would try. i sometimes make a simple milk punch (heated milk, vanilla, dash of mace -I like it more than nutmeg - and brandy or bourbon) when trying to unwind from a stressful day.
I've been watching the implosion over at TYT on and off again for the past couple of weeks. Now, Cenk Uygur has always been a hyperdefensive asshole, so I don't ever expect him to admit his effort to "reach out" to Charlie Kirk and Maga was complete failure. But what was his goal here? He talks about finding "common ground," but what common ground did he find? He's not going to get Maga to agree with the left on equal rights when the entire movement is predicated on the fear of lost white Christian male privilege. And while does sometimes make some noises about economic populism, the most important aspect of the movement is still loyalty to Trump. And Trump is 100% for the billionaire class, so when push comes to shove, Maga will always close their ears and pretend Trump is being an economic populalist even as he passes more tax cuts for the rich while slashing Social Security and Medicare.
Who are the Trumpists going to profit from blaming now?
Mr. Jabbar’s (the New Orleans killer) father grew up as Christian but later turned to Islam, changing his last name from Young to Jabbar and also giving some of his children Arabic names. Still, many members of the family, who are all African-American, continued attending a local Baptist church.
After Ann Telnaes announce that she had quit the Washington Post, her offending cartoon has been shared and seen by many more people than it would have been in the Post.
"The world’s oceans stow vast amounts of carbon dioxide. Now, a growing group of scientists and companies say they’ve found a way to increase that storage capacity by tweaking ocean water chemistry...."
I'm skeptical - one, because the efforts so far are small scale as compared to what it would take to alter the ocean's chemistry ( the piece says that the ocean is currently "slightly alkaline" at a pH of 8.2 - and they want to increase the alkalinity? ) and two, that we really can't identify the real effects on sealife using such small scale ( the piece claims that there's "growing evidence" - again, based on small scale experiments - that zooplankton can tolerate ocean alkalinization ).
I can't help feeling that all these proposals for geoengineering projects to mitigate climate change all suffer from the problem that we can't really test them other than small scale experiments - and ( the same argument that denialists used to use against climate change ) we cannot really scale up any method of geoengineering to the point that it would make a significant difference.
Some time back I read an article about whales and it concluded iron suspended in the ocean dropped after we killed most of the whales and this increased global warming because their poop kept levels high. I wonder if iron increases or decreases PH?
I'm not sure about affecting pH, but I do remember that dropping iron into the ocean promotes phytoplankton ( as opposed to zooplankton ) growth - which then absorbs more CO2.
'K, off to the fishmongers'. Per Hubby's request, I'm making an oysterloaf (aka, a "peacemaker") for our supper tonight and I've asked Kyle to hold a dozen fresh 'uns for me.
Julia Reed had an essay about the superiority of the oyster loaf over the mere po' boy. I don't live somewhere where they show up on menus (and I'm not about to make one) but at the first opportunity I could I had one! Hope you and hubby have a delicious supper!
Finding myself briefly, I hope, awake in the night and wondering who was the first rabbit or protorabbit to decide oh look I’ve got all this fur right here and these little babies are gonna be cold. I’m just gonna tear some of it out and make a nest for them, such that all the other rabbits thought, that’s a good idea, I suppose I’ll follow suit.
Going back to sleep now, I hope. Confident that you all have this firmly in hand.
No. He’s just a rich liberal. It started with completely made up 4chan conspiracy theories about the guy that have now gone mainstream. He’s become one of those mythical figures that is blamed for everything under the sun conservatives don’t like.
Well, back in the casino days PAB did say he only wanted "guys in yarmulkes" touching his count room money, when on a tour he spied a few Black employees in there. He had them thrown out of the count room right away. The "least racist" person you've ever met tho.
There's a book/magazine section in my local supermarket that holds fancier reads than what they have displayed near the checkouts. One magazine had a giant gloating pic of Cheetolini on the front cover and I flipped it over to display the back...but there was another pic of him there. I covered the whole thing with a copy of Fast Company. Small acts of resistance, lol.
Good Morning. Here is your morning giggle. A Scottish road gritter tracker- with their names. Totally worth your time. Hubby and I upset the dog with our laughing
You know it's a bad sign when you have a dream, and there's snow on the mountains. And you say to a friend, "What do you mean, there's no snow? Just look at Mt. San Jacinto." [San Jac glistens white down to about 8,000 feet.]
But it was just a dream. Not a drop of rain this winter in SoCal, not a flake of snow in the mountains.
Psychologist to me: "Ja, you have vat's known as Drought-phobia. Quite common this year. Now, let me ask you about your mother." [blam! blam! blam!]
As much as I try to oppose some of the more egregious efforts to demonize the Mainstream Media, specifically the NYT and WaPo, I find this to only confirm people's biases against WaPo, st least:
"Ms. Telnaes included a draft of her cartoon in her Substack post. In addition to Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the cartoon depicted Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg; Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive; Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of The Los Angeles Times; and Mickey Mouse, the corporate mascot of the Walt Disney Company.
David Shipley, The Post’s opinions editor, said in a statement that he respected Ms. Telnaes and all she had given to The Post “but must disagree with her interpretation of events."
“Not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force,” Mr. Shipley said in the statement. “My decision was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication. The only bias was against repetition.”"
Very weak mea culpa. On top of their decision to not endorse Harris for the November election, this doesn't diminish the impression that WaPo's editorial board is kowtowing to the owner ( Bezos ).
would try. i sometimes make a simple milk punch (heated milk, vanilla, dash of mace -I like it more than nutmeg - and brandy or bourbon) when trying to unwind from a stressful day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzEPd-X9h8A&ab_channel=ColeTalk
I've been watching the implosion over at TYT on and off again for the past couple of weeks. Now, Cenk Uygur has always been a hyperdefensive asshole, so I don't ever expect him to admit his effort to "reach out" to Charlie Kirk and Maga was complete failure. But what was his goal here? He talks about finding "common ground," but what common ground did he find? He's not going to get Maga to agree with the left on equal rights when the entire movement is predicated on the fear of lost white Christian male privilege. And while does sometimes make some noises about economic populism, the most important aspect of the movement is still loyalty to Trump. And Trump is 100% for the billionaire class, so when push comes to shove, Maga will always close their ears and pretend Trump is being an economic populalist even as he passes more tax cuts for the rich while slashing Social Security and Medicare.
So what was the goal here?
Who are the Trumpists going to profit from blaming now?
Mr. Jabbar’s (the New Orleans killer) father grew up as Christian but later turned to Islam, changing his last name from Young to Jabbar and also giving some of his children Arabic names. Still, many members of the family, who are all African-American, continued attending a local Baptist church.
After Ann Telnaes announce that she had quit the Washington Post, her offending cartoon has been shared and seen by many more people than it would have been in the Post.
"Well, I can't help 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, yer highness Mr President, but I tried!".
And helps people have more evidence that Bezos is a dickhead.
My errands involve covering usually five miles or so, on foot. It’s in the teens with the considerable wind out there. I think we might drive.
"These kids today ... in *my* day, we'd do that walk in shorts and flip-flops! Up hill both ways!"
Mom would give us a baked potato to keep our hands warm and that was our lunch too.*
*My dad actually said this when I was a kid
I’m on the fence. I don’t know if I have enough layers to put on.
That reminds me of this meme.
https://substack.com/profile/155617549-bradthebot/note/c-84405265
Another example of geoengineering to "solve" climate change:
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐴 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
[ gift link ]: https://wapo.st/4fI5NnJ
"The world’s oceans stow vast amounts of carbon dioxide. Now, a growing group of scientists and companies say they’ve found a way to increase that storage capacity by tweaking ocean water chemistry...."
I'm skeptical - one, because the efforts so far are small scale as compared to what it would take to alter the ocean's chemistry ( the piece says that the ocean is currently "slightly alkaline" at a pH of 8.2 - and they want to increase the alkalinity? ) and two, that we really can't identify the real effects on sealife using such small scale ( the piece claims that there's "growing evidence" - again, based on small scale experiments - that zooplankton can tolerate ocean alkalinization ).
I can't help feeling that all these proposals for geoengineering projects to mitigate climate change all suffer from the problem that we can't really test them other than small scale experiments - and ( the same argument that denialists used to use against climate change ) we cannot really scale up any method of geoengineering to the point that it would make a significant difference.
Some time back I read an article about whales and it concluded iron suspended in the ocean dropped after we killed most of the whales and this increased global warming because their poop kept levels high. I wonder if iron increases or decreases PH?
I'm not sure about affecting pH, but I do remember that dropping iron into the ocean promotes phytoplankton ( as opposed to zooplankton ) growth - which then absorbs more CO2.
Okay - here's an explainer:
Link: https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/climate-weather/ocean-based-climate-solutions/iron-fertilization/
mebbe pour some drain cleaner in your saltwater fish tank and see who dies before dumping caustic soda into the fucking OCEAN!!!!
'K, off to the fishmongers'. Per Hubby's request, I'm making an oysterloaf (aka, a "peacemaker") for our supper tonight and I've asked Kyle to hold a dozen fresh 'uns for me.
Julia Reed had an essay about the superiority of the oyster loaf over the mere po' boy. I don't live somewhere where they show up on menus (and I'm not about to make one) but at the first opportunity I could I had one! Hope you and hubby have a delicious supper!
Granddad once said when he was a tyke oysters here were 75¢ for a hundred. If you didn't go out oystering on your own.
Time$ have changed.
Never heard of an oysterloaf. Does it require lazy oysters?
I assume its like olive loaf but instead of olives, you put oysters in the bologna.
! It's a type of (some say the original) poboy.
Basically, half a baguette or loaf of Cuban bread (in our case) stuffed with fresh fried oysters and fixin's. Plus sides (e.g., corn relish).
Thank goodness, I'd envisioned a meatloaf but with oysters. A 'Nope loaf."
So did I
Ummm...
Yummy - I love oyster and/or shrimp po'boys!
Oysterloaf was the name of our garage band back in the day.
When you regroup, will you be known as The Po’boys, or Blue Oysterloaf Cult?
<shows self out>
You got it half right. Meatloaf was our other musical inspiration.
Mr S pulled off a simultaneous burp and fart this morning and is very smug about it.
Be thankful it wasn't an overburp and a shart.
Is that referred to as a bart or a furp? Or does it depend on what part of the country you're in?
“No sneeze, then, dear?“
Man’s reach must exceed his grasp, else what’s a heaven for?
Evacuation at both ends, impressive!
As he should be.
Finding myself briefly, I hope, awake in the night and wondering who was the first rabbit or protorabbit to decide oh look I’ve got all this fur right here and these little babies are gonna be cold. I’m just gonna tear some of it out and make a nest for them, such that all the other rabbits thought, that’s a good idea, I suppose I’ll follow suit.
Going back to sleep now, I hope. Confident that you all have this firmly in hand.
The sound of right wing heads exploding is music to my ears.
Biden Annnounces Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients — George Soros Inclusion Sparks Conservative Outrage: ‘Most Evil Man on the Planet!’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/biden-annnounces-presidential-medal-of-freedom-recipients-george-soros-inclusion-sparks-conservative-outrage-most-evil-man-on-the-planet/
If gave one to Obama, it would cause more splodin' than a Wankpanzer at an Orange Turd Feculent Bed Bug Resort Tower.
For a second I thought it said George Santos, not Soros. HAR.
GOLDSTEIN!
Is there a reason they hate Soros or is it just because he's a rich liberal?
It is easier for right wing conspiracy theorists to spell than Rothschilds
He spends his money promoting pro-democracy stuff.
Also too...Joooooos.
No. He’s just a rich liberal. It started with completely made up 4chan conspiracy theories about the guy that have now gone mainstream. He’s become one of those mythical figures that is blamed for everything under the sun conservatives don’t like.
Rich, liberal, {{{globalist.}}} GQP trifecta.
Jewish
So is Ivanka and they love her.
She's a RWNJ so she gets a pass.
Like Sheldon and Miriam Adelson.
I would bet that they don't even know that Irrelevanka converted to Judaism but if they do she's the "right" kind of jew.
Well, back in the casino days PAB did say he only wanted "guys in yarmulkes" touching his count room money, when on a tour he spied a few Black employees in there. He had them thrown out of the count room right away. The "least racist" person you've ever met tho.
ATTABOY, JOE!!!
*cough* Rush *cough* Limbaugh *cough*
Turmp will be handing them out like candy.
No, he won't.
But he will be selling them.
Don't forget the casino lady who married a dead guy for his money.
Isn't that the perfect marriage?
There's a book/magazine section in my local supermarket that holds fancier reads than what they have displayed near the checkouts. One magazine had a giant gloating pic of Cheetolini on the front cover and I flipped it over to display the back...but there was another pic of him there. I covered the whole thing with a copy of Fast Company. Small acts of resistance, lol.
We do this. I can’t stand the sight of that ugly two-bit mobster.
Do they still have "Mr Yuck" stickers? Start sticking them over his face!
'Course if you're caught that's probably a vandalism charge...
That's the thing - I'm tempted to do something like that but I don't want to get stuck buying what I "broke."
I'm listening to "Much Ado About Nothing."
"If he hath caught the benedick, it'll cost him a thousand pounds ere he'll be cured."
"You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the job.”
Bill sure knew how to pitch some zingers.
Snert! :)
Good Morning. Here is your morning giggle. A Scottish road gritter tracker- with their names. Totally worth your time. Hubby and I upset the dog with our laughing
https://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker
Also, a link to the Poke website where I first saw this.
https://www.thepoke.com/2024/11/22/its-frozen-up-north-so-these-fabulously-named-scottish-gritters-are-going-viral-again-of-course-they-are-and-its-a-perennial-treat/
"On Her Majesty's Slippery Surface"?
Heeee heeeeeeee!
Minnesota has a snowplow named "Betty White-Out", and I see that Scotland has one too.
Someone hand painted Pushy Galore on one of ours.
Has Plowy McPlow been used?
I love these names.
You know it's a bad sign when you have a dream, and there's snow on the mountains. And you say to a friend, "What do you mean, there's no snow? Just look at Mt. San Jacinto." [San Jac glistens white down to about 8,000 feet.]
But it was just a dream. Not a drop of rain this winter in SoCal, not a flake of snow in the mountains.
Psychologist to me: "Ja, you have vat's known as Drought-phobia. Quite common this year. Now, let me ask you about your mother." [blam! blam! blam!]
La Niña raising its ugly head.
I cancelled my Washington Post subscription. I get the newsroom probably can use the money. But killing the cartoon was a bridge too far.
I’d canceled my WaPo subscription after their refusal to pick a candidate, so I used some of that money to subscribe to telnaes’ Substack.
I would happily cancel my subscription again over this.
This totally validates my decision to cancel my subscription
Same here.
As much as I try to oppose some of the more egregious efforts to demonize the Mainstream Media, specifically the NYT and WaPo, I find this to only confirm people's biases against WaPo, st least:
𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐉𝐞𝐟𝐟 𝐁𝐞𝐳𝐨𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐬 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑛, 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑛 𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑛𝑎𝑒𝑠, 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝐽𝑒𝑓𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑧𝑜𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡-𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝.
[ gift link ]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/business/media/washington-post-cartoonist-quits-after-jeff-bezos-cartoon-is-killed.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk4.ag32.Rprzffx1qRBm&smid=url-share
"Ms. Telnaes included a draft of her cartoon in her Substack post. In addition to Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the cartoon depicted Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg; Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive; Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of The Los Angeles Times; and Mickey Mouse, the corporate mascot of the Walt Disney Company.
David Shipley, The Post’s opinions editor, said in a statement that he respected Ms. Telnaes and all she had given to The Post “but must disagree with her interpretation of events."
“Not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force,” Mr. Shipley said in the statement. “My decision was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication. The only bias was against repetition.”"
Very weak mea culpa. On top of their decision to not endorse Harris for the November election, this doesn't diminish the impression that WaPo's editorial board is kowtowing to the owner ( Bezos ).
Maybe Bezos just wants to sell the Post? Can the Washington Times afford it? Handle the rapid expansion? The answer is out there in the darkness.
Vanity, thy name is [LEGION].
Ms. Telnaes quit in protest, or she'd just had enough which I guess would be the same thing.
I posted the cartoon in notes but now don't need to provide the link, thanks!!
And I appreciate it!
If this were a conservative cartoonist republicans and Fox News and Bari Weiss and the entire right wing media would turn this into political Capital.
But the Left won’t do the same. Why? It’s low hanging fruit. It’s right there for the taking. Why are we so goddamned afraid to fight?
We've drifted into asshole territory. Hand-wringers and whiners are assholes, too....
We won’t see a backlash to this from the left. There won’t be any hand wringing or teeth gnashing from us over the censorship.
Nope. We’ll just say, “they’re not the government so they can censor whoever they want” and call it a day.
Because we are weak sad poop.
Fuck WaPo and Bezos. He's always bragged about being a hands off owner...until, of course, it came time to lick Trump's ass.
Hands-off but tongue-on.
lol
The paper which couldn't find enough space for all of its "Biden is old" articles is now suddenly worried about too many columns on one topic?
Asa it is, I couldn't find evidence of either of the columns he talked about on the WaPo website opinions pages.
Perfect. Thanks!
“Not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force,” but this one is.
"Democracy dies in repetition," Mr. Shipley said.
Well, it is on the main page of the NYT right now, so it is getting exposure. Probably not the exposure that Mr. Shipley was considering.
'See? We're NOT the worst!'
- Sully