As you are our gif artiste extraordinaire of the Glambassadorial - lemme ask you something - have you seen the AI videos - like the astronaut walking toward his landed disc wearing a crocheted helmet - whatcha think -
Knitted or crocheted? I tried to get a good enough look at his headgear, and I just couldn't. However, the description says it's knitted. And are your socks really crocheted?
People often think the Law of Hammurabi as some horrible, draconian law -- "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" but what they're missing is that it was placing a strict limit on retaliation on blood feuds. Killing 30,000 people to avenger 1400 deaths is so wrong according to the oldest, most horrible law in history.
After this semester, I never want to take a business course again. And unless I lose my mind and decide to get an MBA or something, I won't have to. WOOT! As for this semester, only a few slides on data analyzing (I'm going to analise the fuck out of that raw data, hard), and some sort of bullshit recommendation based on my analysis and my initial equally bullshit premise, and my last business class ever can fuck off into the sun.
> Andres obviously didn’t even care anyone was dying “until it affected him.”
I hope this is the stupidest thing I read today because it is SO fucking stupid. If he didn't care that anyone was dying, why did he expend all the effort to try to send food to Gaza? Jaybus but some people are stupid.
I tried to read the Haaretz editorial ... some gift link where you still have to register ... but they say my regular email "appears to be invalid". A random bogus email worked! Is it possible I have gotten myself on a shit list for all the evil things I have said?? Is it them who is paranoid or is it me??
Yeah, it's one thing we can say about Jose Andres--whose World Central Kitchen has fed more than 350 million people in the midst of natural disasters, war, pandemics--is that he doesn't care about human beings as much as some asshole posting on Bluesky. Because what every starving person wants most is a hot social media take.
he and his people have repeatedly gone into dangerous situations in order to help the kind of people that some others could only toss paper towels at, so his critics can take a hike.
Exactly. How clueless and committed to ignorant self-righteousness does one have to be to think Andres didn't start to care until it affected him? When the only reason it affected him was WCK was THERE precisely to help starving people not starve. JHC on a cracker people are just so exhausting sometimes.
Little OT rant. I'm a mod on a website where members do a lot of messaging back and forth - we have public boards and private messaging (though staff can see the private messages even though we rarely have any interest in checking them). We've been around for a long time, some of these people have known each other for decades.
One guy has a habit of sending little messages to people he doesn't know, that are worded just carefully enough that they could be taken as friendly but there's a little sting in them. Dozens of these a day. If someone complains, we tell him to cut it out and if he doesn't, eventually his messaging privileges get suspended for a while. This has been going on for years, off and on. He doesn't just get banned because he is a paid member and the owner would prefer not to lose paying customers.
One of the things he does, when gets a suspension, is bombard our customer service email with complaints about other people bothering him, demanding that they be suspended. "If I'm in jail for sending messages they need to be too". Sometimes even going to the lengths of asking people to send him messages so he can complain about them. Of course, ignoring that he sends dozens and even hundreds of messages, does not stop when asked to, and has a long long history of being a huge PITA about it all. Meanwhile, we tell other people to cut it out and they cut it out.
Would you like to guess what his politics are? The site is not political, but you find out things about people in conversation over the decades. Go on, guess.
in my world, this is called being a vexatious litigator, and they can be banned from filing further litigation. perhaps losing this one paying customer wouldn't hurt so bad?
Staff are telling the boss we would be happy to pay to have him gone. Hoping this last explosion from him is enough - he keeps changing his profile to say he lives in places like "No-Fun Jail" or not-quite-bad-enough-to-be-bannable nasty version of where the mods live. "Pooptown Alberta", that kind of thing.
Fucking tedious. And this is a grown man, a truckdriver from Florida.
Ah, the explanation (much of it anyway) lies in that last sentence.
To be clear, before anyone flips out, I know some incredible high quality humans that live in Florida - a few of them right here. But the bad apples? Yeah, *they* sound just like...a truckdriver from Florida.
My seven day eclipse weekend began yesterday 3 pm. Apparently it's going to come down to the weather forecast when I get up Sunday whether or not I drive down to my viewing location. Clouds I'll accept, but camping in rain is not on my list.
Has anyone else run across the article talking about the insane fantasy of some asshole tech bro venture capitalist in San Francisco? I have to find it again. It’s quite a read. Apparently, this guy (of course, it’s a guy) wants to drive all the poor people and Democrats out of San Francisco. They will be banned from getting back in. The tech bros will all wear gray. They will have secret symbols. There will be an annual “gray pride parade “, complete with Cybertrucks and overhead drones. The only people allowed into the city will be their MAGA allies. Truly amazing shit.
Re. food waste--it's the FUCKING GREEDY SUPERMARKET COMPANIES that are directly to blame. They package fresh produce in units way bigger than most people want. So either they don't buy them, or the consumers do buy them, but throw out most of it because it went bad before they could get it consumed. It makes me furious. For example, I want a pound of grapes, because that's how much I can consume in a reasonable time, not a 3-pound bag. I could go on and on.
Once--JUST ONCE--I would like to be able to buy mandarins by the FUCKING POUND instead of in those fake wooden crates (I grew up on a produce farm and know what all the various vegetable/fruit receptacles are, and they ain't those and are a waste of wood) or in the 3 pound net bags. What I really don't get is that the supermarkets would sell so much more of them if they were offered by the pound. I know they're kinda delicate, but they wouldn't stay on the shelf long enough to be thrown out. --rant over; thanks for listening--
And municipalities make it unlawful to give food to people, so unexpired or probably-still-good food gets dumpstered and bleached to keep the homeless off of it, oh yeah because "health and safety," totally not because "starve in full view of more food than anyone will ever need"
I'm one of The Poors™, so I've been lamenting that nowhere (at least in NY) is allowed to sell out of dates any longer. I used to *live* on marked down out of dates. Now...they can mark it down a little in advance of the date, but as soon as that date hits, it's gone, I assume discarded or returned for credit.
“Can you guys read this? The New York Times On Politics newsletter has three-plus correctly framed headlines! That is so many correctly framed headlines! Wow!”
But then today -
“What Are We Told About the Health of Biden and Trump? They Decide.
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump are the oldest people ever to seek the presidency, challenging norms about what the public should know about candidates’ health.”
Your hed gif today is a scene from a new indie animation by SouthernShotty. It’s called “Watermelon Girl” and you can get more info and stream here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-watermelon-girl
This might be my favorite Tabs Gif so far. I just love animation that looks like you can pick it up and cuddle the fuzzy little characters.
Love it.
I am reminded of Mongo Santamaris,
https://youtu.be/bUvj9qYP_JA?si=OCVhIe0M_FryO8uG
😆
Loved that video (and your gif!) Thanks for sharing!
This brought back memories of a video game I played years ago called ilomilo. Fun puzzle game with an unique art style.
I was confused at first, because I was seeing it upside down, like maybe a baby who was tied up or swaddled? Until she stood up I couldn't see it.
I thought it was a rat at first and nearly screamed.
I love the sound her hair makes when she pulls it out of her head, or rather, melon. lol.
/insert patented Sting bassline
Schooner in a bottle, oh yeah...
As you are our gif artiste extraordinaire of the Glambassadorial - lemme ask you something - have you seen the AI videos - like the astronaut walking toward his landed disc wearing a crocheted helmet - whatcha think -
I have seen a few AI videos, although not that particular one with the astronaut. Some are clever, many are weird. The quality varies too.
Here’s a 17 second clip - the quality knocks my crocheted socks off -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IkfkJgGNQk
Knitted or crocheted? I tried to get a good enough look at his headgear, and I just couldn't. However, the description says it's knitted. And are your socks really crocheted?
Nice!
I pictured it as "Rapunzel digs Tabz".
𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘴𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 1930𝘴, 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 1,000 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘑𝘢𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘪, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵, 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
Wait, is that a collection of historical objects of interest, or rat nests ... ?
People often think the Law of Hammurabi as some horrible, draconian law -- "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" but what they're missing is that it was placing a strict limit on retaliation on blood feuds. Killing 30,000 people to avenger 1400 deaths is so wrong according to the oldest, most horrible law in history.
If the 1400 deaths are considered people in the codes, and the others are not considered people, it might balance out.
NO! Lives are lives. The murder of 1400 Israelis was horrible. The murder of 30,000 Palestinians is horrible, Palestinians are not 3/5th human!
To you and me, but not to Hammurabi. I don't like to romanticize history.
https://armstronghistoryjournal.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/codifying-discrimination-the-status-of-women-slaves-and-freedmen-in-the-ancient-near-east/
After this semester, I never want to take a business course again. And unless I lose my mind and decide to get an MBA or something, I won't have to. WOOT! As for this semester, only a few slides on data analyzing (I'm going to analise the fuck out of that raw data, hard), and some sort of bullshit recommendation based on my analysis and my initial equally bullshit premise, and my last business class ever can fuck off into the sun.
> Andres obviously didn’t even care anyone was dying “until it affected him.”
I hope this is the stupidest thing I read today because it is SO fucking stupid. If he didn't care that anyone was dying, why did he expend all the effort to try to send food to Gaza? Jaybus but some people are stupid.
Get up get up get up get up get up get up get up.
I don’t want to.
But it is morning and you must go to work. Get up get up get up.
But I don’t want to.
Irrelevant.
Arrrggh.
Good second morning everyone. I totally regret my 2 AM gallivant on this thread.
OK maybe not. OK I’m getting up now. Are we happy?
I tried to read the Haaretz editorial ... some gift link where you still have to register ... but they say my regular email "appears to be invalid". A random bogus email worked! Is it possible I have gotten myself on a shit list for all the evil things I have said?? Is it them who is paranoid or is it me??
Yeah, it's one thing we can say about Jose Andres--whose World Central Kitchen has fed more than 350 million people in the midst of natural disasters, war, pandemics--is that he doesn't care about human beings as much as some asshole posting on Bluesky. Because what every starving person wants most is a hot social media take.
he and his people have repeatedly gone into dangerous situations in order to help the kind of people that some others could only toss paper towels at, so his critics can take a hike.
Exactly. How clueless and committed to ignorant self-righteousness does one have to be to think Andres didn't start to care until it affected him? When the only reason it affected him was WCK was THERE precisely to help starving people not starve. JHC on a cracker people are just so exhausting sometimes.
your last sentence is summing up my political world.
I miss "Our Liz"........they do grow up so fast
best lawsplainer working today
;-)
Little OT rant. I'm a mod on a website where members do a lot of messaging back and forth - we have public boards and private messaging (though staff can see the private messages even though we rarely have any interest in checking them). We've been around for a long time, some of these people have known each other for decades.
One guy has a habit of sending little messages to people he doesn't know, that are worded just carefully enough that they could be taken as friendly but there's a little sting in them. Dozens of these a day. If someone complains, we tell him to cut it out and if he doesn't, eventually his messaging privileges get suspended for a while. This has been going on for years, off and on. He doesn't just get banned because he is a paid member and the owner would prefer not to lose paying customers.
One of the things he does, when gets a suspension, is bombard our customer service email with complaints about other people bothering him, demanding that they be suspended. "If I'm in jail for sending messages they need to be too". Sometimes even going to the lengths of asking people to send him messages so he can complain about them. Of course, ignoring that he sends dozens and even hundreds of messages, does not stop when asked to, and has a long long history of being a huge PITA about it all. Meanwhile, we tell other people to cut it out and they cut it out.
Would you like to guess what his politics are? The site is not political, but you find out things about people in conversation over the decades. Go on, guess.
in my world, this is called being a vexatious litigator, and they can be banned from filing further litigation. perhaps losing this one paying customer wouldn't hurt so bad?
Staff are telling the boss we would be happy to pay to have him gone. Hoping this last explosion from him is enough - he keeps changing his profile to say he lives in places like "No-Fun Jail" or not-quite-bad-enough-to-be-bannable nasty version of where the mods live. "Pooptown Alberta", that kind of thing.
Fucking tedious. And this is a grown man, a truckdriver from Florida.
Ah, the explanation (much of it anyway) lies in that last sentence.
To be clear, before anyone flips out, I know some incredible high quality humans that live in Florida - a few of them right here. But the bad apples? Yeah, *they* sound just like...a truckdriver from Florida.
when you stop at the tavern there is always a chance there will be an asshole at one end of the bar
that's why I always take a middle seat
My seven day eclipse weekend began yesterday 3 pm. Apparently it's going to come down to the weather forecast when I get up Sunday whether or not I drive down to my viewing location. Clouds I'll accept, but camping in rain is not on my list.
Upfist for "because I am a fancy lady". You go, Rebecca.
Has anyone else run across the article talking about the insane fantasy of some asshole tech bro venture capitalist in San Francisco? I have to find it again. It’s quite a read. Apparently, this guy (of course, it’s a guy) wants to drive all the poor people and Democrats out of San Francisco. They will be banned from getting back in. The tech bros will all wear gray. They will have secret symbols. There will be an annual “gray pride parade “, complete with Cybertrucks and overhead drones. The only people allowed into the city will be their MAGA allies. Truly amazing shit.
well, that seems like a plan.
It is very detailed. The person has spent a lot of time thinking about it.
there are altogether too many disturbed people in the world for my liking.
Just wait until they cycle through all the soylent colors and reach green.
Re. food waste--it's the FUCKING GREEDY SUPERMARKET COMPANIES that are directly to blame. They package fresh produce in units way bigger than most people want. So either they don't buy them, or the consumers do buy them, but throw out most of it because it went bad before they could get it consumed. It makes me furious. For example, I want a pound of grapes, because that's how much I can consume in a reasonable time, not a 3-pound bag. I could go on and on.
I know this so well! Groceries are not designed for single people.
Once--JUST ONCE--I would like to be able to buy mandarins by the FUCKING POUND instead of in those fake wooden crates (I grew up on a produce farm and know what all the various vegetable/fruit receptacles are, and they ain't those and are a waste of wood) or in the 3 pound net bags. What I really don't get is that the supermarkets would sell so much more of them if they were offered by the pound. I know they're kinda delicate, but they wouldn't stay on the shelf long enough to be thrown out. --rant over; thanks for listening--
And municipalities make it unlawful to give food to people, so unexpired or probably-still-good food gets dumpstered and bleached to keep the homeless off of it, oh yeah because "health and safety," totally not because "starve in full view of more food than anyone will ever need"
I'm one of The Poors™, so I've been lamenting that nowhere (at least in NY) is allowed to sell out of dates any longer. I used to *live* on marked down out of dates. Now...they can mark it down a little in advance of the date, but as soon as that date hits, it's gone, I assume discarded or returned for credit.
“Can you guys read this? The New York Times On Politics newsletter has three-plus correctly framed headlines! That is so many correctly framed headlines! Wow!”
But then today -
“What Are We Told About the Health of Biden and Trump? They Decide.
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump are the oldest people ever to seek the presidency, challenging norms about what the public should know about candidates’ health.”
(crowd shouts in unison) "Disbar Barabbas!"