I don’t recall the decades-long global drug cartel violence and cultural revolutions when Bayer and Coca-Cola were both slangin’ the good stuff on the streets.
Musta been a frightful time. I want the OG recipe. Make New Coke Great Again.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 7:40 pm
lol I associate coke with vuvuzelas and the 2010 World Cup because I was coked up for a lot of it. Fun, expensive times.
I hit 102 kph on my bicycle one time on an extended downhill with great asphalt. It was neat to see on my speedometer, but I quickly started lightly tapping my brakes to bring me down to a speed where I might survive impact if something went wrong.
Their nominal horsepower:weight ratio might make it to 93. The effects of a human body adding drag, plus needing to keep one’s weight forward at that speed would take it airborne before that.
Evan from Evansville
on July 1, 2026 at 8:10 pm
I was gonna make fun of Mass. Man, but if he actually got it that fast? Uh. I applaud his dedication to earn his Darwin Award while having some funky-ass good times.
How about Ham and Bananas Hollandaise, served with a refreshing Beef Fizz?
R.J.
on July 1, 2026 at 8:09 pm
Beef fizz: The standard recipe combines two cans of condensed beef broth with one cup of chilled ginger ale and two tablespoons of lemon juice. Serve over ice!
No…. I would rather not turn a matching shade as you.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 8:11 pm
I love cheese but the Annie’s microwave cups are cheesy enough for a lazy Wednesday evening.
Evan from Evansville
on July 1, 2026 at 8:37 pm
evol does surprisingly good frozen meals. (I only bake them. I’m patient.) Unless I ‘go out,’ they and a few others are almost always my dinners. This blackened chicken, cheesy pasta is mine right this moment. Not bad. One of the smaller ones, so I’ll eat something in addition to my daily dessert of [some brand]’s ‘yogurt flip thingys, with the smore (or peanut butter) topping thing.
True now as it always was, bachelor food is pretty phenomenal. It must worry the ‘real’ restaurant biz, same as theaters. Well. Take out is take out. But still.
Sean
on July 1, 2026 at 8:51 pm
Eat more steak. Weirdos.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 8:52 pm
I usually have a supply of Stouffers but I’ll check those out. They are a little pricier.
Aloysious
on July 1, 2026 at 8:52 pm
@rhy: Do you have an air fryer? I’ve discovered that mine can cook bone in chicken almost like it is deep fried.
Set and forget. On a work night by the time I get the cocktail made and a shower, it’s done.
And if you like deep fried sausages, they turn out great. Nice and crunchy.
As you can tell, I’m converted. At least on work nights.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 8:56 pm
Eat more steak. Weirdos.
I wish I could but I have not had time to practice with my new choppers yet so it will have to wait a while until I can chew something again.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Do you have an air fryer?
I do, but see my previous comment re: current limitations.
I think I am moving in August and after that I can focus my energies on better eats.
Evan from Evansville
on July 1, 2026 at 9:02 pm
It is pricier, but Yellowstone chili is the best. Not the best chili, duh, but theirs is legit good. Their meat pasta thing is good but I get it cuz it’s a beast of calories for me. 770 for one thing. Damn. Truffle Mac n cheese is fun.
Even with my own kitchen, I’d rarely make a steak, iirc. To be fair, in Korea+ beef was very expensive. A nice crock pot of thick soup for the week, usually a weekend breakfast, and special occasions.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 9:04 pm
I tried one of the Yellowstone chicken things and wasn’t impressed enough to try again. Plus the silly TV tie in made me roll my eyes.
Before the medical establishment removed all of my teeth last year I was really starting to get into cooking. Oh well.
Threedoor
on July 1, 2026 at 9:37 pm
I’m
With Sean.
Aloysious
on July 1, 2026 at 11:58 pm
Eat more steak. Weirdos.
Hamburger is chopped steak. Plus, it’s easier on the teeth, if that matters. Plus plus, there is such a thing as 50/50 beef and pork grind. Makes fantastic meat loaf.
Not Adahn
on July 2, 2026 at 6:46 am
Next time you visit up north, you should check out Water Wheel. They have good cheeses.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 7:47 pm
*sigh* the constant Weather Terror Porn warnings are seriously interfering with Team USA! USA!
It just made me miss a gol.
The annoying thing is all of them are hundreds of miles away because I live in Remotesville.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 9:24 pm
Well, that was nuts.
The red card against the US was absolute bullshit but we won anyway so fuck the refs who wanted us out. Unfortunately the red card punishes us in the next match too.
creech
on July 1, 2026 at 10:08 pm
We got knocked down harder in high school gym class and popped back up; didn’t writhe on the ground like happens five or six times in every soccer match.
SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant
on July 1, 2026 at 10:44 pm
I always felt that if a player fell down and started acting as if he had been shot, he should be treated as if he was shot. As in being immediately loaded onto a gurney and transported pronto to the nearest hospital. Where he must stay for observation for at least 24 hours. And in the ICU so all the bells, beeps, and nurse visits keep him constantly awake.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Question for you married guys – what do you do when out of nowhere your all-American wife turns into a hard-core Islamic terrorist supporter? The article doesn’t mention what became of the poor dude in this case.
My guess in this case is they separated and she went off the deep end (order of operations may be switched)
Evan from Evansville
on July 1, 2026 at 8:26 pm
Kinda sounds like a reverse True Lies. (One of the best movies ever.)
In this sequel. it’d be some queer redemption story and hubby’d be killed for being the patriarchal colonizer he is. Their kids would also be ‘sacrificed,’ cuz they’re rape kids, dontcha know?
—-
*reads* WTF? Where’d she get two grenades? Quite certain they’re hollowed, but, uh, why? That’s how you flash your Jew-hatin’ cred? Hubby’s gotta be in on it.
When ya first asked, I was gonna ask “Is she hot?” Oh-ho. No. No she is not.
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 9:01 pm
I think it probably really is just as simple as it appears to be – lefty chick propagandized into Jew-hating madness. It’s becoming quite common these days.
Evan from Evansville
on July 1, 2026 at 9:09 pm
Well. Uh. I guess someone else has said it: Is it really so simple that these gals *really* wanna get dominated, like, kinda really hard in bed? Um. Otherwise why go so gung-ho into the whole Islam+women thing? Well, I already know they hate Jews. But to approach it from this angle. I bet she opened up to whatever ‘charming’ ‘Iman’ she saw. (Over, and over… and over…)
AWFL drowning in tepid soy boy milk, ‘needs’ outsider to awaken her truth?… She’s open to anyone! HIM! I really don’t think I’m being nuts, here. (“And let that be a lesson to the rest of you… NUTS!”)
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 9:15 pm
I wasn’t reading anything sexual into her story. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Surely you have seen enough examples of lefties going off the deep end without it having to be sexual.
Evan from Evansville
on July 1, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Wasn’t really thinking of her. Just AWFLs in general. Combined with Queers for Palestine ignorance or whatever, it seems so strange for a a group that, not long ago, was and still is (I guess?) Big Brave Girl Boss, has a large chunk that’s gone to pro-Islam and what that means for women. (‘REAL Islam hasn’t been tried!’)
I’m trying to think of anything else, cuz I really don’t buy the Jew hatred angle. What’s there has been there. Something new has been added, but I don’t see why Islam. *equal shrug*
rhywun
on July 1, 2026 at 9:42 pm
The soviets linked islamism with radicalization decades ago in their attempt to bring down America. It’s still bearing fruit today.
Tres Cool
on July 1, 2026 at 9:04 pm
“Catherine Beth Washburn, 37, a self-proclaimed stay-at-home mom, according to her Facebook account..”
“Bye, Felicia.”
Threedoor
on July 1, 2026 at 9:47 pm
You treat her like a Muslim man would.
And add a younger middle to the wife collection
slumbrew
on July 1, 2026 at 10:54 pm
My (((wife))) is reflexively lefty, but I don’t think I have to worry about her heading in that particular direction.
Chafed
on July 1, 2026 at 11:05 pm
Get really pissed off she blew $30k on her hobby without telling me.
kinnath
on July 1, 2026 at 8:27 pm
Proton VPN is apparently causing Glibs to verify that I’m not a robot every time I refresh.
Evan from Evansville
on July 1, 2026 at 8:40 pm
I’ve seen y’all talk about this. I’ve still never seen it. Chrome and Pixel phone.
kinnath
on July 1, 2026 at 8:48 pm
new for me today.
just installed proton VPN.
overall it’s working fine. Glibs is the only site complaining.
Glibs fucks with my VPN from time to time.
Yesterday I entered my password which is *********
Now it thinks its ******
Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)
on July 1, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Also on Proton VPN. I am not getting a verify every time.
kinnath
on July 1, 2026 at 9:45 pm
multiple refreshes in short order don’t trigger it.
but if I’ve been gone for a bit, it takes 5 seconds or so to verify my browser.
slumbrew
on July 1, 2026 at 11:01 pm
Cloudflare, like most Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have various methods to mark VPN exit points as potentially threatening – actual attackers use them regularly.
So using a VPN is likely to trigger Cloudflare’s anti-bot mechanisms.
Those methods aren’t perfect, so it can depend on which VPN endpoint you use.
you guys managed to defeat both Bosnia and Herzegovina. Impressive.
Brochettaward
on July 1, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Sony just went nuclear on the gaming community. Also, leaks are showing that the Playstation 6 is going to cost $1000 for the “budget” option.
I said the Steam thing will end up being on par with the next consoles. Though being weaker, it’s at an obvious disadvantage. But Vavle hasn’t completely alienated all gamers so there’s that.
Brochettaward
on July 1, 2026 at 11:53 pm
It’s a bit funny to me. Sony is selling ditching all physical discs based on consumer “preferences.” It’s true most people are buying digital. Not mentioned is how many games just stopped giving players an option. Sony had 6 exclusive first party console games they released in 2025. Only one had a physical release of any kind.
The companies slowly but surely pushed fans to digital by cutting back further and further on physical media so then they could say well it’s only a quarter of the sales now so we can just ditch it entirely.
If digital was a permanent purchase people may not care so much. If they hadn’t already showed a willingness to engage in fuckery, people wouldn’t freak as much. But they’ve done all these things. Days prior to this announcement they cut ties with a distribution company and took away 500+ titles that many people had already purchased. Which they had done in the past, as well.
I’ll just download my shit the old fashioned illegal way frankly because they aren’t going to take that away.
PieInTheSky
on July 2, 2026 at 12:06 am
back in the day some games came with a box and some booklet or something collectable. Seemed a bit nicer. But I dont game so I dont care.
Brochettaward
on July 2, 2026 at 12:25 am
It’s pretty much the way all media is going. Subscription for everything period. You want a vacuum? Buy a subscription so we can collect and sell your data. Dog cam? Sub. On and on.
Stinky Wizzleteats
on July 2, 2026 at 5:19 am
Only a small subset of gamers really care enough about this to alter their behavior even if they do care enough to make noise about it. It is, unfortunately, an indicator of the way things are going to be. Embrace the progress Bro.
Threedoor
on July 2, 2026 at 8:23 am
Yesterday I bought another 28 NES cartridges.
Physical media is where it’s at.
rhywun
on July 2, 2026 at 5:12 am
The only hard media I care about anymore is movies and television. Everything else is digital. I haven’t bought a game on disk in ten or twelve years. Haven’t been fucked over in that manner yet.
The headline: Sheriff says crime not wanted in Kingston’s Linear Park
(“Linear Park” is an abandoned railroad right-of-way that’s been converted into a walking/biking path, with one end in the middle of the city.)
KINGSTON – Ulster County Sheriff Juan Figueroa says his office is working with Kingston City Police to put a lid on problems at the city’s Linear Park.
Loitering and drug overdoses have occurred recently, causing law enforcement to clamp down on the facility.
The sheriff told the Law Enforcement Committee of the county legislature on Tuesday that criminal activity will not be tolerated
“If someone is commuting, that is obviously not the intent of shutting the park down. The purpose is to kind of put at ease the folks who have been making complaints of people who were loitering, and obviously the overdose situation that was going on down there,” he said.
The sheriff said his office is working with the city police, the county executive, and the county Department of Mental Health concerning the issues at the park.
Sean
on July 2, 2026 at 4:23 am
Release the hounds!
rhywun
on July 2, 2026 at 5:18 am
That sucks. In my city the designated bum-town is out of the way, behind the Walmart. There is a drug den across the street that keeps the cops busy night and day and yes, there is gigantic yawning gap between “stated” and “revealed”.
If they glow in the dark then they’re at least visibleactive, which is higher energy than radioactive.
Grumbletarian
on July 2, 2026 at 5:54 am
My mother was released yesterday afternoon. I may be able to relax a bit, except she now can resume her normal regimen of worrying about minor bullshit. My father can deal with that at least.
Gender Traitor
on July 2, 2026 at 6:00 am
Great to hear! I hope you can start to enjoy whatever is left of your vacation!
Ownbestenemy
on July 2, 2026 at 6:00 am
Good to hear
rhywun
on July 2, 2026 at 6:02 am
👍
Ownbestenemy
on July 2, 2026 at 6:04 am
Find that relaxation. This is my first time off work this year for two weeks where it wasnt tied to a death in the family, so ya I get where you are coming from.
Beau Knott
on July 2, 2026 at 6:14 am
Great news!
Get some relaxation in.
Ownbestenemy
on July 2, 2026 at 6:03 am
Mandahmi coming out and giving AC temp recommendations is nothing new for any politician.
Only thing new is he is commie enough to first mandate it via smart thermostats.
Morning.The guy needs to shut up and suicide bomb a DSA convention, taking out as many of the commie candidates as he can in the name of the false prophet he follows.
(((Jarflax
on July 2, 2026 at 6:08 am
I have become the repressive nanny State. 🙁 I am ignoring the desires of my subjects because I am convinced that I know best. There is much crying and grabbing at me with claws.
The cats wish to be outdoor cats. I was going along with that until the coyote showed up in the back yard two mornings running.
Ownbestenemy
on July 2, 2026 at 6:11 am
We had a hawk swoop down deck level when our little dog was outside. Luckily she is so yippy that the raptor thought otherwise.
(((Jarflax
on July 2, 2026 at 6:19 am
The haws in my yard are Coopers, and seem to completely ignore the cats, and vice versa. It was my intention that the cats be indoor critters from the start, but since the cats are significantly faster, quicker, and more agile than my fat old self containment failed so often that I gave up. I am currently going with elaborate distraction methods to exit the house, and always staying outside for at least 20 minutes before re-entering to defeat their strategy of waiting within dash range of the door. It is not entirely successful lol
My parents had a cairn terrier that would happily have gone after the bears.
She tried to go after a deer once, and broke my watch going after turkeys. She tried to run off, and I had the leash in the same hand the watch was on, so the watch took the brunt of the collision with a tree.
Chipping Pioneer
on July 2, 2026 at 6:22 am
F that guy, but as someone was saying here earlier, the same thing will happen everywhere in a few years. He’s just the tip of the spear.
Chipping Pioneer
on July 2, 2026 at 6:23 am
This was meant to be in reply to OBE about Mamdani.
Ownbestenemy
on July 2, 2026 at 6:43 am
It was such a perfect reply in that context was immediate.
Threedoor
on July 2, 2026 at 8:29 am
We’ve never lost a cat to the coyotes or wolfs or occasional
Cougar.
We thought we had lost one to a coyote or similar. Hadn’t seen her in 6+ weeks. She came waltzing up to me the other day, begging for food.
This is the cat that got kicked out of the garage because she couldn’t play nice with the other cats, so she’s fully outdoors. We bring the other two cats in at twilight so that their longevity is preserved. Sometimes they go “on adventure” for a couple of nights, especially if we have visitors, but they generally know that it’s time to come in and show up at the front door around 8 or 9 pm.
Chipping Pioneer
on July 2, 2026 at 6:25 am
I think there’s a bug in Monocle. The last 2 comments I’ve attempted to make in reply that use formatting (link and bold) have threaded incorrectly.
But thank you trshmnstr for making it. Especially the Mute function.
Sean
on July 2, 2026 at 6:43 am
Mine randomly turns off the refresh comment count. Some days it’s all day long, other days not at all.
rhywun
on July 2, 2026 at 6:52 am
It has been flawless here since the latest update (4.11.2).
Usually that happens because WordPress changes something that breaks where we pull the comment number from. It’s not the first time something like that happened, unfortunately.
Slumbrew has been working more with the code recently, so he’ll probably be able to have it fixed before I even ramp back up on what the code is doing.
I’ve been spending too much time in salesforce and it has broken my brain 🤯
Ownbestenemy
on July 2, 2026 at 6:34 am
Im all for straight weather reporting and can we fuck off with this heat-index bullshit?
Its useful don’t get me wrong but feel isnt exact and is being used to claim higher temps.
Also, I would take 90 here with 80% humidity over Nevada 110 any day of the week.
best most classy people
Was AI Donald really talking about us?
Tag fail. This should be better:
best most classy people
Was AI Donald really talking about us?
AI Donald, or El Donald?
ad-Donald
Even better the second time. The “creative class” have a legitimate reason to be terrified – because they are about to be out of work.
Fantastic.
I wouldn’t say no to FDA approved coke…
It’s Schedule II. So, in theory, you can get it legally.
Hunter Biden gets it all first.
I don’t recall the decades-long global drug cartel violence and cultural revolutions when Bayer and Coca-Cola were both slangin’ the good stuff on the streets.
Musta been a frightful time. I want the OG recipe. Make New Coke Great Again.
lol I associate coke with vuvuzelas and the 2010 World Cup because I was coked up for a lot of it. Fun, expensive times.
OT: Massachusetts Man
A Massachusetts man is accused of running from police in New Hampshire on an electric unicycle.
Rochester police say they got a call on Sunday about someone weaving in and out of traffic on South Main Street.
Officers eventually found the subject, but they say he did not stop when they tried to question him.
After chasing him, police say they arrested Michael Grillo Junior.
Police say the unicycle he was riding can reach speeds of up to 93 mph.
That’s the whole story. There’s not much extra in the article video.
lol Bullshit
The story doesn’t give a brand.
This one is advertised as being able to reach 93 MPH. The company sells others which don’t go as fast.
Well, OK then.
How the hell does someone ride that thing?!
Very carefully.
Off a cliff
You ride it.
You don’t stop abruptly.
Well, not by choice.
I hit 102 kph on my bicycle one time on an extended downhill with great asphalt. It was neat to see on my speedometer, but I quickly started lightly tapping my brakes to bring me down to a speed where I might survive impact if something went wrong.
Does it come with a flux capacitor?
Their nominal horsepower:weight ratio might make it to 93. The effects of a human body adding drag, plus needing to keep one’s weight forward at that speed would take it airborne before that.
I was gonna make fun of Mass. Man, but if he actually got it that fast? Uh. I applaud his dedication to earn his Darwin Award while having some funky-ass good times.
Cuz. Damn. I hope Junior was stealing some mints.
Mmmm… 🥓
It may just be bottom shelf precooked bacon, but I needed something for food.
I am thinking of microwaving a cup of mac & cheese because I’m out of ideas for the night.
And then kick it up with some more cheese, perhaps a bechamel sauce to add more cheese, top it with additional cheese and bake until golden brown?
Not on a school night.
Aww…
I like cheese
🧀😁👍
How about Ham and Bananas Hollandaise, served with a refreshing Beef Fizz?
Beef fizz: The standard recipe combines two cans of condensed beef broth with one cup of chilled ginger ale and two tablespoons of lemon juice. Serve over ice!
@RJ.
No…. I would rather not turn a matching shade as you.
I love cheese but the Annie’s microwave cups are cheesy enough for a lazy Wednesday evening.
evol does surprisingly good frozen meals. (I only bake them. I’m patient.) Unless I ‘go out,’ they and a few others are almost always my dinners. This blackened chicken, cheesy pasta is mine right this moment. Not bad. One of the smaller ones, so I’ll eat something in addition to my daily dessert of [some brand]’s ‘yogurt flip thingys, with the smore (or peanut butter) topping thing.
True now as it always was, bachelor food is pretty phenomenal. It must worry the ‘real’ restaurant biz, same as theaters. Well. Take out is take out. But still.
Eat more steak. Weirdos.
I usually have a supply of Stouffers but I’ll check those out. They are a little pricier.
@rhy: Do you have an air fryer? I’ve discovered that mine can cook bone in chicken almost like it is deep fried.
Set and forget. On a work night by the time I get the cocktail made and a shower, it’s done.
And if you like deep fried sausages, they turn out great. Nice and crunchy.
As you can tell, I’m converted. At least on work nights.
I wish I could but I have not had time to practice with my new choppers yet so it will have to wait a while until I can chew something again.
I do, but see my previous comment re: current limitations.
I think I am moving in August and after that I can focus my energies on better eats.
It is pricier, but Yellowstone chili is the best. Not the best chili, duh, but theirs is legit good. Their meat pasta thing is good but I get it cuz it’s a beast of calories for me. 770 for one thing. Damn. Truffle Mac n cheese is fun.
Even with my own kitchen, I’d rarely make a steak, iirc. To be fair, in Korea+ beef was very expensive. A nice crock pot of thick soup for the week, usually a weekend breakfast, and special occasions.
I tried one of the Yellowstone chicken things and wasn’t impressed enough to try again. Plus the silly TV tie in made me roll my eyes.
Before the medical establishment removed all of my teeth last year I was really starting to get into cooking. Oh well.
I’m
With Sean.
Hamburger is chopped steak. Plus, it’s easier on the teeth, if that matters. Plus plus, there is such a thing as 50/50 beef and pork grind. Makes fantastic meat loaf.
Next time you visit up north, you should check out Water Wheel. They have good cheeses.
*sigh* the constant Weather Terror Porn warnings are seriously interfering with Team USA! USA!
It just made me miss a gol.
The annoying thing is all of them are hundreds of miles away because I live in Remotesville.
Well, that was nuts.
The red card against the US was absolute bullshit but we won anyway so fuck the refs who wanted us out. Unfortunately the red card punishes us in the next match too.
We got knocked down harder in high school gym class and popped back up; didn’t writhe on the ground like happens five or six times in every soccer match.
I always felt that if a player fell down and started acting as if he had been shot, he should be treated as if he was shot. As in being immediately loaded onto a gurney and transported pronto to the nearest hospital. Where he must stay for observation for at least 24 hours. And in the ICU so all the bells, beeps, and nurse visits keep him constantly awake.
Question for you married guys – what do you do when out of nowhere your all-American wife turns into a hard-core Islamic terrorist supporter? The article doesn’t mention what became of the poor dude in this case.
My guess in this case is they separated and she went off the deep end (order of operations may be switched)
Kinda sounds like a reverse True Lies. (One of the best movies ever.)
In this sequel. it’d be some queer redemption story and hubby’d be killed for being the patriarchal colonizer he is. Their kids would also be ‘sacrificed,’ cuz they’re rape kids, dontcha know?
—-
*reads* WTF? Where’d she get two grenades? Quite certain they’re hollowed, but, uh, why? That’s how you flash your Jew-hatin’ cred? Hubby’s gotta be in on it.
When ya first asked, I was gonna ask “Is she hot?” Oh-ho. No. No she is not.
I think it probably really is just as simple as it appears to be – lefty chick propagandized into Jew-hating madness. It’s becoming quite common these days.
Well. Uh. I guess someone else has said it: Is it really so simple that these gals *really* wanna get dominated, like, kinda really hard in bed? Um. Otherwise why go so gung-ho into the whole Islam+women thing? Well, I already know they hate Jews. But to approach it from this angle. I bet she opened up to whatever ‘charming’ ‘Iman’ she saw. (Over, and over… and over…)
AWFL drowning in tepid soy boy milk, ‘needs’ outsider to awaken her truth?… She’s open to anyone! HIM! I really don’t think I’m being nuts, here. (“And let that be a lesson to the rest of you… NUTS!”)
I wasn’t reading anything sexual into her story. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Surely you have seen enough examples of lefties going off the deep end without it having to be sexual.
Wasn’t really thinking of her. Just AWFLs in general. Combined with Queers for Palestine ignorance or whatever, it seems so strange for a a group that, not long ago, was and still is (I guess?) Big Brave Girl Boss, has a large chunk that’s gone to pro-Islam and what that means for women. (‘REAL Islam hasn’t been tried!’)
I’m trying to think of anything else, cuz I really don’t buy the Jew hatred angle. What’s there has been there. Something new has been added, but I don’t see why Islam. *equal shrug*
The soviets linked islamism with radicalization decades ago in their attempt to bring down America. It’s still bearing fruit today.
“Catherine Beth Washburn, 37, a self-proclaimed stay-at-home mom, according to her Facebook account..”
“Bye, Felicia.”
You treat her like a Muslim man would.
And add a younger middle to the wife collection
My (((wife))) is reflexively lefty, but I don’t think I have to worry about her heading in that particular direction.
Get really pissed off she blew $30k on her hobby without telling me.
Proton VPN is apparently causing Glibs to verify that I’m not a robot every time I refresh.
I’ve seen y’all talk about this. I’ve still never seen it. Chrome and Pixel phone.
new for me today.
just installed proton VPN.
overall it’s working fine. Glibs is the only site complaining.
It happened to me once only. I don’t use a VPN.
Ah, but you are a robot.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Glibs fucks with my VPN from time to time.
Yesterday I entered my password which is *********
Now it thinks its ******
Also on Proton VPN. I am not getting a verify every time.
multiple refreshes in short order don’t trigger it.
but if I’ve been gone for a bit, it takes 5 seconds or so to verify my browser.
Cloudflare, like most Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have various methods to mark VPN exit points as potentially threatening – actual attackers use them regularly.
So using a VPN is likely to trigger Cloudflare’s anti-bot mechanisms.
Those methods aren’t perfect, so it can depend on which VPN endpoint you use.
The gayest parliament…
…
In the world!
https://modernity.news/2026/07/01/outgoing-uk-pm-proud-to-have-the-gayest-parliament-of-all-time-anywhere-in-the-world/
My hero. 🙄
Gee, I thought the purpose of elections is to divide us.
Untill you have staffers pounding in a senate conference room is it the gayest?
Good point
I believe in the UK it would be called the House of Gay Lords.
They do seem pretty happy.
I’m taking donations. https://fostech.com/product/origin-12-sbs-barrel-assembly/
Don’t forget the tax stamp!
that looks like an unnecessary purchase.
Have you seen the video of that with a FRT?
you guys managed to defeat both Bosnia and Herzegovina. Impressive.
Sony just went nuclear on the gaming community. Also, leaks are showing that the Playstation 6 is going to cost $1000 for the “budget” option.
I said the Steam thing will end up being on par with the next consoles. Though being weaker, it’s at an obvious disadvantage. But Vavle hasn’t completely alienated all gamers so there’s that.
It’s a bit funny to me. Sony is selling ditching all physical discs based on consumer “preferences.” It’s true most people are buying digital. Not mentioned is how many games just stopped giving players an option. Sony had 6 exclusive first party console games they released in 2025. Only one had a physical release of any kind.
The companies slowly but surely pushed fans to digital by cutting back further and further on physical media so then they could say well it’s only a quarter of the sales now so we can just ditch it entirely.
If digital was a permanent purchase people may not care so much. If they hadn’t already showed a willingness to engage in fuckery, people wouldn’t freak as much. But they’ve done all these things. Days prior to this announcement they cut ties with a distribution company and took away 500+ titles that many people had already purchased. Which they had done in the past, as well.
I’ll just download my shit the old fashioned illegal way frankly because they aren’t going to take that away.
back in the day some games came with a box and some booklet or something collectable. Seemed a bit nicer. But I dont game so I dont care.
It’s pretty much the way all media is going. Subscription for everything period. You want a vacuum? Buy a subscription so we can collect and sell your data. Dog cam? Sub. On and on.
Only a small subset of gamers really care enough about this to alter their behavior even if they do care enough to make noise about it. It is, unfortunately, an indicator of the way things are going to be. Embrace the progress Bro.
Yesterday I bought another 28 NES cartridges.
Physical media is where it’s at.
The only hard media I care about anymore is movies and television. Everything else is digital. I haven’t bought a game on disk in ten or twelve years. Haven’t been fucked over in that manner yet.
Im with you on this.
Stated preferences, not revealed.
The headline: Sheriff says crime not wanted in Kingston’s Linear Park
(“Linear Park” is an abandoned railroad right-of-way that’s been converted into a walking/biking path, with one end in the middle of the city.)
Release the hounds!
That sucks. In my city the designated bum-town is out of the way, behind the Walmart. There is a drug den across the street that keeps the cops busy night and day and yes, there is gigantic yawning gap between “stated” and “revealed”.
We’re almost there people!
Wake up and keep marching.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ZmP35jWFQ
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Are we there yet?
There is no “there” there.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good morning homey, Ted’S., Roat, Sean, rhy, and Stinky!
Mornin’. Not happy to be up more than a hour earlier than I wanted. At least coffee is allowed now, unlike yesterday morning.
No coffee??? That’s just cruel! Medical stuff going on? 😟
Yeah, a scan. Juiced me up with some “radioactive sugar”. 🫤
Punk girl band?
Hope the procedure goes (or went) well!
Taking radioactive sugar sounds like the origin story of Sugar Free’s nemesis, are you the reason SF was awol yesterday?
A SF/UnCiv spinoff episode? Im in
Taking radioactive sugar sounds like the origin story of Sugar Free’s nemesis
I don’t think it’s going to leave Rhywun with a radioactive dick and balls.
Er, I meant glow in the dark, not radioactive.
If they glow in the dark then they’re at least visibleactive, which is higher energy than radioactive.
My mother was released yesterday afternoon. I may be able to relax a bit, except she now can resume her normal regimen of worrying about minor bullshit. My father can deal with that at least.
Great to hear! I hope you can start to enjoy whatever is left of your vacation!
Good to hear
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Find that relaxation. This is my first time off work this year for two weeks where it wasnt tied to a death in the family, so ya I get where you are coming from.
Great news!
Get some relaxation in.
Mandahmi coming out and giving AC temp recommendations is nothing new for any politician.
Only thing new is he is commie enough to first mandate it via smart thermostats.
Morning.The guy needs to shut up and suicide bomb a DSA convention, taking out as many of the commie candidates as he can in the name of the false prophet he follows.
I have become the repressive nanny State. 🙁 I am ignoring the desires of my subjects because I am convinced that I know best. There is much crying and grabbing at me with claws.
The cats wish to be outdoor cats. I was going along with that until the coyote showed up in the back yard two mornings running.
We had a hawk swoop down deck level when our little dog was outside. Luckily she is so yippy that the raptor thought otherwise.
The haws in my yard are Coopers, and seem to completely ignore the cats, and vice versa. It was my intention that the cats be indoor critters from the start, but since the cats are significantly faster, quicker, and more agile than my fat old self containment failed so often that I gave up. I am currently going with elaborate distraction methods to exit the house, and always staying outside for at least 20 minutes before re-entering to defeat their strategy of waiting within dash range of the door. It is not entirely successful lol
hawks, not haws.
My parents had a cairn terrier that would happily have gone after the bears.
She tried to go after a deer once, and broke my watch going after turkeys. She tried to run off, and I had the leash in the same hand the watch was on, so the watch took the brunt of the collision with a tree.
F that guy, but as someone was saying here earlier, the same thing will happen everywhere in a few years. He’s just the tip of the spear.
This was meant to be in reply to OBE about Mamdani.
It was such a perfect reply in that context was immediate.
We’ve never lost a cat to the coyotes or wolfs or occasional
Cougar.
We thought we had lost one to a coyote or similar. Hadn’t seen her in 6+ weeks. She came waltzing up to me the other day, begging for food.
This is the cat that got kicked out of the garage because she couldn’t play nice with the other cats, so she’s fully outdoors. We bring the other two cats in at twilight so that their longevity is preserved. Sometimes they go “on adventure” for a couple of nights, especially if we have visitors, but they generally know that it’s time to come in and show up at the front door around 8 or 9 pm.
I think there’s a bug in Monocle. The last 2 comments I’ve attempted to make in reply that use formatting (link and bold) have threaded incorrectly.
But thank you trshmnstr for making it. Especially the Mute function.
Mine randomly turns off the refresh comment count. Some days it’s all day long, other days not at all.
It has been flawless here since the latest update (4.11.2).
[ learns CP has me on mute; sits in corner sobbing quietly ]
Don’t cry TedS, some people don’t use monocle and ignore commenters the old fashioned way.
inorite?
Usually that happens because WordPress changes something that breaks where we pull the comment number from. It’s not the first time something like that happened, unfortunately.
Slumbrew has been working more with the code recently, so he’ll probably be able to have it fixed before I even ramp back up on what the code is doing.
I’ve been spending too much time in salesforce and it has broken my brain 🤯
Im all for straight weather reporting and can we fuck off with this heat-index bullshit?
Its useful don’t get me wrong but feel isnt exact and is being used to claim higher temps.
Also, I would take 90 here with 80% humidity over Nevada 110 any day of the week.
Why do you hate the feelz?
They’re not feeling *him*….
Im all for straight weather reporting and can we fuck off with this heat-index bullshit?
Well now that we’ve finished June we’re not going to have gay weather reporting for another 11 months.
Taking their rainbows and going home?
I would take 110 with 20% hummidity over 80% hummidity at any temperature.
Good Morning, Folks,
Late to bed, early to rise, needs more coffee, my body cries
I just poured a second cup which is very rare. Up too early. Bleary and now I have to work.
That red card…a stretch in real time, absolutely in slowmo and stills.
Should have been a yellow in normal world given the context of two players going for the ball.
Nope. And VAR is ruining the game exhibit infinity.
Nothing was called during play. The idea that the American deliberately did that to the other guy quicker than the eye can see is ridiculous.
And if we call red cards on every accident, the game is ruined.