Kiki. We’ve got an early arrival. A large ship approaching the exit of the wormhole in 30 seconds.
‘Good nose Pix, are we all on station boys? Tuppy and Pongo barked in the affirmative as Pix shouted “top turret ready to bark!”
Contact! 4 lights and something really big coming behind it. Them or us? can you tell? Max barked.
‘All I can say is that the 4 lights blinked out almost immediately and the large ship headed into an orbit around the third planet’.
Max had a puzzle, two groups coming,one friendly one the enemy, who were these, he had no contact until now from either group. So what to do.
Cat was sent down on it’s emergency pod and showed up a bit frazzled, as cats go not so bad so I immediately asked. Cats answer was amazing, if true. “Captain the large ship is in fact the human transport and the four are Coyotes. I have dispersed them to the third planet to provide time for your decisions but they must be made soon,’yotes aren’t stupid for long”
“Del, have we comm with that human ship yet?” ‘No Max,it seems to be drifting slow towards the first planet.’ Kiki give me a shot across the bow. With pleasure Sir as she let a neutron missile fly directly across the ship’s bow, with no response. Max was not happy at this point,
”Cat, tell me what you know” ‘I don’t know much about the current situation other that there are no life forms alive on the larger ship’ This was frustrating for Max,as he had no armed ship in which to investigate and couldnt risk the shuttle and face the possibility of no orbital travel.
He did have the Canidae however. Those observation blisters? actually 400Gw pulse cannons, the observation deck? an orbital bombardment system with space to space capabilities, built for hunting.
In Max’s den there was much argument and concern when Del shouted ROO!
Thank you Del, As you know pups, there should be 20K humans on that ship but we have no life signs and worse, we have no safe way of investigating without risking our own lives and the lives of us all. Ideas?
Pongo uncharacteristically spoke up first. ‘Cap I say we just deorbit the thing on this world and collect the scraps, those humans are most likely corpses or worse, not even worth eating’ ” a disgusting thought although we are in fact far from home, lets not go there yet,” Max answered.
“I have the answer”, everyone turned to see Cat, jumping from it’s perch to the center of the table.I know we have the one precious shuttle and I would enjoy being at home but it seems that I can be of help” Go on Max replied
‘keep our guns on the third planet, the Coyotes are there waiting for us to explore the fate of the larger ship. We send the shuttle with Kiki and I on a fast pass and I can tell you if there is life, then we run and you will know to send the ship in, but not to the first planet but the third.
No No No! if we lose the shuttle and you we are doomed! ‘True Max, but you are certainly doomed if you don’t’ they are readying, if you don’t get into the OODA loop now we are lost, I shall prepare for travel.
Pongo’s de-orbiting scheme seems appropriate fan service. I strongly approve.
Some people just need nukin’.
NUKE MIKE TOMLIN
Maybe the *players* suck. So odd to see so much vitriol for a *coach.* I can understand anger at the GM more, frankly. Even bad play calls ordered from above, or whatever, uh… maybe the players suck. Anytime a coach starts getting so much praise for ‘helping’ the team win, is. Unusual. Other than shit like the pine tar bat incident, which was nasty, brilliant gamesmanship, I don’t get the focus on the coach, cuz they ain’t that important.
On that front, I still (correctly) think the Cubs getting Counsell was the best move we made a couple years ago. Interesting character and player. Got a fantastic last inning, Game 7 career of his own.
Baseball is not football. The two and the roles of coaching in the sport couldn’t be more different.
Correct. In football, coaches apparently ‘matter’ a lot. According to you, like, ‘a lot’ a lot. That’s bad. I like when its champions further my point for me.
And all those little Xs and Os! The cutesy SQUIGGLES!! I feel more man-ified! My second favorite sport has a bunch of dudes skating around with spears tryin’ to get a little black thingy past a light-blue semicircle. Everything in its right place.
OT holy cow, it’s going to rise above freezing
tomorrowWednesday! 😮(dammit)
We were above freezing very briefly today. Maybe an hour. We’ll get back to above average here in a couple days.
@Evil Sheldon
From the ded ded thred….
I think most people would recognize that. The problem is that they don’t then apply that to everything. The media knows as much (not much) about every topic as they do your topic.
I’m less concerned about media ignorance than media lies.
At least ignorance can be ameliorated.
I think TMITE are ignorant liars. What they don’t fuck up, they lie about.
Yes. This is the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
I thought it had a name, but was too lazy to look it up.
Biden suffers from Pudding-Mann Alzheimer’s Effect.
Man sitting in his chair reading the paper: That’s not right. I’m an legitimate expert in this field. I make a living doing this thing. This information I’m reading in the paper is dead wrong.
*Turns page to the next story and starts to read. He lowers the paper and screams to his wife in the other room*
Dear, we need to be careful when we go out later. They found a guy with a fully semi-automatic with an arsenal of 50 bullets on his way to a white supremacist meet at the church on the corner.
Sauce:
https://ritholtz.com/2002/04/michael-crichtons-why-speculate/
In the old days, before CNN launched, the nightly news gave us a 30 minute summary of what going on in the world. This was followed by the local news that gave us 30 minutes of local information. 60 minutes was about all the new news that was relevant in any given day.
Then CNN launched and they needed to fill 24 hours of every day with something. Thus we got “analysis” and “speculation”. There isn’t enough actual news to fill one round-the-clock news channel let alone dozens of cable channels and scores of websites.
It’s nuts. I’ll flip on Faux News at 7am for a few minutes before work. Eight or nine hours later they’re still airing the exact same stories with the exact same wording.
I don’t know how the talking heads do it – I’d blow my brains out if I had to repeat myself hundreds of times every day like they do.
Rhy – I thought they used a video loop and the talking heads weren’t there for the whole time.
Pro’s of working at Fox News:
-Pay is pretty good
Negatives:
-Repeating yourself
-Being sexually harassed and having Bill O’Reilly call you up in the middle of the night to call you a filthy whore while sodomizing himself with a vibrator.
The O’Reilly Factor may have been a no-spin zone, but his anus is not.
No kink shaming.
Even when the kink is having Flava Flav’s sloppy seconds?
There has to be some boundaries here.
@slumbrew I know Chrichton is right but don’t harsh my McLaughlin Group buzz.
@Chafed
Wrong! There is intellegent life in the 11th galaxy on the planet Neptar, which will conquer Earth in the year 5482, utilizing us for slave labor in their Chellonian salt mines. Issue number 5: what number am I thinking of? Pat Buchanan!
@slummy
Bye BYE! 😄
I’m pretty sure I’ve been hit with a Hipsterized strain of Covid. You know, an artisanal mutation, with specific long covid symptoms such as an affinity for dead format physical media, including vinyl, CD (if you have to), and, brrrrrrr, cassette tapes.
I ‘m sitting here listening to this fantastic 2-cassette album….
https://paperbark.bandcamp.com/album/forest-clothes
Using this almost as old as I am cassette deck (Pioneer CT-F900) from 1978 or 1979….
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/IMG_6096.jpeg
A stock pic of the tape deck you can actually see….
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/IMG_6080.jpeg
Bit esoteric for my taste but de gustibus etc. I listen to all kinds of stuff everyone else hates so whatever.
I will add only that the cassette tape is the absolute worst media ever devised for music and you should feel shame for choosing it.
No, that would be 8 track, there is no rewind….
But if you know the album layout on the 8 track you can jump forward between tracks to get to “that song” and not “this shit.”
Another archaic skill.
I’ve always been a physical media guy. I never stopped buying it. I got rid of my tapes 25 years ago, and at some point not too far in the past I would have agreed with you.
But many artists I listen to only release on cassette, so it wasn’t so much a choice as it was a compulsion. But I enjoy the shit out of cassettes now. And using gear as old as I am is awesome.
Mom got covid a couple days ago. She looked like shit yesterday, but is better now. She was upset she got her booster recently and it.. apparently did nothing! (She had a fever and was quite unwell. ‘Twasn’t the time to say, well, anything really. (Out loud, that is.))
I have *zero* clue when I last got proper sick. *high fives self*
I had Covid last summer. It was my first time (that I know of). I was sick as balls.
I thought I caught covid once,
turns out I was just bored…
Last time I got sick (which to me was, sick enough to miss work) was probably 20 years ago.
Until last year at Thanksgiving, when I caught a nasty respiratory bug on the flight to see my parents. Laid me out pretty well for a week. I hadn’t been taking my flu season zinc/quercetin/vitamin supplement, which seems to work for an immune system booster. Not making that mistake again.
15 minutes into the new Knives Out movie on Netflix I can confidently report that Hollywood hasn’t gotten the message yet.
So far it is a terrible parody of all things of the right. The church is cynical hypocrites who dont believe in Christ and seek to offend right-thinking lefties like gay couples, women who had abortions, etc so they can feel morally superior.
It is absolute dogshit. It is only a political polemics, thus far. Probably gonna bail on it pretty soon.
It’s supposed to be a detective movie so no real excuse for them being crammed full of The Message, right?
The fact that the “mystery” elements make no real sense because Ryan Johnson is a moron and I can barely comprehend the fact that they apparently have made money. Audiences have gotten just as dumb as the content they consume, though.
Garbage in, garbage out.
In the aftermath of the Australia shooting, I’m going to say something that on its surface is obvious, but not always pointed out. Anti-semitism is only going to grow in the West.Not just because they are importing actual anti-Semities from the Middle East, but because of the nature of democracy. Jewish voters are going to be grossly outnumbered by the Muslims and the political parties, particularly on the left, will pander to them in ever more shameful ways.
Jews do themselves no favors by voting almost entirely for leftwing parties/the Dems. As a minority group in a democracy, you only really have political power if you can help tilt an election. If you are going to reliably show up at the polls and hit the button for the Dems no matter what, you have no real power. WItholding votes or even…GASP…voting for opposition is the only real power you have.
The counterweights to this are that the Jews do retain quite a bit of money and resources behind them and the Israel factor (which only really matters in America). But just like with their votes, they can pretty reliably be counted on to show up for the guy with the D next to their name.
This was a big issue for the Jews in America during the Holocaust. The Democratic party new they had no risk of losing the Jewish vote or support. There was no pressure on the administration to put its neck on the line to advocate for Jewish refugees to an apathetic or hostile public.There was very little advocacy or concern from the Jews from the Roosevelt admin.
There has been very little advocacy for (((them))) throughout all of written history.
The rise in hate is entirely by design. This is why they trumpeted dozens of fake antisemitic incidents when Trump was first elected, but have been downplaying them of late.
It is the same reason Obama withheld the truth about hands up dont shoot for a month while riots were spreading.
They need an us-against-them racist society to enable the democrat voting strategy. Should minority groups support other parties in significant numbers, the democrats lose all power nationally.
The eruption of riots against Jews around the world within hours after the murders of Oct. 6 told me most of what I needed to know about that phenomenon.
FWIW Orthodox Jews in NYC vote like 99% GOP. Probably not numerous enough anywhere else to make a difference.
The two soldiers killed in Syria were Iowa National Guardsmen. I would have figured they were special forces because why the fuck would you have NG over in Syria? What fucking sense does that make given the size of the contingent to use NG?
Against my better judgement, and at the request of my daughter, I sat through the entire knives out movie.
It appears to have been created at exactly the time Trump was shot… and it hints at Trump’s assassination being fake (in allegory). It insists that everyone of the right is penalty, manipulated by fear and hate, and that the politicians are just drifters.
There is no god, no redeemer, no salvation. But if you murder a bunch of deplorables to keep them from obtaining wealth…. well, then you can be absolved of your sins.
It was everything that movie fans who speak of woke Hollywood are talking about.
Well, except there wasnt a bucket full of LGBTAIA+ characters and girl bosses. The message was more overt than that.
Morning, Glibs.
*waves*
Morning!
Up early to get breakfast on time?
I’m up at the time I’m supposed to be up.
Good morning, U, Sean, and Ted’S.!
Who is it who commonly posts STIJLTH?
Community “Santa” greets protesters before being released from electronic monitoring
That would be Common Tater, who apparently has strict character limitations on his Internet service.
That big old happy chubby fella? Let him roam and I’m sure he and David Spade will get into all sorts of shenanigans.
‘Tis the season, all you elves.
🧝🧝♀️🎅🏻
We’re in the home stretch till Christmas, and as such, I’m done with Christmas music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs
🎶🎶
It is still eight days before the permissable 24 hours in which christmas music may be played. You may start on Noon on the 24th but must stop by noon on the 25th.
You’re not my supervisor.
Nope, the new rules stipulate Nov. 1st through Christmas day midnight. Hope you like Alvin and the Chipmunks and Bing fucking Crosby.
::launches favorite Christmas album in UnCivil disobedience::
Every violation carries a fine that increases for each prior violation.
🎵 On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me,
Nothing, since I bitch slapped her for giving me a present after noon on December 25. 🎶
Not only am I posting Christmas music on Sunday, I’m posting FOUR of them!
😱
Still don’t have practiscore access?
Well, technically the last one is a Christmastide carol rather than a Christmas itself carol.
Nope. I am getting a bit suspicious that other people beyond the ones I know about are passive-aggressive sandbagging little bitches.
However, I will see if I can get the dates sent out in an email. Angie I think is still an honest person.
Got it. So this sunday at the usual 1pm?
Everybody could use some Christmas Oi
Oh come on, at least give credit to the Vandals for that rocking Christmas tune
https://youtu.be/oo4gEPiKm3w?si=54MpAm-1h7QKxLwT
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ford-takes-19-5-billion-charge-to-write-down-ev-investments-333a9bc4?st=JEXVAa&reflink=article_copyURL_share
With the $19bn already spent let’s just call it $40bn on a niche product. But green jobs!
Sorry this one should work better.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ford-takes-19-5-billion-charge-to-write-down-ev-investments-333a9bc4?st=ArkKGq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well hybrids definitely make more sense and who among us hasn’t learned a 19 billion dollar lesson we should have already known?
But the TCO under limited conditions says EVs are less expensive …
It true in my use case!
Tip of the iceberg. The amount of wealth thrown out the window at “green” lunacy has been shocking. It is good that people are finally waking up from the fantasy but not quickly enough.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/coreweave-stock-market-ai-bubble-a3c8c321?st=SLCL6a&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Golly what could go wrong?
They’re no way they’re going to cover overhead.
They’ll make it up in volume.
suh’ fam
whats goody
More “good” news!
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-offers-ukraine-security-guarantee-in-bid-to-break-peace-talks-deadlock-a79336dc?st=u8UXnY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Will they learn from the last time that any guarantee not ratified by Congress is just an agreement between politicians?
Defaco NATO then? But are the Russians stupid enough to sign it (they aren’t)? They need to let this go.
At uncivil:
I don’t see the judge in your Amazon store. .. is it too short to be stand alone?
If so please consider it for your next anthology of short stories. I’m really digging the story, great job.
It it not up for sale as a standalone product. It is about 15k words and was written specifically to fit the Glibs Serialization format.
The biggest problem with a Fantasy anthology is a lack of protagonists with short stories. Most of them are Kord FitzHelen, so if I scooped them up, the appearances by other protagonists would seem out of place. I’d need to have more content featuring other characters for it to work.
“I’d need to have more content featuring other characters for it to work.”
Hmmm, I think I know a solution. 🙂
Anyway, appreciate you sharing your work with us.
Completed, I’ve got Jubilee/Rite of Manhood (Kord), Snow Lion (Alvar), Saving Face (Artur), Banker of Stirnburg (Kord), Thief of Breakiron (Mouse), Pirates of Dragon Island (Hermann).
With significant progress, I have Zombi Man (Kord), Badenburg Mystery (Kord), Silver Lotus (Anton), Night Spider (Mouse).
With just an idea and a few paragraphs… there’s a lot.
Oh, I forgot Significant Progress “Ancient Capital (Arend)”
Though… “Ancient Capital” would be a bitch to understand without “Arvid’s Road Trip” which is ~43,500 words in to what is on track to be a half million words long…
Oh, and of course, Judge of Jinwick. (Jasper)
Also Iztak?
As a proportion of the intended plot, he’s not very far along.
Good morning to you!
And how do you do?
How is it only Tuesday?
It’s always Happy Hour *somewhere*