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Post your Pet or animal Pics (Part 3)

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Ars est Celare artem.
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The jokes are on us

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Fall Holidays 2024!

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If you thought we were done talking about plant costumes, you were wrong. While the title...
If you thought we were done talking about plant costumes, you were wrong. While the title may lead you conjure images of vampires with fangs and dark cloaks, orchids of the Dracula genus look decid…
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Fuck Elon Musk (Part 2)

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Seriously, I’d stop complaining if I’d at least finally get my Spandex jacket.
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A pig's brain was revived an hour after it died

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Well, I seem to remember that one aspect was whether the information stored in the brain...
Well, I seem to remember that one aspect was whether the information stored in the brain was still intact or not, so… yes?
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Apple Intelligence "not driving sales"

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I’ve found ChatGPT very helpful in writing batch scripts, Excel formulae and Visual Basic, and general...
I’ve found ChatGPT very helpful in writing batch scripts, Excel formulae and Visual Basic, and general Help in apps such as Premiere and After Effects, where the official Help files were written by someone with an extreme case of constipation. ChatGPT allows me to have a dialogue with the interpretation of an existing body of structured work. Conversely, my Android phone often pops up...
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"Lovely aurora" seen over town was something else entirely

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Either the annual tomato migration is late this year or Tomato Rapture.
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Excited pup tries running thru mirror to greet person — keeps bumping into obnoxious "dog" in the way (video)

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howaboutthis: Maybe this will work? I managed to see it by clicking on view profile and...
howaboutthis: Maybe this will work? I managed to see it by clicking on view profile and scrolling down TikTok, so thank you. I wonder if the lovely pup has a hearing issue because its human got very close while talking and the dog remained locked on the other human. OTOH it looks young enough to be excited by everything.
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Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, RIP

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robertmckenna: people who know take the opportunity to post some tunes that particularly highlight Phil Lesh’s...
robertmckenna: people who know take the opportunity to post some tunes that particularly highlight Phil Lesh’s contribution Besides Jerry, none of the band particularly stuck out tremendously in terms of their contributions, but each locked in well enough into their respective roles to make each of them valuable and essential. Phil brought a lot of fun and it really showed up on how he...
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King Trump plans to jail lawyers, donors, and other opponents at "levels never seen before"

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john_frazer: How is it legal to be a candidate while promising to destroy the country? He...
john_frazer: How is it legal to be a candidate while promising to destroy the country? He isn’t promising to destroy the whole country, just the parts of the country that aren’t quite white.
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You can call me AI

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Variety – 25 Oct 24 AI Startup Perplexity Fires Back After News Corp’s Dow Jones Sues:......
Variety – 25 Oct 24 AI Startup Perplexity Fires Back After News Corp’s Dow Jones Sues:... AI startup Perplexity responded to a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed against it by News Corp's Dow Jones and New York Post.
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Odd Stuff (Part 5)

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BBC News Rare pine marten spotted at Wiltshire safari park The elusive mammal was filmed in...
BBC News Rare pine marten spotted at Wiltshire safari park The elusive mammal was filmed in woodlands of the Longleat estate and seems to have set up home. Longleat contains lions, tigers, cheetahs, wolves – quite a challenge for a pine marten.
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Elections 2023 and 2024 (Part 2)

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nytimes.com 6 Takeaways From Donald Trump’s 3-Hour Podcast With Joe Rogan The former president repeated his...
nytimes.com 6 Takeaways From Donald Trump’s 3-Hour Podcast With Joe Rogan The former president repeated his debunked claims of election fraud and speculated that there could be life on Mars in an interview aimed at young male voters. In case you hit a paywall! archive.ph – 26 Oct 24 6 Takeaways From Donald Trump’s 3-Hour Podcast With Joe Rogan - The N… archived 26...
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Conservative pundit discovers white crayons exist, demands answers from Crayola

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Kilkrazy: It doesn’t even work, anyway More to my point, Occitan, Breton, Basque, Corsu, Catalan, Provençal,...
Kilkrazy: It doesn’t even work, anyway More to my point, Occitan, Breton, Basque, Corsu, Catalan, Provençal, etc., etc. still persist albeit as mostly secondary languages.
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King Trump plans to jail lawyers, donors, and other opponents at "levels never seen before"

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angusm: not only are we about to watch the US become a dictatorship It’s is not...
angusm: not only are we about to watch the US become a dictatorship It’s is not over yet. The election has not happened yet, and it’s not clear that he’ll win. A lot of this are desperate right wingers throwing everything they have at this election to ensure they get the out come they want. We don’t have to fucking let them.
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King Trump plans to jail lawyers, donors, and other opponents at "levels never seen before"

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How is it legal to be a candidate while promising to destroy the country? Asking for...
How is it legal to be a candidate while promising to destroy the country? Asking for a friend.
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Excited pup tries running thru mirror to greet person — keeps bumping into obnoxious "dog" in the way (video)

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Maybe this will work? (ETA: Looks like it doesn’t.) I’m not allowed to laugh at the...
Maybe this will work? (ETA: Looks like it doesn’t.) I’m not allowed to laugh at the doggo. During the Covid mandatory mask period I was in a building I didn’t know and intended to walk through a door. Just as I turned toward the doorway a large, greying man blocked me. I stepped to one side and so did he, continuing to block. I...
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Fall Holidays 2024!

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I’ve tried pumpkin once, but I didn’t inhale.
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Happy Mutants food and drink topic (Part 2)

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T-Mobile receives thousands of complaints after reneging on "lifetime price lock" deal

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Lifetime of fruit flies.
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Languages

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There is this phrase that I keep running into, but I don’t know what it is....
There is this phrase that I keep running into, but I don’t know what it is. My company has a lot of Korean speakers, so I sometimes get emails that have been machine translated from Korean to Japanese. Or I will be interpreting at a meeting and listening to the Korean to Japanese interpreter so that I can follow the conversation and jump in...
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New sliver of a skyscraper is the width of just one apartment

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Anyway, I’d love to see the structural design for this thing.
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New sliver of a skyscraper is the width of just one apartment

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Brainspore: Manhattan and Singapore didn’t just start building skyscrapers It’s only a skyscraper if it stands...
Brainspore: Manhattan and Singapore didn’t just start building skyscrapers It’s only a skyscraper if it stands in the Chicago Loop area; otherwise it’s just a sparkling high-rise.
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Rash of butter burglaries plaguing Guelph groceries

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I’m probably skewing the results as I only buy Kerrygold, which is ~USD$4.50/8 oz.
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