Unlike last week, this week has all sorts of goodies. Let’s take this day-by-day.
Today – Mars moves into Gemini, so excessive use of force is authorized.
Tomorrow: MERCURY RETROGRADE begins. Remain calm. All is not well, but you’ve been through this, you can handle it.
Tuesday – Jupiter crosses into Leo. Good news for Leo, especially since Venus is already there. Today, Leos only are immune from MERCURY RETROGRADE, it’s that good. Otherwise, take the lead in romantic relationships.
Wednesday – This is a particular arrangement of Jupiter, Mars and MERCURY RETROGRADE that signifies Civil War. Doesn’t specify where though.
Thursday – Mishaps of the particularly wacky and zany varieties (MERCURY RETROGRADE boosted by the Moon).
Friday – New or intensifying romantic relationships (Moon/Venus)
Saturday – Fire, thunder/noise, violence, chaos, disturbances, celebration.
Cancer: Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
Leo: The Devil reversed – Evil, fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
Virgo: 2 of Swords – Balance, stalemate, unconsidered action
Libra: Judgement – Change of position, renewal, outcom, total loss though lawsuit.
Scorpio: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
Sagittarius: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety, sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies, self-confidence, will. The Magician stands in for a lot of things.
Capricorn: Queen of Cups reversed – Distinguished woman but one not to be trusted, perverse woman, vice, dishonor, depravity.
Aquarius: The Fool reversed – Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.
Pisces: King of Wands reversed – Good but severe person, austere, yet tolerant.
Aries: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
Taurus: 4 of Wands reversed – Prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.
Gemini: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Evil, fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
Sufficiently shitty.
You’re a Leo too? So is Tundra. I’m married to a Leo, I guess I get along with you guys because I’ve had years of practice. And supposedly Sagittarius is the only sign that can tame a Leo, to whatever extent that’s possible.
Sagittarius, Leo, and Aries are fire signs. We are feisty.
The snarky response is that astrology is make-believe so I can be anything I want.
But I’m tired from being up early today to get my AC fixed.
So I’m just going to say that yes, I was born under that sign. And I still think astrology is bullshit. If it was always the proper amount of sufficiently shitty I might have a different opinion.
Also married to a Leo.
Sagittarius: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety, sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies, self-confidence, will. The Magician stands in for a lot of things.
“May you live in interesting times.”
Sounds like a threat.
and
doesn’t say anything like, “The evacuation is lifted, go home.”
25% as of this morning, so progress.
“ Today – Mars moves into Gemini, so excessive use of force is authorized.”
Wait, did my gf tell you what I had planned for tonight?
Tomorrow we’re going to open a GoFundMe for Sean’s funeral expenses.
I thought he was talking about BDSM.
That says more about you than anything else.
Don’t shame the torture tower UCS.
“Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.”
For some of us who predicted the rise of the American Jacobin movement, there is little joy in seeing Democratic establishment figures consumed by their own mob. They have been feeding a rage addiction in this country. Now they express surprise as protesters celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk and display guillotines at protests for those deemed enemies of the people.
After starting a brush fire, they have found themselves engulfed in the same flames with their targets. With Democratic voters now expressing support for socialism in record numbers and politicians pledging radical changes to our political system, they have proven again to be what Soviet communists called the “useful idiots” of the American left.
If history is any measure, we may soon find ourselves in the same position as Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, who was considered the Thomas Paine of the French Revolution. When asked what he had done during the Revolution, the old abbot pondered the question and answered: “I survived.”
This ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?
“I’m on your side!”
There’s quite a bit of joy in watching this. Mainstream Democrats aren’t the victims, they’re the perpetrators. The DSA and ilk aren’t some aliens from another planet but the natural outgrowth and extension of long time democrat philosophy and goals. The left has spent a 100 years destroying traditions and institutions. They are Roperites, cutting down every tree to get at their devil and then surprised they have no place to hide behind. Fuck them.
And it’s not some recent Kirk shit either.
doesn’t say anything like, “The evacuation is lifted, go home.”
I hope you have a good fire break and a metal roof.
Yes and yes. This spring we completed the “firewise” project where loggers under Forest Service guidance thinned the trees on our property. I think we’ll be okay.
Excellent to hear.
Foresight paying off? Often a great time for an “I TOLDJA SO!”
Pulled from the morning thread regarding Mamdani’s plan to ‘rescue’ tenants from landlords.
Is his plan really a Fifth Amendment Taking?
1. City freezes rent.
2. DSA activists encourage tenants to file complaints about everything they can.
3. City takes owner to court due to the complaints, stacking up fines if repairs aren’t done.
4. Landlord risks going bankrupt because he can’t afford to pay for all the bullshit repairs the city decides need to be done due to the complaints filed and he can’t raise rent to cover the new expenses.
5. Landlord tries to sell property.
6. City says the landlord has to give favored groups the right to make offers first or to match existing private offers, which could take a couple of months each time a new offer comes in.
7. The property value plummets while this intentionally drawn-out bullshit process takes place.
8. Fines continue to mount up for not paying for bullshit repairs.
9. Frustrated property owner sells to one of Mamdani’s favored groups for pennies on the dollar in exchange for wiping the slate of fines.
10. Tenants ‘saved’ from ‘evil’ landlord.
8a: Unexplain fires burn property to the ground, killing the tenants and netting a suspiciously large insurance payout.
9: Frustrated proprty owner sells now vacant lot to favored group and boards jet to Miami.
10: Tenants ashes never separated from building debris.
I’m with UCS
Burn it all down.
More than anything, they hate it when people misuse political definitions
CNN’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins pushed back on President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about the rise of democratic socialism in the U.S., which Trump has incorrectly conflated with communism, following several victories from progressive House candidates in New York primaries.
Democratic Socialists are just good kind generous people who want to make life fair.
Their platform is explicitly communist, as are many of the statements made by its members.
Try harder, CNN.
Socialism is a playing dress up word.
We don’t say communism any more, that’s the word when the government owns everything. Socialism is when the people own everything and the
government only makes the rules.
Scorpio: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
I have spent most of every day of the first week of my vacation in NH at the hospital. My mother went into a-fib the day after I arrived and they are working on getting everything regular with new blood thinners. A-fib is a new thing for her, but it may be genetic, as her sister and niece both have it.
Oy, my sympathies! I’ve been battling it all year.
Blood thinners will help reduce the risk of stroke, but won’t do squats for the a-fib. She should be on flecainide or one of the other anti-arrhythmia drugs. Discuss this with her doctor, and ask about cardioversion and/or cardiac ablation.
I turned 75 last week, have been on flecainide since March, have had 2 cardioversions this year and now have a regular rhythm. I’ve had the pre-surgical consult for the ablation, which will probably be done in August.
Youngest brother has been battling a fib for many years, multiple cardioversions, and finally a cardio ablation. He says his only regret is not having the ablation done sooner.
Hope this helps.!
Best wishes to you and your mom!!
Yeesh. Sorry the vacay began that way. (Ooh. *thinks*) Pray the day for a clean assay/
Dad had the ablation done a few years ago, 76, now. Everything went well and I’ve heard nothing of his a-fib since.
Best of luck.
She played another clip of Trump’s speech, where he claimed Americans would face a bleak future under the leadership of democratic socialists.
“You’ll live in squalor. There will be no food. There will be no housing. There will be no military. There will be no law and order,” he said. “You’ll suffer or die.”
Not right away. That stuff comes later.
Oh, there will be a military and there will be lots of Law(s) and Order.
Somehow North Korea comes to mind. It didn’t take Viet Nam long after the war ended to figure out that people didn’t produce
so much when they couldn’t keep the fruits of their labor.
I’d pay top fucking dollar to see Lenny Briscoe solve crimes in NoKo.
The case of the missing food. Shocking twist Lenny Briscoe gets executed for blaming the Party
Well, you’ll suffer AND die.
This spring we completed the “firewise” project where loggers under Forest Service guidance thinned the trees on our property. I think we’ll be okay.
Bueno.
Is his plan really a Fifth Amendment Taking?
IT’S NOT COMMUNISM! NOSIRREE!
Dead thread gooseberries: The really tart green ones grow around here. The best way to eat them is gooseberry pie but it has to be served hot with a generous dollop of ice cream on top or it’s too tart to eat.
Wild gooseberries here turn red when ripe but have the sharp needles. They taste good but somewhat uncomfortable to eat.
“..gooseberry pie but it has to be served hot with a generous dollop of ice cream on top…” Okay. Question. I’m a notorious slow nibbler of food. But why the fuck does ice cream go on top of hot pie? Obviously, it’s gonna melt. We all know this. So dessert’s gonna turn into a soup bowl of it all, including the crust in various states of duress. So going in, ya know ya gotta just scarf it down.
Or is the dessert soup kinda the goal? I admit, I can kinda see the apple ice cream stew, with crust to dip in it… I guess? (Why not put the ice cream on the side?) *throws hands up* It’s dessert, not a drive-thru necessity snack. You’re kinda supposed to enjoy it. Why do ya wanna have a time limit? *eyes suspiciously squint at species*
Just took the near-6yo for ice cream w Dad, and like usual, I just get a waffle cone. I’ve done that for a couple decades. They’re so fucking good! We did it a few weeks ago with all three of ’em, the boys got theirs and I just got a cone again. Apparently, I’m told, the 13yo only got one of his own when with Mom. I wonder if that was (We really don’t do ice cream this much, but Dad can be that grandpa.)
Ice cream is not a scam. In a bowl, I totally get it, and as a kid I did love the slurpy end of the ice cream cone. Great fun. It’s just not at all on my radar of ‘food’ to get. (I’m an absolute candy junky, given a table and free hands.)
My real objection, I s’pose? My hands need to be busy. Ice cream + cone take that away. So there ya have it.
Wait till the pie cools down to room temperature.
You want a pie to gel up before serving it anyway.
Balance, stalemate, unconsidered action
I’m tired. This is true.
I keep hearing this:
This leverage cuts both ways. A corner bodega can now deploy data analytics that used to require a multinational infrastructure. A scrappy startup can launch with a solo founder and a suite of algorithms rather than a staff of 40.
And what, specifically, is that scrappy startup pulling out of its magic asshole? F what purpose?
It produces personalized porn. That is AIs highest and best use.
Dude, what is with all the reversed cards? Flip your damn deck over.
Okay, okay, I’ll get back into the gym this week. Christ…
Unlike regular cards, Tarot are not rotationally symetrical. If the image is revealed upside down, it is “reversed”
“[Monday}: MERCURY RETROGRADE begins. Remain calm. All is not well, but you’ve been through this, you can handle it.”
Wow. That’s. Uh. On point. Gotta be calm, tho it’ll be my first interview in business (casual) dress. Glad I did FedEx on Friday to get back in the swing of things. I did quite well. Compared to what I imagine they see in most interviews. (“Is it possible I’m not as attractive as I think I am?”) But I really don’t want that gig.
Tomorrow is escrow processor interview. So, new job, new line of work, new dress and atmosphere, actually meaningful clients, huh. Kinda a lot. But, yep! Diving into such changes is what I’m *actually good at.* (Are others really not? Is it possible I’m not as adaptable as I think I am?)
Going over what I should know and practicing questions and such. One really hard one: “Where do you see yourself in five years?”
Hrm. Still mulling both my internal answer and how I’d phrase such. Read: How do I sound good when I don’t have an answer?
Ha! The exact opposite of The Wire when the grad student asks the middle school kids where they expect to be in five years:
“Colvin: “How many wrote ‘dead’?”
Instead of being shocked or somber, the kids treat it with absolute indifference. They just shrug, laugh softly, and talk over each other, with one kid casually firing back: “Shit, you saw that coming, huh?”‘
Taurus: 4 of Wands reversed – Prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.
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Ya see?! Everything’s coming up M̵i̵l̵h̵o̵u̵s̵e̵ Evan!
Evan. I HAVE to know about the pockets. Whats up with cutting the pockets?
I’m a jeans and flannel/shorts and flip flops guy. I have no concept of a suit jacket as I have never owned or worn one more than twice. I have rented two.
Of the rack and semitailored suit coat packets are shipped sewn closed. The reason for this is sinister. Opening the pockets lets out the magic blue smoke. Never release the magic blue smoke.
Let out the magic blue smoke.
Let in the monocle.
Makes sense.
I knew men who wore suits were evil, as the suits themselves come preloaded with demons.
*fist bump to UCS*
They’ve sown with ‘thin’ white thread to keep the pockets shut for shipping and display. Ya cut the a stitch or two, and usually it all easily pulls out. Tricky part is getting to it, cuz ya don’t wanna make a scissor mistake on a new jacket w nice pockets. I borrowed Mom’s “sewing needle” to pull ’em out. (Dammit. Still have to do that task.)
Then, ya’ve got the pockets! BUT! Feel if there’s an actual pocket FIRST! Some of ’em are decorative. This jacket’s got one and I’m glad I checked. Put your finger in there, feel the ‘soft’ lining inside and make sure.. it’s.. sigh. Just verify there’s a pocket first. NOW you’ve got all the pockets it came with, open and free, and didn’t stab your vest ‘pen pocket’ that really isn’t one, like I discovered.
I had to run out to buy some fruit yesterday as my wife wasn’t feeling well. First time in a long time to set foot in grocery store.
So the bill came to $14.18 for the following: one cantaloupe, 2 lbs. of grapes, one avocado, one pint of blueberries, one lb. of strawberries, and one loaf of 12 grain bread. She said “that’s about right” for what they are charging in suburban Philly.
I’m curious what this would have cost in your neck of the woods.
That’s a lot of fruit.
Berries are spendy.
That’s likely about the same as here or a tad lower.