I'm pretty sure if regular bats did not have "adequate" vision they would have been evolutionarily deselected and gone extinct. That does not mean their vision is great compared to other critters. It just means that their vision is adequate for them to survive and reproduce.
I was at a zoo in Florida, when a wombat wrangler left the gate to their area ajar. It was something less than a great escape. One of them kind of waddled quietly out and seemed more than happy to greet the crowd. He or she was gently coaxed back into wombat land.
Is she still running? I saw that Kari Lake won the Republican primary there, and Ruben Gallego has long been the Democratic candidate, but I kinda thought Sinema originally planned to run as an independent.
I forget what wombats look like even though in elementary school we had to each write and illustrate a book based on “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” and mine was If You Give a Wombat Sunscreen.
Perhaps I missed it but in that crazy ass story about the judge and her raucous house party, did Carter ever find the key to his mom's SUV? It's really bugging me because about 25% of that legal document has to do with the lost key.
'Trix: "Democrats having EVENTS. I’ve found both a brunch and a happy hour for Kamala near me just in the next week. See what’s near you!" (link in main post)
And of course, if there's nothing readily available, you could just do your own event or outreach, there's nothing stopping you! I spent an evening on outreach to the Youngs last week at the local college watering hole, it's a nice casual way of doing things and I'm good in that environment. I'm planning to head over again next week, after the V.P. announcement, assuming that happens as reported.
On the subject of the knife attack, there was street rioting by the right wingers and a fence/wall in front of the mosque got damaged. Some guys who def looked like proper English working class tough guys came out to help the Muslims who were repairing the fence.
I know it's petty, but again I feel the need to point out how all the Wonkette legal eagles called me a petulant child when I posited that judges have no restraint on their activity. You guys can GFY.
Yes the EDL is terrible, and yes they are exploiting a tragedy in order to provoke disgusting mob violence, but they did provide us with that video of that one thug getting absolutely whanged in the cobblers by a brick thrown from his own side. More like that, please.
Hoo boy, 81 fucking minutes, and he walked out of there under his own power. "The police encounter with Michael Spadone began at 1 a.m. After 81 minutes of back-talk, insults and threats, he was arrested." #howdoIknowheswhite
Wombats! It's your hed gif source link: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/wombats
And your meme chat for the day: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/da3461e6-e364-41c3-aa72-b10ef6c3e152
The Wombat is short and stout and he will be your friend no doubt.
Gotta love a critter that shits cubes.
I almost ran out of gas (I wasn't alone) in an Air Force jet once. No cubes, but I did shit a meataxe!
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Luv totally batty posts Martini. Thanks!
Hazel the Wombat vs. dryer: https://youtu.be/a0CCdhI2yRA
“What the heck just happened?!”
"Wombats, unlike 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 bats, are wingless and have adequate vision..."
"Are you 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 yer a biologist?"
I'm pretty sure if regular bats did not have "adequate" vision they would have been evolutionarily deselected and gone extinct. That does not mean their vision is great compared to other critters. It just means that their vision is adequate for them to survive and reproduce.
radar? sonar?
Sonar. I wonder how a bat perceives the world using sonar. Is it like a visual field?
Classic essay "What is it like to be a bat?" by Thomas Nagel https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf
Thanks!
https://www.snexplores.org/article/what-bats-see-when-they-probe-the-world-with-sound
Thanks!
I dunno, he's still claiming that he's a biologist...
I was at a zoo in Florida, when a wombat wrangler left the gate to their area ajar. It was something less than a great escape. One of them kind of waddled quietly out and seemed more than happy to greet the crowd. He or she was gently coaxed back into wombat land.
That is the sweetest story! You can tell she felt very safe and loved there.
My two girls were kind of thrilled by it.
Awwww! How old were they, do you remember?
Around 7 and 10.
Wow, that's a while ago! What a wonderful memory to share with them.
How can anyone not like wombats?
It's all in the name! WOMBATS! FTW!
Not woms. Not bats either. Great job, Eve.
Wombats are such adorable little creatures. They're the freaky little version of teddy bears on the other side of the globe.
Ground Koalas.
Take away their cell phones, too.
Is that what those are!? Weird. Not Republican weird. Just a little bit.
Quirky weird
The good kind. Like Steven Wright.
And not Kyrsten Sinema.
She's still a thing, isn't she?
Is she still running? I saw that Kari Lake won the Republican primary there, and Ruben Gallego has long been the Democratic candidate, but I kinda thought Sinema originally planned to run as an independent.
if kamala wins, I bet kyrsten takesover no labels from the corpse of joe liebermann.
if donold wins, kyrsten will be ambassador to india or something similar.
Sadly, so.
I forget what wombats look like even though in elementary school we had to each write and illustrate a book based on “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” and mine was If You Give a Wombat Sunscreen.
You were clearly the precocious kid in your class.
Give the kitten bread dough so you don't have to knead it yourself.
That would have been clever!
I love it!
Republicans wanna regulate them because they have "womb" in their name.
Well, I for one, feel that wombats have the right to choose the shape of their turds.
Well, ...that went downhill guickly..
But not very far. Wombat turds don't roll very well.
They’re like dice, I hear.
Praytell, how do they print the dots on them?
Repubs would rather polish turds.
polish turds like the pis
or smear them at the Capital.
"You can't polish a Republican."
You'll just get shit all over your polishing cloth.
They want UFC poops.
"Enter the Octagon!"
Wobmats!! {{{Takes 1379th enormous hit, shrugs, clumsily knocks over Diet Coke}}}
Cleanup on aisle crew.
square poop
It's stackable!
Substackable? Hmmm...
Good for building small shelters.
New meaning to the term 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦...
Before all the buffalo were hunted, settlers would use dried buffalo chips like bricks to build their homesteads. They had the original shithouses
Collect them all!
Li'l Feller makes nice decorative cabinets to store and display your completed sets of wombat poops.
#poopinets
As a construction technology, it stinks.
No man, it's like totally the shit!
IK,R?!!
OUCH
That's why they make the horrid noises they make!
I still haven't figured out how a square sphincter works. Not that I have gone out of my way to find out, mind you.
Like an iris with four blades.
Service-y!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46258616
https://i.giphy.com/Qy7tP5FZZXAN0SR5uc.webp
Is this where the phrase "talking shit" comes from?
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑠 - 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑜 𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑠.
chat shit get banged (sexually)
Consider me informed. {{{takes yet another picket-crossing hit, opens second diet coke, shrugs again, calls self a scab}}}
Eat some Lego, do the experiment!
I'll pass.
As will the Lego.
Perhaps I missed it but in that crazy ass story about the judge and her raucous house party, did Carter ever find the key to his mom's SUV? It's really bugging me because about 25% of that legal document has to do with the lost key.
Happy capabara or wombat day
(whatever the « tab » rodent is)
and can someone make Louis DeJoy go away
(who’s turning mail into schizz).
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'Trix: "Democrats having EVENTS. I’ve found both a brunch and a happy hour for Kamala near me just in the next week. See what’s near you!" (link in main post)
And of course, if there's nothing readily available, you could just do your own event or outreach, there's nothing stopping you! I spent an evening on outreach to the Youngs last week at the local college watering hole, it's a nice casual way of doing things and I'm good in that environment. I'm planning to head over again next week, after the V.P. announcement, assuming that happens as reported.
List of Trumps Worst Hires
1. AOTK
Haven’t clicked on the article. Does it have their Scaramucci Ratings of Longevity?
scaramucci was seriously the best trump hire.
On the subject of the knife attack, there was street rioting by the right wingers and a fence/wall in front of the mosque got damaged. Some guys who def looked like proper English working class tough guys came out to help the Muslims who were repairing the fence.
Harris/Walz is quite mellifluous
Why would anyone - even William Fucking Buckley - want to be on the wrong side of James Baldwin?
I know it's petty, but again I feel the need to point out how all the Wonkette legal eagles called me a petulant child when I posited that judges have no restraint on their activity. You guys can GFY.
Yes the EDL is terrible, and yes they are exploiting a tragedy in order to provoke disgusting mob violence, but they did provide us with that video of that one thug getting absolutely whanged in the cobblers by a brick thrown from his own side. More like that, please.
Doesn't Robby Starbuck realize that he name is associated with the gayest 19th century American novel ever written?
Wasn't the lead character on Battlestar Galactica named Starbuck, or am I having a stroke?
As I recall, Battlestar Galactica frequently mined "Moby Dick" for inspiration.
No, I think it was « Dick Tracy. »
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court? I'm not sure what you mean.
Off by a whale. A big white whale.
Oh, right- of course. The Age of Innocence.
I think he’s referring to « The Boys of summer. »
I followed the link and read the whole ruling on the Judge who was at her friends party full of drunken teenagers.
That was a rollercoaster!
But the commission ruled that she should be removed, which is nice. Cause she sounds like an absolute trainwreck.
I imagine any black defendants who can afford decent lawyers (sigh, I know) are going to bring up her apparent bias at appeals and such.
Better late than never I guess.
Perhaps Evan's condition was conditioned on being in, a quantum Evan.
Happy James Baldwin's 100th birthday!
https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.132.5.4
LOL "Then they started drinking...."
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/hatched-plan-infiltrate-palestinian-groups-started-drinking-rcna163821
Hoo boy, 81 fucking minutes, and he walked out of there under his own power. "The police encounter with Michael Spadone began at 1 a.m. After 81 minutes of back-talk, insults and threats, he was arrested." #howdoIknowheswhite