A Time-Twisting Short Horror Film: “CREEPER”

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To survive the night, a teenage boy from a broken home must uncover the mystery behind his silent stalker.

Creeper was an official selection at over a dozen film festivals worldwide, including Panic Fest, Cinequest, HollyShorts, and Horrorhound (where it was nominated for EIGHT awards, including Best Short).

Starring Amy Acker (Angel, Cabin In The Woods, Person of Interest), James Carpinello (The Punisher, Gotham, The Blacklist), and introducing their real-life son, Jack Carpinello.

“This is one wild story” — HNN

Directed by Melissa Scrivner Love and David Love
Written by David Love
Starring Amy Acker, James Carpinello and introducing Jack Carpinello
Archer Berenson - Chris
Sanjay Chandani - Father
Riann Chandani - Son
Jocelyn Magsumbol - producer
Amy Acker - executive producer
James Carpinello - executive producer
David Love - executive producer
Melissa Scrivner-Love - executive producer
Music by Jonathan Snipes
Cinematography by Jamie Prescott
Editing by Lawrence Klein
Production Design by Nick Bow
Brittany Fontaine - Makeup Artist
Mark Kaercher - First Assistant Director
Donavyn Suffel - Boom Operator
Visual Effects by David Beedon and CoSA
Phil Gerke - Key Grip
Angelo Mazza - Assistan Camera
Lucia Macagno - Script Supervisor

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178 comments
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goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2023 • 10:00:01pm

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2023 • 10:08:39pm

While we’re sharing horror short films, here’s one for the lizards who also play Animal Crossing:

DON’T PEEK - Horror Short

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teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2023 • 10:28:13pm

@spahn711.bsky.social

A Shiprock sunrise.

The long dike cuts vertically across the landscape, preventing the low-angle sunlight from falling upon the land to its west for several minutes. Always a remarkable scene.

bsky.app

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teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2023 • 11:18:50pm

Because of the fractured nature that we share thoughts online I feel I have to repeat this. Funny how a few of you thought I was ugly and broken.

littlegreenfootballs.com

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teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2023 • 11:32:40pm

[…]

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teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2023 • 11:35:33pm

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 12:00:07am

Welcome, hatchling.

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 11, 2023 • 12:41:44am

Video of HAMAS stealing aid from civilians.
ynetnews.com

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ericblair  Dec 11, 2023 • 12:49:57am

A lot of Elmo’s behavior can be explained by him thinking that most people agree with him except some terminally online weirdos, when actually most people disagree with him except some terminally online weirdos.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Dec 11, 2023 • 12:58:18am

Your next Wordle was kind to me. As kind as a raptor.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 905 2/6

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SibData less kind, but not fatal: 2,3,4,5,5

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Targetpractice  Dec 11, 2023 • 1:41:10am

re: #10 ericblair

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A lot of Elmo’s behavior can be explained by him thinking that most people agree with him except some terminally online weirdos, when actually most people disagree with him except some terminally online weirdos.

For anybody who’s never heard of him, Gonzalo Lira is a pro-Putin propagandist who has produced numerous videos parroting Kremlin BS, such as declaring that people are freezing to death in the UK because they can’t get Russian oil. He’s also been caught using his videos to broadcast the identities of Ukrainian soldiers and the location of AFU AA batteries. And if you should run into someone who says that the Ukrainian government is holding him as a “political prisoner,” inform them that the only reason they were able to arrest him at all is because he snuck back into the country after being deported.

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TarHellion  Dec 11, 2023 • 1:44:48am

Birbie-mania continues.

Really good drenching rain over the weekend. Just shy of 3 inches worth. Happy Monday!

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 11, 2023 • 1:49:05am

Just looked and yeah I’m def gonna need to avail myself of Specialized’s assisted replacement policy to buy a new frame, the drive side seat stay has a crack just above the thru-axle dropout.

Yay

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 3:02:09am

Par. The rain here turned to slushie snow this morning. Soon to gone.

Wordle 905 4/6

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 11, 2023 • 3:09:25am

2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 11, 2023 • 3:15:31am

re: #16 Nerdy Fish

Then I’m looking it at afterward, and I thought of a fourth word that could’ve fit there. So it’s actually 2 out of 4, which I will definitely take a 50/50.

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Dangerman  Dec 11, 2023 • 3:34:08am

re: #128 teleskiguy

re: #130 William Lewis

Sounds to me like your both describing actualizing the present. Being in the here and now, as aware as possible. No past or future. No shopping list or parking lots. No anything except this. And not even thinking about “this’ because I’ve become so good at it I don’t have to. Just humming, rapt absorption.

When, if, for whom it happens, it’s a great gift.

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Targetpractice  Dec 11, 2023 • 3:38:14am

I was confused by the bit about Lira and Hungary because last I’d heard, the prick had been arrested back in the spring and I’d assumed he’d been cooling his heels in a jail cell ever since. Turns out he managed to swing pre-trial house arrest, only to get caught trying to jump bail by riding his mothercycle to Hungary. He was arrested at the border, had new charges slapped on him for his troubles, and has been awaiting trial ever since. So, for those taking notes at home, this “tyrannical regime”:

- Arrested him for the same crimes last year, but instead of imprisoning or executing him simply yanked his visa and booted his ass out.

- Arrested him again for entering the country in violation of the deportation order instead of summarily executing him.

- Despite the lengthy list of charges and the fact that he’s generally a scumbag, he was released to his villa in Kharkiv on house arrest to await his trial date.

- Arrested him a third time trying to jump bail by leaving the country instead of (again) summarily executing him.

- At not time did they try to chop him up with a bone saw and claim his death was due to a “fight” that he instigated while “drunk.”

- Are not trying to turn his arrest and impending imprisonment as some sort of embarrassment for President Biden or the US government, which might otherwise explain why he’s being given such fair treatment by a “tyrannical regime.”

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Dave In Austin  Dec 11, 2023 • 3:44:13am

re: #4 teleskiguy

Because of the fractured nature that we share thoughts online I feel I have to repeat this. Funny how a few of you thought I was ugly and broken.

littlegreenfootballs.com

Good morning

To be clear, not everything is about you SkiDude. I have a neighbor with a problem. It’s hard to sleep with a dozen cop cars next door.

But if there’s something there, by all means own it before it owns you..

God save the Internet 😶😶😶😶😑🫥!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:14:46am

re: #8 wrenchwench

Welcome, hatchling.

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Aquarium at Fort Fisher in NC had an albino one in house back in 2015.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:23:21am

Albinogator

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:39:27am

re: #18 Dangerman

Sounds to me like your both describing actualizing the present. Being in the here and now, as aware as possible. No past or future. No shopping list or parking lots. No anything except this. And not even thinking about “this’ because I’ve become so good at it I don’t have to. Just humming, rapt absorption.

When, if, for whom it happens, it’s a great gift.

The “better than sex” comparison is often attached to skydiving. The consensus among jumpers is, if your freefall is better than sex, you are probably not doing either correctly.

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Dangerman  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:40:18am

re: #7 No Malarkey!

McCarthy continues kissing Trump’s ass in hopes of getting a Cabinet position.

dont they know that the guy who loses doesnt have the power to appoint cabinet posts?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:42:48am

re: #24 Dangerman

dont they know that the guy who loses doesnt have the power to appoint cabinet posts?

They learned their lessons from their mistakes in 2020 and are going to pull out all the stops to turn this election into a clusterfuck goat rodeo shitstorm spectacle that it eventually gets thrown to the SCOTUS where they have established their backstop.

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Dangerman  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:44:14am

re: #23 Decatur Deb

The “better than sex” comparison is often attached to skydiving. The consensus among jumpers is, if your freefall is better than sex, you are probably not doing either correctly.

true enough
if you can actualize during sex, then sex is better than sex and, well you see where this goes…

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:45:40am

re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They learned their lessons from their mistakes in 2020 and are going to pull out all the stops to turn this election into a clusterfuck goat rodeo shitstorm spectacle that it eventually gets thrown to the SCOTUS where they have established their backstop.

As corrupt as they are, the Calvinball Court has shown zero interest in materially helping Donald J. Trump in any way. If there is one thing I feel reasonably sure of with those fickle fuckers, it’s that they won’t lift a finger in support of his attempted autocracy. Right now, they’re the de facto kings and queens of America; anything of any consequence has to pass through them. You think they’re really going to help somebody else take that power from them?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:47:07am

re: #27 Nerdy Fish

As corrupt as they are, the Calvinball Court has shown zero interest in materially helping Donald J. Trump in any way. If there is one thing I feel reasonably sure of with those fickle fuckers, it’s that they won’t lift a finger in support of his attempted autocracy.

I hope it does not come to that and that if it nonetheless does, the Court does not rule in DJT’s favor

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Dangerman  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:48:42am

checking some stats on my garmin connect account

when i was full bore running i was burning 10k, sometimes 15 and even 20,000 calories a month

since this stupid injury, i’ve only been able to manage 3-4000 calories a month

sure explains the weight gain

Klys (you remember Klys?) says

“Tendons are dumb. stupid slow to heal saboteurs.”

she sure nailed it

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jeffreyw  Dec 11, 2023 • 4:49:14am

Clocklike Orange Soup

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 5:02:59am

Too bad Anymouse doesn’t show up here anymore, this would be right up his alley:

UCKG: Church pastor tells boy ‘evil spirit’ hides in him

A Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) pastor was seen reciting what looked like so-called “strong prayers” to rid the boy of a demon.

BBC Panorama was also told by a gay ex-member he was given “strong prayers” at 13 to try to make him straight.

The UCKG says under-18s are not allowed into “strong prayers” services and it does not perform “conversion therapy”.

A BBC Panorama investigation has found:

- The church tells its congregations it can help with mental health conditions by casting out evil spirits
- The leader of the church in the UK describes epilepsy as a “spiritual problem”

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Dangerman  Dec 11, 2023 • 5:09:43am

re: #27 Nerdy Fish

As corrupt as they are, the Calvinball Court has shown zero interest in materially helping Donald J. Trump in any way. If there is one thing I feel reasonably sure of with those fickle fuckers, it’s that they won’t lift a finger in support of his attempted autocracy. Right now, they’re the de facto kings and queens of America; anything of any consequence has to pass through them. You think they’re really going to help somebody else take that power from them?

qft

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Belafon  Dec 11, 2023 • 5:41:47am

The Boy and the Heron was the number one movie this weekend.

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darthstar  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:05:32am

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Dave In Austin  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:06:08am

No good ending here but send the money.

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darthstar  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:07:23am
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Randall Gross  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:18:21am

Do you think they saw it coming?

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Randall Gross  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:19:37am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:21:42am

re: #35 Dave In Austin

Heritage
Foundation will bring together Hungarian President Viktor Orbán’s team & Republican congressmen to strategize how to end US support for Ukraine.

They want to turn America into Eastern Europe, complete with its own Balkans and “Turkish Problem”…

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:24:13am

How about a deal where Hungary drops out of NATO, Ukraine joins, and everybody goes home happy?

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Belafon  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:26:39am

re: #40 Decatur Deb

How about a deal where Hungary drops out of NATO, Ukraine joins, and everybody goes home happy?

Republicans wouldn’t be going home happy, unless we include shipping all of the Christian nationalists home to Russia.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:27:14am

re: #41 Belafon

Your terms are acceptable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:33:27am

re: #41 Belafon

Republicans wouldn’t be going home happy, unless we include shipping all of the Christian nationalists home to Russia.

Only problem there is one of Fundamentalist Protestantism vs Russian Orthodoxy: Even though there is lots of room for overlap, there can be only one True Version of the True Faith

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:36:38am

re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Only problem there is one of Fundamentalist Protestantism vs Russian Orthodoxy: Even though there is lots of room for overlap, there can be only one True Version of the True Faith

That sounds like their problem. Let them fight it out.

Preferably, in the streets of Moscow.

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Belafon  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:40:01am

re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Only problem there is one of Fundamentalist Protestantism vs Russian Orthodoxy: Even though there is lots of room for overlap, there can be only one True Version of the True Faith

Russia seems like the perfect place for that war to rage. I don’t mind swapping them for people who just want to live their lives.

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:43:49am

re: #37 Randall Gross

Do you think they saw it coming?

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Talk about the stuff of nightmares. Can you imagine seeing this 6 foot sawblade with nasty teeth coming right at you while you’re driving your car?

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Randall Gross  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:48:43am

re: #46 sizzzzlerz

Talk about the stuff of nightmares. Can you imagine seeing this 6 foot sawblade with nasty teeth coming right at you while you’re driving your car?

It would be awful, don’t know if my heart would survive that in the shape it’s in.

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Randall Gross  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:50:29am

Someone was expecting the Spanish Inquisition

bsky.app

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Randall Gross  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:54:36am

In the great news department:


bsky.app
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Dizzy  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:56:05am

The same Chanukkia in both pictures.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:56:17am

LOL 😄

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 11, 2023 • 6:59:36am

Sigh. Israel isn’t doing themselves any favors with shoddy, blatant propaganda like this. This is the kind of shit Hamassholes etc. would pull years ago.

Israel-Gaza war: Video shows Gaza detainees allegedly ‘surrendering guns’ - what we know

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:03:51am

re: #50 Dizzy

The same Chanukkia in both pictures.

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That’s so dark. It shows the lack of real progress. It’s just different people doing the killing and dying now.

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lawhawk  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:04:43am

re: #49 Randall Gross

Crime is falling based on statistics and facts. Media coverage of crime continues at same pace as always - if it bleeds, it leads. It’s easy for media outlets to cover crime stories - law enforcement has PR people who put out pressers and press statements often used verbatim for news reports. It’s an entire industry that allows news to do almost no legwork, while filling their news broadcasts with reports of crime, which remains out of context from the actual crime rates.

NYC news is particularly awful in this respect. People think crime is out of control, despite fact that crime is down from just a few years ago, let alone the 1970s-1980s, when you could see 2000 homicides in a year. This past year? 438. Homicides are down 8% from last year on YTD basis.

The NYPD puts out crime stats, comparing YTD to past year, 2 years ago, 10 years, and even the 1990s.

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Dizzy  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:10:04am

re: #53 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That’s so dark. It shows the lack of real progress. It’s just different people doing the killing and dying now.

“No longer shall Jews be powerless in the face of their tormentors. Wherever there is darkness, we will fight back with light.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:12:58am

re: #54 lawhawk

It is a matter of RW doctrine and faith that American cities are under assault from Antifa/BLM and that the defunded police are nearly powerless to protect us against home invasions from armed Mau-Mau rape and revenge gangs, while Biden is coming for our guns to leave us totally undefended.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:17:39am

re: #55 Dizzy

“No longer shall Jews be powerless in the face of their tormentors. Wherever there is darkness, we will fight back with light.”

With the Jewish people as the tormenters in Gaza. It’s horrible.

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darthstar  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:19:51am

re: #57 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

With the Jewish people as the tormenters in Gaza. It’s horrible.

It’s the Israeli government, not the Jewish people. This has nothing to do with faith or religion. It’s about economics and control and real estate value.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:21:25am

re: #58 darthstar

It’s the Israeli government, not the Jewish people. This has nothing to do with faith or religion. It’s about economics and control and real estate value.

They’re responsible for what their government is doing, just like the American people are responsible for the things that Trump did.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:23:12am

re: #58 darthstar

It’s the Israeli government, not the Jewish people. This has nothing to do with faith or religion. It’s about economics and control and real estate value.

Too much nuance for the shouting match that current political discourse has become.

On the Internet, there exist only two possibilities:

If you express any sympathy or understanding for the plight of Palestinians, you are an Islamist/Anti-Semite

If you condemn Hamas attacks on unarmed civilians, you are an Islamophobe/Zionist.

The point of it all is to make you feel uncofortable reacting as a normal, compassionate human being would react. This in the hopes of drawing you closer to one or an other extreme, where you feel more at home with those who share your views on who deserves to be eradicated.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:24:59am

re: #59 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

They’re responsible for what their government is doing, just like the American people are responsible for the things that Trump did.

I hope you mean that ironically inasmuch as neither Bibi nor DJT ever had a majority of votes from the people of their respective nations…

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A Cranky One  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:25:46am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:26:45am

High tech, 40 years ago:

1983: The BBC is HACKED Live On Air | Micro Live | Retro Tech | BBC Archive



..

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:26:59am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I hope you mean that ironically inasmuch as neither Bibi nor DJT ever had a majority of votes from the people of their respective nations…

I don’t. The people are responsible for their leaders. The actions of the American people made Donald Trump President.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:28:24am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The lack of participation to vote is itself a moral decision.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:28:53am

re: #64 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I don’t. The people are responsible for their leaders. The actions of the American people made Donald Trump President.

Nuance is dead.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:29:07am

re: #59 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

They’re responsible for what their government is doing, just like the American people are responsible for the things that Trump did.

That’s the flipside of self-determnation. A population will be called upon to suffer for the government they create, or even tolerate. This is not an ethical statement, it’s an historical one. It works if you are a falafel maker in Gaza, a used car dealer in Birmingham, a kinderschule tot in Dresden.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:35:25am

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

Nuance is dead.

Nuance is a waste of time when armor starts laying track.

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A Cranky One  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:36:56am

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:37:36am
Poland’s prime minister lost a vote of confidence on Monday, clearing the way for a broad coalition of pro-European Union parties led by Donald Tusk to take power.

The vote effectively ends eight years of rule by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, which critics say undermined judicial independence, turned state-owned media into a propaganda outlet and fomented prejudice against minorities such as immigrants and the LGBT community.

Tusk, a former European Council president, has vowed to mend Warsaw’s relations with Brussels and unblock billions in funds earmarked for Poland which have been withheld due to concerns over the rule of law.

Of 456 members of parliament who voted, 266 voted that they had no confidence in Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. He had the support of 190 lawmakers.

reuters.com

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sagehen  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:39:06am

re: #59 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

They’re responsible for what their government is doing, just like the American people are responsible for the things that Trump did.

You do realize, or should, that fewer than half the world’s Jews are in Israel. Diaspora Jews are overwhelmingly anti-Bibi.

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Unabogie  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:39:40am

I wish more people knew they were coming for your birth control and IVF next.

An Oklahoma candidate says parents who use IVF are “waging an assault against God” (Livestream)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:41:27am

re: #72 Unabogie

I wish more people knew they were coming for your birth control and IVF next.

and banning anything except missionary position in the dark between married couples for procreational purposes only.

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:42:19am

re: #72 Unabogie

I wish more people knew they were coming for your birth control and IVF next.

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Sperm worshipers.

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lawhawk  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:44:11am

re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Except when they’re doing orgies and drug/sex parties at the Villages, that is.

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:45:08am

re: #71 sagehen

You do realize, or should, that fewer than half the world’s Jews are in Israel. Diaspora Jews are overwhelmingly anti-Bibi.

The pre-war demonstrations against Bibi in Israel were a sight to behold.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:45:15am

re: #75 lawhawk

Except when they’re doing orgies and drug/sex parties at the Villages, that is.

Welcome to Gilead Idiocracy 451

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A Cranky One  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:45:41am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:48:25am

re: #78 A Cranky One

lol. Yes it does. One meow.

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austin_blue  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:49:05am

25º at the airport east of town this morning, and 31º in town.

Brrr…

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Dave In Austin  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:51:30am

re: #80 austin_blue

25º at the airport east of town this morning, and 31º in town.

Brrr…

25 out in the Holler this morning as well.
The wood stove got its 1st real workout of the year.

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:52:12am

re: #69 A Cranky One

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It says ‘Daphne’! Here’s Daphne turning into a tree on her date with Apollo.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:52:54am

re: #71 sagehen

You do realize, or should, that fewer than half the world’s Jews are in Israel. Diaspora Jews are overwhelmingly anti-Bibi.

Unless they vote, donate, or otherwise support parties in Israel, they’re not part of the immediate Gaza equation. When I got a good look at Gerry Adams, I regretted a small donation to Noraid.
tandfonline.com

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:53:34am

re: #82 wrenchwench

Good catch.

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:55:12am

re: #84 Decatur Deb

Good catch.

On my very limited tour of Italy, that was the best piece of sculpture I saw. And I saw a lot of the famous ones.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:56:34am

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Jay C  Dec 11, 2023 • 7:57:10am

re: #82 wrenchwench

It says ‘Daphne’! Here’s Daphne turning into a tree on her date with Apollo.

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He must have been REALLY pissed off: guess that’s why he carved up her tree like that…..

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A Cranky One  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:01:28am

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lawhawk  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:02:09am

re: #88 A Cranky One

You had one… job?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:02:30am

re: #88 A Cranky One

Hmm. Depends on what the letters stand for.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:05:27am

re: #85 wrenchwench

On my very limited tour of Italy, that was the best piece of sculpture I saw. And I saw a lot of the famous ones.

Sticking with the Pieta, but there is some great 19th Cent stuff. In the Eremitani museum there is a lifesize girl, deshaiblle, sitting and reading a book. Across the gallery is a similar girl with a drawing pad. When you look over her shoulder to the pad, you can see that she is drawing the reader.

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:07:03am

A birb to sit on Daphne’s fingers. Wordle 905 3/6*

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lawhawk  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:08:58am
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lawhawk  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:10:34am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:12:19am

re: #11 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your next Wordle was kind to me. As kind as a raptor.

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Birbie here.

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Group: 2,3,6

Very easy to go down the wrong track — which is what happened to the one with 6.

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Interesting Times  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:12:37am

re: #94 lawhawk

I don’t even need to read the details of the case to know that, if Thomas and Alito lose, the American people win.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:12:58am

re: #11 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your next Wordle was kind to me. As kind as a raptor.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:14:48am

re: #91 Decatur Deb

Sticking with the Pieta, but there is some great 19th Cent stuff. In the Eremitani museum there is a lifesize girl, deshaiblle, sitting and reading a book. Across the gallery is a similar girl with a drawing pad. When you look over her shoulder to the pad, you can see that she is drawing the reader.

Found The Reading Girl, by Magni (1861). Can’t find the other, probably a later work.

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:15:56am

Mastodon

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Jay C  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:16:24am

re: #96 Interesting Times

I don’t even need to read the details of the case to know that, if Thomas and Alito lose, the American people win.

I quite agree, but it sounds like the SCOTUS case was to challenge a “conversion-therapy” ban (?) - and that presumably, the Court decided NOT to take the case (thus keeping the ban in place) (?). Which of course, prompted whinging from the wingnuts….(?)

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:16:46am

re: #94 lawhawk

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I don’t want to click the images because I’m not going to Xitter for any reason whatsoever, but if I’m picking up the gist correctly, Thomas and Alito would hear the petition because they seem to think state governments have a First Amendment right to force other peoples’ kids to be tortured for religious reasons? That’s pretty fucked up there, boys.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:17:33am

Tweet.

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:19:30am

Favorite local sculpture.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:20:33am

re: #101 Nerdy Fish

Basically. Alito and Thomas indicated they considered it a free speech/freedom of religion issue.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:23:42am

re: #103 wrenchwench

Most famous local sculpture:

smithsonianmag.com

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:29:48am

re: #105 Decatur Deb

Most famous local sculpture:

smithsonianmag.com

VERY interesting.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:31:00am

Go-Go’s Guitarist Jane Wiedlin Claims Influential Rock DJ Sexually Abused Her as a Teen

Six women now accuse famed former KROQ DJ and club owner Rodney Bingenheimer of molesting them when they were underage

rollingstone.com

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:33:31am

re: #105 Decatur Deb

Most famous local sculpture:

smithsonianmag.com

On Mastodon, I follow some who celebrate Weevil Wednesday.

Mastodon

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:37:40am

re: #78 A Cranky One

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:38:58am

re: #109 Eventual Carrion

If Milli Vanilli fell in the woods, would someone else make a sound?

Yes you know that’s true…ooo…ooo…ooo….

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:41:24am

re: #65 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The lack of participation to vote is itself a moral decision.

Not when you are in states that deliberately make it difficult to vote, especially for people of color, including purging of voting records or having too few polling locations or making voting by mail difficult or having poll taxes like in Florida.

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Dangerman  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:41:41am

so here’s a thought made up of several smaller thoughts

trump (actually one of ‘his’ pacs) just paid $900k for that idiot professor/accountant’s testimony

meanwhile Giuliani is in a world of financial hurt and basically has no money. he’s run out of lawyers cause he’s not paying them. since some of them are suing him for unpaid fees, no one else is gonna take him on.

estimates are he’d need maybe ‘only’ $300k for the Georgia trial. you know the RICO one. where TFG is a defendant.

tfg has already said he wont foot rudys legal bills.

see where this is going?

does rudy flip on tfg and get a sweetheart deal cause he cant afford the retainer for even a third stringer?

does tfg eat a little crow, somehow come up with the money and cover nyc’s mayor?

stay tuned.
i mean not here. i dont have a freakin clue.
just tuned in.
in general.
you know what i mean.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:42:24am

re: #100 Jay C

I quite agree, but it sounds like the SCOTUS case was to challenge a “conversion-therapy” ban (?) - and that presumably, the Court decided NOT to take the case (thus keeping the ban in place) (?). Which of course, prompted whinging from the wingnuts….(?)

Because they feel that they have to be allowed to take medical steps to interfere with a person’s choice about their identity as their religion teaches them that it is an abomination.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:43:10am

re: #71 sagehen

You do realize, or should, that fewer than half the world’s Jews are in Israel. Diaspora Jews are overwhelmingly anti-Bibi.

And Israel currently has a minority government, not reflecting the will of the majority of the residents.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:43:57am

re: #109 Eventual Carrion

If Milli Vanilli fell in the woods, would someone else make a sound?

One of the members tried to commit suicide by jumping out of his high-rise apartment but gave it away when the phoned the studio and asked them to send over someone to scream while he fell…

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A Cranky One  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:43:58am

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:51:48am

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:52:06am

re: #97 Eventual Carrion

4/6 Wordle here

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Embarrassed here.

My connections was near disastrous because I was blind to the blue associations — was finally a total guess and realized my error.
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:56:03am

re: #117 wrenchwench

I am really sondering what the heck mastodon is really about other than quaint hashtags

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:57:09am

Mastodon

Translation:

At the end of my Kappennaschvogel (Green Honeycreeper) triology, here comes the male.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 11, 2023 • 8:59:18am

re: #120 wrenchwench

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That is a pretty bird.

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lawhawk  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:01:34am

Here’s my shocked face:

Trump declines to testify at his fraud trial, despite claiming that he’s got the evidence proving that he didn’t engage in fraud.

The problem, of course, is that he can say whatever he wants outside the courtroom (and yeah, that includes violating the myriad gag orders on him in his various civil and criminal cases), but he has to tell the truth in court, and lying in court expands his legal jeopardy with perjury charges on top of everything else he faces.

With that said, his defense will probably rest shortly, having expended millions on expert witnesses who were paid to say what they did, and doesn’t overcome the fact that Trump and his family had fiduciary responsibility to submit number that were not invented out of thin air.

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:05:03am

re: #57 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

With the Jewish people as the tormenters in Gaza. It’s horrible.

re: #58 darthstar

It’s the Israeli government, not the Jewish people. This has nothing to do with faith or religion. It’s about economics and control and real estate value.

Hello! It’s Hamas, not Israel, that is tormenting people in Gaza, remember they still have 138 hostages, many of whom are being used as sex slaves. Hamas is stealing all the humanitarian aid & keeping it for themselves.

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:05:50am

re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am really sondering what the heck mastodon is really about other than quaint hashtags

Mastodon

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jeffreyw  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:09:58am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:11:34am

re: #125 jeffreyw

Ev’ry woman crazy ‘bout a sharp-clawed cat…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:13:59am

Underwater lake

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:14:19am

More grim news on the ol’ dead mall front…

Mall landlord PREIT has filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years as it struggles to cope with a retail property landscape disrupted by the pandemic, saying it has arranged financing and is reorganizing to reduce its overall indebtedness by about $880 million.

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust said on Monday it has a prepackaged plan supported by 100% of its first and second lien lenders. The Philadelphia-based real estate investment trust had about $1.1 billion in debt due on Sunday, and in November warned that it would not be able to make those payments. PREIT owns and operates more than 18.3 million square feet of retail space in eight states across the eastern United States, with 23 retail properties including the Springfield Town Center in Virginia just south of Washington, D.C.

For the proposed restructuring, PREIT has received commitments for new money debtor-in-possession and exit-revolver financing in an aggregate amount of roughly $135 million from a diverse group of investors led by Redwood Capital Management and Nut Tree Capital Management. That plan will “reduce its total indebtedness by approximately $880 million,” according to PREIT.

costar.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:16:22am

re: #128 Dr Lizardo

Kids today don’t even realize what spending a day at the mall was like pre-Amazon.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:19:04am

re: #127 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Isn’t there supposed to be a little island in the middle, upon which is a small altar holding a bowl full of magical water?

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:21:10am

re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg

Kids today don’t even realize what spending a day at the mall was like pre-Amazon.

The halcyon mall-rat days.

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wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:21:15am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:21:48am

re: #131 Dr Lizardo

The halcyon mall-rat days.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:22:19am

Ordered 2 new gig bags, one for my mid-depth Ovation and one for my Jazzmaster. The Jazzmaster gig bag box is marked “Fragile”. I thought that was funny.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:23:15am

re: #132 wrenchwench

Clams just want us to believe they are pacifists to lure us into a false sense of security. As you can see, they are set on a path toward world domination.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:25:21am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Clams just want us to believe they are pacifists to lure us into a false sense of security. As you can see, they are set on a path toward world domination.

That’s why it’s so important to eat clam chowder.

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Jay C  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:30:59am

re: #132 wrenchwench

images.app.goo.gl

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:31:18am

re: #130 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Isn’t there supposed to be a little island in the middle, upon which is a small altar holding a bowl full of magical water?

🤔 Hmm, wrong cave, I think. This one is on an island, but has no islands (that they showed us.)

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:31:37am

re: #131 Dr Lizardo

I have not been to King of Prussia Mall since COVID-19 started. I did go to Willow Grove Park Mall for a cell phone replacement but that is it.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:35:33am

re: #139 PhillyPretzel ✅

I have not been to King of Prussia Mall since COVID-19 started. I did go to Willow Grove Park Mall for a cell phone replacement but that is it.

There’s three main malls in Ostrava, and all of them are thriving post-pandemic. One of them, Futurum (the first American-style mall in Ostrava) has actually bounced back. Prior to the pandemic, it was definitely a dying mall. From what I’ve heard, a new management team took over and successfully turned it around.

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Teukka  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:39:11am

⚠️ CW/TW: The Derp is Strong in This One. Spoilered to preserve public sanity. ⚠️

Iframe


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Dangerman  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:41:09am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:41:51am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Clams just want us to believe they are pacifists to lure us into a false sense of security. As you can see, they are set on a path toward world domination.

And remember that L. Ron Asshole made clams an integral part of $¢ientology!

en.wikipedia.org.

In Hubbard’s Scientology: A History of Man, he asserts humans follow his notion of the “genetic line” of the “genetic entity”, which include clams (as well as sloths, volcanoes, and a “sense of being eaten”), and certain human psychological problems descend from difficulties these clams experienced.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:43:39am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Clams just want us to believe they are pacifists to lure us into a false sense of security. As you can see, they are set on a path toward world domination.

But they failed when Howard Johnsons went out of business.

Operation Tendersweet failed to accomplish their goal.

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silverdolphin  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:44:24am

SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To WA Ex-Gay Torture Ban

That Gorsuch did not grant certiorari is a surprise. This is good news since the argument was the ban violated the 1st Amendment.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:45:23am

re: #143 Joe Bacon ✅

And remember that L. Ron Asshole made clams an integral part of $¢ientology!

en.wikipedia.org.

In Hubbard’s Scientology: A History of Man, he asserts humans follow his notion of the “genetic line” of the “genetic entity”, which include clams (as well as sloths, volcanoes, and a “sense of being eaten”), and certain human psychological problems descend from difficulties these clams experienced.

Yes, living down in the mud and eating fish shit, your sex life consists of squirting out sperm and hoping that it drifts into a waiting female in the currents…and the only decent thing you do come up worth in your uneventful life is robbed from you to hang around some old matron’s chicken neck…that would cause anyone problems

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silverdolphin  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:49:27am

List of key Golden Globe nominees

And there is a new award this year - Best cinematic and box office achievement (new award). Looks like the Swifties will be happy.

“Barbie”

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”

“John Wick: Chapter 4”

“Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1”

“Oppenheimer”

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”

“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour”

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:49:57am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, living down in the mud and eating fish shit, your sex life consists of squirting out sperm and hoping that it drifts into a waiting female in the currents…and the only decent thing you do come up worth in your uneventful life is robbed from you to hang around some old matron’s chicken neck…that would cause anyone problems

Elvis Presley - Do the Clam (1965)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:50:22am

So Barbie, Oppie and Taylor are the only ones that are not sequels

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Backwoods Sleuth  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:51:26am

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:53:48am

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:55:18am

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darthstar  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:55:50am

re: #150 Backwoods Sleuth

Jack Smith is putting an end to Trump’s bullshit. Let’s see if the Supremes feel loyalty to him by slow walking this decision.

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:55:57am

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:57:01am

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:57:25am

re: #150 Backwoods Sleuth

Shit. Will the Sinister Six go as far as to give Trump a pass?

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darthstar  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:58:42am

Middle aged goth dude with a receding purple hairline just got on the train and is looking at hi stack of D&D cards.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 9:59:17am

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

Shit. Will the Sinister Six go as far as to give Trump a pass?

Leonard Leo is on the phone with his six stooges right now ordering them to do what he says.

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Belafon  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:05:04am

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

Shit. Will the Sinister Six go as far as to give Trump a pass?

We’ll see which theory in this thread is correct. Will they go along with Trump, or will they choose to keep their power as someone postulated above?

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:08:38am

re: #159 Belafon

We’ll see which theory in this thread is correct. Will they go along with Trump, or will they choose to keep their power as someone postulated above?

Will they end democracy and our Constitution or will they uphold the rule of law? Roberts will vote to uphold the law — he has become concerned about his legacy. The rest? I don’t know. Maybe we will be lucky and lightning will strike Alito and Thomas? (Does that comment violate terms of this site against wishing harm to others?)

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silverdolphin  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:10:00am

re: #159 Belafon

We’ll see which theory in this thread is correct. Will they go along with Trump, or will they choose to keep their power as someone postulated above?

The whole point is that Smith wants to know now rather than have the normal appeals case take up months before the decision.

And thus we will find out if the President can have someone murdered on 5th Avenue without repercussion.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:11:25am

re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter

Will they end democracy and our Constitution or will they uphold the rule of law? Roberts will vote to uphold the law — he has become concerned about his legacy. The rest? I don’t know. Maybe we will be lucky and lightning will strike Alito and Thomas? (Does that comment violate terms of this site against wishing harm to others?)

Alito and Thomas will make noises about the “weaponization of the DOJ” and vote in favor of absolute immunity. The rest of them will tell Trump to go fuck himself.

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lawhawk  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:12:14am

Habba is in real deep trouble, if these allegations are true (and I have almost no doubt that this is, in fact, true):

Trump’s Worst Lawyer, Alina Habba, May Be Disbarred For This

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:14:50am

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:16:24am

Mastodon

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Jay C  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:18:05am

re: #150 Backwoods Sleuth

I really wonder why Smith is doing this - and now?

Yes, I know that Trump’s “immunity defense” is bullshit, and based mainly on his own megalomania, with little/no regard for actual law - BUT: given that the current SCOTUS is beholden to its (biased, partisan, ideologue) Asshole Bloc, the downside here (AFAICT) is that said Bloc*
might issue a one-off Opinion (a la Bush v. Gore), ruling that Donald Trump was/is legally immune for any and all actions taken while President, which would have the effect (again, AFAICT) of immediately killing Smith’s case(s). And handing The Orange Anus an unambiguous “victory”/”exoneration”. Does. Not. Make. Sense.

*CJ Roberts *possibly* not included

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lawhawk  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:18:32am

re: #164 Vicious Babushka

In a related theme, I was on Staten Island this past weekend, and we were celebrating Hannukah, and all of a sudden we heard loud music and honking horns. The Mrs. looked out the window and saw a caravan of cars with menorahs on them - it was a Mitzvah tank parade - Chabad came to Staten Island and this block, among others, to spread cheer.

It was the first time we’d seen one of these in any of the places I’ve lived, and one of the cars came around to hand gelt out to the kids.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:20:14am

re: #167 lawhawk

I saw something like that in Center City last year.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:29:37am

re: #166 Jay C

I really wonder why Smith is doing this - and now?

Yes, I know that Trump’s “immunity defense” is bullshit, and based mainly on his own megalomania, with little/no regard for actual law - BUT: given that the current SCOTUS is beholden to its (biased, partisan, ideologue) Asshole Bloc, the downside here (AFAICT) is that said Bloc*
might issue a one-off Opinion (a la Bush v. Gore), ruling that Donald Trump was/is legally immune for any and all actions taken while President, which would have the effect (again, AFAICT) of immediately killing Smith’s case(s). And handing The Orange Anus an unambiguous “victory”/”exoneration”. Does. Not. Make. Sense.

*CJ Roberts *possibly* not included

Smith is doing this because he knows how important it is to get this case tried and a verdict rendered before the election. I really don’t believe that there are five votes for absolute presidential immunity; I don’t think there are more than three, max.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:29:43am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Clams just want us to believe they are pacifists to lure us into a false sense of security. As you can see, they are set on a path toward world domination.

The Story of Reuben Clamzo and His Strange Daughter in the Key of A

And… this gets you some Arlo Guthrie.

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jeffreyw  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:31:06am

I have poor latke-fu

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:33:26am

re: #161 silverdolphin

The whole point is that Smith wants to know now rather than have the normal appeals case take up months before the decision.

And thus we will find out if the President can have someone murdered on 5th Avenue without repercussion.

And be interesting how the Supremes feel if they turn the Mango Menace down and he starts spewing his standard threats at them. That might get some other judges to decide to stop handling him with kid gloves.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:33:31am

re: #169 No Malarkey!

Smith is doing this because he knows how important it is to get this case tried and a verdict rendered before the election. I really don’t believe that there are five votes for absolute presidential immunity; I don’t think there are more than three, max.

Alito and Thomas, definitely. Maybe Kavanaugh.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:35:26am

re: #173 Dr Lizardo

Alito and Thomas, definitely. Maybe Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh has kind of become Roberts’ mini-me, and Roberts definitely isn’t going to grant Trump absolute power.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:35:51am

re: #173 Dr Lizardo

Alito and Thomas, definitely. Maybe Kavanaugh.

With some additional pretzel twisting to make any such decision apply for Trump but not Biden.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:37:17am

Veggie Latkes!

Ingredients for Veggie Latkes

3 carrots
2 zucchini
2 onions
2 large Yukon gold potatoes (3/4 pound)
1/2 cup avocado oil (enough to cover the bottom of your pan by 1/2 inch)
4 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 1/2 teaspoons salt, plus more to taste
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 cup all-purpose flour
Sour cream, to serve
Chives, to serve

Steps:
Trim all of the vegetables and peel the carrots.

Using the wide holes on a box grater, shred the carrots, zucchini, onions, and potatoes. (Do the potatoes last so they don’t have time to brown. I like to cut larger potatoes in half so they’re easier to grip.)

Line a large bowl with a tea towel and add the grated vegetables.

Grab the ends of the tea towel and squeeze the water out of the vegetables into the bowl. (There are a lot of watery vegetables, so there should be a lot of water.)

In a large skillet, heat the avocado oil over medium heat.

Pour the water out of the bowl and add the shredded vegetables. Add the eggs, baking powder, salt, pepper, and flour.

Mix together with your hands so everything is evenly combined and no streaks remain.

Using a large scoop, carefully add about a 1/4 cup of the vegetable mixture to the hot oil and flatten slightly with a spatula.

Cook the latkes for 2-3 minutes on each side until golden brown. As you cook, you may need to add more oil to the pan since the latkes will soak it up.

Transfer the latkes to a wire cooling rack and season with salt.

Serve while warm with sour cream and chives.

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Jay C  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:42:43am

re: #175 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

With some additional pretzel twisting to make any such decision apply for Trump but not Biden.

So maybe someone should point out that ruling that Presidents have unlimited immunity for their actions while in office means that Joe Biden could have a squad of US Marshals arrest Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, for something or other, and have them flown off to Guantanamo to idle in a cell until whenever… And not be legally liable for his actions.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Dec 11, 2023 • 10:42:44am

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