OMG, I forgot the Goodies existed. When I was a kid in the 70s our PBS station played their show when they ran out of Monty Python. They were 3 guys living in a crappy apartment and doing stupid things. Two things off the top of my head: they used cut up magazines for toilet paper and they gave the mumps to the Nelson statue in Trafalgar Square. It was weird.
Thanks for this, Martini! I have a soft spot for mamas and their babies, and I think that most of us here do as well. This is already starting out to be a rough week, so seeing a little tenderness is always a good thing.
I'm assuming that's Mama Gibbon carrying the lil' sprogling. Notice the way she pets the baby, like I pet my insane kitten when he's actually being a good boy and not savaging my hand 😼. That's love, right there, from one of our cousin species.
And that's more compassion and concern for another living being than Lumpy Shit Führer has shown in his fucking existence on God's grey Earth.
Why can't they worship Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle? Or the guy who created the Dewey Decimal System? He was the same guy who ran against Truman, right?
Look, I understand The New York Times is so unbelievably awful their own people had to call them out in their transphobic bullshit, but this cranberry sauce recipe is still incredible: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018928-cranberry-sauce
Melted a spatula handle last night while working on vat of chili; left in one pan while next to another with burner on high, that plastic handle was melting without my knowledge.
So I grabbed it.
Bad decision, oh, a bad decision. Got the stuff finished and stored to chill and "cure" in fridge, and that's all the cooking I'll be doing for a couple of days. Pulling melted plastic off of your skin is alarming, somehow shaming, and provokes a sense of dread: what is this shit going to do to me, in my foolishness? What do I have which will immediately reduce this pain? [ice pack]
Yes all very dramatic, cooking, but the semi-controversial-but-beloved-a-little-chili is done.
The ITEP analysis of taxation DOES include Trump's proposed tariffs. In fact, without Trump's tariffs, his other tax changes would be moderately progressive, with lower-income Americans getting a bigger percentage cut than upper-income Americans.
Another thing that they note, that with current full employment, Trump's tariffs will NOT expand domestic production without an expansion of the American workforce through immigration. The resulting tightness of the labor market would presumably drive up wages, possibly enough to keep up with price increases, so the ultimate effect would simply be across-the-board inflation. At best. Chances are that increased housing costs due to higher interest rates would eat up any wage increases all by themselves and working Americans would simply have to make do with less.
The GOP relies on (fear of) unemployment to keep the rubes angry - there's no way they're going to admit that it's not a thing (until the next elections, when they will claim credit for fixing it.)
So now Enlo Mush is threatening to buy out (read: capture and shutter) MSNBC, and your friends at Uncharted Blue are saying it's a real possibility that he might do so.
My guess is that this is where we see the "unofficial" nature of Mush's meme-department come into play: he can deliver veiled threats on behalf of the administration, and the rest of the media will sleep on it because it's not official legislation or policy. But media organizations will get the message.
In fact, they already have. WaPo, NYT, and WSJ are all already firing editors or political correspondents.
Day three of my bold new series of photography on bluesky. So many beautiful, well shooped and groomed and edited and composed photos on there, I decided to take the approach of getting within an inch of my subjects and letting composition and focus and light be damned. No complaints so far, so everyone must love the drunk toddler with a cellphone photo style.
They're a public benefit corporation, so nominally not slaves to the almighty "duty to (make money for) the shareholders." No selling your info, no algorithms to maximize "engagement" and ad revenue.
Personally, I'd like to see them charge a small monthly fee, to discourage bots and trolls and robo-scammers.
I think the most worrisome part about Trump and the Republicans is that a hundred years from now historians will wonder why we didn’t heed the warnings given by “South Park”, and that the entire series will become required study in Ph.D. programs at universities.
I hope they watch the episodes mocking people for being earnest about climate change AND the entire half an hour cartoon they made to explain why they should be allowed to use a homophonic slur.
The problem with being pricks is that when you’re right, you’re still a prick. I watch the reruns when working out. It’s amazing how prescient they were sometimes. They were years ahead of the rest of us schlumps wrt Musk.
The thing is, they took the approach that mocking everything was a good thing to do- that mocking environmentalism and the causes of environmental disaster, mocking the poor as well as their exploiters etc. By doing that they supported the powerful rather than properly satirising them. They became court jesters. It means they were inevitably going to be right about some things, but the overwhelming message of most of the early series, at least, was “both sides are bad, just forget about it”.
To heal our nation, Biden must exercise the new authority to do whatever he damn well likes after uttering the phrase “official act” and lock up the entire Republican Party in gitmo. Yes, that includes the voters.
The local nice polite bystanders engage in such calls for us to 'build bridges' to them even while they attack anyone slightly to the left of Atilla the Hun in the most vile terms.
Yeah, I'll get right onto building bridges to such scumbags.
Expert hugger in the hed gif, an endangered baby simian. Learn about her here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/simian-stripling-squeezin-and-swingin
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/0495eb34-ae7a-456e-baa3-6ea1f04146d8?utm_source=share
Adore adore adore gibbons!!!! Particularly delightful when on the ground, those arms are so extra, squeee and hilarious ❤️
Well if it’s gibbons we’re watching, I’m glad we didn’t have to see the fall of the roamin’ ape up higher.
I’ll get my coat.
The Funky Gibbon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAmx_XdQky8
OMG, I forgot the Goodies existed. When I was a kid in the 70s our PBS station played their show when they ran out of Monty Python. They were 3 guys living in a crappy apartment and doing stupid things. Two things off the top of my head: they used cut up magazines for toilet paper and they gave the mumps to the Nelson statue in Trafalgar Square. It was weird.
Cheaper than therapy for a bunch of guys driven crazy by the war.
(Joke, Spike was always crazy).
"Kids programme!"
lol
Thanks for this, Martini! I have a soft spot for mamas and their babies, and I think that most of us here do as well. This is already starting out to be a rough week, so seeing a little tenderness is always a good thing.
Gibbon take is the essence of cooperation...
😏
Thanks Martini❤️
For some of us life is giɓbon take, but for mothers the rule is gibbon give.
😆
I'm assuming that's Mama Gibbon carrying the lil' sprogling. Notice the way she pets the baby, like I pet my insane kitten when he's actually being a good boy and not savaging my hand 😼. That's love, right there, from one of our cousin species.
And that's more compassion and concern for another living being than Lumpy Shit Führer has shown in his fucking existence on God's grey Earth.
This is giving me flashbacks to that PE test where you had to hang from a monkey bar for as long as you could.
Gibbons are such nimble, vocal 'lil swingers!
Nimble Swingin' Gibbons is today's band name...so far.
are we finally getting 4th wave ska?
Good Christ, I hope not. I managed to evade the first 3 waves.
Unless they are Shitgibbon. Anything but nimble.
Adorable!
Why can't they worship Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle? Or the guy who created the Dewey Decimal System? He was the same guy who ran against Truman, right?
No, the guy who ran against Truman was a duck.
Are we going to wake up and the trump nightmare was all a dream? How could this have happened and of course it's a rhetorical question.
Love The Church shoutout! My all time fave Aussie band.
I missed out on phrenology studies in college. But I know a few folks with mad head bumps.
Gawd I LOVE that song! Thanks for including it.
Ha ha, just saw Rebecca over in the Huffpost non-comments slapping down some dumbass! Way to go Rebecca!
Look, I understand The New York Times is so unbelievably awful their own people had to call them out in their transphobic bullshit, but this cranberry sauce recipe is still incredible: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018928-cranberry-sauce
Paywalled, and even if it weren't--the Vichy Times? Now? SERIOUSLY?
Melted a spatula handle last night while working on vat of chili; left in one pan while next to another with burner on high, that plastic handle was melting without my knowledge.
So I grabbed it.
Bad decision, oh, a bad decision. Got the stuff finished and stored to chill and "cure" in fridge, and that's all the cooking I'll be doing for a couple of days. Pulling melted plastic off of your skin is alarming, somehow shaming, and provokes a sense of dread: what is this shit going to do to me, in my foolishness? What do I have which will immediately reduce this pain? [ice pack]
Yes all very dramatic, cooking, but the semi-controversial-but-beloved-a-little-chili is done.
Made my vat over the weekend as well. (Did not melt utensils.)
My (until just now) secret ingredient: moritas (smoked jalapenos). Remove before serving, unless you (like some) like it hot.
Ow. Done that!
Under the Milky Way brings back a lot of memories. Fond memories at that.
It is a great song from a great band.
Absolutely. And criminally underrated at that.
The ITEP analysis of taxation DOES include Trump's proposed tariffs. In fact, without Trump's tariffs, his other tax changes would be moderately progressive, with lower-income Americans getting a bigger percentage cut than upper-income Americans.
Another thing that they note, that with current full employment, Trump's tariffs will NOT expand domestic production without an expansion of the American workforce through immigration. The resulting tightness of the labor market would presumably drive up wages, possibly enough to keep up with price increases, so the ultimate effect would simply be across-the-board inflation. At best. Chances are that increased housing costs due to higher interest rates would eat up any wage increases all by themselves and working Americans would simply have to make do with less.
The GOP relies on (fear of) unemployment to keep the rubes angry - there's no way they're going to admit that it's not a thing (until the next elections, when they will claim credit for fixing it.)
Fear of unemployment is just an excuse. It's racism that drives it, "jobs" are just a rationalization for giving the lizard brain what it wants.
So now Enlo Mush is threatening to buy out (read: capture and shutter) MSNBC, and your friends at Uncharted Blue are saying it's a real possibility that he might do so.
The Orbanization of America is getting off to a good start: https://www.unchartedblue.com/musks-threat-to-buy-msnbc-is-no-joke/
Why would he do that when Trump will probably try to take it down for free?
My guess is that this is where we see the "unofficial" nature of Mush's meme-department come into play: he can deliver veiled threats on behalf of the administration, and the rest of the media will sleep on it because it's not official legislation or policy. But media organizations will get the message.
In fact, they already have. WaPo, NYT, and WSJ are all already firing editors or political correspondents.
He's welcome to it. I'm done with mass media.
100%. Sanewashing Trump should have consequences
Day three of my bold new series of photography on bluesky. So many beautiful, well shooped and groomed and edited and composed photos on there, I decided to take the approach of getting within an inch of my subjects and letting composition and focus and light be damned. No complaints so far, so everyone must love the drunk toddler with a cellphone photo style.
grin. bluesky is really good so far!
I just said to my son today, "I signed up with bluesky. How long will it take them to turn evil?"
They're a public benefit corporation, so nominally not slaves to the almighty "duty to (make money for) the shareholders." No selling your info, no algorithms to maximize "engagement" and ad revenue.
Personally, I'd like to see them charge a small monthly fee, to discourage bots and trolls and robo-scammers.
Just give it time.
I said 'so far.' lol.
Let us hope people learnt SOMETHING from the demise of SHITTER?
I think the most worrisome part about Trump and the Republicans is that a hundred years from now historians will wonder why we didn’t heed the warnings given by “South Park”, and that the entire series will become required study in Ph.D. programs at universities.
I hope they watch the episodes mocking people for being earnest about climate change AND the entire half an hour cartoon they made to explain why they should be allowed to use a homophonic slur.
The problem with being pricks is that when you’re right, you’re still a prick. I watch the reruns when working out. It’s amazing how prescient they were sometimes. They were years ahead of the rest of us schlumps wrt Musk.
The thing is, they took the approach that mocking everything was a good thing to do- that mocking environmentalism and the causes of environmental disaster, mocking the poor as well as their exploiters etc. By doing that they supported the powerful rather than properly satirising them. They became court jesters. It means they were inevitably going to be right about some things, but the overwhelming message of most of the early series, at least, was “both sides are bad, just forget about it”.
Nah. They're as much a part of this as anyone. Fucking nihilists.
We make fun of everyone... Including the people who are trying to fix this pile of shit world.
I so agree. Mean spirited pricks.
Yep. MSNBC was playing Jimmy Fallon and some other late night comic again going on about Biden's age last night.
It's not funny. They are definitely part of the fucking problem.
Fallon's writers are the worst of all the late night shows.
“To heal our nation Biden must pardon Donald Trump.”
Funny how absolutely no one is calling for Trump not to go full revenge tour retribution on the Democrats.
To heal our nation, Biden must exercise the new authority to do whatever he damn well likes after uttering the phrase “official act” and lock up the entire Republican Party in gitmo. Yes, that includes the voters.
It's worth a shot.
I know I’d be healed if every one of those walking herpes lesions were far, far away.
Only Democrats have agency. Everything anyone else does is just the response to what Democrats did.
To be fair, republicans are too animalistic to have agency.
Where the fuck are the calls for unity and healing?
Wasted
The local nice polite bystanders engage in such calls for us to 'build bridges' to them even while they attack anyone slightly to the left of Atilla the Hun in the most vile terms.
Yeah, I'll get right onto building bridges to such scumbags.
It's gaslighting and it's unreal.
Rusty Teslas? I'm shocked. Well maybe not.
https://substack.com/profile/76665937-weejee/note/c-78944647?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=19n7td
My mom and I were driving on the highway behind one yesterday and we were laughing about how ugly the wankpanzers are.
I saw a black one. Ugly and menacing.
Choad Warrior.
Probably a wrap like this one.
https://insideevs.com/news/719352/cybertruck-rust-wrap-job-unique/
IMO it's actually a good look for that POS.