sabler

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Bay Area/NYC | Bored, mostly

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Car dealerships are the worst, and I'm just appalled that they have so much sway that it's actually illegal to challenge them with a D2C model in most states. I need to punch something!

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George Lucas has the chance to take the $4 billion he sold Star Wars for and use it to do the funniest fucking thing right now. trekmovie.com/2024/06/11/p...

Paramount/Skydance Deal Officially Dead; Yet Another Bidder Emergestrekmovie.com The fate of the company that owns Star Trek remains in flux.

This has been sitting in my AppleTV up next queue for close to a year, I'm finally watching it. boxd.it/tbmY

We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)boxd.it Reality and fantasy begin to blur when teenager Casey, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.

An exciting Thursday evening of *checks notes* deleting accounts I haven't used in over a year.

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I had to see this so now so do you

Regular Who's Who of Assholes

Donald Trump was convicted by a jury of 12 New Yorkers. What are you talking about man

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people just out there sowing discord on this holy day, the Feast of 34 Felony Convictions

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BILLION DOLLAR IDEA OFFERED UP FOR FREE: Lockhorns cartoons remixed with Alito family problems

This may be the most unwatchable shitshow of a movie since The Room. boxd.it/6yzcIX

Review of ‘Against the Night’ (2017) ★boxd.it Wow. Just wow. Not good-bad, just bad-bad. Barely watchable.

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Reposting because this story is so wild: A scientist for the company that created Scotch Tape & Post-its discovered its toxic chemicals in human blood in the ‘90s. Despite findings showing widespread contamination, her research was stopped by executives who kept the information secret

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safewww.propublica.org Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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A drag performer in Idaho won more than $1.1 million in damages on Friday in a defamation lawsuit against a blogger who falsely claimed that he had exposed himself to a crowd that included children at an event two years ago.

Idaho Drag Performer Wins Over $1.1 Million in Defamation Suit Against Bloggerwww.nytimes.com The jury unanimously sided with the performer in a case against a blogger who made false claims that the artist had exposed himself to a crowd at a pride event in 2022.

The bad news: I broke my pour over carafe-ish thing. The good news: I now have a great excuse to spend way too much money on Chemex's web site.

One missing comma in one file and the whole build dies. I ❤️ my job

Somebody please stop him. This is how you get supervillains. Do you want supervillains? www.cnbc.com/2024/05/08/n...

Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company sayswww.cnbc.com Neuralink on Wednesday said part of its brain implant has malfunctioned within human patient.

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this meeting could have been a knife fight

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Friday lunch food coma, yo

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Tesla Lays Off Entire Team Behind Brakes

Tesla Lays Off Entire Team Behind Brakeswww.theonion.com AUSTIN, TX—In the latest round of layoffs for the company’s struggling automotive division, electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla fired the entire team behind brakes, sources confirmed Wednesday. “As we...

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me: no one believes me when i say there's a secret race of horse-people therapist: try to ignore the naysayers me: the fucking who

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ATTN NEW YORKERS The NY Public Library has a plea out for signatures to push the city not to cut their budget and force them to reduce collections, end services, reduce maintenance, and close 2 days a week. It takes mere seconds to sign. They need 50,000. Pleas sign and SHARE WIDELY

www.nypl.org

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A new study pinpointed some of the major brands responsible for plastic pollution across six continents. Researchers and over 100,000 volunteers catalogued over 1.8 million pieces of plastic waste and found that 56 companies were responsible for more than 50% of branded plastic waste globally.

A global study just revealed the world’s biggest known plastic polluterswww.washingtonpost.com Coca-Cola and PepsiCo came in at the top of a global audit of plastic waste.

This dropped on Shudder today and I really can't underscore how excited I am to watch it boxd.it/zo6G

Late Night with the Devil (2023)boxd.it A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms.

Nailed it

A lot of the fake controversy over bad reviews of the AI Pin seems to be rooted in a tech culture gulf between normal people, who want something to work if they pay $700 for it, and techbros who wore Google Glass on the first day and think being on the cutting edge is its own point.

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[werner herzog voice]

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i had to know why someone gave this nearby island one star and i'm not disappointed by what i found

I get that there are certainly realities to Startup Life, but the sense of entitlement here doesn't help the image that a lot of founders are sociopaths who have zero problem with working people into piles of dust. apple.news/ALGkeCaupQVy...

Ban after-work emails and calls? Tech bosses say you might as well 'ban startups'apple.news San Francisco tech leaders are raging about a proposed California law that gives the right to ignore late night calls, emails and Slack messages.

Rough start to the year, Elon 🙃

Why does every character in Dragon's Dogma II speak like Lazlo from What We Do in the Shadows?

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Hannibal Lecter sentenced to 15 hours of cooking classes.

NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton has reached a deal with prosecutors, per Austin American-Statesman. Paxton will pay restitution of about $300,000, perform 100 hours of community service in Collin County, and take 15 hours of legal ethics education. At the end of 18 months, the charges will be dismissed.

Peak Bay Area: I just put on my work-appropriate hoodie for a Zoom meeting.