I've been wondering why Portland isn't on the short list for a fascist invasion, but it makes sense we're too white. Just wouldn't give Trump's racist base the boners they're looking for to see his goons teargassing white suburban moms.
Only one quibble: Did the Subway sandwich hit the weenie cop in the face, or the upper torso area? I thought it was the latter. To my mind, I would consider it more potentially harmful if it was thrown at his face, where it could have struck him in the eyes. (I said, "quibble"!)
I agree, from what I saw on the video it appeared to hit the weenie cop mid-torso, where he apparently has layers of bullet-proof protection and probably didn't even know the sandwich had been thrown at him until he saw it leave Dunn's hand before he ran away without said sandwich.
Atlanta traffic really sucks. It's not as bad as LA, but only because Atl is smaller. I've gotten used to Strasbourg where you're more likely to be run down by a bicycle.
Yes, well, that was my mistake when I was going by a teaser trailer that had almost zero information in it and the title. Looking at IMdB’s thumbnail plot description, it looks more like he’s playing Joseph.
Except it’s listed as a horror movie, so if there’s any Jesus in it at all it’s probably just background noise.
Okay, going by the description, maybe he's playing Joseph? It's billed as a horror movie, anyway.
//
Family hiding in Roman Egypt. Son known as 'the Boy' doubts guardian 'the Carpenter' [Cage], rebelling with mysterious powers. As he uses abilities, they face natural and divine horrors.
A big shout out to Grimsby Town, who beat Manchester United on PKs 12-11 to advance in the Carabao Cup and send legendary behemoth Man U back to Old Trafford asking serious questions about whether their manager has any staying power.
Grimsby is in League Two, by the way, the 4th tier of English football; Man U's a Premier League side.
I got a good belly laugh when I read the news yesterday.
There was a guy on ESPN FC who was visibly struggling to not start swearing, while another analyst had his face in his hands trying not to laugh his ass off.
So today I'm taking care of my 8 1/2-year-old-going-on-13 grandson. He's an only child and is going to whine about not having anyone to play with because all his friends are visiting their grandparents in New York or wherever. After he plays with his Legos for a while, we'll definitely watch "K-Pop Demon Hunters." I think I'll skip explaining about the couch. Thank heavens school starts next week!
Forgetting the technology for a moment, this shows just how bad Taco Tits' mental cognition has declined. It is even been further reduced to the 4 year old, self-centered tantrum level. That his butt-kissing acolytes keep propping him up doesn't surprise me, either Their whole existence in authority relies on Taco Tits being in charge. Once that's gone, they're gone.
Well, nothing good happening in the local news paper. Walters is a MAGA GQP piece of shit, as are AD Drummond and Gov. Shitt, I mean Stitt. All three are circumventing the legislature and doing weird shit that could actually be good (free lunches for students, the end of annual student testing, pulling the highway patrol from the cities, etc) but they are doing these things in the most malicious and nefarious ways possible.
Someone came round these parts to whine about how the South sucks and I told them to do something about it by moving here and voting against it. That's what I do down here: I vote, and I do volunteer work to make sure those people our piece of shit community members don't want helped actually do get help. It's pretty awesome and makes me feel like I live in the record Fear of a Black Planet (such a great record).
Anyway, I forgot to mention that I tried my new migraine acute attack meds while I was in Austin and they worked even without the upset stomach I was promised. It was one of the strangest experiences I've had in my migraine life of now 27 years: the migraine stopped, but I didn't feel loopy or sleepy or have a sore throat or horrible muscle pain that the triptans usually cause me. I just felt normal, but without a migraine. Yay!
Your mention of the South reminds me of Medgar Evers and why he lived in Mississippi.
<“Why do I live in Mississippi? The state is beautiful, it is home, I love it here. A man’s state is like his house. If it has defects, he tries to remedy them. That’s what my job is here. Why do I live in Mississippi? I live here to better it for my wife and kids, and for all the wives and all the kids who expect and deserve something better than what they are getting from life,” Medgar Evers, Why I Live in Mississippi, Ebony Magazine, September 1963.>
It's how I feel about my state. For every state that is "red", the voting ratio is about 60-40 on average. So in a gathering of 10 people it's 6-4. That's just a one person swing. A state isn't just its government to me. You can sneer "Texas" and I can respond "Jasmine Crockett". What you do is great and I appreciate you sharing with us.
Thank you. Someone groaned yesterday when I said "you get the government locals vote for" and my response was "talk to your neighbors." I am determined to make every person I talk to love our unhoused friends.
If Walters and Stitt are doing good things, why would they want to hide it? Or are they hiding these good things from their own party in OK legislature? Or is there a grift in there somewhere? They are both weasels, so this is surprising to me.
Well, I have no doubt Walters has some business friend who the state will pay to make schools meals and develop quarterly benchmark testing.
The thing about the highway patrol being yanked from the cities (what can I say, I'm for less policing) is more about pulling resources (paid for mostly by city folk) from the cities and shifting them to rural areas. Sounds like socialisms to me!
From The Book of Antinouns, Pick a Chapter vs Or Don't:
"For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but wicked judges hit the bottle and fall into mischief."
Salute to the grand juries that are refusing to act as rubber stamps for the howling Republican idiots of the DOJ 👏
Legit genuine looney tunes stuff, didn't even need the added imagery of tubas or anything. xD Fascinating, really...
Check the video and you'll see that the sandwich hit the thug's shoulder, not his face.
I've been wondering why Portland isn't on the short list for a fascist invasion, but it makes sense we're too white. Just wouldn't give Trump's racist base the boners they're looking for to see his goons teargassing white suburban moms.
Yes! We the People need to start re-taking the power. I consider jury duty and voting to be my civic duty.
Only one quibble: Did the Subway sandwich hit the weenie cop in the face, or the upper torso area? I thought it was the latter. To my mind, I would consider it more potentially harmful if it was thrown at his face, where it could have struck him in the eyes. (I said, "quibble"!)
I agree, from what I saw on the video it appeared to hit the weenie cop mid-torso, where he apparently has layers of bullet-proof protection and probably didn't even know the sandwich had been thrown at him until he saw it leave Dunn's hand before he ran away without said sandwich.
Atlanta traffic really sucks. It's not as bad as LA, but only because Atl is smaller. I've gotten used to Strasbourg where you're more likely to be run down by a bicycle.
It sucked badly when I lived there over 20 years ago. Now we just pass through it on the way somewhere else and it must be even suckier these days.
TERBS?
...I guess Nick Cage is gonna play Jesus now?
Trailer, "The Carpenter's Son"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5mB0FkzLSc
Isn't he waaaay too old and too white to play someone from the Middle East who died at 30?
Yes, well, that was my mistake when I was going by a teaser trailer that had almost zero information in it and the title. Looking at IMdB’s thumbnail plot description, it looks more like he’s playing Joseph.
Except it’s listed as a horror movie, so if there’s any Jesus in it at all it’s probably just background noise.
Okay, going by the description, maybe he's playing Joseph? It's billed as a horror movie, anyway.
//
Family hiding in Roman Egypt. Son known as 'the Boy' doubts guardian 'the Carpenter' [Cage], rebelling with mysterious powers. As he uses abilities, they face natural and divine horrors.
//
After I saw him play "Sonic The Hedgehog" I knew he could do anything.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/41/4f/47/414f47ba6f663a6c35c87ce3324248f7.jpg
A big shout out to Grimsby Town, who beat Manchester United on PKs 12-11 to advance in the Carabao Cup and send legendary behemoth Man U back to Old Trafford asking serious questions about whether their manager has any staying power.
Grimsby is in League Two, by the way, the 4th tier of English football; Man U's a Premier League side.
I got a good belly laugh when I read the news yesterday.
Oh I laughed at that. The fact the mancs had to *come back* from 2-0 down then got beat on pennos? Beautiful.
Oh yeah it was choice.
To quote someone who might be disappointed by it, "fucking mint"
There was a guy on ESPN FC who was visibly struggling to not start swearing, while another analyst had his face in his hands trying not to laugh his ass off.
"Covid wildfire" - my local news
This is going to be a cold dark autumn.
OK, this is good. I'm signed up.
"Crown Chronicles: Empowering Black Hair Care Education through AI"
Hey, stop fucking laughing.
I'm gonna practice like shit on the software and everyone is going to laugh at me, but that makes it easier to teach.
No, I'm not going to Al Jolson it. I'm going to teach 10-17 year old women how to fucking AI.
I so love doing this stuff.
Okay, even if you don't want to watch the whole thing, please please *please* skip to 4:50 and listen for the next, oh 10 seconds or so.
"Honest Trailers: K-Pop Demon Hunters"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywJtKTRhq5A
So today I'm taking care of my 8 1/2-year-old-going-on-13 grandson. He's an only child and is going to whine about not having anyone to play with because all his friends are visiting their grandparents in New York or wherever. After he plays with his Legos for a while, we'll definitely watch "K-Pop Demon Hunters." I think I'll skip explaining about the couch. Thank heavens school starts next week!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Ta, that was fun.
Snerk ... I didn't think of Shady Vance during those scenes and now I can't unsee it.
Forgetting the technology for a moment, this shows just how bad Taco Tits' mental cognition has declined. It is even been further reduced to the 4 year old, self-centered tantrum level. That his butt-kissing acolytes keep propping him up doesn't surprise me, either Their whole existence in authority relies on Taco Tits being in charge. Once that's gone, they're gone.
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘁, 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 '𝘁-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱' 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗻
'They have to give us magnets'
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/trump_china_rare_earths/
China is just kicking his ass so hard.
They hold all the cards on this kind of stuff.
Magnets? Pffft.
I am an OG Steam Cultist.
If he's a 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 negotiator we'll get a deal on those national security waterproof magnets...
Fran Lebowitz was right, I just 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 know anyone nearly as stupid.
"China has played the long game on this and for years advanced electronics manufacturers will be under its thumb,"
I'm shocked by this news.
Who could possibly have changed that outcome.
I had a bucket of magnets for my STEM class last year. Maybe we can send him the classroom magnets.
I have several neodymium "wafer" magnets that will require tools to separate, I am willing to participate with them for the cause!
Those things are so cool.
They are fun. Very good things for ferrous material pranks, but keep 'em away from the mechanical watches...
Magnets, how do they work?
Ha ha!
Oh good.
I wish stupidity was painful to the host.
Well, nothing good happening in the local news paper. Walters is a MAGA GQP piece of shit, as are AD Drummond and Gov. Shitt, I mean Stitt. All three are circumventing the legislature and doing weird shit that could actually be good (free lunches for students, the end of annual student testing, pulling the highway patrol from the cities, etc) but they are doing these things in the most malicious and nefarious ways possible.
Someone came round these parts to whine about how the South sucks and I told them to do something about it by moving here and voting against it. That's what I do down here: I vote, and I do volunteer work to make sure those people our piece of shit community members don't want helped actually do get help. It's pretty awesome and makes me feel like I live in the record Fear of a Black Planet (such a great record).
Anyway, I forgot to mention that I tried my new migraine acute attack meds while I was in Austin and they worked even without the upset stomach I was promised. It was one of the strangest experiences I've had in my migraine life of now 27 years: the migraine stopped, but I didn't feel loopy or sleepy or have a sore throat or horrible muscle pain that the triptans usually cause me. I just felt normal, but without a migraine. Yay!
Your mention of the South reminds me of Medgar Evers and why he lived in Mississippi.
<“Why do I live in Mississippi? The state is beautiful, it is home, I love it here. A man’s state is like his house. If it has defects, he tries to remedy them. That’s what my job is here. Why do I live in Mississippi? I live here to better it for my wife and kids, and for all the wives and all the kids who expect and deserve something better than what they are getting from life,” Medgar Evers, Why I Live in Mississippi, Ebony Magazine, September 1963.>
Fight the Power!
It's how I feel about my state. For every state that is "red", the voting ratio is about 60-40 on average. So in a gathering of 10 people it's 6-4. That's just a one person swing. A state isn't just its government to me. You can sneer "Texas" and I can respond "Jasmine Crockett". What you do is great and I appreciate you sharing with us.
Thank you. Someone groaned yesterday when I said "you get the government locals vote for" and my response was "talk to your neighbors." I am determined to make every person I talk to love our unhoused friends.
If Walters and Stitt are doing good things, why would they want to hide it? Or are they hiding these good things from their own party in OK legislature? Or is there a grift in there somewhere? They are both weasels, so this is surprising to me.
Well, I have no doubt Walters has some business friend who the state will pay to make schools meals and develop quarterly benchmark testing.
The thing about the highway patrol being yanked from the cities (what can I say, I'm for less policing) is more about pulling resources (paid for mostly by city folk) from the cities and shifting them to rural areas. Sounds like socialisms to me!
Ah ... that makes sense. City taxpayers fund rural law enforcement. Yes, it certainly sounds like soshulisms.