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Keith Odom's avatar

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.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

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.

JCfromNC's avatar

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.

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Dina's avatar

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!"

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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

Tetman Callis's avatar

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.

Dina's avatar

I know him best from playing Daphne Moon's dad on "Frasier," lol!

ziggywiggy's avatar

I love the art on that one.

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

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

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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

FrancescoTheMagnificent's avatar

For military & their dependents, USAA Bank is offering such loans.

Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

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.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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....

Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

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.

Stulexington's avatar

I was joking about renting bootstraps ...

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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"

Spleen Victoria's avatar

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.

FrancescoTheMagnificent's avatar

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.

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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.

Shocktreatment's avatar

"Well, we wouldn't do it for 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦!"

Of course the fuckers would. Charging 'em interest just makes it that much more fuckier.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

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

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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

Shocktreatment's avatar

It's breathtaking. They're settling in for a long haul, right in front of our eyes...

blueicebank's avatar

How 'bout them Dodgers?

Game 7 5pm tonight Pacific.

Go Blue

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

For once all the sports guys were right. They said that this one was gonna go the distance, that the two were evenly matched.

NewLarry's avatar

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!

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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

Rosy red ASS's avatar

I am too. I am the only Giants fan in my family 🤣

Anarchy Pony's avatar

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...

TerseNurse's avatar

they started using this AI feature (of course) in the mailbox which pushes all the crap you didn't even want to see

JCfromNC's avatar

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.

Anarchy Pony's avatar

To be clear, this was the main inbox that had the 600+. The spam folder had 8 emails in it.

Dina's avatar

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.

JCfromNC's avatar

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.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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.

JustPixelz's avatar

I don't like horror movies as a genre. But, paradoxically, I love zombie movies.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

Zombie movies are allegorical political action movies.

Stulexington's avatar

The theme for every zombie movie: zombies are bad, but humans are worse.

TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

There should not be billionaires

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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

MRK's avatar

It's about 3%. The problem being that when you have that much money, you're making it a whole lot faster than that.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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.

TerseNurse's avatar

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

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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.

ziggywiggy's avatar

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."

JCfromNC's avatar

[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.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

As if I could not love Ben Kingsley anymore

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

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.

Anarchy Pony's avatar

Apparently Zuck got real butthurt and histrionic about it.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

"How dare a mere millionaire make me look bad!"

Larry Schmitt's avatar

He read about it somewhere.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

Pettiness. Spite. Selfish disdain. Got those covered at least.

Anarchy Pony's avatar

Sure. Just not empathy.

Rosy red ASS's avatar

I hope he can soothe himself by buying up another house in San Francisco or a yacht for his yacht.

JCfromNC's avatar

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

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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.

42tontom's avatar

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.

Kay Ducky's Booze Clues's avatar

I'm picturing the scene from "Airplane!" where people are lined up to deal with the woman who's acting hysterically...

TerseNurse's avatar

Pardon me Miss, I can handle this, I'm a registered nurse... "WHAM WHAM WHAM!!"

Anarchy Pony's avatar

That this psychotic woman is allowed to hold political office is a fucking travesty.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

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.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

...missing escort?

No, no white privilege. Not at all.

RocktonSam's avatar

Tough not being important enough Nanc.

Larry Schmitt's avatar

What if I don't want to live next to someone who speaks his language?

https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3m4k6lqtvt22d

TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

I don’t want to live around people who speak Lying Fascist Shithead.

Larry Schmitt's avatar

I was thinking Hate, but same thing.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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!

Rosy red ASS's avatar

My parents spoke Portuguese for the same thing.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

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

Kay Ducky's Booze Clues's avatar

Vance can go live on the moon with his face.

JCfromNC's avatar

I have to admit, I don't like the thought of looking up at the moon and thinking of that smug asshole being there.

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Nigel R. Toppinglift, III's avatar

So, JD hired the assassin? Interesting, interesting…

JCfromNC's avatar

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.

TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

That was definitely not an official or even a friend hug.

Rosy red ASS's avatar

Right? It was gag inducing for me.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

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.

Rosy red ASS's avatar

Definitely AVOID. Inappropriate doesn’t even cover it.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

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!

Shocktreatment's avatar

"Nothing personal, Honey..."

Worriedman's avatar

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

Rosy red ASS's avatar

I hope you had snacks for barn cat!

Worriedman's avatar

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 .

satch's avatar

The headline:

MAGA singles are looking for love in Washington. It’s tricky. By Jesus Rodriguez of the Washington Post

"The politics of trying to find a partner in an overwhelmingly liberal city? “My partner can’t think I’m a fascist. That’s crazy,” says one singleton."

Baby, I think that horse has sailed...

Stulexington's avatar

Am ... am I supposed to feel pity? That MAGAts went to a place people fled to when his community violently rejected them and can't seem to find acceptance.

Maybe you can only find terrible people to date because you're terrible people.

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I hear MAGAt women think MAGAt men are too soft and fem.

Shocktreatment's avatar

“My partner can’t think I’m a fascist. That’s crazy,” says one s̶i̶n̶g̶l̶e̶t̶o̶n̶ simpleton."

These fuckin' people...

Even Stephen fuckin' Miller figured it out (or received good advice), the only partner an honest fascist is going to find is another fascist...

RocktonSam's avatar

Take a look I the mirror MaGa , you're unfuckable.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

Look in the mirror? But what if their vampiric nature prevents a true reflection?

Anarchy Pony's avatar

Maybe they need to stop and consider "Am I the problem? Am a slavering fascist degenerate that makes the country and world a worse place? Do I deserve to get Nuremberged?" If so, maybe make some changes...

Whale Chowder's avatar

No, no...it's the women who are the problem.

vorpal 🇨🇦 Elbows Up! 🇨🇦's avatar

Most I've met are not capable of introspection... nothing is their fault.

Zonath of Ur's avatar

If you even have to seriously consider the question about whether you might get Nuremberged for something you might be considering doing I'd say that's a big red flag there.

Larry Schmitt's avatar

That requires more self awareness than they're capable of.

Larry Schmitt's avatar

That's a talented horse.

Zonath of Ur's avatar

Not enough She-Wolves of the SS to go around I guess.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

It's one thing for ill-liberal white women to loudly reject Hillary and Kamala on the grounds of "no woman tells ME what to do".

But it is a very different thing when it comes to actually touching the kind of men these women choose to vote for.

That's when the stylish high heels go into the shoulder bag and the functional running shoes come into play.

Anarchy Pony's avatar

The article actually seems to mostly be women complaining about how all the conservative men are doughy dorks, and not the strong masculine men they were promised.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

When these women go wading in the muddy waters of conservative politics and reach under the surface to find a catch they end up with bottom feeders every time.

You want to noodle around with misogyny, racism and fascism? Don't get all surprised that all you catch is cat fishing assholes.

Stulexington's avatar

It's almost like actually strong men don't have to advertise.

JCfromNC's avatar

Did you read that Cosmo article from TABS Friday morning? Holy cow, the men that woman dated were seriously unbalanced. I'm not surprised they can't find anyone that wants to put up with them.

Shocktreatment's avatar

And then, on the other hand, we have all the log-splittin', stump pullin' he-men incels...

tehbaddr's avatar

About as popular as Herpes.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

My partner can't think I'm a fascist!

Have you...ever considered not being a fascist?

JCfromNC's avatar

No. No, they have not. That's just crazy talk.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

But such talk has spurred mad scientists worldwide to find a cure for possibly gene based fascism thru genetic engineering! So far there has been no success. The bountiful supply of fascists, who would be ideal research subjects, has not yielded a large group of willing test subjects whose informed consent is obligatory.

This is why my own mad science research into the cure for fascism avoids the stigma of anything related to genetics. For me, the more promising therapy involves perfecting technology where tanning beds use microwaves to quickly remove the fascism from the test subject without creating too much mess.

My main obstacle involves getting the tanning bed patent holders to meet with the microwave oven patent owners to work out a joint licensing agreement for my hybrid technology.

Larry Schmitt's avatar

Maybe he meant, "My partner can't think."

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

Jesus fucking christ. ANOTHER article on how poor MAGA boys can't find no lovin?

Zonath of Ur's avatar

It's a "male loneliness epidemic" and not "conservative men are whiny bitches and nobody wants to be around them and maybe they should reflect on that" and don't you forget it bub

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

Ever notice there is a derth of female loneliness stories? Lots of lonely women out there too. Not very many stories about them.

Still always about the poor, poor men and how unfair it is for them that they do not get the dates they deserve.

Nigel R. Toppinglift, III's avatar

I’m waiting for the “woman for every man” legislation.

satch's avatar

Actually, the article did mention some wholesome, church goin' women looking to start families, and discovering that MAGA Men were career driven , and often not in the best shape.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

It is somewhat amusing, in this worst possible time line sort of way, that the only women who actually WANT these fuckers think they're not manly enough.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

Weird how they don't want those men anywhere near them yet the same women keep voting for those men to be in congress and the white house, where those men appoint like minded men to government posts.

Almost as if they......OMG!.....it all fits!

Nigel R. Toppinglift, III's avatar

Social media will make one thing MAGA men are jacked former military bro types that make a lot of money. While that contingent exists, I’m sure, that’s not the whole.

Rosy red ASS's avatar

IK, R???? Hey asshole, maybe stop being an ASSHOLE.

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

Also hey the press, enough of fucking stories about how unfair it is that poor MAGA men who think all women should do what they are told can't find a date

Rosy red ASS's avatar

Right???? FUCK OFF MAGA.