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Fish Out Of Water Catch of the day. Cleaning up at the coast.

He-Man Woman Hater's Club The full short here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqkU9efyMhk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_and_Female https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBIC8JTQMMQ

Summer's End "The opioid crisis is tearing American families apart," John Prine writes in a press release. "I love what Elaine and Kerrin have done with my song for this video. I hope a lot of people see it." https://www.npr.org/2018/09/28/652520122/john-prine-tells-a-devastating-story-at-summer-s-end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbEFTv9zr0 https://www.npr.org/2018/09/28/652520122/john-prine-tells-a-devastating-story-at-summer-s-end

Beware The Gallinippers! Psorophora ciliata was described in 1897 by naturalist David Flanery in the journal “Nature” as “…the shyest, slyest, meanest and most venomous of them all.” “A bad science fiction movie,” he said. “They were inundating me, and one landed on me. It was like a small blackbird. I told my wife, ‘Gosh, look at the size of this thing.’ I told her that I guess I’m going to have to use a shotgun on these things if they get any bigger.” http://www.fayobserver.com/news/20180926/a-bad-science-fiction-movie-florence-breeds-mosquitoes "The Gallinipper is a mosquito as big as a hawk. The sting it carries on its head could slice all the way through a man's arm. A bite from the Gallinipper could mean death. The mosquito could drain all the blood from a man in a single gulp." https://northcarolinaghosts.com/coast/gallinipper/

Steak Ommmmm Steak-ummm & Zippy the Pinhead in 2020! Are We Having Fun, Yet? Originally shared by Mudhooks https://twitter.com/i/moments/1045362439783501824

Needs Collar Popped Or upside the head. https://twitter.com/milesklassin/status/1045350623166836736

Fashionable People Doing Questionable Things. "Ditch Him. He's No Good For You." "Leave Him In A Ditch!" Joel Plaskett Emergency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKDgkcx9ric https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKDgkcx9ric

A Woman's Voice I've been through enough struggles with death and illness to know that the outcomes are not always a matter of the quality of care and attention one receives. The end to this story might not have been any different, had Becky been listened to. But there is an answer to the rhetorical question posed. Becky's struggle would have been better, HAD SHE BEEN LISTENED TO. Not different, necessarily, but better. We all deserve to be listened to, especially when we are openly and directly sharing our worries and concerns, looking for solutions. Too, too often, Women (and all the other other folk oppressed by the White Cis Straight Male Patriarchy) are not listened to. That's a huge, systemic problem. Listen. Demand that others listen, too. In some ways, it won't change outcomes. In others, it will, in ways that will change the world for the better. https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/what-if-the-doctors-had-listened-to-our-sister-becky.html

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Ka Boom! Higher Yield Than Expected. Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh Unexpected magnetic fireworks. "During 40 microseconds last April, Shojiro Takeyama and his team at the University of Tokyo dumped 3.2 megajoules of energy into a newly built scientific instrument and blew part of it to smithereens. The smithereens part was expected; the force of the explosion, not quite. The instrument was designed to generate super-strong magnetic fields for examining semiconductors and other materials at the nanometer scale. Takeyama was expecting about 700 Tesla. He got 1200 T instead—a world record for indoor fields and about 400 times as strong as a typical medical MRI. Bigger magnetic fields have been made before, but they aren’t practical or reliably reproducible, because they rely on rather dangerous amounts of TNT. It is not an indoor activity. These fields are generated by starting with a strong, unchanging magnetic field and then rapidly—on the order of microseconds—squeezing it. I...

Signs Of The End Times https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/25/news/dunkin-donuts-new-name/index.html

Tea Party Hero A meteoric rise to power is not often about doing good things... The crash taught this man some things you might not expect, maybe because he was still an outsider to the system. Little Feat-On Your Way Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5Ve0y0m1Y https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/21/kent-sorenson-was-a-tea-party-hero-then-he-lost-everything-220522

Getting Blessed Out https://www.mcdowellnews.com/opinion/scott-hollifield-from-cussed-to-blessed-in-a-matter-of/article_91467bc8-bdd2-11e8-a1f1-57f4c6adc4c7.html

Candy Coated Popcorn Peanuts and a Prize... That's What You Get With Cracker Jack's. "The More You Eat, The More You Want." https://www.npr.org/2018/09/23/650921591/a-bunch-of-cocaine-boxes-of-donated-bananas-contained-17-8-million-worth-of-drug https://www.npr.org/2018/09/23/650921591/a-bunch-of-cocaine-boxes-of-donated-bananas-contained-17-8-million-worth-of-drug

"When There Wasn't Even Any Hollywood" Steely Dan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l6PR4l3FF8 Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "Charging bisons, wild horses, and mysterious handprints—primeval evidence of humanity’s creative genius, miraculously well preserved after some 36,000 years. Today’s Doodle celebrates the 139th anniversary of the first discovery of cave paintings at the Altamira caves in Cantabria, northern Spain—a masterpiece of the prehistoric era." http://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-altamira-cave

Originally shared by David McKeever

Everything Must Go Steely Dan-Everything Must Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK2qICPP4o https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2018/sep/19/bibles-playboys-and-negligees-stories-from-estate-sales-in-pictures

Originally shared by Al Tlön Who doesn't love maps in books? "From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/22/wizards-moomins-and-gold-the-magic-and-mysteries-of-maps

Flotsam Some aerial views of our boat yard on the Trent River. I'd recognize that derelict looking cantankerous travel lift anywhere. The boat with the black mast and gray foredeck hatch is ours. Speaking of pool coverage, some remarks by Our Glorious Leader, who is obviously as unfamiliar with the rules for marine salvage as he is of every other rule of law: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/19/least-you-got-nice-boat-out-deal-trump-tells-nc-man-during-post-florence-tour/

Guiding Light In the shop, not actually the garage. The truth is that they don't want to escape any way but UP, and this presents a problem with a 10' ceiling and 6'8" doors. I've done this trick before in other folk's garages, but never at night. Eventually , the dingy bird was persuaded to light on the rake tines by extinguishing the high intensity overheads and artfully sidelighting the rake with a flashlight. Yeesh. https://thrivinghomeblog.com/how-to-get-a-hummingbird-out-of-a-garage/

'Ba-dee-ya, Say, Do You Remember? Originally shared by Assia Alexandrova A propos https://www.npr.org/2014/09/19/349621429/the-song-that-never-ends-why-earth-wind-fires-september-sustains?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180921

Time In A Bottle Originally shared by lynn paden 45 years ago to-night, jim croce gave a performance in natchitoches, louisiana. soon after, he died in a plane crash. it's interesting to hear this recording, full of future hits barely recognized, and rambling stories about past travels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgHFOkX92vE

The Weirding Way The long journey of an indie cartoonist who faced down prudes, pain and the patriarchy. https://boingboing.net/2018/07/25/the-weird-of-wendy-pini.html

Greek Life Originally shared by **** @JoyceMaynard: In today's Yale Daily News: what Brett Kavanaugh was up to back in his school days, when he belonged to a secret society known as "tit and clit". Motto: No means yes. Yes means anal. https://t.co/ft4JXIGaJY Related: A flag of underwear: Photo from Kavanaugh’s time shows DKE hijinks https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/09/20/a-flag-of-underwear-photo-from-kavanaughs-time-shows-dke-hijinks/ Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale Frat Raided Female Students’ Rooms, Paraded Bras and Underwear on Campus https://people.com/politics/brett-kavanaugh-yale-frat-women-bras-underwear/ Bras and panties: Young Brett Kavanaugh belonged to a wild fraternity at Yale that was reviled for misogyny and drunken woman-degrading antics. Allegations of sexual assault follow more than half a dozen DKE members, including its president. And now, Brett Kavanaugh. https://boingboing.net/2018/09/20/bras-and-panties.html 'No accident' Brett Kavanaugh's f...

Marketing Science "...Wansink’s dieting studies and the indigestion it was causing." So that's where those 100 calorie snack packs came from. TIL. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/six-new-retractions-for-now-disgraced-researcher-purges-common-diet-tips/

Is This What Redemption Looks Like? https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20021473/jock-boyer/

Carry That Weight Defining Health, and Weight, are harder than you'd think. Nutrition, likewise. In some ways, the big point to be made is that encouraging better behavior works better than shaming worse behavior. Not to mention, having unrealistic standards of beauty foisted upon you. via Vicky Veritas Originally shared by Kee Hinckley Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong I could give a pull quote from this article, but then you might not bother reading the rest. Just read it. Even if you think you know it. Do you understand the human cost ? #g https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/

"Readable, Although Not Exactly Coherent" Many things, these days, are like that. A Sign Of The Times. Originally shared by 7 Island Sweet Poet's Page It's technology, but is it art ? in the urban jungle, the lion does not sleep tonight for laughs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOWDPkYyP0 https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17874722/please-feed-the-lions-ai-google-trafalgar-square-es-devlin https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17874722/please-feed-the-lions-ai-google-trafalgar-square-es-devlin

Not From Around Here Want a quick check for how just a society is? How do they treat the different and less powerful. Gadje vs Roma https://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/22-who-are-denmark-s-roma Originally shared by Ted Ewen Denmark 2018 No word of a lie. The 'Happiest Country on Earth' also harbours deeply rooted (and deeply disturbing) xenophobia, nationalism, discrimination, and bigotry. The police seem to be a bastion of all of these worst qualities - and no one seems to know, or care. The liberals live their lives of oblivious comfort, leaving the duty of policing their society to the Right (that is, most political parties in Denmark) as they implement a near universal policy of "Fuck you, I got mine". Immigrants bear the worst of this, with the police refusing to take complaints from foreigners, almost universally siding with the Dane in any situation involving a foreigner, refusing to speak English (in a country with 80% English literacy), providing...

The Word of the Day is ARRRRR! https://twitter.com/allontheboard/status/1042418751763898369

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"Detainees" "The deputies in the van were rescued and taken to the hospital, according to our source, but the patients were chained in the back of the van." And be called by no name except "deportees"? Both sides of the river, we died just the same. Arlo Guthrie-Deportee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu-duTWccyI https://wpde.com/news/local/two-inmates-killed-after-jail-transport-van-drives-through-flood-waters-sources-say

The Need For Speed I risked death by reenacting this scene on a flat road with a 53x11, Bell Biker Lexan helmet, and Duegi wooden soled shoes with nailed on cleats when I was much younger. https://vimeo.com/50872582 https://www.wsj.com/articles/she-just-rode-184-mph-on-a-bicycle-really-1537200794

Catch The Wave https://gcaptain.com/the-national-hurricane-center-recorded-an-83-foot-wave-height-associated-with-florence-it-could-be-an-error-but-maybe-not/

Vibranium https://twitter.com/raleighgov/status/1040987666811117568

Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow Merry Clayton, y'all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGox3g9wUTE Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time... Don't roll the dice, if you can't pay the price... Keep your eye on the sparrow, When the going gets narrow. via Edward Morbius Originally shared by Rhys Taylor So much for the robot uprising. Google wants pictures of bicycles and birds that can defeat image-recognition algorithms, as part of a contest launched to improve the technology. While it is easy for humans to tell the difference between birds and bikes, computer systems can struggle to do so. Prize money will be awarded for pictures that can fool image-recognition algorithms, or for new code that cannot be easily fooled. But pictures of birds riding bicycles will not be allowed in the contest. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45547805

Old China Hand Originally shared by Edward Morbius An Old Approach to China (Copied from link, links brought inline, some emphasis preserved. This is not my story, these are not my words. -- dremorbius) ________________________________________________________________ I woke up this week and saw a story in the intercept: https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/ If you haven’t read the story (and you should), here’s a little bit of background. If you live in China, the government has a firewall around the internet connections in and out of the country. There are now all sorts of laws about your data in China, but the important bit for our story here is this: If you are in China and try to search for a term like ‘democracy’ on the web, there is a series of technological controls that will stop you. Look for the wrong term, and the DNS for the hosting site might be poisoned. Your connected might be ‘reset’, and access to the site blocked for a half hour...

AP Stylebook Editorial Control. Originally shared by **** What possible reason could the AP have for making this change? https://twitter.com/FielderJackie/status/1041192069086081025

Lash Yourself To The Mast, First via Ray Radlein Originally shared by Katherine Phelps *BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!* "In case of volcanic eruption, you will hear mermaids. Do not ignore the mermaids; they are there for your safety." "Perils of Google Translate No. 44a. People seeking greater warning of volcanic eruption want sirens not mermaids. (Spanish: Sirenas)." https://twitter.com/sarahchurchwell/status/773478577295667200?lang=en

Bring Back That Sunny Day Originally shared by Semicentenary Project Classics IV - Stormy https://buff.ly/2x9li5S

Barnacle Removal http://www.oceananapier.com/the-barnacle-bar Sunsets and Pusser's Painkillers. They'll be missed. http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/florence-destroys-landmark-pier-in-atlantic-beach

Piling On More Insufficient Anchor Rode. My first thought was, "Well, there is enough water in the river now for the skipper to launch the new boat." Followed by, "But not enough room left under the high rise bridge for the mast." "Is it a black mast?" Nope. Not ours. Also, not enough spreaders. https://twitter.com/adamowenstv/status/1040383703292293120

Bears On Patrol Insufficient Anchor Rode. The Simpsons-Bear Patrol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkV_ztynYDM https://twitter.com/cityofnewbern/status/1040616093100986370

Da Doo Run Run My heart stood still... The Crystals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTqnam1zgiw The wind is blowing straight into the surf in this view: https://www.surfline.com/surf-report/oceanana-pier/584204204e65fad6a7709992

MRE The supply chain is being tested. Had to do some driving, and use sharp elbows, to score basic necessities. Many gas stations have run dry, and I had to resort to buying paint store naptha for the camp stove. The genset required some fuel subsystem cleaning and repair. And as soon as that was accomplished, the starter rope broke. But we now appear to be fully operational. As with all Risk Management, now that we're prepared, we may not need it. I reckon we'll have no trouble eating the Pop Tarts.

The Fate Of Designing Women https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/designing-women-creator-les-moonves-not-all-harassment-is-sexual-1142448

FARB Our Polyester Soldier In Chief.

What Up, Dog(ma)? Was/Not Was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCpjJa0QlnQ Heh. I used to say things like, "Critical Thinking Is Hard (except for Naturally Pugnacious And Disobedient Folks Like Me)", and followed it with "especially when nobody wants to RTFM." But, as I realized looking around the CR at Space X, the binders are gone. And at Google, the Algorithm is the manual, and it is proprietary and inscrutable. As a consequence, I am less dismissive of the Anarchists, these days. Harder to play by the rules when there aren't any. Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) Language and the Lunatic Fringe Doris Lessing, who wrote under the name Jane Somers, was British by ancestry, although she was born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. This essay was referenced in one of my posts from yesterday. I hadn't read it, so I dug it up this morning. It was published in the NY Times in 1992, and in many ways, it hasn...

License To Steal via Andres Soolo Originally shared by Shawn H Corey

Hero Food http://calvinscanadiancaveofcool.blogspot.com/2018/09/i-teach-because-i-love_11.html

Shelter In Place Originally shared by Camp Lejeune A MESSAGE FROM BGEN ALFORD: There will not be a mandatory evacuation of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. As the graphic indicates, many evacuation routes are vulnerable to flooding, and hotels and fuel supplies are likely already overwhelmed making it very dangerous to travel from and then back to Camp Lejeune when the storm is over. Camp Lejeune has endured countless destructive weather events over its 77 year history, and we will withstand the tough conditions ahead. Here's why: We have hardened infrastructure and the support system necessary to deal with Florence's potential impacts; we have our own first responders to provide security and emergency response; there is the Naval Medical Center/Hospital for medical care; we produce and distribute our own water, and have the power generation capability to ensure we can continue to produce and distribute water; we have emergency shelters for those desiring to seek shelter; we hav...

Gut Reaction Feeling the strain... Originally shared by Tim O'Brien I learned a new word today...

Alice In Tank-O-Lantern Land! Originally shared by Carolyn Curtis (Wenchkin) 52 Days till Halloween!

Lysistrata Lives! Originally shared by **** https://twitter.com/tweetmommybop/status/1038620620110680065?s=19

The Northeast Passage Originally shared by David Brin Your mad uncles need to be confronted. The US Navy contains NO flag officers who don't say openly that Climate Change is real. They must face a Russia building twelve new naval bases along the ice free Arctic shipping lanes. Tell your MUs to put money on it, now. Money. Cash. Watch them squirm and run. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russias-suez-canal-ships-start-plying-an-ice-free-arctic-thanks-to-climate-change/2018/09/08/59d50986-ac5a-11e8-9a7d-cd30504ff902_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russias-suez-canal-ships-start-plying-an-ice-free-arctic-thanks-to-climate-change/2018/09/08/59d50986-ac5a-11e8-9a7d-cd30504ff902_story.html

Originally shared by lynn paden this would be a great cartoon.....

Stiletto The Heel Follow on to Punch The Nazi. https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/system-failure-behind-rise-jair-bolsonaro https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-far-right-presidential-candidate-stabbed

Dollar Bill, Y'all Jimmy Spicer-Money (Dollar Bill, Y'all): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObtEUFKiIzE https://www.npr.org/2018/09/06/645177784/jury-fines-man-1-for-punching-charlottesville-rally-organizer

First They Came For WWW https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410 Then, the URL (or URI): https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/ The Algorithm wants the Internet to be all Amped Up, and Nowhere Else To Go. Originally shared by Edward Morbius Premature optimisation of performance for the love of money by the left hand of darkness in the valley of death. We gots yer evil heyah!

Fraudsters Beware The New Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force of Eastern North Carolina is going to get you! https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/fraudsters-eastern-north-carolina-beware-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement All 19 of them, so far: https://www.wral.com/feds-file-voting-fraud-charges-against-19-foreign-nationals/17792928/ https://www.wral.com/federal-subpoenas-demand-tsunami-of-nc-voter-records/17821061/

The Writer's Dilemma "All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery." -George Orwell Well, except for Jon Carroll. I always like the way he Thinks Outside The Box. https://joncarrollprose.com/2018/09/04/what-happened/

The Purloined Letter(s) Originally shared by Timothy Street Empirical Evidence Letters from ships captured by the Royal Navy during Britain's age of empire, and used to establish prize money bonafides, are being catalogued and digitized for internet availability. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/05/huge-historical-national-archives-prize-papers-mail-captured-ships-online https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/05/huge-historical-national-archives-prize-papers-mail-captured-ships-online

On A Carousel http://www.ladbible.com/news/viral-baggage-handlers-perform-tribute-to-freddie-mercury-on-his-birthday-20180905

Not Piggily Wiggily http://www.annanews.com/story-bunny-bread-shared-article-which-originally-appeared-1952-paper https://thesouthern.com/news/local/bunny-bread-founder-dies-at-the-age-of/article_732e601b-22e6-54da-8684-9234f083714b.html Originally shared by Al Tlön

Dead Reckoning I think that Pierce might be projecting a bit, calling this a Council of War, but there may be some truth in it. But Military Leadership does what it knows (War) and it is always fighting the Last War. McCain came to see more clearly what went wrong in Vietnam, and to forgive many people, including himself. Still, it didn't seem help inform his decision making about participation in other conflicts. Colin Powell also seemed to learn from Vietnam, but not enough to keep from being hornswoggled by WMD and Adventures in Nation Building. We tend to respect good military leadership, because being able to effectively lead folks into the terrifying mortification of battle is no small thing. But there are limits to that, aren't there? If your enemy succeeds through genocide, chemical/biological weapons, assassination? Do you win by being more genocidal? Some kinds of conflict are a trap. I think that a lot of the difficulties we're facing are born of fear, and ...

Notice To Mariners When you find your posterior in a sling, it is important to establish responsibility.

Standing Rigging With a sixteen foot long boom, running backstays are the order of the day. Some luckless soul will be stuck in the aft end of the boat with the skipper, trying to keep the mast up without fouling the boom. Several conspicuous gouges on the boom suggest that this is not always easily accomplished.

Athwartships One ridonkulously tall stick. I mentioned once again that aging, failing eyesight would not be able to see the Windex at such a height. Was told we shall have a functioning electronic simulacrum visible in the cockpit. Fancy.

Sugar Rush More than $2 Million street value of fentanyl is discovered to be... sugar. "Brewer said it was not clear what the trio was doing with 13 pounds of sugar." Cake Boss. http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20180828/fentanyl-seized-by-sheriffs-office-was-actually-sugar

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Drunken Deshabille

Angle Of Refraction

Caring Is Tough To Do "Caring is easy to say. It's tough to do. It's very easy to say that you're going to care for somebody. But if you want to, if you want to genuinely care for somebody, then you have to open up yourself, and allow yourself to be hit hard, I guess. People have often given me the feedback about myself that they say you know, you're sincere. And I say, yeah, I guess. I guess what's made me sincere is the fact that I had a lot of experiences. I left and enlisted in the Army wanting to have experience. And I wanted to experience life. And life's, life's hit me pretty hard. I've had some experiences. But I think it's those experiences that has made me capable of caring. There were times when life tore a lot of stuff out of me. And I thought I was empty. But it was by caring that I was able to fill back up that emptiness. All the losses that I felt, the hurt. The hurt of Vietnam, and many of the experiences that happened after V...

Arc Light

"If You Can Run A Slide Rule..." Originally shared by Randy Culler Fits your lap, your desk, your bench!