Frank Herbert's Dune universe of books had a group of humans who are oddball masters of genetics and intrigue and shapeshifting: The Bene Tleilax.
They make animals, compounds, and people in *axlotl* tanks. I won't spoil it for you, coz oh godz below they [REDACTED] to their women🤮 (plus you gotta wait til the 4th or 5th in a series of 6 original to get that final reveal) 🧐
My last "commemorative vacation t-shirt" (I get one every time we travel anywhere) features an axolotl. A bright purple one. May not actually reflect nature, but it's a brash design.
Last Halloween we had a number of children ring the bell for treats. As always, I open the door and look amazed at their costume creativity. I ask, "what are you?" and they generally all shout out at once in a cacophony. It is adorable. One little girl was in a pink outfit with wee legs and feathers on her back. Her description of her costume stood out among the rest.
Once my in-laws’ toilet overflowed in the middle of the night—like the tank part—and we called it toilet lizard, but this translucent little lizard looking thing came out, washed out, and I swear it was one of these.
It makes no sense, but it looked the same and didn’t act like a lizard who had ever been in light and on land.
Just throwing this out there. Are Kyle Rittenhouse and Bill Pulte related? Sure, in their lack of worth as human beings, of course. But these fuckers could be brothers. Look at them. The doughy soft features. The lower-case Comic Sans o shape of the head. The same empty, clueless eyes. A gaping smile not out of bemusement with their world but befuddlement at their lack of sense of self.
"According to a declaration filed in court Wednesday to stop the event, the UFC intends to have "each participant in the UFC event (i.e. fighters) enter the Lincoln Memorial chamber via elevator from a lower level, each accompanied by a child." Each fighter and accompanying child will be filmed walking through the chamber and descending the steps to the press conference area." Who the children will be or why they will be attending was not described. The White House did not immediately return request for comment.
The lawsuit says the event is a "deeply corrupt" money-making venture for the president. "Sponsorship packages," for example, cost up to $1.5 million per person, and financial disclosures show Trump personally invested as much as $50,000 in TKO, the company that owns the UFC, two weeks after the fight was announced." [HuffPost]
"i do think we chase off a lot of what’s supposed to be our big tent; I don’t know that Manchin, Sinema, and Fetterman would have been SO shitty if we weren’t chasing them into the bathroom and yelling at them all the time, because we really seem to get their backs up! "
Q: Why did we have to chase these people into the bathroom?
A: Because they refused to be honest in the hallway outside!
The dishonesty came first. Let's repeat that for all the self-loathing Democrats in the back:
The dishonesty came first.
The chasing into the restroom was an effort to get accountability from people who were given a share of political power by the combination of party and voters.
Q: When do such people have to account for themselves and their actions?
A: Every goddam day.
When they refuse to account for themselves, when they become coiners of weasel words, well, you chase them into the restroom to give them yet another chance to speak something like the truth for once. It's right there in the Constitution.
My focus is on words and ideas, not individuals. The quoted line above (and certainly *not* the person who wrote it) is the worst kind of codependent, maybe they wouldn't hit us if we were prettier, kind of useless written shit that doesn't help us understand this political phenomenon at all.
Happiest of born days to Momma Donna and Donna Rose. My husband’s 60th is a week from tomorrow. Bring the “master planner” that I am, nothing has been planned. He HATES parties so it will most likely be us and maybe his friend and his wife song with his sister. I could make dinner for everyone as usual but he helps so that’s not much of a birthday present.
“I don’t know that Manchin, Sinema, and Fetterman would have been SO shitty if we weren’t chasing them into the bathroom and yelling at them all the time,”
On Fox News, Thursday, Trump ranted about a Wall Street Journal editorial that he claimed suggested the U.S. is not hitting Iran hard enough, Trump said: "We dropped $250 million of bombs on them last night." [HuffPost]
Your hed gif and Minecraft star, from what I understand (never having played it), the axolotl, is a fascinating animal. Learn more here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/little-leucistic-axolotls
And today’s meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/09f98794-856c-4a34-ad89-bf41fa60a506?utm_source=share
Their name is so much fun to say. axolotl, axolotl, axolotl!
Video killed the Minecraft star.
Axolotl haiku:
Hi, axolotl
You have creepy little legs
Just like elon musk
Fun fact, sci-fi nerd edition. 🤓
Frank Herbert's Dune universe of books had a group of humans who are oddball masters of genetics and intrigue and shapeshifting: The Bene Tleilax.
They make animals, compounds, and people in *axlotl* tanks. I won't spoil it for you, coz oh godz below they [REDACTED] to their women🤮 (plus you gotta wait til the 4th or 5th in a series of 6 original to get that final reveal) 🧐
The Axolotl
can regrow its brain
which is a handy thing
for an Axolotl
Can we distill that ability down to an injectable, for MAGA brain?
My last "commemorative vacation t-shirt" (I get one every time we travel anywhere) features an axolotl. A bright purple one. May not actually reflect nature, but it's a brash design.
Axolotl? Now you're just toying with me.
It's far too early
To hit the bottle
So I'll take a pass
On axolotl.
It's never too early
To hit the bottle
Wait
What day is this?
Last Halloween we had a number of children ring the bell for treats. As always, I open the door and look amazed at their costume creativity. I ask, "what are you?" and they generally all shout out at once in a cacophony. It is adorable. One little girl was in a pink outfit with wee legs and feathers on her back. Her description of her costume stood out among the rest.
"I am an axolotl!"
Made my night as I dug into the candy car.
Early hunters used axolotls to ... wut? atlatls? Oh. I had wondered how they threw those critters.
This is exactly the type of nerdy joke that keeps me coming back here
Axolotls are real?
Fake news!
Fake newts!
She turned me into an axolotl. I got better.
They're good at that
I go back and forth and sideways between my spirit animal being a snow leopard, an axolotl, and a tardigrade.
I don't have a snow leopard song, but I do have one for axolotls (https://www.familyopera.org/drupal/sites/default/files/2012_Science_Festival/Performance/12LT-v20_Axolotl-Broad.mp4) and water bears (https://www.familyopera.org/drupal/sites/default/files/2018_Web_of_Life/18WoL-Performance/18WoL-09_WaterBears.mp4).
WATER BEARZ!!!!!! THEY SURVIVE DEEP SPACE!!!!!
My students universally love these guys, excited to nerd out about it with them!
Rizzo and Frenchy are up to no good again.
"Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee!"
Once my in-laws’ toilet overflowed in the middle of the night—like the tank part—and we called it toilet lizard, but this translucent little lizard looking thing came out, washed out, and I swear it was one of these.
It makes no sense, but it looked the same and didn’t act like a lizard who had ever been in light and on land.
Does the axolotl ask a lotta questions? 😃😄😃
Axolotl not what your country can do for you…….
Axolotl!
Yay for axolotl!
Axolotl!
They're so freaking cute!
So you are coming to PITTSBURGH but not Philly…I’m a bit miffed.
All your assets are belong to kushner.
Gen X really sucks...except for me, of course.
11th birthday. I still remember a picture of you and baby her at a political event for Hillary like it was only a few years ago. Time goes so fast.
“I’m an investor now,” Kushner replied. “I served in government, and I think my track record is pretty impeccable. Now I’m a private investor.”
Very certain your track record is completely and utterly peccable, "sir"! Good day!
I SAID GOOD DAY! 😏
Gotta have my Tab's and Coffee ☕ 🤓 💯❗
Just throwing this out there. Are Kyle Rittenhouse and Bill Pulte related? Sure, in their lack of worth as human beings, of course. But these fuckers could be brothers. Look at them. The doughy soft features. The lower-case Comic Sans o shape of the head. The same empty, clueless eyes. A gaping smile not out of bemusement with their world but befuddlement at their lack of sense of self.
Twins. I'm telling you.
Bill Pulte
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Fgcdn%2Fauthoring%2Fauthoring-images%2F2026%2F06%2F02%2FPDTF%2F90368262007-img-main-12142-bill-pult-1.JPG%3Fcrop%3D2399%2C1350%2Cx0%2Cy79%26width%3D2399%26height%3D1350%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=26deb8eb456a802b8d77c22b1dcc321d43b0d7434b0c8032f4d7468737e5ca74
Kyle Rittenhouse
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pennlive.com%2Fresizer%2Fv2%2F5WTBR6AY2FHI3BSBZY6EL264EE.jpg%3Fauth%3D1a1b88f5826f33a964f0af70c40879c5396ac7bad330247aa46f29c77d6be304%26width%3D1280%26smart%3Dtrue%26quality%3D90&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=3b7a4206e71b64720bac6c5999f39a93a5a928e04fab72b7a2f8706bcf6bb1a8
If Kushner starts divvying up Iran’s frozen assets, I wonder how much Israel will get? No reason for that to go wrong
Speaking of garbage pail kids whenever I see RFKjr he always reminds me of what I would presume a grown up garbage pail kid would look like.
"According to a declaration filed in court Wednesday to stop the event, the UFC intends to have "each participant in the UFC event (i.e. fighters) enter the Lincoln Memorial chamber via elevator from a lower level, each accompanied by a child." Each fighter and accompanying child will be filmed walking through the chamber and descending the steps to the press conference area." Who the children will be or why they will be attending was not described. The White House did not immediately return request for comment.
The lawsuit says the event is a "deeply corrupt" money-making venture for the president. "Sponsorship packages," for example, cost up to $1.5 million per person, and financial disclosures show Trump personally invested as much as $50,000 in TKO, the company that owns the UFC, two weeks after the fight was announced." [HuffPost]
WTF
"i do think we chase off a lot of what’s supposed to be our big tent; I don’t know that Manchin, Sinema, and Fetterman would have been SO shitty if we weren’t chasing them into the bathroom and yelling at them all the time, because we really seem to get their backs up! "
Q: Why did we have to chase these people into the bathroom?
A: Because they refused to be honest in the hallway outside!
The dishonesty came first. Let's repeat that for all the self-loathing Democrats in the back:
The dishonesty came first.
The chasing into the restroom was an effort to get accountability from people who were given a share of political power by the combination of party and voters.
Q: When do such people have to account for themselves and their actions?
A: Every goddam day.
When they refuse to account for themselves, when they become coiners of weasel words, well, you chase them into the restroom to give them yet another chance to speak something like the truth for once. It's right there in the Constitution.
My focus is on words and ideas, not individuals. The quoted line above (and certainly *not* the person who wrote it) is the worst kind of codependent, maybe they wouldn't hit us if we were prettier, kind of useless written shit that doesn't help us understand this political phenomenon at all.
Happiest of born days to Momma Donna and Donna Rose. My husband’s 60th is a week from tomorrow. Bring the “master planner” that I am, nothing has been planned. He HATES parties so it will most likely be us and maybe his friend and his wife song with his sister. I could make dinner for everyone as usual but he helps so that’s not much of a birthday present.
“I don’t know that Manchin, Sinema, and Fetterman would have been SO shitty if we weren’t chasing them into the bathroom and yelling at them all the time,”
I do.
https://gizmodo.com/the-trump-phone-is-literally-a-gilded-cage-for-another-older-smartphone-2000770565
Hed: The Trump Phone Is Literally a Gilded Cage for a Two-Year-Old Smartphone
Subhed: Tell me if this reminds you of the 45th U.S. president in any way.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! [gulps in deep breath] BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
On Fox News, Thursday, Trump ranted about a Wall Street Journal editorial that he claimed suggested the U.S. is not hitting Iran hard enough, Trump said: "We dropped $250 million of bombs on them last night." [HuffPost]