Oh, yes, you do have cute eyes!
Catoholic, trilobitoholic Canadian. Math/science & law at uni. Most important: empathy & humility. Most interesting wit & insight. I try to live up to 'Never be afraid to admit you were wrong. You're only admitting you're wiser now than you once were.'
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Oh, yes, you do have cute eyes!
Most women who've given birth can one-up big tough football players. Men are weenies by comparison. Rita Rudner: 'I have a friend who was in labour for 36 hours. I wouldn't even want to do something I _like_ for 36 hours.' sums it up.
An honourable mention for me (Pilgrimage wins, but it's narrow).
My favourite REM song is Pilgrimage. Epitomizes early REM, which was my favourite.
This saddens me. Graham Greene was a great actor and his comic acting was perfect. Dry and understated, allowing the audience to work out the comedy on their own and thus own it. It is a sad day that we lose someone so wonderful.
Thanks for taking him in.
Fun read, as always. Loved the GRRM ambush.
It may be the varnish has turned dark as it aged and turned your peach into a potato. You might try removing it.
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I'm almost certain that was a manifestation referred to in one of your books.
The thought of you having to go back to mergers & acquisitions law forced me to pre-order Sublimation. A rare honour as I seldom pay full price. You, Katherine Addison, Becky Chambers and Daniel O'Mally are the only authors that come to mind that get that honour.
Like all the artists who hate their life because they thought it was a guarantee of life-long high pay. You must know only STEM folk who took it for a job. I know plenty of folk who did stem who work in it & love it because they love the work itself, not the crap that can come with any job.
Wow If True is not "mid". It's great fun, sparking. It's my co-favourite podcast with two that could not be more different in subject: 1) the Well There's Your Problem Podcast (a podcast about engineering disasters. With slides. Which is itself a disaster) and 2) the Tetrapod Zoology Potcats.
You happen to be appealing to possibly the only body _more_ clownishly corrupt than the Trump regime. Good luck with that.
Is there a cat there under all that floof?
The word "slavery" is a euphemism for the institutionalized kidnapping, robbery, torture, rape and murder of people, uniquely Black people in American slavery.
@nytimes.com Why the lying healdine: "America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs"? It's not "America" doing it. It's Trump & RFKj. The NYT editors fucking know that is the case. Headlines like that help Trump & RFKj, etc, get away with such murderous actions with your help.
'Annie Savoy' in 'Bull Durham': The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness.
What a beautiful kitty! Beyond even the beauty that cats possess ex officio. Colbert should be flattered.
Oh, they're interested in the 'Trump economy', laughing their asses off at how he's set course for recession, to go along with gutting science and health and food production. For how he's fucked up America alone, Trump is a godsend to Putin. Never mind Ukraine, etc.
Here's a pic I just posted of my cat. I think he qualifies as a cute animal.
Never mind San Fran. Compton and Oakland have lower homicide rates than Shreveport. Los Angeles' is about 1/3 that of Shreveport. Occupy Mike Johnson's city!
This guy makes it hard to get work down or even get not-work done. So worth it.
The WaPo isn't making it hard to see just how much water they are carrying for Trump so Jeff can get more tax cuts and make a bigger, veinier penis rocket.
The look on Epstein looks like he's grossed out at being kissed by a female older than 15.
@washingtonpost.com Hey! WaPo! why do you go with the lying headline "Jeanine Pirro : The fight to make D.C. safe and beautiful". The facts are Washington is safer than most major cities & already is beautiful. If you're going to spew Trump BS, put it in " ". Don't present it as if it's factual.
The idea is so that people who don't make a particular effort to research the history of slavery, white terrorism, disenfranchisement & Jim Crow will think things like DEI (which is good socially & economically!) is coming from nowhere. Keeping systemic racism entrenched is the purpose.
Just Jacky being good, if inconvenient, company. He does perform a useful service lying like that: I can't type easily around him so he keeps me from arguing with people. And it works.
The great American pastime.
Clearly Jackson does not recognize the existential dread that lies like a miasma over many of our lives.
Stupid? One of you has a house she doesn't pay rent/mortgage on, a passive income so she doesn't have to work and a personal chef. I'm thinking that's the fur person.
I'm sure if one tries real hard one can find a wya to disagree with a guy who says 'Hip-hop made me beat up my girlfriend.'
One more way in which RFKj is a stochastic murderer.
"Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry". You say that like it's a bad thing.
That 'trickle down economics' is BS was known back in more agrarian time when it was called 'horse and sparrow economics' where the horse gets its fill of oats and the sparrow has to subsist on what's left over in the horse's manure.
I had great fun following that trial 'live'. Not on video. NCSE (IIRC) posted transcripts of each day's testimony next day. With a background in law & huge interest in evolution, I pored over those every day. The creationists were a clown show represented by Lionel Hutz.
Great set of pics! I've seen them in my Mom's carden & they are bloody hard to tell from the humming birds! Only thing you might confuse a ruby-throated hummingbird for.
Not only prettier than that guy, but smarter and he doesn't have to have a horde of others to lick his ass.
Amazing! And lovely kitty.
C'mon, Guardian. Don't New York Times it. 'Americans will pay higher taxes on imports from dozens more countries as new Trump tariffs come into effect'. Get it right.
Headline: 'Washed Up Actor Bellies Up to Right-Wing Gravy Train'.
Sea water is pretty good at scattering pretty much all electromagnetic radiation (lasers to radio waves) beyond a certain depth. If your 'sub' is above that depth, it can just been seen from the air. You can't use sound because _everyone _ can hear that. It's a tough problem to crack.
I admire your resourcefulness.
In all my years you are the first person other than myself to mention the thousands of Asian civilians being killed every day by the Japanese occupation. Most non-Asian folk opining on Hiroshima acknowledge only Japanese civilians. Good on you.
Just like Germans did after WW1, which sowed the seeds of revanchism, Nazism & war. The US very much believed unconditional surrender was necessary to drive the point home that Nazi & Imperial Japanese style aggression would be crushed. It worked. Japan & Germany turned their backs on miliarism. 3/3
The IJA (particularly) wanted to take its own sweet time about leaving occupied territories (where their brutality and thefts were killing several thousand civilians per day), retain all their arms and pretend they hadn't really been defeated. 2/3
The reason was that Japan had made no move toward surrender after Hiroshima & the Japanese diplomatic traffic the US was reading, thanks to code-breaking, showed the Japanese war cabinet was still trying to get a peace that let them keep some of their conquests. 1/?
I'm sure I won't be the first to say that wet kleenex is tougher than Trump.
Tyson's meme is patently silly. For an example; I believe it's wrong that the rich have more than they can spend while children starve. How is that (or its negation) "objective truth"? Please explain how either could be based on "objective truth".
They are horrible people and you are very good people. Thanks for saving him.
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That's the peacock equivalent of sending a dick pic.
Always happy to see stories of recovered kitties. She is a lovely cat, even beyond the ex officio beauty all cats share.
My sadly missed cat Ezekiel Bodine III (named after a great cat my brother had had) was also into beer.
I'd re-read Daniel O'Malley's 'The Rook' series to prepare for the new 'Royal Gambit' which I read in a rush when it arrived. Great fun series and certainly not sad girl lit fic.
Your meme is untrue.
Very pantherish. i'd be more lavish im my praise, butsomeone is using my desk so I'm forced to type in my lap.
Perhaps she chose to leave her former humans because they failed to live up to her standards of deportment and decorum.
A wonderful and thoughtful gift.
Read 'Iz a Newsletter #5' just now. You have a delightful writing voice there, even when it's on mundane stuff. There's an effortless looking (I emphasis "looking") lightness to it.
Lord of all he surveys! And he can survey in near-total darkness.
'Liberty Counsel' are liars. Because nothing says non-liberty like taking away other people's liberties. Just plain liars.
Adonis _knows_ he's got it made. Lucky boy.
This handsome boy thanks you for reminding me that he's due some catnip. He's currently rolling in it and doing zoomies.
Thanks for taking poor cheeto in. BTW, your profile's "larger than many children" is my internet laugh of the day.
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Since the only thing better than one cat in a photo is two cats in a photo, does it really count as "photobombing", which is usually seen as a negative?
Bove will be a reliable 'Nazi judge': rubber stamping whatever Trump and the GOP want him to. A puppet in robes.
The short-bodied jumping spiders are so cute.
Trump's tell that he's lying is that his lips are moving or his short fingers are typing.
It's supposed to be sci-fi or fantasy. Your suggestion would just be the news.
Howlingly funny episode.
No cabbage for me. It would turn me into Bad Rudy, or what he aspires to. Me, I don't. I was at parties in uni with guys like that who imagined themselves transgressive when they were just boring. Nobody paid them any attention.
Already subbed as are right thinking and clean living people and me too.
And excellent.
@amanda.omg.lol @isabel.kim Just listened to 'We talk to Elon's Waifu'. God, you guys were hilarious. More than made up for Ani's cringe & boring fart guy (they were both awfully repetitive). I want to say that this divorced guy would shoot himself before resorting to Ani. Great pod!
I have found that I can't always avoid being wired too much to sleep, but I've been stunningly successful at not tiring myself out by running 10K races!
Ashaving a cat makes it a happy Friday for you, so you posting a picture of that lovely kitty makes it a happy Friday for me, even if it is now 0600 on Saturday because I've not gone to bed yet.
My excuse is that I aspire to be a cat.
Very handsome boy!
Right up until they hear you say 'Watch, she always does this next thing now.' whereupon the cat will look at you as if you are crazy and proceed to _not_ do whatever it is you said she'd do.
Good idea. Getting hit by a foul ball while head-down in a book would make all the highlight shows. Even better would be using the book to help catch the ball.
So, Cuomo is helping Mamdani! That's great!
They are friends, which can be the case regardless of formal relationship, just as with human people.
Baseball gets so weird because they play so very many games and there are so very many plays per game. You're bound to get all sorts of stuff that lives out at the far end of the normal curve.
Considering the harm the Republicans have done in Congress, getting nothing done either way is a positive.
Climate denialists can fool mouthbreathers of MAGA & their ilk, but insurance actuaries are not fooled. They know it's getting worse & are pricing the risk accordingly. Dems need to hit this: 'When the Reps undermine renewables & lie about climate change, they're lowering _your_ home's value.'
'Annie Savoy' in 'Bull Durham': The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness.
Gabbard and her ilk (I know, an insult to normal ilks everywhere) are just plain bug nuts.
Another Black man beat up for the usual crime of being insufficiently obsequious to cops.
CNN spelled "penis" wrong.
When cops claim they are assaulted, odds are 95% it's a lie & the 'assault' was when the person hit the cop's fist with his nose. With ICE that rises to 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999% it's a lie.
Just more BS aiming to make a virtue of conservative indifference to others' suffering. Completely at odds with Jesus' teachings but ideal for 'Christians' who are in it for condemning anyone who differs from them and for telling other people what to do with their genitals.
Magnificent!
Way to go, Politico! Sanewashing the Trump regime. As if anyone with an ounce of sense could ever have believed clown liars like Bondi, Patel, Bongino might possess the skills to run a serious federal criminal situation like a terrorist attack. Are you high?
Ol' Bedbug's gotta suck.
Though a Mr J. Goebbels of Mönchengladbach writes that 'Grok AI is just what we've been looking for at the Volkischer Beobachter!'
You are hitching yourself to at best ignorance and at worst dishonesty. Magellan never said any such thing because he knew the Church knew the Earth is round. historyforatheists.com/2016/06/the-...
Well, the meme is completely false, so it's only relevant to the poster's propaganda effort. historyforatheists.com/2016/06/the-...
You are either ignorant or lying. historyforatheists.com/2016/06/the-...