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60 years ago the Rolling Stones play their first concert in the US at San Bernardino Swing Aud. -- nm* - zeitgeist Jun 4, 21:54 1
- that's the same place the Grateful Debuted Terrapin Station live. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 4, 22:34
Hubble telescope is limited now as a gyroscope is shut down, est to have 10 years left before it crashes back. -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 4, 21:12
“sir, there’s a second Bo Jackson” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 21:11 1
- He’s Bo AND Lamar? He’s probably bulletproof. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 4, 21:26
JP Crawford's dogs were watching at home when he hit his 10th inning walk off sac fly -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jun 4, 20:05 [tiktok]
Heh, I thought HR had already screwed up my onboarding paperwork by transposing the month and day of my start date - znufrii Jun 4, 19:48 2
- Smallest to largest! It’s really the most logical. -- nm - mafic Jun 5, 01:20
- Classic! -- nm - Qale Jun 4, 20:15
DTL: Will, a scrimmage is waiting for you if you please. -- nm - rollo Jun 4, 19:32 1
- Done and I’m returning one for you after if you want to try anything - Will Hunting Jun 4, 19:47
get yer Chuckbucks -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 19:25 1
- Quick, before... you know. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 19:27
Furiosa A- (oldest gave it a 5 out of 5 on Letterbox) -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 4, 18:58
“They're a good team. I don't want to sit here and say they're the '27 Yankees. They're not that good" -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 18:44 1
- all Connor Norby does (literally) is hit home runs -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 18:46
I'm a verb now, Lana. Deal with it. -- nm - LFG Jun 4, 18:35
Honest Trailers | Civil War -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 4, 18:24 [youtube]
I'm supposed to be in Atlanta Friday night, but just found out there's a state of emergency called because of a major water main break. Would - kelly Jun 4, 18:22 2
- It looks like the boil water advisory is in some areas Generally things like this would affect restaurants more. -- (link) - Qale Jun 4, 20:20 1
  - Some tourist attractions in downtown were closed. It’s a tough decision I guess. I’d stick it out myself they are likely going to work round the clock -- nm - Qale Jun 4, 20:23
Ecstacy was not approved for PTSD against expectations -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 4, 18:17 1
- boo -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 18:19
AT&T and Verizon were blocked to each other for much of the day... -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 4, 18:09
Andy Kim wins the Democratic NJ Senate primary to (one hopes) unseat Goldbrick Bobby -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 18:06 1
- 👍🏽 -- nm - Krusty Jun 4, 18:16
*phew* Core Academic Skills Praxis: passed. - kelly Jun 4, 18:04 6
- 😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 4, 20:14
- nice! -- nm - Remlik Jun 4, 18:41
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 4, 18:20
- the first Core Academic Skills Praxis is the hardest! -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 18:19
- Well done!!! -- nm - Krusty Jun 4, 18:14
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 4, 18:09
International Stadium Tour: Germany (Episode 2) - Tom Grossi -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 4, 18:03 [youtube]
Ugh hate when you find out from your bank that ur card was being used in England and u still have ur card - eag Jun 4, 17:44 2
- ok but are you sure you’re not in England and you just haven’t noticed? - mafic Jun 4, 17:45 1
  - He should check pixie's podcast to be sure. -- nm - amandaphone Jun 4, 18:43
10th Amendment, how does it work -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 17:22
What happens if Deadpool & Wolverine pulls the same numbers as Furiosa? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 17:13 2
- i'll do a happy little dance -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 17:17
- Guess someone isnt directing the next Avengers then -- nm - budice Jun 4, 17:14
GenV casting ... - Beryllium Jun 4, 17:07 2
- Love him. -- nm - Todd Manning Jun 4, 19:58
- hope it's better than his Lincoln. -- nm - mud Jun 4, 17:08
Asha: "Cannon is just flailing and has no idea which way is up at this point" -- (pic) - mud Jun 4, 16:54 [Attachment] 6
- Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Law Woman? -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 17:18
- i don't think she sees herself as flailing but dismissing the case on these grounds (and allowing third-party intervention in support) is a gift to - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 16:58 4
  - do you think the big SCOTUS ruling will come at the very end of the month, or earlier? -- nm - mud Jun 4, 17:01 1
    - later if i had to guess (but also maybe because Alito's flag scandal has Roberts scrambling for more fig leaves?) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 17:03
  - flailing people rarely do. -- nm - mafic Jun 4, 17:00 1
    - it's a batshit theory in search of a factual basis, and doubly so in light of SCOTUS just ruling 7-2 last month that CPFB IS constitutionally funded -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 17:20
Sir Bob Iger officially -- (link) - budice Jun 4, 16:41
If Netflix releases a film and doesn’t tell anyone about it, did it ever really come out? -- (link*) - znufrii Jun 4, 16:36 2
- I imagine the number of regular Netflix viewers who would appreciate a Takashi Miike film is fairly low. -- nm - Qale Jun 4, 17:13 1
  - Seems to be part of a broader pattern of unpromoted prestige content, though I’ll leave it to the experts to opine on why that might be. -- nm* - znufrii Jun 4, 17:29
brave woman: - mud Jun 4, 16:22 1
- Fuck me. The actual killer was released in 2021? -- nm* - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 16:29
Clearly No sports fans amongst Jeopardy contestants tonight -- (link) - budice Jun 4, 16:04 7
- Yeah I didn't know. I don't follow baseball closely, so I guessed the same thing. - BaRRRon Jun 4, 18:06
- That doesn't seem like a particularly easy clue. Good for her, guessing an old NL team. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 16:20 5
  - It was pretty easy for me -- nm - rollo Jun 4, 19:53
  - Decent guess, wrong year. -- nm - . Jun 4, 19:06
  - It is if you know any recent baseball. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 4, 16:23 1
    - 2007 isn’t recent. -- nm - mafic Jun 4, 16:44
  - It's easy if you've watched baseball but she did make a good guess for someone that clearly doesn't follow the game. -- nm - Krusty Jun 4, 16:22
say it ain’t so Jontay. apparently was actually throwing games for the bookies because he was in so deep to them -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 16:01 3
- Hmm...nah...doesn't explain the White Sox. -- nm - . Jun 4, 16:10
- See? Not our fault! -- nm - Raptors brass Jun 4, 16:04
- yeah, that's how it works. Havent they seen The Gambler (1974)? -- nm - axel freed Jun 4, 16:03
GOP doesn't know what Milwaukee looks like... -- (link) - . Jun 4, 16:00 1
- Huh. Ho Chi Minh City has its own Avengers Tower. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 16:02
This Wired Tech Support video about pseudoscience is just rapid fire debunking of tons of b.s. - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 15:56 [youtube]
Door to door time squeaked in just under 10 hours, complete with military checkpoint coming into the city, plus I have to go back to the airport - mafic Jun 4, 15:49 7
- Jeez. Sorry it's been such a rough trip -- nm - Krusty Jun 4, 16:02 4
  - It’s amazing what a hot shower and a beer will fix. - mafic Jun 4, 16:25 3
    - I should keep this in mind. The inner message sure, but also the outer one too. Heh. -- nm - Qale Jun 4, 17:17 1
      - Better than a cold shower and a hot beer -- nm - znufrii Jun 4, 17:46
    - To your IM: It's nice that you see things that way and appreciate the situation as a whole. Hopefully things go smoother the rest of the way. -- nm - Krusty Jun 4, 16:27
- still Senegalese-ing? -- nm - budice Jun 4, 15:55 1
  - Guinea-ing now. -- nm - mafic Jun 4, 16:23
I love baseball. -- (link) - David Jun 4, 15:29 1
- cool. -- nm - mud Jun 4, 15:55
DEADLINE: Shawn Levy Tops List To Direct Marvel’s Next ‘Avengers’ Movie -- (edited) - mud Jun 4, 15:09 5
- If he does, Deadpool and Wolverine will be in it. -- nm - Remlik Jun 4, 15:26 4
  - they're threatening to stuff 60 MCU characters into it. would be weird if they weren't -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 15:32 3
    - I don't know how you can weave a coherent story out of so many characters - Beryllium Jun 4, 16:19 2
      - I'd be keen to see the result. -- nm - mud Jun 4, 16:50
      - never stopped Kevin Feige before -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 16:48
wish Tina had written this as an episode of 30 Rock -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 14:59
Harlan Crow re-elected to head a SCOTUS charity, which provides access to judges (socially?) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 4, 14:58 2
- the highest court in the land is funded by Congress and doesn’t need its own charity, last I checked -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 15:00 1
  - Won't somebody *please* think of these poor judges sitting their crappy RVs with only public campgrounds to go to.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 4, 15:12
"Experience is good. I don't know how much experience is beneficial. You can ask the Buffalo Bills how important Super Bowl experience is." -- (link) - Kris Knoblauch Jun 4, 14:34 2
- We were laughing about this ten minutes ago. It's a perfect joke to every non-Bills fan on the planet. -- nm* - David Jun 4, 14:42 1
  - I wouldn't call it swagger, but he's got an incredible chill demeanour for a coach. -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 14:53
the Colts have given up on football -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 14:29
NY Bagels made their way to Burbank -- (link) - budice Jun 4, 14:28
“In April, just 17% of Republicans told us that convicted felons should be allowed to be president. The share of Republicans holding this belief rose - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 14:25
Yeah, that tracks. -- (link) - David Jun 4, 14:20 2
- I sure look forward to the day when this guy gets his due. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 14:28 1
  - considering a few court rulings, that's discrimination and hate speech to the abused, marginalized and excluded white people -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 4, 14:53
Oilers ran Joe Pavelski outta the league -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 14:12
Remember "Ultima Thule" that New Horizons spacecraft flew by in 2019? Well, apparently it is loaded with sugar -- (link) - oblique Jun 4, 13:49 13
- This is how you get ants. -- nm - mafic Jun 4, 16:59
- Sugar World could be a sequel to Water World -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 14:13 6
  - In this world, everyone would get fat and have diabetes. Just too unrealistic. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 15:50
  - I'm still waiting for the Dune series to work in the connection to Spice World. -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 14:54 3
    - Yup. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 4, 14:56 [youtube] 2
      - comeon, they were *this* close to the end shot of the worm rising up with them in its teeth -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 4, 15:00
      - nice -- nm - mud Jun 4, 14:58
  - Homer drool -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jun 4, 14:46 [Attachment]
- "For instance, you could have a planet with no shrimp. Or a planet that is nothing but shrimp." -- nm - Reagen Jun 4, 14:03 1
  - I would like to go to Shrimp World. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 14:54
- Mmm, sugar planet. -- nm - David Jun 4, 13:53
- omg, they're in a collision course with that yeast comet -- nm - Max Jun 4, 13:52
- You had my curiosity, now you have my attention. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 13:51
everyone check out my new podcast, Arrivals & Departures. weekly deep-dive into the air travel comings and goings of STers -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 13:47 4
- would listen. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 4, 14:41 1
  - "The 500 miles from Happy Valley to Indianapolis never seemed longer than when amanda jones tried to actually book a flight between the two cities." -- nm - Ira Glass Jun 4, 16:38
- Can we get "I love A and D" shirts? -- nm - oblique Jun 4, 13:50 1
  - lotta merch in the works -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 13:54
For flight contrast, flight to Sacramento from HNL is listed on time. Plane arrived a few minutes ago and all the passengers seem to have deplaned - JD Jun 4, 13:42
GOP senators to *checks notes* their own party organization: leave Larry Hogan alone! -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 4, 13:41 5
- Perhaps putting the RNC solely under the control of the Trump family wasnt entirely wise? -- nm - Jovian Jun 4, 13:54 3
  - Shh! -- nm - David Jun 4, 13:54 2
    - no worries, just like MGT, Alina Habba, Matt Gaetz, etc. They arent going anywhere! -- nm - Jovian Jun 4, 13:58 1
      - Hehehe, Matt Gaetz is terrible at blackjack... - Fb friend Jun 4, 15:13
- let them fight. -- nm - mud Jun 4, 13:44
i think this maybe one of my 5 favorite photos from my trip - tRuMaN Jun 4, 13:36 [Attachment] 12
- Very cool. Where is this? -- nm - sycor Jun 4, 18:49
- Nice! -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 13:45
- Wow! -- nm - ty97 Jun 4, 13:40
- Such a beautiful place. I'm excited to be going back in August (2026) to see it not in February -- (edited) - oblique Jun 4, 13:39 6
  - Well here is a photo from Iceland since the previous is from Norway. -- (pic) -- (link*) - tRuMaN Jun 4, 13:47 [Attachment] 5
    - Did you drive yourself around Iceland or did you join a tour? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 13:50 3
      - drove around. I got there about 9am, rented a car and went to a bunch of random places I found that day, and the morning of the next day before I got - tRuMaN Jun 4, 13:53 2
        
        Adventuresome! -- nm - Qale Jun 4, 17:25
        
        Pretty sweet! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 4, 13:57
    - sweet (thanks!) -- nm - oblique Jun 4, 13:49
- Here is a photo looking in the opposite direction. -- (pic) -- (link*) - tRuMaN Jun 4, 13:39 [Attachment]
- That's awesome! -- nm - Krusty Jun 4, 13:37
Lame. I just got an email about a Shutterfly class action lawsuit. I got a $5 voucher. I was never notified before so I didn't get to file for the $25 - sycor Jun 4, 13:29 1
- You should do a class action lawsuit about not being notified about the class action lawsuit. -- nm - LFG Jun 4, 13:43
LIR: pmb. The cicadas were LOUD last night when I left work (4pm - near O'Hare). Instagram story link. Turn on sound -- (link*) - oblique Jun 4, 13:21
Unresonant-man -- nm - Beryllium Jun 4, 13:21
All over the world you can hear the sound of lovers in love (and shoeshine keep it down, we're trying to sleep here) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 4, 13:14 5
- "... quinze!" -- nm - Amélie Jun 4, 13:43
- Really, auto spell changed sheesh to shoeshine? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 4, 13:16 2
  - shoeshine -- nm - LFG Jun 4, 13:23 1
    - damn it! -- nm - LFG Jun 4, 13:23
- And I hear the U.S.S.R will be open soon as vacation land for lawyers in love -- nm - LFG Jun 4, 13:16

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