I have lots of things to say, but no energy to do it. Quickly:
1.) Bluesky is nor awesome and a shout out to all the early adopters who were there from the get go and made it awesome.
2.) I need, more than anything I have needed in a long while, for Mike Tyson to kill that punk on netflix.
3.) I am still sick. Now on meds, though. Yay.
4.) I am going to say this a lot, but you need to be taking care of yourself mentally, physically, and emotionally. Do something nice for yourself or your loved one every day. That includes you, Baud, although I doubt anyone loves you.
mrmoshpotato
Comedian Josh Johnson on Mike Tyson
Watch this, John.
Also, we all love Baud!
Tom Levenson
I love Baud.
Flanders Other Neighbor
My daughter is a freshman studying abroad. Some US boy she met the other day told her he’s not political. She told him that’s because these issues don’t affect him personally, and he was never taught empathy. Ouch. No dates for him.
wmd
@Tom Levenson: The blog father found someone who loves him enough that she puts up with Thurston. If he can do it so can anyone.
SiubhanDuinne
Some of us, myself included, LOOOOOVE Baud!
❤️💕🩵💛🧡🤎💕💚🖤🩷❣️❤️💙🩶💗💓
HeleninEire
Disagree!! I love Baud. ❤️ 💙
VFX Lurker
WE LOVE YOU, BAUD
…you make me laugh when I need it. ❤️
Gretchen
Im liking Bluesky too. It reminds me of 2020 Twitter which was so useful during early covid. All the scientists and medical people who were there then are on Bluesky now, as well as the funny people and smart political voices. The starter packs are really helpful to find your people.
and I, too, love Baud.
lollipopguild
Baud! Baud! Baud of the jungle! Strong as he can be!
sentient ai from the future
I want to give a thank you to the crew here. I suggested the ballot curing links here to a reddit sub I am on for parents of trans kids, and not only did they sticky it, but 5 people signed up for shifts.
piratedan
@VFX Lurker: I believe his official handle is Buad’dib – the pantless one.
Ole Lurky
Well I feel bad for you then, John, because Tyson is way too old for that shit and that insufferable youtube dipshit is probably going to knock him out cold..
They probably both vote for redumblicans so I hope they both break their dicks and receive no medical care.
geg6
@mrmoshpotato:
I ❤️ Josh Johnson. He’s hilarious.
narya
I also love Baud!
Omnes Omnibus
Meh. Baud can pound sand. There, I said it.
Another Scott
Speaking of things that are “nor awesome”, how about what we – in great part thanks to WaterGirl – were able to do in the Senate race in Nebraska?
APNews.com‘s map shows that Dan Osborn got a higher percentage of the vote than any (apparently) losing Democrat other than Casey (at 48.6%, and he still might pull it out). He got the same percentage as sitting Senator Sherrod Brown (46.4%), more than Senator Tester (45.5%), and even more than Rep. Allred (44.5%).
Folks here helped to make it close. In Nebraska. And that’s a good thing.
We can and should build on our successes and near-successes and realize that we’re making a difference.
Hang in there, everyone. There’s more work ahead.
Best wishes,
Scott.
John Cole
@mrmoshpotato: I watch everything Josh Johnson does- LamH turned me on to him
cain
lol – didn’t Tyson smack the shit out of that guy?
It’s too bad that Tyson is a Republican.
I’m slowing getting back to pre-election mood. I’ve taken a ‘whatevs’ look. I can’t control them or their voters. My hope again is that they over extend themselves. I know what I can control and that is thinking about how people handle information on the net. How algorithms create new maga people, and what can I do within the sphere of my control. I think some of that means that I need to invest in my local democratic party and start having conversations.
Conversations that can lead to action. One thing is that we are not going to change anything navel gazing or accusing our leadership of anything. We have a resistance to begin and some of that leading the GOP to do things that lead to mistakes. Memorable mistakes.
Can’t believe these people in Dearborn don’t remember the muslim ban or anything .It’s like they think we fixed it forever and now they can vote however they want with no consequences.
Baud
Looks like I picked the wrong day to tell you all that I’m leaving you for Bluesky.
Miss Bianca
@cain: Yeah, I’m with you here. As for me, I imagine my coping mechanisms for the next four years are going to include binge-reading the “Leopards Ate My Face” threads on Reddit and going, “Welp” a lot, I reckon.
dc
You Blueskyers can make your accounts followable from Mastodon, it’s easy:
If you make the bridge, please say so here, so I can follow you.
Ruckus
John
No one else knows how you feel, good, indifferent, bad, or shitty. They might suspect you aren’t at the top of the heap condition, but what, why, how shitty, only you know that.
Dangerman
The fix is so in on this Tyson thing. Sure thing. Almost as sure as Baud not wearing pants.
He’ll maybe throw a couple but he’s gonna take the dive.
different-church-lady
There’s plenty of room in my heart for Baud.
trollhattan
Runner Girl closed the book on her college cross country career today, at the SE section NCAA regionals. Finished in the 30s among about 250 runners and her team finished #4. While not good enough to go through to nattys it’s a proper sendoff for all those years and miles of work and most important, she’s happy.
Dad’s proud.
different-church-lady
@wmd:
CaseyL
We are all
SparticusBaud!Welp, after 10+ wretched days of anger and not much sleep, I’ve started taking anti-depressants again. I guess that’s a nice thing. (I could put up with the anger; it’s the lack of sleep that has me very worried.)
Tomorrow’s Nice Thing will be a guided tour of the salmon spawning creek in a park near me. Restoring the salmon run there has been a continuing project for more than a decade. They’ve had a record number of coho show up this year, and everyone is excited and happy.
And I am in the early stages of casting about for a new art hobby. I haven’t touched my fused glass stuff in years and don’t know if the desire will ever come back, but I do want to do something artistic. Bead embroidery? Fabric art? (For some reason, painting and drawing don’t interest me as things to do.) I have a bead embroidery kit that I bought online; maybe this weekend I’ll get started on it. That will be another nice thing.
Old Dan and Little Ann
I finally signed up for Blue Sky. Baseball Forever. If anyone cares. I am using the post from a days ago to guide me. Working on it now.
Chetan Murthy
@mrmoshpotato: Indeed! I love Baud! I just don’t understand why I can’t vote for him for President!
JCNZ
I thought I’d signed up for BlueSky – but all I get is the screen and the logo…
Also, why do so many people seem to be treating the Trump voters with empathy and respect?
Quaker in a Basement
Who is this Baud person of whom you speak? Never heard of him.
WaterGirl
@Flanders Other Neighbor: I LOVE your daughter!
I hope a whole lot of guys are getting that message from young women, when they deserve it.
Steve LaBonne
@Flanders Other Neighbor: Good for her. I’ve been through with people like that for quite a while and now more than ever. If you’re not on the side of love and justice you’re on the side of their opposites. There is no neutral position.
WaterGirl
@sentient ai from the future: That’s fantastic!
sab
@Baud: Omnes is still here so we’re fine (not really, if true.)
prostratedragon
Not “Samba,” but “Swamba Redux,” Charlie Hunter.
Prescott Cactus
I’d let Baud have the last piece of pizza. Chicago pizza. If I was there…
HinTN
@trollhattan: Closed the book…? I thought she just got there. Anyway, congrats to runner gurrrrrrl and proud papa.
karen marie
@cain:
I don’t know – I think there’s some joy in seeing two assholes get punched until one of them cries like a baby.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Cole would’t tease you if we didn’t all love you.
*any exceptions are the exceptions that make the rule.
sab
@John Cole: Where is he now? Used to be on NPR then MSNBC, then vanished from my media world.
He was on NPR 1A back in early Covid. I think he was pre-med or med school dropout so he does know some science which was really helpful in early Covid times.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I’m sorry, Baud, you can’t do that.
(said in Hal’s voice)
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@wmd: FYI Joelle loves Thurston and Thurston loves her. That’s why he stayed behind in Tempe when John went back to WV.
sab
@John Cole: I think I used to watch a different Josh Johnson. The one I watched was Joshua and not a comedian.
trollhattan
Baby steps. CA House district remains in Dem hands.
At least two districts remain too close to count and today we had over a million votes yet counted.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@sab: you can see him now on the (I think CBS) show Doctor Odyssey. New show this season. A (much) darker Love Boat.
trollhattan
@HinTN:
Thank you kindly!
This is her grad year and an “extra” covid eligibility season. Went into the transfer window last spring and was recruited to what proved to be an ideal situation–great coach, great squad, great school.
trollhattan
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
“Darker Love Boat” I’m imaging it sinking every episode.
I’d watch.
lowtechcyclist
@trollhattan:
Hell yeah!
Tell her this long-ago (my last season was 1969) HS X-country runner says congrats!
trollhattan
@lowtechcyclist:
I will! Love, love the sport. Is there a better setting for athletes and spectators?
lowtechcyclist
He’s no more annoying than I am, and I managed to find someone who puts up with me. :-)
She says it’s too late in life to start breaking in a replacement.
mrmoshpotato
@CaseyL: Are you allowed to catch a few salmon? Mmmmmmmmm
RandomMonster
I love Baud, distantly, from far away, in ways he doesn’t even know.
Sure Lurkalot
@Flanders Other Neighbor:
Good on your awesome daughter!
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@trollhattan: A recent show had a bridal party take over the ship, and along with sunburns and other trivia, the groom was revealed to be a sex addict and committed suicide the night before the wedding by jumping off the ship in the dead of night. Not the outcome I was expecting. The captain is played by Don Johnson (older but still charming). And Joshua Jackson plays the medical doctor who, at the end of the same episode, has a threesome with his 2 nurses (1 male, 1 female), in the name of Carpe Diem (the suicide made them, uhh, reflective on the shortness of life)
I tried the show since I find Joshua Jackson to be easy on the eyes and was my favorite character in the show “The Affair” which is where I first saw him. Apparently he was in Dawson’s Creek originally, which I too old to have watched.
mrmoshpotato
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): That’s Joshua Jackson (Oh Pacey!) on Doctor Octopus.
narya
@CaseyL: check out Bad Ass Cross Stitch on Patreon
Chetan Murthy
@mrmoshpotato: OK, I watched the entire thing, and I’m NOT a fan of boxing at all. And …. I gotta say, Josh Johnson is a -philosopher-, the way he explains it all. Truly amazing story he unspools. Two things stuck with me:
(1) his explanation about how and why Mike Tyson was America (in the 80s)
(2) his explanation about how Jake Paul is America in the (20s)
Brilliant, and really opened my eyes, connected things for me that I had not know needed to be connected. I’ve watched little vids from Josh J. over the last few months: this is the first long one I’ve watched, and he’s very much worth the 33min. Very much worth it. Thank you for the pointer!
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
That would be a no.
Once Pacific Salmon hit freshwater on their spawning runs, they stop feeding and start consuming their own bodies. As their bodies weaken, fungus, molds and parasites join in the feast.
So, they are only “Good Eats” at the start of their spawning runs.
Once they hit the spawning beds, they are pretty ragged and get worse over time, then they die.
Harassing spawning salmon is a big legal no-no.
lowtechcyclist
@trollhattan:
I’ve never watched a meet, just run in them. But you can’t see very much of the course from any one spot, usually, so I’d think watching would be a challenge.
But I loved the different courses – well, all but one, anyway, but other than that one, I loved running all the different courses. Especially the courses with a lot of wooded stretches.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@mrmoshpotato: exactly!
trollhattan
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
Promising!
I got a kick out of the short-lived Avenue 5, a space-tourism journey gone very, very, very wrong with all the corporate handwaving to assure everybody on board and especially back on earth that it’s just a scratch and will all turn out great. Hugh Laurie even more devious than on House, if that’s even possible.
Chetan Murthy
@trollhattan: I -loved- the first season. The second season …. I kinda noped-out halfway thru, it just got too boring. Maybe that was I mistake: if and when I do a rewatch, I’ll find out. but that first season? BRILLIANT!
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@trollhattan: we watched that. It was amazing how the situation just kept getting expotentially worse and all the “solutions” were corporate BS and the only competent person on board was a woman nobody listened to.
mrmoshpotato
@Chetan Murthy: You’re welcome.
I have no interest in watching two guys beat the shit out of each other either. No interest in WWE, and my interest in tackle football is waning.
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: I see.
CaseyL
@mrmoshpotato: Nope, not in the creek. They’re there to spawn, which we certainly don’t want to interrupt, and I think that once they’ve done so they’re considered non-edible for humans.
Salmon don’t eat once they start their spawning run, and they get way banged up along the way, so they’re in pretty bad shape by the time they make it to the spawning ground.
(Wildlife loves them some post-spawning salmon. They flock to the waterways and feast. Some salmon spawning areas are famous for attracting bears and have become world-famous bear watching attractions. Like Katmai Falls in Alaska, home to the Fat Bear competition.)
ETA: I see Jay got there first :)
trollhattan
@lowtechcyclist: Some courses disappear into woods too much to easily watch, but here in the wild west they tend to be in open terrain, sometimes golf courses (heh), and one can rush from spot to spot following the action. I shamble, others rush.
Have been at the finish chute for some big races and it’s just the best.
Michael Bersin
Joined Bluesky. I like it. I’ve been going through my photo archives and posting a few images there.
Baud who?
Chetan Murthy
@mrmoshpotato: Agreed on all that (though I don’t watch any sports at all). But wowsers, the way Johnson dissects the human condition, so gently, so kindly, and so perceptively, that’s a real treat!
NotMax
Feels odd to be making a batch of chicken cacciatore in the Instant Pot today when it’s like 85 degrees outside.
However the nights lately have been trending chilly enough (high 50s) to warrant it.
trollhattan
@CaseyL:
Fascinating ecology. They’ve figured out the salmon comprise a big component of soil health being fertilizer, where runs remain.
mrmoshpotato
@CaseyL:
Nom nom ROAR!
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Mmmmmm
trollhattan
@CaseyL: The Klamath River restoration will be exciting to watch. Salmon have made it to Oregon this year and the last dam went down just months ago. Imagine after three or four runs.
FDRLincoln
My primary family concern regarding the election is what happens to special Ed and disability funding if the administrative state gets deconstructed. My son is severely autistic and will need lifetime supports.
On Monday I’m going to start raising hell about this with my congresscritters. Who are all GOP but I have to at least try.
West of the Rockies
Watching the fight on Netflix. I last watched boxing with my dad 30 years ago. (He’d been an amateur boxer in the late 40’s, early 50’s.)
First time I’ve seen one boxer dry hump the other. Fighting has changed.
Go, Tyson.
trollhattan
Ooh, have a “yay, me.” Seeing Gillian Welch live has been on my bucket list forever. Got tickets today to see her and David Rawlings next March. Holy hell, do they make ticket buying hard now.
Gin & Tonic
@West of the Rockies: You want boxing, watch Marvin Hagler fighting Tommy Hearns.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
So old can recall when “midget wrestling” was shown on the b&w teevee.
;)
CaseyL
@trollhattan:
Wonderful news! Much the same thing was done in Washington state, taking down the Elwha Dam on the Olympic Peninsula up near Port Angeles. The river ecosystem bounced back much MUCH faster than they expected.
West of the Rockies
@sab:
Are you thinking of Jason Johnson of The Root and MSNBC?
Sister Golden Bear
Hit two art exhibits Tamara de Lempicka — Art Deco sleekness of the rich and stylish — and Mary Cassatt. While Cassatt gets pigeon-holed as the “mothers and children” Impressionist, she was quite an innovator in her own right, both artistically and technically. This exhibit had a bit of focus on her prints, which are less known, but Cassatt was a huge innovator in that field, essentially reverse-engineering Japanese-style printmaking and applying it Western printmaking techniques.
Suzanne
BIG. BAUD. FAN.
Jay
@CaseyL:
They are a nutrient pump, bringing in minerals and other nutrients in from the Pacific Ocean, and through their deaths, fertilize the streams*, the forests from alongside the creeks and rivers, up all the way to the high Alpine.
Part of the reason why West Coast Ecosystems are in such rough shape is that the salmon populations collapsed in the 1920’s, (massive overfishing, dams, etc), never recovered, and as a result, that massive influx of natural fertilizer has been severely reduced.
*In BC, most rivers and streams are acidic water over granite. No nutrients. The salmon runs fertilize and feed the streams and all the inhabitants, including their own offspring. No salmon, no mayflies, no chronamids, no crayfish, no stoneflies, no Sticklebacks, no sculpins, no Northern Pike Minnows, no Trout, no Steelhead.
Siltation is a big problem as well, silt get’s between the gravel of the spawning beds, turning the river/creek bottom into concrete. Chum Salmon in the lower reaches of a river/stream systems, are basically, a bulldozer. In the process of digging their spawning redds, they remove more silt than any human intervention.
trollhattan
@Suzanne: So, you’re saying Baud BIG?
Melancholy Jaques
@Gin & Tonic:
Truly. Hagler/Hearns, Hagler/Leonard, Leonard/Duran. And let’s not forget Aaron Pryor and Wilfred Benitez.
Glory days.
West of the Rockies
@Gin & Tonic:
I remember those bouts!
trollhattan
@CaseyL: The Elwha project is just brilliant. Hiked the river many times as a kid and hope to go back and see what the upstream reaches look like today. (The cross-park Low Divide hike from Elwha to Quinault is wonderful.)
trollhattan
Whee!
BenInNM
@Chetan Murthy: I watched the whole thing too and was fascinated – I agree with you about him being a philosopher. At one point I thought – he isn’t really telling a lot of jokes – but I didn’t care
Salty Sam
Who’s Baud?
Suzanne
@Sister Golden Bear: Tamara de Lempicka was one of my favorites when I was a graphic design undergrad. Beautiful compositions.
I am meh on the deYoung from an architectural perspective. I got to take an architectural tour shortly after it opened, and then I have been back a handful of times. Most recently to see Barack and Michelle in the, uhhhh, paint.
The roof of the deYoung is probably my favorite part. You get a great view from the twisty tower. There’s also a bridge you can see from there, kinda notable in its own right.
Sure Lurkalot
In re: Baud:
h/t Data, slightly modified
Mai Naem mobile ¹
@Salty Sam: some energizer bunny guy on this here almost top 10000 blog.
mrmoshpotato
@Salty Sam: Oh man! Someone has a spawned salmon and is ready to slap people!
Bettencourt
@trollhattan:
The Avenue 5 episode where passengers kept deliberately stepping out into space and dying seemed all too illustrative of our current era (I have not seen season 2 yet)
mrmoshpotato
@Bettencourt: Maybe the orange shitstain should try to shoot someone on Avenue 5 just to get strangled by outer space.
Sister Golden Bear
@Suzanne:
As a former graphic designer, I absolutely agree. And as a queer woman, many of her works are HAWT!
Not a fan either. One of the reasons I prefer the LA art museums.
Though admittedly The Getty is more notable for its architecture than its collections (and the landscape architecture doesn’t relate well to the buildings). But the views from The Getty are stunning.
cain
Us mastodon dead-enders are gonna stay on! Not even gonna create an account on bluesky :)
Also, my self care has increased by the introduction of a lot more romance in my life :D
Lapassionara
@CaseyL: if you liked fused glass, you would probably enjoy batik. Or most any fabric art.
Jay
@cain:
You got a cat?
HeleninEire
I absolutely love this blog. Cuz everyone loves Baud. He (is he a he?) makes us all laugh.
Chetan Murthy
@HeleninEire: IIRC Baud isn’t even all that young, but he sure -presents- as if he’s young! I mean, all that vim and vigor, you gotta believe he’s spring chicken! But …. apparently not.
MobiusKlein
Took an afternoon nap, and felt 100x better. Made turkey soup too, nom nom.
Found out that finger spelling for hard of hearing folks has ‘insulting’ variants of letters. Like you do an R with crossed fingers, but put the middle finger in front.
Bupalos
As you feel a desire to disengage from politics, consider….
that was the best predictor this cycle of support for Trump.
Ramalama
Lotta Big Baud Energy tonight.
AM in NC
@Flanders Other Neighbor: I am a 57 year old woman who is married with kids.
can I marry your daughter?
Bupalos
@MobiusKlein: so that’s like raising your voice? Or I guess putting the hard ‘r’ on niclang?
Bupalos
@Flanders Other Neighbor: “I’m not political” is the new “Heil Hitler.”
OK slightly exaggerated, but literally every man-on-the-street interview of people in the orc-empire (currently conducting chronic genocide) starts with “I’m not political.”
Then what are you, a fucking sled-dog? A doorknob?
Origuy
@trollhattan: I was at Woodward Park in Fresno last weekend; it’s where the California high school cross-country championships are always held. They have a concrete row of starting blocks, we used for our start for the Golden State Orienteering Championship. We saw a lot of kids practicing there. They’ve made trails everywhere and it’s very open, so there are opportunities for spectating.
Chetan Murthy
@Bupalos: “I’m not political” is what Russians say when asked about Putin’s depredations. It’s their way of saying “I’m focusing on my life, my family, and Putin can do what he wants as long as he leaves us alone.” Which works, until he wants those Russians for his meat waves. And of course, it never worked for those who weren’t ethnic Russians in the Russian Federation: those folks got shafted twenty ways to Sunday, and never had a chance.
frosty
@CaseyL: Art? Check out Zentangle. Ms F has been working on it for about a year and just came back from a 3-day class to become a teacher. I haven’t seen her as enthusiastic and engaged as much in anything for quite some time.
The results are beautiful.
BigJimSlade
@mrmoshpotato: My favorite Tyson-ism: since he wasn’t the most technical fighter in the world, people had ideas of how to box him and win. So he was asked about people saying they had a plan to beat him… he said, “everyone’s got a plan ’til they get punched in the face.”
RevRick
This comment thread is so Baudy that it’s beginning to read like Penthouse Letters.
frosty
@lowtechcyclist:
You and I were running X-country at the same time. My last season was Fall 1968. I was only on the team because my best friend joined and they didn’t have enough people so no one got cut. Otherwise my all-time record 5:33 mile would have had me gone.
It was fun but painful (OMG shin splints the first year!) . I’m glad I did it.
frosty
@trollhattan: Echoing lowtechcyclist: Tell her this godawful slow X-country runner congratulates her too!
JoyceH
I’m working on my go-to retort for the Trump Era II – my sarcastic version of “Thanks, Biden!”, to be deployed at every predictable fiasco – the reemergence of once-rare deseases, the crops rotting in the fields for lack of workers, the backlog for building projects, elderly parents spending the day lying in their own waste in understaffed elder care facilities, red states becoming OB-GYN wastelands when the doctors flee for safer territory, and on and on. Right now I’m torn between “Ah, feel that Greatness!” and “Are we Great Again yet?”
Jay
@JoyceH:
Stick with “you got what you voted for, and hard.”
frosty
@trollhattan: When we were near Port Angeles last summer our RV park was close to the Elwha. I took a short bird walk and came by an exhibit on the dam removal. The lowest downstream damsite was a short walk away. Seems like all these smaller older hydroelectric dams weren’t needed after Bonneville and Grand Coulee were built. Too bad about the Columbia River fishery (nice fish ladder to pass Bonneville though).
CaseyL
@frosty: That type of drawing looks remarkably like one I did while in college: almost obsessively tiny, detailed, elaborate swirls, curlicues, flames, paisleys, and diamond-studded ribbons. I’d cover entire pages of the sketchbook with them.
Maybe I should take that up again. I used to doodle all the time, but stopped decades ago.
MobiusKlein
@Bupalos: I showed my daughter a picture of letter signed “Fuck Trump” and she suggested the R should be done differently.
A way to put a slant on just a single letter.
JanieM
@CaseyL: Great minds… I won an art contest with my doodles in high school…doodled my way through many years of classes and meetings. But now that I don’t have classes or meetings, I don’t doodle. Taking pictures has been fun, though. :-)
ETA: I dabbled with Celtic designs for a while, after I found a book that taught how to do them in a comprehensible way. Will try to find that title if it tempts you.
frosty
@CaseyL: One unique thing about it is that it’s both art and meditation. That’s where the Zen in Zentangle comes in.
BigJimSlade
@sentient ai from the future: hey – haven’t seen you around here or lgm in a long time! I was wondering what happened to you (and hoped everything was alright), so, good to see you!
rikyrah
Baud,
I😍 you
Kent
I’m busy watching HS football. What’s going on with this farce of a fight?
mrmoshpotato
@Kent: Dunno. Watch Josh Johnson clips.
mrmoshpotato
@mrmoshpotato: *Watching
Ohio Mom
@FDRLincoln: You and me both, sister.
Soprano2
So they were trying to get the fight on the TV at the bar, but it kept freezing up. We have fast internet there, but it wasn’t good enough. The manager finally gave up on it.
sentient ai from the future
@BigJimSlade:
i got banned because i ran afoul of campos for some reason or other. lgm is fucking garbage, they dont bother to banhammer chronic trolls and play FTFNYT-lite by scrounging for clicks with inflammatory FP posts. Loomis is also a shithead. Rofer (who only joined as i was getting banhammered), shakezula, and lemieux are the only worthwhile writers who are also worthwhile human beings, but i dont even lurk anymore.
prostratedragon
Happy 92nd to Petula Clark
cain
@Jay: I definitely have a pussy cat, yes. :D
mrmoshpotato
@Soprano2: So that crap isn’t over yet?
NotMax
@JoyceH
Back in my wanton theater dabbling days used to go backstage after the show if a friend or acquaintance was in it or if I knew the director.
At times the production really was a turkey, so when confronted with a query about what I thought of it the standard response was a monotone “You must be very proud.”
A riff in the same vein as the South’s “Bless his heart.”
Gloria DryGarden
@Flanders Other Neighbor: brilliant. I love your daughter already. One more distant auntie on her team.
there was a pre election video, about go vote, lady goes on a date w a guy, they’re chatting, nice sparks, then he says he’s not going to vote, she gets up, says she’s not interested.
Gloria DryGarden
@geg6: me too. Josh is so hilarious, it’s that deadpan normalcy and relatableness. I’ve been watching him on dry bar comedy clips, internet. Love him.
Gloria DryGarden
@Ohio Mom: I’ve been working as a sub paraprofessional in elementary schools for years, often in special needs and autistic centers. I don’t know how schools could cope without funding and extra support staff for these children.
When I first added sped to my early childhood substitute job, some of the early jobs I took told me, when I asked if I was doing what they needed, that they’d had subs come in, who left within half an hour. Just grabbed their purse and slid out the door. They were like, you’re still here, you’re catching on.
It’s an all-hands-on-deck job, and the families need the support and respite.
It has to be supported.
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: i love know this; thank you. All the parts of how nature is a web of interlocking pieces, it’s a love story for me. The nature love affair. So much grief and deep fear, when I know of pieces of it all that are not working well anymore.
i used to beg at the fish counter for the discarded fish parts, to bury in my veggie garden. It always made the soil more fertile.
TBone
@NotMax: that’s a great line, I’m gonna use it!
You voted for this! You must be so proud. 😆
Gloria DryGarden
@CaseyL: it seems like the salmon are agents of the god of the land
Gloria DryGarden
@CaseyL: it seems like the salmon are agents of the god of the land
Gloria DryGarden
@CaseyL: it seems like the salmon are agents of the god of the land
TBone
Editor of Scientific American, dragged on xitter for telling the truth on Bluesky, resigns.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5193258/scientific-american-editor-resigns-after-comments-about-trump-supporters-went-viral
TBone
Editor of Scientific American, dragged on xitter for telling the truth on Bluesky, resigns.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5193258/scientific-american-editor-resigns-after-comments-about-trump-supporters-went-viral
TBone
Editor of Scientific American, dragged on xitter for telling the truth on Bluesky, resigns.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5193258/scientific-american-editor-resigns-after-comments-about-trump-supporters-went-viral
TBone
Editor of Scientific American, dragged on xitter for telling the truth on Bluesky, resigns.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5193258/scientific-american-editor-resigns-after-comments-about-trump-supporters-went-viral
TBone
WTF how did four repeats go through??? Sorry! Gah.
Gloria DryGarden
Some kind of blog malfunction. I see I’m not alone: pressed to load my comment, would load, stuck with the dialogue box open, pressed it again.etc, finally had to refresh from the top menu bar. Hope the server isn’t going to take a break.
although there has been enough internal arguing here on some threads to cause a break…
not this one though, all art, and love for baud, and salmon getting to back up river. Truly holy subjects.
Jay
@TBone:
WordPress 2 am Glitch.
It’s a thing.
NotMax
@TBone
FYWP 2 a.m. jitters.
Geminid
According to AP, the House stands at 2018 Republican, 212 Democrat with 5 undecided seats. Three are held by Republicans. In Iowa, Rep. Mariannette leads Christine Bohannon 1,273 votes, 206,094 to 205,139, with 99% counted.
Rep. John Duarte (CA) leads Adam Grey by 1,704 votes, 90,606 to 88,902 with 86% counted. And another California Republican, Rep. Michelle Steel, is in a very close race against Derek Tran. Steel leads Tran by only 58 votes, 152,415 to 152,357 with 93% counted.
In her Northwest Ohio district, Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur leads Derek Martin by 1,173 votes, 176,208 to 175,035 with 99%(?) counted. A Libertarian candidate got 4% of the vote and that may have helped Kaptur.
Alaska, where incumbent Democrat Mary Peltola trails Nick Begich. is the 5h undecided race.
sab
@Gloria DryGarden: Around 2 am the blog always glitches and tricks commenters into repeating repeating repeating…
ETA It tricks you into thinking your comment didn’t post so you hit post again. Also too it won’t let you delete.
Embarrassing, but long time jackals know what happened and just snicker. And in the heat of the moment long time jackals also make this mistake too, almost every week.
Gloria DryGarden
@TBone: mine was cuz of it not appearing to load, so trying again.
remember when the server went out middle of the night a few weeks back? Hope it’s not that.
ooh, midnight, trying again for earlier to bed, break that 4 am pattern. Going to a seed swap, native plants, in the morn.
sab
@Geminid: Yikes. So Marci Kaptur didn’t lose?
NotMax
@Gloria DryGarden
What’s all this about Baud spawning upstream?
:)
Gloria DryGarden
@Geminid: this gives me goosebumps, but not the festive kinds. I feel slight nausea.
TBone
Thanks for the 2AM explainer you guys! Will wait that out next time.
TBone
@CookPolitical: Trump has fallen below 50% of the popular vote. With 152.7M votes counted, he leads Harris 49.99%-48.22%
mrmoshpotato
@TBone:
@Gloria DryGarden: WordPress shakes its ass like holy moly at 2AM. (log rotation or something, and shove your singing commercials T Mobile)
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: here we both are again! 😂
I don’t know why I can’t stay asleep this week, my seasonal insomnia doesn’t usually kick in this early in Winter.
I stayed up later tonight so this wouldn’t happen but to no avail.
PS thank you for your kind note today! 💜
Geminid
@sab: It looks like Kaptur will pull it out. All three endangered Democratic Representatives in your state won this year: Greg Landsman, Emilia Sykes snd Marcy Kaptur. Buckeye Dems rock!
NotMax
OT.
Entre nous, goddam, I’m a good cook.
Chicken cacciatore is stupendous.
TBone
@NotMax: mmmmm!
sab
@TBone: Yay for small victories. At least now we can hold our heads up internationally. It’s not us. It’s just what our founding fathers (first modern democracy) put in place.
Gloria DryGarden
@NotMax: laughing out loud for minutes.
I bet you can find music to go with…. Or compose something, “baud upstream victorious return”
oh, and I forgot to mention all the track and field happy memories, the glory of running ( for those who did that), cue chariots of fire theme song
and the extremely appreciated josh johnson. Sometimes they have him on the daily show. He’s touring the us now, you could catch a show. As they sell out, he’s adding dates.
sab
@Geminid: Buckeye Dems worked their little butts off for good candidates. Go blue cities!
Gloria DryGarden
@TBone: amen. Wishing you jasmine tea, lemon chicken, and lemon blueberry scones with a ton of zest.
and rest
(accidental rhyme, I did not plan that.)
ps, pound cake takes a ton of zest, I like to double what the recipe says, then add chocolate swirl in the middle. The combo occurred by sudden inspiration one late night baking session. Chefs kiss.
Kay
@Geminid:
Im glad. We worked hard.
Shes 78 though – she can’t hold that seat forever.
TBone
@sab: when people say rethugs are a majority it drives me nuts. I’m looking at it as you have pointed out, proudly. Razor thin win is almost a tie!
Just because we lost an election doesn’t mean they outnumber us.
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: 😍
Guess what I made today? Blueberry muffins!
Gloria DryGarden
@TBone: added recipe to comment.
dreaming of razors…
(and of being thin myself. Ha!)
NotMax
@Gloria DryGarden
[something something] Tryst Social.
:)
Gloria DryGarden
@TBone: I’ll send you my teleporter coordinates, so I can have one.
wait, you forgot to put lemon zest in them!!
sigh, I bet they were wonderful. You can eat mine.
I’m nearly sleepy, sort of less coherent.
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: 😂 me too but the delicious treats are too tempting (weed says eat eat eat, maybe I’ll help you sleep).
YUM on your addition!
I keep frozen berries on hand always for adding to yogurt, now I’ll add lemon zest to both next time. It’s a good thing!
I hope you drift off for a peaceful rest.
mrmoshpotato
@Gloria DryGarden:
Are they in Hawaii?
Gloria DryGarden
@NotMax: under Moscow rules, we can’t tryst with anyone, no?
beam me up Scotty, there’s a man in the upper salmon spawning beds, I don’t understand. What else are these creature capable of?
sab
Preparing for next election: Born in America folks: order copies of your birth certificate from whatever state you were born in. It might take a while and maybe even a road trip to get a certified copy or three.
Married girls: get a copy of your marriage license. And if you went with the traditional switch to first name, maiden surname, married surname you might have to go to court for an official name change because the law says first name, original middle name, married name is the only official okay change. Not traditional but that is the law. Twenty five years I have been peeved at Social Security and it turns out they were only following the law (passed by male idiots.)
ETA The actual legal immigrant new citizens the Republicans want to disenfranchise already have their paperwork in order.
TBone
Here is Digby’s traditional Friday Night Soother. Biltmore.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/11/15/friday-night-soother-280/
SHERO womens’ work again! 😍 Of course, she credits her entire team.
Gloria DryGarden
@mrmoshpotato: are you hoping I’m there, and I’ll drive over to you with an extra muffin? I would.. I’ve never been to Hawaii, but most of my friends have. I love the ocean.
________
it appears we’re all rocking the blog, while it was waggling and twitching, we’re pouring out zesty jokes to lift our spirits out of sour grating news. Using razor sharp wits to curl word play into art and silliness,
happily swimming upriver through tiredness and rough waters to tryst and to spawn new hopes and pleasant camaraderie.
someone make my silly lines better. Ándale.
no one knows I’m partly referencing a prose poem I put in a comment this morning. It had lemons in it, and ended up comforting. (I think only TBone saw it)
sab
@TBone: Wow and yay! Why do they have so many horses or any horses?
TBone
@sab: I don’t know anything about Biltmore but I’ll be looking it up – my guess is that they offer riding to guests. State/Nat’l. parks often do (I’ve been on rides at Acadia and Ridley Creek State Park).
Update: it is still a privately owned Gilded Age mansion but was intended to be a working Estate and has a whole village that employs a lot of people. So recreation is a big attraction.
Jay
@Gloria DryGarden:
https://critfc.org/salmon-culture/we-are-all-salmon-people/
sab
@TBone: Turns out my rescue pitbull was exposed to cannabis as a pup and really liked it. Always wants more. And I don’t participate.
Gloria DryGarden
@sab: that’s hilarious. Is it like cats on catnip?
sab
@TBone: I haven’t been there since 1967 when my parents offloaded me to summer camp in NC while they did whatever parents do in the summer when the kids are gone.
Jay
@sab:
Rule of thumb is 2 horses, per rider. 4 Horses per rider if it’s a working ranch, 8 horses per rider if it’s a backcountry pack in.
sab
@Gloria DryGarden: A bit more intense. Cats just wait and hope. Dogs demand with their big feet and their big eyes.
ETA But our dog slightly high isn’t as looped as the cats get on catnip.
TBone
@sab: 😂😮 that seems unfair! (The previous owner, not you!). People getting their pets high blowing smoke is a no go for me. It is not funny.
But if it’s edible, I guess no harm no foul?
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: now you’ve brought tears to my eye, a gift of ocean from within
reverence and gratitude.
the salmon is a god. It is the heartbeat current running through all those cultures.
I can almost hear the land, and whispers, echos of the people living there with the salmon
thank you.
sab
@TBone: I totally agree. But worse people get their dogs drunk.
But I am fine with catnip until I hear otherwise.
ETA Many years ago when I was in law school one of my classmates brought her golden retriever puppy every week to our Friday afternoon on campus kegger. She and the puppy were both just hopeless drunks. I haven’t followed her career since.
TBone
@sab: 👍
Jay
@sab:
@TBone:
Since legalization here , we have had a fair number of pets, poisoned by pot.
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: now I miss living on the banks of Penns Creek (more of a river than a “creek”) and letting the sound of rushing water lull me to sleep with windows wide open to hear it and drink in the mountain air scented by evergreen and wilderness. When trout get really big, they look like salmon.
sab
@Jay: Pets and toddlers.
ETA: As I said before, I don’t participate, and mildly disapprove of the non-medical use. Can be dangerous around the house.
TBone
@sab: that’s why I don’t do edibles, cannot gauge it like when smoking.
Anyone that gives alcohol or non-medicinal recreational drugs to pets or children needs to be put in stocks and shamed in the public square. Pelted with rotten produce.
Gloria DryGarden
@TBone: how beautiful
Jay
Geminid
@TBone: There’s a place along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Blowing Rock, Moses Cone Mansion, that has miles and miles of carriage trais. Cone was a 19th century textile baron who put up a nice mountain house where he could ride carriages with his friends. Now people walk and run on them.
The Cone House is owned by the Park Service. There a pretty trail to it from Blowing Rock just down the hill. Thats a nice town.
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: it is, except for when flooding was a concern. Then you start to question your streamside choice!
TBone
@Geminid: nice!!!
Like the famous carriage roads in Acadia, wonderful recreation for everyday people. I am a huge fan of The Commons.
They are in serious danger right now, as when Raygun appointed that dick to be Secty. of the Interior who parceled out our precious lands for sale and profit by land rapers.
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: oh!
who wrote that?
saving. It makes me breathe, and weep.
sab
@sab: I saw Biltmore on a summer camp field trip and was impressed. Then I got home to our new house ( my parents moved us that year) and our new house was a tiny copy of some Biltmore stuff (carved wood panelling inside, fancy garden outside.)
It was weird. My parents didn’t have the money to keep that up, but I worked a lot in the garden for years. We tried to keep it up and mostly succeeded for years. But woodchucks love phlox flowers and deer eat roses. I hate mowing grass on an incline.
sab
@Jay: I always think of people and horses as somehow having some sort of bond. My sister and cousins keep horses and the people and horses seem to love each other.
It’s weird to think of the pre-car era when horses were completely interchangeable and disposable (but expensive.)
Gloria DryGarden
@Geminid: was this place damaged in the Helene floods? Road might be closed.
Gloria DryGarden
@sab: out in the west we get a catalogue that has lists of plants that are deer proof. Bunny proof ones too. It’s heartbreaking, to grow something beautiful, and some creature comes and nips it in the bud.
eclare
@NotMax:
Yum! Recipe?
Jay
@Gloria DryGarden:
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.
Gloria DryGarden
@sab: I know folks do trauma therapy and other therapies w people, using horses. They’re incredible animals.
I did some cranial work on a friends skittish rescue horse once. On the third day of it, she turned around when I was done and insisted I do the other side. It was very sweet.
I wish I were around horses more.
Jay
@sab:
When I was 17, I got a summer job as a Wrangler at the Douglas Lake Cattle Company.
Each horse is character of it’s own.
sab
We moved into a house on a railroad track, other side deeply wooded and remote.
The remote part is a back part of a robber baron fake Tudor estate that is a tourist attraction nearby.
We just found out from a youngish contractor doing work for us (late thirties, best friend of my oldest stepson) that that remote part of that estate is where they all went to get high in high school and probably still do, because the cops cannot just drive in.
I don’t know if I feel safer or more in peril. Probable safer. Stupid kids getting high on cannabis.
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: I need to read that. Might have read it before, or just seen the movie. Not sure.
when someone writes about the land that way, as sacred and through time, I feel an inner connection, like I’m home.
is that your favorite quote from the book? I think I’ll copy it out and stick on my wall.
one could have entire ceremonies made of readings like that quote. In a church made of tall arched trees reaching across to one another.
you know science is finding out how sentient and interactive trees are in their communities?
sab
@Jay: I LOVE that book.
sab
@Gloria DryGarden: Our garden centers here have deer proof sections. Over the decades I have learned about deer proof and squirrel proof and I am finally planting accordingly.
eclare
@sab:
Based on my experience, you’re probably fine.
And my rescue kitty from satby just jumped into my lap!
Jay
@Gloria DryGarden:
It’s a hard book to read, but that is my favorite quote.
When I was a kid, if my parents lost me, their go to was “where is the nearest water?”.
Tim in SF
I’m on Bluesky here, if we’re trading handles.
Jay
@Gloria DryGarden:
https://www.iflscience.com/gargantuan-blob-in-utah-is-up-to-80000-years-old-and-among-earths-oldest-organisms-76634
mrmoshpotato
@sab: They’ll be too stoned/drunk to want to cause any excessive damage.
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: my library has it on audiobook, just placed a hold.
all this talk of waters and salmon, and northern parts has me thinking of images in a book I just read, took place on a lake 4 hours out from Toronto. Mists, rain, sun, great descriptions, that put me in the place and connected to the story.
sab
@eclare: My satby rescue boy is thriving. He rules a whole basement, warmer than the rest of the house. He has multiple cat trees and litter boxes. He has acquired a small harem of cat ladies his age who spend their days napping near him.
His sister seems okay but worries me more. She spends her days under my bed apparently sleeping. She has wet and dry food there. At night she crawls into bed with me, but insists on poking the pitbull until pitbull wakes up. Pitbull loves cats and has been anxiously waiting for new cats to come around and be friendly. At this point I think Echo is not actually afraid of the dog and is just trolling.
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Quake your ass off aspen! Quake your ass and get down tonight, quake your ass and bang chung tonight!
sab
@mrmoshpotato: Maybe, but suzanne might say otherwise. Before her story I might have just laughed.
sab
@sab: I need to report to the owner’s daughter again. It has been weeks, and she must be worried.
eclare
@sab:
All of that sounds good!
Gloria DryGarden
@WaterGirl: and now all the ballot curing links are expired. Which I hope means enough people helped and all the ballots got cured..
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: love it! We have wonderful magical aspen groves all through the mountains here. I had no idea about the genetic variation in a grove, all grown from underground runners like a raspberry patch or a damask rose, or a plum. Very interesting.
I thought for sure they also could sexually reproduce. They make catkins, flowering parts. After fire, they’re one of the first in the succession growth, too.
Gloria DryGarden
Proposed thread to offer, every day. Suggested from other commenters earlier today:
Stories about the arts, community engagement, small businesses.
Random acts of kindness and generosity. Sweet snippets from our day.
sab
@eclare: My new house has three heat zones. Basement 70°, Upstairs bedrooms 60°, main living space 65°.
The downstairs cats want 70°. The upstairs cats also want 70 ° but don’t know it’s already available. Less bright kitties.
Geminid
@Gloria DryGarden: I talked to someone who knows the Blowing Rock/Boone area who said the storm passed to the west and they were not hit too badly.
Gloria DryGarden
@Geminid: that’s good.
evodevo
@sab: And abused to the max, by the thousands. One reason the Humane Society was founded in 1877 – American Humane — the country’s first national humane organization — was founded on October 9 in Cleveland, Ohio, by local humane society representatives from around the United States. The new organization’s first goal was to secure humane treatment for working animals and livestock in transit.
BigJimSlade
@sentient ai from the future: yeah, when things get pissy over there, i just don’t involve myself and just sort of look away.
pajaro
@Gloria DryGarden:
I’m not sure whether the quote is the last thing in the book, but they are the last words in the very beautiful adaptation of A River Runs Through It that Robert Redford directed. It’s both beautiful and heartbreaking.