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JamesDRyan

@JamesDRyan@mastodon.world

Writer, critic, cynic, bad punster, interested in maybe way more things than there's time to appreciate...

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mattblaze, to random
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Local news has a take.

JamesDRyan,
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@mattblaze

Rachel Maddow actually ran this on MSNBC tonight; and they say local news coverage is dying...

futurebird, to random
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At the Role-Playing Games club today, a fun debate. The whole campaign is on this ice-locked ship in the arctic: the DM introduced the possibility of sirens.

One player declares their character is ace and therefore immune to romantic seduction.

Not so, says DM these sirens call out with "whatever you desire most" ... another player wonders if, since their character is monk seeking enlightenment and the death of all worldly desires are they immune?

Apparently the sirens do enlightenment too.

JamesDRyan,
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@futurebird

Back it up a sec: Sirens are cold weather beings?

I'd have thought that as creatures of seas, where the water is still in liquid form, that they'd avoid ice packs, so this is kind of an interesting point that deserves some consideration, as well...

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Well it's FRIDAY!!!!!

WOO HOOOOO!!!!

TAKE ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES OFF AND RUN AROUND ALL NAKEY!!!!

WOO HOOOOO!!!

Or is that just me?

JamesDRyan,
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@Mrfunkedude

It's raining and in the 50s with a steady breeze here; maybe next week...

JamesDRyan, to random
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And now, a few moments of relaxation:

video/mp4

dgar, to random
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Got fired from my job as a masseuse.

Apparently I rub people the wrong way.

JamesDRyan,
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@dgar

May you choose your next job because you want it and not because you knead it...

lauren, to random
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On the classic 1966 TV series "The Time Tunnel", the official name of the secret operation was "Project Tic-Toc".

JamesDRyan,
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@lauren

Of all the Irwin Allen shows in the 1960s, that one got the least love, and deserved so much more...

rebrafsim, to random

I accidentally did an art. First time for everything, I guess.

JamesDRyan,
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@rebrafsim

Nice.

RickiTarr, to random
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Sexual Congress sounds like the worst porn ever made.

JamesDRyan,
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@RickiTarr

Years ago, Ed Sorel did a cartoon for the VILLAGE VOICE with a version of this, focusing particularly on the Ways & Means Committee.

Can't find it now (and probably can't really share that one), but if you can get your hands on that, it'd be a good blueprint to follow...

MonotoneofBill, to random
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It's a long shot but does anyone have a catapult?

JamesDRyan,
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@MonotoneofBill

Boy, you have some ballista ask for one of those...

JamesDRyan, to random
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"Jose y Maria" by Everett Patterson

JamesDRyan, to random
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Because nothing evokes the holidays quite like...

"The 1812 Overture"? Really...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMIqK73rQ4k

RickiTarr, to random
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What is that one thing you will never do again?

JamesDRyan,
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@RickiTarr

Can I get back to you on that? I'm on the fifth round on some of my mistakes, and might need to re-think how to move on from them before I can put them in the "never" category...

RickiTarr, to random
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One of my friends pointed out that Bible stories sound exactly like Florida Man Headlines!

Example:

Florida Man Starts Building Ark, Says God Is Going Flood The Whole Earth

PLEASE, add your own Florida Man Bible Headlines for everyone's amusement!

JamesDRyan,
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@RickiTarr

Florida Man waits under tree to watch Orlando get smitten after spending three days inside giant fish...

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, what movie/TV show/ book has the best take on time travel and why?

JamesDRyan,
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Funny, that sounds an awful lot like this book from 1987...

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/341735

JamesDRyan,
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@RickiTarr

There's a lot of good, intelligent, well-considered examples that everyone else has provided.

So, I'm going with the somewhat forgettable but still kinda fun to sit through THE SPIRIT OF 76:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYm9ZHk5c2w

br00t4c, to random
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Mike Johnson and his son monitored each other's porn habits

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-johnson-porn-son-video-b2442507.html

JamesDRyan,
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@br00t4c

I tried to imagine Jack Johnson screaming out "Oh, Daddy," and I couldn't leave the shower for three hours...

moh_kohn, to random
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BBC: "Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble"

No, lots of us called crypto out from the very start. I was reading accurate critiques of bitcoin in 2012.

Journalists and financiers and politicians got duped or didn't care about the truth when there was money to be made.

Now you're trying to pretend nobody warned you? Get fucked.

JamesDRyan,
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@moh_kohn

Maybe it was an editing error, and what they meant to say was, "Everyone wanted to get duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble..."

I mean, some folks want to believe things that aren't true, because maybe if they were, their lives would be better.

The fact that most of the crypto-believers were guys in their twenties, who might have been wishing for everything to be easier than it was, as I did when I was that age, that'd explain a lot right there...

mpax, to Creativity
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What is the most tedious chore on the spaceship?
#MPaxDimension #WritingCommunity #creativity #scifi #fantasy #writingprompt

JamesDRyan,
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@mpax

Human environmental maintenance, i.e., cleaning up the head between usages...

the_etrain, to random
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Pressing Alt-F8 should transport you to another timeline.

JamesDRyan,
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@the_etrain

I wouldn't recommend it; tried that once, and the one where Henry Clay became president in 1844 had a lot of subtle cringey aspects that were unpleasant...

ScienceDesk, to science
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A powerful explosion from the sun carved a 60,000-mile-long “canyon of fire” on Halloween night. Live Science calls the event “a striking reminder that the sun is fast approaching its explosive peak." https://flip.it/TlWpyb
#Science #Space #Sun #SolarSystem

JamesDRyan,
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@ScienceDesk

Do keep in mind that "fast approaching" is measured in decades, which means our grandkids are going to have to worry about social security before this becomes a real issue...

davep, to random

Marcel Marceau was a hero of the French resistance but he didn't like to talk about it.

JamesDRyan,
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@davep

Yep, he was a hero. And definitely a man of his mime...

JamesDRyan,
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@davep

That's not that uncommon. For a lot of folks who worked in the resistance of their country during that time, they kept their mouths shut. Partly this was to not draw attention from anyone on the losing side who might want to even the score, but more often than not there was some PTSD involved which these partisans dealt with by putting it as far behind them as possible.

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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In recent weeks, the U.S. has seen hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets in support of Palestine. This weekend we will see the biggest protest yet.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/the-shift-palestine-activism-continues-to-grow-throughout-the-united-states/?utm_content=buffer08770&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza

JamesDRyan,
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@mondoweiss

Please tell me someone's going to make sure that this won't be hijacked like a few other protests have been so far...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zx5a/neo-nazis-hijack-pro-palestine-protest-mike-enoch

RickiTarr, to random
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What do you sleep in:

JamesDRyan,
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@RickiTarr

I go with #1, because it gets cold 'round here, even in the summer...

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    @lilithsaintcrow

    Wishing you all the best with that.

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