The Return of Jack Antonoff and Bleachers: “Stop Making This Hurt”

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A few years ago I posted a fantastic Tiny Desk concert by this band, and I just happened to remember it recently, because it was a stand-out. So I was excited to see this new video pop up at YouTube. It’s not a disappointment, especially if you enjoy watching an awesome troupe of dancing nerds gettin’ down in a diner. And you know I do.

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Stop Making This Hurt

daniel puts the kids to bed they’re screaming oh the gods must be crazy
well jimmy’s on the road tonight she doesn’t recognize her country
my father’s in the room next door crying with his ma at 65
well every time i close my eyes i just see you written in big lights

you know what it says?

stop making this hurt
and say goodbye like you mean it
stop trying on this hurt
just say goodbye like you mean it

my mamma’s in the house tonight tryna break free of new jersey
while the kids are on the street and they’re cryin’ let me live in my country
but me and ray
we got a dream and a car we’re like free as the night
so how come every time i take a drive i just see it written on street signs

and you know what it says..

stop making this hurt
and say goodbye like you mean it
stop trying on this hurt
just say goodbye like you mean it

but if we take the sadness out of saturday night
i wonder what we’ll be left with anything worth the fight?
i wanna run from the darkness wanna shout at the light
it’s coming over me now
two three four five
oh god we barely survived
just say goodbye like you mean it

stop making this hurt
say goodbye like you mean it
stop trying on this hurt
say goodbye like you mean it

come on baby
stop making this hurt

#Bleachers #StopMakingThisHurt

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166 comments
1
jaunte  May 22, 2021 • 5:42:33pm

‘Proudest day of my life!’: 43 Texans facing charges in connection with Capitol riot.
expressnews.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 22, 2021 • 5:44:40pm
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Eventual Carrion  May 22, 2021 • 5:46:47pm

He went that way

Videos With Unexpected Endings (Unexpected Memes Compilation)

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William Lewis  May 22, 2021 • 5:55:16pm

Damn. Reminds me of the Talking Heads at their best. Good shit.

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Eventual Carrion  May 22, 2021 • 6:09:24pm

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Charles Johnson  May 22, 2021 • 6:11:47pm

re: #4 William Lewis

Sort of a mix of Talking Heads and Springsteen.

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jaunte  May 22, 2021 • 6:14:45pm

Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better

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William Lewis  May 22, 2021 • 6:14:51pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Good description. Cool either way, I’m going to have to look for more of them.

Thank you sir, the music here is always such a joy.

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retired cynic  May 22, 2021 • 6:19:56pm

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Barefoot Grin  May 22, 2021 • 6:22:17pm

I really promise I’m not going to push this anymore, but it’s been part of my research and lived experience in Japan, so I have to do one follow-up on poetry and Japan. I was interested because I lived in Hiraizumi for a couple of years. It is now a small town of about 20000 that relies on Buddhist pilgrimages to its two main temples (Mōtsuji and Chūsonji) and general tourism.

In the couple of centuries before 1189 when it was mostly destroyed in war, it had prospered under a family who took the name Fujiwara. That name was an honorary name given to a family that helped an imperial prince stage a family coup in 645 in what is now called Kyoto. But Hiraizumi was located in the far north of Honshu, the main island, and was a frontier zone where Japanese and non-Japanese called emishi both fought and intermixed.

1189 was the year that Hiraizumi was demolished after a clan called the Minamoto defeated a rival clan called the Taira in what is known as the Genpei War (Gen means Minamoto and h/pei means Taira; the war was really two wars but fought between 1180 and 1185). The brains behind the rallying of vassels and strategizing was the older brother, Yoritomo; the dashing man in the field was his younger brother, Yoshitsune. Legends say that rivals of Yoshitune poisoned the mind of his brother by saying that Yoshitsune planned to take over from his brother. At any rate, as children, both brothers had been sent into exile after there father was killed by Taira forces in 1159. Yoshitune spent time in Hiraizumi and so when he found out that his brother had it in for him, he escaped there; later his wife and children joined him under the protection of the “northern Fujiwara.” But this was unpacified land. So it seems to me a kind of “two birds with one stone.” Yoritomo sent his troops north to wipe out his brother, but also to take control of this part of Japan. It was in 1689 that Basho took is trip on the “Narrow Road to the Deep North” (Oku no hosomichi). I happened to be living there in 1989. So there was much ado about this history: 1189, 1689, 1989. Of course, I learned by heart the two poems I cited in the last thread:

夏草や　natsukusaya
兵どもが tsuwamonodomoga
夢の跡 yume no ato

Summer grasses—
All that remains
of warriors’ dreams

and

五月雨の　Samidare no
降り残してや furinokoshiteya
金色度 konjikido

Something like:

Undimmed by summer’s early rain
The golden temple (I know that’s not how I rendered it in the earlier post, but it’s the same).

I was doing calligraphy lessons with a local teacher and she did a very nice stylized rendering of the latter that I have framed and have put on the wall of my office.

Anyway, here’s the Konjikido (the mummified remains and/or heads of three generations of northern Fujiwara are under the dias):

I know that’s too much info and I hope that my posting doesn’t make those interested in Japan hesitate to post their thoughts or experiences for fear that I’ll shit all over their posts. It’s just what I know best and I don’t have many chances to share.

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Belafon  May 22, 2021 • 6:23:00pm
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gocart mozart  May 22, 2021 • 6:30:48pm
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jaunte  May 22, 2021 • 6:32:27pm

re: #12 gocart mozart

All Cruz knew about Carter back then was that his father was complaining about Carter.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 22, 2021 • 6:40:17pm

Today’s family discussion

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 22, 2021 • 6:43:06pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 22, 2021 • 6:48:35pm

re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter

Today’s family discussion

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JOE 🥓  May 22, 2021 • 7:12:11pm

re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter

re: #16 Barefoot Grin

That’s why I could care less about family reunions. I have no desire to waste any time with a bunch of pod people who would beg to whiff Trump’s farts if they could.

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mmmirele  May 22, 2021 • 7:29:55pm

Blergh, I got called in for an issue.

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Barefoot Grin  May 22, 2021 • 7:30:03pm

re: #17 🌹UOJB!

That’s why I could care less about family reunions. I have no desire to waste any time with a bunch of pod people who would beg to whiff Trump’s farts if they could.

The non-pod people in my clan usually end up gathering in someone’s suite with a cooler of drinks. We exist. A lot of us first started gathering in a round barn on my aunt’s farm in the 1970s to roll and pass joints. No surprise that about 2/3 of my generation have replaced the joints with a bottle or two of craft beer and a heavy SJW mentality while the other 1/3 are—at least in my imagination—people who engage in pro-Trump armadas*. But the younger generation are rural (and not poor) white bro trump supporters. Hate to see it.

*ETA: I say this based on their FB posts. Whether they have actually participated in Trump rallies or only dream about it, I don’t know. But there’s clearly an aspiration to engage in that kind of shit.

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A Mom Anon  May 22, 2021 • 7:50:26pm

re: #19 Barefoot Grin

We had some friends(operative word HAD) who went all MAGA from hell. She’s a breast cancer survivor, 2 yrs and a few months out. Her hair never did grow back all the way after surgery, chemo and radiation. They went, unmasked, to a Trump rally in south GA with no masks not that long ago. He waited to tell my husband all this til after my husband picked him up to go get parts for his car. Knowing my husband had health issues that made him vulnerable to covid. This was before we had vaccines available to the public. I can’t be around people like this. Not unless I am allowed to slap the shit out of them.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 22, 2021 • 8:08:47pm

re: #20 A Mom Anon

At least our Trumpster brother was very serious about Covid-19 from the beginning and arranged to get vaccinated as soon as he had the opportunity. I also think that while he apparently believes it likely came from a lab, he has come around to the view that it was accidentally released, rather than a deliberate attack. He also agrees that the whole world needs to be vaccinated but somehow he still believes that the combination of vaccines and people who recovered from the disease will lead to herd immunity here. For some reason, he doesn’t seem to realize how widespread the anti-vax sentiment against the Covid vaccines is, especially among Republicans.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2021 • 8:12:36pm

re: #10 Barefoot Grin

Thank you for sharing. I was never able to get to northern Japan.

I found when living in Japan that the experience helped me internalize the idea that what we think of as important in history and culture isn’t so someplace else. Everywhere has its own past.

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teleskiguy  May 22, 2021 • 8:32:31pm
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mmmirele  May 22, 2021 • 8:34:16pm

re: #10 Barefoot Grin

Thank you for sharing this!

I’ve now been let go from the issue I was on.

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I hope my pizza arrives soon.

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JOE 🥓  May 22, 2021 • 8:38:49pm
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retired cynic  May 22, 2021 • 8:40:37pm

re: #25 🌹UOJB!

Oh, rilly?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2021 • 8:42:56pm

Don’t know how many of you watch Veritasium’s videos on Youtube - some of his videos I like, some others I think are not so helpful - but today’s video is a dive into the fundamentals of mathematics, and the results of such investigations. Worth watching, though it is not an easy topic:

There’s a Hole at the Bottom of Math

..

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jaunte  May 22, 2021 • 8:43:15pm

re: #25 🌹UOJB!

Since when are ballots in the SEC’s jurisdiction?

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jaunte  May 22, 2021 • 8:44:18pm

Alphabet Pseudoauthenticity Soup.

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Targetpractice  May 22, 2021 • 8:44:31pm

re: #25 🌹UOJB!

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Who were these people and why won’t they go public with this info? Can’t tell you, totally classified, but you can take his word that they really exist and they told him the absolute truth.

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BeachDem  May 22, 2021 • 8:49:10pm

re: #25 🌹UOJB!

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He probably just read their body language.

“I’m a dentist, OK. So I read body language very, very well.”

Obligatory

Little Shop of Horrors - Dentist Song

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Targetpractice  May 22, 2021 • 8:54:49pm

I’ve taken to calling such BS the “Canadian Girlfriend” ploy, as in “Oh yeah, my girlfriend totally thinks I’m right. Who is she? Oh, you wouldn’t know her, she lives in Canada.”

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Dave In Austin  May 22, 2021 • 9:00:51pm
Click to Reveal

The Dangler and Wrinkle Pouch

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 22, 2021 • 9:04:09pm

re: #30 Targetpractice

Who were these people and why won’t they go public with this info? Can’t tell you, totally classified, but you can take his word that they really exist and they told him the absolute truth.

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So “they” managed to alter 25 - 40% of the ballots in front of witnesses and nobody noticed?

Now pull the other one…

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 22, 2021 • 9:08:05pm
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Dave In Austin  May 22, 2021 • 9:08:35pm

Oh my!!

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retired cynic  May 22, 2021 • 9:09:39pm

re: #36 Dave In Austin

Oh my!!

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AAAAAAA!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 22, 2021 • 9:11:42pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, they are.

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Targetpractice  May 22, 2021 • 9:13:32pm

re: #36 Dave In Austin

Oh my!!

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JOE 🥓  May 22, 2021 • 9:19:55pm

re: #36 Dave In Austin

Oh my!!

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OWTCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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mmmirele  May 22, 2021 • 9:22:52pm

News from Mt. Everest base camp:

I learned tonight when I was called in that two of our engineers in India have been sick with COVID for over a month. They’re both in their 30s. One tried to come back to work 2 weeks ago but relapsed. The other one is on a ventilator. :( :(

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William Lewis  May 22, 2021 • 9:26:13pm

re: #35 Dread Pirate Ron

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An electric articulated bus is hardly new.

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retired cynic  May 22, 2021 • 9:29:36pm

re: #42 William Lewis

An electric articulated bus is hardly new.

I’m not sure I would care to ride one at road speed.

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Targetpractice  May 22, 2021 • 9:38:14pm

re: #34 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

So “they” managed to alter 25 - 40% of the ballots in front of witnesses and nobody noticed?

Now pull the other one…

Not only did it, but did it in such a manner that none of the prior audits were able to find any evidence at all.

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gocart mozart  May 22, 2021 • 9:47:15pm
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Belafon  May 22, 2021 • 10:23:21pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2021 • 10:39:12pm

re: #35 Dread Pirate Ron

I guess it depends upon what one wants to call a “train”.

To me, it’s a “super-bus”. Autonomous, yes, but a bus.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2021 • 10:41:07pm

Q: Why did the lava cross the dam?

A: Because who’s going to stop it?

Fagradalshraun - Lava begins attacking the wall 4 21.05.2021



Fagradalshraun - Lava begins attacking the wall 2 21.05.2021



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John Hughes  May 22, 2021 • 10:42:33pm

re: #42 William Lewis

An electric articulated bus is hardly new.

m.imdb.com

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John Hughes  May 22, 2021 • 10:43:07pm

re: #42 William Lewis

An electric articulated bus is hardly new.

Watch out! He’s got a broken milk carton!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 22, 2021 • 11:00:17pm

re: #35 Dread Pirate Ron

The video does highlight well how intent the Chinese are on becoming world leaders in high tech solutions.

This is the reality that the MAGA heads fear but don’t understand: the US is no longer the global hegemonic force it was after WWII.

We could argue, pretty solidly, that China today is more important to the world than the US.

Sure, we spend so much of our wealth on our military machine that we’re probably still the best at killing people and blowing things up.

But if you’re a small nation looking to improve one’s lot, partnering with the Chinese is probably the better deal.

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piratedan  May 22, 2021 • 11:07:55pm

re: #46 Belafon

Glad All Over

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 22, 2021 • 11:16:47pm

re: #46 Belafon

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 22, 2021 • 11:32:15pm
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Targetpractice  May 22, 2021 • 11:34:35pm

re: #54 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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“Khajit has wares, if you have bitcoin.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2021 • 11:36:39pm

re: #12 gocart mozart

I was 8 yrs old during Watergate and my opinion of the TV hearings at the time were twofold:

1. Why is this stupid news program pre-empting my afternoon Flintstone/Jetson watching routine?
2. Archibald Cox is a hilarious name.

One of my earliest memories as a kid was being frustrated that I could not watch Rocky and Bullwinkle on TV because every channel was carrying the JFK funeral procession.

I was already a teenager by the time of Watergate, old enough to appreciate that Tricky Dick was a Coxsacker.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2021 • 11:40:53pm

re: #46 Belafon

If you’re a real fan of The Beatles name a song of theirs other than Bohemian Rhapsody

FREE BIRD!!!

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Patricia Kayden  May 22, 2021 • 11:49:31pm

re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter

I don’t understand this whole “Covid came from a lab” conspiracy. So what? We still have to deal with it regardless of where it came from. Republicans are weird.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 22, 2021 • 11:57:46pm

re: #58 Patricia Kayden

I don’t understand this whole “Covid came from a lab” conspiracy. So what? We still have to deal with it regardless of where it came from. Republicans are weird.

It is about placing blame on someone else. Remember DT’s obsession with calling it “The Chinese Virus”?

Just like establishments with staff shortages blame it on “nobody wants to work” rather than addressing their own wages and working conditions.

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Targetpractice  May 23, 2021 • 12:12:24am

re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is about placing blame on someone else. Remember the obsession with “The Chinese Virus”.

Just like establishments with staff shortages blame it on “nobody wants to work” rather than their own wages and working conditions.

The whole “China Virus” bit didn’t really start getting traction until Donny had to finally admit in mid-April that the pandemic was not going to “just go away.” That’s when the conspiracy theorists began their usual bit about how nothing that hurt his presidency was a coincidence and they became absolutely convinced that the whole thing had been a grand scheme organized by the Chinese gov’t to bring down their God-Emperor.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 23, 2021 • 12:32:44am

re: #60 Targetpractice

The whole “China Virus” bit didn’t really start getting traction until Donny had to finally admit in mid-April that the pandemic was not going to “just go away.” That’s when the conspiracy theorists began their usual bit about how nothing that hurt his presidency was a coincidence and they became absolutely convinced that the whole thing had been a grand scheme organized by the Chinese gov’t to bring down their God-Emperor.

I remember discussion of the matter right before the shutdown (in CA) or at the beginning, so Feb.or March 2020 — since of course that Chinese virological institute was right near the probable epicenter — leading to the conclusion that it was highly unlikely that they had anything to do with it. Even without DT, there was going to be conspiracy-mongering about it, but of course the amplification didn’t help.

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Targetpractice  May 23, 2021 • 12:35:43am

re: #61 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

I remember discussion of the matter right before the shutdown (in CA) or at the beginning, so Feb.or March 2020 — since of course that Chinese virological institute was right near the probable epicenter — leading to the conclusion that it was highly unlikely that they had anything to do with it. Even without DT, there was going to be conspiracy-mongering about it, but of course the amplification didn’t help.

There were going to be conspiracies, but the administration basically amplifying it by insisting upon labels like “China Virus” or “Kung Flu” and the blowhard at the center of it all obviously nursing a very public grudge over Xi using his hope for a favorable trade deal to get help free-of-charge certainly helped it along.

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mmmirele  May 23, 2021 • 12:52:05am

I got rousted out of bed for a false alarm and I swear, I am going to quit if this is going to keep happening. Life is too short to be dragged out of bed because an alarm is that badly configured. Not just that, the manager over me who responded is dead tired and babbling and driving me nuts. Finally, my cat got all excited about voices, wanted attention, clawed my leg and I said FUCK! on an open line.

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Patricia Kayden  May 23, 2021 • 12:56:47am

re: #60 Targetpractice

So a virus which has killed or infected millions all around the world was created to do what to Trump? 🤔 Delusion is a hell of a drug.

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Targetpractice  May 23, 2021 • 1:02:40am

re: #64 Patricia Kayden

So a virus which has killed or infected millions all around the world was created to do what to Trump? 🤔 Delusion is a hell of a drug.

Rob him of the second term in office that was rightfully his. The pandemic allowed the Dems to totally ruin his glorious economic boom while also letting them steal the election from him through massive amounts of vote fraud.

Every true patriot knows that he not only won the election, he won it by such a massive landslide that the only way that Biden could have won was through help from China…and Iran…and Venezuela…and Russia…wait, what?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 23, 2021 • 1:13:47am

re: #65 Targetpractice

Rob him of the second term in office that was rightfully his. The pandemic allowed the Dems to totally ruin his glorious economic boom.

The joke is that people will rally around a President in times of crisis, even if things are not running optimally, if he shows resolve and leadership and that he is acting in the nation’s interest.

That was asking too much of him, he had neither the character nor the right people to do so.

It still bugs me that he got as many votes as he did (more than in 2016) and that despite the massive Democratic turnout, it was still too much of a close-run thing.

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Targetpractice  May 23, 2021 • 1:21:57am

re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The joke is that people will rally around a President in times of crisis, even if things are not running optimally, if he shows resolve and leadership and that he is acting in the nation’s interest.

That was asking too much of him, he had neither the character nor the right people to do so.

It still bugs me that he got as many votes as he did (more than in 2016) and that despite the massive Democratic turnout, it was still too much of a close-run thing.

And there was a temporary “rally-round-the-flag” bump in the polls right around that time that the media was declaring that he’d “changed his tone” and was now “serious” about fighting the pandemic. What killed it was that he couldn’t even maintain that new “tone” for more than a day before he was back to bitching about how the whole thing was a “hoax,” that the Dems were using it to drag down the economy, and that everybody should just go back to acting as if things were “normal.”

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sagehen  May 23, 2021 • 1:29:58am

re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just like establishments with staff shortages blame it on “nobody wants to work” rather than addressing their own wages and working conditions.

There is a legit staff shortage for minimum-wage jobs, but it’s not because people are lazy.

It’s because

refugees and undocumented who are happy to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms for minimum wage, aren’t getting in.

European kids on a gap year who take cheap jobs for essentially a free 6 months trip to America, didn’t come this year.

American college kids and high school kids who do low-pay summer jobs, just got out of lockdown. Some of them are doing summer school, some are just enjoying being out and about. The ones who do want to work, have their choice of employers.

Women in their 20’s & 30’s whose kids aren’t in school or daycare, have to stay home to take care of them.

600,000 dead. Twice that many with lingering effects of a partially-recovered bout of covid.

People from the investor class, they’re retiring early (making room for others to be promoted, opening a whole new swathe of entry-level corporate gigs) and taking their kids on extravagant vacations. Because the Dow has gone up A LOT during this pandemic. 25% in 2020, and another more than 10% just since the first of this year.

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Targetpractice  May 23, 2021 • 1:58:07am

It’s the Great Recession 2.0, Act 4: “There’s So Many Jobs, Everybody’s Just Lazy!”

Like last go around, the reality is way more complicated that there being a “labor shortage,” but unlike last time the problem is not that the industries adding the most jobs are ones looking for skilled labor that’s in short supply, this time it’s that the industries most desperate for workers are the ones whose business models depend almost entirely upon a nearly unlimited source of unskilled labor to exploit for as little expenditure as possible.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 23, 2021 • 2:00:13am

re: #69 Targetpractice

industries most desperate for workers are the ones whose business models depend almost entirely upon a nearly unlimited source of unskilled labor to exploit for as little expenditure as possible.

agriculture, food processing, food service, hotel and domestic services, landscaping, laundry services, car washes, gardening, construction….the list goes on and on.

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Ming5000  May 23, 2021 • 2:25:33am
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Dread Pirate Ron  May 23, 2021 • 3:27:35am

My wife bought some bamboo reusable paper towels. Wash them and use them again and again. They feel like cotton and are almost as rugged as a towel. It will certainly reduce our use of paper towels.

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Dopamine Fish  May 23, 2021 • 3:30:06am

re: #72 Dread Pirate Ron

My wife bought some bamboo reusable paper towels. Wash them and use them again and again. They feel like cotton and are almost as rugged as a towel. It will certainly reduce our use of paper towels.

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Bamboo, you say? You must be in on the conspiracy…

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William Lewis  May 23, 2021 • 3:31:44am

re: #72 Dread Pirate Ron

My most common use for paper towels is between a plate and bacon in my microwave. I wonder how they’d hold up to that abuse and grease?

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 23, 2021 • 3:34:04am

re: #74 William Lewis

My most common use for paper towels is between a plate and bacon in my microwave. I wonder how they’d hold up to that abuse and grease?

I finally broke down and got a bacon tray for the microwave. I used to sandwich bacon in layers of paper towels and wasted about 6 feet of paper towels at a time.

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Dr Lizardo  May 23, 2021 • 3:41:43am

re: #35 Dread Pirate Ron

It’s cool, but the downside I can see to that is - aside from power failure - that having a dedicated track, like a traditional tram, means it’s removed from road traffic. Around these parts, I can all but guarantee that Czech drivers would use that tram lane as an auxiliary traffic lane. 😑

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Dangerman  May 23, 2021 • 3:46:03am
U.S. District Court judge in Florida has ordered Jason Miller, a spokesperson for former President Trump, to pay G/O Media 42,000 in legal expenses,” the Daily Beast reports.

“This comes after a federal appeals court rejected his second $100 million defamation suit against G/O, the parent company of Gizmodo, Jezebel, and other websites

eta: “The judge found Gizmodo accurately reported a court filing alleging Miller slipped an abortion pill into a woman’s smoothie”

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Barefoot Grin  May 23, 2021 • 3:47:29am

re: #77 Dangerman

And he was juuuuust about to start those child support payments. //

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steve_davis  May 23, 2021 • 3:53:03am

re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron

I finally broke down and got a bacon tray for the microwave. I used to sandwich bacon in layers of paper towels and wasted about 6 feet of paper towels at a time.

do ‘em low and slow in a pan on the oven. if the bacon is decent to start with, you get delicious little strips of ham out of it.

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Dread Pirate Ron  May 23, 2021 • 3:57:17am

re: #79 steve_davis

do ‘em low and slow in a pan on the oven. if the bacon is decent to start with, you get delicious little strips of ham out of it.

I had a workmate that bought the trimmings/ends from making the bacon slices and would bake them in the oven in a big aluminum pan for breakfast for us at work.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 23, 2021 • 4:32:00am

re: #72 Dread Pirate Ron

My wife bought some bamboo reusable paper towels. Wash them and use them again and again. They feel like cotton and are almost as rugged as a towel. It will certainly reduce our use of paper towels.

My kids are big into bamboo toothbrushes

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 23, 2021 • 4:35:21am

re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron

I have one, and they are great.

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Barefoot Grin  May 23, 2021 • 4:58:19am

And/or getting stuck in a chimney?

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mmmirele  May 23, 2021 • 5:06:20am

]re: #63 mmmirele

I got rousted out of bed for a false alarm and I swear, I am going to quit if this is going to keep happening. Life is too short to be dragged out of bed because an alarm is that badly configured. Not just that, the manager over me who responded is dead tired and babbling and driving me nuts. Finally, my cat got all excited about voices, wanted attention, clawed my leg and I said FUCK! on an open line.

I got rousted out of bed AGAIN for another issue that is (a) over and (b) was in the middle of a patching cycle where (c) an outage was expected.

I’m just going to say that it is completely ridiculous to yank people out of a dead sleep and expect us to be operating on all cylinders. It’s not going to happen. I’m next to incandescent. This was someone’s bright idea to have a “rapid response” team, and all that has happened is that thirty or forty people join a line and there’s not enough information to figure out what is going on.

Back to cleaning up after this cluster****. I’m furious.

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garzooma  May 23, 2021 • 5:13:38am

re: #58 Patricia Kayden

I don’t understand this whole “Covid came from a lab” conspiracy. So what? We still have to deal with it regardless of where it came from. Republicans are weird.

Well, if it had come from a Pfizer or J&J lab, we’d be talking about suing them into oblivion.

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jeffreyw  May 23, 2021 • 5:15:05am

Good morning!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 23, 2021 • 5:20:54am

re: #84 mmmirele

When I was working in SAP support and sort of specialized in security one of our contractors was wondering why I wasn’t pursuing working on the direct admin side of SAP rather than the relatively niche place I was in.*

I responded “Security analysts don’t get calls at 1am on weekends.”

He just nodded in agreement.

* - Now for a long-term career move this might have not been the right decision. But this was something I was transitioning into in my mid-40s and would be doing in addition to some of my current support work with SQL databases and transportation apps.

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steve_davis  May 23, 2021 • 5:33:43am

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

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times have changed. when I was that age, I was in my own room with the lights out. It was like from 7 in the evening until 7 the next morning. I finally learned how to read just so I’d have something to do for the 3 hours until the sun went down!

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Barefoot Grin  May 23, 2021 • 5:58:23am

jeebus…

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ipsos  May 23, 2021 • 6:04:08am

No Meet the Press today! How am I going to learn what Chuck Todd’s favorite Republicans think, and what milquetoast conversations won’t get to be cut short by a “we’ll have to end it right there”?

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Dr Lizardo  May 23, 2021 • 6:07:08am

re: #89 Barefoot Grin

That’s some straight-up air piracy.

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mmmirele  May 23, 2021 • 6:12:46am

re: #87 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Well, this wasn’t part of the deal when I took this job two years ago. The job itself has changed with the pressures being put on us by the suits.

That said, this particular incident was completely self-inflicted.

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I told my dotted line manager after this was over that management really needed to consider hiring an overnight/weekend team of channel managers, because expecting people to roll out of bed and be competent and completely up to date on the issue within five minutes is just nuts.

I’m going to try and get some sleep. I am at least out of on call because I swapped Sundays with another person and I worked last Sunday.

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Dr Lizardo  May 23, 2021 • 6:23:25am

Sorry for the source - The Daily Mail - but there’s been a cablecar disaster in Italy, leaving at nine dead.

Eight people have died after a mountaintop cable car plunged to the ground in northern Italy, as two children are airlifted to hospital.

The cable car fell near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region on May 23.

Italy’s Alpine rescue service have said another three people have been taken to hospital and two are seriously injured.

Amazingly, there are survivors, on their way to hospital.

dailymail.co.uk

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JOE 🥓  May 23, 2021 • 6:26:51am

re: #90 ipsos

No Meet the Press today! How am I going to learn what Chuck Todd’s favorite Republicans think, and what milquetoast conversations won’t get to be cut short by a “we’ll have to end it right there”?

It hasn’t been Press the Meat day on my TV for over 30 years.

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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 6:30:40am

CBS Sunday Morning is talking about people moving because they no longer have to work from home. Boise, Idaho is seeing housing go up 23% and some commuting is taking an hour. A house in Austin was up for nearly $450k and the buyer gave an additional $300k towards the seller’s next house.

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JOE 🥓  May 23, 2021 • 6:42:28am

re: #95 Belafon

Meanwhile just try to buy a house in the part of Los Angeles where I live where the median price is over a million dollars for a Sears Craftsman that gets torn down and replaced…

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Dr Lizardo  May 23, 2021 • 6:48:26am

re: #96 🌹UOJB!

Meanwhile just try to buy a house in the part of Los Angeles where I live where the median price is over a million dollars for a Sears Craftsman that gets torn down and replaced…

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darthstar  May 23, 2021 • 6:56:52am

Mornin’ everyone…so, it looks like Judge Box of Wine is a fairly well established nickname now.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 23, 2021 • 7:01:13am

re: #95 Belafon

The price rise in real estate was noticeable all during the pandemic and coming out of it I expect any city which is seeing a growing population to sustain that.

The real estate industry is loathe to roll back prices.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 23, 2021 • 7:02:36am

The financial separation between city and rural America is going to grow and this will continue the political divisions.

Which means the anti-democratic nature of the Senate is going to become ever more poignant.

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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 7:04:41am
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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 7:06:09am
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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 7:07:37am
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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 7:09:23am
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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 7:11:06am

If our Republican leadership here in Texas weren’t asses, they would have pop-up clinics all over the state:

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A Mom Anon  May 23, 2021 • 7:15:50am

re: #99 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We want to sell our house. But, to do that we need to find affordable housing somewhere else. We would likely make about 100K or so in profit in this market, it’s the land that’s worth money. Our house has been remodeled, but some of that has to be updated again to become a house that wouldn’t be torn down. We’re only doing essential/mechanical stuff now. Unless we could find a place that we could pay for in cash, it doesn’t make sense to move. Our mortgage and HELOC combined are less than 1400 a month, we can’t even rent a crappy apartment here for that much. Plus we have a big dog who isn’t social, we’d be thrown out of a rental in a week.

Then we also have to consider my husband and his disability and living on SSDI and what little savings we have. Who would finance a mortgage to us? Even with excellent credit? I want to downsize, what we’re doing isn’t sustainable over the long haul as we get older. But leaving isn’t an option either. We have to be near major hospitals because of husband’s health.

Winning the lottery or having some unknown relative leave us a fortune is really the only way I can see this happening. So much for any kind of upward or just plain mobility.

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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 7:40:15am

Cool science stuff of a pretty high resolution atomic-level image of a crystal: m.dailykos.com

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PhillyPretzel  May 23, 2021 • 7:43:26am

re: #107 Belafon

Very cool.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 23, 2021 • 7:44:30am

re: #106 A Mom Anon

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Dr Lizardo  May 23, 2021 • 7:50:07am

Looks like some undemocratic shenanigans are afoot in Somoa:

Samoa has plunged into fresh political turmoil after its head of state abruptly cancelled a parliamentary session expected to confirm the Pacific nation’s first change of government in almost 40 years.

Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II’s order late on Saturday came two days before Samoa’s newly elected parliament was set to convene and swear in opposition FAST Party leader Fiame Naomi Mata’afa as the country’s first female prime minister.

In a brief proclamation posted on Facebook, Sualauvi said he was suspending parliament “until such time as to be announced and for reasons that I will make known in due course”.

FAST said it would petition the Supreme Court to overturn the order on Sunday.

aljazeera.com

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2021 • 7:51:45am

re: #105 Belafon

Arapahoe Basin did a ski-in ski-out vaccine clinic last Sunday, they gave out J&J shots. Everyone who got a shot got a free bloody mary, draft beer, or soda at the 6th Alley Bar & Grill. One guy flew out from Los Angeles to “be a part of it.”

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A Mom Anon  May 23, 2021 • 8:01:12am

re: #109 The Pie Overlord!

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jaunte  May 23, 2021 • 8:02:47am

The boats are reserved for GOP Tough On Border performances.

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JOE 🥓  May 23, 2021 • 8:04:50am

ABC host corners ‘unrealistic’ Susan Collins for opposing Jan. 6 commission that she ‘strongly’ supports

Once again the only Collins Barnabas wouldn’t sink his fangs into shows her slavish devotion to Moscow Mitch.

I’m shocked that George Snuffleuffagus didn’t give Lucy her usual pass!

alternet.org

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 23, 2021 • 8:09:34am

re: #113 jaunte

The boats are reserved for GOP Tough On Border performances.

Translation: We don’t give a shit about dead Mexicans. Go away.

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darthstar  May 23, 2021 • 8:19:20am

Looks like Shaun King has graduated from skimming from gofundme accounts he opens “to help other people” to good old fashioned campaign money laundering.

The whole thread is good.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 23, 2021 • 8:23:05am

re: #86 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

Another sidewalk, another crack…
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 23, 2021 • 8:27:33am

re: #93 Dr Lizardo

Sorry for the source - The Daily Mail - but there’s been a cablecar disaster in Italy, leaving at nine dead.

Amazingly, there are survivors, on their way to hospital.

dailymail.co.uk

Thirteen dead, according to La Reppublica (haven’t read past the headline yet).

ETA: It appears that two children are the only survivors, and they’re in very grave condition.

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A Cranky One  May 23, 2021 • 8:28:14am

re: #117 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

What are you doing about the crack in the sidewalk?

Dude, that’s where I keep my weed.

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Dr Lizardo  May 23, 2021 • 8:29:09am

re: #118 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Thirteen dead, according to La Reppublica (haven’t read past the headline yet).

What a disaster.

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PhillyPretzel  May 23, 2021 • 8:29:42am

re: #117 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Now that is something I have too. I have plenty of weeds popping up like that.

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2021 • 8:33:55am

Appeal denied.

Hello,

Your account has been suspended and will not be restored because it was found to be violating Twitter’s Terms of Service, specifically the Twitter Rules against hateful conduct.

It is against our rules to promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.

Additionally, if we determine that the primary purpose of an account is to incite harm towards others on the basis of these categories, that account may be suspended without prior warning.

You can learn more about our policy against hateful conduct here: help.twitter.com.

Thanks,

Twitter

They did a three strikes thing with me. I had gotten two two-week suspensions prior: One for calling an insane MAGAt lady the c-word and one for replying to Mike Pompeo with a picture of two naked old dudes standing on top of a mountain. The third and final straw I told Matt Gaetz he’s a rapist who needed to be castrated.

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jaunte  May 23, 2021 • 8:37:29am
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jaunte  May 23, 2021 • 8:38:20am

re: #122 teleskiguy

two naked old dudes standing on top of a mountain

Seems innocuous.

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JOE 🥓  May 23, 2021 • 8:41:45am

re: #122 teleskiguy

While @jerk allows my relatives to post racial slurs with impunity…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 23, 2021 • 8:42:55am

re: #122 teleskiguy

I’m jealous . I replied to one of her asinine tweets with the suggestion she drink some bleach & shove a 1KW UV lamp up her ass & didn’t even get a twitch out of them.

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JOE 🥓  May 23, 2021 • 8:44:28am
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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 8:44:50am

re: #126 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I’m jealous . I replied to one of her asinine tweets with the suggestion she drink some bleach & shove a 1KW UV lamp up her ass & didn’t even get a twitch out of them.

That’s just a cure for covid.

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2021 • 8:47:59am

re: #124 jaunte

Seems innocuous.

I thought so. That one took weeks for Twitter brass to notice as it was mass reported by MAGAts later.

The Matt Gaetz tweet, it was damn near instantaneous. I sent the tweet and the ban hammer came a few minutes later.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 23, 2021 • 8:48:23am

re: #128 Belafon

That’s just a cure for covid.

True.

/////

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 23, 2021 • 8:49:31am

re: #123 jaunte

Wow. How the fuck is that NOT satire?!

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jaunte  May 23, 2021 • 8:51:33am

re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg

The Ozarks Family Values Gang does seem like a description of the Missouri GOP written by a satirist.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  May 23, 2021 • 8:51:53am

re: #126 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I’m jealous . I replied to one of her asinine tweets with the suggestion she drink some bleach & shove a 1KW UV lamp up her ass & didn’t even get a twitch out of them.

Well, if the President suggested it with impunity, it’s hard to hit anyone else for it.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  May 23, 2021 • 9:02:43am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 23, 2021 • 9:05:55am

re: #134 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

People don’t want to get vaccinated and learn the hard way? Fine by me.

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PhillyPretzel  May 23, 2021 • 9:06:04am

re: #134 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

And I just got my first Pfizer shot yesterday. My shoulder still hurts, and my stomach is upset. I really hate being a guinea pig.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 23, 2021 • 9:09:38am
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PhillyPretzel  May 23, 2021 • 9:10:59am

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thanks Sen Kaine. :)

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2021 • 9:11:02am

There’s a Kum & Go in town here. Open 24 hours. There’s a lot of Kum & Gos in western Colorado.

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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 9:11:59am

re: #136 PhillyPretzel

And I just got my first Pfizer shot yesterday. My shoulder still hurts, and my stomach is upset. I really hate being a guinea pig.

A guinea pig? There have already been millions of trials before you.

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PhillyPretzel  May 23, 2021 • 9:12:17am

re: #139 teleskiguy

At least they have a sense of humor.

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danarchy  May 23, 2021 • 9:13:00am

re: #72 Dread Pirate Ron

My wife bought some bamboo reusable paper towels. Wash them and use them again and again. They feel like cotton and are almost as rugged as a towel. It will certainly reduce our use of paper towels.

[Embedded content]

Interesting idea, But I already have plenty of kitchen rags I can do this with, I use paper towels for the convenience.

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PhillyPretzel  May 23, 2021 • 9:13:13am

re: #140 Belafon

Yes I know but I still feel like I am part of a huge science experiment.

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Teddy's Person  May 23, 2021 • 9:16:03am

😁😁

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A Cranky One  May 23, 2021 • 9:20:21am

re: #143 PhillyPretzel

Yes I know but I still feel like I am part of a huge science experiment.

You are, but not necessarily in ways you recognize.

We’re flooding our environment with electromagnetic radiation. Is it harmful (and I’m not suggesting it is)? We’ll find out.

If we increase the global temperature and CO2 levels, how will that affect us and the planet?

What is the impact of all the plastics (especially microplastics) on living creatures and the environment?

We’re all part of multiple science experiments.

Sorry, I’m cranky today. Hmmm…and apparently redundant

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Belafon  May 23, 2021 • 9:25:44am

re: #143 PhillyPretzel

Yes I know but I still feel like I am part of a huge science experiment.

Sorry, it just reminds me of the people around me who are refusing to get the vaccine because it might not be safe or we don’t know the long term consequences or other crap like that.

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teleskiguy  May 23, 2021 • 9:25:51am

Twitter used to be different.

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danarchy  May 23, 2021 • 9:26:57am

re: #145 A Cranky One

You are, but not necessarily in ways you recognize.

We’re flooding our environment with electromagnetic radiation. Is it harmful (and I’m not suggesting it is)? We’ll find out.

Sorry, I’m cranky today. Hmmm…and apparently redundant

We have found out. even suggesting we still need to gather more data on this is ridiculous. non-ionizing radiation is not harmful, it is all around us occurring naturally. If you stood right in front of a very high energy source it could potentially burn you, but that’s it.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 23, 2021 • 9:32:23am

Watch until the very end:

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A Mom Anon  May 23, 2021 • 9:36:14am

re: #149 The Pie Overlord!

I laughed and scared the hell out of Cleo. LOL.

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A Cranky One  May 23, 2021 • 9:36:35am

re: #148 danarchy

We have found out. even suggesting we still need to gather more data on this is ridiculous. non-ionizing radiation is not harmful, it is all around us occurring naturally. If you stood right in front of a very high energy source it could potentially burn you, but that’s it.

Oh I agree, I’ve not seen any real evidence of harm. But my point was we didn’t know that when we started emitting all over the spectrum. So a science experiment.

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PhillyPretzel  May 23, 2021 • 9:37:09am

re: #149 The Pie Overlord!

That was cute and funny. Thanks.

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Teddy's Person  May 23, 2021 • 9:38:08am

re: #150 A Mom Anon

I laughed and scared the hell out of Cleo. LOL.

It’s funny (odd funny, not ha ha funny) what scares our furry friends. Teddy is terrified of my sneezes.

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A Mom Anon  May 23, 2021 • 9:41:32am

re: #153 Teddy’s Person

She was about half asleep and she totally startled. Almost fell off the couch. Which made me laugh harder. She’s now giving me serious side eye.

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JC1  May 23, 2021 • 9:44:53am

re: #89 Barefoot Grin

jeebus…

There’s no way this ends well for the regime in Minsk. Not even China would pull this shit.

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Sufficient unto the day...  May 23, 2021 • 9:45:34am

re: #149 The Pie Overlord!

That seems to be an entire genre of videos now. And I love every one of them.

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danarchy  May 23, 2021 • 9:45:42am

re: #153 Teddy’s Person

It’s funny (odd funny, not ha ha funny) what scares our furry friends. Teddy is terrified of my sneezes.

The beeping sound my smoke detectors make when they need the batteries replaced will literally make my dog shake like a leaf and drool all over the place until I replace it. Even though it only beeps once every couple minutes,

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JC1  May 23, 2021 • 9:45:56am

re: #93 Dr Lizardo

Sorry for the source - The Daily Mail - but there’s been a cablecar disaster in Italy, leaving at nine dead.

Amazingly, there are survivors, on their way to hospital.

dailymail.co.uk

Any US jets in the area?

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plansbandc  May 23, 2021 • 10:06:29am

re: #150 A Mom Anon

Sittin’ here getting the fat bitch on. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

And the ending was perfect. :D

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darthstar  May 23, 2021 • 10:08:32am

re: #147 teleskiguy

Twitter used to be different.

Twitter used to be better.

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Dr Lizardo  May 23, 2021 • 10:11:20am

re: #158 JC1

Any US jets in the area?

That was my first thought as well. Apparently not in this case, however.

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darthstar  May 23, 2021 • 10:16:27am

re: #160 darthstar

Twitter used to be better.

Dear god I followed that Kris Jenner tweet and the Kardashian tweets are so fucking vapid I feel stupider for having seen them.

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darthstar  May 23, 2021 • 10:20:45am

BREAKING: Ivanka is a shitty liar.

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jaunte  May 23, 2021 • 10:23:40am
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PhillyPretzel  May 23, 2021 • 10:30:38am

re: #164 jaunte

It would be a nightmare to have all flights stopped in Russia so they could take anyone off the plane who criticizes their gov’t.

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ericblair  May 23, 2021 • 10:35:39am

re: #165 PhillyPretzel

It would be a nightmare to have all flights stopped in Russia so they could take anyone off the plane who criticizes their gov’t.

Russia makes a lot of free money on overflight rights from Europe and western North America to Asia. It would be really stupid to fuck that up, but hey, Putin is happy to do stupid shit as long as it hurts the West, so who knows.


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