I had just finished reading news, and decided I couldn't read any more until I checked out tabs! And you gave me giraffes! I love that!
I read somewhere that when AI was an infant, it identified lots of things as "giraffe," because giraffes were all over the Internet, and it thought that frequent images had to be giraffes. Don't know if it's true. Anyway, thanks for the smile from a wee (if there is such a thing) giraffe.
My youngest son decided he wanted to be rich when he saw the Directv commercial with the Russian mobster and the miniature giraffe in 2010. He succeeded in getting his finance degree and landing a job on Wall Street. A year ago he told me his plan was to stack money, but he realized he had cheap tastes.
The more I think about it, the less I can picture myself saying to a friend "Did you see that story on My Source last night?" "MS-NOW" is not any better.
God, I hope they didn't pay anyone for this advice! But I bet you're right, an army of branding consultants have probably cashed the check, then skipped town.
Well, I managed to have THREE weird dreams that I actually remembered, so I guess that means for the first time in what feels like forever I actually had some REM sleep! :P
1. Dreamed I was spectating some kind of sailboat race where the tradition was that the losing team had to be tied to the deck of a hand-carved "native" looking wooden skiff, and sailed around the course one time, while being hazed by the large Maori looking men sailing the skiff.
2. Was waiting around with extended family for what was apparently a *very important* PANCAKE BREAKFAST. A cousin who is a few years older than me demanded that I carry her around piggyback while she "had some smoke" and then I had to carry her around a long market table so she could sniff all these herbs that were on offer. We were adults of our currentish ages in the dream. I live far away from my extended family, I haven't seen this person in about a decade. Very weird.
3. Had a vague sense that it was a "work" dream, but my job was a little amorphous. People kept coming to me to give them advice/solve issues... but my sense in the dream was that all the problems they were bringing me were really simple, straight forward things to solve. And everyone was treating me like I was a total genius for knowing the answers, but I woke up feeling SO ANNOYED that NO ONE ELSE KNOWS A GOD DAMNED THING, even people who are supposed to be my bosses.
Fantastic! I hate when I wake up from a particularly wild dream and think, "I can't wait to tell Chris (my husband) about THIS one!" but by the time I get dressed and downstairs, I've pretty much forgotten most of it before I'm even making coffee.
This is what dreams do, as Freud noted. Your only hope is to IMMEDIATELY write them down. They evaporate as fast as alcohol on the hood of a car in the middle of summer in Ecuador.
LA Times: UCLA’s Jewish community unites against Trump’s $1-billion demand: ‘misguided and punitive’
"A large swath of UCLA’s Jewish faculty — some of whom are fervently divided over Israel’s war in Gaza — united to sign a letter denouncing the Trump administration’s “misguided and punitive” demand for a $1-billion fine to settle claims over alleged campus antisemitism.
The letter, crafted by a handful of professors and signed by more than 360 people, was expected to be sent by organizers as early as Monday afternoon to the University of California’s Board of Regents. It also decries the government’s freezing of $584 million in research grant funding.
“Cutting off hundreds of millions of research funds will do nothing to make UCLA safer for Jews nor diminish antisemitism in the world,” the letter said. “It will not benefit Jewish Bruins nor Jews beyond campus who make extensive use of its first-rate medical facilities, ground-breaking scientific innovations, and cutting-edge cultural institutions.”"
Jesse Watters, last night: “When Big Balls went down, that’s when Trump had to call it,” Watters said. “If Big Balls isn’t safe, no one’s safe. And I’m glad he took a beating for the rest of the city, and he’s back up on his feet. So, Big Balls, we love you.”
Boop! Your hed gif source info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/baby-giraffe-boop
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/23177604-aa9d-4ce4-91f2-cd3d4b269b62?utm_source=share
They always look so cute in vids. Those suckers are tall. I walked under one's tummy and he didn't even notice.
Boopity-boop-boop!
I had just finished reading news, and decided I couldn't read any more until I checked out tabs! And you gave me giraffes! I love that!
I read somewhere that when AI was an infant, it identified lots of things as "giraffe," because giraffes were all over the Internet, and it thought that frequent images had to be giraffes. Don't know if it's true. Anyway, thanks for the smile from a wee (if there is such a thing) giraffe.
"Were giraffe's antennae to sprout from your barnacled elbows, one could but weep for the pretense of a fallen chamber pot."
Those animals look weird. Evolution is a lie.
Giraffe's long necks breed patience
They're very good as waiters
The food they eat at brunch time
Hits their tummies somewhat later.
As a doggeral writer
I really have to laugh
It's just too very easy
Rhyming giraffe with photograph.
CAMEL!
Sorry, I don't smoke.
you aced the test, just like The Great Leader
They said "Sir, we can't believe it. Nobody's ever done that before!"
Baby freckles! Getting ready for the catwalk. Definitely a 10 of cuteness.💕
Oi, mate. Wind yer neck in.
“Is this thing on?”
LOL
A social young giraffe and an AM boop...
Life is good
The baby giraffe eagerly awaits its first chiro appointment:
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/z1nRZ9MVsMs
Babby giraffe! Yes, definitely in my top five favorite babby animals!
Betty Boop!
Shrugs….Can take a lick…
Boop da snoot!
Gold, my ass. It's Home Depot and gold paint.
My youngest son decided he wanted to be rich when he saw the Directv commercial with the Russian mobster and the miniature giraffe in 2010. He succeeded in getting his finance degree and landing a job on Wall Street. A year ago he told me his plan was to stack money, but he realized he had cheap tastes.
Next Oval Office decor to be Trumped. Gilding the Resolute Desk and chair. Followed by gold cushions on all the sofas. Tack attack!.
In addition to the shitty gold shit, TFG is decorating by hanging numerous portraits of himself in the White House.
"So it's a safe bet that the Trump paintings now dotted around the White House have been personally approved by the president. It's believed to be somewhat unusual for presidents to hang paintings of themselves at the White House during their time in office; a painting is usually commissioned to be hung after they've served their term. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/multiple-new-donald-trump-portraits-appear-in-white-house/ar-AA1KOezZ?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=dcfb75c2e83b43a5b53d8aeaf09708f9&ei=13
Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell did that with framed portraits of himself hung in each division of the office.
When you walked around the room, the eyes followed you.
Just saw this. Texas economy slowing because of IMMIGRATION and TRADE WAR.
Uh-oh Spaghetti-O!
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/texas-economy-slowing-dallas-federal-reserve-bank-report/
They've got Musk now. He'll more than make up for the downturn in economic activity.
The more I think about it, the less I can picture myself saying to a friend "Did you see that story on My Source last night?" "MS-NOW" is not any better.
Are there no good ad agencies anymore?
God, I hope they didn't pay anyone for this advice! But I bet you're right, an army of branding consultants have probably cashed the check, then skipped town.
Damn about Pratt. Why not take after his in laws Maria and Arnie and call out this BS
Because he's an Evangelical Christian hypocrite moron.
My sister calls them “Evilgelicals”
Well, I managed to have THREE weird dreams that I actually remembered, so I guess that means for the first time in what feels like forever I actually had some REM sleep! :P
1. Dreamed I was spectating some kind of sailboat race where the tradition was that the losing team had to be tied to the deck of a hand-carved "native" looking wooden skiff, and sailed around the course one time, while being hazed by the large Maori looking men sailing the skiff.
2. Was waiting around with extended family for what was apparently a *very important* PANCAKE BREAKFAST. A cousin who is a few years older than me demanded that I carry her around piggyback while she "had some smoke" and then I had to carry her around a long market table so she could sniff all these herbs that were on offer. We were adults of our currentish ages in the dream. I live far away from my extended family, I haven't seen this person in about a decade. Very weird.
3. Had a vague sense that it was a "work" dream, but my job was a little amorphous. People kept coming to me to give them advice/solve issues... but my sense in the dream was that all the problems they were bringing me were really simple, straight forward things to solve. And everyone was treating me like I was a total genius for knowing the answers, but I woke up feeling SO ANNOYED that NO ONE ELSE KNOWS A GOD DAMNED THING, even people who are supposed to be my bosses.
Fantastic! I hate when I wake up from a particularly wild dream and think, "I can't wait to tell Chris (my husband) about THIS one!" but by the time I get dressed and downstairs, I've pretty much forgotten most of it before I'm even making coffee.
This is what dreams do, as Freud noted. Your only hope is to IMMEDIATELY write them down. They evaporate as fast as alcohol on the hood of a car in the middle of summer in Ecuador.
But then again, I vividly remember dreams I had literally decades ago. Weird.
"...We are sure they and he will do their very best to ignore all the redacted parts that are exactly 'Trump' letters long..."
Classic.
So, any news on the Jeffrey Epstein files?
Ms. Now could be a hot new superhero, if Hollywood wasn't run by misogynistic assholes, that is.
well, props to the cops who finally braved that part of DC east of North Capitol St.
I mean, they're still in the most gentrified block of the rapidly gentrifying Ivy City, but at least they're in NE.
Hearing Stefanik get booed is so fucking satisfying.
That's how it's done! Just keep booing so loud they can't get a word in edgewise, and they finally just give up and walk away from the mic.
LA Times: UCLA’s Jewish community unites against Trump’s $1-billion demand: ‘misguided and punitive’
"A large swath of UCLA’s Jewish faculty — some of whom are fervently divided over Israel’s war in Gaza — united to sign a letter denouncing the Trump administration’s “misguided and punitive” demand for a $1-billion fine to settle claims over alleged campus antisemitism.
The letter, crafted by a handful of professors and signed by more than 360 people, was expected to be sent by organizers as early as Monday afternoon to the University of California’s Board of Regents. It also decries the government’s freezing of $584 million in research grant funding.
“Cutting off hundreds of millions of research funds will do nothing to make UCLA safer for Jews nor diminish antisemitism in the world,” the letter said. “It will not benefit Jewish Bruins nor Jews beyond campus who make extensive use of its first-rate medical facilities, ground-breaking scientific innovations, and cutting-edge cultural institutions.”"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-19/ucla-jewish-community-trump-condemn-research-funding-freeze
Jesse Watters, last night: “When Big Balls went down, that’s when Trump had to call it,” Watters said. “If Big Balls isn’t safe, no one’s safe. And I’m glad he took a beating for the rest of the city, and he’s back up on his feet. So, Big Balls, we love you.”
Never thought I'd hear the sentence, "So, Big Balls, we love you" from anyone on a supposed "news" station.
Lol, "we love you" but apparently he doesn't even know that little smug asshole's name.
WTAF. Like, it's not a cult or anything...