JD Vance is hurtful to me and many others, so it is only fair that memes are hurtful to him. Odd how these extremely manly men can dish it out, but can't take even a meme about it.
As for the right-wing extremism question, did this guy not know that the only acceptable answer to that is "Hell, yes, I love that stuff." Nazi salute optional.
Just back from a trip to Europe. Europe was unimaginably crowded. Throngs of people everywhere I went. Everywhere. Sidewalks, museums, restaurants, tourist attractions.
But, the flight back to LA from London was at least a third empty. People don't want to come here. And I can't say as I blame them. Even I didn't want to come here. And I'm from here.
The photos of JD make him look like what I imagine a person suspected of being a pedophile looks like. We can't unsee this. Keep going and JD will not be palatable for president which is a good thing for many, many good reasons. A funny thing happened while doing communications work in the past couple years that has to do with suspect pedophiles and US Homeland Security. My employer was barred entry to the US, being suspected of being a pedophile.Part of my unusual job required me to find a forensic psychiatrist to do an evaluation of my employer that would be submitted directly to US homeland security. The process takes a long time, but what I noted is that if you have money to get the eval done, without specific "testing , by a USA government approved psychiatrist, a suspected person can be allowed entry into the USA again, if they pay money, a lot of money. Nothing is proven through this eval process. Seemed like a crony scam, that doesn't care to ID pedophiles and bar entry at all for security purposes. PS. I hated the job and finally left. Coming back full circle to JD memes looking like a pedophile, my past employer has this unfortunate look as well.
Had not thought to view the ICE total-overboardedness from the point of view of the lesson that every IT person learns about a Help Desk eventually.
"If you define performance metrics based on pure numbers, you incentivize behaviour that reflects ONLY those numbers, and nothing about quality of work" The best illustration I ever personally came across was in a large multi-national corp that had off-shored their help desk to a location which fell completely outside of normal US working hours. And gave them metrics on first call resolution and total closed tickets.
So the geniuses manning that Help Desk would wait until after hours, call the person reporting the ticket, get no answer, and immediately close the ticket with the comment "Could not reach customer to reproduce issue."
And they did that for MONTHS before it bubbled up enough that management finally changed the metrics.
"Mads Mikkelsen, a 21-year-old traveler from Norway — yes that is really his name:"
Actually, "Mads" appears to be a pretty common name in Norway. There's a well-known Norwegian (pronounced "Nor-wee-ghee-en" - surely you've seen "The Russians are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!") actor by that name. See Netflix.
When I lived in the States and my British husband lived, of course, in the UK, we would fly back and forth to be with each other whenever we could before and after we were married. Because he got much more time off than I did, he would most often come to see me, sometimes twice within a three-month period.
One time, I think it must have been in 2008 (because I remember we weren't married yet), he got to MSP and was approached by some fat little Border Patrol agent with an attitude and Chris was pulled out of the line with a stern "You're coming with me." Chris was confused—and says he was more than a bit humiliated by this treatment, which everyone in the arrivals hall witnessed. He was taken to a little room and questioned about his job, any previous drug use (smoked a little pot in the '70s), his reason for coming to the US so often (he said it was to visit me, but wanted to tell them, "To fuck my girlfriend's brains out"), all sorts of nonsensical things. They took his carry-on bag and his passport and disappeared. For the drug thing, this little fat bastard sneered at him, "You know, we can take a hair sample and determine whether or not you've done any drugs in the past three months!" My husband grabbed a fistfull of his own hair and handed him a good sampling (he sheds like a collie) and said, "Here, have at it."
He sat in that little interrogation room for over two hours—meanwhile, I was waiting for him to come through so we could make the two-hour journey home and getting more and more distraught. I'd ask officers who walked past what was going on, I was waiting for my fiance to come off the flight that had landed hours before and he wouldn't tell me a thing. I was afraid he'd missed his flight and, because I didn't have a cell phone at the time, there would have been no way to let me know.
Chris said that eventually, some other agent cheerily entered the room, gave him everything back, and chirped, "You're free to go, have a nice stay!"
The only reasons we could figure that this happened to him was because a) his frequent visits must certainly have meant he was smuggling something; b) he was always traveling alone, which must certainly have meant he was smuggling something; and c) he looks like a '70s porn star/old hippie and most certainly was smuggling drugs. In reality, he was a flood forecast engineer nerd who worked for the UK government, with two kids, and repaired guitars as a hobby. He was always leery about going back.
*Sorry for the long story, I can't help myself sometimes.
Lol, I was BORN to tell stories and, try as I might, they usually get mired in details. You have no idea how much I cut this down before I hit "post"! Sometimes my husband is like, "Can you just get to the point or shorten this up somehow?" and I say, no, because every detail is important, haha!
I think you need to respond to that foolishness by saying, “no and that reminds me of a story.” And then follow with rambling, detailed, circuitous embroidery, the point of which— and you do have one— is that details are crucial to the understanding. Embed pop quizzes in this saga, and then refer to it repeatedly over the next couple of days. And then three months later, bring it up again, and say, don’t you remember? When he doesn’t remember.
Same—well, the US citizen part, but I have permanent residency in the UK. I'm not going back until all those Nazi fucks are out. If they saw the memes on MY phone, I'd be jailed immediately. I'm not risking it, and the family I still talk to (and who still talk to me) know that I won't be back even if someone dies. I've thought about renouncing my US citizenship but WOW, that costs a lot of money for some reason. Hell, they'd get to keep my Social Security, that alone should be payment.
It must be so disheartening to have served in the USAF (for 20 fucking years, yet!) and see what's happened to the country.
Amazing the amount of damage our idiot President has caused in two terms. For instance, I don’t even think I fly to America without getting Real.ID, which is just another layer of horse shit dreamed up by Trump. I’ll look into it, but not waste much time with it. Funny thing, my German wife can get into the states on her German passport without any problems, but I can’t get in with just my American passport.
I haven't been back there since 2017 (when he hadn't had time to do too much damage yet) and, while I've heard and read about this Real ID thing, it hasn't been enough to know whether I'd need one coming in to the country as an ex-pat on my passport alone. Isn't it weird how Republicans are always screeching about wanting smaller government yet trump's maladministrations have done nothing but increase government bureaucracy and worked to make everything more complicated?
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei claimed victory over Israel on Thursday in his first public statement since a ceasefire was declared in the war between the two countries.
Khamenei hasn’t been seen in public since taking shelter in a secret location after the outbreak of the war June 13 when Israel attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and targeted top military commanders and scientists.
In his first comment posted on X, he offered his “congratulations on the victory” over Israel.
I’ve seen several kinda meme-y things in the last day or two here on Substack about an octopus that caused a flood in the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium (now the Save the Bay Aquarium). Kinda odd. I probably liked one. Or maybe it’s just going around.
Quick searching: it did happen. 2009. Contrary to the meme it isn’t known the octopus was trying to escape but it definitely did manipulate the valve at the top of its tank possibly after seeing staff do it and several hundred gallons of water did wind up on the floor overnight.
The things are so clearly quite bright. I wonder what it’s like for them living in captivity. People imagining it wanted out, this isn’t so hard to imagine.
One of my daughter's horses figured out how to open his stall door AND how to turn on the hose spigot early one morning. Flooded the barn. Barn owner was not happy.
Horse was outside the barn munching on grass when this was discovered, looking all "Who, me?"
JD Vance is hurtful to me and many others, so it is only fair that memes are hurtful to him. Odd how these extremely manly men can dish it out, but can't take even a meme about it.
As for the right-wing extremism question, did this guy not know that the only acceptable answer to that is "Hell, yes, I love that stuff." Nazi salute optional.
I always wonder why people from civilized places would ever want to visit the Republican-created hellscape we call the USA.
USA no. 39! USA no. 39!
They don't, actually.
Just back from a trip to Europe. Europe was unimaginably crowded. Throngs of people everywhere I went. Everywhere. Sidewalks, museums, restaurants, tourist attractions.
But, the flight back to LA from London was at least a third empty. People don't want to come here. And I can't say as I blame them. Even I didn't want to come here. And I'm from here.
Guessing old Sofa humper been frequenting that donut shop they stopped at.
The photos of JD make him look like what I imagine a person suspected of being a pedophile looks like. We can't unsee this. Keep going and JD will not be palatable for president which is a good thing for many, many good reasons. A funny thing happened while doing communications work in the past couple years that has to do with suspect pedophiles and US Homeland Security. My employer was barred entry to the US, being suspected of being a pedophile.Part of my unusual job required me to find a forensic psychiatrist to do an evaluation of my employer that would be submitted directly to US homeland security. The process takes a long time, but what I noted is that if you have money to get the eval done, without specific "testing , by a USA government approved psychiatrist, a suspected person can be allowed entry into the USA again, if they pay money, a lot of money. Nothing is proven through this eval process. Seemed like a crony scam, that doesn't care to ID pedophiles and bar entry at all for security purposes. PS. I hated the job and finally left. Coming back full circle to JD memes looking like a pedophile, my past employer has this unfortunate look as well.
The Face that Fucked a Thousand Couches.
Had not thought to view the ICE total-overboardedness from the point of view of the lesson that every IT person learns about a Help Desk eventually.
"If you define performance metrics based on pure numbers, you incentivize behaviour that reflects ONLY those numbers, and nothing about quality of work" The best illustration I ever personally came across was in a large multi-national corp that had off-shored their help desk to a location which fell completely outside of normal US working hours. And gave them metrics on first call resolution and total closed tickets.
So the geniuses manning that Help Desk would wait until after hours, call the person reporting the ticket, get no answer, and immediately close the ticket with the comment "Could not reach customer to reproduce issue."
And they did that for MONTHS before it bubbled up enough that management finally changed the metrics.
I like to stick with the classics, to wit: J. D. Vance is a ball of human butt hair.
... who "has sexual congress with" household furnishings
And barnyard animals.
Or so I've heard.
I thought he left congress for another job?
Nah. He just doesn't do the job. And that's hard to do for a VP, who basically only has the job of waiting around 'til the Pres dies.
Tom Tomorrow draws him in a bellhop uniform, which is one of my few remaining pleasures these days.
Vance looks like Batboy
https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.xQ-Jo5htm2fAVOuIZaCa7wHaF-&pid=Api&P=0&h=220
They haven't executed him yet?
"Mads Mikkelsen, a 21-year-old traveler from Norway — yes that is really his name:"
Actually, "Mads" appears to be a pretty common name in Norway. There's a well-known Norwegian (pronounced "Nor-wee-ghee-en" - surely you've seen "The Russians are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!") actor by that name. See Netflix.
When I lived in the States and my British husband lived, of course, in the UK, we would fly back and forth to be with each other whenever we could before and after we were married. Because he got much more time off than I did, he would most often come to see me, sometimes twice within a three-month period.
One time, I think it must have been in 2008 (because I remember we weren't married yet), he got to MSP and was approached by some fat little Border Patrol agent with an attitude and Chris was pulled out of the line with a stern "You're coming with me." Chris was confused—and says he was more than a bit humiliated by this treatment, which everyone in the arrivals hall witnessed. He was taken to a little room and questioned about his job, any previous drug use (smoked a little pot in the '70s), his reason for coming to the US so often (he said it was to visit me, but wanted to tell them, "To fuck my girlfriend's brains out"), all sorts of nonsensical things. They took his carry-on bag and his passport and disappeared. For the drug thing, this little fat bastard sneered at him, "You know, we can take a hair sample and determine whether or not you've done any drugs in the past three months!" My husband grabbed a fistfull of his own hair and handed him a good sampling (he sheds like a collie) and said, "Here, have at it."
He sat in that little interrogation room for over two hours—meanwhile, I was waiting for him to come through so we could make the two-hour journey home and getting more and more distraught. I'd ask officers who walked past what was going on, I was waiting for my fiance to come off the flight that had landed hours before and he wouldn't tell me a thing. I was afraid he'd missed his flight and, because I didn't have a cell phone at the time, there would have been no way to let me know.
Chris said that eventually, some other agent cheerily entered the room, gave him everything back, and chirped, "You're free to go, have a nice stay!"
The only reasons we could figure that this happened to him was because a) his frequent visits must certainly have meant he was smuggling something; b) he was always traveling alone, which must certainly have meant he was smuggling something; and c) he looks like a '70s porn star/old hippie and most certainly was smuggling drugs. In reality, he was a flood forecast engineer nerd who worked for the UK government, with two kids, and repaired guitars as a hobby. He was always leery about going back.
*Sorry for the long story, I can't help myself sometimes.
[reads first paragraph, thinks, “oh goody, a story!”, sighs contentedly]
The the shed’s hair like a collie part was good. Wishes he had said, “Some jobs you just can’t outsource or leave to amateurs,“ but I’ll get over it.
Lol, I was BORN to tell stories and, try as I might, they usually get mired in details. You have no idea how much I cut this down before I hit "post"! Sometimes my husband is like, "Can you just get to the point or shorten this up somehow?" and I say, no, because every detail is important, haha!
I think you need to respond to that foolishness by saying, “no and that reminds me of a story.” And then follow with rambling, detailed, circuitous embroidery, the point of which— and you do have one— is that details are crucial to the understanding. Embed pop quizzes in this saga, and then refer to it repeatedly over the next couple of days. And then three months later, bring it up again, and say, don’t you remember? When he doesn’t remember.
Death by details.
Omg, the poor guy and the pop quizzes he DOES get, lol! If I get to rambling too much, though, I then become my dad and that ain't gonna happen!
Now that I think of it, I may come by this naturally...
I'm a US citizen and I won't go back. I have a permanent living agreement (aufenthaltsgenehmigung) in Germany.
Twenty years active duty as a USAF flyboy and ten more as a GS type.
Fuck them. Not even going to try.
Same—well, the US citizen part, but I have permanent residency in the UK. I'm not going back until all those Nazi fucks are out. If they saw the memes on MY phone, I'd be jailed immediately. I'm not risking it, and the family I still talk to (and who still talk to me) know that I won't be back even if someone dies. I've thought about renouncing my US citizenship but WOW, that costs a lot of money for some reason. Hell, they'd get to keep my Social Security, that alone should be payment.
It must be so disheartening to have served in the USAF (for 20 fucking years, yet!) and see what's happened to the country.
Amazing the amount of damage our idiot President has caused in two terms. For instance, I don’t even think I fly to America without getting Real.ID, which is just another layer of horse shit dreamed up by Trump. I’ll look into it, but not waste much time with it. Funny thing, my German wife can get into the states on her German passport without any problems, but I can’t get in with just my American passport.
Meh, fuck them.
I haven't been back there since 2017 (when he hadn't had time to do too much damage yet) and, while I've heard and read about this Real ID thing, it hasn't been enough to know whether I'd need one coming in to the country as an ex-pat on my passport alone. Isn't it weird how Republicans are always screeching about wanting smaller government yet trump's maladministrations have done nothing but increase government bureaucracy and worked to make everything more complicated?
I'd like to be a TV weatherman, but just a guy who comes in the next day to complain.
Electrek: Tesla releases details about ‘Robotaxi’ [Austin] launch: there’s a ‘safety monitor’ in front seat [https://electrek.co/2025/06/20/tesla-releases-details-robotaxi-launch-safety-monitor-front-seat/]
The "safety monitor" in my car is me, the "driver".
Careful, you may be subject to a patent infringement lawsuit.
Elno's a geeenyus!
That's not how you spell "dickhead."
Oh that's how it's pronounced. The Y is silent.
....so....what is the point of having self driving cars /if you still need a person in the front to ensure safety?
I mean
All the hallmarks of the self-licking ice cream cone.
These are Elno Skum's self-driving cars. (Waymo stopped using/needing safety monitors after what they called"testing". )
Having a safety monitor onboard might've saved some of them from immolation in Los Angeles, though.
Oh good. What could possibly go wrong?
Khamenei has claimed "victory" over Israel. How long before that "ceasefire" is history?
𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥-𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐫
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei claimed victory over Israel on Thursday in his first public statement since a ceasefire was declared in the war between the two countries.
Khamenei hasn’t been seen in public since taking shelter in a secret location after the outbreak of the war June 13 when Israel attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and targeted top military commanders and scientists.
In his first comment posted on X, he offered his “congratulations on the victory” over Israel.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-war-nuclear-06-26-2025-d09bf2282deea3b2edd63f29c867c058
Nobody to cheer for here.
Not cheer, precisely, but Netanyahu deserves all the chaff he gets.
Is he delusional much? OK, I know the answer.
Everybody's doing it!
How long before that "ceasefire" is history
again
He should describe it as tfg putting Bibi in his place. Because fuck all three of them.
Yeah, no good guys to be found in this story.
I’ve seen several kinda meme-y things in the last day or two here on Substack about an octopus that caused a flood in the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium (now the Save the Bay Aquarium). Kinda odd. I probably liked one. Or maybe it’s just going around.
Quick searching: it did happen. 2009. Contrary to the meme it isn’t known the octopus was trying to escape but it definitely did manipulate the valve at the top of its tank possibly after seeing staff do it and several hundred gallons of water did wind up on the floor overnight.
The things are so clearly quite bright. I wonder what it’s like for them living in captivity. People imagining it wanted out, this isn’t so hard to imagine.
Jellyfish just wanna go to heaven, which apparently is a lot like L.A.
https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube.com+dead+milkmen+jellyfish+heaven&rlz=1CAMKOE_enUS1048&oq=youtube.com+dead+milkmen+jellyfish+heaven&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRigATIHCAYQIRiPAtIBCTE4MzM2ajBqN6gCCLACAfEFqRZ6prd_Niw&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:94fe0b45,vid:8PtW0bNYQ70,st:0
Sometime animals can get a little adventurous..
One of my daughter's horses figured out how to open his stall door AND how to turn on the hose spigot early one morning. Flooded the barn. Barn owner was not happy.
Horse was outside the barn munching on grass when this was discovered, looking all "Who, me?"
Yeah, there's a long history of octopus trouble out West. You might check the 1955 documentary film It Came From Beneath The Sea.
Snopes: Unwrapping In-N-Out Burger sign promising free food for ICE officers [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-sign-free-food-in-n-out-burger/]
tl/dr: It's fake
That sign is about as believable as Kilmar Abrego Garcia's MS13 "tattoo". It ain't us who keep falling for this shit!
Free Botulism Here!
What cracks me up is some conservative started it, because ICE DON'T WEAR UNIFORMS.
Yeah, but sometimes you can identify them by their masks.