I guess Nancy Pelosi's behind-the-scenes counsel to Swalwell (“If you have a challenge that you have to address, it’s best addressed not as a candidate for governor and not as a member of Congress.”) is the kind of thing a long-time lawyer might say to client, but where is the outrage at his conduct, or the concern for his putative victims?
But it sure sounds like her only thoughts are political damage control ones. Maybe it's not a reflection on her so much as a reflection of the apparent fact that Congress remains a very retro, crappy environment for women.
ZERO Republicans get to whine about what these creeps are doing until they get a fucking spine and oust the rapist in the White House. The gall of Sen Kennedy and Rep Jordan to get in front of cameras and complain about sex pests on the Dems side. GAH
For the life of me, as a man, I will never understand what possesses these guys to do things like this. What pleasure can there be in forcing a woman into sex, and why in the world would they throw away their lives for one foolish act?
Another question, why do the victims wait so long to come forward? If you are the victim you need to report it to police IMMEDIATELY, not years later when all physical evidence is gone. Without the physical evidence, your case is much weaker and it becomes "he said she said" Your truthful account of the incident can easily be brought into question. It also might be a good idea to seek legal counsel yourself, to be certain you are on firm ground
Hmm. Somebody's hoarder room had a modem phone jack set that was recalled and yanked in the late 1990s because it interfered with amateur radio. BRAND NEW. Not sold in stores.
Am I a bad person for thinking a device that interferes with HAM radio is a selling point, and not a bug? Hey, it's a collectible! Come the Apocalypse, that neighbor being all snooty for being connected to the world via ham radio will be cut off, unless they cough up the canned beans.
I asked for an invasion plan for Cuba and this is what grok gave me. I was too drunk to notice the difference.-Hegseth after getting caught with CSAM on his computer
So yesterday I went out to do A Thing that needed doing and it was...off. Like usually the things we do are marked "do this thing!" with bright flagging tape. This one was not.
Ok...maybe they did not get around to it yet? Our GIS files clearly show this is the thing to be done?
Then I found flagging going...another way....er.
Called in to ask and a bit later supe was all...they changed it and never updated their files (or, indeed, told us there was a change).
So in 88 degree (in APRIL!) weather I was out there digging holes that did not need to be dug.
The moral of the story: update your fucking GIS files you fuckers
My experience has been that GIS updaters and their ilk in other industries aren't really all that concerned if they're not the ones that have to dig the holes.
While true, because of all the cut backs, the field people ARE the GIS people also XD Like for us, it is me and supe. Only I do not like how she does it so I always just quietly do my own (she always leaves off the road layer. How the fuck am I supposed to find shit without knowing what road to take? zomg).
We are also our own administrative staff and we make thousands of Julienne fries
I know people who use the GPS in the car to direct them to nearby places they've already been to hundreds of times, which require no more than 3 turns at easily-identified intersections. Naturally they'll use it to tell them how to get to any new place, hand-entering latitude and longitude if they must. They have no need for, and no apparent interest in, roadmaps of any other kind.
Well, I am officially without a sense of smell. On a good note, it means I won't be awakened by a smelly cat poo for a few weeks, yay. The bad note is that nothing tastes like it could or should. My sweet potato fries (I have five big bags in the freezer) are AWFUL and just taste like fibrous nothings. Going to have to get some catsup for them. My eggs on sourdough are still pretty good. Cheese is...lonely, but grapes are still refreshing. Bananas are shells of their former selves.
Last time it seems like this lasted like 3 months and had a very slow return. Most people get it back though. The fatigue stage seems over, which should be helpful with work. Looking back I can see how foggy I was last week. I thought I was just smoking too much pot, LOL. Friday was especially difficult concentrating.
Still no sign of my tax return. Plan on calling in today. I got the missing money from my mortgage back this week so I am paying that off. I should find out if my April payment got lost, too, in the next few days. I worked out a system where I can just mail the checks through my bank anyway. That's better than using a third party service.
The only one time I know for sure I had Covid, I did not get the loss of smell thingy. I did, however, have loss of smell when I got a mild concussion from accidentally banging my head on the open wall oven door while rough-housing with the dog. It took nearly a year to get some level of smell back. I need to drop my 10lbs of winter weight gain, but I don't think ramming my head into the oven door in hopes of smell loss is a good way to do it!
That's why I thought essentially telling the Pope to stick to sports was stupid. But JD has moved on from not understanding the Pope's job to thinking he knows scripture better than the Pope, which is an odd thing for most of us to say, and even more so for someone who calls themselves Catholic.
...The highly unusual decision to visit the Fed underscored Ms. Pirro’s intention to aggressively pursue her investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair. Mr. Powell has been targeted by President Trump, who has blasted the chair for refusing to slash interest rates far below where they stand today.
Mr. Trump’s push to investigate Mr. Powell, who has fiercely defended the Fed’s independence, appears to be colliding with the reality that the Pirro-led investigation imperils chances of quickly confirming a successor when Mr. Powell’s term ends on May 15.
On Tuesday, the Senate Banking Committee announced it would hold a confirmation hearing next week for Kevin M. Warsh, Mr. Trump’s pick to replace Mr. Powell. The hearing will proceed despite the fact that a key Republican on the committee, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, has said he will not advance Mr. Warsh unless the Justice Department drops the Powell investigation...
Yeah. But also, aside from all of it being owned by 5 billionaires, too many of the reporters who remain are chasing that 'brought down Nixon' feeling, and without Fox's cooperation, that's just not happening.
I think the chances that the rumors Gallego heard about Swalwell consisted of "he's flirty" are infinitesmal.
I guess Nancy Pelosi's behind-the-scenes counsel to Swalwell (“If you have a challenge that you have to address, it’s best addressed not as a candidate for governor and not as a member of Congress.”) is the kind of thing a long-time lawyer might say to client, but where is the outrage at his conduct, or the concern for his putative victims?
But it sure sounds like her only thoughts are political damage control ones. Maybe it's not a reflection on her so much as a reflection of the apparent fact that Congress remains a very retro, crappy environment for women.
ZERO Republicans get to whine about what these creeps are doing until they get a fucking spine and oust the rapist in the White House. The gall of Sen Kennedy and Rep Jordan to get in front of cameras and complain about sex pests on the Dems side. GAH
Is it virtue signaling when it makes you look even sleazier, Mike Johnson and the House Republicans?
For the life of me, as a man, I will never understand what possesses these guys to do things like this. What pleasure can there be in forcing a woman into sex, and why in the world would they throw away their lives for one foolish act?
Another question, why do the victims wait so long to come forward? If you are the victim you need to report it to police IMMEDIATELY, not years later when all physical evidence is gone. Without the physical evidence, your case is much weaker and it becomes "he said she said" Your truthful account of the incident can easily be brought into question. It also might be a good idea to seek legal counsel yourself, to be certain you are on firm ground
Tabs ahoy!
“𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.”
[𝘝𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘺 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘉.] 𝘌𝘥𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 “𝘕𝘰 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴” 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯.
𝗔𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆: 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁
https://www.alternet.org/no-kings-protests-youth/
There's been a lot of these bromide-peddling fucks sneering at and downplaying the NK protests, haven't there?
He might consider actually showing up at a a protest...
Risible buffoon.
What, and step outside their wealthy media bubble? Rub shoulders with the hoi polloi?
You know these people never leave their home offices when they go in search of the true American experience.
Unless it's to a deli with a complicated menu.
or an airport cafe with $75 burgers and unlimited Scotch...
you make me lol
Ah.
Getting worried about the numbers so let us make it an AGE thing.
At our no kings there were LOTS of youngs including my spawn. So fuck them
Oh no, OLD PEOPLE!
Someone has to teach the youngs how to roll a joint (cough!) I mean make a sign.
Colorado has a LOT of republicans, dipshit.
𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗘𝗠𝗔 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/white-house-denies-fema-relief-for-colorado/
Hmm. Somebody's hoarder room had a modem phone jack set that was recalled and yanked in the late 1990s because it interfered with amateur radio. BRAND NEW. Not sold in stores.
Am I a bad person for thinking a device that interferes with HAM radio is a selling point, and not a bug? Hey, it's a collectible! Come the Apocalypse, that neighbor being all snooty for being connected to the world via ham radio will be cut off, unless they cough up the canned beans.
Well, now we know what our Defense employees are doing all day ...
𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸’𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸 𝗜𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝘅𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/musks-grok-is-still-generating-sexualized-deepfakes/
...
𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧: 𝗨𝗦 𝗜𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗽 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗯𝗮 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/report-us-is-ramping-up-plans-for-cuba-operations/
I asked for an invasion plan for Cuba and this is what grok gave me. I was too drunk to notice the difference.-Hegseth after getting caught with CSAM on his computer
Not doom related: Digging extra holes edition
So yesterday I went out to do A Thing that needed doing and it was...off. Like usually the things we do are marked "do this thing!" with bright flagging tape. This one was not.
Ok...maybe they did not get around to it yet? Our GIS files clearly show this is the thing to be done?
Then I found flagging going...another way....er.
Called in to ask and a bit later supe was all...they changed it and never updated their files (or, indeed, told us there was a change).
So in 88 degree (in APRIL!) weather I was out there digging holes that did not need to be dug.
The moral of the story: update your fucking GIS files you fuckers
I'm digging a hole where the flags hadn't been
It stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go
I'm searching for seams that were not there before
And kept my mind from wandering
Where it will go
Do you know the song "Hole in the Ground" by Bernard Cribbins? You. might appreciate it
That was my personal favorite thing in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD!
"Hmmm, 3 people, 16 hours and a buttload of material squandered on a job that you knew was off last week..."
It's working on my blood pressure even after all this time, vicariously
"Meh. Dig here, dig there, it all pays the same."
My experience has been that GIS updaters and their ilk in other industries aren't really all that concerned if they're not the ones that have to dig the holes.
While true, because of all the cut backs, the field people ARE the GIS people also XD Like for us, it is me and supe. Only I do not like how she does it so I always just quietly do my own (she always leaves off the road layer. How the fuck am I supposed to find shit without knowing what road to take? zomg).
We are also our own administrative staff and we make thousands of Julienne fries
I know people who use the GPS in the car to direct them to nearby places they've already been to hundreds of times, which require no more than 3 turns at easily-identified intersections. Naturally they'll use it to tell them how to get to any new place, hand-entering latitude and longitude if they must. They have no need for, and no apparent interest in, roadmaps of any other kind.
Birb needs sleeps again. Woke up too early.
🛌🛌🛌🦜🦜🦜
Gotta put a towel over your cage at night. Blocks out the light.
*never owned a bird, just remember seeing that on TV once*
A thanke, nice fren. 🛌🏼
Well, I am officially without a sense of smell. On a good note, it means I won't be awakened by a smelly cat poo for a few weeks, yay. The bad note is that nothing tastes like it could or should. My sweet potato fries (I have five big bags in the freezer) are AWFUL and just taste like fibrous nothings. Going to have to get some catsup for them. My eggs on sourdough are still pretty good. Cheese is...lonely, but grapes are still refreshing. Bananas are shells of their former selves.
Last time it seems like this lasted like 3 months and had a very slow return. Most people get it back though. The fatigue stage seems over, which should be helpful with work. Looking back I can see how foggy I was last week. I thought I was just smoking too much pot, LOL. Friday was especially difficult concentrating.
Still no sign of my tax return. Plan on calling in today. I got the missing money from my mortgage back this week so I am paying that off. I should find out if my April payment got lost, too, in the next few days. I worked out a system where I can just mail the checks through my bank anyway. That's better than using a third party service.
The only one time I know for sure I had Covid, I did not get the loss of smell thingy. I did, however, have loss of smell when I got a mild concussion from accidentally banging my head on the open wall oven door while rough-housing with the dog. It took nearly a year to get some level of smell back. I need to drop my 10lbs of winter weight gain, but I don't think ramming my head into the oven door in hopes of smell loss is a good way to do it!
This sounds like Covid? Or something else?
Hoping for a quick recovery regardless.
Yeah, I got covid.
The taste of food s over rated.
Food is like the one thing I have everyday that brings me joy, maybe even more joy than my pets. It's pretty awful being without my dinner.
I shoulda added the /s. I'm sorry you're having a problem with tasting food and that you get it back real soon
.
I'll live. I could stand to lose a few pounds or 40.
Ha!
https://bsky.app/profile/jbraden2008.bsky.social/post/3mjjitf7t622m
What an absolute dick. Challenging THE POPE on matters of Catholic theology?
What a dick.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-warns-pope-careful-talking-theology-rcna331881
When 𝘐𝘭 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘢 speaks 𝘦𝘹 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘳𝘢, doctrine says "Infallible!"
wait wait wait
JD changed his name a billion times. WHAR right wingers demanding he go by what was on his birth certificate?
Lil' Jimmy Bowman
Is he even legally VP?
Well he can't vote, that's for sure!
That's even more idiotic than the quote I saw yesterday morning where he told the Pope to 'stick to matters of morality.'
Check me here: I thought determining whom god would favor would be pretty core to matters of morality if you're the religious sort. Did I miss a memo?
That's why I thought essentially telling the Pope to stick to sports was stupid. But JD has moved on from not understanding the Pope's job to thinking he knows scripture better than the Pope, which is an odd thing for most of us to say, and even more so for someone who calls themselves Catholic.
Plus, he's been a Catholic for, what, like 17 minutes now?
About as long as he's been JD Vance!
Wait til he hears what side the Catholic church was on in WWII
Or the Spanish Civil War. Wait, that doesn't help our side's argument.
Franco. They sided with Franco.
To be fair they were not officially on Hitler's side in WWII. They were neutral, like the swiss, on account of We Should Not Take Sides in a War.
Which everyone knows was a wink and a nudge, but still, makes Vance's mouth fartings about WWII even funnier
Hahaha, "Shut up and preach!"
He apparently does not think peace is a matter of morality
Apparently, JD missed the catechism class where you learn the Pope is God's representative on earth?
Also infallible in matters of faith and doctrine.
That photo of Gonzales...
He looks like a mean, stupid freshman, newly shaved ("with a razor an' ever'thing!") for a yearbook pic. "Most Likely To Re-Offend"
Most likely to get a steel toe in the head
well. One of the heads.
Why not both?
I'm not that flexible
I'm seeing it as a 2 part action
Awake for a hot minute and just saw a headline that Judge Boxwine's office tried to enter the Federal Reserve unannounced but were turned away.
*puts pillows over head* and hopefully goes back to sleep.
Just was struck by a vision of the overserved judge getting pulled over and cited for DUI, while on one of her extralegal headline hunts...
"ME!!! 𝘐'𝘮 the best Attorney General!!! Me!!!!"
...The highly unusual decision to visit the Fed underscored Ms. Pirro’s intention to aggressively pursue her investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair. Mr. Powell has been targeted by President Trump, who has blasted the chair for refusing to slash interest rates far below where they stand today.
Mr. Trump’s push to investigate Mr. Powell, who has fiercely defended the Fed’s independence, appears to be colliding with the reality that the Pirro-led investigation imperils chances of quickly confirming a successor when Mr. Powell’s term ends on May 15.
On Tuesday, the Senate Banking Committee announced it would hold a confirmation hearing next week for Kevin M. Warsh, Mr. Trump’s pick to replace Mr. Powell. The hearing will proceed despite the fact that a key Republican on the committee, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, has said he will not advance Mr. Warsh unless the Justice Department drops the Powell investigation...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/politics/pirro-federal-reserve-investigation.html
Is she going there to collect evidence? Will she wear a deerstalker hat and carry a giant magnifying glass?
Didn't that case already get slapped down?
Twice I think. But they do not care about winning cases. They do this to destroy people's lives as an object lesson.
omg
highly unusual decision to VISIT the Fed.
lol lol that is one way to put it I guess XD
You know...
The entire executive raiding federal buildings to force them to do things seems like it should be pretty big fucking news.
Nothing is pretty big news if Fox doesn't care to cover it.
true that. And also a trend I have noticed.
Our Free Press sure does a lot of follow the leader, don't it
Yeah. But also, aside from all of it being owned by 5 billionaires, too many of the reporters who remain are chasing that 'brought down Nixon' feeling, and without Fox's cooperation, that's just not happening.
you're nicer than me. I never figured they were chasing the brought down nixon feeling so much as the Look What I Can Do and gimme money feeling.
Know what to kiss and when.