July Pre-anniversary Afternoon Links

by | Jul 10, 2026 | Cocktails, Daily Links, I Am Lame | 72 comments

Anniversary? Yeah, two local breweries are celebrating their anniversaries this weekend. Great Lakes is 38 years old, and Saucy is 9. What, there was some other type of anniversary you thought I would be mentioning? But you care not for that, but for the links.

Yeah, use his name to pass a bill that has not one gods damned thing to do with his death.

I expect this movie to beat Supergirl in the box office.

This seems like a dev issue to me.

I don’t have a problem with this.

I believe this will be of interest to at least some of the beer geeks here.

Because we need to update this with CGI? Or would it be called a live action remake with CGI?

Breaking news… you can buy things on the internet!

I’m not sure being asked to leave an event as an audience member is a first amendment violation.

“Tricked.”

The surest proof that time travel is never invented is that this is moving forward.

Pretty sure I’ve seen how this story ends.

We have our own machines you idiots!

For the weekend, let’s keep going with summer drinks, and lean into something from the Substack as well:

Cherry Bomb

  • 3 parts (1.5 oz) cachaca (sub white rum if you don’t have any)
  • 2 parts (1 oz) cherry liqueur (Heering would be a better choice than Maraschino here) or cherry syrup from brandied cherries (or a mix)
  • 1 part (0.5 oz) lime juice
  • Club soda to top

Start by getting a highball glass chilled. While that’s chilling, put the ingredients (other than the club soda) into a shaker with ice, and shake to combine. Strain that into the highball glass over fresh ice, top with club soda, and give a brief stir to combine. Garnish it with a lime wheel and brandied cherry.

With that, I leave you to your weekend, and hope you get what you want out of it.

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Nephilium

Nephilium

Nephilium is a geek of multiple types living in the vast suburban forests of Cleveland.

72 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    This seems like a dev issue to me.

    Dude, you know the return window is two hours. You release a super short game and expect people to not want their money back?

  2. UnCivilServant

    “We have our own machines you idiots!“

    And? Cheating needs to be punshed with painful death, regardless of which Team you cheat for.

  3. UnCivilServant

    Question for Glibs who pay more attention to the outside: how woke is Awesome Con?

    I see they have a “Pride Alley” which makes me worry that they’re tru beleebers.

    Context – My Dad and I are in the brainstorming phase of planning a road trip around April of next year, and he floated the event as a possible stop because he’s as much of a Nerd as I am. He’s more politically aligned with you lot than I am, but not too attuned to the sorts of problems overly ideological event organizers inflict on people who just want to be left alone.

    • EvilSheldon

      I haven’t attended AwesomeCon in probably ten years, but it didn’t strike me as unusually woke when I did.

      • UnCivilServant

        A lot can change in a decade.

    • Threedoor

      Pride panels and events all weekend long!!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I learned today it is actually disabilty pride month. Those fuckers found a way to hijack two months.

  4. Ownbestenemy

    I know I am getting old when we sat down and watched Sheep Detectives and thought…this is a cute, feel good, no woke BS, movie.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      I just started watching this, until my younger son suddenly decided he needed to go outside

  5. Ownbestenemy

    Look…we can’t go after Airsoft…but those cheep, guady looking ‘gun’ lighters….in his name we praise!

    Not policing reform, but something to punish the people. That is modern day Amercian governance

    • UnCivilServant

      How dare the plebs appear to be armed! It’s almost as bad as them actually being armed!

    • Fourscore

      “Council passes Tamir Rice Act, banning gun-shaped lighters”

      Who amongst us didn’t play “Cops and Robbers”, “Cowboys and Indians”, maybe with toy guns, sticks or even our fingers?

      Practice getting hit and make a dramatic collapse. It was part of being a kid. I don’t know what’s on kids’ TV now or kid movies, if there is such a thing.

      OTOH, I’m guessing there are video games that are hard hitting delinquency oriented that’ll make your teenager drift into bank robbery/armored car hold ups.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Nice guess and prettt spot on. Almost like our elders are smart or something.

  6. Ownbestenemy

    The developer knows Steam’s policy. Probably even has a signed TOS….

    What a dumbass.

      • Ownbestenemy

        This is someone trying to get that pile. There are other avenues to get your game out there.

  7. EvilSheldon

    From the Neuromancer article:

    …which is part of the Stream trilogy.

    You know, if you’re gonna write an article about a book, it’d be nice if you got the basic fucking facts right. It’s the Sprawl trilogy, not the Stream trilogy, moron.

    He leads the series as computer hacker Case alongside rising star Briana Middleton, Mark Strong, Clémence Poésy, Peter Sarsgaard and Dane DeHaan.

    This casting is not filling me with hope. Allow me to make some predictions:
    Briana Middleton as Molly – fucking no. Leaving the race swapping aside, she doesn’t even have close to the physicality that Molly requires.
    Mark Strong as Armitage – meh.
    Clémence Poésy as 3Jane – actually not bad. She can do the crazy look pretty well.
    Peter Sarsgaard as John Ashpool- way too much actor for what is essentially a bit part.
    Dane DeHaan as Rivera – not unless they take an airbrush to his face.
    Most importantly, who’s playing the Finn?

      • EvilSheldon

        You jest, but with the right makeup that could maybe work. I always envisioned the Finn as being a scrawny little fuck.

        I just skimmed IMDB, and didn’t see an actor entry for the Finn, Marcus, Hiro, Linda Lee, Ratz, or several other major characters. My sense of impending doom is increasing.

      • UnCivilServant

        I couldn’t remember the name of the obnoxious bald woman from Wicked.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’m trying to think of who I’d cast as Molly. She would need to be Caucasian, preferably dark-haired, no older than thirty, and extremely physical, ideally with a serious martial arts background. Someone like Gina Carano, Katheryn Winnick, or Ronda Rousey, but they’re all way too old.

      • UnCivilServant

        Hollywood Says Whoopi Goldberg.

      • EvilSheldon

        Are you trying to hurt my feelings?

      • UnCivilServant

        No, I’m poking fun at Hollywood casting algorithms.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The girl who played Bobbie in Expanse…she is smokin hawt and thiiiick.

      • slumbrew

        Too thicc for Molly, though. ISTR she was described as tall, lean and fast.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    McGonigle, 37, is the self-described Vance troll behind the @catsonacouch account. The “petty cat account” has almost 2 million followers and “exists purr-ly to troll the current administration & have more followers than J.D. Vance,” according to its Instagram.

    So precious.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So brave, so awesome…i swoon

  9. Chipping Pioneer

    Tilly NorWOULD, amirite?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Huh, woulda thought that was Catherine Bell

  10. Shpip

    John Calvin was born on this date in 1509.

    He was quite the influential theologian, but that was his lot in life.

  11. Chipping Pioneer

    I propose the Barney Fife Act.

    • bacon-magic

      “Barney, you only get one bullet.” – Andy

  12. Ownbestenemy

    Free Willy – so storytime with kindergarten aged kids recast in modern times?

  13. The Late P Brooks

    McGonigle’s suit notes she will try to attend more of Vance’s public events in the coming weeks and “express her views as an audience member, including by cheering, booing, and wearing clothing with political messages.” At the event in Maine, McGonigle said she wore a shirt saying, “J.D. Vance cured my imposter syndrome.”

    I wish somebody would cure her bougie guerilla syndrome. Preferably by administering a prolonged methodical beating.

    • rhywun

      Stunning and brave.

      But deeply stupid and ignorant of the law.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I approve. Come on Trump…give us tits forever!

  14. Ownbestenemy

    Noem is back on the market it appears.

    • Q Continuum

      You mean she didn’t want to stay married to a quasi-trans sissy getting humiliated online by Communists? Say it ain’t so!

      • Ownbestenemy

        It was too internet porn perfect for her to not know

  15. Michael Malaise

    Good on the Anchor Steam revival. And the labels.

    The civil rights (left) blew it on Michael Brown when they had Tamir Rice right there (watching the police footage is maddening)

    The Waymo thing is a real, live actual example of fascism.

  16. Shpip

    A Japanese woman was arrested for allegedly sewing shut the lips of another woman she was living with

    Let those among us who have never thought about doing the same thing throw the first stone.

  17. Ownbestenemy

    If only

    Thanks Animal for your RedState articles.

    Now I am sure someone will find some reason (money) to say this is a bad idea.

    I say we go to UTC and in less than 365 days, we’d all be okay

    • UnCivilServant

      Why do you people advocate for the English time zone rather than one that’s useful?

    • Threedoor

      Boise would F it up and force Idaho to be on standard time all year.

      They are in Mountain and the north 1/3 of the state is in pacific. Boise needs to be in pacific.

  18. Ownbestenemy

    First part of week off was good. Time on the lake, time down a river, some projects around the house…

    *starts calculating deferred retirement options*

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im not that young. 2033 is my 30 year mark wirlth military buyback completed.

        53 aint a bad time to retire and get a BS job fixing hickville internet/computer issues for 3 years before pulling in pension at 56.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ll hit 55/30 in 2038. If New York hasn’t bankrupted the pension fund that would let me retire immediately with 60% FAS and keep my existing medical coverage.

        I’m trying to plan for the probability that New York plunders the fund and I get nothing.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Jackpot law

    New plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk’s AI company, SpaceXAI, allege that the company’s image-generation models were used to create child sexual abuse material and that the company failed to adequately share information about an alleged perpetrator with authorities.

    Two plaintiffs, one in Wyoming and the other in Wisconsin, joined the lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers earlier this year, according to an amended complaint filed on Tuesday. All the plaintiffs are referred to as Jane Does. The suit was also expanded to include Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion image generator, as a defendant.

    The suit alleges that the perpetrators, including a plaintiff’s male friend and another plaintiff’s stepfather, used the companies’ AI models to alter photos taken when the plaintiffs were underage to make child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The five plaintiffs accuse the companies of producing CSAM, benefiting from sex trafficking ventures, negligence, defective product design and creating a public nuisance.

    They ain’t got no money.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I mean that look is sorta the point and ai wholly approve.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    The plaintiffs are asking the AI companies to install more effective guardrails to prevent the creation of exploitative and abusive imagery as well as seeking monetary compensation.

    How exactly is that supposed to work?

    I guess you start by training your AI to be a degenerate pervert baby raper. Takes one to know one. Maybe the FBI can assist with that.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Home drawings will be next

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Home drawings will be next

    TOK hardest hit.

    “How old would you say that pin up girl looks?”

    • Ownbestenemy

      In the eyes or government official…13. Cause they are perverts hoping it were so.

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