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"9 vs 4" describes both the seeding in the upcoming Iowa-Nebraska basketball game and the average historical score of their football games. Also of their basketball games
Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.
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Allota times it’s actually not that difficult to spot the difference.
@channel4news.bsky.social
I owned a copy of this magazine - it's hard to explain how much this hit in late 1991
Phew, bracket free this year!
“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.” “Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
“…Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots.”
had to be an old money Lakeshore Drive type with a butler to own a VCR in 1980
ooh yah, that's the stuff
@joshheggen.com tell me you remember this.... ad lives in my head next to "Save Big Money at Menards", Ernie Von Schledorn's "Who do ya know, wants ta buy a cah?" and "Emergency, emergency, emergency 🎶... Emergency TV service!"
Bah, can’t find it. The ear worm will live forever more inside my head and I will keep it well
“no blarney my friend theres no fare on this day!!” 🍀
I have the “Miller Free Rides on St. Pattys Day” jingle 🎶 in my head and the closest I can find is this.
Also, remember when that guy was everywhere??
It was okay. Yellowjackets with a Derry Girls veneer.
With or Without You never sounded better😢 🛤️
when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people
"yeah I rigged my race, fuck you" is a fascinating message to go with
I won’t be watching so someone let me know if he falls over
dawg🥹
A picture a friend of mine posted in a Discord. Its several Harry Potter books on Audible for an ad. Graffiti is sprawled over the books and it reads in all caps: “FIND A BETTER BOOK” A male female, gender symbol, which I’m going to assume represents trans folks is in the top right corner, but there’s an a for anarchy inside of the circle in the symbol
Find a better book
We yearn for the return of the mono culture (and it was a very boring game)
I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware
Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.