@cairoasmith @EsotericCD just rewatched that episode and boy are there things I notice now that I didn't as a kid. middle-aged montalban has got to be wearing a hairpiece
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Alicia Robinson
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Alicia Robinson
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Longtime journalist, always a writer. Aspiring podcaster. Welcoming soup weather.
Long Beach, CA Katılım Aralık 2011
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@EsotericCD He read like the entire Enterprise database in a few hours in Space Seed.
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In STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, Khan quotes "the Klingon proverb that says revenge is a dish best served cold." But Khan wouldn't even know Klingons existed, or about any aliens at all - he was from 1996, not the future.
Conclusion: This film is hack garbage.
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@MerriamWebster 🙏 please do bite/bit/bitten -- i've seen news headlines about someone being 'bit by a dog'
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‘Cast’ is an irregular verb, and the past tense remains ‘cast,’ rather than ‘casted.’
A number of people and usage guides advocate in favor of extending this to other verbs which are formed w/ ‘-cast’ at the end, such as ‘broadcast,’ ‘forecast,’ and ‘typecast.’
Swell@cinemaxwell
Please. I beg you. Casted is not a word. The word is cast. Jim was cast in the play. Sebastian Stan was cast in The Batman 2. Back in the day, it was a big surprise when they announced that Heath Ledger was cast as the Joker.
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@Guardabascio invoking the spirit of clara peller, are you?
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Wendy's been shorting us on the beef brother. I'm a longtime fan as well but accountability is necessary for change!
JJ Watt@JJWatt
Couldn’t sleep last night. Got outta bed and made a couple bowls of cereal. Was still hungry, so hit a 2am DoorDash order. Now I’m not going to out the company, because I’ve been a longtime fan. But the size of this double cheeseburger is a problem. It’s the size of a slider…
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@MirjamSwanson embarrassed to admit I have only seen one of these. which (excluding sinners) are your top two recs?
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F1, bruh? C’mon. Paint-by-numbers sports movie, second-screen Netflix fare — instead of, like, Weapons or The Phoenician Scheme or even Mickey 17? Those movies asked you to pay attention at least lol
The Academy@TheAcademy
And the nominees for Best Picture are... #Oscars
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@davidfolkenflik Also SNA/John Wayne Airport has a Santa Ana ZIP code but is in a weird no man's land between Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Irvine
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@StudiosLA90210 Perhaps the OP was saying the Senator was headed to Laguna. Sure made it sound as though the plane was. Orange County Airport (SNA) serves a lot of SoCal, not just Laguna
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Hi! Laguna Beach kid here.
There is no airport in Laguna and hence no planes headed there.
Shea Jordan Smith@shea_jordan
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
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@la_dorkout I wonder if the big archway things at PCH/Newport Coast Drive in OC are modeled after this entry? I'd never seen the Bel Air pic but instantly thought of Newport. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newp…
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The entry to Bel-Air at Bellagio/Sunset is the same since it opened in the 1920s, though owner Alphonzo Bell included gates & guards for years.
Homes had "whites only" deeds, common to that era. Bell had another decree: "Not one acre of my land is to be sold to actors or Jews."
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@binarybits genuine question: how does *society* get richer? won't corp execs, etc., keep the entire 'windfall' from elimination of jobs (rather than help pay for UBI/etc.), leading to worse inequality? I don't get how $ would be distributed, absent legislation (which wd never pass).
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@mnali To unpack this: if we automate 90 percent of occupations, society gets a lot richer, which means we collectively have a lot more money to spend.
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Starts the argument with the two least automatable jobs …
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
If you're thinking about starting an argument with "AI will eventually automate all jobs," I'm begging you to (1) talk to a plumber and a kindergarten teacher, and (2) have an economist walk you through how a big increase in the efficiency of producing X impacts demand for not-X
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Alicia Robinson retweetledi
die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
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@ARobWriter That’s honestly very valid. Maybe you could get away with a specific type of cheese but that works better for a pet
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“NOODLES, SOUP! You’re gonna be late for school let’s go”
໊@buffys
normalize naming your children after something you love
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@steven_huyck @katrosenfield lol do NOT become friends with jessica fletcher
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@katrosenfield How about the crazy aspect of murder fiction in series? Who would possibly want to continue living in a little hamlet where the bumbling but kindly priest attracts a murder every week, when 1 village over there’s not been 1 in decades?
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a crazy aspect of writing murder fiction is readers have such excessive faith in police competence that you have to construct the world’s craziest reasons for crime going unsolved; meanwhile the actual cops are like “yo I flushed the murder weapon down the toilet, is that bad”
Emily Zanotti 🦝@emzanotti
Television and true crime podcasts have really skewed how we think about murder. Most murders aren’t solved. Forensic evidence is rarely used, and it’s not really conclusive. Attorneys like my husband could only *dream* of the amount of evidence that LEO got in this case.
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don't forget libraries! most have a wide-ranging collection of physical media, plus digital access to newspapers, magazines, books
Minnie@saintdutchess
Start that physical media collection NOW.
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@CruelPhilosophr i struggle with this as a gen Xer who made it through 30-odd years of life without near-constant screen use. annoyed/disappointed that i'm now sucked in like everyone else, but so hard to quit
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@thekayanova I still have VHS tapes lol.
That said, the way forward isn’t to purchase all of our favorite forms of entertainment. The way forward is to become comfortable with not needing to be entertained every moment we aren’t sleep or at work.
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Alicia Robinson retweetledi
Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology. Our dignity lies in our ability to reflect, choose freely, love unconditionally, and enter into authentic relationships with others. Recognizing and safeguarding what characterizes the human person and guarantees their balanced growth is essential for establishing an adequate framework to manage the consequences of artificial intelligence.
vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
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@AndrewSolender 👋 same (formerly) - BA in English lit from a state university, started at community newspapers, learned on the job
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i’m a professional, mainstream journalist without a journalism degree. didn’t study it in undergrad, didn’t get a masters. it’s not that unusual
Cam Higby 🇺🇸@camhigby
You can criticize me for not having a journalism degree… But what does it say about the folks with degrees that I replaced them at the Pentagon?
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@smerconish @washingtonpost or maybe members of Congress read various media? NYT story on 11/30 said the Intercept reported the alleged 2nd strike in Sept. and linked to that story: theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u-s…
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Many callers today suggesting that the 6 Dems who recorded the "illegal" orders video must have known about the 9/2 @washingtonpost boat strike
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@JamesQueallyLAT thank you, I was wondering what the number/percent increase looked like after subtracting cases that went away (charges dropped/acquittal/etc.)
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We reviewed all assault on a federal officer filings in L.A., Chicago, Portland, Washington D.C. and around San Diego this year. What we found:
-- 53% of assaults ended in no injury to an agent
-- 38% of all cases have been dismissed or ended in an acquittal.
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The White House says attacks on ICE are up 1000%
Court records in cities where federal law enforcement has been busiest tell a more complex story -- there are few serious injuries, and many allegations don't hold up in court.
Latest w/ @brittny_mejia
latimes.com/california/sto…
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@MikeIsaac it's more of the old "broad systemic problems are your responsibility as an individual to fix -- and they're probably (somehow?) your fault too"
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im not wearing a snuggie on planes like a lot of folks
however im also not keen to go couture when im in a middle seat with speculoos being spilled on me from the two people whose elbows are in my lap
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there’s a lot of psychology going on here i won’t touch
but the past 30 years of air travel has been about slowly chipping away at the experience to make them into tubular airborne cattle cars so unless you’re paying a premium it’s not exactly something to look forward to
FactPost@factpostnews
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel: "People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
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@ch1cken_t3nder Cleveland? The "At-least-we're-not-Detroit Cleveland?"
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Yeah it’s a real who’s-who of desirable metros
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@besttrousers most relevant item from chatGPT: lawmakers’ rationale: to restore balance, ensure that employers share more of the cost of unemployment benefits, and link employer contributions to the experience rating (i.e., employers who cause more claims pay more).
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@besttrousers FWIW, chatGPT says UI tax rate changes in that bill weren't industry-specific, but state policies may have had disparate impacts (1/2)
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Note the decline after the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 made it so construction workers pay a much steeper tax rate for unemployment insurance than everyone else.
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