Rambling Along

dead dove do not eat in practice

Republicans: we can just have Elon Musk go to Wisconsin and give everyone money. He'll give them a million dollars. It's all legal as long as we hold power forever and can stop anyone from doing anything to stop us. All of Wisconsin is bribed, nothing can go wrong now

The invincible Susan Crawford:

NBC news: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-rcna198353

HE BROKE THE RECORD

Senator Cory Booker just broke the all-time record for the longest Senate floor speech, speaking for over 24 hours without a pause (no food, no bathroom breaks, only water to drink) as a protest against Trump and Musk and what they're doing.

The previous record was set in 1957, when Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes protesting the Civil Rights Act.

Senator Booker has blown past that record, currently at 25 hours and still speaking as of 8 pm local time. Respect.

environmental storytelling

we have a walk-in cooler at the store i work for, and there is a massive sign above the entrance that says Dairy & Produce. You can literally read it from the opposite side of the store it's that big.

Every. Fucking. Day. "Where's the milk?!"

[trying to insult a person's dog-like devotion to someone but not wanting to make them sound too cool about it] keep your fucking dog in a purse

when I feel bad about my ability to write interesting stories I try to think about the skyrim wizard college questline

you join wizard college. in the main room there is an elf in all black robes who stands there all day. the other characters are like "I think that guy is a spy for the elf cops". you can talk to the elf and he says he's an elf cop. later you find a magic orb, and the other wizards are like "I bet that elf is planning something with the orb" and once again elf cop is like "we the elf cops should have that orb". you have to go fight some skeletons in a dungeon because uhhhh and when you get back elf cop has killed the head wizard off camera with the orb for some reason. you fight more skeletons in a different dungeon to get a magic staff to turn off the orb and kill elf cop. then elf CIA shows up and takes the orb because I guess it was theirs and they dropped it. you are now the most powerful wizard in skyrim

the best part is you don’t even have to be a wizard to be the most powerful wizard. you could have the most basic starter spells and focus exclusively on hitting things, and you can still easily pass the quest line without problem

every time AMCA makes the cal kestis double jump joke i have to go back and read the og post

@stealingpotatoes

@blackkatmagic

They called him a liar. He posted the receipts.

Shit is flying.

an article from PBS that only has a snippet, but is not paywalled

Edit: here's MSN, which has more details

Fully unpaywalled Atlantic here. Finally.

As a navy vet, who worked on an aircraft carrier, prepping and caring for F-18’s:

I am NAUSEOUS about the fact that these chucklefucks shared CLASSIFIED INFORMATION in a fucking SIGNAL CHAT. Completely terrifying. I wasn’t even allowed to take photos of our flight schedules (that didn’t even have mission names!) because they had lunch and landing times and yes, those were classified. They were Secret level information.

You know how my mom and I had to communicate about which month I was coming home from deployment? With freaking code.

Aircraft carriers regularly go into modes where they lock down all outgoing data and you don’t get internet access during those times. OPSEC is HIGH priority.

This BLATANT disregard for OPSEC is horrifying and should disgust EVERY active duty member and veteran in this country. It is sadly hilarious they dared even mention keeping OPSEC in that chat.

These people are a shame on this country.

(I know I don’t get like this often, I apologize)

@callmebliss-got-swamped

Not fiber arts, but HELLA honorable mention 😮😮😮

Not fiber arts but absolutely Fiber Arts art

Get out. #Tesla #TSLA

Elon is so leveraged, that if TSLA is worth $120 per share, he is penniless.

The con game is over. The company never evolved. Elon deserves his fate.

Get desperate Musk out of politics.

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

Then in 2020:

Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:

This stunning desk, now in the Rijksmuseum, was made by Abraham Roentgen from c1758-60. 

It was commissioned by Johann Philipp von Walderdorff, the Archibishop and Elector of Trier. His portrait is featured on the very top of the desk (visible in one of the details). 

Click on the details, the marquetry is simply outstanding. 

I would play the shit out of this.

Please support this game! I've been following it forever and the developers obviously put a lot of love into finally repping my people as Not Just Generic Bad Guys To Be Slaughtered in QuickTime Events, but the unabashed horse girls we truly are. I really love how outspoken she is about representing proper care and compassion for these animals in the industry too.

Found it! Reblogging to kickstart when I’m at my laptop.

I'ma just leave these here for like... *Cough* Research purposes and such.