Nope, nope, nope. It pukes out its guts to eat. Nope, say I!
A sea cucumber opening its mouth to feed. pic.twitter.com/rD1PCRE8dx
— ᴄʀᴇᴇᴘʏᴅʟʙ (@CreepyDLB) April 10, 2023
Bloop was an ultra-low-frequency, high amplitude underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997.[1] By 2012, earlier speculation that the sound originated from a marine animal[2] was replaced by NOAA’s description of the sound as being consistent with noises generated via non-tectonic cryoseisms originating from glacial movements such as ice calving, or through seabed gouging by ice.[1][3][4]
Sound profile
The sound’s source was roughly triangulated to 50°S 100°W, a remote point in the south Pacific Ocean west of the southern tip of South America. The sound was detected by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array,[1] a system of hydrophones primarily used to monitor undersea seismicity, ice noise, and marine mammal population and migration.[5]: 284 This is a stand-alone system designed and built by NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) to augment NOAA’s use of the U.S. Navy Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), which was equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines.[5]: 255–256
Don’t believe in Wikipedia’s lies. It basically just the CIA at this point.
Once the sinuous beasts breached the land, it was all over for the human race. Glistening with ill will and cephalopodic hate, the invaders from the sea squirmed and wormed their way across the globe, reducing all of man achievements to rubble in their wake.
(Extinct, hopefully)
“The Thing cannot be described – there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled.
If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”
Leaving the ocean was a mistake.
Dolphins evolved from an ancestor of wolves.
I guess what I’m say is it’s possible to go back.
RETVRN
Well, akshually, everything evolved from an ancestor of everything, if you go back far enough.
I always thought seals & sea lions look a lot like dogs.
It’s hard to imagine going “back to the ocean” without a number of helpful mutations, and it’s hard to imagine living on land with said mutations that would be helpful in land.
I suppose that’s why these things are measured in millions and millions of years.
“It basically just the CIA at this point.”
That’s what Tucker Carlson says.
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
There is also a fish called Boops boops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boops_boops
The spotted wobbegong (Orectolobus maculatus) is a carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae, endemic to Australia. It is a large, robust species, typically reaching 150–180 centimetres (59–71 in) in length. Coloured green, yellow, or brown, it has distinctive O-shaped spots throughout its body. It is nocturnal, resting at day and feeding on fish and invertebrates at night. An ovoviviparous species, the spotted wobbegong gives birth in the spring, during which time males can act aggressively towards other males and females. It has been known to bite humans, sometimes unprovoked, which can produce severe wounds.
“Spotted wobbegong” can replace “Waltzing Matilda” when the time comes, since it meters about the same.
Of course it bites humans unprovoked. It’s goddamn Australian, isn’t it?
Australia – where everything bad from evolution went to go live in a trailer.
It makes sense it would be an aggressive protector — all of its spawn are above average.
Ha! I see what you did there.
I love the ocean and water in general. But I will not swim in anything but a swimming pool at night.
Sea Cucumber: Ah, so John Carpenter didn’t just dream up all that The Thing disturbing grossness then…
Once when I as diving I got to hold a sea cucumber. Thankfully it didn’t do anything like that. It just sat there like a black slimy turd.
I find your familiarity with black slimy turds disturbing.
Always found them to be something of a misnomer. They taste nothing like the above ground kind.
People eat them. I was at huge Chinese market that had barrels filled with dried sea cucumbers.
Just because Chinese people eat an animal doesn’t prove that anyone else does.
Bat Soup!
I’ve eaten sea cucumber. It was part of a stew at a Chinese restaurant. Reminded me of snot.
That was how I describe sea urchin. “Looks like orange snot, but doesn’t taste as good”
I can’t even with you.
More uni for me.
John W. Campbell, Jr wrote the story on which the movies are based. Highly recommend reading his novella “Who Goes There” if you’re a fan. The casting of Kurt Russell is spot on given Campbell’s borderline homoerotic description of the character.
Who goes there? Tonio goes there!
“This Disturbing LGBTQ Kids Show Needs To Be Stopped”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqjakVepI8
I love how YouTube allows a channel called “Queer Kid Stuff”, but bans the word pedophile.
On a related note, why is this asshole still breathing?
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2023/12/19/still-dont-think-this-is-a-battle-of-good-and-evil-eh-n4924842
People are taking oaths on child porn now? Nothing to see here move along.
The spotted Wobbegong looks like a 1970s necktie.
Now the California Lt. Governor is trying to get Trump off the ballot.
https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1737538069505745356
The best part is that she got the age requirement for President wrong. Best and brightest.
They just can’t help themselves from tearing it all down can’t they? I give it 3 days until a red state tries to do the same thing to Biden.
Someone has already suggested that. I believe over at Red State.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12886597/Biden-says-theres-no-question-Trump-engaged-insurrection-response-Colorado-disqualification-Republicans-threaten-Joe-state-ballots-revenge.html
While it’s obvious that people walking calmly through a building escorted by police is an insurrection, high prices and people pouring over the border are a figment of your imagination.
Florida Dems saw it coming and canceled their primary.
What exactly is the strategy here? Have Desantis win the primary and then lose even harder?
The establishment wants Nikki Haley. The base hates her.
Frankly I’d rather have Biden than that bitch.
She was Governor here and I’ve yet to see a single sign for her. Just lots of Trump signs and a couple for RFK.
I’ve seen a few Haley signs around here. They’re all in front of houses that I think had Sununu signs during the last gubernatorial election.
Haley texts me every single day. Each time from a different phone number. Fortunately, my phone always identifies her texts as spam.
I guess it’s possible that they believe their own bullshit.
What will be extra infuriating is when Biden still wins the vote in red states that dumped him from the ballot. Especially since he was behind before they had to close the voting center due to a water leak and just after that he gets 500,000 votes to Trump’s 0 vote from a new batch of ballots. And the ballots have Biden’s name printed on them.
When people try to sue, their case will be denied because of a lack of standing. The MSM will say Biden’s victory is 100% pure and no court ever found any evidence of voter fraud.
I feel as though you are casting aspersions on the most secure election in our nation’s history. Juris doesn’t like that.
I appreciate JI’s points on this. I am probably closer to him on most of those issues than to the “it was totes fraud” side of the debate.
Mostly I think they stole it fair and square. It was more mail in ballot harvesting than anything else. If Trump hadn’t been such a dummy he would have fought those new laws in court before the election. Not after.
Jellyfish should taste like jelly.
Cinnamon clown fish should taste like cinnamon clowns.
That would still taste funny.
It does if you put some jelly on it.
Jesse brand lube, now available in tantalizing “low tide” fragrance at the Glibmart.
Do I have to buy a 55 gallon drum? Inflation has me on a pint sized budget.
They do. Fish jelly.
Jellyfish should taste like jelly.
Have you sent every pussy cat you’ve ever owned back to the shelter for the same reason?
*bacon magic spits out cat fur*
“Dammit. Another defective one.”
Apparently even RFK Jr. has come out against the Colorado decision.
Lil Cthulhu
That is beautiful and perfect. Thank you.
The Latin phrase De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est, “Of the dead nothing but good is to be said.” — abbreviated Nil nisi bonum — is a mortuary aphorism indicating that it is socially inappropriate for the living to speak ill of the dead who cannot defend or justify themselves.
The phrase is attributed to Chilon of Sparta, who lived some 2600 years ago.
On occasion, though, some folks opt to take a different approach.
I swear I’ve read that before with a different date of death.
“Top Republicans alarmed by ‘beyond unnerving’ report Xi warned Biden that China WILL reunify with Taiwan in blunt message during crunch talks in San Francisco”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12887169/Top-Republicans-alarmed-unnerving-report-Xi-warned-Biden-China-reunify-Taiwan-blunt-message-crunch-talks-San-Francisco.html
Who knows?
But how do the bottom Republicans feel about it?
“Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who serves as the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee called the report ‘beyond unnerving.'”
That’s the worst kind of unnerving other than “far beyond unnerving”.
I strenuously object to China reunifying with Taiwan.
“you strenuously object?”
If I strenuously object maybe China will take some time to reconsider.
TEH HORROR!
Maybe the Feds should step up and do their job so that the states don’t have to.
No panic-mongering going on here at all.
Issuing a warning about traveling to Texas should… uh.. really teach Texas a lesson there. That’s not exactly what they want or anything.
Colorado’s unconstitutional legal decisions, on the other….
Those assholes are out there begging for holiday charity dollars with the same tired lies you hear all over the left about how bad people are trying to take your vote away. Where do they even come up with that shit?
And “reproductive freedom” because of course.
I forget who wanted to put a yellow lab on the Minnesoda state flag this morning to symbolize our penchant for duck hunting. But if we wanted to go that route, there really is only one thing we should use on the state flag.
That really is the official cover of the ’98 hunting regs in Minnesoda. I didn’t even notice anything until a non-hunting buddy saw it on my desk and burst into gales of laughter.
By 98 they should have known better. That’s great!
This is why you are in fly over country…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12878117/Woman-escort-stripper-salary-Wall-Street-clients.html
First the NY Post, and now this.
This is what happens when Disney redoes Pretty Woman.
Could the makeup be any thicker?
Probably. It was just this week that I’ve learned that at least one cosmetic company is trying to make it EASIER to get duck lips.
And why are they blurring her face in just some of the pictures?
I’m assuming they just scraped her own social media and she did so on her older pics before she “came out”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12884561/Sydney-Sweeney-reveals-wanted-BREAST-REDUCTION-high-school-regards-ample-endowments-best-friends.html
*lights Q signal*
Ah those Brits and their tit fetish, God love ‘em.
Blast from the past
Checkpoint C at Charlotte Douglas International Airport is back open after an unattended bag led to a bomb squad investigation Wednesday morning.
The Charlotte Airport X account confirmed Checkpoint C was closed due to a security issue around 9:30 a.m. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Bomb Squad Unit was called to the airport to investigate. CMPD later confirmed the “suspicious package” was an unattended bag and the owner was found.
See something, freak out.
Meanwhile people without valid ID’s are fine as long as they’re not from this country.
I’d like to correct a small misunderstanding here because I see this a lot.
You actually don’t need an ID to fly or even enter through security. That’s something they *PRETEND* that you need. It’s only for show.
Flying requiring ID is often used to argue various things like voting or whatever.
But nope.
I lost my driver’s license last year and had no other ID at the airport. They gave me a stern talking to and then let me on.
It sucks because everything takes longer, but it’s ultimately fine.
Wow, I had no idea. But like you said, they pretend and everyone just goes along.
That strikes me as a practice that probably varies wildly by circumstance.
And… what about next year when REALID is required?
It probably does.
I told them I wasn’t a terrorist though and they really believed me.
Naughty girls extra hard on the Johnsons
““This injury tends to occur during wild sex – particularly in positions where you’re not in direct eye contact [with your partner], such as the reverse cowgirl,” said Dr Nikolaos Pyrgides…” over the telephone as he vigorously rubbed one out under his desk.
So you are saying Toobin had to have his zoom camera on? For safety?
When something important happens you can count on The Bee to bring it three times over.
Colorado Saves Democracy By Not Allowing People To Vote For Preferred Candidate
https://babylonbee.com/news/colorado-saves-democracy-by-not-allowing-people-to-vote-for-preferred-candidate
‘Trump Can’t, Like, Run In The Election, Man,’ Says Colorado Judge Munching On Funyuns Enveloped In Cloud Of Smoke
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-cant-like-run-in-the-election-man-says-colorado-judge-munching-on-funyuns-enveloped-in-cloud-of-smoke
And my favorite:
Colorado Supreme Court Demands Jack Phillips Bake Cake To Celebrate Trump Ruling
https://babylonbee.com/news/colorado-supreme-court-demands-jack-phillips-bake-cake-to-celebrate-trump-ruling
There’s a legit scientific theory that octopuses have an extraterrestrial origin.
So you are saying it was aliens?
So they dispute that all complex life on this planet can trace its mitochondria back to the same singularity 2 billion years ago?
That theory doesn’t have a leg to stand on!
oh ho!!!
When you’ve lost CNN…
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/20/business/harvard-president-claudine-gay-plagiarism/index.html
No do Alex Haley and MLK.
IOW, she has nothing whatsoever to worry about.
Hey, it didn’t hold back “top of my class” Joe Biden.
I thought she’d be able to shrug it off but if CNN is calling it out she may be done.
My wife is, uh, adjacent to the school so she had the inaugural on and, boy, did Gay come off as wildly pompous to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU75RZkNPWc
Moynihan on The Fifth Column pointed out how insanely thin her CV is
Carnage
Tesla drivers in the U.S. were involved in accidents at a higher rate than drivers of any other brand of vehicle over the past year, according to a new study of 30 automotive brands by LendingTree.
The researchers analyzed quotes from people looking to insure their own vehicles, and did not include accident or incident data involving drivers of rental cars, a spokesperson for LendingTree told CNBC by email on Tuesday.
The study said: “It’s hard to nail down why certain brands may have higher accident rates than others. However, there are indications that certain types of vehicles attract riskier drivers than others.”
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Tesla’s ADAS technology is meant to help drivers with steering, acceleration and braking. CEO Elon Musk claimed in 2021 that a Tesla driver using Autopilot was about 10 times less likely to crash than a driver of the average car. While Tesla publishes its own safety reports, the company has not allowed third-party researchers to evaluate their data to confirm or debunk such claims.
Considering absolute numbers, he’s probably correct.
If those Teslas would stop sneaking up on people, they might not get into so many wrecks. I came out of a grocery store yesterday and a not-a-Tesla EV went by me in the parking lot. All you could hear was a faint whirring noise. Although, in fairness, most new cars aren’t much louder.
Well teslas are actually super fast and quiet, but I suppose we could look at demographics of the drivers too.
Lots of Asians like their Teslas. Just sayin’.
What are you saying here?
Could you elaborate in a way that I can call racist?!
Klaus “the Situation” Schwab presents: VaxxMas Hits ’23
Same crappy EV as the other day from a new publication.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2024-chevy-blazer-ev-long-term-faults.html
It ain’t just Tesla that views its customers as beta testers.
Did they just really like that car shape and decide to stop coming up with new designs?
Drag is a huge deal for efficiency. It really limits designs.
I remember playing “identify the make the model” with my brother in the 80s when mom was driving us around somewhere. It was easy back then. Now they all look alike.
That’s not a Blazer. This is a Blazer.
In all fairness, nothing competes with an OJ Bronco
Also- I wonder how many of those Tesla fender benders re the result of drivers doing hard launches in traffic.
As an owner I go with the marketing spin of all the sensors and tech means I don’t need to pay attention.
The systems in my now old car are roughly 80%. Enough to mostly work, but make me as an experienced driver never trust them. In many situations I find the more stressful than just driving,
For new phone generation drivers they only care about the tech and don’t have much experience.
Same bullshit sampled study has BMW drivers for the most DUIs. Make of that what you will about the no turn signal left lane driving owners.
Did they just really like that car shape and decide to stop coming up with new designs?
I was flipping through the channels the other night, and watched a snippet of some old (~’40s?) movie. A private eye is pumping some old codger for information. Did you see the guy? What was he wearing? et c.
“What kind of car was he driving?”
“I haven’t been able to cars apart since 1924. Them new ones all look the same.”
goddammit
“I haven’t been able to tell cars apart since 1924. Them new ones all look the same.”
I like to ID the cars in old movies. “Look, that’s a ’58 Olds!” “Hey, a DeSoto Firedome!” “That cab is a Hudson.”
https://www.imcdb.org (Which I’m sure you knew about…)
Very cool, thanks! Bookmarked.
That’s a Ford Pinto.
Didn’t need Miss Cleo to predict that link.
Not fair
A descendant of Europe’s richest family has reportedly begun a process to adopt his middle-aged gardener, planning to leave him at least half of his roughly €12 billion ($13 billion) fortune.
Nicolas Puech, 80, a fifth-generation descendant of the founder of French luxury goods company Hermes, wants to cancel a contract that would bequeath his fortune to the Isocrates Foundation, which he founded, and instead make his employee a legal heir.
Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 heures reported the news earlier this month.
The charitable foundation is contesting Puech’s plan to cut ties, which it says it learned of only recently. “From a legal point of view, a unilateral cancellation of the contract of inheritance seems void and unfounded,” the organization said in a statement shared with CNN. “The foundation has therefore opposed the cancellation of the contract, while leaving the door open for discussions with its founder.”
Referring to the Swiss media reports on Puech’s “wish to adopt his employee,” the charity said it wasn’t in a position “to judge or comment (on) this initiative,” adding that it “leaves it to the relevant authorities to decide on this matter.” CNN has contacted the billionaire’s lawyer for comment.
Established by Puech in 2011 and funded by him since, the Isocrates Foundation supports public interest journalism and civil society organizations working toward a “healthy digital public space,” according to its website.
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The inheritance contract between the foundation and Puech, who isn’t known to have children, reportedly provides for his shares in Hermes to be left to the foundation. That is, unless he becomes a father, in which case his child would be entitled to a part of the inheritance, and at least 50% in the case of a son.
Charity begins at… hey, waitaminnit!
He should just fire everybody and shut it down.
Sounds like a Grass Hut Puech.
Re: earlier comments about what youtube allows.
For the last couple of years, I’ve been using a series of history vids on youtube as homework for my intro-level classes. They’re aimed at high school AP so they work pretty well for college freshmen. Today I was reviewing getting ready for the spring and youtube now requires one to log in to view the World War II episode in order to “confirm your age.” It is considered an “Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines). Of course, the WWI vid is open and shows dead bodies everywhere. My only guess is that the WWII vid has Holocaust images. Of course, the same providers European History World War II vid is available without sign in.
Pirate Dan messed with the Cobra and got bit.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/vivek-ramaswamy-dunks-dan-crenshaw-after-neocon-rino/
That sleazeball heroin addict from SNL that manages to deepdick every hot Hollywood starlet with emotional issues somehow was right about that motherfucker.
You are going to have to be more specific.
Refers to this:
https://www.today.com/popculture/watch-pete-davidson-apologize-dan-crenshaw-face-face-snl-t141802
I misremembered it as being related to a deeper issue than it was-he insulted his eyepatch and the way he looked, then caught flack and apologized.
My only guess is that the WWII vid has Holocaust images.
Swastikas. One look and you’re a goner.
Once again asking whether anyone can link to a good b&w line image of the glib mascot/symbol as well as a standalone line image of the gadsden snek. Thanks