Video: Witness Tears and Prison Fears: The Hope Hicks Moment

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Hope Hicks, a longtime aide to Donald Trump, delivered an emotional testimony during his criminal trial. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on their history and role in the trial. (Check out The Beat’s playlist: https://msnbc.com/ari Connect with Ari Melber: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber)

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darthstar  May 3, 2024 • 5:33:49pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 3, 2024 • 5:40:57pm

Arizona AG officially unveils 9 new felony charges against Trump’s former chief of staff

Dee-Lite-Ful!

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes confirmed this week that Mark Meadows — who served as chief of staff in former President Donald Trump’s White House — has been officially served on nine felony charges related to her office’s ongoing fake electors investigation.

Legal news website Law & Crime reported Friday that the charges against Meadows have now been made public after it was previously reported that he and 17 others were the targets of a massive criminal probe. Meadows’ attorney, George Terwilliger, called the indictment a “blatantly political and politicized accusation,” and said the charges “will be contested and defeated.” The ex-president has not been indicted, but has been confirmed to be an unindicted co-conspirator according to investigators.

In addition to Meadows, other high-ranking Republicans were also hit with criminal charges. Law & Crime reported that Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and her husband Michael were charged in the indictment, along with Arizona GOP activists Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino and Gregory Safsten.

Others looped into the investigation but who have not been formally charged include former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and the now disbarred former Trump attorney John Eastman — the author of the “Eastman Memo” that laid out the strategy for giving Electoral College votes to Trump on January 6, 2021. Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis has also been named as a codefendant, though she has yet to be formally charged.

Arizona investigators are also expected to officially serve Trump campaign attorney Boris Epshteyn with felony charges, along with one-time Trump lawyer Christina Bobb. She has since joined the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) “election integrity team,” helping the RNC litigate 2024 election results in key battleground states, like Arizona. Prior to her work with Trump and the RNC, Bobb was an anchor at the far-right One America News Network.

lawandcrime.com

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Charles Johnson  May 3, 2024 • 5:44:33pm

Netflix’s “Ripley” series is one of the best of the year. I haven’t read the noir novels it’s based on, but I absolutely loved this creepy, very dark but very funny show.

Ripley | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Dangerman  May 3, 2024 • 5:47:55pm

re: #205 jaunte

I’m seeing women from the Trump White House being interviewed on msnbc today who continue to claim they support “his policies.” It’s just bizarre. Are they not reading or watching the news?

I challenge them to name one that he is unequivocal and consistent about and then explain why it is “right”

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 3, 2024 • 5:49:16pm

re: #4 Dangerman

I challenge them to name one that he is unequivocal and consistent about and then explain why it is “right”

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear them say “It’s right because Jesus says so!”

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jaunte  May 3, 2024 • 5:52:15pm

re: #4 Dangerman

I think one of them mumbled something about “the border”, and then quickly said she didn’t support family separation. But I find their studied blindness about the future of their own healthcare options odd.

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Dangerman  May 3, 2024 • 6:01:24pm

Not a one of them can name an unequivocal unambiguous policy position that can be discussed and debated

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darthstar  May 3, 2024 • 6:04:37pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  May 3, 2024 • 6:11:51pm

This would have fit right in with a Nintendo game back in the 80s!

Holst - Mars (8 Bit Edition)

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Charles Johnson  May 3, 2024 • 6:11:59pm

All I really wanna do-ooo-ooo
Is watch videos of black norwegian forest cats getting the zoomies in the snow

❄️Black Norwegian Forest Cat❄️ Snow Zoomies

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jaunte  May 3, 2024 • 6:15:15pm

Lilyhammer of the Gods

google.com

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Dangerman  May 3, 2024 • 6:20:54pm
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Romantic Heretic  May 3, 2024 • 6:23:07pm

re: #12 Dangerman

Christ! These people are stupid.

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Charles Johnson  May 3, 2024 • 6:26:02pm

tfw you do a simple “apt-get upgrade” and then spend the rest of the week trying to find out why everything is crashing now

Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-04T01:01:28.949Z

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jaunte  May 3, 2024 • 6:27:34pm

re: #13 Romantic Heretic

Christ! These people are stupid.

“In 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Moody sued the federal government and the CDC for instituting requirements that cruise ships require 95% of cruise passengers to be fully vaccinated to sail.”
floridapolitics.com

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goddamnedfrank  May 3, 2024 • 6:39:14pm

Gift link of the NYT article about the violent counterprotest at UCLA.

It took the police three hours to show up, and then “officers were captured on video standing about 300 feet away from the area for roughly an hour, without stepping in.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/…

hilzoy (@hilzoy.bsky.social) 2024-05-04T01:35:30.679Z

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silverdolphin  May 3, 2024 • 6:43:05pm

The Boeing of sports apparel

The enshittification continues. Nike once was as esteemed a brand as Boeing. But it went the same route, deciding cutting corners to make more money was a path to glory.

SO, onow it has pissed off its major customers - athletes. Baseball is issed. Olympuc athletes are pissed. How much longer before none of them want to be associated with such a poor product?

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 3, 2024 • 6:46:52pm

re: #17 silverdolphin

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teleskiguy  May 3, 2024 • 6:47:51pm

re: #16 goddamnedfrank

This tracks. Anytime civil unrest occurs like this the cops go crazy, because they’re goons who just want to hurt people.

I’ll be 42 next week. I’ve dealt with cops more than most people. I personally know cops in my community. And they know how I feel about them and it shows because I’ve had to deal with them a lot. Yes, the naysayers would say “teleskiguy, you’re a convicted drunk driver.” Yes, I am. Three times. I’m comfortable saying my life has changed after that third conviction, where I had to do two months in the county jail and I was released on 13 March 2020. Weird fucken shit! All that said, those were three (3) encounters I’ve had with cops where they’re all up in my face. I’ve had dozens of such encounters. The cop profession attracts the scuzziest roidheads. I hear Border Patrol is just absolutely fucken dirty with the worst of the dregs…

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 3, 2024 • 6:54:58pm

re: #19 teleskiguy

What I know about cops is that I work as an IT drone in close proximity to them every day and with a tiny selection of exceptions, they are all massive assholes. In addition to that, my biological mother (whom I did not grow up with) used to preferentially date cops because they were her safest and most reliable source of cocaine.

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Belafon  May 3, 2024 • 6:55:53pm

re: #17 silverdolphin

The Boeing of sports apparel

The enshittification continues. Nike once was as esteemed a brand as Boeing. But it went the same route, deciding cutting corners to make more money was a path to glory.

SO, onow it has pissed off its major customers - athletes. Baseball is issed. Olympuc athletes are pissed. How much longer before none of them want to be associated with such a poor product?

My company, a huge part of which is a defense contractor, put out their quarterly report a week after they did a 5% layoff that had almost no input from management (they cut a guy who was one of two people working on one of our projects). One of the lines in there went something to the effect of “Generating cash for our shareholders is one of our major duties, and we fell short.” And I’m sitting there thinking to myself that “I’m pretty sure the primary goal should be getting the products to the US government on time and with good quality and you’re going to fail at that now.”

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teleskiguy  May 3, 2024 • 6:56:14pm

re: #20 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Yikes!!!

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goddamnedfrank  May 3, 2024 • 6:57:21pm

re: #19 teleskiguy

This tracks. Anytime civil unrest occurs like this the cops go crazy, because they’re goons who just want to hurt people.

If that were true, if they’d gone crazy and just wanted to hurt people they’d have welcomed the ample legal justification offered by the violent counter-protesters, or they’d have weighed in and walloped everyone.

Instead, they condoned that violence, they admired it.

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teleskiguy  May 3, 2024 • 6:58:28pm

I’ve had a cop-free streak of about eight months! Last September I was contacted by law enforcement about a car crash that I was not involved with. Had to pay an attorney $2,000 to make that go away.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 3, 2024 • 7:02:24pm

re: #17 silverdolphin

Money quote in a headline on another story about that: “Just redo it.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 3, 2024 • 7:09:33pm

Meanwhile, at Crazypalooza:

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Charles Johnson  May 3, 2024 • 7:10:56pm

fucking covid

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teleskiguy  May 3, 2024 • 7:19:23pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

you got it? or is this a “fucking covid” commentary on what that pandemic did done did on society and shit

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Charles Johnson  May 3, 2024 • 7:20:44pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

got it, goddammit

this is me feeling like shit

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 3, 2024 • 7:21:11pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

Isn’t this the second time for you?

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Charles Johnson  May 3, 2024 • 7:21:36pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

yup

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Dave In Austin  May 3, 2024 • 7:28:33pm

“A Commie Breakfast Pastry”…….

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  May 3, 2024 • 7:42:06pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

got it, goddammit

Had it this week myself. Still feeling worn-out and I need to take a nap just walking up a flight of stairs.

Wretched cough.

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teleskiguy  May 3, 2024 • 7:42:22pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

sorry, bro. chicken soup and lots of water, just like every other respiratory illness…

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Ace Rothstein  May 3, 2024 • 7:43:32pm

The golf tournament I was supposed to shoot today got rained out and when you need a picture you get an Egyptian goose drinking water from a puddle on the 18th fairway!

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sagehen  May 3, 2024 • 7:45:11pm

bill maher tonight:

Roger Daltrey - Kellyanne Conway - Joshua Green

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teleskiguy  May 3, 2024 • 7:45:40pm

re: #35 Ace Rothstein

You’re good. Real good.

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Ace Rothstein  May 3, 2024 • 7:46:11pm

re: #36 sagehen

bill maher tonight:

Roger Daltrey - Kellyanne Conway - Joshua Green

Did Daltrey turn into a right wing wacko?

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darthstar  May 3, 2024 • 7:46:37pm

This made me chuckle…

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jaunte  May 3, 2024 • 7:48:16pm

re: #38 Ace Rothstein

He’s complaining about the woke kids being communist on his lawn.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 3, 2024 • 7:49:52pm

re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg

Meanwhile, at Crazypalooza:

[Embedded content]

Say WHAT??????????????

Alex Jones can see the Future????

So why hasn’t he won a Powerball jackpot…or in his case it would be…a JERKpot?

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goddamnedfrank  May 3, 2024 • 7:53:37pm

Violence is a choice and lots of folks are making better ones.

David M. Perry (@lollardfish.bsky.social) 2024-05-03T21:23:29.371Z

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sagehen  May 3, 2024 • 7:54:42pm

re: #38 Ace Rothstein

Did Daltrey turn into a right wing wacko?

doubtful.

But Tommy just got nominated for the “best revival” Tony, and needs promotion. (Daltry isn’t on the panel, he’s the interview before the panel)

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Dave In Austin  May 3, 2024 • 7:56:41pm

re: #39 darthstar

This made me chuckle…

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The stories I could tell……

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jaunte  May 3, 2024 • 7:59:01pm

re: #44 Dave In Austin

The stories I could tell……

“DId you remember to put the drain plug back in before you backed the boat off the trailer?”

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darthstar  May 3, 2024 • 8:00:54pm

Got a par on wordle, and didn’t even have Michael Jackson there to duet with me.

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teleskiguy  May 3, 2024 • 8:05:53pm

My close friend up in Torch Lake, MI describes boats as an acronym. B.O.A.T. Bust out another thousand.

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Belafon  May 3, 2024 • 8:06:33pm

re: #45 jaunte

“DId you remember to put the drain plug back in before you backed the boat off the trailer?”

“Back in the trailer. Pulling into the lake won’t turn out well.”

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Dave In Austin  May 3, 2024 • 8:10:51pm

re: #45 jaunte

“DId you remember to put the drain plug back in before you backed the boat off the trailer?”

I’ve only done that once…… A 20’ Champion Bass Boat, my 1st. The 1st time in the water. Got it on the trailer. Self balers are the way to go.

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Belafon  May 3, 2024 • 8:13:14pm

re: #42 goddamnedfrank

Some asshole at a meeting with the HOA board had a “Give violence a chance” t-shirt on: the back said “lions not sheep.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 3, 2024 • 8:18:13pm

I do not know if I’ve ever had Covid.

I do know I have never tested positive for it.

(I am also fully vaxxed and boosted.)

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Dave In Austin  May 3, 2024 • 8:20:50pm

A not healthy Bass from today.

Mastodon

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Belafon  May 3, 2024 • 8:20:55pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

I do not know if I’ve ever had Covid.

I do know I have never tested positive for it.

(I am also fully vaxxed and boosted.)

The only time I’ve had it is after the second time I was boosted. It was equivalent for me to when I get a sinus infection as far as symptoms go.

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Belafon  May 3, 2024 • 8:21:40pm

re: #52 Dave In Austin

A not healthy Bass from today.

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What is keep size for those?

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Dave In Austin  May 3, 2024 • 8:23:48pm

re: #54 Belafon

What is keep size for those?

Over 14”
No limit on Guadalupe Bass. Lotta Guads in Travis. A little fish with lots of hearts, they are just mad all the time.

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jaunte  May 3, 2024 • 8:29:39pm

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu

Volcanologist Arpad Kerner and assistant in the crater of the Stromboli volcano, Italy, 1933.

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Belafon  May 3, 2024 • 8:37:52pm

re: #56 jaunte

I went to look him up, and there’s another nope picture associated with him:

steemit.com

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jaunte  May 3, 2024 • 8:39:37pm

re: #57 Belafon

I’m curious about what he’s learning from the end of that rope.

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jaunte  May 3, 2024 • 8:41:40pm

Ken White is having quite a First Amendment explainer thread at Bluesky tonight.

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EPR-radar  May 3, 2024 • 9:07:22pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

got it, goddammit

this is me feeling like shit

Best wishes for a quick recovery. If antivirals are an option, they worked well for me when I had it.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 3, 2024 • 9:09:34pm

re: #56 jaunte

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu

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Looks like a scene from an Ed Woods movie.

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sizzzzlerz  May 3, 2024 • 9:18:06pm

re: #58 jaunte

I’m curious about what he’s learning from the end of that rope.

How a teabag must feel?

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Sherlock Hound  May 3, 2024 • 9:23:25pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

One of my Debian VM’s at work runs The Elephant (PostgreSQL) backing DB for Zabbix. I did apt updateon the OS. The Elephant didn’t. Zabbix sure bitched. That was fun.

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William Lewis  May 3, 2024 • 9:34:43pm

re: #63 Sherlock Hound

One of my Debian VM’s at work runs The Elephant (PostgreSQL) backing DB for Zabbix. I did apt updateon the OS. The Elephant didn’t. Zabbix sure bitched. That was fun.

Pain.

Times like that are when I most miss SunOs/Solaris, never had grief like that when Sun was in charge of it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 3, 2024 • 9:40:43pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

Fella please rest and take care!!!!!!!

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No Malarkey!  May 3, 2024 • 9:55:17pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

yup

Get a prescription for Paxlovid asap!

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No Malarkey!  May 3, 2024 • 9:59:04pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

I do not know if I’ve ever had Covid.

I do know I have never tested positive for it.

(I am also fully vaxxed and boosted.)

I had it once, two years ago, and it was a pretty mild case. Also fully vaxxed and boosted.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 3, 2024 • 10:29:48pm
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Dr Lizardo  May 3, 2024 • 10:34:47pm

re: #68 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

“SHITTING YOURSELF TO OWN THE LIBS! WINNING!!”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 3, 2024 • 10:36:02pm

re: #69 Dr Lizardo

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Targetpractice  May 3, 2024 • 10:37:55pm

re: #68 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Ah, these are the “alpha males” I hear so much about.

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Dr Lizardo  May 3, 2024 • 10:44:15pm

re: #70 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

re: #71 Targetpractice

“ALPHAS SHIT IN THEIR PANTS, LIBTARDS! BOWEL CONTROL IS FOR WOKE COMMIES!! MAGA!!”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 3, 2024 • 11:14:39pm
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retired cynic  May 3, 2024 • 11:26:08pm

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Targetpractice  May 3, 2024 • 11:43:03pm

re: #74 retired cynic

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The rule today is the same rule that has reigned supreme for generations: A computer is only as smart as the people who programmed it (i.e. “Garbage In, Garbage Out”). Until someone discovers the ability to program self-learning and autonomous computers that can act independently of their programmers without prompting or guidelines, then the best we can hope to achieve with current technology are expert systems that can work well within the confines of their “expertise” and little else. Most everything else is the programming equivalent of teaching an especially smart animal a few party tricks.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 4, 2024 • 1:18:42am

re: #23 goddamnedfrank

If that were true, if they’d gone crazy and just wanted to hurt people they’d have welcomed the ample legal justification offered by the violent counter-protesters, or they’d have weighed in and walloped everyone.

Instead, they condoned that violence, they admired it.

Same blood, different vein.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 4, 2024 • 1:28:36am

re: #35 Ace Rothstein

The golf tournament I was supposed to shoot today got rained out and when you need a picture you get an Egyptian goose drinking water from a puddle on the 18th fairway!

We have those geese all over the Rhine nowadays, an invasive species and a blight on the landscape crapping up all the parks and embankments.

They can be hunted without license.

(At least they are tasty)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 4, 2024 • 3:04:47am
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Targetpractice  May 4, 2024 • 3:23:26am

Well, it looks like it might be possible that the Tories squeak in under 500 total council seats lost, but at present they’re still on trajectory for the worst local election losses since 1995. They managed to hold onto Tees Valley but the margin of victory was slimmer than last go around and the winner has announced that he’s ready to work with whoever is PM after the general elections even if that means working with Keir Starmer. Labour’s won three other mayoral elections so far, including a brand new one in the East Midlands and won in Sunak’s own backyard of North Yorkshire.

How are the Tories spinning all this bad news? In the time-honored way of conservatives everywhere: They’re lying their asses off that these were “midterm” elections (there’s less than a year left before they’re legally required to call general elections) and trying to push the “our message isn’t getting to the voters” BS. And they are pointedly avoiding any sort of acknowledge that the poll results show that Reform UK is eating their lunch and most of the votes Labour lost have gone to the Lib Dems or Greens instead of to Sunak and his cohort.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 4, 2024 • 3:28:16am

re: #79 Targetpractice

It also helps that the BBC refuses to say anything negative about Brexit even though the consequences are clear and obvious to everyone every day.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 4, 2024 • 3:33:56am

Birb is the worb.
Wordle 1,050 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟨⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 3:35:43am

re: #63 Sherlock Hound

One of my Debian VM’s at work runs The Elephant (PostgreSQL) backing DB for Zabbix. I did apt updateon the OS. The Elephant didn’t. Zabbix sure bitched. That was fun.

You kids and your lingo

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Targetpractice  May 4, 2024 • 3:40:37am

re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It also helps that the BBC refuses to say anything negative about Brexit even though the consequences are clear and obvious to everyone every day.

To be fair to the BBC, part of the reason is that Brexit technically is still on-going. If the Tories had allowed all the checks and restrictions to go into effect all at once, the country would have collapsed and the people would have been outside Westminster ages ago with torches and pitchforks. Instead, they’ve delayed things for years and implemented them in stages so as to cushion the blow. That way whenever fecal matter hits the rotary impeller, they can lie their asses off to the press about “COVID,” “Ukraine,” or (their favorite) “THE EU IS PUNISHING US!”

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 3:40:57am

re: #68 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Unless you’re wearing diapers and shitting in them, youre not committed, legitimate maga.

You can’t just say this stuff.
You actually have to live it
Else you’re a phoney. Even less than a poseur

I mean you carry your AR everywhere, right?

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Dave In Austin  May 4, 2024 • 3:43:15am

Morning all

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 4, 2024 • 3:54:28am

re: #83 Targetpractice

To be fair to the BBC, part of the reason is that Brexit technically is still on-going. If the Tories had allowed all the checks and restrictions to go into effect all at once, the country would have collapsed and the people would have been outside Westminster ages ago with torches and pitchforks.

Which is the point: people voted for their own personal notion of what Brexit should be, not the reality that was negotiated and is being implemented.

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William Lewis  May 4, 2024 • 4:10:02am

re: #85 Dave In Austin

Morning all

And that people can think that is somehow a good thing for him to be able to do just disgusts me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 4, 2024 • 4:18:02am

re: #87 William Lewis

And that people can think that is somehow a good thing for him to be able to do just disgusts me.

you have to earn it

health care is a commercial commodity

as are food and housing

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 4:27:09am

Got the latest COVID booster two weeks ago.
More than usual arm pain.
Then it decided to kick my ass for a day.
I got over it , but most reaction ever.

Got the pneumonia vax yesterday.
It’s feeling exactly the same.
Arm pain and it started kicking me around this morning.

might be a slow day at the pond.
Or i might be able to ignore it.
We got a shipment of new plants that need to go in (pond and field)
And the finishing touches on the trough

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dat_said  May 4, 2024 • 4:32:30am

re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We have those geese all over the Rhine nowadays, an invasive species and a blight on the landscape crapping up all the parks and embankments.

They can be hunted without license.

(At least they are tasty)

There’s a little plaque in the neighborhood park in tribute to the couple who helped reintroduce Canada geese to the Twin Cities and area in the 1980’s. Looking out my windows right now there’s at least a dozen in the yard including three goslings. My well fertilized yard tells me that they were beyond successful.

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William Lewis  May 4, 2024 • 4:40:09am

And now 4 f*cking states just outlawed direct cash aid payments, despite that being a libertarian idea since why should the government tell people how to spend their money, because apparently it’s just too evil to actually f*cking help people.

I’d say more but I’d run afoul of Stinky I fear…

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Targetpractice  May 4, 2024 • 4:40:25am

NYT discussing UK conservative incompetence and mendacity: “look at how incredibly shitty these people are”

NYT discussing US conservative incompetence and mendacity: “why won’t the Democrats meet them half way”

Richard Gaywood (@penllawen.favrd.social) 2024-05-04T11:31:53.011Z

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William Lewis  May 4, 2024 • 4:44:35am

Just when I need something to make me feel better about life here is a little video about a naval vessel that had armor that Dracinifel describes as “Armor came in two flavors: Thoughts and prayers and Hopes and dreams”:

LCVP / Higgins Boats - Guide 386

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Decatur Deb  May 4, 2024 • 5:11:57am

re: #68 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

The Trump diapers have to be fake—they’re not gold, and Trump isn’t shilling them for $89.99.

(Intertube consensus is that these loons are fur reel.)

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Decatur Deb  May 4, 2024 • 5:14:33am

Follow-up question—Do the organizers get a cut of vendor sales at Trump rallies?

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darthstar  May 4, 2024 • 5:14:52am

I hope Trump appreciates the faithful embracing his incontinence, but it’s not the great pwning of the libs they think it is.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 4, 2024 • 5:26:31am

Morning Lizards. Today marks the completion of my 63rd orbit around the the unshielded fusion reactor in the sky. Oh yea. Anyways, May the 4th be with you all.

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Dr Lizardo  May 4, 2024 • 5:29:22am

re: #97 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning Lizards. Today marks the completion of my 63rd orbit around the the unshielded fusion reactor in the sky. Oh yea. Anyways, May the 4th be with you all.

Happy Birthday!

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 4, 2024 • 5:39:14am

re: #68 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Randall Gross  May 4, 2024 • 5:39:51am

re: #97 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning Lizards. Today marks the completion of my 63rd orbit around the the unshielded fusion reactor in the sky. Oh yea. Anyways, May the 4th be with you all.

Happy birthday & may you enjoy many many many many more!

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Belafon  May 4, 2024 • 5:42:40am

re: #68 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

The thing is, I don’t care for making fun of a man his age wearing disposable underwear, aka diapers, because of the fact that yes, some people lose control of their bowels at that age. But these people would be mocking Biden to no end, and using it as proof that he is too old for office.

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 5:42:41am

When you realize the Reality Show Con Artist acts like a guilty criminal terrified of going to jail because he is a guilty criminal terrified of going to jail, it all begins to make sense.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 4, 2024 • 5:42:47am

re: #97 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning Lizards. Today marks the completion of my 63rd orbit around the the unshielded fusion reactor in the sky. Oh yea. Anyways, May the 4th be with you all.

And a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Have a WONDERFUL DAY!!!!!!!

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Dr Lizardo  May 4, 2024 • 5:46:24am

re: #99 Joe Bacon ✅

LBJ should’ve added, “Not only will he let you pick his pockets, he’ll even shit himself when you tell him to!”

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 5:46:25am

re: #89 Dangerman

Got the latest COVID booster two weeks ago.
More than usual arm pain.
Then it decided to kick my ass for a day.
I got over it , but most reaction ever.

Got the pneumonia vax yesterday.
It’s feeling exactly the same.
Arm pain and it started kicking me around this morning.

might be a slow day at the pond.
Or i might be able to ignore it.
We got a shipment of new plants that need to go in (pond and field)
And the finishing touches on the trough

In case you dont get it, if I don’t go outside and work, you all are stuck with me all day

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 4, 2024 • 5:48:30am

Lawrence: ‘You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks’

msnbc.com

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2024 • 5:49:05am

A Colorado GOP group canceled a fundraiser that Kristi Noem was scheduled to speak at due to threats they received after her story about killing her puppy went public. This was a bad miscalculation by Noem. Yes, MAGA usually loves stories that outrage the libs, but it turns out that MAGA loves their fur babies as well, so the MAGA voices defending Noem have been few and far between.

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Randall Gross  May 4, 2024 • 5:49:31am

The Iris and Clematis plants are in bloom here in KC area.

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Belafon  May 4, 2024 • 5:50:30am
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Nerdy Fish  May 4, 2024 • 5:54:09am

re: #97 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning Lizards. Today marks the completion of my 63rd orbit around the the unshielded fusion reactor in the sky. Oh yea. Anyways, May the 4th be with you all.

Many happy returns, my scaly friend.

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sagehen  May 4, 2024 • 5:55:57am

Bill Maher is a stopped clock.
Today, his views on Merrrick Garland line up with most lizards.

New Rule: Attorney Genial | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Oblongatis  May 4, 2024 • 5:55:59am

re: #7 Dangerman

Not a one of them can name an unequivocal unambiguous policy position that can be discussed and debated

I disagree. One policy the Trump administration has was to treat brown people horribly bad but not push it to the level where they would get called out for crimes against humanity,

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 4, 2024 • 5:57:44am

re: #107 No Malarkey!

Even with Noem, people making threats should be sent to jail, rather than being allowed to successfully shut down an event. We have too many psychos in this country.

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2024 • 6:04:00am

re: #113 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Even with Noem, people making threats should be sent to jail, rather than being allowed to successfully shut down an event. We have too many psychos in this country.

I agree, they should be prosecuted if they can be identified.

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 6:06:41am

More on tfg’s “i didnt know” defense:

In 2018, not only did Trump admit this in court. Trump did so in joint filing with Michael Cohen… Trump is now taking the position that Cohen went rogue when it came to the payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

What’s more a subsequent court in 2020 held these to be admissions….

Link

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 6:07:41am

re: #107 No Malarkey!

A Colorado GOP group canceled a fundraiser that Kristi Noem was scheduled to speak at due to threats they received after her story about killing her puppy went public. This was a bad miscalculation by Noem. Yes, MAGA usually loves stories that outrage the libs, but it turns out that MAGA loves their fur babies as well, so the MAGA voices defending Noem have been few and far between.

At least they’re not saying it’s “the libs” making the threats

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 4, 2024 • 6:08:26am

re: #97 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Happy B’day. And May the Fourth be with you all.

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silverdolphin  May 4, 2024 • 6:09:57am

re: #107 No Malarkey!

A Colorado GOP group canceled a fundraiser that Kristi Noem was scheduled to speak at due to threats they received after her story about killing her puppy went public. This was a bad miscalculation by Noem. Yes, MAGA usually loves stories that outrage the libs, but it turns out that MAGA loves their fur babies as well, so the MAGA voices defending Noem have been few and far between.

THe real tell to me, and forgotten by most media, is she also killed a goat at the same time. A male goat. That she had not had neutered, making it a real danger to anyone. So, because of how she treated that animal, she decided she had to kill it also. At the same place she had left the dog’s corpse (she did not even bury the dog apparently, choosing to just leave it at the quarry).

So she shot the goat. And failed to kill it. She then left the hurt and wounded animal to go back to her car to reload. No only was she an evil person for how she treated ‘farm’ animals she was also a failure at killing them. On other people’s property.

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Nerdy Fish  May 4, 2024 • 6:12:59am

I was having a hard time coming up with another guess, given the letters I’d eliminated. And then it hit me.

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Belafon  May 4, 2024 • 6:14:43am

During a debate in the New Hampshire House of Representatives this week, Republican state Rep. Jess Edwards voiced his opposition to a bill setting the minimum age of marriage to 18 — because it would induce “ripe and fertile” 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to have more abortions instead of settling down and having a family.

The remarks were reported by the New Hampshire Bulletin, following extensive and spirited debate that ultimately saw the bill pass the state house. The legislation would replace current state law that allows 16- and 17-year-olds to get married if they have the consent of a guardian.

“If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not in fact making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?” said Edwards.

“This is the frickin’ mentality that we have to deal with in New Hampshire. Children (girls) should be allowed to get married because they are ‘ripe and fertile,’” wrote state Rep. Wendy Thomas. “Looking for groomers? Look no further.”

“I’m tired of being called a groomer when Republicans are the ones fantasizing about ‘fertile’ teenagers and demanding legal child marriage,” wrote fellow state Rep. Alissandra Murray, an openly transgender and nonbinary community organizer who has worked on abortion access. “Anyway, they lost - once Sununu signs SB 359, child marriage will finally be illegal in the state of NH.”

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2024 • 6:14:59am

It has taken a bit longer than I expected after Roe v. Wade was reversed, but with Florida’s six week ban having gone into effect, abortion has effectively been banned south of Virginia from the atlantic coast to the Texas-New Mexico border, leaving millions of women who can’t afford or don’t have the time for a long distance trip lacking critical healthcare.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 4, 2024 • 6:17:19am

re: #120 Belafon

And yet there are STILL millions of women who will vote Republican even after the corrupt court killed Roe because Jesus says so.

Including all of my female relatives…

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jeffreyw  May 4, 2024 • 6:17:21am

Happy Caturday! Here’s Miss Bea, licking raindrops off a Hosta

Good morning!

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2024 • 6:19:27am

re: #122 Joe Bacon ✅

And yet there are STILL millions of women who will vote Republican even after the corrupt court killed Roe because Jesus says so.

Including all of my female relatives…

Abortion access might be restored in Florida in November, but the referendum has to get 60% of the vote to pass, and that is going to be a very heavy lift, because the forced birthers will get every voter to the polls they can to try to prevent that threshold from being met.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 4, 2024 • 6:20:15am

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sagehen  May 4, 2024 • 6:22:20am

re: #112 Oblongatis

I disagree. One policy the Trump administration has was to treat brown people horribly bad but not push it to the level where they would get called out for crimes against humanity,

um… stealing their children, handing the kids over to evangelical adoption agencies and not keeping track of them, that’s a crime against humanity.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 4, 2024 • 6:23:31am

re: #126 sagehen

um… stealing their children, handing the kids over to evangelical adoption agencies and not keeping track of them, that’s a crime against humanity.

One of these days I still hope that Count Fuckula Steven Miller is brought before the World Court to answer for his crimes.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 4, 2024 • 6:24:51am

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silverdolphin  May 4, 2024 • 6:25:55am

re: #121 No Malarkey!

It has taken a bit longer than I expected after Roe v. Wade was reversed, but with Florida’s six week ban having gone into effect, abortion has effectively been banned south of Virginia from the atlantic coast to the Texas-New Mexico border, leaving millions of women who can’t afford or don’t have the time for a long distance trip lacking critical healthcare.

The South already had maternal mortality rates on par with developing countries. This will only get worse, with minorities being hurt the worst. All part of their plan to control women’s behavior.

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 6:28:08am

I know I’m probably beating a dead horse

It is reasonable to concluded Trump was concerned about Melania’s response if the Daniels/McDougal stories were to come out.

It is not (imo) reasonable to conclude that family was the only or the primary or even one of the primary driving reasons for this elaborately constructed scheme.

“I’m only concerned for my family finding out about my wretched and anti-familial behavior. Any other unintended consequences, like should the election get some monumental but totally accidental benefit, well, that’s good too”. No, that’s not reasonable.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 4, 2024 • 6:32:34am

New movie that will be the topic of discussion at swanky penthouse parties:

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis: An Exclusive First Look at the Director’s Retro-Futurist Epic

Maybe I’ll see it once it gets online somewhere.

Also, if the movie’s … let’s call them “messages” … are what I think they could be, it’ll be interesting to watch the reactions from the usual quarters.

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Dr Lizardo  May 4, 2024 • 6:40:22am

re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

New movie that will be the topic of discussion at swanky penthouse parties:

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis: An Exclusive First Look at the Director’s Retro-Futurist Epic

Maybe I’ll see it once it gets online somewhere.

Also, if the movie’s … let’s call them “messages” … are what I think they could be, it’ll be interesting to watch the reactions from the usual quarters.

I wish I had time to go to Cannes - I’d love to see it. The synopsis sounds interesting as hell, and the film certainly boasts a cast of heavy-hitters.

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silverdolphin  May 4, 2024 • 6:41:25am

US and Saudi Arabia nearing agreement on security pact, sources say

This is the agreement that likely lead Hamas to attack. The Saudis would get more US protection from China and Iran. There would also be normalization of relations between the Saudis and Israel, with SA recognizing Israel’s right to exist, much like Egypt. This would then pave the way for the India-Middle East Economic Corridor to completely remake the economies of the region. Biden has the first plan for the ME that could really work.

We have to get the war stopped. But there are pathways forward that could produce an entirely new Middle East. All because of Dark Brandon.

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darthstar  May 4, 2024 • 7:05:21am

re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Adam Driver…he’s breaking out of the Kylo Ren mold.

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Belafon  May 4, 2024 • 7:09:01am

re: #134 darthstar

Adam Driver…he’s breaking out of the Kylo Ren mold.

One of things where a major movie pins you down. He did other work before Star Wars that wasn’t Kylo style acting. His role in “What if” with Daniel Radcliffe was hilarious.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 4, 2024 • 7:09:50am

re: #135 Belafon

One of things where a major movie pins you down. He did other work before Star Wars that wasn’t Kylo style acting. His role in “What if” with Daniel Radcliffe was hilarious.

I recall him from Girls

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DodgerFan1988  May 4, 2024 • 7:11:11am
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A Cranky One  May 4, 2024 • 7:14:56am

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Markm1960  May 4, 2024 • 7:17:03am

re: #114 No Malarkey!

I agree, they should be prosecuted if they can be identified.

If they are real too. These are republicans making the accusations, so I’ll believe it when I actually see it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 4, 2024 • 7:29:29am

re: #139 Markm1960

If they are real too. These are republicans making the accusations, so I’ll believe it when I actually see it.

Nothing would serve their spin more than to make Kirsty the Puppy Killer into a victim

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wrenchwench  May 4, 2024 • 7:44:06am

Partridge. Wordle 1,050 4/6*

With a whiff.

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darthstar  May 4, 2024 • 7:45:33am

I think his lawyers are telling him it’s better for people to think he’s sleeping than for him to show rage in his eyes, so he closes them when testimony against him starts to hit home…which it has been doing a bit more than he planned for, apparently.

He’s not meditating…he’s just screaming in his mind, “MAKE IT BE OVER! MAKE IT BE OVER!”

Mastodon

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Belafon  May 4, 2024 • 7:49:03am

re: #142 darthstar

One of the (definitely near the bottom) reasons I try not to do anything wrong is sitting and listen to people testify against me. It would drive my blood pressure through the roof. I have enough trouble sitting on a jury for that reason.

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darthstar  May 4, 2024 • 7:52:18am

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Cheechako  May 4, 2024 • 7:53:26am

re: #93 William Lewis

Both my Dad and FIL drove these landing crafts in the Pacific in WW2. My FIL was really scared because he was 6’6” and stuck out a long way out of one of those two access holes in the stern.

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darthstar  May 4, 2024 • 7:53:28am

re: #143 Belafon

One of the (definitely near the bottom) reasons I try not to do anything wrong is sitting and listen to people testify against me. It would drive my blood pressure through the roof. I have enough trouble sitting on a jury for that reason.

Yeah, it’s not great during witness testimony for a juror to blurt out, “Yeah, I did that once…”

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Dr Lizardo  May 4, 2024 • 8:05:09am

And may the fourth be with you

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Romantic Heretic  May 4, 2024 • 8:10:29am

re: #97 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Happy Birthday.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 4, 2024 • 8:14:22am

And a big thank you for all the BD wishes.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 4, 2024 • 8:18:23am

re: #120 Belafon

That dude looks EXACTLY the way I would expect a GOP legislator who says stuff like that to look.

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Unabogie  May 4, 2024 • 8:23:54am

re: #149 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

And a big thank you for all the BD wishes.

Happy birthday, Michele!

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sizzzzlerz  May 4, 2024 • 8:28:14am

re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg

That dude looks EXACTLY the way I would expect a GOP legislator who says stuff like that to look.

I’d eat a bug if the guy didn’t have some kiddie diddling experience in his past.

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jeffreyw  May 4, 2024 • 8:34:12am
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Charmingly Persistent  May 4, 2024 • 8:38:16am

This is fun:

Circle showing interactions on bluesky

wolfgang.raios.xyz

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Eventual Carrion  May 4, 2024 • 8:42:53am

re: #153 jeffreyw

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 4, 2024 • 8:51:54am

Is he allowed to attack the prosecutors like this?

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Charmingly Persistent  May 4, 2024 • 9:01:44am

Denver police refuse to clear out Denver campus again

When the cops are the voice of reason …

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A Cranky One  May 4, 2024 • 9:07:41am

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

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Is he allowed to attack the prosecutors like this?

Yes.

The gag order applies to witnesses and court employees and their families.

It allows him to attack the DA and the judge.

Of course, it’s really stupid for him to attack the folks who will determine his sentence if he’s found guilty. But then, we’re talking about asshole TFG.

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Mattand  May 4, 2024 • 9:08:23am

re: #19 teleskiguy

This tracks. Anytime civil unrest occurs like this the cops go crazy, because they’re goons who just want to hurt people.

I’ll be 42 next week. I’ve dealt with cops more than most people. I personally know cops in my community. And they know how I feel about them and it shows because I’ve had to deal with them a lot. Yes, the naysayers would say “teleskiguy, you’re a convicted drunk driver.” Yes, I am. Three times. I’m comfortable saying my life has changed after that third conviction, where I had to do two months in the county jail and I was released on 13 March 2020. Weird fucken shit! All that said, those were three (3) encounters I’ve had with cops where they’re all up in my face. I’ve had dozens of such encounters. The cop profession attracts the scuzziest roidheads. I hear Border Patrol is just absolutely fucken dirty with the worst of the dregs…

My interactions with the police has been about 50/50: either they genuinely try to help or they’re very clear that they absolutely hate civilians. My running joke is that when ever I complain about my interactions with the cops to other white people, I’m apparently the only white person in the history of the US that has had problems with them. The usually litany of “Well, they’re just doing their job” or “Well, they had a reason”, and so on.

I made that crack to a retired LEO I knew well enough, and they accused me of being racist. So yeah, I try to avoid them when possible.

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Mattand  May 4, 2024 • 9:10:13am

re: #116 Dangerman

At least they’re not saying it’s “the libs” making the threats

Yet.

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A Cranky One  May 4, 2024 • 9:13:55am

re: #159 Mattand

I was once falsely arrested by a cop who was later convicted of murder and attempting to put a “hit” on the DA who prosecuted him.

Needless to say, this experience has soured my opinion of LEOs.

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Decatur Deb  May 4, 2024 • 9:14:49am

re: #157 Charmingly Persistent

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When the cops are the voice of reason …

Denver. Very glad Daughter2 and Grandson1 escaped to there.

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Mattand  May 4, 2024 • 9:17:04am

re: #38 Ace Rothstein

Did Daltrey turn into a right wing wacko?

I think Daltrey’s been that way for a while. I’ve seen a couple of interviews where he basically said he was a global warming denier (along the lines of “I don’t think humans have the ability to change the earth’s climate”) and thinks Big Pharmacy may have the cure for cancer and is sitting on it.

Plus, I think Townshend indicated he was a Brexiter.

Just admire artists for the art they create and avoid meeting them at all costs.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 4, 2024 • 9:18:19am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 4, 2024 • 9:23:01am

Assuming TFG is found guilty, how long might we have to wait on sentencing?

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Mattand  May 4, 2024 • 9:29:55am

re: #161 A Cranky One

I was once falsely arrested by a cop who was later convicted of murder and attempting to put a “hit” on the DA who prosecuted him.

Needless to say, this experience has soured my opinion of LEOs.

Jesus, the worst I had were two NJ Transit cops accusing me of carrying because someone in Manhattan seen “matching my description” was seen buying drugs.

Shit like that is why I cannot stand this fucking “Fall down to your knees with tears in your eyes and worship every cop you meet” mindset that most Americans seem to have.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 4, 2024 • 9:30:38am

Bogie today, and it took me forever.

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Decatur Deb  May 4, 2024 • 9:35:37am

re: #165 Eclectic Cyborg

Assuming TFG is found guilty, how long might we have to wait on sentencing?

Until he’s down to his last million and his last lawyer.

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sizzzzlerz  May 4, 2024 • 9:38:08am

re: #166 Mattand

Jesus, the worst I had were two NJ Transit cops accusing me of carrying because someone in Manhattan seen “matching my description” was seen buying drugs.

Shit like that is why I cannot stand this fucking “Fall down to your knees with tears in your eyes and worship every cop you meet” mindset that most Americans seem to have.

Because they can punish those parts of society that you believe need to be punished. Of course, as soon as you are in their sights, your position immediately changes.

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silverdolphin  May 4, 2024 • 9:38:37am

re: #163 Mattand

I think he’s been that way for a while. I’ve seen a couple of interviews where he basically said he was a global warming denier (along the lines of “I don’t think humans have the ability to change the earth’s climate”) and thinks Big Pharmacy may have the cure for cancer and is sitting on it.

Plus, I think Townshend indicated he was a Brexiter.

Just admire artists for the art they create and avoid meeting them at all costs.

Granted Townshend tends to flutter around different political views he did say this last October:

“I don’t know about Rishi Sunak,” he said, revealing his scepticism for the UK’s current leadership. “I don’t know about the Tory party, per se. They say when you get older, you drift from being on the left to on the right. I suppose there was a gentle drift with me.”

“I’m 78, and between 60 and 70, I think I was starting to drift slowly to the right, but… fuck! I would line them all up and shoot them,” he added candidly.

I know the feeling.

Daltrey pretty much has been a Tory for a long time, blaming Labor, in his words, for the huge influx of immigrants that destroyed the ambitions of young people, or that, again his words, the EU continues to punish Britain for Brexit, which he voted for. He loved Thatcher because she lowered taxes on rich men like him.

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Unabogie  May 4, 2024 • 9:42:55am

I’ve been seeing people talking about Trump diapers on the webs today, but is this just a sudden meme or was there actual testimony in court about it?

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teleskiguy  May 4, 2024 • 9:44:11am
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jeffreyw  May 4, 2024 • 9:44:27am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 4, 2024 • 9:44:28am

re: #171 Unabogie

I’ve been seeing people talking about Trump diapers on the webs today, but is this just a sudden meme or was there actual testimony in court about it?

It’s been well documented that he wears depends or some kind of adult diapers. I’m not sure why it just became a meme, though.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 4, 2024 • 9:52:38am

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s been well documented that he wears depends or some kind of adult diapers. I’m not sure why it just became a meme, though.

Could be because of this.

30 HILARIOUS responses to Trump being called ‘Von ShitzInPants’ in court today

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Nerdy Fish  May 4, 2024 • 9:54:57am

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s been well documented that he wears depends or some kind of adult diapers. I’m not sure why it just became a meme, though.

Because the Trump-humpers have started making signs along the lines of, “Real Men Wear Diapers,” and are actually displaying these in public as if they’re proud.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 4, 2024 • 9:55:40am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Netflix’s “Ripley” series is one of the best of the year. I haven’t read the noir novels it’s based on, but I absolutely loved this creepy, very dark but very funny show.

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A friend recommended the series weeks ago. I got halfway through the first episode and decided it wasn’t for me. Not my taste at all.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 4, 2024 • 10:03:48am

In Polynesia they decorate the busses.

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Dr Lizardo  May 4, 2024 • 10:05:57am

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Hecuba's daughter  May 4, 2024 • 10:06:40am

re: #81 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Birb is the worb.
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Birb here too

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But my SIL texted her beagle to me!

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wrenchwench  May 4, 2024 • 10:08:10am

re: #178 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

In Polynesia they decorate the busses.

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Nice ponytail.

Or did you mean the foliage?

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Decatur Deb  May 4, 2024 • 10:09:09am

re: #181 wrenchwench

Nice ponytail.

Or did you mean the foliage?

Thought it was a hat for a bit.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 4, 2024 • 10:12:37am

Catching up:

On interactions with police: 100% negative from age 10-30, with me being pulled over all the time and followed at stores and I was an honor student and altar boy at the time who tried really hard to stay out of trouble. But I was an other with wild hair so target on me since childhood

An anecdote from college: 1981, I was using the bearded longish hair Southern Fried Rocker look when I first went to University of Arizona. Very early in my attendance I exited the Student Union wearing flip flops and shorts, half reading the latest Rolling Stone magazine.

There were Jewish students and Muslim students about 40 feet away and they were taunting and getting chippy with each other. The Jewish kids were affluent city kids from NY, Chicago and LA, and the Muslim kids were affluent members of society from their home countries

All of a sudden I got horse collar tackled to the ground by campus police with an admonition to get the hell out. And I look over to the protesters and both sides looked on approvingly at my body slamming.

Lesson learned. I cut off my beard and cut my hair really short and blended. At end of semester we are having a finals are over party at the dorm and as we blaze, this kid says man whatever happened to that scary dude-so glad he left. I am wondering who they are talking about so I say ?! And they say he had long hair and a beard, but he left before you got here. Another ?! Because I moved in day 1
Then I pull out my driver’s license photo with my previous look and everybody gasped in shock

Go figure

Now I am an old driving anonymous car, no one hassles me at all

2024: Mick Jagger-like Plant at Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
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wrenchwench  May 4, 2024 • 10:14:41am

re: #182 Decatur Deb

Thought it was a hat for a bit.

People used to wear animals and put plants on their heads.

Still do. Most people are wearing mostly oil now, though. Makes a person look richer, I guess.

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teleskiguy  May 4, 2024 • 10:17:20am

re: #183 So Cal Greek Hippie

I’ve always had long hair. Maybe why I’ve been hassled by the cops so much. Hmm…

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A Cranky One  May 4, 2024 • 10:18:20am

re: #171 Unabogie

I’ve been seeing people talking about Trump diapers on the webs today, but is this just a sudden meme or was there actual testimony in court about it?

These are real.

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2024 • 10:20:11am

re: #165 Eclectic Cyborg

Assuming TFG is found guilty, how long might we have to wait on sentencing?

It shouldn’t be long; I would expect a sentencing hearing before election day. But don’t expect him to be incarcerated pending his appeal.

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Decatur Deb  May 4, 2024 • 10:21:05am

re: #184 wrenchwench

People used to wear animals and put plants on their heads.

Still do. Most people are wearing mostly oil now, though. Makes a person look richer, I guess.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 4, 2024 • 10:23:14am

re: #134 darthstar

Adam Driver…he’s breaking out of the Kylo Ren mold.

There was also his 2016 film Paterson, which was excellent.

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No Malarkey!  May 4, 2024 • 10:25:38am

There may be a ceasefire deal!

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Eventual Carrion  May 4, 2024 • 10:27:52am

re: #162 Decatur Deb

Denver. Very glad Daughter2 and Grandson1 escaped to there.

My daughter and her husband love it there.

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Nerdy Fish  May 4, 2024 • 10:29:28am

re: #190 No Malarkey!

There may be a ceasefire deal!

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Another one?

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 4, 2024 • 10:29:53am

re: #186 A Cranky One

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These are real.

This program is completely corrupted. Time to hit reset.

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calochortus  May 4, 2024 • 10:32:02am

re: #183 So Cal Greek Hippie

Your Mick Jagger-like plant appears to be a Penstemon cetranthifolius, aka Scarlet Bugler.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 4, 2024 • 10:35:10am

re: #185 teleskiguy

So I had to go to the Middle East a bunch back in late 1990’s and I regrew a beard and mustache. Second to Last time I went though I was clean shaven and I got totally hassled at customs in Kuwait and Bahrain
So last time I went in March 2001 I regrew beard and was treated great

Then I had to shave after 11 Sep 2001 because I got profiled as a terrorist at every airport in Continental United States

Nowadays Male pattern baldness mandates a short cut for me else I end up looking like the boss from Dilbert

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 4, 2024 • 10:35:54am

re: #194 calochortus

Thank you. Good knowledge resides here

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Dave In Austin  May 4, 2024 • 10:43:50am

Impressive little fish.

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  May 4, 2024 • 10:44:11am

re: #197 Dave In Austin

Impressive little fish.

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That is a very respectable bluegill.

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Eventual Carrion  May 4, 2024 • 10:48:42am

re: #197 Dave In Austin

Impressive little fish.

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Nice. I just finished my outdoor work for the weekend. Now kicking around if I want to start on the inside work or go do a little fishing. Slight chance of rain this afternoon, forecast for tomorrow is rain and thunder storms. So probably fishing and leave the indoor chores for tomorrow.

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jeffreyw  May 4, 2024 • 10:58:01am

re: #197 Dave In Austin

Impressive little fish.

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Lake jeffreyw bluegill

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 4, 2024 • 11:00:49am

re: #200 jeffreyw

Nice fish.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 4, 2024 • 11:01:57am

Svengoolie teaming up with DC Comics for a 4 volume series. First one coming in October.

metv.com

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 11:02:23am

Re the pneumonia vax from above

I worked outside for 2-3 hrs
Its 91 or so

I faded and came in
Took my temp
I’m sporting three degrees of fever
And feeling worse
It’ll pass…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 4, 2024 • 11:04:08am

re: #203 Dangerman

Drink some water and rest.

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 11:07:15am

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 4, 2024 • 11:07:59am

re: #203 Dangerman

Re the pneumonia vax from above

I worked outside for 2-3 hrs
Its 91 or so

I faded and came in
Took my temp
I’m sporting three degrees of fever
And feeling worse
It’ll pass…

My pneumonia shot only gave me a stiff and sore arm for a day. The second shingles shot knocked me on my butt for 2 days.

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Dave In Austin  May 4, 2024 • 11:09:50am

re: #200 jeffreyw

Lake jeffreyw bluegill

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I found a 50 yrd stretch of bank that was holding a bunch of fish. I fish lite tackle as much as possible. That fish had big shoulders on 6 lb line.

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Eventual Carrion  May 4, 2024 • 11:09:53am

So much for slight chance of rain. Went out to put the weedwhacker back in shed and it has started raining. Oh well, see how long this goes on. But I did my Connections. Great!

Connections
Puzzle #328
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Hecuba's daughter  May 4, 2024 • 11:10:45am

re: #206 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

My pneumonia shot only gave me a stiff and sore arm for a day. The second shingles shot knocked me on my butt for 2 days.

Other than sore arms, and maybe one day of feeling tired, I don’t recall having any substantial reactions to any of the vaccinations, including shingles

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Hecuba's daughter  May 4, 2024 • 11:12:03am

re: #208 Eventual Carrion

So much for slight chance of rain. Went out to put the weedwhacker back in shed and it has started raining. Oh well, see how long this goes on. But I did my Connections. Great!

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Almost didn’t make it for Connections:

Connections
Puzzle #328
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟩🟪🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Dangerman  May 4, 2024 • 11:14:48am

re: #204 PhillyPretzel ✅

Drink some water and rest.

Lunch, Tylenol and what you said.
Scrapped the pm plan

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 4, 2024 • 11:21:01am

re: #211 Dangerman

Gatorade may help too.

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BeachDem  May 4, 2024 • 11:25:10am

...

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 4, 2024 • 11:33:06am

re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter

Other than sore arms, and maybe one day of feeling tired, I don’t recall having any substantial reactions to any of the vaccinations, including shingles

That second shot was the only one I’ve had that knocked me on my butt. Hell I didn’t even get sick after going through the vax line during basic training (NRTC San Diego/Worm Island, 1980)

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BeenHereAwhile  May 4, 2024 • 11:36:36am

re: #197 Dave In Austin

Impressive little fish.

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Fish, grits & cold slaw!

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 4, 2024 • 11:41:19am

re: #161 A Cranky One

I was once falsely arrested by a cop who was later convicted of murder and attempting to put a “hit” on the DA who prosecuted him.

Needless to say, this experience has soured my opinion of LEOs.

Memories of a “distasteful encounter” with the LAPD when I was walking with my girlfriend and a here comes a “We Serve And Protect” car with it’s sirens and we hear them tell us to stop where we are.

2 officers get our of the car and demand our IDs. OK I have a T-shirt and long trousers on. She had a halter top and Daisy Duke shorts on with a fanny pack.

Oh, did I say her skin color was a lot darker than mine?

Officers accuse me of picking up a prostitute. Maybe they listened to the Brick House song by the Commodores a bit too much…

So we pull out our driver’s licenses and lo and behold the addresses match. Same address. Same apartment. Hot Damn even the Zip code matches. At that time believe it or not a dorky Jewish guy and his black girlfriend actually GASP!!!!!!

…lived together…

so the officers made snide remarks about her calling her a Penthouse Pet. She replied thank you and do have a nice day gentlemen.

They got back in their wagon and went off to probably harass their next victims.

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darthstar  May 4, 2024 • 11:44:03am

re: #197 Dave In Austin

Impressive little fish.

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I loved a big ass bluegill when I was young. Apparently we’ve got a lot of bass in the Russian River behind our place. Also late running steelhead going back to the sea hungry after spawning. Not fishing this weekend but next time I’m up.


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