Stories, Ft. Dodie: “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” (Olivia Rodrigo Stripped-Down Cover)

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A stripped-down, acoustic cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s “1 step forward, 3 steps back” by stories and dodie.

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Welcome to stories - we make stripped-down covers with a rotating cast of singers and musicians. Brought to you by the team behind Scary Pockets. New videos every Friday.

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CREDITS
Vocals: dodie
Guitar: Ryan Lerman
Guitar: George Krikes
Harmonium: William Gramling
Bass: Sean Hurley
Percussion: Kiel Feher

Executive Producer: Seth Kaplan
Audio: Justin Glasco
Production: Philip Etherington
Assistant Engineer: Nicole Schmidt
DP: Dijon Herron
Camera: Charlie Weinmann
Editor: Adam Kritzberg
Socials: December Savage-Brown

Produced By Ryan Lerman
Recorded at The Village Studios in Los Angeles, CA

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218 comments
1
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 10:40:35am

Hurricane Roslyn is making landfall now in west-central Mexico, in the State of Nayarit to the northwest of Guadalajara. The central windspeed was 105kt (Category 3).

The forecasting track has not changed: Hurricane Roslyn should move rapidly toward the NNE or NE and weaken to a tropical storm over the mountains of Mexico today. The storm should dissipate as a tropical system by tomorrow near the Texas border.

According to the Weather Prediction Center, tomorrow the areas of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas which are in extreme drought should get heavy rain with a potential for flash floods, while southeast Texas is predicted to have severe thunderstorms.

Day after tomorrow, the remnant low of Roslyn will have moved into Arkansas, with severe thunderstorms across Mississippi and rain stretching from northern Ontario to eastern Oklahoma, Georgia, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Weather Prediction Center Three Day Surface Analysis

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 10:49:10am

Nahre is back, with 10 more composers:

Youtube Video



..

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 23, 2022 • 10:50:28am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 10:52:07am
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A Cranky One  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:02:10am

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:02:59am
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jaunte  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:04:30am

re: #5 A Cranky One

Truly non-fungible tokens NEVER get released.

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:05:05am

YOU SHALL NOT PASS THEM

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:07:46am

Looks like the sorryantivaxxer website may be winding down given the dramatic plunge in deaths after the first quarter of this year. Widespread publicity in the MSM still surrounds each case among the well-known vaccinated but so far none have experienced serious symptoms. It does appear that the newer variants, though possibly still twice or 3 x as lethal as a bad flu year, are no longer causing any concern among the public and are definitely much milder versions. We will have to see what the winter brings, but so far it does appear that there is nothing on the horizon that will pose a significant additional threat.

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BigPapa  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:10:05am

Fungible sounds a lot like fungus and I love fungus. Not the toe nail kind, the shroomy kind.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:12:39am
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Patricia Kayden  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:13:05am
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jaunte  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:13:42am

re: #12 Patricia Kayden

Lawyer as an item of decor.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:14:35am

This is what I’ll join as soon as Musk takes over Twitter.

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BigPapa  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:16:20am

re: #13 jaunte

Lawyer as an item of decor.

‘spokeslawyer’

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:19:31am

I was gonna save this for niterz, but I just can’t wait…

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:22:41am

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wow. That was incredible. A saber dance with a twist.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:24:08am

re: #14 Patricia Kayden

This is what I’ll join as soon as Musk takes over Twitter.

[Embedded content]

TribelSocial vs CounterSocial? Anyone know which is likely to prove better? Neither can probably handle an influx of millions of new users.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:25:05am

Sigh

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William Lewis  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:26:29am

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was gonna save this for niterz, but I just can’t wait…

Raiders of the Lost Ark (3/10) Movie CLIP - Sword vs. Gun (1981) HD

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:27:02am

Adi Dassler joined the Nazi Party three months after Hitler was appointed chancellor.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:27:13am

LOL (0:59)

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:29:44am

re: #20 William Lewis

Nothing beats one shot center of mass.

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A Cranky One  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:31:50am

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JC1  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:32:59am

re: #14 Patricia Kayden

This is what I’ll join as soon as Musk takes over Twitter.

[Embedded content]

Same owner as occupydemocrats; I probably trust elon more than that guy.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:33:58am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:34:20am
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JC1  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:35:55am

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was gonna save this for niterz, but I just can’t wait…

[Embedded content]

Jesse Jane McParland with LASER at Britains Got Talent 2015

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:38:46am

re: #25 JC1

Dang it!! I’m looking for a Twitter alternative. I can already tell what it is going to become once Musk takes over. Trump’s return will be devastating.

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:38:49am

re: #26 Patricia Kayden

I had to listen to that twice, the question and answer were so disconnected. I doubt if Tudor Dixon or anyone who’s voting for her have any thoughts at all about Iran.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:39:49am

(3:54)

Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Official Video)

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:40:16am
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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:42:19am

re: #25 JC1

Same owner as occupydemocrats; I probably trust elon more than that guy.

I was about to say that. And the unfortunate fact is that none of the current alternatives come close to Twitter in terms of pure functionality.

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JC1  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:43:11am

re: #29 Patricia Kayden

Dang it!! I’m looking for a Twitter alternative. I can already tell what it is going to become once Musk takes over. Trump’s return will be devastating.

Just block him.

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jaunte  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:44:30am

re: #29 Patricia Kayden

If Musk actually lays off as many people as he’s talking about, he’ll blow it all up even without Trump.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:45:14am
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jaunte  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:45:36am

A social media site run by and populated by AI.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:49:27am
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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:55:01am

Todays Sunday fun has been exploring all the bells and whistles in our new Subaru. I can hook my Android phone to it to make calls and run any apps I have on my phone. So my maps and such can be controlled by the vehicle system and displayed on the console screen. Voice command works well using the mic button on the steering wheel. So far my wife’s favorite thing is the heated seats.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:55:58am

re: #37 jaunte

A social media site run by and populated by AI.

I read “populated by Al” and wondered who Al was. Those two letters are almost identical on my computer. Perhaps a serif font would help.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:56:46am

re: #39 Eventual Carrion

Also check out the NWS weather band. My late dad when he had his Forrester liked the instant weather.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:56:48am

re: #39 Eventual Carrion

Todays Sunday fun has been exploring all the bells and whistles in our new Subaru. I can hook my Android phone to it to make calls and run any apps I have on my phone. So my maps and such can be controlled by the vehicle system and displayed on the console screen. Voice command works well using the mic button on the steering wheel. So far my wife’s favorite thing is the heated seats.

Does your Subaru leave you time to watch the road? /s

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:57:56am

re: #20 William Lewis

I like this variation:

The Punisher knife to a gunfight

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:58:18am

re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I read “populated by Al” and wondered who Al was. Those two letters are almost identical on my computer. Perhaps a serif font would help.

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 11:58:51am

re: #14 Patricia Kayden

The problem with alternatives is that they are going to be ideological stove-pipes.

Twitter makes money off of companies using their info and website to promote things.

Any so-called alternative, if it targets too fractionated of the populace, will not be as attractive.

So even if Musk does end up buying Twitter, the corporations will still want to use it because of its size.

Money makes the world go ‘round, and a Trump-allowing, Musk-owning, Twitter will be high engagement, and companies will like that.

Just like media corporations such as Comcast, WBD, etc. love Trump. He makes them money.

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wrenchwench  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:04:06pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Video

Thanks, Betty. That’s one of my favorite videos.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:05:23pm

re: #37 jaunte

A social media site run by and populated by AI.

I put your comment into the AI and it answered with this:

I think it is laughing at us.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:06:03pm

re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Why didn’t the image load?

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:06:18pm

I got all of my Sunday chores done. Laundry, weekly trash, weekly grocery all done. :)

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:06:21pm

re: #18 Hecuba’s daughter

TribelSocial vs CounterSocial? Anyone know which is likely to prove better? Neither can probably handle an influx of millions of new users.

I’m on CounterSocial already, also on MeWe. Don’t spend a lot of time on them but was looking for something other than Twitter and FacePlant. Never heard of that TribalSocial until today.

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:07:02pm

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Donald Trump is too much of a coward to obey a subpoena from the U.S. Congress compelling him to testify to a special committee investigating his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, Reuters reports.

Said Pelosi: “I don’t think he’s man enough to show up.”

;-)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:07:07pm

For some reason the image can be uploaded but not seen.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:08:23pm

Let’s try a different image and see if it uploads:

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wrenchwench  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:08:33pm

re: #52 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

For some reason the image can be uploaded but not seen.

I see it. Sometimes what doesn’t show up in Preview comes out fine.

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:09:02pm

I realize now, two years later, all of the January 6 insurrection, leads me to the conclusion that he’s not just the wrong man for the job, but he’s dangerous, and he is a threat to democracy, and he’s a threat to the presidency, because he doesn’t understand the core obligations that come with that office.”

— Bob Woodward, talking to CBS News about Donald Trump.

The ital part?
No that’s not why he’s a threat

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:09:18pm

re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The AI is not a good speller.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:09:34pm

re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So that is fine. I wonder why my other image is not visible?

re: #54 wrenchwench

That’s odd. I can’t see the image in spy, or as a separate tab.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:09:35pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:09:39pm

re: #51 Dangerman

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Donald Trump is too much of a coward to obey a subpoena from the U.S. Congress compelling him to testify to a special committee investigating his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, Reuters reports.

Said Pelosi: “I don’t think he’s man enough to show up.”

;-)

Trolling trolling trolling… .

Challenging his bravery and manhood might get him to do it. Live testimony from him would be the Pay per View for the ages.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:09:57pm

re: #56 PhillyPretzel

The AI is not a good speller.

Maybe someone put it in wingnut mode?

/

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:09:57pm

re: #56 PhillyPretzel

The AI is not a good speller.

It’s an artistic interpretation of the name.

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:10:24pm

Also on wapo

Bob Woodward: “In more than 50 years of reporting, I have never disclosed the raw interviews or full transcripts of my work. But after listening again to the 20 interviews I conducted with President Donald Trump during his last year as chief executive, I have decided to take the unusual step of releasing them. I was struck by how Trump pounded in my ears in a way the printed page cannot capture.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:10:58pm

re: #57 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So that is fine. I wonder why my other image is not visible?

That’s odd. I can’t see the image in spy, or as a separate tab.

I can see both images.

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:11:31pm

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trolling trolling trolling… .

Challenging his bravery and manhood might get him to do it. Live testimony from him would be the Pay per View for the ages.

She knows the game so much better than he does

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:12:38pm

re: #50 Eventual Carrion

How are you finding CounterSocial? Any good?

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:13:05pm

re: #62 Dangerman

Also on wapo

And now there’s this

What a moronic pig

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:13:26pm

re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I can see both images.

Hmmm.. I can’t.

This is odd.

Let me try to upload it again:

It’s so very odd.

The LGF Image Viewer won’t even show me the image when I look at the Image Library. It’s just blank.

This is peculiar.

I think the LGF-AI is laughing at me too.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:13:43pm

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trolling trolling trolling… .

Challenging his bravery and manhood might get him to do it. Live testimony from him would be the Pay per View for the ages.

The committee does not want live testimony because it’s useless except as entertainment. They want him to testify under oath and answer their questions. If it’s live, Trump will ignore their questions and just go on a tirade

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:13:44pm

re: #66 Dangerman

And now there’s this

What a moronic pig

[Embedded content]

“I’ve timed my lawsuit for two weeks because extensive research shows that’s the amount of time it takes to forget I ever said this”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:16:36pm

re: #50 Eventual Carrion

I’m on CounterSocial already, also on MeWe. Don’t spend a lot of time on them but was looking for something other than Twitter and FacePlant. Never heard of that TribalSocial until today.

I’m on CounterSocial, too. So is darth (iirc) and a few others.
It’s not twitter but it’s not a cesspool either.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:16:45pm

re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Let’s try a different image and see if it uploads:

[Embedded content]

I see all of these images on this end.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:16:48pm

re: #41 PhillyPretzel

Also check out the NWS weather band. My late dad when he had his Forrester liked the instant weather.

Yes, I have that on the cars app. I can hit the icon and it gives local temps and forecast. Will be handy.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:17:24pm

re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Does your Subaru leave you time to watch the road? /s

No, but I’ll just drive faster so there will be less time for anything bad to happen.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:18:03pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

I see all of these images on this end.

I have no idea why I can’t see that particular image. Even in the Image Library it is blank.

I’ll try another browser.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:19:02pm

re: #55 Dangerman

I realize now, two years later, all of the January 6 insurrection, leads me to the conclusion that he’s not just the wrong man for the job, but he’s dangerous, and he is a threat to democracy, and he’s a threat to the presidency, because he doesn’t understand the core obligations that come with that office.”

— Bob Woodward, talking to CBS News about Donald Trump.

The ital part?
No that’s not why he’s a threat

My personal opinion is that Trump is a lot less of a threat than one of the two major US political parties deciding to (a) Let Trump simply do all the stuff he did without a serious attempt to curb it. (b) Take a serious run at completely undermining all the checks and balances that a democracy needs to keep running without descending into an authoritarian hellhole. (c) Continue to, as a party, to reverse the legislation and judicial decisions made to advance and protect individual rights in the past couple centuries.

Without the GOP putting power (and gaining more) ahead of everything else Trump would have been a quick aberration. He would have been warned pretty quickly to back off. And if Trump hadn’t there was already a lot there a few months into his term that would have allowed Trump to be impeached and then they would have had Pence to work with.*

Now how the GOP would have weathered the following internal storm might be up for question. But, as many say, Trump is a symptom of the widespread rot in the party, not the cause of it.

* - At some point the rabid base needs to be challenged by the GOP if they plan to survive in a democracy. It looks like their choice to date has been to scuttle the democracy.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:21:28pm

Firefox shows the image. Chrome does not.

How very odd.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:22:20pm

re: #76 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Firefox shows the image. Chrome does not.

How very odd.

I am running Chrome and seeing them just fine.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:23:39pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m on CounterSocial, too. So is darth (iirc) and a few others.
It’s not twitter but it’s not a cesspool either.

I just did my own research this morning. According to one article, the people who use it like it; but there are a large group who give it low ratings because the mechanism for registering their application for an account failed and they couldn’t sign up. It does appear that the site probably could not handle the volume of new users that may flock there when Twitter becomes even more of a cesspool than it currently is — Twitter will morph into the new Truth Social platform.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:25:41pm

Let’s see if Chrome will show the image as a tweet:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:26:26pm

As a tweet the image shows fine.

So the behavior with Chrome and the Image Library is really odd.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:28:34pm

Journal of Family and Marriage, July 30, 2022, abstract of a study showing single men’s desire to become fathers over the period 2000-2022.

The study claims that a sharp decline in interest in fathering children occurs over the period. This coincides with single men caring less about employment benefits such as maternity leave.

The study implies that this could have implication for women’s employment rights down the line in the workplace and politics.

An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:29:13pm

re: #78 Hecuba’s daughter

I just did my own research this morning. According to one article, the people who use it like it; but there are a large group who give it low ratings because the mechanism for registering their application for an account failed and they couldn’t sign up. It does appear that the site probably could not handle the volume of new users that may flock there when Twitter becomes even more of a cesspool than it currently is — Twitter will morph into the new Truth Social platform.

there were some hiccups with the server handling all the new registrations when I signed up during the first elon twitter threat. But the server was beefed up so I expect the same will happen with the next huge influx. Tribel will have the same growing pains.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:32:21pm

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wonder how much the fact that kids are fucking expensive is playing in to those numbers.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:33:52pm

re: #65 Patricia Kayden

How are you finding CounterSocial? Any good?

Like I said, I haven’t really used them much so still don’t have much of an opinion. So far doesn’t seem toxic, but maybe I just never looked in the right places.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:34:27pm

Musk does not yet own Twitter. He said he’ll agree to the original offer.

Elon Musk Twitter saga could draw to end as deadline looms

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:36:10pm

My initial reaction is that these parents should have been more involved in their children’s online schooling instead of expecting it would be the same sort of “leave it to the teachers to handle”. And also expect the children to put in the full learning hours they would have if at in-person school.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:37:50pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

what I mean is: when done correctly, home schooling and online school aren’t easy.

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wrenchwench  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:40:22pm

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Journal of Family and Marriage, July 30, 2022, abstract of a study showing single men’s desire to become fathers over the period 2000-2022.

The study claims that a sharp decline in interest in fathering children occurs over the period. This coincides with single men caring less about employment benefits such as maternity leave.

The study implies that this could have implication for women’s employment rights down the line in the workplace and politics.

An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report

There is a big difference between not wanting your own children and not wanting to support children and their parents generally. I took a little look for a comparison between the attitudes of potential fathers to potential mothers. The thing in their sidebar about the gender gap is from 2007. A generation old.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:41:01pm

re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Hmmm.. I can’t.

This is odd.

Let me try to upload it again:

[Embedded content]

It’s so very odd.

The LGF Image Viewer won’t even show me the image when I look at the Image Library. It’s just blank.

This is peculiar.

I think the LGF-AI is laughing at me too.

I have a problem when previewing a picture I put on a post. It will open the pic (verbiage shows as “External Image” link) and then I have no way of closing it. If I hit the back icon in the browser it takes me to the previous thread. I then have to go back to the current thread I wanted to post the comment and picture in. If I don’t click the “External Image” hot link it posts the picture fine in the comment.

Windows 10 Pro, OS build 19044.2130 and Chrome Version 106.0.5249.119 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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mmmirele  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:41:08pm

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You can use “temple of capitalism.” It’s really not original with me.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:43:03pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

As much as home-schooling is often a tool for religious cults, the reality remains that children who have parents who are highly involved in their child’s education do better.

This is how status, privilege, and education is propagated. The children in some significant sense reflect the parents.

And this is why public education is so important in having a populace who can function, to keep the society from being run by an elite minority.

We are falling back into that latter situation in this country, for a few reasons, but one of them is that public education is no longer politically viable for a frighteningly large section of voters.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:43:40pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

But a factor from that also is that while, maybe, the children might have handled Covid better the children would have been another vector getting the virus into homes and infecting adults and the elderly. I can’t imagine elementary schools handling the masking and cleaning requirements well at all.

Plus the number of teachers that would also have caught Covid and been out - putting even more pressure on the school’s infrastructure and organization.

A lot of universities tried to skimp on things, tried to isolate students, and start back to classes early. And a lot of them had outbreaks and a continual issue with students and faculty getting infected.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:43:41pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m on CounterSocial, too. So is darth (iirc) and a few others.
It’s not twitter but it’s not a cesspool either.

Click to Reveal

I’m @RayFerd61 on CounterSocial

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:46:22pm

re: #89 Eventual Carrion

I have a problem when previewing a picture I put on a post. It will open the pic (verbiage shows as “External Image” link) and then I have no way of closing it. If I hit the back icon in the browser it takes me to the previous thread. I then have to go back to the current thread I wanted to post the comment and picture in. If I don’t click the “External Image” hot link it posts the picture fine in the comment.

Windows 10 Pro, OS build 19044.2130 and Chrome Version 106.0.5249.119 (Official Build) (64-bit)

This should now be fixed.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:47:15pm

re: #90 mmmirele

“Temple of Capitalism”:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:48:56pm

re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Definitely looks gaudy and shallow enough.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:50:00pm

re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg

Definitely looks gaudy and shallow enough.

With a front door that drinks the blood of the proletariat.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:50:24pm

Good luck with that.

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mmmirele  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:50:59pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

there were some hiccups with the server handling all the new registrations when I signed up during the first elon twitter threat. But the server was beefed up so I expect the same will happen with the next huge influx. Tribel will have the same growing pains.

The guy running CounterSocial is well aware of the hiccups. If Elon Musk ends up owning Twitter, I’ll end up deleting the app and moving over to CS permanently. Back in 2020, I thought I would never stop checking on Facebook, but I removed myself from FB a month before the 2020 election and that pretty much broke the hold. I check in on FB messenger to make sure that a person is getting the PayPals I’m sending them. Otherwise, nope.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:51:27pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

This should now be fixed.

Yep, I just tested it with this post and all looks correct now. Thanks!

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mmmirele  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:52:48pm

Apparently this really is a thing.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:53:17pm

I don’t want to stove-pipe myself.

I joined Facebook because that is where my relatives hang out. Even though a few are Trumpers, and I joined when Facebook was being over-run by the know-nothings, I wanted to be where I could communicate to people.

Especially to people I think are needing some … countering.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:54:45pm

re: #91 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

As much as home-schooling is often a tool for religious cults, the reality remains that children who have parents who are highly involved in their child’s education do better.

This is how status, privilege, and education is propagated. The children in some significant sense reflect the parents.

And this is why public education is so important in having a populace who can function, to keep the society from being run by an elite minority.

We are falling back into that latter situation in this country, for a few reasons, but one of them is that public education is no longer politically viable for a frighteningly large section of voters.

Highly motivated parents are the key. Also, many parents are completely at a loss as to how to support their children’s education.
The online classes at home probably could have been more successful if the process could have been thought out better, but that was not the case with the Covid emergency.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 12:56:41pm

The past was not so long ago … it’s not even really the past.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:01:43pm

re: #93 Eventual Carrion

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:04:12pm

re: #99 mmmirele

The guy running CounterSocial is well aware of the hiccups. If Elon Musk ends up owning Twitter, I’ll end up deleting the app and moving over to CS permanently. Back in 2020, I thought I would never stop checking on Facebook, but I removed myself from FB a month before the 2020 election and that pretty much broke the hold. I check in on FB messenger to make sure that a person is getting the PayPals I’m sending them. Otherwise, nope.

Jester was pretty quick about dealing with those previous hiccups, and keeping everyone informed in the process (took about a week for the dust to settle, iirc).

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:07:18pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:08:30pm

re: #107 Eventual Carrion

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:09:48pm

While I enjoy pineapple and Canadian bacon pizzas, I also enjoy well done memes

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:10:45pm

Here’s my hangup about social media sites, and indeed any site that engages users to add value:

The site creators are the owners, and they will profit from other’s work.

I’m ok with that if I think the person I am helping is someone who is a decent person. (Thus here I have no problem generating activity for Charles’ website.)

But all too often what happens is that top person is a vulture. See Trump and his grifting site.

I’m reminded of all the genealogy blogs and works, who added so much to Ancestry when it was founded. Then it was sold, resold, resold again, each time vulture capitalists taking more and more $$$ off of the volunteer work of generations of family genealogists.

Same with Twitter. Same with Facebook. Same with Youtube.

And thus my hesitation of helping yet more people start up an organization, for which the owner will benefit when they sell some or all of it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:16:50pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:17:01pm

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The past was not so long ago … it’s not even really the past.

Wait, is that right? His father was 70 when he was born??

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:17:48pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

Wait, is that right? His father was 70 when he was born??

it can happen

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:18:52pm

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jester was pretty quick about dealing with those previous hiccups, and keeping everyone informed in the process (took about a week for the dust to settle, iirc).

Apparently CounterSocial has been around since 2017. I still don’t see how it can properly curate a million members, let alone 10s of millions if there is a major departure from Twitter.

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jeffreyw  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:20:21pm

Random Wildlife

The pic shows in preview now, not the “external thing” button.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:20:31pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:20:54pm

re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth

it can happen

Anthony Quinn was 81 when he fathered a child.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:20:56pm

re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth

it can happen

Oh I know. James Doohan of Star Trek fame had a kid when he was EIGHTY.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:21:43pm

re: #114 Hecuba’s daughter

Apparently CounterSocial has been around since 2017. I still don’t see how it can properly curate a million members, let alone 10s of millions if there is a major departure from Twitter.

well, there isn’t the twitter bot problem at CS, so that helps

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Captain Ron  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:22:04pm

Study confirms what Medcram Covid-19 lectures told us two years ago.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:24:41pm

re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, there isn’t the twitter bot problem at CS, so that helps

also, as I typed that, a troll was identified by the community and immediately splatted at CS

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wrenchwench  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:25:11pm

re: #115 jeffreyw

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The pic shows in preview now, not the “external thing” button.

Purdy snek. Nice leaves.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:25:16pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

Wait, is that right? His father was 70 when he was born??

I think I could manage it; if I were clinically insane.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:26:41pm
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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:27:39pm

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steve_davis  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:29:44pm

re: #10 BigPapa

Fungible sounds a lot like fungus and I love fungus. Not the toe nail kind, the shroomy kind.

A shortcut to non-fungible fungus.

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jeffreyw  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:30:43pm

re: #122 wrenchwench

Purdy snek. Nice leaves.

Mrs J took that snap, she had to jail the kitties lest they worry it ragged.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:32:56pm

One thing that creeps me out about Tribel - the Occupy Dems guy. The way he’s hyping it just screams “grift” at me.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:33:29pm

I haven’t tried getting an account there but the reviews I’ve heard haven’t been that positive.

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Sherlock Hound  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:35:42pm

Narrator: Boris never had 100 supporters, not even.

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:36:14pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:42:52pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

Wait, is that right? His father was 70 when he was born??

It would appear so from the dates given.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:44:40pm

I was 27 when my youngest half-sibling (dad and stepmom) was born. He is 10 months older than my older daughter.
A few years earlier, I was in college when the next youngest sibling was a toddler. I found that taking him to class with me (which was allowed in those long-ago days) was a great way to attract girls.
Iirc, a famous experiment documented this effect a few years later.
Around the same time a rather dorky acquaintance came into some money and used part of it to buy an expensive car (Alfa Romeo 2000) with the specific idea of using it to attract girls. He ended up ruefully admitting that it worked halfway, girls loved the car but had little interest in him.
.

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steve_davis  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:45:57pm

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Journal of Family and Marriage, July 30, 2022, abstract of a study showing single men’s desire to become fathers over the period 2000-2022.

The study claims that a sharp decline in interest in fathering children occurs over the period. This coincides with single men caring less about employment benefits such as maternity leave.

The study implies that this could have implication for women’s employment rights down the line in the workplace and politics.

An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report

hmmm….childless men uninterested in having children. Wow. Call the newspapers. 64 point headline, top of the fold :-)

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Sherlock Hound  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:46:46pm

Oh no!
Anyway…
///

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retired cynic  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:49:52pm

re: #120 Captain Ron

A dear friend my age has done everything right re. covid. All shots. Masks. Distancing. Never had a symptom. Nearly died a month ago from pulmonary embolisms, one breaking off and running through the heart. Yep. He apparently had a non-symptomatic case, and has long covid anyway. Poor guy!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:51:11pm
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Sherlock Hound  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:51:26pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:57:02pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

Highly motivated parents are the key. Also, many parents are completely at a loss as to how to support their children’s education.
The online classes at home probably could have been more successful if the process could have been thought out better, but that was not the case with the Covid emergency.

And those who were insistent on getting kids back asap were very reserved about addressing issues of health and safety: increased staffing, improved facilities, new procedures, etc…because that all cost money.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 1:57:34pm

re: #129 Charles Johnson

I haven’t tried getting an account there but the reviews I’ve heard haven’t been that positive.

From what I understand, you have to register at Tribel with your real name. You can change it later, but he gets to know your real name.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:00:22pm

re: #136 retired cynic

A dear friend my age has done everything right re. covid. All shots. Masks. Distancing. Never had a symptom. Nearly died a month ago from pulmonary embolisms, one breaking off and running through the heart. Yep. He apparently had a non-symptomatic case, and has long covid anyway. Poor guy!

OTOH, is it unheard of that pulmonary embolisms happen for reasons other than Covid and/or the vaccine?
I know it isn’t unheard of because that’s what killed my first husband almost 30 years ago.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:00:23pm

re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth

From what I understand, you have to register at Tribel with your real name. You can change it later, but he gets to know your real name.

Tribel makes me cautious about what it will become. For all the evils of corporations, corporations which are public (like Twitter (for now) and Facebook) in ownership are more transparent.

Tribel, and similar outlets, are probably not for me.

I don’t even use Telegram.

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Alephnaught  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:00:27pm

Boris blinked.

theguardian.com

He clearly never had the support of the minimum 100 Conservative Party MPs in the Westminster House of Commons that he would need to stand for the leadership election. That was starting to become very obvious today as Rushi Sunak officially announced his entry into the leadership election.

Sunak already had more than the 100 MPs he needed to support him from Friday night, so it’s pretty obvious that the reason he held back in announcing his leadership bid until Sunday was that his team were confident that Boris Johnson did not have support amongst Westminster Conservative MPs to even make nomination status.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:00:33pm

re: #134 steve_davis

hmmm….childless men uninterested in having children. Wow. Call the newspapers. 64 point headline, top of the fold :-)

I was not interested in having kids until we had one…then three more followed. Now I could not imagine being happy in a life or a world without those four people in it

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:03:01pm

re: #143 Alephnaught

It’ll still be a Tory clusterfuck.

“Tory clusterfuck.” is a tautology these days

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retired cynic  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:10:28pm

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

OTOH, is it unheard of that pulmonary embolisms happen for reasons other than Covid and/or the vaccine?
I know it isn’t unheard of because that’s what killed my first husband.

They diagnosed him with having had covid, and called him back in and signed him up for a treatment group. My father in law died of pulmonary embolism, yeah.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:11:21pm

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I have to wonder, if all of this is just the usual evolutionary thing for mammals, and that certain humans/institutions are just trying to make hay out of what is above all things natural.

In the wild, many male mammals do not father offspring. Thus the battle over the “alpha male”.

Women do not need men/husbands to have children. There is enough sperm donations to take care of the need for gametes.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:12:00pm

Twitter under Musk’s control:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:14:02pm

re: #147 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I have to wonder, if all of this is just the usual evolutionary thing for mammals, and that certain humans/institutions are just trying to make hay out of what is above all things natural.

“Biblical” social mores stem from a time when we were still tribal and nomadic, when women were property, first of their fathers and then of their husbands.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:14:22pm

The soup throwing hand gluers are at it again. Fuck it. Leave them there.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:14:37pm

re: #128 Charles Johnson

One thing that creeps me out about Tribel - the Occupy Dems guy. The way he’s hyping it just screams “grift” at me.

Again thanks for taking care of that pic preview problem. I also have a problem with the 2 factor authentication security on my tablet and phone. I log in and it says it is sending me a text with the code, yet the text never comes through. Android phone, Motorola Edge. Galaxy Tab A8 tablet.

I guess on my laptop I am on it so often that I am pretty much always logged in, so haven’t noticed the problem on it.

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jeffreyw  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:15:45pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:18:35pm

Russian fighter plane crashes in Siberian city of Irkutsk

One of the least densely populated regions of the world and still they manage to find a house to crash into…

The governor said he was at the scene and both pilots had been killed, but no residents were hurt.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:23:07pm

re: #150 The Pie Overlord!

The original soup throwers were protesting wealth concentration, which high priced artwork represents.

I have no idea what climate activists can accomplish by throwing stuff at gallery artwork.

Sure, the rich create more CO2 per capita than the poor.

But there are very few very-rich people.

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mmmirele  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:23:10pm

Nicole Grigg has been doing the legwork on the voter harassment and intimidation going on here in Maricopa County. She posted a long thread of just some of the threats and comments she’s received.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:24:29pm

re: #154 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Sure, the rich create more CO2 per capita than the poor.

But there are very few very-rich people.

Rich people have a lot more influence on how much CO2 is produced.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:26:06pm

re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Rich people have a lot more influence on how much CO2 is produced.

Influence, but do not control.

The masses love their modern transportation, their modern food, their modern conveniences.

Scapegoating the rich for what is the responsibility of the many is not going to solve the problem.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:27:37pm

re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Russian fighter plane crashes in Siberian city of Irkutsk

One of the least densely populated regions of the world and still they manage to find a house to crash into…

The governor said he was at the scene and both pilots had been killed, but no residents were hurt.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:28:27pm

re: #148 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Ok, that is dark. And not the tone of the graphic.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:28:50pm

re: #158 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I like the screen shot. Perfect.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:29:20pm

re: #157 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Influence, but do not control.

The masses love their modern transportation, their modern food, their modern conveniences.

Scapegoating the rich for what is the responsibility of the many is not going to solve the problem.

We can have almost all of those conveniences without generating half as much CO2. I agree that we cannot leave it all at the door of the rich, but there were people making decisions going back decades that could have reduced our output by several orders of magnitude

Still, we choose to express wealth and prosperity in terms of the amount of resources we consume, not in how well we use them.

I am reminded of how the USSR used to proudly announce annual increases in electronics production - in terms of tons of electronics produced.

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jeffreyw  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:29:26pm

The last windows 11 update added the Clipchamp app that edits videos. I’m liking it, makes your videos Twitter and Youtube friendly. Resizes to 720 p and saves to your downloads folder. That’s handy for drag n drop to those platforms.
I have a ton of higher res videos from a bunch of trail cameras we have out.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:33:31pm

re: #159 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Ok, that is dark. And not the tone of the graphic.

I’m trying to coax the AI to make a scary Elon Musk to go along with the new logo, but so far this is the closest the AI has come:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:38:43pm

re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Russian fighter plane crashes in Siberian city of Irkutsk

One of the least densely populated regions of the world and still they manage to find a house to crash into…

The governor said he was at the scene and both pilots had been killed, but no residents were hurt.

EDIT: There are actually 2 videos in this second tweet

Crash from a a few days ago

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:39:53pm

re: #163 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m trying to coax the AI to make a scary Elon Musk to go along with the new logo, but so far this is the closest the AI has come:

Is that alcoholic Musk?

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:40:55pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle needs moar coffeeeee.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 491 was an anomaly. We shall speak of it no more. Many birbies as Wordle 492 seeks to console us.

Wordle 492 3/6

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SibData: 3,3,3,4

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:48:27pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:48:54pm

Oh look, I made a diptych-y thingy:

Musk buys Twitter
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:49:56pm

It’s still not quite right. I’m debating whether to make it look like a real diptych or not.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:54:12pm

re: #169 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Not a diptich - which side-by-side images to create a whole. You’ve created some weirdass quadrile faux coat-of-arms.

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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:57:15pm

And

Joe Biden kills terrorists. Donald Trump golfs with terrorists. any questions” - Jeff Tiedrich

—-

“pro tip: if you can host the Bone Saw Invitational at your shitty golf hovel and preen for stupid photo-ops, you can sit for a deposition. this isn’t fucking rocket science” - Jeff Tiedrich

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:57:45pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 2:58:46pm

re: #170 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Not a dyptich - which side-by-side images to crazy a whole. You’ve created some weirdass quadrile faux coat-of-arms.

Because twitter crops any non-square image to fit in the preview of a tweet, I made it square.

Here is what I’ll probably go with:

Musk Buys Twitter
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Dangerman  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:01:16pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:03:30pm
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Belafon  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:09:57pm

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Good luck with that.

The only reason these won’t get laughed at is there are a lot of Judge Cannon’s out there.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:11:00pm

I wonder if the Russians have used ultrasonic hyper-waves to scramble Musk’s brain in an effort to sabotage (or at least discredit) American spaceflight?

Nah, he’s just a born asshole and it’s taken this long for his freak-flag to truly fly.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:11:23pm
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Jay C  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:11:49pm

re: #163 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m trying to coax the AI to make a scary Elon Musk to go along with the new logo, but so far this is the closest the AI has come:us

[Embedded content]

I dunno: even the most ordinary picture of the guy would seem to qualify as “scary Elon Musk” these days….

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:12:59pm

re: #179 Jay C

The Phillies are in the World Series.
sports.yahoo.com

From WHYY:
whyy.org

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:17:22pm

Any response to this shit by like, anyone? Or does nobody even GAF anymore?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:19:09pm

re: #151 Eventual Carrion

Again thanks for taking care of that pic preview problem. I also have a problem with the 2 factor authentication security on my tablet and phone. I log in and it says it is sending me a text with the code, yet the text never comes through. Android phone, Motorola Edge. Galaxy Tab A8 tablet.

I guess on my laptop I am on it so often that I am pretty much always logged in, so haven’t noticed the problem on it.

Charles had to turn 2FA for me because of the same problem. And to be honest, I haven’t looked back.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:20:57pm

re: #173 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Because twitter crops any non-square image to fit in the preview of a tweet, I made it square.

Here is what I’ll probably go with:

[Embedded content]

He needs some of those clown makeup diamonds above and below his eyes.
Or those stripey things like Pennywise has.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:25:29pm

Our new gospel song:

AI in the main tab, tell it what you want
AI in the main tab, tell it what you want
AI in the main tab, tell it what you want
AI in the main tab, tell it what you want

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You can click on it, click on it and tell it what you want
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AI in the main tab, tell it what you want
Go on, click on it and tell it what you want

185
PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:26:46pm

Some of my neighbors are shooting off fireworks.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:30:00pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

You mean like this:

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nines09  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:31:07pm

re: #180 PhillyPretzel

The Phillies are in the World Series.
sports.yahoo.com

From WHYY:
whyy.org

I can breathe again. I saw visions of Black Friday 1977 when they played LA in downpours and Steve Carlton was sliding off the mound. That game should have never been played. LA won.
Bryce Harper keeps this up he’ll be in bronze outside Citizens Bank Park.
I hope the Astros finish tonight.
Phils are hot.

188
PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:32:08pm

re: #187 nines09

Yes, they are.

189
Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:32:24pm

re: #186 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That is pure evil.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:33:09pm

re: #189 Colère Tueur de Lapin

That is pure evil.

The AI is very good at recognizing such.

191
sagehen  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:37:12pm

Reminder:

new Doctor Who (“The Power of the Doctor”) at 8pm and 1.15am on BBC-America.

13th Doctor (Jody Whittaker) final episode. Includes Daleks, Cybermen and the Master.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:38:40pm

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has ruled in favor of a bakery owner who refused to make wedding cakes for a same-sex couple because it violated her Christian beliefs.

The state Department of Fair Housing and Employment had sued Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield, arguing owner Cathy Miller intentionally discriminated against the couple in violation of California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.

Miller’s attorneys argued her right to free speech and free expression of religion trumped the argument that she violated the anti-discrimination law. Kern County Superior Court Judge Eric Bradshaw ruled Friday that Miller acted lawfully while upholding her beliefs about what the Bible teaches regarding marriage.

The decision was welcomed as a First Amendment victory by Miller and her pro-bono attorneys with the conservative Thomas More Society.

it’s ok for the baker to push their fake christian agenda, though.

193
sagehen  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:39:52pm

Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor Easter Egg Guide
denofgeek.com

WARNING: CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR DOCTOR WHO THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:40:31pm
195
darthstar  Oct 23, 2022 • 3:49:50pm
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:00:21pm

I think the weather has dampened the celebrations because it is relatively quiet right now.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:08:44pm

For those Doctor Who fans who have not heard the news, the BBC spoiler for the new doctor:

Click to Reveal

Youtube Video


I’m a bit…

Click to Reveal

… disappointed. Not a big Doctor Who fan, but I was hoping for some new directions in the show as it is feeling quite tired by now.

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sagehen  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:17:08pm

I hadn’t heard, but… this makes me happy.

Condolences to those who feel otherwise.

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A Three Hour Tour  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:24:49pm

re: #198 sagehen

I hadn’t heard, but… this makes me happy.

Condolences to those who feel otherwise.

He’s temporary. Jodie’s real successor in the role is Ncuti Gatwa.

Like bringing back RTD to run the show, this stunt seems like a panic move by the BBC to get some buzz, stop the bleeding, and lure back nostalgic, reactionary (former) fans who want to permanently live in DOCTOR WHO’s post-resurrection 2005-2010 heyday of their childhood and adolescence.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:27:18pm

re: #157 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Influence, but do not control.

The masses love their modern transportation, their modern food, their modern conveniences.

Scapegoating the rich for what is the responsibility of the many is not going to solve the problem.

Poor people are not the ones who run large companies and make decisions on what new technologies to pursue that could reduce our carbon footprint. It is the large corporations, both publicly and privately held, that lead to our continuing reliance on fossil fuels and other carbon-generating processes. It is also government failure to “encourage” these companies to explore other processes or to fund sufficiently research at academic and government research facilities.

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Orange Impostor  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:34:41pm

re: #197 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Spoilers Abound!

For those Doctor Who fans who have not heard the news, the BBC spoiler for the new doctor:

Regarding your reaction:

I’m a bit…

Click to Reveal

… disappointed. Not a big Doctor Who fan, but I was hoping for some new directions in the show as it is feeling quite tired by now.

Click to Reveal

This is just for the 3-episode 60th anniversary specials next year. Showrunner Chris Chibnall, (and by extension, Jodie Whitaker who came on as a joint package) run was contractually for three series. The “new” Doctor will be introduced during the specials.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:38:52pm

(Besides his near-miraculous photo restorations, Stuart is also a very active Dr. Who fan.)

I didn’t know about this:

It pleases me greatly because I am a fan of the very early Dr. Who, with William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. Ian Chesterton was one of the first three companions, along with Susan Foreman (Carol Ann Ford) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline HIll).

203
A Three Hour Tour  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:43:35pm

re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

(Besides his near-miraculous photo restorations, Stuart is also a very active Dr. Who fan.)

I didn’t know about this:

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Stuart was also responsible for the colorization of Part One of “The Mind of Evil” when the film recording of that part didn’t contain the chroma-dots necessary to reconstruct the color via the BBC’s Chroma-Dot Recovery process used on the remaining five parts of the story.

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jeffreyw  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:45:38pm

Sunday Supper

sausage, olives, pepperoni

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:48:03pm

re: #204 jeffreyw

Sunday Supper

[Embedded content]

sausage, olives, pepperoni

I’d add mushrooms for the perfect pie.

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jeffreyw  Oct 23, 2022 • 4:56:25pm

re: #205 Eventual Carrion

I’d add mushrooms for the perfect pie.

So would I, but I ran out.

207
No Malarkey!  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:05:16pm

The Democratic nominee for Congress for the district my county was gerrymandered out of.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:13:20pm

re: #207 No Malarkey!

The Democratic nominee for Congress for the district my county was gerrymandered out of.

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How is he the Democratic nominee? He sounds like a Republican. Is he a Republican who ran as a Democrat because there were no real Democrats running in the primary?

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Jay C  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:16:24pm

eldroW:

Click to Reveal

Hard one today, but got it in five nevertheless:

Wordle 491 5/6

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⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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darthstar  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:16:46pm

So we’re sitting at lunch and my phone reminds me that I had tickets for the Broadway production of Moulin Rouge 30 minutes before show time. There’s over $500 that I’ll never see again. Totally spaced that it was this weekend. Need to go through my mail and put my coming shows on the calendar so i don’t miss more.

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darthstar  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:18:04pm

re: #209 Jay C

Same, I would have had it in four but I had to be a dummy.

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sagehen  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:19:29pm

re: #204 jeffreyw

Sunday Supper

[Embedded content]

sausage, olives, pepperoni

needs pineapple.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:21:28pm

Phillies win the pennant! The Phillies incredible run continues!

If memory serves it’s been about 3 decades since the Phillies went to the big one.

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William Lewis  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:23:40pm

re: #210 darthstar

So we’re sitting at lunch and my phone reminds me that I had tickets for the Broadway production of Moulin Rouge 30 minutes before show time. There’s over $500 that I’ll never see again. Totally spaced that it was this weekend. Need to go through my mail and put my coming shows on the calendar so i don’t miss more.

Next time you get the urge to throw away a couple of hundred, you can send it my way < LOL >

I am sorry you’re missing the show though.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:25:09pm

re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

If memory serves it’s been about 3 decades since the Phillies went to the big one.

They won the World Series in 2008.

It did a great deal of draining the sports psychosis that city had at time given their sports teams fairly long runs of not-successful-enough.

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SerialUpDinger  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:31:43pm

A Sunday Adventure

Tri Peaks in the Santa Monica Mountains is a fun hike on a nice trail - with the exception of the last 20 feet. I had hiked up several times in the past 60 days, looked at the boulder and nope’ed my way home. Was wondering if I am too old to do this stuff and it bugged me. Too many years into the COVID era and carrying a few extra pounds was “weighing” on me…. Today I walked up, looked at the crack and kept moving upward until I was on top of the boulder. No looking down! After looking around for a minute or so, I reversed course and began climbing down. Things went smooth - thinking about hand and foot holds replaced the crappy thoughts about being too old to do this. Not too bad for someone just at retirement age!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:39:07pm

re: #208 Hecuba’s daughter

How is he the Democratic nominee? He sounds like a Republican. Is he a Republican who ran as a Democrat because there were no real Democrats running in the primary?

It’s Kentucky, where quite a few Democrats are blue dog conservatives. And some of them are indistinguishable from Republicans.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 23, 2022 • 5:40:20pm

re: #208 Hecuba’s daughter

How is he the Democratic nominee? He sounds like a Republican. Is he a Republican who ran as a Democrat because there were no real Democrats running in the primary?

Huh — just looked at an interview. He may be the example of the extreme left and extreme right agreeing on FP. On domestic issues, he claims to be a Bernie Sanders Democrat. He’s a perennial candidate who believes in raising taxes on the wealthy.


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