Not sure if I’ve ever played this chick on here, but in honor of the link below…
IT’S LIKE RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY: I hope more people look at things like this and see the climate scam for the grift it is. The article doesn’t mention all the jet fuel that will be required to get these climateers to the airport so they can be driven on this highway.
PROTESTERS STORM TRUMP TOWER, MANY ARRESTED: At the time I wrote this the lede of the article read “Protesters arrested after storming Trump Tower to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil.” I’m surprised that CNN used the word “stormed.”
TODAY IN ANTI-DOGE LAWFARE: Federal judge in SF issues preliminary injunction to reinstate probationary employees, gets testy with DOJ lawyers. Also, a federal judge in DC grants expedited discovery in lawsuit against DOGE. The agency has three weeks to produce documents related to plans to: “(1) eliminating or reducing the size of federal agencies; (2) terminating or placing federal employees on leave; (3) cancelling, freezing, or pausing federal contracts, grants, or other federal funding; and (4) obtaining access, using, or making changes to federal databases or data management systems.” We knew these sorts of things would happen. The important thing is to keep moving, keep disrupting.
MAYOR OF WOKE, CRUNCHY TOWN WANTED TO PRIORITIZE DISASTER AID BASE ON DEI: The mayor of Asheville, North Carolina, says the city has revised its $225 million disaster relief proposal after the Trump administration rejected the original plan, which prioritized race and sex for aid. I can’t believe they were stupid enough to put that in writing. And I suspect they will go ahead and do it anyway, quietly.
SMUG WOKEISTS DRIVE OUT LOCAL BREWERY, CELEBRATE: That area need the jobs that came with that, but the owners weren’t woke enough for these assholes.
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT EMAIL AND CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT SCANDAL COMES TO LIGHT: Obama administration sent classified emails to Biden’s private email account while he was VP.
PETE BUTTIGIEG NOT RUNNING FOR SENATOR OR GOVERNOR: But this probably means he’s positioning himself for a run for president in 2028.
HATING ON THE NORMAL GAYS FEATURE FOR THE WEEK: Along comes this self-described “queer, trans” person whinging about gay romances written for straight women, by straight women; IOW, the whole business model of the Hallmark Channel. The writer sees everything through the lens of victimhood and exploitation. These are harmless stories yet somehow the author contorts escapist fantasy into paranoid nightmares of “straight people controlling queer bodies.” The stories that most enrage this person seem to be the ones featuring “mainstream-hot, cisgendered, able-bodied guys” who find their happy ever after. That’s very telling. (apology and belated h/t to Mojeaux)
THE MOVIE WE COULD HAVE HAD: Why The Thing Prequel Replaced Awesome Practical Effects With Bad CGI. The answer, predictably, is the studio. Fuck MCA (Universal), yo. Holding out hope that someday they’ll recut it and release the version with the original practical effects, and maybe the original ending.
MY LUNAR LANDER FELL OVER AND DIED: Womp, womp. Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission reached the lunar surface safely, but Athena did not stick the landing, ending up on her side and solar panels not producing enough electricity to continue the mission. Our competitors Blue Ghost aerospace stuck their landing, but their landing site was on on a wide, flat, well-lit plain in the Moon’s equatorial region. We were attempting a landing in the much rougher terrain, of the heavily-cratered south polar region.
MAYBE WE WERE DOING IT WRONG: Higher latitudes on the moon with slopes facing the poles “are not only scientifically interesting but also pose less technical challenges for exploration in comparison with regions closer to the poles of the moon.”
Currently colocated with the boyfriend, who arrived in his brand spanking new car, which caused this song to pop into my head.
They used Stormed, as they are troopers of the left.
You know who else…? LOL
Only CNN deals in absolutes!
JFC.
Dude must be drowning in the tongue-bath he’s getting in that article. And from his Jewish “friends”.
“That’s no moon!”
And I, for one, would accept sex for aid.
STEVE SMITH HAPPY TO OBLIGE BRAIN SURGEON GLIB!
STEVE SMITH DAMNS YOUR NIMBLE FINGERS
STEVE SMITH APPLY FOR AID
STEVE SMITH WOULD CATCH AID?
AND BY CATCH MEAN SUBMIT.
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS READY FOR NEW DIET PLAN.
SLENDER STEVE CATCHES CAMPERS BETTER.
AND BY CATCHES — THIS TIME, MEAN RAPE.
sex for aid? What am I missing here?
I am very distracted by dogs, tv and wife. I cant read half of a sentence without being interrupted.
There’s a local craft brewery that’s veteran owned and operated. Based on conversations with the staff, the decorations, and talking to the other breweries in the area, they are safely identified as a “conservative” brewery. They make solid beers (their black lager and saison are among my favorites there), have a good food menu, and the most “in your face” thing about the politics is that they’ll have a monitor that will cycle through the Bill of Rights and founding father quotes.
They’re in a city that does a brewery passport. This brewery participated the first year, and then decided not to in later years (they also pulled off of social media at the same time, e-mail and Telegram are how they send out updates). As I was chatting with the other brewery staff about them declining to participate, I got to hear quite a bit about how “weird and strange” they were.
Reading the last half of the article, I’m less than impressed with ‘Armed Forces Brewing Company’. They sound like a failed taxpayer cash grab wrapped in faux-patriotic sentiment.
I did notice that there was no talk of their brewing equipment, any beers they had made, and I know I had not heard of them. Checking out their website, it looks like they didn’t have things really set up there either. Based on the talk of them not brewing there in the article, and the plans to expand, I would guess they were doing contract brewing (which is not a bad way to get started), but you usually plan to grow organically around a tap room/restaurant to eventually get wider distribution, not start out saying your plan is worldwide distribution.
Better than this one (not because of song quality obviously.. but because we’d have to worry for your safety… or the boyfriend’s….)
Trump…. Dictator. Trump… storm… Sturmführer… coincidence? CNN thinks not!
No carbon credits needed. It is like a free ride — when they’ve already paid.
Seriously expecting a “No.” reaction one of these days. My joke about one of these judges ruling that Harris must be instated into the White House for specious reasoning is less outlandish every day.
Re: Asheville, NC mayor — he just learned well from PPP’s FEMA after all.
Someone should start a sub-genre with nothing but cis-presenting androids in love with each other just to show that this sort will bitch regardless.
Anyway, a The Thing prequel would just be about a bunch of Swedes trying to pump up a monster.
I didn’t know there was a Thing prequel and I guess now I’m spared the need to seek it out.
compare and contrast:
1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX9ZpsEg6Mc
2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL5rXhSkP34
It’s called The Thing from Another World and was made in the 1950s.
The 1982 was a lot closer to original short story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goes_There%3F
This version tells it from the monster’s perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-G-k9-y1NA
Meh, I don’t see the need to bitch about the CGI but I’m not a stuffed shirt about such things.
I watch SyFy movies by Asylum regularly. So called horrible CGI is normal for me.
I saw it in a theater in 2011 because I remembered how much I liked the 1982 version. Though the CGI was good, I was disappointed by the lack of the practical effects that made me like Carpenter’s version so much.
Jurassic Park is the only movie with CGI I like.
The practical effects in The Thing are, arguably, the greatest ever. So, high bar and all of that.
And, cannot believe no one got the Swedish penis pump joke, let alone that they were Norwegian, Mac.
I got both your jokes but said nothing to avoid exposing by extreme geekiness further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG88rWGiYZw
[scurries off to dank cave]
I had forgotten the mental patient video – yikes!
And I didn’t even get a h/t. Harrumph. 😤
My bad. Now fixed above. Thanks.
Japan has been there for decades, but I’m not sure where straight Asian women rank compared to straight white women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweek_x_Craig
I believe yaoi is where the straight white women writing gay male romance/sex started.
It’s an interesting phenomenon, I guess, but I couldn’t care less about the sex or sexuality of the author(s) of a work. I care about the story and the quality of the writing. Some are good to very good, some are dreck, some lie in between.
But they all are better than what is published on Literotica, no?
“Happy is the bride that rain falls on”
Clap your hands if you’re Irish
https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-ideas/irish-wedding-blessing
my favorite Irish drinking songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MnF6tonFY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJG7CIqLo9A
They’re just pissed that most gay men are cisgendered and able-bodied and are not interested in the word “queer”. As for “mainstream-hot”, well duh, who wants to read about uggos.
Dude… there are some questions you never ask on the internet….. someone may just show you.
Today’s Arabic lesson:
Muhammad means praisworthy and khalil means friend.
I had 2 Arabic teachers from Gaza at DLI. They were nice and proud American citizens. The female one had a giant truck and had worked at a donut shop in Texas. The male told a very funny story about the first time he got drunk while studying abroad in England.
Sorry to hear about your Lunar Lander. We need to go back in person.
… and set it back upright.
“You are on a one year probationary period of employment and can be terminated for any reason” was the first sentence I heard after joinging Federal service.
Today? Appelarently a SF judge has authority over all of the government?
How this hasnt been fasttracked to SCOTUS makes me think, Trump and team want these rulings.
I’m surprised the Nazghuls have not stopped this judicial overreach by now.
They did a pretty good job with the Canadian-Arab judge who had two months’ experience as a federal
godjunior politician.Oh and these ‘sure only a few months in, but they have perfect performance reviews’ bullshit.
Ya they have an introduction review and MAYBE a mid-year. If hiring period was split between FYs, well unless you took your dick out and tried to photocopy it, you got a passing or ‘great’ review
The reading I have is that SCOTUS is gonna have everything follow all of the formal procedural channels, then smack it down once it gets to them via the normal channels.
Corporate is pushing migration to Windows 11. Hopefully the laptop works tomorrow.
Sorry. If it helps any, corporate is only doing it because support for Windows 10 is getting down to the short-and-curlies, and a ‘modern, fully supported OS’ is probably a requirement handed down from the NIST…er, cyber insurance company…
The customer imposes a lot of requirements for our computers. I’m happy they let me WFH.
My company has just started staging this abomination.
https://www.hypr.com/
My coworker was one of the lucky first non beta cohorts and has been locked out of most applications all day.
It’s a forced upgrade when they call your number. I’m not looking forward to it or using my personal device. I can get a company phone, but really don’t want one.
We use password+Microsoft Authenticator for corporate and chip+pin for customer. There were problems for some people before corporate authorized alternate authentication methods for people working in locations that didn’t allow phones.
Do you need the authenticator every time?
Makes going to the bathroom fun!
Thankfully, no. It does some caching. Same with the chip authentication.
We got our new 2FA today. Microsoft Authenticator, which requires the phone. I can put the app on my tablet, but the code is sent to SMS via phone. I assume there’s no app where I can get the same SMS messages sent to my phone number?
Most places are moving away from SMS for MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) due to security risks that come with SMS. The app itself should just display a code for you to enter.
Our previous app did that, but it went haywire a few weeks back, as I mentioned here. We all tried to sign in for the start of shift at 6AM and nobody was able to. They fixed it by removing 2FA.
Some days I think the onboarding process should have required watching Office Space.
I can’t believe they were stupid enough to put that in writing. And I suspect they will go ahead and do it anyway, quietly.
Seriously. That’s what the non profits are for.
“We can push our agenda of inclusivity and folks who aren’t in line with that have no business being here,” she said.
WHEEEEEEEEE!
See, these are the nuggets of gold we miss out on by tapping out too soon.
To our new Tulpa who attempted to post twice in the
mid-day postyesterday’s afternoon post, they’ve been approved. You should be able to post regularly now.Thanks Tulpa for helping Tulpa.
Bless the new Tulpas, each and every one!
I hope the new Tulpa is a rodent.
yet somehow the author contorts escapist fantasy into paranoid nightmares of “straight people controlling queer bodies.”
Dance, monkey, dance!
There’s nothing stopping quiltbag authors from writing about straights. Are there even any examples of that?
Navel-gazing is the norm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWJT0egzAy0
I suspect most gay authors have written frequently about straights throughout history.
Queue Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth” sonnets…. ‘e was a swinga… that ‘un!
OK, fair point historically. Are there any quiltbag authors now who go out of their way to write about cis-het folk?
Of the top of my head, most of Clive Barker’s characters are straight.
You might be under the misconception that all gays are like the author of that article. I think any author who wants to write anything that can conceivably take place in the real world can’t possibly restrict themselves in the way you’re imagining.
Huh, TIL:
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Barker stated on Loveline in 1996 that he had several relationships with older women during his teenage years, but realised he was gay when he was around 18 or 19 years old.[15] He dated John Gregson from 1975 to 1986, and was later in a relationship from 1996 to 2009 with photographer David Armstrong, who was described as his husband in the introduction to Coldheart Canyon.
During his early years as a writer, Barker occasionally worked as an escort when his writing did not provide sufficient income.[16] He has been open about his experiences with sadomasochism, calling himself a “six” on its “sliding scale”.[17]
***
Thanks, Rhy.
Though I will now hear Pinhead with the voice of Mr. Slave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0utsyWNoupM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysMvNU6koqo
OK, so an alphabet person complained about straights being bland/repetitive when they create alphabet characters. And to that I say: there is nothing stopping quiltbag types from writing all kinds of crazy cis-het characters, which they have done, as Rhy just pointed out.
Pulp crap back in the day…Gor? Tern? Something something fantasy stuff. Then there was Starship Galactica something something? I think those two authors had not vanilla lifestyles that spilled over into their writing.
I dont really know because I never paid attention much to the authors personally or that genre. It holds no interest for me.
The hallmark stuff is idealistic pap aimed at the 16 yo girl in every straight woman. Leave them alone. They can have their stuff too. These activist types absolutely have to shit on everything…it is what they do. It is, at least to me, a clear effort at demoralization.
Chuck Palahniuk comes to mind immediately.
Oh right, duh.
John Cheever peeks out of the closet.
https://x.com/MassieforKY/status/1899847948395040875
That should let Trump know all he needs to know
“The stories that most enrage this person seem to be the ones featuring “mainstream-hot, cisgendered, able-bodied guys” who find their happy ever after.”
That tells me the fruitcake has never actually watched the hallmark movies. The greatest suspension of disbelief required for getting into a hallmark movie is convincing yourself that any of those male characters would actually be interested romantically in a woman. It is a real ‘just go with it’ effort.
Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission reached the lunar surface safely, but Athena did not stick the landing, ending up on her side
They should partner up with the guys from Boston who make the dancing robot dogs.
My brain just jumped to “use an Orion drive… make your own landing crater” — but that probably defeats the purpose for collecting data unless you pack a rover.
Use an onion drive, as was the style at the time.
Bravo, Ted.
I take back all the bad things I’ve ever said about you.
It’s an interesting phenomenon, I guess, but I couldn’t care less about the sex or sexuality of the author(s) of a work. I care about the story and the quality of the writing. Some are good to very good, some are dreck, some lie in between.
Same for artists’ politics.
Yes.
Speaking of prurient titillation
Meta is seeking to stop the promotion of a new memoir by a former staffer that paints the social media company in an unflattering light, including allegations of sexual harassment by the company’s policy chief.
An emergency arbitrator ruled Wednesday that Sarah Wynn-Williams is prohibited from promoting “Careless People,” her book that was released Tuesday by Flatiron Books, an imprint of publisher Macmillan Books.
Flatiron Books said in a statement on Thursday that the arbitration order has no impact on Macmillan, and it will continue to support and promote the book.
“We are appalled by Meta’s tactics to silence our author through the use of a non-disparagement clause in a severance agreement,” said Flatiron Books, adding that the arbitrator’s order makes no reference to the claims within “Careless People.” “The book went through a thorough editing and vetting process, and we remain committed to publishing important books such as this.”
The memoir chronicles Wynn-Williams’ tenure at Facebook from 2011 through 2017. During that time, she became a high-level employee who interacted with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, then-COO Sheryl Sandberg and Joel Kaplan, the company’s current policy chief. In the book, Wynn-Williams alleges that Kaplan made a number of inappropriate comments to her, which she then reported to the company as sexual harassment.
Gossip sells.
“important books”
lol
Planet of the Kindergartners
“You called me a poopy-head! Waaah!”
That was my first thought.
Normal older people with serious illness usually retire to spend their remaining time enjoying friends and family.
And there are politicians.
Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva dead at 77
Power must be a hell of a drug. Also note that dems seem to be dropping quickly this year.
I argue for term limits. I am usually told that that wont help. Well, it wont hurt either so why not do it? These fucking ticks that burrow into the hosts skin need to go.
Searching for a quote and cant find it because I cant remember who said it. Paraphrased: office holders should server (congress) for a short time then go back and live under the law they made.
There was quite a bit of debate about term limits when the founders were founding. The term limits (rotation in office) got their way in the articles of confederation but not in the current constitution. Frequent elections were considered adequate. They are not.
Incidentally there appears to be only one article on the subject appearing in a large number of publications under more than a few authors. They are all plagiarizing from each other.
Carlin on term limits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07w9K2XR3f0
garbage in, garbage out…
politics is downstream from culture
Ok George, that is a pretty good argument for term limits. It wont make any difference? Good, lets do it.
What I see in practice is that if you let a tick stay too long on it’s host it burrows in so deep removing it causes a great deal more damage to the host than removing it right away.
If the president gets 8 years max, I’m fine with that being the rule for every fedgov employee.
Not that I expect it to happen.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Sometimes I support term limits but the practical effect of them in my state and local elections has been the ascendance of increasingly radical Democrats at every election.
Rhy; perhaps George is right on that. Maybe this really is the best we can do.
Eh, they had to force my uncle to retire at 79, he hated it.
Was he terminally ill at the time?
Dunno. I would have to ask my cousin, as Bob is Dead. He was chief programmer for one of the credit bureaus, after having been a physics prof at Cal Tech. Smart dude.
Ha I feel I’m gonna retire the first chance I get.
Calm your tits, Chicken Little
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday the Trump administration is more focused on the long-term health of the economy and markets and not short-term gyrations.
“We’re focused on the real economy. Can we create an environment where there are long-term gains in the market and long-term gains for the American people?” Bessent said on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” “I’m not concerned about a little bit of volatility over three weeks.”
The comments come with markets in a state of turmoil largely centered on President Donald Trump’s near-daily moves on tariffs against major U.S. trading partners such as Canada, Mexico and China. Major averages have moved toward correction territory, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average
has lost more than 7% over the past month.
While Bessent said the administration is attentive to market moves, he predicted that both the real economy and markets would prosper over time.
It sounds better when Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett says it.
I trained for this year’s Florida Man games, but was unable to compete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlA4N4Op6U
suggested music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0ftoiIQxU
People on Quora are absolutely insane.
Most platforms have self selecting crowds. Never been to Quora. I will take your word for it.
It’s one thing to oppose Trump vociferously because of his policies.
It’s a whole other thing to make up fantastic scenarios as a form of cope (“Trump has dementia! Trump will bow out and Vance is going to take over!”).
I don’t remember even joining quora, but I get emails showcasing some question or other that is click-baity enough to make me take a peek.
“What would you do if Trump institutes a draft for a war supporting Russia?” (seen on reddit)
I mentioned that a couple of weeks ago.
You’ll note that a lot of the questions about Trump in those emails date to the first Trump term, which makes it really odd that they’re regurgitating this stuff.
Ok I lied. The first thing I saw was the question “Is death by guillotine painless?”
No, it is not. It is horrible. All of the debates around the death penalty are ridiculous. We have valium and Sodium pentobarbital. Civilized people do not ritualize gruesome revenge murders.
Do we even want to know?
“Trump would totally end American democracy, if it meant he got higher ratings”
“Trump is seeing that Zelenskyy used war to stay in powers, and thinks he could do the same!”
Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts
“There was just a primal scream of folks recognizing what’s going on with the Trump administration, their authoritarian tendencies, and what they viewed was a lack of a proper response from their representatives,” he told CNN on Wednesday. “It was about these Republican representatives recognizing this stuff’s really unpopular, so they’re going to quit the town halls. These folks need to be heard. They need to be heard, and to be candid with you, Democratic leadership needs to hear them.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/politics/tim-walz-national-tour-town-halls/index.html
little timmy wants to fly!
He could easily do that in my district by scheduling a “town hall” at Big College (the legislature neutered the blue-voting effect of the bien-pissants who make up the faculty and staff by surrounding the town with a gaggle of agrarian counties).
I hope this asshole gets a taste of the PRNJ ridiculous ammunition laws too.
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2025/03/12/gun-range-lieutenant-arrested-accused-of-stealing-ammo-to-sell-for-personal-profit/
Let’s do the same bullshit reporting they do with drugs and explain how many millions of people could be killed.
“The street value of this ammo…”
My maternal cousins are half Italian Jerseyites. The male and his father were Confederate reenactors for years, I presume out of hatred for the not-so-great white north, and maybe in honor of my maternal southern belle, Ozark Alabama grandma. They and their friends made a Civil War movie which was hilarious because all the Johnny Rebs talked like Tony Soprano, at least to my redneck ears.
Anyway, I’m glad my cousin inherited my grandpa’s WW2 gun collection which he carefully hid for 70 years. Grandpa Derpy grew up in Kentucky and only moved to NJ for work. I forget how he met Grandma Derpy, but it was somewhere in the south shortly after WW2.
Today, in “You keep using that word…
An Oregon appeals court on Wednesday found that a gun control law approved by voters over two years ago is constitutional, reversing a lower court ruling from a state judge who had kept it on hold.
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In their Wednesday opinion, a three-judge panel of the Oregon Court of Appeals found that the law’s permit-to-purchase program and high-capacity magazine ban do not “unduly frustrate” the right to armed self-defense under the state constitution.
The Constitution was adopted as a defense against mob rule.
This will go straight to SCOTUS, as it effectively stops all gun purchases in state. 2nd violation, big time.
‘frustrates’, ‘burdens’….you see, the courts are openly admitting that they want infringements which they are specifically forbidden to have and admitting that they are complicit in crime.
When one goes to law school, do they unteach you to read? What the fuck is wrong with these shitbirds?
This will go straight to SCOTUS, as it effectively stops all gun purchases in state. 2nd violation, big time.
But Teh Peepulz voted for it!
I suspect it might have to be run through Oregon’s Supreme Court first.