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  Marvel's VisionQuest includes a character mentioning negotiations with the Ten Rings gang to acquire some adamantium. Over this line, we see a shot of them, busily doing "gunrunner gang" stuff for a second. I just noticed: There's a figure in the foreground who crosses the screen from left to right holding a weapon. If you're watching closely, I'm pretty sure that's Chewbacca's bowcaster from Star Wars.

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  Oh, for crying... The Coke cases with Santa on them are already in stores.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kewtf1F0isA [Buckingham Palace Guard Band plays a Star Trek theme suite to honour Patrick Stewart]

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  Okay, yeah, it's suddenly cooler out. Fall weather, definitely. But chick, I think you might be overdoing it with your knit toque and scarf. It's 15°C, not 5.

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  Hear me out: If we all spend a few minutes every day building something with Legos, we can hold entropy at bay.

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  @Tutanota@mastodon.social Why do I get errors when I try to access my mail via the web? Your own site tells me your version is out of date and needs to be updated.

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  When you pronounce the word: "AEON", do you say

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  The library's got nothing. The bookstore (physical)'s got nothing. The bookstore (online)'s only got very expensive or entirely useless books. I even tried Amazon, which is how I ended up with this piece of garbage that's just printed PowerPoint slides. Can anyone recommend some free online learning resources for coding/programming? I want to learn Pascal. #coding #programming #courses #pascal #compsci

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  I've gotten used to the idea of messing up my back in my sleep. Roll over into a bad position, stay there for a couple of hours, easy. I don't like it, but at least I understand it. But today I woke up fine. But by the time I left for work an hour later, my lower back on one side was a little tight. It's just gotten worse and worse through the day. Pills aren't helping. Heat isn't helping. No comfortable position to sit. This sucks. And I still don't know what I did to...

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  Hey @crispius, there's a term on the tip of my tongue that's just not coming to me, and I bet you know what I'm thinking of. IIRC, you take an old PC or something, you set it up in a certain way, and you put it between your home WiFi and your ISP connection. Increase privacy, strip out ads, that kind of stuff. Or maybe it's done with a Raspberry Pi? What am I thinking of?

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  My cable/internet company knows about my thermostat, by brand name. I don't recall connecting it to our wifi. I specifically told the guy installing it that I didn't want that. The only stated purpose of it being connected to the wifi is for us to put apps on our phone to change the temperature away from the wall. We've never installed those apps, we don't want them. So what data is being sent that my ISP knows about my thermostat, and where is it being sent? They named several...

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  Dear American Conservatives. If Canada *could* intentionally--or through deliberate neglect--send massive amounts of forest fire smoke to assault the United States, heedless of that desperately important international border (which, on other days, you call "just a random line on a map"), we would have done it before now. We'd have sent it straight to Washington DC.

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  If you're filling in at a job, and you're only going to be there for a week, *don't move shit around*

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  My wife works for a bank, one of the "big" Canadian banks. She mentioned to me today that they have a new thing going, where they want you (as an employee) to wear a thing, because they've partnered with a fitness company/app and they'll measure your heart rate, etc etc. No one was using it, so they started saying "please use it, we'll give you points toward that thing we do where you can earn *stuff*". She hadn't even finished her story, and I jumped in sa...

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  After everything I post, I should include a second post that says, "or perhaps I'm just in a mood". It sort of *always* applies.

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  Got in a short walk before the heat sets in right later. Hot, but not unbearable. The humidity hasn't arrived yet, but there's no breeze at all. Not bad in the shade. Met Mike and his dog Bear. At least, I think it was Mike. I'm sure about Bear. Mike and I naturally fell into a rhythm walking together, talking old guy stuff. Arthritis, bad back, getting enough water, minor surgeries, that sort of thing. I only aimed for a short stroll and back, so I wasn't pushing at all. But...

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  Why was blue ink such a big thing in the--I don't know, '70s '80s '90s? Almost every pen you encountered anywhere during those years was a blue pen. Now, almost every pen is black. Was it a matter of the cost of ingredients? Fashion trend?

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  I have resisted for so long trying to make a grilled cheese sandwich with mayonnaise instead of butter on the bread. I've had it suggested many times, I've seen pro chefs do it, but it still felt wrong. And that's to someone who often uses mayo instead of butter on a regular sandwich. But I've finally tried it. The flavour is almost exactly the same to me, and the simplicity was worth it. I think Chef Frank Proto's "medium-low" is higher than my "medium-low&q...

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  Cripes, it's only going down to 25C feels like 35 overnight. 34C feels like 47!?!?! tomorrow?! FORTY-SEVEN?!?!

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  I'm seeing basically nothing of #RedDressDay in my feed, which surprises me. Women, girls, 2-Spirit and other individuals from Indigenous nations still disappear or turn up murdered *far* more than any other group in Canada. Much remains to be done, and even knowing about the problem is low-bar Step One. #mmiwg #mmiwg2s

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  @artemis I'm totally blown away that, within the last handful of years, we've had the scales dropped from our eyes over the two most capable and fearsome military powers in the world... not being so at all.

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  @peterw And creator and cast get *nothing* for it. https://mastodon.social/@ansonkennedy/116065663522462215

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  There is a terrorist with nuclear weapons in the White House The terrorist's name is Donald Trump

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  @yogthos Hwæt!

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  I had a dream. About how nice it would be to sleep more. While I was asleep.

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  #LifeOfBrianToots Aw, it just crapped out for me. Won't play anymore.

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  I'm worried about my friend. We text almost daily. Occasionally a day or two missed. Rarely, a week, which usually makes me say something like worrying she's gotten sick of me and finally decided to ghost me, and she reassures me that's never going to happen. This time, it's been almost two weeks. Just about all our contact is by text and email. We've only been in the same place half a dozen times in fifteen years. We'd just begun to explore the...

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  I wish I could just be an actual introvert or an extrovert, one or the other. Seems like either would be so easy, by comparison.

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  As the old joke goes, Every day, a man goes to a newsstand. He checks the front page of the paper, grunts in disappointment, and leaves. Eventually, the newsagent says, "man, what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Sir, they don't print those on the front page." "The one I'm waiting for, they will."

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  @weratedogs I didn't know you had an account here! It's almost Friday, time for you to make me cry again. You get me every week.