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AlterNewt

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Caustically optimistic

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keithmorrisnm, to random
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NOOOO!!!!!

https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/04/24/chicago-rat-hole-removed-by-city/

AlterNewt,
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@TidalFlats

This makes me so angry I can't even generalize from this specific incident!

12thRITS, to random
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Apparently in 's trial, there is an "overflow room," where would-be spectators sit and watch the proceedings, presumably on teevee. So why can't we do the same?

AlterNewt,
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@12thRITS

Isn't the overflow room for press, who are not among the days pool reporters?

AlterNewt,
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@12thRITS

From The Times (London)

Two journalists covering the trial have been banned from the court for violating an order that prohibits the taking of photos, video or audio recordings.

The reporters had been covering the trial from an overflow room, where those who cannot get into the main courtroom follow the proceedings on large screens. [...] New York state laws prohibit any video and audio recordings of the proceedings.

AlterNewt,
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@TidalFlats @12thRITS

"This is a developing story."

AlterNewt, to random
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Sign along Oak Grove Dr, about 100 yards from the main entrance to JPL.

AlterNewt,
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@TidalFlats

"We have a small team looking into it."

edwilk, to random
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via John Ismay
The New York Times.

AlterNewt,
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@TidalFlats @edwilk @thepoliticalcat

And spare a thought for:

"get me and you @2packs a peace of cigs"

edwilk, to random
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AlterNewt,
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@edwilk

"Trashy" should be more careful about the company it keeps.

Alice, to random
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The customer is not always right so I’m going to create a service where the employees can request that I meet unreasonable customers outside and tell them all about how they're wrong.

AlterNewt,
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@Alice

So, having told the customer that they were wrong, would you have performed the service? Or would the customer have to ADMIT that they were wrong?

AlterNewt, to random
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1/2
Drunk Churchill and Stalin, after a private dinner during the Tehran conference, late 1943

(Think "I love you man")

JS: "I want to call Mr Churchill my friend."

WC: "Call me Winston. I call you Joe behind your back."

JS: "No. I want to call you my friend. I want to be allowed to call you my good friend."

(Affirmative grumbles of acknowledgment, and then...)

WC: "I drink to the proletarian masses!"

JS: "I drink to the Conservative Party!"

AlterNewt,
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2/2

Clark Kerr, British ambassador (soto voce): "What piffle great men sometimes talk."

"Whereupon they tottered off to their beds around midnight."

The Kremlin Letters

David Reynolds
& Vladimir Pechatnov

AlterNewt, to random
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Sub-floor Fortune Found by Fooks Family

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/18/dorset-couple-find-17th-century-treasure-hoard-while-renovating-kitchen

AlterNewt,
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@glasspusher

Note: £37,000 estimated value of coin hoard almost certainly represents less than 15% of cost of demo/new construction.

Sincerely,

AlterNewt Enterprises, LLC

AlterNewt,
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@keithmorrisnm @glasspusher

"Hitler Dood!"

thepoliticalcat, to random
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    AlterNewt,
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    @glasspusher @edwilk @thepoliticalcat

    Mouse Pee Story

    E. Wilk

    A rollicking tale from this prolific author. Another triumph!

    Tengrain, to random
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    Casual observation on Day 2: Mel is not with TFG again.

    Maybe she’s not on the clock for the trials. He’s cutting back on expenses.

    AlterNewt,
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    @12thRITS @TidalFlats @Tengrain

    If confronted about the tall young man with her, she will explain that Barron is actually two small boys in a trenchcoat.

    thepoliticalcat, to random
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    AlterNewt,
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    @thepoliticalcat

    Cinnamon, eh? How much cinnamon, if you don't mind my asking.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Moments of totality: How Ars experienced the eclipse

    The 2024 total eclipse is in the books. Here's how it looked across the US.

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/moments-of-totality-how-ars-experienced-the-eclipse/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    AlterNewt,
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    @arstechnica @TidalFlats

    Awesome.

    And thanks for quoting scripture at the top of the article, Ars Technica, but, you know, Deus Nolens exitus.

    AlterNewt, to random
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    Make your voice heard!

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/07/st-pirans-hermit-crab-an-opportunist-with-stunning-eyes

    AlterNewt,
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    @edwilk

    "We want to move forward! My spineless opponent would have us move sideways!"

    AlterNewt, to random
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    We are moving ever closer to a Universal Hair Theory.

    AlterNewt,
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    @edwilk

    Hairaclitus?

    edwilk, to random
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    What about the brakes?

    AlterNewt,
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    @glasspusher @keithmorrisnm @12thRITS @edwilk @TidalFlats

    Grandpa UNIVAC: "Why, back in my day..."

    AlterNewt,
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    @12thRITS @glasspusher @keithmorrisnm @edwilk @TidalFlats

    And they provide life-giving heat!

    AlterNewt,
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    @keithmorrisnm @12thRITS @glasspusher @edwilk @TidalFlats

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