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Cold Grey Dawn Open Thread: Social Media Wildlife

by Anne Laurie|  May 17, 20233:34 am| 23 Comments

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Internet addict discovering an intriguing new site…

STOP THIS, YOU FOOLS, WE CANNOT LET THEM ACHIEVE BIPEDAL STATUS https://t.co/qwIjrCZRIk

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) May 13, 2023

Reply guys…

pic.twitter.com/bl2PUOGXuS

— Nature is Amazing ?? (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 14, 2023

Sea lion!

Sea lion interrupted the guy feeding the birds pic.twitter.com/Py86XJawAO

— Video that will surprise you (@InterestingFck) May 15, 2023

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23Comments

  1. 1.

    AlaskaReader

    May 17, 2023 at 3:58 am

    Fromage de Chat.

  2. 2.

    NotMax

    May 17, 2023 at 4:02 am

    Feet? Hands? “I’m freakin’ out here.”
    :)

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    May 17, 2023 at 4:10 am

    @AlaskaReader

    Pedant alert:

    By all rights it ought to be Fromage de Chatte.

    Moving on elsewhere , someone must have already come up with an amusing ChatGPT image.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    May 17, 2023 at 4:15 am

    Italics fail. Fix.

    @AlaskaReader

    Pedant alert:

    By all rights it ought to be Fromage de Chatte. (Betting it pairs well with civet scat coffee.)

    Moving on elsewhere, someone must have already come up with an amusing ChatGPT image.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    May 17, 2023 at 4:32 am

    Guess who came in third in the Kentucky Republican gubernatorial primary, with a smidgen over 17% of the vote (WaPo link.

    …Kelly Craft, a wealthy ex-ambassador whose multi-million dollar campaign has attacked “transgenderism” and “wokeness” through a consulting firm that’s about to work on Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign.

    In the race’s final hours, DeSantis himself cut a robocall for Craft, and Ted Cruz, Axiom’s most successful client, joined her on the trail. “You will not see the Washington establishment in my office,” Craft told a country club crowd outside of Lexington on Saturday. “You will see God in my office.” Source

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 17, 2023 at 4:42 am

    @NotMax: ​

    “You will see God in my office.”

    Striking her down?​

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    May 17, 2023 at 4:52 am

    @mrmoshpotato

    Or perhaps fetching coffee.
    ;)

  8. 8.

    Low Key Swagger

    May 17, 2023 at 5:01 am

    Anne, lots of people I follow on the bird site have been sounding the alarm about “Nature is Amazing” account.  According to them, this account and others are Musk and Musk adjacent created sites that supposed lure people in with cute nature vids but ultimately push RW prop.  The tell?  Number of followers vs number followed.  So they say.  Just passing this along.

  9. 9.

    Tony Jay

    May 17, 2023 at 5:01 am

    @NotMax:

    I’m imagining the Family Guy version of God, hitting on the interns and dodging calls from his Son who always wants to hang out and play baseball at the weekend.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    May 17, 2023 at 5:13 am

    @Tony Jay

    SMITING HOURS
    Tuesday & Thursdays
    9-11, 2-4
    ;)

    Also recalling an ancient joke.

    Jesus on the golf course, tees off. (Make up your own version of who else constitutes the foursome.)

    Slices the shot. Ball disappears into the greenery, then thunk, bounces off a tree, propelled clear across the fairway.

    Another thunk and it sails onto the green, rolls to the edge of the cup, teeters, and drops in.

    Jesus raises his face to the sky, exclaiming “Father, please, I’d rather do it myself!”

  11. 11.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    May 17, 2023 at 5:18 am

    I remember a variant punchline:

    “Who does he think he is, Jesus Christ?”

    “He is Jesus Christ. His problem is, he thinks he’s Sam Snead.”

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    May 17, 2023 at 5:31 am

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR

    May as well go all in.

    Lenny Bruce, Christ and Moses.

  13. 13.

    lowtechcyclist

    May 17, 2023 at 5:36 am

    @NotMax: ​
     

    “You will not see the Washington establishment in my office,” Craft told a country club crowd outside of Lexington on Saturday

    “I assure you, it’ll be strictly the country club establishment there.”
    .

  14. 14.

    geg6

    May 17, 2023 at 6:14 am

    Good night for progressives in the Dem primaries here.  In Allegheny County, Sarah Innamorato has won the nomination for county executive, a young (35 yo) state rep endorsed by Mayor Gainey and US Rep Summer Lee.  If she wins the general, she’ll be the first female and youngest County Executive ever.  Also, Matt Dugan beat Steve Zappala, who has been DA for something like 26 years.  Dugan is the former head public defender for the county.  And in my own county, Beaver County, a former student of mine, won a nomination for our county commission.  If he wins the general, he’ll be the first Black county commissioner here.  He also is young (mid-30s) and progressive.

  15. 15.

    Geminid

    May 17, 2023 at 6:58 am

    @geg6: I’m curious: what do you think of Mayor Gainey and his work thus far?

  16. 16.

    Kristine

    May 17, 2023 at 8:45 am

    @Low Key Swagger: Leave it to that POS to ruin everything. I really enjoyed those videos.

  17. 17.

    Miss Bianca

    May 17, 2023 at 8:55 am

    @NotMax:

    “You will see God in my office.”

    She’s handing out psychedelic drugs?

  18. 18.

    geg6

    May 17, 2023 at 9:48 am

    @Geminid: ​
     
    Well, I don’t live in the city, so I can’t really say much other than my own impressions. He has mostly kept the base happy. They are cautiously optimistic about the new police chief. He shows up at all the big events and seems to have the politicking thing down. The biggest sport in Pittsburgh, after Steelers football, is complaining about snow removal and, after a disaster for the city’s snow removal during and after a major snowfall right after he was inaugurated, he seems to be getting some grudging respect for his efforts in that area ever since. I like him myself. He seems genial and so much a part of the African American community here. You can especially sense his joy at those events. He’s been good on LGBTQ issues and has said he will welcome any asylum seekers who may get shipped here by the horrible assholes in FL and TX and has made preparations in conjunction with Pittsburgh’s Latino community. He gets himself to most gun violence scenes and memorials for victims and is properly outraged by gun culture.
    From thirty-some miles away, he seems pretty good and fairly popular with the base.

  19. 19.

    Joy in FL

    May 17, 2023 at 10:21 am

    I loved the cat watching the cats walking. From the replies on the actual post, I learned that the walking cats are in a Studio Ghibli movie The Cat Returns, which I promptly bought on Amazon. Thanks for that addition to the Relaxing and Beautiful section of my video library.

  20. 20.

    Geminid

    May 17, 2023 at 10:26 am

    @geg6: Thank you for the response, from an observer near by. I hope Pittsburgh prospers during Mayor Gainey’s tenure.

  21. 21.

    dearmaizie

    May 17, 2023 at 11:48 am

    You might want to reconsider following NatureIsAmazing on Twitter.  Before yesterday it had one follower – Elon Musk.  Today it has 3 and one is the new CEO.  I read somewhere that that account is Elon’s.  I unfollowed.

  22. 22.

    Uncle Cosmo

    May 17, 2023 at 1:24 pm

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: ​Now I remember a variant in which Jesus is playing with St Peter, who hits a major tee shot, then JC hits his seventy-‘leven carom into the cup,and Pete sez disgustedly,

    Hey! Are you gonna fuck around or are you gonna play golf?!?!?!

    :^D

  23. 23.

    misterpuff

    May 17, 2023 at 3:48 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    @NotMax:

    “You will see God in my office.”

    She’s handing out psychedelic drugs?

     

    You have to lick her face.

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