I sat here last week and watched the muppet movie three times running. And even now when I hear (in my head) The Rainbow Connection, I well up. There is something magical about the Muppets, and they remind me strongly of Kukla Fran and Ollie, who also were gentle, a bit fuddly around the edges, and very careful about each other. They become real, I suspect, even to the people who er, help them along.
I'm a few days late, but I have to mention one of the funniest segments in TV history: Harry Belafonte performing "Banana Boat Song" with the Muppets, led by Fozzie. It's a long video, and last time I checked YouTube I couldn't find it, but I found it on Dailymotion. The only person who thinks it's funnier than I do was Harry Belafonte.
November 10th is the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has been running articles.
Northwestern Mutual owned the ship. Edmund Fitzgerald was president and ceo of NM and didn't want his name on the vessel. The board of directors decided it would on a secret vote.
The EM lays at the bottom of lake Superior on the Canada side and has been decided it's a gravesite and to be left alone. Although some say a part of the bow is on the American side.( please don't tell him or he'll do something stupid.)
The ships bell was brought up in 1995 and is in a museum.
Oooh - is that allowed around here? (I dont necessarily disagree).
But did they have 51 votes for voting rights? Weren't Manchin & Synema both against? Of course, Schumer ALSO could have brought the hammer down and stripped them of committee assignments etc to get them to play ball.
So I'll denied the privilege of enduring the blood-soaked clusterfuck hellscape known as airports as well as getting crammed into a poorly-made flying metal tube with a bunch of angry drunks?
It doesn’t have to be big, it doesn’t have to be turkey, just get together with the people you do care about and cook what you’ve got and have a good time.
I'm glad I drive to my mom's - no way could she make a 6 hour drive, either as a passenger or a driver. Though it was the tradition for decades (either at my place or her big house) I don't believe I'll ever be able to have her here for a home cooked meal again, and her retirement apartment only has a tiny kitchenette. We'll probably go out for Thanksgiving dinner.
Not everyone can have thanksgiving at home with their peeps.
My mom has a one bedroom apartment in a senior complex - it's independent living. She doesn't need assisted living yet. We were going to have Thanksgiving at her place but the group got too large so we're at my brother's house. It's a potluck so it will be easy.
I don’t think the meal is important or what we eat is important or even where we eat is important so long as you’re sharing it with people you care about.
If you can’t fly to be with your family, pick out a couple of friends or people you care about local to be with.
And some of us enjoy, just sitting at home all by ourselves and having a pizza and watching Thanksgiving movie with Ziggy!
I start the day with cinnamon rolls and coffee, watching the Macy's parade in my pajamas. Then I get dressed and head to whichever family member is hosting the dinner. It's a potluck and this year I've been assigned sodas. I'll probably take a dessert. I'm Team Pie. We select our Secret Santa at the dinner and since my dad passed, Thanksgiving has been quiet.
I got to tour the warehouse where they make and repair all the balloons and floats in the parade. It was a fun tour. Fun fact #1: everything that is in the parade can fit through a toll booth. #2: all the light poles along the route swivel. #3: the amp on the float with the guitar goes to 11
We get to stay home this year, since one of his cousins is having dinner at his house, and it's an hour's drive away, and my husband now has trouble with night driving (and MY driving, sigh) so we can stay home and eat pb and j instead. Not a complaint, and I don't have to wear shoes.
This year, Trump has saved liberals the challenge of not inviting their MAGA relatives for Thanksgiving. They will only thank him with their continued impertinence.
"When I first got this loan, three cents of my two grand monthly payment went toward principal. And now, a mere twenty-seven years later, fully five cents of that monthly payment goes to principal. America. Fuck yeah."
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️ More at link.
Okay, so since I replace the batteries in my Roku remote, it has not worked. I got it to work one night by doing the connection process several times, but now it doesn't work again and I the connection process isn't working.
Fortunately, it was quick and painless to download the Roku app and use that. So now I have to decide whether to buy a new remote or just continue using my phone.
The app works fine, but I don't like to use it. I like to be able to feel the buttons without looking down. Depending on what level of Roku you use, it can be almost as cheap to get a whole new Roku as to get a replacement remote.
They are pretty cheap. We'd replaced a few over the years.
I use the app on my phone because my sweetie has the real one tied to her end table (to haul it up off the floor when it drops, which it frequently does, or find it when it's lost). The downside is that it doesn't have volume control, so I keep the tv's real remote (which won't control the roku stuff) nearby for volume adjustments.
Have you power cycled the Roku? More than once. I have had the Roku remote stop working and found that power cycling the Roku recovered it.
If that doesn't fix it, point your phone's camera at the end of the remote you point at the Roku while pressing buttons on the remote. The camera should show a light on the remote because your phone should be able to see the IR light the remote uses. You can verify this with a standard TV or stereo remote that works.
If you don't see the light on the remote,
- check the remote/battery contacts for corrosion.
I came very close to cutting the tip off of my thumb because I made a rookie mistake while cutting carrots into obliques. Never ever look away from what you are doing with a chef’s knife. I don’t care what you hear.
Anyway. My best friend and lifetime partner is getting his Sunday pot roast and I only lost the side of my thumbnail.
I worked in a crummy restaurant kitchen a million years ago when the manager decided it would be a good idea to send all the knives out for a semiannual professional sharpening, without telling anyone. The next shift was a moderately bloody one. Took a year for the tip of my thumb to grow back, but it did!
I lopped the skin off my knuckle trying to filet the sinew out of some turkey tenderloins a few years back. I drove myself to the emergency room because the hubs was at work. I don't bother doing that anymore.
These under-educated antagonists demonstrate themselves staggering ignorant of the myriad gender variables that may occur in human development. There are human beings born manifesting characteristics of BOTH genders.
The wilfull ignorance overwhelms the sexual impotence.
Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk... oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up.
...And...who gives a fuck, unless they are trying to figure out, for themselves, how to understand their own gender?
For whatever reason I do not know, I've never wondered, even once, about my gender or orientation. No idea why. I've expended my internal existential concern on other things.
The extent to which this is any of my business at all is to be aware that other people may be dealing with this, and to do what I can to be a safe and kind presence to those people. Which I was gonna do anyway. And to call people by the name (when they're there) and pronouns (when they're not there) that they ask me to.
The next thing to nothing, is what they ask of me.
What if I insisted on calling Mr. Lee Zeldin "Ms. Leah?" Or "Dave?" Said he had no right to his own autonomy or existence? I bet he'd be offended, and rightly so.
Same difference, to the extent it's my, or his, concern.
I have to be very mindful of things like that. I'm pretty much an anarchist, and I'm capable of extremely arrogant selfishness, so I have to keep an eye on myself and how my behavior affects others.
I had heard of the 'Washington Free Beacon' but had never seen it. I just followed a link and . . . whoa, that's some seriously nasty shit they are putting out over there.
A really nasty and unsigned article on Pelosi: "Crazy Nancy Cashes Out" starts out "Nancy Pelosi, the wildly successful investor and power-lusting Democrat who made history as the first octogenarian to serve as speaker of the House, is finally calling it quits . . . Pelosi, who has represented the filth-infested crime hole of San Francisco since 1987, is best known for flaunting her imposing jugs at an Italian beach resort in 2022." and goes on from there (with photo). It ends with "In other words: Happy trails, you insufferable broad."
They have another article (also unsigned) with the headline "Mainstream Journos Simp for Nazi Twink", with a subhead "Akin to Glenn Greenwald drooling over fresh feet".
I have no idea even what language they are speaking. 'Consnark"?
"The Washington Free Beacon on Friday confirmed it originally retained the political research firm Fusion GPS to scour then-candidate Trump’s background for negative information, a common practice known as “opposition research” in politics. Leaders from the Free Beacon, which is funded largely by Republican billionaire Paul Singer, insisted none of the early material it collected appeared in the dossier released later in the year detailing explosive allegations, many uncorroborated, about Trump compiled by a former British spy."
Disgusting. Little failsons whose balls crawl back up in their stomachs when they see or hear of a powerful woman who doesn't give two fucks about the likes of them.
The kind that is smol, round, purple, and eats gnats. It features these weird, grey, tentacle-like adventitious roots which gave it its name.
Normally, those roots are like a quarter the diameter of those in the picture, and you can barely see them.
It's the cross of two of my favorite species (laueana "Tangerine" x cyclosecta), and it was the odd one out of the bunch. I forgot the name of its seed-sibling, which is overall lighter than 'Queen Cthulhu'.
The Queen's flowers are a dark purple (from cyclosecta) with a bright orange-red undertone (from laueana "Tangerine"), which makes it a strange shade of very dark neon-purple which reminds me of the glow of blacklights but it's not quite the same shade.
It's hard to capture the brightness of P. laueana flowers. They range from red to magenta to orange-red with red being the most common.
I sat here last week and watched the muppet movie three times running. And even now when I hear (in my head) The Rainbow Connection, I well up. There is something magical about the Muppets, and they remind me strongly of Kukla Fran and Ollie, who also were gentle, a bit fuddly around the edges, and very careful about each other. They become real, I suspect, even to the people who er, help them along.
I'm a few days late, but I have to mention one of the funniest segments in TV history: Harry Belafonte performing "Banana Boat Song" with the Muppets, led by Fozzie. It's a long video, and last time I checked YouTube I couldn't find it, but I found it on Dailymotion. The only person who thinks it's funnier than I do was Harry Belafonte.
oops wrong thread
Treasury Secretary with anger control issues. If he's not punching Musk or screaming at Cabinet meetings, the inner demon speaks.
Bessent Erupts in Shouting Match Over Shutdown With Trump’s Anchor Nemesis
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bessent-erupts-in-shouting-match-with-trumps-nemesis-abc-news-anchor/
Many criticize Trump, but for a fat guy, he doesn't snore much in Press Conferences.
That's because his head is hollow
November 10th is the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has been running articles.
Northwestern Mutual owned the ship. Edmund Fitzgerald was president and ceo of NM and didn't want his name on the vessel. The board of directors decided it would on a secret vote.
The EM lays at the bottom of lake Superior on the Canada side and has been decided it's a gravesite and to be left alone. Although some say a part of the bow is on the American side.( please don't tell him or he'll do something stupid.)
The ships bell was brought up in 1995 and is in a museum.
The legend lives on.
But both sides will be American when Trump annexes Canada
well thats a relief, they won't have to deport me back to Canada, since it will belong to us...
Lake Superior?
Yes Superior. Thank you
You know, if the dems had thrown out the Filibuster and passed the voting act, we wouldn't have this current government. I blame Schumer mostly.
Oooh - is that allowed around here? (I dont necessarily disagree).
But did they have 51 votes for voting rights? Weren't Manchin & Synema both against? Of course, Schumer ALSO could have brought the hammer down and stripped them of committee assignments etc to get them to play ball.
Not to mention, Biden could have not rewarded Mansion's wife with a 160k / year job...
Blaming Schumer is DEFINITELY allowed. : )
They were against ending the Filibuster to pass it. They both said they would vote for it. Schumer should have called Pelosi for advice.
Pelosi should have voluntarily slapped him about the face & neck. Or I would have volunteered to do it for her. I'd even make a special trip.
ETA: is he making the Sunday rounds with his trademark "hope" plan for ending the shutdown?
Duffy is threatening to stop airline travel to "a trickle" for Thanksgiving to threaten the Dems to end the shutdown.
Nope. Sorry. The country is more important than Thanksgiving travel, people. Don't blink.
You mean we might not have to listen to a drunk fascist relative? Don't threaten US with a good time!
No Thanksgiving travel? Probably fewer intrafamilial murders, then. People might get to like that.
Annd not to mention no one will have to eat Aunt Mary's Ambrosia dessert. There's hope.
So is this blatant enough for his cult to notice?
I'm not sure the whole "__WE__ are going to cause pain because THEM" thing is going to place blame where they want it.
Please God let it be so.
So I'll denied the privilege of enduring the blood-soaked clusterfuck hellscape known as airports as well as getting crammed into a poorly-made flying metal tube with a bunch of angry drunks?
Thanks, Democrats!
I'm supposed to travel the week prior to Turkey Day. I wonder if I can take the train.
The ragegasm Orange Turd has when he realizes that shutting down airports will give a boost to AMTRAK which was one of Joe's pets should be epic.
It might be worth checking into.
I was supposed to go to DC the week before but said hell no. Now my boss has to go. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hold the line.
Start a Thanksgiving tradition
at home with your own peeps,
It doesn’t have to be big, it doesn’t have to be turkey, just get together with the people you do care about and cook what you’ve got and have a good time.
McFood! Big Smacks and Quarter Coronaries for all!
That's what we do anyway. I haven't traveled for Thanksgiving in years.
farthest we go is 8 miles, to his cousin's house. They cook, we eat.
I'm glad I drive to my mom's - no way could she make a 6 hour drive, either as a passenger or a driver. Though it was the tradition for decades (either at my place or her big house) I don't believe I'll ever be able to have her here for a home cooked meal again, and her retirement apartment only has a tiny kitchenette. We'll probably go out for Thanksgiving dinner.
Not everyone can have thanksgiving at home with their peeps.
My mom has a one bedroom apartment in a senior complex - it's independent living. She doesn't need assisted living yet. We were going to have Thanksgiving at her place but the group got too large so we're at my brother's house. It's a potluck so it will be easy.
Going out is also lovely. You are together and that's all that matters. <3
I don’t think the meal is important or what we eat is important or even where we eat is important so long as you’re sharing it with people you care about.
If you can’t fly to be with your family, pick out a couple of friends or people you care about local to be with.
And some of us enjoy, just sitting at home all by ourselves and having a pizza and watching Thanksgiving movie with Ziggy!
I start the day with cinnamon rolls and coffee, watching the Macy's parade in my pajamas. Then I get dressed and head to whichever family member is hosting the dinner. It's a potluck and this year I've been assigned sodas. I'll probably take a dessert. I'm Team Pie. We select our Secret Santa at the dinner and since my dad passed, Thanksgiving has been quiet.
I got to tour the warehouse where they make and repair all the balloons and floats in the parade. It was a fun tour. Fun fact #1: everything that is in the parade can fit through a toll booth. #2: all the light poles along the route swivel. #3: the amp on the float with the guitar goes to 11
We get to stay home this year, since one of his cousins is having dinner at his house, and it's an hour's drive away, and my husband now has trouble with night driving (and MY driving, sigh) so we can stay home and eat pb and j instead. Not a complaint, and I don't have to wear shoes.
This year, Trump has saved liberals the challenge of not inviting their MAGA relatives for Thanksgiving. They will only thank him with their continued impertinence.
The harder they push, the harder they are going to land.
Thanks 2/3rds of eligible voters. Enjoy your holiday.
All this just to protect a pedo!
That's unfair.
Probably three or four paedos. One main one, obviously, but there's a few others that are probably benefiting from this too.
It's to protect one and the others that pay Orange Turd money like the one that bribed with the $130M to pay military salaries ... $100 a person.
Yep. It's disgusting.
For Diane, with appreciation for all you do. Promise made, promise kept.
https://substack.com/profile/155631115-menotsure/note/c-175311624?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knpqj
I love when they snuggle up in blankets!
SQUEE!!!!!!!!! So cute!!!!!!!! He's a rock star! XD XD XD XD
Thalia bought that pillow for him.
How sweet! <3 <3 <3 <3 She's a good human, that one.
A dear friend and Wonkmeet cohort.
I need to get to one of those soon! :)
You could much worse than Thalia.
There's still people saying that he's 𝘯𝘰𝘵 a genius! Can you 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 it?
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 '𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲'
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/trump-republicans-health-insurance.html
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝟱𝟬-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
...𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘥𝘥-𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘈𝘤𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 30-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴.
https://www.housingwire.com/articles/trump-proposes-50-year-mortgage-to-help-affordability/
Does he...does he understand in any way how insurance works?
Tree fall down I get 4 million dollar check.
"It's a scam! They got a gimmick!"
He doesn't understand relieving himself on a toilet.
Dumbest fuck imaginable...
Jesus Christ.
The bank and the hospital can shoot it out for the house after illness bankrupts me...
And your organs and the organs of your grandchildren.
so buy a house when you're a freshman in high school and the mortgage will be paid off just as you reach retirement age
the amortization on a 50 yr note must be something
depending on the interest rate, it can more than double the cost of the home.
I threw the question to Perplexity's AI assistant, and put the answer in a different subthread below.
I thought virtually any rate will pretty much double the cost.
"I signed indenture papers on the same day as the mortgage closed..."
we bought our first home in 1981
40k mortgage, 30 yr fixed @ 16 1/2%
I was making 30k @ yr with a wife and newborn at the time
1991, my late wife and I bought the pile I live in now, 10.04% 30 year fixed, paid off in 24. Mortgage through the Local 134 credit union.
No down payment, though! I read that if you buy a $400K house, it ends up being $1.38M. On a $400k house!
"When I first got this loan, three cents of my two grand monthly payment went toward principal. And now, a mere twenty-seven years later, fully five cents of that monthly payment goes to principal. America. Fuck yeah."
Just like student loans.
If you think you need a 4000 sq ft house you deserve a 50 year mortgage. I have a 1200 foot condo on a 15 year mortgage. And no yard to mow.
I aim to finish a 15 yr. mortgage next year and go with a condo myself.
I love condo life.
I can't wait to be free of lawn care. I am looking at Chattanooga, TN, a very livable city.
We were there a month ago and loved it! Lots of things to do too-music and stuff!
Our friends have a lovely home and love it there!
I agree. I hope to be there in about a year.
Gee, I wonder why the Heritage Foundation would have a complaint.
ChrisO_wiki
@chriso-wiki.bsky.social
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️ More at link.
https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3m56rvvqicn2h
I am repulsed in all dimensions.
I so wish hell existed for these people. (If it exists, I'm willing to take my chances, but these assholes - one way ticket to the deepest circle).
Motherfuckers.💀
[fumes furiously]
I thought they were against removing memorials, I cannot believe this, LOLOLOLOL
Now how are we supposed to remember our history? 😠
Okay, so since I replace the batteries in my Roku remote, it has not worked. I got it to work one night by doing the connection process several times, but now it doesn't work again and I the connection process isn't working.
Fortunately, it was quick and painless to download the Roku app and use that. So now I have to decide whether to buy a new remote or just continue using my phone.
The app works fine, but I don't like to use it. I like to be able to feel the buttons without looking down. Depending on what level of Roku you use, it can be almost as cheap to get a whole new Roku as to get a replacement remote.
They are pretty cheap. We'd replaced a few over the years.
I use the app on my phone because my sweetie has the real one tied to her end table (to haul it up off the floor when it drops, which it frequently does, or find it when it's lost). The downside is that it doesn't have volume control, so I keep the tv's real remote (which won't control the roku stuff) nearby for volume adjustments.
Have you power cycled the Roku? More than once. I have had the Roku remote stop working and found that power cycling the Roku recovered it.
If that doesn't fix it, point your phone's camera at the end of the remote you point at the Roku while pressing buttons on the remote. The camera should show a light on the remote because your phone should be able to see the IR light the remote uses. You can verify this with a standard TV or stereo remote that works.
If you don't see the light on the remote,
- check the remote/battery contacts for corrosion.
- try a second set of new batteries.
The profit of experience:
It's somewhat cheaper to open the window before throwing the damn remote.
Remote because you don't want someone else using your phone.
I live alone with only my cat, and I refuse to give him the passcode.
You know he already knows it, right?
That explains all the cat porn!
Remote because apps are Teh Debbil.
Also true!
I came very close to cutting the tip off of my thumb because I made a rookie mistake while cutting carrots into obliques. Never ever look away from what you are doing with a chef’s knife. I don’t care what you hear.
Anyway. My best friend and lifetime partner is getting his Sunday pot roast and I only lost the side of my thumbnail.
Cut resistant gloves are A Thing
I worked in a crummy restaurant kitchen a million years ago when the manager decided it would be a good idea to send all the knives out for a semiannual professional sharpening, without telling anyone. The next shift was a moderately bloody one. Took a year for the tip of my thumb to grow back, but it did!
I lopped the skin off my knuckle trying to filet the sinew out of some turkey tenderloins a few years back. I drove myself to the emergency room because the hubs was at work. I don't bother doing that anymore.
My office mate lopped off the tip of her finger last week. They sewed it back on.
My dad cut off my finger tips when I was a child. They sewed them back on but they're still skew-whiff.
"Mmmm. Crunchy."
Damned Biden genderinflation.
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Zeldin: "Conservatives say there are two genders. Democrats are saying there are a hundred genders and counting and growing."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m57fygicg22u
Republicans are also saying that grocery prices are coming down, so why should we listen to them about anything.
And WTF does Lee Zeldin (personal pronouns "oil" and "gas") know about gender?
The only thing he can truly know is that New York HATES him.
These under-educated antagonists demonstrate themselves staggering ignorant of the myriad gender variables that may occur in human development. There are human beings born manifesting characteristics of BOTH genders.
The wilfull ignorance overwhelms the sexual impotence.
Why would it be a problem if there were?
I am EXHAUSTED, I tell you EXHAUSTED from working on the GENDERS GROWTH COMMITTEE
Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk... oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up.
Whenever conservatives say anything, I just assume it's not true. That usually ends up saving me time.
...And...who gives a fuck, unless they are trying to figure out, for themselves, how to understand their own gender?
For whatever reason I do not know, I've never wondered, even once, about my gender or orientation. No idea why. I've expended my internal existential concern on other things.
The extent to which this is any of my business at all is to be aware that other people may be dealing with this, and to do what I can to be a safe and kind presence to those people. Which I was gonna do anyway. And to call people by the name (when they're there) and pronouns (when they're not there) that they ask me to.
The next thing to nothing, is what they ask of me.
What if I insisted on calling Mr. Lee Zeldin "Ms. Leah?" Or "Dave?" Said he had no right to his own autonomy or existence? I bet he'd be offended, and rightly so.
Same difference, to the extent it's my, or his, concern.
It's a courtesy. It's kindness. It's compassion.
All things that right wing broke brain bigots don't seem to have or don't seem to be capable of.
To me it's a moral imperative.
I have to be very mindful of things like that. I'm pretty much an anarchist, and I'm capable of extremely arrogant selfishness, so I have to keep an eye on myself and how my behavior affects others.
It is good to be mindful of those things. Most people aren't, so you're ahead of the game. Good on you!
Yes, it is a moral imperative IMO, also.
The Tralfamadorians say we have seven.
So do the Boov: boy, girl, boygirl, girlboy, boyboy, boyboygirl, and boyboyboyboy.
I’d say there are two species. Real human beings, and them.
We are all descendants of Eve who was transgendered. She started out as a man’s rib and was turned into a woman.
Or possibly decended from Lillith and her progeny decended from the various Mesopotamian demons. (👹)
That would explain certain human tendencies.
We are all descended from slime on the rim of a langourous geyser .
primordal hydrogen atom has entered the chat
We all start out as female in the womb, from what I remember. So technically we are all gender fluid.
What's a gender, Mr. Zeldin? You tell me what you think it is. You'll be wrong, because you're an ignorant dope, but let's start there.
Not a single Democrat has said that, you fucking drooling goddamned buffoon.
I want to pound these people. :(
You would have a lot of assistance, should you get started.
Man, this sucks. :( :( :(
So many days where I feel overwhelmed by all the STUPID. WTF????
All the stupid and all the LIES.
The LIES get to me the most. I am not a good liar and I avoid it. They profess to be such great christians and they wear that commandment out DAILY.
I had heard of the 'Washington Free Beacon' but had never seen it. I just followed a link and . . . whoa, that's some seriously nasty shit they are putting out over there.
A really nasty and unsigned article on Pelosi: "Crazy Nancy Cashes Out" starts out "Nancy Pelosi, the wildly successful investor and power-lusting Democrat who made history as the first octogenarian to serve as speaker of the House, is finally calling it quits . . . Pelosi, who has represented the filth-infested crime hole of San Francisco since 1987, is best known for flaunting her imposing jugs at an Italian beach resort in 2022." and goes on from there (with photo). It ends with "In other words: Happy trails, you insufferable broad."
They have another article (also unsigned) with the headline "Mainstream Journos Simp for Nazi Twink", with a subhead "Akin to Glenn Greenwald drooling over fresh feet".
I have no idea even what language they are speaking. 'Consnark"?
So WFB commissioned what eventually became the 'Steele Dossier"? Ha ha 🤪
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"The Washington Free Beacon on Friday confirmed it originally retained the political research firm Fusion GPS to scour then-candidate Trump’s background for negative information, a common practice known as “opposition research” in politics. Leaders from the Free Beacon, which is funded largely by Republican billionaire Paul Singer, insisted none of the early material it collected appeared in the dossier released later in the year detailing explosive allegations, many uncorroborated, about Trump compiled by a former British spy."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/website-with-gop-ties-funded-research-on-trump-dossier
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Disgusting. Little failsons whose balls crawl back up in their stomachs when they see or hear of a powerful woman who doesn't give two fucks about the likes of them.
Fucking incels.
They seem nice
I was waiting for someone to say it.
"best known for flaunting her imposing jugs at an Italian beach resort in 2022"
SHERO!
It's like Bagels in the candy store.
https://substack.com/profile/114898048-bagels-of-doom/note/c-175304572
What kind of cat is that?
The kind that is smol, round, purple, and eats gnats. It features these weird, grey, tentacle-like adventitious roots which gave it its name.
Normally, those roots are like a quarter the diameter of those in the picture, and you can barely see them.
It's the cross of two of my favorite species (laueana "Tangerine" x cyclosecta), and it was the odd one out of the bunch. I forgot the name of its seed-sibling, which is overall lighter than 'Queen Cthulhu'.
The Queen's flowers are a dark purple (from cyclosecta) with a bright orange-red undertone (from laueana "Tangerine"), which makes it a strange shade of very dark neon-purple which reminds me of the glow of blacklights but it's not quite the same shade.
It's hard to capture the brightness of P. laueana flowers. They range from red to magenta to orange-red with red being the most common.
And now I need to stop rambling.