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matthew @pahuski.com · 21h

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Cold🪦Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 5d

some of you are quite bad at camouflage and it shows

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

Now more than ever it is important to find community.

A sign hanging in S&P Lunch reading "a proud member of the consolidated sandwich group."

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Levitating

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Ruin a holiday movie by making it a Halloween movie:

Yojimb O'lantern

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

Ruin a holiday movie by making it a Halloween movie:

Blood, Actually bsky.app/profile/gene...

general BOOsician @generalmusician.bsky.social · 1d

Ruin a holiday movie by making it a Halloween movie:

It's A Wonderful Knife 🔪

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Australia's biggest race, the Bathurst 1000, was this weekend, and it sounds like it was a really good one. If you've never experienced Mount Panorama Circuit, it's one of the best onboards out there. You might be able to tell which parts of this video made me literally shout

Mount Panorama lap record onboard - 1m56.6054s with Jules Gounon in a Mercedes-AMG GT3

YouTube video by V8 Sleuth

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Just in case anyone missed their opportunity with Franklin, I’d also gladly take a seven or eight-figure check to stay away from State College

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

The Tet Offensive has arrived in Carolina

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 2d

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

I already have something like this in my pocket, it’s called my fantasy football group chat

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

It constantly amazes me how many people took “criticism of Zionism isn’t inherently antisemitic” to mean “it’s ok as long as you say ‘Zionist’ instead of ‘Jew’ ”

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

spinning tonight: it’s a classic for a reason

Record jacket for Miles Davis’ album, Kind of Blue, standing on top of a turntable, the record itself visible below the clear turntable dust cover

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

The Good Score is everywhere for Pitt fans with eyes to see

Screenshot of Transit app widget on lock screen. Directions say “Go in 9 minutes” with an estimated bus arrival in 13 minutes

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

so that’s what that was. wasn’t looking at the screen and heard “catholic” a lot

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

the forecast was for the recipe-specified amount of garlic, and we are getting what everyone actually puts in

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

the Quakers were really onto something with peaches and cream oatmeal. and the whole pacifism thing too

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

the lady from that SEC commercial with a sort of painful looking facial expression, caption "it just means more"

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

Frequently sharing a night with HIMYM and Big Bang Theory can’t hurt. Feels like recent CBS is full of those sitcoms. Mike and Molly also got six. Mom got EIGHT!

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matthew @pahuski.com · 3d

snacking on garlic bread primarily to avoid giving in and turning on my heat

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matthew @pahuski.com · 3d

Ben Cherington sits in his office listening to a Duke Ellington record, sipping Cutty Sark and smoking a cigarette. As he gazes at the otherworldly beautiful ears of his secretary and is reminded of a lost love from 20 years ago, it all becomes clear to him: they've bid on the wrong Murakami

MLB Trade Rumors @mlbtraderumors.bsky.social · 3d

Munetaka Murakami To Be Posted This Offseason

Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami is going to be posted by the Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball, reports Mark Feinsand of MLB.com. It has long been expected that this would be the case, as it was reported three years ago that the plan was for Murakami to make the MLB move after 2025, but this…

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