Little-known fact: octopus derives from Greek, not Latin, therefore the plural is perhaps more correctly octopodes.
However, once a word is adopted by another language, it's OK to use the borrower's pluralization methods. So octopuses it is. But octopi is just so damn fun.
It's funny because I have debated in the past which to use, but I typically go with octopuses because that's what seems to be the most commonly used in the scientific journal articles I read about the subject. I figure I'll let the subject matter experts decide.
"USDA shutting down all the research into the diarrhea lettuce parasite, blames Congress. Gentlemen, don’t fight! There is plenty of blame for everyone!"
That fucking man has arbitarily decided to remove a abstract statue from the Kennedy Center. Why? Maybe because it was blue? It's not his Center, he doesn't have the right to change it.
“Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT???” Trump tooted Wednesday. “Like America itself, it would be ‘hotter’ than ever before!”
MapQuest has soared to the top of the charts after defying an edict issued by President Donald Trump, refusing to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”
Google has all the power, money, and influence to tell Trump to fuck off with his naming nonsense. But instead, they've decided to sidle up to him with all of the information they've collected on us and enable his burgeoning fascism.
Rahm Emmanuel was on Jen Psaki saying that the DSA should not be allowed in the DEM tent. My husband agreed and I disagreed on a point on which I was wrong. I need to apologize now. However, aside from their open borders they have a great message.
I cannot wait to get a screw worm in meat. This is truly the plan in Project 2025. Poison us. The architects will also suffer so there seems to be a flaw in their plan.
U.S. Mint Releases New $1 Coin With Trump's Face On It
“Available for purchase today at 12PM ET: 2026 President Donald J. Trump $1 Coin,” the U.S. Mint said in a post on X Wednesday. “These coins are also in circulation, so check your pocket change. Collect them today!”
LA Times, today: "California lawmakers on Monday voted to ban federal immigration agents from being hired for many local and state government jobs and to outlaw electric-shock gloves similar to those that may be distributed to federal officers.
One bill would prohibit agents and contractors involved in immigration enforcement from being employed in the future by the state, cities, counties, school districts and other public entities. It was supported by Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) and called the “Get the Feds Out” Act, or “GTFO.” A separate bill would block police and other law enforcement officers from taking second jobs or working as contractors on federal immigration enforcement.
Other bills would prohibit arrests of people traveling to or from court, as federal agents have arrested people who show up for immigration hearings; impose a 25% tax on income earned by companies operating immigration detention centers; and allow individuals to file lawsuits against federal agents over alleged civil rights violations such as excessive force, unlawful home searches and interfering with the right to protest."
Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto bills approved by the Legislature.
JC Vance, Tuesday, interview with Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford. 'So I might be working for the apocalypse or a better world - choose your own adventure!'
“I have for my entire life been fascinated by end-times prophecy and theology." Vance said he wouldn’t be shocked to learn that the Antichrist was “walking among us” right now, nor would he be shocked to learn that we’re living in the end times at this moment.
But Vance said that, as a Catholic, he was “commanded” to try to make the world what God wants it to be. “What I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now, and if that leads to the end times, okay,” he said. “And if that leads to, you know, us building a better world that thrives and survives for a very long time after I’m gone, that’s great, too.”
Wikipedia: "Modern biblical scholarship views Revelation as a first-century apocalyptic message warning early Christian communities not to assimilate into Roman imperial culture, interpreting its vivid symbolism through historical, literary, and cultural lenses."
Hahaha!! This must be the September Fools edition. That’s a thing, right? These stories can’t all be true, can they? There’s no way this timeline includes all this insanity! I mean, “MAGA Shark Tank” and “people in Gaza are dealing with obesity” and all the other shit. They’re all jokes, right? Right?
Of course the headline and pic of Dhillon in the NYT was designed to make her look like some badass. Keep gargling those MAGA balls Sulzberger
“From Top Civil Rights Post, She Spars With the Left, and Her Colleagues
Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights unit, has extracted flashy agreements and personnel moves from big universities and sought to force states to turn over confidential voter data.”
“Flashy” lol. FU NYT.
Late edit- the NYT also describes her thusly :
“Her intellect is formidable, her personality vivid and paradoxical.”
"[Her intellect] manifests in a restless social media feed that modulates between threats (investigating a cafe owner who would not serve a pro-Israel congressman), policy announcements (the decision to deploy 1,000 election monitors at polling places), Edenic photos (bees at dawn, dahlias, zinnias), and many, many, many images of her knitting projects.
A post to her 1.6 million followers in mid-August captured the split screen. “It is a crime to knowingly allow noncitizens to vote in federal elections. We have notified all 50 states of these federal election laws,” she wrote, sharing a clip of a recent appearance on a podcast in which she wore a tangerine-hued pullover. She then reposted it with the comment: “I knit that sweater! This summer — pure cashmere.”"
Do you know how much cashmere costs? Enough to knit a sweater would be a small fortune. This ugly, evil gash is truly one of the worst sociopaths in Agolf Shitler's employ.
One of the greatest lies of the American mythology is how so many people are convinced that their own success is due entirely to their own personal qualities and efforts and had no dependence on the enormous efforts and struggles, and also very often luck, that built the infrastructure that made their success possible. I think this is a large part of what fuels the antipathy of someone like Harmeet Dhillon (and also, not incidentally, Clarence Thomas) for the immigration policies, educational opportunities, and voting and civil rights policies for which she holds so much antipathy, without which they would not have had the remotest chance to get where they are.
I have a brother who became wealthy and successful but who seems incapable of recognizing how that success intrinsically depended on access to resources that he would drown in a bathtub if he could.
You're omitting the crucial point for both Dhillon and LONG DONG SILVER:
their knowledge that they are mediocre, dull-normal functionaries given huge power and $$$$$$$$$$$$$ by cretinous Nazis. It's why they are so ugly, evil, and cancerous.
Wonkette Flapjack Octopus > MAGA Shark Tank. Science fact, Jack. https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/its-a-flapjack-thats-a-fact-jack
Also you’ll be wanting a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/3b306155-14fe-4f43-a5bd-a8ee3640ff42?utm_source=share
Adorable
Dumbo of the Sea
Dang. The deep sea is obviously where God has their experimental lab.
Gaspar the friendly alien
Wheeee, its the Dumbo of the sea!!!
Ouf - I should have read down before posting.
"Pardon me, is this the way to R'lyeh?"
Do you know the way to R'lyeh?
Doot doot doot doot doot doodle doot doot
Yeah, you go flap, Jack, do it again
Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round
You go flap, Jack, do it again
🎶I'd like to be...under the sea...in an Octopus's Garden eating flapjacks...🎶
Little-known fact: octopus derives from Greek, not Latin, therefore the plural is perhaps more correctly octopodes.
However, once a word is adopted by another language, it's OK to use the borrower's pluralization methods. So octopuses it is. But octopi is just so damn fun.
And a brief search pulls up this: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes
why, why, why, it's octopi in my eye(s).
Thank you! That's going to be very helpful for the rhyming in the Ogden Nash style poem I was planning to write about the antipodes.
It's funny because I have debated in the past which to use, but I typically go with octopuses because that's what seems to be the most commonly used in the scientific journal articles I read about the subject. I figure I'll let the subject matter experts decide.
FAERIE OCTOPUS!!
I've had flapjacks at IHOP
But wouldn't want to try
Whatever they'd be serving up
At The House of Octopi.
Flap me!
Cannot be tiny red Octopussy much to squee! Must be Poke Thing!
Oh, go on with that, that’s that newfangled A1 thing, someone told it to make an anime pancake with ears.
Welp, it isn't until you reach the last photo on the sea floor this little guy looks like a pancake. Love those ears!
Good morning, Wonketariat!!!
That is one of the most fascinating octopi I've ever seen! I didn't know they had ears - I know those aren't ears but damn they sure do look like em.
"USDA shutting down all the research into the diarrhea lettuce parasite, blames Congress. Gentlemen, don’t fight! There is plenty of blame for everyone!"
Thanks, Brandon.
I didn't know obesity was the number one problem facing Palestinians. I thought it was getting shot in the head by IDF soldiers.
That fucking man has arbitarily decided to remove a abstract statue from the Kennedy Center. Why? Maybe because it was blue? It's not his Center, he doesn't have the right to change it.
Get the fuck off my phone. Am reporting this as fraudulent spam.
“Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT???” Trump tooted Wednesday. “Like America itself, it would be ‘hotter’ than ever before!”
JFC. Pussy Ass Bitch is so fucking imbecilic it must HAVE to be WATERED.
Why does he keep saying things are hot?! It's so weird and gross!
MapQuest has soared to the top of the charts after defying an edict issued by President Donald Trump, refusing to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lake-ontario-mapquest-google-apple_n_6a982618e4b0a452561835be?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Google has all the power, money, and influence to tell Trump to fuck off with his naming nonsense. But instead, they've decided to sidle up to him with all of the information they've collected on us and enable his burgeoning fascism.
https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario
Rahm Emmanuel was on Jen Psaki saying that the DSA should not be allowed in the DEM tent. My husband agreed and I disagreed on a point on which I was wrong. I need to apologize now. However, aside from their open borders they have a great message.
I cannot wait to get a screw worm in meat. This is truly the plan in Project 2025. Poison us. The architects will also suffer so there seems to be a flaw in their plan.
Why would Psaki have that miserable DINO loser on , ever?
She's jumped the shark totally.
U.S. Mint Releases New $1 Coin With Trump's Face On It
“Available for purchase today at 12PM ET: 2026 President Donald J. Trump $1 Coin,” the U.S. Mint said in a post on X Wednesday. “These coins are also in circulation, so check your pocket change. Collect them today!”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/america-250-trump-coin_n_6a5840aee4b07a7875d1940b
Hell no!
WHAR LIZ PHAIR in that playlist?!?!111!!?
When Alexandra at the Atlantic breaks a story do we call it a Petri dish?
Points this morning for "ninnymuggins."
Just don't ask Rev. Spooner to say it.
LA Times, today: "California lawmakers on Monday voted to ban federal immigration agents from being hired for many local and state government jobs and to outlaw electric-shock gloves similar to those that may be distributed to federal officers.
One bill would prohibit agents and contractors involved in immigration enforcement from being employed in the future by the state, cities, counties, school districts and other public entities. It was supported by Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) and called the “Get the Feds Out” Act, or “GTFO.” A separate bill would block police and other law enforcement officers from taking second jobs or working as contractors on federal immigration enforcement.
Other bills would prohibit arrests of people traveling to or from court, as federal agents have arrested people who show up for immigration hearings; impose a 25% tax on income earned by companies operating immigration detention centers; and allow individuals to file lawsuits against federal agents over alleged civil rights violations such as excessive force, unlawful home searches and interfering with the right to protest."
Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto bills approved by the Legislature.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-01/california-lawmakers-pass-restrictions-on-hiring-former-immigration-agents-ban-on-electric-shock-gloves
JC Vance, Tuesday, interview with Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford. 'So I might be working for the apocalypse or a better world - choose your own adventure!'
“I have for my entire life been fascinated by end-times prophecy and theology." Vance said he wouldn’t be shocked to learn that the Antichrist was “walking among us” right now, nor would he be shocked to learn that we’re living in the end times at this moment.
But Vance said that, as a Catholic, he was “commanded” to try to make the world what God wants it to be. “What I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now, and if that leads to the end times, okay,” he said. “And if that leads to, you know, us building a better world that thrives and survives for a very long time after I’m gone, that’s great, too.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-end-times_n_6a979e1ee4b0f5af041149c2?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Wikipedia: "Modern biblical scholarship views Revelation as a first-century apocalyptic message warning early Christian communities not to assimilate into Roman imperial culture, interpreting its vivid symbolism through historical, literary, and cultural lenses."
Does this man not have any mirrors in his house?
"Antichrist was “walking among us" Yeah it's DJT or Vought. Why not both?
I am a long-time atheist, but I have to admit I've flirted with the idea of the antiChrist and eschatology for <checks calendar> almost 11 years now.
Someone send that man off to the Jesuits for a LONG holiday, please!
Hahaha!! This must be the September Fools edition. That’s a thing, right? These stories can’t all be true, can they? There’s no way this timeline includes all this insanity! I mean, “MAGA Shark Tank” and “people in Gaza are dealing with obesity” and all the other shit. They’re all jokes, right? Right?
Of course the headline and pic of Dhillon in the NYT was designed to make her look like some badass. Keep gargling those MAGA balls Sulzberger
“From Top Civil Rights Post, She Spars With the Left, and Her Colleagues
Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights unit, has extracted flashy agreements and personnel moves from big universities and sought to force states to turn over confidential voter data.”
“Flashy” lol. FU NYT.
Late edit- the NYT also describes her thusly :
“Her intellect is formidable, her personality vivid and paradoxical.”
OMG.
Badass? She looks and behaves exactly like the psychotic bitch**** she is!
And she's crazy!
"[Her intellect] manifests in a restless social media feed that modulates between threats (investigating a cafe owner who would not serve a pro-Israel congressman), policy announcements (the decision to deploy 1,000 election monitors at polling places), Edenic photos (bees at dawn, dahlias, zinnias), and many, many, many images of her knitting projects.
A post to her 1.6 million followers in mid-August captured the split screen. “It is a crime to knowingly allow noncitizens to vote in federal elections. We have notified all 50 states of these federal election laws,” she wrote, sharing a clip of a recent appearance on a podcast in which she wore a tangerine-hued pullover. She then reposted it with the comment: “I knit that sweater! This summer — pure cashmere.”"
Do you know how much cashmere costs? Enough to knit a sweater would be a small fortune. This ugly, evil gash is truly one of the worst sociopaths in Agolf Shitler's employ.
Seems like neurotic, grifting, conspiracy theorist busybody is a more accurate descriptor
One of the greatest lies of the American mythology is how so many people are convinced that their own success is due entirely to their own personal qualities and efforts and had no dependence on the enormous efforts and struggles, and also very often luck, that built the infrastructure that made their success possible. I think this is a large part of what fuels the antipathy of someone like Harmeet Dhillon (and also, not incidentally, Clarence Thomas) for the immigration policies, educational opportunities, and voting and civil rights policies for which she holds so much antipathy, without which they would not have had the remotest chance to get where they are.
I have a brother who became wealthy and successful but who seems incapable of recognizing how that success intrinsically depended on access to resources that he would drown in a bathtub if he could.
You're omitting the crucial point for both Dhillon and LONG DONG SILVER:
their knowledge that they are mediocre, dull-normal functionaries given huge power and $$$$$$$$$$$$$ by cretinous Nazis. It's why they are so ugly, evil, and cancerous.