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Skeltering, without helter, in place. That place is US America.

"America: Premodern Leadership for Postmodern Times."
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Update: Mom broke down and is feeding, much jockeying for position and little squeals from the pups.
Night vision video screenshot of many Springer Spaniel puppies trying to get to mother's milk spigots in Finland. A human hand reaches in from the right to facilitate.
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Found this sticker out today. I understand the impulse but you're gonna need liberals in order to defeat the fascists.
Found sticker. Red background with white text which says "SCRATCH A LIBERAL'S TESLA AND A FASCIST BLEEDS." Includes an image of a black Tesla logo scratched by a white key.
October 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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That sounds fantastic. Cooler sauce is great particularly as my palate has changed this year.

I have an overabundance of superhot peppers so my fridge is basically a bio-hazard with sauces, and I've resorted to dehydrating and powdering them. Your post reminded me to harvest again.
Late harvest: A garden basket mostly full of superhot peppers (orange, red, and yellow). Two green bell peppers from my miracle plant (the main stem was bent doubled-over before planting and I secured it straightened figuring it wouldn't work, but it did!). Also some cherry tomatoes (red and black), and an irregular shaped orange tomato.
October 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Slow Horses S05E02 "Incommunicado," an outstanding episode full of trenchant character touches.

Jackson Lamb on empathy: "Yeah, the person I got most sympathy for is me for having to put up with you."
Screenshot from S05E02 of "Slow Horses." Fancy restaurant interior, with Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) standing at the table addressing seated River Cartwright (Jack Lowden). Subtitles for Lamb's spoken dialogue: "Yeah, the person I got most sympathy for is me for having to put up with you." Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) is in the background.
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Yikes! We know how this ends.
A still from the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last." Burgess Meredith, standing in front of stacks of books on a building's steps, is dejectedly surveying his damaged eyeglasses.
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Since season 5 of Slow Horses has begun, I bring you wisdom and inspiration from Jackson Lamb in episode 1.

"Well, I personally don't plan to do much."
Jackson Lamb (played by Gary Oldman) in S05E01 of "Slow Horses," looking shabby and sitting with his legs up at his shabby desk in his shabby office eating something he's holding in a patterned paper napkin. He speaks and the subtitles read "Well, I personally don't plan to do much." I would describe in more detail how he appears but in reality he's mainly just shabby and greasy.
September 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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That site isn't responding well, so here's an image. Again, the hands are attached to a quartz mechanism so it functions as a normal clock.
Looks like a common "Will Return" sign in red, white, blue with black number and letters. "Will Return" written at the top with a clockface below. When used by businesses, they set the hands to when they will reopen. However, this functioning clock from Kikkerland by David Dear actually operates, so the "Will Return" time is ever moving forward.
September 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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This is my 92% friend Lily. About 6 years old they say. Looks goldie-ish, but just ish right?
A dog that looks kinda like a golden retriever stands 3/4 body profile looking at the camera dogilly.
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Glad to get 4/5 on this difficult Wikipedia "Which happened First" quiz game. Keeps me away from more pernicious websites.
Categories include Principality of Hungary, Thuringia, Bishop of Chichester, Harvard Yale Regatta, and Niagara Falls. Other more obscure topics were left off this image for some reason.
August 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I mean c'mon: 1 minute in and I'm already doubled over.

Tom Basden (benefits advisor) explains why the dog-food tasting job won't have her back.
From the beginning of Mandy S04E01: Generic office desk shot of Tom Basden (jacket and tie, seated facing us) as Benefits Advisor addressing Diane Morgan as Mandy Carter (just a bit of her left profile as she looks at the advisor). Explaining why the dog-food tasting job won't have her back, he says: "They say you stole 17 tins of Gammon and Tripe for Senior Dogs."
July 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Superhot peppers are often ugly but I find these (faddas I believe) very attractive.
8 hot red peppers all in a row on gray canvas backing. Two small yellow tomatoes added for the hell of it
July 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Finally got 5/5 on the "Which Came First" game at Wikipedia. Knick of time as the world is sure to end soon.
Results page for Wikipedia "which happened first" game. I got 5 of 5.
July 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This but with a bomber.
Trump excited about sitting behind the wheel of a truck. Jim Credit Lo Scalzo / EPA
June 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Hard to believe my first edible peppers from the garden are Antohi Romani.
Two elongated light yellow-green Antohi Romanian peppers.
May 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I've enjoyed looking at Ralph Pratt's The Vanilla Book. Stripped down basic versions of standards. They're not always perfect (e.g. Round Midnight in Ebm is relative to Gb, not Db) but it's good to see the barebones.

www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html
A text rendering of the chord changes for Thelonius Monk's tune 'Round Midnight from Ralph Pratt's The Vanilla Book. Note that while it's in Ebm, Pratt says the relative major is Db but in reality the relative major is Gb (a small issue). The changes are pasted below: 'ROUND MIDNIGHT Key of Ebm (Db) 4/4 [: Ebm | F7 Bb7 | Ebm7 Ab7 | Bm7 E7 Bbm7 Eb7 | 1.___________________________ | Abm7 Db7 | Gb Cb | Cm7b5 F7 | Bb7 :] 2.__________________________ | F7 Bb7 | Eb | Cm7b5 F7 | Bb7 | | Cm7b5 F7 | Bb7 | Fm7b5 Bb7 | Cm7b5 F7 | | Db7 B7 | Fm7b5 Bb7 | Ebm | F7 Bb7 | | Ebm7 Ab7 | Bm7 E7 Bbm7 Eb7 | Abm7 Db7 | Gb Cb | | F7 Bb7 | Eb |
May 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Remarkable impersonation, Mish-Mish.
A photograph of an elderly white-haired woman (Eudora Welty) in a whitish blouse and lavender sweater sitting on a leather couch. Index finger of both hands are on her cheeks. The image has been rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise to reveal a striking resemblance to the cat Mish-Mish.
May 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Hegseth now:
The character Otis Campbell from the Andy Griffith Show (played by Hal Smith) in a distressed hat and rumpled jacket, shirt and tie. He appears about to drunkenly speak. The image is in color.
April 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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That TV studio probably had to be exorcised.

Ran across this David Fiuczynski double-neck. I think the top is a fretless electric 12-string.
April 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Adorable. (Sorry graphics people for errors. I just swiped this to see.)
Amateur copy of the logo for The Museum of English Rural Life: Large rectilinear "M" left of the name. The upper left corner of the "M" is a small yellow triangle which looks like a blackbird's beak (when you know what to look for at least).
April 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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"Philip Timms with his Helicon E flat bass, Vancouver, B.C." (1909) Timms wears a military-esque uniform with visor hat. The helicon, a now-defunct brass instrument, encircles his torso. The helicon looks similar to a modern sousaphone but is slighter and has a less pronounced bell.
February 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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February 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Love the NFL players who parodied her in a touchdown celebration.
Two pictures side-by-side. On the right, the notorious Australian Olympic breakdancer Raygun in her kangaroo-like pose. On the left members of the Minnesota Vikings football team in a celebration after an interception, with one player (Cam Bynum) mimicking Raygun's kangaroo pose.
December 9, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Happy birthday Jim Hall.

Love his playing and the maximally dorky look he displays on his first LP, 1957.
The cover of Jim Hall's 1957 LP "Jazz Guitar." In the right background an artist in a red shirt executes a b&w action painting of a guitarist. In the foreground left Hall holds a stereotypical hollow body jazz guitar. He wears a jacket and tie and clunky eyeglasses and grins broadly and dorkily.
December 4, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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Can't believe I'm still getting peppers the week of Thanksgiving.
Twelve orange and red small very hot peppers in a mesh colander.
November 25, 2024 at 10:20 PM