Leave your badge with AI
By David Horsey
Seattle Times cartoonist
I went to a Fourth of July party where almost everyone was a millennial with a family, a nice house in Seattle and a good job. And pretty much everyone I talked with had an uneasy feeling that artificial intelligence could seriously undermine their happy lives.
This is the biggest political issue that no politician is talking about. While members of Congress yammer about restoring manufacturing jobs as if this were 1955, not 2025, white collar jobs are being taken over by AI at a rapidly increasing pace.
If elected officials are not talking about it, some business leaders are. In a recent interview cited in The Wall Street Journal, Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley said, “Artificial Intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S.”
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told employees that the corporate workforce will shrink in coming years because of AI technology. Already at Microsoft, the shift of focus to AI appears to be leading to layoffs.
News reports indicate entry-level positions at many tech companies are being taken over by AI, leaving out in the cold many new college graduates who have dutifully followed the STEM track they were told would lead to great jobs.
AI boosters insist this is just like past technological changes that eliminated old jobs but created new ones, but AI is a very different phenomenon and none of the Pollyannas can actually name what those new jobs might be. Besides, AI is not eliminating old jobs, it is taking them.
The one thing that is certain is that AI will create vast fortunes for companies that no longer need to hire humans. The political question is whether all that wealth will go to a lucky few billionaires or be seen as a societal benefit to be shared by all citizens in the way that Alaska has shared revenue from the state’s oil bonanza with every state resident.
A lot of politicians will scream “socialism” at the idea of sharing the wealth, but how else are they going to deal with millions of highly educated people who can no longer find work?
The one thing that is certain is that AI will create vast fortunes for companies that no longer need to hire humans.
Capitalists’ dreams of an entirely enslaved workforce will finally be achieved.
TikTok is reportedly building a new version of the app just for the United States that could launch as soon as September 5
the existing TikTok app will be removed from US app stores on the same day the new US app launches, although Americans may be able to continue using the current app until March of next year. (People familiar with the planning told The Information that timelines could still change.)
by cutting the US app off from ByteDance, “U.S. TikTok would become an uncompetitive American ‘island’ isolated from the platform’s non-U.S. users and global content.” The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the constitutionality of the sale-or-ban law.
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*Allegedly, the buy will be Oracle. The US will be a stand-alone platform (for surveillance and propaganda, I suspect), but if any TikTok accounts of US users aren’t moved to the US version, that TikTok data can not be accessed.
Screw TFG and his N@zis! Let Oracle suffer by being a party to the fascist regime. Do not transfer your account, if you have one. You won’t be able to access the old one, so delete, delete and shut it down.
We’re back!!! Please bookmark this page for updates when we break down (no YouTube sign-in required to read, just to comment):
Job seekers across the country are starting to encounter faceless voices and avatars backed by A.I. in their interviews. These autonomous interviewers are part of a wave of artificial intelligence known as “agentic A.I.,” where A.I. agents are directed to act on their own to generate real-time conversations and build on responses.
Some aspects of job searches — such as screening résumés and scheduling meetings — have become increasingly automated over time, but the interview had long seemed to be the part of the process that most needed a human touch. Now A.I. is encroaching upon even that domain, making the often frustrating and ego-busting task of finding a job even more impersonal.
Talking to A.I. interviewers has “felt very dehumanizing,” said Charles Whitley, 22, a recent computer science and mathematics graduate from Santa Clara University who has had two such conversations in the past seven months.
On the back-end too. What Aye-Eye says about herself:
While the thought of AI making termination decisions may seem futuristic, reports indicate that it’s increasingly becoming a reality in the workplace. AI is being used in various aspects of workforce management, including hiring, performance evaluation, and even layoff decisions.
The use of AI in workforce management, including termination decisions, is a complex issue with both potential benefits and significant risks. While AI can offer advantages in terms of efficiency and objectivity, it’s crucial to address the ethical, legal, and human considerations to ensure its responsible and fair implementation. Striking a balance between technological advancement and human-centered decision-making is essential as AI continues to reshape the workplace, according to Aura Intelligence.
Mystery Solved❗️
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday he believes a client list associated with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once existed but was “destroyed” by the Biden administration.
“I think the files existed at one time,” Burchett said in an interview on NewsNation’s “On Balance” with host Leland Vittert. “I think they were destroyed in the previous administration.”
Ivy – a true test of “is she/he in a cult” is can they hold multiple incorrect, illogical and completely BS thoughts at once. In the wondrous case of Burchett we start with known list from various legal sources during several years prior to January 2025. We move to 2025 and one of the mangomoron’s people states the Epstein list is on her desk, stated to media and confirmed as recorded. Time stumbles on. We are told that the list never existed. That is exciting. We now have cult member Burchett stating that the list existed until President Biden, for reasons unknown, had it destroyed. Only in krasnov world, Soviet Union, North Korea and other dictatorships can things like this happen.
it’s funny how all the perceived backwards parts of the country elect representatives that embody the stereotype
that is to say, not surprised Tennessee elected a moron
Georgia’s Greene is another example
Tuberville is like a caricature of an ignorant racist Alabaman
Maybe i’ll run on an “i hate you all” platform!
BTW, thread title “AÏE!” inspiration: Aïe is a French word that is commonly used to express pain or discomfort. It is an interjection often used when someone experiences a sudden physical or emotional hurt.
When encountering situations that cause distress or pain, the word “aïe” is a natural response to express that feeling. -https://whatinenglish.com/aie
what’s with the umlaut?
I got sucked in by prime day hype and I’m a human being, I like things, so I looked at the Prime day “deals”
All garbage, and I swear I researched everything I wanted and found it cheaper elsewhere
Such a scam society
“Amazon’s pick” = proprietary Chinese-made garbage you can’t compare with other products
Oh, so many Amazon products are “Piece of Plastic- now only $30”
“Two Pieces of Plastic Welded Together- members only deal $50”
Ok, have a good Friday i guess?
Slava Ukraine
We now have cult member Burchett stating that the list existed until President Biden, for reasons unknown, had it destroyed.
BB, it’s obvious Joe wanted to protect Dodo whose name was all over the files.
what’s with the umlaut?
AI to the rescue:
While French uses a diacritic called the tréma (¨), which looks like the German umlaut, it functions differently. The tréma indicates that two vowels appearing next to each other should be pronounced separately, rather than forming a single sound (like a diphthong). It’s not used to indicate a historical sound shift like the German umlaut.
Elaboration:
The Tréma (¨):
This diacritic appears as two dots over a vowel (ë, ï, ü).
Function:
The tréma’s primary role is to separate vowel sounds. For instance, in the word “Noël” (Christmas), the tréma over the ‘ë’ indicates that the “e” should be pronounced separately from the “o,” resulting in a two-syllable pronunciation (“no-el”) rather than a single syllable (“nole”).
Learn something new every day and I studied French for five years, 6 if I count my after-school class in third grade.
anon – Bezos lost me a couple years ago. The only reason I keep the jungle site prime is for same day or next day deliveries. Most of the Chinese garbage is garbage, I can buy the same or better on Chinese sites for better prices, except for the krasnov taxes.
We long resisted signing up for a Prime account (along with Facebook-resistance) until along came the highly-hyped last season of Man in the High Castle and felt an urgent need to find out what that was all about.
This is how dictators get started: test the limits on folks nobody wants to defend.
Disturbing images of this attack by secret police on my local 10 pm broadcast kept me up last night.
Suggested contacts to pass along this fascist garbage: United Nations, NATO, FIFA, International Olympic Committee, International Criminal Court.
I let both Republican Senators have it yesterday, and hoped their complicity and direct aid in this violent regime’s actions would get them on the docket at the International Criminal Court. (I have no experience with alligators yet, but I’m not a fan of mosquitoes.)
If the next step is to send political dissidents back to their homelands, will NATO nations take us in? I had ancestors who crossed the Canadian border for a bit, a couple hundred years ago, then dipped back to NY. Danish is a difficult language, but my hometown was all Danish immigrants, so I know how to be early for everything, etc. UK would be easier, language-wise.
Resistance gets started when citizens see atrocities committed by their government.
you tube is obscuring you again, Craig. Trying to get back to this was a challenge.
So, I posted the following on the emergency site on You Tube this morning:
Well, we do what we can, don’t we? Carrying on, in TDF news, Tadej Pogacar wins today’s stage and wrests the yellow jersey back from Van Der Poel, who dropped 1’20” to Pogacar on the final climb of the stage. Tadej now holds a 54″ lead over Remco Evenepoel Nice work, Tadaj.
Tadej’s name is going to figure prominently in the Tour de France record books before his career takes the turn that age forces on elite cyclists. This year’s oldest rider is Geraint Thomas, a 39 year old Welshman in his 14th Tour. He won it in 2018.
All for the show in Texas. We know they don’t really care, do u❓
Texans will have to come to their own reconciliation as to how they feel their leadership and their religious convictions served them during their greatest tragedy.
She looks very chic. That’s what’s most important.
I found out that in the Pacific, Polynesia, etc, all vowels are pronounced separately. So the island of Niafo’ou is pronounced
Knee-ah-fo-oh-ooo
Papeete – Pah-pe-eh-te, etc
Niuafoʻou (meaning ‘many new coconuts’) is the northernmost island in the kingdom of Tonga. One of the Niua Islands, it is located in the southern Pacific Ocean between Fiji and Samoa, 574 km (357 mi) north of Tongatapu island group and 337 km (209 mi) northwest of Vavaʻu. It is a volcanic rim island with an area of 15 km2 (5.8 sq mi) and a population of 431 (as of 2021).[1] The volcano is active and has erupted regularly since 1814, with its last major eruption in 1985.
I have a Prime account for the free shipping. We buy office supplies from Amazon – We beat Walmart prices on shit we can’t get at Sam’s and seldom find lower prices elsewhere (and I wear Google out trying). As for other stuff, mixed bag.
Ivy, thanks for explaining the tréma (¨). It was a bear to find, copy and paste for the title.
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo, several sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
This comes after a heated confrontation with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the case earlier this week.
*I had zero idea that SFB was running on the premise he would release the Epstein files. Since he was a known acquaintance, and based on his creepy statements about girls even before the flight logs were released, I figured he was involved. I thought he was running on egg prices and immigration and Biden, Biden, Biden, 2020, etc. Never in the ramblings did I realize Epstein had entered the weave.
Do I believe Bing-Bong? No. This is an attempt to begin to diffuse things.
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale. Date: July 8-11, 2025
Location: Bookshop.org
Enjoy free shipping and the knowledge that your money will go toward supporting independent bookstores, not billionaires
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*I realize y’all may be looking for more than books, but here’s an alternative to making Latex Luthor more moola for him and his bass-mouthed, filler-faced greedbot.
Or, utilize the libraries while we still have them. Maybe call your Congress members and tell them no on the rescission bill for many reasons, museums and libraries amongst them.
Remind representatives that the Government Appropriations Office, a nonpartisan watchdog group, has already determined that the administration overstepped legal boundaries by gutting the IMLS; there are two ongoing lawsuits against the dismantling of the agency.
Also essential in your communication is the need for reauthorization of the Museum and Library Services Act of 2018, by September 30, 2025.
The 6-year authorization cycle ends at the end of this fiscal year. Only Congress can reauthorize this Act, and if they don’t, the IMLS will no longer be active, regardless of happens with the budget.
I worry not only about what library closures will mean for access to books and media, but they are also used as cooling stations in summer, and a place to keep warm in winter, not only to keep your utility bills lower, but a lifeline for unhoused people.
We were never really great.
‘many new coconuts’
How many❓
Pat: 👍
considering resigning
What exactly are these considerations? How much time is needed to consider? Why wait?
…Tom Homan just enthusiastically confirmed what we already knew: ICE is using indiscriminate racial profiling tactics to detain immigrants.
“People need to understand, ICE officers and border patrol, they don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain ‘em and question ‘em,” Homan said when asked about a Los Angeles federal judge issuing a temporary restraining order on his west coast immigration crackdown. “Get our typical facts based on the location, the occupation, their physical appearance, their actions … agents are trained what they need to detain somebody temporarily and question them is not probable cause, it’s reasonable suspicion. We’re trained on that. Every agent gets 4th amendment training over and over again.”
What does the federal government think an immigrant looks like? Homan is essentially saying that ICE has the right to kidnap and question any Latino person they happen upon.
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*Tommy Mushmouth sounds like a proud boy.
The term “proud cut” refers to a gelded horse that still exhibits unruly, stallion-like behaviors due to incomplete castration. -ai
From this, the “proud boys” were named, because they didn’t realize the part about being partially castrated, just the unruly stallion part.
Putin won a Nobel Prize but not the Nobel Prize. He’s not going to let Dodo get one if he can help it.
Ludvig Nobel, who lived mainly in St Petersburg and became a Russian citizen, was older brother of Alfred Nobel — founder of the Nobel Prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine and literature in Stockholm and the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken. How you gonna appeal to the ‘vangelicals if you’re wife’s divorcing you on adultery (OK, the ‘vangelicals don’t care about that one in their ‘lected officials) and Biblical grounds (Whatever the hell that is)? WaPo
The wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed for divorce Thursday, a move likely to reverberate in his campaign to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the most closely watched Senate primaries in the country.
Paxton’s wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, wrote Thursday on X she filed for divorce “on biblical grounds” after 38 years of marriage. She cited unspecified “recent discoveries,” though she said in her divorce filing Ken Paxton had committed adultery and they had not lived together for over a year.
Ken Paxton, a vocal ally of President Donald Trump, struck a different tone in a post of his own, writing, “After facing the pressures of countless political attacks and public scrutiny, Angela and I have decided to start a new chapter in our lives.”
Something tells me Ken’s wife better stay away from trailer parks and gatherings of racist rednecks if possible.
…had zero idea that SFB was running on the premise he would release the Epstein files.
Me neither, BID, but then I must confess to putting his campaign rhetoric on mute. Craig, were the Epstein-files something Dodo ranted about? My only exposure was visiting my red-Alabama hair salon, and week after week being forced to overhear stylists and customers going all Q-Anony about Epstein and pedophiles. It was a big deal to them at that time.
Bid, as to the proud boys being proud cut? We can always wish. Anything to improve the gene pool.
Amazon, if you know what you are buying then it still works but enshitification has definitely set in, like google and you tube, they aren’t as good as they used to be.
BTW, for those who don’t know, enshittification is a term coined by SF writer Cory Doctorow.
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
Jack
Dumbass was berating a reporter yesterday.
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” he asked. “This guy’s been talked about for years. … Are you still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable.”
I thought the pics of Donnie and Mel with Jeffrey and Ghislaine were precious.
Dershowitz says he knows Epstein client list names: ‘But I’m bound by confidentiality’
“I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them,” Dershowitz said during an appearance on “The Sean Spicer Show” that was originally broadcast on March 19 and was reposted on social media on Thursday.
Attacking the Messenger, clear as a bell. Can’t someone call him out on that to his face? He seems ripe for the picking for reverse-labelling.
Trump Lashes Out at ‘Evil Person’ Who Asked About Flood Victims Upset Over Late Warnings
I, also use ebay, and mostly have been very happy with it.
Amazon on the other hand make me glad returns are simple and easy. Because I’ve ended up doing over 10% return, maybe more. Not counting the door tray on my refrigerator , where it took 3 trys to get it to me unbroken.
Once upon a time, Amazon presented itself as a better alternative but that time has long passed.
President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter Friday who asked what he would say to families concerned that flood alerts did not go out in time.
“Only a bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you,” Trump said.
On Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) called a special legislative session in part to look at overhauling the state’s flood warning and emergency communication systems. Later, both he and Trump acknowledged the need to improve systems.
“We’re going to work on every single solution to make sure things like this don’t happen again,” Abbott said.
There are 7 Wikipedia pages on Central Texas Floods. The last one listed is “Flash Flood Alley.” It lists 14 years that had major floods. The last three were during his occupancy of the Governor’s mansion, with 2 this year. All 4 were “100 year floods.” Call me Skeptigeaux.
Dershowitz is seeking relevance, or even a couple of cash paying clients. At this point I doubt if he is picky.
Jack
Pogo
different folks have different definitions of evil. For his orangeness I suspect it is asking questions he either can’t or doesn’t want to answer. Also anything that requires an understanding of empathy.
Texas state officials repeatedly rejected requests from Kerry County to pay for such a warning system, estimated to cost about $1 million, and turned away the county’s applications at least three times between 2017 and 2024 for various reasons, the New York Times reported.
Local officials also failed to act when they were given $10 million under the pandemic-era American Rescue Plan Act money in 2021 and, instead of using it on storm-related infrastructure as the grant encouraged, allocated it to other public safety projects, county employee raises and a new walking path, according to the Texas Tribune.
Kerr County’s own voters are getting blamed, as well, by local officials who say there was little public support for a system: “Generally everybody’s for doing something until it gets down to the details of paying for it,” Harvey Hilderbran, the former state representative from Kerr County, told the Tribune.
Trump’s FEMA also blamed: Sources inside FEMA told CNN and the New York Times that new policies put in place by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delayed the deployment of search and rescue crews by 72 hours, delayed a request from the state for aerial imagery and have led to longer wait times at a federally staffed disaster call center.
Some former NWS officials told the Times that while the warnings may have been up to par, cuts to the NWS and early retirement incentives doled out under President Donald Trump led to staffing shortages in the central Texas office that may have impacted the NWS’ ability to communicate with local authorities in the hours after the warnings were issued.
Amid the Dan Bongino resignation saga, a report stated that FBI chief Kash Patel has told his close circle that he could also leave the Trump administration
“Source close to DOJ says Kash Patel also wants Pam Bondi gone, and that he’d consider leaving if Bongino leaves. Also, that there are more frustrations with other documents Bondi hasn’t released,” Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Wire posted on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.
*It sounds like Pam’s days are numbered.
Kash must have cash invested in that story.
The brain always registers trauma in real time. Dodo can’t talk himself out of this one.
I’ve told this story before, probably here too many times.
Mrs Jack worked on a bid proposal to up grade the San Antonio water/sewage/storm drainage system. A major part was innovative water conservation, but as much as they had to plan for dry weather, they also had to build in the ability to handle the occasional catastrophic floods. In Texas, they know this shit is going to happen. They just don’t give a fuck until it is their kid’s school bus sweep away. Then 2 years down the road when it means making the effort to make it better, again they are back to their default they just don’t give a fuck.
IMO, the Blue states should support closing FEMA down, They aren’t the ones that need FEMA.
Jack
Not sure how getting rid of Bondi fixes anything for SFB.
How do you have wealth without consumers of some sort? The end of work is already the AI threat. Do you have corporations paying a universal wage that can be taxed so that governments can buy? Pretty nonsensical. That is when the current 4 billion human excess drops to 8 billion excess people, or Elon better figure out a way to get us all out of town to Mars.
My reason for Facebook: learning the author of Charlotte’s Web is also co-author of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style.
Happy Birthday, E.B. White.
🕷🕸️Happy birthday to E.B. White, born on this day in 1899! Elwyn Brooks White grew up to be the famed author of “Charlotte’s Web,” a timeless story about a pig named Wilbur who befriends a spider named Charlotte, which has charmed children and adults alike since it was first published in 1952. While writing the book, White relied for his research on arachnologist Willis J. Gertsch, a curator at the Museum, even meeting with Gertsch in person with a list of questions in hand. The results are readily apparent in certain details—Charlotte is sedentary, near-sighted, stuns her prey, works at night—all based on spider behavior. White even acknowledged Gertsch’s help in naming his title character—Charlotte A. Cavatica—after a common orb weaver, Araneus cavaticus.
Photo: White Literary LLC, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Just went out to the garden, life is good. First one of the year.
My favorite edition.
Why I majored in English: grammar is hilarious.
I do have Amazon Prime, mainly for kindle and streaming TV. For real books, it’s Powells in Oregon. The local libraries get ones I’m not keeping. Use EBay for art and good used merchandise. I did pick up a new microwave during prime days. With free shpping it was cheapest.
On leaving the US Scotland would be the easiest to make happen, but there is no way to afford it.
thats one way to freeze it!
Jamie, Love Powell’s❗️Have spent days there during my daughter’s Portland era.
Ivy,
That missing comma is hilarious right up there with the murderous panda’s diet of eats shoots and leaves.
Jack, ‘mater sammiches must be eaten over the sink.
Maira Kalman illustrated a Strunk & White? Must check it out!
Tomatoes are coming out of my ears, but not a single cuke nor zucchini yet.
Do they just blame the edited, jailhouse video & missing files on Pam & MAGAts just transfer all anger to her?
Jack – California wildfires? Minnesota tornadoes & floods? Blue states have emergencies, too, but California could self-fund instead of paying into the fed.
ICE raids are now happening in suburban Utah. Pushing to see what can be normalized. None of it is normal.
GOOD TROUBLE protests on July 17th, for those that live near more people than goats and cattle.
Yes, Jaime, this is end-stage capitalism, and it will cannibalize itself once it’s done with us. A standard, living wage that allowed folks to have basic housing, food, healthcare and education education isn’t on the menu. We are. But, one who dies with the biggest pile of money wins, right? Like Joni Ernst said, “We are all going to die.” Even the trillionaires.
are your cucumbers and zucchini getting pollinated? Put a pot of flowers next to them. Bees and other pollinators travel along flowers like people walk along paths so you want to make a path of flowers for them
it is tomato sandwich season here 😊
okra has been pickled with peppers 👍
Ivy – They have it at bookshop.org & free shipping to compete with Prime Days. Thanks!
Moles, groundhogs or gophers got most of the cuke plants day before yesterday. Dirt everywhere. I still have one cuke plant meandering through the tomatoes; that area of the garden is surrounded by garlic.
Did you not formally admonish them? A stern talking-to more effective than garlic, especially since garlic is delicious
if you like it, they like it
this is why people use raised beds
you could also learn to love the wildlife- one cucumber plant wasn’t going to save the world anyway, plant quadruple next year
We have an Amazon Prime account because it’s easier to order some things than driving miles to get it and finding out the store is out of that item.
anond… we’ve used raised beds for our garden for years… we love them.
meme#2…
They have it at bookshop.org & free shipping to compete with Prime Days.
You’ll love the art, BID.
One possible consequence I like of CHARLOTTE’S WEB is maybe more kids would be respectful and not destroy the large webs of the garden spider.
I wonder if that was one Mr White’s goals. It certainly could have been.
I witnessed one of my youngest relatives go after a daddy longlegs at my 4th of July party. I cheered quietly when he got away.* 🕸️🕷️
* This sentence needs some Strunk & White but I will let it go for now.
They want protesters. They want chaos. Here’s why.
Strongmen feed on unrest. More faces = more targets.
This green screen picks up where this morning’s Plain Thoughts left off.
Along with every other idiotic thing about sfb, those stupid, and rather oversized hats, are stupid too. But, it could be the hat is not the object we think it is. I suspect the huge hat covers a helmet. No Iran drone dropping a handgrenade on that bald dome. It has to pop through some steel first. Ah the stupid, it hurts.
They need a spectacle for the Fox feed.
Last night’s footage was a spectacle. Evidence it could backfire on them.
I’ve been using Sam’s club delivery for a while. I’m a plus member with a plus credit card and with points the extra cost of a plus membership disappears. With a $50 purchase delivery is free. If I stay out of the store I save money as I only buy what I need and am not tempted by the other stuff.
My sister signed up for the Walmart version and they deliver out to the little town she lives in, 25 miles away. It has been helpful as she deals with cancer.
Jack
Obama & Biden, while not always doing it the right way, weren’t doing it for the cruel spectacle of it.
As Tom Mushmouth Homan admitted, they are profiling people. If you are brown, you are a target.
Bounty hunters get paid by the “piece,” and without due process in play, they can make small fortune living out their cruel fantasy.
On top of that, what a waste of tax dollars to try to both intimidate and to normalize cruelty.
Red meat for the savages aka Christo-fascists.
Are NATO countries going to offer to take dissidents?
Renee made a good point about making trips to the store to find they don’t have your item. Often now they no longer even stock it, so Amazon is your only choice.
the cruel spectacle of it
Modern version of the Colosseum.
when they do a raid, they detain everybody there and “detain” means handcuffs
so why would I go to Home Depot now?
This economy is going to thrive how?
best wishes to Clan Whsky
❤️
BB – Very cute. I really think these are moles, but it’s a lot of dirt; more than last year. But, there was an old pile of logs behind the kennel that got moved and burned last week. They were probably under there. Moles eat bugs and I haven’t seen bites out of anything, just digging and uprooting plants.
A raccoon took down the bird feeder last week and picked the best heirloom tomato, carried it away, took a few bites and dropped it.
The water bill has almost doubled. I’d say it’s cheaper to buy produce, but is anyone else noticing bare spots in the produce section? No sweet corn today, only a few watermelons. Not normal.
you have muni water in the boonies?
It’s kind of a lie that gardening saves you money unless you’re really good at it and a very hard worker
you have to make your own compost- that’s hard work
You have to be diligent about recycling containers because you can’t buy them
You have to grow from seed
you can buy wood for raised beds or you can harvest it
Harvesting wood is so much work
I think I’m going to do wicker raised beds next year- so you pound stakes every 6 inches that you made from fallen tree branches and then you weave in the thinner sticks that you prune from the larger sticks with your secateurs, it’s the ancient way (“the ancient way” = a lot of work)
found my idol’s first shows from 30 years ago:
lol good tips 30 sec in
lol he had wicker beds 30 years ago, i swear i didn’t know! (he took them out)
ok that’s everything you need to know about tomatoes in 30 mins, search the title for other episodes on different crops
i’m binging all 6 before they get taken down, most educational 3 hours on youtube
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC show the geodesic dome visible at the Al Udeid Air Base on the morning of June 23, just hours before the attack.
The U.S. Air Force’s 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, which operates out of the base, announced in 2016 the installation of the $15 million piece of equipment, known as a modernized enterprise terminal. Photos show a satellite dish inside of the dome, known as a radome.
Images taken June 25 and every day subsequently show the dome is gone, with some damage visible on a nearby building. The rest of the base appears largely untouched in the images.
In the U.S., Trump described the Iranian attack as a “very weak response.” He had said that Tehran fired 14 missiles, with 13 intercepted and one being “set free” as it was going in a “nonthreatening” direction.
Potentially signaling that he knew the dome had been hit, an adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei separately said that the base’s communications had been disconnected by the attack.
“All equipment of the base was completely destroyed and now the U.S. command stream and connection from Al Udeid base to its other military bases have been completely cut,” said Ahmad Alamolhoda, a hard-line cleric.
*Oh, gee. Another lie.
My grandmother was a great gardener. She’s the reason we didn’t starve. She would make breakfast, work in the garden for three hours or so, make lunch, go to work at a restaurant from 2pm until close, then get up and do it, again. She canned fruits and vegetables, and made six kinds of pickles to store in the root cellar. (Dill, sweet, beet, watermelon, bread & butter, and cinnamon pickles made from cukes not apples. Also, picklelillie relish.)
Having spent so long in North Texas, I’m not used to Midwestern humidity anymore. I grew my tomatoes and everything else from seed. I only bought a lavender plant which died, as I knew it would.
After the devastating and deadly flooding in Kerr County, Texas, Republican Governor Greg Abbott announced a special session that will include redistricting
Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom responded by writing on social media: “Texas is using a special session about emergency disaster aid to redistrict their state and cheat their way into more Congressional seats. These guys have no shame. CA is watching — and you can bet we won’t stand idly by.”
As seen below, Newsom said of Abbott and his administration: “These guys are playing by a totally different set of rules. And here I am in California, trying to raise the bar of — sort of bipartisanship. Years and years ago we did independent redistricting, in a state that, I assure you with two-thirds majorities in the legislature, could gerrymander like no other state, and we’ve been playing fair, but I saw what he [Abbott] just did today, made me question that entire program.”
Newsom, one of Trump’s most prominent critics, paid a two-day visit to South Carolina—a state that will be critical for Democrats seeking the presidential nomination in 2028. During his visit on Wednesday, he trolled two South Carolina Republicans who are staunch supporters of Trump.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), an outspoken loyalist of Trump, challenged Newsom to a debate during his visit in her home state. Newsom fired back on social media platform X by sharing an article from The Daily Beast headlined, “Nancy Mace Accused of Making Staff Use Burner Accounts to Hype Her Up.”
“This you or one of your burner accounts? I honestly can’t tell these days,” Newsom wrote in response to Mace.
Newsom also trolled U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) during his visit to the Palmetto State.
“Happy Birthday, @LindseyGrahamSC! Great to be in a packed room in your hometown this morning!” Newsom wrote on X.
In May, a pair of governors — Minnesota’s Tim Walz and Maryland’s Wes Moore — headlined a weekend of events hosted by South Carolina Democrats, introducing themselves and testing their possible candidacy arguments in front of the party faithful.
A recent Emerson College poll found that he had 12% of support among Democrats, trailing former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
*POTUS Pete has a nice ring to it, but the bigotry in this country makes me think he will end up being someone’s Secretary of State or Defense. I’m on Team Pete. Wes Moore is truly impressive, but racism. I love Coach Walz. JB Pritzker would be great, but he’s a billionaire. Gavin makes a great surrogate; he’s hungry for the presidency, and I think it’s more personal ambition than a desire to serve.
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Was HAL the ultimate AI master or companion?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/tech/tiktok-new-app-us-sale
TikTok is reportedly building a new version of the app just for the United States that could launch as soon as September 5
the existing TikTok app will be removed from US app stores on the same day the new US app launches, although Americans may be able to continue using the current app until March of next year. (People familiar with the planning told The Information that timelines could still change.)
by cutting the US app off from ByteDance, “U.S. TikTok would become an uncompetitive American ‘island’ isolated from the platform’s non-U.S. users and global content.” The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the constitutionality of the sale-or-ban law.
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*Allegedly, the buy will be Oracle. The US will be a stand-alone platform (for surveillance and propaganda, I suspect), but if any TikTok accounts of US users aren’t moved to the US version, that TikTok data can not be accessed.
Screw TFG and his N@zis! Let Oracle suffer by being a party to the fascist regime. Do not transfer your account, if you have one. You won’t be able to access the old one, so delete, delete and shut it down.
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On the back-end too. What Aye-Eye says about herself:
Mystery Solved❗️
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5393787-tim-burchett-jeffrey-epstein-files-client-list/
today’s meme…
lol RR, “original intent”
Ivy – a true test of “is she/he in a cult” is can they hold multiple incorrect, illogical and completely BS thoughts at once. In the wondrous case of Burchett we start with known list from various legal sources during several years prior to January 2025. We move to 2025 and one of the mangomoron’s people states the Epstein list is on her desk, stated to media and confirmed as recorded. Time stumbles on. We are told that the list never existed. That is exciting. We now have cult member Burchett stating that the list existed until President Biden, for reasons unknown, had it destroyed. Only in krasnov world, Soviet Union, North Korea and other dictatorships can things like this happen.
it’s funny how all the perceived backwards parts of the country elect representatives that embody the stereotype
that is to say, not surprised Tennessee elected a moron
Georgia’s Greene is another example
Tuberville is like a caricature of an ignorant racist Alabaman
Maybe i’ll run on an “i hate you all” platform!
BTW, thread title “AÏE!” inspiration:
Aïe is a French word that is commonly used to express pain or discomfort. It is an interjection often used when someone experiences a sudden physical or emotional hurt.
When encountering situations that cause distress or pain, the word “aïe” is a natural response to express that feeling. -https://whatinenglish.com/aie
what’s with the umlaut?
I got sucked in by prime day hype and I’m a human being, I like things, so I looked at the Prime day “deals”
All garbage, and I swear I researched everything I wanted and found it cheaper elsewhere
Such a scam society
“Amazon’s pick” = proprietary Chinese-made garbage you can’t compare with other products
Oh, so many Amazon products are “Piece of Plastic- now only $30”
“Two Pieces of Plastic Welded Together- members only deal $50”
Ok, have a good Friday i guess?
Slava Ukraine
BB, it’s obvious Joe wanted to protect Dodo whose name was all over the files.
AI to the rescue:
Learn something new every day and I studied French for five years, 6 if I count my after-school class in third grade.
anon – Bezos lost me a couple years ago. The only reason I keep the jungle site prime is for same day or next day deliveries. Most of the Chinese garbage is garbage, I can buy the same or better on Chinese sites for better prices, except for the krasnov taxes.
We long resisted signing up for a Prime account (along with Facebook-resistance) until along came the highly-hyped last season of Man in the High Castle and felt an urgent need to find out what that was all about.
This is how dictators get started: test the limits on folks nobody wants to defend.
Disturbing images of this attack by secret police on my local 10 pm broadcast kept me up last night.
Suggested contacts to pass along this fascist garbage: United Nations, NATO, FIFA, International Olympic Committee, International Criminal Court.
I let both Republican Senators have it yesterday, and hoped their complicity and direct aid in this violent regime’s actions would get them on the docket at the International Criminal Court. (I have no experience with alligators yet, but I’m not a fan of mosquitoes.)
If the next step is to send political dissidents back to their homelands, will NATO nations take us in? I had ancestors who crossed the Canadian border for a bit, a couple hundred years ago, then dipped back to NY. Danish is a difficult language, but my hometown was all Danish immigrants, so I know how to be early for everything, etc. UK would be easier, language-wise.
Resistance gets started when citizens see atrocities committed by their government.
you tube is obscuring you again, Craig. Trying to get back to this was a challenge.
So, I posted the following on the emergency site on You Tube this morning:
Tadej’s name is going to figure prominently in the Tour de France record books before his career takes the turn that age forces on elite cyclists. This year’s oldest rider is Geraint Thomas, a 39 year old Welshman in his 14th Tour. He won it in 2018.
All for the show in Texas. We know they don’t really care, do u❓
Texans will have to come to their own reconciliation as to how they feel their leadership and their religious convictions served them during their greatest tragedy.
She looks very chic. That’s what’s most important.
I found out that in the Pacific, Polynesia, etc, all vowels are pronounced separately. So the island of Niafo’ou is pronounced
Knee-ah-fo-oh-ooo
Papeete – Pah-pe-eh-te, etc
Niuafoʻou (meaning ‘many new coconuts’) is the northernmost island in the kingdom of Tonga. One of the Niua Islands, it is located in the southern Pacific Ocean between Fiji and Samoa, 574 km (357 mi) north of Tongatapu island group and 337 km (209 mi) northwest of Vavaʻu. It is a volcanic rim island with an area of 15 km2 (5.8 sq mi) and a population of 431 (as of 2021).[1] The volcano is active and has erupted regularly since 1814, with its last major eruption in 1985.
I have a Prime account for the free shipping. We buy office supplies from Amazon – We beat Walmart prices on shit we can’t get at Sam’s and seldom find lower prices elsewhere (and I wear Google out trying). As for other stuff, mixed bag.
Ivy, thanks for explaining the tréma (¨). It was a bear to find, copy and paste for the title.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/bongino-consider-resigning-epstein-files
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo, several sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
This comes after a heated confrontation with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the case earlier this week.
*I had zero idea that SFB was running on the premise he would release the Epstein files. Since he was a known acquaintance, and based on his creepy statements about girls even before the flight logs were released, I figured he was involved. I thought he was running on egg prices and immigration and Biden, Biden, Biden, 2020, etc. Never in the ramblings did I realize Epstein had entered the weave.
Do I believe Bing-Bong? No. This is an attempt to begin to diffuse things.
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale. Date: July 8-11, 2025
Location: Bookshop.org
Enjoy free shipping and the knowledge that your money will go toward supporting independent bookstores, not billionaires
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*I realize y’all may be looking for more than books, but here’s an alternative to making Latex Luthor more moola for him and his bass-mouthed, filler-faced greedbot.
Or, utilize the libraries while we still have them. Maybe call your Congress members and tell them no on the rescission bill for many reasons, museums and libraries amongst them.
Remind representatives that the Government Appropriations Office, a nonpartisan watchdog group, has already determined that the administration overstepped legal boundaries by gutting the IMLS; there are two ongoing lawsuits against the dismantling of the agency.
Also essential in your communication is the need for reauthorization of the Museum and Library Services Act of 2018, by September 30, 2025.
The 6-year authorization cycle ends at the end of this fiscal year. Only Congress can reauthorize this Act, and if they don’t, the IMLS will no longer be active, regardless of happens with the budget.
I worry not only about what library closures will mean for access to books and media, but they are also used as cooling stations in summer, and a place to keep warm in winter, not only to keep your utility bills lower, but a lifeline for unhoused people.
We were never really great.
How many❓
Pat: 👍
What exactly are these considerations? How much time is needed to consider? Why wait?
https://newrepublic.com/post/197869/trump-immigration-czar-racial-profiling-ice-detentions
…Tom Homan just enthusiastically confirmed what we already knew: ICE is using indiscriminate racial profiling tactics to detain immigrants.
“People need to understand, ICE officers and border patrol, they don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain ‘em and question ‘em,” Homan said when asked about a Los Angeles federal judge issuing a temporary restraining order on his west coast immigration crackdown. “Get our typical facts based on the location, the occupation, their physical appearance, their actions … agents are trained what they need to detain somebody temporarily and question them is not probable cause, it’s reasonable suspicion. We’re trained on that. Every agent gets 4th amendment training over and over again.”
What does the federal government think an immigrant looks like? Homan is essentially saying that ICE has the right to kidnap and question any Latino person they happen upon.
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*Tommy Mushmouth sounds like a proud boy.
The term “proud cut” refers to a gelded horse that still exhibits unruly, stallion-like behaviors due to incomplete castration. -ai
From this, the “proud boys” were named, because they didn’t realize the part about being partially castrated, just the unruly stallion part.
Putin won a Nobel Prize but not the Nobel Prize. He’s not going to let Dodo get one if he can help it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/vladimir-putin-wins-the-other-nobel-prize-idUSL10841298/
Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken. How you gonna appeal to the ‘vangelicals if you’re wife’s divorcing you on adultery (OK, the ‘vangelicals don’t care about that one in their ‘lected officials) and Biblical grounds (Whatever the hell that is)? WaPo
Something tells me Ken’s wife better stay away from trailer parks and gatherings of racist rednecks if possible.
Me neither, BID, but then I must confess to putting his campaign rhetoric on mute. Craig, were the Epstein-files something Dodo ranted about? My only exposure was visiting my red-Alabama hair salon, and week after week being forced to overhear stylists and customers going all Q-Anony about Epstein and pedophiles. It was a big deal to them at that time.
Bid, as to the proud boys being proud cut? We can always wish. Anything to improve the gene pool.
Amazon, if you know what you are buying then it still works but enshitification has definitely set in, like google and you tube, they aren’t as good as they used to be.
BTW, for those who don’t know, enshittification is a term coined by SF writer Cory Doctorow.
Jack
Dumbass was berating a reporter yesterday.
I thought the pics of Donnie and Mel with Jeffrey and Ghislaine were precious.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5395597-dershowitz-says-he-knows-epstein-client-list-names-but-im-bound-by-confidentiality/
Dershowitz says he knows Epstein client list names: ‘But I’m bound by confidentiality’
“I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them,” Dershowitz said during an appearance on “The Sean Spicer Show” that was originally broadcast on March 19 and was reposted on social media on Thursday.
Attacking the Messenger, clear as a bell. Can’t someone call him out on that to his face? He seems ripe for the picking for reverse-labelling.
I, also use ebay, and mostly have been very happy with it.
Amazon on the other hand make me glad returns are simple and easy. Because I’ve ended up doing over 10% return, maybe more. Not counting the door tray on my refrigerator , where it took 3 trys to get it to me unbroken.
Once upon a time, Amazon presented itself as a better alternative but that time has long passed.
Jack
WaPo.
There are 7 Wikipedia pages on Central Texas Floods. The last one listed is “Flash Flood Alley.” It lists 14 years that had major floods. The last three were during his occupancy of the Governor’s mansion, with 2 this year. All 4 were “100 year floods.” Call me Skeptigeaux.
Dershowitz is seeking relevance, or even a couple of cash paying clients. At this point I doubt if he is picky.
Jack
Pogo
different folks have different definitions of evil. For his orangeness I suspect it is asking questions he either can’t or doesn’t want to answer. Also anything that requires an understanding of empathy.
Jack
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/07/11/texas-flooding-tragedy-state-and-local-officials-and-partisan-politics-face-blame-for-no-alarm-systems/
Texas state officials repeatedly rejected requests from Kerry County to pay for such a warning system, estimated to cost about $1 million, and turned away the county’s applications at least three times between 2017 and 2024 for various reasons, the New York Times reported.
Local officials also failed to act when they were given $10 million under the pandemic-era American Rescue Plan Act money in 2021 and, instead of using it on storm-related infrastructure as the grant encouraged, allocated it to other public safety projects, county employee raises and a new walking path, according to the Texas Tribune.
Kerr County’s own voters are getting blamed, as well, by local officials who say there was little public support for a system: “Generally everybody’s for doing something until it gets down to the details of paying for it,” Harvey Hilderbran, the former state representative from Kerr County, told the Tribune.
Trump’s FEMA also blamed: Sources inside FEMA told CNN and the New York Times that new policies put in place by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delayed the deployment of search and rescue crews by 72 hours, delayed a request from the state for aerial imagery and have led to longer wait times at a federally staffed disaster call center.
Some former NWS officials told the Times that while the warnings may have been up to par, cuts to the NWS and early retirement incentives doled out under President Donald Trump led to staffing shortages in the central Texas office that may have impacted the NWS’ ability to communicate with local authorities in the hours after the warnings were issued.
*A perfect storm.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/kash-patel-will-resign-if-dan-bongino-leaves-fbi-chief-frustrated-with-pam-bondi-101752266774725.html
Amid the Dan Bongino resignation saga, a report stated that FBI chief Kash Patel has told his close circle that he could also leave the Trump administration
“Source close to DOJ says Kash Patel also wants Pam Bondi gone, and that he’d consider leaving if Bongino leaves. Also, that there are more frustrations with other documents Bondi hasn’t released,” Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Wire posted on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.
*It sounds like Pam’s days are numbered.
Kash must have cash invested in that story.
The brain always registers trauma in real time. Dodo can’t talk himself out of this one.
I’ve told this story before, probably here too many times.
Mrs Jack worked on a bid proposal to up grade the San Antonio water/sewage/storm drainage system. A major part was innovative water conservation, but as much as they had to plan for dry weather, they also had to build in the ability to handle the occasional catastrophic floods. In Texas, they know this shit is going to happen. They just don’t give a fuck until it is their kid’s school bus sweep away. Then 2 years down the road when it means making the effort to make it better, again they are back to their default they just don’t give a fuck.
IMO, the Blue states should support closing FEMA down, They aren’t the ones that need FEMA.
Jack
Not sure how getting rid of Bondi fixes anything for SFB.
How do you have wealth without consumers of some sort? The end of work is already the AI threat. Do you have corporations paying a universal wage that can be taxed so that governments can buy? Pretty nonsensical. That is when the current 4 billion human excess drops to 8 billion excess people, or Elon better figure out a way to get us all out of town to Mars.
My reason for Facebook: learning the author of Charlotte’s Web is also co-author of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style.
Happy Birthday, E.B. White.
🕷🕸️Happy birthday to E.B. White, born on this day in 1899! Elwyn Brooks White grew up to be the famed author of “Charlotte’s Web,” a timeless story about a pig named Wilbur who befriends a spider named Charlotte, which has charmed children and adults alike since it was first published in 1952. While writing the book, White relied for his research on arachnologist Willis J. Gertsch, a curator at the Museum, even meeting with Gertsch in person with a list of questions in hand. The results are readily apparent in certain details—Charlotte is sedentary, near-sighted, stuns her prey, works at night—all based on spider behavior. White even acknowledged Gertsch’s help in naming his title character—Charlotte A. Cavatica—after a common orb weaver, Araneus cavaticus.
Photo: White Literary LLC, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Just went out to the garden, life is good. First one of the year.
My favorite edition.
Why I majored in English: grammar is hilarious.
I do have Amazon Prime, mainly for kindle and streaming TV. For real books, it’s Powells in Oregon. The local libraries get ones I’m not keeping. Use EBay for art and good used merchandise. I did pick up a new microwave during prime days. With free shpping it was cheapest.
On leaving the US Scotland would be the easiest to make happen, but there is no way to afford it.
thats one way to freeze it!
Jamie, Love Powell’s❗️Have spent days there during my daughter’s Portland era.
Ivy,
That missing comma is hilarious right up there with the murderous panda’s diet of eats shoots and leaves.
Jack, ‘mater sammiches must be eaten over the sink.
Maira Kalman illustrated a Strunk & White? Must check it out!
Tomatoes are coming out of my ears, but not a single cuke nor zucchini yet.
Do they just blame the edited, jailhouse video & missing files on Pam & MAGAts just transfer all anger to her?
Jack – California wildfires? Minnesota tornadoes & floods? Blue states have emergencies, too, but California could self-fund instead of paying into the fed.
ICE raids are now happening in suburban Utah. Pushing to see what can be normalized. None of it is normal.
GOOD TROUBLE protests on July 17th, for those that live near more people than goats and cattle.
Yes, Jaime, this is end-stage capitalism, and it will cannibalize itself once it’s done with us. A standard, living wage that allowed folks to have basic housing, food, healthcare and education education isn’t on the menu. We are. But, one who dies with the biggest pile of money wins, right? Like Joni Ernst said, “We are all going to die.” Even the trillionaires.
are your cucumbers and zucchini getting pollinated? Put a pot of flowers next to them. Bees and other pollinators travel along flowers like people walk along paths so you want to make a path of flowers for them
it is tomato sandwich season here 😊
okra has been pickled with peppers 👍
Ivy – They have it at bookshop.org & free shipping to compete with Prime Days. Thanks!
Moles, groundhogs or gophers got most of the cuke plants day before yesterday. Dirt everywhere. I still have one cuke plant meandering through the tomatoes; that area of the garden is surrounded by garlic.
Did you not formally admonish them? A stern talking-to more effective than garlic, especially since garlic is delicious
if you like it, they like it
this is why people use raised beds
you could also learn to love the wildlife- one cucumber plant wasn’t going to save the world anyway, plant quadruple next year
We have an Amazon Prime account because it’s easier to order some things than driving miles to get it and finding out the store is out of that item.
anond… we’ve used raised beds for our garden for years… we love them.
meme#2…
You’ll love the art, BID.
One possible consequence I like of CHARLOTTE’S WEB is maybe more kids would be respectful and not destroy the large webs of the garden spider.
I wonder if that was one Mr White’s goals. It certainly could have been.
LOL!
bId – have you seen Chunk on YT?
Charlotte hanging out.
I witnessed one of my youngest relatives go after a daddy longlegs at my 4th of July party. I cheered quietly when he got away.* 🕸️🕷️
* This sentence needs some Strunk & White but I will let it go for now.
They want protesters. They want chaos. Here’s why.
Strongmen feed on unrest. More faces = more targets.
This green screen picks up where this morning’s Plain Thoughts left off.
Along with every other idiotic thing about sfb, those stupid, and rather oversized hats, are stupid too. But, it could be the hat is not the object we think it is. I suspect the huge hat covers a helmet. No Iran drone dropping a handgrenade on that bald dome. It has to pop through some steel first. Ah the stupid, it hurts.
They need a spectacle for the Fox feed.
Last night’s footage was a spectacle. Evidence it could backfire on them.
I’ve been using Sam’s club delivery for a while. I’m a plus member with a plus credit card and with points the extra cost of a plus membership disappears. With a $50 purchase delivery is free. If I stay out of the store I save money as I only buy what I need and am not tempted by the other stuff.
My sister signed up for the Walmart version and they deliver out to the little town she lives in, 25 miles away. It has been helpful as she deals with cancer.
Jack
Obama & Biden, while not always doing it the right way, weren’t doing it for the cruel spectacle of it.
As Tom Mushmouth Homan admitted, they are profiling people. If you are brown, you are a target.
Bounty hunters get paid by the “piece,” and without due process in play, they can make small fortune living out their cruel fantasy.
On top of that, what a waste of tax dollars to try to both intimidate and to normalize cruelty.
Red meat for the savages aka Christo-fascists.
Are NATO countries going to offer to take dissidents?
Renee made a good point about making trips to the store to find they don’t have your item. Often now they no longer even stock it, so Amazon is your only choice.
Modern version of the Colosseum.
when they do a raid, they detain everybody there and “detain” means handcuffs
so why would I go to Home Depot now?
This economy is going to thrive how?
best wishes to Clan Whsky
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BB – Very cute. I really think these are moles, but it’s a lot of dirt; more than last year. But, there was an old pile of logs behind the kennel that got moved and burned last week. They were probably under there. Moles eat bugs and I haven’t seen bites out of anything, just digging and uprooting plants.
A raccoon took down the bird feeder last week and picked the best heirloom tomato, carried it away, took a few bites and dropped it.
The water bill has almost doubled. I’d say it’s cheaper to buy produce, but is anyone else noticing bare spots in the produce section? No sweet corn today, only a few watermelons. Not normal.
you have muni water in the boonies?
It’s kind of a lie that gardening saves you money unless you’re really good at it and a very hard worker
you have to make your own compost- that’s hard work
You have to be diligent about recycling containers because you can’t buy them
You have to grow from seed
you can buy wood for raised beds or you can harvest it
Harvesting wood is so much work
I think I’m going to do wicker raised beds next year- so you pound stakes every 6 inches that you made from fallen tree branches and then you weave in the thinner sticks that you prune from the larger sticks with your secateurs, it’s the ancient way (“the ancient way” = a lot of work)
found my idol’s first shows from 30 years ago:
lol good tips 30 sec in
lol he had wicker beds 30 years ago, i swear i didn’t know! (he took them out)
ok that’s everything you need to know about tomatoes in 30 mins, search the title for other episodes on different crops
i’m binging all 6 before they get taken down, most educational 3 hours on youtube
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pentagon-acknowledges-irans-attack-on-qatar-air-base-hit-dome-used-for-u-s-communications
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC show the geodesic dome visible at the Al Udeid Air Base on the morning of June 23, just hours before the attack.
The U.S. Air Force’s 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, which operates out of the base, announced in 2016 the installation of the $15 million piece of equipment, known as a modernized enterprise terminal. Photos show a satellite dish inside of the dome, known as a radome.
Images taken June 25 and every day subsequently show the dome is gone, with some damage visible on a nearby building. The rest of the base appears largely untouched in the images.
In the U.S., Trump described the Iranian attack as a “very weak response.” He had said that Tehran fired 14 missiles, with 13 intercepted and one being “set free” as it was going in a “nonthreatening” direction.
Potentially signaling that he knew the dome had been hit, an adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei separately said that the base’s communications had been disconnected by the attack.
“All equipment of the base was completely destroyed and now the U.S. command stream and connection from Al Udeid base to its other military bases have been completely cut,” said Ahmad Alamolhoda, a hard-line cleric.
*Oh, gee. Another lie.
My grandmother was a great gardener. She’s the reason we didn’t starve. She would make breakfast, work in the garden for three hours or so, make lunch, go to work at a restaurant from 2pm until close, then get up and do it, again. She canned fruits and vegetables, and made six kinds of pickles to store in the root cellar. (Dill, sweet, beet, watermelon, bread & butter, and cinnamon pickles made from cukes not apples. Also, picklelillie relish.)
Having spent so long in North Texas, I’m not used to Midwestern humidity anymore. I grew my tomatoes and everything else from seed. I only bought a lavender plant which died, as I knew it would.
After the devastating and deadly flooding in Kerr County, Texas, Republican Governor Greg Abbott announced a special session that will include redistricting
Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom responded by writing on social media: “Texas is using a special session about emergency disaster aid to redistrict their state and cheat their way into more Congressional seats. These guys have no shame. CA is watching — and you can bet we won’t stand idly by.”
As seen below, Newsom said of Abbott and his administration: “These guys are playing by a totally different set of rules. And here I am in California, trying to raise the bar of — sort of bipartisanship. Years and years ago we did independent redistricting, in a state that, I assure you with two-thirds majorities in the legislature, could gerrymander like no other state, and we’ve been playing fair, but I saw what he [Abbott] just did today, made me question that entire program.”
*Time to fight dirty, just like they do.
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lol do it 😈
https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/07/leading-dem-trolls-trump-and-mocks-republicans-fueling-2028-speculation.html
Newsom, one of Trump’s most prominent critics, paid a two-day visit to South Carolina—a state that will be critical for Democrats seeking the presidential nomination in 2028. During his visit on Wednesday, he trolled two South Carolina Republicans who are staunch supporters of Trump.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), an outspoken loyalist of Trump, challenged Newsom to a debate during his visit in her home state. Newsom fired back on social media platform X by sharing an article from The Daily Beast headlined, “Nancy Mace Accused of Making Staff Use Burner Accounts to Hype Her Up.”
“This you or one of your burner accounts? I honestly can’t tell these days,” Newsom wrote in response to Mace.
Newsom also trolled U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) during his visit to the Palmetto State.
“Happy Birthday, @LindseyGrahamSC! Great to be in a packed room in your hometown this morning!” Newsom wrote on X.
In May, a pair of governors — Minnesota’s Tim Walz and Maryland’s Wes Moore — headlined a weekend of events hosted by South Carolina Democrats, introducing themselves and testing their possible candidacy arguments in front of the party faithful.
A recent Emerson College poll found that he had 12% of support among Democrats, trailing former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
*POTUS Pete has a nice ring to it, but the bigotry in this country makes me think he will end up being someone’s Secretary of State or Defense. I’m on Team Pete. Wes Moore is truly impressive, but racism. I love Coach Walz. JB Pritzker would be great, but he’s a billionaire. Gavin makes a great surrogate; he’s hungry for the presidency, and I think it’s more personal ambition than a desire to serve.
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