Atlantic puffins (maybe all?) have serrated bills, all the better to hold sandeels, their main diet, with (or nest material, I suppose). So a puffin looks for a mate with a big bill, to feed chicks. The record is ... 83!
One of the best perks of my job as a commercial fisherman in the waters of Kodiak island is that I’m around both Horned Puffins and their cousins the Tufted Puffins all the time. They are beautiful and amazing creatures that I never get tired of watching and marveling at.
[Trump Judge] Nichols found that it's too early for a court to issue an emergency ruling that halts key parts of Trump's order [to disenfranchise millions of voters] because those directives have not been carried out yet.
A guy who threatened to commit arson is pouring gasoline all through your apartment building? Sorry, ma'am, we can't do anything, he hasn't lit a match yet. Fucking fascists.
I was at an art gallery in Baltimore in April (I know: I am obviously a commie and GAY), and there was an artist whose work was this speculative "what if AI was spiritual?" stuff. It was kinda cool, very detailed, lots of symmetrical patterns.
SO, I asked him what he thought about the Dune novels being set in a future where AI was destroyed because it was exterminating humanity and there was a whole Butlerian jihad. And he hadn't read any of the Dune novels. After I picked my jaw up, I explained Dune to him in thirty seconds, which is a world record.
SO, again, imagine my surprise when the pope (also gay/commie) basically says AI is the devil. AND also my surprise when I learn that my daughter and her thirty something friends are contemplating become CATHOLIC and her mother, my wife, who is Episcopalian (as in the ethnicity, not the religion) has an imaginary stroke. Yeah, so that's my life.
The kitchen is almost done and soon, soon I say , I'll be back to Substacking three or four times a week. Here's one for this week. I like it! There's a poem and a video and lots of photos of Happy creatures dancing cross the lawn and otherwise.
So apparently Temu Fyre Festival...sorry, the "Great American State Fair" has now lost seven of nine acts. They see the stench and do not want their careers and names anywhere near this!
If I’m catching this right, the MAGA/Christian Nationalist Freedom 250 group is (dis)organizing this, while the official bipartisan group set up by Congress in 2016 is America 250. So for the artists who even knew they were being announced as part of the lineup, some may have misunderstood and thought they were part of the nonpartisan events.
But it seems that no matter how many people shun these weirdos they refuse to believe they aren’t the majority, and they’re fixated on making reality match their imagination.
Wanna see the perfect way to show these assholes how it's done? Paulina did it in the most graceful way I do believe I've ever seen. I really wish she'd chosen the dress she's wearing in the picture because she's drop dead gorgeous in it - I'm sure the dress she chose is just as beautiful...but still the one she has on is pure perfection and one that'll have Katie seething with her signature hate fueled shit posting.
Heard on the radio this morning, a story about a CIA agent with a fabricated resume arrested for stealing millions of dollars in gold bars and currency that he had requisitioned and received for his intelligence work. It's like one of those "Find all the things wrong with the picture" thingies.
Brian Goldstone’s pulitzer prize winning book “There’s no Place for us” is an infuriating deep dive into all the factors that are creating the rent crisis, with a narrative focus on a handful of families in Atlanta around the beginning of the covid pandemic.
This hed gif explainer is a puffin piece: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/a-strolling-charadriiform-gathers
Also there’s a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/049246ba-52b3-4312-9ada-aec849510202?utm_source=share
Girl, you thought he was a man, but he was a puffin!
Wonderful puffin lede. Luv puffins. For other Wonks that do, go to the outer isles of Ireland and Scotland.
also Iceland
Them puffins hoovering up moss remind me of me at the Old Country Buffet.
They got very close to being called parfaits.
Puffin stuff.
I WUV puffins!
These puffins grab stuffings and later, eat muffins.
The song of Drag the Magic Puffin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0LfUZNLtsM
Puffins? Will there boobies next?
This is a Dick Joke Emporium. The very least I would expect would be a great big cock.
Fun fact: Male boobies have dicks.
Busy. Busy. Busy.
yrs,
Bokonon
Still Kicking It and Evading The Hook
Puffins are so friendly.
https://youtu.be/WD3rxqM21sA
Needs to be given minnows
Atlantic puffins (maybe all?) have serrated bills, all the better to hold sandeels, their main diet, with (or nest material, I suppose). So a puffin looks for a mate with a big bill, to feed chicks. The record is ... 83!
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/birds/seabirds/puffin
One of the best perks of my job as a commercial fisherman in the waters of Kodiak island is that I’m around both Horned Puffins and their cousins the Tufted Puffins all the time. They are beautiful and amazing creatures that I never get tired of watching and marveling at.
One of your puffed up job perks!!
Is PUFFIN anyway akin to TOKING?
Very cool!
"puffin piece"???
They have good publicists, connected...
I guess my play on words was not as clever as I thought it was. 🙁
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puff%20piece
*I* liked it!
It’s works. It’s HR puffinstuff
He's your friend when things get rough!
HR Puff'instuff
He can't do a little/He can't do enough
Dammit. Ear worm incoming.
I loved it!
They're either gathering nest materials or someone got into their stash.
I got a chance to observe large groups of nesting Atlantic puffins one summer in the Canadian Maritimes. They make for entertaining bird watching.
Got to watch a whole cliff of them, 300 feet straight down to the ocean, on Westray in the Orkneys about this time one year. Fascinating.
I’m jealous!
>>$5 million for coating horse statues in gold<<
Gilding a filly.
They're not horsing around this time.
Totally worth clicking through to the anxious masculinity article for this:
"So behold, the pulsating hunk of virile man-meat that is Ken Paxton"
Yeah, I might have struggled to keep my breakfast down, but still worth it.
[Trump Judge] Nichols found that it's too early for a court to issue an emergency ruling that halts key parts of Trump's order [to disenfranchise millions of voters] because those directives have not been carried out yet.
A guy who threatened to commit arson is pouring gasoline all through your apartment building? Sorry, ma'am, we can't do anything, he hasn't lit a match yet. Fucking fascists.
I was at an art gallery in Baltimore in April (I know: I am obviously a commie and GAY), and there was an artist whose work was this speculative "what if AI was spiritual?" stuff. It was kinda cool, very detailed, lots of symmetrical patterns.
SO, I asked him what he thought about the Dune novels being set in a future where AI was destroyed because it was exterminating humanity and there was a whole Butlerian jihad. And he hadn't read any of the Dune novels. After I picked my jaw up, I explained Dune to him in thirty seconds, which is a world record.
SO, again, imagine my surprise when the pope (also gay/commie) basically says AI is the devil. AND also my surprise when I learn that my daughter and her thirty something friends are contemplating become CATHOLIC and her mother, my wife, who is Episcopalian (as in the ethnicity, not the religion) has an imaginary stroke. Yeah, so that's my life.
So our priorities now are gaudy gold covered horse statues for $5 million, while we cut food for 700,000 children? What a fu*kin’ country!
The kitchen is almost done and soon, soon I say , I'll be back to Substacking three or four times a week. Here's one for this week. I like it! There's a poem and a video and lots of photos of Happy creatures dancing cross the lawn and otherwise.
https://brawlatthepoetscafe.substack.com/p/last-evening-i-placed-fresh-towels?r=insr
LOVE, LOVE the Philadelphia Story!
Stud Puffins!!!
So apparently Temu Fyre Festival...sorry, the "Great American State Fair" has now lost seven of nine acts. They see the stench and do not want their careers and names anywhere near this!
All of those people who attended the trump military parade will be showing up ...
Are they both carpooling together?
If I’m catching this right, the MAGA/Christian Nationalist Freedom 250 group is (dis)organizing this, while the official bipartisan group set up by Congress in 2016 is America 250. So for the artists who even knew they were being announced as part of the lineup, some may have misunderstood and thought they were part of the nonpartisan events.
But it seems that no matter how many people shun these weirdos they refuse to believe they aren’t the majority, and they’re fixated on making reality match their imagination.
Decomposing corpses are the worst smell.
Flo Rida must be in a coma or something.
*Harry Kim has entered the chat*
Sorry, what about Seven of... oh.
*Harry Kim has left the chat*
Wanna see the perfect way to show these assholes how it's done? Paulina did it in the most graceful way I do believe I've ever seen. I really wish she'd chosen the dress she's wearing in the picture because she's drop dead gorgeous in it - I'm sure the dress she chose is just as beautiful...but still the one she has on is pure perfection and one that'll have Katie seething with her signature hate fueled shit posting.
https://newrepublic.com/post/211034/stephen-miller-wife-katie-doxes-woman-behind-democrats-ugly-f-k-post
I'm a shallow person, so I'm going to say it: Katie and Stephen look like they were made for each other.
Heard on the radio this morning, a story about a CIA agent with a fabricated resume arrested for stealing millions of dollars in gold bars and currency that he had requisitioned and received for his intelligence work. It's like one of those "Find all the things wrong with the picture" thingies.
“only the best people”. 🎶
We clearly live in a country where hard work & competence is for suckers. Just grab and grift what you can before it all falls down around us. 🤷♀️
Shut up, you ugly fuck is a way better version of MAGA’s Let’s Go Brandon.
Somewhere/when an MBA grad student did a research paper on slumlords and ran the numbers and the numbers were good! Profit!
Brian Goldstone’s pulitzer prize winning book “There’s no Place for us” is an infuriating deep dive into all the factors that are creating the rent crisis, with a narrative focus on a handful of families in Atlanta around the beginning of the covid pandemic.
An end to woke pizza
https://bsky.app/profile/likechristianb.bsky.social/post/3mmx77btwm22k
For those who find that Papa John's doesn't taste enough like cardboard and depression.
Tim Miller (Bulwark) FINALLY gets around to interviewing Professor Eddie Glaude
who in turn warns us (again) about JV Dunce as the latter bellicosely "promotes" the concept of "legacy Americans"
😬🙄🙄
https://youtu.be/fMRkgmIDs7Y?si=0EYOa_wRfJvpV9uM
Nothing but white nationalist terrorism dressed up in polysyllabics, but potentially constructed to promote violence in the followers
Karen Hunter also explained that yesterday another way
Donald's War on DEI Massively Backfired for White Men
https://youtu.be/8KezFhWfCJU?si=L8dhL6LiPRrojg08
"Merit" ain't what it used to be for this nation of losers.
What, you don't believe in the merit o' crazies?
A sense of entitlement isn't too terribly motivating in the workplace.
Or the apparent belief that one's co-workers need to explain their presence to you because their presence isn't legitimate without your approval.
You're one of the “good ones.”
Fuck these people.