I worked extensively with systems from Digital Equipment Corporation back in the 1980s, mostly on a PDP-11 and various VAXen. Surprisingly, that's where I first learned about wombats.
In elementary school, we had a thing where we read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and then we had to make our own little books following that story. Mine was "If you Give a Wombat Sunscreen" because "wombat" was one of the funniest animals I could think of. Most other kids kind of phoned it in--easy animals like "If You Give a Dog a Cookie" or "If You Give a Mouse a Cupcake".
I'm still pretty proud of mine. The wombat ran around the world and ate lobster and all these other things. Also, I had no clue what a wombat was before I began my little book.
That's so clever, Babe! I bet your teacher was especially proud of you.
Things are going much better now, I have 2 part-time clients and looking for another. But for now, I'm making enough to cover my nut, so that's a good thing. And I'm still writing every day, which definitely keeps me in line, hee hee. Hope you are doing well too, my sweet friend. This winter of transition for the two of us has sucked ass! Very happy spring is here. Big hugs to you, honey!
Oh my friend! So nice to hear from you! You are such a blessing to your clients, and so gracious to write and share your wisdom with us all. I am proud of you!
Spring is here, and I wish all the best for you. That third client is out there and has no idea how lucky they are!
If a wombat comes out of his burrow and sees his shadow does that mean it is six more weeks of,,, winter? Summer? I lose track of Australian seasons. I thought is was drought, flood, fire, opal and shark.
If you go hunting opals be sure to have your fossiking license and a field guide. Not to ID opals, more so you can tell the doctors at the emergency room what bit you and maybe they can keep yu alive.
Thank you for the wombats. I think they are quite fascinating creatures. I see someone has already mentioned the poo, but there are so many interesting things about them. Made me smile, and anything that produces a smile these dark days, is welcome!
I haven't been here very often this past week, so I missed your gif with the hyenas. Late though I may be, I simply have to share this video of mischievous hyena cubs. https://youtu.be/pp0aMKRq7Xw?si=2T1mDaf3rfjm9405
One hopes self-medicating dismay and despair with the adorable baby animal thing will fizzle out soonish - especially the wombat fetish before the hapless creatures become extinct.
Native animals in Oz are tragically in dire straits, mainly due to hunters, fishers, farmers, shooters, foresters, miners, sentimental humans, and influencers of late.
No frustrated maternal instinct here, just narcissistic infantile and cowardly behaviour.
Why do some pages ask me to establish an account before posting (like Marcie's immigration piece) and others don't. I'm a dues-paying, card-carrying Wonk!
I have wondered about that championship belt in the picture (on table over Z's right shoulder):
"At the infamous White House meeting, the Ukrainian leader said he planned to gift Trump the championship belt of heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk. However, Zelenskyy chose to start out by showing Trump images depicting how badly Russia has treated Ukrainian prisoners of war.
After the meeting went off the rails, Zelenskyy left the White House early and never got the chance to give Trump the belt. However, Time reported that a White House staffer found the gift in the Oval Office and placed it in Trumpโs dining room." {HuffPost Updates}
The UK is issuing new guidance to schools to teach children the dangers of โmisogyny and the growing appeal of influencers such as Andrew Tate.โ
Or as the Krasnov regime would call it: โwoke DEI shit.โ
Maybe someone from the UK ministry of education can give seminars to American law firms and universities about how not to give into fascism and why that is never a good thing.
The capitulation of Paul Weis is particularly galling because another law firm had already an injunction against Krasnovโs illegal attacks. All Paul Weis would have had to do was go to the same judge and say, โDitto!โ And they would have gotten the same injunction.
I still find it amazing that some asshole like Andrew Tate can take an Andrew Dice Clay routine from the late 80s and turn it into a lucrative career as a misogyny/rape enthusiast influencer.
Posted some photos around 4 AM in the morning, just figured out that I could do video clips. Also, which means a monster has been created, of course.
Meanwhile, hereโs a very short clip of the Aurora kicking up her feels. I didnโt realize this would pick up audio, so you can faintly hear an owl in the background. Kindly ignore my attempt to respond to the owl. The owl did.
"The UK is issuing new guidance to schools to teach children the dangers of โmisogyny and the growing appeal of influencers such as Andrew Tate.โ GOOD!"
I'm late to the party here, but FYI the link doesn't work. Try this one:
"The chairman of law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Brad Karp sent an email to employees on Sunday claiming that Paul Weiss had entered the deal with the administration after the legal industry did not mobilize in defense of the law firm.
โWe were hopeful that the legal industry would rally to our side, even though it had not done so in response to executive orders targeting other firms,โ the email, which was published by Business Insider, said. โDisappointingly, far from support, we learned that certain other firms were seeking to exploit our vulnerabilities by aggressively soliciting our clients and recruiting our attorneys.โ" {HuffPost Updates, excerpted}
Judge Lawrence VanDyke was given a "not qualified" rating, as well as a scathing critique of his competence and temperament when he was named to the Ninth Circuit by FFOTUS in 2020.
He should just STFU - as so many MAGAs say, "You lost, so deal with it "
Wonkette wombat! Your hed gif info: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/a-baby-wombat
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/34e39654-8c0e-441a-a38a-c4c501194eec?utm_source=share
Daaawsome!
I worked extensively with systems from Digital Equipment Corporation back in the 1980s, mostly on a PDP-11 and various VAXen. Surprisingly, that's where I first learned about wombats.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ต ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ, ๐ข๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐๐-11 ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ต; ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ'๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐โ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ข๐ต๐ด.
I always post this whenever wombats come up. Have some Phish...with celebrity cameo!
https://youtu.be/Q-lmVFLeTbM?si=MEpF28pj8OUyyPNK
Absolutely adorable!
You know what other baby animals are adorable*? Baby raccoons. How about it?
*Yes, I know ALL baby animals are adorable.
In elementary school, we had a thing where we read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and then we had to make our own little books following that story. Mine was "If you Give a Wombat Sunscreen" because "wombat" was one of the funniest animals I could think of. Most other kids kind of phoned it in--easy animals like "If You Give a Dog a Cookie" or "If You Give a Mouse a Cupcake".
I'm still pretty proud of mine. The wombat ran around the world and ate lobster and all these other things. Also, I had no clue what a wombat was before I began my little book.
That's so clever, Babe! I bet your teacher was especially proud of you.
Things are going much better now, I have 2 part-time clients and looking for another. But for now, I'm making enough to cover my nut, so that's a good thing. And I'm still writing every day, which definitely keeps me in line, hee hee. Hope you are doing well too, my sweet friend. This winter of transition for the two of us has sucked ass! Very happy spring is here. Big hugs to you, honey!
Oh my friend! So nice to hear from you! You are such a blessing to your clients, and so gracious to write and share your wisdom with us all. I am proud of you!
Spring is here, and I wish all the best for you. That third client is out there and has no idea how lucky they are!
Hugs and love!
Sounds adorable! I hope you have that book somewhere still.
My folks do--they have one small box with "the good stuff" from my school days, and that is one of them.
If a wombat comes out of his burrow and sees his shadow does that mean it is six more weeks of,,, winter? Summer? I lose track of Australian seasons. I thought is was drought, flood, fire, opal and shark.
Opal season generally shows well.
If you go hunting opals be sure to have your fossiking license and a field guide. Not to ID opals, more so you can tell the doctors at the emergency room what bit you and maybe they can keep yu alive.
Thank you for the wombats. I think they are quite fascinating creatures. I see someone has already mentioned the poo, but there are so many interesting things about them. Made me smile, and anything that produces a smile these dark days, is welcome!
Wombats produce cube shaped poop
Because they digest slowly
They leave it piled on rocks and limbs
To mark their terrritory
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F05k86kmrnkn31.jpg
Damnit, Me! Now I'm going to be singing "Square poop, square poop, square, square, POOP!" in my head all day long. Thanks.
https://youtu.be/S5fnJJwbJPw?si=w8oy42vDZ1i8JsEf
I swell with pride.
Cuter than a busy-body fascist fetus worshipper asking me whereโs my womb at.
I haven't been here very often this past week, so I missed your gif with the hyenas. Late though I may be, I simply have to share this video of mischievous hyena cubs. https://youtu.be/pp0aMKRq7Xw?si=2T1mDaf3rfjm9405
Aw, cute little rascals!
Ozzy that Martini.
That's a babby? How big are adult wombats?
Adult wombats are a little over 3 feet long and can weigh between 45 and 75 pounds.
What's a wombat for?
Playing wom.
I'm breaking in a new wom mitt...
In just a few years, the ground outside its lair will be strewn with bones.
That wombat's dynamite!
"Look, that wombat's got a vicious streak a mile wide!"
Wonkette Wombat is the name of my late 70s/early 80s punk rock band.
Ooh, I hope Nick Cave is the singer!
Itโs a girl band, right? And you wear those costumes?
Of course!
One hopes self-medicating dismay and despair with the adorable baby animal thing will fizzle out soonish - especially the wombat fetish before the hapless creatures become extinct.
Native animals in Oz are tragically in dire straits, mainly due to hunters, fishers, farmers, shooters, foresters, miners, sentimental humans, and influencers of late.
No frustrated maternal instinct here, just narcissistic infantile and cowardly behaviour.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-influencer-snatched-baby-wombat-leaves-australia-outcry-rcna196386#
Which kinda makes us Toddler-bait when you think about it...
Thanks you irreverent fiercette! WV! My heart! Greenbrier County native. Take care of yourself. I send cabbages when I can!
Why do some pages ask me to establish an account before posting (like Marcie's immigration piece) and others don't. I'm a dues-paying, card-carrying Wonk!
I have wondered about that championship belt in the picture (on table over Z's right shoulder):
"At the infamous White House meeting, the Ukrainian leader said he planned to gift Trump the championship belt of heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk. However, Zelenskyy chose to start out by showing Trump images depicting how badly Russia has treated Ukrainian prisoners of war.
After the meeting went off the rails, Zelenskyy left the White House early and never got the chance to give Trump the belt. However, Time reported that a White House staffer found the gift in the Oval Office and placed it in Trumpโs dining room." {HuffPost Updates}
A bright shiny object, Zelenskyy's a genius.
The UK is issuing new guidance to schools to teach children the dangers of โmisogyny and the growing appeal of influencers such as Andrew Tate.โ
Or as the Krasnov regime would call it: โwoke DEI shit.โ
Maybe someone from the UK ministry of education can give seminars to American law firms and universities about how not to give into fascism and why that is never a good thing.
The capitulation of Paul Weis is particularly galling because another law firm had already an injunction against Krasnovโs illegal attacks. All Paul Weis would have had to do was go to the same judge and say, โDitto!โ And they would have gotten the same injunction.
Iโm sort of disappointed that I realized my error when I read the line: โโฆwith a giant picture of him pissing on a milk cartonโฆ.โ
GET THE WORD OUT!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-predicts-doge-lost-half-a-trillion-dollars-for-the-usa
Somehow, I don't think they "lost" that money...
FML! It is time to rally in this time zone. Go from horizontal to full tilt boogie. Scramble ramble.
I still find it amazing that some asshole like Andrew Tate can take an Andrew Dice Clay routine from the late 80s and turn it into a lucrative career as a misogyny/rape enthusiast influencer.
Posted some photos around 4 AM in the morning, just figured out that I could do video clips. Also, which means a monster has been created, of course.
Meanwhile, hereโs a very short clip of the Aurora kicking up her feels. I didnโt realize this would pick up audio, so you can faintly hear an owl in the background. Kindly ignore my attempt to respond to the owl. The owl did.
https://substack.com/profile/1687878-1d57a1d5931d/note/c-102996269?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di
The Trump National Anthem :
https://youtu.be/w6W9qoIN-QU?si=XXuQbZWKsaN_KCrL
Shitlerโs latest tantrum *today*โat least, as of this posting:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/trump-colorado-portrait-painting
Guess itโs not puffy or orange enough, and you just *know* the hands are too big, LOL.
"The UK is issuing new guidance to schools to teach children the dangers of โmisogyny and the growing appeal of influencers such as Andrew Tate.โ GOOD!"
I'm late to the party here, but FYI the link doesn't work. Try this one:
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/school-children-lessons-misogyny-adolescence-r6qpdjq7d
"The chairman of law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Brad Karp sent an email to employees on Sunday claiming that Paul Weiss had entered the deal with the administration after the legal industry did not mobilize in defense of the law firm.
โWe were hopeful that the legal industry would rally to our side, even though it had not done so in response to executive orders targeting other firms,โ the email, which was published by Business Insider, said. โDisappointingly, far from support, we learned that certain other firms were seeking to exploit our vulnerabilities by aggressively soliciting our clients and recruiting our attorneys.โ" {HuffPost Updates, excerpted}
The Contrarian did a write-up about it this morning, too.
Everyone out there is willing to be so brave if someone else does it first.
Judge Lawrence VanDyke was given a "not qualified" rating, as well as a scathing critique of his competence and temperament when he was named to the Ninth Circuit by FFOTUS in 2020.
He should just STFU - as so many MAGAs say, "You lost, so deal with it "