The "t" is silent. French and Portuguese both write more letters than they tend to pronounce a lot of the time. They are not alone among the languages of our world in that, of course.
"Alpha males" don't even dominate wolf societies, even though that's where the notion originated from. Y'see, idiot researchers observed wolves in captivity which were all unrelated and pretty much randomly grouped together by humans and just assumed that what they saw was how they behaved in the wild. Turns out they were completely wrong, what a shock. And who could possibly have predicted that bad actors would seize on this shitty science to push a fascist/eugenicist agenda?
I sometimes think there should be some sort of liscensing requirement to become a working scientist.
Is has even been banned (and later reinstated) in France more than once.
The Casablanca clip - the young woman whose tears are such a memorable feature was in fact a refugee IRL. She knew exactly who the enemy was, and those tears were real (and I'm pretty sure unscripted.)
Did you realize that the guy who crashed his Tesla Truck into the ICE trucks did it on PURPOSE to help protect the farm workers? At least that's what the guy commenting said in the video. So no "whoopsie." This was an act of courage.
So many ads for manly-man body washes and colognes on my streaming services these days got me thinking that if they want the real macho manly-man smells, they'd have colognes and washes like "Campfire" (cedar wood essential oil and Liquid Smoke(t/r/c)), "Speedway" (burnt rubber and leaded exhaust fumes), "Gym Sweat" (gym sweat), "Truck Stop" (urinal cakes and motor oil). I was thinking "Latrine" would be a good name for a French-inspired body wash, but couldn't decide on the scent profile. Now I need to find an investor.
Just missed you Marcie. We are in North Ocean City MD right now. And if that melty ice cream was from Dumser’s we are definitely on the same wavelength.
Greetings from Paris. Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/chillaxin-in-the-kelp
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/aa69e435-e732-4b80-8284-f58beddbc16e?utm_source=share
Nice gif Martini. Here's a photo from a few years back doing an inspection of the Seattle Aquarium.
https://substack.com/profile/76665937-weejee/note/c-135255914?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=19n7td
Martini, do you have IG so I can tag you in animal videos?
https://www.instagram.com/martini4442020?igsh=MThyNWJpNWNkcWxmeQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Gorgeous seal catching some rays!
Mon Dieu!
that pinned Pinniped gets my seal of approval!
Is Smarmy Seal! No Ear Flaps
Vive la France!
The Great Seal! If it had been a few months earlier, it might have been the Easter Seal!
The Seal of Approval!
Maybe one of the seven seals?
Seals might be my favorite creatures.
Bonjour, amis!!
Wait, whoops. MON AMI!!!
Also, merci pour the gif of my brother! JE SUIS UN SELKIE!!
Selkies figure prominently in the book I'm reading now.
We wuz concerned...
I’m squeezing the very last bit out of my last day of vacation 😁
Bring me a huge butter cwoisssanht.
The "t" is silent. French and Portuguese both write more letters than they tend to pronounce a lot of the time. They are not alone among the languages of our world in that, of course.
I have bizarrely excellent French pronunciation in real life.
It was just a joke.
One never knows, ya know? A degree in French has to be good for something now and again.
"Alpha males" don't even dominate wolf societies, even though that's where the notion originated from. Y'see, idiot researchers observed wolves in captivity which were all unrelated and pretty much randomly grouped together by humans and just assumed that what they saw was how they behaved in the wild. Turns out they were completely wrong, what a shock. And who could possibly have predicted that bad actors would seize on this shitty science to push a fascist/eugenicist agenda?
I sometimes think there should be some sort of liscensing requirement to become a working scientist.
"Is La Marseillaise the most hardcore national anthem ever written?"
I'm pretty sure it is. Especially when you read all the verses.
https://www.thoughtco.com/la-marseillaise-frances-national-anthem-4080565
Is has even been banned (and later reinstated) in France more than once.
The Casablanca clip - the young woman whose tears are such a memorable feature was in fact a refugee IRL. She knew exactly who the enemy was, and those tears were real (and I'm pretty sure unscripted.)
I've taken the Greenbrier bunker tour. The hotel was decorated by the fabulous Dorothy Draper. Lots of bold colors, patterns, and floral prints.
I love that look--those wide bright green stripes, geranium pink flowers!
Yeah, she was a genius.
"Oops, butterfingers, a Muskmobile hit an ICE truck."
*** *** ***
"Hey! You got your oligarchy in my xenophobia!"
"Well, YOU got your xenophobia in MY oligarchy!"
(Munch munch munch)
"It's delicious!"
Two crappy prejudices in one political party -- Donald's Clusterf*ck Cup!
Nice Times: Happy box kitteh!
https://youtube.com/shorts/s3LRgsdQbxk?si=vUgvG_wzGYz5Loov
Really? We needed a judge to tell the LAPD to stop shooting journalists?
Dutch-American primatologist Fran de Waal has largely debunked the popular image of the alpha male. I’d recommended any of his books.
Shitler giving himself a whole fifty days to chicken out ... 🐓
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/politics/us-ukraine-weapons-trump
Boston Globe:
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑤𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝐿𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡. 𝐵𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑.
𝐴𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑠 — 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠, 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑣𝑢𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔’𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 4 𝑡𝑜 6 𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝐼-93 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟.
Nothing to see here, move along
Did you realize that the guy who crashed his Tesla Truck into the ICE trucks did it on PURPOSE to help protect the farm workers? At least that's what the guy commenting said in the video. So no "whoopsie." This was an act of courage.
Also a good way to get rid of a Tesla.
Indeed!!!
So many ads for manly-man body washes and colognes on my streaming services these days got me thinking that if they want the real macho manly-man smells, they'd have colognes and washes like "Campfire" (cedar wood essential oil and Liquid Smoke(t/r/c)), "Speedway" (burnt rubber and leaded exhaust fumes), "Gym Sweat" (gym sweat), "Truck Stop" (urinal cakes and motor oil). I was thinking "Latrine" would be a good name for a French-inspired body wash, but couldn't decide on the scent profile. Now I need to find an investor.
Just missed you Marcie. We are in North Ocean City MD right now. And if that melty ice cream was from Dumser’s we are definitely on the same wavelength.
There is a crowdfunding campaign in behalf of Jaime Alanis Garcia. He was the sole provider for his family, including a wife and daughter in Mexico.
Confused re: La Marseillaise "Hurry to thy manly accents."
What a heartbreaking first person account of the TX flood tragedy. Good lord. That mother trying so hard to save her children.
I'm crying again now thinking about their story. Amazing that any of them survived. Poor baby Clay.