The squirrels are still being wrangled back on the wheels, the marihuana is being shoveled into the boiler, and we’re trying to… sedate… STEVE SMITH.
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The squirrels are swarming my yard. Release the cats.
The squirrels and I have reached a truce in my yard. They live in the trees, come down and dig up the yard a bit, but they don’t dig around the house, and they throw acorns at the kids walking by (not a requirement, but it’s funny when they hit). The chipmunks on the other hand…
Pre-Lily I used to watch the wildlife in my back yard. There are still a few rabbits and squirrels, but the chipmunks and turkeys have all vamoosed.
It’s normally two or three. Today there were eight. They may be organizing a riot.
Rat on a train:
It’s getting to the point I’m recognizing some of the squirrels (OK, the black one is pretty easy to pick out). But this is also the time of the fawns being underfoot.
Roat: Not a riot, but a Mostly Peaceful Protest®.
My wife wanted to name the regulars but they all look the same. She calls every rabbit Peter. I named the fox Лиса (Lisa).
If anyone is having squirrel issues inside city limits, may I make a suggestion:
https://www.pyramydair.com/product/weihrauch-hw50s-breakbarrel-rifle?m=2152
ROAT, is every fox Lady Kaede (楓の方)?
Just 楓 – Kaede
の方 this turns into an actual tree.
HA! That is what I get for copypasta from Wikipedia.
That would be Lisitsa.
Can’t we all get along?
Get an Australian Shepard.
Mine keeps all manner of vermin out of the yard.
NYPD keeping order. Sorta.
If it’s NYPD then all those people will get a judge that puts them back on the street shortly.
Sorta.
Meanwhile, in Seattle…
Looks like this is a warning on how June 14th will go.
The local protest is scheduled for a couple hours at an intersection near nothing. If they don’t block traffic it will likely go unnoticed.
We had a break from hockey practice, and we’re scheduled to start back on Sunday. I’m thinking that’s going to be a problem.
people make fun of FEMEN protests but at least there’s tits.
Sad Trombone…
David Hogg, Upstart Democrat, to Leave DNC Post
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/david-hogg-upstart-democrat-to-leave-dnc-post-b2bfdfde?st=9b41Ac&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Stale pale male fails.
AOC acolytes hardest hit.
In a way, this is the worst thing the D’s could have done. I loathe Hogg’s politics, and think he is an all-around a-hole, but he was going to do what the D’s need, namely a hard core colonoscopy of the party. They are the party of the Olds, and it shows.
I don’t know. The young Democrats seem to be even more socialist.
In one way, yes. In another way, maybe not. Given the power, Davy would have swept out the gerontocracy that’s running the show now, but he would have replaced them with ultra-prog freak shows like him.
I don’t think that’s a recipe for long term relevance.
Democrats compound trouble with young male voters! /Bee treatment?
They kicked him out because he didn’t meet their diversity quota. Way to lean into the stereotype.
This was funny, but to take it up a notch, I hope Trump invites him to the White House and hires him for some low-level bullshit position.
Never could have seen being a large vendor to Stellantis and Nissan being risky.
Auto-Parts Bankruptcy Is the First Big Casualty of Tariff War
https://www.wsj.com/articles/auto-supplier-marelli-files-for-bankruptcy-to-hand-lenders-control-ed401dda?st=n9nxCw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Now, if we built those parts here in this country, then we’d have them.
Probably at the expense of some other things that we are currently making in this country.
Being a government-favored industry is tight!
😱
Will things never be normal again?
The New Normal
Nein, Nein, Nein. Real Normal.
It’s just like Andor …
It is concerning. I see the movie post is scheduled, perhaps normalcy returns by tonight. Or it could just vanish into the void.
R.J.:
Nothing (as of yet) has gone spiraling into the void (that I’m aware of).
Define ‘normal’.
The website working and not giving everyone trouble.
The ritual to restore the website involves sacrificing a million rioters to Gaia.
Your terms are acceptable.
@NA – Country Singer + 3 POTUSes – match First name?
Yup.
Okay, quick math, of POTUS first names that are repeated, there are six
James 6
William 4
John 3
George 3
Franklin 2
Andrew 2
Franklin and Andrew don’t have enough for 3+, and the remaining are so damn common that it doesn’t narrow things down.
Begins to preen
Thinks through the list, begins to preen harder!
Gets to the end of the list, slumps in dismay
I did count “Jimmy” as “James”, And included “Bill” in “William” for full disclosure.
Giveaway “hint:” Don’t Rock the Jukebox.
Is it okay to Shoot the Jukebox?
“I done TOLE you not to play B-17!!”
Is that a WWII Swing Band known for “Channel Zed” and “Your Own Private Iwo Jima”?
Protesters taking to the streets in the UK to chant about the need to support Yemen and to start a worldwide revolution
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1933036131051884995
Just like at my job, support requests are getting out of hand
I support Yemen being cleared of violent elements through sufficient force.
we can use the glass parking lot.
What do we want? Free shit.
[ shits on protester ]
Odds that the same money bought those banners and flags as the Mexican flags here…formerly the BLM / antifa banners etc.
Yet I still see no real faces/profiles for the people responsible.
Yemen?!
At least they’re honest about being commies.
Emma Revell
@emmamrevell
Be right back, I’m off to commit some non-crime hate incidents
https://x.com/emmamrevell/status/1932751829370052789
Is calling someone a NIMBY hate speech?
It is if someone got offended!
It is if the correct people got offended.
Anti-boomer apparently.
Solar farms in Britain. Brilliant.
Stop oil! retards?
The Squirrel Gods are angry gods!
Not me circus, not my monkeys, not my need, not my tax dollars… but I’m still gonna toss some mockery at Torontonians.
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/black-mandated-homeless-shelter-on-way-city-hall-confirms
Latvians get screwed over again…
It’s the good kind of racism.
Boeing 787 crash in India. Never got the landing gear up.
https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1933135852416209297
Wonder if they forgot to put the flaps down?
787 probably wouldnt have allowed them to or at minimum would have been all alarm when thrust was set.
Given previous tensions, cant rule our taken down by a missile.
Loss of all thrust immediately after takeoff possible…
Bird strike at low altitude could be a possibility.
Suicide by pilot…never know.
Who knows.
Stand corrected. There is purportedly video out showing the aircraft, though hasnt been verified.
No missle, looks like a stall so maybe loss of thrust…flaps, hard to tell if its truly the plane, but look to be in normal config for takeoff.
If I hadn’t been told that it happened during takeoff, from watching the video it looks like it was pitching for go-around without adding thrust.
Some interesting armchair analysis going on. Given temps and most likely a full load, and using about 1/2 runway length, wonder if they rotated prior to or right at VR…maybe improper calculations entered into the computer?
apparently first dreamliner to go down
Stewardesses go down a lot.
In my dreams.
Banner WSJ headline says no survivors expected.
The pictures of injured being transported were likely on the ground.
1 survivor found alive.
Not sure I believe it. The guy supposedly jumped out of the plane?
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1933166170443563441
Somebody really hates Boeing.
Also, I wonder which political was secretly on that flight, trying to escape his tormentors/keep the secret plans out of the hands of the enemy/headed to a vacation with the mistress.
“The plane, which was headed to London’s Gatwick Airport, had reached an altitude of 625 feet when it stopped transmitting location data, according to Flightradar24. The Boeing plane involved was 11 years old, according to the flight-tracking service.”
I have no idea what to make of this. Could be normal below a certain altitude or missing data from the ground. Or it could be complete electrical failure.
https://www.wsj.com/world/india/air-india-plane-carrying-242-crashes-in-western-india-de885d61?st=aYJ4ru&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Crew tried turning it off and didn’t get to the “on again” part?
You gotsta check the thermostat before you turn it off and turn it on again, right?
Solid hit.
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Love how the two black guys are all like don’t you bring that shit down on us!
Drive and wrap. Should show this to NFL Safeties.
In the modern NFL, you’d get a penalty for doing anything more than tearing the flag off the receiver’s belt and waving it in the air for the ref to see.
Defense in depth.
Apparently the money flow from taxpayer coffers to left-wing funding NGOs has not been stopped yet.
That, right there, makes me angry.
Tax payer funded riots, thanks a lot.
when did tres move to Texas?
Grumble grumble
https://x.com/bendellwerry/status/1933101261512962097
Naw, that guy’s too fat to be Tres (who I have met)
Heh, heh
He might have just changed my mind on the issue.
Rate My Plate
@ratemyplatenow
What’s Missing by Tom
https://x.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1928480779727745053
Rate My Plate
@ratemyplatenow
Haggis ft Mash by Ben B
https://x.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1840465768036868422
The first plate is kinda sad for being just bacon and buttered bread.
The second plate looks like shit.
It’s haggis, so still working on being shit.
That second plate looks about as unappetizing as anything I’ve seen.
Looks the same going in and coming out.
I’m going to guess that fried eggs are missing.
Maybe a glass of Orange juice?
Why is “orange” auto-capitalized?
Because Orange Man Bad!
(Honestly that’s probably part of it. If you make jokes like that and frequently use a capital letter at the beginning, you can train autocorrect. The one on my phone knows how to correctly spell Stillers as an example.)
That bread needs toasting as well.
I fry deli ham, an egg, and bread, and slap it together, with Swiss and cheddar slices, for a breakfast sandwich.
A slice of heirloom tomato, a lettuce leaf, and a schemer of guacamole.
does this qualify as surf and turf?
Chef 👩🏻🍳
@chefsevenn
https://x.com/chefsevenn/status/1933113933419663476
Yes. More surf than turf, but looks delicious.
Sea bugs.
This, right here.
I see a plate with a little bit of human food, and a whole lot of cat treats.
do cats eat shrimp?
Cats natural prey on shrimp and cows.
My cat treat bag says “shrimp flavor”, so I assume it’s programmed into their system to like shrimp
Cats: If it tastes like meats, I eats.
A cat taking down a cow. It ends before the cat goes in for the killing blow.
“It’s ‘meow’, not ‘moo’, you heifer!”
Mmmmmmmmm.
Marines deployed to yet another Third World shithole.
https://babylonbee.com/news/marines-deployed-to-another-third-world-country-full-of-hostile-foreigners
How to game the social housing system
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-game-the-social-housing-system/
Westminster council has announced that every single social housing tenant in the borough will receive lifetime tenancies. No test of need. No review of income. No incentive to move on. Once you’ve been awarded a property, you can stay as long as you like. When you die, your adult children may be eligible to inherit the lifetime tenancy too.
Social housing tenants in Westminster pay around a fifth of what renters on the open market spend. They also have access to more than one in four properties in the borough, from flats in postwar estates to £1 million terraced houses. The council says it’s bringing stability to people’s lives but for many young professionals dreaming of their own home, it looks like something else: a bribe.
One woman told me that she and her partner rent privately on a joint income of more than £100,000, yet still cannot afford to buy in Westminster. ‘We walk past people every day who are being subsidised to live in the middle of London, while we can barely get by,’ she said.
You may scoff at the plight of high-earning professionals, but do the maths: a couple in London on £100,000 loses around £27,000 to tax, £30,000 on rent and 9 per cent of income over £28,000 to student loans before travel and bills. For many professionals, working hard simply doesn’t add up.
The patterns are impossible to ignore. In Tower Hamlets, 67 per cent of Muslim households are in social housing. The reasons are complex: economic clustering, migration history, support networks, but the result is visible.
Often newcomers are helped by others who know how the system works. ‘You ask around, someone tells you what to do,’ the former officer said. ‘It’s ingrained.’ Fraud happens too, sometimes spectacularly. In Greenwich, Labour councillor Tonia Ashikodi was convicted of applying for council housing while owning multiple properties. In Tower Hamlets, another Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun pleaded guilty to housing fraud.
While middle-income Londoners compete with one another in the housing market, the government buys up more properties, removing them from the private rental pool. Westminster council has just spent another £235 million buying hundreds more properties.
So… they need to raise taxes on the middle class to give that money to the poors, right?
How about we end the “social housing” nonsense, evict people who have no right to be in the country, and remove barriers to building new housing. Oh, and string up parliment and the city administration from their CCTV cameras.
Inheritable rent control has worked wonders for New York.
How does this nonsense not end in violence?
They’ve lost the skill to keep people’s heads just above water, so that they don’t rebel out of angry hopelessness, and still engage in productive behavior so that you can still get shrimps for your cat.
The UK needs another Thatcher. She may not have been libertarian, but this is the type of shit she fought against during the 80’s. Labour and the Tories to some extents are a creating a large class of unproductive dependents while the productive are forced to subsidize them on top of struggling to pay their own bills.
Wow… straight up communism. On the bright side, all that “social housing” is going to fall apart sooner rather than later, just like in NYC.
Mind you, this is on top of the many billions that disappear up somebody’s asshole every year already.
The easiest but politically unpalatable thing to do is sell those buildings to those in the private sector, get rid of rent control, and lower the taxes/regulations. But even if that does happen, the city/state will just sell those buildings to the politically connected which while better than what they have now would still create some issues with housing.
It would never happen because the local pols want as many people dependent on the government as possible. And the “lucky” lottery winners are generally OK with the situation too.
How would one know which cars belong to protestors, though?
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1932934360707052004
I thought protesters travel by tricycle
They scooter up, pressed closely against one another, so that each can fully inhale the sweaty body odor of the other.
Put the stickers on public transit vehicles …
The derp is deep.
Keep them housed and fed in exchange for free labor?
send them home?
“Deportation Frenzy”
🙄
I wonder how the numbers compare to “Deporter in Chief” Obama.
Deportation Frenzy was at Cochella this year.
Ben Sixsmith
@BDSixsmith
You’ve given creating parasocial relationships with lonely dudes while naked a bad name!
https://x.com/BDSixsmith/status/1933063727332626435
I cannot understand onlyfans.
Some people may have a clown fetish.
Tacos and Airplanes
@blob_watcher
In which The Economist identifies Bonnie Blue and pornography production, along with other vice industries (tobacco, gambling) as part of the core strengths of the modern British economy.
https://x.com/blob_watcher/status/1932860819970404569
I mean if that’s what you got left that’s what you got left
Did the UK give up on Dr. Who? I thought that was the only remaining product of the islands.
they need the porn to subsidize Dr. Who
Sounds like an Indian reservation. Which, for a different kind of Indian, seems to be what it is becoming.
Doctor Who?
Viewership is in the toilet after the latest season crawled up its own asshole.
Good morning all. We have discussed tariffs and bringing back manufacturing to the US. What does this mean and what gaps exist. Trying to make any manufactured good in the US is more difficult than ever if you restrict yourself to making it all here.
Examples of difficulties abound, but this video is eye opening if you’ve assumed we can just use existing companies to support domestic manufacturing.
https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY
Just finding a USA made bolt will make you realize the challenges we face. Unless you are looking for aerospace grade fasteners the options are limited and expensive.
I am not sure it is just market forces, but yes those too. I mean maybe distorted market forces.
I watched it. It didn’t particularly surprise me for much of it.
I didn’t realize just how little tool and die manufacturing is left in the US however.
I also wasn’t surprised, but enjoyed their surprise when their mesh was Chinese in origin, but transshipped through India.
I hated that moment of fraud, and absolutely support hiring international assassins for the removal of transshippers.
I’m going to assume it’s the one I saw and it sounds like several market opportunities.
Start up tool and die services, Glibs.
I’m not a fan of the band either, but I think wishing death on people just for playing music is over the top.
My parents had friends that had a tool and die shop. One day, their accountant told them that they were worth a million dollars.
They sold out, because the stress wasn’t worth it to them.
It probably took a couple decades to export so much manufacturing to China; I would expect much longer to bring any significant amount of it back.
This.
God forbid a man has a hobby
https://x.com/66Steph82/status/1932707457760940462
Springtime fresh!
Hope springs eternal.
I’m sorry you have such a weird hobby.
Once again, if you want to put something up your ass, fire up Amazon and get something designed for the purpose. Your asshole is not the place for improvisation and DIY, unless you *enjoy* nurses sneaking into your hospital room to giggle and take pictures (NTTAWWT).
Damn so THAT’S why I had a problem with my colonoscopy?
“South Park did it.”
non aesthetic things
@PicturesFoIder
Judging by the level of unbotheredness from his roommate, this definitely isn’t the first time he has done this😭
https://x.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1932539144594469266
To Bee or not to Bee that is the question.
I’ll give that dude soem credit – he’s strong as a motherfucker…
My first thought as well.
*The Fourscore Light is now on*
Jimbo, did you get my email yesterday? Monday doesn’t work.
Just sent you an alternate date Fourscore. Looking forward to seeing you.
Oh no. Another strongly worded letter.
UN nuclear watchdog says Iran in breach of obligations, Iran announces counter-measures
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-nuclear-watchdog-says-iran-breach-obligations-iran-announces-counter-measures-2025-06-12/
Given rumors swirling is the UN giving Iran a heads up?
Outrageous heresy
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.’’
The Associated Press asked 30 different scientists, experts in climate, health and economics, about the scientific reality behind this proposal. Nineteen of them responded, all saying that the proposal was scientifically wrong and many of them called it disinformation. Here’s what eight of them said.
“This is the scientific equivalent to saying that smoking doesn’t cause lung cancer,” said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather of the tech firm Stripe and the temperature monitoring group Berkeley Earth. “The relationship between CO2 emissions and global temperatures has been well established since the late 1800s, and coal burning is the single biggest driver of global CO2 emissions, followed by oil and gas. It is utterly nonsensical to say that carbon emissions from power plants do not contribute significantly to climate change.”
“It’s about as valid as saying that arsenic is not a dangerous substance to consume,” said University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann.
If anybody knows about scientific validity, it’s Michael Mann.
Experts. They are experts. Experts that dont understand what the word ‘science’ means. Experts that do not know how to use the word ‘valid’. Experts that forgot that 80% of lung cancer victims have never smoked. Experts that ignore the historical record of CO2 rises following warming rather than preceding warming. Experts, that lot.
If I need someone to police the dog shit in my fenced in yard I dont think these guys would be on my list of potential hires.
I think of Mann as a solid grifter on par with Erlicht, Mead, Menchu etc.
“The relationship between CO2 emissions and global temperatures has been well established since the late 1800s
Then why does every model that posits temperature will rise proportional to CO2 fail miserably? Assertions without evidence, once again.
The reltationship has shown that carbon dioxide tends to follow temperature, not cause it.
Exactly, which is not surprising if you know that warmer liquids can hold less gas, so as the temperature warms, CO2 is released from the oceans.
Plus the data have been manipulated beyond all repair in order to get the “correct” result. These doomsday grifters WANT to put us all back to the Stone Age.
But what is CO2?
It’s what plants crave.
“The world is round, the sun rises in the east, coal-and gas-fired power plants contribute significantly to climate change, and climate change increases the risk of heat waves, catastrophic storms, infectious diseases, and many other health threats. These are indisputable facts,” said Dr. Howard Frumkin, former director of the National Center for Environmental Health and a retired public health professor at the University of Washington.
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“It’s basic chemistry that burning coal and natural gas releases carbon dioxide and it’s basic physics that CO2 warms the planet. We’ve known these simple facts since the mid-19th century,” said Oregon State’s Phil Mote.
Do not question the foundational tenets of the holy church. The
godspriests will smite you.It is indisputable. So, unfalsifiable? Huh. *makes note*
“She said at the time: ‘I’ve always told myself I’m a lesbian, but I think being here, I’ve realized, “Oh no, I’m not a lesbian, I’m queer.” I think that’s really cool. I’m switching letters.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14805417/JoJo-Siwa-Miley-Cyrus-sexuality-romance-Chris-Hughes.html
Remember when Demi Lavato was “non-binary” for 45 minutes?
I keep hearing yakitty-sax. What is that all about?
Heterosexual narcissist appropriating trendy badges to gain attention.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/air-india-boeing-787-8-dreamliner-bound-uk-crashes
Lots of questions to possible improper TO config (so as mentioned above, improper flap setting).
Boeing will take the hit, but looking to be pilot error…a deadly one.
ZH isn’t blaming the Joooooooos?
And not confirmed by the other pilot? Would not be surprised by a CRM culture problem.
Andrew Weaver, a professor at the University of Victoria and former member of parliament in British Columbia, said: “President Trump is setting himself up for international court charges against him for crimes against humanity. To proclaim you don’t want to deal with climate change is one thing, but denying the basic science can only be taken as a wanton betrayal of future generations for which there should be consequences.”
The scientific community is a beacon of steadfast reason and careful thorough analysis.
About this international court….
How many divisions do they have?
Is that the court with members recently sanctioned by the US?
Progressives do love them them some Red People’s Tribunals.
Not to mention torturing wreckers, Kulaks, and secret Western spies until they confess their crimes. What fun!
Delusional.
If “future generations” have standing in court, then all of us should have sued FDR back when social security was implemented.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1933157391442309585
The man who delivered bionic shields to rioters in Los Angeles has been ARRESTED in an FBI sting operation
Good.
“Conspiracy to Commit Civil Disorders”
I agree. This is solid. Now let’s see if a judge lets him go.
Trump is a mixed bag for me, but I’ll say that his election has made these kinds of things possible. One of the most efficient and effective way to stop this shit is to start cutting off the funding and arresting those who are creating this ruckus.
I agree. Without the organizers and funding, we’d go back to smaller protests with less violence.
Or… just elect all Democrats and it also goes away.
Sitting here with music playing from a playlist ripped from old CDs, and I may have a uniquely Gen X complaint. All of the bands who put in “hidden tracks” either with the last track of the album being 15+ minutes with a 2 minute song, 11 minutes of silence, and another 2 minute song or 50+ empty tracks on an album (at least those can be deleted easily).
If you want it “hidden” just leave it off the album jacket but make it a normal track.
a hidden track
I still think the going into subcode and having the display count down looked cool.
I always hated that too. Super annoying when you’re in the car or working out and one of those comes up when you’re playing on shuffle.
Exactly my complaint. The empty tracks get purged, but some of the ones at the end of the album include some really good songs, so it’s either splitting the files using Audacity, remove them from the playlist, or deal with it. It was also something unique to CDs, and seemed to be a lot more popular in the 90’s than today.
It was edgy and an easter egg of sorts.
Being that one person who found it or that one person who failed to find it was all the fun
That is a lot of work. Pearl Jam, Offspring, and Stone Roses are guilty of this.
John Cage is disappointed.
Yeah, one of my favorite ’90s albums, Never Gonna Die Again, has that on the last track, it’s irritating.
The Afghan Whigs album Congregation has the annoying hidden track, and it’s the best song on the album.
“197 anti-ICE agitators arrested after breaking Mayor Karen Bass’ 8 pm curfew in downtown LA
“If you are in the curfew zone during the restricted hours without a legal exemption, you will be arrested. If you assault an officer in any fashion, you will be arrested.”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced a mandatory curfew in parts of downtown Los Angeles, effective from 8 pm to 6 am local time. The curfew is expected to remain in place for several days as city leaders and law enforcement respond to the ongoing civil unrest.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/197-anti-ice-agitators-arrested-after-breaking-mayor-karen-bass-8-pm-curfew-in-downtown-la
I’m surprised she did anything. Although she still blamed the problem on Trump.
That is surprising. She saw the writing on the wall. Good.
Well, yes. If the stupid voters had elected Kamala like they were supposed to, none of this would be happening.
We would still have a wide open border.
“Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the city’s upcoming mayoral election, backing the former governor in both the Democratic primary and the general election. Bloomberg, a billionaire and longtime figure in New York City politics, is also expected to contribute financially to Cuomo’s campaign.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/mike-bloomberg-endorses-andrew-cuomo-in-nyc-mayoral-race
“He’s an asshole just like me!”
I just have to SMDH at Andrew fucking Cuomo being the next mayor there.
How many nursing home deaths was he responsible for?
And yes, he is a world-class asshole in every way.
Now ask me if I care
More than half of people in key U.S. allies – including France, the United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea and Japan – have no confidence in President Trump’s leadership in world affairs, according to a new global survey by the Pew Research Center.
People in 15 of 24 countries downgraded their ratings of the U.S., according to the survey of more than 28,000. In addition, majorities in almost every country surveyed describe Trump as “arrogant” and “dangerous.”
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Richard Wike, who runs the global attitudes team at Pew, says one reason that Trump and the U.S. are receiving low ratings overseas is many people around the world want a more engaged America.
“If you look at our surveys over the years, people in other countries often want to see the U.S. working collaboratively, engaging in efforts with other countries to address big global challenges,” says Wike. “When the U.S. is going its own way, it’s seen more negatively.”
They want those sweet sweet Yanqui dollars.
Give me what I want or I won’t be your friend.
Your Terms are acceptable.
I don’t need “friends” like that.
Do you care?
I’ve read many warnings about how our friends will turn to China if we don’t do as they say, but little about those countries risks in dealing with China. Good luck Europe.
All that proves is that propaganda works.
“We liked Uncle Chump better.”
On my recent trip to Japan/Korea everyone I met was a Trump supporter.
Before you think that I just married into some ultra-rightists, I even had some rando on a bus in Daegu start talking to me and telling me how great Trump was. He told me I needed to get 100% behind him. (I had said I liked him, but had some serious reservations about some of his policies).
There is no way Japan or Korea are going to throw the US over for China.
I have said it before, but the political class (international version) hates Trump, but people seem to like him.
Weird.
Given the historical relationships with China…. Yeah.
Doctor Who may not be completely dead. The plan is to turn it into a woke children’s show,
“The BBC is set to expand the Whoniverse as it launches plans for a brand new pre-school animation series which will see the Doctor’s adventures come to CBeebies for the first time ever.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/doctor-who-bbc-to-expand-whoniverse-to-cbeebies
Oh Lord.
Last time was the show centered around K-9 and Sarah Jane. That was at least bearable.
The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/second-gen-stelvio-on-hold-as-alfa-romeo-reworks-ev-plans
I’ve been noticing a trend lately. More sites being blocked, more sites being down, more sites being slow, all across the internet. I think it is all these LLM’s scouring for data.
That’s an interesting theory. I was leaning towards bad state actors testing disruptive software myself.
It could be both. China is investing in both “AI” and cyberattacks.
The war on innovation continues
Meta is suing a company that ran ads on its services to promote an app that lets people create nonconsensual, sexualized images of others using AI technology, the social media company said Thursday.
The lawsuit is against Joy Timeline HK Ltd., which develops the app called CrushAI and its variants. The Hong Kong-based company ran ads on Facebook and Instagram to promote CrushAI, an app that uses artificial intelligence to take a photo of someone and create nude imagery of them.
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Researchers have sounded alarms about the rise of so-called nudify apps, which can be found online, in app stores and on Meta’s advertising platform.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sent a letter in February to Mark Zuckerberg urging the CEO to address his company’s role in letting Joy Timeline run ads that violate Meta’s standards on adult nudity, sexual activity, and “certain forms of bullying and harassment.”
What about apps to put politicians’ heads on hyenas’ bodies?
No one wants to see Dick Durbin’s dick.
Even Dick Durbin’s balls are disgusted by his dick.
Rule 34 implies somebody does, as frightening as that sounds.
(As always, I am not that someone.)
I would think that these nudify apps are the best thing ever.
Now anyone can claim that the nekkid pics of themselves that are on the internet are just fakes. Less stigma than ever.
The only downside is that the cops will still probably be ringing up people for child pr0n even though there was no real human involved. People will go to jail for imaginary shit.
That ship already sailed a while back, made it up to the Supreme Court IIRC. Guy got popped for illustrations and faked images that were of kids, and the conviction was upheld.
Quick question…has anyone ever tried kindle manga or comics? I have the kindle app on a tablet and thought maybe it would work – but amazon’s site is saying it needs to be an actual kindle or fire. Any thoughts/experiences?
Re: my transformer issues last night…I did more troubleshooting. I think part of the issue may have been some of my 20+ year old classic Belkin surge protectors…they still seem to be good, but I have fewer issues switching to smaller versions of 20+ year old surge protectors (not that I need 9 outlets in one place with my current home theater setup, etc). One of the transformers still trips no matter what so I’ll lug it to the housing warehouse tomorrow (heavy) to have them give it the once-over. I think I have some alternative plugs to use in other rooms – one of my smaller surge protectors has a much longer cable…
The 110-240 chargers (phones, computers, etc) have been pretty useful – thankfully my phone charger can double as my laptop charger till a new one gets here – just gotta make sure I unplug them when not in use to avoid future mishaps…
Sorry, can’t help with any of that.
Just wanted to say hi.
What kind of tablet?
I discovered Tachimanga on the Apple Store about two weeks ago. It’s been great.
https://tachimanga.app/
I have Android phones, but not tablets. But on Android you want something that supports the open source Mihon/Tachiyomi format.
Samsung tablet. It’s a few years old – not sure if it’s worth taking a chance buying something just to check or not. I guess I can afford a new kindle, but I like using the same devices for as much as possible.
Amazon has the full “Gate!: And the JSDF fought on” manga – on digital kindle. It’ll probably never get a hard copy release and I don’t like reading on the fan translation sites.
Fire HD tablets are excellent.
Prime day is coming soon, too. Expect deals to be had.
I did not fully understand but it sound like nerd shit to me
I haven’t bought anything in a while (okay.. I think a Battle Angel Alita Whatever-the-Mars-prequel is named via Amazon proper a few months back), but my DC Comics stuff then went to Comixology, which merged with Amazon… and now shows up in my Kindle app on my ipad / Kindle for PC and works just fine. Don’t own a Kindle tablet capable of it, so can’t really speak to it (I have a Paperwhite… somewhere..).
See, I saw riots in Northern Ireland and I assumed a different group. DW put the group in the headline.
Northern Ireland leaders urge end to anti-Romanian riots
https://www.dw.com/en/northern-ireland-leaders-urge-end-to-anti-romanian-riots/a-72876616
All over the news here though the ethinicity of the accused in uncertain
I’m hearing “Romanian” is a local misnomer for “gypsy.”
You might say that I am somewhat skeptical of that article.
Todays Barn Find, straight pimpin’ edition: https://barnfinds.com/super-fly-lives-1974-cadillac-eldorado-el-clasico/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)
When the Stutz Blackhawk is just too subtle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutz_Blackhawk
I see your Stutz, and raise one Excaliber!
https://barnfinds.com/454-equipped-1977-excalibur-series-iii-phaeton/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)&utm_medium=email&utm_sub=848715f32cb47bcba49313580211d258
Also + 1 Duke of New York
https://artstradamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1000067065.gif
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Speaking of Americans making things…
I watched this last night. Brian Lohnes does really great historical stories about racing and automotive and aircraft history. They are mostly people stories.
Anyway, the one last night was about a drag racer named Pete Robinson who legitimately deserves to be called a genius. Behind the story about his racing career, he also invented/designed parts for race cars and built a successful business making and selling them. Things like cast and machined magnesium parts for light weight. Anyway, I can’t help wondering how hard (or easy) it is these days to build a business like that now. I suspect there are a lot more small specialized manufacturers around than most people think.
I would think that 3D printing would be a boon to those niche manufacturers.
I once worked at a company that built IoT devices and they jumped all over 3D printing. They could 3D print all the components and at least make sure they all fit together before they had to spend any big $ creating a prototype.
A coworker there told me that it is amazing how often a schematic will have some measurement mislabeled. In Olden Days, you didn’t realize it until you sent it off to have a prototype made. (or spent a lot of time doing it in house). With the 3D model a lot of stuff like that is easily caught early in the process.
3d printing has its own issues. It’ll do fine for mockups, but anything expected to do work…
UCS:
Definitely not for anything that is supposed to be a long term solution. But it works great for quick prototypes.
It was also awesome for trade show demos. You could create a pretty looking display item for your booth without paying someone an arm and a leg.
The biggest issue is probably the regulation of workable spaces. If you can’t have a chrome shop due to being regulated out of business, there is no way something like a small machine shop/one-off factory is gonna spring up.
Especially when you can ship a CAD file off to China who will have the parts for you in a week.
So what I’m hearing is we need to Erase China in nuclear hellfire before they can get their missiles in the air, for the sake of the future.
Todays Barn Find, straight pimpin’ edition
I wouldn’t mind having those front seats in my living room.
Or the car in my garage. I’ll make room.
“Walk into a queer woman’s kitchen and the chances are that the lime-green spine of Rukmini Iyer’s The Green Roasting Tin will be poking out from a surface or a shelf – if it is not already on the counter and splattered with food. You are likely to find it in the homes of allies, too – this is the holy grail of what-to-feed-my-queer–vegetarian-offspring cookbooks.
Not only does The Green Roasting Tin play into stereotypes about gay and bisexual women – all vegetarian recipes, half vegan and supremely practical (the USP of The Roasting Tin series is that all the recipes are oven-cooked in one dish) – but it is also full of indulgence. The tarts, gratins, salads and bakes are dotted with pomegranate seeds or fresh herbs and drizzled with truffle oil or honey. One recipe even has an entire camembert plonked in a tray of potatoes. And that’s what makes it the perfect unofficial lesbian text: its unapologetic goal is pleasure….
Big trays of food almost invite you to spend lots of time enjoying them, going back for a second helping or fishing out the last charred mushroom or cube of halloumi. I suppose you could say that this kind of food is a “queering” of the meat-and-two-veg sit-down dinners associated with the traditional heterosexual British family unit. Which is maybe a bit of a stretch – and probably not what Iyer set out to do. But she did put together 75 really easy vegetarian recipes that are all completely delicious. And that, among other things, is exactly what a lot of lesbians want.”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2025/jun/12/my-unexpected-pride-icon-the-green-roasting-tin-a-cookbook-no-lesbian-vegetarian-can-be-without
Vegetables are gay.
I can’t speak for those other demographics, but I have a yellow Pilsbury’s cookbook, which was the cookbook in the house while I was growing up. I think we acquired more, but “The Yellow Cookbook” was the go-to if we needed something not in our typical repertoire.
Just checked the copyright page. ©1979, my copy being the third printing from 1981.
I haven’t referenced it in years, but I’d still trust it before any identity-focused work.
The Grauniad is an expert on being gay, it is known.
Vegetables are gay.
Ahem. I believe Terri Schiavo was married. Are you claiming that was just a ruse?
This is considered the go to in the craft cocktail world based on my conversations with staff. I’ve never gotten a good explanation as to why the vegetarian version is the default. I’ve had the original on my shelf for quite a while now. Well worth it if you ever feel you’re stuck in a rut with your cooking (I assume the vegetarian one is just as good). I would NOT recommend their What to Drink with What you Eat. Heavily focused on wines with a bunch of generic suggestions outside of that (nothing in the world pairs with “ale” or “lager” contrary to what their book says).
Anybody feel old?
Fifty Years Later, I Still Can’t Get Over ‘Jaws’
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/fifty-years-later-i-still-cant-get-over-jaws-396b2efa?st=9W7a1X&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
OMWC is writing op-ed pieces for the WSJ now?
That movie was always older than me, so…
Of course not. That came out before I was born.
/hides from the number of albums that are having 40 or 35 year reissues this year
They could 3D print all the components and at least make sure they all fit together before they had to spend any big $ creating a prototype.
I was just watching something last night where a guy whipped up some fixtures on the 3D printer to mock up his exhaust system to test fit it.
To others, it was about the dangers of sex. In the first scene, the girl who’s chased down the beach by a boy strips off her clothes and runs into the ocean, where the boy turns into a shark that is nothing but appetite.
Mmmm hmmm. Tell me about your mother.
The best part of that scene is that the shark doesn’t just wolf her down. Instead it nips at her a couple times before he decides it is something good to eat and chomps her.
Just like a sunny or a crappie. They do that all the time. Hits the jig a couple times to see if it is going to be a hassle. Then finally slurps it down.