Loved the TABS, but am a wee bit disappointed that Wonkitty didn't make it to the top of the bookcase. LOL! A nice Friday morning smile to counter all the news.
How you can tell it is a Fake: top of bookcase and large screen television is not on parkour course.
The top of the bookcases here are frequently frequented. While I don't have a large screen television (or any television), I have a collection of older iMacs. I took the precaution of using museum putty to cement the base of my 24" iMac to a heavy tempered-glass riser, and then trusted it to fate. My ancient-but-it-works 27" iMac downstairs is secured using a bar clamp intended for woodworking.
These are always informative! I worked on a team where we all knew each other probably too well. My boss, Bob, would come by our bullpen every morning and pick up a section of a coworker’s paper (usually the business section, but one time he picked that AND the Style section and other boss caught him and exclaimed “Ooooh, Bob! A two-section poop!”) fold it in half, tuck it under his arm and stroll to the men’s. Long story long, I used to always wish Bob would come out of the banyo and race around the office, leaping up onto the window sills and such.
How to fuck things up totally, recognize that things are fucked up and can't continue, and then act like you're a hero for finally paying what you could have always paid. Sound familiar? Hero Trump!
Or when you plan to fuck the American people over royally until Democrats buckle and give you what you want, and you get to be HERO. Blackmail has always worked in the past!!!
HuffPost: "Matt Schlapp, the head of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), stepped on a rake Thursday when he asked a Republican-friendly crowd if they'd like to see President Donald Trump get impeached. "How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?" Schlapp said after taking the stage during the event in Grapevine, Texas, on Thursday. Immediately, members of the crowd began to cheer, clap and yell "yeah!"
"No, that was the wrong answer," Schlapp said. "Let me try it again: how many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?" Once again, cheers could be heard throughout the stadium.
Uh-Oh... CPAC can live on without Trump. Can Trump survive without CPAC? And why did he skip it this year? Are the real Medes and Persians about to divide his kingdom?
“Combined with the fact that the property was owned by officials who worked for the Sheriff’s Office, this approach seems to have contributed toward employees turning a blind eye toward a violation that eventually allowed an illegal business to expand and ultimately resulted in the death of seven people, destruction of the residential and commercial buildings on site, a 78-acre fire and damage to residences, buildings, and agricultural acreage on surrounding properties,” the report says."
A Civil grand jury investigated the deadly fireworks disaster in Esparto, CA last July. They released a 32 page report. There's a whole lotta people responsible for this disaster. Public officials ignoring public safety. Who got bribed? Cal State Fire Marshal has a separate investigation ongoing and said it has found "criminal activity" and given it to the D.A.
"FBI Director Kash Patel had his personal email hacked, and an Iran-linked group is publicly taking credit for it. The hacker group, Handala Hack Team, said on its website that Patel "will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims." Attached were photographs of Patel's alleged inbox, including a mix of personal and work messages. A Justice Department official told Reuters Patel's emails were compromised, but did not provide specifics."
Trump began by boasting that the multi-billion dollar renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters could have been done by him for far less — and would have been “better.”
Then he turned to pens: "See this pen right here? This pen is an interesting example. It’s the same thing. So, this pen is very inexpensive but it writes well. I like it. But I can’t have the pen the way it was. You know what it is. I don’t want to give too much publicity, but they do treat me well. Sharpie. So I came here. They have thousand dollar pens. And you know, you hand pens out. You’re signing and you’re handing them out. You’re handing them to all these people. Sometimes you have 30, 40 people. And they were $1,000 a piece. Beautiful pen. Ballpoint. Thousand. It was gold, silver, gorgeous. But I’m handing out to kids that don’t even know what they are. ‘What is this, mommy?’ It’s kids. They’re getting a pen for $1,000. They have no idea what it is. And I feel guilty because I’m like, you know, I’m by nature. I don’t, you know, it’s the government. I love the government. Like, I love myself economically. I want to save money."
He went on: "So, I’m saying, ‘This is crazy.’ And it had another problem. They didn’t write well. So I take it out and I sign and there’s no ink and I got all you people looking and you’re saying, ‘There must be something wrong with Trump.’ And I’m signing and there’s no ink in the pen and it cost $1,000. This one, I called the guy. I said, ‘I’d like to use your pen, but I can’t have a gray thing with a big S on it.’ Same sharpie. As I’m signing a a trillion dollar airplane contract to buy brand new fighter jets, brand new B2 bombers of which we just ordered plenty. I can’t do that with the press. Use your pen, but I like the pen the best, but I’ll sign it."
And on: "I could do like Biden did, you know, give it to somebody else to sign or an auto pen or maybe sign it separately in another room, but I can’t use your pen. He said, ‘Well, I can make it nicer.’ Said, ‘What can you do?’ He said, ‘I’ll paint it black.’ I said, ‘That’s nice.’ ‘And I could even paint the White House on it, sir, if you like. In gold.’ Almost real gold. Not bad. ‘And I can even do your signature, sir.’ And by the way, this was not staged. I just saw the pens in there and I thought of this as an example of how $25 million spent by me at the Federal Reserve building would be a better job than $4 billion that they’re spending."
He spent so much renovating the Old Post Office that he had to sell his signature hotel four years after opening it because he was losing money on the business.
My Representative, Daniel Webster, is crowing this morning about voting for a House bill to restore funding to the entirety of DHS. He doesn't seem to know ( or understand ) that the House must pass the Senate bill without changes - and that bill does NOT fund ICE and CBP.
With Representatives this stupid and/ or partisan, who spew Republican propaganda without regard for fact, it's little wonder MAGA is so illinformed.
If I knew how, I'd have Claude create a gif of a female TSA worker at a checkpoint scanner belt, with a few ICE mooks in the background scrolling their phones, one showing another what's on their screen and laughing, and the caption "This Is Fine". And flames.,
Wonkitty helping finish out zoomie week: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/wonkitty-zooming-around-your-living
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/c96645c4-dab1-4dbd-888f-ba9932a748c2?utm_source=share
She's such a sweetie. At least the curtains are still up.
Juan would not be pleased with the Wonkitty in the living room scenario.
"And much scolding-barking ensued..."
So, you've met him?
Loved the TABS, but am a wee bit disappointed that Wonkitty didn't make it to the top of the bookcase. LOL! A nice Friday morning smile to counter all the news.
... By way of the drapes. And a tightrope walk on the top of the TV!
Same! How could that have been left out?
How you can tell it is a Fake: top of bookcase and large screen television is not on parkour course.
The top of the bookcases here are frequently frequented. While I don't have a large screen television (or any television), I have a collection of older iMacs. I took the precaution of using museum putty to cement the base of my 24" iMac to a heavy tempered-glass riser, and then trusted it to fate. My ancient-but-it-works 27" iMac downstairs is secured using a bar clamp intended for woodworking.
Cats are going to cat.
These are always informative! I worked on a team where we all knew each other probably too well. My boss, Bob, would come by our bullpen every morning and pick up a section of a coworker’s paper (usually the business section, but one time he picked that AND the Style section and other boss caught him and exclaimed “Ooooh, Bob! A two-section poop!”) fold it in half, tuck it under his arm and stroll to the men’s. Long story long, I used to always wish Bob would come out of the banyo and race around the office, leaping up onto the window sills and such.
Inspired by MG zoomie porn I tried to do my own personal zooming around in my house a few days ago. The trip to the ER went better than planned.
Now I have script for oxycontin which I will save for the end of the world as we know it.
Time for some cover band hijinx!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltXbjccedIs
The chorus used to be my ringtone.
Now it's https://youtu.be/nYh-n7EOtMA?t=18
Dad joke: "Try snowboarding," they said. "You'll meet lots of new people."
So far I've met paramedics, nurses, and the ski patrol.
Whar Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde?
Wonkitteh!!
If Wonkitty was orange, that would be almost like Simba zoomieing. He'd need a loft to zoomie up into and down from.
Post-poop zoomies!
I love this gif!
Note the Wonkette Covfefe mug remained unmolested.
She looked at it like "That's me!".
The drapes! lol. What a little kook!
I was gonna say, looks like my house at 3 in the am.
Only my house is never that neat
Friday is perfect for Wonkitty zoomies!
Wonkitty zoomies! Doing kitty things, like clawing drapes and destroying potted plants!
Sims cat!
Hoodlum E @nothoodlum.bsky.social
President Volodymyr Zelensky has been
formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Hide the ketchup.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:znabq6adj7ka2wfx2ciulpg2/bafkreib3c3gugaygucr5mcwwptdjfuw422xw4ejfeya3stta7nkxpxeg2q
40 elections worth watching. That is a big horking clue change is supposed to be coming.
Yeah, unfortunately the court decisions about Meta could really, REALLY backfire. I like the idea of Zuck being unhappy, but yeah.
How to fuck things up totally, recognize that things are fucked up and can't continue, and then act like you're a hero for finally paying what you could have always paid. Sound familiar? Hero Trump!
Or when you plan to fuck the American people over royally until Democrats buckle and give you what you want, and you get to be HERO. Blackmail has always worked in the past!!!
HuffPost: "Matt Schlapp, the head of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), stepped on a rake Thursday when he asked a Republican-friendly crowd if they'd like to see President Donald Trump get impeached. "How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?" Schlapp said after taking the stage during the event in Grapevine, Texas, on Thursday. Immediately, members of the crowd began to cheer, clap and yell "yeah!"
"No, that was the wrong answer," Schlapp said. "Let me try it again: how many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?" Once again, cheers could be heard throughout the stadium.
"Noooo!" Schlapp said while laughing nervously."
Uh-Oh... CPAC can live on without Trump. Can Trump survive without CPAC? And why did he skip it this year? Are the real Medes and Persians about to divide his kingdom?
“Combined with the fact that the property was owned by officials who worked for the Sheriff’s Office, this approach seems to have contributed toward employees turning a blind eye toward a violation that eventually allowed an illegal business to expand and ultimately resulted in the death of seven people, destruction of the residential and commercial buildings on site, a 78-acre fire and damage to residences, buildings, and agricultural acreage on surrounding properties,” the report says."
A Civil grand jury investigated the deadly fireworks disaster in Esparto, CA last July. They released a 32 page report. There's a whole lotta people responsible for this disaster. Public officials ignoring public safety. Who got bribed? Cal State Fire Marshal has a separate investigation ongoing and said it has found "criminal activity" and given it to the D.A.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/county-officials-knew-illegal-fireworks-esparto-22155316.php
Sleep soundly, your government's at work:
"FBI Director Kash Patel had his personal email hacked, and an Iran-linked group is publicly taking credit for it. The hacker group, Handala Hack Team, said on its website that Patel "will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims." Attached were photographs of Patel's alleged inbox, including a mix of personal and work messages. A Justice Department official told Reuters Patel's emails were compromised, but did not provide specifics."
They didn't get his risotto recipe, did they? Please tell me they didn't get his risotto recipe.
"Actually Jeeves while I have you..."
"Yes sir?"
"Would you mind punching me in the dick?
"Sir?"
"Why I choose depression every morning" - Viva La Dirt League:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-53pKEsN34
Installing one of the more stupid of Rumps believers at VOA just further proves that they want to head to N Korea territory.
This was such a valuable service. Actual journalists with Pulitzer Prizes need not apply?
We ALL know who the “deep state” really is.
Well this is just great.
https://theconversation.com/cameras-have-quietly-appeared-in-thousands-of-us-cities-now-their-integration-with-ai-is-sounding-alarms-276928
do you follow EFF? Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/
I used to back in the Bush II era with the battering the FISA courts were giving the Fourth Amendment, but not recently 😕
He does care about something: getting his Klan rally / EKG gone wrong signature on paper money.
Anyone tries to give me change with Trump money, I'm going to insist on older bills or coins.
Hell, they can write me a check. I prefer their signature over Clownpuss.
During Thursday's cabinet meeting:
Trump began by boasting that the multi-billion dollar renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters could have been done by him for far less — and would have been “better.”
Then he turned to pens: "See this pen right here? This pen is an interesting example. It’s the same thing. So, this pen is very inexpensive but it writes well. I like it. But I can’t have the pen the way it was. You know what it is. I don’t want to give too much publicity, but they do treat me well. Sharpie. So I came here. They have thousand dollar pens. And you know, you hand pens out. You’re signing and you’re handing them out. You’re handing them to all these people. Sometimes you have 30, 40 people. And they were $1,000 a piece. Beautiful pen. Ballpoint. Thousand. It was gold, silver, gorgeous. But I’m handing out to kids that don’t even know what they are. ‘What is this, mommy?’ It’s kids. They’re getting a pen for $1,000. They have no idea what it is. And I feel guilty because I’m like, you know, I’m by nature. I don’t, you know, it’s the government. I love the government. Like, I love myself economically. I want to save money."
He went on: "So, I’m saying, ‘This is crazy.’ And it had another problem. They didn’t write well. So I take it out and I sign and there’s no ink and I got all you people looking and you’re saying, ‘There must be something wrong with Trump.’ And I’m signing and there’s no ink in the pen and it cost $1,000. This one, I called the guy. I said, ‘I’d like to use your pen, but I can’t have a gray thing with a big S on it.’ Same sharpie. As I’m signing a a trillion dollar airplane contract to buy brand new fighter jets, brand new B2 bombers of which we just ordered plenty. I can’t do that with the press. Use your pen, but I like the pen the best, but I’ll sign it."
And on: "I could do like Biden did, you know, give it to somebody else to sign or an auto pen or maybe sign it separately in another room, but I can’t use your pen. He said, ‘Well, I can make it nicer.’ Said, ‘What can you do?’ He said, ‘I’ll paint it black.’ I said, ‘That’s nice.’ ‘And I could even paint the White House on it, sir, if you like. In gold.’ Almost real gold. Not bad. ‘And I can even do your signature, sir.’ And by the way, this was not staged. I just saw the pens in there and I thought of this as an example of how $25 million spent by me at the Federal Reserve building would be a better job than $4 billion that they’re spending."
And he continued. More at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-sharpie-ramble_n_69c654a2e4b0a6ee60c42b54?origin=home-latest-news-unit
He spent so much renovating the Old Post Office that he had to sell his signature hotel four years after opening it because he was losing money on the business.
It's almost 3 in the afternoon, I think it's okay to start drinking after reading that.
My Representative, Daniel Webster, is crowing this morning about voting for a House bill to restore funding to the entirety of DHS. He doesn't seem to know ( or understand ) that the House must pass the Senate bill without changes - and that bill does NOT fund ICE and CBP.
With Representatives this stupid and/ or partisan, who spew Republican propaganda without regard for fact, it's little wonder MAGA is so illinformed.
The Devil is in the details.
Re the NYPD decision - fair enough but can they be cease and desisted from using the "protect and serve" motto?
If I knew how, I'd have Claude create a gif of a female TSA worker at a checkpoint scanner belt, with a few ICE mooks in the background scrolling their phones, one showing another what's on their screen and laughing, and the caption "This Is Fine". And flames.,
You painted a vivid picture without the environmental destruction of water and energy waste used by AI.
Thank you for using your words.