Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

I really should read my own blog.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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  3. 3.

    NotMax

    @AlaskaReader

    Pedant alert:

    By all rights it ought to be Fromage de Chatte.

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

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    Italics fail. Fix.

    @AlaskaReader

    Pedant alert:

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

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

  5. 5.

    NotMax

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

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

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

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    Low Key Swagger

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

  9. 9.

    Tony Jay

    @NotMax:

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

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    @Tony Jay

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

    Also recalling an ancient joke.

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

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

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

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

  11. 11.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    I remember a variant punchline:

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

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

  13. 13.

    lowtechcyclist

    @NotMax: ​
     

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

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

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    geg6

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

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    geg6

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

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    Joy in FL

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

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    Geminid

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

  21. 21.

    dearmaizie

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

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    Uncle Cosmo

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

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

    :^D

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