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Dolly Parton on the Wrexham bandwagon. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 12:46 [youtube] 1
- cool thing -- nm - budice Jun 27, 12:50
My cell service went kablammo earlier today. I'm assuming/hoping that it's part of this -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 27, 12:23 4
- I got an email from corporate IT stating the same -- nm - JD Jun 27, 12:24 1
  - oddly, wife & daughter are on T-Mobile which says is affected.. I guess they're just on the okey-dokey part of the network -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 27, 12:29
- What did you do!?!? -- nm - decline Jun 27, 12:24 1
  - Biden’s fault. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 12:44
I'm on an unpaid vacation for the next week and a half. All of my clients are away until after the 4th of July. - Krusty Jun 27, 12:23 7
- “Li” ?? Lollipop Island? -- nm - Trending Jun 27, 12:49 1
  - I wish! - Krusty Jun 27, 12:59
- WHO’S WATCHING THEIR DOGS?! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 12:47 1
  - Some go to a farm to play and swim with other dogs. Some go with their owners to their summer house. - Krusty Jun 27, 12:50
- Rent a cabin in a national park, offer to summer camp their dogs till the fireworks stop. -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 27, 12:46
- wear purple -- nm - LFG Jun 27, 12:27 1
  - Nice! Sadly, it won't go with my all over American flag outfit. :-) - Krusty Jun 27, 12:31
You’re A Birder, James Hetfield By Barry Petchesky - JD Jun 27, 12:15
NBA Rd 2 draft starts in 50 minutes (pushed forward because of the debate)….we’ll know the fate of Bronny, very soon -- nm - Trending Jun 27, 12:09 8
- God willing, undrafted. Any pick on him is wasted, even for a 2nd round pick. He’s not ready. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 27, 12:31 6
  - Doesn't pass the Brian Scalabrine test ;-) -- nm - JD Jun 27, 12:36 1
    - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 13:01
  - He's not ready but another team can hold him for trade capital or recruitment purposes -- nm - budice Jun 27, 12:36 3
    - Spurs at 48 and Pacers at 49+50…those team need to go hostage mode -- nm - Trending Jun 27, 12:48
    - Simmons was joking the other day that the Celtics should take him as a hostage -- nm - rollo Jun 27, 12:40 1
      - Why make it easy for Lake Show or Suns. Why not stir the pot -- nm - budice Jun 27, 12:42
- Few teams with a couple picks, figure one of those uses one on Bronny -- nm - budice Jun 27, 12:21
love this pic of BEAT -- (pic) - mud Jun 27, 12:03 [Attachment]
Gross, Netherlands. Sent to jail for raping a child, Dutch beach volleyball player qualifies for Paris Olympics representing the Netherlands -- (link) - oblique Jun 27, 12:01
just posting his debate prep on main now -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 11:55 5
- "For the first time since the '50s, we're selling more energy than we're producing. NEXT!" -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 12:13 2
  - And transporting it adds to emissions. -- nm - LFG Jun 27, 12:18
  - I remember when we become a net exporter of petroleum. That was stunning. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 27, 12:16
- He’s kinda a ‘checkers’ not ‘chess’ guy -- nm - Trending Jun 27, 12:04 1
  - He's more of a 52 Pickup kinda guy - zeitgeist Jun 27, 12:06
TIL: BBC did a HTML 5 version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure - JD Jun 27, 11:39 15
- Your score is 10 out of a possible 400 -- nm - decline Jun 27, 12:23
- From the FAQ: You don't seem too sure, how soon is soon? - JD Jun 27, 12:21
- holy sh*t -- nm - Jovian Jun 27, 12:15 5
  - Reminds me why I found this game so frustrating. It was designed to learn by failing. You had to save constantly. - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 12:20 4
    - If in doubt, before you make a move, please save your game by typing "Save" then enter. - JD Jun 27, 12:22 3
      - yep I just got killed by a flying brick. :) -- nm - Jovian Jun 27, 12:25 2
        
        and yea I am stuck, I dont know how to proceed without getting hit by a brick. :) -- nm - Jovian Jun 27, 12:30 1
        
        Ask Ford about your house. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 13:44
- I caught the Babel fish. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 27, 11:43
- Oh shit. There goes my afternoon. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 11:42
- get your InvisiClues -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 11:42 4
  - I so had to purchase and use those for some of the Infocom games. Especially this one -- nm - JD Jun 27, 12:06 3
    - Yup. -- nm - David Jun 27, 12:31
    - Anyone who says they beat Spellbreaker without InvisiClues is a liar. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 27, 12:13 1
      - Yup. -- nm - David Jun 27, 12:31
I like how Walgreens suddenly realizes having 10 Million locations might be a bad idea -- nm - budice Jun 27, 11:34 2
- we're keepin the walgrens, loosing most of our CVS' in the area -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 27, 12:05
- Turn them all into PokeStops! -- nm - LFG Jun 27, 11:37
SITWAP? Gigantic sinkhole swallows soccer field in Alton, Illinois (with video of it happening in embedded tweet) -- (link*) - oblique Jun 27, 11:32
Jared Padalecki is not happy with the CW: ‘F— It. They Can’t Fire Me Again’ -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 11:28 4
- cameo coming up on The Boys! -- nm - Pippy Jun 27, 12:45
- one of my writers group had a show on CW and had nothing but bad things to say about the former head, so you know it must be even worse there now -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 11:34
- fine, youre fired -- nm - CW Jun 27, 11:31 1
  - poor Mop. -- nm - LFG Jun 27, 11:32
From Page 4 of this US facts report on government spending. A breakdown on income and spending by the US government in 2023 - oblique Jun 27, 11:20 [Attachment]
I think I just got booked for just watching this summary -- (link) - JD Jun 27, 11:08 [youtube] 1
- Man, those shin injuries look painful! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 11:20
Steam Summer Sale has started. -- nm* - budice Jun 27, 11:08 13
- hope Against the Storm is in it! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 11:32 4
  - 35% off -- nm - oblique Jun 27, 11:32 3
    - what's that in canadian? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 11:34 2
      - 1.7 Celsius -- nm* - BaRRRon Jun 27, 11:39 1
        
        the drink, not the temp -- nm - budice Jun 27, 11:52
- RIP my wallet -- nm - oblique Jun 27, 11:12 7
  - RIP my inbox. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 11:15 6
    - RIP my weekend -- nm - budice Jun 27, 11:16 5
      - I find it funny that Factorio NEVER goes on sale. NEVER -- nm - oblique Jun 27, 11:24 2
        
        Like drug dealers ever offer discounts. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 27, 12:46
        
        "10% off" - budice Jun 27, 11:26
      - RIP my marriage -- nm - Trending Jun 27, 11:17 1
        
        RIP life as we know it -- nm - LFG Jun 27, 11:19
Bery - now that Threads has an API, can we embed Threads here soon? -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 27, 10:59 4
- I'd love for Instagram to work in ST but they've given Bery trouble, so I doubt Threads will be any better. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 11:16
- Meta was essentially the creator of Open Graph which is how the unfurling/embedding happens (content in the threads page). I'm surprised that it - oblique Jun 27, 11:10 2
  - I think they just opened/activated the API in the past week or two. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 27, 11:19 1
    - the API is different than the OpenGraph stuff. OpenGraph is content in a web page (og:title, og:link) you can't see that other sites can read to make - oblique Jun 27, 11:22
new The Boys spoils -- (edited) - mud Jun 27, 10:56 2
- I get about as much enjoyment watching The Boys as I did watching The Man in the High Castle. - Jovian Jun 27, 11:16 1
  - interesting -- nm - mud Jun 27, 11:35
Dining: Like how appetizers cost as much as entrees these days. -- nm - budice Jun 27, 10:53 3
- I remember when the trend was the appetizers where bigger than the entrees, people complained about Boz Scaggs restaurant, ap=BIG plate entre' _ -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 27, 12:03
- for reals, it is nuts. nmbbudice - Pippy Jun 27, 10:58 1
  - we totes good piper -- nm - budice Jun 27, 11:03
Taco Bell offering a $7 “Luxe Cravings Box” for its summer menu...... - Walt_Disney Jun 27, 10:49 4
- No, a McDonald's Big Mac meal doesn't cost $18. The average is $9.29. But the golden arches is still introducing a $5 meal deal. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 11:30 1
  - I got a large order of fries two nights ago. With tax, $4.72. -- nm - LFG Jun 27, 11:31
- it is hilarious that the fast food places are dialing back their price gouging. For how long though? - Pippy Jun 27, 11:00
- Taco Bell luxury dining like Demolition Man foretold -- nm - budice Jun 27, 10:50
Secretary Pete v. your median GOP house rep is hardly a fair fight -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 10:28 13
- I did enjoy the Sec. Pete shout out on The Boys. -- nm - LFG Jun 27, 11:16
- I'll assume this is the same but on Threads -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 27, 10:56
- And that's not even taking into account that even if all the electricity was generated with fossil fuels and there's transmission losses and hell - JD Jun 27, 10:52 1
  - And non carbon generation is only increasing in proportion, so EVs get cleaner as that improves. Meanwhile ICE engines are stuck as they are -- (edited) - Reagen Jun 27, 11:01
- *boggle* Was Westerman trying to argue that physics says fossil->ICE would always be cleaner than anysourcemix->EV? - Max Jun 27, 10:45 6
  - I mean that's the other part, the extraction energy never gets factored in to these disingenuous arguments - Reagen Jun 27, 11:03 2
    - you're being obtuse. how much energy does it take to rotate the earth for solar and wind energy?? ICE is nICE. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 27, 11:12 1
      - It's the turtles at the center that keep it turning, gorsh! -- nm - Reagen Jun 27, 11:39
  - He does not even know. Some talking head gave him some talking points he does not even understand - Pippy Jun 27, 10:47 2
    - He's really not that vicious though. He's just extremely prepared and doesn't speak on things he doesn't know. nm - Turd Ferguson Jun 27, 11:12
    - This. Exactly this. -- nm - Jovian Jun 27, 10:56
- Damn Pete was pissed! -- nm - Remlik Jun 27, 10:38
- fatality -- nm - oblique Jun 27, 10:32
Inside Out 2 will hit a billion by the end of its third weekend (doubling up Elemental's entire global run) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 10:21
LYC: Final verdict. She texted she landed in Chicago at 10:02AM CST - oblique Jun 27, 10:06 9
- Plot twist—it’s Chicago in Guatemala. -- nm - Trending Jun 27, 10:22 4
  - Tooken -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 10:25
  - TIL Flavorize is a liar :) There is no Chicago in Guatemala but there is one in Zimbabwe -- nm* - oblique Jun 27, 10:22 2
    - 🤣 - Trending Jun 27, 10:56 [Attachment]
    - The truth is somehow funnier than the lie -- nm - Beryllium Jun 27, 10:52
- 👍🏼 -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 10:16
- Smooth Hobbit Action day and night. Worthy of some Chipotle. -- nm* - budice Jun 27, 10:11 2
  - Hell yes -- nm - Pippy Jun 27, 10:48
  - Normally that would have happened today because it's Thursday but I got Chipotle on Monday because I had no food in the house after vacation - oblique Jun 27, 10:16
The Republican party is dead Part 986: Sure Crenshaw, you just go ahead and let 'true conservatives' like Paulina run your party -- (edited) - Jovian Jun 27, 10:05 [Attachment] 1
- Handcuffs? he needs to shut the fuck up - Pippy Jun 27, 11:02
A little disconcerting to walk out the door to the office without my ID badge. - znufrii Jun 27, 09:59 6
- Time to do the different thing. -- nm - Qale Jun 27, 12:50
- Onwards and Upwards! -- nm - Andie Jun 27, 10:57
- you got this - oblique Jun 27, 10:06
- znu departing -- (link) - Max Jun 27, 10:05 [youtube] 1
  - heh. I knew it was gonna be this even before I clicked on it :) -- nm - decline Jun 27, 10:06
- Congrats! Enjoy your time off and best of luck at the new job! -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 10:01
first ep of s3 The Bear is indeed masterful but y'all . . . (not really spoilers) - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 09:58 6
- I disagree. The choices in the episode is what amplifies it beyond that. Can't wait to watch it again. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 27, 11:33 4
  - it's a work of art! beautiful -- nm - mud Jun 27, 11:37
  - the most impressive thing is they (presumably) got FX to pay everyone their full episode price for it in 2024 -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 11:37 2
    - It's an anti-clip episode. All the clips were new. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 27, 11:42 1
      - (spoils but not really) -- (edited) - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 11:45
- If they do a clams and linguine episode let me know, I'll tune in for that. -- nm - Max Jun 27, 10:00
Tesla Charger burned WR Randall Cobb's house down -- (link) - budice Jun 27, 09:58
so is the subtext of the Sackler op. that they had a chance in the past to sponsor a FedSoc goon for Leonard Leo but turned him down and now get the - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 09:45 1
- probably. there is still time for that bag of money to show up though -- nm - Pippy Jun 27, 09:51
Panama vs USA COPA Soccer tonight - WHO YOU GOT!!?? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 27, 09:32 15
- I got....not....soccer? Lawds, I may watch a debate for the first time in 10 years? -- nm - Pippy Jun 27, 09:52 12
  - i'm interested to see how this new dementia cure (that Joe apparently only takes for debates) works out in the real world its been kept hidden from -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 11:06
  - Why? The high/low lights will be on the Toks/Threads/naXis feeds anyway. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 27, 10:15 1
    - I’d kind of like to actually see things in their context and not cut and edited. Not that my vote is up for grabs. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 27, 10:22
  - I'd rather eat glass than watch Trump speak. -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 09:54 8
    - No doubt. Unfortunately tonight I have no choice. I will be forced to listen to him live for the first time in I dont even know how long. -- nm - Jovian Jun 27, 10:02 1
      - Are you being held hostage? Do we need to get help? -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 10:27
    - tbf it's barely even speech at this point -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 09:56 5
      - The both of them are awful to listen to speak these days but at least the words coming out of Biden's mouth don't make me ill. - Krusty Jun 27, 10:00 4
        
        up arrow up arrow up arrow -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 27, 11:08
        
        it's that or watching the Yankees -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 10:33 2
        
        Neither would be enjoyable right now. -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 10:44 1
        
        I may (or may not) catch the beginning while I'm getting ready to go out. After that I'll be watching Evita at the Gem. -- nm - Meg Jun 27, 11:10
- USA! USA! -- nm - Krusty Jun 27, 09:44
- I reach down between my legs and - LFG Jun 27, 09:41
BOOM! -- nm - LFG Jun 27, 09:29 1
- shaka lacka -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 27, 10:16

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