So MG got me thinking and whenever I get thinking I start digging. Sometimes when I get digging I find treasure!
So these sea urchins CAN be kept as pets inside a saltwater aquarium right in your home. The urchins balance the aquarium eco system by eating algae. The saltwater aquarium is significantly more difficult and expensive to own.
This got me to wondering if aquarium owners have clubs where club members get together to hang out? Silly question, of course there are clubs! They even have local and regional get togethers.
I also wondered if they have shows similar to the Westminster Kennel Club shows for dogs where dog owners just plotz on the spot whenever the Toy Dogs strut their stuff. Sad to say but they don't do that kind of thing. Too bad.
Still, I learned some new things today so Thank you to MG and the urchin tab mascot.
By the third time I'd got stung by a jellyfish, I'd learned that neither lotions nor vinegar nor pee will work. What does work is using a credit card to scrape the affected area in all directions to remove the microscopic spines.
I used my health insurance card, which is the one and only time I found it was truly useful for anything and didn't cost me a penny.
Someone had a few of those on offer at a native plant sale I attended last spring. I get it, but I still gave them some serious side-eye. Ain't no way I'm bringing those things onto my property ON PURPOSE.
After allowing part of my property to go untrimmed some small flowering plants appeared that produce small (1/8 inch) burrs. Easily removed with the rubber palm of abrasion resistant gloves.
They are very cool looking, like something that should be microscopic. We would come home wearing bushels of them after playing on my grandparent's property.
I have several patches of Spanish Needle (bidens bipinnata). The seeds are about 3/4 inch with a little bundle of spikes on the end that cling to any and everything. I just avoid walking past them. I like having a semi-noxious plant called "Bidens."
HuffPost "Progressive activist Analilia Mejia won the Democratic primary in a special election to represent the New Jersey suburbs in Congress, a significant win for the left in the ongoing battles over the party’s ideological direction and a massive own goal by pro-Israel groups who attacked the front-runner in the race.
Mejia campaigned with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and had the backing of a host of other left-wing groups and figures. A former political director for Sanders’ presidential campaign and leader of the progressive Center for Popular Democracy, Mejia began the race with significantly less name identification than her opponents, but benefited from both high-profile endorsements and from Democrats’ increased opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
HuffPost: New Yorkers Really Did Not Want To Miss Bad Bunny's Performance
"It seems like Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show had New Yorkers holding their bladders. Water usage in New York City declined greatly during the halftime show on Sunday, but it spiked almost immediately after Bad Bunny’s performance ended, according to New York City Environmental Protection. "In the 15 minutes right after the show ended, there was a spike in usage equivalent to 761,719 toilets flushing across town.” NYC Environmental Protection said in a post on X."
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Chastity Belt, TN) Xitter: "Last night’s halftime show was a disgrace and it mocked American families. Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture. The Bad Bunny performance is conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state."
RFKJ at Heritage Foundation event: “It’s a joy to work for him [Trump] because he lets me do stuff that I don’t think anybody else would ever let me do.”
"Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction."
During a Tuesday interview on Real America's Voice, Alford told the hosts that he and other House Republicans were looking into the "bad performance."
"We are still investigating this. There's a lot of information that has come out about the lyrics," Alford said. "I saw the halftime show, and we're switching back and forth with the TPUSA halftime show. They, the lyrics from what we have seen, from Bad Bunny are very disturbing."
"And if it holds true that the, you know, I don't speak fluent Spanish, okay?" he continued. "These lyrics, if it is true, what was said on national television, we have a lot of questions for the... entities that broadcast this, and we'll be talking with Brendan Carr from the FCC about this."
"But this is, this could be much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. Let's put it that way."
Because "I suspect" is such a strong reason to waste their time on "investigating". I think he's confusing Bad Bunny lyrics with Kid Rock's disgusting lyrics.
"A MAGA congressman faced mockery after publicly calling for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance, which he described as “explicit and indecent content.”
The Puerto Rican pop superstar's performance Sunday was widely hailed as a joyous celebration of Latin American culture, with celebrity cameos and subtle references to Caribbean traditions and history, but Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) wrote a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee describing the elaborate sets and choreography as a possible violation of federal broadcasting laws.
“The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air,” Ogles posted on X.
“And if that weren’t outrageous enough, the performance’s lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities. These flagrant, indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways.”
I want to know if Trump actually has the legal power to block the opening of that Gordie Howe bridge. As it is, his Truth Social posts contains several misrepresentations of the agreement between the US and Canada on building and operating this bridge - but what else is new? One also wonders if Trump has any idea of the economic impacts blocking that bridge would cost us?
Given how he's been exercising his massive ego lately, maybe Canada should offer to rename that bridge to the Donald J. Trump bridge.
Here is a legal question for Wonketteriate Lawyers: Maxwell met with Emile Bove in his ostensible role of Department of Justice representative. She does not seem to have invoked her 5th amendment rights at all in the official interview. Does this mean she has waived them from that point on?
I are not a lawyer, but I seem to remember the #SistersInLaw gals talking about this in reference to a different person, and I don't think it works that way.
Oh no, does MAGA hate Jeffrey Epstein’s greasy sicko buddy Steve Bannon now?
Whoo-whee, that report is fun! EVERYBODY rounds on Bannon: Elon, Roger Stone, Erick Erickson, buncha other fuckers, all calling him a perv. Roger Stone! So yeah, tear each other apart, creeps.
Well THIS raised my blood pressure this morning: PAB is threatening to stop the opening of the new Gordie Howe bridge to Canada. Mr. cc and I were both tangentially involved in that project before we retired. It is very much needed and has been a long time coming, and the US hardly paid for any of it. (Thank you, Ontario and Canada, for your attention to that matter.) We were actually planning to go to the opening this spring. Mr. cc made the galling suggestion this morning that maybe he will let the opening go forward if we agree to name the bridge after him. He's already asking for half the tolls - for what? FOR WHAT? Ontario and Canada paid for it!
What a petty motherfucking mob boss that guy is. Get rid of him, already! Insert Breaking Bad gif of "Why don't you just die already?" or whatever that kid says to Walter White.
Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/sea-urchin-takes-first-baby-steps
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/db0dd253-bf17-48d9-9e31-7654fe61514d?utm_source=share
So MG got me thinking and whenever I get thinking I start digging. Sometimes when I get digging I find treasure!
So these sea urchins CAN be kept as pets inside a saltwater aquarium right in your home. The urchins balance the aquarium eco system by eating algae. The saltwater aquarium is significantly more difficult and expensive to own.
This got me to wondering if aquarium owners have clubs where club members get together to hang out? Silly question, of course there are clubs! They even have local and regional get togethers.
I also wondered if they have shows similar to the Westminster Kennel Club shows for dogs where dog owners just plotz on the spot whenever the Toy Dogs strut their stuff. Sad to say but they don't do that kind of thing. Too bad.
Still, I learned some new things today so Thank you to MG and the urchin tab mascot.
Sea Urchin: *I'm* walkin' heah!
Urchin's not lurchin - love those little feet!
Did the creature with the first chin have an Ur-chin?
Urchin with their dirty faces
Am I detecting a teeny tiny theme here?
I can't help but wonder how grubby kids came to be called urchins.
These guys don't look grubby at all.
Micro Uni.
Be sure to pee on the stung area.
By the third time I'd got stung by a jellyfish, I'd learned that neither lotions nor vinegar nor pee will work. What does work is using a credit card to scrape the affected area in all directions to remove the microscopic spines.
I used my health insurance card, which is the one and only time I found it was truly useful for anything and didn't cost me a penny.
I am 90% confident that it originated as a way to pee on a friend. "No, really, we have to pee on your leg."
😂
An urchin urchin.
With a degree of urchincy.
Oh, the Urchanity...!
🏆🏆🏆
lol!
WTH
🤷♀️
Puns ahoy, from 2017:
________________
Whatever I stepped on, it hurt like one of those little toy plastic bricks.
But it wasn’t a plastic brick. It was a little round thing made of up of spines. It blinked two big blue eyes at me. “Sorry,” I said.
“Yo, we coo', fo shizzle mah nizzle."
“Gotta be a street urchin,” the sheep giggled.
“I think I hurt him,” I said. “He’s lurchin.’”
“Naw, mang,” the urchin said, “I’m searchin.’ There’s a book I’m looking for.”
“What book’s that?” the sheep asked.
“Yo, woolly, you axin’ too many questions,” the urchin said. “I’m researchin.’” He grumbled a bit and rolled off into the kitchen.
Hang him up by his firkins. iykyk
You must have never encountered a cockleburr. They make Legos look like gummy babies.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RLKq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F6ba5a54e-0e08-47fd-ad2e-a2ef53278dc3%2Fb4e19e0e-b96f-4e63-a912-c69246c33af6.webp
When I was a kid, I got a bunch of cockleburrs on my socks. By the time I got home, my ankles were a mess.
I have a slight allergy to those gottdamn things. I remember virtually having to drink Caladryl as a remedy.
Someone had a few of those on offer at a native plant sale I attended last spring. I get it, but I still gave them some serious side-eye. Ain't no way I'm bringing those things onto my property ON PURPOSE.
After allowing part of my property to go untrimmed some small flowering plants appeared that produce small (1/8 inch) burrs. Easily removed with the rubber palm of abrasion resistant gloves.
They are very cool looking, like something that should be microscopic. We would come home wearing bushels of them after playing on my grandparent's property.
I have several patches of Spanish Needle (bidens bipinnata). The seeds are about 3/4 inch with a little bundle of spikes on the end that cling to any and everything. I just avoid walking past them. I like having a semi-noxious plant called "Bidens."
They can be unpleasant when they get stuck in your socks or shoes up up a pant leg.
Our dog got those in her paws all the time during certain times of year—they’re really awful!
Oh, ouch.
I have, and they're evil.
Don’t be besmirchin’
Do I deserve a birchin'?
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jX0y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F830a4a0c-f25c-464e-8624-69d39b98f1b5%2F0759ddd9-d57d-4e82-9fdb-39f5baf85d71.jpeg
That reminds me of an old National Lampoon feature on 'roadside animals' which can be seen "sleeping" at the edge of the roadways.
LOL
See…urchin!
I was a C urchin. I wrote operating systems.
Babby sea urchin toddling about, just like a babby hooman!
I'd rather have that thing running across the floor above me than Thundersprog.
Oh, it's a sea urchin. I thought it was a biopsy from RFKJs cranium.
HuffPost "Progressive activist Analilia Mejia won the Democratic primary in a special election to represent the New Jersey suburbs in Congress, a significant win for the left in the ongoing battles over the party’s ideological direction and a massive own goal by pro-Israel groups who attacked the front-runner in the race.
Mejia campaigned with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and had the backing of a host of other left-wing groups and figures. A former political director for Sanders’ presidential campaign and leader of the progressive Center for Popular Democracy, Mejia began the race with significantly less name identification than her opponents, but benefited from both high-profile endorsements and from Democrats’ increased opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
HuffPost: New Yorkers Really Did Not Want To Miss Bad Bunny's Performance
"It seems like Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show had New Yorkers holding their bladders. Water usage in New York City declined greatly during the halftime show on Sunday, but it spiked almost immediately after Bad Bunny’s performance ended, according to New York City Environmental Protection. "In the 15 minutes right after the show ended, there was a spike in usage equivalent to 761,719 toilets flushing across town.” NYC Environmental Protection said in a post on X."
A new addition to the solution-in-search-of-a-problem e-asshole space carved out by the likes of Segway and Google Glass: e-sneakers.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5698195/nike-amplify-bionic-sneakers
Really appreciate the link to supportminnesota.com. It isn't over just because the news isn't covering it.
LOVE this gif!
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Chastity Belt, TN) Xitter: "Last night’s halftime show was a disgrace and it mocked American families. Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture. The Bad Bunny performance is conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state."
Gay pornography? Did he see the same show I saw?
Ogles (maybe): "I know it when I see it!"
RFKJ at Heritage Foundation event: “It’s a joy to work for him [Trump] because he lets me do stuff that I don’t think anybody else would ever let me do.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-donald-trump-joy_n_698b0928e4b0d9287220cf45?origin=home-latest-news-unit
"Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction."
During a Tuesday interview on Real America's Voice, Alford told the hosts that he and other House Republicans were looking into the "bad performance."
"We are still investigating this. There's a lot of information that has come out about the lyrics," Alford said. "I saw the halftime show, and we're switching back and forth with the TPUSA halftime show. They, the lyrics from what we have seen, from Bad Bunny are very disturbing."
"And if it holds true that the, you know, I don't speak fluent Spanish, okay?" he continued. "These lyrics, if it is true, what was said on national television, we have a lot of questions for the... entities that broadcast this, and we'll be talking with Brendan Carr from the FCC about this."
"But this is, this could be much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. Let's put it that way."
https://www.rawstory.com/stringr/house-gop-investigating-bad-bunny/
Because "I suspect" is such a strong reason to waste their time on "investigating". I think he's confusing Bad Bunny lyrics with Kid Rock's disgusting lyrics.
Kid Rock = Patriot
Bad Bunny = Brown
I thought “nobody understood “ the lyrics?
"A MAGA congressman faced mockery after publicly calling for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance, which he described as “explicit and indecent content.”
The Puerto Rican pop superstar's performance Sunday was widely hailed as a joyous celebration of Latin American culture, with celebrity cameos and subtle references to Caribbean traditions and history, but Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) wrote a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee describing the elaborate sets and choreography as a possible violation of federal broadcasting laws.
“The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air,” Ogles posted on X.
“And if that weren’t outrageous enough, the performance’s lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities. These flagrant, indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways.”
https://www.rawstory.com/stringr/maga-bad-bunny-super-bowl/
Get a fucking job.
WTF
Bill Clinton has repeatedly called for releasing the files. That doesn’t mean he’s innocent, but it’s an odd thing for a guilty person to do.
I want to know if Trump actually has the legal power to block the opening of that Gordie Howe bridge. As it is, his Truth Social posts contains several misrepresentations of the agreement between the US and Canada on building and operating this bridge - but what else is new? One also wonders if Trump has any idea of the economic impacts blocking that bridge would cost us?
Given how he's been exercising his massive ego lately, maybe Canada should offer to rename that bridge to the Donald J. Trump bridge.
Kid Rock in white sneakers dancing incredibly badly is not something I was hoping to see this morning (tjere's a clip in the Kimmel bit.)
Here is a legal question for Wonketteriate Lawyers: Maxwell met with Emile Bove in his ostensible role of Department of Justice representative. She does not seem to have invoked her 5th amendment rights at all in the official interview. Does this mean she has waived them from that point on?
IANAL, but the 5th is something that's on a per question basis.
So even answering one question doesn't mean you can't invoke the 5th on a very very similar question.
I are not a lawyer, but I seem to remember the #SistersInLaw gals talking about this in reference to a different person, and I don't think it works that way.
Drat.
I don't get why MAGA folk are so upset about Bad Bunny. They seemed fine with "Macarena" in the '90s.
Tangent: best Macarena EVER was the Groove Boyz bluegrass version.
Don't think I've ever heard that one, all I know is the Los del Río version. In Spanish. The one no one got their panties in a twist over.
I can’t find my favorite cut on youtube anymore, but here are a couple of their versions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1MPnjdmgD4&list=RDn1MPnjdmgD4&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzgJROhUomg&list=RDbzgJROhUomg&start_radio=1
Oh no, does MAGA hate Jeffrey Epstein’s greasy sicko buddy Steve Bannon now?
Whoo-whee, that report is fun! EVERYBODY rounds on Bannon: Elon, Roger Stone, Erick Erickson, buncha other fuckers, all calling him a perv. Roger Stone! So yeah, tear each other apart, creeps.
Well THIS raised my blood pressure this morning: PAB is threatening to stop the opening of the new Gordie Howe bridge to Canada. Mr. cc and I were both tangentially involved in that project before we retired. It is very much needed and has been a long time coming, and the US hardly paid for any of it. (Thank you, Ontario and Canada, for your attention to that matter.) We were actually planning to go to the opening this spring. Mr. cc made the galling suggestion this morning that maybe he will let the opening go forward if we agree to name the bridge after him. He's already asking for half the tolls - for what? FOR WHAT? Ontario and Canada paid for it!
What a petty motherfucking mob boss that guy is. Get rid of him, already! Insert Breaking Bad gif of "Why don't you just die already?" or whatever that kid says to Walter White.