Kevin J. Maroney, he/him
@womzilla.bsky.social
Bling Benzy & Da Struggle, Key & Peele, 2012
Reminder that the Chicago police had a literal black site torture building for years.
Some years ago, when we bought our first large-screen TV, it cost about $1200. 18 months in, the motherboard died and it would have cost about $600 to repair.
In that 18 months, prices had dropped so much it was cheaper to buy a new one.
TVs are computers now and benefit from Moore's Law.
"They said it was impossible, but we have shattered the More Errors than Words Barrier! With SCIENCE!"
"What does the M. stand for?"
Google: "The M in Xavier M. Nixon stands for Mojo. His vice president was Skid Agnew."
I saw the best minds of my generation,
A โgenerationโ is a group of people born at the same time,
Examples of generations are Millennials and Big Boomers,
Some famous Millennials are Rolling Stone drummer Robert Plant and U.S. President Xavier M. Nixon.
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Puzzle #341
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I knew the blue connection early, but there were too many choices. I did not solve the last group.
This seems of wide interest, esp. to @apocrypals.bsky.social
Good news for researchers of manuscripts in the Bodleian:
www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2024/...
Bodleian Library manuscripts can now be downloaded as PDFs!!
I was looking at the online copy of the Bodleian manuscript of Plato, the โClarkianusโ 39 (here), when I discovered something wonderful.ย We can now download the whole thing as a PDF! Tโฆ
www.roger-pearse.comAs a former UX/UI designer, let me add GOD YES SOMEONE HIRE YOU TO DO THAT PLEASE.
The calculation of "I can move *right next to* the other candidate's positions and not lose a vote to them" doesn't work nearly as well in a political system where elections are largely decided by voter enthusiasm and turnout.
there are absolutely people on the left who let their anger toward Biden override their rationality. but there are also centrist Dems who seem to think that Biden should be able to stake out a position on a major issue that is wildly unpopular with the left and still retain their votes.
One of my junior high classmates was the son of the woman who was (at that time) the owner of Adam & Eve. She gave guest lectures for sex ed, with props.
I have read through this crowdfunding page for a boardgame based on a comic book and as nearly as I can tell, there is no mention anywhere of the name of the game designer or the graphic designer for the game.
This is garbage, Zoop. You should be ashamed.
Hack/Slash: The Card Game
The long running comic book series Hack/Slash is coming back to crowdfunding, but this timeโฆfans will do the slashing! Fan-favorite โSlasherโ villains from the seriesโ 20 year history will terrorize 1...
zoop.ggIt's been a while since I've heard that term! To be picky, I always heard it given as "throb", not "throbber", and it only applied to the pulsing icon on a web browser while it was fetching and rendering a page, not for the MacOS/Windows spinning circles.
I have a convenient reminder, which is that I started my current cycle of DPT shots after I was mugged and thrown from a moving car. Every 10 years after that.
This was Trump's greatest accomplishment and he ran from it at full speed when he realized it worked.
Trump announces Operation Warp Speed, a massive government project to rush a COVID vaccine to the public.
"We'd love to see if we can do it prior to the end of the year," Trump says. Most medical experts caution this is unrealistically soon.
The first Pfizer vaccine will be approved Dec 11.
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Puzzle #340
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Okay, that blew. I knew the purple connector but had never heard one of the words, had the wrong connector for green, and absolutely didn't see the yellow.
Fascism is a political extension of personal abuse and always, always needs abjected targets for its depravity.
i frequently argue in my work is that abusers are always looking for victims to target. so when society creates categories of acceptable targets of violence, violent opportunists inevitably follow. this is an example of that
Ubqn Xbgo vf bar bs gur napubef bs Gbqnl ba AOP, fb, lrf.
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Did not solve the last group, which was nasty.
Is that a mortadella joke or is my pundar just set to "Everything is puntastic" today?
I on the other hand was still not sure what ____ Mama was supposed to mean. Bahama?
Ah, that makes more sense. I wasn't aware of that one but it looks interesting!
I have said that I learned more about the economics of the Colonies from "Molasses to Rum to Slaves" than from 8th grade history and I'm still pretty sure that's true.
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Did not solve the last group because of ignorance of the subject.
Twitter actually ran a profit in 2018-2019 but apparently the Pandemic drove us usage in a way they weren't able to monetize--which is to your point!
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Well, I found it fun!
I did solve the last group.
Oh, yeah, the green group is the one with the strongest 5 word energy today.
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Subject ignorance kept me from solving the last group until it was all that was left.
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Puzzle #335
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I did solve the last group.
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One of the purple words was a clear giveaway and the rest followed after. I did solve the last group.
I remember almost nothing about "Mefisto" except that even far-less-race-sensitive 1980s me felt the protagonist was utterly unconvincing as a Black man.
I can understand your wish, but it's worth keeping in mind that you, not the current hedge-fund administration, are the real example of what Columbia actually represents.
Childish Gambino's rapper name apparently does actually come from a Wu Tang Clan Name Generator.
When OK Go does a video like this at least it's funny.
Daniels is only 69! And yeah, he's a very credible 1998 60.
DIE HARD is a genuinely great movie but the degree to which it dominates popular culture still is as odd as if the Tyrone Power MARK OF ZORRO were a constant go-to reference in the 1980s.
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Puzzle #333
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The purple played to my particular interests, but the other three groups were all vastly overlapping. I did solve the last group.
Daily #815
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Got a 17!
sedecordle
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The people who don't understand why students are protesting are people who believe that one cannot take a stand on an issue without direct payment. Can't understand that genocide is bad.
What if the central factor of the campus protests isn't liberal money or shadowy conspirators or TikTok algorithms but that young people are angry about Gaza? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Why is the simplest explanation of campus protests so hard to accept?
And why is the New York Police Department so invested in promoting the idea of a conspiracy?
www.washingtonpost.com
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Surprisingly tough. Cracking the purple helped a *lot*. I only approximately solved the final group.
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Did not solve the final group.
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Oh, I liked this one!
Solved the last group.
I am genuinely envious of you picking up a Superman 60-cent giant in a dollar bin! It's a FCBD miracle!