So disappointing for all the scientists, engineers and explorers to see Luna 25 crash. All eyes now on India, attempting south Moon landing in 3 days. @isro pic.twitter.com/q4Gk8agBCq
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) August 20, 2023
Yes, Russia deserves all the bad news right now, but it’s still sad for those of us who grew up dreaming of space adventures.
Luna-25: The Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed on the moon, according to the the Russian space agency; in its Telegram feed (via Google translation), the spacecraft "ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface" (1/2)
— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) August 20, 2023
Luna-25: The Russians said that on Sunday, communications with the spacecraft were cut off after a thruster firing to put the vehicle in a "pre-landing elliptical orbit;" efforts to re-establish contact were not successful
— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) August 20, 2023
Factbox: Russia's Luna-25 moon mission fails: what you need to know https://t.co/v0mAvJvtTF pic.twitter.com/X9VFBJYmvO
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 20, 2023
… It was Russia’s first moon mission since the Soviet Union’s Luna-24 returned with samples from the moon in 1976.
A Soyuz 2.1 rocket carrying the Luna-25 craft blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome, 3,450 miles (5,550 km) east of Moscow, at 2:11 a.m. Moscow time on Aug. 11.
The lander was boosted out of Earth’s orbit toward the moon a little over an hour later. It entered the moon’s orbit on Aug. 16 and was due to attempt a soft landing on Monday…
WHAT DOES FAILURE MEAN FOR RUSSIA?
Failure for the prestige mission underscores the decline of Russia’s space power since the glory days of Cold War competition when Moscow was the first to launch a satellite to orbit the Earth – Sputnik 1, in 1957 – and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space in 1961.Russia had not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin. Luna-25 was supposed to execute a soft landing on the south pole of the moon on Aug. 21, according to Russian space officials.
Failure also underscores the pressure on Russia’s $2 trillion economy, which has so far withstood what the West casts as the most stringent sanctions ever imposed…
Over the past three decades, Russia has considered various moon missions which were delayed or shelved amid the chaos of the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union and the ensuing economic and political turmoil.
The failure of the 2011 Fobos-Grunt mission to one of the moons of Mars underscored the challenges facing Russia’s space programme: it could not even exit the earth’s orbit and fell back to earth, smashing into the Pacific Ocean in 2012.
Eventually, in the early 2010s, Russia settled upon the idea of the Luna-25 mission to the south pole of the moon.
Baud
We wasted a lot of resources warring during Bush II. Russia has fewer resources to waste. They should have focused more on their science rather than land grabs.
bjacques
“There is only one penalty for failure, comrade…”
”No…NO…!’
mrmoshpotato
Slackers!
Spanky
Space missions are hard, and a failure after a 47 year hiatus is no surprise. I would have been surprised if it had actually succeeded.
Ken
I somehow missed that Russia and India were in a moon race this month. I think I must have been distracted by the real space race, between the crazy billionaire who thinks we’ll have Mars colonies in twenty years, and the crazy billionaire who thinks they’ll be on Venus.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
A minor correction for my birthday.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
Happy birthday! You made it!
mrmoshpotato
@bjacques:
For the record, I have no problem with Putin launching himself into the Sun.
Which Ukrainians are with me?
lowtechcyclist
Maybe Russia should concentrate on basics like making indoor plumbing available to its citizenry, rather than wasting money on either wars or space missions.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Thanks. And only minorly hungover. :)
Now time for more birthday sleep.
Happy sleepy Sunday! 😴😌
lowtechcyclist
@mrmoshpotato:
All of them, Katie!
And hippo birdie two ewes!
mrmoshpotato
@lowtechcyclist: What kind of birdie? I’m a fan of the majestic bald eagle. :)
kalakal
@mrmoshpotato:
Happy Day of Landing!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@mrmoshpotato: Happy birthday to you!
eclare
@mrmoshpotato:
Happy birthday!
Geminid
@mrmoshpotato: Happy birthday to an esteemed commentater!
satby
@mrmoshpotato: Happy Birthday 🎂
SiubhanDuinne
@mrmoshpotato:
Happy birthday!
bjacques
The Moon helps demilitarize Russia.
EDIT: As a former rocket scientist, I have mixed feelings, but fuck ‘em. Try again when assholes aren’t in charge. It’s also karmic payback for the political hack running Roskosmos.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
rikyrah
@mrmoshpotato:
Happy Birthday 🎈🎂🎉🎁🥰🌞
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Anne Laurie
@rikyrah: Y’ever get my message about that BlueSky invite?
lowtechcyclist
And since this is an open thread, someone here linked yesterday to the pic of the giant ‘Biden Penis’ poster that some MAGAts put up outside a Little League ballpark a few days ago.
Turns out the main instigator wasn’t some random MAGAt, but a member of Virginia’s GOP Central Committee, a guy named Ron Hedlund. Needless to say, he’s one of the Rethugs who wants to ‘protect’ schoolchildren from material in their classes and libraries that he would consider obscene.
https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1693040646452396403
A quick Google search on ‘Ronald Hedlund’ pulls up a bit of a track record of posting ‘Fuck Biden’ signs in public places – I guess impressionable youngsters are magically unaffected by such language when Rethugs post it.
Even more disturbing, he’s under a protective order for threatening behavior towards John Vithoulkas, the county manager of Henrico County:
And yet AFAICT he’s still part of the Virginia GOP’s central committee. Apparently they’re OK with behavior like this.
Which reminds me: Virginia has state legislative elections in November. If any of our more informed Virginia jackals (I’m thinking of Geminid especially) has some good info on what candidates have a decent chance to win a seat from a Rethug, I’m ready to open my wallet. It may be 25 years since I moved out of Virginia, but my heart’s still there.
debit
Somewhere in doggie heaven, Laika has a good laugh.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
At some point, it would be nice of this sort of behavior were actually viewed as scandalous when perpetuated by the GOP.
JML
Props to Spain, they had a great Cup and deserved the win today. Really fun World Cup, expansion to 32 teams worked out great, and the level of play was fantastic. Some absolutely amazing matches and a very good final.
oldster
@JML:
Yeah, I’m happy for both events — ruzzia’s probe crashes and burns, and the UK loses to Spain.
The level of play really was fabulous this year — so much excellent football.
The Pale Scot
Footage of the crash
sdhays
@lowtechcyclist: I saw this story yesterday and I still can’t quite fathom it.
Kay
Ugh. I just hate this sort of “glory days” public policy when it shows up in the US. I think it’s a loser move so I’m glad Russia is pursuing it. When Trump announced Space Force I just knew it was because of his personal idea of when “America was great” which is the 1960s. I just cannot believe people are so self centered that they keep returning to whatever impressed them when they were 12, or 17. YOUR PERSONAL “I was young” DECADES don’t matter that much in the larger scheme of things. Sentimnality and happy personal associations are just that – personal. You can’t run a country on them. The US shouldn’t follow Russia down this path- it’s a dead end.
It’s amusing to me that Republicans had an actual advance in science, government subsidized, with Operation Warp Speed but their dumb-ass base are too ridiculously mired in nostalgia to recognize it as amazing with tons of potential so no Republican can tout it.
JML
@sdhays: more of the old IOKIYR: It’s OK If You’re Republican.
Sloegin
I won’t be mean about Russia trying something and failing, *though I should*. I prefer to be mean and laugh about complex work rushed for reasons other than the science.
Points for beating India to the lunar surface though. *golf clap* Bravo.
Baud
@Kay:
I loathe political nostalgia. It is absolutely a straight jacket on society, and inherently conservative. Liberals should make anl better effort to avoid falling into that trap IMHO.
catclub
@lowtechcyclist:
Harrassment and villainy are pretty much ok with me, but asking to look up a VIN NUMBER rather than a VIN, is going too far.
catclub
@Kay: I would say the glory days of Russia in Space were when Russia was launching all the satellites and the US had nothing in that category.
CaseyL
@mrmoshpotato:
Happy Birthday!…And i think I know one of your birthday wishes.
Kay
@Baud:
I think Biden has an amazingly youthful approach to these things which just shows it isn’t a function of chronological age but is instead a mindset. You never hear Biden Glory Daying- it’s all moving on. He loves muscle cars yet he put all that investment into electric vehicles. Compare to DeSantis who is much younger than Biden and is traveling the country insisting a mandated return to combustion engines for no reason other than …they are somehow tied to his youth?
I thought it was great Biden chose cancer as his “moonshot”. They make amazing medical advances every day. Maybe it will pay off, because yu can’t predict, right? They can try to solve one problem and instead solve another. The immediate upside is we’re not paying fascist Right wing media personality Elon Musk to do it so that’s all good.
Gvg
Was the Russian mission manned or unmanned? I am indifferent to a bunch of machinery crashing, which is what I assume, but I want to check.
VeniceRiley
Congrats to the excellent Spanish diving team.
Baud
@Kay:
Excellent points. Couldn’t agree more. To the extent Biden is nostalgic, it’s about the aspirational “soul of America.” But I don’t recall him ever pining for some imagined glory days.
Baud
@Gvg:
I’m going to assume unmanned since nothing in the tweets mentions anyone’s tragic death.
kalakal
@Gvg: unmanned
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Too much to expect of our ‘liberal’ media, alas.
We really need a genuinely liberal major-city newspaper. No need for a lefty version of Faux News, just:
1) Have standard editorial standards and apply them, just like any other legit news source.
2) Cover the news everyone else is covering, without having to bothsides everything when the content of the news favors Democrats.
3) Give way more coverage to policy and its effect or potential effect on the American people than to the ‘which party might benefit from this news story’ bullshit.
4) Don’t feel the need to chase after whatever shiny objects the Rethugs are tossing out on a given day; decide if it’s actually newsworthy on its own first, aside from ‘how this shiny object might affect people’s views of the two parties’ bullshit.
5) Cover the many stories that the mainstream media takes a pass on. Like this one.
There’s been a shitload of harassing and threatening incidents over the past few years involving public health workers, local election workers, school board members, and the like, with the threats almost entirely coming from the right. That should be a recurring national story, but it isn’t. This is the sort of story that a genuinely liberal newspaper could cover, and probably force the ‘liberal’ media to cover it as well.
6) Don’t feel the need to include conservative hacks on the op-ed page, just because their point of view supposedly needs to be represented.
7) In general, don’t treat op-ed columnists like they’re tenured faculty. Regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum, if they don’t have anything insightful to say anymore, replace them.
That’s a lot that a bona fide liberal newspaper could do without resembling a left-wing Faux News in the least. Such a paper might even shame the ‘liberal’ papers into improving their game; miracles still happen.
prostratedragon
@mrmoshpotato: Happy Birthday!
Hilbertsubspace
@catclub: I don’t say VIN number. I say VI’number. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Same with PI’number.
NotMax
Music moment.
To be honest, have heard worse ditties.
;)
.
@mrmoshpotato
Have a happy, spudbud.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
I’ve been here a looooooong time, mostly lurk.
Today is my 40th wedding annivesary, we’re headed to the mountains for a couple of days, not unlike 40 years ago when we were poor college students going on a 3-day honeymoon to Glenwood Springs. We took Amtrak that last time, this time it’s our truck to Lake Grandby with a couple of days in Rocky Mountain National Park.
NotMax
@catclub
Before or after making use of an ATM machine?
:)
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: Happy birthday.
Another Scott
@lowtechcyclist: BlueVirginia.US has lots of info on the upcoming elections.
E.g. Flip and defend a district #9.
VPAP Index of competitive races.
Thanks for helping!
Gov. Fuzzy Vest wants to run for President. Having his party-mates lose in November would take a lot of wind out of his sails. Let’s make it so.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kay
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Oh, congrats. Have fun!
cain
Damn that space flight seems like it imitated a former Putin ally going out the window.
Miss Bianca
I think “ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface” is my new favorite spin on the phrase for “eat flaming death.”
phdesmond
@mrmoshpotato:
joyous milestone to you!
Kay
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
My daughter and her husband hiked Rocky Mountain park as the first part of a larger Colorado trip and they cancelled the rest and stayed in the park for the whole week they loved it so much.
NotMax
One might describe the mission’s communications glitch as a Luna tic.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
”This video is unavailable.”
:-(
Geminid
@lowtechcyclist: Best source for the legislative elections would be the Blue Virginia blog. They’re rooting for Democrats but are still fairly objective.
My understanding is that there only a handful of competitive Senate races. One is in Loudon County, where Democrat Russet Perry(?) faces (R) Juan Pablo Segura for an open seat. The race between Richmond area Senator Siobhan Dunnivan and a strong Democratic challenger is considered close, and there are 3-4 other close races.
There are maybe 10-12 House of Delegates seats thought to be up for grabs.
Redistricting resulted in many districts containing parts of 2 or 3 old districts. Analysts are using district weightings by the Virginia Public Access Project, which weighs precinct results from the 2021 state elections and (I think) results from last year’s midterms. There are charts at the VPAP site that give the data.
Foungkin’ Youngkin has a PAC that he’s using for Republican TV and radio ads. The Harrisonburg radio station reported on one that is in Spanish; they played a snippit of a cheerful lady talking in Spanish, with soft piano music in the background.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Well, ain’t that a kick in the head. Try this link instead.
satby
@lowtechcyclist: They want their “enemies” eliminated. And it’s working.
Shop owner murdered because of the Pride flag outside her store.
satby
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: A very Happy Anniversary to you and your spouse! 40 years, quite an achievement!
Geminid
@Geminid: Yes, that’s Russet Perry running for the 31st Senate District seat. Maybe Mr. Moshpotato will wanna toss her a few fries.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@NotMax: Do you know your PIN number?
(I just learned these are called RAS syndrome. With the S of course standing for Syndrome)
Jeffro
@Another Scott: thanks for the links!
Oh yes indeed!
Anyway
@Geminid:
Subaru Diane moved to VA and didn’t inform the Jackals- tsk tsk.
bbleh
@bjacques: @mrmoshpotato: “President Putin’s opponent has ceased to exist as a result of a collision with a sidewalk.”
Narya
@mrmoshpotato: HB2U!!
gene108
@mrmoshpotato:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 🎉🎂🎈🎁🎊 🍰🍧🍨🍪🥂🍷🍾🧋
Ocotillo
Happy B’day mrmoshpotato!
Question for the hive mind, going to the Berkshires for the first time next month, any “can’t miss” recommendations? Mrs O and I keep going to New England these days for vacation.
raven
Another Scott
From a Reuters.com story (might be an update):
You mean a society with rampant corruption and pathological official policies including lying about everything has trouble doing difficult science and technology successfully?? This is my shocked, shocked face.
Cheers,
Scott.
WereBear
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Have a great time!
NotMax
Plant bones? Really?
Steeplejack
@mrmoshpotato:
Happy birthday! 🥂
WaterGirl
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I don’t think of you as a lurker at all!
Congratulations, and have a great time!
Eric S.
“ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface” is this quarters, “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
Regnad Kcin
@oldster: minor nit: *England* lost to Spain (and we’re *always* happy when England loses)
Alison Rose
Apologies if this has been shared elsewhere, but…Vivek in his “How do you do, fellow kids” mode. This is so cringe.
The fact that FTFNYT thinks this makes him less awkward is………..sure.
And yes, there is a video clip. He’s just mumbling along with the song, there is absolutely nothing impressive here. But apparently we’re supposed to think it makes him cool?????
mvr
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Happy anniversary! Nice area.
geg6
@Kay:
Pitt is about to launch a major clinical trial of a breast cancer vaccine. Amazing stuff.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2023/08/20/breast-cancer-vaccine-pitt-olivera-finn/stories/202308200153
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Light bulb over the head finally flickered. That emoji is supposed to be two champagne flutes clinking. All this time, from here, thought it a nude person bending over, as seen from behind. ‘Twas indeed a puzzlement.
:)
Other MJS
@Miss Bianca:
This is an EX-SPACECRAFT!
geg6
@Anyway:
🤣🤣🤣
geg6
And happy birthday and happy anniversary to all the celebrating jackals!
hueyplong
No, it’s just pining for the fyjords.
MagdaInBlack
@Alison Rose: That’s just ….sad.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Another Scott: It’s nothing new for the Russian space program, or for the Soviet space program before it. Look at what happened with the Voskhod program – essentially taking the one-crew Vostok and, first, cramming three people into it at the cost of no pressure suits and no launch escape system, in order to steal the thunder of Project Gemini’s two-crew spacecraft, and then, rejiggering it with a makeshift inflatable airlock to claim the title of first spacewalk, again by sacrificing the launch escape system, and nearly killing Alexei Leonov when his spacesuit locked up and he couldn’t maneuver back through the airlock and had to depressurize his suit dangerously or he would have died in space.
I think they were also chasing Soviet anniversaries for launch spectaculars, and Nikita Khruschev tried to make political hay out of Voskhod 1, only to get thrown out of the Communist Party before the 24-hour mission was over.
And that’s nothing compared to Soyuz 1, where, according to the urban legends, Yuri Gagarin tried to bump Vladimir Komarov off the flight, not for glory’s sake, but because he and a lot of other people were convinced the Soyuz was going to kill whoever flew it, and he was hoping that the engineers and apparatchiks would get cold feet at the prospect of killing one of the USSR’s greatest heroes. Didn’t work, and according to other urban legends, during reentry, Komarov spend his last moments in flight cursing over the radio at the engineers who’d built that death trap, as his parachute lines tangled and he plummeted to his doom.
NotMax
@MagdaInBlack
Vivek Rappin-no.
//
Another Scott
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Good points.
But it’s actually worse now. Astoundingly.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: Happy Birthday !
and
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Happy Anniversary !
Redshift
@lowtechcyclist:
Others have mentioned Blue Virginia, but it’s not always the easiest to navigation. There are posts about the House and Senate from back in April (before the primaries) that have a good data-driven outline of districts with the best prospects in each:
State Senate
House of Delegates
It’s tipping-point stuff, so good for putting your money where it will do the most good (as opposed to popular but safe seats and longshots.)
Miss Bianca
Open thread? No? Oh, well…
So, someone posted a link the other day to a BJ Blast from the Past, one of Cole’s righteous rants, They Fucking Hate You. Been reading through it a bit and all I gots to say is GodDAMN…it’s amazing to read those comments all these years later. (I was a pretty faithful lurker back in the day, so I must have read this one, but it hits even harder now.)
As I’m reading, I’m thinking: “I am here from the future, friends and comrades, and let me tell you…that “charismatic leader” some of us were fearing would arise to animate the worse angels of the right wing? Worse than you could ever have imagined. And the current crop of MAGAts makes the TeaBaggers of 2012 look almost – what’s the word someone else used? – quaint, by comparison.”
Miss Bianca
@Eric S.:
*That’s* the phrase I was trying to remember!
Alison Rose
@mrmoshpotato: Happy hatching day! 🐣
lowtechcyclist
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Congrats to you and your wife, and have a great time!
Alison Rose
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Happy anniversary! The 40th gift is ruby, so either buy yourselves some fancy jewelry or maybe…eat some grapefruit? :) Have a good time!
lowtechcyclist
@Redshift:
@Another Scott:
@Geminid:
Thanks, y’all!!
Redshift
@kalakal: Or more properly, uncrewed. (As NASA likes to say when people complain about “it’s too hard to change,” “we’ve been using ‘uncrewed’ for longer than there have been iPhones.”) 🙂
Alison Rose
@Miss Bianca:
Give it the Pulitzer. But seriously, it was indeed a terrific rant. And sadly exponentially more true today.
gene108
More at the link, including X’s (?) with video from the lander, now in orbit.
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/space/news/2023-08-18-chandrayaan-3-deboosts-successfully-reduces-orbit-isro
Another video from Chandrayaan-3
https://twitter.com/isro/status/1692476417093890282
Delk
@mrmoshpotato: happy birthday! Look to the skies! I’ve arranged for jets to fly overhead in celebration of your day!
kalakal
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kalakal
@Alison Rose: That’s pathetic
marklar
@Other MJS: “This is an EX-SPACECRAFT!”
Perhaps it’s pining for the fjords
Ah, I see hueyplong beat me to it. Beautiful plumage, that Russian spacecraft.
Nukular Biskits
Good (late) mornin’, y’all!
robtrim
@Baud: Trump, on the other hand, is representative of nostalgia for America’s most corrosive impulses – racism, greed, authoritarianism, nativism, sexism, violence and on and on.
He is the lizard brain that still cries out in 30 percent of the population.
Bill Arnold
Reuters links the russianspaceweb.com site. Here’s the link, which has a little more detail on the failure: Luna-Glob crashes (US IP address, for those who care.)
Bespoke Russian engineering (in service to Russian nationalism); vulnerable to glitches. :-)
Nukular Biskits
@mrmoshpotato:
Happy birthday!
BTW, did you make that brisket?
cain
@Miss Bianca: That Michael guy was getting his ass kicked and he couldn’t see it.
I apparently missed that thread as I made no comments.
cain
@mrmoshpotato: Happy Birthday! It was my friend’s 39 birthday yesterday! :) As a present, my wife made chetinnad spice masala powder.
Another Scott
@Bill Arnold: Thanks for the link.
Whoops.
Cheers,
Scott.
cain
@Alison Rose: Why did he pick that song? I mean.. whut? He should have sang “whole new world” or something like that :D
Alison Rose
@cain: Ice Ice Baby
Juju
@lowtechcyclist: The behavior of those men seems to me me to be very close to stalking. I read the articles and watched the videos, and those video’s actually made my skin crawl. I had a stalker and he sent threatening notes, and followed me, and called and made my life a living hell. This was 1979, so the technology was different, but the sentiment was very similar. I guess this is a kind of political stalking, if there is such a thing. I’m sorry Mr. Vithoulkas and his family are going through this. I wouldn’t be surprised if those morons had a history of stalking women as well.
Juju
@Miss Bianca:
“rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
I hate when that happens. I had a rapid unscheduled disassembly of a favorite coffee mug recently. It sucks.
geg6
@Juju:
I had a similar situation around the same time. Only the phone company took me somewhat seriously when I tried to report it. But only somewhat. The guy’s dad was politically connected and no one wanted to hear what I had to say.
cain
@Alison Rose:
Ha ! He will solve your problem while the DJ revolves it eh ?
Juju
@geg6: I was in high school and I reported the behavior to my school guidance counselor because that’s who the principal recommended I talk to about the situation, and she told me “ boys will be boys.” After that she took the away the drawing of me hanging from a noose with the caption “ If I can’t have you nobody can have you”. No one took it seriously in my case as well.
wjca
@satby:
FYI, the police arrived and shot dead the perpetrator. What kind of moron kills someone, and then hangs around, gun in hand, until the police arrive??? These people are amazing.
Alison Rose
@wjca: Well, not disputing that the guy is a monster and a moron, but:
I mean, doing something like this without a vehicle is certainly fucking stupid.
wjca
@Alison Rose: To my mind, walking only a mile constitutes “hanging around.” But then a) my morning walk is typically several times that distance, and b) like most Californians I see a 15 minute/mile drive as essentially next door (so subscribe to your “without a car” point).
Alison Rose
@wjca: Well, I’m a Californian too, but I was looking more at the “fled on foot” part to indicate that he tried to run away but the cops showed up quickly enough that he didn’t have time to get too far.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@mrmoshpotato:
Happy Birthday!
bjacques
He range of the #NAFO Fellas’ Megabonk 9000 extends even to the moon. There’s already a meme or two.
West of the Rockies
I hope Putin feels personally embarrassed.
mrmoshpotato
@Geminid:
Who’re you talking about? :)
wjca
Fun quote from Xóchitl Gálvez, candidate for the presidency in Mexico: “In our Indigenous culture, it’s believed that the only sin that leads to hell is to keep more money than you need,”
Imagine the horror such a view would cause in some circles here.
mrmoshpotato
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Congrats to you and your bride.
wjca
@Alison Rose:
Guess it didn’t occur to me that they might arrive quite that quickly. Perhaps there are more police per square mile in her neighborhood.
dnfree
@Kay: As an early member of the baby boom, what impressed me most about the sixties was the civil rights movement. It remains inspirational for me, and it did inspire more rights movements.
When I turned 70, in 2016, I looked back on my years here as a steady, if slow and halting, movement toward more rights for all. The past seven years have been very sobering about the arc of the universe etc.
The Thin Black Duke
@wjca: I think the asshole wanted to die but he didn’t have the guts to swallow his gun first.
Alison Rose
@wjca: SOCIALISM!!!!!!!!!
mrmoshpotato
@Delk: I’m actually in MI for the weekend. Hopped on the Amtrak last night (missed my 2PM train), so I did get a chance to see the Thunderbirds at the end of yesterday’s show.
Oh. There’s a fighter jet flying up Michigan Ave. Of course. It’s Air Show weekend.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: I had repressed how obsessive Toco-Loko could be. Thanks?
mrmoshpotato
@Nukular Biskits: I don’t have any brisket. :(
But there are a few racks of ribs in my freezer at home.
mrmoshpotato
Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: You showed up in that thread, as I recall. Yes, I was nym-watching. There were a few who still post here – you, Raven, SFAW…
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: I merely told Toko that she didn’t know what she was talking about. A fairly common occurence.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: That commenter I don’t remember. There were some other memorable troll/freaks posting that I *do* recall quite vividly, however…
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: She was matoko-chan under one of other names. She would come up with new ones when she got banned and would vaguely pass as a normal commenter [???] for a bit and then one of her many tics or obsessions would surface.
The Lodger
@mrmoshpotato: Happy birthday! All eyes are on you!
The Lodger
@Alison Rose: Hey, everybody needs a hobby. At least Viv isn’t running for president or some other ridiculous pastime.
Ixnay
@Miss Bianca: I’ve been chuckling about that since I read it a while ago. Hearing it in the voice of John Cleese. Perhaps it’s just resting, or pining for the fiords…
Central Planning
@Hilbertsubspace: That’s where you’re wrong. It’s vehicle’IN and personal’IN
Chris T.
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
The name of the song is called …
(My PIN number is the number of the slot in the SQL table, so it’s entirely independent of my PIN.)
Ironcity
@Other MJS: Singing with the choir celestial. It is a late
parrotLuna.