In case you’ve forgotten, tin is associated with Jupiter, which plays a major part in the double construction we’ve got going on this week. One of the parts is a rare equipoise of Mars, Venus and Mercury. An absolute full/complete/time for prophecies to be fulfilled type of thing. Not only that, they’re each in their appropriate signs, so yeah, this is totally a New Era/restart the calendar event/transition (note that these are NOT the correct positions for Cthulhu to awaken, Saturn needs to be in Scorpio for that.) So what is this insanely big event that’s happening this week? It involves solder. That can’t be right. We’d need zinc and there’s no planet for that. Silver and tin. Rulership and the sea. Britain? Stability and change. That plays right along with what was going on earlier, but doesn’t actually elucidate things. Ok, so let’s look at where in the sky the Moon-Jupiter conjunction occurs… Gemini. Which is where the sun is. Gemini, the Twins. Also Janus, the two faced god, god of doorways, beginning/ends and the namesake of January. So literally everything about this is saying “the end of an age, the beginning of another/completion of a cycle” but nobody’s interesting in being any less cryptic. Because the stars are often dicks like that. Anyway it happens this week.
Gemini: Queen of Wands – Stewardship, a brunette, a country woman, a teacher, a nurse.
Cancer: The Blank card – advice is missing.
Leo: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery, being in a position of authority.
Virgo: Knight of Wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration.
Libra: The Sun – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Scorpio: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity.
Sagittarius: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.
Capricorn: 7 of Coins – Successful investing, money, business, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Aquarius: Knight of Cups reversed – Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
Pisces: Ace of Coins reversed – The downside of money, bad intelligence.
Aries: 2 of Coins reversed – Bogus fun, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
Taurus: The Tower – It really isn’t your week.
Not tin, just really thin aluminum:
The wife saw Tin Machine, along with other random Bowie projects, six or so times.
Fraud, you say. Well, I will be.
PS: SRV has got to be the single most over rated guitarist of all time.
I thought that honor was reserved for Eric Clapton?
That’s a really odd way to spell Carlos Santana
Gee, I thought it was just going to be a good week because my boss will be on vacation! 😃👍
Fertility is worrisome
I thought so too then I remembered I have been burying compost around the yard quite a bit.
That’s got to be it, right?
That reading fits the abundance, possibly nourishment depending on what you have growing! The other reading seems vastly unlikely for me lol
https://ibb.co/JWK7nBg5
Sunday BBQ. Chef candy on the side with some bits for my furry helper
Oh yeah
How dare you post a video I have seen.
Sagittarius: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.
*puffs out chest*
I have my last hockey tournament of the season next weekend. This is acceptable.
I just turned on the teevee. Indianapolis Five Fucking Hunnert pregame show is winding down, mercifully. Danica Patrick looks… ridiculous.
I have no idea why anybody thinks she has anything worthwhile to contribute.
Q can probably explain this to you.
Oh wait, your comment above is actually relevant here.
Danica’s the person to have handy near a microphone during a rain delay when you have to fill up a lot more air time.
“ Cancer: The Blank card – advice is missing.”
🫣
Thats no good. Now I’ll have to turn to Xhamster for guidance.
The insert tray for my ammo box finished printing (17.5 hours to print). I stacked it full of 144 cartridges of .45 ACP. It showed no signs of deflection when picked up by an edge/corner. I’m printing the lid and will print the box later after verifying part of the design and swapping filament (this spool is running low).
Later I might design an insert for 9mm.
🤬
Gues what my OctoPrint and my printer do when the filament runs out? It continues to pretend to print with no filament, meaning the print cannot be salvaged and I have to start over.
Of course it does. When you said filament was running low that is the first thing I thought…does it auto-stop and can you restart where you left off.
This is the first time I’ve run a spool to nothing, so I did not know.
I could have sworn that there was enough left to finish the lid. I was almost right.
ARRRRGGG!!!
I loaded the wrong filament in. I have black PETG and Black ABS. The printer is set for PETG, and I loaded the ABS. Of course the print *bleep*ed up.
I knew I should have stuck to my “color coded by material” purchasing strategy.
UnCiv annoyed, artist’s depiction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp8tYLGVujI
Brooks: According to the I Do Cars guy the same motor is in the Corvette and Camaro, but GM specifies 0 w40 instead of 0 w20, and there have been far fewer problems.
And the choice of oil is making all of those mistakes more apparent. They wall papered over the cracks, so to speak.
I have heard (but don’t know for sure) these cranks were being finished in Mexico. I will say, from a completely different standpoint, I got in an e-mail pissing match with someone at Tops (they make pre-printed invoices for different trades) over their quality. Their production moved from Tennessee to Mexico. I noticed an immediate difference as I could no longer run a batch of invoices through my printer without babysitting them to unclog the printer. They switched back to Tennessee production and the problem ceased. I suspect this is a big part of GMs problem.
After owning an older house with old school plaster walls, I firmly believe wallpaper became popular largely because plaster walls will crack, and nothing makes them disappear better than wallpaper.
We stripped off the wallpaper, and . . . huh. We painted, but whatever skill is needed to make plaster cracks invisible, we didn’t have. And they would just crack again anyway. Bonus: those walls just sucked the paint off the rollers. It took gallons and gallons of paint to finish the job.
I currently have an old house with plaster walls. No paper, though it did in the past. The cracking comes from a foundation issue, which shouldn’t be too surprising, as these homes were made in the days before civil engineers had to do all the work like that for a simple house. But, if you have cracking, it can’t really be stopped until you fix the foundation issue. Which is probably why someone put in a concrete basement in my place at some point, taking care of any problems.
Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery, being in a position of authority.
Doesn’t sound sufficiently shitty.
Up late. Glad to see that l0b0t escaped the fiery death trap just in time.
GM’s products are crap before they even start on the assembly line. If there’s more than one way to do something, GM’s designers and engineers will pick the wrong way every fucking time. I hate the GM POS I have at work.
All modern vehicles became excessively complex from regulations. I don’t see any way to address that sadly. In a dream world we could start by rolling back car regulations to 1990, then go back ever further as auto makers bloom and adapt. That would help some. Let modern technology solve real problems instead of wasting it on regulatory ones.
It’s not just the regulations. GM does stupid shit. Like getting your choice of carjacker friendly (doors auto on lock on park) or die in a creek (doors stay locked with a double pull required to unlock). Or putting auto headlight control where everyone else puts the windshield washer on the end cap of the turn signal stalk. Or inconsistent button action lighting and messages on the dash screen. Had a random beeping for a day, turned out to be the rear parking sensors were dirty and it was non functional. I can go on and on.
Fuck that trash company and their garbage products.
I was up early but went out for the morning.
Let’s just say the weather forecast was not accurate, and it was about 40F and misty at the top of the mountain.
Wife is complaining about her horoscope. She wants to know if she can have her money back.
She is complaining that she is plagued by re-reruns all summer.
There is a $50 processing fee for all refunds.
and they have to be requested in person at the offices conveniently located in any star system in your assigned constellation
Oh, no. Rain delay for sprinkles, apparently. This could be problematic for Larson.
Play that funky First First boy. Play that funky First First now…
Does the LLV video have the replacement ones at the end? The Ram and Mercedes interim vehicles are around here. They lack the distinctive mail carrier look of the LLV. Since USPS is allergic to any sort of modern vehicle graphics or lighting, they look like ordinary vans broken down on the side of the road, until they unexpectedly start moving into traffic.
200 laps or until all the cars have been destroyed.
On cars – I saw a documentary once on the history of car regulations. In the beginning the push for regulations was from insurance companies that wanted car crashes to be more survivable. They have done an amazing job of that, I will give them that. A side effect was the government realizing they now have the power to social engineer, steer multiple industries, etc.
All movements go too far.
I tried to dive to the bottom of Manatee Spring today, but it’s hard without neutral buoyancy. It’s about 25 feet deep and I only made it about 15 feet. On the other hand, it was nice to have a reason to use my scuba goggles again. Maybe I will try again tomorrow with fins.
In the Annals of Florida Manhood, this tragic case sticks out:
Florida Man dies after winning cockroach-eating contest; the prize was a rare ivory ball python
https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/us/florida-roach-eating-death/index.html
My scuba teacher was fond of saying “Flipper lives in the sea, fins go on your feet”.
The adventures of Redneck Aquaman continue…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg6AsKsPH24
Just for your information…you can make of it what you will….
~30 feet of water is one atmosphere. My deepest free dive was about 65 feet. Upon returning to the surface with my proof, a handful of sand, I was greeted with horrified faces. Apparently the pressure change, which I felt I had. mitigated just fine, caused me to have a very serious nose bleed. My companions wanted me to go to the hospital. I did not, however that was my last free dive. Just sayin’.
Eh, these guys have done OK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkWI9L-854
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnvQggy3Ezw
My first and only scuba dive outside a pool was in Mt Storm Lake, WV, where I fed WV “sharks”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HllDzQEI_jE
music for diving deep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdpXxGPqW-Y
When I was SCUBA diving, I also worked on free diving. 40′ was my best, but I could do it consistently. I was a much younger man.
Has this made the rounds yet?
Transpretenders have their Iwo Jima moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSONlueKkCk
Back in 2010, I remember being denied entry to the National Museum of Natural History because I was holding a sign that said:
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STOP THE CHILDREN
TAX THE WHALES
SAVE THE DRUGS
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I tagged along with my parents to a Tea Party protest and thought it could use some absurdist humor. My sign got many laughs. At another protest with the same sign, I was accused of being an infiltrator, which of course attracted a journalist to interview me. I denied being a plant, said I was a libertarian, and that my sign was meant to protest stupid political slogans.
Oh, I’m so stealing those slogans. ALOL and kudos
Isn’t that the “wrong” flag? It’s missing some angles or stripes to represent some of the newer flavors that one is required to admire now.
I bet that pissed off the climbers that were on a route called the Salathe Wall.
Performative bullshit.
Old man yells at cloud, Soviet dissident version:
https://mattellison.substack.com/p/the-prophet-harvard-rejected
Had I been a gulag prisoner, I might say many of the same things.
https://onartandaesthetics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1.jpg?w=939&h=1283
The whole site is worth reading.
https://onartandaesthetics.com/2018/10/03/the-gulag-collection-by-nikolai-getman-from-the-victims-of-communism-memorial-foundation/
Hooray for Nikolai Getman for surviving the gulag and painting about it.
The of Magadan city that was built near the gulag later became a GRU (Soviet/Russian NSA) base. It was a good place to intercept signals from Japan, Korea, Hawaii and the western US.
Mojeaux
🤤
I don’t need a death to make funeral potatoes.
So out here in the “mission field,” I was going on 17 or something ridiculously old, and my mom found this wonderful new potato casserole recipe, said she had it at the Relief Society potluck and got the recipe, but she didn’t know what it was called. We all FLUVVED them, so we called them “favorite potatoes.” Became the side to go with Easter and Christmas ham.
Fast forward 20 years. Yes. TWENTY.
“Funeral potatoes?! WTF is that? Who wants to eat something called funeral potatoes? … THEY’RE CALLED FAVORITE POTATOES YOU GHOUL!”
Ok Derp…since you are in Florida…..
What is the nearest clear river? I am assuming the Santa Fe? The Suwanee is poor visibility.
I think I remember this right….
From Chiefland go north on 129, when you get to 49 take that and keep going north. You will get to a bridge over the Santa Fe. There is a parking area there on the right. From the parking lot on the south bank there is a foot path going upstream. About half-way to the end of the footpath there is a small creek coming in from a spring off in the woods. Dont bother. It is small and not worth the mosquitoes. continue to the end of the footpath. You can put in there. Just drift downstream back to the bridge. It is a mile or two? It is a fantastic drift dive, or used to be.
About half way back? there is an unnamed spring, a rise, not a fall. It is fairly large cave and as caves go fairly safe. If you go in and want to go back out all you have to do is relax, it will spit you out in short order. Drift along and keep your eyes peeled for fossils. There are a couple of deep holes that have a fair number of fossils deposited in them. Also, since you liked the WV sharks try this – under every moss clump on the bottom is a crawfish. peel the moss back slowly and the crawfish is fairly easy to catch. Upon catching it a number of bass will appear instantly like magic. Hold the crawfish above your head and then let it go. Count how many. of those crawfish make it back to the bottom. I can tell you now it is going to be zero. Also, the bass will be your bff for the remainder of your dive. It is well worth the trip and trouble.
It has been a long time since I was there, maybe 30 years? I hope it hasn’t changed. The last time we dove it we did a drift from the bridge at 49 to the bridge at 129. Of all of the places an dives I have done that stretch is one of my fondest memories.
Give it a try. You wont regret it. It would be a plus to take along someone that knows that area.
One of the guys my brother and I used to dive with found a dagger about 16 inches long carved from what I assume was a mammoth tusk in that area near the unnamed spring. There is a circular deep hole there somewhere. The dagger was in that hole. It’s maybe 20 feet deep. Most of the river there is 10-15. Downstream from the 49 bridge the river deepens and widens quite a bit.
Now I want to go to Florida.
Heh, me too but I want to go to Florida circa 1970. I want to dive those rivers before all the people moved in. I want to buy 40lb sacks of fresh oysters and shrimp fresh off of Nasty Old Man’s boat. I want to meet the bikini blondes next door before OnlyFans was a thing. I would also like to be that age again and know what I know now.
The mammoth dagger in use, artist’s depiction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x8Okrzo4n8
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGL0XDeRTLY
The dagger was quite impressive. It was complete, unbroken and the guard kind of ornate. The whole thing was made from a single piece of ivory. He kept it in an aquarium to keep it from drying out and possibly cracking. Any museum would love to have it. There is no telling how old it is. I asked if he was going to give it to a museum and he said no. He had dealt with those people before and knew better than to have anything to do with them.
@Suth,
Manatee Spring is indeed just off the Suwannee. It’s plenty clear, but the 28K gallons per minute outflow tends to keep people off the bottom and away from the spring mouth.
The Santa Fe river is more clear, unfortunately it’s quite popular with the tubing and beer drinking crowd this time of year.
Sad Old Guy music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCWiTDl2TGQ&list=RDEM8k_I2CQF_FpOrlUOWSt3QA&index=3
Curvaceous sirens brighening your Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.is/xBb8U
“Taurus: The Tower – It really isn’t your week.: Damn. First astral assault struck an hour ago. I woke up from my slumber and see that it’s 5:07. I flip out, figuring I’m late for work. Texted mgr telling her I’d be late. Gave my face a sink wash and got in the car.
I arrive 30 min later and notice the parking lot is awfully full. I didn’t even get to park in my usual space! I walked in and my phone’s location syncs with Walmart so I can sign in. Helpfully, the app turned down my Clock-In. “You are not scheduled to work for the next 15 hours” was part of its written response.
I start to put it together. Oh. It was 5 o’clock *pm.* It *is* Sunday. Still. You got off work four hours ago, Ev. I’m not good at napping. Foreign practice I wish I could master. I certainly noticed the parking lot was more full when I arrived. ‘My’ regular space was even taken!
Traffic was busier but I didn’t notice that being a bit askew. I was busy berating myself. Although the location’s manager did give me a wave a smile, thankfully none of the folk I work with were there. (Duh, they weren’t there, asshat.)
I want that Ace of Coins Reversed magic to undo my embarrassment, turn it to pride. To be fair, I was willing and able to work on short notice. That counts for something. Also revealed: my broken internal clock; a shocking inability to read obvious clues showing whether it’s day or night. (That may account for more,)
All-in-all? No harm done. But that’s embarrassing. I was upset with myself on the ride home, but that’ll pass.
That happened to me once – I stumbled into the living room and for some reason Sonny & Cher was on at 7 o’clock in the morning.
At least it wasn’t Lawrence Welk.
The fact that it was fully daylight wasn’t a clue?
This is what the 24-hour clock is for.
Yeah, a 24-hour display is an absolute must when I buy an alarm clock.
This is why there is a a PM light on a clock.
Tres Ver 2.0 and I had fun today shooting clays with his new gun. And like any bad habit, Im already shopping for something more trap-worthy, like a proper double-barrel.
Being on a budget, is Stoeger any good?
For trap, Stevens 555 Trap. Single barrel, ’cause there is no reason for two in trap.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1102745759
20 gauge trap is gonna be a little tougher than 12 ga. I used a full choke Rem 1100 12 gauge, it was for funsies anyway. I always enjoyed skeet more, trap seemed to be more serious.
Old story: Driving by a range on a Sunday you could tell if they had had a skeet or trap shoot that day. If a trap shoot the parking lot was busy with shooters wanting to trade guns. After a skeet shoot the car trunks were open and coolers of beer were in sight.
Skeet gun was an 1100, improved cylinder, 12 gauge.
An 1100 will soak up recoil, single or double not so much. So it isn’t a bad idea to start a little smaller in a dedicated trap gun.
I’m not a purist. I use a semi auto S&W 1000 (made by Howa) for trap, skeet, and sporting clays.
I just swap out chokes. Super soft shooting. I couldn’t be happier with it.
I’ve never shot a Stoeger.
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/05/25/american-airlines-corey-deangelis-dei-n2413301
I don’t fly. I can’t even boycott them. 🤷🏼♂️
*shrug*
I remember on the NYC subway the city they openly stated that they give preferential treatment to minority businesses. “Affirmative action” has been, somehow, legal for many decades.
Hey Glibs. I’m hanging out in the GlibZoom channel in case any of y’all are in the mood to chat.
Back from day 2 of the race around Oahu. It was a good day of sailing, and we just beat one of our competitors at the finish. The third of the race is not my favorite because it is just a beat along the south shore of the island to the finish line at Waikiki.
Stupid question… what is with the insane proliferation of new bra companies? I have seen commercials for a like a half dozen ones recently.
Q?
I have a feeling they’re all the same operation… catering to different, uh, markets.
It all started with one design, but a difference over the name. The Bro or the Manzier.
Too etnick.
Possibly. I know Victoria’s Secret had the market (semi)cornered for a long time but they’ve run into some problems of late. Beyond that, I’m not really sure.
As I have been saying. All marketing is geared towards women. Well, if they can get a sexy/functional bra at Walmart…why spend the extra $40
If your boobs have corners you’re doing it wrong.
Maybe it’s because women of a certain age and thus a certain amount of money to spend are freaking tired of underwire bras.
I discovered “Knix” brand bras through an unsolicited internet ad, bought a few, and will never go back.
The prototype outer box printed, and I’ve found that my tolerances are too narrow for the printer. It printed successfully, but with real ammunition in the insert, the lid can’t slide in to place. Plus the walls could probably use being slightly thicker to make the retention lip for the lid less prone to… just plain breaking.
*hands UCS a zip lock baggie*
I can’t access the article, but a story on Facebook from Reason popped up that made me shake my head. They admit that social media company’s exercise “editorial judgement” through their moderation policies in the headline. They are not neutral third parties just hosting content. You are admitting as much. They conveniently never mention section 230 which gives them liability protections for content posted on their site specifically because they are NOT exercising editorial discretion, but simply enforcing basic standards.
They decry it as a violation of the first amendment for the FTC to look at their user policies and to ensure they are actually enforced fairly based on what users agree too when they sign up.
Got into the article finally through Google and get to this gem:
How about the content creators who rely on these platforms to earn a living who follow the rules only to be arbitrarily banned as they make shit up on the fly, you assholes?
My problem isn’t that I want government involvement here. My problem is that faux libertarians like those at Reason want to suck big-tech cock and ignore the contradictions in their own arguments. If social media is acting like the editorial section of a newspaper in policing behavior of users, then they become liable for the shit they allow or don’t allow, now don’t they? You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.
These companies are in fact engaging in fraud. They do in fact enforce their rules in a completely arbitrary manner, and we have learned that much of it was at the behest of past governments. But let’s ignore all of that because orange man bad or in the name of protecting big corporations.
Should add – problem isn’t with section 230, but the fact that section 230 isn’t actually enforced.
Please, tell me more …
TOS’ issue is that the companies are censoring in the “wrong” way, or not censoring at all. Look at how the Goodthinkful Class turned on Elon Musk on a dime when he began to reveal Twitter’s old censorship policy and reverse it.
Good morning. Perused last night’s comments.
ship – It has been a long time since I was kicking around the rivers in Florida. I looked up some Utube on the Santa Fe. I am very sad. When I used to dive it we rarely saw other people. Apparently so many people have moved into the basin that the eel grass is mostly gone from the sewage levels, too many boats tear-assing up and down have eroded the banks, etc.
In other words the wild beauty of it is gone. Yes, I can imagine the river clogged with drunken morons on the weekends.
I hate people.
“ I hate people.”
Amen.
Slackers!
Be well, y’all. First break ending now, w lunch at 9am.
I hope the chillness of Monday continues to end my workweek; weekend starts at 2pm.
I hope the start(?) of yours goes well.
Not at 9PM? :-p
Time is just a social construct, dude.
Mornin’, TH and Suthen,
Woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep, worrying about getting the tomato plants planted in the garden. Still dark so I have time for coffee anyway.
Mornin’ Evan,
Are folks out and about shopping on a holiday?
Have a safe Memorial Day, Glibs.
🫡🇺🇸🪦🎆
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
🎶🎶
Australia fast-tracks machete ban after shopping centre attack
Australia will not survive the zombie apocalypse.
🦘🦘🧟♂️🧟🗡️🗡️
Makes sense for the shopping center to ban them but the state doing it is silly. What if you need to clear some brush?
That’s not a knife.
🤣
They should just ban politicians named Jacinta down under.
Utopia incoming.
“ban on the weapon’s sale”
And here I thought they were tools.
So the perps were white British descendants I reckon.
Or am I allowed to ask?