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Not even four minutes into Arsenal v Everton and I muttered out loud, “This is going to hurt.”

Cole Kmet is an anagram of Teckmole. Make of that what you will.

Just me or is this graphics package triggering Rock Band/ Guitar Hero memories for you too?

Hey CBS, as a fellow old guy, can I get a trigger warning before you tell me Kirk Cousins felt like his Achilles tendon was "full of concrete"? I am trying to keep mine from tearing and you're making me teary.

Patriots are in their throwbacks which inspired one of my fellow fans to wear his TAXATION IS THEFT dress T-shirt to the game. Old school patriotism there.

Oh great, another comic book where the bad guy is Haskell.

Richard Sherman, I love you, but the last time I saw that vest on tv, Bat Masterson was in it. unless you’re opening for Mumford and Sons, probably time to put it in the Goodwill pile with Timberlake’s fedora.

Jim Nantz just teased the VMAs with Madonna and “jaw-dropping acts“ which I assume is a cute way of saying the other elderly people will have dentures fall out.

Susan Collins's bet, clearly, is that there are a non-trivial number of Dem/Indy voters who have been programmed for so long by the Maine press to believe she's pro-choice that it doesn't matter what she says or does. They simply won't believe otherwise. That can't be allowed to stand. #MEpolitics

I just proposed to my department head that "QA for AI" may be best done by an "arsonist fireman" who creates problems and then, given no dev team has cycles to spare, fixes the problems. While he said he thought that made sense, he did not respond to my request for a job title change.

@jessshulman.bsky.social just wanted to say your cryptic crossweird entry has to be one of the best-clued puzzles I’ve ever done. Thank you so much.

The real takeaway for me from this Pats game: looking at the visitors sideline (tv perspective), there is a bright spot of red around the right-hand 31 yard line which must be Ed Sheeran buried up to his hair line.

You call it a “business decision”; Aaron Rodgers calls it a ”darkness retreat”. @miketanier.bsky.social

Learned a lesson about calling game over, but we now have a three-way tie: 1 squirrel escaped 1 killed by dog 1 so tired it let me pick it up and put it outside Am I rubbing that in the pets’ faces? Reader, you know I am.

Made the mistake of going downstairs to play video games. Two dogs, two cats. currently down 1-2 vs the “chipmunks” (technically red squirrels) and I am the one of us who knows exactly where your man is. I keep offering him free passage but I think he may just feel safe among these clowns.

One of, if not my favorite, video game moments of all time, was getting spun by a cop in Vice City just as the sun was coming up and Night Ranger’s Sister Christian was blaring in my car radio at like 2am in real life as I hit reverse and made it into a Pay and Spray. Up there with beating Tyson.

I dunno if it’s hubris or some curse or what, but the end of the Chipmunk Crisis was actually like a four hour interregnum. So now it’s Chip, Dale and one even dumber than Dale.

If you see this handsome fellow today, wish him a happy birthday.

Not to pile on, but at this point I have Brennan Johnson with -3 goals for Everton *in this game*. And there are 25+ minutes to go.

Commentator misstated "set piece" as "set piss" but this being Everton, it turned out prescient.

All uphill from here: neighbor started shooting off fireworks at 5:30am. Not unusual for NH but went on so long I picked up my phone to see if it announced any beloved world leaders had popped their clogs. No such luck.

In case anyone was on tenterhooks, our Chipmunk Crisis ended somewhere around hour 40 in a 1-1 draw. One dude slipped out the door, one dude slipped off this mortal coil.

Day 3 of The Chipmunk Crisis. I now accept I am fully alone. The big dog hunts rodents like drunks look for their keys.

“Hey, uh, you guys feel like we forgot something?”

I am at my dad’s for a visit and it is an inspiration to see someone already in the Hall of Fame still innovating about how to make more noise in the morning when you have a houseguest. He did something with baking sheets this morning that was entirely new to me.

tfw you are a large mammal vet on safari but are worried someone won’t notice how toned your legs are

Please tell me someone has already meme’d the Houston police officer reacting to the close of the anthem before the Bills game just now.

Goddammit I’m never going to not think of this now www.tumblr.com/dungeonmaste...

You ever roll out of bed in the morning and sing the phrase, “shit, shower and shave” to the tune of Paul Simon’s ”Slip Sliding Away”? Because you can. And should.

The head of my department called me a "hustler" today and she meant it as a compliment. But all I can hear is Telly Savalas saying it with a sneer to Don Rickles in "Kelly's Heroes". I think I may have gotten old somewhere along the line.

Wait wait wait. They used Optimus Prime, extraterrestrial alien who came to this country illegally to *support* their deportation campaign?

That’s just rude.

Ooodilally. Exactly as it should have been. Damn.

Even as an opposing fan I appreciate Seattle’s embrace of the local. Both the fans as 12 and the guy with the best crank recipe in Olympia as their offensive coordinator.

This is literally how most cryptic crossword clues work

Bipartisan shout out to New Hampshire voters who insist on keeping political dynasties alive. I love having our elected positions swapped between two families like a casserole dish at Sunday dinner. “We want political change! But not right here.”

I've been designing adversarial PDF attacks for QA at work and after 3 weeks I am torn between two position: - hide under the bed because this world is about to come apart if even I can figure this out - start applying for CEO jobs with these attacks and buy a safe house with the money

When I said remake Clockwork Orange, I didn’t mean with the same actors.

I too used to work at a place that said you needed a doctors note to call in sick.

If dogs could talk, them first thing I would do it tell them how much I love them. If cats could talk, the first thing I would do is ask what they think I am doing in the bathroom that merits investigation.

Rather than “late-stage capitalism”, I propose “kangaroo capitalism”. Like a kangaroo court, it has all the trappings of the real thing, but it’s a rigged game.