So, how ’bout that Jupiter retrograde? Mercury gets all the press for two reasons: first because Mercury already has chaotc aspects so the retrograde motion is just an amplification of preexisting planetary shtick. But more importantly all the other planets stay in retrograde for a really long time, much longer than the attention span of your average client. Motivated reasoning is a strong tool in maintaining a satisfied customer base, but if you keep telling them that the same thing every session (especially when this thing that’s always happening is supposedly rare and extraordinary) then they get bored and notice that the world’s events are on a completely different time scale than the outer planets track with. Still, misrule and government disorder? It’s really easy to make that connection here and now.
The only alignment this week is the moon lining up with Jupiter retrograde and Saturn retrograde which typically indicates revolution, fall of empires, assassinations, that sort of thing. Here’s hoping.
Gemini still has to deal with Venus retrograde, but use this to your advantage if you’re wanting to break off a bad relationship. The interesting thing this week is Mercury in Cancer. You’ve got the double-water influences, the duality of secrets and revelation and a double emphasis on introversion. A good time to engage in meditation, self-examination and re-examination of your priorities.
Now the cardinal rule about the cards is, no matter who you’re reading them for, you’re reading them for yourself. Now, having said that, I really must be looking at someone else’s draw this week, because they lay out a perfectly clear narrative of a sudden whirlwind romance and an event where lots of money gets spent and the new fling goes up in flames. Not I would necessarily mind that (minus the blowing of the cash part), but it seems unlikely. If it does happen, I’ll be sure to write it up once I make bail.
Gemini: 9 of Coins reversed – Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
Cancer: 6 of Wands – Triumph, great news
Leo: 7 of Swords – Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence, quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance.
Virgo: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues
Libra: Ace of Coins reversed – The evil side of wealth, bad intelligence
Scorpio: The Lovers – Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.
Sagittarius: The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.
Capricorn: The Star – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope and bright prospects
Aquarius: The Hermit – Prudence, circumspection, treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption.
Pisces: Queen of Cups – Good, fair woman honest, devoted woman, a perfect spouse and a good mother, loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision, success, happiness, pleasure, wisdom, virtue. This is a pretty good card. We so rarely see it drawn upright.
Aries: Page of Cups – a studious youth, news, message, application, reflection, meditation
Taurus: King of Coins – Valor, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind, success in these paths
So after I get soap in my hole, I’ll get hope in my soul?
Oh, hell to the yeah! I’ll take that!
Well that would be nice. I take my Professional Project Manager certification test this Thursday – if the online proctor shows up this time.
the company that certifies people who manage budgets and timelines can’t get get resources where they’re needed?
They outsourced it to an online proctoring service – and I did say something snarky like that about their procurement processes when I called their service number last week.
Good luck.
Thanks – as if I need it after that horoscope!
“Triumph, great news”
Woohoo!
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Sounds ordinary, man!
Hey, politician, can’t believe a word you say..
Almighty media, whose truth d’you sell today?
Watchdog of justice, who keeps their eye on you?
Timeless lyrics.
Excellent underrated band.
“Elmer Fudd will not have a gun in “Looney Tunes” reboot ”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1269446236685455360
“In a new series based on the beloved “Looney Tunes” cartoons, the classic character Elmer Fudd will no longer carry a gun.
The new series “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” which premiered last week on the streaming service HBO Max, will feature the cartoon’s characteristic violence – using sticks of dynamite, booby traps and the iconic anvils and bank safes dropped onto characters, The New York Times reported last week.
However, Peter Browngardt, the series executive producer and showrunner, told the outlet, “We’re not doing guns.”
“But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in,” Browngardt told the outlet.
Elmer Fudd is regularly foiled trying to hunt Bugs Bunny on the show. In the new series, the character will carry a scythe.
However, comics artist Johnny Ryan, who worked on the show, noted to the Times that he believes “We’re going through this wave of anti-bullying, everybody needs to be friends, everybody needs to get along.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/501503-elmer-fudd-banned-from-having-a-gun-in-looney-tunes-reboot
#QuackLivesMatter
https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1269633414858264576
Everybody does not need to be friends. Everybody does not need to get along.
I’ll start with Johnny Ryan. You’re a douche, dude.
If the coronavirus panic taught us anything, it’s that bullying the right sort of people is considered a virtue. Look at the treatment anybody who didn’t panic hard enough got.
I believe it’s a dangerous concept anyway. It teaches kids to conform for the sake of conformity.
Yeah, every time I see one of those rage-inducing Wear orange to show you’re against bullying campaigns, I can’t help but wonder how bad the kids who refuse to wear orange are treated.
When most of the people at work hadn’t yet been switched to work from home, and our HR harpy would promote a “wear [particular color] for [particular cause]”, I’d make it a point to schedule my wardrobe not to wear that particular color on that particular day.
“Elmer Fudd will not have a gun in “Looney Tunes” reboot ”
Shit.
So a new nickname is needed for those who “support the second amendment, but”?
Helicopter passenger?
Round trip price half off!
The last Looney Toons worth a damn were made in like 1980. I’m sure this will be garbage like everything else that came after.
Chuck Jones must be spinning in his grave.
Animaniacs was cute, but Space Jam really soured me on the franchise.
Animaniacs didn’t age well, particularly not in comparison to Spongebob.
“But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in,” Browngardt told the outlet.
“If we could get away with it, we’d have them sitting at a roundtable, discussing the days issues… Think The View, but with beloved cartoon characters”
Guns and fences make good neighbors, distance doesn’t hurt either
In other news, Yosemite Sam has been cancelled. : (
Oh. Huh.
“Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.”
*Narrows gaze*
Is that a good or bad thing?
*Now you all know the depths of my cynicism*
The steaks I got yesterday are not very photogenic. ?
Here’s lunch though – bacon cheddar burgers. https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/U6VWPFLoTGGY_tI1e_bUsA.2eff3_kpWBzVr0JrmPUCQ3
After grilling them, I’m gonna serve on a bed of greens drizzled with asiago peppercorn dressing and topped with pickled jalapenos.
? I just put a roast in the smoker.
Also, seems the price of meat has doubled here. Are you experiencing similar?
I wouldn’t say doubled, but price is up and quality is down.
Interesting. I’m seeing more prime available now like restaurants aren’t and still aren’t snapping it up.
Seafood pricing seems mostly normal around here also.
I’m guessing it’ll be a short term supply issue here as area restaurants are reopening for outdoor dining. Two weeks ago, the steaks were great, and last week wasn’t too bad. Those filets I had were nice.
Prices have been up here as well. Just recently I’ve started seeing 73% lean ground beef show up at the local Giant Eagle. Previously, the lowest was 80% lean. Selection has also been lower then usual the past couple of weeks. I’ve still got a decent amount of meat in the chest freezer, since I was lucky enough to stock up back in February.
Strange that prices would go up, with an extra 3 T floating around in the cashola sphere. Almost like there is an anticipation of a greater demand and the same supply.
I’m more than surprised, I’m astounded. Whodathunk?
Pork prices don’t seem to be going up as much around here. I’ve got a couple birds in the deep freeze, so haven’t looked at chicken for a while.
Looks good/sounds good. I have decided to not be carb friendly today.
Seattle is slowly opening up, so we’re going to Ocho for brunch; steak and eggs with roasted potatoes. Cocktails. Cocktails.
Gonna hit the farmers market and get fresh lasagna noodles, ricotta and hopefully some lamb sausage as well as sweet Italian sausage. I’m gonna make a very saucy lasagna, lamb sausage, ricotta, sheeps milk feta, fresh mozzarella. Build a really nice red sauce. Goddam I’m already hungry.
Sippin a Smirnoff with carrot juice and perrier. Today is a good day.
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Yummy
Gemini: 9 of Coins reversed – Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
Excellent. That is what I had planned for next week!
Leo: 7 of Swords – Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence, quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance.
Ah. More normal.
Lots of major arcana this week. Interesting!
Riven!!!!! How are you doing?!
I am OK ™. Life has been pretty wild, and work has been a little overwhelming lately as my boss seeks to force control on the world by increasing the beatings until morale improves.
But today has been good: video games and coffee, walked the pup and had a cigar, spa day at home followed by sunning on the deck. I may even get wild and tackle a sewing project before playing Pathfinder with my local nerd herd later this afternoon. And you?
Howdy.
work has been a little overwhelming lately as my boss seeks to force control on the world by increasing the beatings until morale improves.
Sorry.
Howdy, Riven. It’s wonderful to see you here.
Of course I was posting in the dead thread, so I’ll repost. I’m liking that Cancer horoscope.
So, 3 of my friends have asked me to help them pick out and purchase a good. Feels good man.
Also, gonna shill for Brave browser and BAT again; I think this shit is gonna take off. Hopefully TPTB at glibs will give Brave verification another shot, I’m starting to donate more and more using BAT to content creators.
*trying brave out again*
Brave was still pretty beta the last time I tried it. I’m on mobile most of the time, so hopefully their app has progressed since my last attempt. Ideally, tampermonkey would be available as an add-on, so that I can Glib from Brave.
Will be helping my brother buy his first gun when thus shit is over and he has his FID.
You are a good brother, D. Loan him a loaner ’til he gets his own.
Maybe if I didn’t live in NJ and he didn’t live in MA.
Ahh
In neutral news. Looks like the Punisher skull/blue line logo may be going away. There’s also a potential for Disney to start launching suits against the unauthorized use of the logo.
Is Disney not hated enough already? Now they are actively hunting for people who don’t hate them yet, just to convince those people that Disney sucks?
Once you have gone woke and alienated the half the world that hates wokeness you can only prog harder.
This seems to be the case everytime.
Have you seen the logo in question? Here it is (just one example), of all the characters to use for this, the Punisher is not one who would be on the side of the cops.
That has ALWAYS puzzled me. IIRC, Frank Castle was a cop who was done dirty and lost his whole family to other cops working for Kingpin. He snapped and became Punisher, waging war against corrupt cops. I think I still have the Spiderman with his 1st appearance around here in a long box.
I understand it was addressed in a recent comic. Punisher bitched out some cops for using his logo, and pointed out that if they wanted to be him, they needed to give up the badge. He directed them to use the Captain America logo if they wanted someone for law and order. Then said if he saw them using the logo again, he would kill them (he is still the Punisher).
Seriously – do many cops read comic books? A cop lives down the street from me. He seems to spend his spare time knocking up his wife, playing with the kids, and mowing the lawn.
No idea at all. But to any of us who read comics (or watch comic movies, or tv shows, etc.), the blue line Punisher logo a big fucking red flag to stay the hell away from that asshole.
There are still lots of people out there who aren’t that political and don’t know comic-book back stories. They just think – “cool logo, I’ll buy the sticker or tee-shirt”.
Ok, no nap. Dammit.
A very talented vocalist I have been listening to lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU2RW3NbbHc
More Wilson
Whale Skeleton update:
If it’s endangered (likely,) we’ll have to either, put it back, donate it to science or give it to NOAA enforcement (today I found out the have an enforcement division) so they can dump it into the ocean. If it’s not endangered, we can keep it and they give us a fancy stamp, but we can’t sell it. I’m thinking it’d make a really cool dining room table base. Either way, NOAA can’t make a determination without a picture and currently the ship, which is already in the middle of nowhere Alaska is heading even deeper into the middle of nowhere Alaska. So, until the crew can send me a picture, on the deck it remains (pun intended.)
@Aus, regarding Brave browser. You said Brave and “BAT”. What’s BAT?
Brave does some things Firefox can’t do (*glares at iTunesConnect*) and won’t do some things Firefox can.
I searched for BAT (which is still a file type to me damn it!), and would guess he’s referring to Basic Attention Tokens.
In my world, Brave is that movie about the redheaded girl who reconnects with her mother after turning her into a bear.
Gemini: 9 of Coins reversed – Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
Man, us Geminis should just kill ourselves — we never seem to get a break from the stars.
I’m going to use it as an excuse for making bad arguments.
Horoscopes and politicians have equal importance to me. I’m not criticizing, only an observation.
Horoscopes take your money and give most of it to someone else, then expect you to thank them for the privilege of keeping what the leave behind?
This one goes out particularly to my married brothers.
My wife has this thing that she does. She asks me to do something…. “Can you take the kids to the park?”
I answer… Sure thing!
Then she asks again… “I just wanted to get some time alone to get some things done….”
I answer…. OK, I’ll get them out of here as soon as I can get them ready….
Then she asks a third time…. “So, if you could take the kids to the park today, that would really be great…”
I answer …. No problem.. I’m on it…
Sometimes this might extend, but rarely is it less than 3 times around the horn. It seems to be a wife thing. She needs to not only ask me to do something, but to explain her thoughts and have time to express her feelings on the matter. In my world, you got to yes… that’s when you stop asking. But in her world, she needs to express a certain amount of “I need this done”. So an early yes isn’t all that helpful.
Now, why do I bring this up?
Well…
“We are protesting this police brutality! We demand that they be arrested!”
They are arrested.
“We demand justice! Hold the officers accountable!”
Uh… yeah… we already arrested them. They are being charged as we speak…
“We demand Justice! No justice, No peace!!!”
Ok, we upped the charges….
“No justice, no peace!!!”
Are they hoping that everyone changes their mind and switches the yes to a no? If I was the protest dude, I’d high five and go home. Job well done, all that…
“yes Wendy, you already asked me 3 times”
“no I didn’t”
Yeah.. I’ve been married a long time. And this is my second run through.
That answer is like pissing on the third rail. You never remind them “asked and answered”.
I’ve tried the “I already said yes like three time… .are you hoping I’ll say no?” Yeah… not the right answer.
My wife likes to send me to the store to get somethings or other. Then, she calls and adds one thing while I’m driving. Then she adds another thing while I’m shopping. Then, she tries to add something while I’m waiting in line, but I refuse because I’m already in line. Then, when I get home she remembers the most important thing, and I have to go back.
That’s me at least once a week.
you get more of what you reward, I stopped that shit Decades ago, forgot something? You go get it,
She quit forgetting real fast…..
After 30 years it gets old, so yes that is the correct answer, if she doesn’t like it, tough, games get old,
Oh, it got old the first time. Yusef and Cyto having that conversation would have sorted it out the first time.
I have this theory about arguing with women. Two dudes fight about “something”. Something external. They argue, maybe even come to blows… but then they come to a resolution. It is done.
A wife is not like this. When she is angry with you, she’s already decided that she is “This Much” angry. So you are going to get 10 minutes of angry about it. Now, if you argue, and god help you if you explain how she’s wrong to be angry because it is all just a misunderstanding… well, she’ll just move that 10 minutes to 30 minutes.
When they are in that mode, all you can do is apologize, say I love you and then shut up. If it is really important, come back around to it a day or two later. For them, it is personal.. Even if you are arguing about an end table or what you said about Frank’s wife. It is never about “that external thing”.
Every now and then you meet a couple where that is reversed…. the dude is all PMS and the chick is accomodating. Every time I see one of those marriages blow up, I think “dude, you just screwed up royally.”.
One of my friends was that couple. He ran out on her (leaving 3 kids). She stayed home, cooked and cleaned, did all the child care… and per both of them sex every day. Literally.
He’s nuts.
And she’s moving on. Here’s why this is relevant….
She’s been dating some dude for about 4 months. He’s been telling her that “she’s the one”.
During all of this protest that is going on, she asked him “what sort of people work for you?” Her ex used to tell her that “the Mexicans weren’t reliable…. they just wouldn’t show up some days”. So she asks.
He stews about it for a few days….. and then calls her up yesterday and dumps her. Apparently because racist?
Didn’t even come by to talk about it.
I’m laughing, with you and not at you. I understand. Nothing changed just because the calendar pages roll by.
When you have a shopping list always get more stuff that you like and your significant other likes. When you get home and she unpacks the groceries she’ll ask why and always in a friendly tone and it’s easy to explain away.
“Just thought you might like the triple chocolate butterscotch with extra strawberries, Hon, it’s something new to try”
You are not only home free, you’re the king again. If she doesn’t like it you can enjoy the ice cream alone and still not feel bad.
There will be no pleasing. Ever. Even after the gulags and mass graves, it’ll always be someone else’s fault.
They aren’t protesting police violence. They’re protesting “systemic racism.” It can never be proven to exist or be eradicated. Nobody lifts a finger when the cops kill people other than black. if you point out that 800 of the 1100 they shoot in a year are not black, they screech “racist!” There are no real demands and there’s no solution.
This defund the police bullshit seems like a demand. Nobody actually wants that to happen, though. Imagine you get beaten near to death by a couple of thugs who take your money and phone. You crawl to the nearest building hoping to find someone to call for help. When help get’s there, it’s a social worker who explains to you that the poor criminal needed your stuff more than you and besides, you only have that stuff because of white privilege. Remember, these are the same people who want to rule over our every minute detail. They think that’s gonna happen without police? LOL
Yeah, of all the incoherent nonsense of my lifetime, Defund the Police might be the most incoherent and most nonsense. There’s zero chance they even believe it.
Most of them would be marching to protest the racism of not properly policing black neighborhoods, given the chance.
What she wants is for you to leave RIGHT NOW. Or, in the less extreme alternative, to know WHEN you are going to leave.
Yep, and this has been the source of many a fight in casa trashy. “You get to pick who does it or you get to pick when it gets done, but you don’t get to pick both” (you can sub “how” for “when” in that, as well)
Yeah…I’m gonna need to you come in Saturday…
*nods exhaustedly from in front of the work computer*
This dumb jay is squawking at a hawk and dive-bombing it just for sitting on a telephone wire. Hawk’s just like “Go away, boy, ya bother me.” /Foghorn Leghorn
Like Bella and Chihuahuas, “what are you? some mutant Dog? piss off”
“that boy…I say that boy is about as sharp as a softball”
“Trout, trout, funny little trout; jump on in and splash about…“
“whirl whirl twist and whirl….jump around like a flyin squirrel”
Probably has a nest nearby.
The recovery is in full swing with revenues rising in the race grifiting industry in paticular.
Got a hostage email from Zwift. They make a pretty cool VR application for stationary cycling. I’m not to worry about them – they’re “going to do better.” “Better” is all the usual buzzwords and, of course, ransom payment to several appropriate grifters.
I didn’t expect it, given the customer base, but they’re getting hit pretty hard in their comments.
The only true thing HIllary ever said was that we couldn’t end the drug was because there was too much money in it. I’m sure the same is now true of the race war.
Is getting your black friend a Peloton anything like getting one for your wife?
Can’t they be the same?
Double the oppression.