My family (about 25 people) is having a build-your-own-taco bar for dinner. Then we'll be watching the little kids running around like lunatics while the adults gossip.
I just spent a month in Villefranche and Intermarché was my grocery store there. When the Unloved ad showed up, I was all, hey that's my store and, therefore, my wolf.
With highs in the 70s expected it's feeling warm for Christmas here in NW GA. Have a great holiday. I'll be doing a little last minute shopping with little Juan and then settling in for the day.
Are you getting Juan a special gift? I had a neighbour that I hung out with who had a sweetie dachsund called Keanu. I bought him a giant Dino bone almost as big as him. He was in heaven.
Kimba the White Lion did it first, back in the 60s he taught Buddhist virtues, stopped the animals from killing each other and made the jungle vegetarian and as a result became ruler. Of course, the Americans couldn't stand for that so he was transmuted into Simba, the Lion King, who rules because of his genetics.
Once again being a Yank overwhelms me with cringing shame. My oldest daughter is a Budddhist and I do my best to observe Buddhist wisdom. It drove me nuts that THIS movie was our youngest daughter's favorite childhood story/film.
We will never make a proper, humble Buddhist out of that child.
I first saw this in Japanese. I was shocked, I tell you absofuckinglutely shocked that Disney would appropriate someone else's story. </sarcasm_animated_Casablancan>
I thought of you the other day, our friut bowls were mango & strawberries. I almost never buy mango here, they’re hit or miss, but this one was perfect!
I've got a meme I was just looking at yesterday, with Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and that prosecutor from the Nuremburg trials pointing out how toxic a lack of empathy is... and Elmo doing his straight arm "salute" and his comment about how awful empathy is.
I just emailed my daughter to request that if she decides to wheel me onto an airplane when I shuffle off this mortal coil, she make sure to reserve a space in First Class.
>> “Enjoy” your time with “family” just kidding for the scare quotes, you’re good people, so most of you probably have family that doesn’t hate you. Good job everybody!
Fascinating controversy coming from Oklahoma and my old university. It raises a variety of issues involving academic freedom, viewpoint discrimination, etc.
Needless to say I believe the instructor was correct. This will wind up in court no doubt and if it worked its way to the Supreme Court it will be interesting to see how they rule. I'm sure Chris Geidner at LawDork will look at this soon
This case is straightforwardly a student who did not do the assignment getting an F. If it gets anywhere near the Supreme Court it is because we have fallen as a nation. Which side was bitching about snowflakes and ideology mattering more than the truth and merit and all that? This student wrote an F reaction paper, got an F, and then went to the governor about it. The school itself went outside its own procedures to try and settle this, which only made things worse. They should have stood by the TA and the Prof who agreed with her assessment. The fact that the TA is trans is one of the reasons this is being made out to be a big deal. They want to do everything possible to push trans people out of normal, public lives and professions.
Otherwise, standard culture war moral panic bs. Also one should have a look at Fulnecky's mom (a lawyer who ran her LLC with no business license for seven years then cried discrimination when it was sanctioned) who has been trying to be right wing famous for a couple decades and failing.
Interesting background. Thanks. Whose first Amendment rights were infringed? The teacher's or the student's or both? When academic freedom conflicts with gubernatorial intervention who decides- State legislatures? What a tangle.
This looks to be one of those cases that might receive a lot more explication later. Depending on what happens next, I wouldn't be surprised if a host of NGOs and other entities on both sides of the divide weigh in.
Okay. It's gray out there, 27 degrees, but I'm gonna go out and walk around, see what I can see in the yard. Just to say I've done something today. Tonight, we kind of agreed to go to a Christmas worship. Before you gasp, it's at an extinction level Lutheran church out in Ocqueoc, Michigan. Mrs. Toomush's best friend grew up next door to it, and we've gone there most years. They mostly light candles and sing Christmas hymns, which I do love to do, because it was what all of my mother's big family would get together and do every year, while the generation before me was still alive. Now, we're all scattered, and the Toomush kids are mostly not gonna be here tonight, so.... if you want Christmas at my age, you have to let it in...
Procrastinating tendencies have bitten me in the ass once again. You'd think I would have learned by now, but oh, nooo. Headed to the liquor store earlier. Got to the end of my block and saw someone that had the same idea try the door, turn around, and leave. Really thought they'd be open today. At least I didn't walk all the way there. So, I made more coffee, and have a tray of puff pastry pinwheels rolled up with brie and lemon and fig marmalade in the oven. It's a decent consolation prize.
Your header gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/an-unloved-wolf-learns-to-change
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/049b6c83-f144-49bc-b6d2-751470bc8871?utm_source=share
Happy holiday wishes to all!
thank you! I repurposed it into a Christmas text to all my vegan/vegetarian friends.
Hooray for painstaking by-hand animation, and the meme was flawless also, too. A very blessed holiday to you and yours, Martini Glambassador!
The berry scene takes the Oscar
The Oscar for Best Suspense Scene with Looks Exchanged.
My family (about 25 people) is having a build-your-own-taco bar for dinner. Then we'll be watching the little kids running around like lunatics while the adults gossip.
Sounds like fun! We're doing build-your-own gyros, for WAYYY fewer than 25.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Martini, and thanks for this wonderful post.
Meghyn Kelly wants Bari's job.
And odds are she might get it.
Thallium vs. Arsenic. Pick your poison.
I just spent a month in Villefranche and Intermarché was my grocery store there. When the Unloved ad showed up, I was all, hey that's my store and, therefore, my wolf.
Like we in the pack sez, "He may be a SOB, but he's our SOB; n'as for you Bs; you may be a DOB but you're still our DOB" </howl>
With highs in the 70s expected it's feeling warm for Christmas here in NW GA. Have a great holiday. I'll be doing a little last minute shopping with little Juan and then settling in for the day.
My late partner would always shop on Xmas Eve. He said that there weren't many people out. I wouldn't know; you couldn't pay me to shop.
Are you getting Juan a special gift? I had a neighbour that I hung out with who had a sweetie dachsund called Keanu. I bought him a giant Dino bone almost as big as him. He was in heaven.
Juan has a t-rex stuffie that he has demolished. I want to get him a new one
Oh! VERY COOL! I hope you post pics.
Scritches to Juan! And good luck braving the shopping crowds today!
It is a glorious, sunny 75°F. I just mainly want to get out and enjoy the day. We expect sun and mid 70s until at least Sunday.
Best holiday season wishes to all Wonketteers from the two of us at Lux Manor! 🎄⛄🎄⛄
May all your days be filled with light.
Right back attcha Michael & Luxites, peace to all.
That wolf is everyone's spirit animal.
Definitely mine!
Everyone here. 🎯♥️
Aroooo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qae25976UgA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNYZY87Yp98
🎶gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein 🎶😍
LOL ♥️
Cry wolf woo hoo!
-- A-Ha
Season's greetings to the Wonketariat! May Santa be good to all you good people here. Perhaps he will grant us that one wish we want??!! 😉😜😉
Kimba the White Lion did it first, back in the 60s he taught Buddhist virtues, stopped the animals from killing each other and made the jungle vegetarian and as a result became ruler. Of course, the Americans couldn't stand for that so he was transmuted into Simba, the Lion King, who rules because of his genetics.
https://youtu.be/XhyHO3b0u9E?si=-Hho5yyjd8XArPk7
I watched that show as a kid in the '60s, but I didn't remember anything other than the name. Now I'll have to ask my brothers what they remember.
[snarls]
Once again being a Yank overwhelms me with cringing shame. My oldest daughter is a Budddhist and I do my best to observe Buddhist wisdom. It drove me nuts that THIS movie was our youngest daughter's favorite childhood story/film.
We will never make a proper, humble Buddhist out of that child.
I first saw this in Japanese. I was shocked, I tell you absofuckinglutely shocked that Disney would appropriate someone else's story. </sarcasm_animated_Casablancan>
I watched the German dubbed reruns in the mid seventies. I loved that show. Thanks for the nostalgia! :D
This is the sweetest gif. It's like the classic "lion lies down with the lamb". A consummation devoutly to be wished!
I'm a vegetarian and I approve this message❤️💚
We're vegan and wolf fans, and we loved it.
I thought of you the other day, our friut bowls were mango & strawberries. I almost never buy mango here, they’re hit or miss, but this one was perfect!
I'm an omnivore, and I approve this message also!
I like you
Awww. (shuffles feet while looking down)
Merry merry, Larry!
That ad is such a great story.
American Christianists: EMPATHY BAD!!!
I've got a meme I was just looking at yesterday, with Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and that prosecutor from the Nuremburg trials pointing out how toxic a lack of empathy is... and Elmo doing his straight arm "salute" and his comment about how awful empathy is.
The new religion.
Is it, though? "There is no hate like Christian love" has been around for a lot longer than this current breed of Christian nationalists.
I did not know that. And may I add: Bummer.
Extremist Protestants are bummer incarnate.
Good for Representative Beatty! If she loses, she should appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court like Trump does, every time!
I just emailed my daughter to request that if she decides to wheel me onto an airplane when I shuffle off this mortal coil, she make sure to reserve a space in First Class.
I asked for a Viking funeral.
Set a little boat on fire with my body on it.
There is a little lake locally that rents boats.
A son in law said he doesn't think we could get
a permit to do it.
Bio waste and all.
I told them just burn one liddle boat with one body.
Jeeze. They told me ok to shut me up.
Love you guys! I will love you with money when I get a little more next year! Fer realz ♥️
You need Boxing Day!
Dick pics?
Nah, I'll stick with dik dik pics, thank you very much.
It's about time you guys started celebrating Boxing Day. Perfect 4 day extended weekend this year.
We've all been worried about the AMOC and climate change. Perhaps we should start paying attention to this one in the Pacific.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/climate/japan-sea-level-fishing-impact
>> “Enjoy” your time with “family” just kidding for the scare quotes, you’re good people, so most of you probably have family that doesn’t hate you. Good job everybody!
ROFL!
An excellent story from The Defector about the real Marty Supreme. Enjoy. https://defector.com/marty-reisman-the-real-marty-supreme
Anybody else having trouble with that Black Dahlia link?
No it just tells me to click "not a robot" and I'm in :/
That's fine for the dishonest robots among us, but what about us ethical robuts?!
Fascinating controversy coming from Oklahoma and my old university. It raises a variety of issues involving academic freedom, viewpoint discrimination, etc.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/us/oklahoma-university-bible-essay-hnk
Needless to say I believe the instructor was correct. This will wind up in court no doubt and if it worked its way to the Supreme Court it will be interesting to see how they rule. I'm sure Chris Geidner at LawDork will look at this soon
This case is straightforwardly a student who did not do the assignment getting an F. If it gets anywhere near the Supreme Court it is because we have fallen as a nation. Which side was bitching about snowflakes and ideology mattering more than the truth and merit and all that? This student wrote an F reaction paper, got an F, and then went to the governor about it. The school itself went outside its own procedures to try and settle this, which only made things worse. They should have stood by the TA and the Prof who agreed with her assessment. The fact that the TA is trans is one of the reasons this is being made out to be a big deal. They want to do everything possible to push trans people out of normal, public lives and professions.
Otherwise, standard culture war moral panic bs. Also one should have a look at Fulnecky's mom (a lawyer who ran her LLC with no business license for seven years then cried discrimination when it was sanctioned) who has been trying to be right wing famous for a couple decades and failing.
I wonder if it'd turn out like Fisher v. University of Texas. I doubt that ruling would hold up today.
Interesting background. Thanks. Whose first Amendment rights were infringed? The teacher's or the student's or both? When academic freedom conflicts with gubernatorial intervention who decides- State legislatures? What a tangle.
Wow, that article sure leaves a lot out
This looks to be one of those cases that might receive a lot more explication later. Depending on what happens next, I wouldn't be surprised if a host of NGOs and other entities on both sides of the divide weigh in.
Okay. It's gray out there, 27 degrees, but I'm gonna go out and walk around, see what I can see in the yard. Just to say I've done something today. Tonight, we kind of agreed to go to a Christmas worship. Before you gasp, it's at an extinction level Lutheran church out in Ocqueoc, Michigan. Mrs. Toomush's best friend grew up next door to it, and we've gone there most years. They mostly light candles and sing Christmas hymns, which I do love to do, because it was what all of my mother's big family would get together and do every year, while the generation before me was still alive. Now, we're all scattered, and the Toomush kids are mostly not gonna be here tonight, so.... if you want Christmas at my age, you have to let it in...
Went out to get firewood for the fireplace. That's going to be about it for me today.
Procrastinating tendencies have bitten me in the ass once again. You'd think I would have learned by now, but oh, nooo. Headed to the liquor store earlier. Got to the end of my block and saw someone that had the same idea try the door, turn around, and leave. Really thought they'd be open today. At least I didn't walk all the way there. So, I made more coffee, and have a tray of puff pastry pinwheels rolled up with brie and lemon and fig marmalade in the oven. It's a decent consolation prize.
For anyone who was following my saga: the camera just arrived!
Hooray!
And......?!
All good!
Yay!
You didn't ask and I'm not going to tell. The totally unofficial & unauthorized Theydies Auxiliary Chrimble Eve Zoom is live for maybe an hour or so.
Spike Jones, Cocktails for Two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0dw2UKRYSA
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86568163094?pwd=GaQb8YrsrAkpVcwJh7sChS5X0XNlMD.1