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Joad The Wet Sprocket
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NoVA's getting a Groverhaus because I guess Hampton Roads can't have anything
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Square Enix Now Going Platform-To-Platform Trying To Sell Tomb Raider 2013 To People
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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was esther's body even cold???
A Conversation With [Sy Ableman] Over Bloody Marys at the Jolly Roger by Olivia Nuzzi
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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In the 80s and 90s, your average Wendy's was trying to look like a sit down restaurant. The big 3 - especially McDonald's - should probably stop with the grey box conversions and start doing something like that.
A Wendy's solarium. Carpeted floor, movable tables, normal chairs with padded seats. A Wendy's dining room. Carpeted floors, a mix of freestanding tables and booths
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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What's weird about the McDonald's pricing story is that while they're clearly reconfiguring to raise their price floor, their stores don't reflect it at all. They've taken countless buildings that, inside, vaguely resemble a restaurant, and turned them into...eating facilities.
panel 1: a red roofed McDonald's with a play place on the outside Panel 2: a grey box The interior of a modern McDonald's. The tables are all bolted to the floor, as are most of the seats. Grey, brown, and yellow.
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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the esplanade if Jackie Aprile smoked less and Johnny Sack used payphones more
futuristic utopia
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Look, Democrats should be putting resources into competing everywhere, but white conservatives are in power in the south primarily because of a durable base of white conservative voters.

Per the 2020 Census, Alabama is 64% "White Alone." In 2024, Trump won...65% of the vote.
a cropped screenshot from census.gov showing that 64.1% of the total population of Alabama reports their race as "white alone" the results of the 2024 election from Wikipedia, showing Trump winning 64.57% of the vote
November 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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probably safe to tell my DVR not to watch for these anymore
a plex dvr "recording priority" list showing The Last Man On Earth, The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and How To Get Away With Murder
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Panel 1: Chidi from The Good Place looking real "oh my God" saying "I experience...fatigue at all hours of the day, constant anxiety, and total body soreness I can never explain" Panel 2: Michael replying "yeah yeah, turning 40, we've all done it"
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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$80 isn't sticking
Metroid Prime 4 - $70 on Switch 2, $60 on Switch
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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love my switch 2 but the boxes are WACK
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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You couldn't torture "I've never received mod action in 17 years" out of me.

Just eat your fuckin probe.
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so over Johnny Cash lyrics. November 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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my favorites are the ones that are neither "most" nor "woke"
Celebrities who struggle to pay for medical or cancer treatment are not the same as the average American cancer patient who faces financial hardship. It's time to stop the comparison, as they are still the privileged class.
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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everybody should get whatever they need to handle whatever's going on down there, including inmates
freedom of speech but it's dale earnhardt
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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look, obviously he and I disagree on many things,
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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This kid rules
Looking for parental controls for a child hacker. Not easy to break FamilyLink or Qustodio, but what? My son is 11. He's a game-eddictive. If I give him a phone with unlimited access, he'll do nothing but play games. He'll even stop eating and sleeping. He first hacked Family Link when he was 9. And he found an uncontrolled browser when he was 8. Since then, there has been a constant technological war. I tried third-party parental control apps, such as Qustodio and others, but he removed them all or bypassed them even faster. Now, his most common hack is to reboot without the internet and add a second user, where he does whatever he wants until I discover it through Family Link (the Add User option becomes enabled). So I have to check it often. His studies suffer because as soon as I leave for at least 20 minutes, he's already on his phone. With the help of AI, I realized that I need to install MDM (some device owner system), but Family Link doesn't want to be the Device Owner, and the other apps I found (Google Endpoint Manager, SureMDM, TinyMDM) are all paid. Maybe I need to install Google Play Services as a Device Owner right after device resetting, then learn how to manually configure policies via ADB? I've already gone through a similar process on a PC when I couldn't get Windows under control (Microsoft Family is even more full of holes), so I had to install Linux and configure a lot of things manually. The only thing that helps is to give him the phone only when necessary and then take it away and hide it in a safe with a 7-digit code (he's already figured out and opened codes with up to 6 digits). But it's exhausting. Who else has a little hacker in a family? What do you use?
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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probably something like that, yeah.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Update:
the Kenwood CD player from when I was in high school
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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today of all days
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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It's not the most important thing, but I do think we're going to have to address TVs being too cheap.
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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TMNT logo that reads "Donald Trump Can't Stop Elections"
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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this is so much funnier to me than it should be
shot of the fake wood wall at the forward end of the passenger cabin, which has a mounted iPad in the middle and two TVs displaying the home screen of the iPad, with pillarboxing because an iPad screen doesn't have the same aspect ratio as a TV. Fancy!
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM