Our orange kitty that we adopted from a shelter when she was six has always been prone to sudden attacks on your hands and arms without cause. Welll maybe not. She has a vet visit next week to have her bad teeth pulled. We think that this will help put a stop to the attacks. We’ve heard that from others. And not just one person. Sad that we have to pay $2500 to make her sweet but she is obviously in pain.
Kitty dreams big, conducting the Feline Philharmonic in a rousing rendition of 𝘖𝘩 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯' 𝘐𝘯 or maybe sorcerous conjuring and spell-casting...
I read Garrett's excellent piece, and realized that I have been uncool for my entire life by his standards. It made me sad TBH, to read about his internal distress and conflict about caring, and showing it. We're all cynics, who live in reality and who are blessed/cursed with a good education, and we know too much (or rather, it feels like it, sometimes). But despite all of that I have never felt inhibited in expressing joy over small victories. Maybe it's what's kept me alive and kicking throughout all of the times when we haven't been victorious.
In a world that forces us to live in de facto public performance, ask yourselves exactly how much time you're wasting, worrying about what the masses "think," and then reclaim that time for yourselves. We'll be saner, and we'll get farther together.
"A cryptocurrency entrepreneur is trying to get A $450 million statue of the Greek Titan Prometheus, called the “American Colossus,” built on Alcatraz Island.
Ross Calvin, founder of the Denver-based bitcoin-mining firm Parhelion and executive director of the American Colossus Foundation, announced plans to build the monument last March and launched a campaign on Geyser Fund, a Bitcoin-based crowdfunding platform. But only $5 has been raised as of Wednesday morning."
This part is especially special:
"The whole project, which would include the statue and a connected underground Prometheion Museum, is described by Calvin as “a monument to American manifest destiny” and aims to celebrate technology, entrepreneurship and human ingenuity.
The proposal envisions a massive nickel-bronze statue of the Prometheus—a figure Calvin characterizes as “the liberator of mankind” and “the first freedom fighter”— along with a museum meant to explore the myth’s lessons for technology, creativity, and perseverance."
Trump has juggled debt all his life so a 50 year mortgage does not matter to him. He'll have possession of a thing while he's alive and after he's dead, he won't give a fart.
Rich people don't concern themselves with such worries. They only borrow money because they can get it for less than their investments are earning.
8 years ago, Wells Fargo bought my mortgage. I hate WF, so I talked my credit union into buying the loan. Sure, but we have to do another full 30 year note. I was 64 then. I'd be dead before it was paid off. Then I refinanced a few years later, or what they called a "loan adjustment" to a much lower rate and smaller payment, but again, 30 years. Now I'll be 97 if it goes full term. Since I don't have any heirs, I don't care if I die in debt. It's all paper anyway. I call my monthly payment "rent" in my check register.
Ingraham: Does that mean the h-1b visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration?
Trump: You have to bring in talent
Ingraham: We have plenty of talent
Trump: No, you don’t
Ingraham: We don’t have talented people here?
“No, you don’t. No, you don’t,” Trump insisted. “You don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn. You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, ‘I’m going to put you into a factory, we’re going to make missiles.’”
My take is they were never gonna give us those ACA subsidies, no way no how, so opening the government makes Dems look like the better guys than the shitty ass Republicans, and then we can super blame them when all their dumb supporters in the red states lose their insurance.
IT IS A TERRIBLE THING, but that's what happens when the electorate decides to shoot itself in the foot and put republicans in charge. Let them all feel the pain.
Will it though? You are forgetting that the vast majority of H. sapiens, especially Americans, are willfully-ignorant and gullible knuckle-draggers who will believe whatever the media tells them.
I want to know what they have planned when the SNAP coverage ends in September '26. You know they're going to pull shit, and it'll be a month before the midterms.
I read the tabs about the Marion County Record raids (both today and last year when it happened) with interest because the business at least physically sounds exactly like the newspaper of which I was editor for nearly 20 years in central MN—a weekly where we put the paper together on site but printed at a larger paper down the road. Hell, even the building in the article looked a little like ours (ours was beige corrugated metal siding rather than gray). The publisher bought the paper in the early '60s and was still there when I left in 2011. Our relics were an ancient printing press, a massive manual cutter that we still used (for which you had to be trained because you could lose a hand—or at least a few fingers—on that thing), and a cabinet that held bound volumes of the paper since its beginning in 1911.
Unfortunately, if the police had raided my house (and probably that of our fellow-lefty advertising manager) because of some investigative story that pissed of a well-connected local, it would have been at the behest of the publisher and his daughter (who would bring me "leads" she'd written on a bar napkin for "big stories" that always turned out to be rumors about someone, started by another someone who hated them). After I left in 2011 and the ad manager retired about the same time, I've found out that the paper—if it can even be called that anymore—is exactly what the daughter (who has since inherited the place after her dad died) wanted it to be: a RWNJ rag that constantly praises trump, won't allow any letters to the editor that aren't flattering of him, and she refused to publish anything about the local No Kings protests held in that small town and throughout the area. She only hires trump-lovers now. I'm sure you can imagine the illiteracy that is now rampant in the paper's content.
And yeah, I would have sued, too. If all that had happened and I sued, I'd own that fuckin' paper right now.
“Truly how can people still believe that he’s the ‘best businessman’?”
Because as far as the fickle, mouth-breathing masses are concerned, he is. How many hotels and golf courses do you have to your name?
That’s what happens in a capitalist economy; great wealth is associated with economic knowledge. Therefore those who have it MUST know what they are doing.
I’d love to see Mark Kelly put his hat into the ring, but I don’t think he will.
I think he is very protective of his wife, Gabby who is still recovering and won’t ever fully recover from being shot when she was a representative down in Tucson.
Good Time Story! Yesterday we had our first snow of the season and it's still snowing this morning. I'm looking out at a winter wonderland while sipping my coffee. Paul slept in and I'm under his mother's hand knitted cozy blanket. I had a big tuxedo cat on my blanket covered lap, but the squirrels and birds out on the deck were too much of a distraction. He simply had to jump down to sit on Paul's table and talk to them like cats do.
Last night Paul had the wood stove cranking to fend of the bitter cold wind and snow that was pelting our windows. I was in the kitchen whipping up a pan of lasagna and had both the stove and oven going. I felt a little warm and looked at the weather console and the inside temp read 81F. It was tropical inside the cabin while it blew a freezing cold gale with sideways blowing snow outside. Paul opened the sliding glass door all the way to cool it down inside. The kitties rejoiced and all three of them pressed their little kitty noses on the screen door and immediately backed the fuck up! The little one is part Maine Coon, so he ever so carefully went back to the screen door and hunkered down in his long haired coat. The two tuxie's stayed back. One up on Paul's table and the other on Paul's butt warmer. The birds are back and so are the late summer squirrel babies. Along with those babies are the chipmunk babies. Some of you may have read the story about Paul filling up a grocery tote with acorns. Since we have not a single oak tree in our forest Paul gathers them up from our rest stops when we go out on our drives. Those acorns are being thrown out on the deck for our summer babies several times a day. The birds are flocking into the feeders creating a sort of flight chaos with dozens of birds vying for a spot on a feeder. The kitties are in kitty TV heaven. Last night with the sliding glass door wide open to cool it down in here they looked like this (picture.) https://substack.com/profile/317512196-holly-yep-its-me/note/c-176423469 It was a great big Omni Max Theater kitty experience happening out there. We had a wonderful evening. I needed a wonderful evening and The Universe was kind and sent a cold blustery night to snuggle in with a steaming bowl of lasagna and warm crusty garlic bread. The kitties were happily watching TV as Paul and I ate every bite of that lasagna. There's something about snow falling that quiets the nerves and soothes the spirit. I plan to have a quiet and soothing day going to the spine doctor for my now quiet and much less painful sciatica and for that I can thank my fabulously brilliant daughter. I still have to go to the spine dude so please shoot all the good vibes over. I'd be forever grateful.
Ginger air biscuits source info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/jazz-paws
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/7f487e5b-8549-45a4-9ff3-785e54ec3c23?utm_source=share
We have 3 cats but none of them make biscuits. I think they're defective.
Bikkit tabs! Tabby bikkit tabs!😸
That kitten would never sleep in my home--I would be grabbing those little paws ALL THE TIME.
Our orange kitty that we adopted from a shelter when she was six has always been prone to sudden attacks on your hands and arms without cause. Welll maybe not. She has a vet visit next week to have her bad teeth pulled. We think that this will help put a stop to the attacks. We’ve heard that from others. And not just one person. Sad that we have to pay $2500 to make her sweet but she is obviously in pain.
Obligatory cute song.
https://youtu.be/fEph7LI7iCk
Very light air biscuits.
Eet’s a tiny trap
This has to be my most favouritest tab pic ever! All kitties got stars in their paws. Enchanting. 😻
Our orange tabby is 11 now, and a lazier floof ye shall never find. Good 'un tho.
🎶 Hey there, you with the stars in your aborable squee little biscuit making paws 🎶
You get a Rosemary Cloony
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T45e9EzFFHQ
Kitties look real fuzzy
But this is one rare cat
He seems to be more Fosse
His jazz is quite all that.
He definitely has the "jazz hands" part down.
Kitty dreams big, conducting the Feline Philharmonic in a rousing rendition of 𝘖𝘩 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯' 𝘐𝘯 or maybe sorcerous conjuring and spell-casting...
There's a subreddit for that...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AirBiscuits/
Well there goes my morning!
LOL, I’m not surprised 😆
Early murder mitten workout
Teeny tiny tender tummy. Rub it up!
Thar be a kitty afoot.
"Good Lord! What happened to the car?"
"Well, you see, Honey, they were blowing up a whale, and one of the exploding chunks of blubber flew up..."
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DAMN CADILLAC, JOHN?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34
The video of Elizabeth Warren opened with an ad for A $50,000 ICE BONUS. WTF???
I read Garrett's excellent piece, and realized that I have been uncool for my entire life by his standards. It made me sad TBH, to read about his internal distress and conflict about caring, and showing it. We're all cynics, who live in reality and who are blessed/cursed with a good education, and we know too much (or rather, it feels like it, sometimes). But despite all of that I have never felt inhibited in expressing joy over small victories. Maybe it's what's kept me alive and kicking throughout all of the times when we haven't been victorious.
In a world that forces us to live in de facto public performance, ask yourselves exactly how much time you're wasting, worrying about what the masses "think," and then reclaim that time for yourselves. We'll be saner, and we'll get farther together.
Tim Pool is a piece of shit, Exhibit 4297:
https://www.snopes.com/articles/471418/democrat-cities-more-violent-crime/
Well, THIS is insane:
https://www.newsweek.com/450-million-american-colossus-would-be-taller-than-statue-of-liberty-11033204
"A cryptocurrency entrepreneur is trying to get A $450 million statue of the Greek Titan Prometheus, called the “American Colossus,” built on Alcatraz Island.
Ross Calvin, founder of the Denver-based bitcoin-mining firm Parhelion and executive director of the American Colossus Foundation, announced plans to build the monument last March and launched a campaign on Geyser Fund, a Bitcoin-based crowdfunding platform. But only $5 has been raised as of Wednesday morning."
This part is especially special:
"The whole project, which would include the statue and a connected underground Prometheion Museum, is described by Calvin as “a monument to American manifest destiny” and aims to celebrate technology, entrepreneurship and human ingenuity.
The proposal envisions a massive nickel-bronze statue of the Prometheus—a figure Calvin characterizes as “the liberator of mankind” and “the first freedom fighter”— along with a museum meant to explore the myth’s lessons for technology, creativity, and perseverance."
Manifest destiny, eh? 8o
Another made-up word with an actual definition:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gropenfuhrer
Don't let the Greifenführer* see this, or he'll want it to be of him.
*(Made-up word!)
No. Just fucking NO.
What is their obsession with Alcatraz‽ Leave Alcatraz alone, motherfuckers!!! 🤬🤬🤬
Trump has juggled debt all his life so a 50 year mortgage does not matter to him. He'll have possession of a thing while he's alive and after he's dead, he won't give a fart.
“Elon Musk has killed 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. His mother is terribly proud.”
Considering that his mother is a white South African nationalist, she probably is.
Tab's, Kitten's and Coffee in the Morning ☕💯👍
Let’s see. A mortgage where, if you start payment the day you reach adulthood, will not be paid off when you hit retirement age.
Hmmmmm.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
Rich people don't concern themselves with such worries. They only borrow money because they can get it for less than their investments are earning.
8 years ago, Wells Fargo bought my mortgage. I hate WF, so I talked my credit union into buying the loan. Sure, but we have to do another full 30 year note. I was 64 then. I'd be dead before it was paid off. Then I refinanced a few years later, or what they called a "loan adjustment" to a much lower rate and smaller payment, but again, 30 years. Now I'll be 97 if it goes full term. Since I don't have any heirs, I don't care if I die in debt. It's all paper anyway. I call my monthly payment "rent" in my check register.
From the Ingraham interview:
Ingraham: Does that mean the h-1b visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration?
Trump: You have to bring in talent
Ingraham: We have plenty of talent
Trump: No, you don’t
Ingraham: We don’t have talented people here?
“No, you don’t. No, you don’t,” Trump insisted. “You don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn. You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, ‘I’m going to put you into a factory, we’re going to make missiles.’”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-talented-people-visas_n_69146551e4b09f6fd8c43db3?utm_source=buzzfeed&utm_medium=iframely
I thought we wanted people to work for their SNAP benefits. I guess the real goal here is to starve people.
and that is why it was necessary to vigorously throw those Koreans in internment camps. Yup.
My take is they were never gonna give us those ACA subsidies, no way no how, so opening the government makes Dems look like the better guys than the shitty ass Republicans, and then we can super blame them when all their dumb supporters in the red states lose their insurance.
IT IS A TERRIBLE THING, but that's what happens when the electorate decides to shoot itself in the foot and put republicans in charge. Let them all feel the pain.
Will it though? You are forgetting that the vast majority of H. sapiens, especially Americans, are willfully-ignorant and gullible knuckle-draggers who will believe whatever the media tells them.
It’s how we got Trump in the first place.
And also in the second place!
Polling shows a majority of Americans blame Republicans for all of it.
Do we believe polls? IDK
Will everything be entirely different in two months, three months??
Who the hell knows!!
I want to know what they have planned when the SNAP coverage ends in September '26. You know they're going to pull shit, and it'll be a month before the midterms.
What can the hope to accomplish?
I mean, that's a lifetime in politics.
God only knows where we'll be next year!
I read the tabs about the Marion County Record raids (both today and last year when it happened) with interest because the business at least physically sounds exactly like the newspaper of which I was editor for nearly 20 years in central MN—a weekly where we put the paper together on site but printed at a larger paper down the road. Hell, even the building in the article looked a little like ours (ours was beige corrugated metal siding rather than gray). The publisher bought the paper in the early '60s and was still there when I left in 2011. Our relics were an ancient printing press, a massive manual cutter that we still used (for which you had to be trained because you could lose a hand—or at least a few fingers—on that thing), and a cabinet that held bound volumes of the paper since its beginning in 1911.
Unfortunately, if the police had raided my house (and probably that of our fellow-lefty advertising manager) because of some investigative story that pissed of a well-connected local, it would have been at the behest of the publisher and his daughter (who would bring me "leads" she'd written on a bar napkin for "big stories" that always turned out to be rumors about someone, started by another someone who hated them). After I left in 2011 and the ad manager retired about the same time, I've found out that the paper—if it can even be called that anymore—is exactly what the daughter (who has since inherited the place after her dad died) wanted it to be: a RWNJ rag that constantly praises trump, won't allow any letters to the editor that aren't flattering of him, and she refused to publish anything about the local No Kings protests held in that small town and throughout the area. She only hires trump-lovers now. I'm sure you can imagine the illiteracy that is now rampant in the paper's content.
And yeah, I would have sued, too. If all that had happened and I sued, I'd own that fuckin' paper right now.
"you could lose a hand—or at least a few fingers—on that thing"
Now all you need is to buy a Cybertruck!
Thank goodness those people in Marion have been vindicated. Wonder how long before Rump pardons them however he can?
Oh yay. No ACA AND 50 yr mortgages. Truly how can people still believe that he’s the “best businessman”?
“Truly how can people still believe that he’s the ‘best businessman’?”
Because as far as the fickle, mouth-breathing masses are concerned, he is. How many hotels and golf courses do you have to your name?
That’s what happens in a capitalist economy; great wealth is associated with economic knowledge. Therefore those who have it MUST know what they are doing.
Not just economic knowledge: people think Musk is a genius.
Mark Kelly will put his hat in the ring in 28...
I’d love to see Mark Kelly put his hat into the ring, but I don’t think he will.
I think he is very protective of his wife, Gabby who is still recovering and won’t ever fully recover from being shot when she was a representative down in Tucson.
Good Time Story! Yesterday we had our first snow of the season and it's still snowing this morning. I'm looking out at a winter wonderland while sipping my coffee. Paul slept in and I'm under his mother's hand knitted cozy blanket. I had a big tuxedo cat on my blanket covered lap, but the squirrels and birds out on the deck were too much of a distraction. He simply had to jump down to sit on Paul's table and talk to them like cats do.
Last night Paul had the wood stove cranking to fend of the bitter cold wind and snow that was pelting our windows. I was in the kitchen whipping up a pan of lasagna and had both the stove and oven going. I felt a little warm and looked at the weather console and the inside temp read 81F. It was tropical inside the cabin while it blew a freezing cold gale with sideways blowing snow outside. Paul opened the sliding glass door all the way to cool it down inside. The kitties rejoiced and all three of them pressed their little kitty noses on the screen door and immediately backed the fuck up! The little one is part Maine Coon, so he ever so carefully went back to the screen door and hunkered down in his long haired coat. The two tuxie's stayed back. One up on Paul's table and the other on Paul's butt warmer. The birds are back and so are the late summer squirrel babies. Along with those babies are the chipmunk babies. Some of you may have read the story about Paul filling up a grocery tote with acorns. Since we have not a single oak tree in our forest Paul gathers them up from our rest stops when we go out on our drives. Those acorns are being thrown out on the deck for our summer babies several times a day. The birds are flocking into the feeders creating a sort of flight chaos with dozens of birds vying for a spot on a feeder. The kitties are in kitty TV heaven. Last night with the sliding glass door wide open to cool it down in here they looked like this (picture.) https://substack.com/profile/317512196-holly-yep-its-me/note/c-176423469 It was a great big Omni Max Theater kitty experience happening out there. We had a wonderful evening. I needed a wonderful evening and The Universe was kind and sent a cold blustery night to snuggle in with a steaming bowl of lasagna and warm crusty garlic bread. The kitties were happily watching TV as Paul and I ate every bite of that lasagna. There's something about snow falling that quiets the nerves and soothes the spirit. I plan to have a quiet and soothing day going to the spine doctor for my now quiet and much less painful sciatica and for that I can thank my fabulously brilliant daughter. I still have to go to the spine dude so please shoot all the good vibes over. I'd be forever grateful.
we had our first snow of the season and apparently bovino freaked the fuck right on over to...nola.
good luck new orleans (or charlotte). definitely warmer than here.
also, i seriously recommend chicago winter biking.
That all sounds like winning...beautiful story...