Blackton was to early British cinema what Georges Méliès was to the French. Both saw film as an expressionistic medium as opposed to the realism of the Lumieres and other documentarians.
Oddly, last night I dreamed about cigars and I don't even smoke.
Uh, oh, it's time to make nicotine a Schedule 1 Drug, just like Cannabis! Also, I still can't fathom how weed is Schedule 1, but fentanyl is Schedule 2.
I can still remember the envelope full of bright pictures I colored for my cousin who quite literally hoofed across the 49th parallel into BC to avoid the deadly damned draft.
I may only have been not quite 8 years old, but I understood perfectly well the decision he had made and approved vigorously.
just Googling Fentanyl for pharmaceutical use - is difficult - almost every hit is bad bad drugs drugs. Almost all the post-cardiac-catheterization patients I receive on my nursing unit have gotten a bit of Fentanyl.
It is an extremely effective pain reliever for those suffering severe, unrelenting pain. It's often used in low doses for women experiencing serious discomfort during labor but don't want to be knocked out.
I've had it twice while hospitalized and cannot imagine doing it for fun, thanks.
my son just had a golf ball sized kidney stone removed via laser (?). He had a rod in his peenerwanger for a WEEK! And he had no pain relievers the first three days because Meijer pharmacy doesn't keep those in stock.
Maia Szalavitz does into the effects of the crackdown on pain medication and how it had increased suicidal ideation and rates among people in chronic pain. It's really bad what has been done.
Used a lot in conscious sedation. My favorite form is the "lollipop" - used with young children and cancer (especially bone cancer) pts for rapid relief. Don't know if it's still in production
Yes- I did not know that. I had my first surgery in 2021 since 1988( c section). The anesthesiologist came to talk to me and tell me what meds had been used - fentanyl was one.
Fucking California . . . so, last year, CSU staff got a 5% raise (or at least those staff covered by my wife's union), with payments starting next month. CSU faculty are tired of their wages and benefits, and decided to strike, with walkouts starting this week (I think it's this week, not sure). To stop the walkouts, the state said to the faculty, "Hey, faculty, how about a 5% raise while we negotiate things, starting immediately?" To staff, they said "Hey, sorry about this, but we're going to hold off a little over a year on your 5% raise, because we were just kidding when we promised it to your union, but don't worry, you'll get it eventually! And if you can somehow convince your cash-strapped universities to cover the costs from February 2024 to May 2025, we'll even pay them back eventually! Pinky-swear!"
Trying to help other HUMANS come in out of the frigid cold and snow and some asshole had the indecency to charge him for it. Sure, maybe he's just following laws that other people created, but my GOD! What have we become? Someone created the laws the police had to (maybe)? abide by here. I always thought religious places were sanctuaries in this country.
Alaska Airlines Changes ‘Proudly All Boeing’ Signs on Planes to ‘Oops! All Boeings’
By this morning, all Alaska jets had been scrubbed of the old slogan on the exterior of the cockpit and painted over with the new, fun, upbeat and honest take on the company’s fleet.
“’Oops! All Boeings’ isn’t just a tagline – it’s a commitment. Because, believe me, Airbus isn’t that much better if at all. We ain’t changing shit around here,” Minicucci said. “If you want real safety, buy your own private jet, motherfuckers—capiche?”
Self described “lonely, depressed, and totally pessimistic” writer of extraordinary crime fiction (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘔𝘳 𝘙𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘺, among others) would've been 103 years old today...
If only. He seems to be stuck in nowhere, in very dire condition, pleading the Chinese embassy to help him ("your choice, your problem, not ours") and is now pleading the Chinese audience watching his video to please do something so someone helps him.
Seems like there are suspicions of suppressed exculpatory evidence, that was in police investigation records but not provided to the defense during discovery. And since his death sentence was overturned due to improper jury selection, he no longer qualifies for a public defender to address the suppressed evidence issues. So Innocence Project is examining the situation.
They do good work, and they don't win them all. From the article, I'm guessing that they're taking this up on the principle of fighting errors like excluding jurors who voiced opposition to the death penalty - the kinds of errors that can result in innocent, non-Scott Peterson convicts being unjustly locked-up.
It’s Princess Nicotine in your header gif. More info here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/sometimes-a-cigar-is-just-a-way-to
That was an especially entertaining GIF today.
It's amazing what early photographers could achieve with just optical illusions and double exposures.
Blackton was to early British cinema what Georges Méliès was to the French. Both saw film as an expressionistic medium as opposed to the realism of the Lumieres and other documentarians.
Oddly, last night I dreamed about cigars and I don't even smoke.
BTW : That guy has a monster cowlick.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Me. 😁
...and a bowl is just a bowl.
...and a sigh is just a sigh.
The fundamental things apply.
Princess Nicotine and I have dated, off and on, for years.
Yeah, but his woman's up in bed with old Panama Red.
Uh, oh, it's time to make nicotine a Schedule 1 Drug, just like Cannabis! Also, I still can't fathom how weed is Schedule 1, but fentanyl is Schedule 2.
Harry J Anslinger and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴...
Are those like Zigzag papers?
If I were you, I would protect that intellectual property!
𝗔𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲, 𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝘀
I see JOB trying to buy you out for $billions!
His name was Richard M. Nixon and he really, really hated Black Americans.
and young white liberal college kids...
...particularly those young white liberal college kids who didn't want to fight in his damned war.
or just wouldn't...
I can still remember the envelope full of bright pictures I colored for my cousin who quite literally hoofed across the 49th parallel into BC to avoid the deadly damned draft.
I may only have been not quite 8 years old, but I understood perfectly well the decision he had made and approved vigorously.
I hit voting age just in time to vote AGAINST Nixon!
I reached my majority in time to vote against Ronald Reagan.
It was not entirely gratifying.
Same. Ronnie Raygun. Boy did he lie like a common Trump!
My first presidential vote was for Jimmy Carter.
So was my second one.
My first presidential vote was for Al Gore. My second was for John Kerry. Third, as they say, was the charm.
Same.
Fentanyl is Schedule 2 because it is available to purchase for medical use.
just Googling Fentanyl for pharmaceutical use - is difficult - almost every hit is bad bad drugs drugs. Almost all the post-cardiac-catheterization patients I receive on my nursing unit have gotten a bit of Fentanyl.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/fentanyl-transdermal-route/description/drg-20068152
Yeah, you have to go to medical school to learn to use it properly.
It is an extremely effective pain reliever for those suffering severe, unrelenting pain. It's often used in low doses for women experiencing serious discomfort during labor but don't want to be knocked out.
I've had it twice while hospitalized and cannot imagine doing it for fun, thanks.
Yep, I got loads when I had a kidney stone!
my son just had a golf ball sized kidney stone removed via laser (?). He had a rod in his peenerwanger for a WEEK! And he had no pain relievers the first three days because Meijer pharmacy doesn't keep those in stock.
We switched back to Rite Aid.
😲 that is horrifying.
HOLY SHIT
does your son know you're talking about him? Really, Becca!...
I just wish I still had the option to chose which pharmacy I want to do business with, but Kaiser Permenante has made that impossible.
For this chronic pain patient the situation continues to deteriorate from bad to worse. Longterm health"care" in this country is a fucking nightmare.
JESUS! Mine was tiny but I could not move.
Maia Szalavitz does into the effects of the crackdown on pain medication and how it had increased suicidal ideation and rates among people in chronic pain. It's really bad what has been done.
as a long-term chronic pain patient who’s done the dance with Walgreens and insurance so many times, that is disappointing but not at all surprising.
Also used by anesthesiologists for patients in surgery.
Used a lot in conscious sedation. My favorite form is the "lollipop" - used with young children and cancer (especially bone cancer) pts for rapid relief. Don't know if it's still in production
Yes- I did not know that. I had my first surgery in 2021 since 1988( c section). The anesthesiologist came to talk to me and tell me what meds had been used - fentanyl was one.
My 'cigar' dances like that also, too!
Ha! I used the same film to make a music video.
https://youtu.be/0PYxqanTemw?si=0lOuLjFmQG5JCo2w
He's blowing smoke up her ass.
But he frees the Smoke Fairy! That can't be good ...
Ah, thought it was 𝑇𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑐 𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒.
Fucking California . . . so, last year, CSU staff got a 5% raise (or at least those staff covered by my wife's union), with payments starting next month. CSU faculty are tired of their wages and benefits, and decided to strike, with walkouts starting this week (I think it's this week, not sure). To stop the walkouts, the state said to the faculty, "Hey, faculty, how about a 5% raise while we negotiate things, starting immediately?" To staff, they said "Hey, sorry about this, but we're going to hold off a little over a year on your 5% raise, because we were just kidding when we promised it to your union, but don't worry, you'll get it eventually! And if you can somehow convince your cash-strapped universities to cover the costs from February 2024 to May 2025, we'll even pay them back eventually! Pinky-swear!"
I'm just now checking this post out right now. Ask me how work in going? (It's nearly 1p my time.)
How about this from Jeff Tiedrich's stack... I can't believe this is happening in this country!
"Chris Avell, pastor of Dad’s Place in Bryan, Ohio, was arraigned in court last Thursday because he kept his church open 24/7 to provide warmth to the unhoused." https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/columnists/james-causey/2024/01/16/ohio-pastor-charged-homeless-opening-milwaukee-cold-deaths-wind-chill/72236928007/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Trying to help other HUMANS come in out of the frigid cold and snow and some asshole had the indecency to charge him for it. Sure, maybe he's just following laws that other people created, but my GOD! What have we become? Someone created the laws the police had to (maybe)? abide by here. I always thought religious places were sanctuaries in this country.
I think Jeff Tiedrich might have gotten it from us! https://www.wonkette.com/p/ohio-pastor-arrested-for-not-letting?lli=1&utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Lol! Ground-breakers and news makers here! I KNEW it.
Effing pigs I swear to Pete...
Alaska Airlines Changes ‘Proudly All Boeing’ Signs on Planes to ‘Oops! All Boeings’
By this morning, all Alaska jets had been scrubbed of the old slogan on the exterior of the cockpit and painted over with the new, fun, upbeat and honest take on the company’s fleet.
“’Oops! All Boeings’ isn’t just a tagline – it’s a commitment. Because, believe me, Airbus isn’t that much better if at all. We ain’t changing shit around here,” Minicucci said. “If you want real safety, buy your own private jet, motherfuckers—capiche?”
https://theneedling.com/2024/01/18/alaska-airlines-changes-proudly-all-boeing-signs-on-planes-to-oops-all-boeings/
Kos gives a shout out to Robyn and Wonkette!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/19/2217494/-Good-News-Roundup-for-Friday-January-19-2024-Choose-Hope-Not-Fear?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
It's about a quarter to a third of the way down for those searching. On my cell, anyway.
Well. This was an "everything is terrible" sort of Tabs day. Can we get a Nice Times (with a kitten on top) for the Open Thread?
I'm guessing that guy who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City was Hispanic, right?
Ha Ha, no. But! It turns out many of the victims were.
I had either Campylobacter or Salmonella back in October, and whichever it was, I would actually wish it on my worst enemies, because fuck those guys.
Self described “lonely, depressed, and totally pessimistic” writer of extraordinary crime fiction (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘔𝘳 𝘙𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘺, among others) would've been 103 years old today...
"The Sonoma DA who just made up entirely a PSA about a poor dead child what touched the fentanyl"
Sonoma County is solidly blue, but they got some characters with, um, interesting thoughts.
Heard her on the radio claiming that the intent of the PSA was good so she was ok with it.
That's going to get brought up in every single court case she's ever been involved with or will be involved with.
She admitted she's willing to lie to the public if she thinks it's justified. Which isn't a good look.
Cops here in San Diego did a similar bullshit PSA. Lots of repubs in the police and sheriff departments.
Things good to know about food poisoning and how disturbed I feel after reading it
Surprise ... war is not nice. Chinese fighter very sad story, watched the video, tears in my eyes.
https://twitter.com/osint_69/status/1748326082904744374 ---
"Chinese fighter who joined the russian army to kill Ukrainians for money is a bit upset with the conditions."
Probably not gotten paid!
(Didn't watch it).
If only. He seems to be stuck in nowhere, in very dire condition, pleading the Chinese embassy to help him ("your choice, your problem, not ours") and is now pleading the Chinese audience watching his video to please do something so someone helps him.
So sad.
*Cackles of laughter*
Despite everything, as of this moment I am a member of the 13th-ranked trivia team in West Virginia, a low bar, obvs.
--30--
They really rank trivia teams in west by god Virginia?
Do they usually take up cases they can't win?
''The Los Angeles Innocence Project is representing Scott Peterson, who was convicted of killing his wife and unborn child''
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/us/scott-peterson-los-angeles-innocence-project/index.html
okay, in our shock in the chat cave, we remembered there was literally more than one Scot Peterson. Maybe this is the LESS OBVIOUSLY GUILTY one.
Seems like there are suspicions of suppressed exculpatory evidence, that was in police investigation records but not provided to the defense during discovery. And since his death sentence was overturned due to improper jury selection, he no longer qualifies for a public defender to address the suppressed evidence issues. So Innocence Project is examining the situation.
no way.
They do good work, and they don't win them all. From the article, I'm guessing that they're taking this up on the principle of fighting errors like excluding jurors who voiced opposition to the death penalty - the kinds of errors that can result in innocent, non-Scott Peterson convicts being unjustly locked-up.