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I’d love to be able to paint like this; -- (link) - Loyola Jun 6, 15:07 [tiktok] 3
- love that! that's classical technique by a trained painter. -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 15:11 2
  - Apparently she taught herself. She has an Etsy shop, link in her bio. Can’t see prices though. -- nm - Loyola Jun 6, 15:16 1
    - Well, she 100% studied books and videos, because that's classic technique. She's fantastic! - loosilu Jun 6, 15:18
This is a fascinating Hollywood story unfolding. -- (link) - David Jun 6, 15:04 6
- Clooney called the White House to apologize -- (link) - budice Jun 6, 15:09 1
  - I think you meant criticize? no apology there. -- nm - i.b.! Jun 6, 15:21
- many vocal writers have been dropped by their reps for posting Free Gaza stuff -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 15:06 3
  - Free Gaza From Hamas! -- nm - mud Jun 6, 15:15 2
    - they also tend to be the ones threatening that Joe Biden Has To Earn My Vote so fuck them -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 15:16 1
      - indeed. it’s freaking maddening. - i.b.! Jun 6, 15:30
Disney Parks Blog revamped -- (link) - budice Jun 6, 14:54 2
- BOP didn't invent clickable pictures, but we were so far ahead of the curve on that, and I'm so proud of it. -- nm - David Jun 6, 15:02 1
  - over Rudiger's strenuous objections -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 6, 15:03
W&G return in…. Vengeance Most Fowl -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 14:52 1
- Weren’t they running out of the clay needed to make these movies? -- nm - Trending Jun 6, 15:01
so the assembly is already nixing Hochul’s payroll tax hike to make up for congestion pricing revenue -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 14:51
But loosi, you were working at an intel agency? Yeah. One of my clearances did not go through. It was a minor thing and judgement call. - loosilu Jun 6, 14:41 3
- You can’t spell healthcare without “THC.” -- nm - Bong…James Bong Jun 6, 14:43 2
  - I didn't think weed go there in this conversation. -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:44 1
    - 🤣👏 -- nm - Bong…James Bong Jun 6, 15:00
I got a new contract! Working for a gov't agency I've never worked for before, in a famous building. Guess! -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:18 27
- the top top top secret complex under the Lincoln Memorial. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 6, 14:31 7
  - Stonecutters? -- nm - VMan Jun 6, 14:32 6
    - Stone of Triumph! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 6, 14:55
    - top of the Washington monument. obvs. -- nm - mafic Jun 6, 14:33 3
      - oh hell no, I'm not going up there. -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:38
      - "Its a long smooth shaft with..." -- (link) - budice Jun 6, 14:37 [youtube]
      - Better WiFi for sending out the Oscar winners. -- nm - VMan Jun 6, 14:37
    - Illuminati? -- nm - budice Jun 6, 14:33
- Foggy Bottom -- nm - mafic Jun 6, 14:29
- The Pentagon? -- nm - Meg Jun 6, 14:28
- Space Force??? -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jun 6, 14:27 2
  - I actually have no idea where their HQ is! maybe Pentagon? -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:30 1
    - secret moon base. -- nm - mafic Jun 6, 14:31
- Hint: It is not an obcure agency -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:27 7
  - You ask for Miracles I give you the F.B.I. -- nm - budice Jun 6, 14:28 6
    - DING DING DIND! J Edgar Hoover building! -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:29 5
      - oh, I'm so sorry, that building is hideous -- nm - Max Jun 6, 14:53 1
        
        I know! and it's falling apart! I'm excited. -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 15:04
      - Cool, break into stuff and post it here. -- nm - Loyola Jun 6, 14:38 1
        
        right because I"m THAT dumb. :P -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:41
      - well done -- nm - mud Jun 6, 14:30
- DARPA? MDA? -- nm - Krusty Jun 6, 14:20 1
  - good guesses!!! but no -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:23
- (in the DC area, in case that is not clear) -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:18
- The White House -- nm - budice Jun 6, 14:18 2
  - hmm, what agency would that be? -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:18 1
    - SPECTRE -- nm - VMan Jun 6, 14:28
If Playstation gets Halo, does Xbox get Killzone? -- nm - David Jun 6, 14:16
‘SpongeBob’ Antagonist ‘Plankton’ Is Getting His Own Netflix Movie In 2025 (why isn't this Paramount+?) -- (link) - MDH Jun 6, 14:15 1
- (so people will watch it) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 6, 14:15
Letters for stars. Roman numerals for planets. C'MON! - Beryllium Jun 6, 14:13 1
- Alien: Stimulus -- nm - budice Jun 6, 14:14
lol wut? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 14:09 2
- “This week you’re just the Bay Packers!” - mafic Jun 6, 14:35
- Wow. That’s wow. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 6, 14:16
TIL there’s a Nelson Mandela stadium in Algeria. -- nm - mafic Jun 6, 14:05
We went to the Disney 100 exhibit at K.C. Union Station this morning. I have questions and critiques. -- nm* - Meg Jun 6, 14:03 4
- I wondered if that was any good -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 6, 14:17 2
  - There was a good deal of history and some neat costumes and artifacts, but not much new if you're familiar with the Disney story. -- nm - Meg Jun 6, 14:30 1
    - i maybe doing some work for the Foundation that wants to restore the studio space he had in KC and turn it into a musuem and such. - tRuMaN Jun 6, 14:38
- get their ass -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 14:06
IMPORTANT FOR GAMERS -- Marvel's Midnight Sons is free on Epic Games today. -- (link) - David Jun 6, 14:00 1
- Do you have what it takes to make it Epic? -- nm - Dementus Jun 6, 14:02
this shot of Alicent cracks me up. -- (pic) - mud Jun 6, 13:47 [Attachment] 2
- This show would look exactly the same if it was claymation—all the characters are so cartoonish -- nm - Trending Jun 6, 13:59 1
  - say what? -- (pic) - viserys Jun 6, 14:04 [Attachment]
so week after next I will be in new orleans for a couple of nights for work. staying on Canal street only a few blocks from the river. Ideas on where - tRuMaN Jun 6, 13:42 16
- I LOVED Commander's Palace for lunch. Also Cafe du Monde lives up to its rep. But overall I'd say check yelp - loosilu Jun 6, 14:43 3
  - After 30 years of NoLa for me - we finally ate at Commander's last year. Ohmigod!!! I strongly second this, if you want - Turd Ferguson Jun 6, 14:47 2
    - Am hoping to go for dinner next time. Highly recommend lunch on a weekday, dining room is pretty in the sun. -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 15:06
    - Isn't it awesome? YOu can feel the weight of that history. And the food is fucking great. -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 15:05
- Depends on what you're looking for. I have a bunch of recommendations, but it's all kinds of different stuff. - Turd Ferguson Jun 6, 14:29
- I was there recently with my daughter. The city wasn't my style but if you enjoy jazz, of course there are a lot of great places to go. Deets inside - oblique Jun 6, 13:56
- I recommend checking out one of these walking tours, we did the French Quarter and had a great time -- (link) - znufrii Jun 6, 13:45 3
  - Music clubs on Frenchmen St. -- (link) - znufrii Jun 6, 13:51 2
    - And I remember having a good meal here -- (link) - znufrii Jun 6, 14:58
    - And if you go at night, you can check out the Frenchman Art Market. Very cool stuff. Nice suggestion... - Turd Ferguson Jun 6, 14:33
- *lights up Jim signal* - i.b.! Jun 6, 13:45 4
  - I WAS there recently. lol We took the kids this time. Took a day trip from Dauphin Island. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jun 6, 14:29
  - drat, for my im, they do contain milk, per their website. sorry. :( - — nm - i.b.! Jun 6, 13:47 2
    - oh no that sucks! but the coffee is damn good too -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 15:13 1
      - I recently re-recommended their coffee here, particularly for my favorite homemade cold brew. — nm - i.b.! Jun 6, 15:21
- Commander's Palace -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 13:43
In cricket news... -- (link) - Reagen Jun 6, 13:42 7
- Cricket is an elaborate practical joke on Americans. -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 14:26
- one of the guys on my softball team plays on a cricket team here and actually gets paid for it. - Andie Jun 6, 14:14
- With all the engineers from India n Pakistan at MSFT and amazon there's a whole league of cricket teams here in seattle -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 6, 13:54
- cricket is finally taking off in Ameri… ah forget it -- nm - mafic Jun 6, 13:52
- *chirrrrp* *chirrrrp* *chirrrrp* -- nm - LFG Jun 6, 13:48 1
  - big, if true! -- nm - mud Jun 6, 13:49
- !!!! -- nm - znufrii Jun 6, 13:43
"You are chasing angry hallucinations created by grifters who make money off your rage" - well if that isn't the summation of the last 10 or so years. -- nm - Reagen Jun 6, 13:37 14
- signed Garth Brooks double album -- nm - budice Jun 6, 13:42
- Really, it's been since Rush Limbaugh. -- nm - David Jun 6, 13:40 10
  - Word. He was the first one I recall that was saying the quiet parts out loud. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jun 6, 14:30
  - remember Art Bell? -- nm - mud Jun 6, 14:06 1
    - Yes. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 6, 14:14
  - Jim Bakker. -- nm - mafic Jun 6, 13:50 1
    - I think the height of their grift was more positive in nature, like my jewish dad watched them sometimes. - i.b.! Jun 6, 13:56
  - Yeah, he at *least* broke the ice. -- nm - LFG Jun 6, 13:42 4
    - ahole talk radio has been around since I was a teen, dad used to listen and laugh, when it dispeared dad said they must have run out of nut cases -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 6, 13:45 3
      - Rush changed the game with his intentional, grifty, tribal-separating schtick. I had listened to and liked him quite a bit before it. — nm - i.b.! Jun 6, 13:49
      - Oh, for sure. But Rush was on an entirely different level. -- nm - LFG Jun 6, 13:46 1
        
        and now all his acolytes that remain (Levin, Kelly, Rosenberg, etc) are 1000% worse now than Rush *ever* was. -- nm - Jovian Jun 6, 14:01
- so many, and varying topics.— nm - i.b.! Jun 6, 13:40
- it's the entire business model of social media platforms -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 13:38
Roaring Kitty-DFV position in Gamestop now worth $500M -- (link*) - budice Jun 6, 13:26 [Attachment] 9
- (mostly collected from suckers he played into this) -- nm - Reagen Jun 6, 13:30 5
  - I seriously toyed with buying $5k on Sunday. -- nm - David Jun 6, 13:32 4
    - It's basically a lotto ticket at this point. - Reagen Jun 6, 13:36 3
      - Your IM is why I didn't. It's just like crypto. Unless you're running the con, you're choosing to be a willing mark. -- nm - David Jun 6, 13:36 2
        
        it's wild when you see what some of the dummies think could happen - Reagen Jun 6, 13:50 1
        
        Problem is this destruction of confidence in the market can royally fuck things up. - Will Hunting Jun 6, 14:04
- Is that kilbo's music I hear!?! -- nm - LFG Jun 6, 13:29 2
  - kilbo only chooses bad stocks and loses money in his portfolio - oblique Jun 6, 13:31 1
    - Yeah, sounds like more of a remix. -- nm - LFG Jun 6, 13:37
the economist interviewed RFK jr a while back, and his belief system could best be described as “every conspiracy is real actually!” - mafic Jun 6, 13:16 3
- Another way of saying it is, "There is no such thing as a bad idea." -- nm - LFG Jun 6, 13:24
- “What if everything you’ve been told is wrong?” - znufrii Jun 6, 13:23 1
  - “Question everything you’re told, until you hear an answer that reflect your limited world view” -- nm - Trending Jun 6, 13:54
Frink voice: "Naturally the first planet found orbiting the star K2-18 will be named K2-18*b* leading of course to the *second* planet K2-18*c* which - rollo Jun 6, 13:13
Farage seems to have added 5-7 points to Reform UK's polling, mostly coming from the Torys - Reagen Jun 6, 13:12
one-run games are killing the O’s this year -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 13:02 9
- Long run, that’s a fluke in both directions…we won a ton of coin flips last year. We’re not this year. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 6, 13:21
- were I the O’s I would simply score two more runs every game. -- nm - mafic Jun 6, 13:18 1
  - first thing I'd suggest -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 6, 13:19
- Today was more that Povich doesn't look ready, but what they did with one run games last year wasn't sustainable. -- nm - Inigo Jun 6, 13:11
- That should try to hit more -- nm - decline Jun 6, 13:04 4
  - at least 1/3 of those losses are on Kimbrel -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 13:08 3
    - "hand wavy" They've lost four games that he pitched in and they all qualified for the one run criteria. - JD Jun 6, 13:23 2
      - four games is the difference between them and the Yankees at this point -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 6, 14:06
      - I love when JD just outta nowhere breaks out his critical reasoning. -- nm - David Jun 6, 13:53
Doug Ford is shutting down the Ontario legislature a week early, and has now extended the shut down to October 21. Toronto Transit set to strike -- (link*) - budice Jun 6, 12:51 3
- freakin' coward. -- nm - Andie Jun 6, 13:14 1
  - If transit strikes at midnight the whole city will be one giant gridlock of traffic. it's going to be a nightmare -- nm - Andie Jun 6, 13:23
- Ontario shutdown linkage -- (link) - budice Jun 6, 12:54
cognitively vulnerable reminds me of a certain STer. -- nm - LFG Jun 6, 12:39 16
- *nods* On the count of 3, let's say who we're thinking of. 1....2...3! - Will Hunting Jun 6, 12:49 14
  - I'm so vain I probably thought this was about me... -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 6, 13:48 1
    - as if. I mean we trust you with lottery purchases. — nm - i.b.! Jun 6, 13:50
  - Foodchem: "Gladwell!" ... Gladwell: "Foodchem!" -- nm - rollo Jun 6, 13:38 2
    - For some reason I’m imagining the Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme -- nm - znufrii Jun 6, 14:04
    - why are you trying to illegally stick it to them? -- nm - mafic Jun 6, 13:46
  - i do wonder where they ended up. it's probably a sad tale. -- nm - Andie Jun 6, 13:21 6
    - instagram suggested them as a follow. situation unchanged. -- nm - mafic Jun 6, 13:39 3
      - who? Who?! -- nm - mud Jun 6, 13:49
      - Yeah, I saw that on FB as well. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 6, 13:40 1
        
        Well, Madge is touring, so... -- nm - LFG Jun 6, 13:41
    - I’m going to be honest, I had no one in mind but both this and b’s response made me sad because of how apt it is. - Will Hunting Jun 6, 13:23 1
      - we’d never make fun of someone for the mental illness side of things, it was more the sometimes seemingly intentional lack of critical thinking. - i.b.! Jun 6, 13:38
  - you’re such a pre-madonna sometimes. — nm - i.b.! Jun 6, 12:59 1
    - *shits himself at this response* -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 6, 13:19
- 😭— just @ me -- nm - Trending Jun 6, 12:43

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