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wjrii

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  • Coming in '27: A CFL season built for summer long weekends; CFL and CFLPA champion a new era of playoff football - CFL.ca

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  • I guess we will find out how much coaches value seeding versus player health, that's for sure. It's not a bad format once you've already taken the utterly bonkers step of 89% playoff participation in a North American style pro sports league. RIP regular season interest.

  • Ted Cruz Rips FCC Over ABC Broadcast License Review Following Kimmel Joke: ‘It Is Not Government’s Job to Censor Speech’

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  • Number 1 is Jon Stewart, though to be fair I had kinda thought he was on the 80s game show "Remote Control" on MTV and had to pivot when I learned he was not. :-)

  • Iran's Guards seize wartime power, weakening Supreme Leader's role

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  • Oh yay, Trump actually figured out how to make Iran's government worse! What a winner he is!

  • Ted Cruz Rips FCC Over ABC Broadcast License Review Following Kimmel Joke: ‘It Is Not Government’s Job to Censor Speech’

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  • We're at a point where America's great public protectors of free speech and baseline decency are:

    1. The "Veejay" of a clip show of shortened airline-food standup sets.
    2. One half of the duo who brought the world "Girls Jumping on Trampolines."
    3. Zazu from the bad version of the Lion King.

    They're doing good work, but christ on a cracker they shouldn't have been tasked with this job.

  • Tightrope for 04 29 2026

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Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Apr. 29, 2026 

 T   I   G   H   T   R   O   P   E 
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My Score: 2200

    Absolute brain fart on number 1 almost made me think I should give up and turn in my Nerd card (and my "Progressive American" card). Got back into the groove on the rest.

  • lol got her

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  • Ooof. The "comic" is a drugstore greeting card that's less saccharine but equally banal. The real shitpost is making me see both.

    After 65 years, you still call Grandma darling, beautiful and honey – what's the secret?

    I forgot her name 5 years ago and I'm too scared to ask her what it is!

  • Got an aluminum case for ten bucks. I hand-wired the guts.

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  • My most-used boards do have a numpad, but it's not an everyday essential, and one of my earlier hand-wire projects was a numpad, so I go grab it if I'm running one of my no-numpad boards but need to do some data entry (usually CAD dimensions for me).

  • Mechanical Keyboards @programming.dev
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    Got an aluminum case for ten bucks. I hand-wired the guts.

  • Texas school sent waiver for parents to allow kids to be coached by sex offender

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  • That's specifically from the Jeezus-y homeschool-centric baseball academy and travel team that actually employees him. One district, Southlake Carroll (they of the "rich racists" NBCNews podcast and just generally obnoxious try-hards), had him listed as an authorized outside coach. So not exactly from a school, but absolutely and horrifically education-adjacent.

    No worries though! There was also the nominally public charter school in San Angelo, which still has their Christ-centered mission on their about page from when they were a creepy Christian private school, who just had to fire the football staff and half the adminsitration for giving a bunch of kids rhabdo and then covering it up. Their sister school had to fire all the kindergarten(!) teachers because they marched misbehaving children around the room so the other kids could shout "shame!" and point.

  • Recommend me some cartoons to watch

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  • Also, the end of S1 is a total cop-out IMO.

    Agreed. Apart from just being kinda so-so and cliched and a Marvel-style sensory assault that assumes emotional arcs are completed by stabbing and shooting things, it reeked of "You have to renew us because the story's nowhere near done!" That's understandable as a business move by people whom Netflix will happily fuck over, but it's bad storytelling when you know perfectly well that Netflix might fuck you over, and history has shown it won't be effective either, due to the aforementioned over-fucking.

    Fowler did NOT need to be left alive. Any number of ways the writers could have Mizu find the information, especially once he dangled it.

  • Recommend me some cartoons to watch

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  • Blue Eye Samurai wants to be grounded and moving, yet also an adolescent power fantasy, and it suffers for it. It's still quite good, and I try to grade on a curve when something is ambitious, but IMHO it's way too flawed to be "peak tier."

  • 26 April 1989

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  • Not just a cyclist (and thank god it wasn't golf), but an obsessive about it as a hobby and an angrily disillusioned idealist, just like Calvin.

  • Are you looking for sketchy overhead storage you can roll up? Look no further (and don't stand under them)!

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  • Nothing precise. I have tons of DIY nonsense in my garage, but when it came time to suspend storage from the ceiling, the consequences of it's failing would mean significant damage to the ceiling, the contents, my car, and possibly the garage door. As long as you use sufficiently strong hardware and follow solid practices for how to mount things, it should be fine. Just not something I was wanting to do.

  • WhenTaken for 04 26 2026

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#WhenTaken #789 (26.04.2026)

I scored 840/1000🏅

1️⃣📍3.5K km - 🗓️13 yrs - 🥉111/200
2️⃣📍2.2 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200
3️⃣📍4.2 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇198/200
4️⃣📍389 km - 🗓️20 yrs - 🥈143/200
5️⃣📍375 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇188/200

https://whentaken.com/

  • 26 April 1989

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  • Simple strip, but the layers and sophistication (relative... I get it's still a newspaper strip), man. Watterson trusts the audience to chuckle even though the entire punchline is within Calvin's interior monologue. Then, as others have mentioned, there's the fact that the artwork is more than the bare minimum, and actually adds to the comic. Calvin's dad is clearly just as bored as Calvin, and despite the obvious sympatico, Calvin as a kid completely misses it and is still all for throwing his dad to the wolves tiger.

    More broadly, while, yeah, C&H goes with a pretty vanilla 80s/90s nuclear family, it's made clear on multiple occasions that mom is highly intelligent and not entirely fulfilled being a SAHM. It also stops short of making dad a clueless buffoon or making the marriage toxic. The sitcom tropes are there, but subverted as needed and the family's lifestyle is also not put on a pedestal. Man, I love Calvin and Hobbes.

  • Seth MacFarlane Wants To Do a 'Ted' Live-Action Movie For Peacock

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  • Could not agree more. Frankly, it's probably affected how much I enjoy The Orville, though I do enjoy it and think it's his best work. His sensibilities are so narrow and he is allergic to anything approaching subtlety or drawing humor out of characters. Everything he does that's intended to be funny is just a bludgeon of robotic zingers and a very specific subset of Gen X pop culture references.

  • vibe construction

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  • The “ship in a bottle” school of architecture

  • Pizza Cake on trans kids

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  • Why does that doctor have a mullet?

  • Well then.

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    1. The New Madrid fault is a slow beast, but not to be taken lightly. There are large lakes in that region that exist solely because of earthquakes changing the path of the Mississippi River.
    2. I once drove through Cooter, Missouri on my way to a wedding in northwest Tennessee specifically to send my wife a cheeky postcard, and those motherfuckers didn’t postmark it until they’d carted it over to the next town with a larger post office. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.

  • WhenTaken for 04 24 2026

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#WhenTaken #787 (24.04.2026)

I scored 905/1000👑

1️⃣📍597 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇181/200
2️⃣📍2.2 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200
3️⃣📍3.1 km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥇196/200
4️⃣📍2.1K km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥈140/200
5️⃣📍4.5 km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥇191/200

    Lots of text and flags to parse today, and lots of stuff, cars in particular, to place decades, but Portugal got me. I said Malta. Also guessed Frankfurt instead of Vienna.

  • 30 Rock @dubvee.org
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    Vibe couching...

  • ExMormon @lemmy.world
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    xpost: So rises the Book of Mormon, and an American sensation

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    The heeler will eventually cheat. Bluey would be disappointed.

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Caught this anole on a tree branch

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
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    The wall of automated pickup lockers at my US Post Office location also accepts dropoffs

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Max is scared of thunder, but also determined to protect us from it.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @programming.dev
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    Naturally, on 40s day I present you with a 60%.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one?

  • Mechanical Keyboards @programming.dev
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    I made some 3D-printed nesting keycap trays

    www.printables.com /model/1577916-nesting-mechanical-keyboard-keycap-trays-85x11
  • Really Shitty Copper @lemmy.world
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    Invest now before it's too late!

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Pecanwood headphone stand

  • 30 Rock @dubvee.org
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    xpost: The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins | Starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe | Trailer

  • Fountain Pens @lemmy.world
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    31 December 1988

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Decorative bookcase at our hotel in Seoul

  • College Football @fanaticus.social
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    Journalism and commentary at its finest, folks.

  • College Football @fanaticus.social
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    XPOST: Aaaaaaauuuuuggghhhhh

    defector.com /aaaaaaauuuuuggghhhhh
  • Mechanical Keyboards @programming.dev
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    2009 NPR story about the Model M and Unicomp (audio with transcript)

    www.npr.org /2009/01/30/100076874/old-school-keyboard-makes-comeback-of-sorts
  • College Football @fanaticus.social
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    Detroit Free Press: Sherrone Moore fired by Michigan over inappropriate relationship

    www.freep.com /story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2025/12/10/sherrone-moore-fired-michigan-football/87707344007/
  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
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    I permanently swapped two buttons on my trackball