I'll light some extra candles for for thunder and lightening.
Happy Birthday, javachik! For you, I wish sunshine and fun and extra wigglebut snugs.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Jun 14, 2025 6:02:57 am PDT #7716 of 7735
aurelia - Jun 14, 2025 6:42:18 am PDT #7717 of 7735
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
It's good to see you Shir. I wish I had something reassuring to say.
Happy birthday Java!
The demonstration here is one block from work and we're in tech today. I'm going to try to get out of the building to join for a few minutes. If turnout is as hoped, that may mean simply stepping out the front door.
-t - Jun 14, 2025 6:42:58 am PDT #7718 of 7735
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
{{{Shir}}}
Many happy returns, javachik (or, as autocorrect would like me to call you, hamachi)!
Today is also my uncle’s birthday and my parents’ wedding anniversary (61 years!), uncle was pretty mad at the wedding upstaging his birthday but that was the only day the church was available so here we are. Celebrating by waving signs at traffic.
Karl - Jun 14, 2025 8:08:56 am PDT #7719 of 7735
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Oh, goddamnit. Two Minnesota state legislators and their spouses shot in their homes by someone dressed as a cop.
This is gonna get worse before it gets better.
Laura - Jun 14, 2025 8:19:44 am PDT #7720 of 7735
Our wings are not tired.
Very dangerous and scary world. Watching Gov. Walz speak just brings home what an opportunity was lost. He should be the VP.
dcp - Jun 14, 2025 8:58:11 am PDT #7721 of 7735
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
... it gets better.
Optimist.
JenP - Jun 14, 2025 10:19:12 am PDT #7722 of 7735
Got my "no kings" t-shirt just in time for my little burg's "street visibility event." Nice.
JenP - Jun 14, 2025 10:19:49 am PDT #7723 of 7735
Completely separately -- absolutely horrified by Minnesota political assassinations and attempts.
erikaj - Jun 14, 2025 10:36:36 am PDT #7724 of 7735
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah. Pretty horrifying. Thanks, --t, I wish life had given me...soaring anthem material, instead, but I keep on being Not Aaron Sorkin(Although I could write walk-and-talks. Walking optional.)
JenP - Jun 14, 2025 10:46:52 am PDT #7725 of 7735
Oh, shoot, yes, erikaj, I meant to comment -- thanks for sharing that piece. You convey a lot really well in a few words. Not easy to do.