Was looking for a video on YouTube to lull me off to sleep, and the algorithm thought I would enjoy one about a widow on the western frontier who was trying to keep her children from starving and freezing to death, and now I am very awake. Let’s try this again.
If you mean, based on the video, no. Talked to ex a few days ago he said he was running out of propane. I asked why he didn’t fill it in the summer or fall, and he said it wasn’t empty then. 🙄
I have a friend who said she’s really having trouble running out to the outhouse a couple of times a day. I was pestering her over the summer to do an upgrade, so that it’s enclosed, and she could put a heater on an extension cord in it, but she didn’t do it. She fell one year on her way out there, very pregnant. And now I’m telling her she needs to get a honey bucket.
I have another friend who is incarcerated down in Idaho who wants me to go by his storage unit and get some stuff shipped off to him. He had an ex-girlfriend who’s gotten pretty flaky managing that unit, and I can see so many ways that could go wrong, so I’m building some boundaries and safeguards into this.
I doubled my order of canned cat food, because we’re going through it faster now with the extra mouths to feed. But my pantry is full, and I’m pretty well set for fuel and necessities. But I’m finding my level of alertness is going up as the temperature goes down.
I was just making a silly joke about your alarm at the video and how it might affect a mind like yours.
The stories you're telling are some real-life ant and the grasshopper shit though. Where you live there are some real consequences to not being prepared. Here, if it doesn't get done today or tomorrow or next week it's no big deal and it's easy for me to have a laugh at your diligence.
I have a lot of respect for how you handle yourself. You deserve to know that.
At this point, I don't think it matters. But, the republicans want to win the mid-terms, so they think this will help them.
Me? America should be going in the OPPOSITE direction: NO corporate or PAC money allowed AT ALL. America is the only country like this ... this and the Electoral College is why our government can be bought so easily.
What I could never understand was why Mrs. Bob did not work. Poor women worked even then- laundry, taking in sewing, fish gutting, whatever. I know Dickens was in another social class and sort of had a rose colored view of The Poor, but surely he knew that poor women worked.
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
Paramount’s press release announcing the offer says that the $40 billion in equity financing will be “backstopped by Ellison Family and RedBird Capital.” The CEO of Paramount is David Ellison, the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the second-wealthiest person in the world...
What is not mentioned in the press release is that... the majority of the equity financing — $24 billion — comes from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar...Also participating in the deal is Affinity Partners, the private equity firm run by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner...
If some kind soul carpet-nuked Saudi Arabia, I'd only cry a little bit, briefly. I know this is wrong but I DGAF this morning. I'm sick of those vermin.
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
Paramount’s press release announcing the offer says that the $40 billion in equity financing will be “backstopped by Ellison Family and RedBird Capital.” The CEO of Paramount is David Ellison, the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the second-wealthiest person in the world...
What is not mentioned in the press release is that... the majority of the equity financing — $24 billion — comes from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar...Also participating in the deal is Affinity Partners, the private equity firm run by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner...
Leaders of a Catholic church near Boston kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it.
The display, outside St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Mass., includes the traditional shepherds, sheep and wise men gathered around a hay-filled manger. But Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus are missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE” in bold blue letters.
“The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church,” adds a smaller note inside the Nativity scene, which is protected by a plastic shield. “If you see ICE please call LUCE.” The display includes a phone number for LUCE, an immigrant advocacy group, which tracks the activity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Massachusetts.
ICE began a major immigration enforcement campaign in the Boston area in September, the forefront of a wave of similar efforts in other major cities...
Some members and supporters of the Dedham parish said they were confused by the demand from the archdiocese, which came one month after a rare and nearly unanimous statement from U.S. Catholic bishops condemning the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign...
Other politically themed Nativity scenes have popped up around the country this Christmas season, including one at a church in Evanston, Ill., that includes a baby Jesus figure with his hands bound by zip ties. In another Nativity scene near Chicago, Mary, Joseph and Jesus are missing, with a sign telling viewers that “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”...
It's hard to understand why conservatives are so fanatically hungry for misery.
The beatings will continue until morale improves. Those who live in fear tend to keep their heads down and not rebel also. Until, of course, they don't. But it does fit in with the conservative vibe that in order to get the world that they want they have to intimidate everyone else into it.
That's just it though. For humans to reach French revolution levels of DGAF you have to be actually starving in the streets with absolutely nothing to live for so you may as well take a few of em with you on the way out. History is pretty rife with examples of how a few might step out (and usually get executed for their efforts) but for the population at large to rise up it really does take rock bottom. Hell, we can't even convince ours to not buy useless crap they don't need for a weekend.
I ran out of steam before I made the bed, so I just grabbed all the blankets and quilts from the dryer and put them on the bed and crawled into the nest and now I am hiding under the blankets with my tablet, and the cat is pouncing on top of me.
The Crew loves it when I sleep under a pile of warm "etc" straight from the dryer. But first they get excited and mayhem all over it first. With me inside it of course.
That’s why I put them all in the dryer, to warm them up and some of them are still warm. The cat that was pouncing a minute ago has settled down on top of the pile.
It would be nice if there was someway to toss a mattress into the dryer, but alas.
Last year for Christmas I got my folks this thing that looks like a hamper but plugs in and warms up—you can put it in the bathroom and have heated towels when you get out of the bath, heat your sleepwear, put it beside the bed and warm sheets or blankets all night…
You have a wood stove, you should look for one of those old-time bedwarmers that you shoveled hot coals into and then stuck under the bedding for a while to heat it up.
I’ve looked at some online, and they’re ridiculously expensive. But one of these days, I’ll go by the granite cutters shop, and get some scraps that will do the same thing.
A heating pad of the type you might lie on for a sore back can also serve as a bed warmer.
If you want something cheap and non-electric, you could try setting some bricks or patio pavers near the woodstove for a few hours. (ON the stove might make it insanely hot and difficult to handle.)
edit: Upon re-reading, maybe the latter is the same idea as the scraps from the granite-cutter's shop? The ember-heated bedwarmer that JC described that I'm familiar with is more like a metal-covered wok or frying pan with a long-ish wooden handle, such as:
Turds of a feather...
Yes, back in the 18th century when public hangings in England were an approved and daily thing, there was a lot less crime. Everybody knows this.
Was looking for a video on YouTube to lull me off to sleep, and the algorithm thought I would enjoy one about a widow on the western frontier who was trying to keep her children from starving and freezing to death, and now I am very awake. Let’s try this again.
I'm a tropical rain forest sounds person.
https://youtu.be/ubNfkpbxXUs
Have you added to your to do list?
The answer to that is complicated.
If you mean, based on the video, no. Talked to ex a few days ago he said he was running out of propane. I asked why he didn’t fill it in the summer or fall, and he said it wasn’t empty then. 🙄
I have a friend who said she’s really having trouble running out to the outhouse a couple of times a day. I was pestering her over the summer to do an upgrade, so that it’s enclosed, and she could put a heater on an extension cord in it, but she didn’t do it. She fell one year on her way out there, very pregnant. And now I’m telling her she needs to get a honey bucket.
I have another friend who is incarcerated down in Idaho who wants me to go by his storage unit and get some stuff shipped off to him. He had an ex-girlfriend who’s gotten pretty flaky managing that unit, and I can see so many ways that could go wrong, so I’m building some boundaries and safeguards into this.
I doubled my order of canned cat food, because we’re going through it faster now with the extra mouths to feed. But my pantry is full, and I’m pretty well set for fuel and necessities. But I’m finding my level of alertness is going up as the temperature goes down.
Is that what you were asking?
I was just making a silly joke about your alarm at the video and how it might affect a mind like yours.
The stories you're telling are some real-life ant and the grasshopper shit though. Where you live there are some real consequences to not being prepared. Here, if it doesn't get done today or tomorrow or next week it's no big deal and it's easy for me to have a laugh at your diligence.
I have a lot of respect for how you handle yourself. You deserve to know that.
I'll still rib you though.
𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗮, 𝗖𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲, 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/diets-rich-in-tea-coffee-berries-and-nuts-linked-to-better-long-term-heart-health/
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯-𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳-𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺-𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵.
𝘈 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘢 90-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳-𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵’𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 2001 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 50 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘥.
𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-campaign-finance-republican-spending-limits-0381e78b1e8a8da0e49f5b55b543894e
Ah of course.
At this point, I don't think it matters. But, the republicans want to win the mid-terms, so they think this will help them.
Me? America should be going in the OPPOSITE direction: NO corporate or PAC money allowed AT ALL. America is the only country like this ... this and the Electoral College is why our government can be bought so easily.
Totally agreed.
I guess America will have to endure its fascist takeover like Europe did before we learn our lesson.
Images of Dickens' England come to mind ...
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳-𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮'𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 “𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱” 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵, 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘥 20%, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺'𝘴 2025 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳. “𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴” 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵-𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴.
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗱𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗼𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗠𝗲’𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁
https://apnews.com/article/gofundme-crowdfunding-affordability-99fa9ee7434f1ba8c714aa53f9cf99b8
At least Cratchit only had to work one (1) slave labour job.
Now Cratchit would have to work for Scrooge, McDonald's and Walmart. And try to get SNAP.
And be ready to Morse Code commute whenever Scrooge felt like he needed him.
Without a VPN, even!
The roaming fees were more than 6 pence minute.
to be fair, that was because he could not work any more. Scrooge had him in there like 16 hours or some such
"That's leaves a whole eight hours for alternative income!"
But think of how much he saved by not having to commute between jobs,
He should've gone full Bartleby.
He just preferred not to.
What I could never understand was why Mrs. Bob did not work. Poor women worked even then- laundry, taking in sewing, fish gutting, whatever. I know Dickens was in another social class and sort of had a rose colored view of The Poor, but surely he knew that poor women worked.
Poor women have always worked.
Wasn't caretaking Tiny Tim a fulltime job. Guess I'll have to rewatch the Muppet's Christmas Carol and watch more closely this time.
Sophisticated machine learning will be required to keep up with the corruption, even as flagrant as it is...
𝗞𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
Paramount’s press release announcing the offer says that the $40 billion in equity financing will be “backstopped by Ellison Family and RedBird Capital.” The CEO of Paramount is David Ellison, the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the second-wealthiest person in the world...
What is not mentioned in the press release is that... the majority of the equity financing — $24 billion — comes from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar...Also participating in the deal is Affinity Partners, the private equity firm run by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner...
https://popular.info/p/kushner-and-saudis-back-hostile-takeover
That makes sense, that bunch wants to control all our information.
Ah. So the Hostile Takeover because it would be unfair just means that they want control of the thing
Koosh-Koosh advises the regime, the regime will wind up with its thumb on the scale, whoever is weighing the legalities...
I am sure they have measures in place for an impartial decision that will best represent the consumers' interests...
Try typing 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 with a straight face.
"May the fleas of 1,000 camels infest their crotches forever."
"May Allah strike mange into their genitals."
That's a mite agreeable sentiment.
You must really hate fleas.
Fleas, like Khorne, care not how the blood flows, so long as it does.
"The blood must flow."
-- Captain Mixer of Genres
(giggling)
Hey. It's honest work and the fleas enjoy the perks.
The fleas get ready access to the harems.
If some kind soul carpet-nuked Saudi Arabia, I'd only cry a little bit, briefly. I know this is wrong but I DGAF this morning. I'm sick of those vermin.
And people like Jar-Jar are so fucking stupid.
Jared makes Jar-Jar look like a Rhodes Scholar. And Jar-Jar was more fun in parties.
Yousa am correct.
(of course Jar Jar, as Darth Ept, was the only being to bring down a Galactic Republic by accident)
Darth Junior would bring down his entire sinuses.
And brag about it on xhitter.
Sophisticated machine learning will be required to keep up with the corruption, even as flagrant as it is...
𝗞𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
Paramount’s press release announcing the offer says that the $40 billion in equity financing will be “backstopped by Ellison Family and RedBird Capital.” The CEO of Paramount is David Ellison, the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the second-wealthiest person in the world...
What is not mentioned in the press release is that... the majority of the equity financing — $24 billion — comes from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar...Also participating in the deal is Affinity Partners, the private equity firm run by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner...
https://popular.info/p/kushner-and-saudis-back-hostile-takeover
𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲, 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀
Leaders of a Catholic church near Boston kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it.
The display, outside St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Mass., includes the traditional shepherds, sheep and wise men gathered around a hay-filled manger. But Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus are missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE” in bold blue letters.
“The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church,” adds a smaller note inside the Nativity scene, which is protected by a plastic shield. “If you see ICE please call LUCE.” The display includes a phone number for LUCE, an immigrant advocacy group, which tracks the activity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Massachusetts.
ICE began a major immigration enforcement campaign in the Boston area in September, the forefront of a wave of similar efforts in other major cities...
Some members and supporters of the Dedham parish said they were confused by the demand from the archdiocese, which came one month after a rare and nearly unanimous statement from U.S. Catholic bishops condemning the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign...
Other politically themed Nativity scenes have popped up around the country this Christmas season, including one at a church in Evanston, Ill., that includes a baby Jesus figure with his hands bound by zip ties. In another Nativity scene near Chicago, Mary, Joseph and Jesus are missing, with a sign telling viewers that “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/massachusetts-church-ice-nativity-scene.html
The Archdiocese of Boston: A Paragon of Truth and Christian Values
It's hard to understand why conservatives are so fanatically hungry for misery.
The beatings will continue until morale improves. Those who live in fear tend to keep their heads down and not rebel also. Until, of course, they don't. But it does fit in with the conservative vibe that in order to get the world that they want they have to intimidate everyone else into it.
Hunger is a very strong driving force. Just sayin'
That's just it though. For humans to reach French revolution levels of DGAF you have to be actually starving in the streets with absolutely nothing to live for so you may as well take a few of em with you on the way out. History is pretty rife with examples of how a few might step out (and usually get executed for their efforts) but for the population at large to rise up it really does take rock bottom. Hell, we can't even convince ours to not buy useless crap they don't need for a weekend.
The suffering of others is the only way they know how to "elevate" their own sense of status.
Daily Kaboom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs3PfTnkhCw
My day is complete! 🇺🇦
The Kaboomage of Satisfaction!
Good morning, and thanks to some Nyquil I've awakened late, so there. (coffees)
#Worldle #1418 (09.12.2025) 1/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 11 days
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Those countries all look the same to me (/s)
#Worldle #1418 (09.12.2025) 2/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 1 days
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But you made it there. Morning, LS.
𝘚𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪—𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘒𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪 𝘕𝘰𝘦𝘮, 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘥 𝘓𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 “𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘻𝘢𝘳” 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘋. 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴—𝘈𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘜𝘚 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 “𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴” 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘊𝘌𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬.
𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗽𝗽 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗹
ICEBlock creator sues to protect apps that are crowd-sourcing ICE sightings.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/iceblock-lawsuit-trump-admin-bragged-about-demanding-app-store-removal/
Gee, a lawless regime making "unlawful threats?" Say it ain't so!
"It's what they do!"
What could possibly go wrong?
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗖𝗙𝗧𝗖 [𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻] 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻, 𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗦𝗗𝗖 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗦 𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 — Acting Chair Caroline Pham has unveiled a first-of-its-kind U.S. program to permit tokenized collateral in derivatives markets, citing “clear guardrails” for firms.
https://archive.ph/9QvGd [Bloomberg]
Jesuit fracking crisco.
They just keep shooting torpedoes at the US economy ... all because they're greedy and they can.
And the GOP's in Congress are willing to put it all on a non-existent credit card.
The question now is which of these dumb things will be the kill shot to the US economy?
Gonna be a slow bleed out I'm afraid. But my guess is going to be on when the AI shit takes a nose dive and takes everyone's 401ks with it
It's definitely going to be a race to the finish.
There's nothing like a solid economic plan going forward. And this is definitely nothing like a solid economic plan.
Ah, but is it a Five-Year Plan?
sn00rk!
I ran out of steam before I made the bed, so I just grabbed all the blankets and quilts from the dryer and put them on the bed and crawled into the nest and now I am hiding under the blankets with my tablet, and the cat is pouncing on top of me.
Highly recommended.
The Crew loves it when I sleep under a pile of warm "etc" straight from the dryer. But first they get excited and mayhem all over it first. With me inside it of course.
This is the way.
Were the blankets still warm? I had a dream like that ... except kittens. Lots and lots of kittens.
That’s why I put them all in the dryer, to warm them up and some of them are still warm. The cat that was pouncing a minute ago has settled down on top of the pile.
It would be nice if there was someway to toss a mattress into the dryer, but alas.
Last year for Christmas I got my folks this thing that looks like a hamper but plugs in and warms up—you can put it in the bathroom and have heated towels when you get out of the bath, heat your sleepwear, put it beside the bed and warm sheets or blankets all night…
You have a wood stove, you should look for one of those old-time bedwarmers that you shoveled hot coals into and then stuck under the bedding for a while to heat it up.
I’ve looked at some online, and they’re ridiculously expensive. But one of these days, I’ll go by the granite cutters shop, and get some scraps that will do the same thing.
A heating pad of the type you might lie on for a sore back can also serve as a bed warmer.
If you want something cheap and non-electric, you could try setting some bricks or patio pavers near the woodstove for a few hours. (ON the stove might make it insanely hot and difficult to handle.)
edit: Upon re-reading, maybe the latter is the same idea as the scraps from the granite-cutter's shop? The ember-heated bedwarmer that JC described that I'm familiar with is more like a metal-covered wok or frying pan with a long-ish wooden handle, such as:
https://www.rosenberg-library-museum.org/treasures/17th-century-warming-pan
The electric heated mattress pad was the best investment I ever made in my (mostly) firewood heated house
You're gonna need a bigger dryer.
Hot water bottle?
It's still not law, fuckface. Even republicans don't want this crap.
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 “𝗮 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗥𝗨𝗟𝗘” 𝗘𝗢 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜 “𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸” 𝗮𝗻𝗱 “𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝟱𝟬 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴”
https://archive.ph/VS8uc [Bloomberg]
Looks like the AI tech-bros are sweating a wee bit. They need the consumers to buy their AI snake oil ...
David Sacks @DavidSacks [Donnie's "AI & Crypto Czar"]
𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 50 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘧 50 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳 1,200 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 100 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥.
This is called "tough shit"
https://xcancel.com/davidsacks/status/1998125180753944985
Pretty clear that what he wants is racist fascist AI
𝗘𝗢 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜
My brain just started singing "Old McTrumpy had a farm. EO, AI OH."
With a quack, quack here...
𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝟱𝟬 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴
Yeah you can, you big stupid idiot. e.g. health insurance.