Seth Meyers: Stormy Daniels Embarrasses Trump Again in Day Two of Testimony; Greene Booed by Republicans
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Here’s when the golf ball sized hail started falling in Johnson City around 7:27 pm.
#txwxMassive hail across parts of Central Texas today. Hope y’all stayed safe, friends.
Arriving in my vicinity now. Lucy has taken refuge under the desk.
Evening/good night Lizards. Taxes (finally) filed. Getting a whopping $68.00 back from the Fed and $320.00 from the State. Better than having to pay either I guess. I’ll use the money to get the “Egg” a brake job and (finally) registered. Work wise, I am now on the opening crew. Meaning the opening “cook/manager” unlocks the doors/disables the alarm and then gets the hell out of my way as I get the store ready for the day and start my prep. Don’t get me wrong. She’s a sweet kid, but doesn’t know squat about how to set up the “boards” or put the broiler together. So I get to train her on how to do that. Since 0400 is fast approaching, I will wish you all a good night. Blessed be.
For those not familiar.
The Egg.
The Boards.
This is where the “cooks” assemble the sandwiches. In this pic, the closing crew left me a small mess to clean up. They left the condiment bottles on the boards instead of washing the empties and putting the full/partial ones away. Everything else I put out when I came in. My manager and I had words about this when she came in. I’m half way tempted to get my sis to do a video with me opening the store and what it all takes to so.
re: #3 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The egg is amazing.
Tomorrow is the end of the last Federal Employees Appreciation Week before I retire. Each day another X is put on the calendar bringing me closer to the magic day of 6/30/24. Lately I think more and more over what I’ve dealt with over the past 46 years. Thinking of the bad times at the start and how things slowly got better over the years. Thinking of work buddies who crossed the rainbow bridge. How technology has radically changed the work environment. How the Agency has changed.
On the other hand anticipation of Sunday Night 6/30/24 when I won’t have the Monday Night dreads and I’ll shut the alarm clock OFF before I go to sleep. That first day of retirement is gonna be GLORIOUS!!!!!
Started the first round of tightening my belt cancelling the cell service for both iPads. AT&T gave me a better deal on my phone and watch. Not a bad start to shave $80 off of the monthly bill…
Tonight’s SpaceX launch from Vandenberg—about fifteen minutes ago. It was delayed an hour, so no sunlit exhaust plume in twilight. I caught the first stage burn through a narrow gap in the marine layer—it was visible for about ten seconds, just enough to focus and get one image.
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Searching YouTube for reviews/reactions to Apple TV’s new series Dark Matter... and in the very very few results there are many videos that have nothing to do with the series, but tell me why our society is so very backwards.
E.g.:
100k views… just how damaged is the collective cognitive ability of our society?
re: #10 jaunte
Lawrence O’Donnell’s analysis makes it clear that Trump’s mismanagement of his attorneys is wrecking his own defense:
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This was the highlight of Trump’s “strategy” for me:
Necheles tried to pull a fast one.
Daniels quickly kicked her to the curb. Bravo!
— Cath RN, PhD (@headdoc35.bsky.social) 2024-05-10T02:25:48.680Z
Like I said earlier today, the smartest thing to do with Daniels would have been to be quick, to the point, and focus solely on any inconsistencies in her testimony. Limit as many questions to “yes or no” as possible and then have the judge smack her around when she chooses to be argumentative. Instead, what we got was a performance put on purely for the enjoyment of the defendant, a performance that has no bearing on the crimes charges or the allegations made. Yes, Trump got to walk away with a smile on his face, but he’s not going to be smiling if and when that jury shows it’s not swayed by attacking a witness for her choice of career.
re: #15 Targetpractice
IMO, the result comes down almost entirely to jury selection, independent of the witnesses etc., although I do like to see reports of testimony etc. that might cause the Orange Turd to stroke out.
It’s mistrial if a Trumpist got through void dire, and guilty otherwise.
re: #15 Targetpractice
agreed, she’s the fulcrum of his law-breaking. They didn’t disprove the incident, Daniels gave compelling testimony for her actions. I guess Trump believes that if he can simply wish her into the cornfield it would be so, but considering his modus operandi, why the fuck would he pay 130k for something he didn’t supposedly do, this bastard doesn’t even honor the contracts that he signs.
None of the Daniels testimony harmed the case against him and going after her personally on the stand to attack her “character”, said more about his character than hers.
re: #10 jaunte
Lawrence O’Donnell’s analysis makes it clear that Trump’s mismanagement of his attorneys is wrecking his own defense:
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If I was Trump’s attorney I would take a grim satisfaction in him going to prison because he is a terrible client.
re: #15 Targetpractice
This was the highlight of Trump’s “strategy” for me:
Like I said earlier today, the smartest thing to do with Daniels would have been to be quick, to the point, and focus solely on any inconsistencies in her testimony. Limit as many questions to “yes or no” as possible and then have the judge smack her around when she chooses to be argumentative. Instead, what we got was a performance put on purely for the enjoyment of the defendant, a performance that has no bearing on the crimes charges or the allegations made. Yes, Trump got to walk away with a smile on his face, but he’s not going to be smiling if and when that jury shows it’s not swayed by attacking a witness for her choice of career.
because he thinks this humiliated her
(it didnt)
Saw a new word to describe the agent responsible for the enshitification of social media: Toxopostmosis
bsky.app
Well, this figures. So close to a 🐶, but I guess a 🐥 will have to do.
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Week one from hell almost done.
One more to come.
Yay. Me. 🙄
The birbs woke me with the incessant chirping, which leads to a fitting end to today’s Wordle.
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If you want a Eurovision preview then NPR has the top contenders up
NPR preview of the top Eurovision contenders
www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1…— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-10T11:08:47.788Z
Took a branch into an unlikely word on line 3 - fail. Par today.
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Waiter: how were your steak and eggs
Me: they were… meaty yolker
Waiter: what
Me: good. they were good
I knew hating Nickelback was a thing, but not Creed. Read the comments, comedy gold.
How did Creed, the most hated band of the 1990s, become so beloved—and even cool? I sailed the seas with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out.
re: #30 Shropshire Slasher
I knew hating Nickelback was a thing, but not Creed. Read the comments, comedy gold.
Creed and Nickelback share one common thing and are Polar opposites on another. Creed appeals to more religious people, while Nickelback is more crude and sexual in their songs. What they share is each band has a simple pattern to their songs that makes it easy for their fans to follow. Creed especially does that thing where most of their songs start kind of mezzoforte and them build up slowly to ff at the end, which can be very catchy.
I like a couple of songs of each, but I don’t really go out of my way to listen to them. They have their fans, and because of that, they have their money that I’m jealous of.
The Clark Effect. Simply an amazing woman!
Player introductions at a WNBA preseason game do not typically elicit thunderous cheers from the assembled crowd.
But nothing about the home-court debut of Indiana Fever rookie and No. 1 overall draft pick Caitlin Clark can be considered typical.
Clark, the former University of Iowa phenom who has taken the sports world by storm, made her first appearance at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Thursday night and received exactly the kind of reception one would expect given the interest she has generated around the country. From the many fans donning No. 22 jerseys (both from Iowa and the Fever) to the rousing cheers the crowd produced each time Clark scored or reentered the game, the atmosphere in the building suggested this was a meaningful game against the Atlanta Dream, even if it didn’t count in the standings.
“This is a preseason game on a Thursday night and there’s 13,000 people here. I think that just shows what it’s going to be like for us all season, and it’s going to help us. There are going to be games at home that you’re going to need to win. So, I’m excited for our home opener. I think it’s going to be a packed house, obviously, versus a really great team [the New York Liberty]. It’s pretty incredible.
“Thirteen thousand at a preseason game is pretty unheard of.”
Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
They paint a picture of a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation for being “a paradise for interns”; and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot.
CNN spoke to three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at the Sde Teiman desert camp, which holds Palestinians detained during Israel’s invasion of Gaza. All spoke out at risk of legal repercussions and reprisals from groups supportive of Israel’s hardline policies in Gaza.
“(The beatings) were not done to gather intelligence. They were done out of revenge,” said another whistleblower. “It was punishment for what they (the Palestinians) did on October 7 and punishment for behavior in the camp.”
re: #25 Randall Gross
If you want a Eurovision preview then NPR has the top contenders up
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Was about to bring the Irish song here as today’s drive time. It’s GOOD.
The next ABBA?
re: #34 William Lewis
We have an Australian friend who invites us over for her Eurovision bash (Australia is an honorary member of the Eurovision contest)
I have to admit that I never ever got the hang of it at all. But I did enjoy Fire Saga, a total piss-take of the whole extravaganza. Nothing in this film goes above and beyond things that have been really seen in Eurovision
re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We have an Australian friend who invites us over for the Eurovision bash (Australia is an honorary member of the Eurovision contest)
I have to admit that I never ever got the hang of it at all. But I did enjoy Fire Saga, a total piss-take of the whole extravaganza. Nothing in this film goes above and beyond things that have been really seen in Eurovision
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Need something to watch tonight in the middle of the night at work since it’s going to be a slow weekend, perhaps I can find somewhere that’s streaming. Thanks for reminding me of it!
re: #38 No Malarkey!
Karen McDougal won’t be testifying against Trump.
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Does this mean he can attack her?
re: #3 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
There’s a lady on Twitter, in Belfast, who’d love to see your Egg!
Michael Cohen takes the stand on Monday! nbcnews.com
Youtube Advertisers beware.
Regarding that Alex Jones / Steven Crowder team up on YOUTUBE.COM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvAe…— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-10T13:00:09.645Z
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Better not miss. https://t.co/yizF5A3BR1
— John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢🧢 (@JohnRMoffitt) May 10, 2024
re: #44 No Malarkey!
Make sure you have plenty of popcorn.
re: #38 No Malarkey!
Karen McDougal won’t be testifying against Trump.
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Probably enough sex
Considering the case isn’t about sex
And she can’t add anything direct to the payment scheme to daniels
re: #44 No Malarkey!
Michael Cohen takes the stand on Monday! nbcnews.com
After the inevitable gag order violation hearing
re: #46 Dave In Austin
ok that was terrifying
re: #48 Dangerman
Also, Stormy testified to her being with Trump, so not much to add. And when the defense impales itself for two days on cross with a witness, it’s best to let that moment sink in with the jury.
They’re probably pissing themselves over how they’re going to cross Cohen now. Not only is he not on trial, he’s a lawyer himself. He just has to keep his cool and not let them calling him a liar get under his skin. “I was acting on Donald’s orders” should be his stock reply.
re: #51 darthstar
Gentlemen, let us wait a little; when your enemy is executing a false movement, never interrupt him.
Napoleon
I will just say that the only reason Stormy’s “Orange Turd” tweet became part of this trial is because TRUMP’S LAWYER Susan Necheles introduced it!!! https://t.co/8qe8O5tfAA
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2024
re: #55 Dangerman
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Laura, ma’am, self-awareness is not your thing. https://t.co/jLG4R4PaTS
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 9, 2024
Jeanine: But I’ll tell you.. this woman… there’s something off about her. There really is pic.twitter.com/imGluOiSAc
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 9, 2024
The box of wine lady was watching the wrong trial https://t.co/YDUsWGToNP
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) May 9, 2024
Because one of my daughters volunteers at the Friends Plant Sale, I was allowed to go and shop one day early.
The sale is a huge event fundraiser for the Friends School (a Quaker k-8 school). I was handed a wristband when I arrived and had to wait 45 minutes until they called my group number. Totally crazy how big this thing is. For plants. I expect 3 hour or longer waits for some people today and tomorrow.
Our favorite tomato from last year:
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I wasn’t far off when I suggested he’d want to subpoena the jury…
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names
A Virginia school board has approved a motion for two schools to revert to their Confederate names following a debate that bitterly divided a town.
The Shenandoah County School Board voted 5-1 to reinstate the names of Stonewall Jackson High and Ashby-Lee Elementary in Quicksburg.
Community members had been pushing for a reversal, arguing the 2020 name change was unpopular.
Eartha was sitting on a barstool as I went to make coffee. I stopped to give her a pet and, as cats are wont to do, she stood up and started walking away from me so I’d pet her on her tail, except the stool spins so after about four or five steps she stopped as if to say, ‘WTF?’
re: #62 Scottish Dragon
WE <3 TREASON
Anyone now doubt the intent to re-institute slavery as a state-sanctioned institution? You know… beyond the already existing prison slavery labor force currently now a reality?
re: #64 Florida Panhandler
Anyone now doubt the intent to re-institute slavery as a state-sanctioned institution? You know… beyond the already existing prison slavery labor force currently now a reality?
I expect a real attempt to overturn Loving V Virginia
re: #23 Nerdy Fish
The birbs woke me with the incessant chirping, which leads to a fitting end to today’s Wordle.
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re: #65 Scottish Dragon
I expect a real attempt to overturn Loving V Virginia
They won’t stop there. The Sleazy Six are just itching to overturn Brown and reinstate Plessy v. Ferguson.
re: #67 Joe Bacon ✅
They won’t stop there. The Sleazy Six are just itching to overturn Brown and reinstate Plessy v. Ferguson.
Neomi Rao seems inclined to overturn Brown V Board
After this trial’s over, parents will say to their children, “If you look out for numero uno, screw over anyone who gets in your way, surround yourself with the right criminal elements, and abandon any shred of decency, honesty, integrity, or shame you may have…you, too, could be President one day.”
re: #69 darthstar
After this trial’s over, parents will say to their children, “If you look out for numero uno, screw over anyone who gets in your way, surround yourself with the right criminal elements, and abandon any shred of decency, honesty, integrity, or shame you may have…you, too, could be President one day.”
“But be wary of liberal media witch hunts!”
re: #61 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Jackson, eh?
Pissed off some Confederate sympathizers the other day who were going on about the story of him on his death bed. I said it was a pity he didn’t die sooner and in far more agony and that I would have to content myself with the knowledge that he was in hell for eternity with the rest of the dead Confederate scum.
I’m getting a new router soon, and am hoping to use the same ssids, passwords, and encryption. Anyone know of any problems doing so? I have a ton of devices scattered around the house, smart plugs and lights. Really don’t want to change them all over to a new scheme.
re: #2 jaunte
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Arriving in my vicinity now. Lucy has taken refuge under the desk.
That isn’t a soft hail stone either.
re: #72 jeffreyw
I do not entirely share your opinion of Jackson and other Confederates. I was not there at the time and never had to face the choices that they made.
On the other hand, I do not see any need to grant them any cachet of official approval by naming scools, roads or any other public institutions after them.
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sort of like Benedict Arnold.
Who goes around naming schools after him?
re: #76 darthstar
Can’t be good for the paint on a car.
It would probably stove in the hood of an Incel Camaro.
re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Sort of like Benedict Arnold.
Who goes around naming schools after him?
exactly my point.
I people want to honor their “heritage” on private property and at their own expense, then I guess that is their good right, but there is no reason to honor such traitors publicly.
Time to bust out my favorite quote from VIrginia-born Union General George Henry “The Rock of Chickamauga” Thomas:
“[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.”
Report to General Ulysses S. Grant (17 November 1868)
All states need to do this:
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices
www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1…— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-10T11:11:38.037Z
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not entirely share your opinion of Jackson and other Confederates. I was not there at the time and never had to face the choices that they made.
On the other hand, I do not see any need to grant them any cachet of official approval by naming scools, roads or any other public institutions after them.
I think you wanted to tag comment 71 instead of mine.
re: #83 Randall Gross
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It is mind boggling to me what has happened to menu prices in the US. I can eat out cheaper in basically any large European city than I can in Denver.
re: #83 Randall Gross
All states need to do this:
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices
Restaurants in Europe include a 15% service charge in their prices, tipping consists of rounding up if you are particularly pleased with the service.
re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Sort of like Benedict Arnold.
Who goes around naming schools after him?
When I was writing Army regulations, I needed a notional installation for a model SOP. Hence you might find Ft. Arnold, Rhode Island.
The new MAGA trend going around is “democracy isn’t mentioned in the constitution. We are a REPUBLIC!!! Democrats want mob rule!” to which I’d reply “god and guns aren’t in the constitution either”. 🤷🏻
Low tide day. Milo got surprised by a couple of salt water bidet shots as the geoduck clams would shoot their streams a good three feet in the air when he stepped near them.
re: #90 GlutenFreeJesus
That’s been recycled for years and years.
That people still repeat it just goes to show how sticky memes are in the human mind and collective.
re: #91 darthstar
Low tide day. Milo got surprised by a couple of salt water bidet shots as the geoduck clams would shoot their streams a good three feet in the air when he stepped near them.
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Ya needs to clean yer butt, dawg!
re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅
Tomorrow is the end of the last Federal Employees Appreciation Week before I retire. Each day another X is put on the calendar bringing me closer to the magic day of 6/30/24. Lately I think more and more over what I’ve dealt with over the past 46 years. Thinking of the bad times at the start and how things slowly got better over the years. Thinking of work buddies who crossed the rainbow bridge. How technology has radically changed the work environment. How the Agency has changed.
On the other hand anticipation of Sunday Night 6/30/24 when I won’t have the Monday Night dreads and I’ll shut the alarm clock OFF before I go to sleep. That first day of retirement is gonna be GLORIOUS!!!!!
Started the first round of tightening my belt cancelling the cell service for both iPads. AT&T gave me a better deal on my phone and watch. Not a bad start to shave $80 off of the monthly bill…
Ah, retirement! Twice as much time and half as much money.
re: #93 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That’s been recycled for years and years.
That people still repeat it just goes to show how sticky memes are in the human mind and collective.
First encounter was from my boss, in 1973-74.
re: #97 Decatur Deb
First encounter was from my boss, in 1973-74.
I also remember all the Campus Crusaders For Christ in the mid 70’s maintaining that “America is a Christian Nation!”
As most websites now fail on my too-old iMac, I decided to go for a short term fix:
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I do expect Apple to continue to churn on their Mac product line. The M3 now appears to have been a short term thing, with the M4 now being deployed.
I expect by summer 2025 that TSMC will have their 2nm fab lines going and Apple’s M5 chip might be worth holding out for.
re: #91 darthstar
Low tide day. Milo got surprised by a couple of salt water bidet shots as the geoduck clams would shoot their streams a good three feet in the air when he stepped near them.
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re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I also remember all the Campus Crusaders For Christ in the mid 70’s maintaining that “America is a Christian Nation!”
Mainstream RC doctrine in the 50s was that any form of government is immaterial, that all secular power is subject to the divine. (Though monarchy has its virtues.)
re: #90 GlutenFreeJesus
The new MAGA trend going around is “democracy isn’t mentioned in the constitution. We are a REPUBLIC!!! Democrats want mob rule!” to which I’d reply “god and guns aren’t in the constitution either”. 🤷🏻
The political equivalent of “It’s a magazine, not a clip, libtard!” or “You think the ‘AR’ in AR-15 stands for assault rifle—we can’t do gun control!”
re: #102 Decatur Deb
Mainstream RC doctrine in the 50s was that any form of government is immaterial, that all secular power is subject to the divine. (Though monarchy has its virtues.)
Much of the History of Europe was about whether or not the Pope had power over the Kings/Emperors
Off to the DMV , for another shot at registering ancient vehicles.
re: #103 Mike Lamb
The political equivalent of “It’s a magazine, not a clip, libtard!” or “You think the ‘AR’ in AR-15 stands for assault rifle—we can’t do gun control!”
The Constitution mentions a “well-regulated milita” and nothing specific about which arms they are to be armed with.
re: #10 jaunte
Lawrence O’Donnell’s analysis makes it clear that Trump’s mismanagement of his attorneys is wrecking his own defense:
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We won’t know that until the verdict is read. Trump has escaped any real consequences to date for his years of malfeasance in both his private life and his public life; he has a devoted base of tens of millions of voters. And I fear that the poll workers who replace those who have been driven away by Trumpsters will be MAGAts who will interfere with the voting process in minority or student districts.
re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Constitution mentions a “well-regulated milita” and nothing specific about which arms they are to be armed with.
Which clearly means everyone can own tanks, missiles, and an F-16!
re: #22 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well, this figures. So close to a 🐶, but I guess a 🐥 will have to do.
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Didn’t have a clue about purple — so yay! for defaults.
Today’s forecast: 100% chance of idiot “fan” meltdown.
Doctor Who star Jinkx Monsoon on playing ‘zany’ villain Maestro
The Daleks, Weeping Angels and The Family of Blood. Just some of the fierce enemies Doctor Who has encountered over the years.
But now Ncuti Gatwa’s incarnation of the Time Lord is facing a new adversary and perhaps the most powerful villain yet.
Maestro.
American drag queen Jinkx Monsoon, who plays the new nemesis, tells BBC Newsbeat her “dreams have been granted in a wonderful way”.
Jinkx is known as the “Queen of Queens” after winning a regular and All Star season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
And she says moving to the world’s longest-running science fiction show felt like a natural progression for a self-described trans queer actor.
“Sci-fi has always been queer. Anyone who tells you otherwise is delusional,” she says.
“There are prominent writers, directors, producers who are queer in these fields. And it just hasn’t really been able to be talked about and a lot of them nowadays are done being silent.”
She adds there has been “so much queer progress” in society, but feels in the entertainment industry “there’s still been this thing of queer people behind the cameras”.
“And only certain palatable society-approved queer people get to be in front of the camera.
“What I really love about this Doctor Who season is it saying: ‘To hell with that’.”
re: #110 Vicious Babushka
I remember that back in the 7th grade I was still into John Denver, Bobby Goldsboro and the Carpenters. Closest I came to hip were Cat Stevens and Gordon Lightfoot.
Then my buddy Richard Heilscher sat me down in his cellar and played me MC5, Deep Purple, Neil Young and a bit of Cheech and Chong on the side.
Then my next-door neighbor a real Anglophile played me Small Faces, Joe Cocker, the Who, Slade and (pre-Dark Side of the Moon) Pink Floyd.
I was converted to Rock and Roll.
re: #108 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why? I don’t understand people.
Seriously. My general rule of life is that if, for whichever activity is on the table, the most logical outcome arising from any mistake, no matter how trivial, is death or life altering injury, I won’t do such activity.
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Restaurants in Europe include a 15% service charge in their prices, tipping consists of rounding up if you are particularly pleased with the service.
In other words they do it EXACTLY THE WAY IT FUCKING SHOULD BE.
Fox? I think you mean The New York Times.
— Roy Jacobs (@Panthrdan) May 10, 2024
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is no tipping in Japan.
A federal appeals court has upheld the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Steve Bannon, the ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump who was found guilty after failing to comply with a subpoena from the House January 6 committee.
So, this was a thing in the Hill Country last night:
And You get a new roof,
And You get a new roof
In fact, EVERYONE gets new roofs!
And cars.
Good article on the AFP / Tea Party divorce with the libertarians
The fates of FreedomWorks & Americans for Prosperity “confirmed … the victory of right-wing populism over big-tent libertarianism,” writes @daveweigel.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/05/0…
— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@enbrown.bsky.social) 2024-05-10T14:05:18.369Z
re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There is no tipping in Japan.
Except in Sumo matches.
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re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg
In other words they do it EXACTLY THE WAY IT FUCKING SHOULD BE.
Yes, and European food service workers have insurance and paid vacation days.
re: #124 No Malarkey!
So there is some justice…
re: #124 No Malarkey!
BE STILL MY COLD DEAD HEART!!! Can this really be true?
pleasesayyespleasesayyespleassayyes
re: #124 No Malarkey!
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Assuming they can find which abandoned Stucky’s he is hiding in with a bed underneath the deep fryer.
re: #127 Scottish Dragon
Assuming they can find which abandoned Stucky’s he is hiding in with a bed underneath the deep fryer.
It’s I’d pay money of if they found him Sadam style. I’d pay big money.
Fuck me. I get a girl woody just thinking about it.
re: #64 Florida Panhandler
Anyone now doubt the intent to re-institute slavery as a state-sanctioned institution? You know… beyond the already existing prison slavery labor force currently now a reality?
To quote from the article: Black residents often live and work in towns where Confederate flags are displayed on front porches. Many of those who fly the banner defend it as a celebration of heritage, not a symbol of hatred.
Yes— a celebration of heritage — a heritage of hatred, Jim Crow, and slavery
re: #127 Scottish Dragon
Assuming they can find which abandoned Stucky’s he is hiding in with a bed underneath the deep fryer.
Wouldn’t the horrid smell give him away?
re: #129 Hecuba’s daughter
To quote from the article: Black residents often live and work in towns where Confederate flags are displayed on front porches. Many of those who fly the banner defend it as a celebration of heritage, not a symbol of hatred.
They’re LYING as per usual. L Y I N G!
re: #126 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
BE STILL MY COLD DEAD HEART!!! Can this really be true?
pleasesayyespleasesayyespleassayyes
There’s always the Trump Supreme Court that could save him. Certainly he’ll appeal. The only question is will he remain free on bail while that appeal plays out.
re: #128 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’sI’d pay moneyofif they found him Sadam style. I’d pay big money.Fuck me. I get a girl woody just thinking about it.
Found him!
re: #128 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’sI’d pay moneyofif they found him Sadam style. I’d pay big money.Fuck me. I get a girl woody just thinking about it.
I’m am sure that if he could, he would flee on a yacht into international waters…
Knock knock @GOP pic.twitter.com/XaM7xZarD8
— Tomas Sanchez (@TomasSanchez50) May 10, 2024
Way too early really but Chicken Chasers was a place my grandma and mom used to take me with them to when I was little. It’s open now and a beer and a shot ended up in front of me for $6 😉
Ah small town bars. Now if only I could stand the country music 😂
re: #129 Hecuba’s daughter
To quote from the article: Black residents often live and work in towns where Confederate flags are displayed on front porches. Many of those who fly the banner defend it as a celebration of heritage, not a symbol of hatred.
If you wish to fly a Confederate flag as a private person on private property, then that is your good right. Nobody is coming after that.
But Confederate flags, monuments and other regalia have no place on public display unless it is in a museum or historical site with the proper contextual setting.
re: #133 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
What is a “DVD”?
/just asking for some 16 y.o.
We still have them in the house but currently lack a means to play them. We watch and listen entirely to streaming.
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I actually bought a new DVD player last year because I got tired of chasing some of my favorite films around the streaming services.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’m am sure that if he could, he would flee on a yacht into international waters…
I think his Chinese friend is in a bit of a pickle so that escape route is blocked ATM.
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
I actually bought a new DVD player last year because I got tired of chasing some of my favorite films around the streaming services.
We have one but have not yet bothered to set it up so it is useable.
We still use our Blu-ray because I insist on physical copies of media whenever possible. I don’t trust streaming services.
re: #141 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I think his Chinese friend is in a bit of a pickle so that escape route is blocked ATM.
The businessman who claimed that he was the “legitimate” Government of China, and that his yacht (anchored in NY Harbor) was “diplomatic” territory?? (And, despite that, was where they arrested Bannon?)
re: #145 Jay C
The businessman who claimed that he was the “legitimate” Government of China, and that his yacht (anchored in NY Harbor) was “diplomatic” territory?? (And, despite that, was where they arrested Bannon?)
And I am the Last Living Descendant of the Romanov Dynasty.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And I am the Last Living Descendant of the Romanov Dynasty.
Well, yeah: we figured that’s why you are using a nym on the Internet…
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re: #121 Randall Gross
Good article on the AFP / Tea Party divorce with the libertarians
Big tent Libertarians? LOLOLOLOL The Libertarian Party is now just another branch of the Trump Party, fully in line with his ideology. Adoration of Ayn Rand and total contempt of democracy, women, minorities, our historical foreign allies, and anyone who is not wealthy.
re: #147 Jay C
Well, yeah: we figured that’s why you are using a nym on the Internet…
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Anne A. Stazia
re: #148 Hecuba’s daughter
Big tent Libertarians? LOLOLOLOL The Libertarian Party is now just another branch of the Trump Party, fully in line with his ideology. Adoration of Ayn Rand and total contempt of democracy, women, minorities, our historical foreign allies, and anyone who is not wealthy.
except that they want weed legalized
Clown behavior
Israel’s ambassador to the UN just wound up his speech before today’s vote on Palestinian statehood by shredding the UN Charter from the UNGA rostrum
— Anjali Dayal (@anjalikdayal.bsky.social) 2024-05-10T15:08:03.556Z
re: #148 Hecuba’s daughter
Big tent Libertarians? LOLOLOLOL The Libertarian Party is now just another branch of the Trump Party, fully in line with his ideology. Adoration of Ayn Rand and total contempt of democracy, women, minorities, our historical foreign allies, and anyone who is not wealthy.
I saw a F350 with 3 big Libertarian Party bumper stickers on it at the grocery store yesterday. I thought about putting a note under the windshield wiper saying “So you are a Nazi who likes Pot?” But I didn’t have any paper… 😈
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’m am sure that if he could, he would flee on a yacht into international waters…
His buddy that could have helped him with that has been arrested too hasn’t he? Forget his name.
re: #151 goddamnedfrank
Clown behavior
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re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We still have them in the house but currently lack a means to play them. We watch and listen entirely to streaming.
Streaming has some advantages but if your account is such that the video is constantly being interrupted by commercials, having access to DVD or Bluray discs for the same content is a sanity saver. For me, my library has a huge video catalog of all sorts of content including newly released material. Being able to binge watch a series like Fargo or Suits without commercials is wonderful. It turns out season 5 of Fargo hadn’t yet been released so I had to stream it on Hulu with commercials. It was a nightmare just getting through one episode with 3 minutes of commercials every 6 or 7 minutes.
re: #156 sizzzzlerz
Pause screen commercials were the breaking point for me.
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you wish to fly a Confederate flag as a private person on private property, then that is your good right. Nobody is coming after that.
But Confederate flags, monuments and other regalia have no place on public display unless it is in a museum or historical site with the proper contextual setting.
Let’s be frank here (sorry goddamned), people flying the confederate flag should be treated no differently than those flying Nazi flags. They’re symbold of hate. Full stop.
You may have a right to do it, but let’s hope you face the appropriate consequences should you choose to do so.
re: #145 Jay C
The businessman who claimed that he was the “legitimate” Government of China, and that his yacht (anchored in NY Harbor) was “diplomatic” territory?? (And, despite that, was where they arrested Bannon?)
Yeah. That’s the one.
From one looney to another.
And this fucker was an arm’s length from that fucking POS President of the United States.
I want to see him fry. Jail is too fucking good for him. (spit)
re: #158 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Let’s be frank here (sorry goddamned), people flying the confederate flag should be treated no differently than those flying Nazi flags. They’re symbold of hate. Full stop.
You may have a right to do it, but let’s hope you face the appropriate consequences should you choose to do so.
Yes, I am all for people facing the social consequences of displaying your bigotry.
re: #159 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeah.
I want to see [Bannon] fry. Jail is too fucking good for him. (spit)
A fan of Lenin. Let him face a fate that would be appropriate to Russia in the 1920’s…
I was hoping for more bimbo eruptions.
Former Playboy model Karen McDougal will not be giving evidence against Donald Trump partly because she might have made the former president look too good, a legal expert has told Newsweek.
New York University law professor, Stephen Gillers said that McDougal had a long-term affair with Trump, who denies the relationship, and some of her testimony might reflect well on the former president.
re: #159 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeah. That’s the one.
From one looney to another.
And this fucker was an arm’s length from that fucking POS President of the United States.
I want to see him fry. Jail is too fucking good for him. (spit)
I’m not a big death penalty supporter, but Bannon is right up there with Jeffrey Clark on the list of people who need to go through some things. This contempt of Congress thing is a really good start.
re: #163 Nerdy Fish
I’m not a big death penalty supporter, but Bannon is right up there with Jeffrey Clark on the list of people who need to go through some things. This contempt of Congress thing is a really good start.
Bannon, I am sure is fully in favor of the death penalty…for those people.
re: #54 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
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A review I read this morning says the first episode is very silly and not good, and won’t win any new fans, but the show finds its footing with the 2nd.
It’s been a tradition since 2005 that the first episode of each season is a romp, so a silly first episode is expected.
pretty much everything after tennant has been silly and not good, but yeah, I’ll give it a try. Probably on Britbox though. I don’t want to spend disney level money.
re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, I am all for people facing the social consequences of displaying your bigotry.
Not only bigotry, but hatred and acceptance of human slavery
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Bannon, I am sure is fully in favor of the death penalty…for those people.
That’s fine. I don’t have to reciprocate the feeling. I think our justice system is too quick to execute people, and I am very restrained in wishing death on anyone, even the most vile offender. I am firmly committed to my ideal that anyone can be saved. That doesn’t mean they don’t face consequences for their actions, and for these guys at the top of the list, there need to be lots of consequences because there are lots of actions.
re: #166 sizzzzlerz
Not only bigotry, but hatred and acceptance of human slavery
Especially when it is idiots from Iowa or Wisconsin out flying Confederate flags. For them there is no “heritage” that they can begin to fall back on, it is all hatred and misanthropy.
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember that back in the 7th grade I was still into John Denver, Bobby Goldsboro and the Carpenters. Closest I came to hip were Cat Stevens and Gordon Lightfoot.
Then my buddy Richard Heilscher sat me down in his cellar and played me MC5, Deep Purple, Neil Young and a bit of Cheech and Chong on the side.
Then my next-door neighbor a real Anglophile played me Small Faces, Joe Cocker, the Who, Slade and (pre-Dark Side of the Moon) Pink Floyd.
I was converted to Rock and Roll.
Nothing wrong with any of them, they’re all good (I have no experience with MC5, but will check out).
re: #169 TedStriker
Nothing wrong with any of them, they’re all good (I have no experience with MC5, but will check out).
They were years ahead of their time: proto-punk, pre-metal, gritty rust-belt rock and roll
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
16 minute dramatic video about a Ukrainian family who find a wounded Russian soldier hiding on their farm
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Not sure how I feel about that.
re: #162 Shropshire Slasher
Former Playboy model Karen McDougal will not be giving evidence against Donald Trump partly because she might have made the former president look too good, a legal expert has told Newsweek.
Bullshit.
She won’t be testifying because she was paid by the Enquirer, not by Trump. Her financial arrangement has 0 to do with the charges he’s facing.
re: #171 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not sure how I feel about that.
that’s the point of the film…it is a harrowing situation to be in
one quote from the film that got me, when the babushka tells her grand-daughter who asks about the soldier:
“Sleep. The more you know, the quicker you grow old.”
re: #169 TedStriker
I remember in 1978, a grade-school friend of mine, Albert, had come into possession of “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols” via his older brother.
Dropped the needle on the first track
and it was utterly unlike anything I’d ever heard (in those halcyon days of the BeeGees, ABBA and Neil Diamond). To say I was blown away is an understatement.
re: #169 TedStriker
Nothing wrong with any of them, they’re all good (I have no experience with MC5, but will check out).
That’s very sad.
re: #165 steve_davis
pretty much everything after tennant has been silly and not good, but yeah, I’ll give it a try. Probably on Britbox though. I don’t want to spend disney level money.
It’s not gonna be on Britbox. Britbox has Classic. Max has the 2005 revival. Disney+ has the worldwide distribution rights to the current R2D Era outside Britain sewn up.
I was a fan of Dr Who back when it ran on PBS in the 70’s, with John Pertwee and Tom Baker. Used to run around in High School in a trench coat and an eight-foot scarf. Have not really followed it since
re: #163 Nerdy Fish
I’m not a big death penalty supporter, but Bannon is right up there with Jeffrey Clark on the list of people who need to go through some things. This contempt of Congress thing is a really good start.
It’s A start. Just a start. He should get 20 years for agitating against the government of the United States of America.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was a fan of Dr Who back when it ran on PBS in the 70’s, with John Pertwee and Tom Baker. Used to run around in High School in a trench coat and an eight-foot scarf. Have not really followed it since
I’m a fan of the modern series. I got a photo op with Peter Capaldi, the Twelfth Doctor, at a comic-con some years back. It was a great time.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was a fan of Dr Who back when it ran on PBS in the 70’s, with John Pertwee and Tom Baker. Used to run around in High School in a trench coat and an eight-foot scarf. Have not really followed it since
I loved it back then
re: #180 Scottish Dragon
I loved it back then
When it was beyond hokey… The daleks we made of cardboard and looked like homemade kids Halloween costumes?
re: #182 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
When it was beyond hokey… The daleks we made of cardboard and looked like homemade kids Halloween costumes?
Laser guns were glue guns with the cord cut off.
re: #180 Scottish Dragon
I loved [Dr. Who] back then
minimal budget, primitive special effects, but brilliant writing and acting
re: #183 Shropshire Slasher
Laser guns were glue guns with the cord cut off.
and the “space suits” were padded furniture moving blankets spray-painted silver
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, that was my exposure to Dr. Who: Pertwee via PBS. I never followed it and I was always confused, maybe because the broadcasts seemed so irregularly scheduled.
re: #182 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
When it was beyond hokey… The daleks we made of cardboard and looked like homemade kids Halloween costumes?
Don’t forget the egg whisk and the toilet plunger. And as humorous as it all is, the Daleks are easily one of the most iconic sci-fi villains ever created.
re: #162 Shropshire Slasher
New York University law professor, Stephen Gillers said that McDougal had a long-term affair with Trump, who denies the relationship, and some of her testimony might reflect well on the former president.
Because cheating on your wife shortly after she gave birth to your son is such a good look??
re: #181 Teukka
File under “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a fool out of himself”?
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re: #96 Vicious Babushka
Ah, retirement! Twice as much time and half as much money.
According to the latest retirement estimate it 2/3 of my salary.
when I originally started with Federal Civil Service in 1978 the old rule was after 30 years it was 80% of your high-3 salary OR you could withdraw all of the money deducted from your salary tax-free and then get 2/3 of your salary as pension.
Pruneface killed the withdrawal option in 1986 with his”tax reform” and he started to jack up the 80% first to 35 years, Old Fart Bush raised it to 38 years and Dumbya raised it to 41 years and 11 months. For a couple years Old Fart Bush changed the CSRS withholding form 7% to 9% of our salary.
Oh and they also fucked with the COLA. Used to get a COLA every 6 months and thanks once again to Pruneface it went to once a year with a Diet COLA.
On the agenda for today—ending my emergency backup internet with T-Mobile.
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
minimal budget, primitive special effects, but brilliant writing and acting
I’m not sure where the quote is from, but at the time it was said
British sci-fi has cardboard sets and 3D characters.
American sci-fi has 3D sets and cardboard characters.
re: #189 Scottish Dragon
Hamas is succeeding in their strategy however by getting Netanyahu to vastly over-react. It is almost certain that the ICC will issue warrants for Netanyahu and others for war crimes, and the general body of the UN just voted today to restore privileges to the Palestinian delegation over Israeli protests.
And succeeding also by ensuring that Israel would/will dissipate most, if not all, of the goodwill/sympathy it engendered after the awful October 7 attacks.
re: #169 TedStriker
Nothing wrong with any of them, they’re all good (I have no experience with MC5, but will check out).
Blue Oyster Cult did a good cover of MC5’s Kick out the Jams. MC5’s rocked too.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was a fan of Dr Who back when it ran on PBS in the 70’s, with John Pertwee and Tom Baker. Used to run around in High School in a trench coat and an eight-foot scarf. Have not really followed it since
I really like Pertwee as the Doctor. He’s also done a couple great movies that get you laughing.
re: #192 Jay C
And succeeding also by insuring that Israel would/will dissipate most, if not all, of the goodwill/sympathy it engendered after the awful October 7 attacks.
Unfortunately true. I have never seen Israel more isolated than right now, and it was entirely avoidable.
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
16 minute dramatic video about a Ukrainian family who find a wounded Russian soldier hiding on their farm
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Wow. That was very good.
re: #195 Scottish Dragon
I have never seen Israel more isolated than right now, and it was entirely avoidable.
Perhaps Netanyahu and his gang think they don’t need the goodwill of other nations.
I doubt that what progress has been made in having the Gulf States recognize Israel would have been done without US pressure.
And the Egypt-Israel deal was done of course by direct intervention of the US.
While I doubt the US will turn collectively anti-Israel (unless you count the end-times nut praying for a soon Parousia and judgement of Israel as being anti-Israel), I can’t see any Democratic national figure willing to go out on a limb for Israel.
re: #199 goddamnedfrank
We’re reposting Richard Hanania now?
I’m mostly trying to stay out of any direct interaction with any of the Israel-Palestine stuff posted here, but this is a good observation. Check your sources. Not everybody who agrees with you is necessarily a good person.
re: #181 Teukka
File under “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a fool out of himself”?
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Uh. Hanania is a nazi. Not sure if he’s a reasonable source to post.
re: #198 HRH Stanley Sea
Wow. That was very good.
a former fellow university Russian student sent it to me today.
This is the second warning I got today regarding the solar storm that is supposed to hit tonight. CNN is warning its readers (and viewers) that the solar storm could disrupt communications and GPS systems. I am charging up my batteries and hoping power does not go out.
re: #199 goddamnedfrank
We’re reposting Richard Hanania now?
I think that falls under that category of “look at fascist scum, point at him and laugh derisively” rather than reposting for credit.
re: #199 goddamnedfrank
We’re reposting Richard Hanania now?
Posting it for the Hamas statement, not Hanania.
re: #207 William Lewis
I think that falls under that category of “look at fascist scum, point at him and laugh derisively” rather than reposting for credit.
Thought it was him being quoted.
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a former fellow university Russian student sent it to me today.
The 2nd scene had the radio announcer saying that it was better to surrender Russian soldier. That set the thesis right there.
The big demonstration yesterday in Malmö was followed by disinformation about unrest, riots. But what kind of figures were spreading this nonsense? I did a simple check.
The pictures some sources posted was from a riot in 2009. In reality, pro-Pal protesters formed a line between themselves and the pro-Israeli (counter)protesters so the latter would be able to protest in peace…
Den stora demonstrationen igår i Malmö följdes ju av desinformation om oroligheter, kravaller. Men vad var det för figurer som spred de här dumheterna? Jag gjorde en enkel koll.https://t.co/0FU3pBllE9 pic.twitter.com/qRVwPCSkkD
— Mathias Cederholm (äv. Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon) (@mathiasced) May 10, 2024
re: #200 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Perhaps Netanyahu and his gang think they don’t need the goodwill of other nations.
I doubt that what progress has been made in having the Gulf States recognize Israel would have been done without US pressure.
And the Egypt-Israel deal was done of course by direct intervention of the US.
While I doubt the US will turn collectively anti-Israel (unless you count the end-times nut praying for a soon Parousia and judgement of Israel as being anti-Israel), I can’t see any Democratic national figure willing to go out on a limb for Israel.
A major report is due to Congress soon on Israeli actions in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank, and it’s expected to be really bad with respect to deliberate targeting of journalists, aid workers, medical staff and civilians in general. This could trigger Leahy rule debate on shutting off almost all weapons capable of offensive action.
Again, this was all avoidable. The trap was so fucking obvious, and I remember we discussed that right here in detail the day after the attacks.
re: #195 Scottish Dragon
Unfortunately true. I have never seen Israel more isolated than right now, and it was entirely avoidable.
Hamas is still holding these children with no proof of life.
Nobody should be listening to Richard Hanania about anything.
A right-wing policy center at the University of Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business has apparently cut ties with the conservative firebrand at the center of a controversy involving his history of white supremacist writings.
…
But it’s his older writings that have landed Hanania in hot water and threatened his rise as a conservative academic and pundit. Inside Higher Ed, a sister publication to Poets&Quants, compiled a list of Hanania’s most controversial and racist writings as described by HuffPost:
In 2010, Hanania’s alter ego wrote that “If the races are equal, why do whites always end up near the top and blacks at the bottom, everywhere and always?”
Who are the bigger Bastards in the Middle East?
How many more have to die before we establish that?
re: #214 Unabogie
“If the races are equal, why do whites always end up near the top and blacks at the bottom, everywhere and always?”
so much to unpack there.
buried under layers of obtuse stupidity.
This image is gaining popularity on Georgian social media. With Georgian Parliament on the background and the Kremlin in the side-view, mirror reads: “objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.” pic.twitter.com/DsyTrHF2x6
— Eto Buziashvili (@EtoBuziashvili) May 10, 2024
Could also apply to the Republican Congress.
re: #208 Teukka
Posting it for the Hamas statement, not Hanania.
If it comes from him, who could say it’s even an accurate quote? He’s a known piece of garbage.
re: #213 Vicious Babushka
Hamas is still holding these children with no proof of life.
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Yes. Hamas is evil AF. I’m still at a loss why Netanyahu has made almost no effort at all to get the hostages back. I’ve seen the demonstrations in Tel Aviv.
A few reminders about Trump’s NY Trial:
1) It’s not simply about him trying to cover up alleged affairs
2) It’s about him allegedly orchestrating an illegal scheme to deprive voters of information
3) He was indicted by a grand jury made up of ordinary citizens, not Biden
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2024-05-10T17:27:02.000Z
re: #206 PhillyPretzel ✅
This is the second warning I got today regarding the solar storm that is supposed to hit tonight. CNN is warning its readers (and viewers) that the solar storm could disrupt communications and GPS systems. I am charging up my batteries and hoping power does not go out.
The upper midwest might be able to see the Aurora tonight in dark areas.
*** note on the effects of solar storms: during decades living just below the Arctic Circle, they never caused me any electrical problems, however my hair started greying prematurely.
re: #221 Randall Gross
The upper midwest might be able to see the Aurora tonight in dark areas.
The Carolinas also
re: #212 Scottish Dragon
Again, this was all avoidable. The trap was so fucking obvious, and I remember we discussed that right here in detail the day after the attacks.
And if Israel had had a Government that wasn’t, in essence, led by Crooked Bibi and his extremist allies (the “coalition” Government set up after Oct. 7 seems to have had little moderating influence), they *might* have avoided said trap. Maybe.
re: #221 Randall Gross
As per the Nat’l Weather Service no joy in Philly:
weather.gov
re: #213 Vicious Babushka
Hamas is still holding these children with no proof of life.
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That’s not going to stop Israel from isolating itself.
We just had three nights of turkey followed by two nights of beef, what’s everybody eating tonight that isn’t either beef or turkey?
re: #225 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
That’s not going to stop Israel from isolating itself.
No, but it gives them an advantage in the “who is the bigger bastard?” competition…
What did the cannibal couple get when they arrived late to the party? The cold shoulder!
I better start filling the tub with water.
This sequence of images is from a computer animation illustrating an artist’s concept of Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) cannibalism. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are clouds of electrified, magnetic gas weighing billions of tons ejected from the Sun and hurled into space with speeds ranging from 12 to 1,250 miles per second (about 20 to 2,000 kilometers per second). The first CME blasts from the right side of the sun (bright, white area), and as it expands into space, it becomes fainter. A second CME erupts from near the same region on the Sun as the first CME, appearing as another bright burst on the right side of the Sun. The second CME is moving faster than the first, and it overtakes and assimilates the first CME in frames four through six. Solar researchers believe cannibal CMEs may be the source of ‘complex ejecta’ CME clouds; those with a larger and more complex structure than typical CMEs. These traits cause complex ejecta CMEs to trigger protracted magnetic storms when they envelop the Earth.
re: #219 Scottish Dragon
Yes. Hamas is evil AF. I’m still at a loss why Netanyahu has made almost no effort at all to get the hostages back. I’ve seen the demonstrations in Tel Aviv.
We all know why, because by his own admission he bolstered and funded Hamas. He’s the dog who caught the war.
What’s kind of messed up is using the clear mass atrocity against civilians by Hamas to justify continuing another civilian mass atrocity at orders of magnitude greater scale. An atrocity that includes a famine engineered with deliberate lies, which we know has an absolutely terrifying amount of momentum built up behind it and promises to continue producing mass death long after any ceasefire.
re: #226 Randall Gross
We just had three nights of turkey followed by two nights of beef, what’s everybody eating tonight that isn’t either beef or turkey?
Friday night is Pizza night.
re: #226 Randall Gross
We just had three nights of turkey followed by two nights of beef, what’s everybody eating tonight that isn’t either beef or turkey?
Friday is always fish & chips around here. With calamari rings added tonight just to liven it up.
re: #226 Randall Gross
We just had three nights of turkey followed by two nights of beef, what’s everybody eating tonight that isn’t either beef or turkey?
I think I’m going for fish tonight. Local place always has a nice fish dinner special on Friday’s.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No, but it gives them an advantage in the “who is the bigger bastard?” competition…
I think Israel won that contest some time ago with their brutal response to the event that initially won them the sympathy of the world. It’s why they’re becoming isolated.
re: #226 Randall Gross
We just had three nights of turkey followed by two nights of beef, what’s everybody eating tonight that isn’t either beef or turkey?
It is Friday, so it’s take out night. I was thinking indian, maybe mattar paneer, or chicken tikka masala. Maybe some pakora’s as an app.
re: #229 goddamnedfrank
We all know why, because by his own admission he bolstered and funded Hamas. He’s the dog who caught the war.
What’s kind of messed up is using the clear mass atrocity against civilians by Hamas to justify continuing another civilian mass atrocity at orders of magnitude greater scale. An atrocity that includes a famine engineered with deliberate lies, which we know has an absolutely terrifying amount of momentum built up behind it and promises to continue producing mass death long after any ceasefire.
yep. Famines don’t just stop. Malnutrition deaths can go for months after food arrives and nutrition related disease and growth effects on children are devastating.
re: #226 Randall Gross
We just had three nights of turkey followed by two nights of beef, what’s everybody eating tonight that isn’t either beef or turkey?
lime Garlic chicken
President Joe Biden significantly shifted his policy toward Israel this week by threatening to withhold U.S. weapons if the Israeli government moves forward with a full-scale invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, while also pledging “ironclad” support for the Jewish state in a speech condemning the rise of antisemitism.But Biden’s nuanced position has created different fault lines of division within his own Democratic Party. The president now faces a rash of new criticism from some lawmakers and voters in battleground states where his position on Israel carries the most political risk for his efforts to win re-election.
re: #222 Scottish Dragon
The Carolinas also
oh i hope! I may have to take a drive over to my old elementary school football field. it’s dead dark over there.
re: #237 Dangerman
lime Garlic chicken
Sounds good but really too close to turkey for us. You might consider that knock off El Pollo Loco recipe which includes pineapple juice:
ingredients
6 ounces pineapple juice.
2 tablespoons lime juice.
1 tablespoon white vinegar.
2 garlic cloves, minced.
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled.
1⁄8 teaspoon ground pepper.
1⁄4 teaspoon mild chili pepper, remove stem and seeds from chiles, finely minced (Anaheim or California)
re: #144 Scottish Dragon
We still use our Blu-ray because I insist on physical copies of media whenever possible. I don’t trust streaming services.
And some of my favorite series are not on any streaming service, so I own boxed sets of DVDs. (I also listen to CDs in my car—hey, I’m old and so is my car)
What I don’t get is why people look at it as a badge of honor to not have DVDs, or CDs, or televisions, or checkbooks. Honestly, in my experience, it does not make them superior beings.
re: #240 Randall Gross
Sounds good but really too close to turkey for us. You might consider that knock off El Pollo Loco recipe which includes pineapple juice:
ingredients
6 ounces pineapple juice.
2 tablespoons lime juice.
1 tablespoon white vinegar.
2 garlic cloves, minced.
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled.
1⁄8 teaspoon ground pepper.
1⁄4 teaspoon mild chili pepper, remove stem and seeds from chiles, finely minced (Anaheim or California)
Thx
re: #234 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
I think Israel won that contest some time ago with their brutal response to the event that initially won them the sympathy of the world. It’s why they’re becoming isolated.
Yeah while I don’t agree with how israel is handling this, I am not going to judge, because I know if it happened here, say mexico had a cross border raid where they killed a thousand people and kidnapped a 100, the US would not stop until mexico was the new US territory of South Texas.
I mean a non-state actor attacked us on 9/11 and we spent 20 years destroying 2 countries half way around the world.
Israel doesn’t want sympathy, they want security, and it is hard to see how they get it as long as Hamas remains in power.
Local grocer has snow crab on sale for 7.99 lb, sounds like we are smoking some crab legs tonight.
re: #241 BeachDem
And some of my favorite series are not on any streaming service, so I own boxed sets of DVDs. (I also listen to CDs in my car—hey, I’m old and so is my car)
What I don’t get is why people look at it as a badge of honor to not have DVDs, or CDs, or televisions, or checkbooks. Honestly, in my experience, it does not make them superior beings.
It just makes you vulnerable to losing your media you paid for if the service goes under or does something underhanded. b-boy bouiebaisse at blue sky pointed that out a couple weeks ago when a bunch of customers lost media they had bought to own on a small platform. He makes a point of buying high end Blu-ray of movies he likes likes. I’m getting the Dune 1 and 2 combo pack on Monday.
“Incident” is investigated around the Dutch artist Joost Klein
Updated today 19:00Published today 17:38
Joost Klein, the Netherlands’ representative in the Eurovision song contest, did not participate during the entire genre rep on Friday. It should be about an “incident” concerning the artist, according to the EBU.
According to information to SVT, there has been a physical confrontation between the artist and a photographer.
The Netherlands’ representative in Eurovision, Joost Klein, did not participate during the entire genre rep on Friday afternoon. He was in the opening flag parade but when it was his turn to sing, they skipped his contribution.
The production skipped the Netherlands starting number five and instead went from Luxembourg with starting number four to Israel with starting number six.
EBU: “An incident”
In a statement from the EBU about the Dutch artist’s absence, they write:
“We are currently investigating an incident reported to us involving the Dutch artist. He will not rehearse for the time being. We have no further comment at this time and will update in due course.”
Highlighted during press conference
During the press conference after the semi-final, Joost Klein marked against Israeli artist Eden Golan.
A journalist asked the Israeli artist:
Have you ever considered that by being here you pose a risk and danger to other artists and to the public?
When the host of the press conference, the Swedish journalist Jovan Radomir, broke in and said that Eden did not have to answer the question, Joost Klein said:
Why not?
Joost Klein also covered his head with the Netherlands’ flag repeatedly during the press conference as the Netherlands was placed next to Israel. Something that has been interpreted as a marking.
svt.se [Swedish]
www-svt-se.translate.goog [English]
re: #206 PhillyPretzel ✅
This is the second warning I got today regarding the solar storm that is supposed to hit tonight. CNN is warning its readers (and viewers) that the solar storm could disrupt communications and GPS systems. I am charging up my batteries and hoping power does not go out.
The last thing we need now is another Carrington Event.
SERIOUS PROPS TO SCOTTISH DRAGON FOR THE CORRECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
re: #243 danarchy
Yeah while I don’t agree with how israel is handling this, I am not going to judge, because I know if it happened here, say mexico had a cross border raid where they killed a thousand people and kidnapped a 100, the US would not stop until mexico was the new US territory of South Texas.
I mean a non-state actor attacked us on 9/11 and we spent 20 years destroying 2 countries half way around the world.
Israel doesn’t want sympathy, they want security, and it is hard to see how they get it as long as Hamas remains in power.
Israel cannot get security as long as settlements land theft at gunpoint (and outright murder) continues, water rights are ignored and self determination is denied. All you do is keep making the next generation of fighters who hate your guts enough they will kill themselves to kill you.
re: #253 Joe Bacon ✅
The last thing we need now is another Cavendish Event.
The descriptions of that are wild. It was the Carrington Event, however.
re: #253 Joe Bacon ✅
Cavendish Event? Please explain.
re: #243 danarchy
Israel doesn’t want sympathy, they want security, and it is hard to see how they get it as long as Hamas remains in power.
Kinda hard to make an argument for security when the head of said country has a history of funding the damn terrorists. Get rid of Bibi first…Hamas second.
re: #182 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
When it was beyond hokey… The daleks we made of cardboard and looked like homemade kids Halloween costumes?
Honestly, the daleks used in the actual show aren’t much more than that. They don’t have much of a budget.
re: #257 PhillyPretzel ✅
Cavendish Event? Please explain.
Largest solar storm on record, and would probably cause trillions of dollars in damage today. Telegraph stations caught on fire and batteries threw sparks from induced aurora electric current, and lights were visible almost to the equator. Miners in the Rockies got up in the middle of the night to start breakfast, thinking that dawn was approaching. Telegraph stations that disconnected batteries were able to continue sending and receiving traffic for hours just on induced electric current.
re: #260 sizzzzlerz
Honestly, the daleks used in the actual show aren’t much more than that. They don’t have much of a budget.
EXTERMINATE!
re: #261 Scottish Dragon
Carrington Event. okay got it.
re: #245 Scottish Dragon
It just makes you vulnerable to losing your media you paid for if the service goes under or does something underhanded. b-boy bouiebaisse at blue sky pointed that out a couple weeks ago when a bunch of customers lost media they had bought to own on a small platform. He makes a point of buying high end Blu-ray of movies he likes likes. I’m getting the Dune 1 and 2 combo pack on Monday.
China Beach took about 25 years to get to DVD because of music rights. I think I paid about $150 for the boxed set when it first came out. Still not streaming anywhere.
I was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger and bigger. Then it hit me.
re: #260 sizzzzlerz
Honestly, the daleks used in the actual show aren’t much more than that. They don’t have much of a budget.
I loved the original run of Dr. Who for the same reason I loved those Irwin Allen shows in the 60s Yeah they were cheap with the budget but I didn’t care. Back then I loved how cheesy and campy those Irwin Allen shows were.
re: #266 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
When it was beyond hokey… The daliks
Got a hard on typing that, did you?
and reading what you wrote in reply.
re: #267 Joe Bacon ✅
I loved the original run of Dr. Who for the same reason I loved those Irwin Allen shows in the 60s Yeah they were cheap with the budget but I didn’t care. Back then I loved how cheesy and campy those Irwin Allen shows were.
The first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was pretty serious - it started getting campy in the following season.
re: #266 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
When it was beyond hokey… The daliks
Got a hard on typing that, did you?
Hey, don’t diss my Cybermen now….
re: #272 Dr Lizardo
The first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was pretty serious - it started getting campy in the following season.
The computer mainframe exploded every time the sub rolled more than 15 degrees. Seems like a serious design issue.
re: #267 Joe Bacon ✅
I loved the original run of Dr. Who for the same reason I loved those Irwin Allen shows in the 60s Yeah they were cheap with the budget but I didn’t care. Back then I loved how cheesy and campy those Irwin Allen shows were.
I loved that panel of das blinken lights in the control room of the Seaview. Nobody ever looked at them so I’ve always wondered what they were for.
re: #275 Scottish Dragon
The computer mainframe exploded every time the sub rolled more than 15 degrees. Seems like a serious design issue.
Eh, no worse than the Starship Enterprise, all things considered. The bridge consoles were apparently made of explodium or something.
re: #142 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
while we struggle as a world to get this addressed, I fear the only thing that may save us is a catastrophic volcanic eruption to dump enough crap into the air to bring the temps down.
re: #278 piratedan
while we struggle as a world to get this addressed, I fear the only thing that may save us is a catastrophic volcanic eruption to dump enough crap into the air to bring the temps down.
Oh yeah.
re: #275 Scottish Dragon
The computer mainframe exploded every time the sub rolled more than 15 degrees. Seems like a serious design issue.
The first season of Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea was serious but the remaining seasons turned the show into absolute camp. You just waited for the moment when they would do the rock & roll with the sparks flying everywhere.
re: #277 Dr Lizardo
Eh, no worse than the Starship Enterprise, all things considered. The bridge consoles were apparently made of explodium or something.
Eh, the computers on the Enterprise usually didn’t fritz unless there was real combat damage, and there were a number a scenes of Spock et al taking off access panels and repairing them. Then later on you had the Jeffries Tubes repair scenes.
The computers on the Seaview got fried if the time traveling Nazi sub captain/kaiju of the week/weird aliens even glanced at them.
re: #233 Dangerman
If Trump were to promise a cradle to grave health care system that closely resembled the completely Socialist NHS not only would Trump win, he would do so in a grand-slam landslide with 100% of the Republican vote and over half of the votes usually going to Democrats.
The usual right wing grifters, Fox News, Federalist Society douche canoes would all pile up behind him with “well, at least we know Trump is one of us and will do it our way” whatever the fucking fuck that means.
MAGA loves socialism. They just want a heaping help of white supremacy along with it.
re: #277 Dr Lizardo
Eh, no worse than the Starship Enterprise, all things considered. The bridge consoles were apparently made of explodium or something.
But everything always seemed to work afterwards. How many times has something you cause sparks in worked later? They will know how to make things robust in the 24th century!
re: #284 sizzzzlerz
But everything always seemed to work afterwards. How many times has something you cause sparks in worked later? They will know how to make things robust in the 24th century!
It was Spock and Scotty working together.
re: #282 Scottish Dragon
Eh, the computers on the Enterprise usually didn’t fritz unless there was real combat damage, and there were a number a scenes of Spock et al taking off access panels and repairing them. Then later on you had the Jeffries Tubes repair scenes.
The computers on the Seaview got fried if the time traveling Nazi sub captain/kaiju of the week/weird aliens even glanced at them.
Memories of my favorite episode—with THE LOBSTER MAN!
re: #284 sizzzzlerz
But everything always seemed to work afterwards. How many times has something you cause sparks in worked later? They will know how to make things robust in the 24th century!
They often showed Spock under a console fixing stuff though. Right in the middle of a fight and the 1st officer is literally repairing hardware for the sensors or phaser control while smoke is billowing out of the access panel. I always thought that was legit badass.
re: #286 Joe Bacon ✅
Memories of my favorite episode—with THE LOBSTER MAN!
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Cousins?
re: #286 Joe Bacon ✅
Memories of my favorite episode—with THE LOBSTER MAN!
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VIKING LOBSTER DUDE DEMANDS WEREGELD AND THE EDIBLE REFUSE IN YOUR TRASH MIDDEN!
re: #287 Scottish Dragon
They often showed Spock under a console fixing stuff though. Right in the middle of a fight and the 1st officer is literally repairing hardware for the sensors or phaser control while smoke is billowing out of the access panel. I always thought that was legit badass.
And without using a soldering iron nor some wire cutters
re: #283 Florida Panhandler
If Trump were to promise a cradle to grave health care system that closely resembled the completely Socialist NHS not only would Trump win, he would do so in a grand-slam landslide with 100% of the Republican vote and over half of the votes usually going to Democrats.
He DID! It was one of the the big three policy promises during the Republican primary and he repeated it during his presidential campaign.
He promised a heath care system in which everybody will be covered and the deductibles and copays will be reasonable. [“everybody’s got to be covered” and that “the government’s gonna pay for it”, 60 minutes interview]
[Narrator: He was lying, once in office he urged Republicans in Congress to revoke the
Affordable Care Act to roll back the high tax bracket increases that funded it]
His other two were
1) that he was would protect Social Security and Medicare.
[Narrator: Under his presidency Social Security Disability become harder to qualify for.]
2) He promised to be the biggest a**hole anyone had ever seen to emigrants (illegal and otherwise) and by proxy ‘those’ who were not real Americans.
[Narrator: This promise he kept]
re: #264 BeachDem
China Beach took about 25 years to get to DVD because of music rights. I think I paid about $150 for the boxed set when it first came out. Still not streaming anywhere.
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re: #226 Randall Gross
We just had three nights of turkey followed by two nights of beef, what’s everybody eating tonight that isn’t either beef or turkey?
Thawed out a package of Italian sausage in order to make dirty rice for dinner tonight.
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