'You saw hell yesterday. Now you're scared of going to hell for all the bad things you've done. I'll tell you what. Say five Hail Marys and you and God can call it even.'
Love that movie. Especially the part where, the good guys are holed up in the mall but the zombies have broken in. They’re all over the open access part of the mall, they’re hungry and looking for live human flesh to eat. When suddenly! Someone turns on the mall sound system and out comes muzak. 101 Strings does the Beatles or something like that… and the zombies automatically start shopping!!! I laugh about that still. I’m thinking it might have been some kind of obscure comment on consumerism or something.
If the MAGA crowd ever remade Dawn of the Dead, they’d insist the zombies were crisis actors and try to storm the mall for “freedom fries.” The rest of us would just be in the food court praying the dog still makes it.
I cannot believe I confused the two of them. Earlier I said something about hearing that Ben Kingsley is giving most of his money to charity these days.
It was not Ben Kingsley.
It is Willem Dafoe. When someone mentioned his name as someone who plays villains well (like Kingsley), I realized my mistake. I am so outdone with myself.
Watched the short this morning. Scottish animated steampunk -- what's not to love? And Brian Cox voicing Widdershins. Cox is one hard-working actor, and he has been in . . . well, everything, from the looks of it. I know him best from Sharpe and Deadwood.
There's programs specifically FOR this sort of thing. Some of those loans will be low or even no interest. But not all. They get some sort of tax break or something for offering them.
I only know this because emails have been sent out detailing all the "help" available. To a workforce that cannot right now access its emails.
The executive branch manages printing the checks and doing the auto deposits and neither the republicons in Congress nor scrotus are willing to stand up to him.
One of our peeps, a salaried professional GS13 mind, is taking on a part time job as a walmart delivery person, because kids need to be fed and bills need to be paid.
I appreciate congress at least getting them all their backpay, but, what they shoulda done was passed a law that said "they get paid anyway"
This blows my mind. Belgium had no government for…oh I think it was YEARS, they have proportional representation so they always have minorities and governments kept falling because coalitions collapsed. And the administration side of government just kept operating.
This way of functioning is insane. It’s absolutely nuts. Politicizing everything like this. I know it’s just a symptom of deeper problems but it’s just nuts.
Belgium is a two headed monster of a country. Half French speakers and half Flemish speakers. Equally divided parliament. Perpetual stalemate. But they make it work how they can. The basics get attended to.
edit: Forgot, one of our others, a 9 not a 13, is tapping into his 401 and just eating the penalties. He's got a new baby at home. Also, we're gonna start losing some of our month to month contractors cause they've only been paid for up til today.
The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is being viewed by former and current career prosecutors as an alarming whitewashing of history.
The events around the case of Taylor Taranto, who was convicted of bringing illegal guns near Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, residence...
The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter
Hhubby has been enjoying it. He is a baseball fan, rather than a team fan though he has his favorites and least liked. One of them who tells you to your face how there is so much going on that you don't even see and then proceeds to explain it all to you.
otoh, my sports triva edge is pretty well honed now
Every once in a while I go and check my yahoo email, because I don't really use it for much, it's just tied to some old accounts, and there's usually a couple spam emails in there that they don't filter out worth shit, but today there was 600+ junk emails in there...
I use Office 365 for my email, mostly, but I use the version of Outlook that comes bundled into Windows for my Hotmail account that's my Microsoft account email. I, too have an old Yahoo! account that I've had since forever, and I added it to Outlook just so I could check both of those infrequently-used accounts at the same time.
That's kind of like my old Hotmail (which I never use but, like you, have a couple accounts like Uber tied to it as well as the recovery email for when things go crewy with my husband's). My main email address is Yahoo (because I'm too lazy to set up or learn a new email server because damnit, I'm old) and the only things I actually get in my inbox there are things I want or have at least okay'd.
Yes, I understand. Most of my spam (and a great deal of political begging, which is fine with me) gets caught, although lately there's been at least two or three spam letters in my inbox every day.
Not sure about yahoo, but gmail had some thing where it took off certain filters because conservatives were complaining it was silencing them or some such shit.
I take the time now to report every fucking one of em as spam. Doubt it does anything but it amuses me enough to keep doing it.
Zuckerberg and Chan have committed to giving away 99% of their Meta shares to philanthropy over the course of their lifetimes and have already granted out $7 billion. According to Forbes, Zuckerberg’s current net worth is around $224 billion.
the gulf between even the slightly rich, say a Simpsons actor or the owner of a few car dealerships, and the rest of us is ridiculously huge. The gulf between us and the billionaires is incomprehensibly enormous
I saw a youtube or tiktok or whatever visual representation of that. Was just a bar graph, and the working poor and middle class ones stopped before a second passed, while the moderately rich lasted maybe a second or two and then the billionaire one went on for like ten minutes.
And she is putting her money where her mouth is, "Late night host Stephen Colbert introduced Eilish on stage at New York’s Museum of Modern Art by announcing that she would donate $11.5 million of the proceeds from her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to causes dedicated to food equity, climate justice and reducing carbon pollution."
Bloody hell, my brain misfired and I named the wrong freakin' actor. I meant Willem Dafoe, not Ben Kingsley. See my correction later in these non-comments.
US Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina allegedly berated police officers at Charleston International Airport Thursday morning, allegedly “loudly cursing” at officers and saying they were “f**king incompetent,” according to an incident report from police.
//
Apparently she had a meltdown after arriving late, at the wrong entrance, and the little people there failed to instantly pop up to escort her to her flight.
If you want souvenirs and memorabilia of the Lost Cause of defending human slavery here in the United States you go to Charleston, SC. The downtown tourist shops all carry a variety of t-shirts, tea towels, key rings, underwear, etc etc featuring Confederate flags and slogans about never surrendering from the "War Against Northern Aggression".
You want drama? South Carolina was where the Civil War started and I doubt they are going to miss the chance to be the place where the second civil starts as well.
It may not be a travesty to have Nancy Mace in Congress; it seems to be more of a historical tradition where she really does reflect the will of her constituents.
Judging by the way The Dead Guy's widow was running her fingers through his hair when she hugged him on stage at TPUSA, he may already have a more MAGA-friendly 2nd wife in mind.
That must have been some hug and I will avoid looking at any clips of it.
Personally, all the grotesque displays of a certain Trump/Epstein File adjacent dad fondling his own daughter have never failed to make me lose my recent meal.
Just another brick in the wall of my conspiracy hoax detailing why Charlie Kirk sightings keep happening all over North and South America.
If you were married to her wouldn't you finally decide to just fake your death and disappear? He probably left her destitute and she needs to replace Charlie pronto!
Most Americans, excepting Native Americans, have a heritage from somewhere else. I grew up with Greek, French, and Arabic. My parents would speak in French when they didn't want us to know what they were talking about; which is why I chose French as my language in High School.
Caturday! Here's an appropriate Sub stack I conjured up just for the day - lots of cat photos (imagine that) a terrific poem,a few contrite dog photos and one photo of a flower that, if I had to pick one...
I try to remember but I'm old and forgetting things is one of the few things we're really good at- last time, I bought an extra bag and threw it in the glove box. She's forgiven me so far but I don't want to push it .
Love that movie. Especially the part where, the good guys are holed up in the mall but the zombies have broken in. They’re all over the open access part of the mall, they’re hungry and looking for live human flesh to eat. When suddenly! Someone turns on the mall sound system and out comes muzak. 101 Strings does the Beatles or something like that… and the zombies automatically start shopping!!! I laugh about that still. I’m thinking it might have been some kind of obscure comment on consumerism or something.
If the MAGA crowd ever remade Dawn of the Dead, they’d insist the zombies were crisis actors and try to storm the mall for “freedom fries.” The rest of us would just be in the food court praying the dog still makes it.
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!
I cannot believe I confused the two of them. Earlier I said something about hearing that Ben Kingsley is giving most of his money to charity these days.
It was not Ben Kingsley.
It is Willem Dafoe. When someone mentioned his name as someone who plays villains well (like Kingsley), I realized my mistake. I am so outdone with myself.
https://youtu.be/l6CUrXLIKKE <-- this is the video I saw that was talking about it.
You're forgiven. The other night I confused Amy Madigan with Patricia Arquette. People here were too polite to correct me.
The other day I confused Annie Leibovitz with Fran Lebowitz. It would have qualified for the old "Young Miss" feature, "Boy, Was My Face Red!"
Anyone who does their own Substack and wants to know how to change the size of your pictures, there's a little explainer in the Chat. https://substack.com/chat/1783367/post/0a9eac4d-aa79-4541-b22c-f732baa04cb4?targetReplyId=2c3516ea-0fc9-4012-9772-318ac97c745f&showTarget=true&utm_source=activity_item
Watched the short this morning. Scottish animated steampunk -- what's not to love? And Brian Cox voicing Widdershins. Cox is one hard-working actor, and he has been in . . . well, everything, from the looks of it. I know him best from Sharpe and Deadwood.
I know him best from playing Daphne Moon's dad on "Frasier," lol!
I love the art on that one.
This benefits the rich, amirite?
(CBS) As they miss paychecks, furloughed federal workers are taking out bank loans to help pay the bills
Turns out fucking over regular people has benefits
There's programs specifically FOR this sort of thing. Some of those loans will be low or even no interest. But not all. They get some sort of tax break or something for offering them.
I only know this because emails have been sent out detailing all the "help" available. To a workforce that cannot right now access its emails.
We've been passing things along
For military & their dependents, USAA Bank is offering such loans.
Except Orange Turd has said he will block back pay. You can't repay even a 0 percent interest loan if you don't get the money.
don't think he can actually do that, but then, I also do not think they even care about what they can and cannot do.
Like...laying off people who are furloughed. Should not be a thing! And yet....
The executive branch manages printing the checks and doing the auto deposits and neither the republicons in Congress nor scrotus are willing to stand up to him.
I was joking about renting bootstraps ...
One of our peeps, a salaried professional GS13 mind, is taking on a part time job as a walmart delivery person, because kids need to be fed and bills need to be paid.
I appreciate congress at least getting them all their backpay, but, what they shoulda done was passed a law that said "they get paid anyway"
This blows my mind. Belgium had no government for…oh I think it was YEARS, they have proportional representation so they always have minorities and governments kept falling because coalitions collapsed. And the administration side of government just kept operating.
This way of functioning is insane. It’s absolutely nuts. Politicizing everything like this. I know it’s just a symptom of deeper problems but it’s just nuts.
Belgium is a two headed monster of a country. Half French speakers and half Flemish speakers. Equally divided parliament. Perpetual stalemate. But they make it work how they can. The basics get attended to.
edit: Forgot, one of our others, a 9 not a 13, is tapping into his 401 and just eating the penalties. He's got a new baby at home. Also, we're gonna start losing some of our month to month contractors cause they've only been paid for up til today.
It's not good.
"Well, we wouldn't do it for 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦!"
Of course the fuckers would. Charging 'em interest just makes it that much more fuckier.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
When novels become blueprints
‘𝗢𝗿𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻’: 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗢𝗝 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗯𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀
The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is being viewed by former and current career prosecutors as an alarming whitewashing of history.
The events around the case of Taylor Taranto, who was convicted of bringing illegal guns near Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, residence...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/politics/justice-edited-court-documents-trump-january-6
The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter
wow. So much to unpack here
It's breathtaking. They're settling in for a long haul, right in front of our eyes...
How 'bout them Dodgers?
Game 7 5pm tonight Pacific.
Go Blue
For once all the sports guys were right. They said that this one was gonna go the distance, that the two were evenly matched.
This has been the best post-season playing I've seen in Years! It's been fun and I'm looking for the Blue Jays to stomp the Dodgers tonight!
Hhubby has been enjoying it. He is a baseball fan, rather than a team fan though he has his favorites and least liked. One of them who tells you to your face how there is so much going on that you don't even see and then proceeds to explain it all to you.
otoh, my sports triva edge is pretty well honed now
I am too. I am the only Giants fan in my family 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HoMkkRHv8
Cake, "The Distance"
Caturday related AND Hallowe'en related:
https://substack.com/profile/106661048-vorpal/note/c-172452716?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1ri46w
Those are great!
Love them!
excellent!
One more hour before I have to do the things. This has been very pleasant with y'all.
plus we get another hour back tomorrow morning...
And Mrs DV will get to enjoy that hour tonight instead of working an extra hour at the hospital.
We got that hour back last week in the UK. Not all it's cracked up to be.
Not those of us with feline overlords, who are on perpetual CFT (Cat Food-o'clock Time)
Thanks for the reminder!
Hope the things are all pleasant
Litter boxes.
Schoolteacher, eh?
*snort*
HA!
Yes!
Every once in a while I go and check my yahoo email, because I don't really use it for much, it's just tied to some old accounts, and there's usually a couple spam emails in there that they don't filter out worth shit, but today there was 600+ junk emails in there...
they started using this AI feature (of course) in the mailbox which pushes all the crap you didn't even want to see
Wonderful.
I use Office 365 for my email, mostly, but I use the version of Outlook that comes bundled into Windows for my Hotmail account that's my Microsoft account email. I, too have an old Yahoo! account that I've had since forever, and I added it to Outlook just so I could check both of those infrequently-used accounts at the same time.
And yes, my spam folder is YOGE.
To be clear, this was the main inbox that had the 600+. The spam folder had 8 emails in it.
That's kind of like my old Hotmail (which I never use but, like you, have a couple accounts like Uber tied to it as well as the recovery email for when things go crewy with my husband's). My main email address is Yahoo (because I'm too lazy to set up or learn a new email server because damnit, I'm old) and the only things I actually get in my inbox there are things I want or have at least okay'd.
Yes, I understand. Most of my spam (and a great deal of political begging, which is fine with me) gets caught, although lately there's been at least two or three spam letters in my inbox every day.
Not sure about yahoo, but gmail had some thing where it took off certain filters because conservatives were complaining it was silencing them or some such shit.
I take the time now to report every fucking one of em as spam. Doubt it does anything but it amuses me enough to keep doing it.
I don't like horror movies as a genre. But, paradoxically, I love zombie movies.
Zombie movies are allegorical political action movies.
The theme for every zombie movie: zombies are bad, but humans are worse.
Billie Eilish: "Why are you a billionaire?"
https://apnews.com/article/billie-eilish-billionaires-donations-57964bb1b1f98576a8863333fc281ca3
"shorties"
There should not be billionaires
Zuckerberg and Chan have committed to giving away 99% of their Meta shares to philanthropy over the course of their lifetimes and have already granted out $7 billion. According to Forbes, Zuckerberg’s current net worth is around $224 billion.
huh
7bil is a lot. But not 99% of 224 bil
It's about 3%. The problem being that when you have that much money, you're making it a whole lot faster than that.
And here I am making just a bit over 50k a year /and rather pleased to be getting that much.
Makes one think, it really does.
the gulf between even the slightly rich, say a Simpsons actor or the owner of a few car dealerships, and the rest of us is ridiculously huge. The gulf between us and the billionaires is incomprehensibly enormous
I saw a youtube or tiktok or whatever visual representation of that. Was just a bar graph, and the working poor and middle class ones stopped before a second passed, while the moderately rich lasted maybe a second or two and then the billionaire one went on for like ten minutes.
That's a really good representation!
And she is putting her money where her mouth is, "Late night host Stephen Colbert introduced Eilish on stage at New York’s Museum of Modern Art by announcing that she would donate $11.5 million of the proceeds from her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to causes dedicated to food equity, climate justice and reducing carbon pollution."
[Edited]
Bloody hell, my brain misfired and I named the wrong freakin' actor. I meant Willem Dafoe, not Ben Kingsley. See my correction later in these non-comments.
As if I could not love Ben Kingsley anymore
I especially love him when he plays bad guys. Certain actors always nail it when called upon to be the villain. Willem Dafoe also does the trick.
Apparently Zuck got real butthurt and histrionic about it.
"How dare a mere millionaire make me look bad!"
He can experience emotions?
He read about it somewhere.
Pettiness. Spite. Selfish disdain. Got those covered at least.
Sure. Just not empathy.
LIKE.
I hope he can soothe himself by buying up another house in San Francisco or a yacht for his yacht.
Oh, hey -- the drama queen is causing drama. Color me shocked.
"Rep. Nancy Mace berated Charleston airport police due to missing escort, incident report says"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/politics/nancy-mace-charleston-airport-incident
//
US Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina allegedly berated police officers at Charleston International Airport Thursday morning, allegedly “loudly cursing” at officers and saying they were “f**king incompetent,” according to an incident report from police.
//
Apparently she had a meltdown after arriving late, at the wrong entrance, and the little people there failed to instantly pop up to escort her to her flight.
I know these people who are required to show up on time at the correct place if they want to fly, and they are called EVERYONE BUT NANCY MACE.
I'm picturing the scene from "Airplane!" where people are lined up to deal with the woman who's acting hysterically...
Pardon me Miss, I can handle this, I'm a registered nurse... "WHAM WHAM WHAM!!"
That this psychotic woman is allowed to hold political office is a fucking travesty.
She comes from South Carolina.
If you want souvenirs and memorabilia of the Lost Cause of defending human slavery here in the United States you go to Charleston, SC. The downtown tourist shops all carry a variety of t-shirts, tea towels, key rings, underwear, etc etc featuring Confederate flags and slogans about never surrendering from the "War Against Northern Aggression".
You want drama? South Carolina was where the Civil War started and I doubt they are going to miss the chance to be the place where the second civil starts as well.
It may not be a travesty to have Nancy Mace in Congress; it seems to be more of a historical tradition where she really does reflect the will of her constituents.
...missing escort?
No, no white privilege. Not at all.
Tough not being important enough Nanc.
What if I don't want to live next to someone who speaks his language?
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3m4k6lqtvt22d
I suspect he and his wife will not be together for much longer. Not because she's principled in any way, but because he sees her as a liability.
So, JD hired the assassin? Interesting, interesting…
Judging by the way The Dead Guy's widow was running her fingers through his hair when she hugged him on stage at TPUSA, he may already have a more MAGA-friendly 2nd wife in mind.
Oh, they're doing it, alright.
That was definitely not an official or even a friend hug.
Right? It was gag inducing for me.
That must have been some hug and I will avoid looking at any clips of it.
Personally, all the grotesque displays of a certain Trump/Epstein File adjacent dad fondling his own daughter have never failed to make me lose my recent meal.
Definitely AVOID. Inappropriate doesn’t even cover it.
looking for her next meal ticket
Just another brick in the wall of my conspiracy hoax detailing why Charlie Kirk sightings keep happening all over North and South America.
If you were married to her wouldn't you finally decide to just fake your death and disappear? He probably left her destitute and she needs to replace Charlie pronto!
🤢🤮
"Nothing personal, Honey..."
I don’t want to live around people who speak Lying Fascist Shithead.
I was thinking Hate, but same thing.
I like this comment:
Most Americans, excepting Native Americans, have a heritage from somewhere else. I grew up with Greek, French, and Arabic. My parents would speak in French when they didn't want us to know what they were talking about; which is why I chose French as my language in High School.
It is making me lol very much. Smart kid!
My parents spoke Portuguese for the same thing.
Hungarian for mine.
My folks had to make due with sending us to our rooms. Mom spoke Latin, but dad was a HS drop out.
Course, our house was a 60's side by side duplex, so pretty much balsa wood and glue, and we heard everything anyway
Vance can go live on the moon with his face.
So now you hate the moon?
I have to admit, I don't like the thought of looking up at the moon and thinking of that smug asshole being there.
What did the moon ever do to you???
Caturday! Here's an appropriate Sub stack I conjured up just for the day - lots of cat photos (imagine that) a terrific poem,a few contrite dog photos and one photo of a flower that, if I had to pick one...
You should go look!
https://open.substack.com/pub/brawlatthepoetscafe/p/under-the-breath-of-laughter-deep?r=insr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I hope you had snacks for barn cat!
I try to remember but I'm old and forgetting things is one of the few things we're really good at- last time, I bought an extra bag and threw it in the glove box. She's forgiven me so far but I don't want to push it .