Ben Franklin, Esq.

Butting in here to say that this is completely bonkers.

Yeah, this is just conservative slop. Being mad that anything at all has changed and finding people to blame for it. They'd probably rail against ADA-approved playgrounds

"mY hOmElAnD" calm down it's a playground

Someone arm Yakko, Wakko, and Dot

you can’t be nostalgic for this weak playskool shit. they still make these. if you’re gonna do nostalgia it has to be for the old wooden ones with the insanely hot metal slides

Coming out of the DIA this afternoon, we caught a marriage proposal outside the building.

There's still happiness in the world.

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

Survivors of reported tornado recount chaos, car lifted up by wind, fallen wall Skies were clear in Three Rivers not long before a tornado ripped through the city's business district and other parts of Southwest Michigan.

Skies were clear in Three Rivers not long before a tornado ripped through the city's business district and other parts of Southwest Michigan.

Ooh, artsy fartsy. (this is a v cool photo)

😬😬😬 glad you're okay.

Was it near you?

Totally! I miss Paul Gross. I remember him posting so many updates even after he retired. The guy just loves weather.

Thunderstorm!

I'll add this to my local list.

I guess I wish all the meteorology nerds/TV weatherpeople were here.

Tornado reported in south Michigan as storm leaves 3 dead A tornado was reported Friday afternoon as a severe storm moved across parts of southwest Michigan, leaving 3 dead and 12 injured, officials say.

Tornado reported in south Michigan as storm leaves 3 dead

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The thing I still miss most from Twitter is Michigan weather posts.

going to the casino to play the new machines

Was surprised to find that this uses no LLMs

Today's Daily Challenge is much harder IMO. rose.systems/animalist#to...

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and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self

someone needs to go to jail for this

Is that who bought them? I didn't know anything about who bought them, I was just assuming the worst.

I don't have much info here but I'm not confident in this firm that's buying these parks that we have no information on. That's never good in 2026. You can't just buy a bunch of amusement parks if you're not already in that business -- and I'll bet they aren't. There will be park closures soon.

Oh no. This is really bad news for Michigan's Adventure. Knowing nothing about this, I will guarantee you that this is a private equity firm that is planning to gut it. I doubt it even exists a lot longer.

This is the fallout of Cedar Fair buying Six Flags. Now they shed the least profitable parks

Huh! I've also read that initially, it actually neutralized the odor leaving NO odor. But focus groups hated it, because people were used to that artificially-added "clean" smell, so in the end they had to add those scents to Febreze, completely negating the point of it.

One time, I was the mascot for Oakland University at a basketball tournament in South Dakota, and the game aired on ESPN.

professional looking dude, neat hair, glasses, shirt, using a computer at a desk, the image on the screen is him using a computer, and so on and so on, inwards as far as the eye can see. a plant is behind the computer.

byte, magazine, cover (1979) archive.org/details/byte...

Off-grid Yooper runs hidden hot dog stand in the woods Snowmobilers had been gathering to rest at the edge of her property for years. So this U.P. woman decided to feed them.

Another great story from John Carlisle.

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