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Berliners soar over the city on Europe’s highest swing -- (link) - LMS Jul 24, 06:06 4
- Nope -- nm - Krusty Jul 24, 06:17
- Not if you paid me 1 million dollars -- nm - decline Jul 24, 06:10 2
  - Really? For 1M I might do that without the harness -- nm - oblique Jul 24, 06:14
  - *tears up the cheque* -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 24, 06:12
The Crowdstrike preliminary post incident review is up if you're interested -- (link) - oblique Jul 24, 05:42 5
- Like a week later -- nm - budice Jul 24, 05:50 2
  - It's not even the root cause analysis, just a preliminary review which basically says "we didn't do any actual testing in live computers and what - oblique Jul 24, 05:52 1
    - exactly, a nice word salad to keep peeps occupied -- nm* - budice Jul 24, 05:55
- Is it just a gif of Homer Simpson going 'DOH!' -- nm - ty97 Jul 24, 05:45 1
  - More like Arnold saying "It is NOT a tumor" - oblique Jul 24, 05:47
If Kamala Harris wins, the first thing I want to see happen is - ty97 Jul 24, 05:30 1
- Heh -- nm - Pippy Jul 24, 05:47
IOC announces that Salt Lake City will be hosting 2034 Winter Olympics. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 24, 05:24 1
- yay hooray -- nm - budice Jul 24, 05:49
A Canadian women's soccer coach was caught using a drone to spy on the New Zealand team. Two coaches have been sent home and the head coach is -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 24, 04:57 5
- What would they even hope to learn from that? "Oh wow what a dribble, we should try that, wow" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 05:15 3
  - They can see their formation, what plays they plan to run on set pieces and other strategy they were planning. -- nm - Krusty Jul 24, 05:32
  - If they were practicing set plays wouldn't that help? -- nm - Dano Jul 24, 05:20
  - That was my thought. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 24, 05:18
- Bill Belichick’s retirement certainly took a turn. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 24, 05:14
On the nature of complaints about "DEI" -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 24, 04:48 [mastodon] 1
- heh -- nm - JaxSean Jul 24, 05:38
Happy birthday, Decline!! Happy birthday, Cuzzin Todd!! Woo hoo!!! 🥳🎂🎈 - Krusty Jul 24, 04:37 8
- HBD X2 -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 12:57
- Happy Birthday x 2! -- nm - JaxSean Jul 24, 05:39
- thanks all :) -- nm - decline Jul 24, 05:36
- Happy Birthday gentlemen! -- nm - ty97 Jul 24, 05:30
- birthdays! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 24, 05:00
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 24, 04:52
- Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! -- nm - Dano Jul 24, 04:50
- Hooray! -- nm - Tim Jul 24, 04:38
Russian arrested in Paris for plot to destabilise Olympics. Overheard saying to KGB that France is going to put on an A+ opening ceremony Friday. - Loyola Jul 24, 04:36 1
- Here’s a link. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 24, 05:17
Deadpool & Wolverine 81% (144), A Greyhound of a Girl 100% (5), The Beast Within 43% (7), Didi 93% (40), The Fabulous Four nsy, - Beaker 🍺 Jul 24, 04:27 1
- I liked Didi when he was a Yankee but I don't know if he's interesting enough for a whole movie about him. -- nm - Krusty Jul 24, 04:45
TV PSA: MLB, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, AEW Rampage, Big Brother, The Ark, Land of Women, Presumed Innocent, Sunny, Time Bandits, - Beaker 🍺 Jul 24, 04:24
Strands #143 - spanagram 3rd - prayformojo Jul 24, 04:23 2
- Needed a clue then things fell into place. - VMan Jul 24, 06:25
- Yellow 1st - decline Jul 24, 05:33
Murdle - back in the saddle - Fuzzy Jul 24, 04:20 1
- x'd again -- nm - prayformojo Jul 24, 04:42
Wordle 1,131 3/6 - crash davis 😺 Jul 24, 00:45 5
- 5 - decline Jul 24, 05:27
- 5 - rollo Jul 24, 05:20
- 5/6 - prayformojo Jul 24, 04:12
- Same—can’t believe my 2nd word didn’t match - Trending Jul 24, 02:09
- 3/6 as well, but all green - Beryllium Jul 24, 01:04
Connections Puzzle #409 PBGY - crash davis 😺 Jul 24, 00:31 3
- One oopsie - YGBP - VMan Jul 24, 06:19
- XGYPB - decline Jul 24, 05:29
- Prescribed order - prayformojo Jul 24, 04:15
A person tried to hit me with their car while I was walking to the bus stop after work and said I had a bad attitude. Uh, you’re trying to kill me! -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 00:02 8
- you just have a sassy walk -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 24, 00:13 7
  - I upturned my arms like wtf are you doing and then waved to them that they go. I think some drivers aim for pedestrians. -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 00:25 6
    - I'm walkin' here! -- nm - Ratso Jul 24, 06:03
    - Most drivers have no respect for pedestrians or cyclists. They think it's their road and everyone should get out of their way. - Krusty Jul 24, 04:40
    - It's legal to get away with murder in America if your weapon is a car. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 00:41 3
      - Yup. The penalties are minimal unless you've been drinking. Mow down someone crossing the street and the most you'll get is a fine. No loss of license or -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 24, 04:44
      - I try to be careful. It’s hard sometimes here for sure. -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 01:12
      - (... and canada ... and lots of other places) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 00:42
Simone on the floor exercise -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 23:35 1
- You fooled me. I thought they started the gymnastics part of the Olympics early and we missed things. - Krusty Jul 24, 04:47
Move over Cocaine bear, now its Cocaine Sharks, a dozen disected sharks in Brazil found to have cocaine in their system.... - zeitgeist Jul 23, 23:32 1
- How very surprising. - Ore-o Jul 23, 23:39
VP, Kamala's coming pick for running mate. I'm guessing Cooper. A Harris-Cooper ticket to battle Trump-Vance. Here's why. -- (edited) - Ore-o Jul 23, 23:23
50 years ago SCOTUS unanimously rules that Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 23, 22:57
Olivia Rodrigo is coconut pilled -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 22:31 1
- Cher called, wants her outfit back -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 23, 22:50 [Attachment]
I've had two organizations this evening where I couldn't load the login page. Wonder if this is still the effects of last week. -- nm - Meg Jul 23, 22:01
I have an odd relationship with Time Bandits. I always felt I should have liked it more than I did. A few minutes into the apple series, and it's good - Beryllium Jul 23, 21:39
5 of the Oldest Jokes in History - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 21:25 7
- Joke reviewer needs to weigh in -- nm - rollo Jul 24, 05:25
- I want the first Your Mama joke. Or the first deez nutz. -- nm - Qale Jul 23, 22:08 2
  - your mama's so old, her name is just Eve -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 06:14
  - "Oh yeah, Nanni? How do you like THESE ingots??" -- nm - Ea-nāṣir si Jul 23, 22:44
- spoiler warning, they aren't exactly winners -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 21:26 2
  - I can hear Ron Swanson telling the haircut one. -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 21:28 1
    - Yeah, I actually liked that one. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 21:30
nice post, Asha -- (link) - mud Jul 23, 21:04
From Steve Largent to Jake Bobo, always had those great receivers -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 20:44 9
- related: I just joined the Blue Pride Wait List -- nm - psilotum Jul 23, 21:04 3
  - 😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 21:17 2
    - I spent 7 years on the notification list to get to this point. -- nm - psilotum Jul 23, 21:28 1
      - Only 12K people to go! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 21:32
- Seahawks legend! -- nm - psilotum Jul 23, 21:03 2
  - I remember shortly after I moved to Seattle, the local news started off the night with "Former Seahawk Franco Harris has been elected to the HOF" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 21:15 1
    - as they should -- nm - psilotum Jul 23, 21:39
- It's Josh, Crash. Josh Bobo. -- nm - David Jul 23, 20:53 1
  - 🐻🐻🐻 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 20:57
Not the Onion: Trump—“Trump: The environmentalists want wind. The wind is blowing today. The whole thing is a hoax. The wind kills our birds” - Trending Jul 23, 20:32 17
- He hates windmills for no apparent reason -- nm - Pippy Jul 23, 21:21 5
  - See where he gets his donations from. I'm willing to bet big oil put a lot of money in his pocket and they don't like anything that lessens the - Krusty Jul 24, 04:50
  - He warned us Pippy! We're running out of wind! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 21:25 3
    - Everyone is saying it, crooked winds -- nm - Pippy Jul 23, 21:27 2
      - they divert the wind, use it up, that's why everything is hot now -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 23, 21:30 1
        
        Oooo. I bet we hear some dummy say this and soon -- nm - Pippy Jul 24, 05:49
- i like how they had to put him next to a VP selection even less popular than Sarah Palin just to project the vaguest normality -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 20:37 10
  - I was just thinking about Palin and how she sunk McCain's prospects (Obama was winning anyway) and how there could be a parallel in Vance -- nm - rollo Jul 23, 20:52 9
    - yeah, remember when people took Sarah Palin seriously for that minute? good times. -- nm - mafic Jul 23, 21:01 5
      - Just this week I noticed we had her book in the store. I'm not sure if it's the same copy I read years ago. I so wanted to read it but didn't - Meg Jul 23, 21:23 2
        
        i still have a bottle of Sarah Palin wine from that bizarre dinner we went to that she was at. what does one do with that? -- nm - Andie Jul 24, 06:13 1
        
        drink it on election night - hollywood big shot Jul 24, 06:15
      - then the entire mortgage market collapsed over a weekend -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 21:04 1
        
        with Palin, first came Katie Couric saying "Name a newspaper" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 21:19
    - For Trump-leaning voters open to leaning the other way, Vance provides a reason. Maybe it's only a couple % but Trump def stepped on his dick here -- nm - rollo Jul 23, 20:56 2
      - (his tiny, tiny dick) -- nm - rollo Jul 23, 20:57 1
        
        Hee!! -- nm - Pippy Jul 23, 21:18
Not to be outdone by the Cardinals…Taylor Walls of the Tampa Bay Rays does a Trump salute *fist pump, fist pump* “fight! Fight!” After hitting a doubl - Trending Jul 23, 20:27 2
- His defense of it was so stupid it hurt my teeth. -- nm - David Jul 23, 20:31 1
  - 🤣—Yeah—what a doof —he’s hitting .155 and 9th in the lineup, as well… his first hit since the Trump incident - Trending Jul 23, 20:42
MLK Day 2025 also happens to fall on Inauguration Day this year, just fyi -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 20:10 2
- DNC obviously hired the NFL script writers, for this season -- nm* - Trending Jul 23, 20:16
- Why would Joe Biden do this? -- nm - Tim Jul 23, 20:16
“one source sharing that conversations with an A-list pop star are currently underway about a possible performance” it’s happening -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 19:41 16
- giggity -- nm - mud Jul 23, 20:05
- Is it Bono? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 23, 20:03 3
  - just as long as it isn't fucking Common again -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 20:05 2
    - Is he cancelled? - Pippy Jul 23, 21:20 1
      - just so mid -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 21:33
- it's either Bey or Tay. Either would be huge. -- nm - Remlik Jul 23, 19:47 7
  - both... pols love to bring people together, bring split up former groups together for a reunion etc. Tay and Bey would be a great moment -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 23, 21:20
  - august 20 ends the European leg of the Eras tour. Taylor's next show is 11/14. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 23, 19:51
  - kamala is brat Charlii 90 -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 19:48 4
    - Sure that would work! -- nm - Remlik Jul 23, 20:00
    - C90 is A list? -- nm - amandaphone Jul 23, 19:49 2
      - with the gen z/alphas? she's their Taylor Swift as far as i can tell -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 19:56
      - Though honestly "I love it" being made avail to Kamala HQ could be hilarious. -- nm - amandaphone Jul 23, 19:53
- an? 1? I'm sure several A listers have called in by now and said: 'I'll do a fundraiser for you'. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 23, 19:46 2
  - at the DNC in prime time -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 19:47 1
    - This would be the first convention I actually watch. I kid you not. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 23, 20:03
Whales sinking sailboats has spread to our coast -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 23, 19:28 2
- they're gonna need a bigger boat. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 23, 19:47
- it's a portent. - mud Jul 23, 19:37
Paul Skenes: 8 1/3 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 8 K, first major league loss. -- nm - Tim Jul 23, 19:26 5
- He lost while giving up only two runs...is he playing for the Mariners? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 23, 21:01
- So—they pull him when he’s on the way to a no-hitter (they’ve done this twice btw), but leave him in for 8 1/3 to get a loss - Trending Jul 23, 20:18 1
  - He had 99 pitches in the no-hitter. He had 104 tonight. - Will Hunting Jul 24, 03:39
- I guess after being walked 4 times Judge didn’t think he was going to see anything to hit in the 9th. -- (link) - Tim Jul 23, 19:40
- bum. cut his ass -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 19:39
while i think the Sec Serv head did have to resign over the shooting, the rot goes much deeper than her and Biden should spend his time cleaning house -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 19:23 1
- Agreed. The buck stops here. However, there appears to have been many other errors and those heads should roll as well. -- nm - VMan Jul 23, 19:28
this geologist says that over a certain timeframe a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption is a normal event. so framing matters, I guess? -- nm - mafic Jul 23, 19:15
Important question. Does Kamala have pets? -- nm - amandaphone Jul 23, 19:15 7
- She didn't as of 2020 - Meg Jul 23, 20:01
- And do they drink Mountain Dew -- nm - Jovian Jul 23, 19:43 4
  - these are going to be the least policy-based final 100 days of an election in history. just memes and vibes baby -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 19:44 3
    - The Hot Ones Election -- nm - Tim Jul 23, 19:44 2
      - whether it's based in fact or not it seems like "JD Vance is a couch fucker" is going viral lol -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 23, 21:05 1
        
        Oh noes! -- nm - Pippy Jul 23, 21:23
- JD Vance thinks so. I'm less sure. lotta dogs in her senate office tho. -- nm - mafic Jul 23, 19:20
the new Waititi/Clement series adaptation of Time Bandits gets a Big mud Seal of Approval - mud Jul 23, 19:13 2
- it started? -- nm - Remlik Jul 23, 19:20 1
  - yeah, I'm on ep.2 now (it's two per week) I loves it. -- nm - mud Jul 23, 19:25

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