Last Night’s Sunset
7.3 earthquake hits the Philippines
Russia cuts gas flows even further
Biden isn’t doing enough to protect our poppies
Lobsang Phuntsok created a children’s village Jhamtse Gatsal, and something about this dude just kinda creeps me out, but it might be the way his bio says as a young boy he was an “uninvited guest to this universe.”
British woman died on a hiking trip in Italy
The mystery of the Somerton Man has been solved after 73 years.
Russia has been accused of leaving fallen soldiers bodies so they don’t have to pay death benefits to the families.
At least this dude knows he wrote the worst song of my generation
A really, really big pink diamond
You probably saw this, but the Pope is wearing something a lot of people think he shouldn’t.
Here’s some fun facts about poppies:
- Flowers can be as big as 6 inches across
- The colours vary among white, lilac, pink, orange, yellow, red, violet, and blue
- They make terrible music
Tonight’s Zoom is kicking off at 8pm ET.
Stay fresh, cheese bags.
Seconders don’t surf. Neither do Poppy.
You aint never been on a surfboard ya fuckin poser
So, he’s named Charlie?
Of course🤐
Wow, Brochettaward did it. The son of a bitch did it. He actually, honest to god firsted. Never thought I’d see the day.
Don’t come at me, son
I got 99 problems, but being second? That aint one
You do realize your dad ended up telling you he was high that day at school – remember that part Ricky?
I thought that was supposed to be a compliment…”your daddy was high the night he dreamed of you…”
But you’re a bitch. And that’s one.
You are a tiny little man who will never know the satisfaction of a First.
Your wife will never know the satisfaction of a First.
Love the Thomas the Tank Engine quote.
+1
If you want to laugh so hard you have to keep pausing the video, look at YouTube for the George Carlin outtakes from when he narrated Thomas. Adults only.
I’ve seen it. Spectacular.
You aint never been on a surfboard ya fuckin poser!
Re: Pope, I really thought that was a Photoshop.
He wouldn’t be able to enter Jacob’s Field wearing that, that’s for sure.
Ha! Good point.
I was trying to figure out what obscure religious reference that was, broke down and googled it…
Cleveland baseball team is funny.
It’s still the Jake.
I wonder at times about how annoyed the companies paying big money for naming rights must get when the people who live in the area refer to the stadium by an old name. Here in Cleveland, it’s the Jake, the Q, and the Muni.
It may have been bowing to the inevitable, but TD Bank went with the ‘TD Garden’ for the Boston Garden naming rights.
It will always be ‘The Garden’.
When I lived in Denver, everyone refused to call the stadium anything other than Mile High. They’ve sold the naming rights so many times in the last twenty years that they don’t deserve to have anyone respect the name of the current highest bidder.
We just drove by it on our way to Montana. I told my wife, “there’s the diaphragm!”
We have one of these around here: “NYCB Live: Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.”
It’s already since reverted to “Nassau Coliseum” after the bank pulled out of the naming rights deal.
The “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” playing at “Edison International Field of Anaheim” was bad.
“The Los Angeles Angels” is the the angels angels.
And “The La Brea Tarpits” is “the the tar tar pits”.
Don’t get me started on “pita bread”
TAR PITS!
They will always be the California Angels to me.
You can have chai tea with your pita bread.
I still have a California Angels hat.
Thanks to the Disney corporation, we have documentary evidence of that ancient time.
Disney made The Mighty Ducks and then acquired NHL expansion rights. They made Angels in the Outfield and acquired the California Angels. There was a time when people worried that Disney would make a film about other sports.
I have an Enron Field cup somewhere around the house.
Gillette Stadium will likely always be ‘Gillette’, since it was new construction and never had another name (save, briefly, as “CMGi Field” until they went tits-up).
Nobody misses Foxborough Stadium (which was demolished and that land is now practice fields, I believe).
For a while, the old Candlestick Park in SF became “Monster Park”.
No, not Monster job board.
No, not Monster energy drink.
Not even Milton the Monster.
Something I otherwise never heard of called Monster Cable.
I don’t think it lasted a year.
Monster Cables were a big deal, back when I cared about audio components.
Monster Cable is a bunch of dick heads who sell overpriced cables for musical and AV equipment who decided to be assholes and suddenly started requiring proof of purchases to honor their lifetime replacement policy as if I’m going to keep that around for my 15 year old $80 cable that just suddenly went bad. They must be using all the money they’re saving to buy stadium naming rights. Good investment. Dick heads.
They sell “Super Ultra Mega Definition 777 Quadrillahertz Interference-Free Noise Reducing” $5 audio and video cables to tech illiterate boomers and audiophile pseuds after marking them up to $100 (no, seriously). They were also the OEM for the original Beats by Dre headphones. They were already selling shitty $20 Monoprice headphones with Monster branding on them for $200, so they just doubled the price, slapped the Beats branding on, and hey presto, you’re an OEM.
It appears in the time it took me to type that I was pipped to the post
All AV component cables are for digital signals. Completely ruined the scam they had going. If you spend more than $10 on an HDMI cable because you think more expensive ones have a better picture, you are clinically retarded.
But it’s got GOLD PLATED connectors and DOUBLE HELIX SHIELDING TECHNOLOGY!
The silliest thing my dad ever did my entire life was to buy a $100 “premium” steel-braided Monster coax cable to run from the splitter to our first cable modem because some putz at the cable company told him it would improve signal strength and speeds. He was smart enough to know better.
It’s awfuler when the sponsorship changes a 1/2 dozen times in 15 years.
I still call “Hard Rock Stadium” Joe Robbie, and I’ll always call what is now “loanDepot Park” Marlins Park.
Hey, Lack, you were asking about what I had to fabricate on the house; nothing too serious, but all the walls are dimensional lumber, so I have had to turn 4×4’s from the big boxes down to actual 2″ across to fill spaces from when I did an emergency rewire, and there was no off the shelf solution to getting the garbage disposal set up, so I had to make custom pipe fittings out of ABS. Like I said, nothing spectacular, but it takes time and effort, along with a strong knowledge of what any given system does.
Interesting. Thanks for following up.
Is that where the ladder is kept?
Seriously though, have any remains in these alleged mass Graves been exhumed?
Everything I’ve read points to gpr data and then no further investigation for over a year.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/251871/no-remains-unearthed-yet-from-canada-residential-school-grave-sites
They sold the bones on the relic market.
No.
Who said bears can’t read?
Probably some cub reporter.
Ursine funny
Koala Harris?
Eeeeeeewwwww!
What a boar.
It is true that she refuses to fly Qantas.
No one claimed they were illiterate. We said they could barely read
“Ukrainian official accuses Russians of abandoning dead soldiers”
Nope, not buying what he’s selling. If it fits the desired narrative too well it’s probably made up nonsense.
+1 Eating animals from the Kuwait Zoo
How about the missiles fired at a shopping mall and school?
Russia has certainly been hitting civilians, but whenever I look into it past the headline, it always seems like Russia directed their fire at military targets. The MSM and Ukraine neglect to report the Ukraine is either using abandoned civilian buildings as military staging grounds (e.g., an earlier shopping mall hit was being used to house military vehicles and soldiers) or that the Ukraine military is using civilians as human shields similar to Hamas tactics. Then the media only reports the civilians were killed and not the soldiers hiding among them. It seems a bit extreme until one remembers Ukraine’s military has spent the past decade slaughtering their own innocent people in the Donbas region for sport.
This has some good examples:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/nyt-continues-to-report-strikes-on-civilians-that-somehow-happen-to-hit-military-targets.html
At this point, Russia has been accused of all sorts of things, and trying to sort out what is wheat from chaff is a fool’s game at this point.
That is the best approach. Everything should be assumed as BS.
Yep. It’s all propaganda. Every word.
I like Corb Lund. He knows how to write a song.
I’m a fan too. ‘Twas a pleasant surprise.
Corb Lund is a hidden gem of country music.
Has anyone seen Sir Charles Lytton lately? Better get Inspector Clouseau on the case.
I’m keeping a weather eye out for the Lady Lytton.
rowr.
Poppies!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1jAByECNc0
Poppies… poppies… poppies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJ30dodvdc
Holy shit,
I need some poppy juice after that. I haven’t heard that since Dr. Demento
Poppies and asbestos
That cat statue thing is truly awesome.
Not even a cat owner and it made me chuckle
Someday cats will unlock the secrets of gravity that have eluded man.
One of mine is preventing me from floating up out of my rocking chair even as I type this.
They are experts at fuckin’ wit you from a distance when they want you to get up and feed them.
Mine, in her old age (she’s 17 this year), has recently resorted to basically screaming at us.
She will meow as loud as possible, and keep doing it until we do whatever it is she’s wanting.
That becomes quite annoying at 5.30am.
Oh, man, the butter cookies tweet had me laughing raucously.
I don’t get it.
Stereotypically, you go to your grandmother’s house and open up the tin to get yourself a nice butter cookie and instead it is full of sewing odds and ends.
No such tin has ever contained cookies.
Fake news! I used to have to buy tins of butter cookies as refreshments for Board meetings for the sake of one PITA director who constantly reminded everyone of her corn and soy allergies. They were the only grocery store cookies made without corn syrup or soy something.
I REALLY would have enjoyed feeding her corn and soy… 😒
Ah. I didn’t get it either. I actually find the cookies in the tins, the cookies just suck…
🤨
Me either. I was trying to connect it to why a $3 ‘savings’ became $4….
I’m partial to Thomas the Tank Engine
Hi Poppy!
The Thomas meme is dark.
Kind of like Europe in about 90 days.
So two liars. I’m shocked…
https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/07/video-of-hit-and-run-by-jersey-city-councilwoman-released.html
I just posted a press release today that marked our surpassing $1 billion tax monies to Ukr
Ukraine is America’s Chechnya under Kadyrov.
Only $1 billion?
1 billion sent, 56 pledged. USgov is taking a page from Amber Heard
Damn…
‘Leave It to Beaver’ star Tony Dow now dead, son confirms, after premature announcement
Sad, he seemed like a decent guy from what I had read about him. Went on to lead a relatively normal life for a child actor. Eddie Haskell became a cop. He just died a few years back as well, IIRC.
This is one of the more amusing child-actor-turned-cop storied
What’s with the stock market today?
Why’s NASDAQ up so much? Just on the rate increase, or because of the chip bill as well? It’s a big swing for one day.
Fed may not hike as much next quarter.
Moderating Inflation expectations. (Likely ridiculous).
Because more people bought stocks than sold them. As to why, *shrugs* the stock market doesn’t really makes any sense. It’s just gambling at this point. Better odds than most but still gambling.
NASDAQ is very tech heavy, and the sector just got a $52B shot in the arm thanks to
Uncle Samyou and me.Subsidizing chip fabs in the USA after we spent the last 50 years making sure that it was impossible to build a chip fab in the USA due to onerous regulations, shitty tax and monetary policy, and incentivizing offshoring is a near-perfect encapsulation of Reagan’s famous “If it moves, tax it. if it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it” quip.
I did reference that, but I guess I didn’t realize the dollar amount involved. Still seems out of proportion, 4% must be like 40 billion.
To the point where I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word “NASDAQ” not preceded with the words “tech-heavy”.
I took a shower so I don’t stink up the Zoom
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d_qvjwLmrHo/hqdefault.jpg
Wait, is that de rigueur now?
I may even put on a frilly shirt
Like this?
I would have been disappointed by any other link.
I was thinking “that better be Seinfeld” and you delivered.
Nice work.
*curtsies*
I hike a lot and I’ve never seen ropes for protection. Besides, her husband pushed her off, obviously.
You gotta be sure about your marriage if you do any mountain hiking.
+1 snorkeling and diving.
And cruises with balcony cabins
My thoughts exactly. It’s happened twice now? Word is getting around.
It was a Via Ferrata which involves a lot of stuff requiring ropes and cables and being clipped in.
Kinky!
Go on…
We “noped” right out of one of the paths when hiking to the natural pools on Saint Martin – even with good hiking shoes it was one-slip-and-you’re-bouncing-down-the-cliff (and I was sliding all over in my casual sneakers as it was).
Clearly people had been taking that route. Crazy people.
I did this trail with the wife and kids a few years ago. https://youtu.be/fcczjFRcVcU. However, it had been rebuilt to be completely safe which takes a lot of the fun out of it.
Fuck no.
I’ve done some sketchy ones, but the pucker factor on that one is too high.
Nooooope.
Oddly, I have developed a fear of heights late in life. No idea why. More to lose, mebbe.
Huh. I stood and looked down from Half Dome in the snow, of course, I came over from Badger Pass in snow shoes.
That’s a long walk.
Two days. I was on a snow camping trip with the Boy Scouts.
That pope- he’s no Calvin Coolidge.
Vote for the Washington Commies fight song
It’s lame that they are only changing a couple lines. Come up with a new song. I voted for option 2 since it is the lamer of the two.
Funny how MSM has no problem with guns that suddenly become animate when held by police.
The officer’s weapon discharged.
Gun CEOs call shootings ‘local problems’ and defend ‘inanimate’ weapons
Maybe Berenson also has long covid.
I’m going with asshole.
My impression was the discovery demands were impossible. I expect we’ll find out on appeal.
Just because you’re good on one thing doesn’t mean you’re good on another. Right on Covid, wrong on this, and definitely an asshole at all times.
His mistake, then, was in calling them crisis actors rather sticking to demonstrably true statements like “You’re a narcissistic piece of shit for climbing on a pile of dead bodies that includes your own fucking child in order to preach the gospel of gun control.”
Also, is there any particular reason this midwit clown doesn’t put a space after a full stop? Yes, I know, technically we’re supposed to double space after full stop. Just because we abandoned that practice doesn’t make this one any more acceptable.
I assume spaces count vs. character limit for Twitter?
One of the many reasons I can’t comprehend why anyone uses, or ever used, Twitter. I’ve often wondered what the fuck the elevator pitch was. “It’s like LiveJournal but better because it has the same character limit as SMS!” “Sold, here’s a check.” But even so, his first tweet is 278 characters and the 2nd 197. The limit is 280. He could have used proper spaces and just left the last full-stop off since it was the end of the tweet anyway. Or abbreviated “First Amendment” into “1A” instead of spelling it all the way out twice.
It originally _was_ via SMS, which is where the limit came from.
I knew about Twitter early on – husband-of-a-friend-of-a-friend is/was one of the founders.
My take at the time was “this is stupid, nobody will use this”, thus continuing my long streak of not recognizing things that will go on to become wildly popular (see, also, Docker).
I at least kind of understand the problem Docker tries to solve (elevator pitch: “WORA of the 2020s”). I still don’t get the use case for Twitter. Neither the original concept or what it’s turned into.
I dunno what “WORA” is but I’m actually using Docker right now to run SQL Server on a Mac. Just learned I could do that a few weeks ago.
That whole world is kind of a black box to me; I know just enough to click the right links and buttons to get it going. Apparently we use something similar at work so I might have to learn more.
“Write once, run anywhere”. It was the slogan for Java/JVM back in the ’90s or early aughts. Back when it was still a Sun Microsystems product.
I actually use Docker as well on my home media server to run Pi-Hole. I figured there was no real sense occupying another ethernet port on my router or having to buy a switch just to stick another RPi on my network when I already have an always-on computer running anyway. At the time I wasn’t aware of the multitude of other DNS-level ad blockers I could run natively, and at this point I’m not going to fix something that ain’t broken.
Yah, I use Docker on my Synology for a few things (Pi-hole, Grafana, Restic server). It’s handy.
Go (and I guess Rust?) are way closer to WORA than Java ever was. As an admin, I always hated Java and the 10,000 files it needed to run something.
Yeah, Java looks rather clunky these days compared to those new kids on the block.
Rust is kind of a joy to work with, tool-wise.
I don’t know anywhere near enough about programming to have a worthwhile opinion on any given language, but trying to build IceCat after they stopped shipping binaries was enough to make me hate Rust for the rest of eternity. Resolving dependencies and downloading a gigabyte worth of toolchain related crap took longer than building the damn browser did.
There is something to be said about the ability to distill complex arguments to 240 character chunks.
It’s what makes Twitter both horrible, yet also sometimes amazing.
I remember when prosecuting Holocaust deniers was stupid shit that only could Euros do because we have a First Amendment here. And that such prosecutions weee counterproductive.
All the way home?
/sensible chuckle
What does Billy Corgan say when he rides a rollercoaster?
That looks like the Phoenix coaster.
That was so dumb. Why can’t I stop laughing?
#metoo
The US will start prosecuting denial of The Insurrection soon enough.
Jack Del Rio on line 1
Listen, Jack, I beat that virus like it owed me money.
So, you are saying the virus is a dick?
Come on, man, you know, the thing.
It was like Corn Pop. I got out that rusty vaccine needle and soaked it in water so it was good and rusty, like we used to do back then. I waved that needle at him and he backed off.
A bunch of avatars just shrunk.
Maybe you got bigger?
Go ask Alice…
The water was cold!
I WAS IN THE POOL!!
How ’bout just buying the land and using (or in this case, not using) it as you see fit. You want to protect it in its pristine state, knock yourself out. Just leave me and my dollars out of it.
https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1552060421011652608
Good thread on Blackrock, WEF, and ESG.
ESG is poison.
There’s going to be a hell of a price to pay for mass corporate psychosis.
Tom Woods talking about woke capitalism and ESG.
https://youtu.be/6LhGwU1l0kc
It’s pernicious extortion racket garbage.
Luckily that price will be paid by the Fed printing trillions more and handing it directly to Blackrock at no interest so that they never ever ever have to face a reckoning for it. Ever.
Blackrock should rightly be seen as a government entity that acquired all it’s assets through the most transparent corruption scheme ever devised and have everything they own confiscated and redistributed. By the right Top Men of course.
👆👆👆
Terrifying, really. They’re literally taking control of the world right in front of our faces.
‘Vladimir Putin’ chants during Fenerbahçe vs Dynamo Kiev match
European Futbol fans being outrageous on purpose? The deuce you say! Where is my fainting couch?
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae5HkZxTqME
Well. I sorta-officially start my new gig in two weeks. Today I started to have The Feeling before a big change. I think I am ready to go, but I know I have lots to learn. I’m comfortable knowing that there are plenty of mistakes. Good. Do your best to not repeat them. All ya can ask.
I’m not nervous and I feel like I should be. I’m gonna work on that little writing project. One to share with y’all about the miniature circus here, and another in AP style for myself. I should really get working on them. Biggest issue is a lack of Me Time living with my parents for a spell. I should be writing but I get distracted. Every moment of solitude is a ray of time I need and can’t ignore. I always semi-waste those moments on relaxing and having fun. However, I know I’m not *wasting* time. Gotta keep sane. A solid, interruption-free weekend is all I need. Get that and then I’m right back on the ball.
I’m actually doing quite well. I am quietly confident. It is curious. I wonder where It’ll lead. For now, it’s time to go for another walk, but this time I’m going to explore novel ground. Yukon ho.
Keep ya dick up
I mentioned the other day I may write up a rant about the SaaS “botnet”. Agenda item #1 would be to get you people to use something like Jitsi or Element instead of Zoom.
I’ve had similar, albeit less focused, thoughts in the past.
I’ve used Element for chatroom stuff for technical things, didn’t realize they did video.
Initially it didn’t, but it’s been added. Jami has video conferencing as well. It’s p2p and e2e encrypted. I use it for text chat with a handful of people, but I haven’t used the video conferencing features. I don’t know how many glibs typically get on the Zoom calls, but my concern with Jami would be latency for peers on slower connections. Jitsi would probably be closer to the Zoom experience.
It hasn’t been much beyond a dozen or so when I’ve been on, but I’m hardly a regular.
I initially started with Zoom because I already had to use it for work, had a fairly clean client, and an inexpensive premium price point. I’ve always said I’m open to switching to another item. Keep in mind that there are some out there that are running it on work machines, or are non-technical people.
I did not know that James Blunt sang ‘You’re Beautiful’.
I wish I didn’t.
How did you manage to escape that?! It was fucking everywhere.
One of the worst songs of the aughts, right up there with anything by Limp Bizkit.
Rollin’ was a gem, as was Break Stuff. The trick with Limp Bizkit is you had to be 13 years old when their music came out and not take it even the least bit seriously. It moves from numetal to performance art that way.
They did have a couple of songs that had a good groove that I liked. Rollin was one and I Did it All for the Nookie or whatever the title was.
Sometimes, being oblivious is a blessing.
Amen. I’m pretty oblivious myself but even I could avoid that shite.
Or “couldn’t”, even.
I don’t know that song, or Blunt for that matter.
At least as far as I know.
It did however give rise to the parody song “My Cubicle”, which is quite enjoyable.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_5ef49N5I
Both (internal) interviews went well today. Looks like I am going to have to choose between a management job based more in Las Vegas, and a technical job based more in Mercury, which is closer to my house.
I didn’t know you were in the Kingdom of Nye. I’m south of you down in Pahrump.
I live in Pahrump! South end, in Artesia.
We should probably meet at one of the wineries some time! I’m currently hanging out at Coyote Corner on Kellogg, contemplating my future.
I’ve got a good 15 years left to work, so I want to choose wisely.
Well now I feel like a double dumbass, first for not realizing there were Pahrump glibs and second for not realizing there was another winery out here besides the one up on Winery Rd. As I know less than nothing about wine or how to properly enjoy it it’d probably be somewhat wasted on me, but if we’re able we should probably at least say hi sometime. I’ll likely be shoving off for distant shores in the next few months. As I understand it we have a forum now, so I can try to get in touch with you on there sometime.
Best of luck with the decision, by the way.
Thanks.
My favorite winery is Artesian Cellars. Fun, smoke-free atmosphere. They have beer too, and good food, albeit a limited menu.
They have a delightfully ghetto beverage known as the wine slushie. It’s exactly what it sounds like. You can get the Turbo version with a shot of vodka mixed in.
Speaking as a manager, management is a bum deal. Take the technical job. What say all of you?
My previous job was part functional manager, part project manager, part technical.
The director who offered the management job today told me he desperately needs me because the project is “a dumpster fire.”
Totes appealing…
If you look at it right, management is technical, only the pieces you are putting together are human. And once you look at it like that, it becomes a lot more interesting. Or it did for me. But, then again, I preferred to be half in the field and half in the office and so liked the cut and thrust of getting things set up like a well oil machine.
I do approach it that way. I really love to set and track a good schedule and track resources, critical path, etc.
(I secretly love to write proposals too…)
I am going to be patient and see how it goes. My current boss and his boss are very supportive of whatever I choose.. We shall see.
Ah, well, you’re the opposite of me, then 🙂
Oh, none of that. I constantly fix other people’s dumpster fires. I have been known as “the janitor” for cleaning up other people’s shit. I hate that. It’s a living, for at least eight more years. After I retire I’d rather wave to people coming into Wal Mart than be a fixer again.
I don’t mind being charged with fixing a dumpster fire as long as they give me the authority/budget needed to fix it.
Otherwise it’s an exercise in frustration.
100% technical.
Money might be the decider, of course.
But yeah, I am not the manager sort and I hate work kinda-sorta pushing me in that direction.
The competent ones end up in management whether they want it or not. The ones to look for are maniacs who actively “want to be in management.” Those are Karens of the highest order to be avoided at all costs.
I just see all the bullshit my manager goes through on a daily basis and think, “I don’t want any part of that.”
Management for sure. I get to build my team, which makes a world of difference in the work environment. I also can help control initiatives and shield my team from bullshit.
Yeah, I see management as a gatekeeper function. I keep the upper management drama from bugging the productive employees, and keep petty underling drama from distracting the upper management from what they need to do.
Knowing which issues to pass through the gate and which to block is everything.
All that said, no way would a tech team respect me if I didn’t have the technical chops. If I came straight out of “business school” so I could climb a corporate ladder, I’d be rightfully ignored.
Moving into a management position is why I’m now self employed and will never hire help. I never want to babysit adults again, thank you very much.
The A’s really suck this year, but at least they swept the Astros.
The best spot in the RV park is empty ( there had been long-termers staying there until yesterday). I want it so. Bad.
But the Park Hosts assure me it will be occupied posthence.
I’m thinking of going bear hunting in a place called Troublesome Creek, which I am told is thick with both blacks and griz in August and September. Problem is, it’s a brushy damn place and not unusual to smell a bear before seeing it. Thinking of using the BullWhacker (Marlin 1895G, .45-70).
If my story submissions suddenly cease, wanted y’all to know why.
😨
“Manchin, Schumer report abrupt deal on health, energy, taxes”
https://apnews.com/article/joe-manchin-budget-agreement-7b0ee6e3e0b70357288fd69f44473b9b?taid=62e1aab536651200012dc4bf&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
Wellity wellity well…looks like we’re fucked.
Oh, we’ve been fucked for a while now. Well and truly.
Oh, fuck-balls.
But I have to wonder how this will impact November – do the Dems really want to pass economy-destroying legislation immediately before an election that they are already projected to lose?
I get throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks, but could just as well backfire.
Why /how/when did my avatar become a frog?
<— Looks innocently skyward
You know of the froggification?? Did I piss someone off?
Nope. Not a clue. Was just attempting to provoke a response.
Success!
Mine changed too, sometime this afternoon.
A hop, skip, and a jump ago?
I was wondering about that. You seem to change often so I didn’t think anything of it.
You forgot to kiss a prince?
Wait, you aren’t Shpipp?
Oh shpipp!
Mine has gone back to me at the top of the mountain rather than at the lake on the north side of the mountain.
You still look like you are hovering over a recent victim.
This is the original.
Here’s the full-sized photo of the other avatar.
Scruffy Nerfherder and Stinky Wizzleteats’ changed as well. I figured it was some kind of inside joke I missed out on.
Mine became a top-hatted otter for awhile. I prefer the Yeti.
Be careful, they are turning the frogs gay!
Mantis army deployed.
Excellent. They are cute little things.
Dr. Mantis Tobbogan?
Netconf can suck dick.
I wonder what I look like
Same as it ever was
Is there a workaround to see farcebook marketplace? I’m sure not signing up for an account.
Yeah, when did that change? It’s so much better than CL.
I created a burner account for Twatter, I guess I could do the same for FB.
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22 the hard way
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Failed, I can see it.
We had a site failure earlier. Had to disable some stuff. But avatars came back quickly.
Zoom was in the post but since nobody reads it, here’s the link
https://www.glibertarians.com/humpdayzoom
Calling all Glibs, calling all Glibs, the Wednesday Humpday GlibZoom is here.
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Ah, the joys of being a 3rd shift worker and having a d̶a̶y̶ night off…..
Guess Im in here all by myself.
I guess insurrection is contagious ?
Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr supporters storm parliament building in Baghdad
Looks like they hired the PR team trying to change the name monkeypox.
Murder hornets are getting a new name: Here’s why
Some of you think otters are soooo cute (lookin’ at you, GT). But they’re really cold-blooded killers.
Jogger screams for help as otters chase after her at West Coast Park
Maybe she otter have left sooner.