Al Rankin

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Frame from a non musical movie with a great soundtrack. The Duke Arrives is especially good.

Frame from a non-musical movie with a great soundtrack. Ennio Morricone is a genius.

Moonshot Biden replacement

this is by far the craziest longshot candidate replacement idea I’ve heard, but if the technology’s there I’ll hear them out

I quit

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It’s been weird as hell to see liberals mobilize, from donors to commentators, from celebrities to newspaper editors, to push Biden off-stage but they still can’t manage a coherent message against Trump or even talk about his fascist nonsense that much. Sort of speaks to priorities, you know?

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If I was God, I wouldn't have rested. #Grindset

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A camera that you plug into your computer. Like the camera itself, not some puny cable. Yes, the whole camera goes into the computer because it is a camera and PC card! Toshiba PDR-2, 0.3MP from 1997. Shown with a IBM ThinkPad 760XL. #ShittyCameraChallenge

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... I wonder how many of those bowls are still in one piece, because it looks like it could be a LOT of them. (h/t Bella) Treasure trove recovered from ancient shipwrecks 5,000 feet underwater in South China Sea www.cbsnews.com/news...

Treasure trove recovered from ancient shipwrecks 5,000 feet underwater in South China Seawww.cbsnews.com Archaeologists used a crewed submersible called "Deep Sea Warrior" to retrieve the coins, pottery and other ancient artifacts.

Right on the heels of a massive compensation package for Elon

Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%www.nytimes.com A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.

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Very funny that the Times was so certain about the panic they were causing that they set up a little live update election-season scoreboard for it

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in D&D rn: we are in a temple with fonts of water that could be turned into holy water me: so do the fonts have angels on them? I'm curious as to if they're seraph or sans-seraph fonts

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The fans r so crazy to him and he doesn’t care lmao

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MTV, I am Werner Herzog and this is my crib. It is but temporary refuge from nature's fury. The walls were once trees. I made them traitors.

Incredibly cool story

Happy 30th Anniversary to the most American and North Carolinian thing imaginable. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/grave-digg...

The complete story of the time a monster truck drove across the Currituck Soundwww.ncrabbithole.com In 1994, someone asked if Dennis Anderson could bring Grave Digger to a July 4th celebration on the Outer Banks. Dennis said he could drive it there. Over the water. The rest is history.

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if you see this post a photo without explanation

If you see this post a photo without explanation

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please please mr Moby Dick was my father, you can Call me Ishmael

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Just read a post suggesting that Troi's empathy is just an ability to hear the episode's background music when someone is speaking. This is now my personal canon.

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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

Donald Trump Should Drop Out | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com We’ve had months of calls for Joe Biden to drop out because of middling poll numbers. The grounds for a Trump withdrawal are far firmer.

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𝔮𝔲𝔢𝔠𝔨

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(strums guitar once) Kids playin with communism instead of a slinky… iPad baby suckin on an iBinky… (changes chord, strums guitar once but it sounds bad, adjusts fingers & strums it again) seems like no one is drinkin out the hose… they just wanna put ketamine up their nose…

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“I made a flag in my head. This is how I satisfy myself. I made a flag. It’s white and has yellow and orange flames around it. And in the middle is the word ‘vergogna.’ ‘Vergogna’ in Italian means shame — vergogna. V-E-R-G-O-G-N-A. Vergogna.”

To be fair, Trump had JUST watched TimeCop

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LOOK AT THIS GRAPHIC THE MARINERS POSTED

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i’m Irish if that helps

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Read this and just TRY not to say it out loud, just to see

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When you see the everyday decency of regular people, it puts the behavior of our "elites" into rather stark relief. (tl;dr 23-year-old juror impaneled on a pandemic nonprofit fraud case is offered $120K in cash and *immediately* turns it in. Wild story, a credit to local reporting. Gift link.)

Juror in fraud case given bag with $120K, promise for more ‘if she votes to acquit,’ FBI sayswww.washingtonpost.com The alleged bribe came as a bombshell revelation in an ongoing trial over a massive pandemic fraud case tied to Minnesota-based nonprofits.

2:12 am... going back for more olive

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idk about you but i don’t travel ANYWHERE without my nanny no i don’t have any kids, why do you ask?

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Amazing: the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour says if U of T wants to raze the encampment on Monday and “move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.” A solidarity rally of unions will be held at the university’s deadline of 8am Monday. ofl.ca/ofl-open-let...

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They really put their heads together and what they came up with was if they didn't punish students for protesting, it would be unfair to students who are being punished for other reasons