This week’s skies are fascinating, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it. Things are in an incredibly dynamic, unstable balance. Nudge it in any one direction and everything comes crashing along with it. Use that to your advantage.
Last week saw the unlucky triad of Saturn retrograde-Jupiter retrograde-Mercury. Because of Mercury’s orbit, it’s broken free once but lined up with those two again. However, Mercury isn’t necessarily bad luck, just “luck” in the uncontrollable chaotic sense. And while those two other planets are definitely bad luck, there is another alignment through Mercury and in both literal and figurative opposition to those three: Mercury-Sol-Venus. So you’ve got light/life/love/luck counterpoised with destruction/abuse/loss/failure.
Liminal places and situations are Big Deals in the various magical traditions (crossroads, seashores, dawn/dusk/midnight, etc) and even though astrology is (obviously) SCIENCE! that is much more concerned with definitive categorization of events (those of you who think you were born on “cusp” days — no, you weren’t. That’s not actually a thing) even it has to admit that sometimes the act of a celestial transition does have the literal meaning of transition here in the terrestrial world. All of that is a long preamble to this: there are three planets shifting between signs this week: Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Changes are afoot. This is a superb time to break bad habits, start good ones, upgrade the strapon harness or the like. As that famous astrologer said, “Eppur si muove.”
Now it will be up to you to keep this week from collapsing into a shitshow… and the cards think you’re going to fuck it up. Majorly.
Virgo: 4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.
Libra: The Tower reversed – This is the worst possible draw. I’m not even going to describe it because it’s too depressing.
Scorpio: Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
Sagittarius: Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness
Capricorn: The Hierophant – Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness; inspiration
Aquarius: Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news, indecision, instability. But also because of how it was drawn in this particular case it means someone is going to say something nice about you.
Pisces: The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet
Aries: 10 of Wands – Oppression, fortune, gain, any kind of success, false-seeming, disguise, perfidy
Taurus: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, equity, art and science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative intelligence
Gemini: Ace of Coins – Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy, speedy intelligence, gold
Cancer: 7 of Coins reversed – Cause for anxiety regarding money, moreso if you are a lender
Leo: 8 of Wands reversed – Arrows of jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married
Sigh… So, I guess I’m not gonna find an affordable house this week either?
#IFLscience!
Can an Aries catch a break up in here? Sheesh!
We got the fortune and gain thing going for us, which is nice…
I was all-in on the gain & fortune until the “false-seeming” part, then I started to think the gain & fortune was what was false-seeming.
Or a Libra? Dammit!
Yeah, talk about a mixed bag. ?
Fuck all y’all Geminis, too!
Hey! This is the first nice one I’ve seen. Let me enjoy it!
Except Tulip…the rest of y’all can get bent & pound sand,\.
That’s the spirit!
“This story should win a Pulitzer- it details how Pasco County, Florida Sherriff @ChrisNocco
built a modern-day Stasi using predictive methods- “Moneyball meets Minority Report”. Incredible work”
https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1301847375477121030
“Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens.
It monitors and harasses families across the county.
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.
What he actually built was a system to continuously monitor and harass Pasco County residents, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.
First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence and arbitrary decisions by police analysts.
Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant or evidence of a specific crime.
They swarm homes in the middle of the night, waking families and embarrassing people in front of their neighbors. They write tickets for missing mailbox numbers and overgrown grass, saddling residents with court dates and fines. They come again and again, making arrests for any reason they can.”
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/
Pasco SD was featured on pretty much every episode of LivePD.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. A&E has a long history of cozying up to terrible cops.
“They arrested another target’s father after peering through a window in his house and noticing a 17-year-old friend of his son smoking a cigarette.”
?
I have a 5 minute rule, which extends to 10 minutes, for rules violations I don’t agree with, after that point, it’s your fault.
So, they adopted the tactics of the LAPD circa 1980s?
Stop and frisk in NYC was much more recent than that.
In the eighties, it was, stop, beat with a flashlight, yell a lot, lie and try and convict for any and everything, plant some evidence, rinse and repeat on sight, until something sticks, or forever if nothing does.
Sheriff Arpaio, eat your heart out.
“Cause for anxiety regarding money, moreso if you are a lender”
Meh.
*takes a chill pill*
Why did you leave out redundancy?
If I were a Capricorn, I’d be running away screaming from that horror-scope
Considered it, but the year 2020 has hardened me to horrific shitshows. That which doesn’t kill me, further enslaves me.
And loneliness, and frustration. 🙂
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2020/09/rock-snot-discovered-in-another-pennsylvania-waterway.html
Huh. Rock snot. I learned something new today.
I as well. The algae is present in two really nice waterways.
Sagittarius: Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness
“It was a day like any other…”
Mornin’, Glibs.
*yawns*
My sleep schedule is off.
I don’t think my body knows WTF to do these days. Thankfully I still wake up on time for work.
I’m going to have to try to wake up for work hours tomorrow, just so that I’m close enough to actually do it tuesday when I have to go back to work.
My whole family woke up when I did, so I was robbed of my hour and a half of morning peace. My horoscope merely confirms this.
I’m livin’ on a knife edge.
I had seafood for dinner on Friday and now the trash can is making my kitchen smell like a $5 whore’s hoo-ha. And trash collection isn’t til tomorrow. * sigh * guess a run to the dumpster is in order.
Reminds me of this.
That woman MUST have some kind of faithful audience that she could put products like that out on the market and expect it to sell. I mean, it’s a PR stunt for sure, but if she does, that would explain the market for the rest of her goofy products.
Can’t give it away on seventh avenue.
WTF! I went to her website. It’s real!
Put it in a smaller bag and put it in the freezer until trash day.
Will they collect trash on labor day?
My normal monday collection is puched to tuesday for holidays.
They usually collect on holidays
There will be no labor on Labor day.
My building has an incinerator chute on every floor down which one can conveniently throw food scraps and other small items of garbage. They locked it up last year on the theory that it “attracts rats”.
My theory is that they either dropped the “incinerator” aspect of the thing or never pursued that part of the process at all. So now I keep food scraps wrapped up in the fridge unless/until I want to head down six flights to toss them out. Asshoes.
I once had a customer bring in his bagger for me to work on. He dropped it off on Friday, so it sat in my shop over the whole 100 degree weekend. Tuesday I start on it and , upon opening his bag, found his leftover fish dinner in the right bag. Rolled it out and made him come clean it before I’d finish. I actually retched at that one.
LOL!
My shop vac develops some odors if I forget to dump the dead bees out. Unpleasant but a reminder.
Leo: 8 of Wands reversed – Arrows of jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married
Ahhhh, that’s more like it!
After a couple weeks of overly optimistic ones, it’s nice to go negative for a week.
Proof positive
Elger noted that after Zion reopened, several Springdale businesses had to close temporarily because of potential coronavirus cases, but she said she has not heard of any more cases or business closures since the town enacted the mask mandate.
Case closed. Wear your mask.
I don’t know anyone who
voted for Nixonwore a mask and got the covid, except that one guy, and he took his mask off once around other people to eat!You’d better wear them, they’re a magical talisman that keep the tiny demons out of your lungs.
I bought a washable mask at the drug store yesterday. “Same one I’m wearing!” the clerk said as he reached behind to grab one off the shelf and added it to my other purchases.
Brought it home and read the outside of the package. “This mask is an additional precaution but does not protect users against bacteria, viruses, germs or other disease organisms.”
?♂️
So, just like all the other masks?
Yeah. I just got sick and tired of the straps breaking off the disposables after I wore them a few dozen times or sometimes after strapping it around my arm while walking around outside.
It is a sneeze guard. Nothing more.
Well, it’s my magic ticket to entering an indoor area too!
Sooooo…it’s looking like my 12 year old ipod classic may be getting ready to give up the ghost. Are there any good alternatives for strict audio players (haven’t watched a movie on it for years – other than occasionally during deployments/travel)? I download a lot of audio books/music/podcasts from itunes. If I get Apple Music for my Android (samsung galaxy S9) and a dedicated microSD card (available in 120gb – honestly, probably won’t use that much) – will that be a suitable substitute – and will it let me use maps and listen to stuff at the same time when driving?
Dedicated audio players that aren’t garbage no longer exist, the market has spoken and everyone (except me) wants to have their phone do that 1/2 as well for 10x the price.
I had a gizmo ages ago that took both hands to operate the knobs and dials on each side, had a nice big screen, and lots of neat usability features to help find and play music. But yeah, it didn’t make phone calls, take pictures, or do anything else.
Yeah, well I moved out of range of the one station I listened to (other than digital) and driving as much as I do, its nice not to turn dials to find something decent.
this guy
Neat little device. Too bad it conked out so quickly. Replaced it with the first Windows-compatible iPod.
I do recall the very first Rio (32mb) – my buddy at work was an early adopter and bought it the year it came out – my freshman year at college. I bought it from him the following summer. 1/2 hour of music was great for walking around campus – a bit of a hassle to update though. Got an original 10 gb Ipod on sale from the apple rep on campus a couple years later.
I had a Rio Karma. Loved that thing.
iPod Touch which is pretty much a new model SE (I think) minus the phone part:
https://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/
Not cheap though.
I was going to suggest an iPod Nano, but those were discontinued in 2017, according to the wiki. I have an old one and I’d use it a lot more if iTunes weren’t such a bitch to use.
I use a Sony Walkman mp3 player.
I don’t know if the audiophiles will call it ‘good’, but my ears can’t hear the difference. It works for me.
I use an old iPhone 7 with 128MB of storage. Old phones can play music for quite a long time without a charge if they are put on airplane mode.
I also have a ipod classic I got refurbished with a new HD from a GameStop.
That’s my current phone. The screen is bulging out on one side now but it still works like new.
I have a Classic in my kitchen and it still works like new too.
I had to run to the store and replenish my lime supply. Seems some asshole used it all. I grabbed a bagged salad as well and the egg roll wrappers caught my eye. Every leftover in my fridge is being turned into an egg roll today. Green beans in hoisin sauce and pulled pork. Smoked sirloin carne asada and asparagus. Both with stir fried cabbage.
Did you put the lime in the coconut?
Nope. Put it in tequila and soda.
That sounds so good
What was the drink we were discussing last night that needs lime…? For some reason I can’t remember.
https://www.fox29.com/video/847843
Kids are overdosing on Benadryl to hallucinate.
Always gotta have a panic.
I’ll get concerned when they start buttchugging it and it makes them eat each other’s faces off. Maybe.
Sounds like a blast. How do they stay awake long enough to see things?
Benadryl gives me restless leg. I almost hate restless leg more than menstrual cramps.
I bet they think they ‘discovered’ that too. The old stuff from the 80s made me see some strange things.
If they’re back to non-COVID moral panic stories, it means coronavirus must really be dying.
I’ve seen a decided uptick in stories about vaping.
Oh great. I thought banning Juul’s kid flavors ended the vaping crisis.
A dorm neighbor knocked on my door freshman year of college to see if I wanted to get some pizza for dinner. I opened to find him wearing a dress and on a girl on each arm. He had downed two bottles of Robitussin… robotripping.
I’d rather down some bourbon but to each their own.
They gave me Benadryl one night in the hospital. I doubt it was an overdose but yeah I was hallucinating.
The commercial nuke plant article this morning was some good news – thought we’d already had small modular reactors prototyped a while back via Princeton, etc.?
Why TF are people still using light water though? Wouldn’t molten salt/thorium or pebble bed be even safer with fewer byproducts? And presumably cheaper too?
I also would like to see more molten salt project but none of the startup seem that close. 5 years ago I was hoping for a lot more by 2020
“ Libra: The Tower reversed – This is the worst possible draw. I’m not even going to describe it because it’s too depressing.”
Well I’ve got that going for me.
This weekend’s experiment.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22150/229927/
Don’t hate it, but won’t buy it again either. I’ve had better sake and better beer and don’t feel the need to combine them.
And hopefully this is the worst of my bad luck. My son is home from college after three weeks.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/09/gettysburg-college-sending-most-of-its-students-home-freshmen-will-remain-on-campus.html
Did he arrive home with a refund check on the room & board…?
No, but to their credit that is coming.
?
Cancer: 7 of Coins reversed – Cause for anxiety regarding money, moreso if you are a lender – So I need to get the Moldavian “collectors” I employ to squeeze those damn deadbeats harder to get me my money?
A word Romanians use for thugs who either collect debt for loansharks or do protection/extortion schemes is “racket” but it is unsure if it comes from French or English
There’s a terrible, terrible TV show here in ‘Merica that I watch eagerly & religiously that features a dude from Moldova. I wouldn’t be surprised if he broke people’s fingers to collect on debts.
My girlfriend watches the same show, I’m pretty sure.
It’s delicious trash
There was a bank commercial when people needed money and a bank fairy came and gave them a loan.
There was a parody where they got a loan from a loanshark and the raket leprechauns visited him.
I don’t think it has English subtitles anywhere…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8mn6jqGjqs
this one seems to have english subtitles
ZBANG!
ZBangs!
A bit more info on the Northeastern suspending eleven students for a gathering situation:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/outrage-after-university-expels-11-students-gather-hotel-room-keeps-36500-tuition
No refunds either which adds up to pocketing around 400 grand.
There must be some lawyer parents, probably quite a few.
I’d be freaking furious. Hopefully one of those international students’ parents is a Russian mobster who considers it a personal affront when his money gets stolen.
Oh, at first I didn’t catch that they were all foreign students.
I think if I were a college student right now I would just drop out, unless I were aiming for a professional degree.
That’d be a shame, and I don’t encourage any such thing at all, but if a Russian guy asks me for some quotes on woodchippers, I will absolutely give him a price list.
Hi, Preet.
Did anyone not see this sort of thing coming…?
Oberbürgermeister Deblasio delayed city school opening another week to keep the unions off his back a little longer – they don’t want to work, it seems – but I expect a full-blown shit-show whenever it does begin.
So, They seem to have “located” subject number 2 in the murder of Danielson. Here’s hoping they catch all of the rat fuckers responsible.
And then, there’s this.
Going on a long business trip tomorrow. One week in Gulfport, MS. Weekend in Memphis, TN. Then I’m on to Denver, CO; wife stays in Memphis. Any Glibs with restaurant recommendations will be greatly appreciated.
Science!
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-nyt-reporter-challenges-dr-faucis-climate-change-mission-creep
Fauci at it again.
It either came from a lab where it was being studied or a market where bats were stacked on top of rats on top of cats. He’s probably just running his mouth to try to prop up some green energy stocks he owns or something.
Did Trump dump him? I was never clear on that. I know there’s some new guy now (Atlas?).
Maybe Fauci starting going off the rails in a private meeting and Trump said to himself “I’ve got to cut off this crackpot already.”
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/09/05/judge-orders-detroit-police-not-to-use-batons-tear-gas-against-protesters-for-two-weeks/
Use of live ammo is now authorized.
Geez. Sorry, Detroit. Batten down the hatches.
Why TF are people still using light water though? Wouldn’t molten salt/thorium or pebble bed be even safer with fewer byproducts? And presumably cheaper too?
Your question answers itself.
Fishing report: Kiddo caught 2 bluegills today. She yelled “I caught a fish!!!” so loud for her first one that people across the pond congratulated her.
Of course, at 3 years of age, she gets to do fun fishing. All she has to do is watch the bobber and reel the fish in. That said, she got to try every part of the process that she wanted, but we nixed the pairs casting event after I got a hook in my thumb?
Live bait & bobbers is my favorite way to fish
Lol. Nice.
“She yelled “I caught a fish!!!” so loud for her first one that people across the pond congratulated her.”
??
Seconded. I used to take it to sleep on 12hour + flights, but I stopped due to the jimmy legs.
Wow that was a interesting past error. That was a response to the Benydryl post way up thread.
I was going to say that Bluegill way my entryway drug to a teen age fishing addiction.
That’s great! When everything seems to suck, I think about things like that.
Moar boats.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1302631233533415424
Hey, I know where the title photo is! Didn’t see main page until just now.
Testing….testing….testing….
Power is back on. We survived. Trees and fish…not so much. I have 6 oaks down and every fish in the bayou is floating belly up.
Power came back Saturday. I tried making posts but my service was still sketchy so that failed.
Any idea what killed the fish? Toxic runoff/excess fertilizer from somewhere else?
Stirred beyond capacity, Imma guess. Glad you made it Suthen!
Thank you blackjack. It was no picnic but we did survive. It seemed like every day until yesterday I found myself asking “What new hell is this?”
First no power. Then no water. Then no internet on phone. Then no gasoline anywhere. No ice so had to toss out perishable foods. Neighbors house crushed. Trees blocking highway and two neighbor’s driveways. I lost 6 beautiful oaks and one pine. Then dead fish stinking up the place. I was bracing for the plague of locusts but they haven’t showed yet.
Laura turned the bayou over….that is, it mixed the non-oxygenated layer below the thermocline with the oxygenated water above. That dead water below is full of organic material that has sunk and is on a knife’s edge of rotting and the instant it hits water with oxygen in it, it sucks all of the oxygen out and kills the fish. It usually happens in unusually hot summers or cold winters that will make the thermocline disappear but in this case it was 125 mph winds stirring the water.
I was out cutting one of my casualty oaks and the wind shifted. I smelled rotted fish and instantly knew what it was. I did not think of it until then, but yeah, the bayou is clogged with rafts of dead fish. It breaks my heart.