For all those times I stepped on you in the night.
“Just to have that encounter, it was just so magical.â (h/t Brett L)
“According to Lego news site Brick Fanatics, at least eight different fan ideas have been rejected.”
Friday Afternoon Links
About The Author
Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Looks like kaigu.
“âThe curiosity. The ability to explore was just so amazing. Iâve never eaten calamari â and Iâll definitely never touch it now.â
That’s pulpo. Calamari is squid.
“There can be no more hiding, and no more denying. Global heating is supercharging extreme weather at an astonishing speed. Guardian analysis recently revealed how human-caused climate breakdown is accelerating the toll of extreme weather across the planet. People across the world are losing their lives and livelihoods due to more deadly and more frequent heatwaves, floods, wildfires and droughts triggered by the climate crisis.”
Oh, fuck off.
“Guardian analysis has revealed the exact outcome we were looking for. Film at 11… except we tossed our TV sets into a volcano to appease the climate gods so just take our word for it.”
“My models say only socialism can save us.”
From the FEE Pitt article: âThree million people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest [of us].â
Never seen that one before. He sure nailed our current situation.
Yup, just change it to 300 million.
Thanks for the interesting links after this crazy shit show of a week. (Yes, Ted’s, that was not Stoic).
At least next week I only have to work three days, then I fly to California to FINALLY play some hockey games.
Enjoy the weather, we dropped 25 degrees in the last 7 hours,
Fucking winter…
70 degrees yesterday afternoon. 24 degrees when I went into the lab this morning.
Yup. Local media says chance of snow tomorrow, and I dont think daytime temps are expected to get out of the 40s for the next week.
Woke up and started the day at 73* and dry. Got done in 48* and rain.
Currently 19F. Just got done moving the results of 10-ish inches of snow yesterday/last night.
Where ya goinâ to?
Irvine, Great Park & FivePoint Arena. I’m not impressed though, less than a week left and we have a list of teams but no schedule.
https://www.usahockey.com/sledclassic
Ah SoCal. Good luck and hope you get your schedule soon. If your hockey travels bring you to the SF Bay Area hit me up for a beer!
whaddup doh’
The world is still stupid.
And I have (((early release))) from work but people are still bugging me.
Just like parole ?
I wouldn’t know. *sniffs*
But yeah.
It’s a Friday; however, it’s also Cleveland Restaurant Week, Cleveland Pizza Week, and Walkabout Tremont night. If I skipped all three, I would be sleeping on the couch. Since it worked well on Tuesday, I set up a free for all Zoom/Happy Hour/Memorial for Batman for tonight, which will kick off at 20:00 Eastern.
Memorial for Batman? I miss something?
Really? I am disappoint in you lot. I figured being tied up for work, someone would have dropped this sad news
RIP Gallagher. Though most of you kids missed his heyday.
I have no watermelons to smash in his honor.
-1 Sledge-o-matic
Damn… no… had not hear that. Of course, I am also technically working today (I say technically because someone decided it was a good idea to take down a primary data center yesterday and through the weekend… and someone else decided at some point that many things like test infrastructure don’t need geo-replication… so there’s not much I can actually get done today…).
RIP, Mr. Conroy.
RIP.
I liked that cartoon series.
YT must have known it was a Riven links day since this was on the right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TIVAMehnxM
Color me skeptical, but even though I dont think (((they))) have a history of hate-crime hoaxes…..Men storm school bus, yell hate slurs at children and perform âHeil Hitler saluteâ in Chicago, officials say
Then again, Illinois Nazis and such.
They are scary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0
Chicago is MAGA country, this is known.
They were probably on their way back from leaving extra nooses at the Obama Library too.
I hope those nooses were union made as stipulated in the contract.
I think I just met my deadline with a damn solid paper for tomorrow. I also have a finished centerpiece story in my back pocket for the next edition.
This…is damn good news.
No baseball anymore…but Kindergarten Cop is on! I’m gonna get stoned and fucking chill for the (seemingly) first in quite a while.
A big part of this, naturally, is not being on the phone for hours with Mad Ex. That’s nice. I haven’t sent her the $300 that I morally believe that I owe her. I won’t today, cuz that’ll harsh my vibe. She hasn’t sent anything. I may just see how long it takes her to respond, if she ever does.
I’d rather pay the money, not just for my own conscience, but simply never wanting to actively burn a bridge. Her being fuck-off hot and sharing that fall-in-love-with-with sentiment with isn’t forgotten on me.
Let us know when it gets published.
âA big part of this, naturally, is not being on the phone for hours with Mad Ex.â
What part of âdonât respond, donât engageâ did you not grok? From the little youâve told us, I would burn that bridge, drain the river it crosses, and turn it into a minefield.
Where’s the fun in that?
God of War sounds vaguely interesting in the storyline — but as far as I can tell, I’d have to buy a PS4 or 5 or something. Or see if my old PS3 still works for the older stuff.
And screw that… I have a perfectly good PC. Especially for anything that runs on the 4 or 5, they don’t have a good excuse for not cross-porting anymore, they’re basically just fixed configuration PCs. I understand a year or so exclusives — but then release the damned things to the rest of the market already, jerks. Ah well.
Of course — this is where folks probably respond with “God of War?!? STORYLINE?!? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!” or somesuch. đ
Yeah I hate platform exclusives. It’s expected with Nintendo of course, but otherwise pffffft.
Citizen Free Press is reporting most of the remaining ballots in Arizona will be for Lake and possibly Masters. It will be interesting to see if either or both would flip the narrative about Trump picking losers.
It reminds me of hockey stats. A team could go 1-0-3, and it’s “This team is great! They have points in four straight games!” Then they lose the next one, and it’s “This team is terrible! They’ve only won one of their last five!”
“Ancient Egyptian women got ‘tramp stamp’ tattoos more than 3,000 years ago to protect them and their child during birth: Markings found on the lower back symbolize good luck and health”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11417749/Ancient-Egyptian-women-got-tramp-stamp-tattoos-protect-child-labor.html
LOL
“…. and some advertised their OnlyPharaohs accounts, promising personalized papyrus scrolls for only 15 drachma a moon!”
What a gyp.
At least it’s not a pyramid scheme.
*Eye of Horus*
That’s pretty cool.
“… that include symbols used to protect women and children, specifically during childbirth…”
A red arrow above their ass that says “THIS END UP” ?
“Exit only”
Today, in massive organ news.
“‘Itâs his endowment!’ Pete Davidson ‘CONFIRMED size of his manhood and credited BDE for landing him partners like Kim Kardashian’ claims Jay Pharoah”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11418387/Pete-Davidson-CONFIRMED-manhood-size-credited-BDE-landing-partners.html
“Gallagher dies aged 76: Comedian famed for smashing watermelons and shooting to fame on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show passes away from ‘massive organ failure'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11417775/Gallagher-dies-aged-76-Comedian-famed-smashing-watermelons-passes-away-organ-failure.html
“… Greta Thunberg reported to be planning many more public appearances, stating ‘Now it is properly safe for watermelons again.’ “
Well, they’re definitely not with him because he’s funny.
His tattoos must be the real draw.
Will the election be over by Thanksgiving?
Considering the GA runoff?
https://i0.wp.com/adaptershack.com/m/files/_tmp_php1xna7z_magic8ball1.jpg
“BREAKING: FCC commissioner Carr is on Fox News right now talking about banning TikTok in the U.S.”
https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1591095538573008897
WOW. I just heard about this on the Scott Adams livestream not two days ago. He claimed he’d make it a big issue. Then they made it a headline on Breitbart (quoting Adams), and now this.
Pepperidge Farms remembers when the Trump admin was talking about doing this…
TT is a garbage website with garbage content and is a highly addictive data farm run by a hostile nation but the gubmint shouldnât be in the business of saving people from themselves.
What about saving people from surveillance by a hostile foreign power? Iâm up in the air on banning Tik Tok, personally, but I wonât shed any tears of they do. The precedent would be unfortunate, but to think that if they donât ban Tik Tok they wonât ever ban an app, ever, seems naive.
The power to kill TT will be expanded and used for more ambiguously bad sites Iâd think. Slippery slope and whatnot but I do agree that it is trash and itâs not easy to get worked up about it.
“The power to kill TT will be expanded and used for more ambiguously bad sites Iâd think”
We know it will happen. That’s why the govt shouldn’t have that power.
Got my mom’s Christmas present back from the framer’s.
Very nice.
I hope you don’t argue over it- that would be some sour grapes
That joke just withered on the vine.
It’s, um, wisteria.
Isn’t that what you get from bad lettuce?
DAMN IT! I didn’t FRAME the joke….
“Isn’t Wisteria what Elmer Fudd got from bad lettuce?”
/Ill see myself out
That, good sir, was Rabbititus.
That’s what miter happen when you cut corners.
It would have been a lot funnier if I posted my comment after this one. đ
I prefered their Pywomania album.
Beautiful!!!
But seriously, that is gorgeous.
Concur.
That looks great!
Very nice, Moj. Did you by chance make two?
I did not. Would you like one?
Very pretty. But Chinese Wisteria is a very nasty vine, it will literally strangle any tree unfortunate enough to serve as support.
Excellent work, Mo’ How many hours do you figure? Do you keep track?
I don’t keep track, on purpose. Years ago, I made a business out of it and grew to hate it. It took me a long time to pick up a needle again. So it’s something I do while watching TV, or I watch TV while I stitch. Pure relaxation and creation of beautiful things.
That’s right. We had a similar convo about this already. Sorry…I’ll probably ask you again next time you post a pic of one. đ¤ As I told you last time, my mom was an accomplished cross-stitcher so I have an understanding and appreciation of the time that goes into something like this. Very beautiful.
That’s okay. I forget which Glib I talked about what with all the time, and I forgot we’ve had this conversation. đĽ´
Well, I’m terrible at checking this site (think it’s been 6 months or so), so I’ll definitely forget you even cross-stich (I’ll probably misremember it as crossfit).
Ohio Woman strikes again!
Woman Cops To Meat Beating At Ohio Walmart Victim was struck in face with 10-pound tube of ground beef
(reminds me of Bloom County- “Man Mugs Mime With Meat- Millions Make Merry!”)
Yup… had the same Opus and olive loaf thoughts.
Oh noesz! Starlink is instituting caps(*). Where’s my shocked face at?
*1TB/month, cue outrage.
1 TB/month sounds like a lot, but isn’t that much anymore. We’ve been averaging around 2 TB/month. I anticipate that at least doubling over the next few years.
Maybe I’m an outlier. I’ve only used 611 GB in the past month.
Yeah, anyone who gets their digital entertainment via the interweb rather than cable or over the air is going to bust right through that.
I haven’t followed Starlink a lot so I could definitely be wrong on this, but I thought their target market is people who are happy to have any service at all. I would assume the overwhelming majority of people would be content with email, “normal” surfing, and the occasional YouTube video?
Their initial market capture was people with other satellite service, but I’ve always thought Starlink was pitched as a cable internet substitute with aims to grow far beyond the current satellite market.
Overwhelming majority will depend on lifestyle and age. Agree on older couples and singles but that’s not going to work for a typical mid 30s couple with 2-3 kids. And those kids don’t watch any TV at all, only streaming services. Might as well be talking about VCRs. I think TV will be pretty much dead in another 10-20 years. Still kicking but the demand will be just about gone. Meanwhile, increasing amount of data are needed as video streaming shifts to 4k and HDR.
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
Yes, data usage needs will only keep increasing. That said, I don’t understand the need for HD or better for the majority of content out there. But of course, I’m fast approaching onion belt age, so I’m not the demographic driving this.
Genius!
Home invasion suspect shot accomplice before he was killed by homeowner’s son, sheriff says
I’m going to bed. Some of us work all night.
There is more to this story.
But, yes, genius.
That would taste terrible
Yep.
âIt was just crawling on my camera, crawling on my lips, giving me a hug. These huge tentacles were up over my face and mask,â Humphreys said. âEvery time I backed away from it, the octopus just kept coming towards me. And it was just so amazing and inspiring.â
Cthulhu is not that friendly. Cthulhu is determining whether or not you are one that should be eaten.
In 1766, Pitt rose to defend American colonists in the dispute with Parliamentâs hated Stamp Act. âI rejoice that America has resisted,â he declared. âThree million people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest [of us].â
It’s a shame Americans aren’t what they once were. Too many Americans (ahem, not all for those that look at the Canadian trucker protest and wonder why there were no protests against covid restrictions in America) fell for the fear card and caved to the Lil Rona Panic.
Scorpo goes to Ohio.
âFBI Conducts “No-Knock Warrant” At Home Of Owner Of Website Devoted To Area 51â
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fbi-conducts-no-knock-warrant-home-owner-website-devoted-area-51
An FBI further weaponized in support of the MIC. LovelyâŚ
Excellent new Pitch Meeting
https://youtu.be/vsojiWVVj00
Top Gun: Maverick
Hahaha. I haven’t watched one of those for a while. Excellent.
Tucker Carlson on midterm election counting delays.
âGuardian analysis recently revealed how human-caused climate breakdown is accelerating the toll of extreme weather across the planetâ
Break-it-down
Climate up yo
Hip it to the hop it the heat donât stop
Cooking like Rick James on a white girl
Deniers get a smack down
Muthafuckas getting warm in this shit
Gonna get Al Gore on you fast
Greta pop a polar cap in yo ass
Bustin rhymes like a playa while heâs killin Gaia
They gotta keep making that Arab money.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcuAw77J8_Y
We’re from the GOP and we ware here to help!
Geez, where the fuck where you guys election night? Blaming Trump for Walker losing?
And please do not say I am saying that Trump can do no wrong. I’ve been calling him out a lot for this bullshit about DeSantis and the comment about Youngkin was just dumb. And I think that DeSantis is the better candidate in 2024. Still, I’m not joining the leftist hatefest on Trump, because DeSantis will be the recipient of that soon enough. And fuck Fox News, and Turtlehead. What do we do, go back to the RINO fest that was the GOP before Trump? No thanks, I’ll just go back to voting for Welds, GayJays, and nekked dancing fat guys.
I think Trump is just running his playbook from the 2016 primary. I donât know why any of his targets would respond. Just ignore the man-child.
Exactly what he is doing. Remember Little Marco and Lyin Ted?
This prompted me to look up info on the candidate who lost, by 951 votes in the Pa. Primary to Oz, David McCormick. He probably would have been a moderate Republican in the Senate but so much better than Fetterman (with whom he would have mopped the floor in the general election). Trump had actually considered him for his Sec. of Treasury, and Asst. Sec. of Defense. But, because McCormick was appalled by the J6 riot, Trump decided to back “Hollywood Liberal” Oz. I wonder how much drama – and damage to principles of limited government – could have been avoided if Trump had kept his nose out of the Georgia run-offs in 2020, and the general elections in 2022?
I commented on this a few days ago. I know nothing about Oz, but holy shit, what do you have to do to lose to Lumpy Fettersquatch? But if it was a wishy washy Hogan type Repub, I would have taken my chance on Oz. There’s no going back to that. I’ll get MTG to beat them up, I swear! LOL.
I’ve heard a whole lot in the last few days about how candidate quality matters, but that only works for one side. It seems people are happy to vote in Dems who are clearly mentally incapacitated, hide in their basements, refuse to participate in debates, or are even dead.
To lose? Have an R after your name.
Most people now are remarkably immune to switching Teams, no matter how awful their candidate is. The days of someone winning 49 states in the EC – gone.
Which is very strange considering how wacko the D party is now.
It’s amazing how many people do not even know that. I see it all of the time. They think the Ds are still the same people they were 30 years ago. It’s like they never watch news or even get on the internet. Or if they do, they only see their bias confirming ideas on CNN or MSNBC. So why would they ever even think about voting GOP when they are racists who will put women and color folk back into chains? They just always voted D and so why change now?
LCDR_Fish,
I’m catching up and saw you posted on the GlibFlick post about Travis Corcoran. Sounds like he wants to be paid, but I’ll see if I can find some contact information for him and contact him.
Climate DOOOOM
At least two people have died during the damage wrought by Nicoleâs overnight landfall Thursday along Floridaâs eastern shore, which knocked out power to thousands, pushed buildings near collapse and flooded the coast as the first hurricane to hit the United States in November in nearly 40 years.
Two people were âelectrocuted by a downed power lineâ in Orange County, the Orange County Sheriffâs Office said in a press release.
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At least 49 beachfront buildings including 24 hotels and condos have been deemed âunsafeâ following Hurricane Nicole in Volusia County, officials said in a press release. âThe structural damage along our coastline is unprecedented,â county manager George Recktenwald said in the release. âWe have never experienced anything like this before, so we ask for your patience as we make our assessments.
An additional 11 structures on Daytona Beach shores have already been deemed compromised, according to Recktenwald.
Unprecedented. Unimagineable destruction. Trillions of dollars will be needed for the recovery effort.
Well, there was never any wind storms before, so something must be going on.
Something new to be offended about, brought to you by some twit who had several column-inches to fill…
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/nutrition/cultural-food-label/
“If You Think Tacos Arenât Healthy, We Have News for You
Broadly labeling a certain cuisine as âunhealthyâ is not only wrongâitâs also harmful”
“While foods that are hailed as âhealthyâ do provide much-needed nutrients for the body, oftentimes they conform to Western food standards, leaving other cultures feeling as though their foods are inferior.”
Read on about criticism of MSG leading to racism, and other interesting facts in the world of food relativism.
I don’t see why tacos would be unhealthy. Likewise, I don’t see why hamburgers would be unhealthy. It’s the soft drinks and other stuff that people order at the same time that are the problem.
Oh sure, but where’s the opportunity for slinging unfounded accusations of bigotry in that?
“The idea that cultural foods (i.e., not Westernized cuisine) are not up to healthy standards and should be treated as âcheatâ meals is not regulated to Mexican foods.”
Because Mexico is in Asia?
“As a dietitian, I think there are ways to improve the nutrient density or nutrition composition of any recipe through different cooking techniques or ingredient swaps. Still, âitâs important to have competency with cultural humility before ever attempting this, and is likely best done on an individual level,â Harbstreet says.”
WTF?
My brain just goes, “Woke woke woke woke woke woke woke”.
Same with many TV commercials these days.
OMG go fuck yourselves with this old trope.
Riven!
âExamples like these are not superabundant but neither are they scarce, for which we ought to be grateful.â
Terrific article. Thanks!
“BREAKING: Ontario school board determines “busty” biological male teacher ALLOWED to wear fetish props to school”
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1590743113206824962
WTF, Canada?
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Didn’t this guy turn out to be an unwoke shitlord sticking his thumb in the eye of the system?
I read that but I think it was based on stuff posted on 4chan.
Pafuckinthetic, the dude should have been bounced out on his ass months ago.
âIt was giving me a hugâ: video captures rare giant octopus encounter
Blue Curacao FTW!!!!
Fuck. As I got up off the bar stool a few minutes ago, I planted my right leg on the floor first and then scooted off to land the left leg. Not a big deal. No slipping, wearing practical shoes, no alcohol. But my right knee loudly hyperextended laterally (lower leg splayed out with upper leg bending in toward my left.) it was popped out of joint for less than a second before I forced it back into place with another loud thunk. Fuckinâ Me-ow!!