This week has an interesting alignment: Venus-Sun-Jupiter-Saturn. On the one hand, you’ve got Love and Happiness (Jupiter = Jovian/Jovial) but you’ve also got Saturn in there with it’s negative consequences. But another way is to notice that you’ve got three generations involved (Venus is Jupiter’s niece, not daughter, but it’s close enough) so the overall indication is of continuity. Because Saturn is involved, it could be referring to an inheritance or the passing of a role from one person to the next in line.
What else makes this week different from the last? Two things mostly: The Sun has moved into Scorpio, so good news for arthropods and others who enjoy heated rocks. But less pleasantly, Scorpio is playing host to MERCURY RETROGRADE. Mishaps will be more damaging that usual, compliments will be back-handed and irregularities will happen with reproductive systems. The other thing is less overly unpleasant: The moon being in Aquarius. The typical metaphor here would be to “go along with the current” but in light of MERCURY RETROGRADE causing crosswinds and whitecaps, a more active approach to your canoeing is called for. In this case, look for unexpected help or resources in atypical places. “Succor given by the left hand” and suchlike.
There’s no sugarcoating it. The week’s draw blows.
Scorpio: The Blank Card – You are bereft of guidance. Your astrologer may be out of town.
Sagittarius: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling
Capricorn: Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord
Aquarius: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Pisces: The Tower – Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin, unforeseen catastrophe
Aries: The Hierophant – Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness; inspiration
Taurus: 7 of Coins reversed – Cause for anxiety regarding money, especially if you are lending.
Gemini: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss
Cancer: Strength reversed – Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, disgrace.
Leo: 5 of Cups reversed – News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects
Virgo: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance
Libra: 8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury
Virgo: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance
I ain’t ignormus!
Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss
millions of Mexicans fraudulently voting by mail stealing the election for that Kenyan’s veep !!! – DJT45
“Want to see less racism and sexism in classical music? Stop calling Beethoven by his last name.”
https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1320179628066091011
How the hell are these people going to take control of the government in a few months. We are doomed.
Also don’t teach Shakespeare to English/literature majors. Makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it.
From downthread:
That’s not Orwellian at all.
OFFS!!
Dan Rather has gotten rather openly evil recently.
Recently?
OFFS.
If it means I can finally get laid again, I’m in.
That does not sound like a healthy relationship.
First we need to know if she can cook.
Goes both ways: I’m-a need to know a few things first myself…
Why is it that Aries keeping getting these bad weeks? Are we not human? Do we not head butt if you get too close?
Nope. Aries aren’t human.
It’s true. ?♂️
Maybe you’re too fussy.
Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, disgrace.
Well, it’s been a great run – Lindsey Graham
Cause for anxiety regarding money
I’m convinced Congress will save me yet – Mark Zuckerberg
“Cancer: Strength reversed – Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, disgrace.”
*sigh*
I should buy more gin today.
Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril
I guess Hunter Biden is an Aquarius as well.
(he actually is)
Not so bad. I’m trying to forge an alliance for a project team at work.
I like how we each took something different from that. My work is going along as normal (knock on wood), so my first thought was…different 🙂
“Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude”
Sounds right to me.
Pisces: The Tower – Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin, unforeseen catastrophe
Well, I got that going for me.
They are all pretty negative today.
Well, the bad orange trumpanzi is up for re-election, what did you expect?
Fake news. / CapricornsRpeople2
Forgot my hashtag cause Twatter banned Capricorns.
My work colleague was trying to tell me an an anecdote Friday. But instead of using her name he e accidentally looked me in the eye and said “Hayek—I mean, my wife—said blah blah blah.” I waved it off but he was embarrassed. One of the perils of having a lady boss I guess.
So you’re sleeping with your work colleague?
Work-husband.
We are often mistaken for a couple when out traveling. Probably because we are older than the rest of the department. And have a working knowledge of history and current events, which sounds like a secret language to the under-30 crowd.
Is that anything like a Sea-Wife?
Not that deep, hopefully.
No…
Game Day Chili Dogs
‘I’m a have 2 of em’
Dude, it looks like you had more than two.
But you gotta trust a man who eats a lot of his own cookin. Guy does some killer looking Ribeyes on the grill.
Yeah. Now I want a slaw dog from Hot Dog World. Which is an 8 hour drive.
I have some ballparks in the fridge and a couple of cans of Castleberry’s in the pantry, now I’m wanting hotdogs…
I’ve got homemade in my fridge right now. Just need a good dog.
There’s no sugarcoating it. The week’s draw blows.
Penn St. concurs.
Penn St? Across the Schuylkill?
SSDD
So is it a bad sign when the bar staff asks after the girlfriend?
Yes.
You’ve been there too often.
Most of the staff doesn’t ask for a card to run a tab. They also know my drink preferences, and the cute bartender said I looked cute today.
I am greatly disturbed when service industry personnel recognize me, and take it as a sign that I have to change my habits.
It doesn’t bother me. Especially since there are a couple places that I’m at a couple times a year and the staff all know me.
I’m either more charming than I thought or more of an asshole than I realized.
Or just a really good tipper.
We’re on a first name basis with staff at the two local eateries.
I’m so sorry.
You know, the strategy behind tipping well is that the staff will remember you and treat you better next time.
I’m antisocial. I tip 20%, but I don’t want to be remembered, talked to, or pestered. For some reason I can’t get waitstaff to realize that all I want is to be left alone.
If find myself in agreement with UCS. I dislike getting known by restaurant staff. My preferred dining is cafeteria style. Choose your food and be left the fuck alone while eating except for getting your dishes cleared away by the bus boy.
Yeah, there is a local Mexican place that we have been going to for years – I think we were there the first weekend they opened. We are treated like family (that actually like each other). I dig that.
Got that at a diner in Hawaii for the year and a half I was there – felt great. (I ate Thanksgiving dinner at the bar).
Bah.
Getting in good with the owners of a place gets you all sorts of goodies, plus inside gossip about the city government and the various other merchants.
* sigh * I miss Tiffany Tavern. What a place. They (owners & waitstaff) knew my name, asked about my life, etc. I mean, I really, really miss it.
That bar. Scarred from over 100 years of use. The touristy Mexican restaurant that took over refinished it.
My diner gives me some baked goods at Christmas. Plate o’cookies, pumpkin bread, that sort of thing. And a Christmas card.
They think they’re alone now.
She’s just flattering you so you’ll tip her more.
In fairness, he is pretty cute.
Hush buzzkill. Besides I’ve met her husband and he seems like a nice enough guy.
Just the tip?
@profpryor The chances that the *crises of the ages* will end shorty after November 3 are roughly 8-in-10.
Don’t bet on it. Sure trump may be gone, but the Crisis, i’m sure, will continue.
My stove have shabbat mode but not a sakana grill. How about proving a useful niche feature,
GEHaier?Stupid broiler isn’t hot enough to get that nice charring on the salmon collars.
You are not supposed to keep the collars. Chuck those back in the river so the fish cops don’t know you kept them.
Two bones/lb at the fish monger and I don’t have to spend all day at sea with Capt Bligh.
Someday it won’t be fished out of the scraps bucket, like so many other cuts that have gone upscale and far more expensive.
Sagittarius: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling
Wrong week to stop
sniffing glueglibbing, I guess.Libra: 8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury
IOW a banner week compared to recent weeks.
Cause for anxiety regarding money, especially if you are lending.
Federal Reserve Bank says “Hi”.
the cute bartender said I looked cute today.
Did you tell her your girlfriend was killed in a mine shaft collapse?
Chiefs.
I’ll take ‘what is the question’ for 600, Alex.
Browns.
/Pulls down his sleeves to hide the bruises
SUPER SPREADER HEADED YOUR WAY, STAY SCARED!
Kemala?
Hall the people in this country would rather stay scared than have President Trump again.
“The President’s visit seems to be based more on sentiment than strategy. Sometimes losing candidates take nostalgia trips to where it all started, as John McCain did to New Hampshire in the last days of his 2008 campaign,” said Dante Scala, a political science professor at the University of New Hampshire.
Keep telling yourself that.
” political science professor”
Dude, this person is a highly trained expert! SCIENCE!
Power outage straight up on the hour. Just when we’re about to kick off. Can’t be from overuse; it’s cool and cloudy out there.
Grrr!!
Phasing out fossil fuels chump! (And decommissioning all the nuke plants)
no dis-respect to your pain, but
I for one adore California as a shining testimony of the benefits of federalism: that the States should be their own experiments, that some will serve as cautionary tales
Until democrats take over and give CA a multi trillion dollar bailout, compliments of the tax payer.
Or use their size to force companies to adopt California specific standards and crowd out the markets in smaller states.
This is what I fear. CA progtards are going to spend like there’s no tomorrow because CA is “too big to fail”.
This might be the pivot on which the revolution swings. CA is borrowing just to stay a step ahead of public pension commitments.
There is no path from here for CA back out of debt. They don’t even acknowledge its existence.
no path from here for CA back out of debt
that’s exactly where a stunning number of states and municipalities are; I’m shocked that more of the moldering dumpsters around the country have yet to burst into obvious flame
I’m almost to the point where I want state bankruptcies to result in state workers having no pensions and literally winding up starving and homeless in retirement.
I have many friends that are teachers. And while I wish them no harm, I could certainly get behind the teacher’s union torn down and seeing them busking in the streets for petty cash.
Especially after their bitching for more money while the schools are more or less closed because of coronavirus.
I can already tell you what will happen. Because it already happened in Brazil. My wife is a retired teacher. She had a nice pension going. Now it’s a fraction of what it was. Why? Because they ran out of other people’s money.
My third grade teacher was a hot Brazilian. She had a preserved piranha on her desk.
At lease you didn’t say she is a piranha.
She’s probably past 70 now.
So the tomcat’s body count is now 3 birds and 1 mouse. The bird was in the house flying around frantically and before I could catch it, the cat had and wouldn’t let me have it to take it outside. Finally I picked HIM up with the bird in his mouth and took them both outside. Good kitty.
My mother-in-law is going in for open heart surgery tomorrow to remove a mass from inside her heart (very rare) (and very big) (looks like a head of broccoli). The way she has been treated is appalling. They have been fiddle-farting around for the last few months thinking it was a smudge on the films, then her doc calls the hospital to get her in stat, and they’re just kind of still fiddle-farting around. No sense of urgency about it at all.
When I go to the ER with shortness of breath, I get fast-tracked by cardiology. No triage, no nothing, just immediately wired up to the EKG. An older woman showing up by a doc’s orders with shortness of breath is nothing to fiddle-fart around about.
They must do it differently in California.
You’ll get MIL’s treatment under single-payer.
GMTA.
Good wishes Mondays.
I’ll pass it along, thanks!
Re: the Uighur situation, this article may have been posted already (looks a couple weeks old), but I only read it via twoot last night.
https://www.varsity.co.uk/interviews/19990
But what happened to this guy is good news for our country. Think of it as his sacrifice for democracy. It tells us how to deal with the deplorables.
Some of the vitriol from the left makes me think that there are some who’d have no problem with this if it were in the interests of SCIENCE! and being actively Anti-racist.
“here are some who’d have no problem with this”
It’s more than some.
Yep. They want replace the police with Antifa and put us all through “re-education”.
I’d recommend they wait until Beta gets all the guns, if they do not want that to go very badly for them.
That’s fucking horrifying.
One of the best meals I have ever had was at an Uighur noodle shop in the slums surrounding Shenzhen. The guy hand pulled the noodles in front of us. I think it cost me $4 to feed both of us.
The guy hand pulled the noodles in front of us.
Euphemism?
They should just call themselves Tibetans and watch the West fall all over them.
Well, at least Tibet was a country. The concept of the “East Turkestan Republic” was literally created by the Soviet Union to destabilize the Kuomintang.
Jadidism = Russia’s Wahhabism?
Tibet had greater independence, but Western China is not all that different from Inner Mongolia or Manchuria in that it is distinct ethnically, culturally, historically, and linguistically from Han China. And there have been various Khaganates, usually vassals of China, ruling various parts of what is today Western China, throughout its history.
I haven’t seen anyone in the West give a flying fuck about Tibet since the early 2000s. Nowadays, if the Dalai Lama were to come up in a major news cycle again (which may very well happen; Tenzin Gyatso is no spring chicken), I’d put better than even odds that we’d be treated to stories like “Tibet was a feudal monarchy”, “the Tibetan serfs were liberated by the Lama’s exile”, “Tibetan buddhism is problematic, here’s why”, “the 14th Dalai Lama should be last”, and before the end of the week anyone who supported the Dalai Lama would be a white supremacist.
The weather has ushered in that time of year where once again I have no idea what to do with myself on weekends. In an effort to find a way to meet a potential romantic partner I started looking into meet up.com groups. Which led me to this little group:
https://www.meetup.com/Buddhism-Modernity-Mangalam-Research-Center/events/273801478/
I humbly submit these people for the “most insufferable-faux spiritual” group of the month.
The weather has ushered in that time of year where once again I have no idea what to do with myself on weekends.
Masturbate?
That takes up maybe 45 min tops…..still need to fill the other 13 hours.
I thought Unitarians have that for all times.
I’ve never known a Unitarian but from all the anecdotes I gather they are just horrible. For people who have ostensibly made a religion out of non-judgment the stories I’ve heard indicate that all are welcome except Christians and non-progressives.
Holey shiznit. That was a lot of comments to catch up on.
The match was awesome. I’ll see if they need people to work the LOCAP nationals in may. Surely Talledega in May can’t be worse than central Florida in Oct.
Entertaining/wtf moments from the match:
-Chinese (or at least Chinese-named) guy wearing a jersey with a huge confederate flag on the back of it.
-Guy shooting Carry Optics with a G26. And doing really well.
-Grand Master class shooters sprinting backwards while firing, turning 135 degrees and face-planting into the side of a house.
I’ve never had a good opinion of Alabama, but I did witness a state trooper flash his headlights at me, and when I pulled over, he stopped the semi that was in front of me in the left lane going under the speed limit. So good for him.
The worst parts of the drive were LA and Waco.
Surely Talledega in May can’t be worse than central Florida in Oct.
Neither place can be worse than New York under Andrew Cuomo.
Depends for what purpose. 90+ degrees and raining is pretty fucking miserable.
We literally had to dig drainage trenches to get our stage usable.
But yeah. Too bad there’s not enough demand to have a facility like that in NH or PA.
Demand in the practical shooting sports is a weird thing. There are a ton of under-served parts of the US, when it comes to shooting venues – I live in one of them. Very few outdoor ranges, none within reasonable distance of a population center, and all of them all full to capacity, with generational waiting lists. New range proposals run into various combinations of ridiculous land prices, scumbag yuppies on zoning commissions and land-use boards, and inability to attract capital investment. It’s a mess.
I don’t care for Auburn
ugh
I don’t care for Auburn
Sean and his GF are warm and gracious hosts. And they live in a charming town. I can recommending taking them up on their offer to visits if you get one.
Did you bring bacon?
A ham. The shop was out of the good bacon.
We had it for dinner last night. Delicious. Thanks again and it was great to meet you.
https://mobile.twitter.com/OcrazioCornPop/status/1320185275503423489
More racist Trump supporters.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FromKalen/status/1320178944654663681
Love the energy.
Why do they have Trump sex dolls on their laps?
Because they like to party?
I just can’t keep up with Pornhub anymore.
First that step-shit and now this.
You missed the HuCow at the end of the last post?
Trump & Pence.
Rule 34? No idea.
“Latina O’Crazio CornPop”
I’m giving an A for that handle.
We have power back so I can watch the Packers destroy Houston.
Or maybe a decent football game instead.
Pet peeve: while NFL Sunday Ticket loads up into Roku, the on-screen message is “Hold on—the action’s on it’s way”.
It makes me want to throw something through the TV screen. It’s been like that for over a year. I wonder if they would give a damn about a well written letter.
Many years back, the NFL’s website was fucking up, so finally I wrote an email to the webmaster suggesting they run the code through an HTML validator.
POV: You’re staring at your computer screen looking at the Steam store when Firaxis finally announces an end to that abomination Civ 6 with a Civ 7 that returns to the design philosophy of Civ 4 while adding the best ideas of Civ5
I liked 6 better than 5. Do I lose any orphans for that wrong think?
Several, 6 did improve on some of 5’s flaws, but it in no way improves on 4 and even reversed quality in all areas.
No. We just know you’re less than human.
/Atf is autocorrect changing human to hunan
It is funny to watch so many people who never go to church be moved by a rendition of the Lord’s Prayer, even if most of them have no idea that’s what it is.
Lots of food prepping today on the grill.
Grilled steaks, bacon cheddar burgers, and chorizos.
GF is doing her own batches of cheeseburgers too.
Nice. I’ve got some filets and strips going on later. 48hr salt ftw!
First winter storm brewing outside so I have a pot of chili in the works.
I guess the Panthers are my team now since I can’t support Washington because they are so racist that they won’t have a native american mascot. Of course, I’d also root for anyone playing against that spineless asshole Drew Brees anyway.
I was shocked and disappointed Brees capitulated.
Best case is that he is so naive that he doesn’t know the “Never apologize” rule, but he might really be a spineless douche.
Apology = capitulation takes advantage of the fact that most people aren’t assholes. Same way commies take advantage of free speech or elections.
https://www.wfmz.com/features/rare-cloud-formation-spotted-in-lehigh-county/article_049171f8-16b1-11eb-9ed9-2f1fac06da8a.html
Science!
Relevant
Was expecting this – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ecdn5SGT1E
I really don’t understand why children like me. I’m sitting at a bar and a small kid introduced me to one of their aunts as her new friend.
*woman screaming, pointing* Get him, he’s a sex pervert! *people running, more screaming, chaos…*
Oh boy. That sounded bad.
Not this one?
Kid’s trying to set you up.
I hope the aunt looks like this.
Nah. Cuter, but her husband is right there.
Ooh, a threesome.
I bought a few of those minimally compliant face masks today. Pricey, but worth it.
Thanks to whoever shared that.
Holy shit Davante Adams is good.