Tell me about it. I presented all day yesterday, doing library orientation with Freshman. I don't see how you guys do it. I don't see how you talk all day, every day. It just exhausts me to have to do lessons all day. And we only had three days with students, this week!
How many hours of orientation did you offer at your library. At a university library I worked at the library orientations were presented night and day for a week.
The only reason I was interested in the 8th was because I had a 6 month check up today. Turns out I’m possibly diabetic (blood sugar 7.7!) and full of cholesterol. No more cookies. Although my 90 year old Dad got more upset about it than me.
I recommend that everyone who is able go to the Chicago Wonkette gathering. Rebecca will ply you with food and drink until you can barely move. Plus you will get to hang with all the other Wonkette writers I have not met in person but would like to.
I'm gonna say that "Kambala" is Trump referencing Three Dog Night's' "The Road to Shambala" as part of his effort to paint Kamala as Indian rather than Black. Yeah, it's extremely stupid and non-intuitive, but his nickname game is way off, and it fits with his long established zero-understanding use of those few seventies pop hits that managed to penetrate his thick skull back in the day.
And it's fine by me. White bigots may not get biracialism, but blacks understand it just fine. Trump ain't gonna chip away at our vote by popularizing an awesome, joyous song. One of the first things I did at Stingers last night was find it on the jukebox. I played it five times while jawboning the college kids and they loved it. Help him out, I say!
“The Daily Show” correspondent Josh Johnson is still stumped by Donald Trump’s recent reference to his Democratic rival Kamala Harris as “Kamabla.”
“What does that mean? It feels racist, but why?” the comedian asked at one point. “It just feels like an old-timey slur,” he said elsewhere in the clip.
On some social media, my wife, eponymous with the hurricane, found, "If you give a hurricane a white girl party name, expect it to do white girl party shit." As people who had our salad days during the coke filled eighties, we were amused. (Also, I miss those days. In her youth, she was an excellent example of a white party girl.) (No disrespect to party girls of other shades. They were great, too.)
The police force in Bangladesh are the ones responsible for killing the protestors. Now that Hasina has fled, they are left to take the rap alone. They say they're sorry for the killings, you know, just following orders. An interim leader and cabinet have been selected. The population of Bangladesh is 171 million and it's the size of Wisconsin. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/8/muhammad-yunus-takes-oath-as-head-of-bangladeshs-interim-government
I watched a doc a couple years ago about how corrupt Hasina and her family were/are. It seems like eventually her departure will be a good thing for Bangladesh
I am willing to do what is required of me, which is get off of W and get up and tend the cats and get dressed in not-day-pajamas (ambiguity intended) and go to work. HOWEVER! Before I do so, I would like to have my heroism in this matter appropriately recognized. [looks around hopefully]
As a reality based Dem, I can’t argue with the replacement of Joe based on funny little facts — Joe agreed to it and supported Kamala, we were losing and now we’re winning. Pragmatism is the soul of politics.
Completely OT, and I should probably wait for open threads, but fuck it, I'm pissed of: Microsoft One Drive infuriates and confounds me! I don't like it, I don't want it, and yet it sneaks back in and screws me up, and now I've lost a bunch of edits that I'm going to have to re-write, just because MS wants to store my document in the cloud and not in my own damn computer with a freaking terrabyte of space on the perfectly good, very expensive and wide-open hard drive that I have right here in my own house!
Ahh, well, I don’t know anymore where the fuck anything is. I think it’s my local drive, but then it seems to be some cloud space. And Google drive. Ugh. And try living a life of sharing Google docs with people when you use yahoo for email….
I disabled it. I have told it in no uncertain terms it is not allowed to exist on my computer. Until Microsoft figures out a way for me to tell One Drive that the current state of the desktop is the NEW master, not the old version from 3 years ago in the cloud from my old computer, it's not allowed to ever come back online on my Windows.
Your end-of-the-workweek hed gif info: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/mornings-like-these
And the meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/ff9304eb-d165-463d-bb91-24aaa88c92fd
"Dude, srsly, where's my coffee?
I wanna cuddle with that sleepy cutie! 🥹
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😂
That doggie and I need to go back to bed....
that doggie looks like a dr. seuss character.
LOL, it does!
Nice wake-up doggo Martini. Just what I need before my morning walk out here on the left coast.
Delightfully scruffy!
Looks so sad puppy... ;>(
I think that dog represents pretty well the way I come across to others. Maybe it's the white hair.
Maybe the facial expression.
Maybe the lack of sleep?
My prostate is like an alarm clock set for 3:30 AM.
I understand.
''First I drink the coffee, and then I chase the things.''
That could be me before my first cup of coffee in the morning, except the little doggie is much cuter.
That is SUCH a precious sleepy boyo!
Poor sleepy doggy.
How is it Friday already!? Joy and hope have lightened my step and sped the week along!
Man, it has been Thursday since Monday.
Tell me about it. I presented all day yesterday, doing library orientation with Freshman. I don't see how you guys do it. I don't see how you talk all day, every day. It just exhausts me to have to do lessons all day. And we only had three days with students, this week!
How many hours of orientation did you offer at your library. At a university library I worked at the library orientations were presented night and day for a week.
We are a very small HS, so I got it all out of the way yesterday, with a few exceptions. I did it during their English classes.
Cool!!!
I celebrated, and posted about, Nixon's resignation a day early. I fear there may be some kind of rift in the space-time continuum.
Rifts in the STC are okay but watch out for the tears!
Any day is a good day to celebrate not having Nixon to kick around anymore!
Unfortunately he left of trail that is worse than he was.
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and remember too that it left poor Ben Stein in tears - "the man was a saint."
It's easy for me, too. August 9 is my mom's birthday.
and one of my brothers'
Jerry Garcia leaving us day for me.
PBUH.
Just a brain fart on my part. I always celebrate it on the 8th.
The only reason I was interested in the 8th was because I had a 6 month check up today. Turns out I’m possibly diabetic (blood sugar 7.7!) and full of cholesterol. No more cookies. Although my 90 year old Dad got more upset about it than me.
Me, Monday mornings.
Question, the blurb says Sunday August 19th, but Sunday is August 18th...I am a delegate from WI and am hoping to meet you.
When is your gathering?
A million dollars of cocaine washes up on the shore but not a word about all the Cocaine Sharks put there.
going to the wonkette chi DNC joy-fest palooza.
don't really know anything about the details...
"Kamala Harris does not support an arms embargo against Israel." I kind of wished she did.
I support Israel's right to exist but not their right to be a fucking bully to Palestinians.
I recommend that everyone who is able go to the Chicago Wonkette gathering. Rebecca will ply you with food and drink until you can barely move. Plus you will get to hang with all the other Wonkette writers I have not met in person but would like to.
hell yes (i went to a couple wonkette thingees here some years back and they were a drunken blast).
Anything new on Scott Ritter today? Don't know how I missed hearing about this guy before now
I'm gonna say that "Kambala" is Trump referencing Three Dog Night's' "The Road to Shambala" as part of his effort to paint Kamala as Indian rather than Black. Yeah, it's extremely stupid and non-intuitive, but his nickname game is way off, and it fits with his long established zero-understanding use of those few seventies pop hits that managed to penetrate his thick skull back in the day.
And it's fine by me. White bigots may not get biracialism, but blacks understand it just fine. Trump ain't gonna chip away at our vote by popularizing an awesome, joyous song. One of the first things I did at Stingers last night was find it on the jukebox. I played it five times while jawboning the college kids and they loved it. Help him out, I say!
https://youtu.be/PDpVS7D9AJs?si=jnRm6QWG24umkLBP
What! the sharks needed that cocaine.
On "Kamabla":
“The Daily Show” correspondent Josh Johnson is still stumped by Donald Trump’s recent reference to his Democratic rival Kamala Harris as “Kamabla.”
“What does that mean? It feels racist, but why?” the comedian asked at one point. “It just feels like an old-timey slur,” he said elsewhere in the clip.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1821335890028904718
On some social media, my wife, eponymous with the hurricane, found, "If you give a hurricane a white girl party name, expect it to do white girl party shit." As people who had our salad days during the coke filled eighties, we were amused. (Also, I miss those days. In her youth, she was an excellent example of a white party girl.) (No disrespect to party girls of other shades. They were great, too.)
Lucinda is one of my faves!
The police force in Bangladesh are the ones responsible for killing the protestors. Now that Hasina has fled, they are left to take the rap alone. They say they're sorry for the killings, you know, just following orders. An interim leader and cabinet have been selected. The population of Bangladesh is 171 million and it's the size of Wisconsin. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/8/muhammad-yunus-takes-oath-as-head-of-bangladeshs-interim-government
I watched a doc a couple years ago about how corrupt Hasina and her family were/are. It seems like eventually her departure will be a good thing for Bangladesh
I am willing to do what is required of me, which is get off of W and get up and tend the cats and get dressed in not-day-pajamas (ambiguity intended) and go to work. HOWEVER! Before I do so, I would like to have my heroism in this matter appropriately recognized. [looks around hopefully]
Huzzah?
Sure. OK. I will take it.
Almost dressed. Cat has taken almost all of her medicine. I have almost finished with the upstairs litter boxes. Not rushing into anything here.
As a reality based Dem, I can’t argue with the replacement of Joe based on funny little facts — Joe agreed to it and supported Kamala, we were losing and now we’re winning. Pragmatism is the soul of politics.
And WTF, nation over self.
Completely OT, and I should probably wait for open threads, but fuck it, I'm pissed of: Microsoft One Drive infuriates and confounds me! I don't like it, I don't want it, and yet it sneaks back in and screws me up, and now I've lost a bunch of edits that I'm going to have to re-write, just because MS wants to store my document in the cloud and not in my own damn computer with a freaking terrabyte of space on the perfectly good, very expensive and wide-open hard drive that I have right here in my own house!
Ahh, well, I don’t know anymore where the fuck anything is. I think it’s my local drive, but then it seems to be some cloud space. And Google drive. Ugh. And try living a life of sharing Google docs with people when you use yahoo for email….
I disabled it. I have told it in no uncertain terms it is not allowed to exist on my computer. Until Microsoft figures out a way for me to tell One Drive that the current state of the desktop is the NEW master, not the old version from 3 years ago in the cloud from my old computer, it's not allowed to ever come back online on my Windows.
i need to know how to do this.
also: fucking mcafee.