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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Speaking of peanuts, check out these little cuddling cuties (source for the header gif right here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/koala-cuddles?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

And your meme chat area for today: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/004bdf10-8825-4e43-bb92-965743e17720?utm_source=share

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Jjamie's avatar

Oh, I love the way mama holds and loves her baby, with every ounce of her heart!

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OneYieldRegular's avatar

Oh great, now I want to grow fur.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Oh goodness, don’t let Wanderer hear you say that. He’ll have ideas!

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OneYieldRegular's avatar

Having met Wanderer in person, I may well already be in one of his novels.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

😂

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Cheese's avatar

Whar Dachshunds?

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Zap's avatar

like

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James Baskin's avatar

Hey! You can't fool me. Those aren't Dachshunds.

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Gerry Ochenta y Dos's avatar

I KNOW! And the last of my trio of Dachshunds, who was named Peanut, crossed the Rainbow Bridge just a month ago and I was hoping he was visiting me through MartiGlam, and here I am, sobbing in despair at the lack of sausage dogs.

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weejee's avatar

Luv those bump in the trees.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

All the better to grab with those sharp little claws!

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Rob Roser's avatar

This is the best tabs gif. Koalas FTW.

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belfryo's avatar

NO. KIDDING

Its the sweetest animal GIF I've ever seen...The look on Mama's face made me literally tear up...I want to live in that universe

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

AND BABY TOO!! * SOB*

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belfryo's avatar

ditto!

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Menotsure's avatar

"Hey, Frankie, get a load of the pouch on that gal. Whatta looker!"

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

You ruin EVERYTHING!

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Internet Personae's avatar

I got caught in thread on Martini’s day before - picture chat after I -posted a picture of Mussolini and Donald -

It was too long not share here -

https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/bd12ca3d-1a6a-455d-af14-f8ba566e2a64?utm_source=share

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Froglooksfunny's avatar

All mamas love their littles!

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

Mammals, maybe. Certain fishies, on the other hand, love them as snacks.

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Froglooksfunny's avatar

Love is love 😂

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

So cute!

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The Wanderer's avatar

Cute dropbears. You can almost see the chlamydia.

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Nae Kings!'s avatar

Meh, the tazzies are running around giving each other face cancer, I think I’d prefer chlamydia

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Rob Roser's avatar

Koala chlamydia is the best chlamydia. Come at me, bro.

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Opalescent Riddles's avatar

Chlamydia, Chlamydia, have you met Chlamydia?

Chlamydia the drop-bear pathogen.

When it gets in your urethra, your discharge becomes less see-through.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Lyida, sweet Lydia. You gave me chlamydia...

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"M"'s avatar

WooOOW

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The Wanderer's avatar

"Ah, the Duke! Your Grace, my daughter has been itching to meet you! Chlamydia, over here!"

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Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

Wait, dachshunds are eligible to be Vice President? Thank the gods that the proven rapist, fraud and convicted felon Trump hates dogs (and, really, all forms of life outside of his own), as a nice dachshund would be such a better selection than Jeb! Davis Vance.

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

I really appreciated the way the women gymnasts mostly seemed to enjoy everyone's good performances. I certainly like seeing these world-class athletes showcasing their best stuff.

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carovee's avatar

I really enjoyed the second Romanian woman's performance. I thought she got a bad deal when the judges docked her for being out of bounds when she wasn't. I don't know if it was enough to make a medal difference but her coach definitely should have been more on top of it.

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Pilgrim's avatar

Just discovered mashed potatoes. So easy to make, so yum!

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TalentNotAutotune's avatar

Whatever Jamie Dimon says re: the economy, believe the exact opposite.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

And here is one of the most basic, primordial differences between the two political parties.

People see a pic of Tim Walz holding a piglet, and everyone goes, "Awwww!"

If they saw that same pic with the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, everyone would go, "He's not going to fuck that, is he?"

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Sally Gombita's avatar

I was promised wiener dogs. I got drop bears. I'm not exactly unhappy, but I feel...something?

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OneYieldRegular's avatar

How can anyone be surprised about what people eat in Minnesota? Have they not seen "Fargo"?

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carovee's avatar

That recipe is just shepherd's pie with tater tots instead of mashed potatoes. And I'm here for it.

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Sister Artemis's avatar

Fun Sister A Family Fact: My sweetheart HAAATED Fargo when she first saw it (and also had to listen to me rave about the two bar girls, who I thought were hysterical, which couldn't have helped). Then she found out it was based on a true story . Then she loved it.

Humans are weird.

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Antifa Commander's avatar

It’s funny, because due to the magic of time zones,

Fake news! Time zones aren’t real, round earther!

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"M"'s avatar

They can't tell time, come on

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Eric Coppala's avatar

All I can add is Walz has been an utter failure governing MN. From the post Floyd burning of Minneapolis to the 250 million dollar feed our children food fraud, he’s worthless.

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Snarkrates's avatar

Please feel free to fuck all the way off, tankie!

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Eric Coppala's avatar

Ad hominem. Proof of no argument

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carovee's avatar

I thought it was sarcasm, since Minneapolis did not burn to the ground.

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Eric Coppala's avatar

Hyperbole. 2 billion in insured losses. There were uninsured losses that may never be known.

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Snarkrates's avatar

I'm sorry, did you think you'd made any points worth arguing against? Oh, that's so cute!

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Eric Coppala's avatar

Either you know nothing of Walz or you drinking the D party koolaid.

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Snarkrates's avatar

Last I saw, Minnesota was performing pretty well, but hey, I think I'll listen to some anonymous, ignorant food tube on the Internet instead of looking at data.

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Eric Coppala's avatar

You know how much wealth has exited MN in the last 5 years? Almost 8 billion between 1995 and 2014 and that’s long before Walz even showed up. It’s worsening in the last 3 years. You can only tax your citizens to a point and then exist stage left to a friendlier state. And the 17 billion surplus? “. At the end of the legislative session on Monday, DFL lawmakers agreed to spend nearly the entire surplus on new and existing programs, raising spending for the next biennium from the $55.5 billion baseline to $69.5 billion, as John Phelan outlined. Certainly, some of the new spending is nonrecurring. But in the 2026-2027 biennium, Minnesota’s budget will still be over 20 percent higher than what it is in the current biennium.” The 17 billion dollar surplus was spent by the DFL. So now, these new programs that are reoccurring will have to funded going forward. Who’s going to pay for them?

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Emil Muz's avatar

Sofia, it's weird that you basically ignore all of the legislation that passed under his governorship. Poor Minnie, nothing but a burned out wasteland. Are you still living in a Quonset hut in Edina?

Can you name anything Vance has accomplished politically in his wretched life?

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Eric Coppala's avatar

Ohio, I don’t know if you’re being funny or addressing the 20 something snarkrates? Vance wouldn’t be my 1st choice for VP. Going from impoverished Appalachian upbringing to marines to Ivy League is the American success story. Yep, he’s young and little political experience. But, the flip of that is he hasn’t been in politics for decades like so many politicians that make a career out of what was intended to originally be a term and return home to a real job. So besides Walz lording over MN during COVID with “ rat on your neighbor “ policy, to delaying the National Guard’s arrival after the burning of Minneapolis to claiming to have fed hundreds of thousands of children during lockdown. Still no one has answered for 250 million stolen from taxpayers and to boot, it took the Feds to alert Walz’s administration to the food fraud.

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Queen Méabh's avatar

I put peas in a lot of things, including Indian and Chinese and Cajun meals that normally do not contain peas. Peas are delicious and colorful, and who, exactly, does this hurt?

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Plain Marie's avatar

Garrison Keillor on line 2, probably. I mean, ya gotta add some color somewhere in that mass of carbohydrate.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

My ex, who was always so dramatic about peas, and her deathly allergy to them, and all that anaphylactic shock? But not me, because I love fresh peas.

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Queen Méabh's avatar

I never heard of a pea allergy before. Learn something new every day, that's my motto. My parents grew peas in their garden when I was a wee girl, and I have vivid memories of sitting on the front porch shelling peas with my mother when I was 4 years old, and eating more of them than I put in the bowl, and so my mother wouldn't let me shell peas after that. They are SO TASTY fresh out of the pod!

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Gleep's avatar

Mrs. Gleep. She hatesssssssss them

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Queen Méabh's avatar

Until I was 7 I refused to eat canned peas, which all that were available in the late 50's unless you grew them fresh in your garden, for no reason other than that I was an extremely picky eater and I just refused to eat them. Then one day I decided, for no reason, to try them, and I loved them!

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Shallow state's avatar

I do not know the song "Daughters" and based on the conversation here, thank you Jesus!

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defpac's avatar

The more I learn about Walz, the better it gets.

https://forward.com/news/640989/walz-vp-pick-kamala-gaza-shapiro/

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Progressives who cast “uncommitted” in the Democratic primaries this spring indicated they would be happier if Walz was picked. They pointed to his remarks on CNN after 19% of the Democratic electorate in the state’s presidential primary participated in the protest vote. “They are asking to be heard and that’s what they should be doing,” Walz said. “Their message is clear that they think this is an intolerable situation and that we can do more. And I think the president is hearing that.”

After the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Walz ordered state flags to be flown at half-mast and criticized those who did not condemn the attack. “If you did not find moral clarity on Saturday morning, and you find yourself waiting to think about what you needed to say, you need to reevaluate where you’re at,” Walz said at a vigil held at Congregation Beth El in Minneapolis. ...

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Katerwauler's avatar

Oh jesus actual, "Daughters" is beyond fucking gross, and that it still pops up ANYWHERE is absolutely maddening, thank you St. Vincent for reminding everyone

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carovee's avatar

I read the lyrics to see what the fuss was, and yuck.

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subterrene's avatar

Walz is VP Harris's running mate, woo!

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Anzu's avatar

PARTY BALLOONS THE BEST CHOICE WAS CHOSEN

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I'm not sure how to react when our side does the thing I'm sure will help us win.

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"M"'s avatar

😄😄😄💙💙💙

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subterrene's avatar

Yes!

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