Much needed laugh today- on my morning walk, I spotted (my 3rd) “Cyber-Junk” in the wild. As if those things are not BFUgly enough, this one was (wait for it) MINT GREEN!! Damn, of all times to not take my phone on my walk (no pics).
Yeah, that inflation fix he is bringing with his tariffs may have a silver lining.
At your next garage sale you can charge TWO dollars for a paperback book instead of 25 cents; don't hesitate to ask for SIX dollars for tee shirts! That old lawn mower that don't work? You can ask for and get THIRTY to ONE HUNDRED Ameros instead of having to pay some guy to come and haul it away!
And do not let anyone tell you that "secondary consumer markets" are not affected by tariffs and such price gouging is not OK. If one hundred million Americans can't be bothered to understand what Tariff means you don't have to 'splain nothing to no one ever again. Just jack up the garage sale prices and whistle a happy know-nothing song.
Of course, when I begin black marketeering, there will be different pricing categories for different buyers. US and THEM. Them also incl non-voting, 3rd party, write-in assholes.
Oh god, does that mean I will finally be able to get that dead RV out of my driveway and maybe get some cash out of the deal? Silver lining I guess. Sad part is it will be for someone who needs to live in it.
Me too, except I chose art and have been poor ever since. After a 20 year period where I did nothing creative I dipped my toe in the pool again a few years ago and forgot how incredibly giddy you feel when the ideas come at you from every direction and practically overwhelm you.
It is a required part of my way of life and I'm more than fine with it. I got sober with and use the 12 Steps, you know the kind, and that concept was far older.
Extremely important part of our ways, what I call, "Growing Up Lessons".
Years ago my lead called me out on some minor detail to which I immediately agreed I was wrong and he burst into laughter and for days would tell people I admitted I was wrong about something. Most of the people just looked confused and seemed to wonder why he was sharing it.
Self Care Tip: If you're feeling powerless because of this election, try a power pose. There is a physiological reason that certain body language or smiling makes you feel better.
Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Put your hands on your hips. Puff your chest out like Superman. Hold your head high and hold the pose for at least a minute.
I once bought a very old sledge hammer at an estate sale just for this purpose.
But if you go this way DO NOT throw it at anything like Thor always does. It's dangerous to begin with. But when it does not return to your hand you are going to be crushed. And then you will be Sad Thor.
I think it was Jamie Foxx that paid tribute to his grandmother who he credited as his first acting teacher. To wit: "Stand up straight, put your shoulders forward, and act like you have some common sense". I may not have the quote right but they are words to live by.
Raise your arms out in front of you so they are extended level with your shoulders. Slowly raise both middle fingers. Shout "THE GOP CAN GO FUCK ITSELF IN ITS OWN ASS WITH A RAKE"
It really works. I did it in line at the bank yesterday when I was the only woman in line with like 12 men (in AZ most of them were likely to be Trumpers). I knew they were probably looking at me, so I just stood in that power pose for the entire time and ignored them.
I think the biggest thing I can’t stand is the hypocrisy of the right. How completely full of shit they are.
Evangelicals: I went to Walmart and they greeted me with happy holidays! Can you believe that? War on Christmas! We are the most persecuted people on Earth!
Also evangelicals: Half this country are vermin, trash, garbage. They need to be rounded up and deported, put in jail, put in camps, executed…whatever.
Republicans: we are anti-government! We want to drown government in a bathtub!
Also republicans: we want a one party government with an Authoritarian strongman to rule with an iron fist.
I say this a lot, because I say that a lot, because I say a lot that the things I say a lot are things I say a lot. This is one of those things.
BUT.
They are people in love with being victims, because what they understand victimhood to be is a complete exoneration from all culpability AND an entitlement to anything they want. For them, victimhood is license.
They routinely cite Niemöller, but where other people do that to remind themselves they are in fact their brothers' keeper, these people do it to point the finger at others. In this instance, and only in this instance, they will be the communists, the trades unionists, the homosexuals etc. When they cite the quote, they are not being introspective, they are being accusatory.
YOU didn't say anything.
YOU didn't defend me.
YOU let them take me away*.
They are always the victims, and, as per their understanding, that means they are always innocent. They can't be hypocrites, because that is bad. They are pure. You are to blame.
*made me see a potato shaped plastic toy without a gendered honorific
Yep. I'm reading a book by Robert Kagan right now called "Rebellion" about how there has always been an illiberal movement in this country against democracy. It's fucking scary and I don't understand it other than to attribute it to little pea brains that can't think for themselves and need a Big Daddy Strongman cracking a whip over their worthless asses 24.7.
Sort of interesting, if unwanted, conversation with a Mexican-American who just recently got his papers. He's been here 20 years! He asked me what I thought of the election and when I groaned he said he likes Trump because he's a business man. When I pointed out to him that he has bankrupted casinos and his Truth Social site is losing huge amounts of money, he shrugged and said he doesn't know about that but anyway he's rich. When I asked him what he thinks about Trump's plan to forcibly remove millions of immigrants, he again shrugged and said he doesn't really plan to do that, it's just what he needed to say to get elected. That big business won't let him do that anyway because Americans don't work hard and we need immigrants to work hard for us. After that I extricated myself and told him that I guess we'll see what happens. Fucking hell, I'm not ready for this.
Kari Lake was close enough that she will be inspired to continue her grift. I expect her to declare very soon for governor again so she can start fundraising for that.
If she weren't trying to hard, I would have empathy for her. But she chose the wrong side, so fuck her.
Conservative men want barely legal or illegal aged women/girls.
Most of them are disgusting. And I love when men come onto me and are clearly attracted to me and I'm 53 (but look about 20 years younger than that on really, really good days, LOL!).
That's why she always uses the soft focus whenever she's interviewed. Same reason Kevin Sorbo uses a photo from 30 years ago on his Xitter account. He doesn't want to admit he's old.
A few years ago a guy I worked with told me if I dyed my hair I could easily pass for 45 or 50, and I told him I'd still be mid 60's so it wouldn't matter.
A few years ago a woman told me I looked 26 from my forehead down.
I was both flattered and mortified, and drunk, and she was pretty and this story really doesn't go anywhere except to say that I want my fucking hair back and if God existed I'd storm Olympus to get it.
*pets Daniel's scalp* It's definitely not everything some fellas worry it is, but I getcha. My lover-boy, WGL, the World's Greatest *cough* has gone skin-top, and it's done not a damn thing to his superiority *cough, cough*.
I seriously considered finding out a) if any of my war criminal relatives are still alive and b) if they had any contacts with the "doctors" they'd known during the times they'd become that who could help me out.
First, she refused to accept that trump lost to Biden, then she refused to accept that she lost the governor's race. I'm waiting for her take on this outcome.
Yesterday I read this article (Buzzfeed?) about low IQ people and their challenges. A lot of them mentioned they had trouble getting/keeping a job, and how much contempt they experience from other, smarter people. It made me wonder, is there anyway to reach out to these people and provide them with helpful information so they can find ways to feel better about themselves? Things they can do in their own time, like art, gardening, socializing kittens at a local animal shelter. Things they can do, without facing judgement, and being found wanting. At least some of them are self aware enough to they know they're easy targets for manipulation.
There are many many ways to help people like that in the school system Unfortunately many parents refuse to accept the reality that their child may not be up to their concept of "snuff".
Yeah. I read this other article recently about a man who was schizophrenic, but didn't get the help he needed, and there was all this shame around his condition in the family.
As a teacher, I'm inclined to say yes, but I don't know what resources are available in specific places to help them.
In relation to this specific problem (about being targets for manipulation) there are online resources to help teach critical thinking which I use in lessons for my middle school students to help them be safe online and to understand how to "do" history.
This is a good basic summary of things to think about when taking in information that may be trying to manipulate, and it's not patronising in its language. As a first step...
I'm starting to think that in some ways these folks are also part of a marginalized community. It's hard finding compassion right now, we're all hurting and angry, but we have to reach out to them from a place of sincerity.
The voters rejected educated elites, and people should understand how big a motivating factor that is for maga. Trump elevates ignorance to a virtue. He plays to the resentment and prejudices of the ignorant. He literally stands against truth and reason.
Well my sister nieces and nephews and I all voted as did my felllow retired teacher friends .. all haters of trump
I am not taking the rap for this. I donated to campaigns, I cant walk or stand for lon periods so no door knocking for me. In the past I had done post cards
The ones who did this are the dumbass right wing religious who think that a creep like trump is the politician of God's dreams.
Our next movie has a badass female superhero with her cat. One of my favorites of this genre.
𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐥!
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-nov-16-captain?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
oh hey boss!!
I know you couldn't have known, but Big Lebowski comes the day after my birthday, so that's like, copacetic - thank youuuuu!
Somehow I always know
(yeeeeeees)
Oh, awesome!
"That's not a cat! That's a flerken!"
Species: Flerken. (Goose scanned) Threat: High.
Nick Fury: "That's a cat, not Hannibal Lecter."
Species: Human Male (Nick Fury scanned) Threat: Low to none.
Nick Fury: "That thing's clearly busted."
"A cool name for a cool cat."
I saw that movie on 1/6/2000 on a first date. Today, my partner and I are still together 🏳️🌈❤️
Chill Sunday afternoon at the neighborhood dive bar. Go to the bathroom. Wash your hands. Paper towel dispenser is covered in underwear.
For sale? Clean or dirty? Men's or women's? Look in the underwear drawer for paper towels.
But at least, the current situation answers a really important question.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyembfjia3qcnfuswfwefgaj/post/3lamdd2i6t22y
Much needed laugh today- on my morning walk, I spotted (my 3rd) “Cyber-Junk” in the wild. As if those things are not BFUgly enough, this one was (wait for it) MINT GREEN!! Damn, of all times to not take my phone on my walk (no pics).
Painting them is a good idea, that might make them less likely to rust.
how do you get a crappy SOS-pad scrub job on cheap aluminum to look mint green?
I swear to Jesus Christ on the Bible, I saw an orange one. ORANGE! You thought the silver ones were ugly??
They’re all ugly
In part because I suspect they were created to try to cheat people
Saw a poop brown one on Friday. I wish I hadn't been driving because it was the most hideous thing I have ever seen.
ETA - If I hadn't have been driving I totally would have taken a pic to mock it far and wide
It's the Microsoft Zune edition.
Hah!!!!!
Thanks for making me lol!
Gotta hand this one to Elon. Who knew that spotting a Hummer in the wild would ever become ho-hum.
Yeah, that inflation fix he is bringing with his tariffs may have a silver lining.
At your next garage sale you can charge TWO dollars for a paperback book instead of 25 cents; don't hesitate to ask for SIX dollars for tee shirts! That old lawn mower that don't work? You can ask for and get THIRTY to ONE HUNDRED Ameros instead of having to pay some guy to come and haul it away!
And do not let anyone tell you that "secondary consumer markets" are not affected by tariffs and such price gouging is not OK. If one hundred million Americans can't be bothered to understand what Tariff means you don't have to 'splain nothing to no one ever again. Just jack up the garage sale prices and whistle a happy know-nothing song.
Of course, when I begin black marketeering, there will be different pricing categories for different buyers. US and THEM. Them also incl non-voting, 3rd party, write-in assholes.
For THEM I have a special discount: Buy one for $5, buy two for $15 and buy three for $30.
They won't squawk because squawking requires they do the math and that is something they cannot do.
When I look at that old broken microwave I get dollar signs in my eyes.
Oh god, does that mean I will finally be able to get that dead RV out of my driveway and maybe get some cash out of the deal? Silver lining I guess. Sad part is it will be for someone who needs to live in it.
The Freakonomics megaverse is just champing at the bit.
Today is an anniversary that means nothing to anyone other than myself.
But I'm going to tell you about it anyway.
On this date, fifty-five years ago, at an age when I was clearly too young to know better, I began my lifelong paper chase as a creative writer.
Please, sir or madam, won’t you read my book,
It took me years to write, won’t you have a look?
It's based on a novel by a man named Lear, and I need a job, so I wanna be a paperback writer.
👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Congrats!
AKA as Tetman Callis' Life Journey: Chapter One.
Here, have one of those cakes we like!!!
Me too, except I chose art and have been poor ever since. After a 20 year period where I did nothing creative I dipped my toe in the pool again a few years ago and forgot how incredibly giddy you feel when the ideas come at you from every direction and practically overwhelm you.
Pix pls.
Democracy in action.
Crazy things happen all the time. One day you could be writing comments and a couple years later you could be writing for Wonkette. Life is wild.
Good for you!
Ahem. The new label for us now has been deemed to be "wordwright". Make the necessary changes in your files.
And here I've been using "scribe".
Well, *now* I just feel foolish.
To God's ears:
https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/morons-learn-what-they-voted-for?r=1na5bz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
As far as people admitting they were wrong? Most people would rather die than admit they were wrong.
Most of them are too dumb to figure out they were wrong. To them everything will still be OHJB's fault. Grrrr.
Oh they will, they will.
This is something that should have been taught starting in K. How to admit you're wrong, make amends, give and accept true apologies, etc.
But that's hippy commie shit, man!
It is a required part of my way of life and I'm more than fine with it. I got sober with and use the 12 Steps, you know the kind, and that concept was far older.
Extremely important part of our ways, what I call, "Growing Up Lessons".
Years ago my lead called me out on some minor detail to which I immediately agreed I was wrong and he burst into laughter and for days would tell people I admitted I was wrong about something. Most of the people just looked confused and seemed to wonder why he was sharing it.
Self Care Tip: If you're feeling powerless because of this election, try a power pose. There is a physiological reason that certain body language or smiling makes you feel better.
Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Put your hands on your hips. Puff your chest out like Superman. Hold your head high and hold the pose for at least a minute.
I prefer a Thor pose myself.
I once bought a very old sledge hammer at an estate sale just for this purpose.
But if you go this way DO NOT throw it at anything like Thor always does. It's dangerous to begin with. But when it does not return to your hand you are going to be crushed. And then you will be Sad Thor.
My old shamanic student did a zoom recently to teach us some medical qigong poses. Definitely helped!
I think it was Jamie Foxx that paid tribute to his grandmother who he credited as his first acting teacher. To wit: "Stand up straight, put your shoulders forward, and act like you have some common sense". I may not have the quote right but they are words to live by.
Seems like sound advice. XD
Raise your arms out in front of you so they are extended level with your shoulders. Slowly raise both middle fingers. Shout "THE GOP CAN GO FUCK ITSELF IN ITS OWN ASS WITH A RAKE"
Near perfection. Do it on rollerblades (or inline skates, we're agnostic) while rolling backwards and you've perfected it.
Oooh, I like adding this on as a sort of yoga flow move, LOL!!!!!!!
It's like cactus pose, but with "swivel" added.
LOL!
Then put your head between your legs, and....
It really works. I did it in line at the bank yesterday when I was the only woman in line with like 12 men (in AZ most of them were likely to be Trumpers). I knew they were probably looking at me, so I just stood in that power pose for the entire time and ignored them.
🏆
Any power is good. :)
I think the biggest thing I can’t stand is the hypocrisy of the right. How completely full of shit they are.
Evangelicals: I went to Walmart and they greeted me with happy holidays! Can you believe that? War on Christmas! We are the most persecuted people on Earth!
Also evangelicals: Half this country are vermin, trash, garbage. They need to be rounded up and deported, put in jail, put in camps, executed…whatever.
Republicans: we are anti-government! We want to drown government in a bathtub!
Also republicans: we want a one party government with an Authoritarian strongman to rule with an iron fist.
I say this a lot, because I say that a lot, because I say a lot that the things I say a lot are things I say a lot. This is one of those things.
BUT.
They are people in love with being victims, because what they understand victimhood to be is a complete exoneration from all culpability AND an entitlement to anything they want. For them, victimhood is license.
They routinely cite Niemöller, but where other people do that to remind themselves they are in fact their brothers' keeper, these people do it to point the finger at others. In this instance, and only in this instance, they will be the communists, the trades unionists, the homosexuals etc. When they cite the quote, they are not being introspective, they are being accusatory.
YOU didn't say anything.
YOU didn't defend me.
YOU let them take me away*.
They are always the victims, and, as per their understanding, that means they are always innocent. They can't be hypocrites, because that is bad. They are pure. You are to blame.
*made me see a potato shaped plastic toy without a gendered honorific
It’s been a few years but I remember when Republicans thought that pressing one for English was an assault on their freedoms.
one of the issues on our ballot was written in english first and then in spanish. and you'd have thought one guy needed an ambulance. jackass.
I still make jokes about that.
They’re not anti-government. They’re anti-democracy.
They believe in wealth and power. Unfortunately for the rest of us, politics is their way to both. It's not about good governance.
Yep. I'm reading a book by Robert Kagan right now called "Rebellion" about how there has always been an illiberal movement in this country against democracy. It's fucking scary and I don't understand it other than to attribute it to little pea brains that can't think for themselves and need a Big Daddy Strongman cracking a whip over their worthless asses 24.7.
Sort of interesting, if unwanted, conversation with a Mexican-American who just recently got his papers. He's been here 20 years! He asked me what I thought of the election and when I groaned he said he likes Trump because he's a business man. When I pointed out to him that he has bankrupted casinos and his Truth Social site is losing huge amounts of money, he shrugged and said he doesn't know about that but anyway he's rich. When I asked him what he thinks about Trump's plan to forcibly remove millions of immigrants, he again shrugged and said he doesn't really plan to do that, it's just what he needed to say to get elected. That big business won't let him do that anyway because Americans don't work hard and we need immigrants to work hard for us. After that I extricated myself and told him that I guess we'll see what happens. Fucking hell, I'm not ready for this.
Laugh, just laugh like hell, in the faces of these fools, if they refuse common sense.
I laugh and walk away, laughing, in some circumstances like this. I've done it for years and looks like I'll be doing more of it.
I won't let them piss me off to the red mist state; it damages me the most.
Shruggy emoticon him when Donald & co extend their deportation fever dreams to “anyone who ain’t white” after canceling the 14th amendment.
"How do you know he's rich? Have you thought it just might be an act?"
OCD libelz, but no offense taken :)
It's official, Gallego beat Kari Lake for the Senate in Arizona. But the many stupid Arizona voters made it closer than it should have been.
Kari Lake was close enough that she will be inspired to continue her grift. I expect her to declare very soon for governor again so she can start fundraising for that.
They always have to have something on which to con the rubes.
Someone needs to tell her she's old and conservative men don't find her attractive anymore.
Harsh but true and funny from where I sit.
If she weren't trying to hard, I would have empathy for her. But she chose the wrong side, so fuck her.
Conservative men want barely legal or illegal aged women/girls.
Most of them are disgusting. And I love when men come onto me and are clearly attracted to me and I'm 53 (but look about 20 years younger than that on really, really good days, LOL!).
That's why she always uses the soft focus whenever she's interviewed. Same reason Kevin Sorbo uses a photo from 30 years ago on his Xitter account. He doesn't want to admit he's old.
A few years ago a guy I worked with told me if I dyed my hair I could easily pass for 45 or 50, and I told him I'd still be mid 60's so it wouldn't matter.
A few years ago a woman told me I looked 26 from my forehead down.
I was both flattered and mortified, and drunk, and she was pretty and this story really doesn't go anywhere except to say that I want my fucking hair back and if God existed I'd storm Olympus to get it.
*pets Daniel's scalp* It's definitely not everything some fellas worry it is, but I getcha. My lover-boy, WGL, the World's Greatest *cough* has gone skin-top, and it's done not a damn thing to his superiority *cough, cough*.
Incredibly rude of her!
I seriously considered finding out a) if any of my war criminal relatives are still alive and b) if they had any contacts with the "doctors" they'd known during the times they'd become that who could help me out.
alopecia is more common in black people and also if you ask me it is just that they know they look gorgeous bald.
Goes back to various African cultures too
Rumour is there's a portrait in his attic and it's not very good.
You win.
some old women have more than their fair share of vaseline.
I'd love to see her face if someone were to straight up tell her she was old and ugly because I'll bet she'd be devastated.
I don't fucking get it (I'm an AZ native and I just moved back here in September after being in NoCal for 22 years).
I loathe these goddamn chuds.
First, she refused to accept that trump lost to Biden, then she refused to accept that she lost the governor's race. I'm waiting for her take on this outcome.
I'm sick to the death of these people. They need to be trampled down.
They're exhausting. And you know they know they're lying. They're also lying to themselves.
THIS I will celebrate nonetheless.
new post up
Hi all! Better late than never, right?
Yesterday I read this article (Buzzfeed?) about low IQ people and their challenges. A lot of them mentioned they had trouble getting/keeping a job, and how much contempt they experience from other, smarter people. It made me wonder, is there anyway to reach out to these people and provide them with helpful information so they can find ways to feel better about themselves? Things they can do in their own time, like art, gardening, socializing kittens at a local animal shelter. Things they can do, without facing judgement, and being found wanting. At least some of them are self aware enough to they know they're easy targets for manipulation.
There are many many ways to help people like that in the school system Unfortunately many parents refuse to accept the reality that their child may not be up to their concept of "snuff".
Yeah. I read this other article recently about a man who was schizophrenic, but didn't get the help he needed, and there was all this shame around his condition in the family.
As a teacher, I'm inclined to say yes, but I don't know what resources are available in specific places to help them.
In relation to this specific problem (about being targets for manipulation) there are online resources to help teach critical thinking which I use in lessons for my middle school students to help them be safe online and to understand how to "do" history.
https://ca01001129.schoolwires.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=24177&dataid=42544&FileName=SPACECAT%20Worksheet.pdf
This is a good basic summary of things to think about when taking in information that may be trying to manipulate, and it's not patronising in its language. As a first step...
I'm starting to think that in some ways these folks are also part of a marginalized community. It's hard finding compassion right now, we're all hurting and angry, but we have to reach out to them from a place of sincerity.
They are, most definitely. And it should be the case that there are resources, like adult education and so on, to help them.
The voters rejected educated elites, and people should understand how big a motivating factor that is for maga. Trump elevates ignorance to a virtue. He plays to the resentment and prejudices of the ignorant. He literally stands against truth and reason.
I feel like I’m screaming into the void. WE FUCKING KNEW ALL OF THIS. WE are the ones who didn’t show up.
Well my sister nieces and nephews and I all voted as did my felllow retired teacher friends .. all haters of trump
I am not taking the rap for this. I donated to campaigns, I cant walk or stand for lon periods so no door knocking for me. In the past I had done post cards
The ones who did this are the dumbass right wing religious who think that a creep like trump is the politician of God's dreams.
Yep. :( :(
Until we recognize that this is an “us” problem, expect nothing to change.
The guilty "us" here are the frikking white voters
As a "polack" and "hunky" mix I've only become "white" in the past 40 years or so.
Before I was in the "other " category.
Manchester United 3-0 Leicester City, final.
(gekkers irritably)
Foxes will find themselves in the relegation zone pretty quickly, with rotten performance like that.
Shitbiscuits. This means I have to pretend to give a shit in school tomorrow.