'Talk radio isn't a target of FCC's 'equal time' notice, Brendan Carr says'
"FCC Chair Brendan Carr said he’s not worried about enforcing political fairness from radio stations the same way he is with late-night and daytime TV.
Carr made waves last week by saying TV hosts must comply with rules requiring they give similar airtime to candidates of both parties. Lawyers have been puzzling over whether, or how, it would apply to talk radio, a traditional bastion of conservative voices. On Thursday, Carr said he didn’t see any reason to similarly press radio stations — although the same underlying rules apply.
TV broadcasters have spent years claiming an exemption from these rules in a way Carr hasn’t seen in the radio world, according to the agency leader.
“If you’re fake news, you’re not going to qualify as the bona fide news exception,” Carr said during a press conference after the agency’s monthly meeting."
THEN they tell you your screen is shit, even though I know it's a fancy color-corrected one, and yeah thanks, I already know how to do RGB to CYMK and why it's hard to design on screens
Honestly I love graphic designers because they understand huge amounts about stuff that nobody else has a clue about.
In my previous life helping out a fucking truck decal company, we'd have to explain Pantone and why "yeah, it looks like that on your fucking shitball "Bellend" brand monitor but it looks on the truck like *that*, and we colour matched from the original decals WHICH YOU ASKED US TO DO, and that's why the colours match the original"
Gross. So because she’s a famous singer and represents a few demographics MAGA desperately needs more of - a black lady hip hop artist, she gets to pal around with the potus, hug the speaker of the house and just generally sell out to this cruel, hateful regime? Obviously they want whatever influence they think she brings. They aren’t exactly sure who she is, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston, whoever. The hip kids seem to like her. In return she wants the gold card, help with her family legal problems and to bask in the golden light of the christofascist gop. She is joining Melon Trump in her mission - to prevent the bullying of Donald “gentle lamb of God” Trump. Eek.
With her puckered "aggrieved white woman" face on, not wanting to repeat what WAP "is about" because well-lubricated vaginas are none of her business thankyouverymuch.
I love that movie. I still feel the werewolf attack on Jack is one of the scariest and most disturbing scenes in a horror movie. The speed of the attack and violence just feels too real, along with his plea for help.
What a year or two for werewolf movies. The Howling, Wolfen and American Werewolf were all released in 1981. Lesser known horror comedy Full Moon High with Alan Arkin was also. Oddly, the Howling (Joe Dante) and American Werewolf (John Landis) were both werewolf horror movies with a touch of comedy. Both involved cutting edge special effects (American Werewolf getting more attention for the Rick Baker transformation effects and unique hunched over look of the wolf, versus the tall, lanky wolves in Howling that walk on two legs). Just very similar ideas on the surface, yet they each were original enough to stand out.
And yeah, Trump is decaying before our eyes. He better hurry, now he’s suing the IRS for $10 billion of our dollars.
I loved American Werewolf so much when I was a kid. I saw it way, way too young and it scared the hell out of me, but it was also so much fun. Griffin Dunne's character in particular, especially after he started to decompose and turn that rotten blue-gray color, stuck with me for ages.
I am at the what-have-I-gotten-myself-into phase of my latest project. I have a 10x12 room that has never been developed into anything on my watch. On a long side, a bookcase barely clinging to the wall. Tool shelves on the opposite wall. Boxes of crap. Bookshelf is stuffed with some stuff that has been there several years, including school stuff from the kids, my university papers (why?), stuff from work that I've retired from. I've made a few other runs at debulking the tumor of stuff, but this is the most serious go at it. Taking everything off the shelves, tearing it out, putting up full length shelves on the 12' wall, and a catwalk around the top of the room, and various climbing stuff for the cats.
It's getting easier to get rid of some of this stuff, but definitely peeling the onion. Three more shelves emptied.
Putting a wrap on it. Time to go take care of the cats and the fire and get ready for bed.
Spare rooms are wonderful. For filling with things that bring joy until watching any random "Hoarders" episode and realizing that space holds 30-something years of CRAP!
I am feeling a sense of relief as I get stuff out of here. I look at things and ask myself if it's worth the loss of space. My parents experienced the depression, WWII, throw in that they were children of immigrants and farmers, and I grew up thinking it was normal to acquire and keep things.
Followed that by having done without for a lot of my younger years, and possessions carry associations that are mostly in my head. Working through a lot of baggage.
It's hitting me as I box some of this stuff up and get it out that I've been keeping it because of a sense of being responsible for other people's expectations. I don't want to do that any more.
That's the plan! The cats already know it as the playroom, and Alice's wheel is located here.
It took a few years after they moved out, but the kids' rooms were eventually repurposed to a music room and a study. The area where we used to lounge and watch movies was converted to an art room. Took time.
Trying to go through the whole place, declutter, give myself time and space to reinvent my life after retirement.
G'night Wonkers. Sleep well. Or at least just sleep, for all you insomniacs (myself included). Thank you for this space to unload and unwind, uninhibited.
Goodnight, Noma L. Funny/not funny, I have a cousin whose family calls her by that name. I'd ask if you're her, but she's a crazy-azz MAGA I'm happy to not have had any contact with in years. Yes, bedtime does sound like a good idea, thanks.
(... on the album—Magic and Loss—this is billed as two compositions back to back—the first instrumental minute or so is called ‘Dorita’ (The Spirit), the rest ‘What’s Good’ (The Thesis). Always liked it best the two of them together; happy to find this online.)
I have a few things going on with cooking and Landry. Ripper uses my foot as a pillow while Skepti is sort of down for the count because we live in Washington state and we can legally roll that way.
Ripper seems to do that to track my movements, Little bastard. But I love and respect him for being intelligent and observant. He watches me cooking and washing dishes too.
I am not watching Melania the Movie but I can tell you it must be really bad for Trump to have locked the doors after the movie started to make sure nobody could leave the theater
"US President Donald Trump and his two sons have filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against the federal government over leaks of their business and personal tax returns.
The civil complaint, filed in Miami federal court, seeks $10bn (£7.25bn) in damages.
The Trump family accuses the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - the US-wide tax body - and the Treasury Department of failing to prevent the disclosure of "confidential, personal financial information" by a former IRS contractor.
Ahead of the 2016 election, Trump said he would not release his tax returns because he was under audit, making him the first in almost 50 years to not disclose the documents. He said the same ahead of his 2020 re-election run.
But then in September 2020, just before the November election, The New York Times published an extensive report on Mr Trump's tax returns, revealing he paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency and no taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years."
'Talk radio isn't a target of FCC's 'equal time' notice, Brendan Carr says'
"FCC Chair Brendan Carr said he’s not worried about enforcing political fairness from radio stations the same way he is with late-night and daytime TV.
Carr made waves last week by saying TV hosts must comply with rules requiring they give similar airtime to candidates of both parties. Lawyers have been puzzling over whether, or how, it would apply to talk radio, a traditional bastion of conservative voices. On Thursday, Carr said he didn’t see any reason to similarly press radio stations — although the same underlying rules apply.
TV broadcasters have spent years claiming an exemption from these rules in a way Carr hasn’t seen in the radio world, according to the agency leader.
“If you’re fake news, you’re not going to qualify as the bona fide news exception,” Carr said during a press conference after the agency’s monthly meeting."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/talk-radio-isnt-a-target-of-fccs-equal-time-memo-brendan-carr-says-00755660
Sometimes I hate talking to graphic designers. It's just a series of numbers.
"185? No, 2035 is better"
"What about 2347?"
"Fuck off with that, even 485 is better"
THEN they tell you your screen is shit, even though I know it's a fancy color-corrected one, and yeah thanks, I already know how to do RGB to CYMK and why it's hard to design on screens
What they SHOULD be putting out you is explaining the perceptual difference between subtractive and additive colour models.
So RGB and CMYK? YOU'RE DOING IT ALREADY, PIXEL BOY!
We're IN!
Honestly I love graphic designers because they understand huge amounts about stuff that nobody else has a clue about.
In my previous life helping out a fucking truck decal company, we'd have to explain Pantone and why "yeah, it looks like that on your fucking shitball "Bellend" brand monitor but it looks on the truck like *that*, and we colour matched from the original decals WHICH YOU ASKED US TO DO, and that's why the colours match the original"
Gross. So because she’s a famous singer and represents a few demographics MAGA desperately needs more of - a black lady hip hop artist, she gets to pal around with the potus, hug the speaker of the house and just generally sell out to this cruel, hateful regime? Obviously they want whatever influence they think she brings. They aren’t exactly sure who she is, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston, whoever. The hip kids seem to like her. In return she wants the gold card, help with her family legal problems and to bask in the golden light of the christofascist gop. She is joining Melon Trump in her mission - to prevent the bullying of Donald “gentle lamb of God” Trump. Eek.
That identikit white yelling woman, Laura Ingraham, instantly mixed up Nicki Minaj with Cardi B.
With her puckered "aggrieved white woman" face on, not wanting to repeat what WAP "is about" because well-lubricated vaginas are none of her business thankyouverymuch.
"When I think of her, I'm as light as ether. I some times have dreams of her. And in that sleep I did not create those regrets and sorrows"
-anonymous-
Look at his hand
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:5p3wutcdcsvhr4ardkxjn3dm/bafkreia37ubmbcon5ufrp3b66vjlgrbegnhw5dlgspxn7eeln3muwaqe74@jpeg
Necrotic
Meanwhile, at Reuters, there's some chicanery at hand...
https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/VXK5M2DWHZI4LMCOWU7THLQ5PM.jpg?auth=bc7ec07c8ff1c876f14da097a076ec2aedcae573487dafaa78fedba27e846c21&width=1920&quality=80
Oh....that's Nicki Manaj holding his hand....not Mel. OK, horrible fake fingernails make sense now.
Whoa.
Wow.
Nice retouch, huh?
Photo credit: Kevin Lamarque
It looks like Mason Verger from Hannibal.
Hand or not...
I don't know which looks worse, his hand or her fake finger nails.
Thanks for pointing them out (I think).
At first I thought it was some medical device like portals.
Image looks a bit sketchy, so I wonder how real it is.
Second pass on photo - yeah, those finger nails are all wrong, fingers too. Melania would not have a manicure and nail set that awful.
There's no accounting for taste.
It looks like Griffin Dunne in An American Werewolf in London after he starts to decompose.
Are you gonna eat your toast?
I love that movie. I still feel the werewolf attack on Jack is one of the scariest and most disturbing scenes in a horror movie. The speed of the attack and violence just feels too real, along with his plea for help.
What a year or two for werewolf movies. The Howling, Wolfen and American Werewolf were all released in 1981. Lesser known horror comedy Full Moon High with Alan Arkin was also. Oddly, the Howling (Joe Dante) and American Werewolf (John Landis) were both werewolf horror movies with a touch of comedy. Both involved cutting edge special effects (American Werewolf getting more attention for the Rick Baker transformation effects and unique hunched over look of the wolf, versus the tall, lanky wolves in Howling that walk on two legs). Just very similar ideas on the surface, yet they each were original enough to stand out.
And yeah, Trump is decaying before our eyes. He better hurry, now he’s suing the IRS for $10 billion of our dollars.
I loved American Werewolf so much when I was a kid. I saw it way, way too young and it scared the hell out of me, but it was also so much fun. Griffin Dunne's character in particular, especially after he started to decompose and turn that rotten blue-gray color, stuck with me for ages.
So is Ratner supposed to be the new Goebbels or what?
Worst Leni knockoff ever.
Leni had goddamn talent.
Still a nazi
Oh yes!
I am at the what-have-I-gotten-myself-into phase of my latest project. I have a 10x12 room that has never been developed into anything on my watch. On a long side, a bookcase barely clinging to the wall. Tool shelves on the opposite wall. Boxes of crap. Bookshelf is stuffed with some stuff that has been there several years, including school stuff from the kids, my university papers (why?), stuff from work that I've retired from. I've made a few other runs at debulking the tumor of stuff, but this is the most serious go at it. Taking everything off the shelves, tearing it out, putting up full length shelves on the 12' wall, and a catwalk around the top of the room, and various climbing stuff for the cats.
It's getting easier to get rid of some of this stuff, but definitely peeling the onion. Three more shelves emptied.
Putting a wrap on it. Time to go take care of the cats and the fire and get ready for bed.
There are days when I'd kill for a spare room.
Spare rooms are wonderful. For filling with things that bring joy until watching any random "Hoarders" episode and realizing that space holds 30-something years of CRAP!
I am feeling a sense of relief as I get stuff out of here. I look at things and ask myself if it's worth the loss of space. My parents experienced the depression, WWII, throw in that they were children of immigrants and farmers, and I grew up thinking it was normal to acquire and keep things.
Followed that by having done without for a lot of my younger years, and possessions carry associations that are mostly in my head. Working through a lot of baggage.
Yep, that's what all my closets are doing. And basement and garage.
It's hitting me as I box some of this stuff up and get it out that I've been keeping it because of a sense of being responsible for other people's expectations. I don't want to do that any more.
Inspire me, please. What would you do with such a space?
Paper documents are mostly crap that you feel guilty about throwing out, but have no value.
Sewing or jewelry making or what ever you love to do should have a designated sacred space.
I always wanted a room arranged thusly:
At least one, maybe two windows
Storage all around the perimeter, floor to ceiling: cupboards, drawers, shelves, pull-out-thigirs, lotsa variety
One good sized table in the middle to sort thru things or do an occasional project - maybe variable height too
Sorry, have no inspiration. I'd probably fill mine with cats and cat stuff. You've got that covered.
There is nothing wrong with that!
That's the plan! The cats already know it as the playroom, and Alice's wheel is located here.
It took a few years after they moved out, but the kids' rooms were eventually repurposed to a music room and a study. The area where we used to lounge and watch movies was converted to an art room. Took time.
Trying to go through the whole place, declutter, give myself time and space to reinvent my life after retirement.
Good!
G'night Wonkers. Sleep well. Or at least just sleep, for all you insomniacs (myself included). Thank you for this space to unload and unwind, uninhibited.
Goodnight, Noma L. Funny/not funny, I have a cousin whose family calls her by that name. I'd ask if you're her, but she's a crazy-azz MAGA I'm happy to not have had any contact with in years. Yes, bedtime does sound like a good idea, thanks.
See you on the other side. Good advice, that.
Lou Reed—What’s Good
https://youtu.be/Whr-qSO-jvI
Life’s like
A mayonnaise soda
(... on the album—Magic and Loss—this is billed as two compositions back to back—the first instrumental minute or so is called ‘Dorita’ (The Spirit), the rest ‘What’s Good’ (The Thesis). Always liked it best the two of them together; happy to find this online.)
I tried and tried to find this somewhere that wasn’t a FB reels link, but I failed. But I still thought it was funny enough to share anyway.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1a8oBA8X2t/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Love the style on that Midwestern food critic!
I have a few things going on with cooking and Landry. Ripper uses my foot as a pillow while Skepti is sort of down for the count because we live in Washington state and we can legally roll that way.
Ripper seems to do that to track my movements, Little bastard. But I love and respect him for being intelligent and observant. He watches me cooking and washing dishes too.
Is this real? I don't know but it's amusing regardless.
Roadrunner33
@roadrunner33.bsky.social
I am not watching Melania the Movie but I can tell you it must be really bad for Trump to have locked the doors after the movie started to make sure nobody could leave the theater
Really? What a wasted opportunity for a fire
"Why, howdy, Simba"
Without tash
https://substack.com/@fukuisanyesota/note/c-207316433?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
With tash
https://substack.com/@fukuisanyesota/note/c-207316471?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
Without stache - jaunty beret
With stache - giant powdered French wig
I'm gonna try the wig one
Yay!
I haven't color matched or anything
Colonial style
https://substack.com/@fukuisanyesota/note/c-207319114?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
Marie Antoinette
https://substack.com/@fukuisanyesota/note/c-207319149?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
OUTSTANDING!
😆😆😆
{{ mad applause }}
You say that NOW.
I taught my niece how to colour match.
But I taught her the "I am colourblind" way and she laughed a bit then understood why I was using the colour balance and match tools a lot.
As did she.
Oh Christ, Daniel Plainview.
"US President Donald Trump and his two sons have filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against the federal government over leaks of their business and personal tax returns.
The civil complaint, filed in Miami federal court, seeks $10bn (£7.25bn) in damages.
The Trump family accuses the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - the US-wide tax body - and the Treasury Department of failing to prevent the disclosure of "confidential, personal financial information" by a former IRS contractor.
Ahead of the 2016 election, Trump said he would not release his tax returns because he was under audit, making him the first in almost 50 years to not disclose the documents. He said the same ahead of his 2020 re-election run.
But then in September 2020, just before the November election, The New York Times published an extensive report on Mr Trump's tax returns, revealing he paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency and no taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23ryyrx40yo
cool. cool cool. cool. so they are just going to steal a billion dollars in taxpayer money.
EAT THE RICH
Various winter scenes from the last few days:
https://substack.com/profile/41005794-cheers-yall/note/c-207315363?r=oew9u&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
What a beautiful doggo. English Setter?
That doggie looks so happy!
Super angry, super articulate, with a distinct MN twang...this woman is my new favorite.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/184YjwapNA/
I'm hanging on.
I have always loved MN's, but never more than I do right now!
Brava.