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Why was that bearded Dragon given a sombrero?
How much does a hat that size cost?
“I made it for the llama, but the bearded dragon keeps taking it.”
That’s what she said?
The “8647” thing is so retarded I can’t come up with an excuse for it other than Comey has dirt on the current DoJ and wants to be immunized for his actual crimes.
It just comes off as desperate and sad. Now, if the point is to financially hurt him, fine. But it still comes off as retarded.
Agreed. And it takes the focus off the good things, like Somali fraud and voter fraud.
It’s a boring meme not a real threat. Sure investigate, but indicting is stupid.
Wasn’t he balls deep in all the coup and hoax shit?
That’s probably what this is really about.
Aligned. Unless they have a perjury play?
I despise Comey, but that indictment is ridiculous. The idea that posting a picture of a number is a threat to kill the President is stupid on its face, and 86 means throw out, or get rid of, not murder, in restaurant slang.
He was in the middle of writing 8647-5309.
Or a map with targets over certain House districts.
I listen to all of the boogie down brothers who sing the raps so I know all of the numerical codes, and using “86” when you really mean “187” would be “730”.
Obviously you don’t go to the interesting restaurants.
After they tried to trade a revolver fo the cannoli, I swore off those places. I mean, I also swore off the sugar in the cannoli, so I had to avoid temptation.
I was gong to make a comment about the new diner leaning into Italian stereotypes, but their menus have been updated and gabagool is gone from their breakfast sandwich on Brooklyn semolina bread. It’s still got prosciutto and arugula and mozz, but now it’s just “ham.”
Cannoli is probably the most unremarkable thing I have ever tasted, and that includes marshmallows.
Mo – there are much more unremarkable foods out there. Expand your horizons and be underwhelmed by many different cuisines.
“Cannoli is probably the most unremarkable thing I have ever tasted, and that includes marshmallows.”
Sounds like you haven’t had good cannoli.
That may be true. HOWEVER, I had it in NYC in an Italian restaurant whose cannoli was supposed to be awesome and I was underwhelmed.
Then again, in the same trip, I got a reuben from a big, popular deli and they not only used pastrami (and I think provolone) but they put fucking yellow mustard on it. (And I LOVE yellow mustard.) I’m not inclined to trust NYC food.
The unremarkable cannoli was the least offensive thing I ate the last time I was there.
And that’s not even to mention Tasty Kake, which was just awful.
Cannoli is probably the most unremarkable thing I have ever tasted
Seconded.
And I’ve had it from what is supposed to be the top place in the North End in Boston.
Or that that item is out so quit selling it at the tables.
Yup. We had an “86 Board” where the stuff we were out of was listed.
86 the Mayo.
Yeah, truly stupid.
But…
You know if the shoe was on the other foot….
Trump election integrity push exposes massive amount of dead people on North Carolina voter rolls
He’s destroying our democracy!!!
You should have to register to vote every year, in person, at a government office, with proof of residency and citizenship.
Pretty sure that’s racist. Because reasons.
The correct response to every link this morning is “and nothing else happened”.
Oh, fuck off Doomer. You’re so fucking tiresome.
When do we get the footage of the FBI going through Mrs. Comey’s underwear drawer?
That’s for classified documents, not threats.
Ew. Have you seen Frau Comey?
Show me convictions. Until then, it’s all show and no go.
DEG “the walls are closing in” is what you are supposed to believe.
Trust the plan?
JI, I must denounce myself. I have denounced others for not showing sufficient levels of plantrustmaxxing, and now I must denounce myself.
But since I’m an asshole, instead of reporting for reeducation I’m going to the gym. Unlike Trump I’m going to get something done.
Frau Comey? Don’t you mean Frankeinstine’s Bride?
This was my first reaction too.
Nothing at all will happen with any of it.
FBI Raids Childcare Facilities Linked to Somali Fraud
No children were harmed in the raids.
What did the FBI lear in these raids?
Trump election integrity push exposes massive amount of dead people on North Carolina voter rolls
do not discriminate against the heart beat challenged.
We also want to discriminate against noncitizens in our elections.
So you’re doubly excluded.
This is where, had I linking abilities, I’d link the ‘United Appeal for the Dead’ sketch from Kentucky Fried Movie.
Mexico Rocks Terrorist Group with Capture of Two Key Jalisco Cartel Leaders
Well Mexico is now safe. Plan the vacay
Not a chance. I don’t care how many of you lot say it is “safe” there.
It’s hard to believe that when I was in high school Mexico was considered safe enough that groups of kids from my school would go unchaperoned to parental beach houses in Rocky Point for extended weekends. We could also take shotguns south of the border to get an early start on the dove and quail seasons. Nobody that was crazy.
Or that during college a small group of us took the train from the US border to Mexico City and then busses to go climb the big three volcanoes. Sigh…. those days are consigned to the dust bin of history like the “hippie trail” to Afghanistan in the 60’s and early 70’s.
Fifty years ago was an entirely different world.
Hell, even 20 years ago was a different world.
I spent a week in China – no freaking way would I do that now. So many things are just so much worse these days. Especially ramping up since around November 2008.
From Screaming Eagle to squawking stool pigeon in one easy lesson.
The joke’s on him. There are better wines than the Napa Valley.
And the COVID hijinks hits keep coming. What infuriates me most in this article are the references to classification of information – there was no legitimate case for government secrecy, this wasn’t the Manhattan Project. And in the two e-mails shown (with headers) all of the gov addressees are redacted, while the non-gov are not; really, that’s ass-backwards.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/04/28/covid_cover-up_campaign_to_hide_star_researcher_ralph_barics_ties_to_global_pandemic_1179562.html
Perhaps the most outrageous item of the day?
Why in the everloving fuck are we paying for this shit? All of these “NGO’s” need to be burned to the ground and the earth salted.
Why in the everloving fuck are we paying for this shit?
NGOs are just a fiction to allow the permanent bureaucracy to do things that the government isn’t officially allowed to do.
Exactly. Any good faith NGOs had is burned, salted, loaded into a cannon, and fired into the sun.
They deserve nothing.
Wasn’t it the Right that pushed to send money to NGO’s back in the ’90s? They didn’t call them NGO’s, they called it charties.
The idea was that private charities would do a better job distributing money than the bloated bureaucracy of the FedGov. It was supposed to be a half step to privatizing the safety net.
Yanno, I wonder if it would be a legitimate tactic for the Messican government to let the Jalisco Cartel dudes out on like ten gigapeso bail as a way of recouping the ill-gotten gains. It’s not like if they skip bail they’re going to be any worse than the replacement guys.
What would be even wilder is if their underlings captured them and brought them back to trial so they could recover that bail.
Peter Daszak is proof you can’t keep a good grifter down! [From the ashes of EcoHealthAlliance arises Nature.Health.Global.]
I’ve come to come to hate the term “Shadow”.
Russia’s “Shadow” fleet – very scary. Just means the ships are insured from Russia or China, not Lloyd’s.
Iran’s “Shadow” banking – also scary. People moving around their currency with permission from Western banks.
Shadow just means our national beak isn’t getting wetted.
I would guess it is shadow when they are moving around things in western economies despite sanctions from western government. I do not think direct Russia to Iran transactions are seen as shadow.
And the Dems have their “shadow” government ready to burn everything to the ground after they win the midterms.
interactive polls 2026 generic congressional ballot
Not sure that implies anything about which Team is going to get more districts.
Probably doesn’t imply much, other than the Democrat wave may not be the slam dunk everyone assumes.
A convicted Muslim woman in prison has/had more religious freedom than a free person during the Covid-tyranny with regards to the RFRA.
You can’t have religious objections to THE SCIENCE!!!
Here is the article for reference.
Im for religious freedom, but breaking the law has consequences of restricting said freedoms to a point.
I do not think it requiring a full face photo of incarcerated persons contitutes a violation of one’s religion but this was Minnesota…so.
Some religions are more equal than others. Imagine if she was exercising a religious objection to abortion, say.
Well, I mean, when you know one religion will meekly submit to whatever and the other one will send human bombs to explode you if you glance at it wrong…
Mojeaux:
When the Knights of Columbus start carrying arms, we’ll know times have changed.
What does Saudi Arabia do in their women’s prisons, or are lady-criminals just executed there?
These muslims aren’t thinking big enough.
If she was part of Pope Jimbo’s Big Cathedral of Dogma (and she had been properly tithing), she could point out that one of the tenets of her religion is to “Not be in prison”.
The critical principle of religious freedom requires that you honor our adherents’ deeply held belief that they don’t believe in being incarcerated.
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉
@OrevaZSN
I just really, really hate the concept of capitalism. I don’t want to work my job every day. I want to make art. I want to be in my garden. I want to feel something.
Swann Marcus
@SwannMarcus89
I already loved capitalism but knowing it stopped this guy specifically from making terrible art makes me love it even more
https://x.com/SwannMarcus89/status/2049226074903457956
I don’t want to work…
I still hold that a lot of communism’s appeal to a lot of people is rooted in sloth rather than envy.
Most of them don’t give a shit about the rich, they just don’t want to work for their keep and think they’d be taken care of while doing whatever useless nonsense strikes their fancy – with the adulation they think they deserve.
[ does Lambeau leap ]
I suspect it’s a mix of both. How many of these ‘artists’ also want to get rich for their ‘art’ is another question. They just want to do it and get adulation but no monetary award? That seems like I’m being bullshitted.
UCS embrace the ‘and’ – sloth and envy. Hell, throw in narcissism while we’re at it.
DrOtto:
They don’t want the money, just the power, recognition, comfort, luxury, and protection that comes with the money.
YOUR garden, comrade?
I have not been around the site much and mostly missed it but browsing I am very sorry to hear Hayeksplosives. Did not expect that.
You should come to Duncan for the memorial. It’s boring but pleasant, especially this time of year.
I expect any Glib attendees at the memorial to do this or even this
Jimbo is banned from the service.
Wait… what? Is it as bad as NA’s reply is making it sound? Crap…..
Bad? No. I like Duncan, but then again I also like Miami, Vinita, Gotebo and Wagoner.
I’m just not pretending it’s an interesting place. And for some reason I think bereavement visas are easier to obtain.
Wagoner, Oklahoma? It was okay…
And my thoughts were more “sorry to hear (about?) HS” combined with “memorial”… as in… did she leave us and this mortal plane? That would be “crap” as an understatement. Whatever it is / was / will be… I missed it entirely, more than Pie evidently.
Here’s the obit
I’ll be at the memorial, as will Mojeaux and her dude. Maybe Yusef and a few others, I’m not sure.
Oh. Yeah. The worst happened. There are details on a couple of previous posts.
Shit. Thanks… that’s what I get for lapsing on lurking.
She was definitely a good egg and will be missed.
Yusef decided he/we can’t make it, unfortunately.
Simon Kuestenmacher
@simongerman600
The British view of the US is comically bad now. Source:
https://x.com/simongerman600/status/2049096442631930169
devastating for the US. I don;t know how y’all can recover from this.
“We don’t think of you at all.”
What UnCivil said.
Pretty much.
They need us more than we give a shit about them.
Who gives a shit?
Wait, so we traded the UK for Japan? I call that a win.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also confirmed the news, stating, “Homeland Security Investigations in cooperation with our law enforcement partners executed criminal search warrants in Minneapolis relating to the rampant fraud of U.S. taxpayers dollars.”
Curious that “our law enforcement partners” didn’t include any state or local agencies. I wonder why that was?
The state and local law enforcement would have tipped off the criminals.
After all the recent publicity how could there be any evidence left? Surely the Somalis would have covered their tracks with a “Going Out of Business” sign.
No fires, no break-ins, no Closed for Ramadan signs? C’mon, Somalis.
Or maybe the storefronts were totally empty, void of evidence? Surely there must be another shoe to drop.
Two factors to think about – One, they’ve been getting away with this for years, with the encouragement of the state authorities. They likely don’t expect consequences. Two, The Somalis we imported are not individually bright.
Are any of them?
Gov. Tim saying with a straight face and a deer-in-the-headlights look that he’s “taking care of the problem” is delicious.
Not everyone feels that King Walz is being truthful.
Sadly, too many DFLers in Minnesoda will nod along with Walz’s claims. They will use it to deflect GOP claims of rampant fraud under Walz. “No way! He was the one who told the Feds where to look!!!”
1974: Living in Fear of Compulsory Purchase | Nationwide | BBC Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnnMWr5e6k
James Hogg reports from the Leytonstone area of East London, where the local authority is using its powers of compulsory purchase on houses in Norman Road. One of the houses is owned by three octogenarian sisters – Olive, Lily and Gladys – who have lived in the house their entire lives, since the turn of the century, when Leytonstone was surrounded by farmland. The sisters want to stay where they are, but the area has been chosen for council redevelopment, and they will have to leave. They are not alone, 31 houses are to be demolished on Norman Road.
James speaks to some of the residents who have received a compulsory purchase order, and to a council official. He also speaks to a couple who know what it is like to be forced from their home in Leytonstone: the Hearns were forcibly evicted from their property in 1968.
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
How did he even manage to find that anyway?
Their name for “urban renewal”?
Yeah, moving people around like chess pieces in order to build new slums was a massive hit in America in those years too.
Olive, not Rose?
“Lightning strike turns 100-foot dinosaur into raging fireball, stunning onlookers
A massive animatronic dinosaur caught fire at a Kansas theme park after being struck by lightning over the weekend.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/us-news/kansas-lightning-strike-turns-100-foot-dinosaur-into-raging-fireball-at-theme-park/
When tragedy sounds awesome!
If it had happened in reality, it could have been the first Fried Chicken.
Good morning all. Off to the tracks, already ‘scored’ a few papers. The system is interesting, predictable and efficient (for what it is). I’m assuredly gonna write up how kids’ standardized test essays are evaluated. I’m glad I was really good at taking tests. (Or just writing in general.)
I want Fauci behind bars and I’ll never get it. I’d prefer he get tomatoed in public as he whines about how he doesn’t ‘deserve’ such treatment cuz he’s such a noble ‘public servant.’ That’d be nice to be broadcast live as the salt and red runoff makes him weep ‘blood’ as he struggles to understand why such nastiness is being done to him.
That’d be nice.
Nah, get the dogs.
It must feel good as hell to just be able to ban a specific annoying media trend as a middle level bureaucrat.
x.com/Carboniferoys/status/2048818876365132157
No problem too small for government to get involved in.
In more UK Health and Safety news…
Guidance from the British Standards Institution on window safety recommends that windows in any new building should accommodate 95% of the U.K. adult population in terms of reach. Scottish recommendations are even more explicit, saying windows “should be cleanable from inside by 95% of the elderly female population, without the need for stretching.” It sets this population at an age range of 64-75.
https://www.wsj.com/world/britain-has-a-tiny-window-epidemic-and-old-ladies-are-to-blame-9ece9791?st=hGHQow&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I look forward to hearing the corresponding Russian guidance. “All windows should accommodate 100% of political dissidents ‘unfortunately’ falling through them….”
No problem too small for government to get involved in.
“Disturbing video shows someone dressed in hateful Ku Klux Klan robes sauntering through the center of a quiet Rhode Island town in the middle of the night.
The hooded figure was filmed slowly walking alone around 2 a.m. Monday night down Main Street in West Warwick, where police now say they are investigating, according to WJAR.
Ryan Fitzgerland and his brother were driving through town when they recorded a video near the Main Street gazebo, leaving them no doubts as to what the sick costume was.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/us-news/video-shows-someone-in-kkk-robes-walking-through-rhode-island-town/
I have doubts.
SPLC intern.
Khaki brigade soul missing the good old days of being carted around in a U-haul.
Probably social media rot creator.
Almost certainly. Or another Jussie Smollett false flag.
where police now say they are investigating
Why? What law was broken?
Racism of course!
My first thought too.
Definite lack of ornamentation/rank/insignia on that costume.
Video of offender starting at 1:37 mark
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9iSVgAZ6bSM&ra=m
It’s just the Democratic nominee for the Maine Senate race out for a late night stroll , relax.
I had parked my car downtown yesterday and was walking to my local when I met a fellow whom I hadn’t seen in nearly twenty years, back when he was a youngster with the State Attorney’s office.
He was quite bright by lawyer standards, so I asked him if he had quit government service to go into private practice, or had been elevated to the bench, or what?
Turns out he was sick of college town politics, and he’d chucked the whole profession of law years ago, and was a full-time dog breeder now.
I think that’s quite admirable. Guy put his money where his mouth is when he said he preferred boxers to briefs.
Swiss might have to narrow his muzzle to bring you to heel.
“Mann testified she had a consensual relationship with Weinstein at one point because she felt that it could lead to a “loving relationship” — while also noting how Weinstein’s power in Tinseltown affected her decision to get involved with him.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/28/us-news/jessica-mann-recounts-rapes-at-harvey-weinsteins-nyc-trial/
OFFS!
That doesn’t sound like rape, that sounds like a business transaction.
“An employee at the fast-food chain in Florida allegedly shot at three women who tried to snag free soda from the establishment.
D’Mari Jy’Quan Patterson, 20, was arrested Monday and accused of snapping at the trio while on-the-clock at a Taco Bell in West Palm Beach.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/28/us-news/fla-taco-bell-worker-fires-gun-at-three-female-customers-after-one-tried-to-fill-water-cup-with-soda-cops/
CWAA
Is that a real name?
It’s only got two apostrophes, so yes.
The first comment:
He didn’t snap, exactly , that would suggest something crude, impulsive. No, this was in his mind, a moment of economic pedagogy.
There he stood, a reluctant steward of late stage capitalism, watching as three agents of chaos approached the beverage station with what can only be described as fiscal irresponsibility. Water cups, yes but intentions? Deeply carbonated.
He attempted, at first, discourse.
“Ladies” he might have said, gesturing with the solemnity of a tenured lecturer “what you’re engaging in is not merely a beverage substitution. It is a micro-theft, a destabilizing act that erodes the already razor thin margins of this establishment. Syrup ratios, CO₂ costs, supply chains, these are delicate ecosystems.”
But the invisible hand of the market was ignored.
The cup tilted. The soda flowed.
And with it, so too did his faith in rational actors.
What followed was less an act of violence (in his own internal narrative) and more a catastrophic failure of dialogue, a breakdown in the social contract between consumer and underpaid custodian of Baja Blast.
Somewhere, in a parallel universe, they paused. Reflected. Perhaps even purchased a small drink, restoring equilibrium to the system.
But not here.
Here, the lecture went unheeded. The thesis rejected. The dissertation was tragically, explosively defended.
At first glance, his actions seem excessive. But if you confront a thief and she goes into full chimpout mode, I’m inclined to agree that she got what she deserved. Pop a few more, pour encourager les autres.
I cann’t take seriously anyone who uses the phrase “late stage capitalism” unironically.
Is there a Gofundme? I’d chip in a buck or two. Fuck thieves.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
But on any given day, many of these offices boast more vacant desks than workers. Benjamin Bass, vice chairman of New York brokerage at JLL, said he has recently started to see AI firms leasing spaces 60% larger than their current head count requires.
As the AI firms see it, they will have plenty of time and opportunity to staff up. The more pressing concern is to secure the coolest high-end office spaces in the most desirable downtown Manhattan neighborhoods, from SoHo to the Flatiron District and NoMad.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/why-ai-startup-offices-in-nyc-are-flashy-but-mostly-empty-6882ed3d?st=H2fXV4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“What bubble?”
The AI doesn’t need a Desk, and replaces the human workforce, duh.
When being cool is one of your highest priorities, your business is doomed.
Withe the obvious exception of businesses who are solely in the “being cool” business of course.
I remember interviewing at Net Perceptions in the late ’90s. You couldn’t find a parking spot in their giant HQ lot.
The entire interview was about how cool they were and how they treated their employees so great. Foosball, video games, meals, etc.
They wanted me to help them with a certain task. It was ok, but would only last about a year max before it was done. I asked what I’d be doing after that. The managers interviewing me had no clue (they also couldn’t explain how they were going to make money). They pivoted to talking about how cool their perks for employees were.
So glad I didn’t take that job. They were shuttered a couple years later.
“Sydney Sweeney is praised for her Botox-free forehead and branded an ‘endangered species among actresses’ as reaction to her ‘iconic’ Euphoria line goes viral”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15774641/Sydney-Sweeney-praised-Botox-free-forehead-viral.html
My eyes are down here!
Why would an actress of her age need botox?
I find this consumption behavior fascinating.
When Shannon Johnson-George’s personal laptop went bust in February, she decided not to spend the roughly $1,000 it would cost to replace it. She plans to rewear an old dress for her son’s college graduation next month after being shocked by the $100-plus prices at the online retailers she frequents. Yet over the next five months, the 40-year-old from Cincinnati has a Disney cruise, a visit to Lake Erie and a trip to New Orleans for a Bruno Mars concert booked.
An “experience” has higher personal utility (in the economic sense) compared to durable goods in an inflationary environment.
Where Americans Are Drawing the Line on Price Increases
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/where-americans-are-drawing-the-line-on-price-increases-3e237258?st=1gTa5C&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I spend next to nothing on clothes either but that’s because I don’t give a shit about appearances.
But blowing money on “experiences” over “goods” seems r-tarded and completely foreign to me.
It’s what economists call a “utility curve”.
So, for example, Pie and OMWC here derive far more enjoyment on wine than I do and would be said to derive greater utility from it compared to me. But there is no right answer – just an optimal one for an individual among discretionary purchases.
It’s kind of the whole reason wealth can be produced by trade. If economic value was an absolute trade would make us all poorer since it involves expenses.
I’ve never been able to spend money on clothes after working for a client in the wholesale apparel industry.
The amount of markup is insane. Also the scam that is private labeling is insane.
I miss those clients. They’d let us buy clothes from them every Christmas (we could buy any time if we were willing to buy by the dozens). I have some nice clothes from there that are from the same production lines as Carhart, North Face and Columbia but were private labeled.
Wealth isn’t created by trade, only extracted.
You can use trade to provide new materials to make something and thus created wealth through manufacturing, but the middlemen are just an expense.
You almost got me with that troll. I started to type out a whole screed.
What is this article even trying to convey?
And Sensei said what I was going to say next…
I guess “spend it before government inflates away its value” carries a certain kind of logic.
If she’d have chosen Celebrity instead of Disney, she’d be on a better cruise for much less money, and could have afforded the laptop and probably the dress too.
The problem with paying for experiences is that you know that her Bruno Mars experience will be a crappy video taken from her phone.
Mrs. Holiness makes me be the family videographer when we are on vacations. I was never all that good and I’m getting worse. The main reason for this is that I have come to the conclusion that I’d rather focus on being there and drinking in the experience than focusing on the phone/video recorder.
Too many times after getting home, I realized I missed out on some really great sunset or scenery because I was looking at it through some tiny view finder. And the videos that you take never do justice to the real thing.
Same. All those folks constantly snapping pics and vids are like an alien species to me.
Fully agree.
You have to video and photo your food, your parking space, your seat at the sports ball game, because otherwise you won’t have anything to post online to gain the approval of people you don’t know.
I can add that space for durable goods impacts this.
For example, Japan has small living spaces compared to the US. Gift giving rituals in Japan give strong preference for consumable items over durable goods. I’m willing to bet the individual discretionary purchases tilt more to experience there than the US.
The twist for me in the WSJ article is the inflation impact.
My sister and me both stick to consumable gifts for each other for Christmas. Neither of us needs more stuff, but who can’t use a new bottle of something, or some fancy garnishes?
Some quality legal and corporate brand a – – covering.
“K-Y products are designed and regulated as medical devices, for use as personal lubricants, and have not been studied for other uses,” said Julia Kim, Reckitt’s vice president of regulatory affairs and safety. “The safety of the people who use our products is our first priority.”
https://www.wsj.com/style/beauty/the-secret-to-the-viral-wet-hair-look-is-k-y-jelly-just-dont-tell-k-y-a88aa592?st=hqwtmY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
You can squirt it up your ass, but don’t put it in your hair! That’s not regulated!
What about dudes with hairy assholes?
Asking for a friend
This Kentucky Jelly tastes funny!
The only thing that ever really made my hair soft was fabric softener. 🤷🏼♀️
🤔
🐑?
Have you tried lube? 😉
The liquid kind?? Yikes! 😳 I might have resorted to rubbing a dryer sheet on my hair to calm static, but… the liquid kind?
A (white) friend of mine with extremely curly hair swore by products designed for African American hair.
I want it soft, not slick.
Yes, I’ve been told to use black hair care products too but always stood there in the aisle looking at stuff I didn’t understand with no guidance whatsoever.
I used Dark ‘n’ Lovely to straighten my hair a few times in college LOL
“A villager in India carried his sister’s corpse to a bank after digging up her remains to prove she had died, having been repeatedly told he could not withdraw money without her being present.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15774697/Man-digs-sisters-body-takes-bank-prove-dead-refused-access-account.html
Sad.
“She is present – can I withdraw money now?”
Ok, I am not generally a fan of Bureaucracy and government documents, but I am willing to make an exception for Death Certificates. Mailing my dead Dad all over creation to prove he was deceased would have been much less convenient.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Instagram? Why would you not block them?
Because they are a sweet old lady and a nice dog?
No, I’m pretty sure Instagram is owned by Mark Zuckerberg.
“A woman from Illinois is pleading guilty after paying thousands of dollars to have others make so-called “animal crush videos,” which included depictions of adult and baby monkeys being mutilated and tortured for users in a deranged online chat group.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent out a press release Monday indicating Amanda Leigh Fourez, a US citizen from Illinois, pleaded guilty earlier this month to distributing and conspiracy to create and distribute these sorts of videos.
The videos Fourez paid for included footage that showed the monkeys being burned alive, having their genitals mutilated and other atrocities, according to the press release.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/us-news/illinois-woman-amanda-leigh-fourez-pleads-guilty-to-paying-for-monkey-fetish-videos/
WTF?
What does ICE have to do with it?
PS. I hope the rumors are true that Donald will change the name to NICE.
There is huge redundancy and overlap.
What’s ICE but a second-hand emotion?
Maybe she’s a naturalized citizen and they plan to strip her of citizenship?
Maybe it was a big misunderstanding?
Someone called a bureaucrat and started explaining how this woman was really hurting animals. “Those poor monkeys have some serious injuries!!!”.
The bureaucrat then said “they should put some ice on that”.
In my libertopia, animal cruelty laws wouldn’t exist, but a private citizen who removed such a producer from the planet could use a “they needed killing” defense to get the charges dismissed pre-trial.
Neph, are you going to protest against those pencil pushers at Deloitte for starting those Cleveland river fires?
Do you know what accountants and consultants eat and where they excrete?
Deloitte is a business. That’s all that matters.
I know there are probably some commies out there where aren’t stupid in addition to evil but holy fuck is she stupid.
Fuck you AOC! The river hasn’t burned in my lifetime!
Well, there was a fire down Akron way a couple years back, there was a gas tanker that rolled over and spilled gasoline onto the river.
Dupont maybe?
“A Costco employee was killed Saturday evening in Strongsville, Ohio, after police say he confronted a customer who attempted to enter the store with a visible firearm.
The incident unfolded at the store entrance at 5:45 pm. Witnesses told investigators the employee, 61-year-old Randy Corrigan, told a man he could not enter the building while carrying a gun with a drum magazine partially visible from his pocket, according to court records obtained by FOX 8.
Authorities identified the suspect as 22-year-old Christian M. Bryant, a truck driver from Fort Worth, Texas. Police say Bryant then drew a semi-automatic handgun and opened fire on Corrigan. “After a split-second pause, [Bryant] fired many more [shots], one after another, with no pause,” court records said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/ohio-costco-worker-shot-to-death-by-customer-for-telling-him-not-to-enter-store-with-gun
drum magazine?
A drum magazine makes your gat go rat-a-tat-tat.
Why assume it was AI generated?
The post was accompanied by an AI-generated picture of Trump holding a gun with explosions in the background, and the words “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!”
Trump wouldn’t have much trouble laying his hands on a suitable prop.
Shock… Roberts Court again attempts to thread needle.
The section is unconstitutional. and thejustices know that.
Just call the ladies the “racist wing of SCOTUS”. That would be as honest.
Apparently the most recent shooters loadout cost him <$1k. And both were CA compliant!
https://www.mossberg.com/maverick-88-security-w-top-folding-stock-31027.html
https://www.armscor.com/firearms-list/gi-standard-fs-38super-10rd
And both were CA compliant!
See – those laws save lives!
38 Super? Did he think he was in Mexico?
He was a Caltech engineer. He probably summed the total energy delivered by 10rds of .38 super and saw it was greater than 7 rounds of .45ACP.
Or as someone speculated, there are a shitton of .38 supers in the CA used handgun market.
You have to be dedicated to find a .38 super and ammo. Just seems an odd decision when you can just buy a 9mm.
I very often get pitches from book marketers, and their praise for my books is oddly specific, so I know they shoved the book through AI to generate the copy.
Okay, well, I’m always up for AI to kiss my ass and I find these vaguely ego stroking and then I mark them junk.
TODAY I get one that didn’t even do that much. It took my blurb and “trigger warning” (“…and a cat named Dog…”) and reworked it a little to try to fool me that the marketer actually read the book, but really? You couldn’t even be bothered to upload it to AI to flatter me a little more?
Relevant music: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPZVrmJ2HH8
Fuuuuuuuck! I thought I was being clever.
“One incident, said the Dean’s office, “involved the use of the ‘N-word’ by a student in a residential setting, which was overheard and reported by a [b]lack student.” That means that students, whose race is not mentioned, said the “n-word” and were overheard. It is the student who overheard the term that was victimized…
The Dean goes on to talk about the second incident, a party that was held by the Black Student Union, where “a staff member attempted to engage students about potential policy violations.” This apparently was a party that got out of hand, but when students were told to tamp it down, “several students,” the Dean said, felt “targeted and racialized.” The BSU was prevented from hosting parties—for two days—before the suspension on parties was lifted.
The final incident was that Chair of Sociology Hung Cam Thai showed a documentary where the “n-word” was spoken, and subsequently repeated that word during the classroom discussion.” The Dean walked a fine line, saying both “There will be times in our classrooms when engaging with difficult language is unavoidable,” and “students reported feeling particularly distressed by the repeated use of the slur—underscoring the imperative for thoughtful judgment in such situations.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/pomona-college-black-student-union-demands-more-power-after-allegations-of-3-racist-incidents
No poop swastika?
JFC this shit is so tedious. “Demands more power” about sums up what’s really going on.
Remember when people stopped believing in magic words during their childhood?
“Sticks and stones…” something something…
Fourscore may remember that, but I am pretty sure the “N word” has been a magical taboo since the rest of us were kids.
That saying never made any sense. Words are very effective weapons, especially when targetted at the weak points of the target. The fine art of bullying has honed them to an art form.
Denial of the effect just made the already apathetic staff dismissive of complaints.
Labor theory of value and words as violence on the same links?
Stoics says words have no power if you don’t given them power.
The old saying was to teach kids how to take the power away from bullies.
It doesn’t make the problem go away, but it does teach kids to be more resilient.
I didn’t. https://youtu.be/tY8B0uQpwZs?si=nJe7y-l6jFkkguqL
You can also immunize yourself against words. When you are a wee child, you may need to rely on a counterspell such as “I’m rubber you’re glue…” but with training you can disable magic words wandlessly and without vocal components!
All well and good except for the fact that race is the third rail of American society. You cannot have an honest conversation with most people about anything surrounding the issue.
Kinnath – if that was the intent, the adults should have explained better rather than rattling off a slogan and shooing the children away. All it did was indicate “these adults are morons” because they were asserting a manifestly false set of ‘facts’.
@NA – Any kid trying that was asking for a punch to the face, because it sounded so stupid.
The apathetic adults would only care when the blood flowed or the bones broke.
the adults should have explained better
So, no real experience with children then.
@Kinnath – Only as a child at the time.
When you only cause confusion, your repeat of the same set of words does nothing but make you look the fool in the eyes of the child.
Words are weapons, sharper than knives
@UnCiv: yes and? Countertrolling and determining when/where the escalation points are is a crucial part of social development. Likewise, negotiating such situations without resorting to authority is someting more people should know how to do.
But let me address a misconception I’m seeing here.
Yes, the hexagrammaton is a thing in today’s social environment. My point about “magic words” was when Black people allow themselves to experience this purported psychic trauma just because an unclean mouth uttered the Holy Word. Now I’m wondering if a foreign government could disable a large part of the US fighting force by playing The Word on repeat over comms.
White People who believe in magic words become Sovereign Citizens.
Revisionist history
This January, in a drab committee room of the New Hampshire state legislature, a Republican state lawmaker teamed up with a German Holocaust denier to propose that the state’s public schools incorporate a conspiracy theory when developing their lesson plans: namely, that the Nazis’ murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust was a hoax.
Though their effort failed, the incident was just the latest example of antisemitic extremism creeping further into the American political mainstream, to the point that prominent conservative voices have warned of a “cancer” destroying the pro-Trump MAGA movement from within. And in a sign of just how normalized these incidents of anti-Jewish bigotry have become, the state lawmaker responsible for the effort, Rep. Matt Sabourin dit Choinière, appears to have faced no consequences and minimal backlash from Republican leadership in New Hampshire.
The proposal has not been widely reported until now.
“It’s extremely concerning,” said Deborah Lipstadt, an expert on Holocaust denial at Emory University, who served in the Biden administration as a special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism.
I’m sure that’s exactly what happened.
Something tells me that NPR is silent on the far more numerous examples of rampant antisemitism coming from their fellow travelers.
Coca-Cola’s new Chief Executive Henrique Braun has a magic number: 1.25.
That is how many liters of Coke—or other beverages—that Braun said can hit the sweet spot for budget-minded consumers. The CEO, who took the soda company’s reins on March 31, sees that size, along with expanded sales of mini cans, as “a choice that fits into their daily disposable income.”
Sure – mini cans or 1.25 litter bottles are what your big soda drinkers are going to migrate to in this inflationary environment. JFC.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/skinny-sodas-and-mini-cans-how-cokes-new-ceo-is-sizing-up-consumers-8ecf5fb4?st=HZpa4i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m a fan of the mini cans as they’re closer to the standard mixer amount needed for a drink.
You don’t have a hose bib dispensing flat, stale soda? Amateur.
Mad Scientist:
The tap lines are for beer only, not for soft drinks.
Prominent far-right commentators known for their antisemitic diatribes — including Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes — have gained increasing popularity. Survey data from Yale University and the Manhattan Institute have suggested that antisemitism is particularly acute among young conservatives, and NPR has found that multiple Trump administration officials have links to antisemitic extremists or have promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Anything short of unblinking unwavering support is antisemitism.
The entire leftist establishment, including every major University and student group, accuses Israel of genocide for defending itself from the most vile attacks, but a handful of ‘right wing’ figures joining in the Jew hate is a particularly acute problem?
I’m just wondering how they’ll synthesize “acute anti-semitism” with “America is subservient to (((them))).”
SCOTUS rules racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional. Who would have guessed?
But only this one district, I’m sure. 🙄
I’m a fan of the mini cans as they’re closer to the standard mixer amount needed for a drink.
Based on a recent discussion here, I snagged some Q ginger beer; eight 7.5 ounce cans, I believe. Obviously mixer size.
The stuff- not a fan. It is spicy, as in contains some sort of chili extract. I didn’t dump it all out, but I wouldn’t buy again.
Ah. I’m a fan of spicy ginger beers.
“Q ginger beer; eight 7.5 ounce cans”
Those are small cans for Q
lol
I like a good ginger beer, but they don’t need any more bite than they already have.
Woman Doctor Bitches About Equality vs. Equity
Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcomes.
Equal rights do not guarantee equal opportunity.
Equal protection under the law is all you get.
This isn’t very HAES.
Equity is “I take what you have.”
This.
People who use that word need to be publicly shamed, frequently and forcefully. And told to fuck off.
Where is the “equity” for people like me who don’t have kids? I want to take 12 weeks off whenever I feel like it too.
You don’t get to. You’re not special.
But why should women who miss several months of work, perhaps several times, be treated the same as men who don’t?
Jesus, these people are tedious.
We had a dude who took months of “paternity leave” a couple years ago. I was like, uh whatever.
You’re enacting our workplace labor while you’re on leave. Why should we be punished for that after the fact as well?
“It means treating pregnancy, postpartum recovery and lactation not as peripheral issues, but as central to workforce participation.”
So don’t hire women who can get pregnant?
The entire concepts of ‘equity’ and ‘equality’ are idiotic cope that should never make it out of grade school. See also, ‘fairness’…
Mystery
It’s one of the lingering mysteries of Saturday’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner: Did alleged assailant Cole Allen fire the shot that struck a Secret Service officer in his bulletproof vest?
Prosecutors believe that Allen, who is charged with an attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump, fired at least one round from a 12-gauge shotgun. That’s evident from the fact that he is also charged with one count of “discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.” But Allen is not charged with assaulting law enforcement, and the Trump administration has not provided details about whether the round from Allen’s gun is the one that hit the officer.
Based on the wording in an early story, I assumed it was either friendly fire or self-inflicted.
A photo I saw showed about four SS people in a line in a hallway, guns drawn. Trained experts.
Surely buying the gun, transporting* the gun, unfolding the stock, and loading each shell into it should be a separate attempted murder charge, no?
*Every change of transportation mode and each stop and start during said transport are obviously independent charges too.
Stop giving them ideas.
Blanche said investigators’ initial understanding is that the Secret Service officer who was struck fired his weapon five times at Allen but didn’t hit him. He also said a preliminary review suggested Allen fired his weapon once, with an empty casing remaining inside the firearm, suggesting that he didn’t pump it to reload. He also emphasized that buckshot from a gun like Allen’s is difficult to trace.
“It’s not an exact science,” Blanche said. “It scatters everywhere. Sometimes it just disappears actually.”
Just like the O K Corral.
They can’t tell if there is buckshot in the vest? Did anyone else fire a shotgun?
The important part here is, “Buckshot from a shotgun does not leave usable ballistic trace.”
But the questions of “Were any other shotguns discharged” and “What was actually caught in the vest” should narrow down if it was his shotgun that hit the agent or if it could have been friendly fire.
Need More Data.