I didn't know they looked like that. I don't know what I thought...maybe I didn't. Anyway, I've learned a New Thing today; I hope I can remember it. Thanks. They are not fluffy, but they're still kind of cute.
Starfish kinda impress me and unnerve me at the same time, in an aliens among us way. Various time lapses I’ve seen of them over the years, my reaction is always a bit cool/yikes. It’s kinda wild, like something from some science fiction plot, their peculiar means of locomotion, and this whole world existing on its own very different time scale.
Stinky is having one of his Cabinet suck-up roundtables.
Here's one from Beardo Couchfucker:
"Vice President JD Vance: “Obviously, the president of the United States, a New York real estate billionaire, one of the most famous New Yorkers in the world, has a lot of interaction with a lot of people who are very pro-Israel. I think that was an important set of experiences, life experiences, that he brought to the table. He also knew one of the most famous Palestinians in the world: Chuck Schumer.” [Laughter]" [HuffPost]
Now that’s what I call fascism. Volume 3. Same playlist, just louder sirens.
We’ve got governors under threat, academics chased from campuses, and ICE doing influencer cosplay for the regime. Somewhere, Mussolini’s ghost is taking notes and saying, “bit on the nose, don’t you think?”
They’ve traded the Constitution for a content calendar.
and trans athletes are the worst problem we have. I watch a couple of young guys on Instagram taking on MAGA people, the things those people think are astounding.
I had to evacuate from the Palisades Fire. Luckily, we were okay and the firefighters managed to stop the blaze from coming down a canyon and into my neighborhood. I thank firefighters every time I see them, now. Flames were coming down that ridge and into our canyon, but they were able to make a fire break.
I know a lot of people who were not so lucky.
I hope they throw the book at the guy who set it. 5-25 years isn’t enough. He killed twelve people.
Re the tab about air travel: Y'all are making me scared to travel. And I have to put my son on a plane Friday, so he can spend fall break from school with his dad who lives in another state, per the custody agreement. I'm already nervous as he's flying Southwest, and they don't allow children above the age of 11 to fly "unaccompanied" and he just turned 12, so I fly with him or he flies alone. And his dad bought the tickets without consulting me about how I wanted him to fly (something I'm mad at him about) and so he's flying alone. I've already told his dad that if the airline doesn't give me a gate pass so I can at least go with him to the gate and make sure he gets on the right plane, he's not going. And I hope I can talk some employee of the airline into making sure he gets to the right seat, as I'm not sure he can do that on his own. You see, he's autistic, and while high functioning, does tend to live in his own world and can be oblivious to what's going on around him. He's also ADHD, which means his maturity level is a couple years below his chronological age. All that means even though I've tried to teach him how to navigate through an airport and find the correct flight and seat, and he's familiar with this airport, I don't have any confidence he can do any of that alone. Hence why I'm mad at his dad just assuming he can fly solo just fine. And I'm mad at Southwest for such an asinine policy. My local library won't let 12 year old children be in the children's department without adult supervision! What is Southwest thinking that 12 year old children are old enough to wander around an airport by themselves unsupervised? WTF Southwest? I really don't know what they're thinking.
This maybe too late but when our daughter had to navigate LAX once own, I wrote and recorded an audio of step-by-step instructions from entry to her seat. She said it really helped calm her.
My family is going to Vegas in a couple of weeks and I sent them this article from the AP with advise for air travel during the Shutdown. Maybe it will help you too.
I've had positive experiences with the gate pass, when my daughter was under 18. You just need to go the airline counter outside security when you get there. If you're checking luggage, you can ask for it there. Then you're allowed through security, but you are screened as any other passenger so expect that.
I wish I had some comforting words. I’m sorry you’re in this situation; it sounds really rough, and I hope everything works out ok for your son’s travels. All the best.
It seems every week or so some "megachurch" gets in the news because it's founder was diddling minors, or cruising around in their own private jet or holding church members as slaves. I can't help but think that such egregious behavior brands that "church" as less a religious organization and more a commercial enterprise or even a racketeer influenced criminal organization. So I think they should be disbanded. parts sold off to compensate any victims, and the founds barred from being involved with any other religious operation,
Back in the 60s, my cousins were involved in a commune out in the desert east of LA. They set themselves up as a church, not because of any deep faith, but because of the tax advantages. I think of that often when megachurches - OR SHOULD I SAY MAGA CHURCHES - come up in the news.
Kinda like the Neo-American Church. Same idea but they had the Boo-Hoo Bible and their holy sacrament was taking LSD and listening to music while watching TV with the sound down. Groovy!
"I don’t know, I feel like enslaving 57 people as your personal servants means you are a bad Christian . . ." Have you even read your bible? Slavery is a time-honored tradition for the good Christian, heritage even. The man was trying to get back to his OT biblical roots, exercising his freedom of religion, and the government came in and violated his First Amendment rights. What happened to separation of church and state?
Remember when Trump ran a vitamin concern, where customers sent a urine sample to his lab to be analyzed, so a custom regimen of vitamins coule be administered? Yeah. How'd that turn out?
Not all babies are fluffy. But these starfish are in a quite interesting phase of development. Find out more here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/the-brachiolaria-dance
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/6b4a29d1-6309-422f-8d50-ad52ff5772cc?utm_source=share
"Mr. Mulder, they've been here for a long time. A very long time indeed." - X-Files
would not have guessed starfish. Wonkette: once again, edumacational!
And here I thought it was a cluster of sperm attacking some poorly-located broken croutons.
You can't fool me. I know hot steamy plankton porn when I see it.
I need a cigarette now.
Must be anime. Look at all those tentacles!
I didn't know they looked like that. I don't know what I thought...maybe I didn't. Anyway, I've learned a New Thing today; I hope I can remember it. Thanks. They are not fluffy, but they're still kind of cute.
Very disappointed in your kitten of the morning post.
These do not look at all like kittens, and could certainly NOT be described as cute, fluffy, or precious. I'd like to talk to the manager.
The one on the right is kinda handsy.
Almost as bad as an octopus Lothario.
Nope. Those are babby triffids.
It was either Planktonic starfish larva, or invading transdimensional alien hunter-killers here to enslave us all! One of those.
I just guessed wrong this time.
From 2 years ago:
__________________________
I'm an eldritch gigolo
And everywhere I go
Part of me’s in another reality
I have a lot of fun
Sanity? I got none
Ohh, squamous entity!
There will come a day
When I will pass away
Devoured by a Byakhee
When the end comes I know
That I was just a gigolo
My soul will go on without me (maybe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzdIaBnckg&list=RDnFzdIaBnckg&start_radio=1
(sorry... couldn't resist... The whole musical is out of this world, in my not so humble opinion).
Also, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKTFaaF4T7Y
LMAO
Glad you liked it :p
And now, a classic earworm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut82TDjciSg
I'm stopping now. Promise.
Starfish kinda impress me and unnerve me at the same time, in an aliens among us way. Various time lapses I’ve seen of them over the years, my reaction is always a bit cool/yikes. It’s kinda wild, like something from some science fiction plot, their peculiar means of locomotion, and this whole world existing on its own very different time scale.
https://youtu.be/HG17TsgV_qI
I had no idea what these were. Can I make a dick joke, because the one one on the right looks sorta like one wild and crazy guy!
Like my toddler grandkids when I dial up Bertha or Eyes of the World.
The Wiggly Worm!
"Come here often?"
Patrick babies!
Can you imagine Patrick looking like that as a baby?
Cute little eldritch horrors!
Floating Spaghetti Monsters!
Ramen!
Starfish babbies shine bright!
Whatever those creatures in the header gif are doing, it looks dirty.
That must be how Republicans see the entire world.
For some reason I got a fundraising email from Turning Point USA, from their COO. Part of this message, before the moneybeg was this:
"So, here’s my ask...
Go to church for Charlie.
Start a family for Charlie.
Join a chapter or coalition for Charlie.
Register to vote for Charlie.
Chase votes for Charlie.
Run for office for Charlie."
"Start a family for Charlie"--particularly weird.
Get a mental picture of Charlie in your head and try to start a family.
Stinky is having one of his Cabinet suck-up roundtables.
Here's one from Beardo Couchfucker:
"Vice President JD Vance: “Obviously, the president of the United States, a New York real estate billionaire, one of the most famous New Yorkers in the world, has a lot of interaction with a lot of people who are very pro-Israel. I think that was an important set of experiences, life experiences, that he brought to the table. He also knew one of the most famous Palestinians in the world: Chuck Schumer.” [Laughter]" [HuffPost]
Way to go Henry Ford Hospital.
Gotta have my Tab's and Coffee in the Morning ☕💯👍
Now that’s what I call fascism. Volume 3. Same playlist, just louder sirens.
We’ve got governors under threat, academics chased from campuses, and ICE doing influencer cosplay for the regime. Somewhere, Mussolini’s ghost is taking notes and saying, “bit on the nose, don’t you think?”
They’ve traded the Constitution for a content calendar.
and trans athletes are the worst problem we have. I watch a couple of young guys on Instagram taking on MAGA people, the things those people think are astounding.
I had to evacuate from the Palisades Fire. Luckily, we were okay and the firefighters managed to stop the blaze from coming down a canyon and into my neighborhood. I thank firefighters every time I see them, now. Flames were coming down that ridge and into our canyon, but they were able to make a fire break.
I know a lot of people who were not so lucky.
I hope they throw the book at the guy who set it. 5-25 years isn’t enough. He killed twelve people.
That was the thing that surprised me. That wasn’t involuntary manslaughter that was premeditated
They only charged the guy with the arson so far, and that is mind boggling to me.
Re the tab about air travel: Y'all are making me scared to travel. And I have to put my son on a plane Friday, so he can spend fall break from school with his dad who lives in another state, per the custody agreement. I'm already nervous as he's flying Southwest, and they don't allow children above the age of 11 to fly "unaccompanied" and he just turned 12, so I fly with him or he flies alone. And his dad bought the tickets without consulting me about how I wanted him to fly (something I'm mad at him about) and so he's flying alone. I've already told his dad that if the airline doesn't give me a gate pass so I can at least go with him to the gate and make sure he gets on the right plane, he's not going. And I hope I can talk some employee of the airline into making sure he gets to the right seat, as I'm not sure he can do that on his own. You see, he's autistic, and while high functioning, does tend to live in his own world and can be oblivious to what's going on around him. He's also ADHD, which means his maturity level is a couple years below his chronological age. All that means even though I've tried to teach him how to navigate through an airport and find the correct flight and seat, and he's familiar with this airport, I don't have any confidence he can do any of that alone. Hence why I'm mad at his dad just assuming he can fly solo just fine. And I'm mad at Southwest for such an asinine policy. My local library won't let 12 year old children be in the children's department without adult supervision! What is Southwest thinking that 12 year old children are old enough to wander around an airport by themselves unsupervised? WTF Southwest? I really don't know what they're thinking.
This maybe too late but when our daughter had to navigate LAX once own, I wrote and recorded an audio of step-by-step instructions from entry to her seat. She said it really helped calm her.
My family is going to Vegas in a couple of weeks and I sent them this article from the AP with advise for air travel during the Shutdown. Maybe it will help you too.
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-travel-delays-canceled-flights-38bd3f9d066b064b5f2aa248864fe13b
I've had positive experiences with the gate pass, when my daughter was under 18. You just need to go the airline counter outside security when you get there. If you're checking luggage, you can ask for it there. Then you're allowed through security, but you are screened as any other passenger so expect that.
I wish I had some comforting words. I’m sorry you’re in this situation; it sounds really rough, and I hope everything works out ok for your son’s travels. All the best.
Thank you.
Every morning I go to wonkette just to renew my faith in humanity
And LAUGH at fascists!!! Thanks
It seems every week or so some "megachurch" gets in the news because it's founder was diddling minors, or cruising around in their own private jet or holding church members as slaves. I can't help but think that such egregious behavior brands that "church" as less a religious organization and more a commercial enterprise or even a racketeer influenced criminal organization. So I think they should be disbanded. parts sold off to compensate any victims, and the founds barred from being involved with any other religious operation,
Back in the 60s, my cousins were involved in a commune out in the desert east of LA. They set themselves up as a church, not because of any deep faith, but because of the tax advantages. I think of that often when megachurches - OR SHOULD I SAY MAGA CHURCHES - come up in the news.
Kinda like the Neo-American Church. Same idea but they had the Boo-Hoo Bible and their holy sacrament was taking LSD and listening to music while watching TV with the sound down. Groovy!
MAGA church --nice !!
Whoops, fixed, a bit late, the link to "everything is horrible"
Broken link to "everything is horrible?" Definitive proof that everything is horrible.
"I don’t know, I feel like enslaving 57 people as your personal servants means you are a bad Christian . . ." Have you even read your bible? Slavery is a time-honored tradition for the good Christian, heritage even. The man was trying to get back to his OT biblical roots, exercising his freedom of religion, and the government came in and violated his First Amendment rights. What happened to separation of church and state?
When the legacy of Henry Ford is the normal party in a lawsuit...
Yes. We have strayed that far.
Remember when Trump ran a vitamin concern, where customers sent a urine sample to his lab to be analyzed, so a custom regimen of vitamins coule be administered? Yeah. How'd that turn out?
That adds some layers to the pee tape!
I don’t know. Subsidizing a slaver church seems not worth it. Look at that big house!