Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The National Guard is not Batman.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

People are weird.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Everybody saw this coming.

T R E 4 5 O N

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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Throwing the yarrow stalks via twitter… Politics mood:

Guess we’re looking forward towards at another long week.

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  1. 1.

    TaMara (HFG)

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    Sab

    @Elizabelle: My cocker spaniel is impatiently waiting for me to finish his sweater since I threw the last one out when it got infested with burdock burrs. I just had him trimmed, and he is bald.

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    Sab

    @Sab: I am nearly done. Just needs  turtleneck and the back trim. He is right. Small project that should have taken a day, and I have stretched it out for weeks. I just am extremely tired of watching Simpsons and Family Guy in TV.

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    Ken

    Surely Karl Marx has a twitter account.  After all, the Voice of God, Devin Nunes’ cow, and DPRK News all have them.

    I believe it was Charles Stross who said that H.P. Lovecraft would have been the sort of person who clogs up everyone’s twitter account, based on the man’s habit of responding to every piece of correspondence.  Though HPL’s letters tended to be a wee bit longer than 140 characters.

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    Splitting Image

    I can’t imagine Karl Marx liking twitter. Or any German philosopher. They have trouble writing a word with less than 140 characters, never mind a sentence.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    The third season of Babylon Berlin is now available on Netflix.  My dilemma: Do I start it now and begin the week tired or do I wait until after work tomorrow?

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    piratedan

    @patrick II: usually found in family clusters (parents and kids), they’re very territorial, quite aromatic (musk smell) and they will destroy a garden and quite a few beautiful agave plants (they did up the root balls and eat them, leaving a scattered array of spiny green stalks sadly strewn across the ground.  Very unusual to see them in a residential area like shown, they tend to stick to the hillsides and dry washes…

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    Suzanne

    @piratedan: We are seeing coyotes in our neighborhood. One chased Spawn the Elder on his bike.

    Time to get out of this damn state. I might make a farewell donation to Captain Kelly.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Not really a reply, just a random recollection: when Babylon 5 was on Malaysian TV, that station’s announcers always called it Baby Lawn 5.

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    patrick II

    @Sab: Yes, it does look like one, however:

    The last common ancestors of peccaries and other even-toed ungulates were vaguely piglike animals that lived over 50 million years ago.

    Wikipedia is really just so cool. It makes the internet almost worth causing the destruction of civilization.

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    Sab

    @Yutsano: I don’t eat pork, pretty much for the same reason I don’t eat dog. Have known some pigs over the years. Could never eat their cousins.

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    burnspbesq

    Some good news on Sunday: District Court ruled that Ken Cuccnelli’s appointment as acting director of CIS violated the Vacancies Reform Act, and was therefore void ab initio. This voids policy changes that in practice have made it nearly impossible for asylum seekers to win a credible-fear determination.

    BWAHAHAHA. Good widdance to bad wubbish.

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    Sab

    @HumboldtBlue: I am sorry for your loss.

    Elderly relatives don’t behave. They just don’t. I am looking forward to being elderly for that reason.

    Makes it so much harder on the caretaking relatives.

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    JWR

    Just saw a Cenk Uygar spot on my local news. Fighting for the people! (Or something.)

    But right after that, they did a pretty good segment pointing out Sanders’ hypocrisy, as he flip-flops on whatever route through the already agreed-to rules seems to better his chances at the nomination. First time I actually gave him the bird. (This time around, that is.)

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    CaseyL

    @Bill Arnold:  Oh, I love that!  That poor little owl’s gonna have some explaining to do when it gets back to the nest.  “Where have you been, and what have you been up to?”  I always wonder about wild critters who get tagged, what their pack/herd/family members think about the weird fashion accessory.  (Larsen had a terrific cartoon on just that subject.)

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    JustRuss

    Guess we’re looking forward towards at another long week

    So I should cancel my plans to quit sniffing glue?

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    SectionH

    @Suzanne: Good luck, you! I couldn’t live in AZ, but the idea of winter fills me with horror* (not least because I was back in LEX last November when it was 14º F.) *Yes I know from 120+ as well.

    May your winters be cold enough to kill most of the bugs, but mostly on the better side… and good esp. may your move as smooth as it can be.

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    SectionH

    @burnspbesq: YES!!! Saw that, in actual English*, though I’m sure your terminology is more accurate. It looked like good news.

    *Ah – it was the Grauniad of course.

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    hervevillechaizelounge

    I’m several threads late with this but I want to recommend a movie to Zhena.  If your husband is interested in film noir architecture he’d love the documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself, which is available for free on youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=x_coAky_Hi4

    The narrator isn’t fabulous but seeing all the buildings from classic films is fascinating—it really gives you a sense of continuity with the past.

    On a related note, based on recommendations on the noir thread I watched Kiss Me Deadly and Night Moves tonight; both were fabulous but I found Gene Hackman’s comb-over  distracting. It had a life of its own, dancing in the wind and demanding attention like a needy child:(

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    My Side of Town

    @patrick II: Back in the day, my step father would bow hunt them and occasionally got one and invite us over for a barbeque. They taste like pork,

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    mrmoshpotato

    @patrick II:

    That (pot bellied?) pig was way faster than I would have ever expected. 

    Really?  Have you heard its running playlist?

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    My Side of Town

    The Florida primary is March 17th. I changed my registration to democratic so I can vote, since it’s a closed primary. I’m still undecided since Harris withdrew, but favor Warren.

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