Hmmm. They’ll be nicely seasoned. Tender, moist skin. It’s a if they’ve spent their lives preparing their bodies just so you can consume only the most pampered product. Sort of like feeding pigs only the best fruits and grains, only you also give your swine regular saunas and spa days.

“Theodore Roosevelt was a gay commie liberal. At lot of people are saying that, I don’t know, but people are saying it.”

• Trump, probably

No horse loves to roll in the mud as much as a dapple gray.

I didn’t realize it until a couple of years ago (back when he was popular, I was into different stuff), but he’s made some really good songs!

I love that song. Every time I follow a link, I listen to the while thing.

It’s a great song.

Oh, wait, Friends? Yeah, not a fan of the show, so the intro music has no meaning for me.

Hmmm… Do I subject myself to another ear worm? Is it worth it?

Never heard it.

The Republicans are never going to lose again anyway. I am strongly suspicious of the outcome of the last election; there’s enough evidence to warrant at least an independent investigation of the voting software in states with abnormal down-ballot voting. The Democrats no longer have a shred of power to pursue any opposition; they have that up when Kamala walked away from the discrepancies and Biden made no effort to investigate in his remaining time.

I do agree on principle that, with FPTP voting, you need to vote strategically for the least bad person who has any chance of winning. The game has changed, now, though. Republicans have stacked the courts and gerrymandered their states, ensuring no chance to investigate attempts to defraud elections. The Democrat party has been utterly impotent in combating this, and demonstrated an appalling incompetence at ensuring the the system remains incorrupted and uninfluenced by foreign interests. They’ve actively participated in Corporate influence with Citizens United and the Patriot Act. I voted Hillary, but fuck her for supporting that shit.

If there’s a next election, and if there’s a party with reasonable polling numbers comparable to the D party, I might vote for them. Otherwise, I’ll vote D again.

But: the time to split or reform the party is now. Not at the general election, but now, while there’s time to lay the groundwork and build momentum. Because overthrowing a dictator is going to take a lot of momentum, and the D party has none of it.

On my phone, with the coloring and the prompt, I couldn’t at first tell what they were. I was thinking: lizards? When I realized that weren’t lizards, I saw giant scorpion things, and thought, “why the hell is there a ramp??”

Only then did I see chicks.

This photo took me on a wild ride.

It was a play on the post immediately prior (time-wise) to mine, by another user, titled “Outside Prague.”

Although the mist makes it look far away, St. Vitus is really only a short walk from where this was taken.

What amazes me is how much it changed.

When I went, it was a black city: all of the buildings were dark gray, because if the centuries of coal and smog. Then Europe went through a period of cleaning, and buildings you thought were made of dark stone, it turns out, were actual white! Or ecru, or some light stone. Utterly changes the feel of the city.

Someone could ho out and put a couple of red LEDS in the “head” so you don’t have to rely on chance reflection. Maybe someone else in the house will get a startle.

It’s just politely getting out of the way of pedestrians.

But then, perspective. Depending on how large your porch is, that would be a big cat.

Seeing any animal can startle you, and the larger, the more startling. Your lizard brain that gets startled doesn’t factor in that you’re inside and it’s outside.

I’ve learned this a couple of times by discovering raccoons on our porch in the middle of the night. It’s worse if, like me, you prefer the semi-dark at night, and keep your lights dim. I came down for some reason one night and there was a reason standing on its hind legs, paws against the sliding door, probably watching the cats and wondering if it could get at them somehow. Coming across a 3’ tall shadow with reflecting eyes standing at the glass door in the middle of the night just about gave me a heart attack.

This is a great pic. I love your porch demon spirit. Looks truly malevolent. What you need is a Tomte to protect the home.

I don’t believe in the supernatural, but that lizard-brain kind of does.

Good skiing. Deer Valley 🤍

Colorado? Utah. I’m going to say Utah.

I was going to make a joke about brick moths, but it seems pointless, now.

Ok. I cede the point.

Funny thing about fighter planes: no matter which is your favorite, there aren’t many you can call outright ugly.

Nice looking plane.