As a veteran I had the opinion that if the day ever comes when I need a firearm again, the ground will be littered with plenty to choose from. 10 years back I inherited a shotgun. Now I go trap shooting about once a year. It’s nice and all, but it doesn’t have any connection to my political views.

Pretty sure I saw some of these on the Columbia river in 2016.

Seeing Zendaya over promoted in Rolex ads amidst flurry of Oscars focused ads in NYT and other places. Reminds me of when I saw her being extremely over promoted in the Dubai airport. In one space the ads were possibly coordinated to show her in separate ads for jewelry, lingerie, fragrance, shoes

BEWARE!

Big thanks to @sallyjenx.bsky.social today for expressing her WAPO thoughts. As a former consumer I had an intuitive sense that it was going downhill but couldn’t put my finger on what/why. As a former insider she knows the players and the business and can put into words what I merely sensed.

Occasionally I hear statements like “we know what he used the computer for, when he passed we wiped it, there’s no need for a digital legacy of that.” I know the answer is probably porn, but I like to hope it’s illegal crab race betting or pigeon recipes, anything weird and unusual.

I recall right-wingers talking about how important it was to be in Iraq because they met some soldier who told them how bad those people live. 1. That’s anecdotal from some dumb kid who probably sees anything different from his vision of an American suburbs life as bad. 2. We caused that poverty!

My real thought process for “I’d like a bird feeder.” 1. Find tree, 2. Fell tree, 3. Mill to slabs, 4. Dry slabs in homemade kiln, 5. Process slabs to lumber, 6. Cut to desired sizes, 7. Assemble into bird feeder, 8. Hang bird feeder, 9. Fill with seed. 10. Enjoy birds.

I like rhyming names. The mayor of Munich is Dieter Reiter.

Beat you to it! @karabaic.org

I am proud to announce that I finally made a pizza dough that can stand with my other outstanding recipes. At least I like it.

The new guy, Markwayne Mullen, is of American Indian ancestry. I suppose if anyone has the authority to evict people from here he might. But it could lead to some divine authority mentality, perhaps the only person suited for the job is one who feels deeply uncomfortable about doing it.

I’ll miss giggling to myself thinking Noem is pronounced “gnome” and seeing her (even if she isn’t really that short) stand next to people who make her appear, well, about gnome-height. I won’t miss the abductions and murders Trump will see to it that those continue on schedule.

Kristy Noem out!

Hey @sallyjenx.bsky.social I saw a really nice piece in NYT last Friday about Angel Reese. The author (whose name I forget) was from the Atlantic. Well done, seems like you’ve got a strong bench over there.

There’s a movie called “Hamnet” that has nothing to do with hobbyist and amateur (ham) radio.

I’m skeptical of extremely thin women on screen playing superheroes (or anything supposedly strong) when they look like a sneeze could knock them over. Happy to see Angel Reese enter into acting and start to right that ship. She’s strong and beautiful, if she can act at all good luck all others.

I follow only a couple of bot accounts. Ursula LeGuin quotes and Garfield screenshots. The former injects my feed with something for my serious mind. The latter gives silliness that occasionally accidentally pairs well with whatever was posted right before it.

I planned to be productive this morning, I sat here drinking coffee reading the news.

Ms. Rachel

Those poor officers, I’m glad they’re ok and not getting punished for doing their jobs. [this is sarcasm]

Farewell winter Olympics, see you in four years.

USA men’s and women’s hockey teams defeat Canada for a clean sweep at the Olympics. If you’re looking for a dirty sweep, we can continue to focus on Canada’s defeat albeit in curling.

USA v. Canada for both women’s and men’s hockey. That’s a cool thing that I would expect to make more of a splash in the headlines. I wonder if people are waiting to see how the men’s game ends to comment.

You haven’t made it in this world until you have a cease and desist letter from Taylor and a tea party invite from @reasie.bsky.social

First of, congrats for selling out. Second, even though it’s not my fave, I’d accompany you to one sometime @karabaic.org seeing that OR/WA scenery on the big screen would be worth it.

We get 10 40-50 minute episodes per season. The pace of plot and dialogue have sped up a lot since DS9, not to mention TOS. Some of the time is spent making cute callbacks to things like self-sealing stem bolts. It’s arguably not fair to compare these shows to a different (better?) era of TV.

I was being silly, asked Google if Pam Bondi was a German Shepard. It responded that she was not a full breed German Shepard, however did once steal a St. Bernard. Looked it up, and it’s kinda true she had a custody battle with the original owners over her dog.

For a boy scout merit badge I had to write a congressman. I wrote expressing concern that the government probably has more important things to do than investigate Clinton’s private, admittedly awful, behavior. He wrote back kindly disagreeing. This was like 2 years before 9/11.

Occasionally I don’t pay enough attention and accidentally walk i to the women’s restroom. Today I walked into the men’s and still came across a lady. Since the rules clearly don’t work anyway, I say let trans folks do what they want.

Is there a way to estimate how many people watched the Superbowl, at least the half time show, that they wouldn’t have otherwise watched to display some sort of resistance to the government? I saw a lot of anecdotal, not my thing, but also, I didn’t really mind it.

I was a big Lindsey Vonn fan since day 1. She set the bar higher and seemed like a great role model. Over the past few years I’ve backed off, she’s still powerful and amazing but she’ll never play it safe. Her definition of “risk” is going slower and risking missing the gold.

Trump may be our last best chance for eradicating bald eagles from the planet.

ST Academy is kinda like SNW but with callbacks and easter eggs spanning all previous shows. Not a ton of new material, just reexamining older ideas for more content. Sometimes they do it well S1E4, sometimes it’s a snore.

I particularly like Hopscotch because that’s how I see myself as a spy. Overt no guns, respect for the game and the pieces more than winning at all cost. Also, who doesn’t have dreams of humiliating a crappy unqualified boss?

There’s still no evidence that Shaun White isn’t just some elaborate bit being orchestrated by Carrot Top.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Sheldon's POV

My wife: “There’s an important doctor in the Epstein files.” Me: “um, ok.” Her: “what, what is it!?” Me: “Well, I guess I’m mad, but I don’t know how mad, or why, or even who I’m mad at.” This is just like the time she told me she saw a bird but forgot where, when and what it looked like.

Fred Biery for SCOTUS.

Every time I drive past a house waving an upside down flag I contemplate calling 911 to report possible home invasion/people under duress. Symbolism is great, but if one person dies from non-rescue because a pilot thinks they’re being cute, well no, it’s not an ICE murder, but same result. Ugh!

I don’t disagree with one bit of this.

Hehehe @karabaic.org

Once upon a time in Nazi occupied Maine… ICE thugs from Arkansas thought they could drop their masks and hit the bars.

Great post, and great work by the Post. It’s worth a mention that having a gun didn’t save his life, and just might have been a factor in these guys taking it.

Pie time is coming. @karabaic.org

I remember this line from thr first time I ever read that book.

A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.