Step One in Avoiding Cleaning and Reorganizing the Pantry...
Figure out and make lunch for myself, the mother, and the doggo. After all, I cannot be expected to work and make decisions on an empty stomach. And surely we deserve a nice hot lunch or brunch even, rather than a quick cold sandwich....maybe grilled veggie panini style sandwiches? The possibilities are *endless*.
I just did mine on Friday after a crazy long day at work! It's large and I took down all the old stuff off the top shelves, standing in a chair and didn't fall once. Got rid of some stuff and dusted and reorganized. Now I just need to do the food shelves which is not that big a deal as I did it somewhat recently. Now I just have 3 closets to reorganize!
I'm exhausted from reading what you've already done. Time for a mid-day nap! Then on to the beverages. There's always tomorrow (or next weekend) for the pantry.
This story of cruel discrimination is infuriating, but I do appreciate how much context the reporter worked into a one-sentence lede: "A longtime music teacher at a Catholic school in the New Orleans area recently lost his job when it was revealed to an evidently 'disgruntled' parent that he was another man’s widower, igniting a scandal within an archdiocese that has otherwise largely been occupied with trying to reorganize its finances in federal bankruptcy court after its clergymen spent decades sexually molesting children."
I believe I'm still claiming to be Catholic, though I'm terribly out of practice. Yes, it was The Church's decision to move the pee-pee touchers around to hide them from prosecution (instead of turning them in) that sickened my stomach so much that I find it difficult to go back. I'm not into married gay priests, married women or gay anyone, but you are most-definitely correct, any one of them is much, much better than any/every child molester. I'd like to think there's a very special place in H-E-double hockeysticks for them.
Reminds me of the magats wailing about how Carol at the waffle house got deported. "I never thought the bigotry would take away 𝑚𝑦 favorite music teacher."
Church doctrine gets interpreted and enforced wildly differently from place to place, as if there were red dioceses and blue dioceses. No voting, though, especially not from the ladies in the pews.
Catching up on the news. Can we talk about the three faces of Gavin?
Gavin NewSome - some guy in CA, seems kinda slick. I don’t like the idea of this guy as president, but I figure we could do worse.
Gavin NewScum - sorry to use TFG’s epithet, but nobody goes under the bus you scum. I swear on the grave of my trans son’s dumpy tree frog that this guy will become president over my dead body.
Gavin NewSpine - stands up to bullies, now suing Fox. Such attention to detail! The $787 million, Carlson’s replacement, a “perfect phone call”. And MeidasTouch? The medium is the message. The pièce de résistance is hinting at what TFG wanted to discuss on the call. Lol, probably just threatened to arrest and execute Newsom like he always does, but forget it, he’s rolling. I would vote for this guy. But I want to see all three Gavins on the ballot.
Oh, yeah, we used to have terminology for that system . . . let me see if I can recall it 🙄 . . .
Acyn
@Acyn
Trump: We’re going to do something for farmers where we can let the farmer sort of be in charge. The farmer knows. He's not going to hire a murderer. I'm on both sides. I'm the strongest immigration guy, but I'm also the strongest farmer guy there's ever been. And that includes also hotels and, you know, places where people work, a certain group of people work.
We're going to work it so that some kind of a temporary pass where people pay taxes, where the farmer can have a little control as opposed to you walk in and take everybody away.
But, no, I want -- the criminals are going out of this country.
Since the Administration’s official position is that any person who is an undocumented immigrant is, by default, a criminal, that quote makes zero sense.
But, of course, any immigrants in orange's family is somehow, immune from prosecution. No matter how many of them there are and regardless of Anchor Babies Don Jr, What's her face and the stupid one. Oh right, then there's Baron. Criminals all!
Even Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod illegally immigrated to the US in 1929. It's a fkn infestation!
Have you seen his right hand lately? It looks all bloated as if he has gorilla hands over his own hands and they're all dried out. James Carville says it's syphillis. It's definitely Trump's Disease due to years of stupidity.
Yeah, the farmer does know (s)he's hiring people here illegally. You ain't gonna do shit about that though, are you, fat boy? Because you yourself got busted doing the same thing at your trash palaces.
This whole thing is obviously an unworkable shitpile of conflicting bullshit. I'd feel sorry for ICE but I don't because they're ICE and can fuck off.
What a load of shit. Nothing is changing in that respect. You simply can't get Stephen Miller-type mass deportation numbers by sticking to "criminals." First off, there simply aren't enough of them. More important, the actual criminals take steps to make themselves hard to find. You want the numbers, you need easy-to-find immigrants to deport. That means honest working people who show up at their jerbs.
"The Army move to clamp down on shaving waivers follows Hegseth, who has protested shaving waivers, ordering a sweeping review of grooming standards across the services. He has claimed that standards have fallen in recent years and damaged the military.
"We kicked out good soldiers for having naked women tattooed on their arms," Hegseth said in a March statement criticizing what he characterized as bad policy decisions by past administrations. "And today we are relaxing the standards on shaving, dreadlocks, man buns, and straight-up obesity. Piece by piece, the standard had to go -- because of equity."
You know, here where two cultures with strong military traditions and simultaneous traditions of long hair exist, if your hair is neat you can keep it, including beards as long as they do not impede the seal on a gas mask. And this is why Bertie has kept his mid-back braid and last month served as a model for gas mask application.
And also why our military has a shit ton of mixed races including Sikhs and Indigenous people. Who will join as a cultural belief if you don’t impede their enlistment.
Alright, this one has been bugging me for a few days now. (Thanks, Google news.) I know headlines have their own style guide, but please tell me I'm not the only one for whom "Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, and programmable compute," doesn't make any damn sense.
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
Alpha-gal is a confounding condition because it doesn’t cause an immediate allergic reaction, unlike a peanut allergy, with symptoms often appearing several hours after consuming meat. The syndrome is not caused by a pathogen but spurs an allergy to a sugar molecule found in mammals and an array of other things, from toothpaste to medical equipment. Researchers think the condition can wane over time but is also worsened by further tick bites.
This leads to a confusing and fraught experience for the growing number of Americans with alpha-gal, who are now girding for another expected hot summer full of ticks. “The ticks are rampant this year, I’ve pulled 10 ticks off me this season alone, it feels like they are uncontrollable at the moment,” said Heather O’Bryan, a horticulturist in Roanoke, Virginia, who has alpha-gal. “They are so disgusting. I’m not afraid of a lot, but I’m afraid of ticks.”
In 2019, O’Bryan suffered full body hives and struggled to breathe after eating a pork sausage. “It was terrifying experience, I didn’t know I had an allergy but it almost killed me,” she said. She now avoids products containing mammal-derived elements, such as certain toothpastes and even toilet paper, due to adverse reactions.
Dairy, another mammalian product, is also off limits. “I’ve learned what I can eat now, but I was so sad when I realized I couldn’t have pizza again, I remember crying in front of a frozen pizza in the supermarket aisle,” she said.
But I can't help noticing that if we all got alpha-gal, it would combat the very climate change that brought the tics north. What's next, a mosquito that makes us allergic to air travel? How long before the kookweb blames Bill Gates?
I was at a family reunion/100th birthday party for my aunt last weekend and not even 5 minutes in a conversation with a cousin, he slipped in a "there's no global warming" comment. I gave him what a friend calls my "die where you stand" look and got up and walked away. Everything is so bad right now & I hate that I wish this kind of thing on a cousin that I used to love.
My brother is a Trumper who tells me the world has been warming for centuries as the earth cooled off. So there you have it....no global warming! And one really stupid brother. Hangs head in shame.
(deleted, wrong post...)
Now the fence will sag. C'est la vie.
Turned into a monkey? Seems somewhat redundant. A macaque now ...
Step One in Avoiding Cleaning and Reorganizing the Pantry...
Figure out and make lunch for myself, the mother, and the doggo. After all, I cannot be expected to work and make decisions on an empty stomach. And surely we deserve a nice hot lunch or brunch even, rather than a quick cold sandwich....maybe grilled veggie panini style sandwiches? The possibilities are *endless*.
I just did mine on Friday after a crazy long day at work! It's large and I took down all the old stuff off the top shelves, standing in a chair and didn't fall once. Got rid of some stuff and dusted and reorganized. Now I just need to do the food shelves which is not that big a deal as I did it somewhat recently. Now I just have 3 closets to reorganize!
I'm exhausted from reading what you've already done. Time for a mid-day nap! Then on to the beverages. There's always tomorrow (or next weekend) for the pantry.
I need to reorganize the pantry, it's a mess in there.
But first coffee, then breakfast, then ... And the pantry is not reorganized.
Sounds like you've got your priorities in the correct order!
Grilled veggie panini.
Although if you're having cucumber add it *after* you've done the grilling. I learned this the hard way.
This story of cruel discrimination is infuriating, but I do appreciate how much context the reporter worked into a one-sentence lede: "A longtime music teacher at a Catholic school in the New Orleans area recently lost his job when it was revealed to an evidently 'disgruntled' parent that he was another man’s widower, igniting a scandal within an archdiocese that has otherwise largely been occupied with trying to reorganize its finances in federal bankruptcy court after its clergymen spent decades sexually molesting children."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/new-orleans-teacher-widower-mark-jacobs-catholic-school
Were I Catholic, I would prefer the married gay priest to the molesting priest.
I believe I'm still claiming to be Catholic, though I'm terribly out of practice. Yes, it was The Church's decision to move the pee-pee touchers around to hide them from prosecution (instead of turning them in) that sickened my stomach so much that I find it difficult to go back. I'm not into married gay priests, married women or gay anyone, but you are most-definitely correct, any one of them is much, much better than any/every child molester. I'd like to think there's a very special place in H-E-double hockeysticks for them.
Reminds me of the magats wailing about how Carol at the waffle house got deported. "I never thought the bigotry would take away 𝑚𝑦 favorite music teacher."
Church doctrine gets interpreted and enforced wildly differently from place to place, as if there were red dioceses and blue dioceses. No voting, though, especially not from the ladies in the pews.
I have a splitting headache.
There's alcohol for that, ya know? Oh, wait, ummm, there's drugs for that. Yes, that's better. Fixed it.
I'm about to have pancakes and I'm alittle too excited about it.
May need to pick up ice cream for later... I swear, I'll start going to the gym next week 😬
Ok, I am peacing out for the day. Everyone take care and don't be good.
Pants are right out then
Too late. I have firm plans for goodness.
Have a great day!
I'll work with the rest of the gang to make sure nobody does anything stupid like "chores" or "adulting"
Well, I put out food and more water for The Crew.
Because consequences.
I've been having a great day since Turn 2. 🤣🤣 Sympathy to Kimi.
(Oops, Turn 3, Turn 2 is barely a bend, but it IS named Turn 2)
I know, right? I am trying hard not to post spoilers. A certain tail-end team had a very good result today and I'm sort of pleased for them.
* Peeks out window at gallbladders Koi Pond
Shuts blinds and draws the curtains*
Good I’m not cleaning up
that mess.
Did you see the giant crawdads? They're bigger than lobsters.
I do not recognize these concepts.
You're definitely on Team Bad Influence with me then.
YOU HEARD THE CRAIG NIXON! I DON'T CARE IF IT *IS* 8AM! GET YOUR DAY DRINKING ON, YOU SLACKERS!
And here I was waiting until 7pm myself.
Yes, how can you drink all day if you don't start in the morning?
You can borrow my time zone if you feel the need.
*snort*
How did you guess my three stage plan for Avoiding Cleaning and Rearranging the Pantry?
Catching up on the news. Can we talk about the three faces of Gavin?
Gavin NewSome - some guy in CA, seems kinda slick. I don’t like the idea of this guy as president, but I figure we could do worse.
Gavin NewScum - sorry to use TFG’s epithet, but nobody goes under the bus you scum. I swear on the grave of my trans son’s dumpy tree frog that this guy will become president over my dead body.
Gavin NewSpine - stands up to bullies, now suing Fox. Such attention to detail! The $787 million, Carlson’s replacement, a “perfect phone call”. And MeidasTouch? The medium is the message. The pièce de résistance is hinting at what TFG wanted to discuss on the call. Lol, probably just threatened to arrest and execute Newsom like he always does, but forget it, he’s rolling. I would vote for this guy. But I want to see all three Gavins on the ballot.
So.....Gavin, Gavin and his other brother, Gavin?
I like him well enough as a figurehead.
But as an effective executive, I wish we could clone another 4 terms of Jerry Brown.
Oh, yeah, we used to have terminology for that system . . . let me see if I can recall it 🙄 . . .
Acyn
@Acyn
Trump: We’re going to do something for farmers where we can let the farmer sort of be in charge. The farmer knows. He's not going to hire a murderer. I'm on both sides. I'm the strongest immigration guy, but I'm also the strongest farmer guy there's ever been. And that includes also hotels and, you know, places where people work, a certain group of people work.
We're going to work it so that some kind of a temporary pass where people pay taxes, where the farmer can have a little control as opposed to you walk in and take everybody away.
But, no, I want -- the criminals are going out of this country.
10:33 AM · Jun 29, 2025
·
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1939331506864029984
A veritable TACO combination plate run through a blender.
Since the Administration’s official position is that any person who is an undocumented immigrant is, by default, a criminal, that quote makes zero sense.
But, of course, any immigrants in orange's family is somehow, immune from prosecution. No matter how many of them there are and regardless of Anchor Babies Don Jr, What's her face and the stupid one. Oh right, then there's Baron. Criminals all!
Even Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod illegally immigrated to the US in 1929. It's a fkn infestation!
Farmers are renown for their thorough background checks.
I know who the criminal is.
"But, no, I want -- the criminals are going out of this country."
Does this mean he's leaving?
I will drive, as long as his stinky carcass is in a towed trailer.
Hopefully leaving the White House soon and feet first. Natural causes, of course. Hey, a chap can dream.
I believe you are correct. Soon and feet first.
Have you seen his right hand lately? It looks all bloated as if he has gorilla hands over his own hands and they're all dried out. James Carville says it's syphillis. It's definitely Trump's Disease due to years of stupidity.
"Feet first, Feet first....."
He should play soccer against a Chinese robot.
"The farmer knows."
Yeah, the farmer does know (s)he's hiring people here illegally. You ain't gonna do shit about that though, are you, fat boy? Because you yourself got busted doing the same thing at your trash palaces.
This whole thing is obviously an unworkable shitpile of conflicting bullshit. I'd feel sorry for ICE but I don't because they're ICE and can fuck off.
In California, overwhelmingly most "farmers" don't hire. They contract with harvesting contractors.
It was ever thus. Juan Corona was a farm labor contractor.
No shit? Is this for plausible deniability?
But of course.
so.full.of.shit
What a load of shit. Nothing is changing in that respect. You simply can't get Stephen Miller-type mass deportation numbers by sticking to "criminals." First off, there simply aren't enough of them. More important, the actual criminals take steps to make themselves hard to find. You want the numbers, you need easy-to-find immigrants to deport. That means honest working people who show up at their jerbs.
Or who show up to appointments.
Another three years of this bigoted, fucking fascist psychopthat is NOT sustainable.
Another three MONTHS of this shit is a helluva lot more than most of us can cope with.
"Truer" words...
I'm not holding out hope that there will be another presidential election in my lifetime. In fact, even now, fair mid-terms are in question.
It's going to happen. The Revolution is in-process and he's leaving Office!
"I'm on both sides."
[insert Mac from It's Always Sunny "Playing both sides" gif here]
Massa in charge of the field hands
Honestly, every time I try to parse his meaning more brain cells die from despair.
-parse-
You funny.
"criminals"
kids with cancer
moms
military vets
falsely accused "gang members"
FOAD LYING SCUM
That's bigly of him.
"I'm on both sides" Who could be opposed to that?
He's such a wet fart. He wants to look tough but is afraid of pissing some people off and hurting his "ratings".
TACO!
He keeps using 'strong' in ways that make no sense.
He's actually "strong smelling"
It's his smurfy.
Now *here's* a '30s expression you won't hear anymore:
"She double-crossed you like the Sixth Avenue El."
Nah, but "She returns my calls like the yellow line to Queens!" (Never and Rarely)
Yay, one of the drivers won!
LOOK IT'S PLEPPY AND HE'S DOING SOMETHING
( rando Sunday bonus edition , click for larger image )
https://substack.com/@michaelr831908?utm_source=user-menu
Pleppy! Great to see you too, Michael R!
Go Pleppy! Go go! Go Pleppy, go go go!
Lotta Pleppys on that there substack!
Pleppy, Guardian of Rock Puddle Footpaths! Nobody's stealin' this one as long as Pleppy is on the job!
You all must listen to the next Björk
https://youtu.be/cF4kF48inMA?si=PEhFzvdZZf2dBh1O
https://youtu.be/M0RklKDP2hk?si=PV-fuhIAzygPAFsa
Clearly Hegseth and co are trying to create a segregated all white Trumpist military.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/27/new-army-shaving-policy-will-allow-soldiers-skin-condition-affects-mostly-black-men-be-kicked-out.html
I really hate how they are trying to make it sound like they are being "reasonable" by tightening up standards and offering outs.
No, you are continuing to be nasty tiny little racists playing at being soldiers you absolute wastes of space.
"The Army move to clamp down on shaving waivers follows Hegseth, who has protested shaving waivers, ordering a sweeping review of grooming standards across the services. He has claimed that standards have fallen in recent years and damaged the military.
"We kicked out good soldiers for having naked women tattooed on their arms," Hegseth said in a March statement criticizing what he characterized as bad policy decisions by past administrations. "And today we are relaxing the standards on shaving, dreadlocks, man buns, and straight-up obesity. Piece by piece, the standard had to go -- because of equity."
Hegseth is a stone racist
"Sorry, I can't be WAR FIGHTING right now, I have a modicum of stubble. Be right back."
You know, here where two cultures with strong military traditions and simultaneous traditions of long hair exist, if your hair is neat you can keep it, including beards as long as they do not impede the seal on a gas mask. And this is why Bertie has kept his mid-back braid and last month served as a model for gas mask application.
And also why our military has a shit ton of mixed races including Sikhs and Indigenous people. Who will join as a cultural belief if you don’t impede their enlistment.
It’s like..diversity is our strength? IDK
Long hair as signifier of military prowess is in that book the "Christianists" pretend to admire.
In his unit beards are a tradition dating back to the unit’s founding actually.
And yeah, Samson much?
Mind you we allow trans soldiers too. Our first trans soldier was a military doctor actually. We weren’t even a country yet.
But racist white nationalist tatoos are a-okay
Um, I thought we worked through this in 1943?
/ffs
This is just ALL fucked up and WRONG.
Vile scumbaggery
And it's right there out in the open but the "nice polite bystanders" refuse to recognize it.
Alright, this one has been bugging me for a few days now. (Thanks, Google news.) I know headlines have their own style guide, but please tell me I'm not the only one for whom "Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, and programmable compute," doesn't make any damn sense.
Sensing makes damn to me, what'sing problem thes?
17) 5 to allow in min. area.
18) Safety switch set to on putting position.*
* actual verbatim instructions for a lab ultracenterfuge that Lady Vorpal had to set up in her research biochemist days.
Between voice-to-text and (definitely)A(dubiously)I...
And I'm usually all for nouning verbs (or verbing nouns), it's just that I can't figure out what compute as a noun could possible refer to.
No alpha would ponder such verbiage!
Ouch.
That is just cognitively painful.
Oh hai, AI?
Are we eventually going to have a head-to-head between the cult of PAB and the cult of musk?
Enquiring minds want to know.
The alliance between the 'vangie fascists, and the technofascists, probably can't hold. Not forever.
Headlines on Drudge: Musk calls "Trump Law Utterly Insane" "Will Destroy Millions of Jobs" "Harm Our Country"
If only it was entirely apparent that that's the sort of thing that Trump would do all along...
Is it decided on weight?
That, and how high you can jump. Can't wait to see what the tie-breaker is.
What I'm thinking is that there are far fewer women who are in to Enlo - Enlo is more an incel love affair.
So by weight it'll be PABbles.
Hot oil wrestling.
Boiling hot
HERRRRK!!!!
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻: ‘𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲’ 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗦 𝗱𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
Alpha-gal is a confounding condition because it doesn’t cause an immediate allergic reaction, unlike a peanut allergy, with symptoms often appearing several hours after consuming meat. The syndrome is not caused by a pathogen but spurs an allergy to a sugar molecule found in mammals and an array of other things, from toothpaste to medical equipment. Researchers think the condition can wane over time but is also worsened by further tick bites.
This leads to a confusing and fraught experience for the growing number of Americans with alpha-gal, who are now girding for another expected hot summer full of ticks. “The ticks are rampant this year, I’ve pulled 10 ticks off me this season alone, it feels like they are uncontrollable at the moment,” said Heather O’Bryan, a horticulturist in Roanoke, Virginia, who has alpha-gal. “They are so disgusting. I’m not afraid of a lot, but I’m afraid of ticks.”
In 2019, O’Bryan suffered full body hives and struggled to breathe after eating a pork sausage. “It was terrifying experience, I didn’t know I had an allergy but it almost killed me,” she said. She now avoids products containing mammal-derived elements, such as certain toothpastes and even toilet paper, due to adverse reactions.
Dairy, another mammalian product, is also off limits. “I’ve learned what I can eat now, but I was so sad when I realized I couldn’t have pizza again, I remember crying in front of a frozen pizza in the supermarket aisle,” she said.
Link to Full article @ The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/lone-star-ticks-increase-climate-crisis
I've encountered this. Definitely here in NY.
Give me all the DEET
That's...horrifying.
But I can't help noticing that if we all got alpha-gal, it would combat the very climate change that brought the tics north. What's next, a mosquito that makes us allergic to air travel? How long before the kookweb blames Bill Gates?
I was at a family reunion/100th birthday party for my aunt last weekend and not even 5 minutes in a conversation with a cousin, he slipped in a "there's no global warming" comment. I gave him what a friend calls my "die where you stand" look and got up and walked away. Everything is so bad right now & I hate that I wish this kind of thing on a cousin that I used to love.
My brother is a Trumper who tells me the world has been warming for centuries as the earth cooled off. So there you have it....no global warming! And one really stupid brother. Hangs head in shame.
Loathsome creatures
Need more opossums.
LOVE opossums!!!!
So gentle and cute!
So heartbreaking. Not only for people but for animals as well.
CHINESE HOAX!