I was in college in the mid to late 1960's. Went to Florida (Daytona) twice for spring break, The first time I got 2nd degree burns from a week of sun burns. I coulda passed for black when I got back to campus (Madison). Not kidding. My dermatologist was finding melanoma in various locations (back, chest, legs) 40 and 50 years later. Good times but....
My Dad suffered from skin cancer for years, and we were all quite sure it was from his younger days, when he did a lot of outside labor, shirtless. He did any job that came along, during the Depression and was also in the CCC. His visits to the doctor (and he NEVER saw a doctor before, unless he was 'on the verge') became a regular thing, as did the bandages and the scars. I think he would not be happy with the advice from Bobby and his Merry Band of Medical Miscreants.
Yet another subject on which Bobby Jr. has screws loose: Sun. He's supposedly Irish, as am I. We don't do sun. I climbed one mountain, 12,280 feet, age 20. I used high-altitude glacier cream, which did not work, and got a horrible burn with huge blisters. By age 35 I had skin cancer (squamous cell and basal cell), which crops up every few years. Now 81, I'm about to go in for another treatment. I'm surprised they haven't just peeled Jr's skin off and replaced it with Naugahyde.
Someone said he is injecting melanocyte stimulating hormone. Most definitely it is this! I’ve been puzzling over his curious skin color, lack of viable skin cancer scars, and Irish heritage trying to figure this one out.
It’s a non FDA approved peptide you can buy off the interweb and inject yourself with, if you have RFKJr’s appetite for risk. MSH injection is linked to eruptive atypical moles (ask me how I know! Not me, but case reports in the medical literature and the first case I saw is how I learned all this stuff).
Is it possible his legs are crisscrossed with excision scars from erupting, atypical black moles, but he’s too pleased with his weird brownish face to quit injecting it? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
And….MSH injections will eventually make the face and genitalia disproportionately brown to the rest of the body. Does his junk look like a forgotten 7-11 hot dog left on the heat roller? Possibly!
I am here, as Dwight Shrute would say, to socialize and inform.
I ordered myself some new gym clothes and a 17.5" moss bunny to put on Termite's pee pad. I normally keep a tall vase on it (it helps remind him that the pad is where he should lift his leg), but I think the moss bunny will be.more decorative.
Ah, I bet you are right! It is artificial melanocyte stimulating hormone. It’s made by the pituitary, but if you’re into injecting needle drugs off the internet, it stimulates tanning without sun.
Weightlifters use it. Can cause eruptive abnormal moles.
Another fun fact about injectable MSH…I once discussed it with an older colleague who said that prolonged use starts causing disproportionate brown color change in the face and genitalia. So that explains RFKJr’s face( I’ve been wondering because he looks like Tan Mom, just terrible, yet with Irish ancestry he should be getting skin cancers cut off every other week). So does his junk look like an old forgotten 7-11 hot dog on the heating roller?
You know what helps SAD? And I say this as a moderate (to severe) sufferer of said thingy thing:
Indoor plants.
Not even joking, just having some growing green stuff about you really helps to mitigate the effects. Does not erase them! Just sorta like an otc pain reliever during a migraine: takes the edge off.
Indoor plants also do not cause The Cancer, unless maybe you are growing something in order to smoke it. Flowering are the best ones too if you can manage it, there's nothing like seeing a flowering plant in January to relieve the gloom a tinge.
Keep the dangling ones out of kitty reach by hanging them from a hook, pro tip.
Another thing that helps is going out even if it is fucking cold, which my job doth help me to do, whenever the sun peeks its yellow head around the snow clouds. Even if it's for a few minutes, find a sun beam, turn your face to it, raise your arms, and feel the rays for a second or two.
Other coping mechanisms include going ahead and taking that nap (I am partially convinced that we were meant to be at least a semi-hibernating animal and something got crossed), allowing comfort foods within reason, and Doing A Thing For yourself- house project like cleaning out that closet, or craft project, or whatever.
Well, I'm feeling pretty okay after my trip to the gym yesterday, which is wonderful news for me! It means this level of workout is probably going to be okay for me! So the trick now is to maintain. I forget, frequently, that I live with chronic pain, so I'll start using the weights until I end up unable to move because the pain is so severe. I mean, just imagine you NEVER get past being sore from your workouts, the soreness just adds and adds. That's what it's like to live with this condition. I'd sell my soul to be rid of it. (The devil still hasn't shown up to make me an offer, not sure what that has to say about my soul.)
The Daily Beast became tabloid obnoxious to me a long time ago. Just took a quick look at the site to make sure I still feel that way....ick...might as well be Nat. Enquirer....so yep.
The same way they include the idiot in chief's age in almost every headline about him. We all know he's a doddering old fool, we don't have to be reminded endlessly.
Booked tomorrow to go to Tremblant. First I’ll have been this season, probably only. Me and a few other snowboarder types.
…. aaand it’s gonna rain. Not heavily, less than a mm at a time, so still might be not too bad especially on the mountain proper which is frequently a little colder than the forecast. But kinda ugh. Can’t really reschedule for Friday now either (I mean I probably could, but not most of the rest of them).
But eh, you know, end of the season. Knew it was a risk. Warmish anyway.
Loooooong story from LATimes about crypto and how it fuels fraud:
-------
A recent Los Angeles trial revealed a subculture that revolves around newly created crypto wealth and young men who flaunt money obtained through elaborate scams.
A former LAPD officer was convicted of robbing a 17-year-old who had amassed a small fortune in stolen bitcoin.
So-called crypto kids rely on fixers to set up them up with homes, cars, clothes and other luxuries they cannot get without help from an adult.
The ScamCoin™ proponents claimed early on that it was to remove barriers to moving funds around the world. They *used* to say that until they realized that is how MONEY LAUNDERING is defined. They are all dipshits.
Ermahgerd, the shot of the three boys playing on a console, except the youngest one doesn't have his controller plugged in, and they labeled him "Trump" -- I am ded.
Oh yeah. Reminds me of that song about "Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all. Playing solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of fifty one. Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo. Now don't tell me I've nothing to do."
I was in college in the mid to late 1960's. Went to Florida (Daytona) twice for spring break, The first time I got 2nd degree burns from a week of sun burns. I coulda passed for black when I got back to campus (Madison). Not kidding. My dermatologist was finding melanoma in various locations (back, chest, legs) 40 and 50 years later. Good times but....
My Dad suffered from skin cancer for years, and we were all quite sure it was from his younger days, when he did a lot of outside labor, shirtless. He did any job that came along, during the Depression and was also in the CCC. His visits to the doctor (and he NEVER saw a doctor before, unless he was 'on the verge') became a regular thing, as did the bandages and the scars. I think he would not be happy with the advice from Bobby and his Merry Band of Medical Miscreants.
Yet another subject on which Bobby Jr. has screws loose: Sun. He's supposedly Irish, as am I. We don't do sun. I climbed one mountain, 12,280 feet, age 20. I used high-altitude glacier cream, which did not work, and got a horrible burn with huge blisters. By age 35 I had skin cancer (squamous cell and basal cell), which crops up every few years. Now 81, I'm about to go in for another treatment. I'm surprised they haven't just peeled Jr's skin off and replaced it with Naugahyde.
Someone said he is injecting melanocyte stimulating hormone. Most definitely it is this! I’ve been puzzling over his curious skin color, lack of viable skin cancer scars, and Irish heritage trying to figure this one out.
It’s a non FDA approved peptide you can buy off the interweb and inject yourself with, if you have RFKJr’s appetite for risk. MSH injection is linked to eruptive atypical moles (ask me how I know! Not me, but case reports in the medical literature and the first case I saw is how I learned all this stuff).
Is it possible his legs are crisscrossed with excision scars from erupting, atypical black moles, but he’s too pleased with his weird brownish face to quit injecting it? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
And….MSH injections will eventually make the face and genitalia disproportionately brown to the rest of the body. Does his junk look like a forgotten 7-11 hot dog left on the heat roller? Possibly!
I am here, as Dwight Shrute would say, to socialize and inform.
She looks like the "Fearless Girl" bronze on Wall Street. Only unattractive.
I ordered myself some new gym clothes and a 17.5" moss bunny to put on Termite's pee pad. I normally keep a tall vase on it (it helps remind him that the pad is where he should lift his leg), but I think the moss bunny will be.more decorative.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2026 winner and other notable shots.
Some astonishing images, some devastating prose.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c150yl0y5vzo
holy crap that deer carrying it's rival's head
That is some straight up Lamentations of Their Women stuff
Rfk Jr. Is taking Melatonin II (the Barbie drug) to stay tan I think.
Ah, I bet you are right! It is artificial melanocyte stimulating hormone. It’s made by the pituitary, but if you’re into injecting needle drugs off the internet, it stimulates tanning without sun.
Weightlifters use it. Can cause eruptive abnormal moles.
Another fun fact about injectable MSH…I once discussed it with an older colleague who said that prolonged use starts causing disproportionate brown color change in the face and genitalia. So that explains RFKJr’s face( I’ve been wondering because he looks like Tan Mom, just terrible, yet with Irish ancestry he should be getting skin cancers cut off every other week). So does his junk look like an old forgotten 7-11 hot dog on the heating roller?
He looks nearly normal here. Looks.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/a-perfectly-normal-story-about-the
Every time I see your icon I think of my favorite line from Girls Will Be Girls. "It was twelve*noon*. ...Of course I was drunk."
One of my favorite movies. My husband says " It's a f-ing ring!" all the time lol
Why? He looks like he rides himself around the island hard and puts himself away wet on a daily basis.
You know what helps SAD? And I say this as a moderate (to severe) sufferer of said thingy thing:
Indoor plants.
Not even joking, just having some growing green stuff about you really helps to mitigate the effects. Does not erase them! Just sorta like an otc pain reliever during a migraine: takes the edge off.
Indoor plants also do not cause The Cancer, unless maybe you are growing something in order to smoke it. Flowering are the best ones too if you can manage it, there's nothing like seeing a flowering plant in January to relieve the gloom a tinge.
Keep the dangling ones out of kitty reach by hanging them from a hook, pro tip.
Another thing that helps is going out even if it is fucking cold, which my job doth help me to do, whenever the sun peeks its yellow head around the snow clouds. Even if it's for a few minutes, find a sun beam, turn your face to it, raise your arms, and feel the rays for a second or two.
Other coping mechanisms include going ahead and taking that nap (I am partially convinced that we were meant to be at least a semi-hibernating animal and something got crossed), allowing comfort foods within reason, and Doing A Thing For yourself- house project like cleaning out that closet, or craft project, or whatever.
Well, I'm feeling pretty okay after my trip to the gym yesterday, which is wonderful news for me! It means this level of workout is probably going to be okay for me! So the trick now is to maintain. I forget, frequently, that I live with chronic pain, so I'll start using the weights until I end up unable to move because the pain is so severe. I mean, just imagine you NEVER get past being sore from your workouts, the soreness just adds and adds. That's what it's like to live with this condition. I'd sell my soul to be rid of it. (The devil still hasn't shown up to make me an offer, not sure what that has to say about my soul.)
Goobnor Greggy and Goobnor Kitten Heels are trying out asshole each other.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘎𝘉𝘛𝘘+ 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘎𝘰𝘷. 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘨 𝘈𝘣𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘭 “𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭,” 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥.
𝗗𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗢𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝘃’𝘀 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/dallas-removes-rainbow-crosswalks-on-govs-order/
Lowering Texas state flags for Charlie Kirk was totes McGoats A-OK, though.
Funny how it is "political" just to honor....people.
What is with the Daily Beast lately with "MAGA-coded" "MAGA-curious" "So-and-So CORNERED" "BONKERS" etc, ad nauseam? Are they trying to repel readers?
The Daily Beast became tabloid obnoxious to me a long time ago. Just took a quick look at the site to make sure I still feel that way....ick...might as well be Nat. Enquirer....so yep.
I doubt they are killing Sexual assault stories.
The same way they include the idiot in chief's age in almost every headline about him. We all know he's a doddering old fool, we don't have to be reminded endlessly.
AI Slop?
Might be. Use of the same words and phrases in one of those AI tells.
I need to sharpen my AI-detecting skills. Equal turns annoying and creepy.
Yes, it is.
No idea what it is, but it is aggressively annoying.
Booked tomorrow to go to Tremblant. First I’ll have been this season, probably only. Me and a few other snowboarder types.
…. aaand it’s gonna rain. Not heavily, less than a mm at a time, so still might be not too bad especially on the mountain proper which is frequently a little colder than the forecast. But kinda ugh. Can’t really reschedule for Friday now either (I mean I probably could, but not most of the rest of them).
But eh, you know, end of the season. Knew it was a risk. Warmish anyway.
Loooooong story from LATimes about crypto and how it fuels fraud:
-------
A recent Los Angeles trial revealed a subculture that revolves around newly created crypto wealth and young men who flaunt money obtained through elaborate scams.
A former LAPD officer was convicted of robbing a 17-year-old who had amassed a small fortune in stolen bitcoin.
So-called crypto kids rely on fixers to set up them up with homes, cars, clothes and other luxuries they cannot get without help from an adult.
https://archive.ph/7hBlN#selection-2925.0-2937.143
What a world.
I've given up on the waffling and would go as far as to say that crypto was created to make committing fraud easier.
The ScamCoin™ proponents claimed early on that it was to remove barriers to moving funds around the world. They *used* to say that until they realized that is how MONEY LAUNDERING is defined. They are all dipshits.
AOT, K!
Iran trolls Trump with AI photo of baby's steering wheel after he reveals new Strait of Hormuz plan https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-trolls-trump-with-ai-photo-of-baby-s-steering-wheel-after-he-reveals-new-strait-of-hormuz-plan/ar-AA1ZhZnf?cvpid=3285b797e6104204bb518534030e4960
Bwahahahaha!
A picture is worth 1000 words…
https://xcancel.com/IraninSA/status/2036136193339933177
Iran rivals the Daily Show at truth telling
Ermahgerd, the shot of the three boys playing on a console, except the youngest one doesn't have his controller plugged in, and they labeled him "Trump" -- I am ded.
Bonus that he was holding it upside down.
In this episode of Real Whackos of the HHS: 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘍. 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺 𝘑𝘳. 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 “𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢” 𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯. 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦—𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵—𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘘 𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴.
“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘄”—𝗥𝗙𝗞 𝗝𝗿.’𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗖𝗗𝗖 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁
Robert Malone quit a vaccine panel, blaming an HHS spokesperson for “trashing” him.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/rfk-jr-anti-vaccine-ally-dramatically-quits-cdc-panel-complaining-of-drama/
“I have better things to do.”
Oh yeah. Reminds me of that song about "Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all. Playing solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of fifty one. Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo. Now don't tell me I've nothing to do."
yeah it was that and not how he realized how he might be held personally responsible for all those deaths
Drama among Trump sycophants? Who could have guessed?
But, but, he’s so easily trashed.
Already trash, even.
"I'm not gonna tell you what that present is."
Absurd little man.
He’s negotiating with himself.
If you do that too much you'll go blind.