The wife and I went up to open the cabin last week and discovered we had dodged a bullet. The 30′ dead pine seen above brought itself down, saving me some work. I’m headed out the door with my chainsaw and a sharp axe.
My neighbor dodged a bigger bullet. Had it fallen the other direction, it would have taken out a third of his place. He’s in his ’70s. I asked him how long it would take for him to clear it, because it’s blocking access to my fishing hole. 😀
So anyhoo, this is an open post. You’re on your own for tunes as well. Peace out, Glibbies.
There’s an extremely tall evergreen (some flavor of pine, I guess) pretty much between our back patio and garage and the neighbors’ three-season room and garage. I wish it a long, healthy life. 🌲😳
I’m keeping a close eye on one of the oak trees in my yard. On the plus side, I know they can withstand tornado force winds at this point.
I’m hoping one of my trees snaps and busts my deck up, but all this fucking honeysuckle bush seems to be keeping that from happening.
Having numerous large trees around the house and along the driveway (a couple of them dead) we’ve had some close calls over the years. The latest was a massive silver maple festooned with English ivy that last February dropped a huge limb in front of the garage, completely blocking the exit. I don’t know how many times the driveway’s been blocked. Thankfully our power and phone up to the house are underground, but we frequently lose power and phone thanks to treefalls along the road.
The silver maples are fairly fragile and don’t handle the wind well. They grow fast but sadly we can’t have them where I live due to the wind.
Doug firs, sequoias, and big leaf maples in our yard. I’d like to take out all of the maples. Grow like weeds and blot out the sun.
Free air conditioning!
ZWAK:
MAPLE SEEDS DO NOT WORK LIKE THAT!
Dust, wind, and sadness in my yard.
I’d murder for a handful of adult trees.
Free moss, you mean. And everything is covered in yellow pollen right now.
That’s a capture from a WaPo link (paywalled) on FB. Yep, you read it right – carbon dioxide is bad for plants. Plants crave Brawndo!
🙄
Do better, humans.
On the bright side, this will kill many of them off, right?
Warming Climate Crisis can do anything.
Wish it was lethal to
Canola.
I can sorta see how more CO2 could lead to more vigorous growth of leafy vegetables which might lower the nutritional value per pound (think celery and iceberg lettuce). But chickpeas and rice are seeds. I would think more CO2 would tend to create bigger seeds and more seeds, not lower their nutritional value by weight.
By their reasoning we should ban hydroponic farming and growing of vegetables in greenhouses.
I hate the hot house/hydroponic tomatoes that have taken over the supermarkets. No taste at all.
Correct, also, fertilizers.
BIGLY ANNOUNCEMENT. YUGE!
After taking some feedback from potential GlibsCruise vacationers, we found that GlibsCruise 2 – Eclipse Boogaloo was a little… ambitious.
So we’re making the next one much more accessible in terms of expense and logistics. Introducing…
GlibsCruise III (that’s three, or one hundred eleventy if you’re a Minnesota Somalian).
Departs Tampa on April 4, 2027 — that’s the Sunday after western Easter
Three port days (Bimini, Nassau, Cozumel), three sea days. Nothing too exotic, easier on the wallet than Iceland. Getting to Tampa is certainly less daunting than the journey to Reykjavík.
The link has the phone number for Suzanne, our Glibs travel agent, who can answer any questions and personalize your cruise (if you want WiFi but are skipping the drinks package, etc).
I’ll keep making this announcement in the AM and PM links for several more days, and will draft an article very shortly.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Shpip — Associate Chair, Glibertarians Fun Committee.
My wife and I did the original Glibcruise. We also did a Celebrity 7-day cruise out of Tampa in February. The ports we visited were Cozumel, Belize and Costa Maya.
The Tampa port is great – we drove to the port from our condo in Venice (snowbirds) and parking was easy and walking distance to the port. The embarkation process was very smooth.
The ships out of Tampa are limited in size since they have to pass under a bridge. The ship we took out of Tampa wasn’t as nice as the Glibcruise ship, but was okay.
We are considering joining Glibcruise one hundred eleven (IYKYK).
I enjoyed the original GlibCruse. It was nice to meet Glibs in real life. There are a lot of interesting people in the world, I think Glibs top the list.
The OG was the most fun I’ve had on vacation in a while.
A Post analysis reveals that rising carbon dioxide levels are reducing the nutritional value of crops like chickpeas and rice, potentially leading to widespread nutrient deficiencies.
Ooh, science-y.
That must be why CO2 is used in greenhouses all over the joint.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StupidFood/s/31XXXBUmDh
What in the world?
I’d like to see turnip headed Biden try to eat that.
Yes. His head is shaped like a turnip.
No thank you.
Nice spread, Spud!
Thanks! It’s only 2/3 of an acre, but it’s riverfront. Been in the family for 73 years.
That is awesome.
Fuck yeah!
Plus 1! Very nice, I love that part of Idahoser.
It could be south of McCall or in the St Maries area, or around Elk City, or even Elk River.
Tis a mystery.
Damn. We live in very different places. (Yours is very pretty. )
“I’m headed out the door with my chainsaw and a sharp axe.” I’ve said sexier things than that. “But my mom thinks I’m cool.”
Ya see?! Dyn-o-mite!
I’m jealous.
Spud gets to work with his wood.
That jack brings all the lumber to the yard.
Yeah, looks like a normal open the cabin day, surprises but no damage and some campfire wood. I did some chainsaw work last year, I have more trees down but they’re on the periphery so I may not worry about them.
Picked up bees today, cleaned up two small trailer loads of branches, now for the back yard, that’s got some serious stuff on the ground.
Relevant Lumberjack song
+ Jessie James Dupree
I knew what it was before I clicked on it.
Oh, happy Maylört everyone!
There’s a battery-acid liquor from China whose name escapes me at the moment but I doubt this stuff can possibly be any worse.
I’ll stick with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gHhne5cUCE
Baiju?
There’s been several pushes to recognize it as a fine spirit for mixing that looks faker than astroturf (what would Chinese astroturf be called?). I picked up a small bottle of a flavored one to see what could be done with it. When the first thought is how to hide the taste, that’s not a sign of a good cocktail ingredient.
maotai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maotai
Worst alcohol ever? Probably Camo Black. It’s like a real life pan-galactic gargleblaster.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/881/57931/
They look related – yes, baijiu is how I know it. Utterly horrifying.
My new neighbors are in the shop 3/5s of their shouse with all three garage doors open yelling at a TV
Don’t move out of town and let your dogs run and do shit like this.
I moved out of town to avoid people like you.
Narrator: People are the same everywhere.
“If you allow this group of people to work together we’re fucked! We’ll all be on farms, working together, singing those shitty communist songs…”
Lewis Black
Lewis Black wrote a funny autobiography. He used to work at the post office and had a bad acid trip once. His advice on LSD is make sure you have your ID on you in case you forget what your name is.
My neighbors are great. Everyone leaves one another alone, don’t know their names, of the nearest 7 (cause that’s all there is) only one family has kids.
The one with kids just built a pro trap range on property I sold them.
Imagine moving to Texas because you like guns and freedom.
Then you find out your city council and school board is full of transplants from Cali. Same idea I guess.
Texans liberal.
All school boards are, they tend to be filled with former teachers.
We were just at one of our favorite small restaurants. They had the Dodgers/Cardinals game on. You knew who the SoCal transplants were every time the Dodgers scored.
Texas is liberal.
It’s a fight. Not liberal yet.
Texas ain’t a good place for guns.
Someone at the bagel cafe is watching the news on his phone at full volume.
This is not conducive to my Sunday morning calm.
Any fellow Glibs willing to front me some bail money?
It’s far more liberal than here in Idaho and idaho is trending left.
Meets the least regulated state and we still have 20,000 pages of legal code.
Look at the groups that are portrayed as the worst in movies and TV and then move to where they are prevalent.
Alternative heuristic: move to a place with really bad weather
alternative alternative: move to a state with a low population density
If you are already in Idaho, move to Wyoming or Alaska.
I already lived in the south. Never again. Annoying critters, weather and people.
Idaho sadly is the fastest growing state as a percentage of population. And 2/3 is locked up as federal and state/tribal land. The density is going up fast, land prices have nearly tripled.
There is no where else to run too.
I would rather live about 80 miles West but that’s in Washington and screw that.
move to a place with really bad weather
The gloom and rain hasn’t get the Califucktards on their side of the line.
Meh, the south is home to the only US subculture that scares the mafia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIS6i0UkwR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8imFnzV-9-U
What game are they watching?
Beats me, I don’t follow any sports.
What season is it? I know it’s volleyball season because those games step on the talk radio shows I was listening to and piss me off.
Threedoor:
NBA playoffs are going on, NHL playoffs are going on, MLB is going on, Bananaball is going on, and then there’s college sports and European sports.
I’d take the boy to Bannaball. That actually looks like it would be entertaining.
Does Seattle have a baseball team, or
Spokane, Portland?
Those are likely the teams these guys would be watching.
Seattle has a baseball team. I knew that. Is Ichero still a thing? The long haired pitcher they had?
Threedoor:
All of the Bananaball games are live streamed on Youtube for free. No commercials. My Clowns (the team I picked when the girlfriend decided to follow the league this year) won tonight 4-2 against the Firefighters. This season the trick plays have a reason to exist, if the ‘visiting’ team has more trick plays at the beginning of the last inning, they get a bonus point. Some of the players have gotten to the point of making trick plays their standard play (such as the shortstop passing the ball between his legs before every throw).
MLB I dropped from following that closely when my Indians were renamed the Guardians. I still follow in passing, and will watch them in the playoffs, but can’t name their starting pitchers or their main line up anymore.
I’d have to go to a game.
Watching one on TV sounds worse than playing or watching golf.
My 20-year-old gal pal who stabbed herself last week just texted me. Looks like she’ll be OK. Hallelujah!
That, is fantastic news. I’m glad she’ll recover. That couldn’ta been a pleasant mindspace to dwell in for a week.
I hope you’re able to be guilt-free about it.
Good news!
The boys and bro came over to watch the Derby, and the 5yo Mini-Me displayed his Evvie-Sense, waiting outside for me. He opened the door and shouted “EVAN’S HERE!” to the family upstairs. They didn’t exactly know when I’d be back, so he may have just waited for me for more than a bit. Mom is thinking of him going to acting classes, hilariously. (He, uh. Doesn’t sit still well.) She had the same idea for me, and I did some theater class in middle school. Not my decision, but I did well.
Remarkably rewarding, how eagerly he’s attached to me. *pats self and mini-self on back* Now, my only actual free night this week, the Cubs game is on repeat and I’m none the wiser. (I have a hunch, but no more.) I’m thrilled when timing all slides in my favor.
Work was hilarious today. The most chill day of labor in my life. No overlord, no time limit, no quota. Just walk around and put shit back. That, was pretty damn nice, all things considered. Was just a funny day. Good money week, working six days.
Go forth.
Be fruitful and multiply.
It’s more rewarding when they are your crotch critters.
In my case, my kids don’t want to talk to me after the divorce. I keep hoping they come around, but 5 years on, not one has come out to see my farm. Not one has shown up for Thanksgiving or Christmas or Fourth of July dinner, even though I continue to invite them every year.
Me with (my own) kids would be a remarkably bad idea. (I easily fit the movie-style ‘He totally changed after kids!’ trope, but that flick’d have some powerful and goofy medical risks attached.)
I wasn’t here for the other two at this age, and it’s perfectly fitting that the third is just like me. And now, he’s actively picking stuff up specifically from me. I know parents get it infinitely more in all directions, but it’s fantastic to get my own legit slice of it.
I’m the other way PON.
My dad drives into town and comes within 3.5 miles of my
Place several times a week, he never calls. He never comes by, his wife’s grandkids are more important to him than his flesh and blood. Narcacists and their supply.
I’m pretty sure ms. ex-pistoffnick is doing her psychologist best to turn my kids against me. She was pretty good at making me the evil in our marriage – even though it was her that cheated. I maintain hope that they (the kids) will come around. That hope fades with every passing year.
PON. My folks played that crap for over a decade with me as their whipping boy.
I had never heard the term gaslighting until fairly recently, but I lived that shit for a looong time.
My 18 year old nephew still wanted to do Free Comic Book Day today, and he still wanted to go to the candy store after. As an uncle, I call that winning.
“I call that winning.” <– So do I. Well done, Neph and nephew.
*wink wink* ("Candy." Nice.)
Evan:
No shit. The largest candy store in North America. We walked out with Mallow Cups, Marshmallow cups, two Japanese Kit-Kats (Strawberry Shortcake and Mont Blanc [per Google Translate]), Japanese (or maybe Korean) Tiramisu Oreo Thins (for my sister), and the Classic Steak and Foie Gras Pringles (from China).
Oooh! Take me golfing, Unkie Nephy!
Evan:
We have a mini-golf/cocktail bar around here.
I’m starting to think I need to visit Cleveland.
Chafed:
I keep telling y’all.
LOL
I’m sure China will be happy to share his research with the US. 🙄
Ah, the gift that keeps on giving. Joe and his Dem friends… better to be traitors to their country than to be accused of rAcIsM.
People really, really don’t wanna talk about Fang Fang. Even the opposition, I don’t hear much about being easily sold out to a cute CCCP spy. For quite a while, IIRC.
Uh. I’d attach that as a brief explainer to the crowd anytime I spoke about Swalwell. Just, uh. No one cares? Well. *There’s* yer problem.
Nope.
Both Teams like China for their own reasons. Meanwhile their only concern is burying us. Their economy is a house of cards but really we shouldn’t be so flippant about their evil.
Precisely. And The People don’t care, or know, or know to care, or what to know how to care, etc. People not caring is to be *expected.* No one giving a shit is the default, the baseline.
That’s why I’m pretty much ‘black-pilled,’ tho I hate the term. It’s gone far too far, politics and AI tech and debt and constant bickering and immigration all over… it’s all so default cuz we’re still the most prosperous and peaceful time in the history of our species. (Good times create weak … sauce?)
Nothing will change, it will keep furthering (and accelerating) until Something Big happens. Like Big Big. An EMP fucking over a continent would be my Super Weapon.
Honestly? Well. I hope it doesn’t happen in my life. That coming China age crash? There’s much meat on that. That’ll be Big, somehow. Don’t know about immigration, particularly in Europe. 🤔🤔
True, every few generations says the same. But they were right! And the next collapse will be. Well. *The Scream face*
The only solace I take is that Chinese development of all sorts have a tendency to go sour due to a lack of market forces and the severe consequences of giving god-emperor Xi bad news.
For the PC computer nerds out there…OBE has stepped out of 2010 and finally retired his Nvidia 1060. Damn that thing is a beast still and it will be the bases of my new media server
From dead thread:
Yea, I was talking about the specific symptoms beyond just generalized decline in brain functions. Stuff like increased risk of suicide. Retired NFL players have a lower suicide rate than the general pop by a significant margin to where I was just like…what’s the basis for that claim beyond anecdotes? The CTE stuff latches on to a few horror stories or a small subset of their already limited sample sizes and ascribes a lot of generalized shit to it. Depression is something I don’t have a metric for NFL players on in general, though even with that…could we perhaps come up with other reasons beyond CTE that a former athlete who spends 10+ years performing at the highest level with the fame and money and everything that comes with it may not enjoy being out of the limelight?
But yea, that stands in contrast to the easily observable effects of repeated blows to the head and where you can do a more honest comparison on how the brain is functioning before and after.
Being well off lowers the risk of despair and suicide.
Who I would have thought?
*thinking cap affixed* The Chris Benoit murder-suicide was a pretty big event for the media to latch onto. (Don’t know if that’s really true, cuz, that type of wrestling’s for like. Flyover people.) *searches* That was 2007, so timing seems appropriate.
The suicide being such a ‘good’ movie moment, neck snapped w the pull down machine in his own gym? (Damn, Chris?! If you were writing a movie, and ended it that way, and then that’s how you actually carried it out in real life?! That’d be, like, (woah!) a really good move ya died while writing/making. Oooh! Yeah. The actual suicide should’ve been the take they used in the movie. (Damn.) May fuck up distribution, but that’d find a helluva cult following.
Other note, said here before: If they gave a fuck, they’d take off the fucking helmets, starting in high school or earlier. Teach ’em to tackle shoulder -to- hip. Hitting your head.. *really* fucking hurts! Don’t do it! Been a while since I looked into it, but IIRC rugby players don’t have nearly as big a deal w punch drunkitude. I’m quite certain it still occurs, but they don’t play with tackling with their heads. That’s big.
Retired rugby players don’t suffer unusual instances of CTE.
Pants shitting about China amuses me.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/04/china-presented-without-comment.html
Yeah, it’s propaganda, but it says a lot indirectly.
Sure, let’s get in another land war in Asia. That’ll go well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkVsqTNkhpw
compare and contrast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2hpG3jSiP4
https://therightscoop.com/green-army-men-confiscated-from-atop-school-cupcakes-because-they-had-guns/
” A Michigan elementary school is defending its decision to confiscate a third-graders batch of homemade cupcakes because the birthday treats were decorated with plastic green Army soldiers.”
Yep. Talismans, Dangerous Magick words, the social media constant projection of truth of virtue? They remind me of any religious factions in Middle Age Europe. Same part of the brain. I really think the ‘atheism,’ or loss of religion, rather, is the biggest underlying cause of much of the shit we see. That part of the brain needs to be occupied, so it seems.
I want to write a Full Metal Jacket version of Harry Potter. Replace all the magic and such with guns and explosives. And hookers. And blackjack.
It’s kind of been done before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCSXSJMBvtw
Sounds like something John D Brown might write.
I had a cap gun confiscated in the early 80s on the playground here in Idaho.
The no fun zone of lefties at school. I never got it back, it was a birthday present and really cool, a double barrel pirate looking muzzle loader.
Not surprising
https://x.com/gregorykbovino/status/2050615372735545406
The recent attempt to whitewash the lack of any sort of meaningful deportations was obvious. 🖕 to the trump fellators who think manipulated numbers proved Trump is serious about getting rid of illegal aliens.
Sorry, but all I see in that tweet and the responses is an uncorroborated anecdote.
Except it’s Bovino. And the Trump admin has repeatedly made cues that they aren’t interested in actually removing all illegals.
Happy Sunday, funday!
⛪️🌤️🙃
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfGOVWrueo
🎶🎶
/goes and gets his Sunday Rum Day shirt
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-police-svu-electronic-sniffing-dog-cache/
Is that for real? Seems quite unlikely to me.
Ooh, a probable cause generator!
Good boy!
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Morning.
Have to attend a funeral today.
🙁
Good morning, U, homey, Ted’S., and Sean.
I’m sorry you have to attend a funeral today, U. Please have a safe trip. 🙁
🤞
Fortunately I don’t have to attend a funeral today. Mostly ’cause I don’t know many people anymore.
We haven’t been invited to a wedding in 30 years. We don’t know the grandchildren of our few remaining friends.
My wife and I were talking about funerals last night.
I’ve only been to two services, not even funerals since I was a kid. I’m not sure if either of my grandmothers had a funeral, I was overseas when one died and halfway across the country for the other, at the same time a good friend died but no one contacted me until after the fact, I doubt anyone held a service for her either.
We were wondering if funerals had fallen out of fashion.
Maybe somewhat, cremation and private ceremonies. Costs of a funeral with the fantastic beautiful box (that Mom really liked) have driven a lot of families out of the formalities and opted for less costly gathering.
The trees up here blow over constantly. I assume all the rain gives them shallow roots. In OK I never saw a tree blown over. The trunk snapped, yes, but the stump was still in the ground.
Good morning, Glibbies. As you can see, AM links didn’t get done but since we have this perfectly good open post going I’m going to let that fill in. IFLA will drop at the usual time.
But without links how will we all get our morning rage ration?
Nobody reads the links anyway.
I appreciate the varied sources.
And the laughs I get from salon.
Go ahead and visualize this.
And these people are the “experts” who want to set up “security” in a myriad of other ways.
If ‘visualize’ is to imagine an image, what’s the word for imaging a smell?
Because that’s what I’m doing now.
Indiana strikes again!
“Talley’s girlfriend was charged with buying it illegally at an Indiana gun store.”
Where was TOK?
Remember kids, former cop just told us that if we carry guns we are “professionals.”
“People’s ___”. You can’t make this shit up.
TL;DR – commies doing what commies do: unleashing violent criminals on the public.
Funded by Soros and friends, of course. Will Kathy go along? She might need the radical leftist vote.
The reason why you work is to fund the parasites of society. The purpose of government is to ensure you keep funding the parasites of society. Violent criminals are among the parasites.
The perp has to promise to get a job and repay the cost of incarceration?
As long we have to pay for them I say keep the violent parasites in prison so they don’t victimize anyone ever again. Rehab is bullshit.
Maybe toss in a few non-violent parasites while we’re at it. Pour encourager les autres.
BREAKING: Miles Taylor: “Anonymous,” former DHS Chief of Staff, Google security executive launched a website called GTFO ICE that collects your full name, email, phone number, and zip code to join an anti-ICE “rapid response network.” And publishes the user infromation via a public API. 🚨
17,662 people have signed up.
The sign-up data is exposed on a public REST API. No true authentication. No rate limiting. Full records: names, emails, phone numbers, zip codes, timestamps.
The man who ran the third-largest federal department (250,000 employees, $60 billion budget) who oversaw election security architecture and led counterterrorism operations, then served as Google’s Head of National Security Policy…
…can’t secure a sign-up form. But he does milk hundreds of thousands of NGO dollars on these credentials. While freeloading off his fame as the person who wrote the infamous NYT article “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”
And despite me pinging
@MilesTaylorUSA
about this 12 hours ago, the REST API is still wide open and exposed as of now. Everything has been turned over to FBI, HSI, ICE, and more agencies.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2050580355670061525
What exactly is breaking about this?
Maybe he *wanted* the anti-ICE people’s info made public.
And the gullible sheep signed up in droves too.
Well, for one thing, it provides an easy way to dox a bunch of proggies, launch automated SWAT attacks, war dial, commit wide scale identity theft, and can be pulled by ANOYONE online.
I don’t get it. Is he “Part of the Resistance” or not…?
Maybe he’s part of the Resistance to the Resistance?
My mom lived (for a long time) in LaPorte Indiana, his hometown. As a fellow IU grad (his former school as well), there are many fellow Hoosiers who believe he was recruited by the CIA early. He was a page in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. upon graduation from HS. While at IU, he was a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Herman B. Wells Scholar (big deal). As a senior, he received IU’s inaugural Presidential Student Internship and the Elvis J. Stahr Award (given to the university’s top graduating seniors). This has significance when looking at pedigrees of ‘assets’ versus ‘agents’. The most significant, in my research of career patterns of these ppl: Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in International Relations from New College, Oxford (University of Oxford) as a 2012 Marshall Scholar. PS: Elvis J Stahr, the award from IU he received, was also a Rhodes Scholar.
For anyone who read Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley, you’ll immediately understand the New College/Oxford/Marshall Scholar correlation. These are you globalist, one world government religious cult leaders grooming pipeline.
To illustrate just how this grooming pays off:
While at IU, he interned at the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, worked at the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Michael Chertoff, and held roles in the Bush administration. He later worked on Capitol Hill for the House Appropriations Committee and the House Committee on Homeland Security (as chief speechwriter and national security advisor to Chairman Michael McCaul), and co-wrote Speaker Paul Ryan’s national security strategy.
I’m sorry but you don’t get a much better example of how this all works than this
…
And a bunch more i did not copy
https://x.com/ColonelTowner/status/2050589610774782300
I have to admit i am pleased you people finally managed to get one thing right. This is indeed a late afternoon/evening post. Though i never know at what hour evening officially starts.
Always assumed evening is 5-6pm timeframe.
Does ivy on an old.pub improve it?
https://x.com/Britains___Pubs/status/2050609577360593387
Hard on the building but it looks great.
The largest supermarket in Britain, that operates on razor-thin margins, is about to be crushed for the crime of paying different jobs different salaries, while our legislature shrugs.
How dare they suggest that “so-called market rates” can exist in Soviet Britain.
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/2050282334495056184
Deets are paywalled and/or unreadable there but… knock yourselves out. Maybe they can ramp up some real food deserts there.
Pay the back ordained salaries, go out of business.
As Ron Paul said “The real minimum wage is zero”
Star Wars 1977 by Christopher Shy
https://x.com/cimerians/status/2050684663715213547
“She was a former Miss Switzerland finalist and a catwalk coach. He was the son of a successful lawyer, with a good job, a large home and a reputation as a devoted father….
Just four weeks before she was killed, Kristina shared images from a ‘couple’s getaway’, the snowy landscape visible from a luxury hotel above Lake Lucerne….
In February 2024, Rieben killed his wife in a violent rage before dismembering her body and putting body parts in a blender – ‘pureeing’ them, as the autopsy described it.
The horrific nature of what happened sent shockwaves far beyond Switzerland.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15768957/The-husband-snapped-pureed-Miss-Switzerland-finalist-wife-eve-murder-trial-inside-murder-shocked-world-killers-motive-revealed-time.html
Around the whirled?
I consistently fail to understand how murdering your spouse, ending up in prison for life, de facto orphaning your children and ruining everyone’s lives is somehow preferable to divorce.
If we’re lucky.
I got my kids and drove away (with the court’s permission)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVgb5aPhDQ
Is he a danger to the public at large or just any future wife?
Cheaper than spousal support.
It makes no sense to me either.
A jig saw is not the sort of tool to properly cut up a body.
Go with a band saw.
I thought Jeffrey Dahmer preferred a jig saw…..
/bad joke I apologize
Stages of Greater New Hampshire denial:
2025: “Greater New Hampshire is just an internet meme. You will never do anything in real life.”
2026: “Okay, 60% of your legislators voted to expand the state, but that doesn’t mean anything.”
2028: “You changed the duty stations on Seavey’s Island, but it won’t go beyond that.”
2031: “New Hampshire has annexed the Portsmouth Harbor and Killington, but you won’t invade and dissolve the entire state of Maine.”
2037: “The Granite Republic’s lithium exports will not overtake Australia.”
https://x.com/Ultra603/status/2050713084692447546
A more logical looking map for that part of the world.
“Sydney in Sydney”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15786081/Euphoria-star-Sydney-Sweeney-Australia.html
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15786419/Sydney-Sweeney-climbs-Sydney-Harbour-Bridge-dad-bucket-list-tour-namesake-city.html
“The 33-year-old I Wish You All the Best star, who previously accused a Delta employee of misgendering her, shared photos of multiple text messages she said were sent about her by the passenger….
Dorfman began her message by stating, ‘Objectively, i know i’m not “passing” and i’m “bricky” and “clocky” but passing hasn’t been the point for me nor should it be for any trans person.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15786023/transgender-actress-tommy-dorfman-passenger-texts-flight.html
Then you should not complain about misgendering.
LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
We know what the point is. Now go away.
When I had long hair, I would routinely get called “miss” from behind. I didn’t know that was a vicious assault on my personhood.
I was mis-identified as a “tall woman” once from the back, a few months after I retired.
I’ve never been misidentified as tall. 🙁
My boy gets called a girl all the time. He brushes it off.
Why did you name him Sue?
update:
“Two Brothers Busted After Sparking National Outrage by Staging a Silly KKK Hoax in Small Rhode Island City – Perps then Reveal Why They Pulled the Stunt
The two hoaxers admitted to police that they orchestrated the stunt simply to go viral on social media and acted alone.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/two-brothers-busted-after-sparking-national-outrage-staging/
No way!
🙄
Unsurprisingly it worked.
Narcissistic Slutty Sunday is your new overlord.
https://archive.is/mGVsF
I welcome my new overlord.
“Because of his granola aura as a former environmental advocate, Kennedy’s invocation of the “spiritual” can initially sound benign – more hippy than doctrinaire.
Yet his repeated references to spiritual forces are more than run-of-the-mill wellness vernacular. They are a signal that the Christian nationalist movement that helped propel Trump into office is now reshaping the public health agency from the inside….
“The ‘warfare’ thing is a dog whistle to stoke Christian nationalist ideology,” says Savannah Tate, the daughter of megachurch pastor Benny Tate…..
Kennedy has long been the pied piper of the crunchy-to-fascism pipeline, where wellness culture emulsifies into more conservative Christian views.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/03/christofascism-rfk-jr-health
Everything leads to fascism.
“On principle, I don’t give political advice, but principle isn’t worth much these days and this one’s a gimme: Any potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate who doesn’t promise to undo, reverse or demolish the White House ballroom, the Kennedy Center “renovation” and the so-called Arc de Trump, along with any and all other attempts to screw up the monumental landscape of Washington, D.C., should be immediately disqualified.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/03/an-arch-bigger-than-the-arc-de-triomphe-hitler-wanted-that-too/
Buildings are literally Hitler.
Not Mussolini?
I want FDR off the dime and Teddy chiseled into Coolidge on Mt Rushmore. Or I’m going to riot!
A Presidents of Color Memorial in Chicago?
I fully encourage the Dems’ continuing embrace of batshit insanity. Demolish! Destroy! You guys are pretty good at that, after all.
Granola Aura was the name of my first jam record.
I’m pretty sure all the actual Christian Nationalists in the US could fit in a fairly modest meeting hall.
I’m a Christian and I believe that people should be able to create nations.
Ergo, I am a Christian nationalist.
I knew it!
The left is both anti-Christian and anti-borders so yeah, “Christian nationalism” must be the worst evil they can imagine. Right after Trump, I guess.
The people’s mayor for the People’s Republic
Mamdani and his administration have begun outlining a different approach, prompting a predictable chorus of complaints from business leaders and groups like Partnership, who allege the administration is neglecting “development” and “growth” in favor of “economic justice.” The deputy mayor for economic justice, Julie Su, has explicitly rejected the neoliberal vision of development that prioritizes big companies and developers over workers, consumers, and local businesses.
“[For] so long, economic development has been about what’s good for business, and measured by aggregate profits to the private sector,” Su said in a February interview with Robert Reich. “We believe you should think about workers not as a need but what happens to workers within that economic development — how well are they doing, are we creating good union jobs, are workers better off, have we closed the poverty gap, all of those are the ways that we’re going to measure economic development.”
The best thing Mamdani and his team can do right now is ignore the howls from billionaires and corporate elites and focus on implementing the program that he was elected on, including his popular proposal to tax the rich. Earlier this month, the mayor scored his first real victory on the tax front when Governor Hochul agreed to a pied-à-terre surtax on second homes in the city valued above $5 million (many of them owned by out-of-state plutocrats), which could generate up to $500 million in additional annual revenue. It wasn’t long before the usual suspects started proclaiming New York’s imminent demise. Yet if the past is anything to go by, New York will be just fine.
Bask in the glorious squeals of the capitalist pigs.
Julie Su is the surest sign this will all go wrong. Enjoy your choice NYC.
Interesting for a communist to admit that their schemes depend on rich people.
Maybe because none of Mayor Dreamy’s destructive fantasies have actually materialized yet?
Even the pied-a-terre silliness is still just a proposal. The threatened massive property tax increase will actually cause an exodus of middle-class people, so yeah who needs them right?
Mystifying
For the past several years, Peltzman has been combing through the General Social Survey, a random-sample poll that has asked Americans the same simple question since 1972: Are you happy? What he found about the years since the pandemic stopped him cold.
“There was a huge hit,” he told me recently. “And then it’s only a little bit coming back. So when you’re all done, there’s an unprecedented decline into the whole of the 2020s.”
Americans are now at their least happy point in the survey’s 50-year history. Peltzman’s measure — the percentage saying “very happy” minus the percentage saying “not very happy” — ran at roughly +20 points on average from 1972 through the last pre-pandemic survey in 2018. That baseline held through wars, recessions, assassinations, stagflation, and 9/11. None of it broke the floor in any sustained way.
Then 2020 hit. The crash was 22.2 percentage points — by far the largest single move in the survey’s history. The number of people saying “not very happy” actually exceeded those saying “very happy” for the first time ever. The measure has come back somewhat since 2021 to around +6 as of 2024, resulting in a shift from +20 to single digits within just a few years, with no meaningful recovery.
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Raising the smoking and drinking age did this.
So I’m at church with Mom struggling with her wheelchair and not ONE man (young or otherwise) offered to help. I don’t know if it’s a generational thing, if they’re just so up in their own heads they don’t notice, or what, but fuck them.
My husband usually brings her to church, but he spent all day yesterday buried inside the innards of our car and is sore as hell, so I told him I’d take care of it, but dealing with a wheelchair in one’s Sunday best is a whole different animal than doing it in everyday clothes.
No good.