Today is the first day my son starts high school. Yes, the day after Memorial Day. He’s taking a couple summer school classes to get ahead. Which means I had to drop him off 45 mins earlier than normal. I’m not sad, I’m counting the days I get to kick him out.
Long weekend was great except I ran out of propane yesterday. I took it exactly as I should: as a personal failing. Oh well, just means I have to throw some bacon in the cast iron pan and grill up some burgers that way.
Enlaces!
AMLO interferes in the US election. I look forward to the US backing Guatemala in the inevitable proxy war in response.
At any rate, Mexico has bigger issues with this volcano, and apparent human trafficking importation of Cuban doctors.
Another Nazi false flag, this time involving Don Brett.
Yes, Lula is a communist. They were actually pretty open about that.
El Presidente Dudebro locks up a political rival. By political rival I mean a former presidente with ties gangs he’s beeb locking up. Too bad for him because those are apparently no picnic.
Heard it this morning dropping the kid off at school and now you have to hear it. Is that how it works?
“Long weekend was great except I ran out of propane yesterday.”
These things happen.
Failure to plan on your part…
Just buy an empty tank on Craigslist or FaceDerp Marketplace. Exchange it for a full one. Cycle between the two. Never run out again!
Also counts as prepping.
I lost two tanks worth of propane because a squirrel ate the hose.
^This
I have 3 and always keep 2 full. It’s also enough fuel to intermittently/selectively power my house through an interlock for ~4 days during an outage.
I am one shy there. I have two tanks. Same reason. It sucks to run out.
That was my mistake. I thought I had a spare handy.
“Fifty bricks of South American cocaine wrapped in Nazi symbols destined for Belgium were intercepted by law enforcement in Peru, authorities said.”
First you get the tiny vegetables, then you get the drugs, then you get the women.
I guess you did Nazi the comment from a couple days ago.
I don’t blame you though. Fifty kilos is a lot for anyone’s asshole, no matter how experienced…
Tess Holiday couldn’t smuggle that much that way.
Brandon only had 50 sheets for the color printer or he would have made the bust more spectacular.
Órale vatos, ¡wassápenin!
¿Qué?
WEBSITE UPGRADE DELAYED AGAIN: We thought we were ready this time. We really did. But our dear WebDom is under the weather and not up for a ritual of that length and complexity. We wish her a speedy recovery and will let you know when the stars are again right.
Get well soon! Hope it isn’t anything to serious.
She was working on the server upgrade and caught a bug.
Those ritualistic candles are known to cause asthma. Open a window next time.
I thought they were Gwyneth Paltrow’s candles.
I hope WebDom recovers soon.
“By political rival I mean a former presidente with ties gangs he’s beeb locking up.”
If he gets rid of all the gangs, will there be any young men left in the country?
Might help the tourism industry.
More chicks for El Presidente
Anti-narcotics officers discovered 58 kilograms of the packaged drugs with the Nazi swastika affixed to them, authorities said, according to AFT. Some of the packages had the word Hitler inscribed on the packed-in white powder.
A Liberian-flagged boat was allegedly transporting the drugs, authorities said.
Black Nazis!
Wrapped in Nazi flags – because it’ll make the Belgians immediately surrender instead of investigating?
White supremacy in Blaq face.
If Obrador was worth listening to, wouldn’t they have stayed in Mexico?
I’m a refuge and I don’t take advise from Phil Murphy.
Soooo many meetings today. So little accomplished. All busyness, little business.
At least it’s lunch break before the next one!
Happy Tuesday afternoon, all.
The next thing.
Scientists have discovered a dangerous bacterium living in seaweed on Florida’s coasts.
The seaweed, known as Sargassum, commonly manifests as thick, tangled globs of algae. …
Scientists have warned that sargassum has the potential to intermix with plastic litter contaminated with Vibrio bacteria.
This is how you get giant mutant dildos.
I know you are, but what am I?
Every year, Target releases their Pride Month collection, featuring select merchandise celebrating LGBTQ culture that has become a big hit in the queer community over the past decade. Frequently quirky and/or amusing, the products cause no more offense than the occasional atrocious pun. But last week, Target released a statement announcing they would remove several items from their Pride collection due to “safety concerns” for in-store employees after backlash—often violent in nature—from anti-LGBTQ extremists.
If you’re a corporate marketing officer concerned over what’s happening with Target, let me make something abundantly clear: You will never appease anti-LGBTQ extremists. But moreover, there’s a colder truth at play here: They don’t want to be appeased, they want to be angry.
In case you’re wondering, the items in question are harmless but have become the center of the perpetual anti-LGBTQ conservative outrage machine that has plagued our national discourse at a fever pitch over the past few years. Folks may think this is about a few clothing items, but it’s not. I promise it’s not. These are the same people who were livid that Pink Floyd used a rainbow in their 50th anniversary logo for “The Dark Side of the Moon” —for the unfamiliar, that iconic album cover depicts light being shone through a glass prism and dispersed into the color spectrum, also known as a rainbow. The album cover long predates the use of the rainbow as a symbol of LGBTQ pride.
These are not reasonable people.
Never be satisfied.
Sure Jan.
“These are the same people who were livid that Pink Floyd used a rainbow in their 50th anniversary logo for “The Dark Side of the Moon””
When did that happen?
“Frequently quirky and/or amusing, the products cause no more offense than the occasional atrocious pun.”
It’s because they went after kids, you dishonest hack.
Anyway, the HRC puts pressure on companies through DEI ratings.
That’s a stunning amount of projection.
Isn’t it? Righties just stopped going there, peacefully. It was a crazed leftist who made a bomb threat.
Only because righties made shim do it.
You are right. My mistake.
These are not reasonable people.
But enough about the trans cult.
Ten years of tradition or became popular over past ten years? Regardless, I doubt they were doing it prior to 2000.
I did logistics for big T 2000-2004, and it was no where.
Woke-fil-A.
Chick-fil-A is receiving an onslaught of conservative ire after the company’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative spread across social media.
“One of our core values at Chick-fil-A, Inc. is that we are better together,” reads the company’s website, which now includes a DEI section. “When we combine our unique backgrounds and experiences with a culture of belonging, we can discover new ways to strengthen the quality of care we deliver: to customers, to the communities we serve and to the world. We understand that getting Better at Together means we learn better, care better, grow better and serve better.” …
The DEI effort, per its website, involves the following:
-Ensuring equal access: The intentional promotion of equal opportunity through processes and practices, “to provide personalized development and eliminate barriers to opportunities so all can thrive.”
-Valuing differences: The company says it seeks to understand and honor unique experiences and perspectives, as they “strengthen us as we unite around something bigger than ourselves.”
-Creating a culture of belonging: Promoting and sustaining a culture where all individuals can thrive and contribute.
Or maybe it is just banal buzzword bingo.
Seems pretty mild compared to most of them.
Target would be trying to convince you that fucking your chicken sandwich is A-OK.
So you are saying it it isn’t?
I’m not judging
It’s not mayo…
Fuck em. I hope their employees unionize and demand pride flags every day.
But where will I get a delicious chicken sammich?
I’d imagine the lines will be much shorter if they unionize and fly pride flags.
They don’t have any pride, they are, literally, chicken.
That sounds like the standard vague language from any company. I still know people who don’t eat there because of their pro-life stance. I can’t imagine they’d try to please anyone on the left.
Corporations need to understand something about these people: their objective is not really to gain any ground but to find an outlet for their rage at the world changing around them. They are starving for outrage and will feast on any scrap. They would rather be perpetually angry than be mollified. They are furious that anyone would ask them to learn about others because it de-centers their experience as the unassailable, unaccountable default. And deep down, they know LGBTQ people are never going away. The closet has been permanently opened.
Anyone who expresses reservations of any sort bout the push to bring the transsexual revolution into their living room is a hillbilly bigot freaked out for no reason by our totally innocuous desire to peacefully coexist with them.
It certainly has nothing to do with the overt sexualization of kids.
The long weekend has left me drained from inactivity; thus, the cure was to be inactive yet again today. Tomorrow I have a full roster of errands, though, including a followup visit to my cardiologist. Super-nice guy. He doesn’t lecture. He just gives you that sad disappointed dad look.
The deco mesh winter wreath I made is still up, and I have not yet made my spring one, although it’s coming on summer. I didn’t know what I’d do for summer anyway except 4th of July stuff, and I’m a little sour on that right now. ANYWAY. Because of my failure to replace my winter wreath with a spring wreath (that I have not yet made), a mommy bird and a daddy bird have built a nest in said winter wreath and as of now have 5 eggs, so I can’t deal with my winter wreath for another 6 weeks until the little ones are out of the nest. What. I’m heartless, but not THAT heartless.
I too am drained but it’s from the opposite. Our 2 parties this weekend went well, and we spend half the day yesterday cleaning up. Mrs. TOK hates things lying around so she delivered all the tents, tables, and chairs back to their owners. Which means our garage is almost normal. Looking at our yard you’d never know there were hundreds of people there.
Awww adorable.
*yawn*
I have a message for FBI Director Christopher Wray: If he misses today’s deadline to turn over subpoenaed documents to Congress, I am prepared to move contempt charges against him.
I’m sure he’ll get right on that.
Give him an arm burn too. That’ll show him.
They already sent him a strongly worded letter. Let’s not be too hard on the guy.
At least he’s doing something.
“In the case of Mexico City, the risk is ash fall. We are prepared for that scenario and we know what to do. Let’s stay alert,” Mexico city’s mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said in a tweet on Sunday.
Look at the bright side: we may get a new ash-slapping .gif for Tuesday afternoons.
You have a lava nerve making a bad pun about the best .gif ever.
I promise not to make any more puns about this volcano until after the dust settles.
I’m magmanimous like that sometimes.
Lights Swiss signal
a mommy bird and a daddy bird have built a nest in said winter wreath and as of now have 5 eggs
Not hanging on the front door, then?
Oh, no. The wreath is gigantic. Won’t fit on the door.
Companies need to understand that they cannot mollify bigots whose primary desire is to be angry. They’ve already lost them. They’re gone. If companies cave to these bigots, they’re sacrificing the loyalty of other consumers for a sad, small group that will never like them.
Oh, how very very droll.
That sad, small group is somehow causing billions in lost revenue.
For Bud Light maybe.
I don’t believe the Target thing yet.
I dunno, didn’t Target got a few bomb threats?
from the transgenders
Good, maybe they’re serious
The Popocatépetl volcano is a tall fucker. I wonder how much height it will lose when it finally pops off.
Hmmm. I like where you are going with this. Perhaps this entire time we’ve prayed to SMOD, we completely forgot to ask the volcano gods for help.
Ah, Krakatoa has a sad.
Know any good lava god prayers?
They already sent him a strongly worded letter.
It’s in his file, now! It’s part of his permanent record. There’s no need for further pointless cruelty.
“Kanye West’s ‘wife’ Bianca Censori wears scarf wrapped around her entire head as they exit The West Hollywood Edition hotel after dinner”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12140809/Kanye-Wests-wife-Bianca-Censori-wears-scarf-wrapped-head.html
Bigger news would be if he did something normal.
I’m starting to think celebrities aren’t right.
She’s getting in character for her part in the upcoming Invisible Woman movie.
Probably had some plastic surgery recently
Poke-a-pimple threw so much ash you can’t see it on the webcam anymore.
https://worldcams.tv/mexico/puebla/popocatepetl-volcano
Clickbait
According to the Wall Street Journal, the industry believes it has so many gamblers coming to the Strip to lose their money that if can afford to weed out the undesirables by lowering the odds and shrinking the payoff.
“You’re kicking out the lowest end,” explained Caesars Entertainment CEO Tom Reeg during a call with analysts this month. “I see no reason that that needs to stop or would stop.”
——-
According to the WSJ, analysts at Vegas Advantage estimate that more than two-thirds of all blackjack tables on the Strip are now only offering only 6:5 payouts as opposed to more favorable 3:2 ratio they have historically offered when a player hits 21 on the first two cards.
That means a $10 bet only nets an additional two in winnings instead of the traditional five dollars—and it’s not just card games like blackjack that are exhibiting signs of deteriorating odds for gamblers.
Vegas Advantage also estimates the number of so-called “triple zero” roulette tables that feature an extra slot, thereby mathematically lowering the chance of winning, has soared. Whereas once these harder tables were a rarity with only a few in operation back in 2016, they hit 78 last year and are quickly encroaching on the 111 double-zero tables that are slightly more favorable for participants.
Finally, casinos are also shutting down table games, citing the rising costs for paying their dealers, in favor of more automated electronic games.
Sadly, there is nothing in there about mob goons bum-rushing poor people through plate glass doors.
Pricing them out, maybe. I haven’t been in Vegas in a long time, but I bet you can’t find a blackjack table with a minimum under ten bucks on he Strip. It’s probably twenty after eight o’clock or whenever they do the changeover. The lowlifes can still play in North Vegas, I assume.
It’s been over a decade since I was last in a casino. I enjoyed playing low stakes texas hold em against other players where the house just took a cut of the pot for hosting the game. Seemed like a fair deal for the players and the casino. I walked out with maybe an extra $50 in my pocket, an entertaining few hours, and several free drinks. My buddy on other hand went through his entire budget in the first 20 minutes playing slots.
I make these video slots as it happens and they are indeed awesome at taking your money.
You’re welcome.
I love that payouts can change by time and location.
The truth is table games are even more efficient at taking your money because people refuse to play disciplined via the odds.
Even the bar tables with electronic games raised minimums. You have to put in $40 and bet $1.50 minimums now to sit there.
Plenty of casinos for the poors in my part of the country.
Ya’ll from Shrevepoat?
Northwest Indiana and southern Michigan are lousy with casinos.
More solid trolling from TYL.
It’s astonishing to me how many people take the bait. But it sure makes Twitter more fun!
The embassy also recommended people to not travel within a 7.5 mile radius of the volcano, citing warnings from local authorities.
Flying to Cancun tomorrow. I guess no need to worry about the volcano.
Just listen to this and you’ll be ok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5NQOgm91pw
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVSKydUxKk
Speaking of birds and their nests, I had blue jays right outside my living room window one time. They are noisy.
The real fun starts when the jays and squirrels start going at each other. The jays like to antagonize the squirrels, who get all chirpy at them and skitter up and down the trees protecting their shit.
“Johns Hopkins Medicine employees have been issued a new guidebook with a list of 50 different pronouns — including “aerself” and “faerself” — that staff can use after a new ID badge policy was implemented, according to a report.
Other pronouns listed in the guide include xe, ve, per and ae, as well as directions on how to use the pronouns in everyday sentences, such as “I gave faer the key,””
https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/johns-hopkins-medicine-staff-given-roadmap-to-navigate-dozens-of-pronouns-faerself-ve-xe/
OFFS!!
Hopkins is the largest recipient of federal grants and contracts among all universities.
To say they’re beholden to the regime is a massive understatement.
Is gofuckyerself one of the genders?
Sure, why not?
Monosexual? Self sexual?
Address me as your majesty or I’ll sue.
Sigh.
It’s getting so ridiculous out there that I can only imagine the silliness will blow over sooner rather than later.
“Pablo Escobar’s feral hippos are being airlifted — to El Chapo’s Mexican homeland”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/pablo-escobars-hippos-headed-to-el-chapos-mexican-homeland/
Look at how they massacred my boy
https://ibb.co/tqrn0BV
I take it that is not your Giants shirt?
Looks like Massie is going to move the budget to the floor.
I hope that means he knows it will fail.
It doesn’t. He supports the bill.
Where do you get that idea?
As far as I know, he’s just opposed to killing the bill in committee.
his social media
I’m trying to wrap my head around his position but I think it’s naive at best.
i’m not sure i completely understand it.
Baby steps.
Between the Peruvian Nazi cocaine and the Indian dude who allegedly had a Nazi flag in his Uhaul, is it possible that people from countries that didn’t fight WW2 in Europe just don’t have the same visceral reaction to Nazi imagery that we do? And therefore isn’t imposing our aversions on them just another form of white supremacy?
And they even let people smoke in the Hitler Cafe!
Indian Army in Europe during the Second World War.
I doubt it would matter anyways given the swastika (ok, different than the Nazi swastika) has been used in India for a long time.
Probably had some plastic surgery recently
This provokes me. I watched a movie recently (two, actually- part one and part two) called Doc West. Not terrible, but pretty sappy, really. I picked it because Terence Hill.
Anyway, there is an actress in it who is an extremely fine looking woman in her mid to late forties, I’d guess. Holy moly what a great face. The thought of her feeling the need to have “work” done, or worse yet, botox…
It would be a crime against nature.
https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/1663614970561429504
LOL
“👀Watch👀
On October 14th, 17th & 18th, Maricopa County performed secret testing on the tabulators
This was AFTER the legally required Logic & Accuracy test
260 of 446 tabulators failed
They were used on election day anyway. Where 59% failed
This is the story of a sabotage.”
https://twitter.com/KariLakeWarRoom/status/1662872148921434114
They need to make a law everything is done with pencils with no erasers.
Back to basics
Ford (F) stock popped on Tuesday morning as positive reviews on Ford’s capital markets day continued to roll in from Wall Street more than a week after the event.
On Tuesday, Philippe Houchois, an equity analyst at Jefferies, upgraded Ford stock from Hold to Buy and boosted his price target from $13 to $16.
“Last week’s Investor event in Dearborn raised our confidence that Ford finally has the plan & the team in place to close a deficit of execution that has dogged shares for years,” Houchois wrote in a note to clients.
“This time fer sure!”
Stop it. You’re killing me.
The Lions are going to win the Superbowl this year too!
Winning!
Mammary Martes! Tetas Tuesday! Vamanos!
https://archive.is/YbJqx
There’s a volcano in it
https://twitter.com/OmarRiverosays/status/1663236758669082646
Fuck this also and half the comments.
Only half?
They’re split kind of 50/50.
Wow.
Tapped out in the first reply.
Hard work will set you free, too.
“Ban my rival and join my own Twitter clone.”
What a douchebag and I imagine Musk will be just fine.
Lol.
I’m imagining AOC absolutely losing her mind and throwing things at her people.
She was bitching about it earlier in a link one of you posted.
Don’t know if it’s a fake pic or not, but nice see-thru top.
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1663635165086621699
However, I don’t do bestiality so… would not.
Physically cute but the personality of a Red Guard.
I’m dying in here.
Now, that is funny.
Taco Bell never got me. Now Chipotle, that’s another story.
I got violently ill from both ends at a juice bar a couple of weeks ago. Not cool.
What the hell were you drinking?
Euphemism?
Anti-narcotics officers discovered 58 kilograms of the packaged drugs with the Nazi swastika affixed to them, authorities said, according to AFT. Some of the packages had the word Hitler inscribed on the packed-in white powder.
Next level not-woke.