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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Venezuela.
No.
I have a knack for fitting words to existing music.
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
Earth station, drop-dead Pumpkin-spiced, op-ed Toll-free, diegetic, Generative semantics Creation science, dorky Cognitive therapy Chiral center, chimichanga Power up, shambolic [chorus]
MW's Words First Used In Print in your birth year is your personal We Didn't Start The Fire: Agent Orange, bad hair day Minoxidil, nongay Professional corporation Teppanyaki, ‘fro Hairy cell leukemia Flat-picking, granola Identity politics Suck-up, standing O [instrumental break]
It’s about 50-50 that and people still on the “Trump is dead” kick
Of course, he’d just been re-elected, so nothing came of it.
Probably
Shhhh, logic!
I already linked your thread about moving to Ghost, I have it bookmarked for such queries.
No further money will be budgeted for upkeep, and there will be no conveniently located services.
Translation: he’s going to throw some money at Big Construction, which will churn out Soviet-style brutalist concrete housing blocks as cheaply as possible on federal land, and then he’ll send the National Guard into the cities to move out all the poors to these new housing projects.
Yes, all hail the fog
Like this?
This is specific to moving to Ghost:
It’s the first of September, post an autumn GIF 🍃🍂🍁
The Matthew Turner is still moored off Santa Cruz. This is the best view I could get with my phone, hopefully the real photos will be better.
Depeche Mode used a pipe construction similar to this on the Black Celebration tour in 1986. Cool then, cool now.
We have little brown bats and hoary bats around here. I have a bat house that I won in a raffle years ago, but we live in a condo so I have no place to put it up 😢
Model T runabout with a 1924 plate on it and… that car is clearly a Work In Progress and could currently serve as the illustration in the dictionary for “jalopy”. It runs, though! (There was also a guy with a Model A, and eventually they both stopped at the lighthouse to chat.))
I learned the word from my maternal grandfather, who used it to refer to a pedal car I had as a kid. So I already knew how to pronounce it when I encountered it in the Hardy Boys books. (Tangential to which, while walking along West Cliff in Santa Cruz earlier this evening, there was a guy driving a
That is correct.
Yeah, and Frank Hardy and Callie Shaw shared some hot tub time. It was… very ‘90s.
I didn’t take this photograph. However, this ship, the brigantine Matthew Turner (built in Sausalito starting in 2013, launched 2017, based on plans from Bay Area shipwright Matthew Turner whose yard was in Benicia), was moored off the main beach in Santa Cruz today, and I did get some photos.
Costco’s already moving to Christmas stuff, they had the Halloween stuff out in June
Considering that the “other warships” include a bunch of gator freighters (Marine landing ships), there is some reason to be concerned, yes.
One more photo for the day - the last one from my first roll. Egret on the beach just east of the entrance to Natural Bridges State Park. As before, Ricoh KR-10, Fujicolor 400, Tokina 28-85 zoom at 70mm setting, skylight(1B) filter, f11 aperture priority. #filmisntdead #believeinfilm
Yep
Oil
Zabaglione
Imagine that.
But her fake ID said she was 26… (this is actually true, and does not make it better in any way. And by the time she was 20 he was aware of her actual age.)
But he apparently didn’t speak to anyone, so they clearly haven’t installed the voice chip in the animatronic yet.
IOKIYAR
Many are saying this.
Had an Econ class at UC Santa Cruz with a professor from Wisconsin, and all of his example problems involved sausages, beer, and/or cheese. He also liked to use musicians’ names in examples.
Or at least someone who looks like him #conspiracytheory #bodydouble #animatronic
They nationalized their oil industry. That’s what they did.
Dang, that critter has the Thagomizer XL
For the record, the lens is a Tokina 28-85 zoom with a Hoya skylight 1B filter. @gregpak.net #believeinfilm #photonerd #justthespecs
It's been suggested elsewhere that JD's obsession with gratitude is due to his abusive childhood - you have to be grateful even when you're being treated like crap. Naturally as an adult he has applied that to politics. (Meanwhile, enjoy a semi-related Danny Elfman song.)
Futzing around with a 28-85 zoom on the Ricoh - the (sole remaining) natural bridge at Natural Bridges State Park, photographed from the overlook at the main entrance. Ricoh KR-10, Fujicolor 400, f11 aperture priority, approximately 1:30 pm August 13, 2025. #filmisntdead
Thank you, but a friend from university days printed it for me. It's nice to have Friends With Tech. (Most of my Friends With Tech are at Burning Man this week, though. I was lucky that Nick was still in town.)
Surprised Gonzo didn't want to talk to Kevin, given their mutual affection for chickens.
Banana Bot (doo doo de doo doo)
@gregpak.net
Was that before or after she married Haircut Boy?
Nothing wrong with that garage that a good fire couldn't fix. Now let's look at the interio-OH MY GOODNESS WHY
Well, first picture with the new (to me) camera. Giant Dipper and Logger's Revenge at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, from Branciforte Creek where it feeds into the San Lorenzo River. Ricoh KR-10, Rokinon 50mm lens, f11 aperture priority, 7:20 pm August 10, 2025. Fujicolor 400. #filmisntdead
And a supply officer, at that
I heard it as “find out what he drinks and send a case of it to my other generals.”
Same
much about it.)(Robert Merle also wrote Day of the Dolphin, which I have not read, though I vaguely remember seeing the movie)
I mean, we just got to the Main Character’s birth, the entire first half of the first book was about his father and his father’s war buddy. And his 35 year old father marrying a 14 year old girl, but you know, Medieval Times(tm). (It’s probably been 40 years since I read Malevil, I don’t remember
Nice!
Ah, Malevil. I am currently reading a series set in the late medieval era by the same author, and I snickered when there was a throwaway reference to Château Malevil in the first book.
They spent all day yesterday installing the animatronics
Dave Goelz is listed as a guest at DragonCon this year, so probably
Whelp, that’s an awful way to start the day.
I think I still have an orange vuvuzela around somewhere (got it at a Giants game back when they were still playing at Candlestick)
I’ve now met two out of three of the people in this picture.
I think the alt text bot is stuck
/waves north
TFG has been MIA since Wednesday and has no events scheduled for the near future
Not officially…
They won’t admit it when it happens.
6 months is the standard, it can be extended by executive order, and Biden had issued such an order. But Trump, being a petty whiner, issued his own EO rescinding Biden’s.
I thought we already knew that (it’s why I’ve not watched any of those movies), but I guess they have a smoking gun now, as it were?
I encountered a drive-thru AI at Burger King today - it said its name was Patty. (Very funny, BK.) It was not particularly good at taking my order, which was a very simple order. And of course it tried to upsell at every opportunity. Won’t be going back anytime soon, and I told the cashier that.
@alt-text.bsky.social
:s/After/During (that was the doing of Montgomery Meigs, another Southern officer who remained loyal to the Union and had nothing but contempt for the traitor Lee.)
I mean, we have a whole town in California named for Braxton Bragg. There also used to be a town in Monterey County called “Confederate Corners”.
In fact, even after the portrait in question was removed, there remained a portrait of a younger Lee in US Army uniform, with Chapultepec Castle in the background. That was to commemorate his service as superintendent at West Point.
I bet!
I guess Vance would know. (I haven’t read his book but I understand that both of his stepfathers were not the greatest guys.)
“Have you ever said ‘thank you’?”
Stubborn refusal to let illegitimi me carborundum.
The Michigan Doctrine has much to answer for. (And it's not even actually a law! It was a judicial decision in a lawsuit 100 years ago! [Between Henry Ford and the Dodge Brothers, that's why it's the Michigan Doctrine.])
Yeah, Ed Harris almost drowned. Of course, so did Cameron (he ran out of air, and the *actors* were assigned safety divers, but he hadn’t assigned one to himself.)
(The previous portrait was donated by the Daughters of the Confederacy, but the administration at the time refused to accept any representation of Lee in a Confederate uniform. Sadly, things changed by the 1950s.)
The portrait in question was donated in 1952, on the 100th anniversary of Lee becoming the superintendent at West Point. There already existed a portrait of Lee as he appeared as superintendent (in his US Army uniform), so you know exactly why this one was given to the Academy.
Ah. I haven’t seen that post, I suppose.
Just a grammatical quibble - “simulacrum” is the singular and “simulacra” is the plural.
LOL
But China. Guess it depends on whether Trump hates China more than he loves gasoline.
Awesome. Fat chance of it being built in the US under the current regime, though.
I was introduced to @julieczerneda.bsky.social and her works by @howardtayler.bsky.social many years ago, and I've never thought anything of hers wasn't worth rereading.
How very odd.
Well, haven't checked my Powerball ticket from last night, but if I won I'm in.
couldn’t transfer ownership in Illinois and of course you can’t ship them without involving a FFL holder, which were somewhat thin on the ground in their area. I think it took her two years to get everything straight and the guns gone.
When one of my uncles died my aunt was stuck with a bunch of firearms that took jumping through a lot of hoops to get rid of. See, he’d bought the guns while living in Tennessee, but when he died they were living in Illinois. She couldn’t sell them, some had been bequeathed to nephews but they
I have a nibble from a fellow former college theater tech, so I’m probably set. We do have makerspaces around here, but all of them charge membership fees (rent ain’t cheap) that would be higher than the cost of just replacing the tripod.
Yep.
I know one of the authors would find that quite funny. (Yes, I know one of the original authors of OBOS, it’s a small world.)