Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

This really is a full service blog.

I really should read my own blog.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

This fight is for everything.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

This blog will pay for itself.

Bark louder, little dog.

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Darkest Night Open Thread

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I suppose now’s as good a time as any for an open thread.

I had a bit of a rough day. Nothing in particular happened; I was just exhausted the whole time. Well–the three-hour meeting probably didn’t help.

Anywho. On the train ride home, I saw a tweet that reminded me of Cole’s Sesame Street thread from yesterday:

…which reminded that I had some quality grimdark cat content to share…

…and wouldn’t you know it, later in the evening, I had a nice photoshoot with a similar-looking cat:

The one okay part of today, other than this lovely picture, is that I am now a published fantasy author. The magazine responsible is available here; mine is the first story. It will be available free online starting Friday. (Don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll find a way to work it into a post then too.)

Caption contest?? And open thread!

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  2. 2.

    Mary G

    I bought a copy! My grey cat Shiloh looks like Samwise’s scruffier brother. Someday I will achieve a photo, where both he and his environment both look good.

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    Caphilldcne

    @Major Major Major Major: Congratulations! Weirdly your post gave me the shivers. I was out on a deck smoking – everyone else is asleep – at an isolated lake house and flipped to the pics of your cat and had to go inside. It’s been kinda rainy and the trees are drippy and rustling. I’ve gotten too citified. Not comfy if there aren’t sirens, lights and traffic nearby.

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    Mnemosyne

    I think I said this in the earlier thread, but Yay again!

    I was hoping to get some pages posted for my writing group to look at this weekend, but I got lazy. Maybe tomorrow.

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    Gozer

    Playing through Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. Blowing away countless digital Nazis and Klansmen is very satisfying.

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    Platonailedit

    So, how are your blog custodian duties going? You can blow up this blog joint now, you know?

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    Caphilldcne

    @Major Major Major Major: samwise looks rather noble on reflection but still kinda forbidding in the context of your post. I love cats tho. I was just playing with my sister’s new cat. He loves it if you scratch his tummy. Curls up into a ball and tries to bite your hand altho kinda gently. Her kids call him the bitey coconut.

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    The Dangerman

    Saw Jackson Browne tonight and there wasn’t a MAGA hat that I saw (and I live in reasonably red country). Fine show. I wondered how political JB would go (see red country comment) and the answer was VERY. Felt great.

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    Debbie(Aussie)

    M4, picked up a copy of your story. Looking forward to reading it. Congratulations on being a published author. May it be a condition to which you become accustomed.

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    lowtechcyclist

    Major^4: Congrats on your story being published!

    Oh, and three-hour meetings absolutely suck. Not to mention, counterproductive as all hell. Who’s ever accomplished anything meaningful at work *after* a meeting that long? I feel your pain.

    @The Dangerman:

    Saw Jackson Browne tonight and there wasn’t a MAGA hat that I saw (and I live in reasonably red country). Fine show. I wondered how political JB would go (see red country comment) and the answer was VERY. Felt great.

    Good for him! Though I won’t say I’m surprised. I’ve had his “For America” running through my head a lot this past year or so, for pretty obvious reasons.

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    Mel

    @rikyrah: It has already begun, I fear! One cat regularly turns on the desktop computer and Itunes while I am away (his selections so far have included, amongst others, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Houndmouth, and the BeeGees), and last month they somehow managed to enter a phone number for an unknown person in Vietnam, and were crouched next to the phone, staring with eerie calm while the elderly woman they had called was frantically trying to figure out who was calling her.

    Not a good thing. The next step will probably be reprogramming a Roomba.

    I fully expect to wake up some morning in the not too distant future and find them sitting at the table, casually eating toaster waffles and skimming the morning paper while planning their takeover.

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    Miss Bianca

    @cs: Ha ha, who knew kitten angst could look so cute! Nice photos!

    And M4, congrats again! I look forward to reading your opus!

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    Matt McIrvin

    @The Dangerman: We saw David Byrne last night in Boston. He announced that there was a group called Headcount doing instant voter registration at the venue, cited the dismaying stats for youth voters inn the 2014 midterm and said “if we don’t do better we don’t have a fucking democracy,” and closed with Janelle Monae’s protest chant about cop-murdered black people.

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    Uncle Ebeneezer

    Speaking of Metal and animals…

    This anime series Aggretsuko is really fun. The episodes are only 15 mins long. It’s the story of a frustrated Panda that works in an office setting and has a dark secret… :)

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