“W-w-why are everyone mad at me, is mad at me about Easter? I love Easter! Hard-boiled eggs and chocolate bunnies, a-a-and, well, all the rest,” Joe said.
“Proclaiming the Trans Day of Visibility on Easter angered the incel alt-right meanie-pants KKK hate types,” Finnegan said.
Her father, Hunter, burped loudly and longfully from the filthy dog bed he was curled up in and staggered to his feet to do a Jeffy-wander to the bathroom, mumbling what might have been words.
“Trans what of what?” Joe asked.
“Trans Day of Visibility, Grandpa. You know, trans people, like Dr. Levine.”
“I don’t like him,” Joe said.
“Her. You don’t like her,” Finnegan said.
Joe locked up, freezing in place. Finnegan waited impatiently for him to reset.
The toilet flushed loudly and Hunter shuffled back into The Oval Office. He looked at Joe, waved his hand in front of his face a few times.
“What now?” Hunter asked Finnegan as he plopped back into his dog bed.
“Trans Day of Visibility,” Finnegan said with a theatrical sigh.
“I told ya’ll not to send that,” he said, lighting a cigarette and scratching himself.
“It was the Trans Day of Visibility whether we sent out a proclamation or not.”
“Easter. You knew it was Easter,” Hunter said tiredly. “Don’t fuck with people’s holidays.”
“We couldn’t stay silent. Silence is violence. If even a single day passes without mentioning trans people, it’s a genocide. A day-by-day genocide.”
“Fucking Gen Z,” Hunter said and then used his teeth to pry a rhomboidal hunk off Cracky.
“Like Gen X has been the best role model,” she said, watching him pack a glass stem and search for his crème brûlée torch.
“It was an own goal, baby girl,” he said.
“The intern that did it has been has been dealt with,” Finnegan said.
“But the damage is done.”
“Republicans pounce. That’s just what they do.”
“I like Easter,” Joe said, able to move and speak again. “I like ham. It’s just not Easter without ham.”
“Maybe that’s what you should have proclaimed instead,” Hunter said and then took a huge hit of his glass pipe.
“That would have gone over great on Ramadan,” Finnegan said.
Hunter blew out a fat cloud of white smoke in Joe’s direction. Powerful fans kicked on and sucked the smoke away, venting it out through the roof of the White House like a papal conclave.
“And the Jews,” Hunter said after a fit of coughing. “Jews hate ham.”
“They aren’t exactly fans of Easter either.”
“There’s ham?’ Joe asked, licking his lips with a gray tongue.
“You proclaimed it Tubesteak Day of Tubesteaking, Dad,” Hunter said, leaning back into a rush of pleasure lapping at his thighs and thews like a giant dog.
“Trans Day of Visibility,” Finnegan grated.
“I didn’t do that,” Joe said.
The real irony is that trans people don’t want to be visible as such.
You have very specific opinions on what a “real” transpersxn is. Wycome you gatekeep?
I think ‘truescum’ is the current trendy term-of-art.
But yeah, the endless need for attention really underlies the entire trans issue. Hell, it’s the reason that the concept of ‘non-binary’ even exists. Constant attention, constant validation, no effort required.
*Mwah*
Also, is Finnie regressing into NPChood?
“Republicans pounce. That’s just what they do.”
So unfair- telling people what we said.
The crackhead is the most sensible person in the room.
Sounds about right.
Profoundly this.
“We couldn’t stay silent. Silence is violence. If even a single day passes without mentioning trans people, it’s a genocide. A day-by-day genocide.”
Somebody needs to get laid. Repeatedly. By a devoutly apolitical heterosexual.
I suspect that many of Finnie’s fantasies feature a cartoonish Republican stereotype – 6’4″, muscular, cowboy hat, hung like an Australian Draught horse.
Sorry, I’m not available. Contact my 2028 presidential running mate, STEVE SMITH.
That line is hardly even parody. It’s just perfect.
NYC Mayor Assures Migrants That If They Run Out Of Prepaid Debit Cards They Can Just Rob Americans Directly
https://babylonbee.com/news/nyc-mayor-assures-migrants-that-if-they-run-out-of-prepaid-debit-cards-they-can-just-rob-americans-directly#google_vignette
Felt the same about the above as I sit here in Manhattan.
Excellent and up to the minute, as always.
-“Hunter blew out a fat cloud of white smoke in Joe’s direction.”-
I first read that as fart cloud.
…There’s a difference in the what, now?
Thank god we have another Catholic president to look up to.
The most devout ever.
Hell, it’s the reason that the concept of ‘non-binary’ even exists. Constant attention, constant validation, no effort required.
“If you’re going to ignore me for being A, I’ll be B. Look at me look at me look at me!”
Decades of “you’re special!”
No, you’re not.
Truly we are living in the Age of Daddy Issues.
I am dating a Millennial. Can confirm.
As a father of three millennial daughters, I can too.
I lay the blame squarely on their mother, my ex. I don’t know what she said to them since they no longer speak to me or anyone else on my side of the family. For example, when one of them got married I only found out second hand. My poor mother who saw something on the book of faces, thought that her invitation got lost somehow. Another one of them lives a few minutes from the facility where my father passed away was too busy and couldn’t make the visitation or funeral either. “We weren’t that close” she said. Still another, an officer in the Marine Corps who should know something about duty and honor sent me a text “sorry for your loss”.
😢
Damn, that’s cold.
“The toilet flushed loudly and Hunter shuffled back into The Oval Office.”
That poor Presidential Shitter sure as seen some things.
I’m surprised that it hasn’t become a character yet…
It could warrant its own episode, but how dark and disturbing would that be? Although a gold plated toilet would make some cool merch.
“Can God create a boulder so heavy that He can not lift it?”
“Can SugarFree create a story so disturbing that He can not finish it?”
Not so far. But the future is a dark highway we travel together.
Not so far… as you know.
Sometimes these make me black out and leave a blank spot in their place.
Whole months without a Wednesday.
Flushy the Presidential Shitter?
GET ON THAT, CPRM! PLZ!
By the way, what is an own goal?
“ “It was an own goal, baby girl,” he said”
When you put the ball into your own net (goal) in soccer or other similar sports.
Scoring one for the other team.
Got it. Thanks.
You are welcome.
I wish I didn’t have first hand experience of what that means. *sigh*
*sad trombone*
In my work, they’re referred to as “self inflicted outages”.
Speaking of trans-mocracy
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill Tuesday that was passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature to ban high school transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity.
Evers had promised to veto the bill ever since it was introduced. Democrats did not have the votes to stop its passage in the Legislature. He vetoed it in the Capitol surrounded by Democratic lawmakers, transgender advocates, the mayor of Madison and others.
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Evers said in his veto message that this type of legislation “harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites’ and kids’ mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our LGBTQ kids.”
Evers vowed that as long as he is governor, he will not allow for “radical policies targeting LGBTQ individuals and families and threatening LGBTQ folks’ everyday lives and their ability to be safe, valued, supported, and welcome being who they are.”
Nothing says “let me live my life in peace” like making a goddam federal case out of forcing your “specialness” on the world around you.
This shit won’t end until Americans get outraged when every U.S. Woman’s team in the Olympics is defeated by bearded “women” playing for countries we dislike (basically all of them).
“radical policies”
…supported by a majority of the public. And it’s not even close…
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/americans-oppose-inclusion-trans-athletes-sports-poll-finds-rcna88940
“The survey — conducted from May 1 to May 24 via telephone interviews with roughly 1,000 adults living in the U.S. — found that 69% of people say that transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete on sports teams that correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth, compared with 62% in 2021. It also shows that a slightly higher share of Americans, 55%, consider “changing one’s gender” to be more “morally wrong” than in 2021, when it was 51%.”
Nice job winning hearts and minds there, folks.
the sex they were assigned at birth
It’s just “their sex”. It doesn’t fucking get “assigned”, it’s observed as biological reality.
Listen fat, reality has a leftist bias!
/goes and washes the smugness away
The MAGA white nationalists are succeeding in their disinformation campaign. This is why we need Nina and her Mary Poppins songs more than ever.
Does it matter? How many referendums were passed against gay marriage?
I was there in 1994 when CA passed Prop 187 with almost 70% of the vote to prohibit state benefits to illegals. A Judge just waved it away. Now the state gives them all kinds of goodies.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_California_Proposition_187
58.93%
Oh sure. I seem to recall that Obamacare didn’t poll well, but we got it anyway. I just marvel at the number of ideas I’m told are radical that actually enjoy majority support.
We have to crack a few
eggscollarbones to make sure that everyone is “welcome being who they are”.The bill proposed to limit high school athletes to playing on teams that match the gender they were assigned at birth.
Oh, the humanity!
*not “assigned” you blathering imbecile; detected
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association requires transgender athletes to undergo hormone therapy before they can play on the teams of their choice. The association’s policy is modeled after NCAA requirements for transgender athletes.
Avery Brundage was an all around asshole, but he knew how to deal with this nonsense.
All those poor high school girls, desperate for an opportunity to catch a pass going across the middle; their dreams are being shattered by evil Republicans.
I can so easily see it in my mind, too.
” Powerful fans kicked on and sucked the smoke away, venting it out through the roof of the White House like a papal conclave.”
To augment Robc’s chess update from the morning linx:
St. Louis Chess Scandal Inspires Offer of Free Anal Vibrators to Level the Playing Field
Will a free Morse Code class be offered as well?
Spot the Not: Hunter Biden
1. He once wrecked a rental car while driving to a rehab center. At the time, he was high on crack.
2. He said the accident was caused when he swerved to avoid hitting a barn owl which suddenly flew in front of him.
3. His name was exposed as part of the Ashley Madison hack. The purpose of the site was to help married people cheat on their spouses.
4. He and his current wife have matching tattoos of the Hebrew word for peace.
5. At Yale, he was briefly a member of the Skull and Bones secret society until he was expelled for defecating on the floor of the clubhouse.
6. He had a sober streak for seven years and has been to rehab five times.
I’m going with 5 as the not.
I’ll go with door number 3.
Number 4.
They are not for peace and probably don’t know Hebrew is a language.
5 is the not. Bravo, Timeloose.
I struggled to come up with something both plausible and false about Hunter Biden’s misadventures.
Number 6. HE may have said it was seven years, but there ain’t no way in hell he’s ever went more than a month or two.
He had a sober streak for seven years. Then he had his eighth birthday.
Just buy the place and burn it down
In August 2023, Bezos dropped $68 million on his first Indian Creek parcel, a nearly three-acre property with a 9,259-square-foot concrete house. Just two months later, he bought the neighboring $79 million Mediterranean-style mansion. With his most recent acquisition, which was done off-market, the Blue Origin founder owns an estimated total of $177 million in property on the Biscayne Bay island.
Per listing records, the current structure was built in 2002. According to the New York Post, Bezos plans to stay in his newest home while razing the two neighboring dwellings. The 300-acre island only hosts 41 residential properties (one of which is owned by Tom Brady, another by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner), so it’s a rather bold move on the billionaire’s part to snatch up the trio of properties and demolish two of them. “Property on the island is already scarce, so there is no doubt that Bezos making off-market deals will rile up a few who have been eyeing homes there,” an anonymous source told the outlet.
That sound you hear isn’t popcorn. It’s heads exploding.
Did a boat tour past the rich section of Naples Florida where rich people do that shit constantly. They buy nice looking beach houses for millions just to knock them down and build the most gaudy mansions imaginable. The occasional original houses were so much more tasteful than the nouveau riche messes people like Bon Jovi were building.
Yeah, it’s pretty common. They often buy multiple houses next to each other, tear them down, and build one new house in the middle.
Lived in an apartment in Playa del Rey for a couple of years. The neighborhood behind us had the cutest California bungalows ever. Really loved walking through there. Went back years later – most of the bungalows had been torn down and replaced with monstrous mansions.
But think of the economic stimulus from all those broken windows!
Yeah, it’s pretty common. They often buy multiple houses next to each other, tear them down, and build one new house in the middle.
I saw a thing a while back about Bezos’ “compound” in Seattle. Apparently, over the years, every time a house came up for sale in his neighborhood, he’d buy it, so he owned almost all the properties. He had his personal staff living in them.
Maybe Seattle wouldn’t let him tear them down.
Do regular pencil erasers work to lift the solder mask off traces without destroying the copper?
Are you talking about the green coating on the traces or the solder on the pads?
The green (actually red in this case).
For removing actual solder, I apply heat and negative air pressure (a spring-actuated solder removal syringe doing the lifting).
But I made a mistake when designing some circuit boards and there is solder mask atop pads where I need to make connections.
We called those SOLDAPULLT.. Solderwick is useful in some applications.
As for the blocked pads.. I always scraped it away, yes it sucks.
I forgot what it was called. I’ve not used the solderwick I’ve recently acquired, because mostly I’m removing a bridge between pin headers.
I would try a ink pen eraser or some other light small form factor abrasive if you don’t want to use an exacto knife.
Do you mean the green layer on standard 2 sided boards? No.. x-acto and care..
I tried that. It is too time consuming and tedious. I need a better option that isn’t the fiberglass pencil (I don’t want to clean up after that nightmare)
Every time I’ve ever tried to use a pencil eraser to clean up a board, I’ve ended up lifting a trace or three.
🤔
Last week’s episode was pretty tame, so I feared for this week’s episode. This too was pretty tame, which really makes me fear for next week. It’s like an earthquake fault. You can either let out the energy bit by bit or in one big destructive earthquake, like the sudden opening of Velcro.
I really don’t plan that far ahead or, really, at all. Whatever fits the news of the day.
The San Andreas Fault doesn’t plan its earthquakes either.
Time’s Tales:
In the previous post there was a mention about car accidents via the idiots in cars link. I was driving to a concert on a major interstate on Friday with Mrs. Time along with Ska fan 1 and Ska fan 2. Ska Fan 2 is deathly afraid of long car drives after being in a terrible car accident with a semi-truck 10 years ago. Every big rig we passed or drove near was met with a gasp and Jesus strap pull. It’s a real treat to be lead singer and driver of the Winnebago when she is in the car.
We were about 20 minutes into our drive going up a mountain with a two travel and a one truck/slow vehicle lane. I’m going ~75-80mph in the passing lane, in front of me are three cars in the middle lane. The two in back are approaching the slower car in front. The last car put on their signal and enters my lane while the car in the middle turns without signaling or looking into the last car. The middle car essentially pits themselves by hitting the front of the back car with the back side of their car. The car quickly spins, catches the tires sidewalls and proceeds to plow into the stone mountain side, it then flips and rolls 3 times before landing live bug. This all happens in less then 5 seconds.
I saw what was and about to happen and quickly reacted to brake safely and get off the highway, all while cursing like a sailor and listening to gasps and wails form my vehicle. I checked out my position for safety, hit the hazards, told the passengers to relax and that we are all cool. Looked at Mrs. time and said 911, however she was already dialing. I jumped out of the car and ran up the side of the highway to the vehicle. I saw all of the windows were smashed, all of the airbags were deployed, and the car was still running. I went to the driver side and saw a fellow good Sam trying to open the door. I went to the passenger side and forced the busted door open and found a very plump teenager covered in blood and glass shaking and crying. I told her everything was alright and that I was going to get her out of the car. She was a mess and couldn’t stand on her own. I picked her up and placed her as carefully as possible on the ground and went to help the driver. The driver was already being pulled out of the car by the good sam. By this time Ska 2 was there and I told here to help me get the passenger further off the road and out of the broken glass. She was very weak and not of much help so I grabbed the girl under her arms and lifted with my back to dead lift her up and further off the road. The driver was quite a bit more broken and had a big gash on her head from the roof of the car getting crushed, she never saw the car she hit. The other car was undamaged beyond a bumper rub and dent.
After taking to police and giving a statement we were on our way. Ska fan 2 stopped being a PITA about my driving for the rest of the trip and we had a great time.
Use your mirrors, seatbelts and airbags save lives, Less Than Jake is a fun band to see live, and finally my back still hurts.
Good on Ska Fan #2. She may have been afraid, but she jumped right in when it counted (even if she wasn’t much help.)
And good on you, too.
Yup. Thought the same.
She was better than I at calming the girl. The rest of the car all sprung into action pretty quickly.
Good job!
All that – and do your deadlifts.
Lift with your back kids.
https://youtu.be/pbvNbj5qMrg?si=KzJ78lPdMUmkKpN5
Nicely done, Timeloose!
*clicks upvote button*
*double clicks*
Noted expert investment analyst and market psychologist
Last week, Trump Media was valued at nearly $11 billion, an astronomical sum for a money-losing company with a few million in revenue. Experts looking at the numbers say that they simply don’t make sense.
With the company’s financials now in clearer focus, it’s even more obvious that this is a house of cards. In the first nine months of last year, the company lost $49 million. It only generated $3.4 million — roughly the annual revenue of a Krispy Kreme franchise. Truth Social, Trump Media’s answer to Twitter/X, has fewer than 500,000 monthly active US users, compared to X’s 75 million. Even smaller, new social media platforms boast many times the user base of Truth Social. Threads, for example, says it has more than 130 million.
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Cults also often financially exploit their followers, encouraging them to give their money to the leader or the institution, even if doing so offers no tangible benefit to those doing the giving (it offers many benefits to the leaders receiving it). The point is to prove loyalty to the leader.
Trump has done this in many iterations, through sketchy recurring donations, by taking hold of the RNC and its money and through Trump Media, where some conservative fans seem to be buying up stock out of devotion to Trump and not because of any financial self-interest.
Nobody ever took a flyer on a stock based on low probability expectations of future events.
Now do lottery tickets.
This is no more a mystery than why Trump’s poll numbers keep going up the more lawfare they throw at him. They’re supporting him because they know if he loses, they’re next.
Probably a good short play for November whether or not Trump wins or loses.
“…compared to X’s 75 million. Even smaller, new social media platforms boast many times the user base of Truth Social. Threads, for example, says it has more than 130 million.”
Threads has 75 percent more users than twitter? I’ve never seen a link to a Threads post in the wild. Also, who writes this shit: “Even smaller, new social media platforms…” Then the writer uses the supposedly much larger platform as an example of a smaller one.
I say many things about myself. Some of them, also, are true.
(Dammit.) I’ve also never even heard of Threads. Methinky flagrant bullshit.
Some Chinese mathematicians claim to have created a “periodic table of prime numbers”.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4742238
Interesting idea, but if true, they ought to be able to solve the integer factorization problem in polynomial time.
a) I kinda assume primes are still useful in codes for their unpredictability. I know enough to know I’m wholly ignorant on such matters.
b) Sneakers is in my Upper Echelon of film for many reasons. A brilliantly prescient work, predictably unheeded.
Bloody fucking hell.
Alternate title: “Coming soon to a sanctuary state near you!”
Like the off-hand mention later in where (like Canada) their elderly are being encouraged to look at euthanasia to free up housing resources (and reduce the load on the NHS, I very much suspect). It is as if fostering a society where the Communal Good is all, the Individual is devalued and human life is not valued leads to this kind of shit….
I’m not dead yet . . . . . .
Look, you’ll be stone dead in a moment!
That’s not gonna fly anywhere in the US. Not without some ultraviolence.
But of course they will hit the oldsters first. Sick fucks.
Every oldster I know is packing here in the states. Gun ranges have replaced golf. It would not work here.
For Uncivil- could you use a solvent (alcohol? nail polish remover, aka acetone?) on a Q-tip to selectively remove that masking?
I have plenty of solvants of different compositions and concentrations, I just have no idea what solder mask is made of or what would dissolve it without damaging other elements of the board.
Google says
Primary ingredient of room temp versions is usually dichloromethane/methylene chloride (primary ingredient of most paint strippers)
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/what-common-chemicals-can-remove-soldermask/
So help me, that cracky picture needs to be on a t-shirt.
Or jock strap
Why not both?
There is a difference between leaven and gluten…
Who’s Going To Buy All This Matzo?
Supermarkets have been waiting and waiting for someone to buy aisles of kosher-for-Passover food. Blame a complicated ancient calendar that is making this year confusing
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/passover-late-calendar-matzo-kosher-6f0b8c76?st=lvc1ja7appgwx7f&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They couldn’t look at a calendar and see when Passover is?
That’s one of like 6 things Google is actually still good for.
To much work. Easier to guess.
JFC. “Gluten intolerant” people like her give people with actual issues, like my (((wife))), a bad name.
The fact they sell gluten-free matzoh should be a clue…
I just have no idea what solder mask is made of or what would dissolve it without damaging other elements of the board.
I don’t know either. Alcohol seems least likely to damage the board itself. As I recall, “brake parts cleaner” is a repurposed electronics cleaner used for circuit board immersion baths.
They couldn’t look at a calendar and see when Passover is?
Not without the (((decoder ring))).