Yeah, I tried to get more description on it but failed. It was the tendency for the punctate intensities to have tails, which implies some filamentous polymer. If the filaments were part of the healthy cytoskeleton they would have some organization that is coordinated with the ongoing cell division. But other than briefly avoiding from some parts of the cell that are quite densly packed with other things like chromosomes, these little points of light and their tails don't seem to care what's going on around them at all.
“Habits stay high all the time”. At least until after the election. I’m having nightmares about ICE confiscate the ballot boxes and voting machines. What did Ukraine and Hungary do when they were having fraudulent elections? Can we appeal to the UN?
The European Parliament unveiled “The Orange Plague,” a new gold leaf-covered statue depicting President Donald Trump naked while sitting on the shoulders of a smaller man.
Ladies and Gentlemen, upon information and belief, James TalaFREAKo, who is running for the United States Senate in Texas, is MISSING IN ACTION! No one has seen him for an extended period of time. Where is he? What is wrong with him? Bad rumors are coming out. He should immediately report to a Debate Stage against Ken Paxton, who is ready, willing, and able, one of the best Attorney Generals in the Country, and will soon be, hopefully, a United States Senator representing the Great People of Texas! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
I guess that means Facebook will no longer permit advertising for Dewar’s White Label and the tartan wearing (Don’t call it a kilt, man!) Drum Major, Bag Piper, and Drummer for the Gordon’s Highlanders. (I would paste images, but I don’t want to cost Rebecca another $30,000 in lawyer’s fees.). If you google, you may see them in attire that some might call feminine, showing their muscled legs and manly knees. Hooper, please continue to prominently display your Dewar’s advertising! I would never accuse the Gordon’s Highlanders of not being manly, Secretary Kegsbreath, even if they are not open carrying their Claymores. These are guys who charge uphill at the enemy to the sounds of bagpipes skirling, just in case the French or the Germans or the English don’t know that they are attacking. In other words, Mr Big Balls, they wear the tartans because their genitalia won’t fit into trews. I no canna document this, but just ask the next Gordon’s Highlander ye meet at a gay bar.
Holed up in Sunny (not) St. Petersburgh FL for a wedding later in the hurricane er... week. Just checking to see of Fuckwad J. Dementia perhaps died. He has not. Back to watching the rain fall.
Mixed feelings about The Felon's mechanical mobility assistance device. On the one hand, mocking someone for a disability is really not cool. Would you mock FDR?
On the other hand mocking the most venal, self-centered, vain asshole who regularly boasts how fit he is seems like an absolute must. He has also mocked the disabled on camera.
I suppose the difference is in the hypocrisy of Trump. He opened himself up to retaliatory comments by being an asshole.
To be sure, we do not know what it is causing that bump. So the mocking is not for someone with a disability, but for a vain, selfish fuckwad who constantly comments on other people's looks suddenly having a gigantic ass
I think it's critically important that any of the myriad stories like the DOGE invasion of the Peace Institute must always include, at some point, the line "And then the local cops said 'sure, why not'."
Your hed gif of very small everyday amazing things: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/synchronized-cell-ing
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/41762b7b-174f-404f-a051-570b6a32ba99?utm_source=share
Micro porn?
Loving all the microscopic stuff this week!
hurt us and we grow strong
sever us and we multiply
Bebe's protozoa
Divide us and we shall divide again.
Wow. I like the flashing light effects. For a moment there I thought I was having a 60's flash back.
Do it! Inna Gadda Da Eda, Baby!
United, we stand, divided, we make more stuff?
More like divided we make more "us". No WONDER I always feel so conflicted!
Mitosis is sexy.
Meiosis is sexish.
I'm too sexy for my cells..
I could be wrong, but those cells look like they may be harboring some listeria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=endkrjXfQkw&list=PLGQX8sYjdneXlqvnskALeP0w2xevtaWzJ
Hmm, maybe, although the staining could also be any number of organelles that exist in healthy cells. It wasn’t specified in the provided description.
Yeah, I tried to get more description on it but failed. It was the tendency for the punctate intensities to have tails, which implies some filamentous polymer. If the filaments were part of the healthy cytoskeleton they would have some organization that is coordinated with the ongoing cell division. But other than briefly avoiding from some parts of the cell that are quite densly packed with other things like chromosomes, these little points of light and their tails don't seem to care what's going on around them at all.
I love it when you talk science to me.
Linear and inverse vectors merge in zero.
Until mitosis began I was hearing the fight music from Star Trek.
I think I nightmared that a few nights ago. Weed withdrawal, you know.
“Habits stay high all the time”. At least until after the election. I’m having nightmares about ICE confiscate the ballot boxes and voting machines. What did Ukraine and Hungary do when they were having fraudulent elections? Can we appeal to the UN?
Now I have "The Blue Danube" as an earworm.
"President resigns after email ties him to Epstein" may be the most disappointing headline of 2026.
https://midhudsonnews.com/2026/10/08/botstein-resigns-from-bard-after-damning-email-ties-him-to-epstein-2/
Good
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/10/7/800108831/world/european-leaders-unveil-humiliating-trump-statue/
The European Parliament unveiled “The Orange Plague,” a new gold leaf-covered statue depicting President Donald Trump naked while sitting on the shoulders of a smaller man.
Take me down to Paradise City where the tech is mean and the bros are shitty...
Talarico steps off Texas Senate campaign trail after flu diagnosis
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6134160-talarico-flu-diagnosis-attack-ads/
As interpreted by the King of Lies:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Ladies and Gentlemen, upon information and belief, James TalaFREAKo, who is running for the United States Senate in Texas, is MISSING IN ACTION! No one has seen him for an extended period of time. Where is he? What is wrong with him? Bad rumors are coming out. He should immediately report to a Debate Stage against Ken Paxton, who is ready, willing, and able, one of the best Attorney Generals in the Country, and will soon be, hopefully, a United States Senator representing the Great People of Texas! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Damn. Not ideal timing.
Morning "Exercise!" Kitten!
https://bsky.app/profile/democratcats.bsky.social/post/3mxegpdyqjs27
“King of Injustice “ indeed!
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/07/style/golden-naked-trump-statue-european-parliament
Calling all art connoisseurs! Here's a new statue, fresh from Denmark!
https://substack.com/@plinytheyounger131364/note/c-355859761
Subtle. Like a brick upside the head.
I do like how small they made the hands though. That was a nice detail.
The only Paradise City I acknowledge is from GnR's first record.
Captain America's been torn apart.
I guess that means Facebook will no longer permit advertising for Dewar’s White Label and the tartan wearing (Don’t call it a kilt, man!) Drum Major, Bag Piper, and Drummer for the Gordon’s Highlanders. (I would paste images, but I don’t want to cost Rebecca another $30,000 in lawyer’s fees.). If you google, you may see them in attire that some might call feminine, showing their muscled legs and manly knees. Hooper, please continue to prominently display your Dewar’s advertising! I would never accuse the Gordon’s Highlanders of not being manly, Secretary Kegsbreath, even if they are not open carrying their Claymores. These are guys who charge uphill at the enemy to the sounds of bagpipes skirling, just in case the French or the Germans or the English don’t know that they are attacking. In other words, Mr Big Balls, they wear the tartans because their genitalia won’t fit into trews. I no canna document this, but just ask the next Gordon’s Highlander ye meet at a gay bar.
the kilts are just for day-to-day wear. in battle, they wore full-on sequined gowns, the idea being to dazzle the enemy with their fabulosity.
I ditched FB a couple, three years ago and don't miss it.
small businesses, like I would imagine gay bars etc, still rely upon it for word of mouth spreading.
This is some serious first amendment infringing. Whar Matt Tabbi???
"This is the work of Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt, and —
Inscribed on the base is a satirical pledge attributed to “The King of Injustice.”
That's it: Greenland is doomed... again.
Holed up in Sunny (not) St. Petersburgh FL for a wedding later in the hurricane er... week. Just checking to see of Fuckwad J. Dementia perhaps died. He has not. Back to watching the rain fall.
Watching rain fall...I love that! I'm sure I will get very tired of it though with El Niño heading our way this winter.
Ukrainians losing protected status
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/ukrainian-refugees-in-st-louis-facing-loss-of-temporary-protected-status/
Here too:
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/adam-interviews/our-home-is-here-protected-status-for-local-ukrainian-immigrants-set-to-end-in-2-weeks/
Jesus fuck. They're even white and christian!
But Putin doesn't like them so...
mmm. This bodes not good. I have the feeling we're about to formalize the axis of evil here
Right? And we are the baddies.
Mixed feelings about The Felon's mechanical mobility assistance device. On the one hand, mocking someone for a disability is really not cool. Would you mock FDR?
On the other hand mocking the most venal, self-centered, vain asshole who regularly boasts how fit he is seems like an absolute must. He has also mocked the disabled on camera.
I suppose the difference is in the hypocrisy of Trump. He opened himself up to retaliatory comments by being an asshole.
To be sure, we do not know what it is causing that bump. So the mocking is not for someone with a disability, but for a vain, selfish fuckwad who constantly comments on other people's looks suddenly having a gigantic ass
This date in history...
2004—American warplanes miss Abu Musab al Zarqawi but kill 13 people at a wedding instead.
1991—House Speaker Tom Foley [D-Wash.] says the Sergeant-at-Arms will fix no more traffic tickets for Reps.
1985—Dining at the White House, President Reagan “praises incessantly” his guest’s most recent work of art: Rambo: First Blood, Part II.
1974—Undermined by Mafioso Michele Sindona, pal of President Nixon’s Treasury Secretary David Kennedy, Franklin National Bank goes bust.
1969—A three-day riot branded “Days of Rage” begins in Chicago.
1968—Washington, D.C. riots after police shoot a Black man.
1967—Ernesto “Che” Guevara is captured by Bolivian troops led by the CIA’s Felix Rodriguez.
1955—“The nations of the world will have to unite” warns loopy General Douglas MacArthur, “for the next war will be an interplanetary war.”
1942—Shot down on a mission for which he volunteered, Capt. Harl Pease, of Plymouth, N.H., is beheaded by his Japanese captors.
1918—In the Argonne, ex-pacifist Cpl. Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
1871—According to myth, a cow starts a fire that burns Chicago and kills 200. Meanwhile, Peshtigo, Wisc. burns completely and 600 die.
1775—Washington and his generals decide: no Negroes in their Army.
https://www.nhgazette.com/2026/10/08/thurs-oct-8-2/
I think it's critically important that any of the myriad stories like the DOGE invasion of the Peace Institute must always include, at some point, the line "And then the local cops said 'sure, why not'."