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cat sitter update: cat sitter is "*pretty sure* I gave dinner as well as treats." PRETTY SURE??? -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 May 31, 07:51 2
- What's their position on leaky toilets? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 31, 07:56
- UGH. - Pippy May 31, 07:55
Today in history - 16 Americans were thrown overboard and abandoned on Pulau Tiga for the adventure of a lifetime and a chance to win $1million. nm - Turd Ferguson May 31, 07:45 2
- I was listening to a podcast on my way home last night that posited that had wigglesworth won, survivor would have been immediately canceled. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 May 31, 07:49 1
  - I don't think that's a bad take at all. She was booooooring. -- nm - Turd Ferguson May 31, 07:52
Manchin now officially (I) -- nm - mud May 31, 07:45 1
- What a patriot. -- nm - Jovian May 31, 07:46
Most distant known galaxy photographed by JWST, from just 290 million years after the Big Bang -- (link) - znufrii May 31, 07:24 1
- Amazing, and the implication that they'll be able to look further back than that is astounding. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 31, 07:31
ST powers activate! I need help buying a thing! This thing will be a globe or wall map! It will show time zones! It will be live, real time! - Mop🧹 May 31, 07:24 1
- I've got to get going to work so I can't contribute. But please keep posting on this. I love cartography and I'm interested in knowing what you get. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 31, 07:29
Its awful to wish the death of people but how is that the worst people live past the life expectancy and people we love do not. - Walt_Disney May 31, 07:15 1
- case in point: Grassley, Giuliani, Dershowitz, and of course Voldemort. -- nm - Jovian May 31, 07:18
excellent news: Pachinko season two, August 23 -- (link) - mud May 31, 07:07 [youtube] 1
- my tv premiere calendar: - mud May 31, 07:12
wait. the NBA Finals don't start till June the fucking 6th? Way to keep that momentum flowing guys. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 31, 06:57 3
- outrage! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 31, 07:18
- Now do that hockey. -- nm - Last Of My Kind May 31, 07:15
- They would have needed time to fit in Games 6 & 7 -- they're not going to rush and move up their title series. -- nm - Will Hunting May 31, 07:06
This Conan podcast clip is great. Motivational posters and childhood stories. -- (link) - Beryllium May 31, 06:55 [youtube]
This is a fascinating Reddit thread. -- (link) - David May 31, 06:53 1
- I didn’t know the Ivana tax break cemetery thing. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 31, 07:17
All Santander staff and '30 million' customers hacked -- (link) - LMS May 31, 06:52 1
- and their Ticketmaster hack claim is to be confirmed -- nm - LMS May 31, 06:54
Ms went 3-1 against the Astros which made me smile. Next up is another division rival: the Angels. - crash davis 😺 May 31, 06:45 6
- We softened them up for you. Lol -- nm - Krusty May 31, 07:11
- Meanwhile America's team has dropped to 3rd in division with a putrid month of May. Need the Reds to make things better. -- nm - Last Of My Kind May 31, 07:09 4
  - The Cowboys are in the NL now? -- nm - Krusty May 31, 07:11 3
    - This is the baseball board! - Last Of My Kind May 31, 07:13 2
      - To be fair, I hate the Cowboys for using that ridiculous moniker. -- nm - Krusty May 31, 07:22
      - Sir, this is a Wendy’s. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 31, 07:18
Cunk on Rayner -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 31, 06:42
Deadpool & Wolverine popcorn bucket -- (link) - Krusty May 31, 06:31 [youtube]
Oh, apparently Delaware doesn’t require employers to pay out unused vacation time upon separation - znufrii May 31, 06:28 4
- Use up every minute of it. -- nm - Masked Baron May 31, 06:47 1
  - this -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 31, 07:08
- I know you are NOT going to do...update the spreadsheets - Pippy May 31, 06:38
- US employment laws are BANANAS -- nm - mafic May 31, 06:30
Actor Nick Pasqual charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing estranged girlfriend -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 31, 06:28 1
- (21 alleged times) -- nm - hollywood big shot May 31, 06:40
"Do you say 'bay-gel' or 'bag-el'?" "You are literally saying the same thing right now." - Classroom Transcripts May 31, 06:22 4
- Baa-gel. -- nm - Last Of My Kind May 31, 07:11
- Bag-el? Who the hell says it that way? -- nm - sycor May 31, 06:29 2
  - Midwestern/Canadian pronunciation - Classroom Transcripts May 31, 06:31 1
    - Yup. Very Minnesota to me to hear it that way -- nm - oblique May 31, 06:42
Youtube is getting bitchy because of my ad blocker. Maybe stop with the 30 sec ads on a 30 sec video YT. -- nm - sycor May 31, 05:47 4
- I've pretty much stopped using YT because of all this ad-shite -- nm - decline May 31, 06:05 1
  - I still use it because I don't Insta or Tok. -- nm - sycor May 31, 06:14
- I hate that I have YouTube premium so no ads but then the videos have ad reads from the creator in the video so I still get hit with an ad read. -- nm - Krusty May 31, 05:56 1
  - I don't mind those as much most of the time. -- nm - sycor May 31, 06:15
Gift help: Other than cash what could I give as a gift to my niece who just graduated from the Berklee College of Music. -- (edited) - Krusty May 31, 05:36 20
- dunks -- nm - hollywood big shot May 31, 06:45
- I have no suggestion for your niece. We (me really) are giving my GF's son the Avenger's Quinjet Lego set for his HS graduation. - sycor May 31, 06:14
- Vintage or vintagey brooch or hair decoration she can wear onstage? -- nm - . May 31, 06:01 5
  - This was going to be my suggestion (my daughter is also studying jazz). Bracelets or earrings might be good. Cash is king though so I'd maybe do - oblique May 31, 06:06 3
    - Yeah, I wanted something else to go with it. I think something like a brooch or something with some style to wear while performing is a -- (edited) - Krusty May 31, 06:08 2
      - Completely unrelated but if she's in NYC and you want to take her out, my daughter and I went here for Jazz and food and both were fantastic -- (link) - oblique May 31, 06:49 1
        
        But then I'd have to listen to jazz music. ;-) - Krusty May 31, 07:25
  - That's an interesting idea. I think she'd like something like that and I'm sure I could find something nice in one of the vintage/thrift shops. -- nm - Krusty May 31, 06:05
- Maybe a gift card to someplace near where she is going to be living. -- nm - MDH May 31, 05:53 4
  - this, or a couple to good places to eat in her new area (gift plus recommendations all in one) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 31, 05:55 3
    - I'm giving her a chunk of cash so a gift card feels like just more cash but only good at one specific place. -- nm - Krusty May 31, 05:57 2
      - the recommendation is the key :) for good pizza, here; Chinese here; etc -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 31, 05:59 1
        
        I do like the idea of giving her recommendations for food and such around the city. -- nm - Krusty May 31, 06:06
- any vinyls she might like? Even without a record player just to display maybe? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 31, 05:50 1
  - Good idea but sadly, I don't know her well enough to pick out albums. She's moving here so I'm hoping to get to spend more time with her. -- nm - Krusty May 31, 05:54
- What's her specialty? -- nm - Reagen May 31, 05:42 4
  - She's a singer and with a focus on jazz -- nm* - Krusty May 31, 05:46 3
    - Gift certificate to a Jazz club? -- nm - . May 31, 05:57 2
      - Your response above posted at the same time this did. -- nm - . May 31, 05:58 1
        
        :-) -- nm - Krusty May 31, 06:01
Inside the NBA has almost died twice. This time, the man responsible is Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 31, 05:08
Daily Myth for May 31 - znufrii May 31, 04:54 2
- 🦄 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 31, 07:10
- I like it. - Pippy May 31, 06:22
The 21st-Century Henchman Hall of Fame -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 31, 04:49
TV PSA: NHL, MLB, WNBA, Smackdown, Lingo, The Big Cigar, The Famous Five, Frog and Toad, The Chi, The Outlaws, Jim Henson: Idea Man, - Beaker 🍺 May 31, 04:36 1
- MLB, The Outlaws and other stuff -- nm - Krusty May 31, 04:58
I’m driving across Senegal today. 4 hours in and we’re about a third of the way there. I hope they fix the plane soon. -- nm - mafic May 31, 02:05 1
- at least you'll be ready for the next Dakar rally -- nm - hollywood big shot May 31, 02:10
Start spreadin' the news, if you can convict him there, you can convict him An..y.where, its up to you New York, New York..... -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 23:57 5
- It does seem kinda weird that 45's conviction is as joyous as Osama bin Laden's execution -- nm - zeitgeist May 31, 00:34 4
  - Is it, though? -- nm - znufrii May 31, 04:52
  - L4. Oh wait, you're serious? -- nm - Strongbad May 31, 04:51
  - It wasn't close to the same here. The reaction was much more muted in comparison to Osama which brought joy and relief. -- nm* - Krusty May 31, 04:39
  - wait until his funeral -- nm - hollywood big shot May 31, 00:47
SCOTUS allows NRA suit against a NY official they claim tried to get companies to blacklist them after Parkland FL mass killing -- (link) - zeitgeist May 30, 23:35 2
- surprised they would do this as the Discovery could be very bad for them I'd suspect -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 31, 04:29 1
  - The NRA is basically being strangled financially by this -- discovery isn't the main concern if you're going to die otherwise. - Will Hunting May 31, 06:29
Why was Trump convicted? - JD May 30, 23:22
How it's going - JD May 30, 23:20 2
- waiting on a lady...or just a friend -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 23:28 1
  - Neither - JD May 30, 23:51
scenes outside Trump Tower tonight -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 23:10 2
- wow -- nm - mud May 31, 04:49
- We're not gonna take it Never did and never will We're not gonna take it Gonna break it, gonna shake it Let's forget it better still -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 23:26
Lost in the good news in the Trump case is Andrew Tate also lost an appeal to relax judicial restrictions while awaiting his trafficking and rape case -- (link*) - Qale May 30, 22:20
The Apprentice curse -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 22:10 1
- wut 'bout de Rnald? -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 22:53
not gonna lie, not my finest work -- (link) - NYT Pitchbot May 30, 21:51
Susan Collins: the New York jurors haven't learned their lesson -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 21:50 1
- Mob bosses are discriminated against in the justice system, for sure. maybe they should form an NAACP - zeitgeist May 30, 22:58
Jimmy Kimmel: "this is not El Chapo we're talking . . . this is Pork Chapo" -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 21:43
Strands #89 - prayformojo 🐵 May 30, 21:13 4
- perfect, yet yellow last - crash davis 😺 May 31, 06:32
- Yellow 1st - decline May 31, 05:38 1
  - you all are so much better at finding the spanagram first than i am -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 31, 05:40
- Yellow - 4th - VMan May 31, 04:36
Connections Puzzle #355 - one of the stranger sets I've had - Skittles followed by GBYP - prayformojo 🐵 May 30, 21:07 6
- I fell for it too - rollo May 31, 06:38 1
  - skittles buddy! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 31, 06:42
- totalfuckingdisaster - mud May 31, 06:28
- PGoopscuziwenttoofastYB - crash davis 😺 May 31, 06:22
- ugly - decline May 31, 05:22
- Couple of oopsies - GPYB - VMan May 31, 04:33
Wordle 1,077 3/6 - prayformojo 🐵 May 30, 21:03 3
- Wordle 1,077 4/6 - crash davis 😺 May 31, 06:24
- 4 - rollo May 31, 06:21
- 6 - decline May 31, 05:18
and there’s another debate coming up in a month… -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 20:51
The origin of the infamous “backrooms” photo has been found. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 30, 20:40 [youtube]
"Subj: Confirmation of Your Voluntary Termination" - znufrii May 30, 20:38 5
- Guessing they do this for unemployment eligibility. -- nm - Strongbad May 31, 03:44
- you've abandoned your 'family' of XX years? -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 21:02 2
  - 8.5 years, 4 CEOs, three offices, 11 clients, and 6 shares of company stock that I can't sell for another two years... - znufrii May 30, 21:15 1
    - And a partridge in a pear tree? -- nm - Qale May 30, 21:16
- As opposed to your "Involuntary Resignation"? -- nm - Meg May 30, 20:47
Pretty sure my cat sitter only gave treats at dinnertime, no dinner. Nobody wants a hangry chubbins. Also - amandaphone May 30, 20:35 7
- how long that drive? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 20:41 4
  - 4.5 with a charging stop? There was capital T traffic on 15 in VA. Most of the drive though is not like competitive so it - amandaphone May 30, 20:46 3
    - 15 outside Leesburg is why I live in Tennessee now. -- nm - Will Hunting May 30, 20:58 2
      - going back to mandyvania from Dulles, might be better to take 66 out to 81 and go north there -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 21:03 1
        
        I trusted google because I didn't have like other knowledge. I charged in Hagerstown on the way down and that was just not viable so I was like - amandaphone May 30, 21:23
- The cats didn't eat the cat sitter, did they? -- nm - Beryllium May 30, 20:36 1
  - I would never text this late at night to be like WTF? But cats never finish full bowls and bowls were 100% empty when I walked in. -- nm - amandaphone May 30, 20:47
Taskmaster series 18 cast announcement. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 30, 20:32 [youtube] 1
- Excited for Jack Dee the most. -- nm - LMS May 31, 06:01
Todd Blanche low-key throwing his client under the bus on Fox N*** by praising him for being such a good, smart, active client assisting with his - hollywood big shot May 30, 20:19
sorry New York, can't win em all -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 20:16
Lets see a dog do this -- (link) - crash davis 😺 May 30, 20:04 2
- Saw on social media somewhere “The real reason that cats are better than dogs? Cats would never work with cops.” -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 May 30, 20:07 1
  - That is pretty dang funny. 😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 30, 20:10
Shadows falling baby we stand alone Out on the street anybody you meet got a heartache of their own -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 19:59
"You mean the former Atlantic City casino operator, Donald Trump?" - hollywood big shot May 30, 19:58 2
- The guy who lost so money in one year the IRS didn't have room for how big the number was. -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 20:01 1
  - if I had a gun for every ace I have drawn, I could run a town the size of Abeline. -- nm - Peglegpete May 30, 20:25
Siddown, Rudy -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 30, 19:58
May 30, 2024, 2:00 p.m. ET Adam Sternbergh Opinion Culture Editor Ángel Hernández Made Baseball Great -- (edited) - crash davis 😺 May 30, 19:56
guilty -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 19:56

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