Here is a picture of not a Fennec fox, but a Bat-Eared Fox, at the Knoxville zoo. It was the only picture I took that day. They are kinda shy, but everyone else had wandered away and there it was.
Some nerdery here. One of my key NPCs for the next DnD campaign I'm running is a desert ranger named Arash Sang with a fennec fox familiar named Layla.
It cannot be said enough that the ears on the fennec fox are absolutely fabulous. Thank you, Martini! Wow! (We need to see some fab creatures right now to remember how beautiful creation is.)
I ran across this about the HAT that he wore to play gold on Sunday (maybe a fresh one without orange stains) that he is selling:
And there is currently a note on the listing that reads, “Due to high demand, this hat may take an additional 7-10 days to process then ship.” So, whether the President was, in fact, trying to market the hat or not, it appears that the controversial cap is now highly desired.
Let's be clear, I absolutely despise Trump. But for years now, I have always marginally tempered my disgust with the consideration that George W Bush killed more people by sins of commission than Trump. Trump has almost certainly already caused more deaths than Bush, but those, in large part, could charitably be considered as by sins of omission due to incompetence, indifference, antipathy, ignorance. But, no more; as with everything Trump, there is simply no bottom.
*Charitably*, a sin of omission. I have savings. I could empty the account and donate it for food or medical aid that would prevent deaths, but choose not to. I think it was an evil thing for Trump to do, but somehow, to me, it still doesn't quite feel the same as dropping bombs on a girls school, as torpedoing ships, as drone attacks on the open seas, as ordering soldiers to their deaths.
NYT: "According to a Wall Street Journal report, Trump has developed an obsession with $145 Florsheim men's dress shoes that he's distributing to agency heads, lawmakers, and White House officials — and he apparently expects them to wear them in his presence. Trump has been known to suddenly pivot conversations to his "incredible" new shoes. During a January lunch with Tucker Carlson, he handed the media personality a pair of brown wingtips without warning. At cabinet meetings, he asks recipients: "Did you get the shoes?"
Some officials appear to feel compelled to wear the shoes in Trump's presence despite their reservations, which has included putting them on and lacing them up during Oval Office meetings. One female White House official remarked: "All the boys have them." Another joked: "It's hysterical because everybody's afraid not to wear them.""
In other news of murderous civil rights violations, newly released bodycam footage of the homicide of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, in Austin, shows that — as they’ve done every single time they have shot someone in a moving car —DHS agents were lying and Martinez did not try to run any of them over before being fatally shot three times by Homeland Security Investigations Agent Jack C. Stevens.
I feel bad for the victim but I do not feel bad for the Mom with early stage Mar-A-Lago face who ardently supports Trump and doesn’t blame him one bit. Oh no she doesn’t.
You're telling me King Stinky didn't figure out that if he killed an 89 year old man, that he neglected to figure out that the Ayatollah had a son who'd take over the joint? Fail to plan, plan to fail, ya failure!
"It's Ayatollahs, Ayatollahs, Ayatollahs, all the way down. We'll just keep knocking them off until they run out of Ayatollahs. Remember that we can keep fighting forever. Right, Hegseth?"
“Just give me a good interpreter. Interpreter very important. And I know if somebody’s good. I may not speak the language but I know I had an interpreter recently that wasn’t good. Talking to a very strong person from a different part of the world and I could tell even though I don’t speak the language, I could tell the interpreter was not good. When you go ‘Uh, uh, uh,’ when I give a long, flowing beautiful sentence and in this case it was a woman and she gave it in about 1/4 the time. I said, ‘Well, their language may be efficient, but it’s not that efficient.’ And I could also tell when I have great interpreters. Interpreters are very important. You know, you have a bad interpreter. You think you’re doing well. ‘Boy, did I do a good job talking to this one or that? Was I great when I spoke to Putin today? Was I great when I spoke to President? Was I great?’ But if the interpreter isn’t speaking right or is weak or is ineffective or is just not good or not interpreting your words correctly. In one case we had an interpreter who when she disagreed with what we were saying she actually changed it. We considered her a foreign minister. Right? But no, the interpreter is, I talk about it all the time, interpreters are really important. When you don’t speak the language, they don’t speak the language. People have no idea. People have no idea how valuable and I’m on them all the time. People have no idea how valuable a good interpreter is.”
He is nothing if not efficient. Dementia coupled to Dunning-Kruger syndrome coupled to narcissistic personality disorder, all perfectly exemplified in one passage.
"They were big men, and when I shook their hands, they had tears in their eyes, and they said 'Sir, that was a big tube of toothpaste, the hugest, there is so much toothpaste.' Toothpaste, that's a funny old-fashioned word and it's getting popular again. This is beautiful toothpaste, perfect toothpaste, no one has squeezed as much as me, it's unbelievable, really, no one has ever squeezed huge, beautiful toothpaste like me."
Today's gif features a fennec fox. More info here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/eres-fenny
And your meme chat space: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/3d7747cd-9206-4ff9-bd76-6bbcbb43954c
is that fennec fox nicknamed Grandma?
What adorable Satellite Dishes for ears!
That was an eary post Martini.
And also early, because DST for you North American chaps isn't the same as DST over here in the most of Europeland.
We're heading to Spain and France in late September/Early Roctober on a Nat Geo cave paintings tour. Gonna do some spelunking.
Oh wow, fabulous! Hopefully you’ll get done time exploring the region too. And having some good wine.
On the way in we're gonna visit a friend & colleague in Madrid.
That is The Little Prince's fox!
Side note, does anyone know what the little pockets at the bottom of the ears are for? Even dogs have them.
https://lilydalevetcentre.com.au/did-you-know-about-henrys-pocket/
Bet he gets great reception.
‘You want *how* much for cable? Hah!’
Is he the fox who was so troublesome in north Africa? I don’t think so. But I’ve heard ‘there are no stupid questions.’
https://africame.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-1249.html
‘… fox is in the dog family …’
Cute or not, dogs are mostly highly mobile sets of teeth. ;-)
(Our Gino is cute. Though yappy. I continue to serve him.)
That can’t be real. Looks like some AI Star Wars creature.
*gif of Pee Wee with giant ear saying “What? What?” here*
I seriously doubt he has a hearing problem.
Of course, I don’t look like my profile picture. I gave up on the hat.
When fennec foxes hunt for food
Pouncing across the ground
They make pleas to the chirping birds.
"Can you turn that racket down?"
~ Burma Shave
Here is a picture of not a Fennec fox, but a Bat-Eared Fox, at the Knoxville zoo. It was the only picture I took that day. They are kinda shy, but everyone else had wandered away and there it was.
https://substack.com/profile/5921769-alpaca-suitcase/note/c-225210769?r=3ix9l&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
Floofy!
Those magnificent ears!
Some nerdery here. One of my key NPCs for the next DnD campaign I'm running is a desert ranger named Arash Sang with a fennec fox familiar named Layla.
Nice!
🎵 Do you hear what I hear? 🎶
Heh.
Fennec vixen: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/19534197/
Fur real?
LOL
Furily!
It has ears like my wife.
Or like my boss!
You sweet talker you!
It’s a talent.
she heard you!
I know. She’s only eight miles away.
In a recording studio.
Fennecs got the best radiators.
It cannot be said enough that the ears on the fennec fox are absolutely fabulous. Thank you, Martini! Wow! (We need to see some fab creatures right now to remember how beautiful creation is.)
Just because Epstein is dead does not mean that that billionaire pedophile ring has ended
On an anti-war note, RIP Country Joe. The song that made him famous at Woodstock is still relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0vkKCadgk
The PHX zoo used to have a fennec fox. Second most awesome ears, after Abert's squirrel.
I ran across this about the HAT that he wore to play gold on Sunday (maybe a fresh one without orange stains) that he is selling:
And there is currently a note on the listing that reads, “Due to high demand, this hat may take an additional 7-10 days to process then ship.” So, whether the President was, in fact, trying to market the hat or not, it appears that the controversial cap is now highly desired.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-appears-selling-dignified-100058134.html
Let's be clear, I absolutely despise Trump. But for years now, I have always marginally tempered my disgust with the consideration that George W Bush killed more people by sins of commission than Trump. Trump has almost certainly already caused more deaths than Bush, but those, in large part, could charitably be considered as by sins of omission due to incompetence, indifference, antipathy, ignorance. But, no more; as with everything Trump, there is simply no bottom.
The moment Elon finished gutting US AID the body count began. Just another undeclared war...against hungry, sick and poor people with brown skin.
*Charitably*, a sin of omission. I have savings. I could empty the account and donate it for food or medical aid that would prevent deaths, but choose not to. I think it was an evil thing for Trump to do, but somehow, to me, it still doesn't quite feel the same as dropping bombs on a girls school, as torpedoing ships, as drone attacks on the open seas, as ordering soldiers to their deaths.
Wigalow is too much fun...
Whenever I hear about options wisely left on the table I always think of Viet Nam and "military advisers needing support"
I admit that this is quirky. But I just can't stop free associating like this.
It may be quirky, but I don't believe that makes it off-topic
Fascist warmongers are not terribly original and often work out of the same playbook they've seen the fascists in regimes before them use
“Wisely”
Oh, my sides.
NYT: "According to a Wall Street Journal report, Trump has developed an obsession with $145 Florsheim men's dress shoes that he's distributing to agency heads, lawmakers, and White House officials — and he apparently expects them to wear them in his presence. Trump has been known to suddenly pivot conversations to his "incredible" new shoes. During a January lunch with Tucker Carlson, he handed the media personality a pair of brown wingtips without warning. At cabinet meetings, he asks recipients: "Did you get the shoes?"
Some officials appear to feel compelled to wear the shoes in Trump's presence despite their reservations, which has included putting them on and lacing them up during Oval Office meetings. One female White House official remarked: "All the boys have them." Another joked: "It's hysterical because everybody's afraid not to wear them.""
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-gifts/
In other news of murderous civil rights violations, newly released bodycam footage of the homicide of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, in Austin, shows that — as they’ve done every single time they have shot someone in a moving car —DHS agents were lying and Martinez did not try to run any of them over before being fatally shot three times by Homeland Security Investigations Agent Jack C. Stevens.
I feel bad for the victim but I do not feel bad for the Mom with early stage Mar-A-Lago face who ardently supports Trump and doesn’t blame him one bit. Oh no she doesn’t.
Her son deserved better.
You're telling me King Stinky didn't figure out that if he killed an 89 year old man, that he neglected to figure out that the Ayatollah had a son who'd take over the joint? Fail to plan, plan to fail, ya failure!
"It's Ayatollahs, Ayatollahs, Ayatollahs, all the way down. We'll just keep knocking them off until they run out of Ayatollahs. Remember that we can keep fighting forever. Right, Hegseth?"
25A:
“Just give me a good interpreter. Interpreter very important. And I know if somebody’s good. I may not speak the language but I know I had an interpreter recently that wasn’t good. Talking to a very strong person from a different part of the world and I could tell even though I don’t speak the language, I could tell the interpreter was not good. When you go ‘Uh, uh, uh,’ when I give a long, flowing beautiful sentence and in this case it was a woman and she gave it in about 1/4 the time. I said, ‘Well, their language may be efficient, but it’s not that efficient.’ And I could also tell when I have great interpreters. Interpreters are very important. You know, you have a bad interpreter. You think you’re doing well. ‘Boy, did I do a good job talking to this one or that? Was I great when I spoke to Putin today? Was I great when I spoke to President? Was I great?’ But if the interpreter isn’t speaking right or is weak or is ineffective or is just not good or not interpreting your words correctly. In one case we had an interpreter who when she disagreed with what we were saying she actually changed it. We considered her a foreign minister. Right? But no, the interpreter is, I talk about it all the time, interpreters are really important. When you don’t speak the language, they don’t speak the language. People have no idea. People have no idea how valuable and I’m on them all the time. People have no idea how valuable a good interpreter is.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-languages-pete-hegseth_n_69ae7f78e4b06c543ae35b5d?origin=home-latest-news-unit
He is nothing if not efficient. Dementia coupled to Dunning-Kruger syndrome coupled to narcissistic personality disorder, all perfectly exemplified in one passage.
We saw a couple of bat-eared foxed in Namibia last year. Ears are big but more rounded.
Shouldn't the world be much more concerned about DJT having access to nukes than Iran having access to nukes?
"They were big men, and when I shook their hands, they had tears in their eyes, and they said 'Sir, that was a big tube of toothpaste, the hugest, there is so much toothpaste.' Toothpaste, that's a funny old-fashioned word and it's getting popular again. This is beautiful toothpaste, perfect toothpaste, no one has squeezed as much as me, it's unbelievable, really, no one has ever squeezed huge, beautiful toothpaste like me."