Dramatis Personae
Maximilion Von Dachs, Captain
Wednesday Delenda, Comms
Kiki Rattur, Weapons
Pongo and Tupppy, Engineering
Cat, Cat
Pixie, Red shirt to be killed off early
Our navigator Pixie was keeping us right on trim through the wormhole when Cat came up to me to propose a new option.
โ Captain, I found a way to disturb, Shall we say the Bereaver’s orientation within the warm hole? And I think they have been thrown off our trail completely.”
โDammit I don’t care, I don’t trust cats! Kiki cried in her song.โThey have been wrong so many times and cost our race a good deal of stock, it’s intentional, by designโ Max was not having it.
Kiki! Kennel now! Comport yourself as a professional officer and leave the instinct behind! as Kiki left in shame.
After another 3 days we cleared the wormhole completely and entered into the G821 system. Three green planets, and a radio transmission from the prime planet.
As the crew settled into the captain’s den, there was silence. No growls, no barking, silence. Captain Max asked for answers. Del, what do you see? what are on the comms? What do we actually see?
What are we encountering?
Are they safe?
Are they dangerous, Pixie? What about weapons? Are our systems on board cleared for fire?
Is everything good engineering? What’s your status? Chief engineer Pongo repiled โCaptain, we found no atomics, no spaceflight and rudimentary aircraft, I think it safe for a recon if you desireโ
Dog I love my engineers, always the truth, come what may.
ROO! my comms girl is the best but tedious, but we are ready, lets go see!
“There’s no barking in space!” ~ Disgruntled Cฬตoฬตaฬตcฬตhฬต Cosmonaut
Roo Roo!
Is Pixie a bird?
She’s a chihuaterrier
I feel like I’m tripping from the six jabs I got at the medical center today. ๐ฅด
Dude, if your gonna spew, spew into this…..
+1 Phil
“Let me go”
Why did you get six jabs? Was this on a bet?
I have to redo the baby schedule. Today I got Heps A and/or B, I think MMR, some other junk, and the Shingles one which babies don’t get but that’s the one I want.
I strongly advise doing anything to avoid shingles. Funny, how all the Shingrix (HA!) ads make clear it’s only for 50yo+ and only they can get it. *Gritty McAngry face*
Got ’em when I was 18. Do everything to not get shingles. If ya do get it, Valtrex is your friend. That shit fucking *works.* My dose was delayed cuz fucking MLK Day closed IU hospitals. That was a pisser.
I have been on (val)acyclovir for a year or so. Big chalky horsepill that doesn’t go down easy twice a day. That goes away eventually.
I just got Shingrix shot #2 a few weeks back. Definitely don’t want shingles.
I have t had it but I was exposed to chicken pox back in the day so itโs possible Iโll get it eventually.
It canโt be as bad as west Nile so Iโll roll the dice on shingles
No shit: Shingles won’t kill ya, but pain for pain? It rivals several broken ribs.
Havenโt tried those yet.
Never been bitten by a rattlesnake or hit by lightning before either.
I guess (?) Shingrix is effective and trusted?
I told them I’m not doing anything experimental or seasonal – we’ll see how that goes.
Why do you have to redo the baby schedule? I’ve never heard of that.
Stem cell transplant. I’m like a baby again.
Holy cow. I had no idea. I hope it fixed whatever it was meant for.
Shingles can cause permanent damage. I know one guy who got a serious case of tinnitus from it, and Iโve heard of people getting vision impairment from it.
I had the easiest possible case of it – a few pustules(?) on my back (I thought they were spider bites), but Mrs. Dean spotted them, somehow thought they were shingles hustled me off to the doc. Donโt recall what he gave me, but it worked.
What could go wrong?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/experimental-agentic-features-a25ede8a-e4c2-4841-85a8-44839191dfb3
“Enable experimental agentic features”
lolno
This is going to sound crazy but I don’t trust Microsoft.
โJust the tip, baby, I swear.โ
Also I have jury duty tomorrow do actually want properly answer the juror question related to jury nullification.
If I do I wonโt be asked to serve.
Do they really ask that? I’ve only been called up twice and it never got past the stage where I told them I work for an insurance company.
https://www.njcourts.gov/jury-selection-questions
Now that I donโt have any social media I expect to get called up.
If they ask me Iโll tell a truth about jury nullification.
My truth?
The truth?
The party line?
Who knows.
Jeez it’s been so long maybe they did ask that and I don’t remember.
I hate drama so I’d probably give the expected answer, shamefully.
I’m going to bring up that Fuentes character again.
Ben Shapiro is leading the charge to cancel him while claiming he’s not trying to cancel him like a little weasel. Shapiro refuses to debate or engage with Fuentes because he doesn’t want to provide him a platform as if Fuentes doesn’t already have a massive platform and following. He’s using the same sophistry the left used for years to avoid confronting icky inconvenient ideologies.
Shapiro is a fucking fraud. When has he ever been afraid of engaging in debate? I guess it’s different when it’s just some batshit insane progressive or commie who believes in infinite genders and man wombs, though. It’s a bit easier.
Shapiro is smart enough to know what he’s doing (trying to cancel Fuentes for speech he disapproves of), smart enough to know how effective silencing debate actually is, and smart enough to know the failed history of attempting to suppress icky ideologies. Banning the Nazis didn’t work, now did it? Still hasn’t eradicated the movement in Germany to this fucking day.
But he’s also smart enough to preserve his livelihood, I guess. He has to maintain his image as some sort of faux intellectual on the right. Actually intellectuals don’t respect him, but he still has some small iota of support from the boomer pro-Israel wing of the MAGA movement, I guess. Need to keep those sheckles flowing in.
What it looks like to me. Fuentes may be an asshole, but he’s witty and pretty fucking smart. That’s not an endorsement of his ideology as I understand it. More than that, I think Fuentes is actually authentic whereas Shapiro is a fucking bought for and paid for fool. He’s an Isreali court jester at this point masquerading as America First. It’s Shapiro that is the no-shit grifter engaging in ridiculous sophistry left and right to maintain the image of having anything resembling a coherent set of principles by which he operates. It’s embarrassing.
Word round the watercooler is that you hate Jews. Is that true ?
En vino veritas?
Or just hates Jews?
Fuentes’ is the new hotness, right? To a point, I guess. Supposedly the bulk of his followers are in the 18-25(?) y/o bracket. If young men are as disaffected as the news portrays them to be, then they probably aren’t going to be very excited about an old guy like Shapiro who is a deeply entrenched member of the current system.
Therefor, Shapiro would see Fuentes as a threat to his influence, maybe a threat to the revenue stream of his business. I think the biggest threat to Shapiro and whatever influence he has is himself. Embracing cancel culture and deplatforming is damaging. All anyone would have to say is, “How progressive of you, Ben.”
If Ben Shapiro or anyone else calls for deplatforming or silencing of debate, they need to get laughed at by everybody, right before they get told to go climb a tree.
Bingo and stated below as well.
He was always a bit cringy bit after the Gaza war heโs been insufferable.
Iโve never liked Barbara Streisand. Is she a Jew?
Good Lord, bro. You keep banging the drum for Fuentes. He’s smart? Show me proof.
“Thatโs not an endorsement of his ideology as I understand it.” Be explicit. What do you understand it to be?
Proof? His opponents are deathly afraid of actually engaging with him.
As for his ideology, Groyperism to me seems to be a form of white nationalism.
Or maybe I’m just the sort of guy who has never said some ideas are too dangerous for me to debate. I don’t know.
Weak sauce. Both Thomas Chatterton Wiiliams and Noam Dworman have invited him on their podcasts. I’d be unsurprised if there are others. He hasn’t accepted an invitation.
As for his ideology, does his white nationalism include overt antisemitism?
I’ve honestly never heard of either of them. I enacted some labor and looked both up. Noam Dworman has a podcast that gets like 10k views if he’s lucky and has all of 45k subscribers on Youtube. Thomas Chatterton Williams doesn’t seem to have his own show? I don’t know, but again…not a big draw. Both supposedly have roughly 150k followers on Twitter. So followings that are a fraction of the size of that of Fuentes and audiences with little crossover appeal I’d imagine.
It’s great that they’re willing to debate Fuentes unlike the cowards on the right who want to cancel him but refuse to debate him under the guise of refusing to give him a platform (which he already has), but that doesn’t mean there’s anything in it for Fuentes.
I don’t think those situations are comparable. Fuentes is obviously clout chasing with all this and trying to attract followers, but he has engaged with conservative personalities in the past willing to give him the space to do so. You could say that’s a reason for a Shaprio not to engage with him further, but the problem is that Shapiro’s audience is actually shrinking while Fuentes seems to be growing rapidly (I don’t buy that it’s just a bot army) despite attempts to deplatform him that go back over half a decade now. What they’ve been doing isn’t working.
And I’m perfectly fine labeling Fuentes as anti-Semitic. Believe it or not, I have never seen anything but clips from Fuentes (one full podcast he did with Alex Jones the exception) and not that many. But the guy is witty and entertaining/funny often times from what I’ve observed. My brother has become a big fan, as I’ve stated (we do not have much crossover in our beliefs period).
My post was far more about mocking the right wing pseudo intellectuals who fancy themselves champions of the public debate sphere who refuse to engage with a guy they claim is some sort of dangerous clown. Their arguments for refusing to do so are piss poor and blatantly contradictory. They’re using the same tactics against Fuentes as the left used against them for years and that seems undeniable to me.
I also like internet drama having grown up with it.
And the crux of the issue here is Israel. There is a divide among younger people on the right and the older generation/boomers in MAGA land. It doesn’t split perfectly down the middle like that, but it’s a real trend. The younger MAGA types are really questioning why Israel has such an outsized influence on US policy, and there was a massive void there and inherent contradiction with the notion of America First which they bought into. And guys like Shapiro planted their flag firmly in camp Israel and never managed to give anything resembling a coherent, rational, or persuasive answer as to why it was in the best interests of America. It’s just a lot of rara emotional appeal bullshit, and in Shapiro’s case an obvious conflict of interest given his Jewishness. Then Shapiro goes and says some really dumb fucking shit over the years that leads people to rationally conclude that, hey, he sure does seem to care a lot more about the well being of Israelis compared to Americans. And, hey, he sure does seem to be fine with them engaging in social welfare while we fund their wars while telling younger Americans to basically get good at life or simply pick up and move if they can’t afford where they’re at (despite being a guy who pontificates on bullshit for a living).
Who is going to fill that void and square those circles for them? You’re going to get a guy like Fuentes, and if you believe Fuentes is a piece of shit, if you’re a guy like Shapiro you have no one to blame but yourself for his rise. And it’s a really bad look to refuse to nut-up and actually engage with that guy.
And Shapiro, for his many warts, is intelligent. Intelligent enough to engage in the mental gymnastics to rationalize his pro-Israeli bias while still maintaining some semblance of a following in MAGA land and be aware of what he’s doing.
Woah. Seeing a commercial on TV for Swisher Sweets. Tons of smoking and smoke, cherry and drags, partying, all. Mostly black.
That’s definitely a first for me. I didn’t know that was allowed now. Uh, well. Big Pharma just got Big Competition. I’m sure much watershed rules. Watching Law & Order on WEtv.
(Season 5. Still Chris Noth. Still don’t get why he was such a sex symbol, Mr. Big, especially. Admittedly, never watched that show nor am I attracted to men. Still, I get some folk, not him.)
I canโt remember a tobacco add since Joe camel and Virginia Slims.
Has to be that itโs streaming and not broadcast.
Mr Big was sexy because he was physically large and had money. Not because of his looks.
Does compute.
Seems I was led to believe he was a lothario of the visual sort. He ain’t ugly and he ain’t small. I also think SJParker is cute, sometimes ravishing. Well. Hocus Pocus. Need no special bewitchin,’ ditzy witch.
She had her angle.
The attitude made up in part for the nose.
He’s all right. Not really my type but I can see it being appealing to others.
I hate the smell of dope but OMG the smell of cigarillos is a 1000x worse. ๐คฎ
I always liked the smell of weed, and the taste. Sadly the effects on me aren’t “as advertised”.
I become a neurotic pile of paranoia.
I like the effects. Or I did in college and until 2005 or so. The newer stuff is a bit much for me.
2005more like 1995Are cigarillos still being made?
Yes, I smoke them instead of cigarettes,
Remington vanilla.
15$ a carton,
/no tax
Swisher Sweets are solely made to be opened and gutted to make an easily rollable blunt.
I was unaware people actually ‘smoked’ them as is.
Evan, I discovered my filtered cigars through my sons blunt habit. Mixing tobacco and weed is gross imo
I’m watching MNF and considering my life choices. This game is just terrible. Dallas blows despite having a good coach. Las Vegas is a joke but I want to congratulate Mark Davis for discovering he doesn’t have to put a bowl on his head to get a haircut. There is something gratifying watching Pete Carroll struggle and I’m not proud of it.
Two teams I have zero interest in.
X-Files repeats it is.
I wish I had your wisdom an hour ago.
I missed the beginning episodes of Ken Burns American Revolution. Any of you see it and what was your impression?
” My dearest Edwina,
I hope this letter finds you well, we are in a cold valley now and the men are suffering from the dropsy, so far I have no symptoms, pray for us”
– Jebediah Stamwich
Winter 1777
Thats my Ken Burns impression,
wtf is wrong with Starbucks? Using proclaimers 500 miles with animated figures? Are they daft? A-ha, bitches. Rotoscope those cups.
Is it as bad as Target using Beautiful World or HP using Pictures of You?
Still coffee free here.
Wakey, wakey Glibs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fMzDIIsWKA
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Good morning, Sean, Roat, TO’G, Ted’S., homey, and U!
Mornin, Sam. โ๏ธ ๐ฅฏ ๐ฅ
Now I want a croissant, but I have to settle for overnight oats. Oh, well. Could do worse.
Plex has a Continuum channel. Iโve been watching. I like it, but it moves fast. If you miss an episode or two, it tends to get confusing.
RJ, Pixie looks much like this:
https://ibb.co/GvwC4pFm
Look at those puppies.
I’d lie down too if I were her.
Abigail Shapiro ?
Ben Shapiro.
Morning Glibs.
I had finally gotten into the groove and was writing, then all of a sudden it was 1am and I had to force myself to stop because I have work today.
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Good for you for writing, and good for you for stopping before you pulled an all-nighter! ๐๐
1 am is still too late for a good night’s sleep
I’m finding that out the hard way myself. ๐ฅฑ
Ideally, I’ll get back on track after work and get to my next goal in this story.
๐๐ค
How are things with you?
Okay. Busy day at work yesterday and another busy day in store today, but not really anything out of the ordinary. Planning to take tomorrow off to burn some more vacation before things start getting year-end crazy busy. ๐ณ
suh’ fam
whats goody
Brochettaward:
Ya we know. Morning all.
Good morning, OBE!
Morning. Nice rainy day
Meow.
I am (or was) a fan of internet drama, but some of it is just so stupid I can’t even.
The various incarnations of Shi LeBoef/He Will Not Divide Us/Gamergate were hilarious though.
Cloudfare is down.
Cloudflare.
So you can’t confirm you’re human?
So I can listen to 1.fm
NM. Looks like it’s back now.
>.>
Up and down
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-challenges-error.html
I have music. I’m good.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/18/business/users-report-x-is-down-as-cloudflare-probes-internal-server-error/
A fine reprobate morning to you all.
GM ๐