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Wordle in 1! Finally happeend. -- nm - loosilu Sep 11, 05:01 3
- Your usual starter word or a random starter? -- nm - Trending Sep 11, 05:07 2
  - ps and this means a LOT of people will be getting it in 1 today. -- nm - loosilu Sep 11, 05:09
  - Usual. -- nm - loosilu Sep 11, 05:09
Murdle: 5:44 - prayformojo Sep 11, 04:40
No soup for you! -- (link) - znufrii Sep 11, 04:30
Connections Puzzle #458 - BPGY - prayformojo Sep 11, 04:24 1
- couple mistakes - decline Sep 11, 05:37
Original Taylor post is up to 7.2M likes. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 11, 04:23 1
- I was one of the first 2 million! -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 11, 04:30
Wordle 1,180 3/6 - prayformojo Sep 11, 04:19 1
- 2 - decline Sep 11, 05:31
Who’s in charge here? It’s stunning how the GOP keeps getting cornered into these losing arguments like fucking couches and immigrants eating pets. - Mop🧹 Sep 11, 04:14 3
- I mean, didn't his 2016 campaign manager go to prison? -- nm - loosilu Sep 11, 05:10
- I wish she said “This is the guy you think is going to stand up to anyone? I can make him say whatever I want and I’ve been doing it all night.” -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 11, 04:24 1
  - This has certainly been my perception all night. How can we expect this guy to run a lemonade stand, much less the United States? - Mop🧹 Sep 11, 04:30
Sucked it up, opened up an incognito tab, and went to Fox News to see what they had to say about the debate. - Mop🧹 Sep 11, 04:01 4
- Fact checking equals “ bias” to them -- nm - Epiphany Sep 11, 04:41 2
  - Apparently he’s whining today that they fact checked him more than Harris. - znufrii Sep 11, 04:56 1
    - lmfao -- nm - loosilu Sep 11, 05:02
- Oh, thanks, you took one for the team. -- nm - Andie Sep 11, 04:15
lol Lip Sync Battle Josh Gad as Trump -- (link) - Epiphany Sep 11, 03:53 [tiktok]
If you didn’t actively check radar, you’d never know a hurricane was hanging out just off the coast. -- nm - Qale Sep 11, 01:44 2
- I'm not endorsing until I do my research and decide where I land. -- nm - Francine Sep 11, 02:05
- New Orleans under Hurricane Watch as Francine may strengthen to a category 2 storm before landfall. -- (link) - Qale Sep 11, 01:50
Harris Walz friendship bracelets already up, Swifties -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 11, 00:35 2
- and, sold out. -- nm - Andie Sep 11, 06:31 1
  - those teen girls can only make one an hour -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 11, 12:27
Britney Spears is a little girl. (Warning: My kind of stupid.) -- (link) - Qale Sep 11, 00:17 [tiktok]
I did not do well with the crossword today. 16:46, 4 minutes slower than my next slowest time from the past 3 years. - mafic Sep 10, 23:25
The Trabuco fire has gone over the summit, jumped the Ortega Hwy, and is threatening Lake Elsinore on Hwy 15. I know this area well and - Meg Sep 10, 23:12 4
- Mountain High Ski Resort taken out by the Bridge fire. -- nm - Meg Sep 10, 23:35 2
  - They have webcams, some of which are still active. It’s too dark right now. Wonder what it’ll be like when the sun comes up. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Sep 11, 04:21
  - Has the Highland fire spread into san bernardino? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 11, 00:38
- sigh -- nm* - S Sep 10, 23:23
Biden considering loosening restrictions on long range missiles in Ukraine's war -- (link*) - zeitgeist Sep 10, 23:01
Someone in TX won the 800m there's 5 1m winners including one in WA -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 22:35 5
- Did you check Pippy's numbers? -- nm - Meg Sep 10, 22:39 3
  - no, I would assume she would -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 22:40 2
    - Not my numbers. Sugarland, TX. Near Houston -- nm - Epiphany Sep 11, 03:33 1
      - That’s where a big business line in my company is. I wonder if it is any of them. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 11, 04:49
- It was not me as I do not play. Whisper… I think paid into the pool? She doesn’t tend to play regularly. -- nm - Qale Sep 10, 22:38
“and this… former president” lol -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 22:23 2
- My favorite part of that was her saying how easily manipulated by dictators stroking his ego, after he said how much Orban said he liked him. -- nm - . Sep 10, 22:42 1
  - Here's world leaders looking down on donny -- (pic) - zeitgeist Sep 10, 22:57 [Attachment]
8 - White Sox magic number - . Sep 10, 22:13 2
- like they can play .500 ball. -- nm - mafic Sep 10, 22:22 1
  - They may be able to achieve .250. But 121 is in sight. -- nm - . Sep 10, 22:30
The best part is knowing how miserable Putin is right now. -- nm - David Sep 10, 22:11 2
- and Alito/Thomas -- nm - mr mooch Sep 10, 22:14 1
  - Indeed. -- nm - David Sep 10, 22:16
iOS 18 may be the safest new version to update in history as most of the biggest features either don’t work on your puny device or aren’t out at all. -- nm - Qale Sep 10, 22:09 3
- I'm only interested in one feature from iOS 18/macOS 15: "Keep Downloaded" folder settings in iCloud Drive -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 22:19 2
  - Features large and small that I’m interested in. - Qale Sep 10, 22:32 1
    - The icloud drive thing, in theory, fixes my problem with my notes app of choice -- nm - Beryllium Sep 11, 00:15
This is pretty good. -- (link) - David Sep 10, 22:03
"all our apes, gone" -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 21:52
$9m in donations after the debate (but before the Swift endorsement) -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 21:50 2
- I like the part where apparently there were a number of folks initiated refunds at 6am. -- nm - Qale Sep 10, 22:08
- jesus $36m for the day on ActBlue -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 21:56
there's a recall on my car because the front suspension may degrade with "frequent exposure to snow-melting chemicals." uhhhhh, you ok Toyota? - mafic Sep 10, 21:44 1
- In a big country, snow-melting chems degrade front suspension of your Toyota car. -- nm - Qale Sep 10, 22:11
"he managed to act normal for like 3 minutes and then she said one thing about his rallies and it was like feeding a gremlin after midnight" -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 21:42 2
- Feeding a mogwai after midnight...although gremlin is funnier. -- nm - Inigo Sep 11, 04:05
- you mean its "normal" to rant about foreigners taking over our cities and buildings and healthsystems and destroying our country 30 sec into a questio -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 22:22
JD Vance just doubled (or tripled?) down. - David Sep 10, 21:40 10
- Sure, he”s hearing from constituents, but has it not occurred to him that some of them are Dems and he’s getting pranked? -- nm - mara Sep 11, 04:32 1
  - Has it occurred to him that many of them are racist MAGAs? -- nm - loosilu Sep 11, 05:11
- Sheez, Haitians are not know for eating cats and dogs. -- nm - . Sep 10, 22:39
- Maybe we should offer them the thousands of pets that are killed in shelters every day ? - Meg Sep 10, 22:30
- Pay someone to kill pets? Isn’t that what Kristi Noem is for? -- nm* - Qale Sep 10, 22:12 2
  - Yup -- nm - Epiphany Sep 11, 03:37
  - Touche. -- nm - David Sep 10, 22:13
- honestly, I'd be fine if someone came and abducted my geese. I do not like geese. -- nm - mafic Sep 10, 22:07
- He's just desperate because their goose is cooked -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 21:43 1
  - points -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 10, 21:50
Empire Records The Musical -- (link) - Dano Sep 10, 21:37 1
- I wish I lived in NJ -- nm - Epiphany Sep 11, 03:40
More projection? Post on fb says lots of missing cats around maralago -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 21:32
The Pakled Candidate -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 10, 21:18 [mastodon]
On an unrelated note: I really love Bad Monkey. Vince Vaughn is just so lowkey charming. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 10, 21:18 1
- I'm liking it as well. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 21:20
Fuck. It kills me to say this, but Biden really did need to drop out. - David Sep 10, 21:14 5
- Kamala was the one with the real Biden zinger on school bussing at the initial 2020 primary debate. Very present and sharp. -- nm - budice Sep 10, 21:41
- I didn't want him to but since he did, I greatly admire him for doing so -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 10, 21:35
- I was open that I never wanted Biden to enter the 2020 race. He was the lukewarm soup of candidates. - ty97 Sep 10, 21:16 2
  - I don't remember anyone here on ST liking him until he clinched the nomination. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 11, 03:20
  - Accomplishments: Every time I heard a dumbass pundit talk about how Dems shouldn’t or can’t run on his accomplishments, I say the F word out loud. - Qale Sep 10, 22:15
eating the dogs, but with the Peanuts theme lol -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 21:14 1
- This is the content the internet deserves. -- nm - David Sep 10, 21:16
NYT: Taylor Swift Endorses Kamala Harris -- (link) - mud Sep 10, 21:13 8
- doing it like this two days after hugging Brittney Mahomes for the cameras is pretty funny -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 22:18 1
  - That speaks to why I like her. She has her convictions and political beliefs, but she still treats everyone with kindness. -- nm - Inigo Sep 11, 04:10
- "But Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, dismissed the endorsement as “more evidence that the Democrat party has become the party of the wealthy elite.” -- (edited) - crash davis 😺 Sep 10, 21:28 4
  - Versus the party with an alleged billionaire with an Ivy League degree running for President? -- nm - . Sep 10, 22:34
  - Yeah, we're the party! We're serving pets as Hors d'Oeuvres! - David Sep 10, 21:29 2
    - This is insane. I hope the GOP is proud of the poop they've taken on the nation's carpet. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 10, 21:31 1
      - Can't talk. Trans-ing immigrants. -- nm - David Sep 10, 21:37
- 3.5M likes in an hour on her IG post. Excited to see what it is when I wake up. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 10, 21:14
A woman I went to college with marked herself safe from having her pets eaten on FB. Being a laughingstock is the worst possible debate outcome for - crash davis 😺 Sep 10, 21:04 11
- I'm seeing a bunch of these posts on FB -- nm - Diva Sep 10, 21:18
- It's his Binders Full of Women. -- nm - David Sep 10, 21:06 9
  - I was hoping 'concepts of a plan' would be -- nm - ty97 Sep 10, 21:07 8
    - Concepts of a plan is going viral too. Lots of memes. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 10, 21:19 1
      - It's his system of a down. -- nm - Diva Sep 10, 21:21
    - Lol! (nmblink) - ralph wiggum Sep 10, 21:14
    - I mean, it might, too. He had a -really- bad night. - David Sep 10, 21:12 4
      - She was apparently a *very* good prosecutor. -- nm - ty97 Sep 10, 21:14 3
        
        She apparently studiously took notes during the two breaks. There aren't a lot of people over the age of 30 who still take notes. - David Sep 10, 21:17 2
        
        I could see her taking notes while he was talking. -- nm - loosilu Sep 11, 05:09
        
        The VP debate should be interesting. Vance started as a lawyer but has been in ifnance. But you've seen how is with people. Walz is a natural. -- nm - . Sep 10, 22:29
Chris Wallace gets it: every bit as devastating for Trump as first debate was for Biden -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 20:54 18
- Drudge Report: The End (The Night Trump Lost It All) -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 21:37 3
  - the thing about creating this alternate reality on Fox N*** is it doesn't take a whole lot for a Dem to burst their bubble just by being normal -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 21:59 2
    - As complimentary as that is, it still shows the [Fox] people only care about one thing, which is whether the person acts or sounds dominant. - Max Sep 11, 01:38
    - Hume sounds terrible. Has he been sick? -- nm - David Sep 10, 22:01
- I saw him say that live and I rolled my eyes. It's simply not. -- (edited) - ty97 Sep 10, 20:56 13
  - His entering the spin room tells me he's in a panic. -- nm - David Sep 10, 21:03 5
    - the moderators even game him an extra nine minutes to bitch and moan when he shouldn't have -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 21:06 3
      - Either Politico, CNN, or Axios pointed out that he got the last comment on literally every topic. -- nm - David Sep 10, 21:07 2
        
        he'd lean in and grab it like Foghorn Leghorn -- nm - mud Sep 10, 21:08
        
        "please proceed, governor" -- nm - mr mooch Sep 10, 21:08
    - It'd definitely a bad sign, it's obvious he knows he got beat. -- nm - ty97 Sep 10, 21:06
  - This time for sure! -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 10, 20:59
  - it depends how the rest of the media treats it for the next three weeks -- nm - mr mooch Sep 10, 20:57 5
    - L3. - Strongbad Sep 11, 03:21 1
      - Exactly -- nm - Epiphany Sep 11, 03:48
    - It's not gonna get the 3-week treatment because the GOP isn't going to start working to oust Trump. - ty97 Sep 10, 21:01 1
      - Biden was shocking as we hadn't seen it that bad... donald is just being donald just ever more so, they're used to it, we weren't -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 21:05
    - It really is about how the media behaves. - Mop🧹 Sep 10, 21:00
Harris campaign did not know the Swift endorsement was coming tonight -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 20:48 5
- celebs liking her post: Caitlin Clark, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Aniston, Mandy Moore, Andy Cohen, Jack Antonoff, Chrissy Teigen -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 20:49 4
  - Andy Cohen… Oh well. You can’t win them all. -- nm - Dano Sep 10, 21:22 1
    - In spite of hating him so much, I still enter Comcast’s trip to his show every month because hey, free trip to NYC! -- nm - Qale Sep 10, 22:19
  - and pretty much everyone on ST... -- nm - David Sep 10, 21:05
  - not just a celebrity. The Celebrity. -- nm - mud Sep 10, 20:20 -- nm - mud Sep 10, 20:53
Immigrants eating your pets is a racist slur since chinese expulsions of the 1800s - NPR Sep 10, 20:46 6
- Generally when you talk voodoo rites it's chickens, or maybe a goat. -- nm - . Sep 10, 22:21
- As recently as the 80s we used to joke about "wokking the dog" and telling our cats they were better off living inside :/ -- nm - Meg Sep 10, 20:51 1
  - TBF, after the fall of Saigon and we took in a few thousand VN refugees, they did arrest one who trapped and skinned a couple dogs in golden gate park - zeitgeist Sep 10, 21:02
- "Vice President JD Vance"? -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 10, 20:49
- "It's nonsense" -- (pic) - mud Sep 10, 20:48 [Attachment] 1
  - Sky News is fact checking, him. *SKY NEWS*. -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 10, 20:50
good night for Kamelas -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 20:46
guess having Laura Loomer and Tulsi Gabbard run your debate prep wasn’t a great plan -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 10, 20:44 3
- No one could have prepared him. He's unmanageable. -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 10, 20:51 1
  - You and ty are both right. It's damn sure not gonna change as he gets older. -- nm - David Sep 10, 21:11
- Also though, you can prep him all you want, he's gonna be him, especially when triggered. -- nm - ty97 Sep 10, 20:49
I’ve got concepts of a plan… -- (pic) - Trending Sep 10, 20:40 [Attachment] 2
- oh, right, took me far to long to get it.... say, its been what 10 years, what is donny's plan for healthcare since ACA is such a disaster? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 10, 21:07
- Brilliant -- nm - Epiphany Sep 10, 20:56
he'll prolly never agree to a second debate but i do think she would benefit further from a town-hall format - mr mooch Sep 10, 20:40 4
- I dunno, his ego probably wants a rematch. -- nm - ty97 Sep 10, 20:48 3
  - And another runs the risk of not having fact-checking moderation like Muir did. From what I'm seeing, Muir is the quiet hero here. -- nm - David Sep 10, 21:01
  - the smartest thing his team did all year was keep him out of the GOP primary debates entirely. they ain't letting him near a debate stage again -- nm - mr mooch Sep 10, 20:59 1
    - Probably what Team Kamala is betting on. I can't see her topping tonight's performance, but if she can bank on "he's ducking her" that works for them. -- nm - ty97 Sep 10, 21:07

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