One of the nurses I worked with had a farm in Idaho where whe raised pygmy goats. When those adorable little creatures had their babies in the spring Sonia's pictures and videos were THE entertainment everyone sought on their break.
I kept goats for years. Shoulda had my head examined. One young billy kept jumping a ten foot fence I put there just to keep that bastard in. It was twelve feet from the barn. He'd get a running start, hit the barn sideways and catapult himself over the fence, where I'd find him smugly munching away on the grass outside the fence...
We have a couple of goats in our backyard. They belong to the neighbors and they're there in exchange for them keeping the lawn mowed and keeping an eye on the house while we're not living in it.
My sis looked into renting some goats to trim the brush around her house. She said goatherds get paid by the hour, including overtime, so it was going to be costly. Don't want goatherds? Fine, you are the goatherd, and are responsible for anything that happens to the animals.
People mow the front yard, but admittedly, the back yard has never looked better. The goats do an excellent job of keeping everything neatly trimmed back there.
An old farmer I knew years ago told me that goats are the best at grass trimming as they nip it off about two inches high, whereas sheep tear it out by the roots. He was a wealth of knowledge about all things animal. Wish I had spent more time with him and paid better attention.
I know I’m hours and hours late but in addition to Lawyer, if you are Foreigner (includes Canajan like myself) for the love of little green apples, your phrase is “I want to speak to my consulate.” I know Canucks don’t like to be rude and we don’t always think of ourself as Foreigners in US because we look, talk and act a lot like Americans but with better chip flavours but WE ARE NOT AND ASK FOR CONSULATE. ICE is nobody’s friend. Be noisy so if ICE tries to send you to Libya or El Salvador someone from consulate knows where you are.
“We probably need to start asking what the Trump endgame of running the entirety of American air traffic control safety and tourism into the ground is.”
My money is on his abuser instinct to isolate. Gotta cut off all our outside relationships so there’s no where to go, no one to tell, and no one to speak for us.
Monday (yesterday) there were 3 ATC on duty at the busy evening rush, 2 fully qualified, 1 not?, and the FAA agreed with the Union that 14 on duty is the minimum they will allow.
WTF, I'm not flying anywhere for a long fucking time.
Abyss! goody. gives me a chance to quote this. not a super LOTR fan but this is some seriously good writing:
“In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face.
All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dínen.
"You cannot enter here," said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. "Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!"
The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter.
"Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.
Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
What's that? You said Arby's, not abyss.....
Umm, well.......Tolkien was a white South African so there!
I'm still tabbing through The Tabs, and I have to say, I fucking love the phrase 'Susan Collins Concerned' You should trademark that. Ok, back to tabbing, by the time I'm finished, I'll still be 12 hours behind on the news, LOL I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
"During a press event promoting Trump’s latest executive order aimed at lowering prescription drug prices, Robert F. Kennedy Jr praised the move in dramatic terms:
“I have a couple of kids who are Democrats, big Bernie Sanders fans,” Kennedy said. “And when I told them that this was gonna happen, they had tears in their eyes — as if this is never gonna happen in our lifetime, and we finally have a president who is willing to stand up for the American people.”" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-trump-line-mocked_n_6822e21de4b0abb58358e5d7
"Sebastian Gorka went on an extraordinary rant after being asked by the BBC over the president’s willingness to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar.
Presenter Sarah Montague asked him: “The Qataris are giving a jet worth $400 million. The U.S. Constitution has provisions that no elected official should accept any present from the leader of a foreign state without congressional approval. “Is there a problem with this, because it doesn’t look like it’s draining the swamp?”
Gorka replied: “Do you ever have pangs of conscience that you are so utterly and completely biased that all you can do is give in to your Trump derangement syndrome? “Have you ever once said anything positive about President Trump or not knelt at the altar of left-wing ideology?”
The presenter then asked: “Is there a response to the question?”
Gorka replied: “Is there a response to my question?”
After Montague told him she was the one asking the questions, he said: “You know what, I like it when a head of state saves the taxpayer $400 million. “I like that, OK, especially when Boeing has failed to deliver the new Air Force One for years on end, is behind schedule, and afterwards the plane is donated to the presidential library. “Weird how BBC doesn’t know that. That’s because you’re not journalists.”" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-aide-live-tv-rant-over-qatar-jet-gift_n_6823573ee4b0205e6886f84b
I felt the same when M*** said ditch the penny. Mind you, I'm in NZ and we got rid of it over 30 years ago. Our grocers still price tomatoes at $3.99 a kilo to try to trick us, but we're all used to price rounding now, so we get on fine without it.
Oh, and we ditched the nickel 10 years ago as well. I think the US should follow suit, and also copy us by replacing $1 and $2 bills with coins. Since everyone is now reduced to collecting change it will help all the poor people scrounging for dropped money on the street. Makes my day when I find a gold coin instead of a useless cent.
Apartheid Clyde wants unrestricted and free access to copyrighted materials to train his dumbass AI thing, and this is how he's going to do it, apparently.
Who else has been watching Andor (season 2 for me) and feeling the heavy ripples of continuity between that futuristic hellscape and the one our own right wing is building here? It's chilling, and it's an example of how fiction can convey messages better than hard facts sometimes. Or perhaps it's not so much better a method, but more of an additional, essential tool to view our world through.
Perilous goating! Your hed gif info here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/suspended-goat
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/95e79e66-9026-44e8-b1e9-bff4e09e295f?utm_source=share
Are you kidding us with this stuff?!
One of the nurses I worked with had a farm in Idaho where whe raised pygmy goats. When those adorable little creatures had their babies in the spring Sonia's pictures and videos were THE entertainment everyone sought on their break.
At animal gymnastics
A goat just can't be beat
When wedged to eat
Out in the yard
It only takes three feet.
The other foot just dangles
Loosely from the hip
Tempting a mischievous friend
To try to take a nip.
I kept goats for years. Shoulda had my head examined. One young billy kept jumping a ten foot fence I put there just to keep that bastard in. It was twelve feet from the barn. He'd get a running start, hit the barn sideways and catapult himself over the fence, where I'd find him smugly munching away on the grass outside the fence...
They’re the Jackie Chans of the animal kingdom! 🐐
https://youtu.be/c3e6V3pCiEE?si=rDlNz3YhLY5Wb57t
(Kids, please don’t try this at home, but if you do, for gawd’s sake have someone video it; Ozzy Man has to get that stuff from *somewhere* ...)
We have a couple of goats in our backyard. They belong to the neighbors and they're there in exchange for them keeping the lawn mowed and keeping an eye on the house while we're not living in it.
My sis looked into renting some goats to trim the brush around her house. She said goatherds get paid by the hour, including overtime, so it was going to be costly. Don't want goatherds? Fine, you are the goatherd, and are responsible for anything that happens to the animals.
People mow the front yard, but admittedly, the back yard has never looked better. The goats do an excellent job of keeping everything neatly trimmed back there.
*And* fertilized!
An old farmer I knew years ago told me that goats are the best at grass trimming as they nip it off about two inches high, whereas sheep tear it out by the roots. He was a wealth of knowledge about all things animal. Wish I had spent more time with him and paid better attention.
“Browsers” versus “grazers”.
Parkour goat!
Perilous goating or savvy goating? I say savvy!
Glorious goats Martini.💙
Nothing deters a hungry goat. Not even gravity.
Never let gravity come between you and tasty noms.
Also, Miss Piggy - "Never eat more than you can lift."
You made my morning, Martini. <3
I always ask for Baby Goat Lawyer.
I started playing Goat Simulator on my Steam Deck.
Goat on a rocket pack. That’s all I’m saying.
Neener neener
Pilgor!
I've been meaning to get that going for ages, maybe a project for today.
Like a bridge over troubled forage.
GOAT or showoff? You decide.
Casual, unselfconscious athleticism, only a bit belief defying
Goat Smart!
Got a secret phone in her hoof. Probably.
"Sorry about that, Chief."
Ah-nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnoms!
I know I’m hours and hours late but in addition to Lawyer, if you are Foreigner (includes Canajan like myself) for the love of little green apples, your phrase is “I want to speak to my consulate.” I know Canucks don’t like to be rude and we don’t always think of ourself as Foreigners in US because we look, talk and act a lot like Americans but with better chip flavours but WE ARE NOT AND ASK FOR CONSULATE. ICE is nobody’s friend. Be noisy so if ICE tries to send you to Libya or El Salvador someone from consulate knows where you are.
“We probably need to start asking what the Trump endgame of running the entirety of American air traffic control safety and tourism into the ground is.”
My money is on his abuser instinct to isolate. Gotta cut off all our outside relationships so there’s no where to go, no one to tell, and no one to speak for us.
Monday (yesterday) there were 3 ATC on duty at the busy evening rush, 2 fully qualified, 1 not?, and the FAA agreed with the Union that 14 on duty is the minimum they will allow.
WTF, I'm not flying anywhere for a long fucking time.
This Friday is the monthly San Francisco wonk meet up.
6PM
Eclipse Restaurant and Bar in the atrium of the Embarcadero Hyatt Regency.
Behind the bar and to the right.
A lovely gathering of snark and friendship, to which you are invited.
Look for a woman in a wheelchair--that's me.
Abyss! goody. gives me a chance to quote this. not a super LOTR fan but this is some seriously good writing:
“In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face.
All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dínen.
"You cannot enter here," said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. "Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!"
The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter.
"Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.
Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
What's that? You said Arby's, not abyss.....
Umm, well.......Tolkien was a white South African so there!
settles back confident I've proved my point......
"It's beer for eating!"
Those are called stouts, in my experience. They sometimes require a little chewing.
I'm still tabbing through The Tabs, and I have to say, I fucking love the phrase 'Susan Collins Concerned' You should trademark that. Ok, back to tabbing, by the time I'm finished, I'll still be 12 hours behind on the news, LOL I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
"During a press event promoting Trump’s latest executive order aimed at lowering prescription drug prices, Robert F. Kennedy Jr praised the move in dramatic terms:
“I have a couple of kids who are Democrats, big Bernie Sanders fans,” Kennedy said. “And when I told them that this was gonna happen, they had tears in their eyes — as if this is never gonna happen in our lifetime, and we finally have a president who is willing to stand up for the American people.”" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-trump-line-mocked_n_6822e21de4b0abb58358e5d7
I strongly dislike this loaf of a human being:
"Sebastian Gorka went on an extraordinary rant after being asked by the BBC over the president’s willingness to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar.
Presenter Sarah Montague asked him: “The Qataris are giving a jet worth $400 million. The U.S. Constitution has provisions that no elected official should accept any present from the leader of a foreign state without congressional approval. “Is there a problem with this, because it doesn’t look like it’s draining the swamp?”
Gorka replied: “Do you ever have pangs of conscience that you are so utterly and completely biased that all you can do is give in to your Trump derangement syndrome? “Have you ever once said anything positive about President Trump or not knelt at the altar of left-wing ideology?”
The presenter then asked: “Is there a response to the question?”
Gorka replied: “Is there a response to my question?”
After Montague told him she was the one asking the questions, he said: “You know what, I like it when a head of state saves the taxpayer $400 million. “I like that, OK, especially when Boeing has failed to deliver the new Air Force One for years on end, is behind schedule, and afterwards the plane is donated to the presidential library. “Weird how BBC doesn’t know that. That’s because you’re not journalists.”" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-aide-live-tv-rant-over-qatar-jet-gift_n_6823573ee4b0205e6886f84b
Fake PhD Gorka has opinions about ethics.
In the same week I have agreed with something Ben Shapiro AND Loony Loomer have said. I feel a little unclean...
Same
I felt the same when M*** said ditch the penny. Mind you, I'm in NZ and we got rid of it over 30 years ago. Our grocers still price tomatoes at $3.99 a kilo to try to trick us, but we're all used to price rounding now, so we get on fine without it.
Oh, and we ditched the nickel 10 years ago as well. I think the US should follow suit, and also copy us by replacing $1 and $2 bills with coins. Since everyone is now reduced to collecting change it will help all the poor people scrounging for dropped money on the street. Makes my day when I find a gold coin instead of a useless cent.
Someone mentioned that maybe the reason for the Library of Congress shakeup is because they control records of patents.
Theres always a grift involved with this bs.
Yep and copyrights.
Apartheid Clyde wants unrestricted and free access to copyrighted materials to train his dumbass AI thing, and this is how he's going to do it, apparently.
Who else has been watching Andor (season 2 for me) and feeling the heavy ripples of continuity between that futuristic hellscape and the one our own right wing is building here? It's chilling, and it's an example of how fiction can convey messages better than hard facts sometimes. Or perhaps it's not so much better a method, but more of an additional, essential tool to view our world through.
*sigh*
The galaxy is watching. Maybe.
#ThereIsEnoughWhenWeShare
https://bsky.app/profile/blueskye2025.bsky.social/post/3lp2lq4ppo22o
😭😭😭
There is MORE THAN enough!
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously. All we need to know we learned in Kindergarten.
I think Donald flunked kindergarten
I read in Mary's book he threw rocks at the other kids
Can't imagine what happened with Goebbels Miller and his little classmates
"...But whoever around him is directing this, to what end?"
Remember "Pinky and the Brain"? Whenever Pinky asked, "What are we gonna do now?", the Brain always answered, "Try and take over the World!"
In this case, ask any of FFOTUS minions and devotees this, and the answer would be, "Try and prove government doesn't work!"
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯.
I’m hoping the wise people of Wonkette can help me understand why Tesla stock has gone up so much since the Q1 earrings call in April.
Tesla sales are way down, not just in the US but around the world. The image of Tesla in the US couldn’t be much worse and Musk is very unpopular.
On April 21, the stock price was 228. This morning, it’s trading between 315 and 325. The PE is over 170.
So, please help me understand why Tesla stock is doing so well.
Thanks.
Rich people like to fuck with everything, and the stock market's just a shell game.