Some Kind of Weasel Open Thread

Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
Photographer Martin Le-May was walking through a London park with his wife, hoping to show her a green woodpecker for the first time, when he snapped this incredible photo: a weasel riding a flying woodpecker.

It's real. It's not a photo of a commuting weasel, but a weasel attempting and failing to have lunch.

As much as we'd love to say this weasel is embarking on an epic journey atop his very own luck dragon, what Le-May actually witnessed was a failed attempt at lunch. Small and adorable as they may be, weasels are voracious hunters and have been known to chomp down on a wide variety of prey items including moles, squirrels, hares, snakes and birds.
"The woodpecker landed in front of us and I feared the worst," says Le-May. "I guess our presence, maybe 25 metres away, momentarily distracted the weasel. The woodpecker seized the opportunity and flew up and away into some bushes away to our left. Quickly the bird gathered its self-respect and flew up into the trees and away from our sight. The weasel just disappeared into the long grass, hungry."

Weasel doesn’t leave his friend behind
https://t.co/Gw7M1hCpzg
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) September 16, 2025

It's amazing what security cameras catch on film.
This one caught a Weasel having a lot of fun jumping on a trampoline in the early morning. ♥️ https://t.co/4AoDTEJZMh
— PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE (@Protect_Wldlife) May 5, 2025

Not a weasel:

Meet the Jaguarundi.
They are a small, slender wild cat native to the Americas, ranging from southern Texas to South America. Resembling an Otter or Weasel due to their long body, short legs, and small head, it is often called the "Otter Cat". Unlike most Cats, they are diurnal, hunting during the day for small prey.
They are slightly larger than domestic Cats with plain, unspotted coats that come in two main color phases: dark brownish-grey or rusty red.
🎦 Credit: Tico’s Wild Studio.
— PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE (@Protect_Wldlife) April 18, 2026

A couple of months ago I posted a video of a "bearcat," which I wrongly called a "maturon" or something. A commenter told the critter's actual name was a binturong. (I didn't correct it because I only saw this on my phone and it's hard to edit via the phone.)

Anyway, here's a short video about binturongs.

Posted by: Ace at 05:20 PM

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Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 12, 2026 05:21 PM (l26NL)

2 Weasel!

Posted by: goatexchange at October 12, 2026 05:22 PM (hyS0X)

3 A weasel thread with no guns? WTF?

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 12, 2026 05:22 PM (vSvIl)

4 I think the weasel trampoline video is fake but could easily happen. They are funny little slinky creatures

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:23 PM (nIKjK)

5 Weasel are nothing compared to stoats which are literally homicidal, brain eating maniacs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2026 05:24 PM (XV/Pl)

6 Curtis LeMay >Martin Le-May

*Sends B-29s to firebomb weasels*

Posted by: That Guy Who Was In 'Nam at October 12, 2026 05:24 PM (ZOv7s)

7 Yes, Lake Calhoun, you looney tunes:

Christine
@Christi43919339
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It's called Lake Calhoun.

Governor Tim Walz
@GovTimWalz
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This morning we gathered on the shores of Bde Maka Ska to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day - a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and urban Native communities that continue to enrich Minnesota’s cultural landscape.

Posted by: beckster at October 12, 2026 05:24 PM (kX27y)

8 It does have a funny face but it's still a nice looking cat.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 12, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

9 I have no snarky comments to make about weasels. Boo hoo

Posted by: Martin Tell at October 12, 2026 05:25 PM (9Q7BZ)

10 Whoops

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 12, 2026 05:25 PM (ZOv7s)

11 "Binturong" sounds like some kind of exotic tea.

"Would you care for some binturong? I made it fresh."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:25 PM (wzUl9)

12 My brain just heard Pauly Shore "weeee-asel"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 12, 2026 05:25 PM (Vdk5e)

13 That Jaguarundi's fur is incredible. How pretty.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026 05:26 PM (mkw2N)

14 I like most animals...except weasels. Up in New England they can be a real problem. They're too damn smart and work together. I used to sit on my porch watching the little shits open the latch on my sanitation receptacle, then work together to open the lid....Smorgasbord of trash, and mess I had to clean up later.

I ended up getting an CO2 pistol to pick them off without putting holes in my garbage cans.

Posted by: Orson at October 12, 2026 05:26 PM (dIske)

15 This morning we gathered on the shores of Bde Maka Ska
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How are you supposed to pronounce that shit? No wonder the Injuns lost the continent. They must've been high as kites.

Posted by: Martin Tell at October 12, 2026 05:26 PM (9Q7BZ)

16
222 197 SMH, al-Q owns about all the northeast half of Mali and a good bit of Burkina Faso. I was linking to Warfronts earlier.
I think al-Q's endgame isn't so much as to take over Mali but to make it something like Syria. A hardline Islamist government which lets al-Q do what they want.

Posted by: 88C+u
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#1 - America, Muslim free
#2 - Africa, all traditional non-Muslim states, Muslim free.
we should train up and arm up, Christian and Jewish Africans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 05:27 PM (BzKNL)

17 Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.

They do, however, sometimes get carried up a wall by their nose.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 12, 2026 05:27 PM (FZ29D)

18 11 "Binturong" sounds like some kind of exotic tea.

"Would you care for some binturong? I made it fresh."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:25 PM (wzUl9)

Sounds like a surfboard wax brand to me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 12, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

19 This morning we gathered on the shores of Bde Maka Ska to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day - a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and urban Native communities that continue to enrich Minnesota’s cultural landscape.
Posted by: beckster

I wish I was an Indian
A grown up Sioux papoose
So when I get drunk on a beer and half
I've got a good excuse
-Middle Class Liberal Well Intentioned Blues

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 12, 2026 05:27 PM (l26NL)

20 The muslims probably don't do land acknowledgements in London or the rest of Britain.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 12, 2026 05:28 PM (thWUr)

21 Stoats will do what is called "Surplus Killing."

If they get into an enclosure or den that contains multiple animals, they will kill or attempt to kill every animal present, far more than they would be able to consume.

They have found stoat dens stacked with numerous dead prey with their brains eaten out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2026 05:29 PM (XV/Pl)

22 This morning we gathered on the shores of Bde Maka Ska to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day - a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and urban Native communities that continue to enrich Minnesota’s cultural landscape.
Posted by: beckster at October 12, 2026 05:24 PM (kX27y)
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Oh my god STFU Walz you lumbering faggot

Posted by: ballistic at October 12, 2026 05:29 PM (oqH4h)

23 The jaguarundi is only in black, or does it also show up with a patterned coat?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:29 PM (wzUl9)

24 Stoataway

Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2026 05:30 PM (GHE5A)

25 11 "Binturong" sounds like some kind of exotic tea.

"Would you care for some binturong? I made it fresh."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:25 PM (wzUl9)
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First thing I think of is biltong, which is basically South African style jerky.

Posted by: ballistic at October 12, 2026 05:30 PM (oqH4h)

26 20 The muslims probably don't do land acknowledgements in London or the rest of Britain.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 12, 2026 05:28 PM (thWUr)

Yeah, you aren't going to hear the Turks doing land acknowledgments to the Romans and Byzantines that they conquered and colonized their lands.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 12, 2026 05:30 PM (6ydKt)

27 Ya gotta just watch those Weasels. And their wobbly sh*t.

Posted by: RI Red at October 12, 2026 05:30 PM (+g09R)

28 18 11 "Binturong" sounds like some kind of exotic tea.

"Would you care for some binturong? I made it fresh."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026
*
Sounds like a surfboard wax brand to me.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 12, 2026

***
And it's a floor wax and a dessert topping too!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:31 PM (wzUl9)

29 I LOVE the photo of the flying weasel!!!

The woodpecker pilot looks insane. Like that wacko islamic radical pilot who tried to crash the plane recently. I hope he had an all woman surgical team that made him feel icky. After his pube shave-a-thon he hoped he'd be in hell with virgins.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 12, 2026 05:31 PM (hzuYO)

30 @15

>>How are you supposed to pronounce that shit? No wonder the Injuns lost the continent.

They lost the continent because the were literally savages in the fullest expression of that meaning and no ability to defend against a more numerous, more organized, more technologically advanced population.

They also didn't have deeds to anything or even the concept of ownership.

Which, sucked for them but ultimately led to the greatest country in the history of mankind.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2026 05:32 PM (XV/Pl)

31 Stoats will do what is called "Surplus Killing."

If they get into an enclosure or den that contains multiple animals, they will kill or attempt to kill every animal present, far more than they would be able to consume.

They have found stoat dens stacked with numerous dead prey with their brains eaten out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2026 05:29 PM (XV/Pl)

More stoats, please.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 12, 2026 05:32 PM (ecIaf)

32 It's Lake Lebarge, you Pick 6 idiot!

Posted by: Sam McGee at October 12, 2026 05:33 PM (wVcYX)

33
AoSHQ Style Manual:

All non-human animals are some variety of weasel.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 12, 2026 05:33 PM (y9nCu)

34 I turned my compost heap. It took about an hour, and I am surprised it went that fast. It has ben a dry summer, so the bottom layers that were decomposed the most just shoveled up like bark dust.
The top layers were stinking and anerobic, so they are now re-fluffled and insulated from the top so I should be getting some heating in a day or too.
I found a garter snake when I was shoveling, but no mice this time.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 12, 2026 05:33 PM (rbvCR)

35 Stoats, here to chew gum and stack bodies. Unfortunately we're short on gum.

Posted by: ballistic at October 12, 2026 05:34 PM (oqH4h)

36 My SIL captured an image of a fisher cat on his backyard trail cameras just last year. Considering how shy they are, it was a pretty remarkable thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 12, 2026 05:34 PM (nfMN3)

37 >>How are you supposed to pronounce that shit?

It's completely fabricated.
It's not a language and that is not an alphabet.

Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2026 05:34 PM (GHE5A)

38 That woodpecker chose the lesser of two weasels.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 12, 2026 05:34 PM (wGerL)

39
...a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and urban Native communities that continue to enrich Minnesota’s cultural landscape.

Are the 'Dishu Skinnies among those 11 sovereign Tribal Nations? Do their eating establishments honor Diner's Club cards?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 12, 2026 05:35 PM (ixS3i)

40 >>My SIL captured an image of a fisher cat on his backyard trail cameras just last year. Considering how shy they are, it was a pretty remarkable thing.

Fishers are all over out here. Very entertaining to watch from a treestand. They are just straight punks to everyone and everything.

Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2026 05:36 PM (GHE5A)

41 Watching The Tingler on Movies! IMDb says that the actress who plays the mute wife of the movie theater owner, and who dies of fright in the story, had worked with Vincent Price before. She played the manipulated, terrified wife in the 1941 play Angel Street, with Price as the devilish husband.

We know the film version of that play now as Gaslight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:36 PM (wzUl9)

42 Self-willowed:

speaking of Breaking Bad, RJ Mitte (Walter White Jr.) has died. He was 34.
Suicide.
Posted by: 88C+u

That's a shame.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 12, 2026 04:55 PM (l26NL)

When I was bartending in LA, I met aa lot of actors and actresses, who had one moment of success.

Then nothing.

Like there was this one gal I dated who had been in the "Oh, whaat a feeling!" Toyota commercial a few years earlier. "I was the second girl from the left." then nothing.

She was still sure that old commercial would be her big break.

But, plenty of others too. Almost all a part non-speaking part in some TV show or commercial. Some were still clinging to hope based on that one tiny shot ten years later.

In any event, I imagine that poor guy thought being Walter White kid was a HUGE set toward stardom. Ten years later, when it wasn't, he probably finally lost all hope of his Hollywood dream.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 12, 2026 05:36 PM (YSUhf)

43 19. Wow, a spot-on quotation from "Lemmings." Super impressed.

Posted by: Martin Tell at October 12, 2026 05:36 PM (9Q7BZ)

44 My neighbor has a tree that has maintained the interest of a local woodpecker year after year. Mr. Woodpecker makes nice, neat horizontal lines of holes 1/4 inch or so apart. The tree seems to be thriving, so whatever insects the woodpecker finds haven't killed the tree yet.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026 05:36 PM (mkw2N)

45 Woodpecker was playing this loudly for the flying weasel:

Don't Fear the Reaper
Blue Oyster Cult, 1976 and the year I met my dude
https://tinyurl.com/4aykf8y3

Favorite song to drive to if I'm in a hurry (or on open I-10 in Walton County, FL). My last speeding ticket and a surprise for my dude and baby sons who were napping. What can I say? I wanted to surprise him with my record time.

Time was part of my upbringing as Daddy always wanted to beat his own time on trips. I thought this was normal, like yelling at refs in basketball games.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 12, 2026 05:36 PM (hzuYO)

46 That weasel is trying out London's new air taxi service.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 12, 2026 05:37 PM (wVcYX)

47 I bet a stoat could have successfully executed Christa Pike.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2026 05:37 PM (XV/Pl)

48
They lost the continent because the were literally savages in the fullest expression of that meaning and no ability to defend against a more numerous, more organized, more technologically advanced population.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2026 05:32 PM (XV/Pl)

Injuns and pretty much every tribe in the Americas couldn't even figure out that technological wonder, The Wheel. Good luck conducting any sort of trade without wheeled carts/wagons to transport your goods.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 12, 2026 05:37 PM (y9nCu)

49 >>My neighbor has a tree that has maintained the interest of a local woodpecker year after year. Mr. Woodpecker makes nice, neat horizontal lines of holes 1/4 inch or so apart.

Possible that might be a Sapsucker? They do that to trees and then return to eat the insects trapped in the sap bleeding out of the holes, iirc.

Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2026 05:37 PM (GHE5A)

50 34. Ah, go fluff your compost.

Posted by: Martin Tell at October 12, 2026 05:38 PM (9Q7BZ)

51 These deer are out of control.

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Not a deer exactly but . . .

https://tinyurl.com/yb9zv29e

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 12, 2026 05:38 PM (ndZc7)

52 The entire weasel, stoat, mink, etc, family are bloodthirsty savages. They should be eradicated any time they are found.

Posted by: No Mercy! at October 12, 2026 05:38 PM (EdP2u)

53 They have found stoat dens stacked with numerous dead prey with their brains eaten out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2026 05:29 PM (XV/Pl)

Do they take requests?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 12, 2026 05:39 PM (Sco7b)

54 You binturong!

You scare my wife!

You leave now!

Posted by: All-you-can-eat Chinese buffet Owner at October 12, 2026 05:39 PM (YcOeP)

55 @48

>>Good luck conducting any sort of trade without wheeled carts/wagons to transport your goods.

Yep, they really had nothing to offer, no technology, no innovation, not even advanced survival skills or ingenuity.

They had a hot woman or two I suppose, but that's not enough to barter with.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2026 05:40 PM (XV/Pl)

56 Which, sucked for them but ultimately led to the greatest country in the history of mankind.

I have a tough time feeling that badly for the native American tribesman. Life as a woman was brutally bad for them, but even the men lived a subsistence lifestyle in stone age technology and almost constantly at war. Other than the Pacific coast tribes who lived in comparative ease would have nice big parties where they ate captives.

Being introduced to medicine, clothing, buildings, farming, commerce, and technology was a huge upgrade. Well worth abandoning my "rich cultural heritage" of beating rocks together and starving all winter in a hide tent.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:41 PM (nIKjK)

57 Which, sucked for them but ultimately led to the greatest country in the history of mankind.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2026 05:32 PM (XV/Pl)
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Nixon deciding to restore the treaty system was probably his second worst idea (EPA being the worst).

Instead of assimilating, retaining their heritage but finding opportunity, it convinced them to stay on the res, get drunk, and nurse grudges while indulging in super-corrupt petty politics.

it also created the fiction that where they happened to be in 1878 or whenever was their "ancestral lands," when most of them had only been there for a few decades. The colonists in New England and Virginia had longer and deeper ties to their lands.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 12, 2026 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)

58 That headline picture can't be real

Posted by: Skip at October 12, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

59 Injuns and pretty much every tribe in the Americas couldn't even figure out that technological wonder, The Wheel.

"hey white eyes, we figured out the wheel, we made a big one in the mountains and used it to worship!"
--Chief Big Piles

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:42 PM (nIKjK)

60 Hey guys,

We have a launch in about 2 hours.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 15-25
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 12, 2026 (PDT)
Launch Time: 5:11 p.m PDT. (October 13, 0011 UTC, 02:11 CEST)

https://youtu.be/tnX-_tmsNgU

Posted by: Joyenz at October 12, 2026 05:42 PM (2F0/Y)

61 48 55 >>>Good luck conducting any sort of trade without wheeled carts
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Yeah, I always forget to research wheeled carts in "Age of Empires" until its too late. Gets my ass kicked every time.

Posted by: Martin Tell at October 12, 2026 05:42 PM (9Q7BZ)

62 All non-human animals are some variety of weasel.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

And many human animals.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 12, 2026 05:43 PM (ndZc7)

63 My father had a friend who had a salmon farm on a Norwegian fjord, a netted off cove, full of thousands of fish. We approached his place by boat, he was out shooting a .22 at a pilfering mink.

Posted by: Kill Em All! at October 12, 2026 05:43 PM (EdP2u)

64 That sort of nonsense makes me laugh....and sad:

The City of Vancouver officially renamed Trutch Street in the Kitsilano neighborhood to šx ʷməθk ʷəy̓əma səm Street (pronounced sh-MUS-quee-um-AW-sum).

F*ck...I can't even handle the pronunciation key on that one.

Posted by: Orson at October 12, 2026 05:44 PM (dIske)

65 Whoa. People mentioned BB in an earlier thread.

GatewayPundit.

“Breaking Bad” star RJ Mitte has died at the age of 34.

According to TMZ, RJ Mitte died by suicide on Monday in Texas.

RJ Mitte played Walter White Jr. on “Breaking Bad,” the highly popular television series created by Vince Gilligan.

Mitte was diagnosed with a mild case of cerebral palsy when he was a child

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 12, 2026 05:44 PM (Sco7b)

66
Sign posted in the woods:

Attention Weasels Do Not Rape, Sexually Harass, Or Make Kissing Noises At Woodpeckers.

Their Fancy Feathers and Currently Empty Cloacas Are No Excuse For Raape.

Woodpecker Cloacas Are a No-No Zone for All Weasels

Please Watch this No-No Dance performed by Woodapeckers!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 12, 2026 05:44 PM (YSUhf)

67 When I was bartending in LA, I met aa lot of actors and actresses, who had one moment of success.
Posted by: naturalfake

I saw him in exactly one film after BB, a low rent thriller on Prime. Sad.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 12, 2026 05:45 PM (l26NL)

68 The entire weasel, stoat, mink, etc, family are bloodthirsty savages. They should be eradicated any time they are found.
Posted by: No Mercy!

If they take out the mice, I'll let them have clemency

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 12, 2026 05:45 PM (vJrRc)

69 My wife's family in Norway raised mink and silver fox for fur. Not cuddly in the least, either species.

Posted by: Nice Pelts, Though at October 12, 2026 05:45 PM (EdP2u)

70 Injuns and pretty much every tribe in the Americas couldn't even figure out that technological wonder, The Wheel.

Yeah the "sacred lands" in South Dakota were just a way to prevent white people from turfing them out again, not any sort of reality. They lean heavily on that these days, and mythology like "smallpox blankets" and "mass graves in Canada."

White people are easy to manipulate if you convince them they did something terrible to you in the past.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:46 PM (nIKjK)

71 I am alone with some kind of weasel.

Posted by: wth at October 12, 2026 05:46 PM (UjdFS)

72 I'd say the Indians had pretty good survival skills. Esp. the ones in the desert Southwest. If you didn't know how to find water and hunt successfully, you didn't live to breed.

Technology and innovation, no. But surviving (until Europeans came anyway), they were good at.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:46 PM (wzUl9)

73 The City of Vancouver officially renamed Trutch Street in the Kitsilano neighborhood to šx ʷməθk ʷəy̓əma səm Street (pronounced sh-MUS-quee-um-AW-sum).

F*ck...I can't even handle the pronunciation key on that one.

Posted by: Orson at October 12, 2026 05:44 PM

America kisses the ass of blacks and muslims.
Our natives get never-ending rimjobs.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 12, 2026 05:46 PM (Sco7b)

74 >> šx ʷməθk ʷəy̓əma səm Street

They do this shit north of me on the Rez.

'Main St.' will be the translation of something that looks like what you wrote above.

Then, a 4 character 'word' will be translated:

'The Place Where the Birch Grow Tall and the Rivers Meet'

Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2026 05:46 PM (GHE5A)

75 > Possible that might be a Sapsucker?

Could be. I'm no ornithologist. I've heard all sapsuckers are woodpeckers, but not all woodpeckers are sapsuckers.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026 05:47 PM (mkw2N)

76 All non-human animals are some variety of weasel.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

***
"Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel."
( -- Homer Simpson)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:48 PM (wzUl9)

77 When I was bartending in LA, I met aa lot of actors and actresses, who had one moment of success.

Then there's guys like Jeffrey Donovan from Burn Notice who had HUGE fame and success, then quit to take care of his family. Could have been a major actor, he had the chops and the looks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:48 PM (nIKjK)

78 There's a great book about the Comanches called Empire of the Summer Moon, but that's not important right now. In the book, the author describes the Comanche (and most other tribes) as "low barbarians". I think it's an academic term that meant no written language, stone age.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 12, 2026 05:48 PM (l26NL)

79 >>Could be. I'm no ornithologist. I've heard all sapsuckers are woodpeckers, but not all woodpeckers are sapsuckers.

But ALL Sapsuckers AND Woodpeckers are a type of Feathered Weasel.

Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2026 05:48 PM (GHE5A)

80
Speaking of that Starlink launch, I heard something interesting the other night. All Starlink satellites have an optical star tracker system onboard for navigation purposes, to track its attitude and all that.

But they can also be used to see other satellites, and SpaceX is using that with the swarms of their satellites to better map out all the other satellites and junk in orbit. And apparently to better precision that Space Force's radar tracking...

Then it hit me, I imagine Elon has some "agreements" with the military and there may be some other things Starlinks are doing that we don't know about, and hopefully our enemies, Chicoms primarily, don't know about.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 12, 2026 05:49 PM (w6EFb)

81 I think the weasel trampoline video is fake but could easily happen. They are funny little slinky creatures
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:23 PM (nIKjK)

I encountered a little weasel in my shop a couple of months ago. They kill mice, so they are in my good books.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2026 05:49 PM (quk5M)

82 Indigenous Peoples' Day
Take a Rez chick on a "picnic".

Posted by: wth at October 12, 2026 05:50 PM (UjdFS)

83 White people are easy to manipulate if you convince them they did something terrible to you in the past.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:46 PM (nIKjK)

Hope and Change! Hope and Change!

Posted by: Barack Obongo, Half Honky And All Donkey at October 12, 2026 05:50 PM (NkqBW)

84 So weasels are cousins of the river otters. Why should we expect different behavior?

Posted by: tubal at October 12, 2026 05:50 PM (Gqar8)

85 I encountered a little weasel in my shop a couple of months ago. They kill mice, so they are in my good books.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2026 05:49 PM (quk5M)

Happy Thanksgiving.
Just an ordinary day for me.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 12, 2026 05:50 PM (Sco7b)

86 There's a great book about the Comanches called Empire of the Summer Moon, but that's not important right now. In the book, the author describes the Comanche (and most other tribes) as "low barbarians". I think it's an academic term that meant no written language, stone age.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 12, 2026

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I read that on my road trip to Amarillo and Palo Duro Canyon (their winter quarters) many years ago. What has always stuck with me was the statement that the Apaches, great horsemen and feared warriors, were *afraid of the Comanches*.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

87 Technology and innovation, no. But surviving (until Europeans came anyway), they were good at.

They were really good fighters, too, just too fragmented and small in numbers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:51 PM (nIKjK)

88 One of my early bosses was a weasel.

Posted by: tubal at October 12, 2026 05:51 PM (Gqar8)

89
But, plenty of others too. Almost all a part non-speaking part in some TV show or commercial. Some were still clinging to hope based on that one tiny shot ten years later.

In the "Chernobyl" miniseries on HBO Max, there's a Soviet soldier standing guard at the door of the (kitchen?) room where the Soviet scientist who spilled the beans about how flawed their RBMK reactors were. You briefly see his face as he opens its door, then he disappears behind ductwork and only his lower torso is visible.
One can imagine the actor excitedly proclaiming to all and sundry, "Yeah! That's me, right there! Didja catch a glimpse of my face? I'm big, I tell you! BIG!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 12, 2026 05:52 PM (ixS3i)

90 86 There's a great book about the Comanches called Empire of the Summer Moon, but that's not important right now. In the book, the author describes the Comanche (and most other tribes) as "low barbarians". I think it's an academic term that meant no written language, stone age.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 12, 2026

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I read that on my road trip to Amarillo and Palo Duro Canyon (their winter quarters) many years ago. What has always stuck with me was the statement that the Apaches, great horsemen and feared warriors, were *afraid of the Comanches*.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

Great book. Highly recommended.

Posted by: tubal at October 12, 2026 05:53 PM (Gqar8)

91 That weasel-woodpecker dust-up is like a lost chapter in The Wind in the Willows. The weasels were always up to something hinky.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 12, 2026 05:53 PM (kpS4V)

92 > Injuns and pretty much every tribe in the Americas couldn't even figure out that technological wonder, The Wheel. Good luck conducting any sort of trade without wheeled carts/wagons to transport your goods.

They used dogs with drag sleds, but didn't have beasts of burden until the Spanish explorers brought donkeys and horses. I wonder how much advantage a donkey pulling a wheeled cart has over a donkey pulling a drag sled. Either way, it's embarrassing they used wheels as decorations, but didn't use them for carts.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026 05:53 PM (mkw2N)

93 Then it hit me, I imagine Elon has some "agreements" with the military and there may be some other things Starlinks are doing that we don't know about, and hopefully our enemies, Chicoms primarily, don't know about.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 12, 2026 05:49 PM (w6EFb)

Almost certainly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 12, 2026 05:53 PM (ecIaf)

94 Weasels often disguise themselves in human form. Just check out Sam Bankman- Fried’s girlfriend.

Posted by: tubal at October 12, 2026 05:54 PM (Gqar8)

95 I wanted to be an Indian or a mountain man when I was a kid. I'm still fascinated about having the skills to survive in the wild.

Posted by: polynikes at October 12, 2026 05:55 PM (KC5Lt)

96 Fuck you Tim Walz

If indigenous people are so important to you, why not create THEIR OWN HOLIDAY instead of usurping another already established one??

Lazy destructive bastards.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2026 05:55 PM (W2Pud)

97 the Apaches, great horsemen and feared warriors, were *afraid of the Comanches*.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

___________________

I know this one. Apache's were skilled horsemen, but of a less martial nature. They used them for farming and transport. The fought, mostly, on foot. The Comanche on the other hand had the numbers, and made a significant effort to fight on horseback. The Apache were not nomadic...so when the the Comanche's destroyed their livelihood (agriculture and permanent villages), they moved on.

Posted by: Orson at October 12, 2026 05:55 PM (dIske)

98 The City of Vancouver officially renamed Trutch Street in the Kitsilano neighborhood to šx ʷməθk ʷəy̓əma səm Street (pronounced sh-MUS-quee-um-AW-sum).

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Hello? 911? There's a maniac with a bloody axe trying to break in through the front door! My address? 312 šx ʷməθk, uh, ʷəy̓əma, uh, šx ʷməθk ʷəy̓əma . . . Oh, you know, between Main and Elm!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 12, 2026 05:55 PM (ndZc7)

99 They used dogs with drag sleds, but didn't have beasts of burden until the Spanish explorers brought donkeys and horses.

To be fair, they did have horses in the distant past, they just killed them and ate them all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:55 PM (nIKjK)

100 I think stoats are mentioned in Watership Down, though foxes seemed to be the major threat the rabbits were concerned with.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 05:56 PM (wzUl9)

101 99 They used dogs with drag sleds, but didn't have beasts of burden until the Spanish explorers brought donkeys and horses.

To be fair, they did have horses in the distant past, they just killed them and ate them all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:55 PM (nIKjK)

They were French?

Posted by: tubal at October 12, 2026 05:56 PM (Gqar8)

102 "Yeah! That's me, right there! Didja catch a glimpse of my face? I'm big, I tell you! BIG!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

Clint Eastwood's first film appearance was in a 50's sci fi flick called the Tarantula! He plays an air force pilot who drops napalm on the giant tarantula. His flight helmet totally obscures his face. No idea it was him.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 12, 2026 05:56 PM (l26NL)

103 Ya gotta love chipmunks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 12, 2026 05:56 PM (gm9Sb)

104
Huh?

I wonder if that animal I saw 2 weeks back while on aa walk was a jaguarundi.

It looked sorta like a juvenile puma, but dark.

I just caught aa glimpse of it when I was looking around after smelling a very strong animal smell close by.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 12, 2026 05:56 PM (YSUhf)

105 I wanted to be an Indian or a mountain man when I was a kid. I'm still fascinated about having the skills to survive in the wild.

Me too. That's part of why my first book was about outdoor survival

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:56 PM (nIKjK)

106 > To be fair, they did have horses in the distant past, they just killed them and ate them all.

True. And the whole ice age thing.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026 05:58 PM (mkw2N)

107 If indigenous people are so important to you, why not create THEIR OWN HOLIDAY instead of usurping another already established one??

Lazy destructive bastards.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2026 05:55 PM (W2Pud)

It shall be called "We should have fought better Day!"

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 12, 2026 05:59 PM (Sco7b)

108 But, plenty of others too. Almost all a part non-speaking part in some TV show or commercial. Some were still clinging to hope based on that one tiny shot ten years later.
Posted by: naturalfake

Kinda, sorta. You need three credits to get a SAG card, and it's kinda, sorta needed to get cast in speaking roles outside of indie productions. With the cheapness of high-quality video/sound equipment and AI incoming, the unions are going to be destroyed.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 12, 2026 05:59 PM (nEUC6)

109 I wonder how much advantage a donkey pulling a wheeled cart has over a donkey pulling a drag sled. Either way, it's embarrassing they used wheels as decorations, but didn't use them for carts.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026 05:53 PM (mkw2N)

You don't have to have a beast of burden to take advantage of the wheel. Ever use a wheelbarrow, or an appliance dolly?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2026 05:59 PM (quk5M)

110 To be fair, they did have horses in the distant past, they just killed them and ate them all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 05:55 PM (nIKjK)

They had no clue about beasts of burden or animal husbandry. Except maybe dogs as helpers.

Didn’t learn much over the next thousands of years, either.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 12, 2026 05:59 PM (6ydKt)

111 I wanted to be an Indian or a mountain man when I was a kid. I'm still fascinated about having the skills to survive in the wild.
Posted by: polynikes

Dude, credit card. What else do you need?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 12, 2026 06:00 PM (ndZc7)

112 > They were French?

I had some friends who went to France in the 90s for a school trip. They were warned to look for the sign, "Du Cheval" when buying food. It's horse meat.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026 06:00 PM (mkw2N)

113
The entire weasel, stoat, mink, etc, family are bloodthirsty savages. They should be eradicated any time they are found.
Posted by: No Mercy!

If they take out the mice, I'll let them have clemency
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 12, 2026 05:45 PM (vJrRc)

The Mongoose is much like the stoat/mink/weasel family.

Hawaiian Sugar Industry: Oh no! Rats have stowed away on board our sailing ships and traveled to the islands, where they eat the sugar cane. Let's import a bunch of mongoose to hunt rats!

The Mongooses: Meh. Rats are too hard to hunt and kill. On the other hand, there's LOTS of birds and nests here, with tasty eggs...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 12, 2026 06:00 PM (y9nCu)

114
And, listening to some podcasts about that, I learned of something new being proposed to the next 6g iterations of cell towers. It's called ISAC, integrating sensing and communication.

First, they're increasing the ability to detect the precise location of cell phones by an individual tower. The tower can determine you precise position in space relative to it. This has the benefit of allowing it to focus the signal it's sending to phone, reducing interference to neighboring devices. Result is more bandwidth, less congestion.

ISAC will take that to the next level. Cell towers, coupled with AI to process the enormous of amount of data required, to act as a type of radar (lidar like really), to track the position of movements of any objects in range, not just cell phones that are transmitting.

The Panopticon is getting even more scary.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 12, 2026 06:01 PM (w6EFb)

115 France, Italy, parts of Spain- they consume horsemeat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 12, 2026 06:02 PM (zcI95)

116 I have a SAG card.

Posted by: Speaker Emerita at October 12, 2026 06:02 PM (EdP2u)

117 > You don't have to have a beast of burden to take advantage of the wheel. Ever use a wheelbarrow, or an appliance dolly?

Oh, I know. I'm LDS. Some of the early Saints using handcarts to cross the plains is deeply ingrained in our historical memory. We even do Trek as youth to honor and connect with them.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026 06:02 PM (mkw2N)

118
I had some friends who went to France in the 90s for a school trip. They were warned to look for the sign, "Du Cheval" when buying food. It's horse meat.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026

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Believe it or don't, but there is (or used to be) a pipe tobacco called Merde de Cheval.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 06:02 PM (wzUl9)

119 Since the Sioux expanded in population and controlled land area during the 18th century, and all the other tribes declined, including even the Comanche, it seems to me the Sioux were the more formidable tribe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 12, 2026 06:03 PM (6CYck)

120 US voice actors getting indicted in 5, 4, 3, 2...

US voice actors getting sued and fired by companies in 5, 4, 3, 2...

120 'voice actors' have joined a group called Voice Actors for Palestine to raise money for an unregistered charity that has links to Hamas. DoJ should love that.

If you donate money, they promise to 'voice' the character you request. The companies like Nintendo will just love to fire them for contract violation.

I hope their Find Out is truly Biblical.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 12, 2026 06:03 PM (2GVsD)

121 I posted this earlier . Native American warriors ( for the U.S.) shatter academia's colonialism narrative. "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/ys87c4nb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 12, 2026 06:03 PM (JrHfD)

122 I survive the wild every day I leave the house

Posted by: Skip at October 12, 2026 06:03 PM (Ia/+0)

123 After the massacre,Corporal Agarn, Captain Parmenter and Sergeant O'Rourke were prepared as a nice stew by the Hekawi tribe. Tony Chachere's seasoning used in abundance.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 12, 2026 06:04 PM (gm9Sb)

124 Rainy days bring memories of the Moody Blues (we sometimes called them the Bloody Moos) and driving aimlessly in my new Impala on country roads listening to music. Winters in MS brought cold rain. Way colder than the snows of the Western mountains...

The Story in Your Eyes
Moody Blues, 1971

https://tinyurl.com/mpwc7ewv

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 12, 2026 06:04 PM (hzuYO)

125 The weasel on the woodpecker reminds me of the pelican trying to get the 100 pound capybara in his mouth. Kinda silly.

Posted by: Me Swallowing A Chunky Whole at October 12, 2026 06:05 PM (EdP2u)

126 If you donate money, they promise to 'voice' the character you request. The companies like Nintendo will just love to fire them for contract violation.

I hope their Find Out is truly Biblical.
Posted by: Anna Puma

There's zero chance that 99% of them aren't replaced in the next 5 years by AI.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 12, 2026 06:06 PM (nEUC6)

127 7 Yes, Lake Calhoun, you looney tunes:

Christine
@Christi43919339
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1h
It's called Lake Calhoun.

Governor Tim Walz
@GovTimWalz
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1h
This morning we gathered on the shores of Bde Maka Ska to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day - a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and urban Native communities that continue to enrich Minnesota’s cultural landscape.
Posted by: beckster

They culturally appropriated music from Jamaica?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 12, 2026 06:06 PM (sAmhv)

128 After the massacre,Corporal Agarn, Captain Parmenter and Sergeant O'Rourke were prepared as a nice stew by the Hekawi tribe. Tony Chachere's seasoning used in abundance.
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F-Troop was a classic!

Posted by: Crusader at October 12, 2026 06:07 PM (TN0g+)

129 The natives didn’t invent the wheel, but in fairness that was primarily because they had little use for it. They had no big animals to pull wheeled carts. They had dogs that would pull small sleds. They travelled very light.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 12, 2026 06:07 PM (hxrdJ)

130 Rainy days bring memories of the Moody Blues (we sometimes called them the Bloody Moos) and driving aimlessly in my new Impala on country roads listening to music. Winters in MS brought cold rain. Way colder than the snows of the Western mountains...

The Story in Your Eyes
Moody Blues, 1971
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My favorite Moody Blues song is The Voice.

Posted by: Crusader at October 12, 2026 06:08 PM (TN0g+)

131 Forever Autumn
Moody Blues, 1972

https://tinyurl.com/5ufdupzd

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 12, 2026 06:08 PM (hzuYO)

132 You almost always had to build roads for foot traffic first before wheeled conveyances began to make any sense, for trade or any other kind of transport. Lewis and Clark didn't use any wheels, for instance. There weren't any roads for them to roll on.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 12, 2026 06:08 PM (zdLoL)

133 Oh, I know. I'm LDS. Some of the early Saints using handcarts to cross the plains is deeply ingrained in our historical memory. We even do Trek as youth to honor and connect with them.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2026 06:02 PM (mkw2N)

Yeah, it was a rhetorical question. To make the point that failure to develop the wheel cannot be excused by the lack of suitable draft animals.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2026 06:09 PM (quk5M)

134 >>The natives didn’t invent the wheel, but in fairness that was primarily because they had little use for it. They had no big animals to pull wheeled carts. They had dogs that would pull small sleds. They travelled very light.

...and they used EVERY part of the Buffalo.

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2026 06:09 PM (GHE5A)

135 I have a ruger bearcat that is a magnificent antique revolver. Almost got blasted by it by my reckless brother.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 12, 2026 06:09 PM (cJOax)

136 Real men of indigenous

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 12, 2026 06:09 PM (Cqx++)

137 121 I posted this earlier . Native American warriors ( for the U.S.) shatter academia's colonialism narrative. "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/ys87c4nb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Ha! Slaves became citizens before the Indians.
Some kind of irony.
Yes, it is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 06:09 PM (BzKNL)

138
S Americans had the llama as a beast of burden for thousands of years. But I believe they piled up cargo on their backs and didn't use carts or travois. Even when they had an advantageous animal they could use, they never took that next step of having the animal pull a larger load than it could carry.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 12, 2026 06:11 PM (y9nCu)

139 Lewis and Clark didn't use any wheels, for instance. There weren't any roads for them to roll on.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Fucking Romans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 06:12 PM (BzKNL)

140 Weft-cut Loop

The ones not in prison will be fighting the other bums for space in LA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 12, 2026 06:12 PM (2GVsD)

141 I posted this earlier . Native American warriors ( for the U.S.) shatter academia's colonialism narrative. "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/ys87c4nb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Ha! Slaves became citizens before the Indians.
Some kind of irony.
Yes, it is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 06:09 PM (BzKNL)
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Yet many rich Indian families had slaves. The trail of tears? The Indians brought along 1000s of their slaves who did most of the hard work. Nothing you ever heard about the ToT is accurate.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 12, 2026 06:12 PM (hxrdJ)

142 Let's have a rational discussion about "trash pandas."

Menace or Motivated?

I'd prefer... Mort. Fuckers are now tearing up artificial deck and porch decorations. Just... mean.

Assholes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 12, 2026 06:12 PM (RORbl)

143 If you donate money, they promise to 'voice' the character you request. The companies like Nintendo will just love to fire them for contract violation.

There are a lot of really stupid, radical left wing voice actors out there, especially in translating anime. There is a big scandal out there of translators ("localizers") changing words, phrases, and terms to match their politics and even adding entirely different dialog.

At least some Japanese companies just stopped using them entirely and fans hate them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 06:13 PM (nIKjK)

144 We treated the Indians as sovereign nations, that’s why they weren’t citizens until much later once they were on reservations and under the jurisdiction of the feds as separate territories.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 12, 2026 06:13 PM (6ydKt)

145 When everything you need is provided for you, thinking of something different isn't necessary.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 06:13 PM (BzKNL)

146 After the massacre,Corporal Agarn, Captain Parmenter and Sergeant O'Rourke were prepared as a nice stew by the Hekawi tribe. Tony Chachere's seasoning used in abundance.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 12, 2026

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"Meh. Agarn too sour. O'Rourke too tough!"
( -- Hekawi chieftain)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 12, 2026 06:14 PM (wzUl9)

147 Fucking Romans.

What have the done for us???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 06:14 PM (nIKjK)

148 S Americans had the llama as a beast of burden for thousands of years. But I believe they piled up cargo on their backs and didn't use carts or travois. Even when they had an advantageous animal they could use, they never took that next step of having the animal pull a larger load than it could carry.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 12, 2026 06:11 PM (y9nCu)
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No roads and very difficult terrain. No way you were getting a wheeled cart up those mountain passes, or in the jungles, until much later when the evil white man came and started building roads.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 12, 2026 06:15 PM (hxrdJ)

149 To this day, Navajo men, leaving the city shelter on Sunday mornings, refuse to use wheeled vehicles in hopes of not getting their fifth DUI of the year going to Circle K for beer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 12, 2026 06:15 PM (gm9Sb)

150 My favorite Moody Blues song is The Voice.
Posted by: Crusader at October 12, 2026 06:08 PM (TN0g+)

*********
Lovely. Also a lovely time to be hitting your prime. XXXX

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 12, 2026 06:15 PM (hzuYO)

151 Lewis and Clark didn't use any wheels, for instance. There weren't any roads for them to roll on.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 12, 2026 06:08 PM (zdLoL)

Well, they were explorers, not traders. They made good use of boats, like the fur traders before them. But a one-wheeled vehicle like a wheelbarrow can go on almost any footpath a human can easily negotiate. Expend a lot of labor for a few months, to build a road between Point A and Point B, so that you don't have to spend a lot of labor every day to hump goods on your back between them, but can haul them on a little handcart. But that would require the ability to plan for the future...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2026 06:15 PM (quk5M)

152 Christopher R. Taylor

Most anime fans hate these US voice actors for the crummy job they do.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 12, 2026 06:15 PM (2GVsD)

153 Either way, it's embarrassing they used wheels as decorations, but didn't use them for carts.
Posted by: bonhomme

Wheels are great, but the hub or axle are astonishingly important parts of making them useful for travel.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 12, 2026 06:16 PM (vJrRc)

154 Voice Actors for Palestine

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Last night 60 Minutes had a segment about how the horrible Jews are mistreating the "Palestinians" in the West Bank. I switched it off as soon as I realized what it was.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 12, 2026 06:17 PM (ndZc7)

155 I'd prefer... Mort. Fuckers are now tearing up artificial deck and porch decorations. Just... mean.

Assholes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Co2 repeating bb rifle. Do you have an upstairs deck or window?
Bet a pelting of bb's would irritate them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 06:17 PM (BzKNL)

156 I'd roast Wrangler Jane, who was 16 when F-Troop began.

Posted by: Prime Cut at October 12, 2026 06:18 PM (EdP2u)

157
Governor Tim Walz
@GovTimWalz
·
1h
This morning we gathered on the shores of Bde Maka Ska

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I'd like to hear him pronounce it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 12, 2026 06:19 PM (mmrXZ)

158 Well, they were explorers, not traders. They made good use of boats, like the fur traders before them. But a one-wheeled vehicle like a wheelbarrow can go on almost any footpath a human can easily negotiate. Expend a lot of labor for a few months, to build a road between Point A and Point B, so that you don't have to spend a lot of labor every day to hump goods on your back between them, but can haul them on a little handcart. But that would require the ability to plan for the future...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Fucking Romans

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 06:19 PM (BzKNL)

159 Maybe if native Indians would have been just made citizens straight away it would have turned out differently

Posted by: Skip at October 12, 2026 06:19 PM (Ia/+0)

160
If indigenous people are so important to you, why not create THEIR OWN HOLIDAY instead of usurping another already established one??

Lazy destructive bastards.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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Heya nurse! Ya ever notice how lefties always jack existing things instead of building their own? Every time.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 12, 2026 06:20 PM (mmrXZ)

161 Saddam Hussein invented the wheel?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 06:20 PM (BzKNL)

162 Maybe if native Indians would have been just made citizens straight away it would have turned out differently
Posted by: Skip

I think it might have turned out about as well as making Muslims citizens, depending one the tribe

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 12, 2026 06:20 PM (vJrRc)

163
If you've never seen the movie, "The Black Robe" it probably gives the most honest and best portrayal of Indian life.

BONUS! It's a great movie too.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 12, 2026 06:20 PM (YSUhf)

164 nood llamas

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 12, 2026 06:22 PM (vJrRc)

165
I have a ruger bearcat that is a magnificent antique revolver. Almost got blasted by it by my reckless brother.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 12, 2026 06:09 PM (cJOax)

I've had three negligent discharges in my gun life. One at 21 yrs old where I was being incredibly stupid and was lucky that I didn't shoot myself in the femur.

The other two were with a Ruger Bearcat in the same range session. Sweet little SA revolver, but it had a true hair-trigger. Luckily, by that time I was about 35 and had gone a long ways towards using proper safety, so even though I fired the revolver without actually deciding to fire it, there was not real danger. That's the genius of the 4 rule safety system, the only way to hurt someone with an ND is to violate TWO rules.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 12, 2026 06:22 PM (y9nCu)

166 154 Voice Actors for Palestine

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Last night 60 Minutes had a segment about how the horrible Jews are mistreating the "Palestinians" in the West Bank. I switched it off as soon as I realized what it was.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Trying to get out ahead of a documentary about Oct 7, where the true face of those "palestinians" is revealed. Read about the doc on the inter webs (probably X). It is pretty much the video's the "palestinians" themselves shot of there own butchery and evil.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 12, 2026 06:23 PM (sAmhv)

167 Maybe if native Indians would have been just made citizens straight away it would have turned out differently
Posted by: Skip at October 12, 2026 06:19 PM (Ia/+0)

Maybe, but I doubt it.

For example, just look at our muslim immigrants.

Do they adopt the American way?

No, they do not. They stick with their 3rd world ways and death cult religion.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 12, 2026 06:23 PM (YSUhf)

168 Most anime fans hate these US voice actors for the crummy job they do.

I suspect Weft Cut Loop is right about AI replacing them very soon

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 12, 2026 06:25 PM (nIKjK)

169 There's a guy I follow on X, Mike "Wild Horse" Kobe, who's Comanche and a Vet, and he celebrates Columbus Day, not Indigenous People's Day.

He posted something y'all might or might not be interested in:

https://tinyurl.com/tx5s43an

It's interesting how per capita, Native Americans join the military in larger numbers than other groups.

There's a lot of pride at both being an American, serving this country, and being part of whatever tribe he or she is from.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 12, 2026 06:27 PM (dkM11)

170 "low barbarians". I think it's an academic term that meant no written language, stone age.

True, but one of the cultural artifacts "we" applied to decide whether a tribe was "civilized" was the ownership of slaves.
Sometimes it helps to get a reminder of how much shit this "we" can get you into.

For most of "us," the difference between low barbarians and our homeland culture was a couple of hundred years at most, not millennia. And that includes your two-year trade school degree in Applied Programming Technology. You are not the crown of creation.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 12, 2026 06:27 PM (zdLoL)

171 There's a binturong at the little Brandwine Zoo in Wilmington, DE!!

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Nights in White Satin
Your Wildest Dreams
And many others

Hard to imagine it's just Justin Hayward solo now.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 12, 2026 06:34 PM (NFX2v)

172 I'd prefer... Mort. Fuckers are now tearing up artificial deck and porch decorations. Just... mean.
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Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 12, 2026 06:12 PM (RORbl)

I read that in James Colburn's voice from "Payback":

That's just mean man

Posted by: browndog says woof at October 12, 2026 06:42 PM (oCio0)

173
...and they used EVERY part of the Buffalo.

Sure, Jan.
Posted by: garrett

I always get a laugh out of Chief Dan George referring to his mate as "Buffalo Wallow Woman" in the film, "Little Big Man".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 12, 2026 06:57 PM (ixS3i)

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