Your "hate to give out cookies" comment is just another indication of the disparity of responsibility between the left and the right sides of the political spectrum.
The right gets a pat on the head for saying "woah, maybe we SHOULDN'T be suggesting we murder 500,000 Americans".
I told you all about my day, and then fell asleep before I could hit post. So here was yesterday, but I will say before I paste the rest that today is wide open, and the only thing I have planned is going out to an ancient raspberry bed And trying to dig up plant plants for transplanting, and itβs supposed to be a sunny day. It would be fun to have a dog today. I do not and thatβs OK.
Yesterday: My day? Another weird one. Alice had two vet appointments, and the first one was running late, so I rescheduled it for after the second, called the first to tell them the second was running late. I rescheduled that but it all worked. She saw the ophthalmologist Again, and sheβs doing very well.
He told me that heβd reached out to colleagues to discuss her options, and said that he felt continuing on her meds was the best way to go. I told him that I really appreciated him going to that trouble, and the fact that he was so responsive when I had questions. Even being 300 some miles away, I still feel like Iβm not in this alone. He said I wasnβt and I could reach out anytime with questions. Bumping her up to being seen every six months, and heβs gonna try to get me an instrument to monitor her eye pressure.
I told him that Iβve gotten her a cat, and she seems cheered up for that. I said I felt like if she were to go blind, having a friend would make a big difference. He said she is doing so well that she may not get to that point for a long time, maybe never. So that was really cheering.
Then she went over to the other clinic for bloodwork, and a urine sample. Then we stopped by the dumpster site to drop off the trash. I hadnβt had time to drop off on the way to town. I was putting some things under the shelter that is our version of free cycle, when I spotted what I thought was a freezer. On general principal, I try to avoid making eye contact with anything in that shelter, but curiosity is a terrible drug. I took a closer look, and saw a note on it that said, works, icemaker doesnβt work. Like could possibly care?
Took off, thinking I should call some friends and tell them there was a freezer available, made it about a mile and a half before I turned around and went back to get the freezer. Woman parked in front of it, and I asked her if she was getting the freezer, and she said no if she was getting the spool, but she would help me put the freezer in my car if I would help her put the spool in her truck. So we did.
Turned out to be a combination, freezer and refrigerator, drawer above, and a drawer below. Itβs in my garage now. It was still cold when I unloaded it, so somebody had clearly just dropped it off before I had arrived. Anyway it seems to be in good working order.
Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. Or something like that.
Our old dog (when I was little) got cataracts and couldn't really see, but as long as we didn't move the furniture in the house she was fine. We got a puppy, and she seemed to understand the assignment--she'd walk along with Chessie outside. Even though the puppy was kinda dumb and also full of energy, she'd just walk with Chessie, calmly, out to where Chessie liked to go to the bathroom and then over to the sunny patch of clover where she liked to sleep. They were good friends, as your kitties are.
So, I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I think Melina was in that crime against fashion and the eyes to draw attention away from how hideous Trump continues to look in a tux. It looks like he wore the same one from 5 years ago and couldn't get the jacket closed anymore.
Have you noticed that she owns those really wide belts in every color? They're like 4 inches wide and she always wears them, including with this hideous yellow dress (I like yellow, but this was horrible). The off the shoulder was wrong, and the slit was too high for the occasion, and the hem seemed like 5 minutes before she realized the dress was too long.
[Starts to crack a joke about sheβs pouring all her fashion sense into her mourning outfit, and then Realizes that this is not very nice, so I am smugly practicing restraint, for which I would like to get credit]
I did a minor kindness yesterday, in the rain, a young man trudging to the gas station with a can because his car ran out. Ten minutes of my day, a very grateful young, and maybe someday he will help someone else out..
My karma got instantly repaid when I got home and found a thing someone had sent me out of the blue JUST because they thought I'd like that thing.
Moral of the story: The world has gotten meaner. If I die insisting on not adding to it, so be it, this is the way I choose.
Mama loved "The Tonight Show" with Jack Parr, and then with Johnny Carson. She was a night owl, and there wasn't much else to watch in those days late night. I remember her talking about Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky getting married on Carson's show. She didn't care much for the later late night talk shows, but it may not have been the fault of the hosts. With the rise of cable, there were more choices - lots of good movies.
For some reason, learning of Disney's cave to tr*mp has made me think of her and those earlier late night talk show hosts.
I liked the NBC version of Letterman, when he was on at 12:30 ET. Conan is someone I recently developed a liking for because of YouTube. My lifestyle had changed when he came on the scene so I never got to watch him.
No, but I think that it's more that by that time, we had cable, and she had more choices for late night viewing. Plus, it may have been a generational thing.
So vis-Γ -vis late night comedians, their networks and self-censoring...
A person at the shebeen made an argument that I found persuasive:
The public is not privy to the inside conversations between the Felon's enforcers and the networks, there being a considerable difference between receiving a letter from the FCC, no matter how corrupt, and having Stephen fuckin' Miller's office call to schedule a conference, a difference between a regulator citing chapter and verse minutiae of license agreements and PeeWee German screaming "We will ruin you!!! And your families!!! Your defiance will cost you EVERYTHING!!!""
While the network is owned by the richest corporation, many or most of the individual broadcast stations are not. It is those licenses that Orange Turd threatens.
This right here. This was a "if you don't cancel him, we will make others pay". Akin to that scene in the movie where the tough guy hero won't talk, so the bad guy threatens their families.
Observation is not excuse, it's gathering details for explanation. Dismissing observation as self-dealing?
Those owners have conjoined interests in the direction of economic enforcement, a big reason why they become owners... They're not going to do a single thing that is not in their interests, they are not going to permit things not in their interests to be done, if they can help it. Buying up the media helps it.
David Ellison, son of Oracle Larry, is underwriting Paramount's majority cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The offer would cover the entire companyβHBO, Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, CNN, and its sprawling portfolio of cable assets...
The owners are becoming owners to π€π°πππ’π£π°π³π’π΅π¦ with the regime
1. I've decided to do the Promptoberfest writing marathon for the third year in a row. Basically I'll get a list of 31 words from a random word generator, and each day write something. I've managed it in 2023 and 2024, so I'm feeling good about it.
2. I've been a member of the local writer's group for about two or so years now, and this week's meeting may be somewhat awkward. Not because of what fandom I write for, but the fact that no one submitted anything for review. It's something that has never happened since I joined the group. We'll discuss coping methods for getting around/over/through writer's block.
3. Meanwhile, I'm waiting for this week's Thursday Prompt writing trigger, so I can get that done. I'm also working through Part 26 of 'Lemon Curry?' and have finally completed Part 2 of 'Justice.'
How long before they come for Wonkette, I wonder. I mean "The Second Amendment comes for Charlie Kirk", though completely accurate and fair, is now pretty much considered to be terrorism against the United States of America.
Everything in this is tired, weak pablum. It's all about how we need to overlook our differences, even though some of those might include whether or not you have the right to exist, and that yeah, sometimes that can be hard, but come on, guys! Surely social media is assisting this division and it's just. Come on. Can't we just live our lives like a very awkward family gathering where everyone has one eye on the clock because they all hate being there? Where everyone sits on the elephants in the room in order to just make meaningless small talk? Where when the one pissed up uncle starts spouting off everyone else pretends not to notice? Guys?
β Can't we just live our lives like a very awkward family gathering where everyone has one eye on the clock because they all hate being there?β
Because the crazy MAGA uncle at the family gathering is babbling violent threats and waving around a loaded gun, throwing gasoline around the living room, and lighting a match.
*goes off to find the Ross Douthat column telling us angry Dems we just need to learn to just chill out and learn to be happy even though we hate our current President*
Is Ross aware that christian nationalism exists and that this toxic blend of religious zeal, nostalgia and intolerance of anything progressive is fueling a literal call to arms and actual lynchings of progressives and leftists and atheists?
Ross seems focused on politics and how leftists do it badly. But the current moment is not politics-as-usual. (would that it was!) The bad blood is entirely the result of the GOP marrying itself to the abusive partner of christian domination. (check out Charlie Kirk and his adherence to the so-called *Seven Mountain Mandate*. He was not shy about saying christians need to be running the whole show from top to bottom. Charlie was talking about his kind of christians and not those squishy types who keep giving food to the hungry and shelter to the refugee)
There are reasons why the constitution forbids a state religion and separates church from state. But the founders mainly wanted to avoid the ghastly examples of European atrocities committed in never ending wars, inquisitions and pogroms.
βMaβam, it was a recorded meeting,β - Markwayne Mullin
Aaaaannnnd there's the misogyny.
If there's a he-said/she-said dispute, the guy's supporters have such a clear picture in their heads of the guy's version of the story that they would swear on a stack of bibles they actually saw a recording of it. Or that one must surely exist.
And that, my friends, is how Donald got away with assaulting and harassing dozens of women.
Nothing about Kirk. Some stuff about the Maga response. Insinuation that the shooter was Maga, probably less than insinuation. All pretty tame stuff. The Maga outrage-bots were going to do their thing whatever he said.
A lot of very skillful ridiculing of Trump. Some Epstein stuff. These are imo what got Trump or Trump lackeys in a twist. 'Epstein' is alive and kicking, despite all their efforts. Epstein is laughing at Trump down in his cell in hell.
Thanks! I just saw a post from Ben Meiselas about Kimmel being canceled (thought cons were against that, oh wait, it's only for them, they want the rest of us canceled).
Bob's right - it's gross. I won't watch, of course, but if you do, please report if it's an accurate reporting of what he said and did. My meager money is that it won't be.
My fucking town, and I say that a LOT lately, is holding a fucking rally on Sunday. Thank gods I will be out of town, and not available for arrest at this time.
Your "hate to give out cookies" comment is just another indication of the disparity of responsibility between the left and the right sides of the political spectrum.
The right gets a pat on the head for saying "woah, maybe we SHOULDN'T be suggesting we murder 500,000 Americans".
Well, damn.
I told you all about my day, and then fell asleep before I could hit post. So here was yesterday, but I will say before I paste the rest that today is wide open, and the only thing I have planned is going out to an ancient raspberry bed And trying to dig up plant plants for transplanting, and itβs supposed to be a sunny day. It would be fun to have a dog today. I do not and thatβs OK.
Yesterday: My day? Another weird one. Alice had two vet appointments, and the first one was running late, so I rescheduled it for after the second, called the first to tell them the second was running late. I rescheduled that but it all worked. She saw the ophthalmologist Again, and sheβs doing very well.
He told me that heβd reached out to colleagues to discuss her options, and said that he felt continuing on her meds was the best way to go. I told him that I really appreciated him going to that trouble, and the fact that he was so responsive when I had questions. Even being 300 some miles away, I still feel like Iβm not in this alone. He said I wasnβt and I could reach out anytime with questions. Bumping her up to being seen every six months, and heβs gonna try to get me an instrument to monitor her eye pressure.
I told him that Iβve gotten her a cat, and she seems cheered up for that. I said I felt like if she were to go blind, having a friend would make a big difference. He said she is doing so well that she may not get to that point for a long time, maybe never. So that was really cheering.
Then she went over to the other clinic for bloodwork, and a urine sample. Then we stopped by the dumpster site to drop off the trash. I hadnβt had time to drop off on the way to town. I was putting some things under the shelter that is our version of free cycle, when I spotted what I thought was a freezer. On general principal, I try to avoid making eye contact with anything in that shelter, but curiosity is a terrible drug. I took a closer look, and saw a note on it that said, works, icemaker doesnβt work. Like could possibly care?
Took off, thinking I should call some friends and tell them there was a freezer available, made it about a mile and a half before I turned around and went back to get the freezer. Woman parked in front of it, and I asked her if she was getting the freezer, and she said no if she was getting the spool, but she would help me put the freezer in my car if I would help her put the spool in her truck. So we did.
Turned out to be a combination, freezer and refrigerator, drawer above, and a drawer below. Itβs in my garage now. It was still cold when I unloaded it, so somebody had clearly just dropped it off before I had arrived. Anyway it seems to be in good working order.
Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. Or something like that.
Our old dog (when I was little) got cataracts and couldn't really see, but as long as we didn't move the furniture in the house she was fine. We got a puppy, and she seemed to understand the assignment--she'd walk along with Chessie outside. Even though the puppy was kinda dumb and also full of energy, she'd just walk with Chessie, calmly, out to where Chessie liked to go to the bathroom and then over to the sunny patch of clover where she liked to sleep. They were good friends, as your kitties are.
So, I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I think Melina was in that crime against fashion and the eyes to draw attention away from how hideous Trump continues to look in a tux. It looks like he wore the same one from 5 years ago and couldn't get the jacket closed anymore.
Have you noticed that she owns those really wide belts in every color? They're like 4 inches wide and she always wears them, including with this hideous yellow dress (I like yellow, but this was horrible). The off the shoulder was wrong, and the slit was too high for the occasion, and the hem seemed like 5 minutes before she realized the dress was too long.
[Starts to crack a joke about sheβs pouring all her fashion sense into her mourning outfit, and then Realizes that this is not very nice, so I am smugly practicing restraint, for which I would like to get credit]
Not doom related:
I did a minor kindness yesterday, in the rain, a young man trudging to the gas station with a can because his car ran out. Ten minutes of my day, a very grateful young, and maybe someday he will help someone else out..
My karma got instantly repaid when I got home and found a thing someone had sent me out of the blue JUST because they thought I'd like that thing.
Moral of the story: The world has gotten meaner. If I die insisting on not adding to it, so be it, this is the way I choose.
Ta, Robyn.
Mama loved "The Tonight Show" with Jack Parr, and then with Johnny Carson. She was a night owl, and there wasn't much else to watch in those days late night. I remember her talking about Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky getting married on Carson's show. She didn't care much for the later late night talk shows, but it may not have been the fault of the hosts. With the rise of cable, there were more choices - lots of good movies.
For some reason, learning of Disney's cave to tr*mp has made me think of her and those earlier late night talk show hosts.
Did she like Conan or Letterman?
I liked the NBC version of Letterman, when he was on at 12:30 ET. Conan is someone I recently developed a liking for because of YouTube. My lifestyle had changed when he came on the scene so I never got to watch him.
No, but I think that it's more that by that time, we had cable, and she had more choices for late night viewing. Plus, it may have been a generational thing.
I have never formally signed up for antifa, but I will now.
Our Christmas party is a blast!
My uncles signed up in 1941 and 1942.
So did my dad and both of his siblings (his sister was an Army nurse).
I think that org might be part of the problem now.
Unfortunately, you are right.
Sumo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_SbFbhXGhA
I like the NHK coverage for the commentary, but they run a day behind.
Yeah, I noticed that. Don Don Sumo is keeping up with the action; have you seen Mita's latest?
I did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXL8aSEYd1I
So vis-Γ -vis late night comedians, their networks and self-censoring...
A person at the shebeen made an argument that I found persuasive:
The public is not privy to the inside conversations between the Felon's enforcers and the networks, there being a considerable difference between receiving a letter from the FCC, no matter how corrupt, and having Stephen fuckin' Miller's office call to schedule a conference, a difference between a regulator citing chapter and verse minutiae of license agreements and PeeWee German screaming "We will ruin you!!! And your families!!! Your defiance will cost you EVERYTHING!!!""
Fascists have their ways...
Sounds like someone wants an excuse to keep their subscription a little longer.
But but but they might have been threatened!
ok, they are a news organization, owned by the richest corporation in the world. They could have exposed that.
While the network is owned by the richest corporation, many or most of the individual broadcast stations are not. It is those licenses that Orange Turd threatens.
This right here. This was a "if you don't cancel him, we will make others pay". Akin to that scene in the movie where the tough guy hero won't talk, so the bad guy threatens their families.
Observation is not excuse, it's gathering details for explanation. Dismissing observation as self-dealing?
Those owners have conjoined interests in the direction of economic enforcement, a big reason why they become owners... They're not going to do a single thing that is not in their interests, they are not going to permit things not in their interests to be done, if they can help it. Buying up the media helps it.
David Ellison, son of Oracle Larry, is underwriting Paramount's majority cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The offer would cover the entire companyβHBO, Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, CNN, and its sprawling portfolio of cable assets...
The owners are becoming owners to π€π°πππ’π£π°π³π’π΅π¦ with the regime
Sorry, I am not accepting excuses for cowardice and greed at this time.
Good thing nobody offered any excuse
That. How does "But we wanted our money and had to bribe them" make any of this better?
Some news regarding my scribbling tendencies.
1. I've decided to do the Promptoberfest writing marathon for the third year in a row. Basically I'll get a list of 31 words from a random word generator, and each day write something. I've managed it in 2023 and 2024, so I'm feeling good about it.
2. I've been a member of the local writer's group for about two or so years now, and this week's meeting may be somewhat awkward. Not because of what fandom I write for, but the fact that no one submitted anything for review. It's something that has never happened since I joined the group. We'll discuss coping methods for getting around/over/through writer's block.
3. Meanwhile, I'm waiting for this week's Thursday Prompt writing trigger, so I can get that done. I'm also working through Part 26 of 'Lemon Curry?' and have finally completed Part 2 of 'Justice.'
Can one do this challenge by writing dirty limericks about the words provided? Because then I might be interested... ;-)
(giggles)
Shit! I just learned that Jimmy Kimmel has been canceled. Fuck corporate media!
Yeah, and Mango Man is hooting and pounding his chest over collecting another scalp, and naming the ones he wants gone next.
Actual government censorship
How long before they come for Wonkette, I wonder. I mean "The Second Amendment comes for Charlie Kirk", though completely accurate and fair, is now pretty much considered to be terrorism against the United States of America.
I hope they read it every time I tell them to fuck off.
https://bsky.app/profile/ezrakleinbot.bsky.social/post/3lz2e5seew22n
Ezra Klein arguing basically for nothing.
Everything in this is tired, weak pablum. It's all about how we need to overlook our differences, even though some of those might include whether or not you have the right to exist, and that yeah, sometimes that can be hard, but come on, guys! Surely social media is assisting this division and it's just. Come on. Can't we just live our lives like a very awkward family gathering where everyone has one eye on the clock because they all hate being there? Where everyone sits on the elephants in the room in order to just make meaningless small talk? Where when the one pissed up uncle starts spouting off everyone else pretends not to notice? Guys?
A different topic, but Marcy Wheeler doesn't care for his insipid writing one bit: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/09/the-education-of-ezra-klein/
All of this is because you liberals are no longer trying to keep the peace is a hell of a take
β Can't we just live our lives like a very awkward family gathering where everyone has one eye on the clock because they all hate being there?β
Because the crazy MAGA uncle at the family gathering is babbling violent threats and waving around a loaded gun, throwing gasoline around the living room, and lighting a match.
There are surely plenty of things Klein is good at and for. Addressing fascism is not one of them.
*goes off to find the Ross Douthat column telling us angry Dems we just need to learn to just chill out and learn to be happy even though we hate our current President*
ETA: ah yes, here it is.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination-left-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m08.AlOn.LmRuKlXruhf0&smid=url-share
Is Ross aware that christian nationalism exists and that this toxic blend of religious zeal, nostalgia and intolerance of anything progressive is fueling a literal call to arms and actual lynchings of progressives and leftists and atheists?
Ross seems focused on politics and how leftists do it badly. But the current moment is not politics-as-usual. (would that it was!) The bad blood is entirely the result of the GOP marrying itself to the abusive partner of christian domination. (check out Charlie Kirk and his adherence to the so-called *Seven Mountain Mandate*. He was not shy about saying christians need to be running the whole show from top to bottom. Charlie was talking about his kind of christians and not those squishy types who keep giving food to the hungry and shelter to the refugee)
There are reasons why the constitution forbids a state religion and separates church from state. But the founders mainly wanted to avoid the ghastly examples of European atrocities committed in never ending wars, inquisitions and pogroms.
βMaβam, it was a recorded meeting,β - Markwayne Mullin
Aaaaannnnd there's the misogyny.
If there's a he-said/she-said dispute, the guy's supporters have such a clear picture in their heads of the guy's version of the story that they would swear on a stack of bibles they actually saw a recording of it. Or that one must surely exist.
And that, my friends, is how Donald got away with assaulting and harassing dozens of women.
Here is Kimmel's monologue from Monday. TRIGGER WARNING: The part that melted the MAGA snowflakes starts at 2:00.
https://youtu.be/-j3YdxNSzTk
Nothing about Kirk. Some stuff about the Maga response. Insinuation that the shooter was Maga, probably less than insinuation. All pretty tame stuff. The Maga outrage-bots were going to do their thing whatever he said.
A lot of very skillful ridiculing of Trump. Some Epstein stuff. These are imo what got Trump or Trump lackeys in a twist. 'Epstein' is alive and kicking, despite all their efforts. Epstein is laughing at Trump down in his cell in hell.
Thanks! I just saw a post from Ben Meiselas about Kimmel being canceled (thought cons were against that, oh wait, it's only for them, they want the rest of us canceled).
https://bsky.app/profile/joanwestenberg.com/post/3lz3wh4iha727
There is to be an hour long special on Charlie Kirk replacing Kimmel tomorrow.
It will be interesting to see if there is anything featured that Kirk actually said, as opposed to sanitised rephrasing of things he said.
wow
he must apologize AND send them money
Bob's right - it's gross. I won't watch, of course, but if you do, please report if it's an accurate reporting of what he said and did. My meager money is that it won't be.
Gross.
Saw a billboard celebrating him in OKC this week.
They love him SO MUCH, now that he's dead.
My fucking town, and I say that a LOT lately, is holding a fucking rally on Sunday. Thank gods I will be out of town, and not available for arrest at this time.
People have lost their jobs for quoting him, so I doubt they'll use his actual words.
Obsequious kowtowing motherfuckers...
Hard pass, and past my bedtime anyway.
Morning all. βοΈ
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Good morning, Diane!