Greetings! Another week that sees me travelling and the skies are likewise pretty busy.
There are residual good vibes from Venus as it moves out of the weekending alignment, and that colors Monday’s interaction with the Moon and Mercury. Generally that’s unpredictable chaos (other than the prediction of chaos, naturally) but Lady Luck is more likely to be friendly this time. Fortunately for me, my match will be done by Thursday, since there will be some gnarly Saturn-based stuff overhead for the main match. Now that I think about it, Saturn’s relationship with lead could mean something more particular in light of a shooting match… I will need to ponder and observe to see what happens. In the normie interpretation, Friday is just bad, bad, bad, with Mercury and Saturn bringing the ill wind, which gets even worse by Saturn shifting to retrograde motion. And this simply cannot be coincidental as during this retrograde shift, we see the previous day’s solar arrangement being augmented with a lunar one on Saturday (Saturn’s day!) While this only involves five of the planets being tainted with Saturn, notably the good signs are not there to leaven the results.
Cancer: 10 of Cups reversed – Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.
Leo: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man, roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Virgo: 3 of Cups – The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.
Libra: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
Scorpio: Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude.
Sagittarius: 10 of Wands – Oppression simply, but it is also fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then it is the oppression of these things. False-seeming, disguise, perfidy.
Capricorn: 7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrel, effective stewardship.
Aquarius: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Pisces: The Chariot – Succor, providence, war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.
Aries: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
Taurus: King of Wands reversed – Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.
Gemini: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
Virgo: 3 of Cups – The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.
Since I have a test at a facility near Syracuse this week (followed by another in Cleveland), Ill take it.
Nice dog videos.
Dishonest, double-dealing man, roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Sufficiently shitty.
9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
So the well isn’t going to go overly deep after all!
I don’t even know what that means.
You are getting the hang of this.
What’s with all these ominous horrorscopes?
Lily keeps luring the black dog into believing he’s winning. Then she’s gonna take him/her.
Good show, Lily
Lead is good for you. It’s 100% natural.
Lead is why P Brooks doesn’t need any threading.
So are the vinegar wipes.
Sagittarius: 10 of Wands – Oppression simply, but it is also fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then it is the oppression of these things. False-seeming, disguise, perfidy.
Far out, man.
Now that is how you make a prediction that comes true every time! Perfection.
They must be Leos. They’re not dead yet: https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06/23/stanford-denies-its-dismantling-disinformation-research-group/
Now that is how you make a prediction that comes true every time! Perfection.
“Perhaps yes, perhaps no.”
I’ve always wondered if those D-Lead things work any better than a regular wet wipe…
Metals are (generally) highly soluble in acid. Wash your hands with soap and warm water, then rinse off with a weak acid, vinegar works great, then rinse again with water. When working with heavy metals getting it onyour skin is a negligible risk. Dont suck on your fingers, smoke or eat. Dont eat the lead. These metals, and others, are really only taken into the body as ions in solution, not through physical contact with the skin. Like I mentioned, dont eat it. Rinse it off of your skin with a mild acid before licking your fingers.
The only case of lead poisoning I am aware of for decades was a worker in an indoor shooting range. The range did not have proper ventilation and he breathed in Microparticles of lead for over a year. If you already have lead in your system it can be displaced with calcium. Drink lots of milk. Or calcium supplements.
Oh, by ‘drink lots of milk’ I mean half of a gallon per day for a year or two. LOTS of milk.
Oh, and indoor ranges have ventilation requirements these days.
Supposedly they have EDTA which is a pretty bitchin’ chelant. However, it’s not going to do anything for particulate-sized metals. However, if they have additional solvents and/or the wipes are woven correctly, they could (could!) be a lot more effective than standard baby/wet-wipes. Hard to see them as being better than actual handwashing though.
Systemic abandonment of responsibility
Amtrak trains were delayed for hours on Thursday. It’s yet another sign of America’s terrible rail service
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Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor exA power outage shut down Amtrak trains along its Northeast Corridor on Thursday, disrupting evening commutes and causing train delays that stretched into Friday morning.
The power failure occurred Thursday afternoon, amid a heat wave that has set temperature records across the East Coast. The outage between New York City and Newark meant delays in all rail service out of New York that afternoon. Amtrak ended up suspending rail service between New Haven and Philadelphia as its crews worked to restore power, causing “significant delays.” The effects lingered into Friday morning, with some early trains canceled as well.
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This array of service disruptions illustrates a lack of investment in U.S. rail, as decades of infrastructure planning prioritized cars and roads over trains. That has left Americans without a reliable (or high-speed) rail system, often pushing them to choose air or car travel instead, resulting in more warming greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere.
Bring back steam locomotives.
👍👍
You know who else complained about trains not running on time?
C’mon guys, that one writes itself
Joe R. Biden?
Sherlock Holmes?
Just fix the climate duh
A few dozen trillion ought to do
This is not the horoscope I want when I hit the road Friday. I demand a refund!
I can issue wyou a refund only after the reciept of a $50 processing fee.
“Thank you, sir. Please fill out this paperwork for your appointment with the next F̵o̵r̵t̵u̵n̵e̵ ̵T̵e̵l̵l̵e̵r̵ Department. Next availability will be in three months. Mornings, or evenings preferred?”
Yeah, but it’s only two days until you get a new one.
Anti-Saloon League biddies hardest hit
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the first menthol-flavored electronic cigarettes for adult smokers, acknowledging that vaping flavors can reduce the harms of traditional tobacco smoking.
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Parent groups and anti-tobacco advocates immediately criticized the decision, which comes after years of pushing regulators to keep menthol and other flavors that can appeal to teens off the market.
“This decision could mean we’ll never be able to close the Pandora’s box of the youth vaping epidemic,” said Meredith Berkman, co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes. “FDA has once again failed American families by allowing a predatory industry to source its next generation of lifetime customers — America’s children.”
They’re poisoning America’s children.
They should change their name to Parents For Traditional Cigarettes.
Oh fuck off!
RJ and Glibflix, Trendsetter: As streaming becomes more expensive, Tubi cashes in on the value of free
RJ and Glibflix, Trendsetter: As streaming becomes more expensive, Tubi cashes in on the value of free
Tubi is good. I watched something on plex the other night, instead of tubi; there seemed to be more ad breaks.
Plex’s big thing is serving your own media, they got into streaming as a side business. There’s at least some concern that Plex may pivot more to streaming/licensing/renting items rather than being able to serve your own. If they manage to get to where they’ll allow people to purchase (and download) items, that could be huge.
Taurus: King of Wands reversed – Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.
Hrm. Phlebotomy training starts July 8. This week family, parents, bro, SiL and 3, 9 and 11yo nephews +me, are going to West Virginia for five days. The highlighted destination for me is the New River Gorge Bridge Walk. Ezzie, the youngest, is my Mini-Me and I eldest is taking to my Uncledom well for his age. He Gets It. My favorite bit is the age diff between him and the youngest, nearly the same between them and me and my bro, who pretty much (socially) raised me. I’m seeing the 11-year-old tricks he pull on the others to get his way. Like his bro to me, they are fair ones on his bros– he just takes his cut and encourages them to ‘implicitly’ give him his way.
It’s fascinating. I love watching the process from the outside as the gears churn. It’s gonna be a tremendous trip. And then, new Life kinda begins if I can pull it off, another Career/Life-Choice curveball from me. I like to nibble ’round the plate. The three boys are all at perfect ages, respectively. Big inducement for me to remain located in the Indy area as long as Bro does. Restarted talks with Anj up in Minnesota. Rekindling that is ideal for both of us.
(Tricky bit? She *really* wants a baby. Curious bit: Apparently I have an affinity for brown lawyers. Or they for me? Hrm.)
From Common Tater in Morning lynx. None of this is surprising and I can’t wait to hear the public response. Most likely prediction: This will purposefully be silenced and not talked about. I’ll do my best to remind ’em.: “A previously censored paper from The Lancet has now undergone peer review and is available online.
–The study, titled “A Systematic Review of Autopsy Findings in Deaths After COVID-19 Vaccination,” analyzed 325 autopsy cases and found that a staggering 73.9% of deaths were either directly due to or significantly contributed to by the COVID-19 vaccination.
–The paper’s lead author, Dr. Nicolas Hulscher, faced significant opposition in bringing these findings to light. After initially being downloaded over 100,000 times, The Lancet removed the paper within 24 hours, according to Dr. William Makis.
–According to The Daily Sceptic, the reason given at the time was, “This preprint has been removed by Preprints with the Lancet because the study’s conclusions are not supported by the study methodology.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/lancet-journal-study-finds-73-9-deaths-following/
My shitposting on Twitter is manifesting as book sales.
How’s that work?
“My protagonists mom can beat your protagonist’s mom”?
Let me think.
Anora Colfax – Dead. But she is a superhero, so coming back from the dead would be in-genre
[Redacted] – Supervillain, has a definate shot
Ms. Wilson – Homemaker
Ms. Howard – Lesbian Activst attention whore
Grafin von Salzheim-Karststadt – Dead
Countess Heard – Noblewoman
Depending on which protagonist I’ve got a shot.
“Hey! I have a name! I’m sick of this shit!” ~[Redacted].
1. Say a shitlord thing.
2. Direct something helpful/encouraging to the writing community and hashtag it.
3. Make a meme and tweet it.
4. Throw around your book links with something you like about what you did (e.g., “I make my city a character. I like books that make a location a character.”)
5. Retweet somebody else’s random meme.
6. Throw out links to blog posts you’ve written about #topic.
7. Go on a 3-tweet rant about something you found ridiculous.
8. Repeat.
@Evan – I know her name, I redacted it to avoid spoilers for unpublished stories.
@Mo – So how does that convert to book sales?
9. Ask questions. Converse with people who answer them.
10. Answer questions from people who ask them. Converse with them.
11. Repeat.
If you drop your links to where they can buy your books (Amazon author page), they will go there if you’re interesting. And then they will read your summaries. If the story looks interesting, they’ll buy.
Shit, someone just bought my matador book, and ain’t nobody likes matadors nowadays.
Also, you have to have your books link in your profile.
You make it as easy for people to find and buy your books as possible.
@UCS: I know. The humor plays upon such continuity.
@Mo – I’d probably read a story about a Matador, but romance isn’t my Genre. In your research, did you come across any decent books on the history of bullfighting?
Mo, how do you avoid (or survive) having a shit-flinging TwitterMob go all Lord of the Flies on you?
@GT – There was an actual shipwrecked community of schoolboys in the south pacific who’d run away from home before getting stranded. They were found years later having survived without any Lord of the Flies type strife.
/whitepill
🙂👍🏝👦👦👦👦👦👦
(I wonder what would have happened if they’d all been girls…)
I have a shelf full of bullfighting books (start with Hemingway Death in the Afternoon) and a coffee table book of my favorite matador that my husband bought me (direct from Spain). My most interesting research, though, and most relevant to my book, were the Spanish sports websites.
I actually beefed up my matador’s personality based on a real matador and things he’d say in the press. He was an asshole I didn’t like, but what he said was useful to me.
I also had a Portuguese friend beta read and she told me one pertinent thing: Futból is above the fold; bullfighting is below the fold.
I started this book in 1988 because I fell in love with “Concierto de Aranjuez” and there it was, I was in love with a whole country. I did as much research as I could back then, which wasn’t much, but it was when I decided to rehab the book that I had this new lovely tool called YouTube.
I was reluctant to watch it, because I’d finished rehabbing this book and I was afraid to find out I didn’t like bullfighting. What I found out was … I was bored. And then … the aforementioned asshole bullfighter came along and I wasn’t bored anymore and what he said in the press made COMPLETE sense.
Anyway, my fans who didn’t like bullfighting still read it and liked it in spite of themselves, so… I explained it in a way that was palatable.
The books you’ll find on bullfighting are mostly from the 50s and 60s when it was a decorating craze in the US (black velvet matadors, anyone?). I didn’t find too much of it trustworthy for modern day (well, 1996 modern).
@GT, I was in the middle of a shitstorm when Gabby Gifford got shot, because I tweeted something sarcastic that got misconstrued by the right-wingers. Made Fox News. Took Patterico and Popehat to pull me out of that muck. It was not fun.
@Mo – Thank you
@GT – I have no idea how the distaff counterpart of the situation would unfold.
@UCS
Look for the Tyrone Power movie Blood and Sand. I don’t know if the book on which it’s based is still in print.
One thing I keep wondering is if there’s continuity from the Roman Venatores to Spanish Matadors, or if it originated from a different source.
Amazon has it.
*TH – After seven years of Spanish education from New York public schooles, I can’t read a word of it.
I do find it funny that the formats are “Pasta Blanda” and “Pasta Dura”
(I wonder what would have happened if they’d all been girls…)
Bette Ford would like a word with you.
Oh wait, you weren’t talking bullfighters.
Reddit indicates that bulls are currently very popular.
Time for Echtdeutsch v. Schwyzerduutsch.
I keep getting interrupted by tornado warnings.
In all my years of living along the course of the Erie Canal, I’ve never had a tornado actually hit. I know you’re south of that line, but the hillier terrain there isn’t better for tornado formation.
The warnings are actually Madison County. Or looks like Herkimer now.
But yeah, I’ve never heard of actual tornadoes happening anywhere in C or WNY including growing up.
The closest I can think of offhand was the Mechanicville tornado of 1998.
In ’98, I was still in Syracuse, so I was nowhere near that one.
But the fact that they made a whole special on its 25th anniversary does reinforce how rare they are in this area.
Ooh, the same storm system hit Binghamton.
Are tornados more prevalent or just more reported? The pastor’s spouse said he lived 40 years in Okla. until 2 years ago and never experienced one tornado.
I am going to say more reported.
hillier terrain there isn’t better for tornado formation
That’s what I thought being up on the Blue Ridge – but guess what, it does happen.
It’s a relative measure. Tornado Alley is mostly flat for a reason.
Poor Xenia, Ohio, southeast of Dayton, was hit by two major tornadoes – one in 1974, one in 2000. A friend who grew up there theorized that the topography of the area essentially…well… funneled funnel clouds traveling southwest to northeast toward the unlucky city.
These Mango Habanero wings have a nice flavor but a long afterburn. To enjoy them, I have to wait for it to wear off between wings.
It hit 81 today on the course, brutal for San Diego,
/spoiled brat whaa
That’s only nine over par.
It got down to 79 today here.
I can’t wait for the heat wave to be over.
It didn’t hit 90 here so it’s over for us.
Hi 75 tomorrow 😀
72 for us today.
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡GOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!
Apparently, terrorists have attacked a church and synagogue in the Russian Caucasus region of Dagestan.
Reading Twitter and seeing everyone trying to shoehorn it into their own hobby horse is *interesting*….
I saw that. Barely a blip so far on the news.
I was looking around for you earlier.
I want to find a pictorial book with works from the Tretyakov Gallery. Every search I made led me to sites in Rusky.
Fantastic art not well known in the west. One of the curators says it is because not enough time has passed since the USSR collapse and the country is still a bit isolated. I think our own Grizzly just returned from a visit there.
My favorite and quite topical today: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/vasily-vereshchagin-the-apotheosis-of-war-les-classics.html
Caption: “Dedicated to all great conquerors — past, present and future.”
Vasily Vereshchagin 1871
Well, ain’t that pretentious.
Watching USA ravage Bolivia in soccer is fun. Beer may be involved.
Watching USA ravaging Mexico in soccer would be much more fun.
You libertarians, always with the Mexican buttsex.
Needs moar ravaging.
Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
New job is going well. But idk about this travel nonsense.
I did just buy a Garmin nav system though.
Is it that swanky handheld one?
https://www.amazon.com/Garmin-eTrex-Rugged-Handheld-Navigator/dp/B07RTD2PMT/ref=sr_1_9?sr=8-9
What is said nonsense? Family is most likely involved, I assume?
I figured he has to travel for work.
Me, as well. Work travel, not always bad.
As someone that travels weekly for work, and over a 6-month period last year racked up almost 38K miles just on United airlines, let me tell you- its a grind.
Just got in from a day as part of the race committee. As we were waiting for the crews to finish putting the boats away breaking news that a HI lifeguard just died of a shark bite along Oahu’s north shore.
The ocean is full of things that do not wish you well, starting with the swells & waves and climaxing with apex predators.
Just today, I saw a video of a girl in a kayak out to sea alone being surrounded by a pod of orcas. She was hyperventilating and trying not to scream. They were just curious, sniffing at her, but she was terrified. I would be too.
I was on a fishing boat in the Gulf of Alaska when we came upon a pod of 28 orcas. It was awesome and terrifying. They could really have messed us up if they wanted to.
Sailing with my family in the San Juan Islands of WA we had a pod or orcas pass the boat on both sides. The hull in the water acted like a speaker and we could hear them communicating. My grade school kids were fascinated my wife was “Don’t you get my kids hurt.” I was holding onto the tiller to keep a course and trying to enjoy the sight, but not spook or hit any of those predators.
My kids are in their forties and still mention that incident from time to time.
The 1st time I went shark fishing with a buddy of mine (we were in South Carolina) he said, “the great thing about the ocean- put a piece of meat on a line, and something will eat it”.
Nature in general is full of things that do not wish you well. Nature ain’t a Disney movie.
“…apex predators.”
Two observations –
1. Apex predators are bugs…in the end the bugs always win.
2. Marine biologist friend I grew up with said to me that most people, adapted for and accustomed to living on land, a land that they we alter for our own sake, dont realize that the instant we put a single toe in the surf they have entered a wilderness that is not ours. I think of it that way. I dove my ass off for years and loved it. It was easy to lose sight of that, that I was in their world, not mine and the least of the critters there had every advantage over me.
Bugs don’t win by taking down the large, living prey. when they eat anything big, they are scavengers, and thus not predators.
Apex predator has a specific definition, and bugs ain’t in it.
Wakey, wakey Glibs!
🐓🌞☕😉
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W60nB918pZU
Monday morning cover music. 🎶🎶
Good morning, fellow Glibites.
✌😁
Good morning, Sean, Grumble, U, and Suthen!
Morning.
How’s it going so far? (And yes, no more checking work emails until 7:00!)
The store was out of my regular salad, my backup salad, and my standard grape snack pack. So I had to find backup fruit (mixed melon) and a tertiary salad. Plus, after having been gone for a while, the stupid carboard six-pack holders are back. To top it off, I haven’t properly fixed my sleep schedule.
At least the Lavender is thriving. 🌱🌱🌱🌱
Hope the fruit was heavy on the honeydew and cantaloupe and short on watermelon. 🍉😝 And as long as they had your Diet Dew, you can make it through the day.
Good morning!
Morning fellow glibs. How we doing freedom today?
Good morning, OBE and NA!
I don’t know if I’m doing freedom today. However, if this really is the day we’re supposed to have that chick strike, I’m crossing the picket line and going to work. It’s also tempting to go buy a gun just on general principle and contrariness.
What’s this now?
Some chicks are trying to organize a nationwide women’s strike to mark the second anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. 🙄
Not real effective in their getting this into the news…since I had to dig for it.
Why are they so obsessed about murdering babies?
Somebody must have stumbled upon this classic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata
However, I doubt that any men are interested in what the typical shrill protester is withholding.
Erosion of “reproductive rights”…yeah.
I support this strike and am looking forward to no annoying emails from HR today.
The danger is that the semi-committed may find they actually like being at home, and quit their jobs for good.
I’ll have to ask the wife if she saw anyone ostentatiously wearing red today,
Note to self – my workday hasn’t started, don’t get bogged down checking emails.
Yeah I try to ignore Monday emails and go over my week tasks first. Gotta dispose of a obsolete raid chassis, build two CAT 6 cables for an upcoming equipment relocation and prep the system for a software install. Aint no time between Glibs and that do I have to answer *checks email* 65 reply all emails cause people in 2024 feel the need to comment that the root email is a phishing attempt.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Today is the youngest Patzer’s first day on the job, which means I will be home alone as my family slaves away to support my lazy ass. Muahaha!
Good morning, ‘patzie! Great to see you! 😃 However, I shudder to think what sort of mischief you’re liable to get into left at home unsupervised. 😳
Heh. Nothing too radical today, consult with a spine surgeon to figure out what to do about my deteriorating c-spine. Probably start with PT and cortisone, see where it goes from there.
Sure hope he can help! 🤞 ::refrains from obvious “pain in the neck” jokes::
Make sure youngest Patzer know that the boss is an idiot who will need things explained to him (or her) very slowly and condescendingly.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good morning, homey! Hope the heat has subsided up in the…other area code for your stack climbing.
In too-local news ranting, Channel 7’s website is honking me off. I can read their home page (and, thank goodness, the traffic map) with no trouble, but every time I try to open an actual news story’s page, it blanks out after a few seconds. 😒 It’s almost enough to drive me to Channel 2’s site!
Interesting that those astronauts are still trapped on the space station possibly due to corporate malfeasance/corruption/incompetence and there’s not a complete flood of stories on it, at least not with a DuckDuckGo search:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/two-nasa-astronauts-stranded-space-33091508
Fucking Boeing man, what a mess.
SpaceX hasn’t showed up to give ’em a Lyft home?
I see some fear articles on it that they are stranded but there is a Soyuez and a Dragon module docked right now. I say jettison the Starliner and call it a day. I guess they are stranded because they don’t have the proper suits (why we didn’t make a universal suit for our various modules?)…
Diversity is Boeing’s strength.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden could be criminally prosecuted for the murder of nursing student Laken Riley if the Supreme Court does not rule there is presidential immunity.
I’m sure they will find some loophole to dismiss any such prosecution attempt.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/06/23/graham-biden-could-be-subject-to-criminal-prosecution-over-laken-riley/