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<< (7) more GOP screaming behind closed doors, (8) somebody punches out Matt Gaetz in the Cloak Room >>
I would have guessed that #8 would have accompanied the initial GOP screaming at step #2. On the other hand, seeing that thought written out reminds me: Matt Gaetz is #2, a big steaming pile of it.
So today's Tabs comments are "for paid subscribers only." I don't actually have a noncomment to make, but I do enjoy typing stuff in the blank white box and then deleting it.
It's annoying that some of us are paid subscribers, just not through Subby. A switch or something isn't checked, but it sure does discourage discourse.
Wonder why that guy is tweeting considering indigenous people never did that before, because it is just a bourgeois free time occupation and therefore accelerating climate change
How is everyone this morning? Zyx and I got back to the pied-a-terre at a reasonable hour after another magical weekend. Had a radio do on Saturday afternoon at the old Galli-Curci theater in Roxbury, which is being refurbished, someone had a real portable, wood fired pizza oven (I have got to get me one of those). We had a fun show playing live recordings that night (I got her to tell her Japanese tourist story on the air). We had to get up early for a mushroom walk on Sunday with some local experts. Also got an oyster mushroom indoor grow bag. I'm making my black bean soup tonight. She makes me very happy.
We had a trip to the Natural History museum yesterday; we haven't been in about 7 months and it's utterly transformed. There's little inside the building I can place in the old layout. The kids were wild with excitement. But surprisingly well behaved considering just how wound up they were. They've a flight simulator now, and GirlBard giggled all the way through the butterfly one, and full-on belly-laughed as she "crashed" over and over and over again in the pterodactyl on. Boybard got scared with his first crash and stopped.
I see Missouri on that list but feel like I shouldn't worry about a tech hub being built nearby. Our infrastructure is crap, education is inadequate, and there's no Starbucks. Congratulations to Kansas City probably.
Yeah, I was wondering how they are going to staff those when the average ACT score in my state, about 14, won't even get a student into a second tier regional school.
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The Raucous Caucus are supposedly sniffing around Rep. Emmer's pants cuffs with a view to trying to make him Speaker, so welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. Will they finally get their acts together, or will all just be a grand illusion?
(Yeah, both songs were in my head when I woke up this morning.)
Jake Broe (a good youtuber for Russo-Ukraine War recaps) thinks that there's going to be nothing until about mid-November, and which point a half-dozen Republicans are going to have to cut a deal with the Democrats or get roasted by all the veterans in their districts who'll start missing paychecks around then.
If what I read on the Internet is reliable (??), you should have no problem calming your nerves with an abundance of easily accessible and high-quality weed.
I had a wooden puzzle with all of the states as a child, and it grouped much of New England onto one piece. So it took me another sixty years to straighten that out.
Substack doesn't know me because my girlfriend is from Canada. So posting here:
<< (7) more GOP screaming behind closed doors, (8) somebody punches out Matt Gaetz in the Cloak Room >>
I would have guessed that #8 would have accompanied the initial GOP screaming at step #2. On the other hand, seeing that thought written out reminds me: Matt Gaetz is #2, a big steaming pile of it.
So today's Tabs comments are "for paid subscribers only." I don't actually have a noncomment to make, but I do enjoy typing stuff in the blank white box and then deleting it.
I thought I'd been shadowbanned :(
I saw that--really odd...
This has happened before; I think it some sort of glitch. Or someone forgot to click a checkbox for that article or so.
It's annoying that some of us are paid subscribers, just not through Subby. A switch or something isn't checked, but it sure does discourage discourse.
Amusingly, I can "like" a comment. I just can't, well, comment.
Yeah, that is wierd.
Me either. I reckon we should mutiny from non-comment steerage and take the ship!
Since they forgot to flip a switch on the Tabs thread, posting this here:
Good Morning!
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I would try to encapsulate the tweet this guy is quoting, but really, you need to read it for yourself.
https://twitter.com/JoeKassabian/status/1716224406127530233
As someone replied, "Either this is some amazing bait or this person is in desperate need of going on a long hike to find some grass to touch."
It's dialectics are garbage.
Wow. It's like if chatGPT was told to write in the style of a Marxist.
He could start with the Appalachian trail
I mean, it is even still there and everything
I know what those words mean, but that sentence makes no sense.
"Do you think that indigenous people went on hikes?"
Sure they did. But they took their bow.
I bet moving to a new area was quite a hike.
Wonder why that guy is tweeting considering indigenous people never did that before, because it is just a bourgeois free time occupation and therefore accelerating climate change
I agree that the GQP doesn't get anyone in office until Nov, about 3 days before the budget comes due.
Their model of government is lurching from one disaster to another.
For some, it's by design. They truly want to burn it all down.
Optimistic
I say they let a shutdown happen and then crow on TV that it was their cunning plan all along...
For about 2 days, and then they will whine that Democrats are keeping the government shut down
I don't think the dems will let the government close.
Today . . . in HISTORY!
(tatty fanfare)
4004 BC: Archbishop James Ussher conducts careful calculations, concludes Creation commenced. Crazy!
1850: The first US National Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1906: Alberto Santos-Dumont pilots the first airplane in Europe. Heavier-than-air flight, as opposed to airships or balloons.
1911: First use of aircraft in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War in Libya. An Italian pilot conducts a recon flight.
1970: Using natural gas, Gary Gabelich drives the 'Blue Flame' to a land speed record of 622.4 mph. Whee!
1983: 241 US Marines and 58 French Army soldiers die in two separate truck bomb incidents in Beirut, Lebanon. Fuck Ollie North.
2001: Apple unleashes the iPod upon an unsuspecting world.
That's the sort of fanfare that sounds like it's being played on dime store toy trumpets, right?
Toy trumpets, slide whistles, and kazoos.
How is everyone this morning? Zyx and I got back to the pied-a-terre at a reasonable hour after another magical weekend. Had a radio do on Saturday afternoon at the old Galli-Curci theater in Roxbury, which is being refurbished, someone had a real portable, wood fired pizza oven (I have got to get me one of those). We had a fun show playing live recordings that night (I got her to tell her Japanese tourist story on the air). We had to get up early for a mushroom walk on Sunday with some local experts. Also got an oyster mushroom indoor grow bag. I'm making my black bean soup tonight. She makes me very happy.
We had a trip to the Natural History museum yesterday; we haven't been in about 7 months and it's utterly transformed. There's little inside the building I can place in the old layout. The kids were wild with excitement. But surprisingly well behaved considering just how wound up they were. They've a flight simulator now, and GirlBard giggled all the way through the butterfly one, and full-on belly-laughed as she "crashed" over and over and over again in the pterodactyl on. Boybard got scared with his first crash and stopped.
I still haven't visited the AMNH since the redo, used to be my favorite place in the world growing up.
Ours is Cleveland, and yes, it's one of my kids' favorite places too.
I recall Zyx writing about it yesterday. Collected a couple ticks.
We met up at the Mavericks Concert Hall in Woodstock, it was a lot more ticky than up by us.
You two!
Pretty good ... for a sleepy, senile old white dude.
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 '𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗵𝘂𝗯𝘀' 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟯𝟮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝗣𝘂𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆, 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀
https://www.greenwichtime.com/business/article/president-joe-biden-is-naming-tech-hubs-for-32-18441748.php?src=gthppolitics
I see Missouri on that list but feel like I shouldn't worry about a tech hub being built nearby. Our infrastructure is crap, education is inadequate, and there's no Starbucks. Congratulations to Kansas City probably.
Yeah, I was wondering how they are going to staff those when the average ACT score in my state, about 14, won't even get a student into a second tier regional school.
Oh yeah, that's right. The Homunculus is under indictment, with rats flipping over on him like weasels, but Biden's A Old.
And wears sneakers!
From McSweeney's:
Sure, Trump Is an Authoritarian Grifter, but at Least He’s Three Years Younger Than Biden
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sure-trump-is-an-authoritarian-grifter-but-at-least-hes-three-years-younger-than-biden
"Biden was alive when the Allies won World War II. So you can understand how that is of concern to Trump supporters. Their side lost World War II"
Lololol!!
LOL
I heard that *two* people within the last couple of days: Mrs LS and my friend from London.
Media's done it's job with that one
The Homunculus is 77, with a family history of Alzheimer's.
Not that he was playing with a full deck in the first place.
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Monday NOIZ! Everybody POLKA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1PAy4JZfrE
Everybody mombo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsmkb4wtIQ0
Good morning, fellow degenerates! (celebrates the Sacrament) All rise, please, for the Anthem of the Republican Party of the United States!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLegSgWi0cI
The Raucous Caucus are supposedly sniffing around Rep. Emmer's pants cuffs with a view to trying to make him Speaker, so welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. Will they finally get their acts together, or will all just be a grand illusion?
(Yeah, both songs were in my head when I woke up this morning.)
Jake Broe (a good youtuber for Russo-Ukraine War recaps) thinks that there's going to be nothing until about mid-November, and which point a half-dozen Republicans are going to have to cut a deal with the Democrats or get roasted by all the veterans in their districts who'll start missing paychecks around then.
I'll accept that as Worst Case.
I accept *any* republican Speaker of the House as the worst case.
True, but as long as they get shit done without so much damned drama.
Even if they manage a speaker, they won't get anything done
See too: McCarthy's "speakership"
Morning all. ☕
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Pfft. Got the neighbors.
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They don't make 'em like they used to ...
𝘕𝘈𝘚𝘈 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘝𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 2 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬, 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘹 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 – 𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦 – 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 28.
𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘝𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 1977. 𝘝𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 1 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 22 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 (15 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴) 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 22 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺. 𝘝𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 2 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 20 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 (12.5 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸 – 160 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘝𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 1 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘺 2022.
𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗔 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗩𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝟮'𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗩𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝟭 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/23/nasa_voyager_upgrades/
This is how you get Vger
All very impressive, but can you play Doom on them?
The Voyagers are masterpieces of engineering.
Missed my connection. Fuuuuuuuucccckkkkk.
I'm so sorry!
It must be such a relief to at least be on your way, and I am glad you are--of course we're all still going to be concerned about your friends there.
If what I read on the Internet is reliable (??), you should have no problem calming your nerves with an abundance of easily accessible and high-quality weed.
Dammit. Well, you're in Amsterdam.
Are you at least in a nice airport? (I forgot where you're flying through)
"Delays, delays."
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Bummer. As in, bummmmmer.
Usually I mix up Vermont and New Hampshire.
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Longest border would have been my second guess.
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I had a wooden puzzle with all of the states as a child, and it grouped much of New England onto one piece. So it took me another sixty years to straighten that out.
Seriously. You have far too many states.
You have six and two territories, I believe.
Yeah we do.
Just touched down in Amsterdam.
It is good to know you are safe.
Excellent! Safe travels, friend.
Excellent news.
Thank fuck. Back in sane territory.
Ok. It is Holland. They can be problematic•.
Get yourself home safe.
`Frank, Anne