As a native Clevelander, I'd like to publicly apologize for foisting the Tate brothers onto the world. The Kelcie brothers aren't nearly enough compensation. And we can talk about Machine Gun Kelly later... Much Later.
There was a mistaken belief for decades that having too much muscle makes you less resilient, less flexible, and less quick in sports. That's been fully debunked in the last 20-30 years in a lot of sports, but still persists in some areas around the world, like women's track. (I remember seeing how much HEALTHIER the American woman's track team looked during a relay race a couple of years ago - because they were sporting an extra 10-15 lbs of leg and glute muscle compared to their much thinner European counterparts that still believed they needed to be as light weight as possible for maximum speed. That too is finally starting to change. LET WOMEN ATHLETES EAT!)
You'd think that boxers of all sports would have learned it's not true by now and having an extra 30 lbs of muscle also means an extra 30 lbs of force behind your punches.
Paul looks like he's being delivered for sacrifice and he's too dumb (and high) to know it.
Stay off the drugs, kids. They're not your friends.
Loved the little run around the ring. I'm not even a boxing fan and even I know that just makes him look like he's a dumbass who didn't warm up properly and thinks he's a big kid. 😂
Wonder if tate nodding when the result announced was his rationalising of it as the matrix coming together to deny him his dues again. Of course he lost. The establishment just can't let him have his day 🙄
As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony
“I hate beavers,” a woman tells the beaver hotline. Forty years ago she planted an oak tree in a small town in southern Zurich – now at the frontier of beaver expansion – and it has just been felled: gnawed by the large, semi-aquatic rodents as they enter their seasonal home-improvement mode.
The caller is one of 10 new people getting in touch each week at this time of year. Beavers, nature’s great engineers, can unleash mayhem during winter as they renovate their lodges and build up their dams. For people, this can mean flooding, sinkholes appearing in roads and trees being felled. A single incident can clock up 70,000 Swiss francs (£65,000) in damages.
To cope, the beaver-rich canton of Zurich came up with the hotline. The local Beaver Advisory Centre is staffed by ecologists who give advice, assess damages and evaluate potential compensation (the oak tree-bereft woman is advised to wrap wire around the base of the other trees to stop the rodents’ chewing)...
These are European beavers so use metric system to decide which trees to gnaw. I.E. half a foot is 3.7 cubic hectares. (I did the conversion in my head.)
We were in Sicily last weekend. It was in the high 60's, low 70's (Fahrenheit for us Philistines). Most of the locals were wearing thick Winter jackets. We ran into a couple visiting from Sweden and he was wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
Same when we were in south of France in October. Tshirts and drinking coffee outside in beautiful sunshine. Locals all in sweaters and winter coats. Then we went back to 2C and rain.
This is doomed to fail. These aren't "Trump's" priorities, these are the christofascist's priorities. And besides, Orangini couldn't find Africa on a map.
There are indeed persecuted christians in certain countries. However, what TrumpCo is talking about is white christian missionaries there to make a buck
Stuff like this is why I stick to watching women’s professional wrestling. It’s SUPPOSED to be fixed— there’s a rumor, possibly webwank, quoting Paul as saying Joshua “broke his deal” - and AEW at least has been seriously leaning into the sapphic angle. Check out Timeless Toni Storm’s promos!
Not doom related: one more day until my big end of the year fuck off and I totally got the itis. I'm all alone, even more so than usual, so it would not be hard to slack-a-lack like a professional. Course I won't, but I will think about it.
Also, someone fucked up our gas cards and it was allegedly mailed the 2nd of December, never mind how it ran out in november, but no one has seen it. So I am not even sure I got enough gas to get alllll the way out to our current field (we cover 78k acres and lots of times there are no direct roads because /can't drive through the kaboom areas/. It can be a very long drive, comparatively!)
I'll check when I get in, but I am pretty sure it was reading below a quarter yesterday. If it is still doing so I may find myself some inside work to do.
Boss man is gonna be off until the 6th now cause of the new holidays and his rdo and the use it or lose it XD
He spent last week furiously trying to push through everything we did during furlough because he is pretty convinced that there will be another one. When asked why, he said These New Democrats aren't going to Back Down and I was all hmmm maybe the Republicans could, idk, compromise for once?
my mom used to do apple pie for...everyone...this time a year. She'd do 20 or so pies every year (one of which was ours of course). All from scratch, not a single bite good for you, filling heaped like whoa.
One year she could not get them done for various reasons and her one doctor was all bummed about it. He was all, let's get you good and sound for next year so there will be more pie!
He'd been her GP for like 30 years so they were more friends at that point XD
Even after he officially retired he still saw a few of his old patients like her, my dad, and their neighbor, because they had not gone to anyone else ever and he was an ok dude for an old
“We’re desperately in need of ships,” said Mr. Trump, adding that he was involved in designing the new warships. “Our ships are — some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete and we’re going to go in the exact opposite direction.”
Blah blah blah. Threat assessment, Mission Needs Statement, got anything like that? Have you looked at doctrinal adaptations? Simpler weapons system upgrades?
Well, let's see. Today is FINALLY the closing on my condo, FINALLY at 10AM.
Work today and I have nothing to do. Might get the calendar ready for February and March as January is done. Probably going to work some on Catzeine. Might actually get the wall painted. DEFINITELY a trip to the dog park.
I wrapped presents last night. Big deal. I hate the holidays, TBH.
Wonder why the rest of the press remain. I do remember, vividly, Obama saying he was gonna kick Faux out of the pool for "lying all the damn time" and the entire press corpse screamed how they were gonna walk out if he dared even try it.
Weird how Trump does it for "refusing to bow to my stupidity" and the press is all....but our access?
This photo gets me rock hard.
As a native Clevelander, I'd like to publicly apologize for foisting the Tate brothers onto the world. The Kelcie brothers aren't nearly enough compensation. And we can talk about Machine Gun Kelly later... Much Later.
If you need to announce you are an alpha - you most defintely are not one
There was a mistaken belief for decades that having too much muscle makes you less resilient, less flexible, and less quick in sports. That's been fully debunked in the last 20-30 years in a lot of sports, but still persists in some areas around the world, like women's track. (I remember seeing how much HEALTHIER the American woman's track team looked during a relay race a couple of years ago - because they were sporting an extra 10-15 lbs of leg and glute muscle compared to their much thinner European counterparts that still believed they needed to be as light weight as possible for maximum speed. That too is finally starting to change. LET WOMEN ATHLETES EAT!)
You'd think that boxers of all sports would have learned it's not true by now and having an extra 30 lbs of muscle also means an extra 30 lbs of force behind your punches.
Paul looks like he's being delivered for sacrifice and he's too dumb (and high) to know it.
Stay off the drugs, kids. They're not your friends.
Loved the little run around the ring. I'm not even a boxing fan and even I know that just makes him look like he's a dumbass who didn't warm up properly and thinks he's a big kid. 😂
Wonder if tate nodding when the result announced was his rationalising of it as the matrix coming together to deny him his dues again. Of course he lost. The establishment just can't let him have his day 🙄
𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗮𝗸 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲? 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱? 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗭𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵’𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony
“I hate beavers,” a woman tells the beaver hotline. Forty years ago she planted an oak tree in a small town in southern Zurich – now at the frontier of beaver expansion – and it has just been felled: gnawed by the large, semi-aquatic rodents as they enter their seasonal home-improvement mode.
The caller is one of 10 new people getting in touch each week at this time of year. Beavers, nature’s great engineers, can unleash mayhem during winter as they renovate their lodges and build up their dams. For people, this can mean flooding, sinkholes appearing in roads and trees being felled. A single incident can clock up 70,000 Swiss francs (£65,000) in damages.
To cope, the beaver-rich canton of Zurich came up with the hotline. The local Beaver Advisory Centre is staffed by ecologists who give advice, assess damages and evaluate potential compensation (the oak tree-bereft woman is advised to wrap wire around the base of the other trees to stop the rodents’ chewing)...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/23/how-swizerland-learned-to-live-with-beavers-rewilding-aoe
She should have called sooner.
Pretty determined beaver to go after a 40 year old oak
Ours generally ignore anything greater than a half foot to a foot diameter
Can confirm, they are a pest XD But it is kinda funny to be walking through the woods and seeing their little gnawed off stumps
<<a half foot to a foot diameter>>
These are European beavers so use metric system to decide which trees to gnaw. I.E. half a foot is 3.7 cubic hectares. (I did the conversion in my head.)
ms.tek: "oooh it's cold out!"
(checks thermometer) (it says 73F)
tek: "Wut?"
We were in Sicily last weekend. It was in the high 60's, low 70's (Fahrenheit for us Philistines). Most of the locals were wearing thick Winter jackets. We ran into a couple visiting from Sweden and he was wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
Same when we were in south of France in October. Tshirts and drinking coffee outside in beautiful sunshine. Locals all in sweaters and winter coats. Then we went back to 2C and rain.
Nods in cold weather dweller!
73F, here also too. Inside.
Warm here in Central OK. Probably be firing up the AC from this afternoon until it cools off again next Monday AM.
This is doomed to fail. These aren't "Trump's" priorities, these are the christofascist's priorities. And besides, Orangini couldn't find Africa on a map.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 $2.3 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 2021 𝘢𝘯𝘥 2025, 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘜𝘚𝘈𝘐𝘋, 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 $2 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 $2.9 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘴.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 "𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴,” 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.
𝗨𝗦 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
https://apnews.com/article/us-africa-health-agreements-nigeria-kenya-trump-60ff22d1bc58009962dadd9f5ce53131
𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴
Right there. Grift ain't gonna grift itself!
"Christian" is just a buzzword to these assholes.
They have no idea what it means.
They're probably as "violent" to Xtiains in Nigeria as they are to Xtians in the US, which is to say not at all...
There are indeed persecuted christians in certain countries. However, what TrumpCo is talking about is white christian missionaries there to make a buck
And this means care can be denied from people who aren't Xian.
Yes, especially LGBT+ people.
Jebus would be so proud.
Stuff like this is why I stick to watching women’s professional wrestling. It’s SUPPOSED to be fixed— there’s a rumor, possibly webwank, quoting Paul as saying Joshua “broke his deal” - and AEW at least has been seriously leaning into the sapphic angle. Check out Timeless Toni Storm’s promos!
Joshua broke more than his deal, HAYO!!! ...I'll see myself out.
Not doom related: one more day until my big end of the year fuck off and I totally got the itis. I'm all alone, even more so than usual, so it would not be hard to slack-a-lack like a professional. Course I won't, but I will think about it.
Also, someone fucked up our gas cards and it was allegedly mailed the 2nd of December, never mind how it ran out in november, but no one has seen it. So I am not even sure I got enough gas to get alllll the way out to our current field (we cover 78k acres and lots of times there are no direct roads because /can't drive through the kaboom areas/. It can be a very long drive, comparatively!)
I'll check when I get in, but I am pretty sure it was reading below a quarter yesterday. If it is still doing so I may find myself some inside work to do.
I'm on leave and *feeling it*!
The itis is real, Bob XD
Boss man is gonna be off until the 6th now cause of the new holidays and his rdo and the use it or lose it XD
He spent last week furiously trying to push through everything we did during furlough because he is pretty convinced that there will be another one. When asked why, he said These New Democrats aren't going to Back Down and I was all hmmm maybe the Republicans could, idk, compromise for once?
Sometimes you gotta yank his leash
They relented on the last closure for a promised vote. That vote didn't happen.
Fool me once, shame on me...fool me twice...well...can't be fooled again
edit, though in this case, the Democrats ought to be saying fool me 4,784,465,765 times....
Nah.. compromise might invove Doing The Right Thing, and we can't have THAT..
The Eye Clinic staff descended on my homemade shortbread like a flock of hungry seagulls.
I think i may now be their favourite patient.
my mom used to do apple pie for...everyone...this time a year. She'd do 20 or so pies every year (one of which was ours of course). All from scratch, not a single bite good for you, filling heaped like whoa.
One year she could not get them done for various reasons and her one doctor was all bummed about it. He was all, let's get you good and sound for next year so there will be more pie!
He has his pieorities.
He'd been her GP for like 30 years so they were more friends at that point XD
Even after he officially retired he still saw a few of his old patients like her, my dad, and their neighbor, because they had not gone to anyone else ever and he was an ok dude for an old
Trump helped design the new warships, I see.
“We’re desperately in need of ships,” said Mr. Trump, adding that he was involved in designing the new warships. “Our ships are — some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete and we’re going to go in the exact opposite direction.”
"...some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete and we’re going to go in the exact opposite direction."
Grandpa is an expert on old and tired and obsolete.
"he was involved in designing the new warships"
Homer designs a car: https://youtu.be/WPc-VEqBPHI?t=215
The Trumper
Blah blah blah. Threat assessment, Mission Needs Statement, got anything like that? Have you looked at doctrinal adaptations? Simpler weapons system upgrades?
No, toddler wants a fancy boat, toot toot!
This fucking timeline.
But it is COMPENSATOR class, Bob!
oh good. One would hope if you are building a new one it will not be "old and tired and obsolete"
these are already in the AI models...
https://www.fantasticalandrewfox.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/howls_moving_castle_battleships.jpg
Clean coal powered!
Hey, if we're building a brand-new cruiser, let's make it a hydrofoil. Or a hovercraft.
No, no, wait. Make it both.
What is "hydrofoul"?
That's what the Trump admin would build.
My hovercraft is full of eels
Dammit! you've revealed Kash's secret passphrase!
would you liiieeeke to come up to my place, big boy, bouncy bouncy
Well, let's see. Today is FINALLY the closing on my condo, FINALLY at 10AM.
Work today and I have nothing to do. Might get the calendar ready for February and March as January is done. Probably going to work some on Catzeine. Might actually get the wall painted. DEFINITELY a trip to the dog park.
I wrapped presents last night. Big deal. I hate the holidays, TBH.
Huzzah!
I woke up way too early, last day of work before vacation and I probably didn't do much for this holiday 🙃
I loathe the holidays too and this year feels especially shitty. I guess I should look at it like maybe one of the last "good" years.
It's not cheery to hear about toy drives and meal drives. Just reminds me that every person in OK doesn't have a meal.
Does anyone know if the AP is still banned from covering the White House? Hair Furor banned them for refusal to bend the knee over "Gulf of America".
I haven’t heard that they regained access. Their article doesn’t have any updates.
https://apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-trump-administration-officials-0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8
Wonder why the rest of the press remain. I do remember, vividly, Obama saying he was gonna kick Faux out of the pool for "lying all the damn time" and the entire press corpse screamed how they were gonna walk out if he dared even try it.
Weird how Trump does it for "refusing to bow to my stupidity" and the press is all....but our access?
Much principles. BIG courgage.
Those Starbucks lattes don't pay for themselves, ya know..
Starbucks? Like a common prole?
These fuckers probably all got personal esspresso Kureig machines attached to their key chains or something