spidur.bsky.social
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No, thankfully. The porches are natural wood tones.
I've lucked out so far with sales around me. The area was built in 1958-62, so it's almost exclusively ranches and tri-levels. New owners have done renos, but none have yet torn one down to build a monster. Knock on wood.
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Someone in my neighborhood just did this. It was a really pretty Dutch colonial with red brick. The only thing that needed updating was the trim color, which was mustard yellow. Now it's got white vertical boards with black framed windows. It's a sore thumb b/c it's surrounded by red brick homes.
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Are...are we reviving the Very Secret Diaries?
Can @theonion.com make this a thing again?
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You sure it wasn't the sheep in wolf's clothing?
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Quite the sartorial choice, Harold.
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My dad got RIF'ed out of the Army b/c he wouldn't brown-nose at the O Club. Instead, he went home to be with mom & infant (my older sib). He never got a bunch of promotions in corporate jobs because he wouldn't go to happy hours. Instead, he came to our sports events. Time together is priceless. ❤️
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How dare you mock her performative patriotism!
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...the US would react. The US had no imminent plans of attacking Japan or entering the European theatre. Japan deliberately delayed delivering the declaration of war to ensure the attack would be a surprise. Preventive wars are not justifiable and should not be normalized to be so. 2/2
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Garbage. There's a difference between preemptive strike and preventive war. The former requires imminent danger of an attack, a defensive justification. The latter is being the aggressor. Example: Pearl Harbor was a preventive attack because Japan had plans to colonize the Pacific and knew... 1/2
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No, & I agree with you. We can mute & block, which gives us the power to shut down the trolls & bots. That's what creates the space for those voices to be heard, & they're infuriated at being kneecapped. I think they're also mad they can't monetize. Grift spam gets muted so there's no cash flow.
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I don't typically read alt text, but I always read it for your PSA posts because it's so damn hilarious. With all the shit happening right now, I appreciate that you haven't lost your sense of humor and share it with us.
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This was my first "laugh so hard I snorted" laugh in a long time. Bless Mel Brooks.
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Dude, this is NOT the event to be fundraising on. Don't you get it? We are desperate for elected officials to do the right thing for the sake of it being right, not to get donations.
Effing hell, it took you less than an hour to beg for money. Text received at 4:12:
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I serve as a citizen rep on the Richmond (VA) PD's Use of Force Review Board. If this came up for my review, it would be so far out of policy that I'd recommend they be fired. Leaving aside that he shouldn't have been removed, there was no need for handcuffs, let alone being shoved to the floor.
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Don't delude yourself that just because you're still having meetings and voting on bills that we're still a democracy. At the rate the regime is moving, you won't be relected next year - not because Virginians like myself don't elect you but because there won't be any elections.
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Senator, you are a highly educated individual, but you are being incredibly dense. We ARE an authoritarian country now. The regime is doing these outrageous things to figure out where the boundaries are, and because you've done nothing but spout platitudes, they know there *aren't any*.
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OMG, I was wondering why that pic looked so familiar. Spot on.
And now I have "These Are the Daves I Know" on repeat in my head. 😄
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Bare feet + leather shoes = stank. So, so much stank. 🤢
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LOL. That pic reminds me of my mom's story about family vacation. Her two older brothers would lay on the back seat and floor, while grandpa put a board from the back window ledge over the front seat for her to lay on. Facing the front window. Nothing tying it or her down.
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The "Dukes of Agrihazard" would have been a very different show.
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One flashbang costs $100. Would provide many meals for poor kids.
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I've become so exhausted by the fact that "WTAF" is now my default response to news.
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Insert beaver joke here.
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On the one hand, AI can be really good at analyzing large blocks of data. OTOH, you have to want to create an AI that will accurately analyze that data to avoid approving something that shouldn't be. I fully expect the regime will create an AI to rubber stamp approvals... for a price, of course.
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He was looking kind of dumb with his finger and his thumb in the shape of an L on his forehead...
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Each of us is going to have to come to terms with the fact there is no going back. There will be no return to "normal." And you can't save something by compromising it. Our only choice is to push through to the other side, come what may, and build a better country/world.
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Lipton is a moron. He bloviates all over the NYT Op/Ed page.
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Ooooh, shots fired.
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To the weirdos who pack that stuff:
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Well, that went tit's up.
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This was to ensure I didn't own anything that would give even the appearance of an independence violation. There is zero justifiable reason that everyone in Congress, the White House, and SCOTUS (plus some lower level gov't employees with influence) should not be required to do the same. (2/2)
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When I worked at a Big 4 accounting firm, I was required to connect my brokerage accounts to the internal tracking system. Once per day, the brokerage would send a list of what I owned (names only, not number of shares or value/basis) to be compared to the restricted list. (1/2)
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The unfettered greed for ever increasing profit is just ruining so much of what used to be enjoyable.
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Unwanted content was the reason I canceled my mlb.tv sub a couple years ago. Used to pay for all games, then they started cramming news and baseball movie content into it to justify jacking the price. All I wanted was live games, and they didn't offer just games, so now they get no money from me.
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Thank you for covering this!
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Give it to the DPU leadership team and maybe they'll figure out how to avoid boil advisories and water main breaks. 😒
(Apologies if you work for them. I'm just very tired of something breaking every month.)
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Lol, I posted before reading through the comments. As a Yankees fan, I was screaming at Torre through the TV to take Joba out.
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Somewhere out there, Joba Chamberlain is having a panic attack and Joe Torre is just calling for bug spray.
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The other day, I read something clearly written by a young whippersnapper that said 43 is ancient. My 48-year-old self felt personally attacked.
But yeah, I've been binging the original Hawaii 5O recently and noticed the same thing.
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Unbothered, moisturized, happy, in my lane, focused, flourishing. - Pepe
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Absolute unit sighting in Texas! @themerl.bsky.social
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This is nothing new for the GOP. It's still burned into my memory when Dan Patrick said, during an official press conference in 2020, that older people should be willing to die so the Covid lockdowns could be lifted.
Huzzah for the snarky social media manager, though.
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If Mel Brooks doesn't name the sequel he's making "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money," I'm going to be very disappointed.
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This is the natural conclusion of the prosperity gospel that so many wealthy folks espouse. If you believe your wealth is a reward from God for being faithful, it's easy to believe poor people brought it on themselves & deserve punishment, & that you'll never have to worry about being poor yourself.
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Reminds me of the scene in Robin Hood: Men in Tights where Rabbi Tuckman offers his services:
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I'm seeing too many msm outlets spinning his tenure as a failure. They're either dumb as a bag of rocks or complicit. Musk did exactly what his goal was - destruction, not saving money. He succeeded in setting his own companies up either with gov't contracts or gutted regs that cost him money.
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How many people at that company looked at the design and thought, "Yes! Just what a child's toy needs - a noose!"
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If you're taking requests, may I suggest The Teddy Bears' Picnic? There's a risk it'll drive you insane, but I'm sure the resulting warning graphic would be well worth it.
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This rivals @theonion.com .
Hilarious perfection.