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Hello Summer ☀️ ! -- nm - Andie Jun 19, 22:15
FTC refers TikTok to DOJ for crimes -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 22:14 1
- That sure was a half-page of nothing. -- nm - Qale Jun 19, 23:56
I think Katie Ledecky might be ready for Paris -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 22:11
Doctor Who: Ace and the 7th enter the Memory Tardis -- (link*) - Remlik Jun 19, 21:09 [youtube] 1
- Tegan and the 5th Doctor... -- (link) - Remlik Jun 19, 21:11 [youtube]
MLB-TXRangers: Big oops with a 2ft long chili dog that costs $30 -- (link) - budice Jun 19, 21:07
thursday nyt crossword spoilery vent: - i.b.! Jun 19, 20:44 2
- I didn't hate it. got the reveal reasonably early and figured it out. still struggled with a couple of the themers, but overall an ok Thursday. -- nm - mafic Jun 19, 22:17
- it’s possible I feel like opus with a lone, dead cockroach. (spoilery tip.) - i.b.! Jun 19, 21:18
ain’t the beer cold, hon -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 20:28
Never seen the ZOA Energy Drink “Big Dwayne Energy” commercial before. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 20:28 [youtube]
What are the odds that WestJet will be out on strike in July? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 20:25
There are only two teams more than a game and a half out of a playoff spot in the NL. -- nm - Dano Jun 19, 20:05
No question that Russia is running out of tanks. Question is how quickly, how soon. - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 19:23 [youtube] 8
- I think withing 3 months you're going to see Chinese er...NK tanks on the field. -- nm - Remlik Jun 19, 20:57 4
  - can russia afford to buy them from china? , I think Xi knows that could put sanctions on their exports to EU and US -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 21:13 3
    - I know mafic disagrees, but the prevailing opinion in the economic community is that China pretty much owns Russia. -- nm - David Jun 19, 21:15 2
      - That’s what I’ve been reading. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 21:28 1
        
        Something about establishing the Yuan as the global currency but also, China's plans are starting to come apart. - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 21:49
- Here's a video using satellite imagery showing how Russian is clearing out bases and staging tanks at one depot along the trans-siberian railroad. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 19:26 [youtube] 2
  - But Ukraine needs to be worried about Russian glide bombs. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 19:27 [youtube] 1
    - Meanwhile, Ukraine is fighting Russia in Syria and Sudan. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 19:28 [youtube]
MAGA hardcores belly aching about The Boys “going woke” and “targeting conservatives” in S4 is…so sweet! -- nm - Trending Jun 19, 18:48 6
- Not the sharpest tools in the shed, 'eh? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 19:21 2
  - Yeah, but the shed is like the one in Twister that is filled with all kinds of sinister blades for farming -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 20:10 1
    - “Who are these people?!” -- nm - Qale Jun 19, 23:58
- This might be even more flagrant than the star trek complaints. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 18:53 2
  - and/or X-Men -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 19, 18:57 1
    - Maybe. But furthermore ... (spoils) - Beryllium Jun 19, 19:36
Fancy dance moves to a song Krusty probably likes -- (link) - Pippy 🇨🇦 Jun 19, 18:44 [tiktok]
lol NFL owners really are the guy in The Jerk begging Navin Johnson for money to fix the leather seats on their private jets -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 18:36 2
- Kim will confirm I called this immediately after the DeShaun Watson signing. He broke the scale. -- nm - David Jun 19, 18:39 1
  - their last media rights deal was $110 billion dollars. Goodell was in court this week crying about how fair Sunday Ticket pricing is to the fans - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 18:44
even if you think polling is mostly broken, seems like catching 34 felony convictions was probably bad for a presidential candidate -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 18:32
pour it on Birds -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 18:30
Martin Shkreli and Trump are apparently teamed up for the DJTcoin -- (link) - Trending Jun 19, 17:51 1
- blah blah associating with known felons is a pre-trial violation blah blah -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 18:02
Let’s. Go. VOLS. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 19, 17:22 5
- *nods* If Edmonton and UT win two each, this board will have three very happy people. -- nm - David Jun 19, 17:24 4
  - I've been vibrating for like 5 days. - Reagen Jun 19, 17:41 3
    - Oh, I know. I toyed with offering it to you as a Christmas present. But...that would be like 10 Christmases. - David Jun 19, 17:46 2
      - Would not have actually been possible anyway between work and M being out of town. - Reagen Jun 19, 17:52 1
        
        You dump those kids on a friend, a neighbor, at the fire station, in a deep pit and go to the game. - Krusty Jun 19, 18:55
This is the most pleasant 82 degrees I’ve ever felt! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 17:17
UNESCO World Heritage building in Italy damaged by parkour tourists -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 19, 17:17 1
- something is very wrong when there are 2 new different world heritage sites being damaged posts, almost next to each other -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 19, 17:25
Milwaukee Brewers employee identified as hired assassin for Birmingham UK man -- (link) - Reagen Jun 19, 17:17 5
- “Hit Man” assures me that hit men aren’t actually a thing. Hit women, though… -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 17:27
- Judging from the picture, Rachael Harris should already be hired for the movie. - David Jun 19, 17:22 3
  - She is like 20yrs older than I would have expected. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 19, 17:35
  - Also: "Mercifully and luckily for him, the gun jammed.” - David Jun 19, 17:24 1
    - Up side: suspended sentence! Down side: no one’s gonna hire someone that incompetent again! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 17:29
2 'Just stop Oil' protesters deface Stonehenge. I hope the judge goes Medieval on them -- (link) - Peglegpete Jun 19, 17:13 2
- I really dislike these people. I want the world to use less oil but I don't think these stunts are having a positive effect for change. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 17:23 1
  - The weird thing is, the Solstice celebrants are the ones mostly thinking that way. -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 18:16
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Hundreds die during the Haj. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 17:13
Florida basketball commit is 7’9, -- (pic) - Trending Jun 19, 17:01 [Attachment] 9
- See if you can knock that over, Chennedy. -- nm - Max Jun 19, 21:49
- Apparently he was 6’1…at 8-years-old -- nm - Trending Jun 19, 21:25
- That boy ain’t right -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 19, 18:19
- Damn! Can he shoot the 3? - Krusty Jun 19, 17:20 1
  - The 3, the 6, the 9 ... -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 17:23
- too tall! -- nm - mud Jun 19, 17:05
- He doesn't shoot, he just drops the ball in. -- nm - Reagen Jun 19, 17:05 2
  - I'm reminded of the mutants who could beat the Globetrotters in Futurama. -- nm - David Jun 19, 17:06 1
    - "We're really seeing what a man with a cannon in his chest can do!" -- nm - Reagen Jun 19, 17:07
OTD 40 years ago, Art of Noise released their debut album. -- (link) - mud Jun 19, 16:46 [youtube]
Jeopardy PSA: Drew from Survivor is on tonight's episode -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 19, 16:44
Kings trade Pierre-Luc Dubois to Capitals for Darcy Kuemper -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 19, 16:22 3
- doorstop for expensive doorstop. -- nm - Reagen Jun 19, 16:27 2
  - this is why the Capitals bought CapFriendly -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 16:38 1
    - The site wasn't CapMeanie. -- nm - Reagen Jun 19, 16:38
Biden administration "does not know what [Netanyahu] is talking about" after claims US is withholding military aid to Israel -- (link) - znufrii Jun 19, 16:01
Lets go Mets. I'm even willing to buy a McDonald's milkshake to invoke the power of Grimace - crash davis 😺 Jun 19, 16:00 16
- Yeah… yeah. That’s my excuse, too. -- nm* - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 16:55
- Their shakes upgraded a few years ago. Pricey but excellent. -- nm - LFG Jun 19, 16:15 8
  - I did not know that. Perhaps I should get a birthday treat, it has been so long since I've had a chocolate shake. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 19, 16:16 7
    - I'd go to an actual ice cream shop over McDonald's for a shake. You deserve better. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 16:18 6
      - I deserve the Mets sweeping the Rangers for my birthday. :) - crash davis 😺 Jun 19, 16:20 5
        
        YEAH! 😺 -- nm - Tim Jun 19, 16:24
        
        Ah, I forgot about the whole Grimace and supporting the Mets part of it. Enjoy your shake! -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 16:22 2
        
        If I was a Yankees fan, I'd probably forget about supporting the Mets as well. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 19, 16:23 1
        
        I have no beef with them. I don't root for them but don't want them to fail either. It's more fun beating them when they're a good team. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 16:25
        
        yes -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 19, 16:21
- Wait till they bring back Shamrock Shakes -- nm - eag Jun 19, 16:11 5
  - I'm a Mets fan tonight because they face the Rangers. They're on their own when they face the Braves and the Phillies. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 19, 16:12 2
    - Dude they have a 10 game lead on them and this isn't the same Rangers team from last year -- nm - eag Jun 19, 16:25 1
      - 10 games is way too close -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 19, 16:27
  - 9 more months! -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 16:11 1
    - Grimace is pregnant with Shamrock Shakes? -- nm - Todd Manning Jun 19, 18:37
juneteenth quiz, if you had to guess, what year would you say the last (known) African-American who had lived under slavery died? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 15:59 6
- 1975 -- nm - Inigo Jun 19, 16:01 2
  - *ding* -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 16:03 1
    - which means Bradley Cooper and Elizabeth Cash Green both inhabited the earth together -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 16:05
- 1968 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 19, 16:00 2
  - *bzzt* close, but even later -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 16:01 1
    - okay, 1969 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 19, 16:03
Conservative group backs AOC’s primary challenger (a Republican in disguise), by running ads in Times Square, which is not in her district. -- (link) - Tim Jun 19, 15:58 6
- Let them waste their money on a losing cause. In her last primary she won by nearly 60 pts. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 16:10 3
  - I still love they think the Amazon deal would have given a bunch of people in poverty high paying jobs. - Tim Jun 19, 16:14 2
    - They would have brought in a bunch of corporate types who would have snapped up the available housing jacking the already notoriously high prices -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 18:21
    - Yup. It was corporate jobs, not jobs for lower income people. We have those already. And they still ended up setting up an office and bringing workers - Krusty Jun 19, 16:21
- D - Margaritaville -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 16:01
- Everyone in the Bronx knows that Times Square is the place to hang out. -- nm - Max Jun 19, 16:00
I would like to formally thank Volnelk for not being a jinx this week. -- nm - David Jun 19, 15:48
A Panthers Fan Reaction to the 2023-2024 NFL Season -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 19, 15:25 [youtube] 1
- Just wait until game 6! -- nm* - Mop🧹 Jun 19, 15:30
Queen Catalog to Be Acquired by Sony Music for £1 Billion ($1.27B USD) -- nm* - budice Jun 19, 15:20
Cubs take first 3 game series since mid May!! Mets better watch out this weekend! We're on a roll! - Last Of My Kind Jun 19, 14:47
if Louisiana compels the display of 10 Commandments in classrooms, do students have standing to sue when the state violates those precepts? - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 14:31 3
- It always old testament and never the Beautitudes to temper justice with mercy -- nm - Kurt Vonagut meme we've seen a dozen times Jun 19, 15:48
- Is Louisiana one of the book banning states?—because if so…the Bible, including the 10 Commandments has a lot of naughty stuff in it -- nm - Trending Jun 19, 14:44 1
  - "You gotta teach me what sodomy is if you want me to avoid it..." -- nm - Max Jun 19, 15:01
throw another O's starter on the TJS pile -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 14:25 16
- found the culprit -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 15:53 4
  - I'm with Inigo. Get rid of those -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 19, 16:05
  - Those uniforms need to be burned even without this. -- nm - Inigo Jun 19, 15:58 2
    - Most city connects ones should be burned -- nm - eag Jun 19, 16:05 1
      - Yup. There are like two good ones. The rest are trash. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 16:11
- If you only had a stacked minor leagues from which to trade for a starter. - Krusty Jun 19, 14:32 10
  - Is that catcher ready for the show? -- nm - The Chicago Cubs Jun 19, 14:50 2
    - Wait! We're stupid enough to let Crochet go but you have to take Kopech too! Call me. -- nm - The Chicago White Sox Jun 19, 15:00
    - Likely next year. Sorry. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 14:53
  - What time does the Yanks/O's Rumble start tonight? - Jovian Jun 19, 14:39 5
    - I expect a lot of up and in pitches from both team tonight and we have Cole back on the mound. - Krusty Jun 19, 14:53 4
      - You guys got lucky with Judge cause u saw what happen to Mookie -- (edited) - eag Jun 19, 16:04 1
        
        Definitely. He had a similar incident a few years ago and it broke his wrist. -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 19, 16:24
      - oh I know. This is all they were talking about on the FAN at lunch -- nm - Jovian Jun 19, 14:54 1
        
        The video of Verdugo yapping at Mountcastle was really funny. -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 19, 14:58
  - this is not endemic to the O's, and never happened in the first 100 years of pro ball -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 14:34
ah well, nevertheless . . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 19, 14:16
Watching this Netflix flick called "land of bad". It's reasonably entertaining so far. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 19, 14:13
MORE -- (link) - Reagen Jun 19, 13:52 5
- So is that 8% of the body being Conservative? Those are rookie numbers in the New World, govn'er! - Max Jun 19, 15:00
- kylorenmore.gif -- nm - Tim Jun 19, 14:53
- YouGov:: Labour: 425 (+223) Conservative: 108 (-257) Lib Dem: 67 (+56) SNP: 20 (-28) Reform UK: 5 (+5) Plaid: 4 (±0) Green: 2 (+1) -- (link) - znufrii Jun 19, 14:13
- Lettuce sighted, I repeat, Lettuce sighted -- (link) - budice Jun 19, 13:55 1
  - I'm taking the Friday off. I'm going to enjoy this. -- nm - LMS Jun 19, 14:08
dammit. Cameron Brink tears has torn ACL. Season done, no Olympics. dammit. -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 19, 13:51 5
- oh god why did I watch the slo-mo replay -- nm - Max Jun 19, 15:24
- Wait…there’s a 3X3 Olympic women’s basketball team as well…and Caitlin can’t even get on that one? 🙄 -- nm - Trending Jun 19, 14:40 1
  - It's not a simple as grabbing three players, there's qualifications based on playing in the circuit. -- nm - Reagen Jun 19, 14:51
- So you're saying there's an opening? -- nm - Caitlin Clark Jun 19, 13:53 1
  - she was on the 3x3 team -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 19, 13:54
The ransomware attack on Ascension hospitals nearly killed patients (maybe did?) as lab results were lost, presriptions confused other lapses -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 19, 13:50
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces his new AI startup, Safe Superintelligence -- (link) - budice Jun 19, 13:50 1
- Good luck. It’s a tough economy out there. -- nm - Unsafe Superdummies Jun 19, 14:02
You know, time travel isn't merely possible but actually done every day. - David Jun 19, 13:48 1
- Wow. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 14:08
When you walk through a storm, hold your head up and don’t be afraid of the dark. With hope in your heart, you’ll never walk alone -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 19, 13:45 1
- Come to Butthead. -- nm - Sandstorm Jun 19, 15:04
Times have changed. Our kids are getting worse. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 19, 13:45

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