Bouncing out early tonight, Wonks. Got another early day ahead of me tomorrow (though not so early as today) and after today, a lengthy bedtime is in order. Have fun at Movie Night tonight!
Spurs-Thunder Game 7 starts in a little over half an hour.
Goddamn, this has been a weird series. First one team just runs the other right off the court. The next night, the team that lost makes the other look like it doesn't even belong there.
The Spurs seem to have figured out that when you have a budding superstar who's 7'4", 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦. As for the Thunder, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had better start figuring out what to do with the ball on dribble-drives.
Sigh. TIme to get food. I feel a trip to Berlin Döner is in order. Then back to the hotel and enjoy this ridiculously huge suite and have a bath, I think.
I really don't want to go home tomorrow. Montreal is great.
I'll post some fun pictures of cars and animals and landscapes and shit later.
DJT is definitely not smart enough for most of his current crimes. He knows how to buy stock and then do something that benefits it, but I doubt he understands crypto or AI scams. He’s getting help from his infinitesimally more competent children.
AND NOW, WE AND THE WORLD ARE FOREVER DENIED MARBLE ARMRESTS
"Trump targeted Judge Cooper after a ruling that ordered Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center, lashing out in a lengthy Truth Social rant that also included a declaration that he now has "no interest" in renovating the historic venue."
Mom and I went shopping at the Maine Mall in Portland. We had lunch at a Mediterranean restaurant that was founded by two Palestinian men in Old Orchard Beach. Mom bought some baklava to snack on later. We also went to Freeport and visited the L.L. Bean store.
We're resting tomorrow, and on Monday we plan to visit Rockland.
I was going through some of my photos here to see what I could share later for evening funtimes.
This one, I'd initially ignored because I didn't get the focus I wanted. However, looking again, I got something special.
This is an F2 race, which are great and competitive. This is coming into the chicane at turns 13 and fourteen at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. They've just come off DRS and are hitting the brakes hard as they change down.
I was reading a thing about how Obergruppenführer Miller is working to make life more difficult for immigrants, including notably those with legal status. For example, deciding that they aren't eligible to work in secure areas of airports (and a host of other petty rules and regulations). The goal of course is to make it less attractive for people to come here, and to encourage those here to leave. Trump's immigration policy (Miller's really) was never going to be just about undocumented immigrants. It's about turning the U.S. into a White ethnostate (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-immigrants-health-housing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.YcNt.m1HD2X5bIeE-&smid=url-share).
I don't often bitch about the Mr, but today I caught him on the computer booking a massage and facial for me because I've had a shit couple of weeks at work XD
We all know that global warming is just a stupid liberal hoax, but when I was a kid, temperatures here in Tucson pretty much reached 100+ during June through August. For the last 15 years or so, that kind of heat is normal from mid-April through mid-October. This year we had 105 degree temps in the fucking middle of March. I was bracing for the most miserable summer of my life, but since then, it has stayed in the 90s; hot but endurable. Unfortunately, this is all about to change this coming week.
So I got the tire replaced, and the wheel back on the gixxer. And what, of course, happens on the first ride, do you think? ERROR CODE! WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Sure. But I don't have a scanner. Well, it's getting close to needing a service, anyways... I'll take it on down to the shop here in the near future...
Amazon's ordering system appears to be broken a bit. Heh.
Bouncing out early tonight, Wonks. Got another early day ahead of me tomorrow (though not so early as today) and after today, a lengthy bedtime is in order. Have fun at Movie Night tonight!
Sleep well.
Night night :)
Spurs-Thunder Game 7 starts in a little over half an hour.
Goddamn, this has been a weird series. First one team just runs the other right off the court. The next night, the team that lost makes the other look like it doesn't even belong there.
The Spurs seem to have figured out that when you have a budding superstar who's 7'4", 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦. As for the Thunder, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had better start figuring out what to do with the ball on dribble-drives.
Should be a fun game.
GO KNICKS!
Sigh. TIme to get food. I feel a trip to Berlin Döner is in order. Then back to the hotel and enjoy this ridiculously huge suite and have a bath, I think.
I really don't want to go home tomorrow. Montreal is great.
I'll post some fun pictures of cars and animals and landscapes and shit later.
The warrior Orange Oaf.
https://substack.com/profile/76665937-weejee/note/c-267919895?r=19n7td
I’m starting to wonder if Paxton really did securities fraud. That kind of crime seems a little too sophisticated for a common petty thief.
though a felony, not much different than what djt is doing pumping and dumping now.
DJT is definitely not smart enough for most of his current crimes. He knows how to buy stock and then do something that benefits it, but I doubt he understands crypto or AI scams. He’s getting help from his infinitesimally more competent children.
He was misleading investors and lying to regulators.
So, basically, just lying, which is totally in his wheelhouse.
Ah, makes sense. I had assumed it was one of those complex financial crimes I’m not smart enough to understand.
Oh no, he was trying to pump and dump some shit scam tech stock. Nothing complex at all.
AND NOW, WE AND THE WORLD ARE FOREVER DENIED MARBLE ARMRESTS
"Trump targeted Judge Cooper after a ruling that ordered Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center, lashing out in a lengthy Truth Social rant that also included a declaration that he now has "no interest" in renovating the historic venue."
Marble is not a functional building material. Trust me. I have 150 year old marble statuary. It is a bitch to clean.
You’ve the gall to question the man who said “BIGGER” at five different times during the installation of the words “TRUMP TOWER” on Trump Tower?
Reportedly, US considers backing Viktor Orbán for senior position at the UN, which would grant him diplomatic immunity.
This, as the current investigations into Orbán and members of his family are ongoing.
https://bsky.app/profile/onestpress.onestnetwork.com/post/3mn3y434zuk2h
What position -- consultant on the erosion of democracy from within?
They are all damaged weirdos.
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-2676976985/
'I, well, Huh. I am a modest Bible-Living man and I... heh. I do not wish to sin-boast."
Mom and I went shopping at the Maine Mall in Portland. We had lunch at a Mediterranean restaurant that was founded by two Palestinian men in Old Orchard Beach. Mom bought some baklava to snack on later. We also went to Freeport and visited the L.L. Bean store.
We're resting tomorrow, and on Monday we plan to visit Rockland.
I was going through some of my photos here to see what I could share later for evening funtimes.
This one, I'd initially ignored because I didn't get the focus I wanted. However, looking again, I got something special.
This is an F2 race, which are great and competitive. This is coming into the chicane at turns 13 and fourteen at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. They've just come off DRS and are hitting the brakes hard as they change down.
https://substack.com/@fukuisanyesota/note/c-267916429?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
I caught, somehow, the engines coming off the full power cycle and got the turbo wastegate open and fuel ignition.
DRAMA! ACTION!
Those boats in the background seem to be hauling ass too.
I wonder if they are using the old trick of dumping fuel to keep the turbo spun up?
Those handbags are going really fast
I was reading a thing about how Obergruppenführer Miller is working to make life more difficult for immigrants, including notably those with legal status. For example, deciding that they aren't eligible to work in secure areas of airports (and a host of other petty rules and regulations). The goal of course is to make it less attractive for people to come here, and to encourage those here to leave. Trump's immigration policy (Miller's really) was never going to be just about undocumented immigrants. It's about turning the U.S. into a White ethnostate (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-immigrants-health-housing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.YcNt.m1HD2X5bIeE-&smid=url-share).
Ethnic cleansing could be a relevant operative phrase.
this is not news to those who have been paying attention.
What Nazi Nosferatu doesn't understand or care about is that doing what he's doing will grind the American economy to a halt.
Any of the shite supremacists I've ever met have been universally stupid.
They don't know anything about how the world works.
It's both all at once. Nihilism meets delusion.
Miller is a petty, nasty little shit with a shriveled soul, who makes things harder for other people just because he can.
Russ Vought is the same kind of nasty little shit except the christofascist version.
I don't often bitch about the Mr, but today I caught him on the computer booking a massage and facial for me because I've had a shit couple of weeks at work XD
Does Andy get to go to the spa with you? HI ANDY!!
He's got a spa appointment on Thursday with his other favorite person, Carol (everyone is his favorite person).
HI KATIE BABY!!!
We all know that global warming is just a stupid liberal hoax, but when I was a kid, temperatures here in Tucson pretty much reached 100+ during June through August. For the last 15 years or so, that kind of heat is normal from mid-April through mid-October. This year we had 105 degree temps in the fucking middle of March. I was bracing for the most miserable summer of my life, but since then, it has stayed in the 90s; hot but endurable. Unfortunately, this is all about to change this coming week.
It's been very nice in Phx. The nights have been almost chilly. I know the oven is coming.
Same with OK. Have the winters there become more mild? Ours here are more mild with bigger weather events coming in.
Yep, definitely more mild. It is rare for temps to go below freezing for years now, when that was very common years ago.
It didn't freeze once in Phx, not once.
Same here.
We are rarely in the +100s and -30s these last few years. The old competition with Siberia is over.
I can't think of a winter in ND over the last decade or so that's had a decent cold spot of -40.
It's been a long time. Last -40 in Minneapolis. I bicycles into work in full polar parka and all associated gear.
So I got the tire replaced, and the wheel back on the gixxer. And what, of course, happens on the first ride, do you think? ERROR CODE! WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Do bikes have the equivalent of an OBD2 port?
Sure. But I don't have a scanner. Well, it's getting close to needing a service, anyways... I'll take it on down to the shop here in the near future...
I've had a scanner since they came on the market.
Cause cheap bastid, and can wrench on pretty much anything.
It was fun to hang with you in the Land Port and watching you geek out over bikes. Keep it up.
IRL Wonk meetups for the win!
That was a nice day...
In all honesty, Cake Stealin’ Ken Paxton would be a really good Afroman-style nickname. Or maybe Coconut Cake Stealin’ Ken Paxton.
I am hiding coconut cake from him in my fridge right now!