So the days of maximal nonsense are behind us. Tuesday and Wednesday are auspicious times to begin something. Thursday might extend that out, but the role of the waning moon make that day seem unlucky, so I wouldn’t push things too far. If you’re a Leo, you can expect the 12th to be even luckier than most people.
1950’s music
Leo: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss. Someone’s birthday tastes are extremely particular.
Virgo: Knight of Cups reversed – Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
Libra: Wheel of Fortune reversed – Technically good luck, but not the kind of results you want. Not Monkey’s Paw or anything more like winning some fast food from a place you don’t particularly care for.
Scorpio: The Hierophant reversed – Society, good understanding, concord, overkindness, weakness.
Sagittarius: 7 of Cups – False starts, bad ideas, efforts that produce little or nothing, pland that go nowhere.
Capricorn: The High Priestess – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Aquarius: Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
Pisces: Knight of Coins reversed – inertia, idleness, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
Aries: 4 of Coins reversed – Suspense, delay, opposition.
Taurus: The Magician reversed – Physician, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.
Gemini: Blank – _______________________________________
Cancer: The Devil reversed – Evil, fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
So flipping wholesome:
Sagittarius: 7 of Cups – False starts, bad ideas, efforts that produce little or nothing, pland that go nowhere.
Something completely different.
Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss. Someone’s birthday tastes are extremely particular.
Sounds sufficiently shitty.
Fuckin’ hell.
This week is a milestone birthday for me. This horrorscope sucks. Please give me a better one, NA.
Agreed! This is balls!
What is your milestone? 50? 60? 70?
It’s [redacted].
Blank?!
That can’t be good.
“Make your own fortune”
“So the days of maximal nonsense are behind us.”
I think you cast the bones/cards/tea leaves or whatever then went to go take a leak. When you came back you forgot which end of the table you were at when you did the casting. You read that upside down.
Intestines. Don’t ask.
There is no such thing as peak derp.
Libra: Wheel of Fortune reversed – Technically good luck, but not the kind of results you want. Not Monkey’s Paw or anything more like winning some fast food from a place you don’t particularly care for.
Yea that wouldn’t be good – I stopped eating fast food around 2010, and I’ve noticed if I eat anything remotely close to that, my gastrointestinal system gets very angry with me. That effect makes me wonder what kind of substances are in all the processed food. I guess that does happen to people who stop eating meat or dairy and then resume, but I’m still paranoid about it.
I occasionally forget and eat some fast food I have fond memories of (sonic’s footlong chili cheese dog w/ onions) and am very quickly reminded why I should not do that.
*The flora/fauna in your gut adjusts to whatever you habitually eat. If you switch to something unusual the species population census in your gut has a hard time with it.
Yea, gut flora is probably a big piece of that picture. And RFK has me wondering about seed oils now. I’ve deep fried things at home, usually in vegetable oil, and I’ve always felt kind of bloated and uncomfortably full afterwards, even if I didn’t eat a gigantic portion. I thought that was just part of the deep fried experience. But I bought some beef tallow from the butcher shop the other week, and that feeling is not there at all. It just feels like I ate a good hearty meal. I’ll have to do a deep dive into the research sometime (which is now muddied since people are reflexively defending seed oils because a Trump-adjacent guy said they’re bad – I’ll have to put on a search filter to ignore everything after the 2024 election season).
I’ve subscribed to Nick Norwitz after Tundra recommended him. It’s about half behind a paywall but the free bit is good:
https://staycuriousmetabolism.substack.com/p/are-tallow-fries-a-big-fat-scam-untangling
Agreed, Akira. Fried food always bloats me. I will have to try beef tallow (if I fry anything again soon).
@ Slumbrew:
That’s an interesting read so far, particularly the part about the fats in tallow being more stable than those in seed oils. I always filter and re-use the deep frying fat a couple times, and the vegetable oil gets a little darker every time, and after 3 or 4 uses, it has that awful “fast food” taste. I’ve used that same batch of tallow to cook 4 batches of potatoes if I remember right, and it’s still nice and white just like when I bought it.
(If I were in the UK, I’d probably be arrested for all this talk about keeping things perfectly white and keeping out the unwholesome dark elements)
That goldie on the chair has had enough of Lena’s shit.
Brown dog (whom I didn’t notice at first) seems to like her.
Cancer: The Devil reversed – Evil, fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
🍆💦🍑
So I got suckered in with “You made it!” only to read Virgo: Knight of Cups reversed – Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
I want a refund.
Virgo in her cups rapidly ceases to be a virgin.
I’m about to head to NE Ohio. If those qualities can be found anywhere in the state it would be Youngstown.
Allons-y !
Youngstown fathers, keep your plus-sized daughters inside.
🎶 and isn’t it ironic 🎶
Coming soon
Industry analysts have heralded the arrival of an AI era in which genius computers transform how humans work and play.
“As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight,” Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a recent memo.
“I believe this will be the beginning of a new era for humanity.”
Any day now.
Zuck, just because it is smarter (and more human sounding) than yourself is no reason to assume all of humanity is doomed.
Just read a review of the new GPT 5 (I think). Apparently, hugely expensive iteration with only marginal improvements.
I think LLMs, at least, are pretty much plateauing. Other flavors of AI, I couldn’t say. I would say that the whole AI thing smells a lot like a bubble, but fortunately the tech industry has been pretty much immune to those.
ChatGPT-5 was trained to be trustworthy and stick to providing answers as helpful as possible without aiding seemingly harmful missions, according to OpenAI safety research lead Alex Beutel.
“We built evaluations to measure the prevalence of deception and trained the model to be honest,” Beutel said.
ChatGPT-5 is trained to generate “safe completions,” sticking to high-level information that can’t be used to cause harm, according to Beutel.
No more Nazi misinformation. Bigger and better
guardrailstraining wheels.“Sanitized for your protection.”
“Ribbed for your pleasure.”
“Lobotomized to limit our liability”, more like.
“share and enjoy”
Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance. Much better than last week.
Suspense, delay, opposition. Meh
Infestation
Zuckerberg, along with his wife Priscilla Chan and their three daughters, moved to the community more than 14 years ago. In the time since, the family has spent more than $110 million buying at least 11 houses spread across just two streets, offering prior owners up to triple the value of their homes to move out.
The Zuckerbergs have apparently now turned five of those buildings into a single compound, complete with a main house, guest houses, luxurious gardens, a pickleball court and a large swimming pool—along with a now-notorious seven-foot statue of Chan herself.
Another building is apparently being used by the family as a private school for more than a dozen children, even though the NYT reports this is against Palo Alto city codes. “He’s been finding loopholes around our local laws and zoning ordinances,” Greer Stone, a local council member, said. “We should never be a gated, gilded city on a hill where people don’t know their neighbors.”
Beneath the complex, Zuckerberg has apparently also drilled down to create cavernous areas referred to in building permits as “basements,” and better known among his neighbors as “bunkers” or the billionaire’s “bat cave.”
Construction is understood to have spanned more than eight years, with neighbors complaining their streets have been almost constaantly filled with building equipment and loud noises.
Just wait ’til the intergalactic shuttle service starts up.
Heck yes! Offer me three times the value of my house, please!
Honestly, if I won the lottery I’d be tempted to buy out my neighbors and build a compound. That sounds awesome.
There’s a guy in my neighborhood who lives in a gigantic historical home (3 story with huge wrap-around porch and several balconies; his detached 2-story garage is bigger than my entire 2-bedroom house).
It wasn’t for sale; he just knocked on the door one day and told the people he wanted to buy it, and he must have offered them enough that they went for it. He’s an international sales rep for a livestock antibiotics company, I think.
I wouldn’t be able to buy a new house with 3x the value of my house. This thing is basically illegal to be built in the modern regulatory environment.
$20 Million, minimum. That way the hassle of relocating will be worth it.
3x even upstate New York prices is probably 5x most of Ohio. That nest egg would go a long way toward supporting you while you found work, and you’d be in a moderately free State…
In my area, you’re more likely to be bought out by Dollar General.
Jar, I paid 82k for this house.
Heck yes! Offer me three times the value of my house, please!
Oh, perfidy! It’s inhumanly cruel.
He FORCED them from their homes!!!
Misery continues apace. Got it.
That’s pretty much my wheelhouse, tho.
Missouri loves company!
I don’t believe it. You’ll have to show me.
Goddammit. Some sort of infernal golf stupidity is in overtime and pre-empting the Portland race. I don’t get FS1, you assholes.
The announcers are excited. Is it over? Get off the air, you bozos.
“If you’re a Leo, you can expect the 12th to be even luckier than most people.”
“ Leo: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss. Someone’s birthday tastes are extremely particular.”
I’m getting mixed messages.
Oh for fuck’s sake now what? Another playoff? Arm wrestle for it.