Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Shut up, hissy kitty!

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

We will not go back.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Come on, man.

I really should read my own blog.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

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Cats Being Weird Little Guys:


We have a ginger like that; his particular quirk is opening drawers (by getting behind them & using his full 15lb weight, if necessary) and the child-proof lock the Spousal Unit installed on the kitchen cupboards…

Old favorites: Buitengebieden…

Claire Logan, who has a great eye:

Bonus, an ‘absolutely read the replies’ thread…

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    Little known that if you add gobs and gobs of paprika it transforms into Budapesto.

    ;)

  2. 2.

    sab

    I spent the day trying to prep tax returns while my cat sat on the workpapers and occassionally slashed me when I wouldn’t let him walk on the keyboard.

    Catnip fake mice are a godsend, although I scream every time he jumps up to proudly deliver the fake dead mouse. And catnip makes some of the other cats unneccessarily belligerent.

    Trade-off for avoiding the two plus hour round trip commute. Mostly love working from home

    “My cat” is the former Dobby the Demon Cat, for those who might be following jackal rehoming pet news.

  5. 5.

    Steeplejack

    @sab:

    I love Dobby and news of Dobby! Thanks for the update. Now I can go to sleep. ?

    ETA: I had a cat who was kind of a mean catnip drunk. She would lie on her back on the floor and take a swing at anybody who passed by.

  6. 6.

    opiejeanne

    Thank you for this. Animals doing funny things is excellent.

    My anxiety is through the roof but I didn’t realize how bad it was until we went away for 6 days, and I started contemplating our upcoming trip to Chicago in early May. A counselor that worked with me when I was overwhelmed by the combination of TFG and Covid, in 2020, is now so busy that I will have to go in at 7am to see her on the 12th.
    I realize that the news was tipping me over so I had to stop watching it, and as much as I really appreciate Adam’s posts, I had to take a break from them for a couple of days.
    I feel stupid worrying about things that I can’t control, and maybe it’s because I can’t control the awful things that are happening in Ukraine, the idiotic threat of nuclear war, as well as feeling like I have to shore up everyone else.
    Another thing giving me anxiety is my new daughter-in-law who last weekend sent me a link to a house that she said she was trying to decide if it was feasible for them to buy. $650k, and they can barely pay the $1400 rent on the apartment they live in now. They haven’t been married 3 whole months yet, and they have a baby on the way. The house has a granny flat in the basement. I am wondering if I’m just too dim to see a hint that we should buy it for them and move into the basement so we can be live-in babysitters, and I hate that I’m thinking that.

  8. 8.

    sab

    @Steeplejack: He has turned into a mostly sweety with claws and a temper.

    We were just talking about how much we love him, and early on we never ever could have expected that. Dump a cat into a trustworthy environment and surprise! He learns to trust his people and environment.

  9. 9.

    Anne Laurie

    @opiejeanne: The house has a granny flat in the basement. I am wondering if I’m just too dim to see a hint that we should buy it for them and move into the basement so we can be live-in babysitters, and I hate that I’m thinking that.

    Think positive:  Maybe they’re considering buying the house, living in the granny flat, and renting out the main space?

    (You could even — sneakily — applaud her for that ‘prudent idea’…  But do you think you’ll have the energy to be landlords, with a new baby? )

  11. 11.

    opiejeanne

    @Anne Laurie: She has two teenagers, who are great kids, a boy and a girl. They are currently sharing a single bedroom, so no, I don’t think she has any intention of being landlords, plus they haven’t got a bean for a down payment.

    Or is that a very sugary way of sticking the knife in? LOL.

  12. 12.

    opiejeanne

    @sab: That’s so interesting, that catnip can have a bad effect on a kitty. Ours have either been happy, sleepy drunks, or they just ignored the stuff, which I prefer to the mean drunk image I’m getting.

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    “This next song is called ‘There’s no fucking food in my bowl, Karen’.”

    The songsmithing is only surpassed by the titling!  ?????

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    PINE NUTS! Pricey bastards.— Jane Slavin (@JaneSlavin) March 26, 2022

    Do I want to know what Brexshit has done to the price of pine nuts? I’m afraid.

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Random phrase of the night — Tory wankspangles did this to us. 

    Fucking wankspangles.

    Fuck those Tory wankspangles!  (It would create heat (and shame.))

  16. 16.

    Geminid

    @mrmoshpotato: This is the year (I tell myself) that I will finally grow lots of basil and put up some pesto. I’m wondering if pecans, hazel or macadamia nuts could replace pricey pine nuts.

  17. 17.

    Martin

    We can get pine nuts here for about $5/lb. They grow locally. All over the fucking place around the high desert.

    Eat local foods, folks.

  20. 20.

    Geminid

    @Anne Laurie: Walnuts would be good. Maybe what I’ll do if I realize  my big pesto dream is try different nuts to gauge how their flavors complement that of the basil. Besides the ones already mentioned, Brazil nuts could be interesting.

  22. 22.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Geminid: I’ve used pecans and walnuts. I am no gourmet cook but the pesto tasted fine to me. I don’t think hazelnuts would work because they’re a little sweet.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    Had to step outside shortly after midnight real quick to take care of something.

    Brr. It’s not merely chilly, it’s freaking COLD tonight.

  25. 25.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Geminid: brazilnuts are pretty oily.

     

    @NotMax: i don’t see  how you could substitute pistachio for pine nuts. Pistachio has a very distinctive taste. My sister says some Indian sweet places in London dye almonds or peanuts green to sav-a-buck because pistachios are so expensive.

  26. 26.

    Geminid

    @NotMax: Now you’ve got thinking of putting out a line of high-end specialty pestos, selling at twice the price of the humdrum pine nut variety. I would emphasize the provenance and terroir of the nuts, and talk up the ethereal flavor of say, pecans from Roswell, New Mexico.

  29. 29.

    Sloane Ranger

    Don’t normally blow my own trumpet, but feeling so pleased with myself I had to share!

    Wordle 287 2/6

    ?⬜⬜??
    ?????

  30. 30.

    MagdaInBlack

    Since pesto basically means ground with a mortar and pestle, I say be creative and grind away! Whats the worst that could happen?

    ( at my house, the worst means it doesn’t taste good and the squirrels get lucky)

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    Anyone seen Mary G ’round these parts lately? Last I heard she was back home but that seems like it was a while ago.

  34. 34.

    satby

    @NotMax: Only black walnuts. Carpathian (aka English) walnuts are lighter in color and taste and work very well as a substitute for pine nuts. ixnay on pistachios (ick) or cashews.

  36. 36.

    Geminid

    @schrodingers_cat: Now I’m wondering how good an increase nut agriculture, at least in areas that wouldn’t need irrigation, might be. There was some focus in the previous thread on the grain shortage caused by the war, but there are medium and long term challenges as well. Nut production in the western U.S. requires irrigtion with scarce water, but I’ve seen pecans grown without irrigation in Georgia and eastern Oklahoma.

    There is lot of the land in between Oklahoma and Georgia that grows nothing but loblolly pines that are used to make cardboard. I guess we need some of that cardboard, but there is good land there that could help feed people. If done right, nut farming can be a very sustainable method of growing nutritious food.

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