Hola Deadsplinterati! Are you ready for the weekend? Any fun plans? I got nothin’. Maybe I’ll check out Eurovision. Maybe Brain Drain will have some great ideas. Or the other option may be a pedicure.
Ukraine Updates:
Turkey’s Erdogan voices skepticism on Sweden and Finland joining NATO
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/13/sweden-finland-nato-turkey-ukraine-war/
This is something else.
‘Lost’ Picasso spotted in Imelda Marcos’s home after son’s election win
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/lost-picasso-spotted-in-imelda-marcos-home-after-son-bongbong-election-win
US condemns Israel’s attack on Shireen Abu Aqleh’s funeral
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/shireen-abu-aqleh-funeral-israel-blinken
Love to spend $550K on a house only to watch it wash away less than a year later.
He bought the house 9 months ago. Then the ocean swept it away.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/05/13/climate-change-north-carolina-house/
I think the kids call that “shade”:
‘Oh, there’s a place called Vogue,’” said Rachel, 49, who is not a reader of the magazine.
Cornish pub will not change name despite letter from Vogue owner
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/may/13/star-inn-vogue-cornish-pub-will-not-change-name-despite-letter-from-conde-nast
Food you cannot eat.
Happy Caturday! For those keeping track, Fritz is feeling much better. He’s still mad about his restricted diet, but he’s doing well.
Have a super day!
this has to be the dumbest headline ive read in a while
Netherlands residents spending more despite increasing prices
https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/14/netherlands-residents-spending-despite-increasing-prices
i know how im reading it….isnt how it was intended
but come on…how the fuck are you sposed to spend less with increasing prices?
does anyone proof read this shit?
oh…..this is fun!
https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/13/utrecht-starts-catcalling-men-campaign-sexual-harassment-street
wonder if it’ll catch jezzes attention
as the dutch like to say….here…have a cookie of your own dough
I checked Jezebel a couple of weeks ago and could barely detect a pulse. Old self-produced videos, ads, “kinja deals” (which are ads), a few brief posts that almost no one commented on…this is more likely to make it on to nuGawker.
What’s really sad is all the sites are like this now. The Takeout and the Root are faring no better. What a strange thing to do to a company. It would be like acquiring Ford in the 1950s and, rather than suffering one Edsel disaster, forcing every division to produce nothing but Edsel-like products.
yeah…i remember the saturday night socials getting like…1500 comments
nowadays…any post is lucky to make it into the double digits
hard to feel sorry for the fuckers tho
thats what you get for shadowbanning the light of the party (me) and like..greying everyone else that had opinions
I don’t think that campaign will be effective because power dynamics don’t shift just because a woman is harassing a man. Most men won’t fear for their lives when they interact with a woman, even if the woman is the aggressor. Whereas women’s baseline is to be afraid or at least cautious when dealing with men in most situations.
The campaign is not ethical but if I were running it, I would have cops of all genders sexually harass the male pedestrians. That is if cops are known to be intimidating, unpredictable, murderous meatheads in your country. Then the men will feel the power imbalance and fear that women do. But like I said this is totally unethical and either way I’m not convinced that it will teach them empathy for women.
thank you for making that comment
i agree… i dont think it will work
you can catcall me all day long and i will just feel sexy
groping is mostly fine to…if you arent a total mingbox…
there is a fundamental difference between the sexes me finks
Whatever that casserole was, it looked fucking disgusting. Typical redneck garbage food.
Someone should tell the “chef” that “butter lettuce” is not two ingredients. It does remind me that I need to pick up cream cheese though.
Going to the beach this morning, spending the afternoon reading at the pool. There will be more Aperol Spritzes, my new favorite summer drink.
have fun!
The police were summoned to my building this morning, don’t know why. I’ve mentioned there is a police precinct right across the street. Two two cops who came drove. In other words, they found a car, got in, pulled into traffic, and double-parked in front of our building, which must have taken longer than it would take me and Faithful Hound to hobble the same distance.
Just thought I’d share.
Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking House Republican and a Trump favorite, and embarrassingly represents a New York district, has this to say about the national baby formula shortage:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elise-stefanik-formula-shortage-pro-life-immigrant-babies_n_627ee897e4b050d95191ed13
Unfortunately, represents my district. She is disgusting in so many ways.
This Republican obsession with “pedos” is becoming increasingly troubling, basically because Republicans typically accuse others of crimes they are committing. Every time I hear one of them use the term now I wonder what they’re trying to cover up.
Anyone want to do my Thursday DUAN this week? I’m not sure I will find the time & never works right on my phone if I do. I’ll check back when I can.
I won’t be able to do today’s NOT. Stuck at work tonight and have to run a pile of errands very soon. Thanks.
oh also..by my math round about midnight tomorow there will be a total lunar eclipse visible to yous
which will be almost as cool as that time i had one during a maiden gig
adding one more coz me dad had a ticket for that gig…dude fell in love with maiden after i got him to watch rock in rio
he died a couple months before the gig tho
which sucked coz wheel chair access is the best thing fucking evar at gigs and airports!
(no but really…it fucking sucked)
Well, here I am at the airport, hanging out at an empty gate and waiting for a flight to DFW to depart so that I can go over there and wait to be whisked off to Philadelphia. Nothing much else to report at the moment, except that my left side is sore from carrying around my computer bag while searching in vain around the concourse for a mail drop box. (I guess this is what I get for still using the USPS to pay my bills.) Ah, well. I’ll have a few hours to kill at PHL, and apparently I don’t have to recheck my bag, so I guess I’ll have enough time to scope one out there.
Oh, and @Memeweaver, I’ll try to give you some recommendations as best as I can, but understand that I’m spending a week in a town where most tourists only spend about half a day at best. (And I may not have even spent that long there during my little 10-day sojourn in Madrid back in my student days at the turn of the century.)
I spent 8 days in Philadelphia for work a few years ago. Longest time I ever had to stay in another city. If I may be so bold, shoulder bags and computers do not mix. Three or four years ago, when I started traveling regularly again, I basically sanded my shoulder bloody with the strap from a computer bag because of walking/running through airports to make connections.
I noticed our CEO who traveled constantly carried a backpack even when wearing a suit and tie. I invested in a high-quality computer backpack after that and I never regretted it. If you have to break into a sprint, it’s much better than having a bag bouncing on one side and banging into objects, seats, and other people, and the weight is distributed evenly across your back. I don’t do much work travel any more and since I work from home, my backpack collects dust. But I’m breaking it out for a work trip to Las Vegas at the end of the month.
Heading up to Dad’s soon for the weekend, to keep on packing everything up.
This article made me chuckle (bitterly!), at the truth of Thomas’s statement talking about protesters outside the justices’ homes, “He insisted that the left has adopted ‘inappropriate’ tactics that conservatives would never employ…”
I mean, the man isn’t exactly wrong, Republicans wouldn’t be yelling & protesting outside justices’ homes….
They’d bring weapons, ropes, incendiary devices, and probably try to break into the homes & “carry out old-school justice” like they did on January 6th…
And/or, they’d be working behind the scenes–like Ginny–to simply take thd power away on a permanent basis.
Instead, the liberals outside his house are simply exercising their rights to freely assemble and speak (loudly, yes, but just speak).
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clarence-thomas-leak-infidelity-look-over-shoulder_n_627f237ae4b04353eb04a78d