombing tent cities! - mud May 29, 09:10 1
    - pic -- (pic) - mud May 29, 09:13 [Attachment]
  - Yeah, kids are oftentimes single-issue voters. -- nm - LFG May 29, 08:42 1
    - it's just as much of a cult as the MAGA rally crowds (as if you needed more proof that Adam McKay is a dim hack) -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 29, 09:00
- Getting organized and using your numbers to stick it to the man. What a concept -- nm - con_carne May 29, 08:29 11
  - The point isn't that protesting is bad or unuseful, it's that if you think the other guy is going to be more helpful, that's wrong. -- nm - pmb May 29, 08:37 10
    - We all know what your point is. I had a point to make too, this anti-Israel voting bloc is amazing and we need to learn all we can from them. -- nm - con_carne May 29, 09:05 3
      - a voting bloc that has never won shit isn't really amazing. just performative temper tantrums -- nm - hollywood big shot May 29, 09:10 2
        
        More interested in demonstrating against power than having it. -- nm - Reagen May 29, 09:12 1
        
        *ding* - znufrii May 29, 09:33
    - IMO the palestinians would already be well on their way to being exterminated if the Fascist was in charge. - Jovian May 29, 08:45
    - Flip side: if your worst nightmares are already coming through with the current guy, what impetus is there to vote for him? -- nm - ty97 May 29, 08:43 4
      - "Worst nightmares"?? People really believe things can't get any worse?? -- nm - mara ❄️ May 29, 09:13
      - Maybe if you realize that the other guy's counsel to Bibi is "just destroy them all but do it quickly", that doesn't seem better. -- nm - pmb May 29, 08:58
      - IOW: Lecturing to Gaza protesters probably ain’t gonna be helpful -- nm - ty97 May 29, 08:44 1
        
        Anyway, Michigan may decide the election so…. -- nm - ty97 May 29, 08:46
“Project 2025”: heard of it? Maybe you oughta -- (pic) - mud May 29, 08:18 [Attachment] 2
- First I've heard of it, but it's just a name wrapped around what i expect would happen. - Beryllium May 29, 09:24
- I've heard of it, I read up on it. Its a nightmare waiting to happen -- nm - Pippy Blue Sky May 29, 08:54
Charges against Scottie Scheffler will be dropped today in Louisville -- nm - budice May 29, 08:12 4
- privilege -- nm - decline May 29, 08:39 3
  - I dont know. Sometimes it is just a really shitty cop. -- nm - Jovian May 29, 08:40 2
    - Can be both -- nm - ty97 May 29, 08:44 1
      - And sometimes it is just two people having a bad day. -- nm - LFG May 29, 08:46
Well, Turnip's trial is about to go to the jury. Any predictions? (how long they deliberate, what verdict) -- nm - Fuzzy May 29, 07:52 9
- guilty before the weekend -- nm - hollywood big shot May 29, 08:37 2
  - hung until next week -- nm - mud May 29, 08:39 1
    - Stormy disagrees -- nm - Beryllium May 29, 08:53
- Merchan has finished his jury instructions -- nm - budice May 29, 08:26
- 20 min and they proclaim him Emperor for Life -- nm - Pippy Blue Sky May 29, 07:59 4
  - [snork] -- nm - mud May 29, 08:04
  - Until such time as the throne is passed along to Junior. -- nm - Jovian May 29, 08:03
  - His life or mine? -- nm - Fuzzy May 29, 08:01 1
    - heh -- nm - Pippy Blue Sky May 29, 08:54
"good news/bad news"?: Rory Kinnear is in Rings of Power S2. /He plays Tom Bombadil. -- (link*) - mud May 29, 06:49 10
- I just saw that Glen Powell is in it? - LFG May 29, 07:16 5
  - you mean the new Batman!? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 08:22 3
    - I heard he is also in the new Star Wars. - LFG May 29, 08:34 2
      - I heard he was making a baby with Sydney Sweeney in the broom closet, and I opened the closet and the baby waved at me -- nm - rollo May 29, 09:03 1
        
        You had me at 'making a baby' with Sweeney in a broom closet. -- nm - Jovian May 29, 09:04
  - :-P -- nm - mud May 29, 08:05
- I miss Ash. - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 29, 07:12 1
  - heh- I remember that -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 29, 07:16
- Definitely good news. I understand why Jackson didnt adapt him. But Rings of Power is set an entirely different age. -- nm - Jovian May 29, 06:52 1
  - (nerd alert) -- nm - Masked Baron May 29, 07:19
A Family Affair | Official Trailer | Netflix -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 06:42 [youtube] 9
- I didn't recognize Zac Efron until halfway through the trailer. -- nm - Dano May 29, 09:06 1
  - as soon as he took off his shirt, right? -- nm - decline May 29, 09:14
- didn't we JUST see this movie with Anne Hathaway? (also, will watch.) -- nm* - Andie May 29, 07:58 1
  - 100% yes we did. I liked it. I will like this more probably -- nm - Pippy Blue Sky May 29, 08:00
- I love this. 20 year difference in ages. eh... -- nm - Pippy Blue Sky May 29, 07:55 1
  - Zac should be so lucky -- nm - ty97 May 29, 08:45
- Netflix asked themselves “What’s the most expensive Hallmark movie ever made?” -- nm - Mop🧹 May 29, 07:28
- Looks cute. And at the upper end of quality for Netflix movies. -- nm - sycor May 29, 07:11 1
  - agreed -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 07:16
WOLFS – Official Trailer (HD) (Clooney and Pitt) (this looks great) -- (link*) - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 06:38 [youtube] 6
- Will watch anything with those two. -- nm - con_carne May 29, 08:22 1
  - Yeah, I am skipping the trailer, even. -- nm - LFG May 29, 08:44
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 29, 08:12
- That looks great! -- nm - Krusty May 29, 07:13
- Glad to see them making a new movie together. And the director has a decent track record. Should be a lot of fun. -- nm - sycor May 29, 07:11
- Toronto Maple Wolfs? -- nm - Reagen May 29, 06:54
Moana 2 teaser trailer -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 06:36 [youtube] 1
- The Way of Water -- nm - hollywood big shot May 29, 06:37
another Billionaire wants to take his 2 person sub to visit the Titanic -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 06:35 4
- What could possibly... oh. -- nm - Spawn May 29, 08:03
- Only if he takes Elon with him. Test out the " auto pilot" feature - Pippy Blue Sky May 29, 07:25
- it's one way to cull the herd, although a very slow method -- nm - decline May 29, 06:51
- As long as they aren't selling tickets and it's just themselves, go nuts. -- nm - Andie May 29, 06:42
ah, but who can really read the mind of a FedSoc hack installed at the 11th hour by the very defendant in her case who had lost his re-election bid -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 29, 06:30
VLIR: Obviously ST has too many teachers - oblique May 29, 06:10 1
- What are you talking aboot? -- nm - Canadian STers May 29, 06:14
Daily Myth for May 29 - znufrii May 29, 06:09
North Korea is bombing South Korea...with garbage and horse shit -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 06:07 3
- Did they fart in their general direction? -- nm - pmb May 29, 06:56 1
  - balloons! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 07:01
- no word on any live turkeys and whether Kim Jong Un thinks they can fly -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 06:09
wap/wow! National Zoo is getting a new panda! No, panda*s*! - prayformojo 🐵 May 29, 05:47 11
- I fundamentally don’t understand why anyone cares about these animals at the zoo. (Yes I realize I’m in the minority on that) -- nm - MDH May 29, 06:51 2
  - Because they're super cute and very hard to see unless they're in a zoo or you go to China. -- nm - Krusty May 29, 07:14 1
    - Speak for yourself, man, I'm crawling with pandas here - Reagen May 29, 07:59
- Obviously, as a condition of employment, they will need to complete sexual harassment training -- nm - Masked Baron May 29, 06:44 1
  - LOL -- nm - Pippy Blue Sky May 29, 07:27
- A blonde, white woman, Dr. Brandie Smith, speaking to the camera -- nm - Dano May 29, 06:12
- Nice! San Diego is getting new pandas as well. -- nm - Krusty May 29, 05:57 2
  - I thought with as antagonistic things have been between the two countries we wouldn't see them any more -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 29, 05:59 1
    - Same. I figured at best it would be years before they agreed to send more. -- nm - Krusty May 29, 06:03
- Butterstick: the revenge -- nm - mafic May 29, 05:51 1
  - right on - prayformojo 🐵 May 29, 05:55
19 Hours Inside the Airbnb X-Mansion -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 05:45 1
- (this is awesome and I demand an STer do this immediately) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 05:53
I just ordered some sunscreen from Australia. It's by Cancer Council and was highly recommended by many people. -- (link) - Krusty May 29, 05:30 10
- I've heard before that in the US we get inferior sunscreen because USDA. But I have melanin, so all power to you white people -- nm - con_carne May 29, 08:28 1
  - Haha! :-) I have a little melanin but not enough to not crack as I get older. - Krusty May 29, 09:23
- Yeah, they’re pretty good. I mostly use this stuff. -- (link) - mafic May 29, 05:49 4
  - Good to know, thanks! After the discussion yesterday I decided to do some updated reading about sunscreen and most agreed that Australia has some - Krusty May 29, 05:56 3
    - Put a bunch of Irish people in the sun and see what happens. -- nm - mafic May 29, 06:01 2
      - That's why I prefer not to go to the beach in the summer. That and our beaches aren't that great. -- nm - sycor May 29, 06:18
      - Ha! It's why Theresa and I don't do beach vacations. She wouldn't last 20 minutes. -- nm - Krusty May 29, 06:04
- I use cooking oil so I soak up all the vitamin D I can. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 05:41 2
  - I once went for a cheap massage in Bali where I’m pretty sure they used cooking oil. We smelled like fries for a day. -- nm - mafic May 29, 06:14
  - You must smell lovely! ;-) -- nm - Krusty May 29, 05:52
Strands #87 - prayformojo 🐵 May 29, 04:49 2
- Yellow - 1st - VMan May 29, 06:22
- Yellow 3rd - decline May 29, 06:11
In A Violent Nature 89% -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 04:44 1
- Pacifist 11% -- nm - LFG May 29, 08:50
Connections Puzzle #353 - prescribed order - prayformojo 🐵 May 29, 04:41 4
- oops,BPGY -- (edited) - crash davis 😺 May 29, 08:13
- GBYP - mud May 29, 06:45
- No oopsies - YBGP - VMan May 29, 06:18
- YPGB - decline May 29, 05:47
TV PSA: NHL, Walker, MasterChef, AEW Dynamite, Acapulco, Sight Unseen, Big Door Prize, Camden, Loot, Trying, Dark Matter, Challenge All Stars, - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 04:38
I'm happy about the Negro League stats being added to MLB. My only question is on season records where there's missing data or shortened seasons. - Krusty May 29, 04:38 2
- Yeah, I agree with this. I’m just glad no one did anything really crazy in 2020 to set a record under the typical 154/162 season - Will Hunting May 29, 04:58 1
  - 2020 stats shouldn't count but they do and because they allowed them they're using that as the basis for allowing the Negro League stats. Gibson - Krusty May 29, 05:09
Wordle 1,075 5/6 - toughie - prayformojo 🐵 May 29, 04:38 2
- 6 (tough) - decline May 29, 05:45
- 4 - rollo May 29, 05:31
Huh, Ethan Page showed up at the end of NXT and laid out Trick Williams. - Tim May 29, 03:17 6
- Yeah, it's the people who Cody wanted in AEW whose contracts are up. He's a big fan of Ethan Page, as are we. - David May 29, 07:07
- At first glance I thought you were talking about Elliot Page and was very confused by that career path. -- nm - znufrii May 29, 06:11 1
  - heh, same -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 29, 06:13
- He’s got upside. - Will Hunting May 29, 03:54 2
  - I still think they’re going out of their way to make anyone who comes from AEW seem like a big deal. - Tim May 29, 03:59 1
    - HBK is cooking! -- (link) - Tim May 29, 04:55
Krusty got plagiarized... here's his Angel Hernandez signing joke as a meme -- (pic) - zeitgeist May 29, 01:47 [Attachment] 3
- It was my joke and yes, Krusty found my Reddit account -- nm - Tim May 29, 03:38 2
  - Me too! I followed you! -- nm - David May 29, 07:07
  - :-) I won't spread the news all over the city. -- nm - Krusty May 29, 04:27
Nikki Haley in Israel signs artillery shells we shipped them with "Finish Them" with a heart. -- (link*) - zeitgeist May 28, 22:59 3
- She seems nice. -- nm - mafic May 29, 01:48
- Stop the presses, somebody made an apt Mortal Kombat reference. Next story please -- nm - con_carne May 29, 00:02
- That's a phrase the donald said too -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 23:00
Hug me, squeeze me, love me, tease me Till I can't, till I can't, till I can't take no more -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 22:31 1
- Oh no, don't be shy, it's a crime to cry. Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me. -- nm - LFG May 29, 08:46

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