Occasionally I'll check out the webcams at the ski area up the hill, for this and that reason. Yesterday after dinner I happened to check in and spot a black bear ambling down towards the lodge. I handed my laptop off to my wife so she could see, then I took it back, and just then two cubs scampered into the frame all "Mama mama wait for us!"
Sadly, there were no sprinklers. Maybe I should spend more time on the golf course cam.
If I spy a sprinkler running on my morning hijinks, it gets ran through. Sorry neighbors, but if you see a crazy person in tights galumphing through the landscaping early in the AM, it is just your neighborhood Toots.
Along with the smallest chair, the smallest bed and the smallest bowl in the cottage I hope the story includes a fluffy, absorbant, smallest towel for the little bear to dry off with after playing in the sprinklers.
Some of my neighbors deploy them occasionally, but if the clay is bone dry it seems like a waste of time and water. I mow my grass as tall as the mower adjusts, 4 inches.
Outside of Union Station in Denver, there is a water sculpture that consists of some 20-30 jets of water arcing to different heights out of the plaza. This is a child magnet on warm days. I have watched my granddaughter play there. She was too tentative to get thoroughly wet, but we both enjoyed the occasional spray of cool water. Some kids emerge soaking, but on a dry, 90-degree day in Denver, they dry fast.
When the oldest was five, our AC went out and my then-husband was too cheap to have it looked at, because we were always broke. We went a whole summer without. On the whole, it wasn't terribly bad, but my son and I would just lay down in our neighbor's yard while she ran the sprinkler, much to her delight.
The heat of the last few days has been bringing out the small bear in many of us, but I can't match the joy all over that cub, he's absolutely delighted
I knew about the Rainbow Warrior ship bombing, and how blunderingly obvious it was the French version of the CIA that done it - but I'd forgotten they managed also to kill a man (lucky they didn't kill more) and the pissant little sentences the few they caught actually served was new to me. Give 'em a fucking promotion and a medal, why not?
im ok humiliating fascists until they stop being fucking fascists or just go away...Joy Behar and southpark style is fine w me. Punching down is never ok.
It is getting close to 1pm. It is raining outside. I want to crawl deeper into my hole of retreat.
If I had the money for it, I'd grab an Uber to Olive Garden (don't judge), have a nice lunch, poke around a clothing store, and return home for an evening of movies and nonsense on YouTube.
I'd say I would come home to play video games, but I don't have a controller anymore. It's rather high up on thee list of stuff to replace.
After the news [sic] about the South Park episode started blowing up my news [sic] feed I reactivated my P+ account.
I have to admit, even tho learning that the suits knew exactly what the show was going to do takes some of the edge off; it's still a most savage middle finger to everyone who deserves it
The British promised the Jews a homeland in Muslim middle-east was the original sin. It could only work if it were scrupulously secular with Muslims having equal voting rights as Jews and even then it seemed unlikely. When Israeli soldiers started shooting at relief workers and then Gazan gathering to collect relief, that was when the nation because full-on NAZIs,
I'm just gonna drop this here, because it does not need context to be the Quote of the Week. Trey Parker and Matt Stone:
“They said, ‘OK, but we’re gonna blur the penis,’ and I said, ‘No you’re not gonna blur the penis,’” Parker said. Stone added that the team decided to put eyes on the penis, which would make it a character: “If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.”
I saw an interview where they complained about the hoops they had to jump through to get the censors to give Team America an R rather than NC-17 because of the sex scene.
They were pissed the censors had no appreciation for what it took to film that scene without getting the characters' strings tangled.
I'm reading Danielle Moodie's take on the authoritarian and resistance themes in Andor, and am struck by this paragraph, and how it ties back to Trix's 2016 post on self care after the election (and after her "Fuck You America" post)
I haz a garage kitty. A stray that we started feeding, then vetting and sheltering, but not made to be an indoor cat. I give garage kitty "massage chair" which is when I cradle him with one arm and either massage his back or give him belly rubs for a few minutes.... I think it is the only human interaction he gets.
he is the only cat I have ever known that will come running when I whistle... :)
It’s Friday. You’ve made it through another workweek. You deserve some hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/the-cooling-of-a-cub
And a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/b3837324-3cd7-449e-b191-286bd838b700?utm_source=share
I used to do that too when I was a kit.
Martini, if you can't make good use of this, I dunno what to say. 🙃
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/rare-scottish-fold-cross-kitten-145500993.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAA7N9fNvg38_um23dQkyrJ_OqNcQo7kLx9XjN8w_WYWtk_vdz90gi0-WTyHBkUOvaX3ccSD3mcis0lWGt_S_pfMZt_CHthE3qpn4Peh-3jN2waev5WeHKyZ4--3TavvlpQQDILDnnm5w_aMOEe4EL9dn3-8fr1VD-PwUwI1TsVkf
Bear cub Playing In Sprinkler is exactly what I needed this morning. 😸
Occasionally I'll check out the webcams at the ski area up the hill, for this and that reason. Yesterday after dinner I happened to check in and spot a black bear ambling down towards the lodge. I handed my laptop off to my wife so she could see, then I took it back, and just then two cubs scampered into the frame all "Mama mama wait for us!"
Sadly, there were no sprinklers. Maybe I should spend more time on the golf course cam.
Aww, still what a great moment to glimpse!
It's a sweltering day in summer
But there's water in the air
Resisting a cool misting
Would be too much to bear.
MOM! Horizontal waterfalls! Gonna eat it! Okay, maybe not. This time I will, rawwwwrrr! Maybe this one grrr, bear bear!
I luuuuuurve that bear.
the FIRST sprinkler was too hot!
the SECOND sprinkler was too cold!
but the THIRD sprinkler...
I would like a cuddle.💕 A soggy baby bear is just right.
can't help wondering how much wet bear smells like wet doggo.
LOL. Who wants to go first?
Be careful of the murder mittens
Always.
Friday is hardly the end of the work week these days
Same, but it is the last Tabs post of the week.
If I spy a sprinkler running on my morning hijinks, it gets ran through. Sorry neighbors, but if you see a crazy person in tights galumphing through the landscaping early in the AM, it is just your neighborhood Toots.
Naiads, and other hydriads, are an important and charming part of any fortunate location!
Along with the smallest chair, the smallest bed and the smallest bowl in the cottage I hope the story includes a fluffy, absorbant, smallest towel for the little bear to dry off with after playing in the sprinklers.
That would be "just right", Goldilocks can get her own towel...
Unbearably cute Martini 😍
Cubs rinse! Cubs rinse! Cubs rinse!
I miss being able to run through sprinklers.
Not that I'm too old for it these days, but that those kind of sprinklers don't seem to be around much anymore.
Some of my neighbors deploy them occasionally, but if the clay is bone dry it seems like a waste of time and water. I mow my grass as tall as the mower adjusts, 4 inches.
Outside of Union Station in Denver, there is a water sculpture that consists of some 20-30 jets of water arcing to different heights out of the plaza. This is a child magnet on warm days. I have watched my granddaughter play there. She was too tentative to get thoroughly wet, but we both enjoyed the occasional spray of cool water. Some kids emerge soaking, but on a dry, 90-degree day in Denver, they dry fast.
When the oldest was five, our AC went out and my then-husband was too cheap to have it looked at, because we were always broke. We went a whole summer without. On the whole, it wasn't terribly bad, but my son and I would just lay down in our neighbor's yard while she ran the sprinkler, much to her delight.
It was the summer we spent in our underwear.
The heat of the last few days has been bringing out the small bear in many of us, but I can't match the joy all over that cub, he's absolutely delighted
I had a Hothouse Flowers cassette that I played the shit out of back in the day...
I knew about the Rainbow Warrior ship bombing, and how blunderingly obvious it was the French version of the CIA that done it - but I'd forgotten they managed also to kill a man (lucky they didn't kill more) and the pissant little sentences the few they caught actually served was new to me. Give 'em a fucking promotion and a medal, why not?
Good article - somewhat depressing, though.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lurykdwkvs2g
Why didn't they give Tim Scott a hard hat?
this is such an important question.
im ok humiliating fascists until they stop being fucking fascists or just go away...Joy Behar and southpark style is fine w me. Punching down is never ok.
It is getting close to 1pm. It is raining outside. I want to crawl deeper into my hole of retreat.
If I had the money for it, I'd grab an Uber to Olive Garden (don't judge), have a nice lunch, poke around a clothing store, and return home for an evening of movies and nonsense on YouTube.
I'd say I would come home to play video games, but I don't have a controller anymore. It's rather high up on thee list of stuff to replace.
At least I'm not at work...?
After the news [sic] about the South Park episode started blowing up my news [sic] feed I reactivated my P+ account.
I have to admit, even tho learning that the suits knew exactly what the show was going to do takes some of the edge off; it's still a most savage middle finger to everyone who deserves it
I just got an email from Medicare. The text begins: "I'm Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Medicare program ...".
Dear God, how could this happen?
Obscene, innit?
These two articles helped improve my laptop and my brain today by making Google search the useful thing it used to be.
https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default and https://archive.ph/85scR
I switched to google web a month or so ago, just to avoid their AI shit.
Thanks for the schoolin'.
I just use Firefox and Safari; haven’t used Google in years now.
The British promised the Jews a homeland in Muslim middle-east was the original sin. It could only work if it were scrupulously secular with Muslims having equal voting rights as Jews and even then it seemed unlikely. When Israeli soldiers started shooting at relief workers and then Gazan gathering to collect relief, that was when the nation because full-on NAZIs,
I'm just gonna drop this here, because it does not need context to be the Quote of the Week. Trey Parker and Matt Stone:
“They said, ‘OK, but we’re gonna blur the penis,’ and I said, ‘No you’re not gonna blur the penis,’” Parker said. Stone added that the team decided to put eyes on the penis, which would make it a character: “If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.”
I saw an interview where they complained about the hoops they had to jump through to get the censors to give Team America an R rather than NC-17 because of the sex scene.
They were pissed the censors had no appreciation for what it took to film that scene without getting the characters' strings tangled.
The censors should have just been glad they didn't illustrate the dicks, pussies and assholes speech.
that is just epic... :)
I'm reading Danielle Moodie's take on the authoritarian and resistance themes in Andor, and am struck by this paragraph, and how it ties back to Trix's 2016 post on self care after the election (and after her "Fuck You America" post)
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 "𝑤𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑘𝑒" 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑝𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 "𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒": 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑡.
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/andors-warning-how-fiction-unmasks?r=36kin&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Care for yourselves, fellow Wonkers. We're in a long fight, and we need to care for not just our society, and our neighbors, but ourselves too.
When you’re a cat, every day is Caturday.
https://substack.com/@ontheotherhand124816/note/c-138827461?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di
I haz a garage kitty. A stray that we started feeding, then vetting and sheltering, but not made to be an indoor cat. I give garage kitty "massage chair" which is when I cradle him with one arm and either massage his back or give him belly rubs for a few minutes.... I think it is the only human interaction he gets.
he is the only cat I have ever known that will come running when I whistle... :)
Loving him the way he wants to be loved, on his terms. And if the time comes when he needs more from you, he will know where to come.
That is an exceptionally good looking cat tower. Gorgeous cats too : ).
It’s got cloud-soft cushions, of which they seem to approve. I woke up this morning with them sleeping like that.
TGIF with Tab's and Coffee in the Morning ☕💯👍
"Guess I canceled my Paramount Plus a week too early...."
If you'd said that on Tuesday I'd be like "Nah, the first two episodes of the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds suuuuuuuuuuuuucked."
But then Matt and Trey saved the whole fucking thing.
(Plus I'm still working through Deep Space Nine, which is totally under appreciated.)