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DHenry walked in. TB had no interest in trying to tackle him -- nm - budice Oct 21, 19:51 1
- He's averaging more than 10 yards a carry. He's broken them. -- nm - David Oct 21, 19:52
124,700 or so early votes in the first day of early voting in Harris County. -- nm - Qale Oct 21, 19:38
Election-related: my polling place is a makerspace that has classes usually every night till 10. Because my county has flipped to purple - amanda Oct 21, 19:31
Archive.org is recovering and nearly back to full operations. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Oct 21, 19:24 1
- This Fully Operational Battlestar -- nm - budice Oct 21, 19:29
10 days til Halloween 🎃🎃 -- nm - budice Oct 21, 19:16 4
- Three days until the Halloween event at the library. I think I have better than 150 treat bags ready to go. - Meg Oct 21, 19:43 [Attachment] 3
  - Very Nice! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:45 1
    - And Halloween items are like hotdogs and buns. None of them come in the same size package. So we'll have a tub of individual items on the counter. -- nm - Meg Oct 21, 19:54
  - Oh, and a spider ring. -- nm - Meg Oct 21, 19:44
So you donate to Kamala and you are entered in a drawing for a mystery concert from a mystery celeb. Look at this graphic and tell me that you aren't supposed to think Taylor-- (pic) -- (link*) - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:16 [Attachment] 17
- Leon Panetta -- nm - mr mooch Oct 21, 19:36
- Looks like one of Charlie's Angels tagging a bad guy with a blow gun to me. -- nm - Max Oct 21, 19:28 3
  - I did think Daphne from Scooby-Doo when I first saw that silhouette -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:35 2
    - Jessica Rabbit! I'd donate to Harris for her. -- nm - amanda Oct 21, 19:42 1
      - Indeed, but I already gave them money for Hot Dish and Ginger Snaps recipes -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:45
- Surprise, everyone! -- nm* - foodchem in Concert Oct 21, 19:28 3
  - I laughed out loud. -- nm - amanda Oct 21, 19:31
  - does foodchem have a good voice? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:31 1
    - Not sure, but it's certainly well preserved for his age. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 21, 23:38
- It’s Lil Jon in a dress! -- nm - Qale Oct 21, 19:27
- The ghost of Whitney Houston is cool, too. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 21, 19:25 1
  - Verily. Also "healthy Celine." -- nm - amanda Oct 21, 19:26
- what I think is that someone spent about 8 seconds making that graphic. -- nm - mafic Oct 21, 19:19
- Could be Ariana? Adele? Maybe even Beyonce? Your lady Shakira with a flat iron? -- nm - amanda Oct 21, 19:19 3
  - It is probably clipart, and clips don't lie - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:21 2
    - *golf clip.* - amanda Oct 21, 19:26 1
      - 😺👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:27
The building of the Clark County firewall has begun. -- (link) - Tim Oct 21, 19:14 7
- There are some indications (generally not Nevada-specific) that R voters are showing up more for early voting than the past. -- nm - ty97 Oct 21, 19:15 6
  - FWIW... -- (link) - David Oct 21, 19:22 2
    - oh yes, I full expect that. Dems always lead early vote. -- nm - ty97 Oct 21, 19:36 1
      - The more important stat is the voter signups since 2022. That was the purpose of the post. -- nm - David Oct 21, 19:42
  - As early voting becomes more commonplace, I would assume large D advantages would drop a bit. -- nm - Tim Oct 21, 19:16 2
    - I got your large D right here!! -- nm - New York City Qale Oct 21, 19:30
    - NPA registrations are also a factor, they broke mostly for Joe last time -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 21, 19:22
Guys, Oliver Cat did not sleep with me last night. If you would like to send her some strong words, you can leave them here and I will transmit to her - amanda Oct 21, 19:13 1
- Merry thinks that Oliver is failing the shire and is responsible for the next round at the Green Dragon -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:23
MVP -- nm - mr mooch Oct 21, 19:11
name a married couple in the R&R HOF. They can be in the same band: Paul Kanter & Grace Slick. or not like: Cher & Gregg Allman. -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 21, 18:56 2
- Tina and her husband, bass and drums of Talking Heads and tom tom club -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 21, 18:58 1
  - John & Christine McVie -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 21, 19:33
WTF are you doing Lightning? You're killing me -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 18:49 1
- Many people have said this throughout history -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 18:51
I have the Taco Bell app on my phone? When's the last time I used it? When's the last time I even at at Taco Bell? - ty97 Oct 21, 18:41 10
- Baja Blast has been freed from its Taco Bell prison. There is no longer a reason to go. -- nm - Qale Oct 21, 19:31
- If this is a poll, I had taco bell yesterday for the first time in 2024. -- nm - amanda Oct 21, 19:06 1
  - I had it for lunch during our sidewalk sale in the spring over at our westside library. It was half a block up the street. -- nm - Meg Oct 21, 19:50
- WAITAMINUTE, you were in Spain and you ate at Taco Bell? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:05 2
  - I was with a group of friends. One friend was an American living in Sweden the past few years and her *one* request was Taco Bell - ty97 Oct 21, 19:08 1
    - Ooh, the friend in Sweden story. Like I haven't heard that one before. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 21, 19:10
- Maybe your alternate personality, ty96, is a fiend for the bell -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 18:41 3
  - I do like it! Just can't remember when I was last there? - ty97 Oct 21, 18:44 2
    - I'm not sure if I've ever had it. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 18:46 1
      - I had it once, almost 30 years ago. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 21, 18:57
Probably a good idea not to build downhill from a highway. -- (link) - Meg Oct 21, 18:24
WNBA still a money loser. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Oct 21, 18:15 3
- an actual operating loss or just debt that’s been carried by owners since 1996? - mr mooch Oct 21, 18:24
- Then they really shouldn’t have signed a peanuts tv deal. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 21, 18:16 1
  - Yup. But this was intentionally leaked last week as a negotiating ploy for the impending CBA fight. - David Oct 21, 18:37
My favorite thing about Bluesky is that you have 2000 characters for image alt tags, which is nice because it encourages accessibility… - Dark Callisto 🦊 Oct 21, 16:50 6
- And you can use a setting that requires you to post alt tags so you don’t forget. -- nm - Qale Oct 21, 17:17 4
  - What are alt tags? -- nm - Krusty Oct 21, 18:01 2
    - Simple answer is that it is an html attribute that can be defined to display a text string inside an image frame if the image fails to load. -- (edited) - znufrii Oct 21, 18:08 1
      - Thanks! -- nm - Krusty Oct 21, 18:17
  - Yes, I absolutely have that enabled. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Oct 21, 17:37
- I always liked that about BOP -- nm - prayformojo Oct 21, 17:01
New Brunswick will have their first ever woman Premier. Liberals getting to a majority. -- (link*) - Beaker 🍻 Oct 21, 16:49 3
- Won't someone think of the old white guys?! -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 21, 17:47
- I guess pissing off the first nations, teachers, nurses, doctors, the french in favour of the lunatic right wing fringe isn't a working model - Beaker 🍻 Oct 21, 17:46 1
  - former Premier lost his own seat as well -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 21, 17:47
Closer to ground, again not good. NTSB Uncovers Critical Mistakes That Led American Airlines Regional Jet To Land On Wrong Runway At Chicago O’Hare - JD Oct 21, 16:10 1
- Not great, but at least ATC noticed and basically 'handed' the plane over to 10L - ty97 Oct 21, 16:35
Amyl and The Sniffers' latest: Jerkin' -- (link*) - JD Oct 21, 16:01 1
- SFW audio only version -- (link*) - JD Oct 21, 16:03 [youtube]
Some random observations - Reagen Oct 21, 15:44 7
- Yes, that’s my mother yelling for me. The appropriate response is “What is it Muh-uh-um?” -- nm - Roger More Oct 21, 17:22
- if you ask for a free fare the bus drivers here pretty much always say yes if you're not belligerent. -- nm - mafic Oct 21, 16:50
- Play Tragically Hip and Bryan Adams where? -- nm - zunk takes things literally Oct 21, 16:42 1
  - Hotel lobby. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 16:56
- One other - Reagen Oct 21, 16:18 1
  - I had that experience with a dad and teenage daughter once. "mum says bring home eggs," otherwise 100% phone time. -- nm - mafic Oct 21, 16:57
- Also - Tommy Tune is a very good dancer. -- nm - VMan Oct 21, 15:54
Tom Grossi - If the NFL Was Scripted: Week 7 -- (link) - JD Oct 21, 15:33 [youtube] 1
- *flag* -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 21, 15:53
“What about woorwoves?” -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 21, 15:33 1
- 🤣 -- nm - Trending Oct 21, 15:33
This is not good. Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit - JD Oct 21, 15:19 9
- a Boeing satellite you say? I'm shocked. -- nm - mafic Oct 21, 17:00
- Watch out, Sandra Bullock! -- nm - Dano Oct 21, 16:08 1
  - Won’t help. Vogons aren’t bright but they are thorough. -- nm - VMan Oct 21, 16:12
- Dems destroying evidence of their hurricane control. -- nm - VMan Oct 21, 15:24 5
  - It was used to trigger the chips in the COVID vaccinations - (whisper voice) "Vote for Harris" -- nm - budice Oct 21, 15:30 2
    - Many people are saying. -- nm - VMan Oct 21, 15:36 1
      - its all over the news. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 21, 16:24
  - its either that, or scuttling their device that they used to win the last election. the new device is more stealthy, and probably was made by - tRuMaN Oct 21, 15:29 1
    - Parent company is likely… - VMan Oct 21, 15:36
OTD - 1966 -- (link*) - Meg Oct 21, 15:03 [Attachment] 6
- Can't post both a link and attachment -- (link) - Meg Oct 21, 15:04 5
  - I remember that as a kid. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 21, 18:56
  - Well, that's super sad. - zunk takes things literally Oct 21, 16:46
  - Nobody charged or fined. Thing don’t change much. -- nm - VMan Oct 21, 15:18 2
    - And then the government tried to take a 'contribution' from the memorial fund for cleanup. -- nm - Meg Oct 21, 15:32 1
      - Well, you can’t have injury without insult. -- nm - VMan Oct 21, 15:38
Company email: Upcoming QA audit..yada yada...keeping up the best of GMP. Wait. - JD Oct 21, 15:02 [Attachment]
Yea so post election, hopefully, Newsweek will be brought to its knees -- (edited) - Jovian Oct 21, 14:33 6
- Aw man, don’t scare the intern in charge of tweets -- nm - Bayronmax Oct 21, 15:18
- "likely" as in perhaps it's artist rendered? -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 21, 14:50
- Newsweek is terrible but not for that. - Inigo Oct 21, 14:45 3
  - It should have posted, "he posted a fake, most likely AI-generated pic..." - Jovian Oct 21, 14:48 2
    - You'd still want to hedge on the possibility that he was wearing prosthetic biceps in some stunt... hey maybe the best option is to not report at all -- nm - Max Oct 21, 14:54 1
      - lol yea that would be an acceptable option as well. - Jovian Oct 21, 14:57
FF: Need low scoring games tonight. 32 point lead vs Mike Evans. 49 point lead vs. Murray, Conner, McBride and Flowers. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 21, 14:15 6
- I started CJ Stroud over Goff and am justifiably going to lose -- nm - JD Oct 21, 15:21 2
  - My opponent in my home league this week started Daniel Jones over Mahomes. - Strongbad Oct 21, 15:25 1
    - Though I kind of knew that I was a bad FF manager back on Thursday as I left Javonte Williams on my bench for the same team - JD Oct 21, 15:32
- I also need 38 from Godwin, Dobbins and Andrews. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 21, 15:01
- I need Lamar to be freaking amazing but not throw to Zay or Otton. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Oct 21, 14:27 1
  - Given his running abilities that's not the most unlikely of events and uh, there's Likely - JD Oct 21, 15:43 [youtube]
My only complaint about Bluesky so far is that in certain quarters there is a lot of vitriol directed at people who stayed on Twitter longer than they did. -- nm* - mara Oct 21, 14:02 9
- I’ve tried to lay out the reasons why people should not be there. And now moved towards blocking posts leading there on ST. But if people stay? Ok. -- nm - Qale Oct 21, 17:23
- I’m not sure it’s possible to have a community without some people deciding that they want to be “the most” - Roger More Oct 21, 14:51
- At some point, I have to cut people some slack for staying on - because I noped out on (or maybe before) sink day. - Beryllium Oct 21, 14:17 2
  - Right, welcome aboard. I do wish no one would use Xitter. BUT I get it, and I can just maintain my stance and be content. -- (edited) - Dark Callisto 🦊 Oct 21, 14:23 1
    - Yep! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 14:29
- It's by far my preferred social platform at this point. So easy to curate. I'm probably over-following right now, but I'm finding some cool... - Dark Callisto 🦊 Oct 21, 14:12 3
  - I’m really using it a lot and feel pretty optimistic about its future. I’m still on Twitter for more news and for a cartoonist called @pants -- nm - mara Oct 21, 14:19 2
    - God seriously. How can we get more news on bluesky?? -- nm - amanda Oct 21, 19:14
    - I fully support the latter part of this - JD Oct 21, 16:36
The Mets Ran Out Of Magic By David Roth - JD Oct 21, 13:49 2
- that's great, but I'm gonna wait for the David Lee Roth take on this -- nm - prayformojo Oct 21, 14:00 1
  - I read David Ross. - zunk takes things literally Oct 21, 14:15
MNF Double: BAL@TB 8:15pm ET, LAC@ARI 9PM ET. Figure everyone is glued to BAL@TB, less interest in the 2nd game -- nm* - budice Oct 21, 13:41
I'll say what we're all thinking: Stereo MCs deserve better than that. - David Oct 21, 13:29 1
- Maybe they aren’t as Connected anymore. -- nm - Qale Oct 21, 17:25
Peter Griffin Bares It All While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Oct 21, 13:24 [youtube] 7
- "Do you have any towels that aren't white? Like brown with some red?" -- nm - Jovian Oct 21, 13:37 3
  - My Mom always kept a red washcloth in the closet where the first stuff was, in case a serious injury required more than bandaids. - landbeck Oct 21, 14:01 1
    - You sent me one of those ❤ -- nm - Meg Oct 21, 15:16
  - Highly relatable. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 13:47
- so did they film that with Seth being there to answer the questions and fill in? now I want to know. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 21, 13:30 2
  - I assume they're pre-scripted. They've done a few of these gimmicky ones this season. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 21, 13:39
  - And if so, did he really take his pants off? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 13:32
the Dodgers/Yankees head-to-head stat on B2 is crazy -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 21, 13:21 2
- first WS since 1956 (also Dodgers v Yankees) where AL & NL home run leaders will face off in the fall classic -- nm - mr mooch Oct 21, 14:21 1
  - How about MVPs? Well, I guess that one can only be figured out post WS but there should be records? -- nm - JD Oct 21, 14:50
Yikes. I see FX is airing the first three episodes of What We Do In the Shadows for its 'premiere' tonight. - Jovian Oct 21, 13:15
the Caitlin Clark effect: WNBA players opt out of their CBA after record-breaking season -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 21, 13:08 3
- Good-smart of them—they did their best to F it up…but finally made a good business decision, as a group -- nm - Trending Oct 21, 13:39 2
  - now we need the ladies in the league to stop hating and beating up Caitlin and realize she is the one making them richer every minute she is healthy. -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 21, 13:49 1
    - This. See Tiger Woods : Golf -- nm - Strongbad Oct 21, 13:52
Stand by your man, give him two arms to cling to... -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 21, 13:02

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