Are there 10000 substantive issues I could discuss?
Yes, of course.
Are we not supposed to discuss people’s looks?
Also yes.
Am I going to anyway?
If you guessed yes, you are correct.
I can not stop thinking about this so now you aren’t allowed to either. Why does Karoline Leavitt look like someone used the adobe blur tool on her upper lip and then forgot to go back in and recreate a philtrum?
WHY?
VeniceRiley
It looks like AI created both her, and the wonky building behind her.
Peale
@VeniceRiley: Definitely not a building where I’d invite guests over for a friendly game of marbles.
NotMax
Works with the tune to I Shot the Sheriff.
//
Gin & Tonic
@VeniceRiley: And now I’m thinking of the Fred and Ginger Building in Prague.
lowtechcyclist
When I saw the thread title, I was racking my brain, trying to remember what a ‘philtrum’ was.
Then I saw the pic, and said, ‘oh yeah, that.’
lowtechcyclist
@NotMax:
I stole her philtrum, but I did not steal her upper lip.
TBone
Holy shit, she’s a Reptilian Qanon Lizard Deep Stater!
How’s her throat wattle? Can she inflate it to attract a mate? Is she amphibious?
NotMax
In FYWP news,
Eric
It’s because she has no soul.
TBone
@VeniceRiley: LOL! That “building” is actually her home planet.
TONYG
@lowtechcyclist: I had to look up “philtrum”. Apparently John Cole is a professor of anatomy!
Colette South
Sadly, lack of a philtrum is a symptom of Fetal alcohol syndrome although it may also be a sign of photoshopping.
Gangis Khan
Who’s been shrinking Charlie Kirk’s face? Could be a good lead
TBone
@NotMax: we are all in an impossible situation – gotta think outside the box, which you are really good at.
humanadverb
Looking at a variety of pictures in Google Images, I actually think I see some evidence of a repaired cleft lip.
TONYG
@TONYG: She looks like poorly designed “AI” interface had been asked to generate an image of a “blandly pretty, unintelligent young blonde woman”.
@Eric:
hells littlest angel
There’s a bug in the Visitors’ mask generating machine.
Snarki, child of Loki
Look, I come here for family-friendly political snark, not philtrum kink.
TBone
@Gangis Khan: hahahahahaha!
NotMax
FYI.
TBone
@hells littlest angel: exterminate!
TBone
@humanadverb: those are her lungs.
Quantum man
This is the basis of a good Jeopardy! question.
Time travelin
She’s on the Kari Lake program?
Oregon Girl
Smug and self-righteous. And a liar. Really hard to watch.
Marmot
@NotMax:
Fuck! I was really hoping it was the other way around, since I function better in the heat than the cold.
A Ghost to Most
I think that they have a factory churning this model out in Russia. I’ve seen it before.
Lenore
As a caricature and portrait artist who stares at faces like a weirdo for hours every day? I’m thinking botox.
toine
@A Ghost to Most: You mean she is a Cylon??? Makes sense when you stop and think about it…
rikyrah
KKKaroline 😒😒
TBone
@toine: what in good gawd’s name are those made out of?
Never mind, I don’t need to know. Ukrainian minerals, prolly.
Hilbertsubspace
I am now of the opinion that fascists are the locust form of reactionaries. Which make Trump their metaphorical Abaddon*.
If I were writing the script for this shitshow, I would have the extinct Rocky Mountain locust make a sudden return this summer to drive the point home.
*Demon King of Locusts
toine
@TBone: The human models? Probably the same stuff as hotdogs and used graphics processors… Just an educated guess though…
TBone
@Hilbertsubspace: ever seen a locust plague IRL?
Jiminy Cricket!
Chris Johnson
philtrum if you got um…
TBone
@toine: lips & assholes!
NotMax
@rikyrah
Speaking of KKK, a flash from the past, after Chad had moved on and was replaced by a youngster you’ll recognize.
;)
toine
@TBone: Sounds pretty bang on given the original subject matter… definitely no philtrums though.
bbleh
Third-rate plastic surgery? Too much pancake makeup and fuzzy focus or filters? Or yeah, maybe alien lizard being who didn’t get the disguise quite right.
But when it comes to rightwing spokesbots, they might as well be AI constructs. So ok, AI construct. Maybe that’s why we don’t see her hands, because they’re both left, with 6 or 7 fingers each.
Now on to important matters — which individual socks in this batch of laundry make pairs? I mean, they look mostly the same, but some are more worn than others, and I know some are older than others, so which ones GO together?!?
TBone
@toine: gills and cloaca
TBone
@NotMax: holy cow they are prophets.
toine
@TBone: had to look up cloaca… wish I hadn’t… at least not with images turned on… blechhhh…
Suzanne
@Colette South:
It is also a sign of terribly-done fillers.
NotMax
@TBone
There’s a proto-quip about Cylon stockings I can’t yet quite wrestle into shape.
;)
Scout211
I had my book group meeting yesterday on zoom and I was not happy with how old I looked on my video feed so I played around with the filter that “improves” your appearance. My face was “touched up” by the zoom filter so much it looked like I was a mannequin whose face was smeared with Vaseline. You know, just like young Karoline. The only difference between my face and young Karoline’s was I looked like an old Scout211 with Vaseline all over my face. Believe me, that was not a good look. My book group got a kick out my story trying to look younger on my video feed because as old as I am, I’m the youngest book group member in our group. LOL.
Ohio Mom
@Colette South: IIRC, there are some other developmental disabilities that are also marked by a lack of a philtrum, not just FAS. It is definitely something developmental doctors note.
NotMax
@Scout211
Trivia:
Karo syrup and crumpled bits of toilet tissue are a cheapskate way to age actors on stage.
Suzanne
@Scout211: If the lighting is overhead or cold in temperature, one will look bad. Turn on a nice lamp that’s roughly level with your face, or sit next to a window, and you’ll look beautiful.
Mel
@TBone: The even gorier question is: which creature from the Trump lagoon is lurking just off-screen ready for the amplexus?
The mind boggles…
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: Karoline Leavitt has had buccal fat removal in her cheeks and a ton of fillers in her face. That’s standard practice for MAGA women.
Probably Botox eyebrows and veneers on her teeth, too.
ETA: And a closer look at her photo makes me think she’s also had a nose job and a chin implant.
scav
Has anyone checked for a hidden valve? She may just be slightly over-inflated.
brendancalling
She looks like a Gluron. I wonder if she watches “Bug Fights”?
bbleh
Also, does this indicate the emergence of a new mid-level bad guy, the notorious Philtrum Filcher?
Jackie
Good for John Deere!
Will MAGA farmers boycott John Deere?
waspuppet
Depends. I will discuss Donald Trump’s looks all day long because 1) he insults other peoples looks constantly and 2) his appearance — not what he was born with, I should stress, but the way he chooses to make himself look vis a vis the impression he’s trying to make — crosses the line into obvious visual evidence of age-related mental decline. He’s clearly unable to perceive the reality of the world around him.
Dorothy A. Winsor
WaterGirl
@scav:
Ha!
brendancalling
@brendancalling:
Reference
Baud
@Jackie:
Whoa.
Makes Target look weak.
hells littlest angel
Going broke and declaring bankruptcy is a kind of boycott, I guess.
Alce _e_ardillo
@TBone: Watch her extend her frenulum…..
Suzanne
@waspuppet: I believe it is bad form to discuss people’s body, but fully acceptable to discuss their presentation choices and the semiotics thereof.
I will also note that I think plastic surgery and procedures are fucken awesome for anyone who wants them. I don’t think it’s shallow or an indicator of poor character. The aesthetic of MAGA for women is about visible procedure work to fit into a specific beauty standard and that has relevance to politics and the world that women live in.
NotMax
@Alce _e_ardillo
A la Barnaby, “I’d prefer not to.”
;)
geg6
@Jackie:
My former boss’ daughter was recruited by John Deere in her junior year of college. She’s a mechanical engineer, in the top of her class at PSU. Held a job open for her until she graduated. Paid for moving costs from here to Augusta, GA, found her an apartment and paid her a $70k signing bonus. She is making more money three years from graduation than her mom and dad do now put together. She says they love hiring women and Black engineers and will fight to hire them.
Nukular Biskits
Good evenin’, y’all.
OT, I guess (?): Made a brief visit to my senior US Senator’s local office today. Staffer their claimed the other staffer, the “Southern Regional Field Representative” had tried to call me (I had left several messages). I told her I had no missed calls.
Got his card so I’m about to email him, requesting a face-to-face.
Again, folks, remember: THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO COME BY THEIR OFFICES.
ArchTeryx
If that’s actually AI-generated, then I think you can make fun of it all you want. I mean, I think it’s a moral imperative to ruthlessly mock AI-generated anything.
If that’s an actual human being… WTF? Why would you do that to yourself? What the hell is wrong with these people?
Nukular Biskits
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Are you fucking kidding me?
Probably the ONLY reason I didn’t catch the flu while on business travel (and in closed spaces aboard a ship for hours at a time) while everyone else was dropping like flies was because I got my flu shot in October.
Suzanne
@ArchTeryx:
She does it because she wouldn’t have the career/platform that she enjoys if she didn’t.
NotMax
@ArchTer
Best take a seat. This will take a while…,
//
NotMax
#68 supposed to be @ArchTeryx.
FYWP strikes again.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@geg6: Mr DAW was happy working for Deere. They were good to him, and the engineering center where he worked was very supportive of an engineer who transitioned.
ArchTeryx
@Suzanne: If she wasn’t a MAGA cultist I’d feel sorry for her. I’ve never believed in the utter crap women are forced to go through for public facing jobs like that.
Baud
Via reddit
Eric NNY
DAMN YOU COLE!
TBone
@Baud: she doesn’t pull her punches.
Nukular Biskits
@TBone @Baud:
Maybe me & Ms Biskits should move to her district when I retire.
suzanne
@ArchTeryx: I think that most women are doing the best they can do, given a society that provides incredibly strong incentives and disincentives for conformity. And, quite frankly, it is much more helpful/ally-ful to tear at those incentives and the beauty standard, rather than to ask why women conform to them, or to imply that she doesn’t conform well enough to the beauty standard.
She’s pretty. She looks uncanny, though…. which is entirely the point.
TBone
I am a sucker for anything with Barry Fitzgerald and his brogue, Gotta go listen to Barry booming and Bing crooning on TCM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_My_Way
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gx34vv3YGrE
matt
@VeniceRiley: isn’t that the Watergate?
TBone
@Nukular Biskits: She’s going places!
MagdaInBlack
@TBone: And god bless her for it.
Nukular Biskits
@TBone:
She needs to come to MS and kick ass.
Jay
There is a sub set on r/Leopards ate my Face, about misogynistic women MAGgot’s finding out that MAGgot’s are misogynistic towards women in their own Party and that they are all DEI hires, now fired.
Funny that, support the patriarchy, discover the misogyny.
Nancy
@lowtechcyclist: and NotMax
Nice. Now I’ve got both lines repeating in my head. I’m not complaining.
not that
She either did have a philtrum or it only shows up when she is not smiling and her mouth is not open.
My ddg image search me to this.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=karoline+leavitt+&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: The first thing I thought when I saw her (whoever she is) is, What an awful nose job, it’s disproportionately small. Looks weird.
As someone who has had medically necessary surgeries, it boggles my mind that people volunteer to go under the knife. I hate surgery. I guess I am not vain enough.
Jay
@Ohio Mom:
She is the current White Supremacy
Press Secretary, resident liar.prostratedragon
@waspuppet: Thank you! He’s always had issues here, as you can tell comparing his appearance to his very presentable-looking younger brother. It’s how, against all my home training, I came to see him years ago as defiant and dangerously shameless.
Ohio Mom
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Fooey. I am still recovering from a two week bout of Flu Type A. Maybe my early fall shot wore off, maybe I would have been sicker without it. I definitely do not want to skip next fall’s shot.
Are we going to have to become medical tourists for flu shots?
Baud
Our pain may be a gift to the world.
Ohio Mom
@Jay: Oh! I’ve seen her on YouTubes. She’s so generic looking I didn’t recognize out of context.
prostratedragon
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Oh good!😡
Nukular Biskits
@Jay:
HOOCUHDAHNODE?!?!?!?!?!?!?
suzanne
@Ohio Mom; I’ve never had plastic surgery, either, but…. eh. Maybe someday.
Mai Naem mobil
She’s 20 something and married to a guy close to 60. I know I’m not supposed to care about peoples personal lives but these kind of marriages just have such an eww factor with me..
Nancy
@Baud: Jasmine Crockett is brilliant. I admire her immensely but the deal was sealed when I saw her response to a reporter; “What would you say to Elon Musk?” “F— off.”*
*This is a family blog, isn’t it?
ArchTeryx
@Ohio Mom: We might have to become medical tourists for any medical care at this rate.
Maxim
Welfare check — Bill in Glendale:
I have not been in the comments much recently; too much life stuff going on. A friend who knows Bill from another site asked if I’d seen him here, as he’s been absent from that other site the last few weeks.
Is there any news about him? It’s a bit scary to ask these days, but I hope he’s just been busy. TIA.
West of the Rockies
I don’t know… she looks how she looks and gets to choose her makeup. It’s the words (lies) she spews that are offensive.
West of the Rockies
@Maxim:
Oh, I hope he’s okay. Bill’s a good man.
Baud
@Maxim:
I think he was here not too long ago, like within a week. He does comment a lot less than he used to.
Maxim
@Baud: Okay, thanks very much. I’ll pass that on.
prostratedragon
@Maxim: Pretty sure I’ve seen a comment or two in the last week.
Jay
@matt:
I thought that the Watergate was that great big tap in Canada, that takes hundreds of people to turn, that controls all the flow of water to California?
TBone
@Alce _e_ardillo:
BLECH hahahaha!
Spanish Moss
Vocabulary too, this really is a full service blog!
geg6
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Allyson (boss’ daughter) loves it there. She feels valued and very much part of the team. It’s still pretty unusual for a woman to be an engineer, let alone a mechanical engineer. And she’s also a stunner, tall, blonde, blue-eyed, which you may think would cause her some issues in such a male dominated world. But she has nothing but good things to say.
SpaceUnit
I admire a good vocabulary but there’s something sus about anyone who knows the word philtrum.
Spellcheck doesn’t even recognize it.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@geg6: Mr DAW worked at the Product Engineering Center in Waterloo, IA. Where is boss’s daughter?
TBone
Here’s a gal with a famous philtrum. I read once that she stuffed cotton under her upper lip to accentuate it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Grahame
The Bad and the Beautiful.
This photo really shows it off!
https://snl.no/Gloria_Grahame
comrade scotts agenda of rage
It’s nice to hear that Deere remains committed to DEI and realizes what a diverse engineering team brings to the company.
I saw this play out over a decade at my DOT mode.
The kicker is location. Our state DOT had a helluva time retaining out-of-area black and women engineers because the location (state capitol in Jeff City MO) was so insulated, they couldn’t find anything to do or people to socialize with, so were gone within 2 years.
prostratedragon
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Ummm …
Refers to this:
VFX Lurker
@NotMax:
Darn it…so, to maintain freshness and extend my shelf life, I need to live in a fridge?
TBone
@VFX Lurker: have you considered cryogenics?
prostratedragon
@waspuppet:
Example. Haven’t the stomach to listen to the audio, but the visuals say it sll.
Jay
@TBone:
Is that like Dianetics?
Jager
@Jackie: The son of a friend of mine, is the head tech guy for John Deere. He is the guy who shut off all the tractors Russia stole from Deere’s Ukrainian distributor at the beginning of Putin’s “3 day war”.
West of the Cascades
@bbleh: You would think that with all of Rupert Murdoch’s money the Lizard People would have the “Blonde Female FOX News Announcer Human Suit” perfected by now.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@TBone: I thought it was crab people
Is there more than one kind in cloud conspiracy land?
Professor Bigfoot
@geg6: I used to follow Mark Cuban on Twitter and I still do on Bluesky, and he’ll tell you that DEI is good for business… and there are companies who put their bottom lines ahead of currying favor with the Regime.
Looks like Deere is one of them.
Professor Bigfoot
@VFX Lurker: Fewer alligators and rattlesnakes and giant spiders up here, so there’s that…
The Audacity of Krope
Eventually I ran to Minneapolis, where it’s cold and I figured I’d keep better.
Rhoda had it right all along.
prostratedragon
@prostratedragon:
Critique from a former USAID worker:
Old School
@Maxim:
He sent out a Patreon on Monday. He spent 4 1/2 hours shooting/processing a Leo shot on Sunday night.
glc
@Alce _e_ardillo: Didn’t know there’d be a quiz.
Quaker in a Basement
If she grew a mustache, no one would notice her missing philtrum.
geg6
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Augusta, GA.
eclare
@Old School:
Thank you!
Kayla Rudbek
@Professor Bigfoot: we would add $1 trillion/year to the US economy if everyone else was getting patents at the same rate as white men do. https://inventtogether.org
Betty
Much too late for this thread, but popping in to say I lost my philtrum when I fell and smashed my mouth on my brother’s driveway. My lip does look funny now. If happens.
SteveinPHX
Late for the show, but I expanded my vocabulary!
Rugosa
@NotMax: Of course we keep better in the cold!
RA
Somebody thought it made her look too human and she had to have it removed.
RA
@NotMax: Living in Minnesota, I have this to be true until about 10 or 15 years ago. We are warming up quite a bit since then and I am shocked at how much my age shows on my face since then…and OMG the batwings!
TBone
@Quaker in a Basement: thats where menopause comes into the chat hahahaha!
TBone
@Jay: yes, only colder.
Maxim
@prostratedragon: Thank you.
Maxim
@Old School: Great, thank you.
Paul in KY
@TBone: She can unhinge her jaws. Probably same species as DeSatanis.
If they ever get in same room, and she’s ovulating, we might see him perform a Mating Display.