Odds and Ends [DOT 10/7/22]

We all feel this way, Tonca.

10/7/22 bryanlsplinter 20
Tonca time.

Filling in for RIP today, y’all. Off we go.

Stonks! Y’know, maybe just let this one go, Twitter.
Elon Musk Trolled His Way Into Buying Twitter. Now He Wants Out.

Goddammit, Florida

Florida school board passes guideline allowing schools to ‘out’ trans youth to parents of classmates

Meanwhile, in North Carolina …

You can’t keep good queens down

Huh. Maybe the Taliban justices are good for something. Up to $250, anyway.

Group offers up to $250 for SCOTUS justices sightings after Kavanaugh protest

Sprots. Umm, pretty sure she’s still Russian.

Wimbledon 2022: Elena Rybakina wins Kazakhstan’s first Grand Slam

No need for concern. Why, SCOTUS even says we don’t need the EPA.
Wildfire burning in Yosemite quickly grows; more firefighting resources on the way

Please come back.

75 years ago, Roswell ‘flying saucer’ report sparked UFO obsession

An unfortunate twofer. Florida Man turtle content. Fuck this guy.

Florida beachgoers confront man standing on top of protected sea turtle eggs in nesting area

Bonus turtle content to make up for Florida Man.

MOSH celebrates beloved alligator snapping turtle’s 56th birthday

There you have it, my fellow Deadsplinters. Please stay off sea turtle nests.

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20 Comments

  1. Once upon a time I came upon an alligator snapper who was in the middle of a busy road. I have a thing for helping turtles out of roads so I stopped to see if I could get him across. I approached from behind because I didn’t want to lose a hand, but he turned around to face me and started snapping. I said ,”you’re on your own pal,” and left him to his fate.

    • Prudent, my friend. I always warn people about that if they try to help turtles. Opposable thumbs are very useful.

      I went to a turtle talk at a wildlife refuge near here a few years ago and the rangers wear chain-mail gloves. Even then, they are really careful. Alligator snapping turtles have a bite force of about 1,000 pounds. They can shear through bone.

  3. Elon broke his toy and now he’s looking for a new one.  There’s always Trump Social. Could rename it Musk Social (which is an oxymoron.) And it won’t cost much.  Maybe 10 bitcoin and a NFT of a pig’s anus.

    I think that a lot of semi delusional libs and now idiot cons don’t get that Elon is always about Elon.

    Sames applies to other billionaires… (even conservative boogeyman Soros) is that they’re not an ally.  Never have been. They’re in it for their own damn reasons (like most of us) but we stupidly look to them for resources and clout.

    Maybe we damn well shouldn’t.

    • What does it say about Twitter when even Twitter doesn’t want Twitter?

      I think Elon got off on the possibility of having a way to broadcast his bullshit to millions. It was never about improving Twitter, it was about buying a megaphone for Elon.

  6. holy shit….the 16th of last month someone dropped a missing cat letter in my postbox….luna the mostly black cat

    im currently watching its pet humans try to guide it back home…..unfortunately some idiot on a moped is running around not helping things

    still…a never been outside before skittish kitty….i was not expecting to ever see again

    looks like they are having a hell of a job coaxing the kitty back inside tho

  7. It looks like I have a busy five weeks ahead of me, and for any of you who might be in NYC during the worst of the dog days of summer:

    https://www.amny.com/lifestyle/eat-and-drink/reservations-30th-annual-nyc-restaurant-week/

    This is being a little oversold. The nicest restaurants typically have a special “Restaurant Week” (this year, five weeks) very limited menu, and you have to tell them beforehand you’ll be ordering from that. Since they are the nicest restaurants you’ll be making a reservation so tell them your plans when you call or reserve online. The food will still be excellent; it just won’t be everything you’d find on a normal menu.

    I very fondly remember my first Restaurant Week. It was only a week, and on one of the hottest days of the year I donned my nicest summer suit and went with Better Half for the first time to:

    https://www.le-bernardin.com/home

    Gilbert Le Coze was still running things; Éric Ripert took over soon after our visit. Le Coze actually stopped by our table, despite the fact that we were in the culinary equivalent of steerage, no doubt hoping to recruit prosperous-seeming 20-somethings to becoming regular patrons of a very expensive restaurant that was starting to seem stale and faded. The Ripert excitement came a year or so later.

    We never became regulars, but we have been back. It’s one of my favorite restaurants in the city. I shudder to think what the normal dinner tab would be now with the price of seafood so high even in the wholesale markets.

  8. Great DOT! Thanks Bryan. With all the shit going on around the world right now (and last week)…from Canadumb to US to UK to Ukraine to Aussieville and back…that asshole Florida man standing on the nest PISSED ME THE FUCK OFF way more than it should have. But also maybe less than it should have because fuck that mf’ing fuck!

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