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26/2/24 Clever Name Here dba "Black Rod" 11

Lies, damn lies, and … well, actually just more lies, as it turns out.

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  • brightersideoflife: It makes total sense though. Especially when you think about how detesting Muskrat is as a human being, and how…
  • brightersideoflife: If you told me you wrote every bit of text on that web site, I'd believe you.
  • brightersideoflife: I don't understand how morons, fundies, magats, and qanon dumbfucks just cannot learn about the basic thing of PROJECTION. Jim…
  • bryanlsplinter: The Republican losing streak continues. In TEXAS In Texas, Democrats narrow GOP’s U.S. House majority, land state Senate upset
  • bryanlsplinter: Elon (That Cave Diver is a Pedo) Musk begging for an invitation to Rape Island is just ... fuck, I…
  • brightersideoflife: I know it's Marvel movie and all, and I certainly have not read any of the comics to know how…
  • SplinterRIP: ...I would not be the first & likely not the last to make the observation...but...it's their version of convincing the…
  • ManchuCandidate: Nate Fischer is a fucking Dunning Kreuger infected idiot. Has a billionaire ever gotten their hands dirty? Have they actually…
  • SplinterRIP: ...I know it doesn't help but I'm pretty sure I'm not any less sorry about that than anyone else?
  • ManchuCandidate: I'm not even talking about protecting Corporate Dims, but the fact that it seems QAnon wasn't entirely fucking wrong... It…
  • ManchuCandidate: And it's all horrible.
  • ManchuCandidate: No wonder Biden kept the Epstein files under wraps. Might make me wonder if a bunch of rich garbage people…
  • Luigi Vuoto: That's a lot to take in.
  • MatthewCrawley: Look who's back! https://gourmetmagazine.net/ Also, imagine getting an email from Jeffrey Epstein chatting about the inferiority of Black people. As…
  • farscythe: nice!
  • Luigi Vuoto: I'm for whomever is playing the Patriots.
  • Miluly: Manchu, i'm 100% with you, on the "Anti-Minnesota's Eastern Teams" (seriously we had sooooooo many years of Inept Front Offices…
  • Miluly: It's allllllll over Bluesky right now--*ESPECIALLY* the ties to Thiel & the Gawker Lawsuit! Because an email from J.E. to…
  • Miluly: From locals posting things on YouTube--at First Ave yesterday😉 https://youtu.be/LLMKAxFtjB8?si=9ULVgRmkVbaO91J6
  • HammerZeitgeist: I loved Twisted Metal S1! Let me/us know if S2 delivers too
  • farscythe: seriously...even the suggestion would be serious legal trouble for most shits not on man...
  • ManchuCandidate: https://www.youtube.com/live/QXx0jWoP6RE?si=quYps4m4MID6bwcn It's fucking disgusting. Says a lot about Preznit Pedo.
  • farscythe: also also...unrelated but like a bunch of epstein related shit got dropped...and its some pretty nasty shit... and its crickets?…
  • farscythe: so...im currently watching twisted metal...and honestly..its pretty entertaining but the logistics dont work man...and that irks me really whole cities…
  • farscythe: huh...nas starting at the end of the story...and then working his way back to the start... thats kinda how my…
  • farscythe: i still really really need to listen to more tom waits
  • farscythe: eh..whilst i have no real opinion on the value of tiktok...as i dont use it.. it is a massive platform...with…
  • SplinterRIP: ...I mean...I never was "on" tik tok any more than I was "on" twitter...might even have browsed it less...but...another one…
  • KeitelBlacksmith: Tom Waits - The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House) https://youtu.be/0uRX-XfpHr4?si=IFxKoa40qelYSBkh
  • Luigi Vuoto: https://youtu.be/ROBX8icn9gQ?si=pCsc6o7ZfxJNnpAz https://youtu.be/IVXJmfd3cmg?si=_CcqW3LoV0clXRlM
  • SplinterRIP: ...preach
  • bryanlsplinter: I like Starfleet Academy just fine. Honestly, on changes and reboots, I long ago (thanks to exposure to comic books,…
  • SplinterRIP: ...it's...too perfect...it was probably "girlfriend in a coma", too ...truly...silent witness does the vanishing with a smiths backing track might…
  • Luigi Vuoto: That reminds me: one of the Silent Witness episodes we watched last night had The Smiths playing while Dr Nikki…
  • SplinterRIP: ...I know it's not really similar in any way to fondue beyond sometimes people keep it simmering at the table…
  • SplinterRIP: ...I shouldn't laugh...but...you know how sometimes the zen masters would claim to be meditating while standing under freezing water dropping…
  • HammerZeitgeist: I love 🫕! Craving nostalgia, I ate it twice this December... which was admittedly one time too many. I have…
  • SplinterRIP: ...I could have sworn the place I'd seen someone say a thing I thought was beautifully stated was bluesky but…
  • Luigi Vuoto: AND I'M STILL READING JOHN MILTON'S PARADISE LOST! I SWEAR THIS WINTER WILL END ME.
  • SplinterRIP: ...there's been not a few misfires...but even if it wasn't for the almost mythologised reasons attributed to the guy...roddenbury's equivalent…
  • SplinterRIP: ...ok...I think I actually had a thing that was, like, not mindless & worth mentioning but now my brain is…
  • SplinterRIP: ...I mean kurosawa gets credit for everything almost...star wars took the whole thing where the audience is led through events…
  • ManchuCandidate: I really grew to hate the episode Turnabout Intruder where Star Fleet sez: Only dicks allowed to be captain and…
  • Clever Name Here dba "Black Rod": The “Park the Enterprise in the ocean” is even dumber in the second movie, lol. But those criticisms don’t bother…
  • SplinterRIP: ...I did not participate in the i09 nerdfight you cite...but...I...may have grown up early enough in relation to such things…
  • ManchuCandidate: I enjoyed the Magnificent Seven. Seems cliche now, but it's still one of my favorites. A lighter less gorier and…
  • SplinterRIP: ...mrs luigi has made at least one proxy-posting appearance so I'm 100% convinced that our esteemed colleague is completely immune…
  • SplinterRIP: ...as someone who has spent a great many sunday &/or saturday evenings in the company of british relatives...honestly...you have no…
  • ManchuCandidate: Is your wife or the various animals on your farm plotting your demise?

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