An Extraordinary Deep-Sea Sighting: The Giant Phantom Jelly

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I hereby declare 2024 to be the Year of the Giant Phantom Jelly.

This ghostly giant is a rare sight. But in November 2021, MBARI researchers spotted this giant phantom jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea) with the ROV Doc Ricketts 990 meters (3,200 feet) deep in Monterey Bay. The bell of this deep-sea denizen is more than one meter (3.3 feet) across and trails four ribbon-like oral (or mouth) arms that can grow more than 10 meters (33 feet) in length. MBARI’s ROVs have logged thousands of dives, yet we have only seen this spectacular species nine times.

The giant phantom jelly was first collected in 1899. Since then, scientists have only encountered this animal about 100 times. It appears to have a worldwide distribution and has been recorded in all ocean basins except for the Arctic. The challenges of accessing its deep-water habitat contribute to the relative scarcity of sightings for such a large and broadly distributed species.

Historically, scientists relied on trawl nets to study deep-sea animals. These nets can be effective for studying hardy animals such as fishes, crustaceans, and squids, but jellies turn to gelatinous goo in trawl nets. The cameras on MBARI’s ROVs have allowed MBARI researchers to study these animals intact in their natural environment. High-definition—and now 4K—video of the giant phantom jelly captures stunning details about the animal’s appearance and behaviors that scientists would not have been able to see with a trawl-caught specimen.

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118 comments
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darthstar  Jan 2, 2024 • 12:39:51pm

Still more attractive than the phantom Jelly Roll

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lawhawk  Jan 2, 2024 • 12:41:44pm
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Jay C  Jan 2, 2024 • 12:48:54pm

re: #2 lawhawk

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And there are (at least AFAIK) two special elections coming up: one to fill Kevin McCarthy’s vacated seat in CA in (?)March, and one to fill George Santos’ evicted one in NY in (?)April.

Unfortunately, I think the retiring Rep. Johnson is from OH - so the district is likely gerrymandered ruby-red….

ADD: Joe My God’s phrasing is a tad off: with Rep. Johnson’s departure, the House GOP will be down to 219 members, i.e. a one-vote NET majority - there are still only 213 Democrats.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 12:54:52pm

re: #2 lawhawk

re: #3 Jay C

It is going to be crazy.

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Randall Gross  Jan 2, 2024 • 12:56:42pm

Pulled over from last thread in case some of you missed the happy news:
re: #161 Randall Gross

Woohoo! “Slow Horses” renewed for season five

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:05:06pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:08:19pm

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:09:25pm

re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth

Way to go Letitia.

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William Lewis  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:14:09pm

re: #6 Backwoods Sleuth

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re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth

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Now that’s one hell of a pair of good news stories back to back 😈

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William Lewis  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:15:30pm

From MicroSFF:

“How did you find us? Radio?”
“Radio dissipates,” the alien ambassador said, “telepathy doesn’t.”
“You heard our thoughts?”
“When enough of you focus on the same words, with passion, we sense it.”
“So a prayer or anthem?”
“We don’t know. It begins with: ‘Is this the real life?’.”

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:18:19pm

Mastodon

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:20:46pm

You all are hard to keep up with, lol. Late as usual but I wanted to just say thanks for being a great and caring group of humans. I keep trying to post a catch up of my current weirdness, but eye surgery and other nonsense refuses to allow that for now.

I just want to say how glad I am that all of you are here and even when there are disagreements, for the most part people keep their wits and humanity about them. And that some of you have reached out to me over the time I have been here to be of help or comfort. I am sorry my own mess of a life has made it hard if not impossible to match that kindness and humanity. It matters more than you know.

My hope for all of us this year is that we find ways to connect with the humans all around us and help those who are just barely making it. To be kind just because it matters. To help heal struggle so that more of us can thrive. When basic needs are met in every community, so much good can happen, I hope 2024 brings more awareness of this one thing.

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Belafon  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:29:20pm

re: #10 William Lewis

So glad it wasn’t Creed.

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Captain Ron  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:29:47pm

Russia is having some issues with their North Korean ammunition.

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Mattand  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:30:41pm

re: #1 darthstar

Still more attractive than the phantom Jelly Roll

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I just saw this guy for the first time on NYE. My first thought was “Christ, Post Malone really let himself go.”

My second thought was “You never see anyone at age 67 go ‘You know what I really wanna do? Facial tattoos.’ “

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:31:53pm

re: #14 Captain Ron

#2 reminds me of this.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:35:40pm

re: #14 Captain Ron

Russia is having some issues with their North Korean ammunition.

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I know why that’s happening. Physics, Chemistry, Training.

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Belafon  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:39:17pm

re: #17 Decatur Deb

I know why that’s happening. Physics, Chemistry, Training.

My middle son was telling me the other day that he had gotten annoyed at his older brother. My middle son likes to cook, and he made Turkish Delight just to see if he could. In order to keep it from sticking together, he had covered it in powdered sugar and corn starch, but when he went to pull it out the next day, all of that had been absorbed. The older one went “That’s just physics.”

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darthstar  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:40:15pm

re: #2 lawhawk

Nancy Pelosi could manage a one seat majority. I don’t see MAGA Mike doing that.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:41:54pm

re: #19 darthstar

He is going to have as many problems as Kevin did if not more.

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darthstar  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:43:12pm

re: #20 PhillyPretzel ✅

He is going to have as many problems as Kevin did if not more.

He’s got 17 days to keep the government from shutting down.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:45:15pm

re: #21 darthstar

He’s got 17 days to keep the government from shutting down.

Time for the GOP caucus to start again with The Dance of The Seven Veils.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:53:19pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:54:29pm

re: #19 darthstar

Nancy Pelosi could manage a one seat majority. I don’t see MAGA Mike doing that.

Mike has a two seat majority. God is with him.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:55:33pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 1:56:32pm

Gee, I can’t wait…

MICKEY’S MOUSE TRAP Trailer (2024)

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sagehen  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:04:46pm

most of us here are of an age to find this applicable:

theatlantic.com
The Secret Joys of Geriatric Rock
It’s a fine line between clever and stupid.
By Tom Nichols

So what, exactly, was I doing earlier this month on a quaint little street in a seaside town in Rhode Island, getting patted down by security for a show by the Tubes, a band known for their decadent stage shows and whose biggest hits were from the 1970s and ’80s? I last saw the Tubes about 40 years ago, when the band was playing the Boston college circuit. What the hell was I doing here? More to the point, what the hell were they doing here?

Speaking of age, I noted that the crowd at the nearly sold-out show was almost entirely over 40, an observation confirmed by the theater’s management. The show was not an intergenerational moment with the kids and grandkids, where the creaky Boomers introduced the youngs to their prehistoric rock idols. (That’s what Rolling Stones concerts are for.) Perhaps it sounds odd to call a rock concert a safe space, but I felt more comfortable shouting lyrics such as “Spent my cash on every high I could find” in a crowd of people close to my own age than I might have while getting the stink eye from someone’s appalled teenager.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:05:26pm

re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅

Never fuck with the rat.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:06:43pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

DeSantis did, and look how well he’s doing.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:06:49pm

re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅

Gee, I can’t wait…

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I’m sure Disneys lawyers are thrilled about this.

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teleskiguy  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:09:26pm

re: #214 lawhawk

She’s gonna be a footnote in history by the end of the year as she ran herself out of her district because she can’t win despite all the incumbent advantages, and decided to run in a right wing district across the state where she has zero contacts/doesn’t live there. Why? Ken Buck is retiring, so she thinks she can just waltz in and win? Ha. There’s half a dozen other right wingers who live in the district and think they can win (and they have backing from the local GOP). Boebert doesn’t, and she’s already indicated she’s not running in her current district, which means Democrats are likely to pick up the seat. Woo!

Bobo has a lot more campaign money than her primary opponents, by orders of magnitude, so there’s that. That said, people in Colorado are sick of her antics, for many right wingers the Beetlejuice hand job thing was the last straw, that will be played ad nauseum in political advertisements by Republicans and Democrats.

And there’s good news for Adam Frisch, the Democrat Bobo ran away from in CO-3. Ron Hanks threw his hat in the ring. Ron Hanks is a 2020 election denier and was in DC on 6 January 2021. Even in very red CO-3 that shit doesn’t really fly, people in the district have moved on.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:09:36pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m sure Disneys lawyers are thrilled about this.

There is fuck all they can do about it. Original Mickey is in the public domain now.

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darthstar  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:09:56pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Never fuck with the rat.

It’s okay to fuck with public domain Mickey…and obviously people are going to have some fun with it until the novelty wears off.

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darthstar  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:10:39pm

re: #29 Decatur Deb

DeSantis did, and look how well he’s doing.

He fucked with the mouse’s money…that’s different.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:12:40pm

re: #32 No Malarkey!

There is fuck all they can do about it. Original Mickey is in the public domain now.

I understand, but I’m sure they don’t like it regardless.

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Belafon  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:12:40pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m sure Disneys lawyers are thrilled about this.

One of the articles I read about things going into public domain cautioned against going too far with Mickey. Yes, Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. But Mickey’s red shorts would come later, and the law is distinctly in favor of a company with a whole lot of money.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:14:14pm

re: #36 Belafon

One of the articles I read about things going into public domain cautioned against going too far with Mickey. Yes, Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. But Mickey’s red shorts would come later, and the law is distinctly in favor of a company with a whole lot of money.

Yeah, there’s a long thread from copyright/intellectual property law specialist Mike Dunford, one of the favorites of old lawtwitter for his electoral lawsuits analysis, in which he describes just how complicated the case regarding Mickey Mouse really is. Take what happened with Sherlock Holmes, Netflix, and the Conan Doyle estate and multiply that by the thousands of Mickey-based works Disney has.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:14:36pm
The prompt that flashes up on my smartwatch screen is as vacuous as it is triggering. ‘You can do it, Clemency! Keep it up, and you can hit your fitness goals today!’

I stare at it.

‘No I can’t,’ I say, eventually, to this inanimate and insensate thing, which is tethered to my wrist but feels attached to so much more. ‘I honestly can’t.’

The notification disappears, a relief, but I know it’s only a matter of time until the next one. I brace myself.

I use a smartwatch these days to monitor everything: my heart rate, my blood pressure, my minutes of REM sleep but also my walking asymmetry and other health ‘factors’ that could indicate, oh, another life-threatening stroke. Factors that could spell doom for an elderly, frail person living on their own, of course, but I am 42: technically in my prime, living with my husband of 15 years and our young sons.

In my former life, I was fiercely independent, criss-crossing the globe and juggling multiple responsibilities and jobs, including as presenter of the BBC’s Culture Show, the Proms and Radio 3’s Breakfast show, and an award-winning podcaster, musician and writer. Then, aged 38, everything changed.

‘One minute I was in a meeting - next I woke up 17 days later with half of my skull missing’ (The Telegraph)

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:14:39pm

re: #34 darthstar

He fucked with the mouse’s money…that’s different.

You don’t want to be an animatronic muppet in the Expo World Hall of Not-Presidents.

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sagehen  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:15:44pm

re: #36 Belafon

One of the articles I read about things going into public domain cautioned against going too far with Mickey. Yes, Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. But Mickey’s red shorts would come later, and the law is distinctly in favor of a company with a whole lot of money.

and the gloves, and the eyes are different…

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:17:17pm

re: #36 Belafon

One of the articles I read about things going into public domain cautioned against going too far with Mickey. Yes, Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. But Mickey’s red shorts would come later, and the law is distinctly in favor of a company with a whole lot of money.

Like public domain Winnie the Pooh vs Disney’s IP.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:20:50pm

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:21:26pm

re: #42 Backwoods Sleuth

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But he’s an elected official, the voters should decide his fate.///

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William Lewis  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:21:51pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m sure Disneys lawyers are thrilled about this.

It’s like the slasher Poo movie, nothing they can do except ignore it and hope it simply stinks and goes away quick like that one did.

They have trademark law on their side so anyone tries anything not in “Steamboat Willie” though, the hammer falls hard.

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William Lewis  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:24:22pm

Another repost from MicroSFF:

“So, uh, I talked to the faeries,” said the woman.
“Did you now,” said the witch.
“And, well, they’ll take my child.”
“In exchange for healing you?”
“No. Not even their magic can cure my illness. No. To raise him after I’m gone.”
The witch gave her a long look, then nodded.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:25:47pm

re: #29 Decatur Deb

DeSantis did, and look how well he’s doing.

YOU MORON, RON RON — DeSantis Vs. Disney, Trump… and Everyone Else! A Founders Sing Parody

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:27:23pm

From downstairs:

re: #213 silverdolphin

I saw the premiere of A Boy and HIs Dog at Filmex in 1975. I will never forget it because Filmex had a 40 science fiction film marathon that was anchored by this movie. We forgot to bring money, everything was closed overnight and we were starving by the next day. We ate sugar and catsup packets until the stores opened.

I don’t recall where ( a large auditorium somewhere) or exactly when it was (1969?) but I attended a speech by Harlan Ellison in which he gave the audience an opportunity to select a new story of his for him to read to us — and the winner was A Boy and His Dog. Not my kind of story. His works were all intriguing but too creepy and unpleasant for my taste.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:27:45pm

re: #44 William Lewis

It’s like the slasher Poo movie, nothing they can do except ignore it and hope it simply stinks and goes away quick like that one did.

They have trademark law on their side so anyone tries anything not in “Steamboat Willie” though, the hammer falls hard.

If I google Winnie the Pooh, that movie is near the top of my results thanks to Wikipedia.

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darthstar  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:35:39pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:35:56pm

Honestly, a giant human-sized mouse with weirdly huge, distorted eyes and ears is objectively terrifying.

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darthstar  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:37:40pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Honestly, a giant human-sized mouse with weirdly huge, distorted eyes and ears is objectively terrifying.

Mickey’s actually a rat. Note the black leathery tail. Also, he probably shits all over the place.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:38:36pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Honestly, a giant human-sized mouse with weirdly huge, distorted eyes and ears is objectively terrifying.

Everything was terrifying back when Mickey was created.
10 Old Cartoons That Are as Creepy as Any Horror Movie (CBR)

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sagehen  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:40:58pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Honestly, a giant human-sized mouse with weirdly huge, distorted eyes and ears is objectively terrifying.

At Disneyland Anaheim, the parking lots are patrolled by security dressed as the characters. To be caught smoking a joint, while tripping, and being frisked and cuffed by Mickey Mouse… nightmares forever, dude.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:41:21pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Honestly, a giant human-sized mouse with weirdly huge, distorted eyes and ears is objectively terrifying.

The past was a freakshow.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:42:14pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Never fuck with the rat.

I’m waiting for x-rated Mickey cartoons posted to Pornhub.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:42:55pm

re: #53 sagehen

At Disneyland Anaheim, the parking lots are patrolled by security dressed as the characters. To be caught smoking a joint, while tripping, and being frisked and cuffed by Mickey Mouse… nightmares forever, dude.

I Went To Disney Jail

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BeachDem  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:45:16pm

re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter

From downstairs:

I don’t recall where ( a large auditorium somewhere) or exactly when it was (1969?) but I attended a speech by Harlan Ellison in which he gave the audience an opportunity to select a new story of his for him to read to us — and the winner was A Boy and His Dog. Not my kind of story. His works were all intriguing but too creepy and unpleasant for my taste.

Here’s some Harlan Ellison trivia most don’t know. He had a niece who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend (murder/suicide.) He, the boyfriend, was a gun-maker, although not as famous as he liked others to believe. He was a huge Rifleman fan and made some guns for Chuck Conners, although they were never used on the show. He became friends with Conners’ sons, and when his ex got a restraining order against him, he gave his guns to Conners’ son to hold, but then told him he had a buyer for one of them, so the son gave it back to him. He then went, shot Ellison’s niece (while her two kids were in the house) and killed himself. My brother-in-law knew him, as they shared a love of TV westerns. Look up Maurice “Moe” Hunt and Michelle Ellison Romprey.

Edit, for the sake of accuracy—Connors (not Conners)

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cat-tikvah  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:45:49pm

re: #27 sagehen

most of us here are of an age to find this applicable:

theatlantic.com
The Secret Joys of Geriatric Rock
It’s a fine line between clever and stupid.
By Tom Nichols

White Punks On Dope!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:53:16pm

Alex Jones terrified Trump will be on Epstein list: ‘He is devoted to one woman at a time’

uh Alex…you forgot about…STORMY…

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones insisted Tuesday that the CIA may have altered Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs to smear former President Donald Trump.

While waiting for a list of Epstein associates to be released, Jones prepared his audience to see Trump’s name.

“I will say this, if it turns out Trump ever went to Epstein Island, I will remove any support from him,” Jones said. “But I know Roger Stone very well, and I know people that know Trump well, a lot of people, I’ll leave it at that. I know women that have dated Trump, prominent women.”

“He gets devoted to one woman at a time, gets totally obsessed with them, totally nice to them,” he continued. “He’s a neat freak, he wants testing, he puts Purell on his hands constantly.”

uh…he smells like shit, Alex…

Jones acknowledged that Trump had flown on Epstein’s so-called “Lolita Express” jet years earlier.

“But if they put out a client list, and that’s possible that it could be fake, because Epstein’s dead,” Jones said. “And that’s something very possible. So we’ll have to decide, is it a fake list they put in, because the CIA was in charge of that with Mossad and MI6, all three of those groups that’s come out were running it.”

Keep lying asshole…keep lying…

rawstory.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:55:13pm

And now…THIS…

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:55:21pm

re: #59 Joe Bacon ✅

So devoted to one woman at a time that he kept divorcing the one he was with to marry another one.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 2:57:06pm

re: #54 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The past was a freakshow.

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Blackface was very popular (I truly doubt that those 3 people are Black)

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nines09  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:01:02pm

re: #27 sagehen

I think it was 2000, and Guster was rising in popularity from their “lost and gone forever” album. My boys liked them and I took them to The Chameleon in Lancaster Pa to a show. Smaller club, packed, summer, no AC. Soaking wet.
I was the oldest guy there.
What am I doing there?!?
NARC!
It was strange, but I didn’t care. I sang and had a good time.
They were very good. Drummer played with his hands, no sticks. Guest sax player. Artist drew a portrait during the show.
I played that CD about 500 times. Good album.

GUSTER - “What You Wish For” (Sub. Esp.)

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Jay C  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:01:03pm

re: #60 Joe Bacon ✅

And now…THIS…

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Interesting how Donald’s email “contact” is one of Melania’s accounts….

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:05:12pm

Afternoon Lizards. An interesting, but longish thread on the medias “conservative” bias and the national DNC failure to push back against it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:14:18pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:14:20pm

Lawsuit seeks to remove Scott Perry from Pennsylvania ballot using 14th amendment

abc27.com

A lawsuit has been filed in Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court to remove Republican U.S. House Representative Scott Perry from the 2024 ballot due to the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause.

The lawsuit, which was filed on January 2 by Harrisburg-area activist and former congressional candidate Gene Stilp, calls for Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State Al Schmidt to remove Perry from the ballot ahead of the spring’s 10th Congressional District primary.

The lawsuit alleges Perry helped push conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen and advanced efforts to replace the Attorney General with a Trump loyalist.

“Scott Perry was a leading proponent of using the January 6, 2021 Congressional presidential election certification process to disrupt the transfer of presidential administration from Trump to Biden,” says the lawsuit, sighting the FBI’s seizure of Perry’s cellphone records and other accusations made against Perry following the January 6 attack.

The lawsuit also requests a referral of “information of any possible criminal activity by Scott Perry or any other party discovered in this case to the Pennsylvania Attorney General for prosecution.”

The full lawsuit can be read below.

Scribd Document

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nines09  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:18:02pm

re: #67 Joe Bacon ✅

He’s a total shitshow. Pride of York Pa.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:18:13pm

re: #66 Backwoods Sleuth

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I hope she has a house to sell, but she does not look like she has that kind of money.

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nines09  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:19:26pm

re: #70 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Chances are they will get nothing if she has nothing.
But you want to mark her ass so she can’t buy a hamburger on credit.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:20:13pm

re: #70 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I hope she has a house to sell, but she does not look like she has that kind of money.

Let her crowdsource it. Every dollar donated to the lawyers is a dollar less in dipshit war chests.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:27:28pm

re: #67 Joe Bacon ✅

Here are the important dates for the City and County of Philadelphia for the City Commissioners office. I imagine the state date for filing for nomination/petitions is similar.
vote.phila.gov

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TedStriker  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:27:29pm

re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅

Gee, I can’t wait…

[Embedded content]

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Never fuck with the rat.

re: #29 Decatur Deb

DeSantis did, and look how well he’s doing.

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m sure Disneys lawyers are thrilled about this.

re: #32 No Malarkey!

There is fuck all they can do about it. Original Mickey is in the public domain now.

re: #33 darthstar

It’s okay to fuck with public domain Mickey…and obviously people are going to have some fun with it until the novelty wears off.

Ehhh, the copyright on Steamboat Willie and its original version of Mickey Mouse is kaput as of yesterday, but Disney’s made sure to use that version of Mickey for some of their corporate branding over the past 10-15 years to get it trademark protection, when it became obvious that Congress wasn’t going to extend copyright terms even further (for now), so people may not necessarily be as in-the-clear as they think (skip to 17:45 below):

Public Domain Day 2024!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:27:43pm

re: #71 nines09

Chances are they will get nothing if she has nothing.
But you want to mark her ass so she can’t buy a hamburger on credit.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:29:40pm

Now WHO really invented Potato Chips?

The Fake (and real) History of Potato Chips

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Egregious Philbin  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:33:02pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

I once got kicked out of Disneyland when a park employee overheard me say that I was feeling goofy…

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silverdolphin  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:49:16pm

re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter

From downstairs:

I don’t recall where ( a large auditorium somewhere) or exactly when it was (1969?) but I attended a speech by Harlan Ellison in which he gave the audience an opportunity to select a new story of his for him to read to us — and the winner was A Boy and His Dog. Not my kind of story. His works were all intriguing but too creepy and unpleasant for my taste.

I bet he was a great story reader. His stories work best as “Outer Limits” episodes which is why two of the best were by him - “Soldier” and “Demon with a Glass Hand”.

I got to take part in his “Ten Nights down A Rabbit Hole” at UCLA. The final night we helped create Harlan’s World with him, Tom Disch, Robert Silverberg, Frank Herbert and I think Larry Niven. I still have the handout with all their signatures. He was a force of nature but, as you said, very hard to take in anything but small doses.

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nines09  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:51:13pm

I just read Micky was divorcing Minnie. Yeah.

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m0nkeyb0y  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:56:49pm

re: #66 Backwoods Sleuth

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Davis drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015, so about 8 years from Fuck Around to the Find Out.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:57:36pm

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:57:46pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:59:06pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅

America’s Test Kitchen Chips:
americastestkitchen.com
If you cannot sign in sign up for the 14 day free trial.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 3:59:13pm

Does “preserve, protect and defend” exclude “support”? It would seem redundant.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:00:56pm

re: #81 Backwoods Sleuth

That is very funny.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:00:59pm

re: #84 Vicious Babushka

Does “preserve, protect and defend” exclude “support”? It would seem redundant.

He gets a lot of advice from loony lawyers. It’s often worth less than he doesn’t pay for it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:02:02pm

Mastodon

that’s a lot of toe beans

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:02:36pm

re: #87 Backwoods Sleuth

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that’s a lot of toe beans

Oh my goodness, what massive paws on that polydactyl kitty.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:07:44pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:08:48pm

re: #82 Vicious Babushka

On ABC, the said that he’s arguing that the constitution doesn’t say anything about being prevented from running or being elected to an office, only being in office.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:10:36pm

re: #90 Belafon

On ABC, the said that he’s arguing that the constitution doesn’t say anything about being prevented from running or being elected to an office, only being in office.

Oh, that’s… actually a very diabolical play. Does anyone see what the angle is here? He’s saying, “Sure. Prevent me from taking office. That’s fine. But my Vice President would then become President, and he (or she) will pardon me and then I can take power.” I wonder which of his band of sleazy snakes thought of that one?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:12:46pm

oops

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:16:06pm

re: #91 Nerdy Fish

Oh, that’s… actually a very diabolical play. Does anyone see what the angle is here? He’s saying, “Sure. Prevent me from taking office. That’s fine. But my Vice President would then become President, and he (or she) will pardon me and then I can take power.” I wonder which of his band of sleazy snakes thought of that one?

If his VP took office, would a new VP be selected immediately? If so, it would take two fallen Presidents to shuffle Trump into the Presidency. If not, one, after Trump is pardoned and made VP the same day.

Who’s the Trump VP that comes to a bad end in this plan?

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:17:58pm

re: #90 Belafon

On ABC, the said that he’s arguing that the constitution doesn’t say anything about being prevented from running or being elected to an office, only being in office.

Yeah well, and if he gets elected (G-D FORBID!! חס ושלום!) there will be a tsunami of lawsuits claiming that because he was elected he is ENTITLED TO “BE” POTUS without taking an Oath.

You know that TFG sees the real work is “campaigning” (participating in the pageant & “acing” the talent and swimsuit competitions) and the prize is “Being Mister President” like Miss Universe.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:18:30pm

re: #87 Backwoods Sleuth

Murder mittens.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:20:03pm

Mastodon

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nines09  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:27:30pm

re: #92 Backwoods Sleuth

Perfect. Like the ancestor search tools that have you send your DNA……YOUR DNA…..to them. One got hacked.
One rule never changes.
You cannot stop theft. You can only slow it down.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:30:28pm

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:33:11pm

family update:

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:35:34pm

I read a comment from someone who misspelled “which” in a VR forum. Now I’m getting witch-related links in new tabs in Edge.

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Dangerman  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:39:09pm

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:41:29pm

re: #101 Dangerman

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I think we passed that milestone months ago.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:42:00pm

re: #99 Vicious Babushka

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Dangerman  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:43:35pm
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EstebanTornado1963  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:43:57pm

When are we gonna start using the guillotines on the billionaires?

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Jay C  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:52:10pm

re: #105 EstebanTornado1963

Wasn’t/isn’t Dean Phillips’ problem* that he decided to run for President basically as a last-minute whim, and (having seemingly ignored the basics of setting up a proper national campaign), missed the filing deadlines in several states? “Iranian tactics” notwithstanding….?

*one among many

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:55:11pm

re: #106 Jay C

He did, and then he decided to bitch about it being the fault of the Democratic Party for not setting up a proper primary challenge when President Biden, the de facto leader of said Party, has shown no reason not to be afforded the deference that is usually given to incumbent Presidents during the second term election cycle. Ever since then, it’s been straight downhill into conspiracy cuckoo land, and the Minnesota DFL is starting to organize against him here at home. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him running as a Republican in the fall.

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 2, 2024 • 4:56:10pm

re: #66 Backwoods Sleuth

Nelson - ha ha

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A Cranky One  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:05:47pm

The poor neighbors.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:07:59pm

re: #109 A Cranky One

…Daddy never sleeps at night…

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:08:26pm

re: #105 EstebanTornado1963

Well, much of the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives hatred of Iran is based on envy. How they wish they had that sort of power.

Their hatred of Marxism/Communism/Socialism has the same basis.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:16:57pm

Ron Johnsonwax reciting lies about sleeper cells.

‘Have to assume’: GOP senator again claims without proof Iranian ‘sleeper cells’ may be in US

Actually it’s Ron Johnsonwax whose a member of a sleeper cell committed to overthrowing the Constitution.

alternet.org

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Dangerman  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:26:39pm

re: #103 Backwoods Sleuth

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Ditto

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sizzzzlerz  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:29:00pm

re: #109 A Cranky One

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The poor neighbors.

Tink ya, tink ya. Dat vas de olde classic da Lady oof Spawn. A real mather-facker iff ya ahsk me.

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:38:03pm
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Vicious Babushka  Jan 2, 2024 • 5:43:19pm

re: #109 A Cranky One

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The poor neighbors.

And their parents thought they were sending them for piano lessons.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 3, 2024 • 5:40:55am

re: #79 nines09

I just read Micky was divorcing Minnie. Yeah.

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Yeah, that’s the old joke I remember.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 3, 2024 • 6:06:11am

re: #112 Joe Bacon ✅

Ron Johnsonwax reciting lies about sleeper cells.

‘Have to assume’: GOP senator again claims without proof Iranian ‘sleeper cells’ may be in US

Actually it’s Ron Johnsonwax whose a member of a sleeper cell committed to overthrowing the Constitution.

alternet.org

Russian sleeper cells ARE in the US.


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