A Beautiful Piece by Fingerstyle Guitarist Antoine Dufour: “Return of the Settlers”

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Finally! I’m so glad to share this work! I had the real awesome opportunity to work on the soundtrack of this new Ubisoft video game, The Settlers: New Allies. Back in 2020, I started recording thousands of musical phrases for what would become eventually the video game soundtrack. That was a very ambitious project! I had the privilege to work with the great musical composer Chance Thomas and activate my fingers and blood, sweat and tears (that’s for sure…) to make it happen. I worked as well closely with Chance to arrange the main theme for solo guitar, so here it is! Hope you like it!

…And for the guitar players out there, the tuning of the guitar is EBEABE (DADGAD but a step up)

Enjoy!

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Featuring Antoine Dufour. Composed by Chance Thomas.

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:17:35pm

A reminder that I have three blue sky codes. DM me if I don’t respond quickly!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:20:17pm

re: #1 retired cynic

A reminder that I have three blue sky codes. DM me if I don’t respond quickly!

I have one, but BlueSky is acting like a cell phone app on my computer again, meaning I can’t use it at the moment.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:21:20pm
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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:21:47pm

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:25:37pm

I have a question…

What the hell is wrong with all those republicans smiling and laughing in their mug shots?

There’s no shame in these people.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:25:50pm

Strange days.

France to spend €200m destroying wine as demand falls

“…European Commission data for the year to June shows that wine consumption has fallen 7% in Italy, 10% in Spain, 15% in France, 22% in Germany and 34% in Portugal, while wine production across the bloc - the world’s biggest wine-making area - rose 4%.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:28:05pm

re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have a question…

What the hell is wrong with all those republicans smiling and laughing in their mug shots?

There’s no shame in these people.

They think it’s all a game. They think they’ll be vindicated by the court. If not, they think Daddy Trump will win and pardon them. (Let’s leave aside the discussion of state charges and inability to pardon for now.) They think they’re on the right side of history - God’s side - and that even if they go to jail, they’ll be like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for a new generation of Americans. Put shortly, they truly believe that what they are doing is the right thing, and whatever consequences they face are martyrdom credentials for God’s glory.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:28:16pm

I have deliberately avoided listening to this song because I made certain obvious assumptions, but this is hilarious.

‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Singer Oliver Anthony Slams Use of Song at Republican Debate: ‘I Wrote That Song About Those People’

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:29:45pm

re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have a question…

What the hell is wrong with all those republicans smiling and laughing in their mug shots?

There’s no shame in these people.

I like questions that answer themselves.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:33:54pm

re: #7 Nerdy Fish

They think it’s all a game. They think they’ll be vindicated by the court. If not, they think Daddy Trump will win and pardon them. (Let’s leave aside the discussion of state charges and inability to pardon for now.) They think they’re on the right side of history - God’s side - and that even if they go to jail, they’ll be like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for a new generation of Americans. Put shortly, they truly believe that what they are doing is the right thing, and whatever consequences they face are martyrdom credentials for God’s glory.

The bolded part
With nothing but wile e. Coyote consequences

They’ve lost touch with reality

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:34:01pm

It is morbidly fascinating how Trump supporters cling to the notion of Trump’s complete innocence, 91 serious felony counts notwithstanding, and that this whole sordid affair is nothing but a fiendish plot orchestrated by senile Sleepy Joe on behalf of his “installers” as part of their totalitarian vision.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:34:15pm

re: #8 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I have deliberately avoided listening to this song because I made certain obvious assumptions, but this is hilarious.

‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Singer Oliver Anthony Slams Use of Song at Republican Debate: ‘I Wrote That Song About Those People’

Born In The USA Mk II?

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:36:09pm

re: #10 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

The bolded part
With nothing but wile e. Coyote consequences

They’ve lost touch with reality

“I’ll spend a few months to a couple of years in prison, that’s no big deal, right? It’ll be like the movies. Maybe I can make a daring escape and be a dashing hero!”

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gocart mozart  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:38:57pm
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goddamnedfrank  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:39:51pm

re: #12 William Lewis

Hey I don’t know if you shoot medium format transparency film but Glazers in Seattle just got Fuji Velvia 50 5 packs in 120 back in stock.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:41:03pm

x.com

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:47:47pm

The Insane Plot Armor of Cats

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:49:50pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

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I’m both terrified of, and fascinated by, this video.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:52:46pm

re: #15 goddamnedfrank

Hey I don’t know if you shoot medium format transparency film but Glazers in Seattle just got Fuji Velvia 50 5 packs in 120 back in stock.

If I had the money (not just for the film but the E6 processing) I’d love to buy a bunch of that. But $70 for the 5 pack and $12 a roll developing (mailed out since the local lab doesn’t do E6, only B&W and C41) means those 60 images would be pretty spendy…

6x6 slides from a Rolleicord like mine are gorgeous things and Velvia’s color is the only thing like Kodachrome left.

Thanks for the thought but shy of a lotto win I’m more likely to drive home in a Ferrari 😉

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:53:48pm

Jurassic Park is 30.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:55:55pm

Cat emotional manipulation skills:
Stray resident of a nearby cemetery moved into my daughter’s garage, promptly delivered four kittens.

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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:57:01pm

A beautiful piece indeed. Haven’t played any Settlers games since the turn of the century, hope the one he made the soundtrack for is doing better than it was during open beta (heard it got eviscerated by players).

On a health follow-up, woke up today worse than before. Everything aches, feverish, and probably not a good sign i gotta keep revising texts on account of writing ‘help’ instead of ‘health’ all the time.
…Still, was worth it to stay up as late as possible here to see Agent Orange processed in real time. xD

Fortunately, another wasted Covid test later, I can now confirm that my ongoing efforts to elude the Evil Virus since the start of the pandemic remain 100% successful. Whatever unpleasantness I caught, it’s something else.
Also fortunately, I felt strong enough today to walk around and go outside to get essentials for the emergency elixir of life also known as Jewish chicken broth (my variation, which maintains a 98% approval rating to date*).

[* Allegations that I’ve halted further polling to maintain said approval rating are completely unsubstantiated]

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:02:07pm

The latest Photoshop really is pretty frickin’ amazing. Been going through some of the tutorials to get up to speed.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:02:33pm

The Kraken asks for a speedy trial in Georgia. That’s two.

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Unabogie  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:05:33pm

My nephew was riding his bike around Los Angeles (no helmet, grrr) and was rear-ended by a driver who just sped off. Bike is totalled and he was knocked out and had to go the ER. Scrapes and bruises but no broken bones or concussion.

People on bikes: be careful out there!

People in cars: your car can kill someone without you even feeling it. Treat it like a weapon, because it is.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:10:16pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

The latest Photoshop really is pretty frickin’ amazing. Been going through some of the tutorials to get up to speed.

If you haven’t already make sure to log into your Adobe account -> Click on the “Account and Security” tab at the top of the screen -> Click on “Privacy and personal data” on the left hand side -> Make sure “Content analysis” is in the OFF position.

This stops them from training their AI on your personal shit.

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:10:44pm

re: #18 Nerdy Fish

I’m both terrified of, and fascinated by, this video.

You can’t make me watch it.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:11:08pm

re: #26 goddamnedfrank

Already did!

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:11:10pm
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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:11:47pm

re: #20 Belafon

Jurassic Park is 30.

I remember watching that in a packed theater. Sitting to my right was a young girl - toddler…maybe 4 years old at the most. Her parents were captivated with the film. At one point I felt her grab my right wrist and begin squeezing it. She was so frightened she was staring right at me. I said, “I know it’s scary but it’s just make believe.” Her mother finally realized what was going on and pulled her onto her lap.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:12:28pm
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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:13:07pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

The latest Photoshop really is pretty frickin’ amazing. Been going through some of the tutorials to get up to speed.

I have been living in the Camera Raw filter.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:19:22pm

TN GOP plan to deal with gun violence: Change the definitions!

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:24:52pm

Blacks for Trump president (one of the 19 codefendants) Harrison Floyd was denied bail today because he was already out on bail for another felony when he got booked and the judge said she can’t trust him not to commit more felonies.

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:25:42pm

re: #25 Unabogie

My nephew was riding his bike around Los Angeles (no helmet, grrr) and was rear-ended by a driver who just sped off. Bike is totalled and he was knocked out and had to go the ER. Scrapes and bruises but no broken bones or concussion.

People on bikes: be careful out there!

People in cars: your car can kill someone without you even feeling it. Treat it like a weapon, because it is.

He should take special care of his head for a while. (Forever) A rear-ended victim needs a mirror. A helmet is a great place to put a mirror.

BMXers have gotten CTE. Anybody with multiple head injuries can. ‘Knocked out’ equals head injury.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:26:21pm

In most human governments throughout history, someone who tried to do what Trump tried to do would have been terminated with extreme prejudice years ago.

Still not sure whether this is a strength or a weakness of our current system.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:27:02pm

re: #34 darthstar

Blacks for Trump president (one of the 19 codefendants) Harrison Floyd was denied bail today because he was already out on bail for another felony when he got booked and the judge said she can’t trust him not to commit more felonies.

Oh, man. So he’s going to be stuck in Georgia until he can get a trial… With 18 other fucking clowns. His life just went to bad to horrible in an instant. I almost feel bad.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:29:24pm

Also allows a different pronunciation of Camelot.

Mastodon

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:30:34pm

re: #31 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Maybe he actually is 215 lbs because he is hollow inside from all the shit he has been spewing.

And hollow to match his soul.

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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:34:32pm

re: #39 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Maybe he actually is 215 lbs because he is hollow inside from all the shit he has been spewing.

And hollow to match his soul.

Trump is an infinite pile of bullshit in a 300 pound barely-human skin suit.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:34:46pm

re: #39 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Maybe he actually is 215 lbs because he is hollow inside from all the shit he has been spewing.

And hollow to match his soul.

Reminds me of one of my favorite Buzzcocks songs from when I was in high school. Ultimate Angst Anthem…

Hollow Inside (2008 Remastered Version)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:35:19pm

re: #24 darthstar

The Kraken asks for a speedy trial in Georgia. That’s two.

Oh please, please, please grant it because that will screw Trump & Rudy over real good!

‘Precisely what Trump’s defense team doesn’t want’: Sidney Powell seeks speedy trial

Former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell on Friday filed a speedy trial demand in Fulton County in connection with the Georgia election conspiracy case, according to court documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Tamar Hallerman.

Powell was among 19 people along with the former president indicted last week on allegations of a conspiracy to overturn the state’s 2020 election.

Powell is the second co-defendant to demand a speed trial, Hallerman notes. Ken Chesebro’s request was granted and his case is scheduled to start Oct. 23, a date put forth by prosecutor Fani Willis.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:35:43pm

File this under Trump supporters think all black people look alike.

Mastodon

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Jay C  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:37:04pm

re: #29 Backwoods Sleuth

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Somebody want to inform the good Senator that it wasn’t “The Left” who released Trump’s mugshot, but the Fulton County Dept. of Correction?

Oh, never mind: Marsha Blackburn seems to have been permanently assigned as the Ranking Member of the Senate Stupid Internet Tweet Committee (all the other positions being vacant) …

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:37:06pm

re: #33 Backwoods Sleuth

TN GOP plan to deal with gun violence: Change the definitions!

[Embedded content]

The Moms Demand Action for Gun Safety’s legal arm, Everytown Law, has a plan. This probably isn’t step one, but it’s from the link in the email I got today.

Last May, a white gunman killed 10 people in a racist mass shooting at a grocery store in a predominantly Black area of Buffalo, New York. The gunman, now serving a life sentence, drove 200 miles to target that community.

Last week, 16 witnesses of the tragedy filed a lawsuit over the trauma they endured. They named YouTube and Reddit sites where they say the shooter was radicalized, as well as the retailer who sold his gun and the manufacturer of his body armor. The suit also names the gunman’s parents, who the plaintiffs say knew about their son’s violent tendencies, and failed to act.

[…]

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:37:17pm

re: #42 Joe Bacon ✅

Severing Trump and Powell trials will require a bit more lubrication.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:38:32pm

re: #43 darthstar

I hope they manage to catch some of the people calling in threats and prosecute them.

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gocart mozart  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:38:41pm
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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:40:39pm

re: #48 gocart mozart

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He always seemed like a cheap knockoff of The Most Interesting Man in the World.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:40:42pm

re: #47 jaunte

I hope they manage to catch some of the people calling in threats and prosecute them.

They already have. These racist crackers are so dumb they think if they drive to the other side of town to make a death threat on their cell phone the police won’t be able to trace them back to their home.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:41:26pm

re: #46 darthstar

Severing Trump and Powell trials will require a bit more lubrication.

Oh that’s nasty (Family Guy)

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jeffreyw  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:41:59pm

re: #22 (((Archangel1)))

That’s some soup pr0n, that right there.

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Unabogie  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:42:44pm

re: #35 wrenchwench

He should take special care of his head for a while. (Forever) A rear-ended victim needs a mirror. A helmet is a great place to put a mirror.

BMXers have gotten CTE. Anybody with multiple head injuries can. ‘Knocked out’ equals head injury.

I have been texting him all of this repeatedly over the last two days :-(

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:43:08pm

re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅

But to your larger point - she is the last person Trump wants having a speedy trial because she will testify against him and her testimony will be first-hand witness accounting of the conspiracy to overthrow the election.

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gocart mozart  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:45:10pm
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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:45:21pm

re: #29 Backwoods Sleuth

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Marsha seems to have a very low estimate of her supporters’ intelligence. She’s probably right.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:52:56pm

re: #56 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Marsha seems to have a very low estimate of her supporters’ intelligence. She’s probably right.

They will rehearse believing it until they believe it because it allows them to continue to feel contempt and self-satisfaction. They don’t mind lies or exaggeration or spurious speculation because information exists to make them feel better; truth just isn’t valuable to the at all.

They are rubes, but the step that makes them rubes isn’t that they’re credulous of what their leaders say. It’s the step where they think their “side” will hold together enough to grant the promised treats.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:56:26pm

re: #54 darthstar

But to your larger point - she is the last person Trump wants having a speedy trial because she will testify against him and her testimony will be first-hand witness accounting of the conspiracy to overthrow the election.

Will she…or will she totally flip out and start babbling about the “spirit lady” who told her about the voting machines being fixed for Biden?

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HypnoToad  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:05:00pm

Got it! NASA 817’s fourth pass over my house a few minutes ago. I saw it through the window next to my computer desk in my peripheral vision, banking out of a turn like it was on a bombing run, grabbed my camera, got outside and caught it departing over my garage with a quick grab shot. I didn’t even have time to focus and zoom, so this is at 55mm instead of 250mm!

NASA 817 overflight. This is with a 55mm lens. Taken about six seconds after it went overhead, it was a lot bigger then!
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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:09:32pm

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gocart mozart  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:11:39pm
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:11:46pm

My mom worked at a jail, and contrary to what we always heard, they don’t weigh people coming into the jail.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:17:40pm

Yeah, maybe the rubber mat on the floor isn’t the best safety feature. How about straw or sawdust or even sand?

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:19:26pm

re: #63 darthstar

She should have studied Ed Ames’ technique

Ed Ames Teaches Johnny Carson to Throw a Tomahawk

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:23:46pm

re: #64 Joe Bacon ✅

She should have studied Ed Ames’ technique

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Video

re: #64 Joe Bacon ✅

She should have studied Ed Ames’ technique

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Video

“I didn’t even know you were Jewish”- LOL!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:27:05pm

re: #65 darthstar

I remember being asleep as a kid and Mom just laughed so loud at that she woke me up and when I went downstairs to ask what happened she said YOU BETTER GET BACK TO BED OR ELSE!!!

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:27:44pm
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sagehen  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:31:22pm

re: #62 Belafon

My mom worked at a jail, and contrary to what we always heard, they don’t weigh people coming into the jail.

Do they still do mugshots standing next to a wall with heights painted on it?

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nines09  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:32:21pm

instagram.com

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:35:25pm
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:36:24pm

re: #68 sagehen

Do they still do mugshots standing next to a wall with heights painted on it?

The one here in Rockwall had a ruler, not the lines that we see in movies or TV. But not all of them even have the ruler.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:42:45pm

re: #71 Belafon

The one here in Rockwall had a ruler, not the lines that we see in movies or TV. But not all of them even have the ruler.

Can you ask for two two x two copies for your passport?

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:44:15pm

Here is your yay story:

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:48:45pm

re: #70 Belafon

“They were lucky I didn’t have a gun on me, because I would have shot his (expletive) ass,” Floyd told a dispatcher, according to the FBI agent’s affidavit.
apnews.com

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:50:35pm

Mastodon

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:51:14pm

The Threads website is reportedly live, according to Stonekettle:
threads.net

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:52:06pm

re: #74 jaunte

“They were lucky I didn’t have a gun on me, because I would have shot his (expletive) ass,” Floyd told a dispatcher, according to the FBI agent’s affidavit.
apnews.com

Floyd’s not getting himself out of jail any time soon. He’d better hope he has some good dirt to trade for a reduced sentence, or he could be in for longer than all of the others combined. (Criming while black in Georgia…not a good thing)

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:53:12pm
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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:55:24pm

re: #76 Sherlock Hound

The Threads website is reportedly live, according to Stonekettle:
threads.net

Yep…my first, and probably one of my last, views of Threads. Also, I don’t really give a shit about this guy after he blocked me for no fuckin’ reason years ago…I think I simply said something about Hillary being a vulnerable and imperfect candidate.

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:55:35pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:56:55pm

re: #80 wrenchwench

I replied to that earlier, saying I hoped Emily never becomes a parent.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:00:06pm

This is pretty good: it’s the Ken song with some of the making of spliced in:

Ryan Gosling - I’m Just Ken Exclusive (From Barbie The Album) [Official]

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:05:31pm
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:13:32pm

re: #80 wrenchwench

For 4-D chess points, square all of this with the current idea that child industrial labor is Good Ackshually.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:19:24pm

re: #44 Jay C

Somebody want to inform the good Senator that it wasn’t “The Left” who released Trump’s mugshot, but the Fulton County Dept. of Correction?

Oh, never mind: Marsha Blackburn seems to have been permanently assigned as the Ranking Member of the Senate Stupid Internet Tweet Committee (all the other positions being vacant) …

Gud ole Sparkler Blackburn.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:21:16pm

re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have a question…

What the hell is wrong with all those republicans smiling and laughing in their mug shots?

There’s no shame in these people.

Trump co-defendant minister dons clerical garb for Georgia mugshot (New York Post, August 25, 2023)

This is the Lutheran pastor who showed up to advise witness tamper with Ruby Freeman. His group in Illinois is listed by SPLC as a hate group.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:30:13pm

Tomorrow is the sixtieth anniversary of the day that Republicans only remember once verse from, MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:33:36pm

re: #30 darthstar

I remember watching that in a packed theater. Sitting to my right was a young girl - toddler…maybe 4 years old at the most. Her parents were captivated with the film. At one point I felt her grab my right wrist and begin squeezing it. She was so frightened she was staring right at me. I said, “I know it’s scary but it’s just make believe.” Her mother finally realized what was going on and pulled her onto her lap.

J.P. was a PG-13 movie when it came out. What were her parents thinking to bring a 4 year old to see it? She probably had nightmares for a week.

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:37:04pm

re: #88 sizzzzlerz

J.P. was a PG-13 movie when it came out. What were her parents thinking to bring a 4 year old to see it? She probably had nightmares for a week.

1) babysitters are expensive; and
2) kids LOVE dinosaurs

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:37:15pm

re: #88 sizzzzlerz

J.P. was a PG-13 movie when it came out. What were her parents thinking to bring a 4 year old to see it? She probably had nightmares for a week.

That’s why my son and I were having a debate over whether Jurassic Park was a horror movie or not.

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:39:03pm

re: #59 HypnoToad

Got it! NASA 817’s fourth pass over my house a few minutes ago. I saw it through the window next to my computer desk in my peripheral vision, banking out of a turn like it was on a bombing run, grabbed my camera, got outside and caught it departing over my garage with a quick grab shot. I didn’t even have time to focus and zoom, so this is at 55mm instead of 250mm!

[Embedded content]

Re-engined KC-135 to a KC-135B with CFM-56s.

I used to fly KC-135s with J-57’s with water injection and they just sucked balls. Horrible engines. On a hot day, full load, we were rotating in the last thousand feet of a 12,000’ runway and just clearing the approach lights on the other end of the runway.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:39:37pm

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trump co-defendant minister dons clerical garb for Georgia mugshot (New York Post, August 25, 2023)

This is the Lutheran pastor who showed up to advise witness tamper with Ruby Freeman. His group in Illinois is listed by SPLC as a hate group.

And who put up the bail money for that Pulpit Pimp?

‘Nervous’ pastor in Trump’s Georgia case bailed out by podcaster ‘Silk’

MAGA podcaster Rochelle Hardaway Richardson, more commonly known by her stage name “Silk,” has bailed out a Christian pastor indicted as a co-defendant in the Georgia election racketeering case, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.

thedailybeast.com

Stephen Cliffgard Lee, the “nervous” pastor indicted alongside Donald Trump and 17 others in Georgia, was able to post bail on Friday thanks largely to a hefty donation from the infamous MAGA podcaster “Silk” from “Diamond and Silk,” his attorney told The Daily Beast. Lee, who’s accused of intimidating an election worker, was the last of 19 co-defendants to surrender to authorities. His attorney, David Shestokas, suggested Lee’s delay was money-related, with the Chicago pastor short by thousands on his $75,000 bond. Shestokas, who spoke at length about Lee’s case to The Daily Beast last week, said Silk spoke about Lee’s situation on her Thursday night podcast, telling her listeners that Lee “needs to be in church on Sunday.” Shestokas said Silk, whose real name is Herneitha Hardaway, cut a check for $3,500 to start, and by the time Lee turned himself in on Friday—an hour before the court-mandated deadline—he had enough money to bail out. Shestokas called it “a miracle.”

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:39:46pm

re: #58 Joe Bacon ✅

Will she…or will she totally flip out and start babbling about the “spirit lady” who told her about the voting machines being fixed for Biden?

If Powell cooperates with her testimony, doesn’t lie to the judge, and maybe show some remorse - if found guilty - will help in reducing her sentence under guidelines.

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:40:11pm

re: #89 sagehen

1) babysitters are expensive; and
2) kids LOVE dinosaurs

Parents are cheap. I raised my rate from 75 cents per hour to a dollar, and never got another call (1970s)

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:41:04pm

re: #89 sagehen

1) babysitters are expensive; and
2) kids LOVE dinosaurs

I know you’re joking (???) but,

1) So is child therapy
2) Of all the dino toys and books for children that I’ve ever seen, not one of them shows a dinosaur eating someone sitting on a toilet.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:41:33pm

re: #91 austin_blue

Re-engined KC-135 to a KC-135B with CFM-56s.

I used to fly KC-135s with J-57’s with water injection and they just sucked balls. Horrible engines. On a hot day, full load, we were rotating in the last thousand feet of a 12,000’ runway and just clearing the approach lights on the other end of the runway.

Ohhhh, baby! Nothing quite like a takeoff just over the wire, so to speak.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:41:49pm

The used car dealer called again this morning to say the seat belt latch still hadn’t been delivered. He’d called UPS to find out WTF. They first tried to deliver it to a business in Omaha, then they tried to deliver it to a business in Montana in a town with the same name as mine (I had a windscreen for my car take that route last year), then they delivered it today to a business in Wichita.

He hopes it will come in tomorrow.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:42:45pm

I’m assuming it’s because of the temps, but some of the schools here in the DFW area delayed their football games until tomorrow. A lot were delayed a half an hour. The band at my kids’ old high school, waited until the second quarter started before they headed to the stadium.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:47:01pm

re: #95 sizzzzlerz

I know you’re joking (???) but,

1) So is child therapy
2) Of all the dino toys and books for children that I’ve ever seen, not one of them shows a dinosaur eating someone sitting on a toilet.

Back then, it was harder to hear about what could be expected from a movie.

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:50:57pm

re: #96 Nerdy Fish

Ohhhh, baby! Nothing quite like a takeoff just over the wire, so to speak.

Indeed!

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:57:30pm

107 today. Deadly heat.

Tomorrow is International Music on the Porch Day.

9-11 at our house.

I’ll be singing a Tom Lehrer Tune in honor of Oppenheimer.

Lots of Celtic tunes, and whoever else shows up.

Hopefully, many other Lizards will be playing nationwide!

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:59:26pm

re: #101 austin_blue

I saw that DFW has broken 9 record temps this month so far.

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:05:06pm

re: #102 Belafon

I saw that DFW has broken 9 record temps this month so far.

We have blown away the consecutive three digit record this summer, and are putting the summer of 2011 (when we burned down 3000 houses in Bastrop, 25 miles east of Austin) at serious risk as the hottest summer ever.

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jeffreyw  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:05:20pm

Breaking Bad 2 - Official Trailer

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:06:20pm

re: #104 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Wasn’t he dead?

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:07:20pm

re: #101 austin_blue

107 today. Deadly heat.

Tomorrow is International Music on the porch day.

9-11 at our house.

I’ll be singing a Tom Lehrer in honor of Oppenheimer.

Lots of Celtic tunes, and whoever else shows up.

Hopefully, many other Lizards will be playing.

Let me guess. “So Long, Mom”?

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jeffreyw  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:12:02pm

re: #105 austin_blue

Wasn’t he dead?

He survived.

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:12:22pm

re: #106 sizzzzlerz

Let me guess. “So Long, Mom”?

Nope, in honor of Oppenheimer, it’s “The Wild West Is Where I want To Be”.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:13:45pm

re: #106 sizzzzlerz

Let me guess. “So Long, Mom”?

Undoubtedly. But also “Werner Von Braun”, “The MLF Lullaby” and “Who’s Next”!
//

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:14:20pm

re: #108 austin_blue

Nope, in honor of Oppenheimer, it’s “The Wild West Is Where I want To Be”.

Forgot that!

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:18:00pm

re: #110 Sherlock Hound

Forgot that!

“Where the scenery’s attractive
And the air is radioactive
Oh the Wild West is
Where I wanna be!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:20:02pm

The Wingnut from Omaha weighs in on wildfires.

FlashPoint guest suggests that the wildfires in Hawaii and across other parts of the globe are the result of “demonic entities” and God will show “it’s not climate” (Media Matters for America, August 23, 2023)

Hank Kunneman said that on Sunday, “the spirit of the Lord … began to prophesy about Hawaii, and he began to prophesy about North America and the fire. … And he said that ‘the demonic entities have stretched their hands’”

Deja Moo: The feeling you’ve heard this bull before.

GENE BAILEY (HOST): I mean, climate change, I mean, it is summer. It must be climate change that’s causing this problem.

HANK KUNNEMAN (GUEST): Sure, they’ve been saying climate change for a long time, but here is the real deal, you know, getting back to the original thing you said about Biden. You know, the real fire — again, the guy’s a great actor and they’re putting on a acting job — that’s for sure. The fire that he needs to be concerned with — and the 46 that doesn’t exist and the fake administration — they need to be concerned about the fire of God’s justice that’s going to burn brighter under their gluteus maximus, and also going to continue to bring a laptop to the forefront. That’s not going away because God is absolutely exposing all of this.

(more Christian crazy at the link)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:23:26pm

re: #42 Joe Bacon ✅

Just in: Sidney Powell, an attorney briefly affiliated with the Trump campaign, files a speedy trial demand in Fulton County

WTFITS??

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:27:25pm

re: #54 darthstar

But to your larger point - she is the last person Trump wants having a speedy trial because she will testify against him and her testimony will be first-hand witness accounting of the conspiracy to overthrow the election.

Except she’s 100% certifiably insane.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:28:15pm

re: #114 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Except she’s 100% certifiably insane.

This could be just the opening Orly Taitz needs.

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CleverToad  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:32:42pm

re: #113 Texpunk

[Embedded content]

I made a thing:

In case no one said it, a very belated “Hello, Hatchling!”

(Okay, I’m catching up on a couple of days’ worth. it’s been a long week, Frodo.)

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:32:59pm

I’m out, sweet dreams, all.

If you are a musician, and you aren’t playing on your porch tomorrow, you just have to ask yourself a simple question:

Whey the fuck not?

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Egregious Philbin  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:38:28pm

re: #59 HypnoToad

I got to fly on one once. An AZ National Guard RC-135 refueler. Phoenix to ABQ to Andrews AFB. We refueled a B2 on the way. On the way back we refueled an AWAC. Amazing stuff. Sat in the cockpit for the flight from ABQ to PHX. Just amazing fun. I once got to ride cockpit jumpseat on an A320 Lufthansa from Prague to Frankfurt, that was a blast too (airline employee, plane was full they let up front)

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:38:49pm

I made my wife wet at dinner tonight.

Click to Reveal

I knocked over her water glass and covered her lap in ice water…but it counts!

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:38:58pm

re: #108 austin_blue

Nope, in honor of Oppenheimer, it’s “The Wild West Is Where I want To Be”.

I’m shocked! I’d never heard that one before. It is, indeed, a fine honorific of Oppenheimer.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:39:46pm

re: #114 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Except she’s 100% certifiably insane.

What’s certifiably worth anymore?

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:42:00pm

re: #75 darthstar

I love how a random post with no hashtags gets more engagement on the mastodon/fediverse than it ever would in the hellsite with billions of bots and some users.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:44:08pm

re: #113 Texpunk

Welcome aboard, Texpunk!

In today’s recognition of random karma points, you currently have 5. Keep working toward the coveted welcome toaster from the LGF catalogue with more witty memes and commentary!

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:45:35pm

re: #105 austin_blue

Wasn’t he dead?

a lot of the characters in that clips are dead.

but the actors have done other shows, and… well…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:45:59pm

re: #117 austin_blue

I’m out, sweet dreams, all.

If you are a musician, and you aren’t playing on your porch tomorrow, you just have to ask yourself a simple question:

Whey the fuck not?

Because my neighbours would yell at me to stop? There’s a time and a place for hammered dulcimers. They’re like bagpipes in that way.

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:49:26pm

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not in the same universe of noise.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:50:43pm

re: #121 darthstar

What’s certifiably worth anymore?

Her? About $.03.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:52:33pm

Just unfollowed an account on the fediverse because they’re just posting every youtube video of some asshole doing their own takedown of the Repulicans that crosses their path. I could give a fuck about Meidas Touch or Crooks & Liars or the Krassenstein grifters or any of the other assholes, or the new one I just saw which was some dude in his dining room in an Under Armour shirt with floral curtains behind him trying to wax poetic about Nikki Haley and Viviek Ramaswamy…

NO! It’s not that important. Stop looking for meaning in a steaming pile of shit.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:53:07pm

re: #127 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Her? About $.03.

So a penny for her thoughts and I’m still two cents short.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:55:41pm

re: #93 BeenHereAwhile

If Powell cooperates with her testimony, doesn’t lie to the judge, and maybe show some remorse - if found guilty - will help in reducing her sentence under guidelines.

What makes you think she knows what the truth actually is? She likely won’t show any remorse.

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:56:56pm

re: #130 Hecuba’s daughter

Joan of Arc complex?

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:58:28pm

re: #103 austin_blue

We have blown away the consecutive three digit record this summer, and are putting the summer of 2011 (when we burned down 3000 houses in Bastrop, 25 miles east of Austin) at serious risk as the hottest summer ever.

I believe we managed to get one triple digit day this year — namely yesterday. My impression is that the prior day (Wednesday) — which was also supposed to be triple digit — only reached 99.

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:01:34pm
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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:03:09pm

re: #93 BeenHereAwhile

If Powell cooperates with her testimony, doesn’t lie to the judge, and maybe show some remorse - if found guilty - will help in reducing her sentence under guidelines.

re: #130 Hecuba’s daughter

What makes you think she knows what the truth actually is? She likely won’t show any remorse.

She was in the room where it happened (thank you Alexander Hamilton) but there is still a minimum sentencing guideline on the RICO charge of 5 years. If she’s able to give enough evidence to make that charge go away she could possibly fundraise off of Trump’s dumbshit supporters for a good half-decade promising to exonerate him while he rots and dies in prison.

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Targetpractice  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:06:51pm

re: #80 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

Yeah, the plethora of bullshit that is the current “Trans Panic” seems to come down to the same issue as previous “Moral Panics” did: Poor parenting. If your kids are afraid to be themselves around you, then you’re the issue and not some shadowy cabal of “groomers” and “paedophiles” working in secret to “TURN THE KIDS GAY!!!”

In a country where firearms are snuffing out kids left and right, a child checking out a book about two gay penguins or asking to be called Samantha instead of Sam is not even in the top 10 of behaviors teachers need to be watching for.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:15:43pm

levelbot
@levelbot@mastodon.social

fish levels are holding at 83%

(83%) ■■■■■■■■□□

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:17:16pm

“one of the men unsuccessfully wound a cable around his hand and his finger was torn off”

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:19:32pm

I know I’ve posted this image before and yes there’s a not-insignificant amount of privilege involved here but JFC this shit really does feel like a dystopian horror show sometimes.

bsky.app

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:20:57pm

re: #137 darthstar

“one of the men unsuccessfully wound a cable around his hand and his finger was torn off”

[Embedded content]

Alcohol was involved.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:23:10pm

re: #139 Captain Ron

Alcohol was involved.

Large quantities I would presume.

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:23:39pm
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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:25:39pm

I’m so using this on Monday.

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:28:35pm

re: #90 Belafon

That’s why my son and I were having a debate over whether Jurassic Park was a horror movie or not.

Jurassic Park was a techno-thriller with elements of horror.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:29:09pm

Bedtime…

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mmmirele  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:29:45pm

re: #90 Belafon

That’s why my son and I were having a debate over whether Jurassic Park was a horror movie or not.

My parents were all “aw, you can’t watch ‘The Exorcist,’ that’s too much violence” but “Jaws” was OK. Which one gave me nightmares? The shark-chomping-people movie.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:30:24pm

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:35:54pm

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:38:02pm

re: #146 darthstar

Police were executing a search warrant at a property in the 5700 block of Johnson Lane [in Oak Cliff] when they found a tiger in an enclosure on the property.

“These animals are not pets. They do not make good pets for the humans or for them,” said Aela Culver, who works with recovered tigers at In-Sync Exotics Wildlife Rescue Service.

fox4news.com

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:39:49pm

re: #148 Belafon

poor cat — I hope they find a good home for it with adequate mental and physical care

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:40:51pm

re: #129 darthstar

So a penny for her thoughts and I’m still two cents short.

Yeah. Nevermind. 1¢ is about right.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:43:50pm

Another mass shooting. This time in Pasadena. 5 hospitalized

ktla.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:54:21pm

re: #134 darthstar

She was in the room where it happened (thank you Alexander Hamilton) but there is still a minimum sentencing guideline on the RICO charge of 5 years. If she’s able to give enough evidence to make that charge go away she could possibly fundraise off of Trump’s dumbshit supporters for a good half-decade promising to exonerate him while he rots and dies in prison.

If she does that she’ll never get a penny from his supporters. Death threats but not money.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:01:50pm

Three birbs in a row! Whiff at no extra cost!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:04:57pm

LOL

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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:10:41pm

re: #152 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If she does that she’ll never get a penny from his supporters. Death threats but not money.

This. Trump supporters are not as stupid as they pretend to be, else they would die in large numbers in every rain storm by drowning as they stare stupidly up at the sky.

Trumpists will never forgive a traitor that meaningfully turns on their Orange Pig-God.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:25:38pm

In the Atlantic tropics tonight, the National Hurricane Center has updated the predicted track of Tropical Storm Franklin, moving it right (east, away from the United States), as the high pressure to its north is cutting behind it and to the west faster than predicted. At the same time, the remnants of Tropical Storm Emily are running out of time to develop.

Predicted Track of Franklin (NHC)

It appears Nova Scotia is also out of the woods.

Atlantic 7-Day Graphical Tropical Outlook (NHC)

Disturbance One: A tropical depression is now likely to form this weekend as the storm system moves into the western Caribbean Sea. By the end of the forecast period, the storm will be somewhere along the Florida west coast or Panhandle.

Disturbance Two (the remnants of Emily) are stalled in the northern Atlantic with little chance of development.

Disturbance Three is currently over Africa. It is expected to move off the Senegalese coast early next week.

In the eastern Pacific, Disturbance One is well out to sea and is still moving west north-west. It has a 90% chance of development within two days.

Disturbance Two’s motion along the south coast of Mexico has stalled. The system is meandering about, lowering its chance of development to 20% over the next week.

In the central Pacific, Disturbance One from the east should move into the area toward the end of the forecast period. It will still be a long way from Hawai’i.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:31:26pm

re: #148 Belafon

Police were executing a search warrant at a property in the 5700 block of Johnson Lane [in Oak Cliff] when they found a tiger in an enclosure on the property.

“These animals are not pets. They do not make good pets for the humans or for them,” said Aela Culver, who works with recovered tigers at In-Sync Exotics Wildlife fox4news.com

Back in about 1982, an exceedingly stupid guy I knew managed to be bitten by a lion outside a steakhouse in Lubbock. The lion belonged to a couple who kept exotic animals on a ranch near Seminole. They had stopped for dinner at the steakhouse and left the lion in its cage in the back of their truck. The guy claimed he was just walking by and the lion reached out and grabbed his hand with its paw, yanked it into the cage, and clamped down on it with his jaws. The lion didn’t bite any farther but it resolutely refused to let go. An ambulance, Animal Control, and the police were summoned. The owners had not taken the precaution of bringing any lion sedative with them. Fortunately the Animal Control guys (who frequently worked with horses) turned out to have a suitable product, apparently a cocktail of ketamine and xylazine. The owners eventually pried the snoozing lion’s jaws apart and the EMTs packed the victim and his mangled hand off to Lubbock General, now University Medical Center. It remains the only lion bite they have ever treated. Btw, police found that the bars on the cage were much too narrow for a lion’s paw to fit through, but a man’s hand would. The victim had obviously reached through the bars to touch or pet the lion and the creature had reacted naturally. The lion was not harmed in the incident. FAFO I guess

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:33:33pm

a PBS show, Nova, a 2017 episode

pbs.org

Devastating hurricanes struck the U.S. mainland and Caribbean islands in 2017. But they weren’t the first. The Great Hurricane of 1780 took nine days to blast its way across the Caribbean, killing at least 20,000—the highest known death toll of any single weather event in history. What made this superstorm so deadly?

Youtube Video

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:38:58pm

Liberal Redneck - Trump’s Big Week

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:45:43pm

re: #157 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

My mom showed me this skit earlier today:

Lion On The Car Roof

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:51:48pm

Jan Ole Unger :mastodon: 📯⚓️
@jounger@norden.social

Besser fahren mit Außenborder
(Drive better with outboard motor)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:59:08pm

KHON-TV, Honolulu (3:48)

Lāhainā, Maui was once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawai’i.

Lāhainā was once lush, but then water was taken

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:01:50pm

The Catholic Church would like you to know the important takeaway from the Maui wildfires (6:51)

Virgin Mary Statue Untouched by Maui Wildfires | EWTN News Nightly

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:06:59pm

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Catholic Church would like you to know the important takeaway from the Maui wildfires (6:51)

[Embedded content]

Looks like Virgin Mary needs to be washed down with Mr. Clean.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:41:13pm

re: #165 Joe Bacon ✅

Looks like Virgin Mary needs to be washed down with Mr. Clean.

Power washer.

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Targetpractice  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:41:54pm

Ah, another night that reminds me of the eternal question: “Why do they call it ‘tourist season’ if you can’t shoot them?”

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:59:46pm

re: #167 Targetpractice

Ah, another night that reminds me of the eternal question: “Why do they call it ‘tourist season’ if you can’t shoot them?”

Oh yes. Drunkard season more like.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 12:05:44am

The latest Christian end-times date: September 22, 2023.

All the other predictors got it wrong, but this guy says he got it right.

Somehow the Club of Rome is involved in this, along with the United Nations.

All these people who want to impose Old Testament law on everyone should be subject to it themselves: False prophet, stone them to death.

Godless Grannie goes through this tripe. (37:11)

Youtube Video

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Targetpractice  Aug 26, 2023 • 12:07:25am

re: #168 William Lewis

Oh yes. Drunkard season more like.

Unfortunately, tonight for me was the standard “I’m not happy with the room I’m in, is there any way I can move?” Friday night where we’ve been sold-out for hours but everybody who decided to wait til the dead of night to check in is unhappy with the location or state of their room. A special shout-out to the dickhead who thought that, after he and his wife had been as pleasant as a battery acid enema about their room being “filthy,” thought I was in a good enough mood to joke about yelling at housekeeping in the morning.

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Captain Ron  Aug 26, 2023 • 12:26:24am
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William Lewis  Aug 26, 2023 • 12:28:11am

re: #170 Targetpractice

Unfortunately, tonight for me was the standard “I’m not happy with the room I’m in, is there any way I can move?” Friday night where we’ve been sold-out for hours but everybody who decided to wait til the dead of night to check in is unhappy with the location or state of their room. A special shout-out to the dickhead who thought that, after he and his wife had been as pleasant as a battery acid enema about their room being “filthy,” thought I was in a good enough mood to joke about yelling at housekeeping in the morning.

Oh that joy. Thankfully I still had 2 rooms left when the guy complaining that his room smelled funny came in.

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Targetpractice  Aug 26, 2023 • 12:42:17am

re: #172 William Lewis

Oh that joy. Thankfully I still had 2 rooms left when the guy complaining that his room smelled funny came in.

Yeah, I decided to gamble on one of the remaining arrivals no-showing to move them to another room, knowing that the damage is already done and any hope of a positive review is now gone (much like my sanity).

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sagehen  Aug 26, 2023 • 12:45:06am

Top 10 Historical Events School Doesn’t Teach You About

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 1:14:55am

In tonight’s local news, there is a mountain lion roaming in town. I think I’ll stay inside.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 26, 2023 • 1:33:45am

re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have a question…

What the hell is wrong with all those republicans smiling and laughing in their mug shots?

There’s no shame in these people.

they think are pulling a coup like with the photo of Winston Churchill and the Tommy gun, which German propaganda originally published to portray him as a “mobster” but which he embraced and adopted as the image of him as a tough cookie (or a doughty biscuit)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 26, 2023 • 1:37:25am

re: #33 Backwoods Sleuth

This is correct!
Under the bill sponsored by House Speaker
C Sexton, killing 10 of your own family members would NOT be counted as a “mass shooting” in Tennessee.

finally some resolute action to end the reign of terror

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William Lewis  Aug 26, 2023 • 1:37:29am

re: #173 Targetpractice

Yeah, I decided to gamble on one of the remaining arrivals no-showing to move them to another room, knowing that the damage is already done and any hope of a positive review is now gone (much like my sanity).

I just got done with my walk around. On 4th floor I discovered that housekeeping didn’t put away one of their carts and vacuums this afternoon. It’s been sitting there all day. Argh.

Meanwhile 2 of my 3 luggage carts are awol so they’re probably in guest rooms because they are special and shouldn’t have to unload last night, wait their turn in the morning and then reload the cart then.

Last but not least, Adobe Acrobat Reader is acting up. Our property management software (by Oracle) does all of it’s printing through Acrobat. Well, right now I can only do one print job and then I have to LOG OUT of windows and then log back in to print another job. This is apparently at all IHG properties worldwide.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 26, 2023 • 1:58:46am

re: #171 Captain Ron

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No Malarkey!  Aug 26, 2023 • 2:00:41am

Apparently the Kraken wants to be tried with the Cheese Bro in Fulton County on October 23.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 26, 2023 • 2:14:46am

For a few years now I’ve been doing a dream diary, where if I wake up from a dream and remember it I try to write it down. Sometimes my scribbles are barely readable when I go back to check them later, but I do it anyway.

Over a few years some things have become apparent:
1) I remember dreams more if I go to sleep intent on the idea that I am going to record them.
2) All the usual themes that psychologists like to dwell upon eventually show up once in a while, but most of my dreams are just glimpses of miscellaneous stuff I’ve seen or heard.
3) My ratio of nightmares is low. However, on occasion I do have a scary dream.
4) In my dreams the sounds and voices I have heard are better remembered than the visuals.
5) And as is typical (apparently), smells are not part of my dreams.
6) Occasionally I have very long dreams that seem liked adventures, with lots of twists and turns and people I may or may not know. They could make short stories.
7) Also, once in a while a person shows up who I recognize but I have no idea why they popped into a dream. Last night it was Bob Hope. Why? I don’t know.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 26, 2023 • 2:20:34am

re: #182 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

When I am really exhausted, I have dreams of standing in front of a precipice or a body of deep, clear water. Or I dream that I am trying to drive a vehicle but cannot control it properly.

I have a recurring dream involving liminal space: a house with an apartment hidden within another dewlling. It is usually near water.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 2:51:47am

Bigots out in force on Staten Island. (3:11)

Fierce Staten Island protests over migrant shelter

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:01:11am

re: #178 William Lewis

I just got done with my walk around. On 4th floor I discovered that housekeeping didn’t put away one of their carts and vacuums this afternoon. It’s been sitting there all day. Argh.

Meanwhile 2 of my 3 luggage carts are awol so they’re probably in guest rooms because they are special and shouldn’t have to unload last night, wait their turn in the morning and then reload the cart then.

Last but not least, Adobe Acrobat Reader is acting up. Our property management software (by Oracle) does all of it’s printing through Acrobat. Well, right now I can only do one print job and then I have to LOG OUT of windows and then log back in to print another job. This is apparently at all IHG properties worldwide.

I hear Virtualbox on linux running win10 works pretty good. Hotel room management is like tax processing, right? //

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:10:42am

Disturbance One has now been designated Invest 93L. More models predict this system becoming a tropical storm or hurricane before it reaches Florida. It will be named Idalia if it becomes a tropical storm.

North of the Yucatan Channel, the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are in the upper eighties Fahrenheit, and those temperatures extend down over one hundred metres. That means the usual upwelling of cold water under a tropical cyclone will not happen, and more models are showing rapid intensification as the system approaches Florida. Moreover, the temperatures of the water off the west coast are above ninety degrees.

The National Hurricane Center has narrowed the area in which they’re predicting the storm to hit, most likely north of Tampa to the east half of the Panhandle. GFS shows the storm coming ashore near Tallahassee while the European model (ECMWF) shows north of Tampa. So far this year, the ECMWF model has been more accurate.

There will not be a lot of time to prepare for this storm, so preparations should already be underway.

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William Lewis  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:11:52am

re: #185 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I hear Virtualbox on linux running win10 works pretty good. Hotel room management is like tax processing, right? //

I wish oh I so wish… :)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:17:18am

Out in the Atlantic, the remnants of Emily are gone. The National Hurricane Center has moved the track of Tropical Storm Franklin further east, putting Bermuda at the edge of the uncertainty cone, predicting it to be a major hurricane as it passes by or over the island. By the end of the period, it will be over cold water and increasing shear, but still a hurricane as it aims to the south-east of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:19:05am

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The local Fox affiliate is also doing all they can to spin the story.

They didn’t bother to look into how many people in that neighborhood don’t really care.

Staten Island is someplace I’ve never been. I’ve been to Queens and Manhattan before. NYC is huge (by American standards) and of course very diverse and the center of a great amount of immigration the 18th and 19th and 20th centuries.

But there is a story here that Fox did not tell: the abandoned Catholic school building.

Evidently either the locals are not Catholic enough, or did not have enough children, for it to be useful for the local RC parish to keep it functioning as a school.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:24:14am

On the Great Plains, the remnants of Tropical Storm Harold went further south than the Weather Prediction Center predicted. While we got rain yesterday morning, the bulk of the storm passed to our south.

Currently the centre-of-circulation is south-east of Grand Island, Nebraska, moving in the direction of St. Joseph, Missouri.

windy.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:25:19am

Just wanted to pop in to say I have had surgery on my right wrist and I am home recovering right now. I will be coming in here and there and making a comment when I can.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:25:26am

Heads up! I’ve turned my guillotine joke into an ad on the dead bird

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:31:35am

re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The local Fox affiliate is also doing all they can to spin the story.

They didn’t bother to look into how many people in that neighborhood don’t really care.

Staten Island is someplace I’ve never been. I’ve been to Queens and Manhattan before. NYC is huge (by American standards) and of course very diverse and the center of a great amount of immigration the 18th and 19th and 20th centuries.

But there is a story here that Fox did not tell: the abandoned Catholic school building.

Evidently either the locals are not Catholic enough, or did not have enough children, for it to be useful for the local RC parish to keep it functioning as a school.

They kind of buried at the end of the article that a total of twenty asylum seekers are there. Apparently that’s twenty too many: Property owners are already complaining how this will drive down their property values.

Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams’s spokesmodel were on Good Morning New York, complaining the problem is really the Biden Administration not paying any attention to the “nationwide problem.” The reporter drilling down into the claims of the mayor’s spokesmodel got answers from her indicating: a) The city is in contact with the White House every day, b) The federal government sent numerous representatives to the city for a whole week to find out where the government can help.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:33:09am

re: #191 PhillyPretzel ✅

Just wanted to pop in to say I have had surgery on my right wrist and I am home recovering right now. I will be coming in here and there and making a comment when I can.

Take care of your wrist, Ms. Pretzel.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:38:18am

re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thanks.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 26, 2023 • 3:40:57am

re: #147 Belafon

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I used to be addicted to the Hokey-Pokey. But I turned myself around.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 26, 2023 • 4:06:07am

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Families have lots of secrets.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 26, 2023 • 4:09:50am

re: #196 Eventual Carrion

Babylon 5 Hocky Pocky Funny Scene

..

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Jay C  Aug 26, 2023 • 4:43:45am

re: #191 PhillyPretzel ✅

Just wanted to pop in to say I have had surgery on my right wrist and I am home recovering right now. I will be coming in here and there and making a comment when I can.

Good wishes for a quick heal!
And we’ll understand if your posts are slower….
😁

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William Lewis  Aug 26, 2023 • 4:54:00am

And just because the night isn’t over yet, we had a volleyball team. 16 rooms. All on one card. Guess what card doesn’t have enough of a limit?

< head desk >

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Thanos  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:05:26am

re: #83 Belafon

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Googled to see a modern copy & found this site that shows a print of the study auctioned by Sotheby’s in 1986. Since Dali died three years later, it was probably a real good investment.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:28:00am

He’s a Libertarian; of course he doesn’t give a crap about anything he doesn’t own.

SpaceX Blast Left Officials in Disbelief Over Environmental Damage (Bloomberg, August 25, 2023)

“Fish and Wildlife Service biologists expressed frustrations in emails obtained by Bloomberg.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:31:44am

In the ongoing saga of the seatbelt latch taking the grand tour of the Great Plains courtesy of UPS, the used car dealer in Sidney called yesterday to say UPS tracked it down to Broadwater, Montana. They’re saying for sure they’ll get it to Sidney on Monday.

UPS first shipped it to Omaha. When he tracked it down there, they told him they would get the part to him right away.

They shipped it to Wichita.

He tracked it down again and found it was in Montana.

There’s a reason I won’t do on-line or mail order business with a company which doesn’t offer shipping by the US Postal Service (aside from the fact they won’t deliver to my town unless they are forced to).

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:48:12am

Florida man comes through!!!

Florida Man Sues Over Trump’s Eligibility to Be President

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:51:47am

re: #180 No Malarkey!

Apparently the Kraken wants to be tried with the Cheese Bro in Fulton County on October 23.

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Mornin’ everyone…

I agree that Sydney joining Quesobro is probably the last thing Trump needs, but I can’t take these Youtube monologues that are all the rage these days. Write an article and post it…I can skim it and get your gist in two minutes. I don’t need 12 minutes of verbal inflection telling me what you think is most awesome about this.

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:52:51am

Mastodon

(yes, parody account, but enjoy the smile first)

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:52:53am

Morning Lizardim from the cloudy and cool wild north country. It’s a better day, now that the heat has finally broken. I’m just hoping it doesn’t rain, as there’s an outdoor service tomorrow, and I’m at it. How go things among the lizardfolk on this late summer Saturday?

Today’s Wordle: Birble. I liked this one.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 798 3/6

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:57:20am

Shit I love to read
Am still dispirited by
And scared for the country
omg how did we get here and how is he still frontrunner?

“former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants “

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:57:49am

Haaretz, August 7, 2023, paywalled.

Ghislaine Maxwell Identifies as Jewish in Prison, Tapping Into Resources for Jailed Jews

“Maxwell, who was convicted in Jeffery Epstein’s sex abuse case, did not publicly identify as Jewish prior to her incarceration”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 26, 2023 • 5:59:41am

re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Haaretz, August 7, 2023, paywalled.

Ghislaine Maxwell Identifies as Jewish in Prison, Tapping Into Resources for Jailed Jews

“Maxwell, who was convicted in Jeffery Epstein’s sex abuse case, did not publicly identify as Jewish prior to her incarceration”

There was a sub-plot in Orange is the New Black on this very topic, I assume she was familiar with it

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:00:39am

I wonder how this is turning out for him? Not enough humiliation yet?

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:01:40am

agora.echelon.pl

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:01:41am

re: #205 darthstar

Mornin’ everyone…

I agree that Sydney joining Quesobro is probably the last thing Trump needs, but I can’t take these Youtube monologues that are all the rage these days. Write an article and post it…I can skim it and get your gist in two minutes. I don’t need 12 minutes of verbal inflection telling me what you think is most awesome about this.

100%! I find that when I have to watch videos I put them on 1.5x speed (faster if I can get away with it and still understand the current). Videos are such a time suck. I hate them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:02:29am

re: #211 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wonder how this is turning out for him? Not enough humiliation yet?

all grandstanding

he is not that stupid

but just in case he is

“CONGRESS shall make no law abridging…free speech”

Nothing’ in there about Google.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:03:21am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

100%! I find that when I have to watch videos I put them on 1.5x speed (faster if I can get away with it and still understand the current). Videos are such a time suck. I hate them.

I only watch videos when it is an account of a dramatic event, a plane crash or wild fire or tornado, etc. I have no patience for talking heads.

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:04:31am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

100%! I find that when I have to watch videos I put them on 1.5x speed (faster if I can get away with it and still understand the current). Videos are such a time suck. I hate them.

I just unfollowed an account yesterday that kept linking video commentary.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:04:46am

re: #208 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Shit I love to read
Am still dispirited by
And scared for the country
omg how did we get here and how is he still frontrunner?

How we got here goes all the way back to Republicans and the Great Depression.

Conservatives are the minority. The goal is to get fence-sitters off the fence and apolitical people to pay attention.

The GOP has lost Gen Z, which is why libertarians like Ramaswamy are proposing taking the right to vote from young people. Magazines such as Teen Vogue are educating teenage readers on what conservatism really is (something which should have been done a long time ago).

The more extreme they get, the more people they drive away. The GOP voter base is not growing.

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:06:31am

re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I only watch videos when it is an account of a dramatic event, a plane crash or wild fire or tornado, etc. I have no patience for talking heads.

Same, and I still skip through if the length is more than 2 or 3 minutes. One exception…that video about cats Charles posted yesterday. That was some interesting shit. I watched a good 10 minutes of that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:11:18am

They got me.

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:11:34am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:11:46am
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gocart mozart  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:12:05am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:13:13am

re: #216 darthstar

I just unfollowed an account yesterday that kept linking video commentary.

I will say the only video person I enjoy is Beau. He’s often very insightful and never grandstanding or screamy.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:13:45am

re: #218 darthstar

Same, and I still skip through if the length is more than 2 or 3 minutes. One exception…that video about cats Charles posted yesterday. That was some interesting shit. I watched a good 10 minutes of that.

I’m watching that video now. Cats are amazing.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:15:15am

re: #221 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:16:11am

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The more extreme they get, the more people they drive away. The GOP voter base is not growing.

Yes and quite the reverse… It’s a literal dying breed. Between being mostly old white people and hateful young people (who think vaccines in a pandemic are the devil), death is quite prevalent on the right.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:16:14am

(So far)

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Dizzy  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:24:41am

re: #222 gocart mozart

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Hilarious!
That is a spot-on impression of Peterson.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:25:15am

Sam Bankman-Freid is complaining about the lack of vegan food whilst he sits in prison for massive fraud and fleeing the country.

Vegans at BlueSky are coming in to defend him (not the fraud, but how he’s being mistreated by the prison system for not offering him vegan food options).

Bankman-Freid is reported to only be taking a bread-and-water diet. (Presumably the bread is vegan.)

Vegans care more about the prison conditions for a vegan rather than you know, massive fraud and fleeing the country.

bsky.app

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:32:31am

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Prison conditions are awful for everybody. I have little empathy for someone complaining that they can’t get the kind of food they would choose to eat at home, when there are people getting shanked, raped, or beaten by guards and no one bats an eye. If you’re not in favor of fixing those kinds of problems, you can just STFU about some poor vegan not getting special treatment.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:32:34am

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sam Bankman-Freid is complaining about the lack of vegan food whilst he sits in prison for massive fraud and fleeing the country.

Vegans at BlueSky are coming in to defend him (not the fraud, but how he’s being mistreated by the prison system for not offering him vegan food options).

Bankman-Freid is reported to only be taking a bread-and-water diet. (Presumably the bread is vegan.)

Vegans care more about the prison conditions for a vegan rather than you know, massive fraud and fleeing the country.

bsky.app

this prison thing is nothing like the hotels and resorts i’ve stayed at

i’m not used to this at all

//

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:35:33am
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jeffreyw  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:35:56am

It’s Caturday!

Good morning!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:48:06am

CNN - The principal and a teacher at a Flagler County, Florida, elementary school are on paid administrative leave after an assembly was held only for fourth and fifth-grade Black students, who were collectively told to improve their school performance, according to the school district - regardless of how each student was doing individually.

The two school staffers were placed on leave days after the assembly was held at Bunnell Elementary School on August 18. Only African American students from the two grades participated, Flagler County Schools spokesperson Jason Wheeler told CNN.

During the assembly, a 2023-2024 school year Goals and Objectives PowerPoint presentation was used that read in part, “AA have underperform (sic) on standardized assessment for the last past 3 years,” .> Flagler County School Board chair Cheryl Massaro told CNN in an email.

“AA is African American, and that is one subgroup the FDOE requires annual reporting on from all Florida schools. The power point, created by one of the presenters shows the data results,” Massaro said in the email.

Flagler Schools interim superintendent Lashakia Moore said in a news conference Thursday, “This should not have happened, but it did,” and offered an apology to the students and their families.

Keep it fucking classy, Florida. SMH.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:48:48am

re: #230 Nerdy Fish

Prison conditions are awful for everybody. I have little empathy for someone complaining that they can’t get the kind of food they would choose to eat at home, when there are people getting shanked, raped, or beaten by guards and no one bats an eye. If you’re not in favor of fixing those kinds of problems, you can just STFU about some poor vegan not getting special treatment.

It’s venture to say that’s why Giselle Maxwell is now “identifying as Jewish”. Because of the food. Because it’s religious law, is practically guarantee that they’re getting kosher food. When I was flying, if you had a food option (used to be in coach then only in business/first) on the flight, kosher food was usually better than the other options.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:48:59am

Naomi Klein writes about people confusing her with Naomi Wolf, going down Wolf’s rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and the hate she gets for it.

The Guardian, August 26, 2023

Naomi Klein on following her ‘doppelganger’ down the conspiracy rabbit hole - and why millions of people have entered an alternative political reality

“For years the writer laughed off being mistaken for fellow author Naomi Wolf. Then her ‘double’ drifted into a world of conspiracy theories and became a favoured guest of Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson. With the US standing on a political precipice, suddenly the stakes were a lot higher”

In my defence, it was never my intent to write about it. I did not have time. No one asked me to. And several people strongly cautioned against it. Not now - not with the literal and figurative fires roiling our planet. And certainly not about this.

Other Naomi - that is how I refer to her now. This person with whom I have been chronically confused for over a decade. My big-haired doppelganger. A person whom so many others appear to find indistinguishable from me. A person who does many extreme things that cause strangers to chastise me or thank me or express their pity for me.

I am referring, of course, to Naomi Wolf. In the 1990s, she was a standard-bearer for “third wave” feminism, then a leading adviser to US vice-president Al Gore. Today, she is a full-time, industrial-scale disseminator of unproven conspiracy theories on everything from Islamic State beheadings to vaccines. And the worst part of the confusion is that I can see why people get their Naomis mixed up. We both write big-idea books (my No Logo, her Beauty Myth; my Shock Doctrine, her End of America; my This Changes Everything, her Vagina). We both have brown hair that sometimes goes blond from over-highlighting (hers is longer and more voluminous than mine). We’re both Jewish.

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:57:31am

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sam Bankman-Freid is complaining about the lack of vegan food whilst he sits in prison for massive fraud and fleeing the country.

Prison reform, like immigration reform is such a large, complex and interconnected issue that addressing simply one aspect of it at a time is rather pointless unless you are out to make a political point.

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Nojay UK  Aug 26, 2023 • 6:58:20am

re: #218 darthstar

Same, and I still skip through if the length is more than 2 or 3 minutes..

One Youtuber I follow, Perun, produces hour-long PowerPoint presentations with voiceover on the Ukraine war with occasional looks at defence spending and associated subjects in other countries and associations like NATO. It’s riveting stuff for geeks and nerds, no “my big gun is better than your big gun” clickbait or outright propagandising for either side in the current clusterfuck. He is very clearly on Ukraine’s side but he left his rose-tinted glasses at home.

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Teukka  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:12:23am

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ericblair  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:12:55am

Both things are true: that the West’s occupation of Afghanistan had long been untenable and unjustifiable, and that things would get significantly worse for most of the population once the West left. We’ve got sanctions up the yin-yang against the Taliban without much effect. Sometimes there are no good answers.

And Biden learned, or likely already knew, that ending a war and an occupation meant that the right would pound you for being a loser and a traitor, the left would simply move on to the next grievance without missing a beat, and the middle would forget about the whole thing in a week. It’s a dangerous lesson for future presidents.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:20:27am

re: #207 Nerdy Fish

Morning Lizardim from the cloudy and cool wild north country. It’s a better day, now that the heat has finally broken. I’m just hoping it doesn’t rain, as there’s an outdoor service tomorrow, and I’m at it. How go things among the lizardfolk on this late summer Saturday?

Today’s Wordle: Birble. I liked this one.

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OMG. A starting word I use every once in a while pays off. 1/6

Click to Reveal

Wordle 798 1/6

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:23:16am

re: #211 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wonder how this is turning out for him? Not enough humiliation yet?

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He should just bake his own fucking cake.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:23:18am

re: #240 ericblair

The GOP are well positioned to speak out as champions of women’s rights…

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:24:52am

re: #241 Eventual Carrion

OMG. A starting word I use every once in a while pays off. 1/6

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My usual starting word came up last week. As I was typing it I decided to alter it by one letter. Had to settle for an eagle.

Par for me today…glad you got to sing your song.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:43:48am

There’s a joke in there somewhere when a MAGA bigot complains about someone who identifies as LGBTQ+ and their belief that it’s all BS. Well. Trump still identifies as President.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:44:59am

And a Perfect Connections game. Guess it is just my day. Except that my son’s flight from Dulles has been delayed for an a hour, so that sets back my trip to Pittsburgh to pick him up by at least an hour.

Click to Reveal

Connections
Puzzle #76
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wrenchwench  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:49:17am

Birbie.

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Wordle 798 3/6*

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:53:47am

re: #240 ericblair

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Both things are true: that the West’s occupation of Afghanistan had long been untenable and unjustifiable, and that things would get significantly worse for most of the population once the West left. We’ve got sanctions up the yin-yang against the Taliban without much effect. Sometimes there are no good answers.

And Biden learned, or likely already knew, that ending a war and an occupation meant that the right would pound you for being a loser and a traitor, the left would simply move on to the next grievance without missing a beat, and the middle would forget about the whole thing in a week. It’s a dangerous lesson for future presidents.

And in the modern world’s political climate “fixing” Afghanistan is not possible.

The internal powers there for the most part *want* their loose tribal network, patriarchal hierarchy, and conservative Islam (though perhaps not to the extremes the Taliban prefers.) Which also is going to include no or few rights for women, extremely limited education opportunities, etc. etc. Self-induced crippling of half their potential population’s intellectual input to the society.

An external power or coalition of powers trying to enforce any sort of modernity or structure with better rights for women would be acting as an imperial/conquering power attempting to quash or destroy a culture and all/most of its trappings while substituting its own as the replacement. (Or at least a version of it telling the occupants to be subservient.) And such an effort will also take at least a generational long large-scale occupation. With no guarantees it would be successful even then.

The latter will not fly in this day and age since who picks which culture is going to be imposed. Plus that sort of crusade (and it would be essentially a crusade since it has to be sold that way) will not carry sufficient economic benefits for any country or coalition to want to carry it out.

Plus humans being humans the entire process would be rife with corruption, set backs, and probably veer off the rails somewhere during the process as well.

My guess is that as long as the Taliban is not letting Afghanistan serve as a base for terrorist camps and cells to develop the outside world is generally going to let them alone to continue terrorizing themselves and treating half their population as chattel simply due to gender. (And, unfortunately, there are those in other countries who will look upon this as a good thing that should be adopted in their country as well.)

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:58:43am

re: #225 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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jeffreyw  Aug 26, 2023 • 7:59:41am

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:12:47am

re: #246 Eventual Carrion

I went blue yellow green purple. I knew what the purple category was though by the time I got to it…have gotten used to that.

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nines09  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:14:18am

Sunflowers inna back yard.

Birds let this monster be.
New Wi-Fi tower up till fall.
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:18:12am

re: #207 Nerdy Fish

Morning Lizardim from the cloudy and cool wild north country. It’s a better day, now that the heat has finally broken. I’m just hoping it doesn’t rain, as there’s an outdoor service tomorrow, and I’m at it. How go things among the lizardfolk on this late summer Saturday?

Today’s Wordle: Birble. I liked this one.

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Birbie here too!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 798 3/6

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Group:3,3,3,4

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Unabogie  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:20:33am

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sam Bankman-Freid is complaining about the lack of vegan food whilst he sits in prison for massive fraud and fleeing the country.

Vegans at BlueSky are coming in to defend him (not the fraud, but how he’s being mistreated by the prison system for not offering him vegan food options).

Bankman-Freid is reported to only be taking a bread-and-water diet. (Presumably the bread is vegan.)

Vegans care more about the prison conditions for a vegan rather than you know, massive fraud and fleeing the country.

bsky.app

This is an ironic accusation considering the conversation just yesterday about Marsha Blackburn accusing Democrats of forcing everyone to be vegan against their will. Here, you are saying that vegans ought to be forced against their will to do something they find morally repugnant.

Bear in mind that “vegans” (hardly a monolithic group) are objecting to prisoners – in general – being forced to eat meat when in jail. And although I’m sure SBF is guilty of fraud, he’s also only an *accused* criminal and that anyone else accused of a crime might be subject to the same treatment. Which again, vegans find morally repugnant.

I can’t imagine any other group, religious or otherwise, forced to do things like that. You and I would scream if an atheist were forced to pray in prison. Or if kids were forced to declare fealty to Donald Trump in schools.

I live in a society in which “vegans” are routinely accused of wanting to force our beliefs on everyone else, or being preachy by just existing and telling other people about how we choose to live. And yet in this thread, there are several people who want to force vegans to eat meat against our will, solely based on any accusation of a crime that puts us in a jail long enough for us to require eating there.

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TarHellion  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:22:48am

re: #207 Nerdy Fish

Glad it has cooled down a bit for you. Still stifling here, though next week we are supposed to get some cooler, drier air.

On vacation for first time in nearly 2 years. We’ve been focused on MrsTarH and getting her feeling better. She is now up to heading out of town for a few days, so we are going to Cherokee tomorrow, play some video poker and blackjack, and put a couple of bucks on the Braves. If she experiences a crying spell from her stroke, we can hang in the room, watch Forensic Files, and order room service.

Also snagged the Birbie.

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Wordle 798 3/6*

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:23:29am

re: #198 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Should never have been drinking pepsi while watching that clip!! Almost choked on it! LOLOLOL

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:23:38am

It’s Championship Day for the Men:

2023 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships - Junior Men - Day 2

Went to the Sr. Women’s competition Day 1 last night. Simone Biles is the best ever. The place was electric.

An interesting observation of Elite Level Gymnastics in the United States: People of Color.

In the Sr Men’s(18+) competition, two Asian-Americans and three African-Americans are in the top seven of day one scores. In the Junior Men’s, you have four Asian-Americans, two of South-Asia/India decent, and two Ukrainian-Americans in the top 12. In the Sr. Women, 12 of the top 15 are Women of Color.

Probably not the images of gymnastics that many people have.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:23:47am

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Jay C  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:26:38am

Birbied today as well:

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Wordlebot sez I was either brilliant or lucky with my second guess (99 & 93 score) with only one solution: so I’ll accept “brilliant”….

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nines09  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:32:59am

re: #257 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Many colleges and universities gutted men’s gymnastics in the last 10-15 years.
Fucking football and more weight rooms.
When my daughter was looking at schools we visited Temple in Philly. Their woman’s practice area was a joke. Didn’t even have a pit. Just harness. Had areas where towels were wrapped around pipes to protect heads.
But they showed us a bright shiny brand new weight arena.
I didn’t know gymnasts lifted.
They don’t.
It was for football and other money makers.
My daughters gym was more well equipped.
My daughter watched that last night. She judges now so she’s still close to the sport she loves.
Travel teams and tournaments.
She makes hundreds of dollars enjoying herself on a weekend. The season is coming after Christmas. She’ll be neck deep in it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:35:19am

re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The local Fox affiliate is also doing all they can to spin the story.

They didn’t bother to look into how many people in that neighborhood don’t really care.

Staten Island is someplace I’ve never been. I’ve been to Queens and Manhattan before. NYC is huge (by American standards) and of course very diverse and the center of a great amount of immigration the 18th and 19th and 20th centuries.

But there is a story here that Fox did not tell: the abandoned Catholic school building.

Evidently either the locals are not Catholic enough, or did not have enough children, for it to be useful for the local RC parish to keep it functioning as a school.

Well here’s another lie pushed by 19th Century FAUX!

‘Disgusting’: Fox News repeatedly ignored request to correct ‘false’ story about fallen Marine

Fox News executives were asked by the United States Marine Corps to amend a story about a 23-year-old Marine killed in Afghanistan, according to The Washington Post, but instead the right-wing news outlet deleted the report.

Per The Post, “The July 25 foxnews.com story,” written by Michael Lee, “relied on an account from freshman Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), who stated that the family of Sgt. Nicole L. Gee had shouldered ‘a heavy financial burden’ of $60,000 to retrieve her body from Afghanistan,” after becoming “one of 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport in the frantic final days of the U.S. withdrawal.”

Marine Corps spokesman Major James Stenger wrote in an email to Fox executives, “The allegations originally published turned out to be false, which I suspect Mr. Lee knew in the first place, and was the reason he did not seek comment from the Marine Corps.”

Lee, according to the report, “quoted Mills calling the family’s supposed expenditures an ‘egregious injustice,’ but “neither Pentagon officials nor Gee’s family were quoted in the original story.”

After Stenger’s first email, Fox added a statement from the Marines to the story and changed its headline. The original headline read: ‘Family forced to pay to ship body of Marine killed after Pentagon policy change; ‘Egregious injustice.’ The new version said: ‘Family shouldered burden to transport body of Marine killed in Afghanistan, GOP Rep says.’

The newspaper also notes that “Stenger emailed executives again to say that the new headline and story were still false,” writing, “Using the grief of a family member of a fallen Marine to score cheap clickbait points is disgusting.”

Instead of adhering to “Stenger’s request for a correction, retraction or an apology to Gee’s family,” according to the report, “Fox then removed the story from its website altogether.”

The Post notes, “The Marines’ communications with Fox were first reported by military.com, which obtained the emails this week under a Freedom of Information Act request.”

military.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:37:58am

re: #260 nines09

Which is why I never gave a single penny to Pitt when they endlessly send fundraising appeals. They just care about having a winning football and basketball team.

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nines09  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:44:12am

re: #262 Joe Bacon ✅

They used to be somebody at one time.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:53:47am

re: #262 Joe Bacon ✅

Which is why I never gave a single penny to Pitt when they endlessly send fundraising appeals. They just care about having a winning football and basketball team.

I never gave them money. Mainly based on how they treated students as a commodity while I was there in the Posvar issue. Partially also due to their two-faced policies and treatment towards fraternities.*

My father, also a Pitt alumnus, stopped donating to them in the early 70s when they hired Majors as the football coach and started trying to become a modern major football power again.

* - Their policies were a mishmash that varied due in part to which part of the university you were talking too. Greek Life was a bit of a joke since the IFC essentially ran as a sort of club dominated by the larger fraternities who did things that favored the larger fraternities. And often the university rules and policies were pretty much of the “we are covering our ass” variety while also stating a bunch of principles that they just paid lip service to.

Which led to the fraternities pretty much being ignored until they did something embarrassing or were caught doing something criminal (like hazing). Can’t comment much on the sorority side of the situation though from what friends have said it had its share of peculiarities.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:58:08am

re: #204 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Florida man comes through!!!

Florida Man Sues Over Trump’s Eligibility to Be President

Under Calvincourt rules - does he have standing?

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jeffreyw  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:58:53am

Mastodon

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Thanos  Aug 26, 2023 • 8:59:29am

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sam Bankman-Freid is complaining about the lack of vegan food whilst he sits in prison for massive fraud and fleeing the country.

Vegans at BlueSky are coming in to defend him (not the fraud, but how he’s being mistreated by the prison system for not offering him vegan food options).

Bankman-Freid is reported to only be taking a bread-and-water diet. (Presumably the bread is vegan.)

Vegans care more about the prison conditions for a vegan rather than you know, massive fraud and fleeing the country.

bsky.app

[disclaimer - regardless of what I think of techbro pirates ]
I have no problems with anyone pointing out the problems in our current prison industrial complex, whether they be large or small. Future generations are going to look back in horror at this generation’s inhumane treatment of prisoners.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:08:09am

It’s Saturday, I’d put money on it.

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nines09  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:08:13am

re: #267 Thanos

Prison cafeteria.
Meat.
Not meat.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:14:48am

They’re both complete morons.

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nines09  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:19:59am

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BeachDem  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:25:03am

re: #270 Eclectic Cyborg

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They’re both complete morons.

And speaking of morons, from Jeff Tiedrich’s “this week in stupid”

first they came for the light bulbs, and I didn’t speak out—
… because no one is coming for the light bulbs, you paranoid idiots.

then they came for the toilets, and I didn’t speak out— because no one is coming for the toilets, you bloviating gasbags.

then they came for the gas stoves, and I didn’t speak out— because no one is coming for the gas stoves, you asinine morons.

then they came for the ceiling fans, and I didn’t speak out— instead, I rolled my eyes so hard that I sprained my big toe.

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:25:57am

Listening to the Paula Poundstone podcast interviewing a retired General who was involved in renaming bases. And they got 34k names from the public. One of the submissions was Britney Spears. Like they said, while it would be silly to name a base after her, Fort Spears would be pretty bad ass for a name.

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:35:39am

They’re also removing this statue, en.m.wikipedia.org from the Arlington National Cemetery. It was erected in 1914 (Wilson was president).

I like this general, calling some people snowflakes but saying that most Americans can handle it.

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:40:38am

The guys name is Ty Seidule. He wrote Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause.

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Jay C  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:41:48am

re: #270 Eclectic Cyborg

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They’re both complete morons.

Although unlike his Senatorial halfwit colleague, Sen. Tuberville doesn’t (AFAICT) broadcast his imbecility with constant Xits larded with cheap puerile snark. Which Marsha Blackburn seems to have made her trademark.

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LadyBehir  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:43:10am

re: #167 Targetpractice

Ah, another night that reminds me of the eternal question: “Why do they call it ‘tourist season’ if you can’t shoot them?”

I say this every year during the Little League World Series.

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TarHellion  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:45:28am

re: #274 Belafon

Wilson was a horrible, deeply racist person. Charles Evans Hughes would have made a good president and prevented the GOP from supporting the crook Harding in 1920. And Hughes sported the most rocking beard ever.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:47:20am

re: #254 Unabogie

This is an ironic accusation considering the conversation just yesterday about Marsha Blackburn accusing Democrats of forcing everyone to be vegan against their will. Here, you are saying that vegans ought to be forced against their will to do something they find morally repugnant.

Bear in mind that “vegans” (hardly a monolithic group) are objecting to prisoners – in general – being forced to eat meat when in jail. And although I’m sure SBF is guilty of fraud, he’s also only an *accused* criminal and that anyone else accused of a crime might be subject to the same treatment. Which again, vegans find morally repugnant.

I can’t imagine any other group, religious or otherwise, forced to do things like that. You and I would scream if an atheist were forced to pray in prison. Or if kids were forced to declare fealty to Donald Trump in schools.

I live in a society in which “vegans” are routinely accused of wanting to force our beliefs on everyone else, or being preachy by just existing and telling other people about how we choose to live. And yet in this thread, there are several people who want to force vegans to eat meat against our will, solely based on any accusation of a crime that puts us in a jail long enough for us to require eating there.

DoD suppliers make a line of vegan MREs. It would be no trick to work them into prison food. Vegans are accommodated, hard-asses can tell themselves it’s punishment. Everybody wins.

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:48:10am

Mastodon

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nines09  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:49:30am

Lantern fly…

Hello….
Goodbye…
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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:53:11am

Trump is 6’ and here is proof.

instagram.com

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Teukka  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:53:32am

Sabine dropped a new one, on how to do your own research (the right way):

What not to do when doing your own research

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Unabogie  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:54:28am

re: #279 Decatur Deb

DoD suppliers make a line of vegan MREs. It would be no trick to work them into prison food. Vegans are accommodated, hard-asses can tell themselves it’s punishment. Everybody wins.

Not only this, but legumes are about the cheapest form of protein you can find and it’s easy to cook giant pots of chili that can feed hundreds of people. Swapping out meat for beans is cheaper and easier than cooking meat.

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Unabogie  Aug 26, 2023 • 9:56:33am

re: #282 GlutenFreeJesus

Trump is 6’ and here is proof.

instagram.com

Ok, I was expecting a different approach and that was sheer genius.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 26, 2023 • 10:07:39am

Lets see if this works. Breakfast/brunch today. And yes, the banana bread was good.

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2023 • 10:20:35am

re: #280 darthstar

I’m thinking Daleks should get their eon bathroom. Sorry, Daleks.

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mmmirele  Aug 26, 2023 • 10:23:40am

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Catholic Church would like you to know the important takeaway from the Maui wildfires (6:51)

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So was a Mormon church building, but it had a massive parking lot (= firebreak) around it.

I HATE these things. HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 26, 2023 • 10:25:06am

Seeing that Bob Barker (of The Price is Right fame), has died at the age of 99.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 26, 2023 • 10:27:01am

re: #287 Belafon

I’m thinking Daleks should get their eon bathroom. Sorry, Daleks.

I assume they have their own built into their casing, and would just need to dump like an RV, if they poop. I don’t recall seeing a Dalek eat.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 26, 2023 • 10:47:06am

This fight scene had me chuckling.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 26, 2023 • 10:56:53am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2023 • 11:02:10am

re: #291 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

This fight scene had me chuckling.

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Fun fact: Bob Barker knew martial arts and had studied under Chuck Norris, among others. He insisted on doing as many of his own stunts as possible during this scene.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 26, 2023 • 11:03:46am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

CNN - The principal and a teacher at a Flagler County, Florida, elementary school are on paid administrative leave after an assembly was held only for fourth and fifth-grade Black students, who were collectively told to improve their school performance, according to the school district - regardless of how each student was doing individually.

The two school staffers were placed on leave days after the assembly was held at Bunnell Elementary School on August 18. Only African American students from the two grades participated, Flagler County Schools spokesperson Jason Wheeler told CNN.

During the assembly, a 2023-2024 school year Goals and Objectives PowerPoint presentation was used that read in part, “AA have underperform (sic) on standardized assessment for the last past 3 years,” .> Flagler County School Board chair Cheryl Massaro told CNN in an email.

“AA is African American, and that is one subgroup the FDOE requires annual reporting on from all Florida schools. The power point, created by one of the presenters shows the data results,” Massaro said in the email.

Flagler Schools interim superintendent Lashakia Moore said in a news conference Thursday, “This should not have happened, but it did,” and offered an apology to the students and their families.

Keep it fucking classy, Florida. SMH.

“Participated “???

More like “were subjected to”

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 26, 2023 • 11:14:59am

re: #287 Belafon

I’m thinking Daleks should get their eon bathroom. Sorry, Daleks.

Daleks don’t eat; they are powered by electricity. My impression is that the source of that electricity has changed over time.

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jeffreyw  Aug 26, 2023 • 11:16:49am

The heat finally broke so I tried mowing but got chased in by a thundershower.

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jaunte  Aug 26, 2023 • 11:18:32am

heh heh

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jeffreyw  Aug 26, 2023 • 11:18:44am

Mastodon

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 26, 2023 • 11:19:14am

re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg

Fun fact: Bob Barker knew martial arts and had studied under Chuck Norris, among others. He insisted on doing as many of his own stunts as possible during this scene.

According to the Google, a black belt in Karate and a red belt in tang soo do karate under Chuck Norris. And according to the Wiki, he was a vegetarian as well.

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sagehen  Aug 26, 2023 • 11:28:43am

re: #292 Backwoods Sleuth

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I wonder how many of those Covenant moms were rock-ribbed Republicans right up until… now.


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