CripplePunk, Atheist, Liberal, Wife, Parent, Dog Mommy, Friend, Ally. I swear a fucking lot. Sowing chaos since 1964. All content on this blog is copyrighted under the Creative Commons license. See link. GABBA GABBA HEY! FUCK MAGA! FUCK TRUMP! WOKE AND PROUD!
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
One year and thirty days ago, on October 1 of 2024, I had a stroke. Luckily, it was VERY minor and I have had no residual issues. I have been absolutely RIGID about taking my blood thinners and all that, and seeing my cardiologist about my atrial fibrillation, to ensure that doesn't get any worse, which can cause strokes.
Yay for minor strokes and surviving!
I'm pasting in common signs of stroke. Watch for these in yourself and in your loved ones. For me, it was the fact that I couldn't type accurately with my left hand that made me think I best go to the ER.
If you experience any of these signs, get your ass to the hospital, PRONTO! Early and fast treatment is key to surviving with minimal lingering and disabling problems.
I was absolutely exhausted yesterday. Still recovering from going to the doctor on Monday. It wears me out to leave the house, I'm telling you!
So yesterday I laid down for a nap at about 4 PM.
I woke up to my midnight medication alarm and did that, then zonked out until just now, 6:45 AM.
And boy howdy, was that a good, restful, rejuvenating sleep! I really needed this!
You're doing it now.
Romance scammers aren’t looking for love; they’re hunting for vulnerability wrapped in hope. These digital con artists craft fake personas, often charming, successful, and conveniently far away, and deploy them across dating apps, social media platforms, and even gaming communities. Their goal isn’t connection; it’s control. Once they’ve hooked a target emotionally, they pivot to manipulation, often spinning elaborate tales of emergency, tragedy, or opportunity that require urgent financial help.
Scammers profile potential victims with surgical precision. They look for signs of loneliness, recent loss, or emotional openness. Public posts, dating bios, and comment threads become reconnaissance zones. Widowed, divorced, or newly single individuals, especially those expressing a desire for companionship, are prime targets. The scammer’s playbook is adaptive: they mirror interests, mimic emotional cadence, and escalate intimacy fast, all while steering the conversation away from video calls or in-person meetings.
In this article, we discuss warning signs of romance scammers, and how to avoid them.
They did the MRI, folks, a tremendous MRI, probably the best anyone’s ever seen. The doctors came in, they said, “Sir, we’ve never seen anything like it.” They were amazed, actually, one of them had tears in his eyes, beautiful tears, because it was so perfect. Perfect symmetry, perfect everything. They said, “Sir, your MRI, it’s magnificent, like looking at the Mona Lisa if the Mona Lisa had a brain.”
Why is it that Sam expects me to be wide awake and able to make decisions and converse on current events when my brain is not fully booted up?
Twenty-one years of marriage and he still does not understand that just because I am upright with my eyes open does NOT mean that I am cognizant of a damn thing!
Men!
Donald Trump isn’t waiting to test the limits of our republic — he’s already smashing them.
Reblog from Jim Heath inside:
I just downloaded something called Wispr, which is voice-to-text software. I'm testing it out today. Forgive any weird typos, it's the software, not me.
It seems to be working pretty well. I only get 2,000 words a month with the free version. I may have to pay for this. We'll see how it goes. I'm so fucking tired of neuropathy and carpal tunnel I could fucking scream.
Computer stuff is fucking awesome though.
When our national fucking nightmare is over, we need to tear down everything this motherfucker has done and rebuild what he has destroyed.
What is happening to the White House is a metaphor for what this absolute piece of shit piss gargling maggot fucking prick has done to the entire nation. Where the HELL is Luigi when we really need him?
BREAKING: SHARE AND SHAME! Here’s the full uncensored list of the Young Republicans leaders whose racist, rapey, pro-Hitler group text messages leaked in yesterday’s horrifying bombshell.
Let’s make sure their future potential employers to avoid hiring them like the plague!
These are the deplorables who “joked” with each other in private chats over the course of seven months during the Trump administration, thinking that they were impervious to accountability. Their lives all changed radically yesterday when Politico exposed their disgusting texts for all the world to see.
Of the nine people on the list, four are part of the New York chapter of the Young Republicans, two are from the Kansas chapter, two from the Vermont organization, and one from Arizona.
The New York participants are all senior members of the state’s Young Republican organization and are closely associated with Representatives Elise Stefanik and Mike Lawler. They Include:
Peter Giunta — The chair of the New York Young Republicans, Giunta was guilty of making a “joke” about gas chambers in relation to his campaign to become the head of the Young Republican National Federation.
“Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber. And everyone that endorsed but then votes for us is going to the gas chamber,” Giunta texted in the chat, adding that he only wanted “true believers” in his organization. He’s also someone who has proclaimed his allegiance to teenage New York Republicans who “support slavery and all that shit.” This is a man who felt comfortable joking about suicide, saying that he wanted to encourage another Young Republican member to “unalive himself on the convention floor.”
Giunta made a non-apology after his texts were discovered, claiming to accept “complete responsibility,” but going on to speculate that the messages released “may have been deceptively doctored.”
Bobby Walker — Giunta’s vice chair of the New York Young Republicans, Walker had the temerity to call rape “epic” in one of his texts. He also claimed that the texts may have been manipulated before offering a belated apology for his words.
Joe Maligno — The general counsel of the New York organization, Maligno thought that a jocular comment on gas chambers was an appropriate thing to write. "Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic," he contributed to one thread.
Annie Kaykaty — Kaykaty was another New York State Young Republicans national committee member who found gas chambers were a laughing matter. "I’m ready to watch people burn now," she wrote.
The chat participants from Kansas were no less offensive:
Alex Dwyer — The chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, Dwyer thought that it was funny to reply to a question about his hotel room number with “1488,” a number beloved by White supremacists because “14” symbolizes the 14 words in a neo-Nazi slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." With “H” being the 8th letter of the alphabet, proto-fascists consider it as shorthand for “Heil Hitler.”
William Hendrix — Dwyer’s vice chair in the Kansas organization, Hendrix has no problem dropping the N-word and homophobic slurs throughout his texts. A former communications director for Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, Hendrix also likes to engage in blatant racist stereotyping, as when he wrote: “Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and Kool-Aid with that?”
Samuel and Brianna Douglass — Samuel is a Vermont State Senator. His wife Brianna is a committee member for the Vermont Young Republicans. They both have no problem expressing their antisemitism freely. When Samuel informed the group that a procedural mistake over the number of delegates from Maryland allowed to attend the organization's national convention was possibly made by someone who was Jewish, his wife Brianna replied: “I was about to say that you’re giving nationals to [sic] much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest.”
Luke Mosiman — How much worse can it get than having Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, call for the rape of the chair of the Young Republican National Federation, Hayden Padgett? In all caps, Mosiman texted “RAPE HAYDEN.” He also suggested trying to link white supremacist groups to an opponent before realizing that this plan could actually backfire and give more support to the other candidate.
While other Republicans have been quick to condemn these political operatives as rogue members of their party and have tried to disassociate themselves from them, the fact of the matter is that these were not just ordinary members of the public, but senior officials in the Republican Party’s youth organization. They are about as representative of the values and behavior of the modern MAGA-fied version of the Republican Party as you can get.
Please share to spread their shame! Credit to Occupy Democrats.
The duplicitous, Nosferatu, Grim Reaper, Crypt Keeper, turtle on a half shell, old bitter bastard McConnell could have stoped a trump in its track, perhaps ensuring that his legacy being having an ethical backbone more important than lining his pockets; again. (More inside)
You tell me. Is Portland really full of terrorists who are just itching to kill law enforcement? The place Trump says is burning to the ground and looks worse than World War II?
Or does Kristi know that that's a big load of bullshit.
Enquiring minds want to know.
I just learned that Francis Drake is my 8th great grandfather.
That's so freaky.
The man was quite the navigator. But he was also a slaver early on, and a brutal fucking pirate, and of course there was the Rathlin Island Massacre and other atrocities and controversies. So he was basically a good sailor, but a piece of shit person... (family tree images inside)
The following was said to me by a dear Ukrainian friend, who at this moment is hiding in a basement for safety from Russian shelling occurring in his city. He gave me permission to share it here, but asked that I not give his name, because Putin is a murdering fuckbag who will go all revenge if he manages to finish his illegal attempt of the takeover of a free and independent nation...
BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries VERBALLY DISMEMBERS a MAGA congressman for ambushing him in the hallway: "Did your boss, Donald Trump, give you permission?"
And he was just getting warmed up. This is exactly the kind of humiliation that these Republican cowards deserve...
Now the page brings you to a big spammy piece of bullshit full of useless FAQs, and chats with a pissgargling AI bot. It's VERY difficult to sort out how to get a fucking human being.
And when you finally do, well. Now when you ask for a web chat with customer service, guess what you get? Another fucking bot. So you tell it you want to talk to an associate...
I have several best friends. These are the women and men that I am absolutely closest to and would swim nekkid with...
Two ibuprofen. Two tylenol. One teaspoon of Kratom mixed in 1/4 cup chocolate milk. Compression gloves and wrist braces. This all adds up to GOOD sleep!
I wake up pain free, too, which has not happened in years...
It's thick, viscous, salty, and kind of musty tasting, and it positively REEKS of yeast. You do not GROW to like it, you either do or you don't. There is positively no middle ground. You love it or you despise it. Period. Nobody has EVER said, "Well, when it comes to Vegemite, I can take it or leave it!"...
"Jackson, during a press conference at the White House in 2018, told reporters that Trump “has incredibly good genes, and it’s just the way God made him. I told the president that if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200 years old.”...
But on Substack, many MANY writers are asking for payment of $10+ per month to read their posts. $10. For one person's thoughts. Which may be posted daily, weekly, or once or twice a month...
