I hope nobody misled you into thinking the recovery would be quick. The people I know who had "slightly sore throat" for about a weekend are deeply annoying, and I enjoy telling them so.
Oh, I know better than that. I didn’t have the sore throat at all. Just fatigue and the worst headache. I still have the fatigue. It’s getting a little better finally.
Hello everyone. I woke really late and Viggo (my cat) decided to punish me by barfing up all his breakfast because I was late giving it to him. Happy Sunday!
They called me to be on the Sunday shows but I told them I wanted to sleep in and sent my pal Ezra Klein in my place. He's much better at that "talking" stuff anyway. 🤪
"In about three weeks, the government’s funding will run out. Democrats will face a choice: Join Republicans to fund a government that President Trump is turning into a tool of authoritarian takeover and vengeance or shut the government down."
I really want them to shut it down but we all know that the repugs won't take any blame for it and our corporate media will tell the rubes that the democrats are evil. I see no way out of the mess we're in.
Even the press will have to point at the GOP and their total control (including not arguing with POTUS) and admit no Democrats were seen creating this mess.
Mr. Ulbricht could have a shot at an even bigger payday. In recent months, some U.S. officials who prosecuted him have privately discussed an outlandish scenario: He could return to court to try to claw back some of the funds seized from Silk Road.
Over the years, law enforcement has recovered tens of thousands of Bitcoin that hackers had stolen from the site. While in prison, Mr. Ulbricht forfeited his right to that digital currency, some of which has sat untouched in government-controlled wallets.
The pardon could give him an opening to claim some of those coins or other crypto that the government recovers in the future, legal experts said. Even a long-shot lawsuit could provide leverage for a settlement.
The potential prize would be immense. When Mr. Ulbricht was arrested, one Bitcoin traded for $132. Now it trades at about $110,000.
That means the government’s Silk Road stash is worth at least $7.5 billion.
Article about Silk Road criminal that Trump pardoned for votes:
His freedom has brought the prospect of financial rewards. At the Bitcoin Conference, Mr. Ulbricht raised about $1.3 million in an auction of his possessions, including canvases he painted behind bars, an old sleeping bag and his prison sweatsuit.
One item sold for 5.5 Bitcoin, or roughly $600,000, nearly half the total haul. It was an inmate identification card that designated Mr. Ulbricht as prisoner No. 18870-111.
Especially when they sue anyone else for editing anything. ARE MAGAts BORN MISSING GENES FOR LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING, or are they just willfully ignorant cretins????
Seems like grounds for an IRS investigation of the U.S. Tennis Association for political activity by a non-profit when we get back in power. I’m done with playing with asymmetrical rules.
This morning I found a partially nibbled bouillon cube. The box had fallen out of my spice cupboard and one of them must been left behind to be discovered by Harry who must have thought it smelled amazing. Looks like he took a bite into it and didn't like it. Probably because it was veggie. I imagine him spitting it out, what is this shit, this ain't chicken!
I found a (live, thankfully) mouse in the bird seed container this morning. Must have gotten into the bag, then got buried in seed during a bag to bin transfer. Glad I noticed the little guy, and now I know why one of the cats has been so desperate to get into the garage.
A long time ago, I was making spaghetti carbonara and was cooking bacon which drove my previous cat completely wild. I also had on onion chopped in in half on the counter ready to be cut up. I turned around just in time to see Alex biting said onion in a bacon smell fueled frenzy and gagging dramatically.
Rumble our battle-tabby was diagnosed as a corpulent kitty and sentenced to cardboard diet biscuits. Lady Vorpal mixed them half and half with regular biscuits at first to transition her on to them. We heard a regular 'p-tak!' sound coming from the kitchen... she was spitting them out against the baseboard and eating rhe regular biscuits.
I wonder if there is a glitter gun of some kind so that there is no actual contact with the newly-decorated troop. Something that puffs glitter and might even be able to appear accidental.
What's that like? I used to have one like this and loved it because it was so easy to clean but my daughter disappeared it when she moved in a couple of years ago.
I can use it for walking so I guess it's okay. Not ever going to be "normal" again unless they replace the knee. They told me that after the fact, that I'd eventually need it done, and I wondered why the hell they didn't do that while they were already in there. Pft.
It does get amusing, all these clickbait headlines, hyperbolically screaming about whatever they think they've got ( and a lot don't "reveal" the things they shout about )
There are people who say that Orangini is a master at propaganda. Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is one. He is ... if you think about it. And White makes that point: we spend all day talking about the current outrage.
The cabal holding up Dumold took their psychology from the world of professional wrestling. There is a good portion of the populace that doesn't care about the truth, just about how their presuppositions are supported. Wrestling brought a soap opera based on propagandistic lying and a sort of macho belligerance that was ripe for political exposition. This is not weak sauce. It is the kind of Manchurian Candidate exploitation of deep resonances. That's what makes FOX work as well. You set a story line and everyone pretends to believe it and magnify it. You have to fight it by either setting a counter story, or by poking big holes in it. The truth does not matter to these folks...
We do. It’s fucking tiresome. How many times do we need to say they’re fucking wrecking the country/world order and right now there is fuck-all we can do to stop them.
As a child, the beginning of this movie haunted me for YEARS. That little girl in the painting, aging until she disappeared, was horrifying.
Without spoilers.
That was the fastest F1 race in history.
190 miles in 1hr 13 minutes.
Huh.
Too bad they flattened out the Parabolica. Moar speed!
Was it on 1-94 between Bismarck and Fargo?
It’s cool and damp and I still feel sick but I have to go into work—likely all day.
It's Sunday. Why can't you tell them to blow it out their collective rear ends?
I’m not going to tell a judge to bite me when I miss a deadline!
Fellow Sunday work warrior, I salute.
I am on week two after testing positive for covid and I still don't feel quite right. Sorry you have to work all day! Try to take it somewhat easy.
I hope nobody misled you into thinking the recovery would be quick. The people I know who had "slightly sore throat" for about a weekend are deeply annoying, and I enjoy telling them so.
Oh, I know better than that. I didn’t have the sore throat at all. Just fatigue and the worst headache. I still have the fatigue. It’s getting a little better finally.
Hello everyone. I woke really late and Viggo (my cat) decided to punish me by barfing up all his breakfast because I was late giving it to him. Happy Sunday!
Omg, the makeup effects in that movie scared the shit outta me when I was a little kid lol 😆
I saw it first the first time last year and they scared the shit out of me!
They called me to be on the Sunday shows but I told them I wanted to sleep in and sent my pal Ezra Klein in my place. He's much better at that "talking" stuff anyway. 🤪
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"Stop Acting Like This Is Normal"–[NYT] https://archive.ph/OoXEe#selection-4310.1-4310.2
"In about three weeks, the government’s funding will run out. Democrats will face a choice: Join Republicans to fund a government that President Trump is turning into a tool of authoritarian takeover and vengeance or shut the government down."
Let 'em shut it down.
THEN we'll throttle the fascist fucks and sickeningly subordinate shits senseless.
I really want them to shut it down but we all know that the repugs won't take any blame for it and our corporate media will tell the rubes that the democrats are evil. I see no way out of the mess we're in.
Even the press will have to point at the GOP and their total control (including not arguing with POTUS) and admit no Democrats were seen creating this mess.
😳
More about the Silk Road asshole:
Mr. Ulbricht could have a shot at an even bigger payday. In recent months, some U.S. officials who prosecuted him have privately discussed an outlandish scenario: He could return to court to try to claw back some of the funds seized from Silk Road.
Over the years, law enforcement has recovered tens of thousands of Bitcoin that hackers had stolen from the site. While in prison, Mr. Ulbricht forfeited his right to that digital currency, some of which has sat untouched in government-controlled wallets.
The pardon could give him an opening to claim some of those coins or other crypto that the government recovers in the future, legal experts said. Even a long-shot lawsuit could provide leverage for a settlement.
The potential prize would be immense. When Mr. Ulbricht was arrested, one Bitcoin traded for $132. Now it trades at about $110,000.
That means the government’s Silk Road stash is worth at least $7.5 billion.
What’s a little more corruption between associates?
How much $$ would Ulbricht kick back to Trump?
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"Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace"–https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5270051/trump-pardons-dark-web-marketplace-creator-ross-ulbricht
Brib *still* has coff for miilllyunth week.
She is staying home from choorch to-day, be-cauze I do not want anyone else to get thees coff.
I hope erryone has goodday to-day. Mebbe u weel watch some En Ef Ell today ? Mebbe no?
Anyhoo, have a gud time, cheep chpeep.
hope birb has better feelz soon.
my sleempz very bad. feel like i'mma dye any minute. 🦜🐦
The U.S. is planning to cut security aid to the Baltic states, who are NATO members (https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/09/06/baltic-allies-brace-as-u-s-prepares-to-slash-security-assistance/). Weakening NATO, and maybe later taking some bites out of it, is Putin's dream, and the U.S. under Trump is helping him realize that dream. Just handing Putin a gift, from his BFF.
They’re phasing out security to countries that border Russia. It’s no doubt as to who’s side they’re on.
Because of course they are. Trump is so far up Putin's ass it's just not funny anymore.
It would be redindant for them to have sex at this point. Probably it wouldn't be any good.
It's still creepy.
It is impossible for me to accurately express just how much I DESPISE this fucked up, damned dangerous timeline.
Article about Silk Road criminal that Trump pardoned for votes:
His freedom has brought the prospect of financial rewards. At the Bitcoin Conference, Mr. Ulbricht raised about $1.3 million in an auction of his possessions, including canvases he painted behind bars, an old sleeping bag and his prison sweatsuit.
One item sold for 5.5 Bitcoin, or roughly $600,000, nearly half the total haul. It was an inmate identification card that designated Mr. Ulbricht as prisoner No. 18870-111.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/technology/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-comeback.html
It completely baffles me as to why anyone would want any of those things. I can't see them as investments (but maybe that's why I'm so poor).
The nouveau tech-wealthy are certainly different...
Yeah. Bless their souls.
As they’re separated from their bodies on those lamp posts.
OT. Not knowing your audience.
"'Cowards': Internet pounces after broadcasters warned to censor booing of Trump at US Open"
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-boo-cowards-tennis-open/?utm_source=superhead
Well, US Open, you gained one fan at the expense of the rest of your fans. Well played, old bean.
Well, when Bari Weiss is running CBS, there won't be any reporting at all that is critical of Trump and his MAGA authoritarianism.
[ Bari Weiss running CBS. Fucking kill me now ]
Especially when they sue anyone else for editing anything. ARE MAGAts BORN MISSING GENES FOR LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING, or are they just willfully ignorant cretins????
Fascists love the hypocrisy of demanding freedom and respect for themselves while supporting government oppression and disrespect for the other.
That’s in the handbook and everything
Wilfull ignorance is the dangerous, potentially deadly bane of the United States.
Seems like grounds for an IRS investigation of the U.S. Tennis Association for political activity by a non-profit when we get back in power. I’m done with playing with asymmetrical rules.
Get out those cell phones and upload the booing to the tickety tacks.
Absolute, unmitigated fucking p******.
That is all too brutally accurate.
And now those assholes MUST be removed.
This morning I found a partially nibbled bouillon cube. The box had fallen out of my spice cupboard and one of them must been left behind to be discovered by Harry who must have thought it smelled amazing. Looks like he took a bite into it and didn't like it. Probably because it was veggie. I imagine him spitting it out, what is this shit, this ain't chicken!
WHY U TRICK WIF ME MOM!
I found a (live, thankfully) mouse in the bird seed container this morning. Must have gotten into the bag, then got buried in seed during a bag to bin transfer. Glad I noticed the little guy, and now I know why one of the cats has been so desperate to get into the garage.
A long time ago, I was making spaghetti carbonara and was cooking bacon which drove my previous cat completely wild. I also had on onion chopped in in half on the counter ready to be cut up. I turned around just in time to see Alex biting said onion in a bacon smell fueled frenzy and gagging dramatically.
Rumble our battle-tabby was diagnosed as a corpulent kitty and sentenced to cardboard diet biscuits. Lady Vorpal mixed them half and half with regular biscuits at first to transition her on to them. We heard a regular 'p-tak!' sound coming from the kitchen... she was spitting them out against the baseboard and eating rhe regular biscuits.
They don't get chunky by chance.
Hold it up to Harry's face and see if he scowls at it. Have a camera handy.
and several large band-aids
And a drum of Bactine.
"What kind of a cruel joke is this, hooman?!"
It's a CAVU morning here in Chicago and 50 degrees. The deck will be open, Beer Church an indoor/outdoor celebration today...
Come, all ye congregants, bring your own mugs
PAINT ICE PINK!!
Cover those assholes in gender deaffirming pink paint. Yes!
Maybe pink sparkles...
Glitter gets EVERYWHERE.
I wonder if there is a glitter gun of some kind so that there is no actual contact with the newly-decorated troop. Something that puffs glitter and might even be able to appear accidental.
"Aggravated Assault With Intent To Discolor!!!"
They will cry that they’re being attacked with chemical weapons.
I guess ALL weapons are chemical weapons if you want to be nit-picky about it
Haha atomic also too!
I'm not sure about that. Paint on my butthole would make me itch something fierce.
My neighborhood diner tried to cheat me this morning . . .
WAITER: Anything to drink?
ME: I’ll have a Coke.
WAITER & ME AT THE SAME TIME: Is Pepsi okay?
ME: Jinx! You owe me a free cola!
WAITER: But -
ME: I don’t make the rules, sir!
In a similar vein, I was watching Milk Street with my friend last night which has Chris Kimball the annoying bow tie cooking guy
Bow tie tit: Well I prefer to slice the garlic because it's a more mellow taste
Me and friend, in perfect, and I mean perfect unison: That's because you're a fucking pussy
Here… much more enjoyable guy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml96UBxc08M
Is your nap over already?
Yeah zoomycars are on the telly now.
I chop it up into bits because I don't have a garlic press... And I get to chop something to bits.
I did that for ages because most garlic presses are garbage.
Until I bought a Kuhn Rikon. It's glorious. Expensive, but so so worth it.
What's that like? I used to have one like this and loved it because it was so easy to clean but my daughter disappeared it when she moved in a couple of years ago.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61bKQffqVkL._AC_SL1492_.jpg
I bought this in 2008
https://www.amazon.com/Kuhn-Rikon-2315-Epicurean-Garlic/dp/B0000CD0HX/ref=sr_1_6?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jFmgNokiWM2unv9_ncvRuLvRWaIXHZ10Xk7RzvW6sCIn8qqprv3a2crRmXlf_vSLc2txnUKK45hSw2Ue5pq67tXPvBBWtw8-zRb0kBQPOp3dB41ZAfAhGHH2fEYFtj47qJVpv0x8lddeWtKvBbkU3q6f1vTphrR5x0Fz6ZbkHBiyIebqkRG0p_OPxE9LtfkvDCiwwdnB3sCF8vgywVyYTCs5ecn2dHrx8PhU57cHQ_uyvU1P3o0SgkldrBRu5Vijl7ACI88Wwbt7gfiDRrIMSFbWAxJxg4k1EjBrAoKFuGg.0CTFKwTvihUkJcZwDrH8m7sI5nPmCgjJB2Jn0W7_OhA&dib_tag=se&hvadid=557229884767&hvdev=c&hvexpln=0&hvlocphy=9032054&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=7338662830949192576--&hvqmt=e&hvrand=7338662830949192576&hvtargid=kwd-304569398528&hydadcr=13960_13352796&keywords=kuhn%2Brikon%2Bgarlic%2Bpress&mcid=d9d66940ffdd327f9139f373081242d2&qid=1757255375&sr=8-6&th=1
Haven't looked back
You ever notice the other cooks on his show? They’re mostly short women of a type, it’s kind of weird.
I like the other people on that show. I just don't like Kimball.
edit:
who is it. there's gray hair woman, the kinda middle eastern woman, the guy who can't open his mouth properly and the baking dude. who am I missing?
I mean look (if this works) https://www.tpt.org/content/uploads/2017/07/milk-street-kitchen-1920.jpg
Missing out on
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Kv-CSBsk2c8/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwE7CK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAy0IARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD8AEB-AH-CYAC0AWKAgwIABABGHIgTig4MA8=&rs=AOn4CLAPNd2yd3iFuyuBCxmlxl8IxDGtvA
Who is really good
Oh, I like her.
You're just annoyed because he's not Jamie Oliver.
Yes, that's right, because I'm well known for being a huge Jamie Oliver fan.
How's yer bacon doing?
I can use it for walking so I guess it's okay. Not ever going to be "normal" again unless they replace the knee. They told me that after the fact, that I'd eventually need it done, and I wondered why the hell they didn't do that while they were already in there. Pft.
Yeah, it's so much better with Bridget and Julia being the primaries
Out of my hands!
Jack White on PAB
https://bsky.app/profile/putawomanincharge.bsky.social/post/3lyamixil222f
All these shorts say that he is destroyed. I do not think that word means what they think it means.
It does get amusing, all these clickbait headlines, hyperbolically screaming about whatever they think they've got ( and a lot don't "reveal" the things they shout about )
Yeah, it's more like kicking his shins while barefooted.
There are people who say that Orangini is a master at propaganda. Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is one. He is ... if you think about it. And White makes that point: we spend all day talking about the current outrage.
That is a habit we need to break. Even here.
The cabal holding up Dumold took their psychology from the world of professional wrestling. There is a good portion of the populace that doesn't care about the truth, just about how their presuppositions are supported. Wrestling brought a soap opera based on propagandistic lying and a sort of macho belligerance that was ripe for political exposition. This is not weak sauce. It is the kind of Manchurian Candidate exploitation of deep resonances. That's what makes FOX work as well. You set a story line and everyone pretends to believe it and magnify it. You have to fight it by either setting a counter story, or by poking big holes in it. The truth does not matter to these folks...
We do. It’s fucking tiresome. How many times do we need to say they’re fucking wrecking the country/world order and right now there is fuck-all we can do to stop them.
WHAR EPSTEIN LIST!
A little less outrage and a little more insight