TABS this morning reminds me of one of my favorite non-fiction books, "The Tell-Tale Eye" by Eckhard Hess, a fascinating study - inspired by Hess noticing his spouse's enlarged pupils as she was absorbed in a photo book of animals - of how pupil size changes in response to stimuli. Anyway, super fun book with one of my favorite book illustrations, a photo of a woman whose pupils are enlarged next to a photo of the same woman when her pupils are frighteningly contracted. It kind of makes the point of the whole book.
What is it about this kitty that makes me read her as so concerned about something? It's interesting to me how we just impose our own reads on animals of what their expressions say, and I suppose we can't know how their expressions translate to ours, but what is it about that face that says to me "I have serious worries"?
Just reading the table of contents of the Vance dossier is enough--you don't have to bother with the whole thing By the way, if you put a sh prefix to Vance's name, it approximates a Yiddish word for ..well you know so I will be referring to him that way from now on
Yay, new citizens! Go to a citizenship ceremony if you are able - deeply emotional, heartening, joyful, and yes, patriotic. Local sportscaster Carlos Ramirez took his citizenship this past week, was chosen to lead the Pledge of Allegiance, choked up on air describing it as one of the best days of his life. Happy-making stuff!
Now, off to Evan's joint to read up on less patriotic people ..
Deporting "illegals" or people of color or whatever criteria Trump is using this week gets us into the Galt Gap Dilemma, Galt Gap is a place where all the Makers of the Ann Randian novels go to get away from all the Takers. And no Takers will be allowed in there. This sounds like such a good idea until you ask, "Who is going to pick up their garbage? Who is going to shine their shoes?" You need all those little people to make the world go 'round.
I’m just glad Minnesota isn’t really expected to go for Trump and he’s not out here calling out the cities around here, like the ones my in laws live in. He already watched as a bunch of his effing goons descended on Minneapolis, lest we forget the 3rd Precinct was lit on fire by a white supremacist
Hope so. I hope he's in a constant state of reality-based panic. He was neck deep in making this situation, so I hope it keeps him awake every single night.
> From the comments, I’d missed Pope Francis’s July excommunication of this “firebrand” rightwing archbishop for the sin of “schism,” or being a rightwing dick!
🙋♂️ THAT WAS ME! (I'm pretty sure) THAT WAS ME!!!
Apologize for being off topic but I really hate how people don't listen to their voicemail messages anymore. I've had so many people call me back after I leave messages for them and say stupid stuff like , "Hi, I'm returning a call from this number." And when I tell them I left a message, they say , " Oh, I didn't know. I just saw a missed call from this number and called it." So, from now on, I'm just going to answer calls with ,"Furr Babies Fun House. Are you ready to pick up your puppy?" And then see what they say. Because who just calls back a number they don't recognize? It could be some weirdo calling. My doctor leaves messages. Should I ignore those and call their office back saying, " Uh, I saw a call from this number."
"No, I’m just talking about that his yacht was named the Bayesian..."
If this keeps up, American history books will one day include the famous battle in San Francisco Bay between crypto-military ships Deep Web Combinator and Aeternity Blockchain during the Sino-Russo-American Hot Wallet War of 2046.
Helene seems to have done minimal damage to my neck of the woods up here in Athens. Have not heard from my sister in Macon. My niece is okay in Warner Robins.
I did not have "eye of a tropical storm passes over my city" on my 2024 bingo card.
Stitch it lady is too cool and such an asset for this instant gratification world. Too bad schools removed HomeEc, you know real life skills. I still sew and find it cathartic and rewarding along with cooking and baking. These are life long skills and a necessity for a healthier life in general. I have nieces and nephews who literally can't boil water. If it's not microwaved they are lost.
Not only mandatory, but mandatory for both sexes. Knowing how to cook is an elemental life skill ... like swimming. Everyone just needs to know how to do it.
My parents made sure we all knew how to swim. In middle school we had an olympic size pool that all those who didn't know how to swim learned. We also learned how to kayak, canoe and row a boat. Since the Ohio river is about a mile from our house it was mandatory due to flooding and tornadoes being in the valley.
I learned all of that in middle and high school. These are LIFE SKILLS. I cannot wrap my head around this stupid shit. Ask any younger person how to fill out a check and they just look at you dumbfounded. They no longer teach cursive writing except to sign your name. WTF? The dumbing down of america is horrifying.
As an old, I took HomeEc in middle school. Don't think I had it in high school. Whatever, I still can barely sew on a button. I don't like sewing and I'm not good at it. I do make a mean lasagna and I make the best damn home fries you've ever had. I'm a decent, if not spectacular cook. I just don't have the motivation or the energy to do much cooking these days. However, I'm going grocery shopping today and I'm going to try to do more cooking from scratch next week rather than microwaving half my meals. I found a couple of recipes in the New York Times I'm going to try. One is shrimp bathed in olive oil and lemon, the other is a pasta and spinach dish that looks interesting.
If you know how to cook and bake those things you can do anything. Processed foods are the devil but I understand those who are unable to cook and such. Start simple so you don't give up.
Please share your super duper home fries recipe if you don't mind.
Easy peasy. Melt a stick of butter in frying pan. Slice potatoes and add to pan. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika. Cook about 10 minutes. Add some sliced onion, cook another 10 minutes or so until potatoes are tender and onion is softened.
I caramelize the onions first, vidalia preferably. Then add the potatoes with a little chicken broth, cover until fork tender and broth is fully absorbed. Remove the cover add butter, turn up the head and fry the potatoes until crispy.
Dig even deeper into the LLC in Wyoming, that owns the watch company. Their location is blurred out on google maps. The address indicates that it's a shop that sells sexual performance enhancements (Royal Honey) and their company contact, Cloud Peak Law LLC. and their location seems legit 🤣 https://royalhoneyshop.us/products
Speaking of Trump sneakers, it still amazes me that QAnon nuts spent years ranting about how red shoes were a sure-fire way to identify a pedophile, and then Trump goes and slaps red soles onto his gold-plated $500 trash sneakers and they say nothing at all.
Kitty! Source info for the hed gif here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-allure-of-a-fresh-can-of-tabs
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/a315d6e5-bb4b-4132-be60-59f69b192caf?utm_source=share
Happy Friday!
I hear squealing brakes.
TABS this morning reminds me of one of my favorite non-fiction books, "The Tell-Tale Eye" by Eckhard Hess, a fascinating study - inspired by Hess noticing his spouse's enlarged pupils as she was absorbed in a photo book of animals - of how pupil size changes in response to stimuli. Anyway, super fun book with one of my favorite book illustrations, a photo of a woman whose pupils are enlarged next to a photo of the same woman when her pupils are frighteningly contracted. It kind of makes the point of the whole book.
"You must come with me! I can see the bottom of the food dish!"
Kitty!
What is it about this kitty that makes me read her as so concerned about something? It's interesting to me how we just impose our own reads on animals of what their expressions say, and I suppose we can't know how their expressions translate to ours, but what is it about that face that says to me "I have serious worries"?
Maybe kitty's trying to tell us that Timmy fell down the well?
Maybe you've already used this, but I simply must share it.
https://youtu.be/t8lxblSU3rY?si=Y8vnI-73H34maII5
It’s one a them cat shoe nuts!
Funny!
Pay a visit to Martini’s chat if you’re not afraid to get wet - from the standpoint of water -
That is a very loverly kitteh!
Unsealing a tin of Morning News Round-up.
Speaking of unsealing a tin, one of Mrs. Truth's co-workers drove to work with one of those stowaway cats in her engine compartment yesterday.
Is the cat OK?
Yep
Safe and Tender Vittled
Quite the adventure!
My cat just awoke from a sound slumber and perked his ears. lol , I kid. That dude is out like a light.
That kitty's targeting computer is activated ... look at those eyes!
The catnip LSD eyes. I stared at the gif for 5 straight minutes.
WONKITTY!
KITTY!
Kitty!
Just reading the table of contents of the Vance dossier is enough--you don't have to bother with the whole thing By the way, if you put a sh prefix to Vance's name, it approximates a Yiddish word for ..well you know so I will be referring to him that way from now on
Evan is best!
Yay, new citizens! Go to a citizenship ceremony if you are able - deeply emotional, heartening, joyful, and yes, patriotic. Local sportscaster Carlos Ramirez took his citizenship this past week, was chosen to lead the Pledge of Allegiance, choked up on air describing it as one of the best days of his life. Happy-making stuff!
Now, off to Evan's joint to read up on less patriotic people ..
Deporting "illegals" or people of color or whatever criteria Trump is using this week gets us into the Galt Gap Dilemma, Galt Gap is a place where all the Makers of the Ann Randian novels go to get away from all the Takers. And no Takers will be allowed in there. This sounds like such a good idea until you ask, "Who is going to pick up their garbage? Who is going to shine their shoes?" You need all those little people to make the world go 'round.
Bob the Angry Flower knows this personally: https://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif
I’m just glad Minnesota isn’t really expected to go for Trump and he’s not out here calling out the cities around here, like the ones my in laws live in. He already watched as a bunch of his effing goons descended on Minneapolis, lest we forget the 3rd Precinct was lit on fire by a white supremacist
"No, I’m just talking about that his yacht was named the Bayesian" DON'T BAYES ME BRO!!!
I suspect Johnson is panicking should Higgins history supporting Klan member David Duke be brought up again.
Link: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/clay-higgins-racist-tweet-springfield-gun-wives-nazi-david-duke/
Hope so. I hope he's in a constant state of reality-based panic. He was neck deep in making this situation, so I hope it keeps him awake every single night.
> From the comments, I’d missed Pope Francis’s July excommunication of this “firebrand” rightwing archbishop for the sin of “schism,” or being a rightwing dick!
🙋♂️ THAT WAS ME! (I'm pretty sure) THAT WAS ME!!!
How desperate is PAB's campaign? They are "trying to get Melon to help" desperate.
Hey Wonkette!
Apologize for being off topic but I really hate how people don't listen to their voicemail messages anymore. I've had so many people call me back after I leave messages for them and say stupid stuff like , "Hi, I'm returning a call from this number." And when I tell them I left a message, they say , " Oh, I didn't know. I just saw a missed call from this number and called it." So, from now on, I'm just going to answer calls with ,"Furr Babies Fun House. Are you ready to pick up your puppy?" And then see what they say. Because who just calls back a number they don't recognize? It could be some weirdo calling. My doctor leaves messages. Should I ignore those and call their office back saying, " Uh, I saw a call from this number."
I'm going to die in this hill. Ugh!
It's the future, about the worst thing you can do to a person these days is call...that said I always check my VM because exactly doctor.
Duly noted. I shan't call nor leave a message. The world will wonder who's number it is on their recents. Ooop!
(can confirm weird seekrit boat compartments and hidey-holes!)
"No, I’m just talking about that his yacht was named the Bayesian..."
If this keeps up, American history books will one day include the famous battle in San Francisco Bay between crypto-military ships Deep Web Combinator and Aeternity Blockchain during the Sino-Russo-American Hot Wallet War of 2046.
Complete with legal sports betting on the outcome.
Prop bets like "number of crewmen to drown" and "first ship to sink" and "which crypto will lose more during the 2nd hour of the battle"
Helene seems to have done minimal damage to my neck of the woods up here in Athens. Have not heard from my sister in Macon. My niece is okay in Warner Robins.
I did not have "eye of a tropical storm passes over my city" on my 2024 bingo card.
glad you are safe, Anzu. Hope we can say that of as many peope (and animals, and neighborhoods, and cities) as possible.
Stitch it lady is too cool and such an asset for this instant gratification world. Too bad schools removed HomeEc, you know real life skills. I still sew and find it cathartic and rewarding along with cooking and baking. These are life long skills and a necessity for a healthier life in general. I have nieces and nephews who literally can't boil water. If it's not microwaved they are lost.
Such a class should be mandatory. It should require learning how to balance a checkbook and to keep accurate records.
Too damned many people I encounter have NO idea what's going on with their finances. The are SO damned foolish.
We need money 101 starting in 8th grade. That said I haven't balanced my checkbook in 40 years or so...
Not only mandatory, but mandatory for both sexes. Knowing how to cook is an elemental life skill ... like swimming. Everyone just needs to know how to do it.
I eat, therefore I cook. I don't mind it at all, aside from the cleanup.
Like most members of my family, I learned to swim by being tossed into the deep end of Fleishhacker Pool. Sink or swim. Life is cruel, get used to it!
My story was the same, except it was a log boom that split the river that ran behind our farm.
My parents made sure we all knew how to swim. In middle school we had an olympic size pool that all those who didn't know how to swim learned. We also learned how to kayak, canoe and row a boat. Since the Ohio river is about a mile from our house it was mandatory due to flooding and tornadoes being in the valley.
I learned all of that in middle and high school. These are LIFE SKILLS. I cannot wrap my head around this stupid shit. Ask any younger person how to fill out a check and they just look at you dumbfounded. They no longer teach cursive writing except to sign your name. WTF? The dumbing down of america is horrifying.
You realize the ancient Sumerians had this exact same conversation...
As an old, I took HomeEc in middle school. Don't think I had it in high school. Whatever, I still can barely sew on a button. I don't like sewing and I'm not good at it. I do make a mean lasagna and I make the best damn home fries you've ever had. I'm a decent, if not spectacular cook. I just don't have the motivation or the energy to do much cooking these days. However, I'm going grocery shopping today and I'm going to try to do more cooking from scratch next week rather than microwaving half my meals. I found a couple of recipes in the New York Times I'm going to try. One is shrimp bathed in olive oil and lemon, the other is a pasta and spinach dish that looks interesting.
I just eat out every meal...
If I could afford that, I would probably do it. Maybe not every meal, but a good portion of them.
If you know how to cook and bake those things you can do anything. Processed foods are the devil but I understand those who are unable to cook and such. Start simple so you don't give up.
Please share your super duper home fries recipe if you don't mind.
Easy peasy. Melt a stick of butter in frying pan. Slice potatoes and add to pan. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika. Cook about 10 minutes. Add some sliced onion, cook another 10 minutes or so until potatoes are tender and onion is softened.
Sounds wonderful!
I caramelize the onions first, vidalia preferably. Then add the potatoes with a little chicken broth, cover until fork tender and broth is fully absorbed. Remove the cover add butter, turn up the head and fry the potatoes until crispy.
Nice thread with details on the "Trump watch" LLC, for example:
(TBF: I can see cheap-sneaker company X partners with Trump's partners to make 50$ more on their unknown products.
But: no reputable watch maker on the planet that builds watches that sell in this price range would be willing to participate in such an undertaking.)
https://x.com/veggieto/status/1839631524766921111
Dig even deeper into the LLC in Wyoming, that owns the watch company. Their location is blurred out on google maps. The address indicates that it's a shop that sells sexual performance enhancements (Royal Honey) and their company contact, Cloud Peak Law LLC. and their location seems legit 🤣 https://royalhoneyshop.us/products
Speaking of Trump sneakers, it still amazes me that QAnon nuts spent years ranting about how red shoes were a sure-fire way to identify a pedophile, and then Trump goes and slaps red soles onto his gold-plated $500 trash sneakers and they say nothing at all.
So it's a scam.
/insert thisismyshockedface.gif