One of the core functions of astrology is to determine when to do things for maximum benefit. Whether that’s going to war, planting a crop, or conceiving an heir (which I guess is the same thing) people would consult the charts to see what the stars would be like. This week we get one of those “do it!” indications. During the 18th and 19th we get the moon moving from Mercury to Venus in a “great change – successful outcome” series. So if you’ve got something you can do that isn’t otherwise time-designated, do it Tuesday.
The first six cards were drawn reversed? That’s not a good sign.
Gemini: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
Cancer: The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
Leo: The World reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
Virgo: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety, indecision is bad.
Libra: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, impotence.
Scorpio: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Sagittarius: 6 of Cups – Important events relate to the past an memories.
Capricorn: King of Swords reversed – Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.
Aquarius: 8 of Swords – Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny, sickness. On the plus side, all of these are temporary.
Pisces: Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news, indecision, instability.
Aries: 5 of Wands – Imitation, games, competition, gain, opulence
Taurus: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss, burial, obsequies.
Time changes PETA propaganda into fetish porn
Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
Sounds sufficiently shitty.
One of those is not like the others.
“ Cancer: The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.”
I like dress up time.
[un]reasoned caution
No butt stuff for Sean.
5 of Wands – Imitation, games, competition, gain, opulence
Not great, not bad.
King of Swords reversed – Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.
Hmm, where can I send the missus for the week?
As I’m joyfully consuming my favorite sporting event, I’m once again puzzled by how apparently proud soccer haters are of their preference. You think the sport is boring. OK. Does that make you special somehow? No one’s forcing you to watch it.
FWIW, I think NFL is slightly more interesting than watching grass grow but significantly less interesting than curling (a 2.5-hour beer commercial with 10 minutes of actual gameplay in which the primary feature is roided out men reducing their lifespan by 25 years), but I don’t take every opportunity to irately declare this opinion whenever anyone mentions the Super Bowl.
How about not being interested in sports at all, not even the spelling bee? 🙀
Combo time! Let’s get a bunch of ‘hoteliers’ together to duke it out over the proper spelling of “Accommodations.” Winner gets a Comfort Suit! Loser? Forced to stay the days in.
My comfort suit is a birthday suit. :-p
Cancels today’s visit to teD.S
Spelling bees are the worst. The weirdo nerds who win those are almost as bad as chess nerds.
All sports are boring unless you are playing them.
This guy gets it.
It’s Jingoism. Soccer ain’t Murican’, whinging about it is how rednecks virtue signal how patriotic they are to each other.
Partly, but largely [the] hyperbolic nonsense. To the degree it is a virtue signal, it’s a reaction to the desire of the self-styled sophisticates in the US to promote it at every opportunity as a superior European, nay, worldly sport unlike the crass gauche and down right barbaric Murican (and virtue successfully signaled by the dimissive ‘Merican formulation) sports.
FWIW, I don’t find find soccer particularly entertaining or interesting. But the only time I’ll voice that is if some ass-hat comes along with how superior it is to barbaric Merican sports (if not done in jest amongst friends – stop laughing, I have some! – in that case I just give it back.
Because the feeds keep trying to shove it at me even more than the NBA. Regardless of how many times I’ve told Google I care not for soccer, basketball, or college sports, it keeps shoving all of them into my feeds.
My only “feed” is here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My only feed is here.
Tru dat.
Sagittarius: 6 of Cups – Important events relate to the past an memories.
I plead the Fifth.
No one’s forcing you to watch it.
Phew.
He’s not wrong about the tedious virtue signalling of the soccer haters.
I’ve argued before that a lot of the things that people say is bad about soccer occur in “American” sports: You want diving? Ice hockey, or the flopping in basketball. Faking injury? NFL players have been known to do it to slow down up-tempo offenses. Boring? Why did they institute a pitch clock in baseball?
I think they do it to rile people up.
I am above that sort of behavior, myself.
tedious virtue signalling of the soccer haters
Something something, mote in ‘your’ eye.
Yet.
Scorpio: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Well damn.
Have some insipid whining
Clinton, Bush and Trump surely hold significantly different measures of culpability for the squalor of American political culture. But all three children of 1946 are central characters in a decades-long descent in which Americans have been progressively more tribalistic in their political affiliations; ever-more coarse and insulting in public discourse; more mystified by and contemptuous of those who disagree; less trusting in government and most other establishment institutions, less confident in the country’s ability to reliably and rationally govern itself or fashion a consensus around solving long-term problems, or even to agree on the most basic standards of right and wrong.
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It is in the realm of politics that the legacy is rancid. This was a generation whose politics were defined by a single question, “Which side are you on?” The argument over the answer has kept the country preoccupied for going on six decades.
This generation’s penchant for a moralizing brand of politics — in which opponents are not just wrong-headed but in fundamental ways wrong-hearted, even wicked — began on college campuses in the 1960s in arguments over Vietnam and whether one looked sympathetically or contemptuously at the blossoming counterculture.
Them boomers was a bunch of stiff necked moralizing knowitalls.
in which Americans have been progressively more tribalistic in their political affiliations
And the Chicago Democratic machine would never contribute to that!
+ one hundred fifty million or so bitter clingers.
“less trusting in government and most other establishment institutions”
After everything they’ve done to earn our trust!
Sorry, Curaçao.
C’mon, they’re just happy to be here.
It’s an honor to be nominated, isn’t it.
And their coach is one of the few people at the tournament older than Tim Ream.
lol
Didn’t they wheel out Edin Džeko yesterday? I was like how is he possibly here.
Amazingly enough the German goalkeeper is also older than Tim Ream.
Raw milk fear mongering
He was talking about raw milk, which, if you trust 150 years of bedrock science, offers little reason to consume. By definition, it has not been pasteurized, the simple process of heating milk to kill off harmful bacteria. Before the practice was widely adopted a century ago, thousands of babies died each year from illnesses linked to contaminated dairy. Today, most scientists and health experts agree that raw milk has no significant, proven nutritional benefits over its sanitized counterpart, cannot treat or cure disease and subjects its consumers to over 100 times the risk of foodborne illness, which can be especially dangerous for young children.
And yet, McAfee’s farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, is pulling in about $30 million a year, meeting a growing demand from customers who say they want food that hasn’t been robbed of health benefits by industrial processing. Once drawing a fringe crowd, raw milk has been thrust into the mainstream in recent years by a potent mix of politics, wellness culture and a wave of suspicion that health institutions have been compromised by Big Pharma and Big Food. Its proponents have turned it into a symbol of freedom and defiance. More than 10 million Americans now drink it; national weekly sales rose by 65% from 2023 to 2024 alone.
a growing demand from customers who say they want food that hasn’t been robbed of health benefits by industrial processing.
This from the same people who go on and on about “ultra-processed foods”.
The only “ultra processed foods” the left hates are cured meats.
They embrace the impossible everything and canola/cotton seed oil.
This explains the abysmal health prevalent in the Amish communities. [rolls eyes out of head and across the floor]
Ted & 3Door – it’s Goldilocks food processing; it has to be jusssssssst right.
Well, there is the inbreeding issue in some communities of Amish.
It’s not the raw milk causing that, of course.
Eat ze bugs.
I wouldn’t drink that shit but to each his own I guess.
Yeah, same with steak tartare. Handwashing too.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I drank milk.
Butter, cheese, and heavy cream yes. Milk? I’ll have some cereal once a year or so so I guess that counts.
Gustave is on the right handwash-free path, while Threedoor ruins his cereal once a year. If ya didn’t soggify it, ya might partake more. *eyes bowl of dairy-free fruit loops* Finger food trump’s all.
Don’t soggify your hands, neither. Unless you actively shat or pissed on yourself, or if you were laboring and actual dirt got on your hands, WhyTF are y’all washing ’em? I can’t remember the last time I was sick-sick (not injured), and I strongly believe the two are related. Just like traveling to see the world, expose your body to all the filth. (Play with the Germans in the bathroom and ya may have legit cause to wash your hands. Unless. That’s your thing. *shrug*
Same special as last week, I think. 🧼 ✋
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjqZyAcMQ2Q
Oooooh, Tox! First time in a looong time I’ve seen that! He’s my favorite for a reason. We’re correct! Let’s say ya wash your hands. Now, all wet, or otherwise, ya open the door and it’s all filthy again. Oh, ya open the door with your elbow? Pbbbth! Next time ya touch *anything* with your hands, your illusion of “cleanliness” is all over!
Oh, your phone, and everywhere IT has been? It’s writhing in filth. And all up to your face and fingers and where THEY’ve been?! Everyone is covered in filth all the time and that’s just fine WAY more than 99% of the time.
The illusion of cleanliness, joke’s aside, is not doing people any good. Well, the ‘spiritual’ high folk get. (And those “Eco-Dryers, favored by the environutters?! Two bumper cars in their brain colliding, and in the bathroom(!), cleanliness trumps CO2.
Nah, I’m on team handwashing. If you don’t want to do it, knock yourself out. Just didn’t prep my food or touch my door handles.
Cancer: The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
throw caution to the wind
Taurus: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss, burial, obsequies.
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Uh. Damn. That doesn’t add up at all. Unless, to be unreasonably charitable to the star-clusters, I’m onward to infamy by burying destructive setbacks and finding my way to more meaningful work. (Aha!) I’m midway these five days off, and the first two were rather productive Application Days. I’ll have to wait on the ones sent to Carmel city govt and Hamilton County; those would be fairly well long-term for a few reasons. FedEx’s online app process messaged me this morning to go further with “FedEx: Sr Operations Admin-1,” which would work well for a few reasons but it’s only part-time, hours TBD. *grrgle*
AI has been useful. Folk are using it to check resumes and cover letters regardless, and Gemini (and some chatGPT) has neatly trimmed both and I tell it to focus on certain aspects and whatnot. (I usually leave Walmart/Meijer off, but with FedEx wanting folk with some experience in that realm, so I have AI add in. Same with hospital front desk stuff and my (incredibly light) medical experience. (Hey, I *have* taken blood from strange reprobates. (Look out, Pie. *needle extends*)
I’ll address the needful(!), but today should be more relaxing. More devoted to rest and my Glib idea. Oddly, or not, my recently prescribed “amphetamine salts” have left me feeling tired. However, that’s paired with lots of computer work, and my body was already pretty tired from back bay work at Meijer.
The Cubs’ve started hitting again, thankfully, and their afternoon game will be lovely Distraction Dust as I propel forward with said plans. I hope everyone else’s forewarning is “adequately” shitty, as well. Oooh, yes. “Adequate.” Comes into play with sharing how standardized test scores are scored. A pretty good ‘essay,’ ranked 3/4 points, is “adequate,” also described as AP-style. I’ve got a scheme to share some of the better or funnier (often, with how bad they are) responses with y’all. I snagged ’em surreptitiously, but getting them (‘correctly’) online requires awkward editing to leave the mistakes in as they were.
Have you tried identifying as an Aries this week?
Aries: 5 of Wands – Imitation, games, competition, gain, opulence
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Oooh, if it rubs my wand the right way… *furtive motions in trousers* … no, no, NO! Rub UP, stupid!
Before the practice was widely adopted a century ago, thousands of babies died each year from illnesses linked to contaminated dairy.
Or you could wash the shit off the cow’s teats before milking it.
That’s hard Brooks.
Requires work and touching bovine titties.
I dunno, our cows seemed to enjoy a little warm water and a masculine massage. I’m not sure if cows can smile but the massage kept them coming back twice a day.
Is this by me or
me?
Way to screw up the tags, Hobbit.
You’re in good company, BH
It still works.
The American mind cannot comprehend the pub cheese and onion roll
https://x.com/largacty3/status/2065752550981210411
It can. The Three Stooges used to eat limburger cheese and onion sandwiches when the film called for food.
Fortunately we have better choices in the states.
I would try that. I love cheese, and I love onion.
What this country needs is more politicized narratives
“This summer, millions of visitors will flock to America’s national parks to take in breathtaking park landscapes and walk in the footsteps of our fascinating history, 250 years after our nation was founded. Today’s court ruling will help protect national parks from the administration’s unprecedented campaign to erase history and science at these one-of-a-kind places. National parks belong to the American people and censorship of any kind goes against the values these places represent. Americans count on national parks to help us understand our full, rich history. Stories of triumph and tragedy alike deserve to be told out loud at parks.” said Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association Senior Director for Cultural Resources.
“We are encouraged by the judge’s order and grateful for the relief it grants National Park Service sites and the broader history field. America’s history organizations offer vital forums for education, bridge-building, and civic practice, and they must be allowed to conduct their work free from government intimidation and censorship. On the eve of the 250th anniversary of our democracy, it’s more important than ever to defend the public’s access to a whole and honest story of America,” said John R. Dichtl, President & CEO of the American Association for State and Local History.
I love how these groups portray themselves as the inheritors of the moral legacy of Abraham Lincoln.
Apparently the Constitution says a judge can appoint herself Supreme Overseer of the Department of the Interior.
A pointless and easily overturned victory.
“We are encouraged by the judge’s order and grateful for the RELIEF it grants National Park Service sites and the broader history field to repeatedly point out how racist our country is and to remind them of all the racist work the SPLC has fostered and promoted.”
‘Relief, I tells ya! We were so worried people wouldn’t remember parks and mountains are inherently racist, because of – white men, or something! Such, icky white people! Who are always racist! But we’re not racist! Enjoy our organic, garden-raised kale in the gift shop! Cultivated and harvested by indigenous, NON free-market orphans from.. idk, some black or brown country!’
National Parks Conservation Association Senior Director for Cultural Resources
The national parks are about conserving natural resources, not cultural.
the public’s access
Ah, so we should open up those wilderness areas, right?
“Censorship and Erasure of American History”
Now do tearing down statues, you fucking hacks.
Piss off.
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My dad and his siblings were raised on raw milk. We drank it when we were there. No ill effects.
Nobody gave it a second thought one way or another, as far as I could see. It was a no brainer. There was a great big tank of milk, and my grandfather would bring a few gallons up to the house, as needed.
I have driven past the Little Bighorn battlefield a bunch of times, but never stopped. Is there a big plaque saying, “On this spot, in June of 1876, a coalition of the rightful indigenous inhabitants of this land won a glorious victory over the evil capitalist oppressor army commanded by the war criminal Custer.”
Most likely.
It is worth a visit. There are white marble markers where 7th Cav bodies were found. If you have a decent, not great, understanding of ground combat you can certainly get a feel for the battle.
There is a memorial at the mass grave site. There are some monuments to the Lakota and their allies as well. A few indian deaths sites have red granite markers.
The views to the southwest are stunning and that windy bare hill was a very lonely place to die.
Almost forgot. The surrounding reservation is Crow and they supplied the Scouts for the 7th Cavalry. Even in the 1990’s there was still some bad blood between them and the Lakota.
red granite markers
[Falls out of chair at the use of racist rocks]
I feel guilty now for playing Cowboys and Indians and wanting to be a cowboy. All the ‘B’ movies I saw as a kid can leave a lot of psychic scars. It’s burden I carry even now.
Goes back to the national parks + ‘America’s Evil’ plaques: “Most battles in the Great Sioux War, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, were on lands those natives had taken from other tribes since 1851.The Lakotas were there without consent from the local Crow tribe, which had a treaty claim on the area. 𝐀𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟖𝟕𝟑, 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬.”
I wonder if there’s a fucking plaque for *that.* Nope, all erased with peaceful tribes all living in Utopian abundance.
Unpopular (perhaps not here) thought: The Trail of Tears and broken US treaties aside, in the Before Modern Era, the early US handled the Natives, pretty damn well. Illness killed most of ’em, and for Industrialized Conquerors taking land from extremely primitive humans, without written language or the wheel, uh? First off, most everyone else, especially in Ancient times, woulda just killed ’em all, fucked the women and take burn everything. Possibly not write that part down and ‘forget’ it.
Yep, it sucked and it coulda been done a lot better. But, uh? The most polite Massive Invasion ever. And FUCK! Fucking *the* primo real estate on the planet! And the Smallpox+ Viral Task Force was a nasty, secret, team of hidden spy assassins, did almost all the work. *golf clap* Damn.
Ruh-roh. Sunday scroll, ain’t it.
Chief Seattle was a slave owner, but King County had to be “renamed”.*
* they did it Hegseth style, and rededicated the same name to a different person
Last time I stopped at the Whitebird battlefield on Highway 95 there was something similar to that. Minor battle in the grand scheme of things. NezPerce wupped the army. Wasent a blowout though.
The Whitman Massacre is pretty much that. Indians were the real victims.
What’s up party people?
Watering trees, pulling weeds, going to string trim and mow, DJ.
Will probably have a beer and later try to organize in the shop for an hour or two later.
I’m sure I’ll get a sunburn and a shower in as well.
Good Cubs – Giants series finale, we’re going for a sweep against their best pitcher. (It’s.. well. It’s not over, yet.) I spent the last two days in hard Work Search gear, and though I’m gonna check a thing or two, today, I’m using the Sunday as kind of a proper rest day. Work Search gear engages again tomorrow, before neurologist appt on Tues, then work from Wed-Fri. Gotta say, 10-630 shift is dope. As I’ve said, hard work, but *zero* stress.
What are you getting into?
I’m not really a fan of any sports.
That said, I think the issue with Soccer is that it’s mostly slow moving (just because it takes a while to run across the field), but it’s punctuated randomly with moments of action when someone gets within range and takes a shot at the goal. So even though not much is happening, it still requires constant attention, because if you get distracted or go to grab a beer or whatever you might miss the only goal of the game.
OTOH, hockey is also low scoring, but fast moving and there’s fights. Basketball is fast moving and high scoring. Baseball and football are both play-based, so they let you know when you need to pay attention and when you can relax.
But, I’m not really a fan of any of these, so I could be wrong, ymmv, watch whatever the hell you want.
I liked baseball as a kid because of the statistics.
NHL bastardized the game (some positive changes sprinkled in) to adapt to a more higher scoring match.
Gone are 0-0, 1-0 games for most part unless you were a LA Kings fan this past season.
Especially baseball, ya really have to have played to ‘get’ it. Also especially if you enJOYED it as a kid, it wasn’t something ya got dragged to. Regardless, it’s the best ‘have a picnic w friends /family at a public event’ ya can get, IMO.
Now, hockey. If aliens came to earth, they’d conclude it’s by far the most exciting team sport on this often hot planet. (They’d think about rugby, but ice.) I played 2.5 seasons in high school as a rookie to skating… (it’s a good story), and I also love it, but I don’t follow it like I do the Cubs and MLB. Fast, even a high-scoring game only has ~15 goals, and rough, even leaving out the fights.
(Racing would be alien’s favorite, right? Would have to be. Hrm.)
OBE is right about low-scoring games being most exciting, NHL, MLB, especially. (Pitcher’s duels rock.) Also, that doesn’t fly for people who didn’t play, and I can see why.
Sport, like vocal and instrumental music, dance and art (and a few more), are just part of our species’ wiring. Not everyone can do them, and certainly not all well, but they’re all part of culture, and each has their own. Humans are fun like that. (Gambling is also on that list of universals.)