So we have a friend from Peru, and when he came back from visiting family he brought us a round rug of alpaca wool that's about 5-feet in diameter and decorated with little alpacas around the border and dark lines running to the center, making it look like a brown and white alpaca pizza. My first thought was wow, how cool, he brought us a friggin' alpaca rug all the way from Peru, and my second thought was that it was pretty ugly. I frankly didn't know what we were going to do with it.
But a few nights later the temperature dropped, and we pulled it over us on the sofa. Miracle! We were toasty warm in seconds. So now we call it "Pizza," and whenever the temperature gets low one of us will shout out, "Grab Pizza!" and we'll spread it over the bed. Or one person can roll up inside of it, in which case it becomes "Burrito."
Herds of alpacas often show up at my gym, wearing plaid pajama bottoms and slides or Crocs, right around the time when the local HS lets out. They then sit around on various pieces of equipment, scrolling their phones and calling each other dude.
Alpacas don't like things on their heads, as it the wild it would probably be predatory birds. I learnt that went I went walking with Alpacas for a birthday treat. They are lovely creatures
I was gonna make a crack about sweaters on the hoof, but then it occurred to me that hooves are for socks. NW GA is the home to a number of alpaca ranches. I live about 4 miles from one called Sugar Valley Alpaca Farm.
The more recent entries have more lemons and fewer alpacas than the earlier ones (are alpacas going out of fashion?). For more balanced lemons and alpacas, start here: https://www.leetshoe.com/2013/
I have a friend whose daughter did an "internship" at an alpaca ranch when she was at the university. She used to send me pictures all the time, including after they were defleeced, or whatever it is called. I always think they are ready to say something, and they always look like they are smiling, as opposed to llamas who look like they are about to spit at you, and sometimes, do. Thanks for giving me a smile this morning.
Gah. That Klass piece on "the inversion of reality." Yet another "insightful" media critique that outlines the specifics of the problem in excruciating detail and puts forward a plan for what the media "must" do to correct it, as if the media is somehow too blind and stupid to notice what they're doing.
Dude you concluded, correctly, that the media is systematically burying any credit for Biden's accomplishments when in prior administrations they would be trumpeting them. And you concluded, correctly, that they are systematically normalizing Trump's completely unprecedented open fascism.
And you're not the first one. Not by a long shot. WHY CAN'T YOU FOOLS DRAW THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION? This shit is deliberate and purposeful. The media, especially The New York Fucking Times, is notorious for finding new and innovative ways to report the opinions of random public citizens, almost always ignorant or biased, to the status of the underlying basic facts of our nation and has been doing it for nine years, now, ever since Cletus Safaris became a regular front-page feature. Worse, these manufactured "facts" are not a supplement to real facts, they are being used to BURY real facts.
DO YOU REALLY THINK NINE YEARS OF THIS SHIT IS A FUCKING ACCIDENT?
The right wing FUD on EVs didn't work on me. I picked mine up this week. So long, dinosaur squeezins! It's weird to think I'll only go to a gas station now for snacks.
Trump and his lawyers are required to remain in the courthouse everyday that the jury deliberates. This is likely because of the security required to get him to and fro. It makes me giggle. Expect lots of rage posting.
Hang in there, I will eventually get to the good part.
My fave comedian is Brian Regan.
One of his schticks is about getting his phone turned on when he moved.
So the phone company says it may or may not turn on his phone in the indeterminate future. yada yada yada. There is a switch to flick but the switch flicker is way behind .
So, Brian created a cheer to encourage him. FLIP THOSE SWITCHES FLIP 'EM GOOOOOOD.
Well I suggest an Orca cheer.
FLIP THOSE YACHTS, ORCAS, FLIP EM GOOOOOOD.
Tshirts are available in the lobby
I'll be here all week. Don't forget to try the haddock hash...
Remember the white gal living in a $3 million dollar house in San Diego who got busted for running a shoplifting crew? She sold the merchandise on eBay. Plus there's this entitled white man who was living in the exclusive Portland suburb of Lake Oswego who got busted for running a nationwide crime ring that stole at least 44,000 catalytic converters. But wasn't a breathless media implying that brown people, possibly connected to cartels, were the likely culprits? Yes, yes they were.
Semi-literate GOP rep. Tony Gonzales beat whack job gun nut Brandon "The AK Guy" Herrera in the GOP primary runoff. This is for representation in the district that contains Uvalde, site of that horrific elementary school shooting.
The scary part? the vote was 50.7% to 49.3%. Gonzales won by less than 400 votes. A gun nut almost won the nomination in a district that was the victim of horrible, unspeakable gun violence.
So far - SO FAR - Herrera has conceded and not screamed "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!!! RIGGED AND STOLLEN!!1!!!!1!" But he was supported by geniuses like Matt Gaetz, so I do expect some RIGGED AND STOLLEN tripe sooner or later.
"What if some subset of Trump supporters continues backing him not in spite of his efforts to place himself above our institutions and the law—not in spite of his threats to unleash punishment and suffering on other large groups of Americans—but precisely because of those things?"
On the article about how the NYT misinforms voters. They still didn’t once mention the record high of 40,000. I looked every day all day for it. Not one mention.
I have work to do this morning, dammit! But I also have a cat who has settled comfortably into my lap and doesn't want me to move my chair any closer to the desk, and typing like this is untenable.
I've brought this up before about the pronatalists. They are not worried about population decline. Population decline is extremely easy to solve on a national level - simply increase immigration. The simple fact is they are worried about race.
They actually talk about that in the article. The couple profiled think it would be a bad look for a high income (white) country to be importing labor from a low income (black) country. Parentheticals mine. Seriously, they are just concerned for those low income countries and their own population issues.
I also don’t understand how anyone can believe “we won’t be able to feed the old people” if population decreases.
Having more cogs in the system isn’t the only source of future income. We could pay working class people MORE to do the actually necessary jobs and let shit like telemarketing and McDonalds cease to be. We could go back to taxing the fuck out of the ultra rich to pay for stuff like social security and care homes.
Seems to me the Natalists are an unholy alliance between racists and rich people who like having sex a lot more than they like the idea of paying fair taxes.
“I’m going to selfishly have kids to edify my own sense of importance, knowing the world is on a collision course with multiple crises” is fine for narcissists with trust funds. I pity their kids.
Alpacas would probably look pretty good in fish hats except they are all busy looking like singers in a mod boy band. Alpaca more info into yer hed gif source: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/harmony-hills-alpacas-having-a-frolic
I'm there! I'll pack a suitcase.
Black, white, and brown alpacas all get along fine, I see.
Llamaest. Tabs. Ever.
I'm thinking pajamas/onesies...
"Are you a Mod or a Rocker?"
"Uh, no. I'm a Mocker."
Orca little, paca little, orca little, paca little,
Pac-pac-pac, orca lot, paca little more
So we have a friend from Peru, and when he came back from visiting family he brought us a round rug of alpaca wool that's about 5-feet in diameter and decorated with little alpacas around the border and dark lines running to the center, making it look like a brown and white alpaca pizza. My first thought was wow, how cool, he brought us a friggin' alpaca rug all the way from Peru, and my second thought was that it was pretty ugly. I frankly didn't know what we were going to do with it.
But a few nights later the temperature dropped, and we pulled it over us on the sofa. Miracle! We were toasty warm in seconds. So now we call it "Pizza," and whenever the temperature gets low one of us will shout out, "Grab Pizza!" and we'll spread it over the bed. Or one person can roll up inside of it, in which case it becomes "Burrito."
LOL, I love it!
Herds of alpacas often show up at my gym, wearing plaid pajama bottoms and slides or Crocs, right around the time when the local HS lets out. They then sit around on various pieces of equipment, scrolling their phones and calling each other dude.
If you have fish hats, then pretty soon you're gonna have MAGA fish hats, and then whole thing is ruined.
Fish hats, fish hats.
Roly-poly fish hats.....
Alpaca line honey, you pack a pole.
We'll go fishin at the fishin hole.
What beautiful animals. I love seeing them leaping and running around.
Alpacas don't like things on their heads, as it the wild it would probably be predatory birds. I learnt that went I went walking with Alpacas for a birthday treat. They are lovely creatures
I was gonna make a crack about sweaters on the hoof, but then it occurred to me that hooves are for socks. NW GA is the home to a number of alpaca ranches. I live about 4 miles from one called Sugar Valley Alpaca Farm.
Ellijay, GA resident myself
Nice town. I like to stop for lunch there from time to time.
I’d be knitting with that soft yarn all the time!
Wait till you feel qiviut.
Qiviut may well be my favorite fiber. I have two balls of a 50-50 blend with silk that I have to make into something, and I have a qiviut smoke ring.
I have! I knit a scarf of a very expensive ball. I lost it, sadface.
It just hit me. Are there inexpensive balls of qiviut? I mean, they blend it with silk and cashmere and such to make it more affordable.
Well, you're one step ahead of me. I only gaze upon it longingly and daydream. Someday.
Obligatory: Lemons and alpacas in anime blog. Descriptions of anime may be or probably are not accurate. :D
https://www.leetshoe.com/
The more recent entries have more lemons and fewer alpacas than the earlier ones (are alpacas going out of fashion?). For more balanced lemons and alpacas, start here: https://www.leetshoe.com/2013/
I have a friend whose daughter did an "internship" at an alpaca ranch when she was at the university. She used to send me pictures all the time, including after they were defleeced, or whatever it is called. I always think they are ready to say something, and they always look like they are smiling, as opposed to llamas who look like they are about to spit at you, and sometimes, do. Thanks for giving me a smile this morning.
I think it's "shorn".
Llamas *are* about to spit.
Thanks. Having more than one Senior Moment lately.
I agree about the llamas.
If only one could capture the 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 of a fish-hat in Alpaca...
Requires a truly gifted designer
AI was *created* for this.
Ravelry is always good for that:
https://ravel.me/clown-fish-love-anemones-earflap-hat
https://ravel.me/in-the-deep-blue-sea
Haaretz link to story about Rafah is behind the paywall.
Manly man song... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d8CJMfzADKI
I am in love with the idea of Orcas being fashion icons! With a sense of humor no less!
Gah. That Klass piece on "the inversion of reality." Yet another "insightful" media critique that outlines the specifics of the problem in excruciating detail and puts forward a plan for what the media "must" do to correct it, as if the media is somehow too blind and stupid to notice what they're doing.
Dude you concluded, correctly, that the media is systematically burying any credit for Biden's accomplishments when in prior administrations they would be trumpeting them. And you concluded, correctly, that they are systematically normalizing Trump's completely unprecedented open fascism.
And you're not the first one. Not by a long shot. WHY CAN'T YOU FOOLS DRAW THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION? This shit is deliberate and purposeful. The media, especially The New York Fucking Times, is notorious for finding new and innovative ways to report the opinions of random public citizens, almost always ignorant or biased, to the status of the underlying basic facts of our nation and has been doing it for nine years, now, ever since Cletus Safaris became a regular front-page feature. Worse, these manufactured "facts" are not a supplement to real facts, they are being used to BURY real facts.
DO YOU REALLY THINK NINE YEARS OF THIS SHIT IS A FUCKING ACCIDENT?
The right wing FUD on EVs didn't work on me. I picked mine up this week. So long, dinosaur squeezins! It's weird to think I'll only go to a gas station now for snacks.
Trump and his lawyers are required to remain in the courthouse everyday that the jury deliberates. This is likely because of the security required to get him to and fro. It makes me giggle. Expect lots of rage posting.
"My goodness, this “pro-natalist” couple is … well." I disagree; they are quite unwell.
When you combine a huge ego with a general misunderstanding of science ...
Fish hats for everyone!
Hang in there, I will eventually get to the good part.
My fave comedian is Brian Regan.
One of his schticks is about getting his phone turned on when he moved.
So the phone company says it may or may not turn on his phone in the indeterminate future. yada yada yada. There is a switch to flick but the switch flicker is way behind .
So, Brian created a cheer to encourage him. FLIP THOSE SWITCHES FLIP 'EM GOOOOOOD.
Well I suggest an Orca cheer.
FLIP THOSE YACHTS, ORCAS, FLIP EM GOOOOOOD.
Tshirts are available in the lobby
I'll be here all week. Don't forget to try the haddock hash...
Remember the white gal living in a $3 million dollar house in San Diego who got busted for running a shoplifting crew? She sold the merchandise on eBay. Plus there's this entitled white man who was living in the exclusive Portland suburb of Lake Oswego who got busted for running a nationwide crime ring that stole at least 44,000 catalytic converters. But wasn't a breathless media implying that brown people, possibly connected to cartels, were the likely culprits? Yes, yes they were.
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/11/beaverton-police-arrest-portland-area-crime-ring-44000-catalytic-converters-trafficked/
Good yet unbelievably scary news from Texas:
Semi-literate GOP rep. Tony Gonzales beat whack job gun nut Brandon "The AK Guy" Herrera in the GOP primary runoff. This is for representation in the district that contains Uvalde, site of that horrific elementary school shooting.
The scary part? the vote was 50.7% to 49.3%. Gonzales won by less than 400 votes. A gun nut almost won the nomination in a district that was the victim of horrible, unspeakable gun violence.
So far - SO FAR - Herrera has conceded and not screamed "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!!! RIGGED AND STOLLEN!!1!!!!1!" But he was supported by geniuses like Matt Gaetz, so I do expect some RIGGED AND STOLLEN tripe sooner or later.
"What if some subset of Trump supporters continues backing him not in spite of his efforts to place himself above our institutions and the law—not in spite of his threats to unleash punishment and suffering on other large groups of Americans—but precisely because of those things?"
No shit, Greg Sargent.
Greg Sargent is JUST NOW getting the message? How many time does Trump have to a) threaten others or b) accuse others of threatening him.
Exactly.
On the article about how the NYT misinforms voters. They still didn’t once mention the record high of 40,000. I looked every day all day for it. Not one mention.
I have work to do this morning, dammit! But I also have a cat who has settled comfortably into my lap and doesn't want me to move my chair any closer to the desk, and typing like this is untenable.
There will always be work, but only so many days of cat. Enjoy the cat.
My cat is old now, so this is the mantra I live by.
The cat finally left. And was replaced by another cat. It’s cats all the way down.
Grow your arms!
I've brought this up before about the pronatalists. They are not worried about population decline. Population decline is extremely easy to solve on a national level - simply increase immigration. The simple fact is they are worried about race.
They actually talk about that in the article. The couple profiled think it would be a bad look for a high income (white) country to be importing labor from a low income (black) country. Parentheticals mine. Seriously, they are just concerned for those low income countries and their own population issues.
Sure, Jan. Or should I say "sure, Titan Invictus"?
Those people are garden -variety white nationalists all gussied up with pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo. Nothing more.
I also don’t understand how anyone can believe “we won’t be able to feed the old people” if population decreases.
Having more cogs in the system isn’t the only source of future income. We could pay working class people MORE to do the actually necessary jobs and let shit like telemarketing and McDonalds cease to be. We could go back to taxing the fuck out of the ultra rich to pay for stuff like social security and care homes.
Seems to me the Natalists are an unholy alliance between racists and rich people who like having sex a lot more than they like the idea of paying fair taxes.
“I’m going to selfishly have kids to edify my own sense of importance, knowing the world is on a collision course with multiple crises” is fine for narcissists with trust funds. I pity their kids.
We could lift the salary cap on medicare and social security taxes poof, no more problem!
It would be a good and easy start.