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The latest entries into this pit of despair

Found Dory
4 October

Three of the BBC's crack glue-sniffers—Isabelle Gerretsen; Martha Henriques; and Jocelyn Timperley—gathered together to share ten top photos from this year's Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards.

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fabulous fotos; gotta respect the grift
Sand bandits
3 October

Two trailers, one of which bore NVidea branding, were stolen from a trucking company in Fremont, CA. The trucking company, PlusAI, uses Nvidia chips for its self-driving technology.

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crime & punishment; rumour mill
Jabba jabbering
3 October

Bug-eyed raving screen loon Margot Robbie recently changed her surname to her husband's after ten years of marriage. Okay, so it took a decade, but he's finally subjugated her to the P4TriARcHy's jackboot. Rome wasn't built in a day after all.

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celeb; I h8 Margot Robbie; oh, the fragility!
Radical lesbian crackhead
2 October

Last Ditch, a lesbian bar and performance venue in Greenfield, MA, opened its doors in April of last year, with a mission to serve Dykes, Transexuals, Gender Freaks, Workers, and their friends. In this context, I'm not sure what Workers [capitalised] signifies: any workers happening by, or whether the capitalisation lends it some queer meaning. But it's nice to know they're welcome, whoever they are.

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oh, the fragility!; you couldn't make this shit up!
Third time's the charm
1 October

A convicted murderer on death row in Tennessee survived two attempts at execution by pentobarbital injection, before being taken to hospital to recuperate. According to one of her attorneys, she's being provided life-saving measures, presumably so the prison authorities can try to get it right next time.

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crime & punishment; wit & wisdom of the comments section

The latest updates to past woes

Doomed
2 October

It appears that, after all the hype and excitement of an Avengers: Endgame reshoot, the new footage that is set in the Doomsday story amounts to little more than four minutes of post-credits end scenes. And for this, you're expected to shell out for a cinema ticket and sit through three hours of a seven-year-old film.

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culture vulture; wit & wisdom of the comments section
Wordle: worth dying for?
30 September

The BBC's reporter, Max Matza, underhandedly updated his account to help explain the closing links to Wordle:

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crime & punishment; culture vulture; Hasmyback Machine
Idiot questions or idiot me?
24 September

While looking up the correct usage of inscribed, I came across this helpful question courtesy of Google's brainfarting.

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answers to stupid questions; quoted for WTF?; random thoughts & brain farts
Milli Vanilli got an edumakayshun, of sorts
15 August

His time to heal didn't work out as intended or expected. Sadly, Mr Arday took his own life.

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edumakayshun; ethics; pandering; the hustle
Mathematical problems are so much easier if you cheat
6 August

Just to prove that Presh Talwalkar doesn't either read the comments section or take it that seriously, around six years later he presented another puzzle which requires the use of the number 9 and no other digits, just common operators.

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wit & wisdom of the comments section

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