Hey, folks! I still exist. I’m just having another unplanned migraine vacation — same thing yesterday — so I may not get to posting anything today beyond this.
The tweet below has pretty much exhausted my creativity for the day, I think.
You're gonna need a bigger stoat pic.twitter.com/kvTfWKVj8r
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) June 6, 2017
Oh, and as long as I’m pasting tweets, everyone should see this:
Apparently our Grifter-in-Chief stole, sorry "shifted," more than $100k from a charity for kids with cancer: https://t.co/4DQI83jnDH
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) June 6, 2017
Consider this an open thread.
Rene DeCarte couldn’t have put it any better. Get well soon!
We will be stoatally stoked when you are well again. Hope you don’t feel too crook, migraines are the bitter pits of suckitude 🙁
Stoatally righteous, dude!
I’m lucky enough not to get migraines (yet), but I’m guessing, taking the pain of kidney stones, and moving the location to inside the skull might be similar, so I can sort-of relate.
Also, you missed a terrible pun for the top stoat picture. Should have been “Stoats adorbs”.
I disagree, that stoat is exactly the right size.
In personal news, I am continuing to expanding my online presence at a glacial pace by… finally uploading some videos to my YouTube channel (*shameless plug*) that I already had recorded and sitting around. Next point of order: figure out what I can barter with one of my designer friends to get some proper social media banners and whatnots done up.
Feel better soon, David.
I know it’s a Jaws reference, but I’m of the Buffy generation (actually slightly too old, but I loved it), so for me it’s a meta quote. Xander, looking at a picture of the monster they have to defeat, watches as Giles folds out a page in a book, and says… well, you know what he says.
[For fellow Buffy fans, I know which monster, I know which episode, I organised a Buffy quiz for my 40th birthday, but I’m trying not to geek out – also I have a new phone and it keeps defaulting to Buddy. Aargh, with added Gerr.]
Please feel better soon, David.
Mentioned in the previous open thread, but the guardian has a safer link to click on: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/06/alberta-sexual-assault-victim-jail-investigation
A prosecutor and judge jailed the victim of a sexual assault to make sure she’d testify. More details in the story.
It took two years for the story to emerge.
I’m livid. Apparently, so is the Alberta justice minister.
It’s everything that is wrong about Canada, all rolled up into one:
– addiction
– homelessness
– sexual assault
– terrible judicial response
– systemic racism
– guns
– cuts to the CBC and investigative reporting
I also exist, and am the proud spinner of a new skein of yarn:
I also exist and am the proud spinner of a new skein of yarn blended by me.
Numerobis,
That happens in the US sometimes too. And people wonder why so many sexual assault victims are reluctant to report.
I can only conclude that making the process so horrific for victims has got to be a feature and not a bug.
@Victorious Parasol
That is some fine looking yarn! About how long did it take to spin that?
Sorry for your head pain david (( today i also disappointed. No shore leave in Philadelphia so i just going to sleep. Some very cute creatures!
WWTH : while I don’t have examples of anything *that* egregious, there is similar problems in France too.
I suspect countries (or even just police station) where reporting a rape is a good idea and not an exhausting ordeal are few and far between. And I am pretty sure it’s an horrifying feature.
@wwth;
That!
@numerobis What a horrifying situation that was. I wish I could say I was surprised, though. 🙁 I am somewhat gratified to see that there are people in high(er) places making a stink about it.
@dlouwe
Thank you. 🙂 About a week. I plan on turning it into an interesting neck thing of some kind.
I also exist! I’ve been looking for a place to live (which I found over the weekend) and organizing a move across the country (still a work in progress).
Things are moving quickly and we’re also trying to get my grandparents moved out of their house. It’s been a bit hectic.
@David
Hope you’re back on your feet soon!
@VP that is gorgeous! Now I want a scarf.
And baby stoats! Squeeeeee!
Weasal lookin’ forward to havin’ you back, David.
My beloved wife has a book on Smashwords! The first of many!
Update – did not go ashore, did not yet sleep, but i just watched all of Mean Girls when i trying to decide if i should watch something…..?
They’re good stoats, Bryant! Currently rereading thru the Redwall books, and Brian Jacques really coulda used a buncha 13/10 ‘vermin’ pics…
Speaking of, @dog_rates recently sold a covfefe hat on his storefront and decided to donate proceeds to Planned Parenthood. The usual shitholes got mad, so he placated them by donating to PP and matching donations to a dog shelter. Good compromise, I suppose. They don’t deserve compromise, but it is what it is. And a couple of great orgs get some funds 🙂
@Falconer
Cheap and short, my favorite kinda book! I’ll pick it up when I’m done with this one maybe ?
Twitter is so wonderfully civilized these days.
Sarcasm not marked.
Oh hey, @Axecalibur, is there any rhyme or reason in the Redwall books as to which mammals get to be heroes and which mammals can only be villains? At first I thought it was predators vs. prey animals, but there’s plenty of predators on the hero side; then I thought it was vermin vs. Beatrix Potter animals, only there are mice and moles on the hero team.
I like stoats. Not least of which because it’s an anagram of toast.
Cogito ergo stoats?
Speaking of covfefe, I have had the weirdest week. A friend posted about how the reaction to the typo was disproportionate to its actual political importance (fair enough); another friend replied that it was an example of how “SJWs” are destroying discourse (or something like that.) A few folks, myself included, commented that such terms are hard to take seriously… and the dude went nuclear, and has spent the ensuing days posting multi-thousand word rants about “SJW language police”, accusing us of every crime known to man, and generally making things incredibly awkward. I feel bad for the friend whose discussion got derailed, and a little guilty for laughing at the guy, as his outburst approaches its second week.