Yet Another Great New Track From Snarky Puppy: “East Bay”

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Written by saxophonist Chris Bullock, this one starts off quite abstract and then slides into a killer groove.

Snarky Puppy - East Bay
From ‘Empire Central’ - Available now
Stream/Buy: orcd.co

Written by Chris Bullock
Arranged by Chris Bullock, Justin Stanton and Snarky Puppy

Bob Lanzetti - electric guitar
Mark Lettieri - electric guitar
Chris McQueen - electric guitar (solo)
Justin Stanton –Wurlitzer, Minimoog Model D, and Prophet 10
Bobby Sparks - Hammond B3 organ and ARP String Ensemble
Bill Laurance - Fender Rhodes Mark 8 and Yamaha CP70 electric piano
Shaun Martin - Talkbox, Mellotron, and Korg Kronos
Zach Brock - violin
Mike “Maz” Maher - flugelhorn
Jay Jennings - trumpet and flugelhorn
Chris Bullock - tenor sax
Bob Reynolds - tenor sax
Michael League - electric bass
Nate Werth - percussion
Keita Ogawa - percussion
Marcelo Woloski - percussion
Jason “JT” Thomas - drum set
Larnell Lewis - drum set
Jamison Ross - drum set

Jep Jorba - Director / camera operator
David Bretones - Director of Photography / camera operator
Brad Holt - Line producer / camera operator
Andrew Redd - Gaffer / camera operator
Chris Brian - Camera operator
Ranjani Groth - Camera operator
Jun Kang - Camera operator
Emily Holt - Camera operator
Reid Walker - Dolly operator
Joseph Fisher - Dolly Operator

Produced by Michael League and Snarky Puppy
Engineered by Nic Hard, Matt Recchia, and Michael Harrison
Engineering assisted by Skyler Childress, Michael League, and Shakthi Prasad KT
Mixed by Nic Hard
Mastered by Dave McNair
Recorded and filmed March 3-10, 2022, at Deep Ellum Art Company in Dallas, Texas, USA
Mixed March 15 - April 7, 2022, at Estudi Vint in Els Prats de Rei, Catalonia, Spain
Photography by Brian Friedman and Jep Jorba
Video edited by Michael League and Jep Jorba
Film consulting by Andy LaViolette
Production managed by Rosanna Freedman
Project managed by Jamie Margulies
Stage assembled by Mason Davis, Matt Recchia, Rosanna Freedman, and Michael Harrison
Graphic design by Claire Morales
Managed by Mike Chadwick Management

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258 comments
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BigPapa  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:38:54am

I have a Bluski code available. I will accept $1m dollars in small unmarked non-sequential bills. Preferrable not smelling like cocaine or decomp.

Pay me when you get it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:39:47am

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:41:26am

re: #1 BigPapa

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ckkatz  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:42:47am
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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:43:07am

Right-Wingers Are Making Bank Off Musk’s Twitter Affiliate Money

The ad-revenue sharing was first announced back in February and was supposedly on an invite-only basis for eligible creators. So who were these exclusive, eligible accounts? Twitter paid out more than $20,000 to Andrew Tate, a self-proclaimed misogynist who has been indicted on charges of rape and human trafficking alongside his brother in Romania.

Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme

Not all creators who want to monetize will be able to. Creators who apply to the program will have to pass “human review” and there is currently no open application for those interested in joining.

Some nonpolitical contributors expressed frustration with the lack of transparency from the company over the rollout of the program.

“My tweets have generated 100s of millions of impressions for Twitter every year,” Matt Navarra, a social media strategist who runs the tech-focused newsletter and community Geekout, posted on Thursday. “And I’ve been on the platform for 15+ years. It’s pretty lame there is no payout coming my way. Twitter has never generated any income directly for all the content I have put in to it.”

But don’t worry, the Krassensteins are making money. Let’s definitely give them and their empty rah-rah posturing credibility. Engagement and saying mean shit at professional provocateurs is definitely productive activity.

Whatever you do, just keeping posting.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:44:57am

Got it!! I’ll send the un-coked bills via snail mail…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:47:01am

re: #5 The Ghost of a Flea

Creators who apply to the program will have to pass “human review”

In other words, someone will have to ask Elon for a yes or no.

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darthstar  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:48:15am

Funny thing happened on the way to the Dead & Co show…my mother stopped by and gave me Covid. Just let the group know I wouldn’t be there and ‘miracled’ the last two tickets to another couple in our circle.

Suffice it to say I’m bummed. But the good news is I spent all that money last year so it’s not like it’s costing me anything to miss the show. If I put it on a credit card and still had 30 payments left that would really suck. Cash is king.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:49:16am

re: #8 darthstar

Horrible.

How’s Mom faring?

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:50:02am

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ckkatz  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:56:33am

re: #6 HRH Stanley Sea

Got it!! I’ll send the un-coked bills via snail mail…

Reminds me of the old joke…

A very wealthy man was on his death bed.

He called for his attorney, his doctor and his pastor.

When they arrived at his bed, they were each handed a briefcase.

He told them:
“They say that you can’t take it with you. I intend to prove them wrong.
In each briefcase is one million dollars in US Currency. When I die, I want you each to place the briefcase in my grave. Since there are three of you, I know that you will not be able to embezzle the money.”

The old guy eventually dies.

At his funeral, the attorney, doctor, and pastor each walked up and dropped their briefcases in the grave. They waited until the grave was filled and then left.

As they were walking away, the Pastor said “I have a confession to make. The Orphanage needed renovations, so I used $100,000 from the briefcase to help with the building fund.”

The doctor then said “I also have a confession to make. The hospital needs a new charity wing. So I took $500,000 to help build it.”

The attorney stopped and looked at the other two. And said: “I am stunned and shocked at you two! My check for the full $1,000,000 is in that briefcase!”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:57:31am

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

In other words, someone will have to ask Elon for a yes or no.

He’s giving money to people he likes (or wants to be liked by) via a business channel.

What I’m interested in is the larger sociological structure of social media and how it makes this possible. Advertising cares about engagement, eyes on screens, and we keep seeing incredibly shitty people making hate so profitable that they become actual brokers of culture and power.

Twitter can be an incredible news sources, but that’s not it’s core function, no matter what Jack said or Elon says: it’s function is to compel attention and then “sell” that attention to people buying ad space. The primary cultural means that this has been achieved is to present the idea—emergent from the same premise within Facebook and MySpace—that the mere act of commenting (reacting to social media) is an important form of self-expression and a form of praxis.

It’s a continuation of the grift where charities create “awareness”: you can pull more money from people if you make them feel moral while doing something effortless (like shit talking a bot) and useless than you can if you lay out how complicated the world is. And even as I can say “social media can be super fun and you can make friends and community there” it always has to be repeated that this is not the intended function of the these systems.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 10:58:13am

re: #10 jeffreyw

Aw crap! Did Wile E get smashed again?

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darthstar  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:01:10am

re: #9 HRH Stanley Sea

Horrible.

How’s Mom faring?

I haven’t asked - been too pissed off since my sister’s homemade HCQ didn’t magically help her and they didn’t go to the ER until there was blood in her cough.

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ckkatz  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:01:33am

Interesting report on Sea Level Rise. With numbers…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:01:48am
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ckkatz  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:06:35am

David Frum @davidfrum 5h

Just got a mass distribution email from one of the most notorious antivax frauds of 2020 who is now sowing disinformation about US troops being sent to Ukraine to fight Russia. There’s no inherent reason for these two manias to overlap, yet they so consistently do.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:07:13am

re: #14 darthstar

I haven’t asked - been too pissed off since my sister’s homemade HCQ didn’t magically help her and they didn’t go to the ER until there was blood in her cough.

So they do believe in medicine when they get scared off of stupid mode.

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darthstar  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:09:25am

re: #18 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

So they do believe in medicine when they get scared off of stupid mode.

Nope…they’re still on stupid mode. But the nurse apparently did prescribe Paxlovid for mom and my sister will be “pounding the zinc” - never mind that she’s got comorbidities of a heart issue and is overweight.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:11:38am

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:13:35am

re: #19 darthstar

Nope…they’re still on stupid mode. But the nurse apparently did prescribe Paxlovid for mom and my sister will be “pounding the zinc” - never mind that she’s got comorbidities of a heart issue and is overweight.

My best friend has a sister that’s as insane as yours. She also shouts at people that speak anything but English. He has another sister that’s a good person. The divide is by IQ, rather than how they were raised. The sister that struggled in school became a wingnut.

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JC1  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:13:38am

Highway robbery under the color of law in Nebraska.

flatwaterfreepress.org

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Nojay UK  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:16:37am

re: #18 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

So they do believe in medicine when they get scared off of stupid mode.

Not always, if the Herman Cain Awards are any guide. Prayer Warriors, snake-oil and magic incantations suffice for some folks. They do really believe in GoFundMe though when the medical bills and funeral expenses turn up after Cousin Jethro is Taken by the Lord.

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JC1  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:17:31am

re: #19 darthstar

Nope…they’re still on stupid mode. But the nurse apparently did prescribe Paxlovid for mom and my sister will be “pounding the zinc” - never mind that she’s got comorbidities of a heart issue and is overweight.

How long has she had symptoms? Paxlovid supposedly only helps if administered within 5 days of symptoms.
Was your mom vaccinated?

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:17:32am

re: #21 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

My best friend has a sister that’s as insane as yours. She also shouts at people that speak anything but English. He has another sister that’s a good person. The divide is by IQ, rather than how they were raised. The sister that struggled in school became a wingnut.

God, how embarrassing that must be. Imagine being such a shitty person that you get angry at people for speaking their own language in a country that has no official language.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:17:51am

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:21:29am

re: #22 JC1

The allegations surfaced during the Flatwater Free Press’ reporting on Seward County’s use of civil asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize money without convicting drivers of a crime. Seward County law enforcement has brought in $7.5 million from I-80 motorists in the past five years, much of it through civil asset forfeiture.

The county, population 17,692, has accounted for a third of all civil forfeiture cases in state court in the past decade in Nebraska, population 1.97 million.

Sovereign citizens refer to cops as “road pirates.” And it’s the one thing where they’ve stumbled on a tiny kernel of truth.

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:31:05am

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:31:32am

Mastodon

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:33:17am

re: #13 Joe Bacon ✅

Aw crap! Did Wile E get smashed again?

Beep Beep!

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ckkatz  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:39:46am

re: #30 jeffreyw

Youtube Video

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:40:43am

re: #14 darthstar

I haven’t asked - been too pissed off since my sister’s homemade HCQ didn’t magically help her and they didn’t go to the ER until there was blood in her cough.

Is the homemade HCQ what the covid-deniers use when they don’t trust their own research?

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:41:55am

So much losing, and they still aren’t sick of it!

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:43:42am

re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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Had the skulls been used as mugs for beer or mead?

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:43:48am

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:46:54am

Looks like the honeymoon for Threads may be ending early:

Shortly after Meta’s new Twitter clone Threads hits 100 million users, analysts say that the app’s user engagement has precipitously dropped off.

NBC News reports that data from Sensor Tower and Similarweb indicates that the newly released social media platform from Meta has seen a drop off in attention from users. Sensor Tower Data suggests that on Tuesday and Wednesday, daily active users dropped 20% from Saturday while time spent on the platform fell 50% from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Similarweb’s data reportedly paints a picture equally as grim as daily active users dropped 25% from a peak on July 7 to Monday, while time spent on the app dropped over 50% from 20 minutes to 8 minutes.

A Meta spokesperson told Gizmodo in an email: “While it’s early days, we’re excited about the initial success of Threads, which has surpassed our expectations. We launched the app just over a week ago, and our focus now is on ensuring stable performance, delivering new features and continuing to improve the experience in the coming months.”

The platform has been facing a bit of an uphill battle of its own design, as Threads is not yet available in the EU due to regulatory concerns. While some users fell for fake versions of the app, others tried to access it via VPN. Meta is now blocking EU users from accessing Threads with a VPN.

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:49:05am

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:50:48am
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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:53:13am

Mastodon

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:55:22am

re: #33 No Malarkey!

So much losing, and they still aren’t sick of it!

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Good. Keep losing and liking it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2023 • 11:55:53am

re: #37 jeffreyw

Well, I think like most outlets the Guardian goes with the overstatements.

And this:

Some may have died out, “but it’s very likely that multiple waves of people came to Americas,” she said.

That had already been concluded some time ago. I think the Guardian should not present this as something novel.

As for the actual paper: I wait to see how it survives being picked apart by their colleagues.

There are reasons to believe that humans may have made it to the Americas circa 25kya, but if so then they died out.

DNA studies so far indicate that the Americans who were here when Columbus landed came from more recent migrations.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:02:46pm

re: #34 sizzzzlerz

Had the skulls been used as mugs for beer or mead?

Going for the low hanging fruit.

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darthstar  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:06:49pm

re: #32 sizzzzlerz

Is the homemade HCQ what the covid-deniers use when they don’t trust their own research?

It’s basically a boiled concentrate of grapfruit and lemon peels that you make a bitter tea out of (add honey to make it swallowable).

My neighbor (one of the people still going to the show) just dropped by with a bottle of Vitamin D and some Tollovid (over the counter anti-viral that apparently works well with Covid). Going to try that for a day and pick up my Paxlovid Rx just in case. Symptoms are mild but having the Paxlovid on hand will be helpful if I get this shit again.

I’m skeptical about plant based cures but Aspirin helps a headache and that’s just fuckin’ tree bark.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:07:52pm

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:08:44pm

re: #37 jeffreyw

I skimmed the actual paper in the Proc. Royal Acad. B.

Looks interesting. I suspect that site will become a hotbed for archeologists.

At the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), about 25kya, the sea levels would have been the lowest. That would make land crossing from Asia to NA easier. It was colder then, of course, so the humans needed to be quite clever as well as hardy.

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darthstar  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:11:26pm

re: #38 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Then there’s Andrew fucking Tate who Musk pays to provide ‘content’…

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:15:22pm

re: #43 darthstar

Gaa… Take care of yourself.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:17:30pm

The bottom of my refrigerator is nice and clean now.
My water jug cracked and was slowly leaking.

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:19:43pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:23:57pm

re: #49 gocart mozart

Turek is a professional troll.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:25:06pm

I ordered a 5-stage water filter jug to replace my cracked regular jug, mostly because it’ll arrive today rather than next week, but it’s nice to use a failure as an opportunity to upgrade.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:25:53pm

The new air conditioner has been installed…nice cool air blowing on me…bliss…

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:27:26pm

re: #50 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Turek is a professional troll.

A man easily confused with Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, or any random Vulcan. Also, a man who presents himself as very confused.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:27:44pm

re: #52 Joe Bacon ✅

The new air conditioner has been installed…nice cool air blowing on me…bliss…

Good times are always better after a little hardship.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:28:50pm

re: #54 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Good times are always better after a little hardship.

Sleeping in a room at 90 degrees beings back memories of Western PA HUMID and HOT summers where Dad locked the fan to blow OUT instead of IN…

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:28:51pm

re: #49 gocart mozart

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That person may be being paid for your responses.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:29:21pm

re: #51 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I ordered a 5-stage water filter jug to replace my cracked regular jug, mostly because it’ll arrive today rather than next week, but it’s nice to use a failure as an opportunity to upgrade.

that’s how i got mrsdm, sorta.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:30:59pm

re: #57 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

that’s how i got mrsdm, sorta.

The old one cracked? I know another regular here has been through that.

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:31:08pm

re: #49 gocart mozart

Twitter is saying i can’t see your tweet, that you have limited access.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:31:41pm

Japanese space rocket engine explodes during test

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:32:39pm

Cancelled panels at ComicCon are going to be a disappointment to many.

The big series for the fall, Wheel of Time s2 being one of them:

comiccon2023.sched.com

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:33:07pm

re: #59 Belafon

Twitter is saying i can’t see your tweet, that you have limited access.

I see it. Maybe you have limited access.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:34:01pm

re: #61 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Cancelled panels at ComicCon are going to be a disappointment to many.

The big series for the fall, Wheel of Time s2 being one of them:

comiccon2023.sched.com

Was season one good?

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A Cranky One  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:35:22pm

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:36:01pm

From @ashtonpittman.bsky.social:

NEW: Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch is demanding access to information about Mississippi residents who obtain abortions or gender-affirming care in other states.

She and 18 other GOP attorneys general say investigators need access to the information to enforce their states’ laws.

The GQP attorneys general can, jointly and severally, go fuck themselves sideways with a rusty pitchfork. Your states’ laws are a collective abomination. Your culture war crusade is a mere facade of righteousness, being upheld only by the thin veneer of respectability lent to it by the fact that your mango messiah managed to pack the judiciary with ideological morons who place faith in Republicanism over any semblance of proper jurisprudence. Your mere existence is a stain on this country’s honor, and everyone in this country is the worse because of it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your souls. (Spoiler: She won’t.)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:37:26pm

re: #65 Nerdy Fish

From @ashtonpittman.bsky.social:

The GQP attorneys general can, jointly and severally, go fuck themselves sideways with a rusty pitchfork. Your states’ laws are a collective abomination. Your culture war crusade is a mere facade of righteousness, being upheld only by the thin veneer of respectability lent to it by the fact that your mango messiah managed to pack the judiciary with ideological morons who place faith in Republicanism over any semblance of proper jurisprudence. Your mere existence is a stain on this country’s honor, and everyone in this country is the worse because of it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your souls. (Spoiler: She won’t.)

GQP AGs were part of the coup plot.

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:38:52pm

re: #65 Nerdy Fish

From @ashtonpittman.bsky.social:

The GQP attorneys general can, jointly and severally, go fuck themselves sideways with a rusty pitchfork. Your states’ laws are a collective abomination. Your culture war crusade is a mere facade of righteousness, being upheld only by the thin veneer of respectability lent to it by the fact that your mango messiah managed to pack the judiciary with ideological morons who place faith in Republicanism over any semblance of proper jurisprudence. Your mere existence is a stain on this country’s honor, and everyone in this country is the worse because of it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your souls. (Spoiler: She won’t.)

Time for the South to hate State’s Rights.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:41:14pm

re: #66 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

GQP AGs were part of the coup plot.

Todd Rokita - the AG of Indiana, who recently made his name as the primary author of that abominable letter wherein the Republican Crusaders tried to intimidate Target using the power of the state - is also on this list, and is probably particularly incensed by the fact that he has egg on his face from opening an investigation into a doctor in his own state who performed an abortion on a young rape victim from Ohio.

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:41:54pm

Saw this guy a couple times in a small club. JM rocks

“Take Me To The River” - The James Montgomery Blues Band - LIVE from The Fallout Shelter

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:42:21pm

re: #67 Belafon

Time for the South to hate State’s Rights.

When it comes to the ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream that the corrupt GOP attorneys general are pulling it’s not “state’s rights”

It’s…STATE’S WRONGS!

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:42:54pm
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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:43:56pm

re: #48 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The bottom of my refrigerator is nice and clean now.
My water jug cracked and was slowly leaking.

It’s all water under the fridge, now.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:46:01pm

AHHH…IT FEELS SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOD!

It’s now down to a nice cool 78. Got to put my T-shirt back on!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:46:07pm

Trying to generate some images for more memes, and this isn’t what I wanted but it may have its uses:

man chain book
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:48:51pm
Situated in the parched heart of Death Valley, Furnace Creek is the particular location that has meteorologists and climate scientists on edge. The NWS has forecasted temperatures here that could reach a staggering 129 degrees, and possibly peak at 131 degrees Fahrenheit this Sunday. If this becomes reality, it will set a new record for the hottest temperature ever officially recorded on Earth.

However, there is an ongoing debate regarding this potential record-breaking heat. The current official record held by Guinness World Records stands at 134 degrees Fahrenheit, a scorching benchmark set in that very same spot of Furnace Creek back in 1913. Some argue that this past record still holds the title for the hottest day ever recorded.

msn.com

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:49:03pm

re: #71 gocart mozart

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This reminds me of when someone photoshopped the face of that crazy woman handing Trump her baby on every person in that crowd, including the baby.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:49:31pm

re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Trying to generate some images for more memes, and this isn’t what I wanted but it may have its uses:

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He appears to have a third lens on the side of his face.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:49:48pm

Somebody should have listened to Katy Winters and used New Improved Secret Deodorant!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:50:10pm

hi.

You poor devils, my Internet service has been restored since it went out in last night’s storms.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:50:26pm

re: #76 No Malarkey!

Thus reminds me of when someone photoshopped the face of that crazy woman handing Trump her baby on every person in that crowd, including the baby.

I assume that they went mad while doing that and barely managed to post the horrifying image.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:51:02pm

re: #78 Joe Bacon ✅

Somebody should have listened to Katy Winters and used New Improved Secret Deodorant!

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That’s a man who’s very into himself.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:52:38pm

re: #42 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Going for the low hanging fruit.

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My dad’s name was Phillip & I have 4 grandsons named Phil.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:53:03pm

Mastodon

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:53:34pm

re: #55 Joe Bacon ✅

Sleeping in a room at 90 degrees beings back memories of Western PA HUMID and HOT summers where Dad locked the fan to blow OUT instead of IN…

We didn’t have AC in our central Illinois house either. We could have had a nice cross flow from my sister’s room’s west window to my brother’s and my east window, but she refused to keep her door open. Always sleeping drenched in sweat.

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:53:52pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:54:32pm

re: #49 gocart mozart

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:54:59pm

Elmo has too many flying monkeys.

“It’s often difficult to recognize a flying monkey, as they may seem like normal people who are simply taking sides in a disagreement or conflict”

Signs Someone Is a Flying Monkey
However, Dr. Kerwin outlines a few key tell-tale signs to look out for:

They side with the narcissist no matter the situation or evidence presented to them
They spread gossip or rumors about you
They gaslight or manipulate you
They dismiss or trivialize your feelings
They pass on information about you to help the narcissist harass you
Flying monkeys could be friends or associates of the narcissist, friends or associates of you, or people you think of as authority figures.

What the Term ‘Flying Monkeys’ Mean When We Talk About Narcissism (Verywell Mind via MSN)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:57:06pm

re: #84 Barefoot Grin

We didn’t have AC in our central Illinois house either. We could have had a nice cross flow from my sister’s room’s west window to my brother’s and my east window, but she refused to keep her door open. Always sleeping drenched in sweat.

I remember Mom having to wash the bedsheets every day during the summer. Filled with sweat. One of the joys of living in a brick house built in the early 1800s.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 14, 2023 • 12:58:23pm

“Why do I imagine a snake swallowing its tail?”
-Al Swearengen, Deadwood

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:00:47pm

re: #89 goddamnedfrank

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“Why do I imagine a snake swallowing its tail?”
-Al Swearengen, Deadwood

Engaging with checked out blue checks doesn’t get them paid unless you’re checked out too? I do not trust Musk’s word on that.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:03:33pm

J6 insurrectionist melting down at her sentencing hearing as she throws away the remarks her lawyer prepared for her to try to reduce her sentence and starts figuratively flinging poo instead. She’s facing up to six years.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:06:17pm

re: #162 lawhawk

GOP about to sabotage the defense bill by larding it up with right wing priorities - like undermining health care, ending diversity training, and more.

These fuckers are regressives, not conservatives, and it’s time we label them accordingly.

There’s nothing conservative about what they’re doing. They’re fascist extremists who want to impose their religious views on everyone else, and roll back social advances from the past century to benefit billionaires getting more tax cuts and to engage and enrage the know nothing GOP base into thinking that rolling back rights for women and minorities and gutting safety net programs like SS, Medicare, and Medicaid somehow helps them.

Back to the only thing conservatism actually is: The acquisition and maintenance of power in a hierarchy of “betters” and “lessers.”

That is how conservative thinkers described it for centuries. What they are conserving is power.

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:06:42pm
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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:07:14pm

re: #91 No Malarkey!

J6 insurrectionist melting down at her sentencing hearing as she throws away the remarks her lawyer prepared for her to try to reduce her sentence and starts figuratively flinging poo instead. She’s facing up to six years.

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This is wonderful; at least she is being honest instead of faking remorse like many of the insurrectionists seeking reduced sentences. She is the minivan from the post above; seething with imaginary grievances.

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Thanos  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:07:18pm

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:07:37pm

re: #91 No Malarkey!

J6 insurrectionist melting down at her sentencing hearing as she throws away the remarks her lawyer prepared for her to try to reduce her sentence and starts figuratively flinging poo instead. She’s facing up to six years.

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Thanos  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:09:11pm

In other news, storm rolling into KCK area.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:10:02pm

re: #94 No Malarkey!

Lol.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:10:07pm

re: #96 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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Oh man, I sure hope Trump gets convicted and has a sentencing hearing in Fulton County, which should be televised, unlike federal hearings.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:14:22pm

re: #58 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The old one cracked? I know another regular here has been through that.

cracked is right
it was very short lived and a long time ago
16 years after mrsdm and i split up and i was convinced i’d never see her again.

conincidentally, today is the ‘anniversary’
bastille day - somewhat apropos. and i shoulda known

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:15:25pm

re: #82 Vicious Babushka

My dad’s name was Phillip & I have 4 grandsons named Phil.

My dad’s name was Philip.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:15:50pm

re: #94 No Malarkey!

This is wonderful; at least she is being honest instead of faking remorse like many of the insurrectionists seeking reduced sentences. She is the minivan from the post above; seething with imaginary grievances.

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Did the judge put that ass in contempt of court?

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:17:57pm

re: #33 No Malarkey!

So much losing, and they still aren’t sick of it!

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Lake, asking to lose some more.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:18:26pm

re: #94 No Malarkey!

This is wonderful; at least she is being honest instead of faking remorse like many of the insurrectionists seeking reduced sentences. She is the minivan from the post above; seething with imaginary grievances.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:19:19pm

re: #102 Joe Bacon ✅

Did the judge put that ass in contempt of court?

He is deciding what sentence to impose for her conviction right now. She may have added a year to her sentence with that tirade.

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Mike Lamb  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:19:56pm

re: #63 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Was season one good?

Wasn’t bad…but the panel was canceled—-not the show.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:20:15pm

re: #94 No Malarkey!

“When you decide to throw me in prison for doing my duty…. Think of what I now have to give up”

how dare I make choices and there be consequences

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:21:53pm

Gender affirming care for minors is once again illegal in Kentucky.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:22:49pm

re: #104 Vicious Babushka

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Southard: “My whole dream of my life has been taken, because people have different politics than mine”

i am not responsible for anything i voluntarily choose to do

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:23:57pm

re: #107 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

how dare I make choices and there be consequences

Yeah…you have to give up trying to overthrow the government while your butt is chilling out in Uncle Sam’s B&B!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:24:46pm

re: #90 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Engaging with checked out blue checks doesn’t get them paid unless you’re checked out too? I do not trust Musk’s word on that.

Companies that aren’t Elon Musk are perfectly happy with botted engagement with ads; a big chunk of social media and all of Google (in particular Youtube) have tons of inauthentic behavior that they just…don’t admit means that most “view” numbers they show to ad buyers just don’t mean much. Internet’s built on that lie.

But in Musk’s case, it makes even less sense that Twitter’s only value proposition is eyes watching critical influencers, and the site’s absolutely crawling with inauthentic behavior at all times and that just seems to be the norm.

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Semper Fi  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:24:54pm

re: #88 Joe Bacon ✅

I remember Mom having to wash the bedsheets every day during the summer. Filled with sweat. One of the joys of living in a brick house built in the early 1800s.

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Is the old house still there??

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:25:54pm

re: #61 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The celebrity guest list this year is really dry too.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:25:55pm

Celebrity finds out old classmate is a serial killer.

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Semper Fi  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:26:38pm

re: #99 No Malarkey!

Oh man, I sure hope Trump gets convicted and has a sentencing hearing in Fulton County, which should be televised, unlike federal hearings.

I think like that too.
It’s nice to have pleasant thoughts.

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steve_davis  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:27:15pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

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James Garner had to sue the studio to get what they owed him in royalties for the Rockford Files. It was one of the most successful television shows while running and in syndication in television history, and the studio was claiming they were losing millions on it. A judge finally found in favor of Garner, as the exposed accounting practices by the studio were unconscionable.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:27:23pm

re: #115 Semper Fi

I think like that too.
It’s nice to have pleasant thoughts.

I want to watch him cry.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:28:42pm

Conservatives complaining about being called racists, part eleventy.

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:29:25pm

re: #112 Semper Fi

Is the old house still there??

Yes. And when Dad died a flipper got the house in a sheriff sale and they completely renovated the inside.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:29:30pm

re: #118 jaunte

Conservatives Racists complaining about being called racists, part eleventy.

Edited for accuracy.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:29:34pm

Now the finding out stage begins.

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EPR-radar  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:32:27pm

re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg

Not much of a change there. At least in the US, conservatism and racism are damn near synonyms.

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steve_davis  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:35:34pm

re: #63 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Was season one good?

not really, no. having read the first two books now, stick with the books.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:35:39pm

re: #121 No Malarkey!

Now the finding out stage begins.

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I was just getting caught up on this thread of discussion. Holy shit, these true believers are incredibly deranged. They honestly think a court is going going get them off the hook in sentencing because they fervently believe they were doing their patriotic duty. The thing is, if someone was genuinely doing their patriotic duty, they would not try to prevail on the court to change their fate. They would have gone into it knowing what the penalty could be, and accepting the consequences of their actions.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:36:31pm

re: #121 No Malarkey!

Now the finding out stage begins.

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so more than just +1 year
idiot

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:38:03pm

re: #95 Thanos

Looks like he’s wearing his new crocs. You can buy those, too.

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steve_davis  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:38:15pm

re: #84 Barefoot Grin

We didn’t have AC in our central Illinois house either. We could have had a nice cross flow from my sister’s room’s west window to my brother’s and my east window, but she refused to keep her door open. Always sleeping drenched in sweat.

therapist: “Let’s get back to your childhood….”
barefoot_grin: “My sister wouldn’t sleep with her door open, damnit!”
therapist: “I see…..’
barefoot_grin: “no wait….I think I may need to supply some missing context here.”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:40:51pm

re: #124 Nerdy Fish

I was just getting caught up on this thread of discussion. Holy shit, these true believers are incredibly deranged. They honestly think a court is going going get them off the hook in sentencing because they fervently believe they were doing their patriotic duty. The thing is, if someone was genuinely doing their patriotic duty, they would not try to prevail on the court to change their fate. They would have gone into it knowing what the penalty could be, and accepting the consequences of their actions.

theyre not much on accepting consequences

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:41:45pm

re: #124 Nerdy Fish

I was just getting caught up on this thread of discussion. Holy shit, these true believers are incredibly deranged. They honestly think a court is going going get them off the hook in sentencing because they fervently believe they were doing their patriotic duty. The thing is, if someone was genuinely doing their patriotic duty, they would not try to prevail on the court to change their fate. They would have gone into it knowing what the penalty could be, and accepting the consequences of their actions.

That Ding-Dong is stupid enough to believe that Trump will get back in the Oval Office and pardon her.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:42:05pm

re: #106 Mike Lamb

Wasn’t bad…but the panel was canceled—-not the show.

I’m aware. Someone seemed to care that the panel was cancelled, and it’s a show I’d skipped, so I asked.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:42:26pm

re: #22 JC1

Highway robbery under the color of law in Nebraska.

flatwaterfreepress.org

This has been a thing. The Flatwater Free Press wrote about it previously.

The allegations surfaced during the Flatwater Free Press’ reporting on Seward County’s use of civil asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize money without convicting drivers of a crime. Seward County law enforcement has brought in $7.5 million from I-80 motorists in the past five years, much of it through civil asset forfeiture.

The county, population 17,692, has accounted for a third of all civil forfeiture cases in state court in the past decade in Nebraska, population 1.97 million.

We don’t use Interstate 80 if we have to go through Seward County. We use NE-92. It’s two-lane and a bit slower, but much less traffic and fewer crooks sheriff’s deputies.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:42:46pm

re: #128 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

theyre not much on accepting consequences

Because they never think anything is actually THEIR fault.

It’s always Hilary or Biden or the Deep State or The Establishment (TM) or a Secret Cabal or Jews or some other grand conspiracy is to blame for all their problems.

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Jay C  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:43:31pm

re: #114 No Malarkey!

Celebrity finds out old classmate is a serial killer.

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Well, “alleged”(/”accused”/”suspected”) serial killer, but never mind for now…
Presumably, the relevant authorities have gotten enough solid/forensic evidence to arrest and arraign Rex Heuermann: (vs. some rando LI low-life) - the neighbors’ “nice quiet guy”/”never would have suspected” commentary is, unremarkably, pretty much standard in all these cases….

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:44:17pm

re: #114 No Malarkey!

Celebrity finds out old classmate is a serial killer.

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The killer looks like he’d kill you by stealing your pension or retirement savings.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:45:05pm

loons

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:45:16pm

re: #133 Jay C

Well, “alleged”(/”accused”/”suspected”) serial killer, but never mind for now…
Presumably, the relevant authorities have gotten enough solid/forensic evidence to arrest and arraign Rex Heuerman: (vs. some rando LI low-life) - the neighbors’ “nice quiet guy”/”never would have suspected” commentary is, unremarkably, pretty much standard in all these cases….

If you tell reporters he was really weird and seemed like he might be dangerous, the follow-up questions get awkward.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:45:28pm

re: #109 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i am not responsible for anything i voluntarily choose to do

How very Trumpian. Enjoy the slammer, babe.

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:46:20pm

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:49:22pm

Every time I see a “new” serial killer turn up I’ve started thinking about how they’re not one type of criminal, but a kind of condensation of systemic effects that we don’t think about in circumstances other than a bunch of dead bodies that form a trend.

Like, most of them get to be multiple murderers not because they have some kind of super-skill, but because they’ve selected targets that get less care and attention.

Nobody should be shocked anymore, when the SK turns out to be someone that reads as “normal” because “normal” has always been a fiction created by social accord, and often you find out that the ones that everyone says were “normal” actually were doing all kinds of weird red flag shit that was simply overlooked because it could be filed as “dude stuff” or “just joking” or “not my business.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:49:30pm

re: #121 No Malarkey!

Now the finding out stage begins.

[Embedded content]

Good times!

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:50:00pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:50:19pm

re: #82 Vicious Babushka

My dad’s name was Phillip & I have 4 grandsons named Phil.

That was dead name’s middle name as well.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:50:29pm

re: #135 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Rosendale: We have drag shows at Malmstrom Air Force Base.

Who’s “we?” If you’re accusing someone in particular of something illegal, name them.

There are 150 ICBM missiles that are being controlled by that Air Force Base and by these individuals.

Again, which individuals? Are the people you’re afraid of actually those controlling the missiles?

I do not want someone who doesn’t know if they are a man or a woman with their hand on a missile button

Trans people know if they are men or women, so you can relax.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:52:02pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Forefeitures are also an ongoing problem in Brookside, AL too.

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:53:57pm
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Nojay UK  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:55:51pm

re: #143 jaunte

Trans people know if they are men or women, so you can relax.

Depends how they woke up on any given day, perhaps. An old acquaintance, now deceased, was mostly male and presented as male most of the time but, in their words “some days were different days, days to be different”. On such days they would dress and act female, at least by the standards of the time. Her friends and acquaintances would cope, anyone revolted or turned off by this behaviour was politely instructed to fuck off and don’t bother us.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:57:01pm

The resin printer I pre-ordered from China has arrived. Reviews talk about issues, so I may just leave it in the box until the first software update.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 1:59:50pm

re: #146 Nojay UK

I’m sure someone will be along to correct me, but that’s not a transgender person.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:00:48pm

re: #148 Nerdy Fish

I’m sure someone will be along to correct me, but that’s not a transgender person.

No correction needed. They were gender-fluid.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:01:39pm

re: #149 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

No correction needed. They were gender-fluid.

Okay, that is the right word. I knew “transgender” wasn’t the right word, but I wasn’t sure on the correct terminology.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:01:59pm

I hope she enjoyed her tirade today, because she probably doubled her sentence.

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:02:40pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:02:43pm

re: #145 gocart mozart

OK did they arrest the guilty party yet?

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gwangung  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:02:49pm

re: #148 Nerdy Fish

I’m sure someone will be along to correct me, but that’s not a transgender person.

Yeah, it’s clear that this politician doesn’t have a clue about either drag or transgender people. His trying to legislate on drag is like an oak who doesn’t- know about menstrual cycles trying to regulate on women’s blee—-oh. wait.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:02:56pm

re: #150 Nerdy Fish

Okay, that is the right word. I knew “transgender” wasn’t the right word, but I wasn’t sure on the correct terminology.

A friend’s transgender son has a gender-fluid friend, so even if I hadn’t read about these things, that would have brought me up to speed.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:05:31pm

re: #152 gocart mozart

Is there anything to stop the studios from greenlighting productions using non-union labor?

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:09:43pm

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

Is there anything to stop the studios from greenlighting productions using non-union labor?

Probably the lack of non-union talent.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:10:03pm

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

Is there anything to stop the studios from greenlighting productions using non-union labor?

At least in the US, other unions may interfere with studio’s productions.

However, in other nations that may not be the case.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:10:22pm

re: #145 gocart mozart

Nice pitch!

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:10:35pm

re: #151 No Malarkey!

I hope she enjoyed her tirade today, because she probably doubled her sentence.

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I think the DOJ is appealing some of Mehta’s rulings because the times have been significantly less than what they thought was applicable. She might have gotten 10 years with another judge.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:10:39pm

re: #151 No Malarkey!

I hope she enjoyed her tirade today, because she probably doubled her sentence.

[Embedded content]

Completely delusional, blaming everyone except herself for her problems.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:12:43pm

re: #161 No Malarkey!

Completely delusional, blaming everyone except herself for her problems.

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That’s someone who’s going to kill people before she goes to prison. Self surrender. Whatever.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:14:21pm

re: #161 No Malarkey!

Bad mistake allowing that psychopath to self-surrender.

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William Lewis  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:16:03pm

Just a reminder for anyone else that uses it, I do have an Instagram account that I post a fair number of my photos on.

William’s Instagram

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:16:56pm

Mastodon

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A Cranky One  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:18:49pm

re: #164 William Lewis

Just a reminder for anyone else that uses it, I do have an Instagram account that I post a fair number of my photos on.

William’s Instagram

I’m following, but only upding either here or there (not both for the same photo).
Enjoy your photos.

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William Lewis  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:20:24pm

re: #166 A Cranky One

I’m following, but only upding either here or there (not both for the same photo).
Enjoy your photos.

No problem, just wanted to remind folks. Also trying to get the blue link in my name working correctly ;)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:21:24pm

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

Is there anything to stop the studios from greenlighting productions using non-union labor?

I read that as non-human labor. I did not get enough sleep last night.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:21:35pm

I just got back from the general store. I won absolutely nothing in the Lotto, not even a free ticket. I will mope for the rest of the day. /s

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:22:51pm

re: #165 jeffreyw

Now you’re just making up fake bugs. That’s jewelry.
/

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:23:32pm

re: #170 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Now you’re just making up fake bugs. That’s jewelry.
/

That’s a ceramic tchotchka.

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Captain Ron  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:24:13pm
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:24:38pm

Mastodon

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Thanos  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:25:04pm

re: #97 Thanos

In other news, storm rolling into KCK area.

Aftermath: Strongest storm in the 7 years I’ve been in this house, we have our trees cleaned out every three years or so, so just minor branches down here, but our neighbors have massive branches down and a lot of them. The rain was torrential and pouring down at a 20 degree angle so thick we could not see the house across the street.

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Thanos  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:26:29pm

re: #174 Thanos

Aftermath: Strongest storm in the 7 years I’ve been in this house, we have our trees cleaned out every three years or so, so just minor branches down here, but our neighbors have massive branches down and a lot of them. The rain was torrential and pouring down at a 20 degree angle so thick we could not see the house across the street.

If you are East of KC, it’s headed your way

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:26:29pm

re: #168 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I read that as non-human labor. I did not get enough sleep last night.

The studios are probably considering that option too.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:27:01pm

re: #173 Vicious Babushka

The studios should keep in mind that we like the actors who play the characters we enjoy. Few people think about the studios.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:27:04pm

re: #50 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Turek is a professional troll.

Turek is a professional liar.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:27:29pm

re: #135 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works!

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:28:14pm

re: #127 steve_davis

therapist: “Let’s get back to your childhood….”
barefoot_grin: “My sister wouldn’t sleep with her door open, damnit!”
therapist: “I see…..’
barefoot_grin: “no wait….I think I may need to supply some missing context here.”

I thought of that as I typed it. But then thought, nah. Anyway, yes, she valued her privacy as the only sister of three brothers.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:28:26pm

re: #177 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The studios should keep in mind that we like the actors who play the characters we enjoy. Few people think about the studios.

Oh come on, it’s easy enough to slap a rando under a superhero mask and call it a day.

//

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:31:51pm

re: #170 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Now you’re just making up fake bugs. That’s jewelry.
/

Some thread, a little dab of superglue..

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EPR-radar  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:31:59pm

re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Turek is a professional liar.

The way nearly all religious apologetics is done is axiomatically dishonest, and that thoroughly applies to what this Turek clown is doing.

For example, atheists aren’t in the business of “judging God” because why judge that which does not exist?

The only kind of “witnessing for Christ” that is worth anything is people using their religion to be better people, which is much more rare than it should be.

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:32:11pm

re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh come on, it’s easy enough to slap a rando under a superhero mask and call it a day.

//

We all know Ben Shapiro could have pulled off Iron Man. //

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EPR-radar  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:33:05pm

re: #184 Belafon

We all know Ben Shapiro could have pulled off Iron Man. //

And Trump could do Batman. ///s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:34:32pm

re: #55 Joe Bacon ✅

Sleeping in a room at 90 degrees beings back memories of Western PA HUMID and HOT summers where Dad locked the fan to blow OUT instead of IN…

My grandparents did the same with fans. The idea was to suck air in (through their bedroom window).

In the winter it was worse: I had an upstairs bedroom. The furnace was a wall furnace downstairs. I was required to keep the floor vent in my room closed to preserve heat downstairs, meaning I had no heat in the winter (as evidenced by snow collecting on the inside of the bedroom windowsills in storms).

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:35:27pm

Based on that video about p-adic numbers, if you want an infinite number of /, you should write …//

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:36:30pm

Mastodon question. What if I want to view the feed for one instance if I am logged in to a different instance? I know that I can check the “All” to get the feed for the entire fediverse, but how to filter only the servers that I want to see?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:36:56pm

re: #148 Nerdy Fish

I’m sure someone will be along to correct me, but that’s not a transgender person.

Speaking as a Transgendered woman, I would say this individual was gender fluid/Non-Binary and therefore Trans.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:37:55pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:39:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:40:17pm

re: #65 Nerdy Fish

I can’t see the list of AGs in your link. I would assume my AG is on the list even though abortion isn’t illegal here, just because he’s a Republican.

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steve_davis  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:44:21pm

re: #180 Barefoot Grin

I thought of that as I typed it. But then thought, nah. Anyway, yes, she valued her privacy as the only sister of three brothers.

no, you were fine! I was just thinking of my departed father—the retired priest—mentioning fondly how much he enjoyed having one of his grandchildren sleep with him. Of course, she was three at the time, and she’d go crawl into bed with him when he got to do grandfather duty—this being after my mom died. He said he remembered so fondly feeling a tiny hand on his back and knowing she was letting him know while he was asleep that she was there. A lovely story, but sometimes I’d have to say, “Context!” out of the corner of my mouth, depending on who was hearing the anecdote :-)

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Moe Avattar  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:44:46pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

That’s why Steve Mnuchin was so good as Secretary of the Treasury.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:46:17pm

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Here’s the news article link: mississippifreepress.org

The money shot:

The 18 other officials who signed onto Fitch’s letter include Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall; Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor; Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin; Georgia Attorney General Christopher M. Carr; Idaho Attorney General Raúl R. Labrador; Indiana Attorney General Theodore E. Rokita; Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron; Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry; Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey; Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen; Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers; North Dakota Attorney General Drew H. Wrigley; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost; South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson; South Dakota Attorney General Marty J. Jackley; Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti; Texas Provisional Attorney General John Scott; and Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:46:43pm

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I can’t see the list of AGs in your link. I would assume my AG is on the list even though abortion isn’t illegal here, just because he’s a Republican.

The states in question are: MS, AL, AR, GA, ID, IN, KY, LA, MO, MT, NE, ND, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX and UT

So yes, all the usual suspects. Interestingly, FL is not on there.

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:47:27pm

re: #191 Captain Ron

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:48:01pm
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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:48:10pm

re: #188 Vicious Babushka

Mastodon question. What if I want to view the feed for one instance if I am logged in to a different instance? I know that I can check the “All” to get the feed for the entire fediverse, but how to filter only the servers that I want to see?

The only way I know would be to start blocking domains. You have to be in your Home feed for that option to show on the three dot menu.

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:53:05pm

re: #188 Vicious Babushka

Mastodon question. What if I want to view the feed for one instance if I am logged in to a different instance? I know that I can check the “All” to get the feed for the entire fediverse, but how to filter only the servers that I want to see?

There are client apps that may do that for you but I have no experience with any of those.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:54:34pm

re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg

Conservatives Racists complaining about being called racists, part eleventy.

Edited for accuracy.

Racists Conservatives complaining about being called racists, part eleventy.

Re-edited for accuracy. /s

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darthstar  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:54:59pm

re: #145 gocart mozart

Little girl’s got an arm.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:56:21pm

re: #195 Nerdy Fish

Yup. The Nebraska AG signed on and abortion isn’t even illegal here. Called it. My tax dollars at work.

This should get smacked out of court due to HIPAA and state laws ending at the state line, but who knows with our fascist courts now?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:57:26pm

Tonight’s MegaMillions annuity is up to $560M, pushing into real money.

Tomorrow’s PowerBall annuity is $825M, definitely lunging into real money.

Annuity rates went down a bit so the cash values are a bit higher than earlier this week.

Get your tickets before they run out!!

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 2:58:30pm

re: #203 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yup. The Nebraska AG signed on and abortion isn’t even illegal here. Called it. My tax dollars at work.

This should get smacked out of court due to HIPAA and state laws ending at the state line, but who knows with our fascist courts now?

This isn’t even a court thing, yet. There is a veiled threat to sue HHS if they institute a rule that prevents states from sharing data on personal health care decisions like abortions and gender-affirming care, but otherwise, this is just more grandstanding from the Republican Lawlessness Party.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:01:13pm

re: #164 William Lewis

Followed. :)

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retired cynic  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:01:58pm

re: #206 GlutenFreeJesus

Me, too.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:02:51pm

re: #195 Nerdy Fish

Here’s the news article link: mississippifreepress.org

The money shot:

The 18 other officials who signed onto Fitch’s letter include Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall; Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor; Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin; Georgia Attorney General Christopher M. Carr; Idaho Attorney General Raúl R. Labrador; Indiana Attorney General Theodore E. Rokita; Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron; Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry; Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey; Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen; Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers; North Dakota Attorney General Drew H. Wrigley; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost; South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson; South Dakota Attorney General Marty J. Jackley; Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti; Texas Provisional Attorney General John Scott; and Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

Labrador is is fucking useless POS that’s going to bankrupt his office by backing useless/unconstitutional laws. The Idaho Leg has already had to slap him down for trying to hire (at exorbitant rates) two Lawyers who are not licensed to practice Law in the State of Idaho. He’s also the idiot who back a Law to prohibit anyone from taking a minor across State Lines for an abortion/trans care (it passed) without parental permission, EVEN THOUGH Idaho already has a Law that prohibits taking a minor across State lines FOR ANY REASON without parental consent.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:03:35pm

From Short History at Medium, January 13, 2023 on the history of erotic Romance novels:

Today, reading Fanny Hill seems rather tame to the modern reader used to the likes of Fifty Shades of Grey.

However, at the time of its publishing in 1748, the novel Fanny Hill, was the most erotic and explicit pornographic novel in Great Britain. The original title of the novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

John Cleland (1709-1789), the author of the novel, was arrested for writing it. The police said his naught book was corrupting the King’s subjects.

Fanny Hill was forbidden for centuries. Nonetheless, it became a best seller.

Although forbidden, Fanny Hill was a sought-after novel. For two centuries, it was illegally reprinted. Explicit illustrations were added for those who lacked imagination.

“…lewd, wicked, scandalous, infamous and obscene print…”

— government’s opinion of the book

Surprisingly, even in 1963, the British police confiscated over 20,000 copies of Fanny Hill and issued nationwide warnings about the corrupt nature of the book.

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Article contains NSFW woodcuts.

Fanny Hill — The First Pornographic Novel In English Literature

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:10:23pm

Captain Cassidy at Only Sky, July 13, 2023

Christianese does a lot of heavy lifting for evangelicals. Everyday life becomes a godly melodrama. You aren’t the guy who carries the pastor’s stuff—you’re an armorbearer. You aren’t eating lunch, you’re breaking bread. Even a simple word-shuffle like Christ Jesus can give an insidery zhuzh to whatever you’re on about. The result can be a harmless spiritual RPG or a wolf in sheep’s clothing, bless your heart.

Now we see (some) evangelicals deploying the phrase creation care. It’s their substitute for environmental activism, a way of owning the concept and (most importantly) giving themselves permission to gut any parts of the actual meaning that they find inconvenient. Those who embrace it might not accept that humans have had anything to do with the climate’s huge changes in the modern day, but they’re still aware that not GAFF about the planet is a bad look—and they want to at least make an effort at look maintenance.

The other name for creation care, “environmental stewardship,” reveals the ideas at work here. Though this phrase isn’t technically an evangelical creation, the word stewardship conveys a great deal about evangelicals’ mindset and priorities—and what this creation care movement actually involves.

Worse, at a time when human impact on Earth’s climate grows more and more certain, this entire movement might just be a little too little, a little too late.

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Meet ‘creation care,’ the evangelical substitute for environmental activism

“Evangelicals can’t care about anything unless they can feel like they literally own it.”

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:13:15pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:18:34pm

On that article above, climate scientists and environmentalists have called for abandoning the term “environmental stewardship” to describe conservation efforts and attempts to constrain global climate change. That phrase has been used for about a century.

The reason is Christians (and not just Evangelicals) have hijacked the term “stewardship” into the definition of the Bible, which means “ownership” (specifically in the context of being good stewards [rulers] until Jesus’s return, when he destroys everything in Armageddon).

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jeffreyw  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:23:04pm

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:32:56pm

These are YOUR PEOPLE, Nancy. Own it.

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:33:49pm

re: #214 Nerdy Fish

These are YOUR PEOPLE, Nancy. Own it.

[Embedded content]

She voted for it.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:34:40pm

re: #214 Nerdy Fish

These are YOUR PEOPLE, Nancy. Own it.

[Embedded content]

Has she not noticed that Republicans are assholes?
Nah, she just wants the voters back home to think she’s not one of the assholes that want to abuse women. She is.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:34:46pm

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:35:02pm

re: #215 Vicious Babushka

She voted for it.

So she recognizes that it’s an “asshole move,” but at the end of the day, she cares less about the military than she does about her culture wars. Ladies and gentlemen, your modern Republican Party.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:35:43pm

I like that the Biden Administration just keeps coming, despite corrupt Supremes.

Mastodon

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:36:15pm

They’re saying Lisa Marie Presley died because of her bariatric surgery. Her intestine got bunched up.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:44:23pm

re: #220 Belafon

They’re saying Lisa Marie Presley died because of her bariatric surgery. Her intestine got bunched up.

Fuck. I hope the weight loss was required for health reasons rather than vanity.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:50:49pm

re: #221 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Fuck. I hope the weight loss was required for health reasons rather than vanity.

Often they’re intimately tired together.

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BigPapa  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:56:55pm

Meeting today.

‘Wow, Company X’s stuff is amazing. It does (Unicorns) and (Puppies) and that’s totally amazing!’

Me, inside, screaming: ‘Yeah, I told you 3 years ago that’s what it does and that’s why we should be offering it, but none of yous would sell the stuff to clients, so…’

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:57:23pm

I’ve been working late trying to resolve an issue with a report. I’ve gone from 11k missing people to a thousand, but I’ve officially reached fuck it. It’ll have to wait until Monday.

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BigPapa  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:59:14pm

I’ve had two wealthy clients question small invoices this week. Client handlers being stupid and making more work for us all, not less. I’m in a mood.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2023 • 3:59:32pm

In a statement, President Biden called out Republicans who are complaining about his new action to forgive $39 billion in student loans.

“…Republican lawmakers - who had no problem with the government forgiving millions of dollars of their own business loans - have tried everything they can to stop me from providing relief to hardworking Americans. Some are even objecting to the actions we announced today, which follows through on relief borrowers were promised, but never given, even when they had been making payments for decades. The hypocrisy is stunning, and the disregard for working and middle-class families is outrageous.

As long as I’m in office, I will continue to work to bring the promise of college to every American.”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:00:50pm

Biden raised $72m last quarter

Pence raised $1.2m

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:14:50pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:15:06pm

My coworker and I have been on a fishing expedition trying to get a vendor in Boston to give us approximately $6,000 owed… from 2019. The email back-and-forth makes me want to throw my computer out the window.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:19:29pm

Still more useful consumer information!

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:23:55pm

re: #211 gocart mozart

Now, read that in Arabic, or German.

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Nojay UK  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:26:10pm

re: #230 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Still more useful consumer information!

It was one of those science-type TV shows supposedly aimed at kids that had a segment on how a company that provided articulated animal skeletons for display, research etc. cleaned the bones before reassembly. The speeded-up film of the maggots chewing down on the defleshed carcasses was horrific. I remember enjoying watching it immensely when I was about ten or so.

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TedStriker  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:26:49pm

re: #60 Shropshire Slasher

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Video

It blowed up, blowed up real good!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:28:41pm

re: #228 jaunte

Of course In-n-Out would ban their employees from wearing masks. In-n-Out is owned by Evangelical Christians. They must follow the orders their church leaders give (Covid-19 is a hoax pushed by atheistic liberals).

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JC1  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:29:47pm

re: #229 teleskiguy

My coworker and I have been on a fishing expedition trying to get a vendor in Boston to give us approximately $6,000 owed… from 2019. The email back-and-forth makes me want to throw my computer out the window.

Mass law/courts are pretty good with this type of stuff. IIRC you may get 3x damages. May want to ping a mass contract dispute attorney and see what they say.

Edit: statute of limitations on contract disputes in Mass is 6 years, so you’re still good.

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EPR-radar  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:31:03pm

re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅

We are told, over and over and over again by capitalist propagandists, that those who make no contribution to society should get nothing from it.

The same propagandists categorically deny that some few people in positions of power are able to get vastly more from society than anything they have (or possibly could) contribute.

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William Lewis  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:36:18pm

re: #228 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Shrug. Don’t have them here. Never been interested in them anyway. I’ll keep going to Culver’s if I want to buy a burger. Or perhaps 5 Guys if I need a change of pace but that’s pretty rare because Culver’s is good.

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Captain Ron  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:41:15pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:42:41pm

re: #237 William Lewis

Shrug. Don’t have them here. Never been interested in them anyway. I’ll keep going to Culver’s if I want to buy a burger. Or perhaps 5 Guys if I need a change of pace but that’s pretty rare because Culver’s is good.

I’ve never been to Culver’s. There is one in Cheyenne though, so maybe next time I’m there I’ll give them a try. Five Guys opened a restaurant there a few years ago and they’re pretty good.

Here there are only a few chain restaurants, and they’re a long ways away from me.

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:45:03pm

re: #234 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Of course In-n-Out would ban their employees from wearing masks. In-n-Out is owned by Evangelical Christians. They must follow the orders their church leaders give (Covid-19 is a hoax pushed by atheistic liberals).

They won’t be the only ones. But the current CEO has a bunch of tattoos from her previous while lifestyle so she’s gotta be extra Christiany now.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:45:10pm

re: #239 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve never been to Culver’s. There is one in Cheyenne though, so maybe next time I’m there I’ll give them a try. Five Guys opened a restaurant there a few years ago and they’re pretty good.

Here there are only a few chain restaurants, and they’re a long ways away from me.

I wouldn’t say it’s worth a drive all the way to Cheyenne and back for it, but I would say they’re the best cheap chain burgers I’ve ever had. They are really good. I also really like their French fries; some of their other sides leave something to be desired. If you’re ever in the mood for a sweet treat, Culver’s ice cream is good, too. I will also occasionally get a spicy crispy chicken sandwich from them.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:45:28pm

Pence may be out of the race before the leaves start turning.

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:46:08pm

Ten minutes to replace the garbage disposal.

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William Lewis  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:47:09pm

re: #239 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve never been to Culver’s. There is one in Cheyenne though, so maybe next time I’m there I’ll give them a try. Five Guys opened a restaurant there a few years ago and they’re pretty good.

Here there are only a few chain restaurants, and they’re a long ways away from me.

Culver’s is worth the try, especially their frozen custard. The place is a death trap for my diet so I have to be very careful about it though LOL! I love their mushroom swiss burger with fries and the flavor of the day as dessert :) Serious calorie bomb though.

If you like deep fried cheese curds, they have great ones too.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:48:19pm

re: #244 William Lewis

If you like deep fried cheese curds, they have great ones too.

Funny, that’s one of the things I don’t like from them. Maybe it’s just that I’m spoiled on the incredibly greasy, incredibly salty fried cheese curds they serve at stands at fairs and festivals here in Minnesota, though.

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William Lewis  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:48:30pm

re: #243 Belafon

Ten minutes to replace the garbage disposal.

They usually aren’t too hard to replace. It’s the initial install that can be a major PITA.

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William Lewis  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:53:23pm

Ok, this is a fun version this song from someone I didn’t expect to cover it :D

Lucinda Williams, Long Way to the Top

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steve_davis  Jul 14, 2023 • 4:58:02pm

Keeping Paris in for the evening as thunderstorms are in the area. So we’re done grading and we’re watching Good Bones.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 5:05:34pm

One of the things lost in the so-called AI generation of text and images is the explosion of AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

AI-generated child sex images spawn new nightmare for the web (Washington Post, June 19, 2023)

“Investigators say the disturbing images could undermine efforts to find real-world victims”

The revolution in artificial intelligence has sparked an explosion of disturbingly lifelike images showing child sexual exploitation, fueling concerns among child-safety investigators that they will undermine efforts to find victims and combat real-world abuse.

Generative-AI tools have set off what one analyst called a “predatory arms race” on pedophile forums because they can create within seconds realistic images of children performing sex acts, commonly known as child pornography.

Thousands of AI-generated child-sex images have been found on forums across the dark web, a layer of the internet visible only with special browsers, with some participants sharing detailed guides for how other pedophiles can make their own creations.

“Children’s images, including the content of known victims, are being repurposed for this really evil output,” said Rebecca Portnoff, the director of data science at Thorn, a nonprofit child-safety group that has seen month-over-month growth of the images’ prevalence since last fall.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 14, 2023 • 5:12:32pm

re: #247 William Lewis

Ok, this is a fun version this song from someone I didn’t expect to cover it :D

[Embedded content]

Video

We saw her in the fall of 2011 at a club in Bloomington, IN. Her guitar players were Bo Ramsey and Doug Pettibone. Amazing show.

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wrenchwench  Jul 14, 2023 • 5:15:12pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2023 • 5:26:51pm

re: #249 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The guilty party in this instance is Stable Diffusion. Because the project released all its image-manipulation tools in the wild (information’s gotta be free, ya know), the software allows abuse material producers to produce more, then try to culture-jam it onto mainstream sites.

In Dark Web fora, according to the article, there are those who create such images who ask how to imitate a friendly person to children on-line, not to gain CSAM material, but normal photographs of children. They can then use those photographs to manipulate those into CSAM material.

Others use Stable Diffusion to create faked photographs of adults for extortion.

The FBI has released a statement on the problem.

Malicious Actors Manipulating Photos and Videos to Create Explicit Content and Sextortion Schemes (FBI, June 5, 2023)

The lede:

The FBI is warning the public of malicious actors creating synthetic content (commonly referred to as “deepfakes”) by manipulating benign photographs or videos to target victims. Technology advancements are continuously improving the quality, customizability, and accessibility of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled content creation. The FBI continues to receive reports from victims, including minor children and non-consenting adults, whose photos or videos were altered into explicit content. The photos or videos are then publicly circulated on social media or pornographic websites, for the purpose of harassing victims or sextortion schemes.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2023 • 5:30:17pm

re: #235 JC1

Mass law/courts are pretty good with this type of stuff. IIRC you may get 3x damages. May want to ping a mass contract dispute attorney and see what they say.

Edit: statute of limitations on contract disputes in Mass is 6 years, so you’re still good.

Thanks! We’ll have to deal with it in earnest next month, not much we can do right now, the owner is in Australia.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2023 • 5:32:06pm

re: #198 gocart mozart

I love this fucken guy.

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Moe Avattar  Jul 14, 2023 • 5:35:59pm

Oddly enough, I know one high-level Hollywood studio executive (a cousin). He sides with the unions.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 14, 2023 • 5:47:18pm

re: #211 gocart mozart

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Hey! That Pulpit Pimp didn’t mention me!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 14, 2023 • 5:51:47pm

re: #248 steve_davis

Keeping Paris in for the evening as thunderstorms are in the area. So we’re done grading and we’re watching Good Bones.

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I thought Paris was taller

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 14, 2023 • 6:00:41pm

re: #151 No Malarkey!

I hope she enjoyed her tirade today, because she probably doubled her sentence.

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She is 100% planning on Trump winning in 2024 and promptly being Pardoned within days as soon as he takes the White House.

She isn’t wrong in her thinking. This is why if Trump wins this will quickly become a fundamentally different country with in a few short weeks as a monster in the White House is unleashed with full backing of a totally corrupt rubber stamp SCOTUS.


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