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Euros are coming up. Here's my fantasy team for Match day 1 ... thoughts?

Superdrugs: "Feel as good as you look."
Me: Oh, way ahead of you, there. I've been doing that for ages.

I'm ugly as fuck.

About ten years ago, I wrote a fanfic, which I published online. It was one of my favourite stories, and it has just sat there gathering dust ever since. Well, this year, I decided to turn that into an actual story of its own, with my own characters and environments. So ... let's see how this goes 😭

This may be the stupidest thing I've ever done. But by God, I'm going to do it ...

I swear, I've already seen responses from guys saying the whole "Man Vs Bear" thing is which would you rather have sex with. Not even ironically, either.

The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction The satirical news company plans to shutter Jones’ InfoWars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.

Rebooting to the last restoration point is apparently going slower than expected, but it's getting there.

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Someone suggested that Cards Against Humanity would be a good choice.

bullshit twitter post about alpha/beta/sigma/gamma/oregano males. there’s a pyramid and percent signs. they are talking about all the different kind of males, including the omega male which i did not know exists but seems to be the same as all the other ones. sorry i did not copy the actual text before i blocked this guy but im sure you understand

it’s so beautiful how joe rogan guys invented their own astrology

A social post from @ThatEricAlper that says: How does Batman Shampoo exist, but not Conditioner Gordon? [An image of OP holding a bottle of Batman Shampoo]

Only one hero can get to the bottom of this...

This was one of the reasons I decided to install my own shortener for my domain. While it still has the same issues (it exists for as long as I pay for it), at least I have a little more control over it than relying on a third-party.

It has become a labour of love of mine and has had a few small tweaks here and there. It still receives a few minor updates when I get to sit down to it, but I absolutely love it. Visit colourlibrary.dev (or colorlibrary.dev, if you're in the US 😜) to check it out.

A year ago yesterday, I released a personal project - Colour Library. It was based on the Brand Colors project, which shows the HEX codes for hundreds of brands. CL adds in RGB, CMYK, HSL, and Pantone colour to this. It was my first real-world non-WordPress project, and has spawned two more since.

For what it's worth, there is an opinion piece saying to do just that. Haven't read the one about Boden, so I don't know how forceful the language is here, but the headline sounds "meh" ...

www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

Link removes paywall from here: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/o...

Bomb threats force second consecutive day of school closures in Springfield, Ohio Several local leaders have also been targeted in the wake of baseless claims aimed at Haitian immigrants that have been repeated by former President Donald Trump.

There have been numerous terror threats in Ohio with schools closed and leaders threatened, after Trump's and Vance's comments about Haitians eating pets.

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Reports within the last three days

It's sort of the same, but there's also often a limitation on some trademarks to prevent generalisation. So, I couldn't use "I'm lovin' it" for my fast food company, but I could (probably) use it for my skydiving company. "X" was already trademarked by Meta and Microsoft before Twitter was renamed.

Judge defines Monster Munch in bizarre ruling on Walkers’ poppadoms Walkers argued the snacks were not crisps as they were called poppadoms, were intended to be eaten with a meal and had unusual flavours

Somewhat related: early this year, Walkers lost their appeal for their Sensations Poppadoms.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I love this because the judge used the argument that calling them poppadoms didn't make them so, as Monster Munch wasn't "generally reserved as a food for monsters".

My phone has a case that allows me to do the same thing. It's so satisfying.

Salsa: the socially acceptable, tomato-based fruit salad.

Years ago I wrote about how the fantasy of so many men in tech re: AI was to create a woman that doesn't talk back. It's not an original idea--it populates sci-fi, like Ex Machina.

But it's also an easy point to argue because so many guys will just... say it.

From Wikipedia: Torvalds sarcastically quipped about the name 'git' (which means "unpleasant person" in British English slang): "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."

Git is an incredibly powerful tool to track changes in software development, developed by Linus Torvalds in April 2005.

In British slang, a "git" is an unpleasant, pig-headed, argumentative person who thinks they're always right.

TIL that this choice of name may or may not have been intentional.

It's meant to signify "moving forward". There's also an arrow in the Hebrew and Arabic versions. Not only that, but in English, the arrow goes from left to right, because that's the direction we read, so that's considered "forward". In Hebrew/Arabic, it goes from right to left for the same reason.

packing boxes in warehouse setting, one slightly higher than the other, the words "DO NOT BREAK DOWN" can be seen on it

I am trying Mr. Box.

Green Cross Code 1 1975UK Public Information Film. Road Safety.Green Cross Code Man is Dave Prowse, the same guy that played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars Trilogy. Th...

The UK ran a PSA campaign which taught The Green Cross Code in the 70s and 80s, in which the Green Cross Code Man would appear to help kids cross the road safely (youtu.be/CRUBMBi_lp4 was one). He was played by David Prowse, the physical form of Darth Vader.

Fun fact: Darth Vader taught kids in the UK how to cross the road safely in the 1970s, and taught those same (now) adults in the 2010s. I think he found our lack of road safety ... disturbing.

(It is also completely true. Sort of.)

Absolutely scathing and well worth the read.

To be clear, I'm not saying "remove it" I love it. It's right up there with not being allowed to use Amazon Lumberyard for space travel, except in the event of a zombie apocalypse. What I'm saying is "Am I allowed?"

Hey, @ma.tt, just out of curiosity: does "ingesting" include smoking, snorting, and injecting? If not, then it looks like I've found three things we can do with Tumblr usernames, according to the Community Guidelines. I mean, since we can't get drunk on them.

None. Terminated (Arnie came back).

I mean, I know alcohol does a lot to one's mental awareness, and the UK does have a million and five slang terms for states on inebriation, but rickrolling requires the song to be unexpected. How drunk do you have to be to see Rick Astley performing on stage and NOT expect him to perform that song?

Rick Astley performs a concert on BBC.
Rick Astley says he's playing a song that starts "Never Gonna" - but not "that one", because that will be later. He plays "Never Gonna Stop."
First song Rick Astley plays in 2024 is "Never Gonna Give You Up."

People in the UK announce they've been rickrolled.