Just thought I'd mention: we went on a bus tour of the Canadian Rockies 4 years ago, and back then the price of gas in Alberta was $1.50 a liter, or $6 a gallon. I despise TFG as much as the next guy, but Americans too often are entitled and whiny.
And while you're late 70s prog rocking out to whatever iteration this is of Jefferson Airplane/Starship/Hovercraft, know that Substack this morning reports Wonkette "#18 and rising in politics". That's WAY up from its usual 40-something. There is a lag time in tracking and reporting this kind of trend, so keep liking, sharing, recommending -- all the things that drive traffic to the site and train the algorithm to spread teh Wonket!
“ “As I write this, the Washington Post has published at least four articles about Obama’s ‘Cheesecake Factory’ line, and zero articles about a new allegation of rape against Donald Trump,”
If media literacy wasn’t already dead Republicans have fully killed it (MEDIA LITERACY IS A LIE LIKE DINOSAURS TO DISTRACT FROM THE FACT THE EARTH IS 6000 YEARS OLD)
The joke was about Donnie’s interior decorating
The joke was not about the Cheesecake Factory. By trying to make “going to the Cheesecake Factory” a conservative cultural signifier, all you’re doing is you’re saying Donald Trump decorated the White House like the Cheesecake Factory. You’re making Obama’s point for him.
I still maintain that the best Jane song is Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane" and the best recording of that is the Cowboy Junkies' cover of it. Margot Timmons ftw!
Hegseth and Blanche seem like two very obvious targets for both impeachment and investigations by the new Congress. I just wish that Democrats could figure out how to make these two, and so many others, household names. Pretty sure your average online and voting Republican knew who Eric Holder was, Garland, Yellen, Lynch, Clinton, etc. Make the Maga cabinet scum famous, then decapitate them (figuratively, please).
"Let's mount the biggest, most massive, most unstoppable get out the vote effort and defense of voting rights in American history right now, right here in the state of Georgia.
I don't want us to wake up on November 4th and ask ourselves what more we might have done. This is our moment."
Golly! Who could have known? The Fucktater has fucked a bunch of the very wealthy out of their floating home! A ship on a three year live aboard cruise with 203 passengers (ship could hold over 600) and a crew of 156 on board were told to leave after docking in Cambodia. You may wonder why a bunch of rich fucks had to leave their luxury floating cabins. Well the Fucktater has fucked fuel prices so bad Villa Vie Residences couldn't afford to fill that boat up with fuel. They were supposed to be onboard for another year+. The cruise had the fuel price baked into the passenger costs.
This is how NPR broke it down for us:
The Florida-based company said monthly fuel expenses per cabin that historically averaged $1,800 has recently reached an estimated $6,000 to $8,000 in parts of Asia during the war in Iran. Villa Vie Residences said it sought to reduce fuel consumption by slowing the itinerary and spending more time in port, but was unable to offset the surge in fuel costs.
Here's the NPR link if you'd care to read how devastating this must be - FOR THE CREW! Tax The Rich
My friend's birth mom signed up for a cruise around the world until you die a bit over a year ago. My friend was worried about how that would work. There was money up front and birth mom was ok but not rich. The cruise ended in Singapore in early June because of the gas prices. Birth mom flew back here and stayed until she could figure out what to do. I think she's living in a tiny home community in Alabama now.
A colossal 13-foot-tall skeleton stands tall, gazing down at a Flock surveillance camera, ready to deliver a message. This serves as a friendly reminder to Peter Thiel and the small group of individuals who aspire to monitor and control us that we are watching them right back.
I mean, if the 25 years of daily photos in the same place with the same pose did not convince us of that.
I thought about doing something like that for eldest, for it was an early internet 'aughts parent thing to have a picture of your kid every day., But I lasted 3 or 4 months XD
Then I forgot and never rememebered again. Course I was using actual film and that is pricey
Still think daily of the kid I saw in the Parc de Buttes Chaumont in Paris FLYING down a hill on a non-electric scooter and joyously yelling, "La vitesse! La vitesse! VIVA LA VITESSE!"
We rented an ebike for Tersegirlfriend the other day. Neither of us had ever used one; and I have to say it was really great, and now we're looking to buy one. She could keep up with me, even on the uphills, leave me behind even; and it's not like she wasn't pedaling, she got a workout in, just with a little boost.
I might be able to bike again with something like that. My knees are terrible after a life time of up down up down, so hills are now not a thing I can do without tearing pain.
Your gif is of another frightening-looking creature of the deep, a dragonfish: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/dragonfish
And here is your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/e6b3f140-7e87-43da-bd02-32d19944fbc3?r=angu9&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=share
Alien is on Netflix.
That is a cartoonishly bad-ass fish.
Martini- Wonkettes' very own Jacques Cousteau.
This is the perfect Halloween costume for that interplanetary spaceship in "2001: A Space Odyssey."
I'd have sworn it was something from Prometheus (2012 - and another movie with Idris Elba that I saw before I knew who Idris Elba Was)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/
Thar be monsters!
Jeepers creepers! Where did you get those teeth!
What scary teeth you have Grandma.
The better to devour you with Little Can't See Red Ridinghood.
That is one seriously creepy fish!
embedded with nanocrystals.
because fuck yeah.
We replaced Mrs. Premise's regular coffee with our new Nightmare brand instant with nano crystals. Let's see if she notices...
If she doesn't, Mrs. Conclusion surely would.
(IYKYK)
Puff baby!
Cue "Jaws" music and keep the beaches open!
Just thought I'd mention: we went on a bus tour of the Canadian Rockies 4 years ago, and back then the price of gas in Alberta was $1.50 a liter, or $6 a gallon. I despise TFG as much as the next guy, but Americans too often are entitled and whiny.
Songs about Jane? There can be only one!
https://youtu.be/LJCuB-uhNgM?si=2NAxM8-RNtV2I9fM
And while you're late 70s prog rocking out to whatever iteration this is of Jefferson Airplane/Starship/Hovercraft, know that Substack this morning reports Wonkette "#18 and rising in politics". That's WAY up from its usual 40-something. There is a lag time in tracking and reporting this kind of trend, so keep liking, sharing, recommending -- all the things that drive traffic to the site and train the algorithm to spread teh Wonket!
“ “As I write this, the Washington Post has published at least four articles about Obama’s ‘Cheesecake Factory’ line, and zero articles about a new allegation of rape against Donald Trump,”
If media literacy wasn’t already dead Republicans have fully killed it (MEDIA LITERACY IS A LIE LIKE DINOSAURS TO DISTRACT FROM THE FACT THE EARTH IS 6000 YEARS OLD)
The joke was about Donnie’s interior decorating
The joke was not about the Cheesecake Factory. By trying to make “going to the Cheesecake Factory” a conservative cultural signifier, all you’re doing is you’re saying Donald Trump decorated the White House like the Cheesecake Factory. You’re making Obama’s point for him.
the joke was not even about cheesecake factory decor. It was about if Saddam owned one, how blinged out it would get.
It was a Saddam Hussein Joke, not a cheesecake factory joke
I still maintain that the best Jane song is Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane" and the best recording of that is the Cowboy Junkies' cover of it. Margot Timmons ftw!
Hegseth and Blanche seem like two very obvious targets for both impeachment and investigations by the new Congress. I just wish that Democrats could figure out how to make these two, and so many others, household names. Pretty sure your average online and voting Republican knew who Eric Holder was, Garland, Yellen, Lynch, Clinton, etc. Make the Maga cabinet scum famous, then decapitate them (figuratively, please).
To be sure, I am VERY sure most americans know who Pete is at least.
And with Blanche on all the shows all the time, many of them might know him
"I just wish that Democrats could figure out how to make these two household names."
Claim that they're secretly gay married, tee hee hee?
"Let's mount the biggest, most massive, most unstoppable get out the vote effort and defense of voting rights in American history right now, right here in the state of Georgia.
I don't want us to wake up on November 4th and ask ourselves what more we might have done. This is our moment."
~ Jon Ossoff
https://bsky.app/profile/democratcats.bsky.social
https://election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2026-early-voting/2026-general-election-early-vote-georgia/
Golly! Who could have known? The Fucktater has fucked a bunch of the very wealthy out of their floating home! A ship on a three year live aboard cruise with 203 passengers (ship could hold over 600) and a crew of 156 on board were told to leave after docking in Cambodia. You may wonder why a bunch of rich fucks had to leave their luxury floating cabins. Well the Fucktater has fucked fuel prices so bad Villa Vie Residences couldn't afford to fill that boat up with fuel. They were supposed to be onboard for another year+. The cruise had the fuel price baked into the passenger costs.
This is how NPR broke it down for us:
The Florida-based company said monthly fuel expenses per cabin that historically averaged $1,800 has recently reached an estimated $6,000 to $8,000 in parts of Asia during the war in Iran. Villa Vie Residences said it sought to reduce fuel consumption by slowing the itinerary and spending more time in port, but was unable to offset the surge in fuel costs.
Here's the NPR link if you'd care to read how devastating this must be - FOR THE CREW! Tax The Rich
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/28/nx-s1-6020180/us-cruise-ship-ends-voyage-passengers-lose-homes
Well, they're wealthy. They can afford to fly home.
I mean if they can afford to fuck off on a 3 year cruise, I am sure they will be fine
My friend's birth mom signed up for a cruise around the world until you die a bit over a year ago. My friend was worried about how that would work. There was money up front and birth mom was ok but not rich. The cruise ended in Singapore in early June because of the gas prices. Birth mom flew back here and stayed until she could figure out what to do. I think she's living in a tiny home community in Alabama now.
Wait, they took all the money up front?
Hmmmmm
A colossal 13-foot-tall skeleton stands tall, gazing down at a Flock surveillance camera, ready to deliver a message. This serves as a friendly reminder to Peter Thiel and the small group of individuals who aspire to monitor and control us that we are watching them right back.
“Who’s Flocking Me?”
https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3mywrz24rg22o
*gasp*
"Scoop: Fox News will finish October with its worst ratings in years, an ominous sign for Republicans ahead of the midterms.
Compared to last October, Fox News is DOWN 27% in total viewers and 32% in the 25-54 demo. MS NOW and CNN are up."
https://bsky.app/profile/oliverdarcy.bsky.social/post/3myvldnpdzc2m
Before anyone gets too excited, this is largely because fox is Too Liberal for the cult
CNN is FUX lite these days...
Again:
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3myp7qbaygs2t
Pretty soon, they're going to need dancing girls to get people to watch.
"What's the news / Across the nation / We have got / The information....."
Anybody here seen Mitch McConnell?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
Soup?
He's achieved room temperature.
Like all turtles.
He’s pining for the swamps.
I heard he was temporarily returned to the taxidermist because some of his stuffing was starting to fall out.
I hope he's still under warranty
hiking the Appalachian Trail
Wheeling maybe, I don't think he hikes anymore.
"This lady is running against Scott Perry, and she MAY ONCE HAVE BEEN but probably wasn’t naked in her own back yard."
There will always be people stupid enough to believe anything, especially if they want to.
This is pretty wild. A man took a photo of himself every day for 25 years starting at age 22 and then stitched them all together.
https://youtu.be/pzyQE0WWphk?si=tnMfIl4PQFZA6P8A
That's pretty wild
He shoulda kept the long hair flying mustach around 1:30 XD It was fun seeing that grow longer and longer
CC shows the camera he was using and the age he was in the segment. Now that's being dedicated to the bit, as they say.
I mean, if the 25 years of daily photos in the same place with the same pose did not convince us of that.
I thought about doing something like that for eldest, for it was an early internet 'aughts parent thing to have a picture of your kid every day., But I lasted 3 or 4 months XD
Then I forgot and never rememebered again. Course I was using actual film and that is pricey
"Every Texas bar has that one guy.
He’s loud. He’s obnoxious. He makes all the women feel uncomfortable. He adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking.
That’s Ken Paxton — and I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab."
~ James Talarico
https://bsky.app/profile/jamestalarico.bsky.social/post/3myuz7rn2zk2y
Talarico seems too wholesome to be hanging out in bars. Unless he's like me and just likes to sit in bars and read.
Depends on the bar. Big difference between an English pub & a Texas roadhouse. Don't know which has the better food, though.
Rail of the Olds. Shout your rant here!!!
LEARN TO PEDAL YOU LAZY LITTLE SHIT!!!! - me to ever e-bike riding kid I have ever seen.
Oh, you people. “We should change the ways we get around, so we don’t depend on fossil fuels.” *ebikes arrive* “NO, NOT LIKE THAT!”
Still think daily of the kid I saw in the Parc de Buttes Chaumont in Paris FLYING down a hill on a non-electric scooter and joyously yelling, "La vitesse! La vitesse! VIVA LA VITESSE!"
I generally yell "Get that fucking toy out of the road!" But I don't sideswipe them so you can't accuse me of road rage.
lazy little shits.
We rented an ebike for Tersegirlfriend the other day. Neither of us had ever used one; and I have to say it was really great, and now we're looking to buy one. She could keep up with me, even on the uphills, leave me behind even; and it's not like she wasn't pedaling, she got a workout in, just with a little boost.
I might be able to bike again with something like that. My knees are terrible after a life time of up down up down, so hills are now not a thing I can do without tearing pain.
GET OFF MY LAWN (also too!)
LOLOLOL Trump was claiming last night in Corpus Christi that he's healthier than both Obama and Dubya. He gets more delusional with each passing day.
...said the 80-yr-old senile, decomposing rapist.