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Good time to repost this Denis Leary song

Denis Leary - Asshole


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4:40 min music video
#music #DenisLeary



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Might as well throw another log on the fire even though I haven't finished three other books I've already started...

(comment on "The Celluloid Closet : Homosexuality in the Movies")

The Celluloid Closet : Homosexuality in the Movies (1981)

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omg i found wilson 😭

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Many parts of Cast Away came from him, some with the director. Like they knew they needed another person to interact with Hanks on the island. He found the idea to make it himself, his blood on the ball. Solved the problem of finding another human on the island and (spoiler)

#tomhanks #arimelber #msnbc
45min everything you ever wanted to know about Tom Hanks
May 17 2023

You can see a great 2 min. montage of many of his movies.

https://youtu.be/mXDxV2YU3OY


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We all regularly see the successes of others, but rarely discuss what it actually takes to get there. Normalize talking about that other part...

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I'm a consequentialist like Josh. So your arguments, though beautifully and powerfully stated, didn't convince me that the DOJ made the right decision. What does convince me is the slim chance that by some fluke, justice may prevail in this case.
WTF that indictment is ruthless. This is lazy or cynical or both.

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Do liberals understand that by enforcing the rule of law in the face of overt, confessed-to federal crimes, they are destroying norms we don’t care about and unleashing a retaliatory abuse of the system that we were planning to do if we felt like it anyway?
something something Harry Reid’s fault we did something we’d threatened to do twenty times in the previous decade something something
norms are meant to be destroyed.

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I have never been a Trump supporter, but if he is acquitted, on even one of the 37 federal charges he’s facing, I will have no choice but to go vote for him for the third time.

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“Go big or… wait, where are you going?”

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What the hell is going on here? #taxi
#taxi

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one of the all time best casts and programs.

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I’m starting to think that many of the people who chanted “lock her up” at Trump rallies in 2016 did not do so out of an authentic commitment to the principle of equality before the law.
GQP and law and order. Is oxy moron

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I made oatmeal cranberry cookies for tonight’s road trip. Used the America’s Test Kitchen oatmeal raisin recipe.

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@48kRAM not that anyone *wants* to go to Spokane but need to 😂
I will take four dozen, please, for ‘research.’

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The US Is Building Factories At a Wildly Fast Rate https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/06/09/2054234/the-us-is-building-factories-at-a-wildly-fast-rate?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed (Me: Way to go Joe!)

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Legal experts react after Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon assigned to Mar-a-Lago case https://www.rawstory.com/aileen-cannon-2661172143/

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Of course that unqualified hack gets the preliminary assignment. It’s Florida after all.

Channelling your inner Lloyd Bridges there, nice.

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It’s almost the weekend. Let’s tie one on. 🍷🍾🍸🍹

#Funny #Fun #Humor #LOL #Humour #Weekend

A couple attempted to photograph a jumping picture by a deserted railroad track in a forest, but the camera angle gives another impression entirely. The poster says: Forgot to reposition the camera to take a jump pic; looks like we hung ourselves. (The couple’s heads and shoulders are out of frame and their arms hang down to their sides.)

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Large Language Models are a perfect Rorschach test. If your job involves producing paragraph after paragraph of perfect-sounding bollocks with only an accidental connection to reality, a machine being able to do that very efficiently will sound apocalyptic.

If your job involves carefully analysing observable facts, drawing reasoned conclusions from said facts, and acting accordingly, well, you’ve got a job so long as people care about facts.

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That is why some lawyers fear AI and others do not.

@davidallengreen in both law and software, once the hype cycle dies down, there will be some really good, specific AI-ish tools that’ll lessen the painful bits of both jobs and allow smart, diligent people more time to focus on the important bits.

In legal tech: ML-based tooling that speeds up document review, and statistical analysis to try and spot when, say, emails/texts have been omitted.

In computing: compilers are getting much nicer and more helpful than they used to be.


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This country is falling apart. How is it possible that Trump was indicted for multiple federal crimes and not [a politician I don’t like] for [a crime that never occurred]?
It’s going to be their last vestige of distractions.

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The Onion: Ford Unveils New 4-Lane SUV #humor
A little off key as the pickups seem to have replaced the SUVs as the aboundingly dinosauric product line.

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Analysis | Trump indictment poses challenges for Biden

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Today, my four-year-old was scrolling through Twitter when he came across Tucker’s show, turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why won’t the gays leave Cracker Barrel alone?” When I told him “Because we live under compulsory homosexuality,” he started crying.

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I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if he keeps getting indicted, I will have no choice but to vote for him the third time.

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Donald Trump should not be allowed to be nour next president. But he should be allowed to break the law repeatedly without fear of prosecution.

by Ron DeSantis and Mike Pence

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Trump indictment puts Democrats on defensive

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The Supreme Court just went against the GOP: this is a BFD! Why did they do this? Are we seeing a repeat of 1937? Is the influence of their billionaire donors waning? Or is this just a one-off?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/are-some-justices-ready-to-do-the-aff

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The Supreme Court threw us a bone. Roberts is concerned they are polling so low. There are still bad rulings to come. Hence the bone throw.
this is more legal dithering and bullshit. Fascist are not deterred by a tiny “legal” setback, because they know the law is a joke, they know money buys politicians, judges, etc.

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OMG FINALLY found a 3rd party app for Mastodon that makes it look/feel less like I’m using a chat room! And it’s by the makers of Tweetbot, which I used for years before Elon blew up Twitter. It’s called Ivory. (NOT an ad, btw, I’m just genuinely excited to find it.) 👍🏼
@martlund I switched to @MonaApp when it came out. It’s completely customizable and fixed the minor quibbles I had with Ivory.

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As seen in the original Doom, this Cacodemon was sculpted by hand with epoxy putty.
"floats" ~3 inches tall.

#ScaleModel #Sculpture #Doom

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More angles around the Cacodemon sculpt.

Plus a scale shot with a space marine.

#ScaleModel #Sculpture #Doom #Cacodemon

Rear view of the Cacodemon sculpt. Side view of the Cacodemon sculpt.
Scale shot of the Cacodemon sculpt with a space marine miniature. Front view of the Cacodemon sculpt.

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Crucial to PGA’s acceptance of the merger, according to a knowledgeable insider, was LIV’s commitment to dismember no more than three Golf Digest writers per year.
Trying this joke format a 2nd time, only slightly different than yesterday? day before? "How do you use a bonesaw on the fairway?!" ... "Badly" -Dad #SorryNotSorry

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We wanted to understand what is causing the intense wildfires in Canada. So we talked to three unvaccinated truckers at a Tim Horton's near Ottawa.

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CNN and Twitter both become right-wing propaganda outlets. Here’s why liberal media bias is still a problem.

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Grim reaper knocking on doors meme. Over the first door is the Forbes cover featuring Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes. On the second is the Forbes cover with FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried. On the third is the Forbes cover with Binance's Changpeng Zhao. On the door where the grim reaper is knocking, the Forbes cover with Circle's Jeremy Allaire.
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Capitalist Tools
I hope the CEO of #Reddit is soon on the cover


I haven't been following the Reddit API mishegas since I don't use the platform at all. This post by the lead developer of one of their biggest clients, Apollo, is pretty indicting though. Someone asked what fediverse alternative there is for Reddit. I hope there is one. The less we rely on these concentrated portals for our social network needs the better. I also wouldn't be surprised if Reddit pulls down this post, sorry I don't have any faith in any of these Silicon Valley companies any longer, so hopefully someone is archiving it somewhere. #reddit #apollo #fediverse https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

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Lemmy’s the only one I’ve heard of at this point.

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Great peice from Melissa Mira Grant (h/t @e_urq for the share).

Be critical of media euphemisms like "backlash" to describe the recent phenomenon of terror threats and against even the mildest corporate expressions of support for queer people.

"The lazy coverage of the battlefield at Target helps these extreme groups succeed in painting themselves as merely reacting to some queer aggression, made possible in part by a political press punting on the story..."

https://newrepublic.com/article/173382/rights-war-target-lgbtq


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Me every WWDC when I open my project in the new Xcode #wwdc23
Meme showing the show cover art for the “Will It Blend?” series with the title of the show changed to “Will It Compile?” and the logo replaced by the Xcode beta icon. A guy in a lab coat with safety glasses stands smiling behind a large blender.

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Exciting news! 😍
Join us for Flutter & Friends, a dual track conference in Stockholm from September 3-5th.
Learn from inspiring speakers, participate in hands-on workshops, and explore the city through a selection of social activities. Don't miss out! 💙

There are still a few days left to get a ticket at the Early Bird price! 💸
https://flutterfriends.dev

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Watching a video on discussing how to describe gender dysphoria to cis people by a trans-ally YouTube personality I was fed an ad by YouTube for some Epoch Times "docuseries" on the topic. It was as vile as you can imagine. I tried to sit through the whole thing but at the 1 minute mark I reported it. Nothing will happen because Google is more than happy to sell ads to far right wing propaganda outfits like Epoch Times. I do wonder if Google serves ads from pro-LGBT organizations to people watching right wing channel content though, whether on purpose (those orgs pay for it) or on accident (association of terms without context). In fact although I don't follow or watch any far right content I'm constantly fed ads from far right wing organizations like Hillsdale College, PragerU, Epoch Times (in general), Ron DeSantis PAC, Trump PAC, etc. It seems like yet another asymmetric warfare front by the right against everyone else and one that is unopposed. #uspoli #google #YouTube #lgbt
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Yes, I remember how advertising-naive I was as a kid, so my kids rarely saw any TV commercial running when I wasn't mocking the message. Of course, often they would tune me out or mock me for mocking the ads. Mission accomplished. :-)
In hindsight it is clear how impressionable I was as a kid with product choices driven solely by the ads on TV. The specific products I remember really wanting that were outside our normal purchase patterns were Sunkist orange soda and Irish Spring soap. I'm sure there were others as well. For the record I hate orange today but Irish Spring is my go to soap right now (but that changes over the years back and forth).
These days, I'm a loyal buyer of Dr. Bronner's soap, although I also make occasional direct purchases from a local soap maker who sells at our Farmers Market. :-)