Blessed Orthodox Easter, to those who celebrate!
Cheers and flames as Orthodox worshipers greet the ancient ceremony of the 'Holy Fire' https://t.co/AqMhqNAzo8
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 5, 2024
Somehow, this seems to sum up all media in 2024…
13. Vadim Trunov captured this beautiful moment of a squirrel and a bird playing with a camera pic.twitter.com/wQZ4MbOWBg
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) May 2, 2024
Oregon's Sports Bra, a pub for women's sports fans, plans national expansion as interest booms https://t.co/IxrYRXxJOK
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 27, 2024
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — On a recent weeknight at this bar in northeast Portland, fans downed pints and burgers as college women’s lacrosse and beach volleyball matches played on big-screen TVs. Memorabilia autographed by female athletes covered the walls, with a painting of U.S. soccer legend Abby Wambach mounted above the chalkboard beer menu.
The Sports Bra is a pub where women’s sports are celebrated — and the only thing on TV.
Packed and buzzing with activity, the bar has successfully tapped into a meteoric rise of interest in women’s sports, embodied most recently by the frenzy over University of Iowa basketball phenomenon Caitlin Clark’s records-smashing feats.
“Things have happened at light speed compared to what my forecast was,” founder and CEO Jenny Nguyen told The Associated Press. “This tiny spot that I built for my friends and I to watch games and give female athletes their flowers means so much more. And not just to me, but to a lot of people.”
Under the plan, bars and entrepreneurs elsewhere will be able to apply to use The Sports Bra brand for their franchises. Nguyen is open to working with people who already have a physical space, as well as those who may only have a business plan. What matters, she said, is that the potential future partners share The Sports Bra’s values…
The expansion will be boosted by funding from a foundation created by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who is married to tennis legend Serena Williams. Nguyen said she already has received hundreds of inquiries…
Hooray, hooray, the month of May / Outdoor [redacted] begins today… Taking ‘shake your tail feathers’ both literally *and* seriously:
Are you wooed by this bird's gronking song? https://t.co/lXLqKhbGka pic.twitter.com/ZQM56sqFO0
— Defector (@DefectorMedia) May 3, 2024
Sabrina Imbler, at Defector — “Are You Wooed By This Bird’s Gronking Song?”:
Albert’s lyrebirds are auburn-colored ground-dwellers that spend their days nosing around the Australian forest floor for tasty bugs and mimicking the calls of other birds (maybe they should call them liarbirds, ha ha). Lyrebirds are notoriously shy, but the males are unapologetic showmen when they want to mate. When a lyrebird wants to woo, he busts out an elaborate courtship dance on a stage of his own preparation. He flips his silvery lattice of tail feathers over his head like a bridal veil, revealing the bright orange feathers beneath. And then he breaks out in an elaborate song, which does not mimic any other bird but is entirely his own.
“If a female comes to his display platform, that’s when he’ll transition into his gronking song, which is his dance song,” said Fiona Backhouse, an acoustic and spatial ecologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Male Albert’s lyrebirds have two gronking songs: a loud gronking song that sounds like “gronk gronk gronk” with some crackling noises interspersed, and a rhythmic gronking song with a recognizable beat. Males will alternate between these two gronking songs until his potential mate chooses to join him, or walk away. And if all this gronking were not enough, the males dance in sync with their songs, shaking the trampled vines and branches that comprise their dancing platform. Backhouse and colleagues described the stage-shaking choreography of the birds’ gronking dances in a paper recently published in The American Naturalist.…
In the 1970s, the naturalist Sidney Curtis first suggested the lyrebirds might rhythmically shake their stages after noticing the trampled vines looked weathered, as if the birds frequently clutched them in the same spot. But the behavior was nearly impossible to track down in the wild, given the elusive nature of the dancers. “Most lyrebirds, if they know you’re there, they’ll disappear,” Backhouse said.
Decades later, an Albert’s lyrebird named George brought gronking out of the shadows. George lived in the rainforests of Lamington National Park, near a resort where visitors can stay to encounter plants and wildlife. Glen Threlfo, a naturalist who worked at the resort, noticed George had become accustomed to people. “He would actually dance while people were nearby,” Backhouse said. The nature photographer Michael Snedic, who was lucky enough to watch George dance, wrote that the bird tugged the vines of his platform “so ferociously that the surrounding palm lilies and lilly-pillies shook with him.” Backhouse never got to see George, as the lyrebird died a few years before she started studying the species. But George’s unusual familiarity with people gave scientists rare insight into his extremely shy species…
The bird’s stages were not easy to spot. Albert’s lyrebirds prefer the vines of a plant called wait-a-while or lawyer cane, which entangles other plants (and hikers, which explains its nickname) with its spines. “These vines are attached to everything else in the forest, and so if they shake the vine, all this other vegetation moves as well,” Backhouse said. She kept her eyes out for little trampled patches of the vine in the rainforest, looking for clues like feathers or worn-down spines. After locating what she suspected was a nest, Backhouse set up autonomous sound recorders and motion-sensor cameras programmed to record in the mornings.
The researchers filmed the gronking dances in five populations of Albert’s lyrebirds. Although some birds used sticks instead of vines, all the recorded males shook their stages, suggesting the trait is seen across the species (although the populations varied a bit in their tempo). And whenever the male birds were performing rhythmic gronking, they synchronized the beat of their song with the beat of their shaking, confirming prior observations. “They clearly coordinated their vocalization with stage-shaking movements,” Ota said. She added that she was curious to know how much the birds had manipulated their stage, such as if they adjusted the position or amount of plants on their stage before shaking it.
Other birds manipulate their environment during communication, constructing stages or using props. Palm cockatoos drum on trees using sticks and woodpeckers drum on trees with their bills. Small blue songbirds called cordon-bleus, which Ota studies, shake a branch to perform a “tap-dance” display during courtship. The authors suggest the Albert’s lyrebirds’ gronking performance might arguably be considered music. “The fact that these birds are synchronizing these display movements or dance movements with their songs sort of draws another parallel with human music,” Backhouse said…
zhena gogolia
Thanks for reminding me!
Христос воскресе!
Nukular Biskits
Good mornin, y’all!
Trivia Man
I vote its music!
Betty Cracker
We’re enjoying the annual bird love fest immensely so far this year. Even among the relatively small pool of species we can observe here in the swamp, the techniques vary wildly. Moorhens tend to favor mock chases. Limpkins scream their horny heads off day and night. Herons have elaborate, whole-body wading displays. Hummingbirds perform aerial stunts. Endlessly fascinating to watch
ETA: Pinko the resident Roseate Spoonbill even showed up with a date the other day. He soon flew off, but his brief stay convinced me our resident is a she.
OzarkHillbilly
Saw my first cicada yesterday. More to come.
eta: “Are You Wooed By This Bird’s Gronking Song?”, maybe not wooed but I’d stuff a fiver down it’s G string.
Spanky
Carrot Top was reincarnated as a squirrel?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: An entomologist is coming here tomorrow to give a presentation about the cicadas. I’m looking forward to it
JPL
The gronking bird is hilarious, but I’m glad it’s not in my habitat.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: omg You’ve been hanging out with Baud far to much.
Trivia Man
We had a robin build a nest right outside our sliding glass door to the deck. On top of a light fixture (rarely used and LCD so no free egg warming). I saw she wasn’t home so i snuck a peek inside the nest. Just a nut inside. Stuck to the nest with dried egg and decorated with beautiful robins egg blue shell fragments.
Im sorry mrs robin. Nature, red of tooth and claw indeed.
JML
I’m rooting for good things for places like The Sports Bra; more people watching women’s sports means better ratings, which means bigger TV contracts, which means better pay for the leagues, more endorsements for the players, etc.
Women’s sports is at an interesting and challenging inflection point right now: they’re more popular than ever at the professional level, and you’re seeing greater interest at the highest levels of college sports, especially for team sports like basketball, soccer, hockey (field & ice), volleyball, and softball. But many of them are struggling at the D-II and D-III levels and in high schools, and smaller sports are in jeopardy. People don’t go to the games and you have more and more that are classified as “non-revenue” sports and they often really struggle to fundraise. With budget problems at so many schools…dropping sports becomes a more attractive option.
Hopefully this support continues to grow.
TBone
That gronking bird sounds like it’s saying “asshole” over and over 😆
Chief Oshkosh
Spring started early for us last month, and so we’re now on round umpteen billionth of wrens nesting in various potted plants, hanging or not. It’s been non-stop entertainment for our indoor cats who watch/stalk them through the windows, which in turn, is entertaining to us. We’ve also had lots of business at the feeders and baths. Lots of bunnies, squirrels, and chipmunks, too.
A good Spring.
OzarkHillbilly
The latest trend in MAGAville: Real Men Wear Daipers.
No, it’s not a cult, not at all. Never.
SiubhanDuinne
@TBone:
OMG it really does!! Didn’t catch that the first time I listened!
Liminal Owl
@TBone: I heard it as “Not cool! Not cool!”
SiubhanDuinne
@OzarkHillbilly:
Saw that earlier.
Those people are beyond weird.
lowtechcyclist
Saw my first hummingbird of the season a few days ago. I hadn’t yet put up the feeder outside the window next to my desk, and the little guy was obviously a repeat customer from previous years; he stayed in front of my window for most of a minute, going back and forth, up and down, clearly going, “where is the damn thing?”
We got right on it, dug out the feeder, boiled and cooled some hummingbird juice, hung the filled feeder up, and he was back the next day, drinking his fill.
TBone
Our groundhog is very, VERY fat. Haven’t seen the skunk or the porcupine yet. Bunnies errywhere doing bunny things, one crossed the road so fast he barely touched the ground at all, one humongous, flying leap.
UncleEbeneezer
@JML: Yeah but, when will men get our very own sports bars?!! /sarcasm
TBone
@SiubhanDuinne: 😆 can’t not hear it now
TBone
@Liminal Owl: yours is much more polite 😂
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I well remember the last super bloom of cicadas. Somewhere around my 10th summer (’68) or so. Un frickin’ believable. Just everywhere and the noise was deafening. Girls hated it because boys couldn’t resist putting 1 or 2 in their hair. I’m surprised I’m still alive.
@JPL: What??? What did I say? Do????
Betty Cracker
@lowtechcyclist: Yeah, repeat customer hummies will definitely let you know when it’s time to set up the feeder. I’ve had them scratch the window screens with their beaks to get my attention when I’m inside and swarm around and hover in my face outside. Such greedy little things!
NotMax
Shop ahead for next Sunday.
:)
TBone
@OzarkHillbilly: I was gonna get a T-shirt to troll my neighbors, but I’m waiting to see if they get there first.
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirts/real-men-wear-diapers-trump-2024
TBone
@NotMax: BLECH 😆
Layer8Problem
If one has to have more of Yet Another Bar with Televisions Because Sports let it be more of these. That said I’m privileged to have one of the only bars, and perhaps THE only bar, in this outer borough with no g-d television and may it ever be so. Just conversation with peers or quiet introspection, languid stares into one’s smartphone or novel, with Guinness or favored IPA at hand.
Jackie
Happy Cinco de Mayo to those celebrating!🪅
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: We had a bumper crop of horrid mole crickets one year when I was a pre-teen. There were lots of boys chasing girls around trying to put the creatures in their hair, down their shirts, etc. Any boy who tried to put one on me would have found himself wearing a twisted metal trashcan as a permanent helmet. In that one sense, it was good to get my height early. Fewer people try to fuck with you if you’re a head taller. ;-)
NotMax
Medium length weekend watch.
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Fishbones of Lyon (33:17 – 39:42, you’ll have to set closed captioning to English on your own).
OzarkHillbilly
@lowtechcyclist:
@Betty Cracker:
They hover outside my office window when the feeders start running out, sort of a, “Hey! You in there! Get with the program here!!!” If I’m outside, they buzz me. Repeatedly.
OzarkHillbilly
@TBone: Not me, I don’t want any of the con artists to get one red cent out of me.
@Betty Cracker: Ah yes, the loverly mole crickets. ;-)
@NotMax: Gotta love RR.
Omnes Omnibus
@UncleEbeneezer: I just want more US bars to show rugby. Men’s or women’s, I don’t care. And skiing. Now that would be a niche sports bar.
TBone
We removed all of our bird feeders several years ago due to mysterious disease popping headlines here in PA and urging from everywhere to help stop the spread by removing feeders. We haven’t put any back out because bird flu. 😓
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2021/07/update-mystery-bird-disease-investigation-draws-reports-from-nearly-every-pa-county.html
Omnes Omnibus
@Jackie:
Do we have to bring up mayonnaise this early in the morning?
CaseyL
I don’t dare put bird attractants near my house. Oscar is old, but is still happy to try his paw at catching birds – and if a group of them are so obliging as to cluster near the house, well then…!
The lyrebird is not only producing music, it is aware that it is producing music. You’ve seen those videos of sulphur-crested cockatoos going nuts for rock music, flaring their crests and dancing? Birds know music, and respond to it, and make it themselves.
(I do wish we could stop perceiving animals in general as some sort of biological automatons whose responses to stimuli are programmed tropisms. Either that, or recognize that one whole hell of a lot of human behavior is also trophic responses to stimuli.)
TBone
@OzarkHillbilly: that website is not campaign-related as far as I know. But I’m not giving my money to anyone making these unless I need to dress up my 7′ tall, inflatable, glow-in-the-dark Gritty if/when neighbors put Rump campaign billboards and flags up all over the place again this year. So far, they’ve got no campaign signs, billboard or otherwise.
japa21
@Omnes Omnibus:
We could talk about Bozo instead.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@lowtechcyclist:
Back in Central Misery, hummingbirds, Baltimore Orioles and Chimney Swifts would all arrive on 22-23 April. I could damn near set my calendar by it. We have feeders out for the first two about a week prior. Birds and spring were a great thing there.
Trying to attract hummers in the middle of a city is tougher. I know we have them because occasionally I hear them (the species here has a different sound in flight than ruby throated ones do). Gotta get the feeders out today although I might be too late. As you say, you gotta get them used to coming back.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
What, no curling?
“My God, they’re using Swiffers!”
;)
Jeffro
Happy Sunday peeps!
I’m off to brunch and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 😋🎭
looking forward to seeing the Hakeem Jeffries segment on 60 MINUTES tonight, too!
kalakal
I want more bars without television
TBone
Oh just remembered Senator Fetterman is gonna piss everyone off on a Sunday morning show today. Hope I didn’t miss it.
kalakal
@Omnes Omnibus:
Cricket… or for the really somnolent Crown Green Bowling
WereBear
Yesterday partner and I went to a new place to us. They had a deck and duck wings instead of chicken and I now have a new favorite place.
Parking lot between it and the river but second story deck and very reasonable pub menu.
Miki
A Bar of Their Own opened in Minneapolis in March of this year. Hard to believe it took until 2024 to happen.
WereBear
@Spanky: Hey, who stole my screenplay idea?
JPL
FYI A friend just sent me this
Donald Trump’s former communications director Hope Hicks, 35, is engaged to Goldman Sachs boss Jim Donovan, 58, Page Six
NotMax
@Miki
With appropriate apologies to the U.K., lord love a duck. Mmmmm.
Any Chinese take-out joint which includes anything duck on the menu gets booted up several notches on the gotta try them out list.
Lamb raises them up higher, brushing up against god tier.
Nukular Biskits
Several of y’all have mentioned having hummingbirds show up.
I’ve had 2 feeders out for several weeks but seen nary a one. One of the neighbors reported having one show up a couple of weeks ago but that’s it.
It’s got me a little concerned, particularly with avian flu on the rise.
cmorenc
@JML: limited attendance at non-revenue sports in college directly reflects limited attendance at non-revenue sports in high school. This is true of both men’s and women’s non-revenue sports, although a bit more pronounced on women’s side.
True, there are a few glaring exceptions eg some of the more successful, skilled women’s college soccer teams and ditto women’s college basketball. But the issue of struggling to draw larger crowds to non-revenue sports applies across the board in both men’s and women’s sports (somewhat more so in women’s side) – which is why they are non-revenue sports.
Note: I am father of two varsity college athlete daughters (both graduated) one of whom had partial athletic scholarship And I have refereed varsity high school soccer for many years, and see the crowd size at games first-hand.
Layer8Problem
@JPL: Hmm, given her devotion to her former employer, some kind of daddy thing maybe?
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: Now we know who killed irony.
It was Trump, in a glitzy hotel suite, with a mushroom
UncleEbeneezer
@Omnes Omnibus: As a tennis fan who often has to beg the bar owner to flip away from football, baseball, golf etc., I feel your pain.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
WTAF They are self pointing and mocking now. No way we could add to that.
WereBear
@SiubhanDuinne: Getting harder and harder for the corporate media to frame this as not-a-cult.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: And I assumed it was a joke.
OzarkHillbilly
@Nukular Biskits: I’ve got between 30 and 40 at my feeders right now. Sometimes the numbers climb above 50 but only when my neighbor runs out of nectar.
Spanky
@JPL: Nope, not transactional at all.
Jackie
@Jeffro:
Thanks for the heads-up! Recording set! 😊
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: I can’t wait to see a bunch of them at a trump rally and the look on his face.
UncleEbeneezer
Well, we are in Day Four of our cats’ boycott/refusal to use the new cat-house we got them. We put it in the window by our couch, right where they love to sleep and look outside, but no dice. The weird thing is that the old, grungy one that they love so much, is still here, on the floor and they refuse to use that one too. And our other (indoor) cat is finally starting to climb on the new cat tree we put in our bedroom but refuses to use any of the THREE scratching posts that are a part of it. Cats are so damn stubborn.
Betty Cracker
@kalakal: There’s a bar attached to a Greek pizza joint in Apollo Beach with a sign that says, “No WiFi — TALK TO EACH OTHER!”
smith
@Layer8Problem: She seems to have questionable judgment when it comes to men. Given, that, and the Defendant’s known proclivities, it wouldn’t surprise me if their relationship wasn’t strictly professional.
JWR
This Kristi Noem interview on MTP would be hilarious if it were not so horrific. The only question Brennen has asked is “have you met Kim Jong Un”, and the only answer is “no, (skipping over the word “no” as quickly as possible), but I’ve met many many world leaders, (Gish gallop Gish gallop Gish).” Okay, now we’re on to Cricket and the goat(s). This should be good.
Jackie
@UncleEbeneezer:
A trait shared with their humans 🤔😂
kalakal
@OzarkHillbilly: including ‘face diapers’?
Spanky
BULLETIN! BULLETIN! BULLETIN!
Tomorrow starts Black Hole Week at NASA!
UncleEbeneezer
@JPL: I’m old enough to remember people saying we shouldn’t vote for Hillary because of connections to Goldman Sachs.
The same people who now say we shouldn’t vote for Biden because of
M4All,GreenNewDeal,StudentLoans,Afghanistan, Gazakalakal
@Betty Cracker: My kind of place!
I miss trad English pubs so much sometimes
OzarkHillbilly
@kalakal: Maybe you could suggest it?
jackmac
To avoid the danger of frost, the rule of thumb was to wait until after Mother’s Day to start planting.
It was 82 degrees and sunny on Saturday.
I think it’s safe. So I went out to buy flowers.
UncleEbeneezer
@Jackie: Very true.
Nukular Biskits
@OzarkHillbilly:
Maybe they wisely decided to avoid MS.🤷
OzarkHillbilly
@Nukular Biskits: Let’s hope not.
Aziz, light!
We have three resident Anna’s hummingbirds in our yard; at some point in modern times this West Coast species stopped migrating south. Somehow as a whole they manage to survive the winters here in Portland, although I’m sure many individuals don’t make it. We had a rare hard freeze last winter, with almost unheard of lows in the high teens for a few days. Years ago I crafted electric heaters for our two feeders — 25 watt ceramic terrarium bulbs mounted atop steel poles and positioned a few inches under each of our two feeders. I plug them in whenever temps fall to 32 or lower and they keep the water from freezing. During the hard freeze, after awakening from their nighttime torpor, the birds spent their first hour of the day on the feeders, shivering until the heated air warmed them. Without the heaters, I think they would have been doomed.
Throughout the year, if I let the nectar supply run out or get stale, the hummers will buzz my face or hover six inches from my eyes and stare me down until I get with the program.
NotMax
@kalakal
Maybe not so much the Scottish.
:)
NeenerNeener
I put a hummingbird feeder out on the tiny deck at my new house a few weeks ago. No sign of any hummingbirds yet, but I was getting wasps inside my screened-in porch behind the deck. I wonder if all the construction going on in my neighborhood is keeping them away, although the construction hasn’t stopped the sparrows and bluebirds from nesting in the magazine slots in our mailboxes.
WereBear
I agree with you in totality. So obvious when looked at with science in mind :)
Kay
@UncleEbeneezer:
Well, I don’t speak for all of them, obviously, but those students have spoken with say we (liberals) would all be opposing US Gaza policy if a Republican was President and the only reason we’re not is our guy is in charge. So they have their own unflattering opinions about us, to match ours of them.
kalakal
@NotMax: More like a Sheffield pub with Brian Glover holding court. Sithee!
Aziz, light!
@NeenerNeener: It takes time for hummers to discover a new feeder; they have to pass near enough to smell it.
Nukular Biskits
@Aziz, light!:
I thought hummers homed in more on sight (at least at first) than smell.
Layer8Problem
@kalakal: If you ever care to stage yourself an expedition to the outer reaches:
https://www.anbealbochtcafe.com/
WereBear
@UncleEbeneezer: The new tree has them examining all the other trees with suspicion. Look what it did!
New things really need to outgas these days, so I hope you can open windows.
kalakal
@Layer8Problem: Looks good to me!
JWR
@TBone:
What pisses me off is Brennen, and all these presstitutes, asking about all these protests as being about attempts to change entire U.S. policy towards Israel, but what I see are attempts to change the investment policies at individual universities. Also, I’m glad to see all these No Confidence votes against the university leaders
ETA Okay, Ro Khanna is making some good points about the protests and Biden’s thinking towards Israel policy. Good.
OzarkHillbilly
@Nukular Biskits: They definitely prefer feeders with yellow flower cups. I have rather nice feeders that came with white flower cups and they refused to go to them. I painted the flowers yellow and Voila!
Nukular Biskits
@OzarkHillbilly:
I had what I’d call an “heirloom” feeder, handmade, that was absolutely beautiful last year. Found it when going through my mom’s stuff after she passed away.
I just KNEW hummingbirds would love it!
Ungrateful little bastards completely ignored it and fought over the red plastic ones with the little yellow “flowers” instead.
Kay
@JWR:
The NYPD is going full fascist, bellowing for “investigations” into political opinions they disagree with. Nothing alarming about a 30,000 man Right wing army coming after political dissenters! No sir.
I think they’re embarrassed because a couple of other big city police departments told college administrators to fuck off – that they weren’t in the business of ass-covering to save administrator salaries.
lowtechcyclist
@OzarkHillbilly:
The neighborhood I grew up in, in northern Virginia just a few miles south of the Beltway, got swamped with them in the spring of 1962. I remember us kids made little twig playgrounds for them that they could crawl up and down on. It was great fun.
I was living only a few miles away in the spring of 1979, and didn’t see a one. I guess that within the overall range of a given brood (this must’ve been Brood II), their presence is very local.
Back then, the news didn’t cover them at all, no WaPo stories in 1979 about “here come the cicadas!” no mention on the radio news. If Howard Stern on DC-101 said a thing about them, I missed it.
But 34 years later, in 2013, the coverage was impossible to miss. Even someone like me that doesn’t watch TV and didn’t subscribe to a dead-trees paper anymore by then felt inundated by it. But there were no cicadas in my Maryland exurb near the Bay. I was very disappointed.
OzarkHillbilly
Some good news on the family front: My very talented niece has gotten a full ride scholarship to Washington University in STL. I called little bro yesterday and left a congratulatory message but haven’t heard back yet. I suspect it is in Fine Arts (my eldest sister got her Fine Arts degree there).
lowtechcyclist
@Omnes Omnibus:
Nah, you can leave it in the fridge until lunchtime.
Eyeroller
@Nukular Biskits: Most birds, with the notable exception of vultures, have no or very little sense of smell. Hummingbirds are very strongly attracted to red–I once saw one tapping a parked car’s taillight. They do detect massed flowers of just about any color, however. I put out my feeder when I normally start to see them and have not gotten many customers. I’ve definitely seen only one male. (Only ruby-throats are in range where I live, as is true in most of the US.) But apparently honeysuckle is blooming, and they take advantage of that.
Kay
Ninnies:
People are comparing it to the “everyone who disagrees with me is a terrorist” panic after 9/11 but those people don’t have a lot of interaction with police. They promote insane panics like this at least once a month, on smaller issues. It justifies authoritarian action.
rikyrah
I always thought Hayden Christensen got unwarranted criticism for his portrayal of Anakin.
I am so glad that he stayed in the game long enough for the fans who loved him as a child grew up and could show him appreciation. He was shocked and moved to tears 🥹🥹
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLCk75yr/
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@OzarkHillbilly:
This time of year, I could hold a feeder in my hand and have half a dozen use it.
Heh heh, once they retank up, it’ll be back to uber territoriality. I used to sit on the swinging chair on the side porch of the Dauphine, we had 2-3 feeds hanging overhead and I’d watch one male perch on a nearby dead tree limb ready to swoop in and dog fight any hummer that tried to poach all that food.
It was surprisingly entertaining.
JWR
Wow, switched over from Face The Nation, (misidentified in my last comment, to Meet The Press, and Kristen Welker has Tim Scott on. She asks if he will accept the results on the next election, no matter who wins, and he will not answer. But the best part is that Welker keeps hammering him on this, and hammering and hammering and hammering! Same thing with abortion. Will he support a national ban, and he refuses to answer. I don’t know if our media is learning, or if the Trumpified GOP has just grown so ridiculous.
MinuteMan
Some of the women’s sports are actually more interesting than the “male” equivalents. For example, I would rather watch a good softball game (e.g., college world series) than an MLB game. Most of the aspects of the game are there and it’s much better paced. Some of the pitching motions are a bit hard to swallow but there have been MLB pitchers with deliveries that are painful to watch.
lowtechcyclist
@cmorenc:
I went to two different high schools, one public and one private, 50+ years ago. Neither one had any revenue sports, period, unless one counts hot dog and soda sales. Football, basketball, all you had to do was walk in, no admission charge.
ISTM that participation should be the only guide for which sports make the cut at HS and lower levels.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kay: The internet is having fun with that photo by pasting in different books.
Spanky
@JWR:
Porque no los dos?
NotMax
@Kay
Well remember the panic in places such as (fictional but not exaggerated example) the local Picalilli Festival in Burnt Armpit, Idaho that hordes of swarthy terrorists were poised and salivating to attack.
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s wonderful.
montanareddog
@kalakal:
It were definitely not Scotland but on t’moors somewhere.
NotMax
@rikyrah
Mannequin Skywalker.
WereBear
Must be the second because they flat don’t learn.
Kay
@Omnes Omnibus:
They keep doubling down. The Trumpian inability to admit a mistake that is so prevalent in authoritarians. They’re still insisting the bike lock is a Terrorist Chain – just embarrassing behavior.
I love that Philadelphia police, consistent with the city ethos, told the ninnies to fuck off- they have real crimes to deal with. The college adminsitrators are lucky they didn’t throw batteries at them.
lowtechcyclist
@JPL:
That’s quite an age gap. You’re at such different places in your life at mid-30s versus late 50s, and all his friends are going to be a generation older than her.
What’s the old rule of thumb – half your age, plus seven?
OzarkHillbilly
Yeah, there is always one asshole who tries to keep it all for himself but once the numbers get high enough they always give up and share because the alternative is starving to death.
NotMax
@kalakal:
Having been “banned fer life” by the publican of the Peterhead inn in Scotland back in 1974 I’m not really one to talk.
:)
Kay
@NotMax:
Police here were following a panic that they were being poisoned by any exposure at all to fentanyl – like, in the next room- it was making them pass out – but only them. So they announced that fentanyl had “leaked” out of a users body and into the air at the local juvenile facility, sickening police and guards (but not juveniles, inexplicably). So the parents of the kids in the juvenile facility are now suing the state for exposing their kids to drug fumes.
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: As is she.
Matt McIrvin
@Kay: One of the perennial horseshoe-left theories is that a right-wing President is actually better for anti-imperialist foreign policy because all the liberal elites will oppose him for partisan reasons, whereas with a liberal President they’ll just play along.
Which, even if it were true (and the history of, say, the George W. Bush administration suggests it isn’t true), prioritizes what bien-pensant folk will think and say over what actually happens on the ground. Does it matter whether or not liberals oppose the President if the same military action happens regardless?
montanareddog
@lowtechcyclist:
The old joke? So, Ms Hicks, what first attracted you the multi-millionaire who is 20 years older than you?
TBone
@JWR: that’s exactly what I see. I’m a little disappointed that the equipment my Senator uses to overcome his audio/speech processing disability malfunctioned during that otherwise forgettable interview (except for the part where she asked him what he was laughing in the very beginning and he said “that interview” with Krusty Gnome 😆).
NotMax
@Kay
Injections of bleach will clear that up right quick.
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Eyeroller
@OzarkHillbilly: Hummingbirds of both sexes are all incredibly territorial and fight hard over food sources. Females will fight their fully-fledged offspring. If there are enough of them it’s not really so much that they give up but that they can’t drive off all the others so they have to accept some sharing. Not all species are even this accommodating — the rufous hummingbird, especially males, will spend nearly all his time driving away other hummingbirds and hardly get anything to eat himself.
TBone
@NotMax: you have piqued my interest. I mean, again.
Omnes Omnibus
@lowtechcyclist:
For Donovan, that would be 36. Hicks isn’t far off. OTOH, IIRC that was an extremely sexist rule of thumb put forth by Elijah Muhammad among others.
Spanky
@montanareddog: She has lawyers to pay, donchaknow.
JPL
@lowtechcyclist: I’m not sure about the rule of thumb, but it appears that age and wealth attract her. Geez she knows trump is a sleezebag, and still respects him.
OzarkHillbilly
Yeah, they give up because the alternative is starving. If they spend all their time and energy keeping others away, they get nothing for their efforts.
zhena gogolia
Since young people will have to live in the Trumpian/Putinesque dictatorship much longer than I will, I would like to see them put their energy into preventing it. Make no mistake, it will be game over for the Palestinians, the Ukrainians, and us if that happens.
Scout211
I’m not sure if this has been discussed yet here, but the RNC lawyer has been pushed out after only two months. He’s just too busy, the busy man. Yeah, too busy.
So yeah, Trump was not happy with Spies.
lowtechcyclist
@montanareddog: Or from the pages of MAD Magazine back in the 1960s:
Short and fat and bald and ugly, the guy from Jersey City is loaded,
and when she sees him, my girl, she lets out a “Wow!”
(To the tune of “The girl from Ipanema”)
kalakal
@montanareddog: ‘appen yer reet
kalakal
@NotMax: I’m impressed. That took some doing. Did you order a half? That would do it
NotMax
@TBone
Boring backstory. Short version.
After closing time, while waiting for a bus, a bunch of the group were kicking around a soccer ball in the parking. lot. Came the owner. “Ye’re all banned for life!”
Almost enough to make me return today to be recognized.
Kay
@Matt McIrvin:
I don’t know. I think there would be more opposition to Gaza among liberals if a Republican were in charge. I agree with you though that it probably wouldn’t matter to Gazans – this US policy where we ignore what are blatant war crimes seems to be set in stone.
I worry because I think one lie begets another, even if one is well-intentioned. So Biden may be denying the war crimes to get a deal on a ceasefire (or the broader deal) – greater good for Humanity- but once you do that – that kind of denial of observable reality – it becomes easy to just trade everything, everything, for the fucking deal. It’s like a sunk cost fallacy for dealmaking ” we denied the war crimes to get a deal – greater good- so now we have to lie about some other things because without the deal it’s just ‘lying about war crimes'”. This kind of dishonesty is corrosive. It doesn’t stop with one lie. I feel as if they’re becoming more and more disigenious on Gaza. It makes me panic, because we already have one political Party living in a fucking fantasy world- we’re just lost if both become delusional.
lowtechcyclist
@Omnes Omnibus:
What’s sexist about it? Where does it say it even applies just to heterosexual relationships, let alone the member of which sex is the older.
Now, a ‘rule’ like “don’t stick your dick in the crazy” is pretty blatantly sexist. And I’m sure there are plenty of other sexist ‘rules’ like that. But this one seems equally applicable either way.
Kay
@Matt McIrvin:
I expected (and hoped) that there would be an explicit admission that the “deal” on the IDF letting relief in had cratered. Biden Administration said they had a deal to get aid in – they aren’t letting aid in. Deal is bullshit. It didn’t hold. But the Biden Adminsitration has not made that clear- they’re kind of dancing around it. Slippery slope, man. Once you start ignoring or denying observable reality that is being reported on all over the world (but not much in the US) you are, as Adam says, “thru the looking glass”.
Omnes Omnibus
@lowtechcyclist:
Given that is it is generally expressed as the age ratio for man and wife, I do think the historical context matters here.
TBone
@zhena gogolia: big discussion on another website regarding teaching your teens to protest, in order to normalize it. Lots of pro-protest commenting (it’s our only true redress besides voting), and a few “I’d never take my kids.” I am in favor, but I don’t have any kids so that’s moot.
Sure Lurkalot
@JWR: Tim Scott et al should go on the Sunday Showz with duct tape over their mouths and bold letters “TOTAL CUCK HERE. ASK TRUMP WHAT I THINK.”
TBone
@NotMax: thanks! What a Grumpy Gus. I’ve done much worse than kick a ball, a time or two…😆
WereBear
@lowtechcyclist: You memorized it?
Heads up: thanks to the kindness of Watergirl who said my fellow jackals wanted to know what I was up to lately: I wrote a guest post about creativity, coming up Today, Sunday, 3PM
Be there, etc.
TBone
@Sure Lurkalot: 👍
mrmoshpotato
@TBone: Obligatory
frosty
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought that “half age plus seven” was originally something the French thought up. It gets into “Ewww” territory pretty quickly.
Eyeroller
@OzarkHillbilly: They’re not gonna starve. They’re fighting over an easy food source. If driven off they will find something else. It’s largely a myth that birds become dependent on feeders (the lazy welfare queens). They also eat a lot of tiny insects.
Baud
Omnes Omnibus
@frosty:
I don’t know where it originated, but I do remember that Elijah Muhammad was a proponent.
wjca
Perhaps someone should clue them in to the detail that it wouldn’t be the same foreign policy. Especially with TIFG.
NotMax
@Eyeroller
Driving up in Cadillacs a dead giveaway (see: Reagan).
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Kay
@Matt McIrvin:
I just think denying obvious war crimes (in this case by both Hamas and the IDF) is something we will pay for down the road. Maybe it works for them short term in pursuit of A Deal but it’s a disaster for what we’re all supposedly protecting – a humanitarian international order where countries or governments become parties to agreements on human rights and then have to comply with them. “The other guy doesn’t protect human rights either” is not a defense, especially if the other guy is a terrorist group.
I listen to Biden talk about Ukraine and how we have to protect the international rule-bound status quo from Russia and I just think “oh, boy, the US position is rapidly becoming incoherent”. It really has to be consistent. It’s hard! Admittedly! But it has to hang together as a policy across conflicts or it’s nothing.
Kay
@wjca:
But that’s not responsive to their claim. If a Republican had the same policy would you be supporting it?
smith
@TBone: I used to take my kids to protests when they were pre-teens/teens, and my daughter now takes my granddaughter. It takes some thought and preparation, not only in discussing why you are protesting and how you will protest, but also having a plan for what the kid should do if you get arrested, recognizing that you might get arrested even if you’ve done nothing illegal. We’ve never had any problems, and I still believe it was a good learning experience for them.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Impossible!
Also, too, “Nice shot Doc! You’re not gonna believe this, we gotta go back to 1955.”
“I don’t believe it!”
JWR
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yep, what you said. And at the risk of exposing my ignorance here, I doubt that Elijah Muhammad was thinking beyond male/female parings. No? Maybe? (Hell, I dunno.)
Gin & Tonic
@Baud:
If they solved it, then it wasn’t “impossible,” was it?
Kay
@smith:
I never did. I did take them to rallies in support of or political events or candidates – I took my daughter to an Ohio state D caucus which she still makes fun of me for.
I think you have to protect them from political operatives and media to a certain extent. The NYTimes education reporter once emailed me wanting to interview me and my son over the Common Core in Ohio – I think assuming I would be “pro” because at that time I was a local D on a county council (I was pro) but I declined. I don’t trust them with a 12 year old, especially the NYTimes. I was afraid they’d make him out to be a dope or something. I think she was insulted. Super frosty reply.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Did someone say impossible?
(couldn’t resist)
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
https://youtu.be/7-Q9CxKtZUA?si=JF3GB3yX3BMC_lp0
Eyeroller
@NotMax:And the t-bone steaks, don’t forget that. I once got a gift shipment from one of those steaks-by-mail outfits that was very delayed so that the dry ice had evaporated and the meat was rotting by the time it arrived. We lived/I live on a heavily wooded lot with a large vulture population in the area so I put the rotted meat out for them. Only the best for my vultures. I mentioned that New World vultures are one of the few birds with a good sense of smell and rotted meat smells delicious to them.
I should amend my earlier comment to note that a healthy bird won’t starve if it loses feeder access. Feeders can help unhealthy or ill birds survive, which may or may not be good for the population. I’ve also seen claims that feeders may have helped the Northern Cardinal expand its range further north than it might otherwise have reached. But other than that, feeders are just an easy meal for the birds.
Another Scott
Axios.com – Biden stopped/held ammunition shipment to Israel last week:
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” – Herbert Stein.
TimesofIsrael.com – Liveblog for May 5 has a little more.
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@Eyeroller
Q: What do vultures bring on airplanes?
A: Carrion bags.
wjca
I think you underestimate the extent to which people, and not just Americans, are comfortable believing two mutually contradictory things. Not just willing, but comfortable. They can be pressed to recognize the conflict, although whether pressing them will result in a change on one opinion or the other is far from certain. Let alone whether they will opt for the desired one.
Ken
@NotMax: And the Bowling Green Massacre.
There’s a university there, you know….
sdhays
@SiubhanDuinne: I want video of when Trump encounters them for the first time.
Gin & Tonic
Half-watching on Telemundo as LFC eviscerates Tottenham, and thinking fondly of our absent friend.
Soprano2
@UncleEbeneezer: Most places should have enough TV’s to accommodate you if they have the channel you want. We had people in last week wanting to watch OKC basketball, but the games were blacked out for Springfield! What stupidity…..
Kay
@wjca:
I’m just talking about myself. I agree with the Gaza protestors that the US position on an international, rule-bound order has become incoherent and therefore no longer credible. Which doesn’t mean I don’t support the US role in Ukraine – I think Ukranians are great and brave – an inspiration – and I’m 100% behind them- but just that the US is no longer perhaps the best advocate for human rights laws and norms in a conflict. LITTLE problem there. We’re sort of full of shit.
The protestors won’t be the majority in the country- I don’t even think they’ll harm Biden much politically. He hasn’t show any support at all for them, in a very traditional Dem “let’s punch the hippies!” way heading into a general election, so I think he knows this.
All Republicans and half of Democrats will want them punched (and probably jailed). He’ll probably pick up GOP supporters. But not me. I support them. On the fundamental issue I think they’re right. Doesn’t mean it will be popular.
NotMax
@Ken
The horror, the horr–
Never mind.
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Soprano2
@JWR: How did she think these weren’t going to be questions regardless of what publicity the book got? Did she think no one would actually read it? Or has she been in a bubble her whole life?
trollhattan
@MinuteMan:
Agreed. Soccer and tennis are more interesting on the women’s side, for example.
Gloria DryGarden
@JPL: Did TFG introduce Hope to the Goldman Sachs guy?
Brachiator
@Scout211:
It’s too bad that we don’t seem to have many reporters doing a deep investigation into Trump’s remaking the RNC and GOP into an insipid bunch of servile loyalists, and why the GOP is so happy to go along with this.
lowtechcyclist
@Omnes Omnibus:
So you’re saying reality is sexist, therefore we can’t talk about it, even in a non-sexist way, without being sexist.
Gotcha.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … GovExec.com:
It’s good that Congress is keeping an eye on this stuff and trying to make sure that DeJoy cannot destroy the USPS in the name of “efficiency”.
Grr…,
Scott.
NotMax
Hmm. 7 a.m. and only now peckish enough to contemplate ingesting something for dinner.
Air fried chicken nuggets it is. Accompanied by a third vodka double martini.
Retirement has its prerogatives. :)
Jackie
@Another Scott: Interesting! I wonder when/if the media will start mentioning this.
Brachiator
@JWR:
This is not good. The GOP has tipped over into putting Trump before the Constitution.
lowtechcyclist
@WereBear:
Nope, but I remembered enough of the gist of it to be able to Google it.
And anything that’s set to music I recognize sticks in my head pretty well.
Kay
@Another Scott:
Oh. I hope so. We’re so far out of compliance with US law on this it’s not even funny. In a way it doesn’t matter because Republicans are zealously pro war crimes so no one in the US is going to enforce it.
I expect them to follow US law. I don’t think that’s too much to ask and I know it’s hard and might be ,more or less popular/unpopular/whatever. I need them to. We already have half the country who have completely lost their way. We cannot have it happen to the other half.
Melancholy Jaques
@Kay:
That reflects their lack of knowledge about the components of the Democratic coalition. Admiring or merely defending this generation of college student protestors does not require one to adopt their naivete. It goes with the territory.
JPL
@Gloria DryGarden: Too bad, Jamie Dimon isn’t single. She’d be known as Hope Dimon…
okay corny I know
NotMax
@Another Scott
Latest cigar reorder showed up after 8 p.m. on Saturday, 8 days after being sent out priority maiL
USPS tracking continues to show it stuck in Opa Locka, Florida.
Splitting Image
@Omnes Omnibus:
As near as I can tell, the origin is in a book titled Her Royal Highness Woman and His Majesty Cupid, written by Max O’Rell and published in 1901.
Note that he wasn’t saying that a woman should be at least half a man’s age plus seven years. He’s saying that a woman’s ideal age should be half of a man’s plus seven years.
The flaw in the theory, of course, is that a wife can’t age half as fast as her husband, so an aging man will have to dump his wife from time to time to stay close to the ideal.
Sister Golden Bear
@Aziz, light!:
“You have failed me once again, hooman.”
Percysowner
@JWR:
Noem also thinks Commander, the Biden’s dog should be put down. The woman does not know how to stop digging her own grave.
Note: I do think that Commander should be placed in a less stressful environment. A dog that is biting is a dog that is stressed and needs more training and less stress. I have heard GSDs are great dogs and the Biden’s seem to love the breed. They also are not working out in the White House.
sab
@Another Scott: Yay! Our family lawyer says that his FedEx bill has become astronomical because any important document has to be sent by FedEx not the USPS if it needs to get even across town within a day or two.
They closed our sorting plant a few years back, and now local mail has to go 40 miles to Cleveland to be sorted, and then shipped 40 miles back to be delivered. It’s nuts.
NotMax
@Splitting Image
Left out barefoot and pregnant, slaving over a hot stove.
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Ken
@Soprano2: Rolling Stone has interviews with sources in the Trump campaign that say he’s upset with Noem, and “has expressed bewilderment that she would have ever admitted to doing this” and that she “has a poor grasp of public relations”.
Or rather, so I’m informed by various Bluesky accounts. I don’t have a subscription so can’t read the article, just look at the screenshots. Anyway, sounds like she’s ruined her chances for the VP slot — not, you’ll note, for killing the dog, but for admitting it.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Using a dipping sauce? My stomach is thinking about lunch here. Probably my leftover beef fajita meat and vegetables.
Eyeroller
@Splitting Image: He just says marry at that age difference so I’d assume they were “allowed” to age thereafter at the same rate. But I don’t agree that it “works well at any age.” At the earlier age range we’re into what we now call “well aktually it’s ephebophelia” territory (20 goes with 17–in 1901 that was acceptable, it’s much less so now) and at the upper age ranges, it has a man marrying a woman young enough to be his daughter, which is also considered to be on the creepy side nowadays. The latter situation, which was probably fairly common, would also lead to a lot of fairly young “merry widows.”
The part about being a “hint of a father” to your wife is ultra-creepy. And really, all the “advice” is about making sure the patriarch is dominant, in every way.
Suzanne
Did my half-marathon this morning, in 2:26:13. Added over five miles walking to and from the car. Nap time?
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato</a<
Half BBQ sauce, half ketchup, spritz of lemon juice.
Eyeroller
@Percysowner: I think Commander was already removed from the White House and lives in Delaware.
NotMax
Fixy fix.
@mrmoshpotato
Half BBQ sauce, half ketchup, spritz of lemon juice.
JPL
@Percysowner: Commander now lives in another environment. Noem probably shouldn’t have said “Commander meet Cricket” but it shows she is not able to do damage control.
What eyeroller said
trollhattan
@NotMax: Was a grown-ass adult before learning it’s best to slave in front of a hot stove.
lowtechcyclist
@Kay:
I think you’re right, but I think there’s a legit reason for the difference. If a Republican were President, we’d know they’d be totally on Israel’s side, and they’d be doing the absolute minimum to pretend to the FTFNYT that they were trying to do something about any human-rights concerns, and not the least bit more. There’d be no point in hoping their position might improve; the only thing to do would be to take to the streets.
But with Biden, we’ve been teased for months that a cease-fire was almost about to happen, or that we were about to get humanitarian aid in, or whatever. There has been reason to think, “if we give him a chance, he’ll come around.”
And sure enough, now he’s at least postponed an arms shipment to Israel. I guess we’ll find out whether shipments are going to stop until they agree to a cease-fire and let food aid in without shooting at the people bringing the food in from the coasts, or whether it’s just a one-time thing to try to get Bibi’s attention without making a real change.
I personally think it’s best to protest until it’s clear that the policy HAS changed, but I can understand why others who deplore what’s going on in Gaza aren’t ready to protest yet.
JWR
@Brachiator:
At least some in the media see it for what it is, a litmus test. Trump on the one hand, the Constitution on the other. As for the why, I’d guess it’s simply political survival, which makes me wonder why that is. What ever happened to personal integrity?
CaseyL
@JWR:
“Personal integrity” and “Republican” have not belonged in a sentence together for quite a long time, long before Trump.
NotMax
@JWR
“Drumpfland, Drumpfland, uber alles.”
JWR
@Percysowner:
And what’s sort of funny, Brennen asked her why she went back to the Cricket story at the end of the book, just in case anyone forgot about it. She really needed to polish the turd here, and she failed miserably.
mrmoshpotato
@CaseyL:
How true this is.
Omnes Omnibus
@lowtechcyclist: If you got that from what I wrote, I really don’t know what to say.
Another Scott
@Suzanne: 🏃♀️
Good job!
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@JWR
“Puppycide is the new black.”
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Ruckus
@JPL:
Now be nice…..
trollhattan
Understand she wants 101 Dalmatians renamed Cruella’s Tale.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Did someone say G-string?
;)
Ruckus
@OzarkHillbilly:
Humanity really does run the gamut doesn’t it? Somewhere around Nobel prize winners all the way down to scraping the rusty, corroded bottom of a 7 billion gallon barrel.
Layer8Problem
@JPL: Not the universe we want, but the universe we deserve.
lowtechcyclist
@Omnes Omnibus:
Apparently you didn’t in the first place.
Scout211
Noem on CBS:
. . .
Bless her heart.
Soprano2
@lowtechcyclist: I hope she’s thought about what it would be like to be a caregiver. Ask me how I know. I’m currently hoping to persuade my husband to take a shower today. I’m lucky if I get him to do it once a week.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
That picture of the bird and squirrel is from Europe, since it is a European Red Squirrel and (I think) a Great Tit. When I was a kid, I thought all the flowers and animals drawn in medieval illustrated manuscripts were imaginary, although beautifully detailed. Come to find out, they were all common European species, which I had never seen in N Ca.
Kay
@lowtechcyclist:
I think they have to come into compliance with US law on human rights and providing arms. On the narrow issue of US law they must. It’s a “shall”. There are no Republicans who will enforce it but there are seven Democratic senators who are providing (necessary and appropriate) oversight.
NotMax
@Scout211
“Here’s an artist’s rendition of Kim at the Corn Palace.”
lowtechcyclist
@Soprano2:
Unlike people like us, she will be able to pay people to do that.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Layer8Problem: That’s the first thing I thought of … great minds?
Kay
@lowtechcyclist:
That’s the other reason we have to allow Democrats to break ranks. Republicans are lawless. The ordinary check of the opposing Party no longer operates. We have to police our own because “the police” are fascists who are actively cheering on unlawful war crimes. It’s just us.
Omnes Omnibus
@lowtechcyclist: Who pissed in your cornflakes?
lowtechcyclist
@Omnes Omnibus:
Huh? You’re the one defining arithmetic as sexist. What’s next, Jewish physics?
trollhattan
@NotMax: Honestly, Li’l Kim standing proudly in front of the Corn Palace would be epic. South Dakota could throw an Arirang festival for him, but it would probably require everyone in the state.
Ruckus
@CaseyL:
Humans after all do belong within the animal kingdom….
Some of them seem to work at being thrown out of it though…..
Omnes Omnibus
@lowtechcyclist: JFC! I am walking away from this conversation now.
Layer8Problem
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): It’s the BJ zeitgeist. “We’re a cruel set of commenters, but fair!”
columbusqueen
@Eyeroller: Yeah, there’s a reason the Aztec god of war was a hummingbird.
Ruckus
@Kay:
It has to be coherent in a coherent society, or even on that is trying to be coherent. But in a society that is working to be incoherent to anyone but themselves, that may not be the case. And may be part of the reason why there is such a big problem. Not all societies are the same or are even all that humane. I know that we often see things as if it were, but some parts of the world do not operate in the same way or using the same concepts of humanity. Communications has reduced the number of those parts but not all of them.
Ruckus
@JWR:
What ever happened to personal integrity?
Like every other human behavior trait, personal integrity is a variable. Some humans have some, some have a reasonable amount and some have what could best be described as minimal.
Bill Arnold
@Another Scott:
A quick search doesn’t suggest the type of ammunition blocked. This information would let the press speculate about the sorts of Israeli military behavior that the Biden administration is concerned about.
E.g. precision guided 155mm shells would be used by Israelis for their assassination-with-familial-extermination-as-acceptable-collateral-damage program. (“lavender”)
Unguided 155mm shells would be used to reduce whole neighborhoods to rubble, with human bodies mixed in.
evodevo
@Another Scott: Yeah, mail carrier here…DeJoy closed mail processing in Lex, Ky several years ago. Back when (a decade ago, maybe), I could mail a card from our little PO in Sadieville to another resident here, and it would be back in our PO the next AM ready to be delivered. Now, it may take a week, since it has to go to Lex, then to Louisville, then back again. Ridiculous…the only “efficiency” was laying off line workers in Lex. on the sorting machines.
Bill Arnold
@evodevo:
Ah, good, somebody with direct experience. My experience as a customer is that first class mail takes median a day or so longer, and the tail can be like 10 days for a few percent. I cannot count on prompt delivery; this is new, in the last several years.
Rachel in Portland
Late to this, but can confirm that Sports Bra is amazeballs!
Liminal Owl
@TBone: occasionally that happens. :) (I think I may have been pied in the past for being less polite, or maybe just annoying in other ways.)