Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago.

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Claw machine plushie bag

My wife doesn’t have a problem. Nope. (Atomic Claw, Treasure Island)

“His mouth was too big for the trumpet”

WAT

(Democrat does bad thing)

Republicans: We condemn this.

Democrats: We condemn this.

(Republican does bad thing)

Democrats: We condemn this.

Republicans: Your guy did it too.

I've referenced www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrec... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_uh... to coworkers probably (definitely) born after both.

::dictation to phone/tablet has entered the chat::

Stranded in Clearwater: A Horror Story

The lovable doofus (mostly retriever) and the super smart bulldozer (mostly bully breeds with GSD in there too)

Also, retrievers are teenagers forever combined with the fairly high intelligence of poodle means that even a relatively well-trained one is hell for 3+ years.

Speakerphone in the waiting room!

Work webcam angle with other computer, treadmill, treadmill towel, and TV in view.

Ok, it's not as bad today as it usually is...

I sometimes forget that not everyone is a hermit with unmanageable bed head

Don't overthink electric car charging (we should be doing it differently) YouTube video by Technology Connextras

[santa claus is coming to town verbal parody about wall charging of EVs] "I'm sorry I don't know why I'm like this" -- @techconnectify.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NG4...

Cato the Elder but with effective autocracy, a trillion dollar war chest, and signs of dementia.

"If only the tsar knew ..."

Many props to the fellow 76er that was all enthusiastic to be covering the launch because Challenger on the roller TV cart has me skittish about seeing launches live.

"As Tampa Bay prepares for opening day, a depression forms" [me: WITAF] "...in the parking lot of the stadium"

gddmt, you CANNOT use that phrase in the Tampa Bay area, especially with regard to a stadium that was CLOSED BY DAMAGE FROM A HURRICANE on a day in which I have to run the A/C all day.

27 actually, but Philly is just because rush hour traffic 3 different occasions (going to AC or nearby)

23, not including the airport connections

Volcano vs Dante’s Peak is (iirc) whether you prefer an absurdity arc or just a few moments of it. Cast-wise: Deep Impact/Volcano, though I don’t remember much about the asteroid/comet movies

I wasn’t going to bat signal you but apparently “Final Destination” was enough

Winter Park man dies after truck collides with semi hauling logs, officials say A Winter Park man has died after logs from the back of a semi truck pierced the windshield of the semi he was driving in Polk County, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

“Final Destination” broke the fourth wall and came storming into our reality www.fox35orlando.com/news/winter-...

Sorry for your loss… it took us several months to even be open to the idea and we’re still missing our “Piggy” after almost 3 years.

NYT throwing hanging curveballs so juicy that Curt Schilling with a bloody sock could smash out of the park.

Medvi was selling oral tirzepatide? A company valued at $1.3 Billion couldn’t be bothered with basic pharmacokinetics?

::brush knock:: like you wired GitHub Status into your instance and now have twitches like a Pavlov's dogs but if it were electrical shocks instead of food

Having spent 7 years in a media market for which Sinclair was the only actual in-town local station, it's amazing to see a Tegna/Nexstar station effectively go with "conflict-involved increase in gas prices"

*209*. I forgot what century it was and brain was on hours and minutes, not years

Amazon.com email: New book from Jane Austen

I’d been wondering what she’d been up to for the last 69 years.