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Midjack posted:Out of left loving field! What's wild is that he called his shot on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3kqykn643ps2l 3 months ago: "So uh how do we buy The Onion?" Today: "Figured it out thanks"
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facialimpediment posted:Still a bit shocked by this one. Promising, but where did the money come from? Without a "Ben Collins is actually the grandson of a 19th century industrialist" is this being backstopped by some PE funding that's going to look for a way to cash out?
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Promising, but where did the money come from? Without a "Ben Collins is actually the grandson of a 19th century industrialist" is this being backstopped by some PE funding that's going to look for a way to cash out? I am assuming the money is the "my friends" in "my friends and I." Maybe it's some rich-ish folks who liked the Onion and wanted to keep it going as a pet project. Kinda like Bezos saving The Expanse. Ben Collins is also the guy that Greg Gianforte assaulted way back a million years ago.
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Discussion Quorum posted:I am assuming the money is the "my friends" in "my friends and I." Maybe it's some rich-ish folks who liked the Onion and wanted to keep it going as a pet project. Kinda like Bezos saving The Expanse. Yeah, the money guy is: quote:The real-life Global Tetrahedron is owned by Jeff Lawson, a co-founder and former chief executive of the technology communications company Twilio. The chief executive is Ben Collins, who was a senior reporter at NBC News until recently. Net worth ~$790M from a quick check Discussion Quorum posted:Ben Collins is also the guy that Greg Gianforte assaulted way back a million years ago. But different dude - Ben Jacobs of the Guardian
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facialimpediment posted:Yeah, the money guy is: There we go, that makes more sense. https://www.businessinsider.com/twilio-founder-jeff-lawson-bought-the-onion-2024-4 Hopefully it's a rich dude trying to enable comedy instead of trying to flip the IP!
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facialimpediment posted:
Oh nice, especially bringing back the Onion News Network. Porking Across America and Raw Justice were genius. Hope they improve their archives to make it easier to read complete old issues, that used to be a great way to find great content from their golden era.
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oh hell yea, i hope we get more autistic reporter skits
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This has been a good news evening, thus far.
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My Spirit Otter posted:oh hell yea, i hope we get more autistic reporter skits Everyone go watch Lake Dredge Appraisal again: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C7941B0228E0240&si=4qEM7REoXlGpHCFV
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https://twitter.com/jeffiel/status/1783674241340018857 https://twitter.com/jeffiel/status/1783674319970664593 I laughed very hard at his closer: quote:A lot of people have asked, what do I get for $2? Biden-Trump Part II: twice as much nothing
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Everyone go watch Lake Dredge Appraisal again: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C7941B0228E0240&si=4qEM7REoXlGpHCFV this is the first time ive seen it and its loving amazing.
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Very SA Front Page in its heyday energy from that website.
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onions problem is reality is far more hosed up than what they can come up with
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They have several problems. Like their youtube team that just reads from cue cards in a monotone voice like it's a high school newscast by people that just need the class credit.
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Elviscat posted:Very SA Front Page in its heyday energy from that website. Literally the first thing Onion did was shitpost all over their homepage. So, yep.
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Where do we give money to the new Onion?
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That Works posted:Where do we give money to the new Onion? You might be able to find a link in an article on their website. It's kind of hidden, so I took a screenshot to point the way:  https://www.theonion.com/give-us-1-or-the-onion-disappears-forever-1851436787
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Arc Light posted:You might be able to find a link in an article on their website. It's kind of hidden, so I took a screenshot to point the way: Lol thanks On the tetrahedron site on mobile there were no links :tenbux: for them
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MonkeyFit posted:They have several problems. Like their youtube team that just reads from cue cards in a monotone voice like it's a high school newscast by people that just need the class credit. Or shifting from a unique comedy voice with a Wisconsin vibe to trying to mimic Daily Show with hot takes of daily events, not helped by compulsively ending every article with “…at press time…,” or when their columnists like Jim Anchower went away. Guessing the geniuses who wrote Our Dumb Century have been gone for a decade.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Or shifting from a unique comedy voice with a Wisconsin vibe to trying to mimic Daily Show with hot takes of daily events, not helped by compulsively ending every article with “…at press time…,” or when their columnists like Jim Anchower went away. Guessing the geniuses who wrote Our Dumb Century have been gone for a decade. Our Dumb Century was written 25 years ago. Even if nothing much had changed those dudes would've likely moved on by now.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Our Dumb Century was written 25 years ago. Even if nothing much had changed those dudes would've likely moved on by now. Holy poo poo I am old
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Cool country we have here where these people are not only allowed to continue to walk free but also seek and acquire power and adulation then brag about all of it. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book There's multiple pointless and cruel animal deaths in there so, like, click with care and don't if you're not in a good place at the moment.
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bird food bathtub posted:Cool country we have here where these people are not only allowed to continue to walk free but also seek and acquire power and adulation then brag about all of it. That Construction worker? Also in the gravel pit
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Our Dumb Century was written 25 years ago. Even if nothing much had changed those dudes would've likely moved on by now. ASAPI posted:Holy poo poo I am old 
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Milo and POTUS posted:That Construction worker? Also in the gravel pit The kids on that school bus? Still trying to find a ride home from Desert One
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Milo and POTUS posted:That Construction worker? Also in the gravel pit 2nd the motion. What a rancid piece of poo poo. I wonder how she remembers telling the children vs how they remember it. That dog didn't do anything wrong, the people did.
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bird food bathtub posted:Cool country we have here where these people are not only allowed to continue to walk free but also seek and acquire power and adulation then brag about all of it. I had to put a dog down with a gun once and it's easily top 5 horrible poo poo I've had to do and really wish I hadn't had to do, or done that. I was like... 11? 12 maybe? My dad (who is now a completely different human being than 30+ years ago) apologizes to this day about that poo poo. Like, every time I spend the night at his place and we stay up drinking and shooting the poo poo he stumbles across that memory and just becomes an apologetic mess. I hope Kristi Noem gets that VP nomination just so the whole world can call her a dog killer and a psychopath. I also hope way more that the R's don't win the Presidential election even if Joe Biden and Kamala are trash. gently caress her forever and always.
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ASAPI posted:Holy poo poo I am old  
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quote:“It was not a pleasant job,” she writes, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realised another unpleasant job needed to be done.” That sure is some high-level executive function.
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bulletsponge13 posted:2nd the motion. What a rancid piece of poo poo. I wonder how she remembers telling the children vs how they remember it. I was just making a joke about her murdering the witnesses, not actually suggesting the construction worker should be executed
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Milo and POTUS posted:I was just making a joke about her murdering the witnesses, not actually suggesting the construction worker should be executed Apologies. I'm just an rear end in a top hat. 😊
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I never thought there was another level of hatred I could acquire for anyone in MAGA but good LORD, gently caress Kristi Noem. Trump gets elevated to that if she's his VP pick. On a lighter note: https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1783965571999993991
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Where’s the dog now Joe
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Civilisation is measured in only two things. How well it treats children, and dogs. Small cock barbarians the political party.
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Woodchip posted:The tornadoes hitting NE and IA this afternoon are nuts The Twister remake advertising is getting wild
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Watching tornado streamers today put Twister to shame. Except Twister had flying cows. That’s the same cow.
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