One mini self-help idea, and it won't be appropriate for everyone, but: Food has often been a source of comfort for me, but I've had to rethink that bc my small budget has made it impossible for me to buy things that I want and like (I was never a big spender on food, bc medical debt the FIRST time has made life tough since about 1992, but I mean that even a pint of Ben & Jerry's on sale is now out of reach).
So I have two cheap-ish options. I eat a daily serving of store-brand Tater Tots, which I really enjoy and which make me think about Tim Walz.
I also make a very small batch of cookies daily, in my toaster oven ( = to ensure that I eat four rather than all 12 or 20). A basic ratio, courtesy of Cooking Haru on YT, is: 1 part sugar (more if you're not adding something sweet, such as raisins or choc chips), 2 parts fat, and 4 parts flour. I don't use eggs, so I bind with mashed banana, or a chickpea-flour egg, or a chia egg.
not sure that changing the electoral college is a great bet at this point. we're not up for reapportionment in the immediate future, and if all the good people left the red states, it would only make the red states redder, which is not quite what we need.
You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts! Actually, it's Jared Moskowitz level of trolling.
<A state senator in Mississippi has filed a bill entitled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.”
As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”>
Just so we make this law enforceable, the State of Mississippi will put into every home, from the Governor's Mansion to the poorest outhouse, and in every hotel and casino, a camera from Ring.com in every room with a central viewing room here in Jackson in order to make sure that everyone is going to comply with the law.
Meanwhile in the WAshes; it was pouring with rain so Duckworth-Lewis-Stern raised their collective head and declared Oz the winner. Absolute scenes as England are furious. It was all very petty when the rain started as both teams tried to manipulate the scoring and umpires to their advantage.
It seemes like everybody was necking speed back in the day. My mother told me about how she and other student nurses could get a prescription for uppers easily.
Early memory: My mom had a prescription for "weight loss" pills and one night my dad took some, anyway at 3 AM or so he dragged my ass out of bed and made me go fishing with him.
My husband was hooked on the modern day equivalent (a keep awake pill for night shift workers). He made me go put the dog to sleep at 3AM when he was strung out once. She needed to be put down, but it could have waited until 7AM.
I did meth twice in 1979, the first time I did around 10 dollars worth and was up for 48 hours, I told the guy I bought it from and he explained I did way too much. A few days later I did a dollars worth and had the same horrible experience, never again.
Interesting. In the comments, which I did not read, several Danes mention the dude is a right wing chud who previously had been very very very pro-Trump in thought and deed.
I was a chronic lay down and think myself awake person. Started taking trazodone and it works for the getting to sleep problem then I was ok. It made me foggy for a few days but then nothing but finally sleeping most nights. Just my experience. I wish you luck finding a solution.
:hugs: I really wish I could help you. I used to suffer from insomnia, two, three days without sleep was a frequent thing. But nothing as bad as what you suffer. Can't even share any tips for how I got past it, because it was just having a baby and learning pretty quick (took about a month, so it did not feeeel quick, but in the long run, was quick) to sleep on a dime because later on you might not get that chance.
I do not see how it makes a dent on the electoral. Makes it easier to gerrymander I would think, and we're already giving land more power than the people on it as it is. But for all of that, I am alllll for helping people relocate to states who do not want them to be teen incubators for their rapist's baby.
Son messaged me 5:30 am, I went over, we went and grabbed coffee. I will start early, a few possible bugs I can kill this morning.
Overnight low -11°C, feels like -18. Not actually that harsh. Show is falling, this temperature reflects an arrived low pressure zone, and this température really is much more gentle than the night before/Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, which was low of -24°C feels like fuck maybe humans shouldn’t actually live here.
Honestly we have many kilometres of canal that need to freeze if we are to skate on it (they have and people are) and a couple nights so cold you can hit your head on the air are kinda welcome. In this era of LA burning and the permafrost in the tundra melting, it’s kinda nice it gets seriously cold now and then... Even if really it’s because the climate is so screwy the polar vortex is wobbling off centre like a top slowing down and falling over.
I will snowboard on the weekend. Showing a guy the ropes. He’s crazy hard on himself for still tripping over his edge. I keep telling him chill; most people the first three days are rough (this weekend will be three) and he is really doing better than most. No need to beat yourself up. Falls will do that anyway.
I’m riding this kinda heavy board (Lib Tech Skunk Ape) because loaning him my usual because it's a really good board and he didn’t want to drop a grand until he was sure he could do it and it ain’t like I really need agile for these speeds anyway. The Ape is well made but really a bit too stiff for my liking, and I don’t really have the mass to sling it around fast when I need to. Did have two falls already on it both rolled and landed tho.
They're using a buddy system for the tours, so they don't get lost and accidentally attempt to overthrow the government again. But it's not hands they're holding.
One mini self-help idea, and it won't be appropriate for everyone, but: Food has often been a source of comfort for me, but I've had to rethink that bc my small budget has made it impossible for me to buy things that I want and like (I was never a big spender on food, bc medical debt the FIRST time has made life tough since about 1992, but I mean that even a pint of Ben & Jerry's on sale is now out of reach).
So I have two cheap-ish options. I eat a daily serving of store-brand Tater Tots, which I really enjoy and which make me think about Tim Walz.
I also make a very small batch of cookies daily, in my toaster oven ( = to ensure that I eat four rather than all 12 or 20). A basic ratio, courtesy of Cooking Haru on YT, is: 1 part sugar (more if you're not adding something sweet, such as raisins or choc chips), 2 parts fat, and 4 parts flour. I don't use eggs, so I bind with mashed banana, or a chickpea-flour egg, or a chia egg.
Have you considered pasta? Super cheap and so much sauce-fun.
not sure that changing the electoral college is a great bet at this point. we're not up for reapportionment in the immediate future, and if all the good people left the red states, it would only make the red states redder, which is not quite what we need.
¡Tabz!
Not sure i'm ready.
You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts! Actually, it's Jared Moskowitz level of trolling.
<A state senator in Mississippi has filed a bill entitled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.”
As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”>
https://www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/mississippi-politician-files-contraception-begins-erection-act/
Just so we make this law enforceable, the State of Mississippi will put into every home, from the Governor's Mansion to the poorest outhouse, and in every hotel and casino, a camera from Ring.com in every room with a central viewing room here in Jackson in order to make sure that everyone is going to comply with the law.
please, don't be giving those clowns any ideas
Entirely insane.
Will they post live officers, or just assume every 14yo boy has a wet dream N times per week/month/year and bill accordingly?
I do not put anything past these extremists at this point.
The Senator is a Democrat. It's a bill that is aimed at controlling men for a change where reproductive rights are concerned.
Meanwhile in the WAshes; it was pouring with rain so Duckworth-Lewis-Stern raised their collective head and declared Oz the winner. Absolute scenes as England are furious. It was all very petty when the rain started as both teams tried to manipulate the scoring and umpires to their advantage.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/live/cy4p9yejygqt
I watched this in the wee hours this morning and holy fuck, those German soldiers were constantly tweaking
Amphetamine Use in World War 2 | Full Episode | Secrets of the Dead | PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GoAVnP99zI
That is such a great series.
It is, I watch the older ones I've missed on youtube.
It seemes like everybody was necking speed back in the day. My mother told me about how she and other student nurses could get a prescription for uppers easily.
Early memory: My mom had a prescription for "weight loss" pills and one night my dad took some, anyway at 3 AM or so he dragged my ass out of bed and made me go fishing with him.
My husband was hooked on the modern day equivalent (a keep awake pill for night shift workers). He made me go put the dog to sleep at 3AM when he was strung out once. She needed to be put down, but it could have waited until 7AM.
[silently wraps arms around you]
Oy.
I have NEVER liked speed. That is just nasty stuff.
I did meth twice in 1979, the first time I did around 10 dollars worth and was up for 48 hours, I told the guy I bought it from and he explained I did way too much. A few days later I did a dollars worth and had the same horrible experience, never again.
That sounds very unpleasant. If I wanted to be conscious, I would be sober.
Edit to add: I am sober right now because I am at work, I just mean during my free time.
It was awful. I'd done the white cross tabs in high school which I suspect was simply caffeine pills, but they were nothing compared to meth.
Oh yeah. Available over the counter as Pervitin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Nazi_Germany
That's what they showed in the PBS piece.
No time release so it'd slam you all at once.
Oh yeah, there's a whole book called Blitzed about it. Everyone was methed up!
Even Hitler! I heard he was injected with bull semen just because.
Make strong, like bull!
getting a little salty on Greenland...
"Mr. Trump, fuck off."
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a4e6j62mtcn65xmd7tnnc6ea/post/3lgcpbrjtcs2c
Interesting. In the comments, which I did not read, several Danes mention the dude is a right wing chud who previously had been very very very pro-Trump in thought and deed.
He was OK with him until he tried swiping something of theirs.
Or he is just using this to "look tough" unlike his "weak" opposition so that more Danes will think favorably on him.
Thought that the face eating leopard seals might have got him, but they're residents of the Antarctic not the Arctic.
Well played.
I just do not sleep at night anymore. My damned brain won't be quiet.
I was a chronic lay down and think myself awake person. Started taking trazodone and it works for the getting to sleep problem then I was ok. It made me foggy for a few days but then nothing but finally sleeping most nights. Just my experience. I wish you luck finding a solution.
You need an antidepressant.
I've been on so many of those things; they don't seem to do what they're supposed do in my system.
:hugs: I really wish I could help you. I used to suffer from insomnia, two, three days without sleep was a frequent thing. But nothing as bad as what you suffer. Can't even share any tips for how I got past it, because it was just having a baby and learning pretty quick (took about a month, so it did not feeeel quick, but in the long run, was quick) to sleep on a dime because later on you might not get that chance.
here we go...
𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟: 𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑟𝑦𝑝𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡?
𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝: 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦?
𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟: 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑠
𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝: 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1881840169575477632#m
Translation: Whatever, man!
That's a helluva message for a POTUS to articulate among citizens who can't afford to feed their families properly.
Those people don't count, you see. If they did, they'd be rich.
The American people are the last bastion of policing for American politicians. This does not give me hope.
American people are too busy waiting for superman before they spend their precious vote. And he better not be too left or not left enough
It's peanuts for these guys therefore it is not a benefit to make billions?
who the f'k knows what he means.
I think he's learned that if he just says words, the reporters will move on.
Also, nice deflect: "I don't know if it benefited"
THAT WASN'T THE QUESTION.
I do not see how it makes a dent on the electoral. Makes it easier to gerrymander I would think, and we're already giving land more power than the people on it as it is. But for all of that, I am alllll for helping people relocate to states who do not want them to be teen incubators for their rapist's baby.
Me! But in the west, where $30k hantavirus mouse poop cabins can be found on dirt roads
When we moved to Iowa, there was a nice house in the town we lived in that went for 59k. That was low, even for that town, but not tooooo low.
Seems weird it was 20 years ago now, just about. 19 anyway. We were paying 350 in rent. When we moved east, it was 700 and I thought that outlandish
Watching a show on rehabbing rescue koalas. Girl and her parents, Vet mom. It's lovely.
I need this.
Why does every hour get somehow worse? And shouldn't I be drunk enough to forget today yet?
Edit: Oh fuck, a SovCit just shot 7 policemen?!
Where? What in the hell went down?
Those peeople are INSANE.
San Antonio. It’s a crazy one…he picked off police one by one by swatting, surprised it’s not a bigger deal
So am I. You'd think some edgey reporter would recognize that this story could serve as an educational distraction right now.
The lack of coverage means we know he's not facing deportation.
Rumors of this starting as a domestic situation.
Dead already. Killed himself or cops shot him.
That sounds like par for the course among the Sov Cits.
Plus anyone with a rifle who has seen a jingoistic movie starring Mark Wahlberg knows how to set up a sniping position.
Hooray! Wolveweenies!
San Antonio
Local news station: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/01/23/san-antonio-police-respond-to-shooting-on-north-side/
These fucking guns have GOT to go, dammit.
I love overlapping with night shift! Coffee covfefe
Cat in a Hat on a Cross...
Green eggs and ham prayer breakfast
What does Trump call an expert on Sino-American relations?
Gynacologist
carygrant_getout dotgif
Ugh...here, have updoot.
Booo! Booo, I say!
Son messaged me 5:30 am, I went over, we went and grabbed coffee. I will start early, a few possible bugs I can kill this morning.
Overnight low -11°C, feels like -18. Not actually that harsh. Show is falling, this temperature reflects an arrived low pressure zone, and this température really is much more gentle than the night before/Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, which was low of -24°C feels like fuck maybe humans shouldn’t actually live here.
Honestly we have many kilometres of canal that need to freeze if we are to skate on it (they have and people are) and a couple nights so cold you can hit your head on the air are kinda welcome. In this era of LA burning and the permafrost in the tundra melting, it’s kinda nice it gets seriously cold now and then... Even if really it’s because the climate is so screwy the polar vortex is wobbling off centre like a top slowing down and falling over.
I will snowboard on the weekend. Showing a guy the ropes. He’s crazy hard on himself for still tripping over his edge. I keep telling him chill; most people the first three days are rough (this weekend will be three) and he is really doing better than most. No need to beat yourself up. Falls will do that anyway.
I've been doing it for more than thirty years and can still faceplant catching my front edge.
I’m riding this kinda heavy board (Lib Tech Skunk Ape) because loaning him my usual because it's a really good board and he didn’t want to drop a grand until he was sure he could do it and it ain’t like I really need agile for these speeds anyway. The Ape is well made but really a bit too stiff for my liking, and I don’t really have the mass to sling it around fast when I need to. Did have two falls already on it both rolled and landed tho.
Red Green would agree.
https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2025/01/23
She hasn't seen his latest invention!
Boebert vows Capitol tours for Jan. 6 rioters post-pardon
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5101436-lauren-boebert-capitol-tour/
Will she also be doling out free handjobs to the faithful?
Will she be using the Special Trump Technique to the dulcet tones of YMCA?
They're using a buddy system for the tours, so they don't get lost and accidentally attempt to overthrow the government again. But it's not hands they're holding.
Now now, it is not like a capitol tour is a musical.
Returning to the scene of the crime.
Maybe some of the tourists will act out and get arrested.
What a world we live in..
This reality bites
"And this is where you smeared shit on the wall."