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.
I grew up in Florida, the land of the sandspur. Driving teachers tell you never to drive barefoot because it would be well nigh impossible to keep your foot on the brake if there was a sandspur there. I concur.
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."
It’s not half the country, Jimmy! Only in a MAGA brain do 6 million viewers equal half of 135 million viewers. Can we please stop giving these people more credit than they’re due?
ICYMI, Jeff Tiedrich re: the blatant ongoing ILLEGAL coverup and inaction of Shitler’s Department of J̸u̸s̸t̸i̸c̸e̸ Protecting Child Sex Traffickers ...
NYT: "A large Pride flag was quietly removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan after a directive from the federal government, the latest step in the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives and the second time in less than a year it has targeted the Greenwich Village site, which commemorates the birth of the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. The flag’s removal came weeks after the Department of the Interior issued federal guidance on displaying “non-agency” flags in the National Park System, which includes a small park in front of the Stonewall Inn, the bar for which the federal monument is named. Elected officials and bar employees said they realized the rainbow flag was gone on Monday morning."
Donnie is suddenly opposed to the new bridge because one of his buddies owns the old bridge. Which is a toll bridge. And he’s all upset about the competition. Also, those toll fees don’t go to maintenance.
Yeah, I'd like to SEE China try to ban hockey in Canada, what with them being on the border of the biggest selection of private firearms in the world. (Although, der Führer seems to feel we no longer need the Second Amendment, wonder why THAT might be...)
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.”
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
The Mollusk will undulate
under the sea
and if you are there to see it
it's the place to be
I was watching original TV coverage of the Apollo 11 lunar landing last week. Don't know why I mention that.
"That's one small step for urchin..."
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/$s_!RLKq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F6ba5a54e-0e08-47fd-ad2e-a2ef53278dc3%2Fb4e19e0e-b96f-4e63-a912-c69246c33af6.webp
Goatheads have entered the chat.
I grew up in Florida, the land of the sandspur. Driving teachers tell you never to drive barefoot because it would be well nigh impossible to keep your foot on the brake if there was a sandspur there. I concur.
Four sided dice!
When I was a kid, I got a bunch of cockleburrs on my socks. By the time I got home, my ankles were a mess.
I have a slight allergy to those gottdamn things. I remember virtually having to drink Caladryl as a remedy.
Someone had a few of those on offer at a native plant sale I attended last spring. I get it, but I still gave them some serious side-eye. Ain't no way I'm bringing those things onto my property ON PURPOSE.
After allowing part of my property to go untrimmed some small flowering plants appeared that produce small (1/8 inch) burrs. Easily removed with the rubber palm of abrasion resistant gloves.
They are very cool looking, like something that should be microscopic. We would come home wearing bushels of them after playing on my grandparent's property.
I have several patches of Spanish Needle (bidens bipinnata). The seeds are about 3/4 inch with a little bundle of spikes on the end that cling to any and everything. I just avoid walking past them. I like having a semi-noxious plant called "Bidens."
They can be unpleasant when they get stuck in your socks or shoes up up a pant leg.
Our dog got those in her paws all the time during certain times of year—they’re really awful!
Oh, ouch.
I have, and they're evil.
Don’t be besmirchin’
Do I deserve a birchin'?
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$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.
more intelligent
It’s not half the country, Jimmy! Only in a MAGA brain do 6 million viewers equal half of 135 million viewers. Can we please stop giving these people more credit than they’re due?
How many of us couldn't watch it until Marcie posted the video yesterday? Might be a drop in the bucket, but probably a big drop! I loved it!
ICYMI, Jeff Tiedrich re: the blatant ongoing ILLEGAL coverup and inaction of Shitler’s Department of J̸u̸s̸t̸i̸c̸e̸ Protecting Child Sex Traffickers ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/the-dead-pedo-bestie-files-coverup?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
NYT: "A large Pride flag was quietly removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan after a directive from the federal government, the latest step in the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives and the second time in less than a year it has targeted the Greenwich Village site, which commemorates the birth of the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. The flag’s removal came weeks after the Department of the Interior issued federal guidance on displaying “non-agency” flags in the National Park System, which includes a small park in front of the Stonewall Inn, the bar for which the federal monument is named. Elected officials and bar employees said they realized the rainbow flag was gone on Monday morning."
"Fuck Katie Britt and fuck the New York Times" evergreen...
The Kid Rock 2001 song “Cool, Daddy Cool,” was also oddly featured in the 2001 animated kids’ movie “Osmosis Jones."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brett-favre-piled-on-by-critics-after-he-posts-1-truly-ignorant-diss-about-bad-bunnys-half-time-show_n_6989f6d5e4b0a89b5c0696dc/amp?dicbo=v2-mlC9GyY
Donnie is suddenly opposed to the new bridge because one of his buddies owns the old bridge. Which is a toll bridge. And he’s all upset about the competition. Also, those toll fees don’t go to maintenance.
Yeah, I'd like to SEE China try to ban hockey in Canada, what with them being on the border of the biggest selection of private firearms in the world. (Although, der Führer seems to feel we no longer need the Second Amendment, wonder why THAT might be...)
NYT alternate headline
“Katie Britt had one moment of empathy. But she powered through it”
You know what I would like to see?
ONE SINGLE FUCKING ARTICLE ABOUT DEMS DOING ONE GODDAMNED THING ABOUT ANY OF IT.
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 man's terlet is his voting stick.
- Archie Bunker(ish)
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."
So, he watched 👀 it?
Probably on a loop.
Are you telling me that there is a town called Chastity Belt, or is that a joke?
Pure snark (put possible, eh?)
Cry harder, Andy.
He was talking about the obscenity of Kid Rock in jorts.
Gay pornography? Did he see the same show I saw?
Ogles (maybe): "I know it when I see it!"
Make America 1964 Again!.
- Justice Potter's landmark decision on obscenity with that quote came out then
Tracks that an ancient white man would be stuck in the 60's and jealous of all the free love he wasn't getting.
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