Slow News Day Cafe

When you have to wait for your slow brother.

"I promise I'm not mean."

Throwing a living boomerang.

Dog action photography.

More photography ~~tricks~~ illusions.

Horse and dogs play.

Gavin Newsom's social media team.

How to annoy a dog.

Horse plays with a big ball.

Baby giraffe stands for the first time.

i halp

Baby rhino crawls all over mom.

Porcupine eats a cob of corn.

Some dogs are good at catching frisbees, others are good at trying.

Shepherd enjoys some marrow.

Donkey feeding time.

Colorized videos feel like a time machine 🧵

1. This is what Jerusalem looked like in 1897pic.twitter.com/mxBgznuCLw
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) August 24, 2025

This guy Feeding the birds and then this happened... pic.twitter.com/vCbJDtSaIJ
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) August 25, 2025

A pelican steals a fish from an osprey's talon in flight.

[📹 Mark Smith Photography]pic.twitter.com/wpnm9JiAtA
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 19, 2025

Dog stealing the show.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/P7zIEqSNr1
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 24, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:37 PM

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2025 07:37 PM (+qU29)

2 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 07:43 PM (/DN3g)

3 Welcome!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 25, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

4 The sea lion committing open piracy on the high seas was pretty funny.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 25, 2025 07:43 PM (IBQGV)

5 Fuck you, turtle!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 25, 2025 07:44 PM (u73oe)

6 Go Starship! I'm such a rocket nerd.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 25, 2025 07:44 PM (xeDMw)

7
Excuse me, can you direct me to the Café?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 07:45 PM (kkTda)

8 The Starship 10 launch is still scheduled for just before 8 EST. Her's hoping no problems.

Posted by: JTB at August 25, 2025 07:46 PM (yTvNw)

9 Excuse me, can you direct me to the Café?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 07:45 PM (kkTda)

———-

You’re soaking in it!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 25, 2025 07:46 PM (u73oe)

10 Who, if you had time in your day, could resist throwing a tennis ball for a nice pair of pups like that?

Posted by: Axeman at August 25, 2025 07:47 PM (krQz2)

11 Sleepy

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 25, 2025 07:47 PM (IsuMW)

12 Paging JackStraw. Have you ever been swimming with sea turtles?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 07:47 PM (dxWFK)

13 Adorable turtle - leave him alone, diver.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2025 07:47 PM (GbwPZ)

14 No Gypsy in here, I hope!

Posted by: Leutonian Supremacist!! at August 25, 2025 07:49 PM (G5+As)

15 Love the dog photography!!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2025 07:49 PM (GbwPZ)

16
Came out of a concert at Jones Hall and there was a police horse playing with a traffic cone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 07:49 PM (kkTda)

17 I keep getting YouTube videos of sad turtles covered in barnacles.

Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2025 07:49 PM (+qU29)

18 Turtles don't get nearly the respect and love that they should, and as The Turtle, I certainly don't, especially around here.

Posted by: Mitch M. at August 25, 2025 07:49 PM (0sNs1)

19 All your fish are belong to me!

Posted by: Sea Lion at August 25, 2025 07:50 PM (krQz2)

20 Paging JackStraw. Have you ever been swimming with sea turtles?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 07:47 PM (dxWFK)

How about bow legged women?

Posted by: Quint, of the USS Indianapolis at August 25, 2025 07:50 PM (zZu0s)

21 Mark Smith's bird photography is fabulous.
Pelicans are the ultimate fish-stealers.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2025 07:50 PM (GbwPZ)

22 BTW, has anyone seen co.mwnter Quint lately?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 25, 2025 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

23 Pirate Seal

Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2025 07:51 PM (+qU29)

24 >>>Baby giraffe stands for the first time.

And, predictably, followed by the baby giraffe's first face plant.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 25, 2025 07:51 PM (p4nXC)

25 I keep getting YouTube videos of sad turtles covered in barnacles.
Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2025 07:49 PM

You really don't want to know why they call him Barnacle Bill. Trust me on this.

Posted by: The Fair Maiden at August 25, 2025 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

26 That is probably what Jerusalem looked like in 1650 too.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 07:52 PM (dxWFK)

27 I better call it a night, long commute north again.
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2025 07:53 PM (+qU29)

28 >>Paging JackStraw. Have you ever been swimming with sea turtles?

A couple times. I pulled a plastic bag off the flippers of a young one when I was snorkeling off the Baths in Virgin Gorda. He didn't even bother to say thank you.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 07:53 PM (viF8m)

29 youtu.be/04-mfJavLT0 starship launch

Posted by: gKWVE at August 25, 2025 07:53 PM (gKWVE)

30 Who the hell catches the flu in August? This guy, apparently.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 25, 2025 07:53 PM (u73oe)

31 Ssssssss

Posted by: The Slow Newsday Gorn at August 25, 2025 07:53 PM (jc0TO)

32
Delilah jumping

https://tinyurl.com/4a46hd3p

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 07:54 PM (kkTda)

33 I absolutely detest 'colorized' black&white images.

It is all about guesswork, if the guesses are wrong but no one corrects the errors then it becomes the 'accepted truth'

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 07:54 PM (SVpE3)

34 Almost a million watching the SpaceX launch feed with about 5 mins to go.

Posted by: pawn at August 25, 2025 07:54 PM (Tx/gC)

35 Always happy when no bat content. They can infect you right over the internet. Petri dish of virii, bacteria, and fungal growth from Wuhan. Best not to chance it.

Posted by: Big Penguin Is Our Friend at August 25, 2025 07:54 PM (G5+As)

36 Delilah goes 'derp!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 07:56 PM (SVpE3)

37 Almost 2 minutes to the Starship launch.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 07:57 PM (viF8m)

38 The Cafe thread is always fun but tonight has more adorableness than usual.

Posted by: JTB at August 25, 2025 07:57 PM (yTvNw)

39 Damn, JackStraw, The Baths is a bucket list item for me. Jealous.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 25, 2025 07:57 PM (xeDMw)

40 Tonight's Powerball is a $750 million annuity.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 07:57 PM (SVpE3)

41 FETV has taken Quincy, ME off the air and replaced it with George and Weezie. Hardly seems fair.

Posted by: White Room With Black Curtains at August 25, 2025 07:58 PM (G5+As)

42 51 days til the TXMoMe X.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 07:58 PM (dxWFK)

43 They still have to clear the range. it might be a 40 second delay

Posted by: gKWVE at August 25, 2025 07:58 PM (gKWVE)

44 Damn weather hold for Starship. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 25, 2025 07:59 PM (xeDMw)

45 While they were almost entirely eliminated in Europe in the late 1700s, legends about the spirits of gypsy penguins persist to this day. Putrid wells and purloined purses are often blamed on the mephitic metaphysical apparitions said to be found lurking in dank forests and abandoned outhouses.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 25, 2025 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

46 >>Damn, JackStraw, The Baths is a bucket list item for me. Jealous.

Highly recommended. I've been there many times and the snorkeling is fantastic.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 08:00 PM (viF8m)

47 It is all about guesswork, if the guesses are wrong but no one corrects the errors then it becomes the 'accepted truth'
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 07:54 PM (SVpE3)

Counter: They Shall Not Grow Old

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 25, 2025 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

48 Tortoise looks like an angry superhero.

Posted by: Axeman at August 25, 2025 08:01 PM (krQz2)

49 "Anvil cloud" in the way. Anyone check the sky for road runners?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 25, 2025 08:01 PM (gKWVE)

50 Damn weather hold for Starship. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 25, 2025 07:59 PM (xeDMw)
---
They built this city.

Posted by: Axeman at August 25, 2025 08:01 PM (krQz2)

51 No launch today

Posted by: jsg at August 25, 2025 08:02 PM (7Kd+r)

52 no flight today

Posted by: gKWVE at August 25, 2025 08:02 PM (gKWVE)

53 Launch is scrubbed for tonight.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 08:02 PM (viF8m)

54 Aetius

That is because Peter Jackson cares and he has in his personal collection reference uniforms.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 08:02 PM (SVpE3)

55 Scrubbed.

Shoot.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 25, 2025 08:02 PM (KwvKR)

56 Tortoise looks like an angry superhero.
Posted by: Axeman at August 25, 2025 08:01 PM (krQz2)
----
He kinda looks like he's flippin' us the bird.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 25, 2025 08:02 PM (IBQGV)

57 Gavin Newsom's social media team. Also known as "The Pricks".

Posted by: Case at August 25, 2025 08:03 PM (iwlvf)

58 Scrubbed.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 25, 2025 08:02 PM (KwvKR)
---
Like with a cloth?

Posted by: Axeman at August 25, 2025 08:03 PM (krQz2)

59 Damn! Launch scrubbed due to weather.

Posted by: JTB at August 25, 2025 08:03 PM (yTvNw)

60 Weather scrub.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 25, 2025 08:04 PM (l8IGe)

61 42 51 days til the TXMoMe X.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 07:58 PM (dxWFK)

The TX National Guard has been notified.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 25, 2025 08:04 PM (eY5jv)

62
Anthropogenic Climate Change caused the scrub. That means you, Mr. and Mrs. Republican!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 08:04 PM (kkTda)

63 Crap. Scrubbed for weather. Doesn't look that bad to me, but I'm sure they know what they're doing. That said, if they want to get to a point where they are launching these things multiple times a day, they'll have to do some weatherproofing.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 25, 2025 08:04 PM (xeDMw)

64 Listened to whiskey lullaby again.

'Put a bottle to his head and pulled the trigger' is a dynamite line. Not going to argue.

Underappreciated is:
'She put him out
Like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette'

That's good. The sudden shock and then Emptiness. That's real.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 25, 2025 08:04 PM (zZu0s)

65 Allie the bandit kitty has not only stolen my heart, she's stolen my lap.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 25, 2025 08:05 PM (IBQGV)

66 That is because Peter Jackson cares and he has in his personal collection reference uniforms.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 08:02 PM (SVpE3)

It really was well done.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 25, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

67 "Anthropogenic Climate Change caused the scrub. "

I thought the Jews had it under control.

Posted by: fd at August 25, 2025 08:05 PM (vFG9F)

68 4 The sea lion committing open piracy on the high seas was pretty funny.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

=====

Like a teenager attacking a pizza hut lunch buffet

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 25, 2025 08:05 PM (8AONa)

69 64 Listened to whiskey lullaby again.

'Put a bottle to his head and pulled the trigger' is a dynamite line. Not going to argue.

Underappreciated is:
'She put him out
Like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette'

That's good. The sudden shock and then Emptiness. That's real.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 25, 2025 08:04 PM (

That's Allison Kraus and who?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 25, 2025 08:06 PM (eY5jv)

70 AlaBAMA, the police dept and sheriff s dept have an open invitation plus we have a federal judge.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 08:06 PM (dxWFK)

71 70 AlaBAMA, the police dept and sheriff s dept have an open invitation plus we have a federal judge.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 08:06 PM (dxWFK)

Smart lady!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 25, 2025 08:07 PM (eY5jv)

72 Prior-topic, of course missed that thread, appropriate place to register my standard pointless objection ("your honor, I strenuously object!") about the pathetic framework and implications of "right" types regarding the Bolton raid/investigation of Mega-Scandal perps.

It's not, for a second, about two "wrongs".

The first set of actions involved abuse of office, illegally obtained FISA warrants, unpredicated "investigations", ridiculous blackmailing (Flynn case), arguably seditious misbehavior by senior public officials, etc.

The second set of actions is, simply, *investigating those prior illegal acts*. There's no overlap, no similarity whatsoever. So the always-dumb "enjoy the new rules!" idiocy from so many completely misstates the situation. There are no "new rules". The perps now under investigation almost certainly committed various serious crimes. That is, they broke the rules. Current investigation of them breaking laws in not "new rules". It's just investigating serious crimes.

Lost cause, dumbing down of the country has lowered all boats, etc.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 25, 2025 08:10 PM (U/Byj)

73 AlaBAMA, the police dept and sheriff s dept have an open invitation plus we have a federal judge.
Posted by: Ben Had

What flavors do people prefer to pop?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 08:11 PM (pRe69)

74 rickb223 everything, and I mean everything, is covered.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 08:12 PM (dxWFK)

75 Diving at an island off Borneo decades ago, was exciting to see my first sea turtles. By the 4th or 5th dive, most of us found them sort of annoying - they were in the way, made it harder to see all the other amazing coral reef fauna and flora. Sort of like the grizzlies eating most of the salmon in May, but by September fileting them with their claws and just eating their favorite parts, I guess.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 25, 2025 08:13 PM (U/Byj)

76 rickb223 everything, and I mean everything, is covered.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 08:12 PM (dxWFK)

The strippers, too? That would be a shame.

Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2025 08:14 PM (gKDq2)

77 Wait, the MoMes have strippers?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 25, 2025 08:14 PM (eY5jv)

78 and just eating their favorite parts, I guess.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 25, 2025 08:13 PM

You know what a snapping turtle's favorite part is?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 25, 2025 08:15 PM (0sNs1)

79 everything, and I mean everything, is covered.
Posted by: Ben Had

The strippers, too? That would be a shame.
Posted by: RickZ

They have to be covered to start with, otherwise they're just nudists.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 08:15 PM (DgGvY)

80 i WONDI wonder what SpaceX has for Launch Commit Criteria ( Ha! I didn't use LCC) for range weather conditions. NASA at KSC had a bunch of them that were developed over many years of observations and working with the NWS the FAA and universities.

One of the criteria had to do with the electric field strength in the air being less than 1000 volts per meter.

The range had an array of electric field mill instruments that stretched for miles around the Cape Canaveral area monitoring the field strength.

Posted by: pawn at August 25, 2025 08:16 PM (Tx/gC)

81 Here are a couple examples of 'we don't know.'

The Yoxford Boys of the 357th FG. There are no documents recording what they painted their bare metal Mustangs. Not even unit members like Merle Olmsted who wrote a unit history could say if it was Olive Drab over Neutral Gray or perhaps RAF Dark Green over Neutral Gray. The accepted wisdom is the later option.

Or one of the squadrons of the fabled 56th FG, Zemke's Wolfpack. To this day there are three 'opinions' on what the top color for some of these P-47Ms were since no documents survive. First opinion is from one of the pilots who decades later claimed the planes were painted a dark plum color. Second opinion is they were painted black but the few surviving color photos show a blue tint and even in black&white the top color is noticeably lighter than the black of the propellor blades. Third opinion which is supported by the few color photos is the planes were painted a very dark blue.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 08:16 PM (SVpE3)

82 Wait, the MoMes have strippers?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 25, 2025 08:14 PM

On Saturday night some of the 'rons put on quite the floor show for the 'ettes.

No Horse Trailer pass required.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 25, 2025 08:16 PM (0sNs1)

83 RickZ, I'm trying to figure out how to Doof and Sponge to pop out of the birthday cake for lin-duh and Teresa.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 08:16 PM (dxWFK)

84 Wait, the MoMes have strippers?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Texas rocks!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 08:17 PM (pRe69)

85 Behold: all your fish are beling to us
Someone else prolly commented the same. I think that seal could have cleared the deck if he felt like it.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 25, 2025 08:19 PM (YlWIZ)

86 That's Allison Kraus and who?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 25, 2025 08:06 PM (eY5jv)

Brad Paisley.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 25, 2025 08:19 PM (zZu0s)

87 RickZ, I'm trying to figure out how to Doof and Sponge to pop out of the birthday cake for lin-duh and Teresa.

You gonna need a bigger cake.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 08:19 PM (SVpE3)

88 Slow News Day Cafe

Not anymore. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: t-bird at August 25, 2025 08:20 PM (va5Du)

89 Mission Control got quite the scare on one Apollo mission as the rocket was launching it got struck by lightning.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 08:22 PM (SVpE3)

90 You know what a snapping turtle's favorite part is?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 25, 2025 08:15 PM (0sNs1)

Mezzo soprano?

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 08:22 PM (rbvCR)

91 Throwing a living boomerang.

Wondering how far I could throw one with a lacrosse stick...

Posted by: t-bird at August 25, 2025 08:23 PM (va5Du)

92 The camera wasn't lyin'! Sea!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 08:23 PM (2WIwB)

93 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 08:24 PM (77rzZ)

94 as the rocket was launching it got struck by lightning.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 08:22 PM (SVpE3)

Thats what she said. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 08:24 PM (snZF9)

95 Trump just fired Lisa Cook from the Fed.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 08:24 PM (viF8m)

96 And, as predicted, the 'World Court', without any defining law, decided that Countries can be held financially liable for 'environmental damage' including Global Warmering... without any real scientific background, nor adversarial process.

Next up? Trump is a Environmental Criminal because he won't bow to the Court.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 25, 2025 08:25 PM (mP0Kj)

97 And, as predicted, the 'World Court', without any defining law, decided that Countries can be held financially liable for 'environmental damage' including Global Warmering... without any real scientific background, nor adversarial process.

Next up? Trump is a Environmental Criminal because he won't bow to the Court.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 25, 2025 08:25 PM (mP0Kj)

If I was trump I would have a really tired and overworked death squad.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 08:27 PM (snZF9)

98 Angel Studios (who got "Sound of Freedom" released) has a fantasy isekai ... started, I think. The plot episode was amusing. "The Wayfarers".

Posted by: gKWVE at August 25, 2025 08:27 PM (gKWVE)

99 *wayfinders.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 25, 2025 08:28 PM (gKWVE)

100 The Los Alamos crackpots were under enormous pressure to prove out the implosion type atomic bomb at Alamagordo, and scheduled the Trinity test for 16 July 1945, a time of notoriously bad weather. The weather forecaster said there would probably be a respite around 5 AM. General Groves said he would hang him if he was wrong.

There was some concern on what might happen with a lightning strike on the bomb, at the top of a 100 foot tower.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 08:28 PM (lqKtE)

101 Mitch McConnell's official portrait?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 08:30 PM (BI5O2)

102 Starship scrubbed again. What a gyp.

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 08:31 PM (AOsQT)

103 95 Trump just fired Lisa Cook from the Fed.
Posted by: JackStraw

Not unexpectedly

Who replaces her?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 25, 2025 08:33 PM (IsuMW)

104
Starship scrubbed again. What a gyp.
Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 08:31 PM (AOsQT)

__________

I want a refund. And to speak to the manager.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 08:33 PM (kkTda)

105 And, as predicted, the 'World Court', without any defining law, decided that Countries can be held financially liable for 'environmental damage' including Global Warmering... without any real scientific background, nor adversarial process.

Next up? Trump is a Environmental Criminal because he won't bow to the Court.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 25, 2025 08:25 PM (mP0Kj)

If I was trump I would have a really tired and overworked death squad.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 08:27 PM (snZF9)

Don't think we are signatories to any of these International Court follies.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 25, 2025 08:33 PM (8avO+)

106 Trump just fired Lisa Cook from the Fed.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 08:24 PM (viF8m)

That was some days ago.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 25, 2025 08:34 PM (/HDaX)

107 What a gyp."

That's rayciss...

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 08:35 PM (tubbA)

108
And, as predicted, the 'World Court', without any defining law, decided that Countries can be held financially liable for 'environmental damage' including Global Warmering... without any real scientific background, nor adversarial process.

___________

So when do the heathen Chinee get held responsible for 'environmental damage'? And COVID?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 08:35 PM (kkTda)

109 Trump's been mashing the buttons pretty hard for a while. He needs to chill out for a while.

Posted by: pawn at August 25, 2025 08:35 PM (Tx/gC)

110 World Court pissing in their glasses and calling it champagne

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 08:36 PM (dxWFK)

111 Chinee get held responsible for 'environmental damage'? "

You funnee. And been here long time. Now go!

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 08:36 PM (tubbA)

112 >>That was some days ago.

It was about a 1/2 hour ago. Saying you will do something and actually doing are 2 different things.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)

113 pissing in their glasses"

Well, when snorkeling, I'll spit in my mask, but hey...

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 08:38 PM (tubbA)

114 >>>That was some days ago.
~~~~~

No. Pulte revealed her mortgage a few days ago, but Trump just fired her within the last hour.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 25, 2025 08:38 PM (3ImbR)

115 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons! Done wrenching for the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 08:38 PM (MRBis)

116 That was 12 - Conrad, Gordon, and Bean. They actually got hit twice. Knocked everything offline, except the Saturn rocket itself. They went into orbit laughing their ass off, because they couldn’t believe what just happened.

Any military aircraft has a gazillion caution and warning lights. You can light all of them up, every single one, (to make sure no bulbs are burnt out) in a test.

It’s kind of pretty, all different shades of red, orange, green, yellow, etc, some are blinking, and various whirring and clicking noises. Very impressive.

That’s basically what the crew of Apollo 12 saw. EVERY light lit up. Now these guys were test pilots, but nothing can prepare you for that. LOL

Ole Pete dutifully listed off all the unpleasantness in a calm manner, but it wasn’t looking too good at that point. Oh, and in addition to all the lights, master warning audio tone, the 8-ball is spinning every which way.

The audio is great to listen to. They were within a red nether hair to calling an abort, except for a young controller named John Aaron, who knew “SCE TO AUX” circuit breaker would clear the faults. I betcha he hasn’t had to buy a beer with his own money in a long time.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 08:38 PM (lqKtE)

117 *mortgage fraud

Posted by: IrishEi at August 25, 2025 08:38 PM (3ImbR)

118
Ashley
@American47Ash

I’m dead 😭🤣

My 7 year old daughter was at the pool swimming with her friends.

They were swimming around with their eyes closed and one little girl yelled “Marco” and my daughter responded, “Rubio.”

https://is.gd/VQtcPL

Posted by: ShainS -- Black Lives Don't Matter Now That Trump Is Saving Them In DC at August 25, 2025 08:41 PM (dSob2)

119 If firing Cook is that easy, why does Powell still have a job?

Posted by: Crusader at August 25, 2025 08:41 PM (TN0g+)

120 A raised glass to Gref and pawn. Two guys that know the rocket trade.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 08:42 PM (dxWFK)

121 >>If firing Cook is that easy, why does Powell still have a job?

She did commit mortgage fraud. I don't like Powell but he fired her for cause.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 08:44 PM (viF8m)

122 Ashley
@American47Ash

I’m dead 😭🤣

My 7 year old daughter was at the pool swimming with her friends.

They were swimming around with their eyes closed and one little girl yelled “Marco” and my daughter responded, “Rubio.”

https://is.gd/VQtcPL
Posted by: ShainS

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 08:45 PM (pRe69)

123 Next up? Trump is a Environmental Criminal because he won't bow to the Court.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 25, 2025 08:25 PM (mP0Kj)

So he's a world felkn now, eh?

Let them come and take him and the fines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 25, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

124 If firing Cook is that easy, why does Powell still have a job?
Posted by: Crusader at August 25, 2025 08:41 PM (TN0g+)

Because Powell is playing along with Bessant in twisting European arms by holding the rate high while Trump asks Ursula and the ECB to tell him about the scam with the bag of oranges -- That is why Trump is getting such good trade deals and a fair amount of compliance over Ukraine.

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 08:46 PM (rbvCR)

125
I've been told in the last few years that no one is above the law.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 08:46 PM (kkTda)

126 Some dogs are good at catching frisbees, others are good at trying.

Too much floof; can't see the frisbee.

Option 1: take him to the groomer.

Option B: crossbreed with great white sharks, who don't look at what they're biting.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 08:46 PM (DgGvY)

127 As is tradition, a streaming service (YouTube TV in this case) and a major network (Fox) are feuding over $$$, right before college football and the NFL seasons are about to begin. Fox might get dropped Wed.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 25, 2025 08:47 PM (sAmhv)

128 World Court pissing in their glasses and calling it champagne
Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 08:36 PM (dxWFK)

By EU trade regulation it is only Champaign if urinated in certain regions of France. Otherwise it is merely sparking pee

(I love variations on that joke)

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 08:47 PM (rbvCR)

129 One can only hope that Lisa Cook is an appetizer firing to be followed by 300k+ Federales cashired. . In theory the Orange Man needs a bureaucracy he can manage versus one that is trying to and capable of destroying him and the country.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 25, 2025 08:47 PM (FCPbW)

130 That turtle is giving the photographer the finger.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 25, 2025 08:47 PM (XMwZJ)

131 Nearly $500 million of cocaine and marijuana were offloaded at Port Everglades in Florida on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard announced... Officials said that crews offloaded 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana after a two-month operation at sea
livenowfox.com/video/1696897

That's... a lot of snow

Posted by: gKWVE at August 25, 2025 08:48 PM (gKWVE)

132 Posted by: rhomboid at August 25, 2025 08:10 PM (U/Byj

I don't think there are any new rules. I think Bolton, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, et. al., who are currently/reportedly "under investigation" will all walk away clean, as befits their station, because we're still living under the old rules.

Those rules are:

1.) If Party men do it, it's legal, and;

2.) If real or perceived enemies of Party men do it, or don't do it, then they're as guilty as hammered sin.

If these guys start getting locked up, then we have new rules.

But that ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 08:48 PM (BI5O2)

133 [snip]

The audio is great to listen to. They were within a red nether hair to calling an abort, except for a young controller named John Aaron, who knew “SCE TO AUX” circuit breaker would clear the faults. I betcha he hasn’t had to buy a beer with his own money in a long time.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 08:38 PM (lqKtE)

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Thanks for that great story, CT -- was unaware, and had never heard, of that!

Amazing history ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Black Lives Don't Matter Now That Trump Is Saving Them In DC at August 25, 2025 08:48 PM (dSob2)

134 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons! Done wrenching for the day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 08:38 PM (MRBis)
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For some reason, I read that as done WENCHING for the day.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 25, 2025 08:49 PM (IBQGV)

135 [snip]

If these guys start getting locked up, then we have new rules.

But that ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 08:48 PM (BI5O2)

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You're much too young to be so cynical ... and unfortunately so am I.

Posted by: ShainS -- Black Lives Don't Matter Now That Trump Is Saving Them In DC at August 25, 2025 08:51 PM (dSob2)

136 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons! Done wrenching for the day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

For some reason, I read that as done WENCHING for the day.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Wrench all day, wench all night.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 08:52 PM (DgGvY)

137 Thanks Ben Had.

I did a lot of weather related instrumentation and research amongst other stuff while I was a KSC.

I've got a lot of "war stories" about lightning and other stuff I saw out there.

KSC was a place full of smart people who do a lot of dumb stuff. Repeatedly.

Posted by: pawn at August 25, 2025 08:52 PM (Tx/gC)

138 For some reason, I read that as done WENCHING for the day.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 25, 2025 08:49 PM (IBQGV)

Fresh out of wenches. Moose out front should have told ya.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 08:53 PM (MRBis)

139 For some reason, I read that as done WENCHING for the day.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 25, 2025 08:49 PM (IBQGV)

Well, you certainly need your eyesight checked. No one is ever done wenching.

Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2025 08:54 PM (gKDq2)

140 YouTube has the Apollo 12 audio.

Posted by: Accomack at August 25, 2025 08:54 PM (FqNtp)

141 as the rocket was launching it got struck by lightning.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Thats what she said. lol
Posted by: Berserker

When violet wand play goes wrong.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 08:56 PM (DgGvY)

142 The Bacon Wench hasn't been around much. Will she be at the MoMe?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 25, 2025 08:56 PM (0sNs1)

143 Don’t thank me, thank the men and women who made Apollo happen!

Aaron was an engineer. With a curious mind. He had seen a certain pattern in the data on the screen in one of the simulation tests. He wondered why it did that? What caused those particular sets of gobbledygook numbers? He asked a technician and he walked him through it. Called a signal conditioner, it did a characteristic thing when the power went off line, and he observed it, and filed it away.

Useless information? Well… maybe. But then a few weeks later, he saw those same numbers - in real life - and when NOBODY knew what the hell to do, a 24 year old says “SCE TO AUX”

“What the hell is that?” But Al Bean knew where the circuit breaker was. Because he too, read the manual, and memorized stuff even when he didn’t have to. Ya never know

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 08:57 PM (lqKtE)

144 The Bacon Wench hasn't been around much. Will she be at the MoMe?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 25, 2025 08:56 PM (0sNs1)

I was wondering that myself.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 08:57 PM (snZF9)

145 Shain S,

Here's the NASA story on what happened.

The Right Stuff was a good moniker.

https://tinyurl.com/3hwuhtcj

Posted by: pawn at August 25, 2025 08:57 PM (Tx/gC)

146 the U.S. Coast Guard announced... Officials said that crews offloaded 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana after a two-month operation at sea

How much did they start with?

Posted by: t-bird at August 25, 2025 08:59 PM (va5Du)

147 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana
That's... a lot of snow
Posted by: gKWVE

I wonder which one goes faster. Peeps doing blow don't stop to eat and sleep.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 25, 2025 09:01 PM (KAi1n)

148 Delilah jumping

https://tinyurl.com/4a46hd3p
Posted by: Hadrian

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What the hell she's jumping for?
Looks like a floating IUD.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 09:03 PM (n4GiU)

149 the U.S. Coast Guard announced... Officials said that crews offloaded 61,740 pounds of cocaine

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AYFKM?

If USGC were a professional organization, this would have been gone in a weekend. I bet these jokers could even stand on a pitched roof.

Posted by: US Secret Service at August 25, 2025 09:03 PM (BI5O2)

150 Pelicans are the ultimate fish-stealers.
Posted by: Lizzy

Seems like a good way to get killed by talon.

Posted by: DaveA at August 25, 2025 09:05 PM (FhXTo)

151 Senior Wenches?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 25, 2025 09:07 PM (gwhfk)

152 the U.S. Coast Guard announced... Officials said that crews offloaded 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana after a two-month operation at sea

How much did they start with?
Posted by: t-bird

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 09:08 PM (pRe69)

153 151 Senior Wenches?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 25, 2025 09:07 PM's
's awright.

Posted by: Eromero at August 25, 2025 09:09 PM (LHPAg)

154 *snort
Posted by: rickb223

Pun intended?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 25, 2025 09:09 PM (KAi1n)

155 *snort
Posted by: rickb223

Pun intended?
Posted by: Dark Litigator

Not really. But I knew as soon as I typed it. LOL

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 09:11 PM (pRe69)

156 *snort
Posted by: rickb223

That was a lot of snow . . .
Poor Hunter.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 25, 2025 09:17 PM (gKWVE)

157 My twin brother's closest friend from 3d grade was Dave Reed, the voice of Houston in 1969. He was also the voice of Houston in some near disaster a few years later. (I was mothering infants at the time. Hazy recollection.) Got a presidential commendation, moved on to such things as dropping down into Africa to find out what really happened in Black Hawk Down. There were people who said he was the model for Kiefer Sutherland in 24 Hours. (Also a twin, BTW.)

When my twin went to the hospital for the last time, he asked me to call Dave. He kept us both cheered up for those last weeks--and died himself a matter of weeks later.

I used to tell the two of them, I'd like to be a fly on the wall when you trade war stories. Now they are, and I'm here.

Posted by: Wenda at August 25, 2025 09:17 PM (sz3LH)

158 Hi everyone!

Posted by: Piper at August 25, 2025 09:19 PM (p4NUW)

159 Wenda, a lovely story and thank you for sharing it.you

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 09:19 PM (dxWFK)

160 {{{Wenda}}}

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 25, 2025 09:20 PM (IsuMW)

161 Piper, You get to meet and ride Valor this year.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 09:21 PM (dxWFK)

162 *snort
Posted by: rickb223
Pun intended?
Posted by: Dark Litigator
Not really. But I knew as soon as I typed it. LOL
Posted by: rickb223

*snort

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 25, 2025 09:22 PM (KAi1n)

163 I used to tell the two of them, I'd like to be a fly on the wall when you trade war stories. Now they are, and I'm here.

Posted by: Wenda at August 25

Oh Wenda, that must be such a bittersweet memory for you.

Posted by: Piper at August 25, 2025 09:22 PM (p4NUW)

164 SCE to AUX

John Aaron also played a big part in getting Apollo XIII back to Earth.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 25, 2025 09:23 PM (0sNs1)

165 161 Piper, You get to meet and ride Valor this year.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 09:21 PM (dxWFK)

Ohhhhh….why do I feel like I know that name?

Posted by: Piper at August 25, 2025 09:23 PM (p4NUW)

166 hahahah!

"Report: Trump Administration Planning to Phase Out COVID-19 Vaccine"

Posted by: runner at August 25, 2025 09:26 PM (g47mK)

167 Piper, I think he was being a green bay packer. You will get the significance of that name.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 09:27 PM (dxWFK)

168 Piper,
Yes. I'm so very glad to be privileged to have it. But yes, it's tough.

Posted by: Wenda at August 25, 2025 09:29 PM (sz3LH)

169 Good evening good people.

Don't know if you all know but - Marsha Blackburn has incorporated the old Cracker Barrel logo into one of her campaign ads.

Heh.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2025 09:29 PM (cYBz/)

170 "Report: Trump Administration Planning to Phase Out COVID-19 Vaccine"
Posted by: runner

A) Voted for this!
2) What's the hold up?

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 09:29 PM (DgGvY)

171 Yes, that’s true. Aaron was in “charge” of battery power, basically. They had to power everything down, something that had never been intended in flight, and then power it back up right before re-entry.

But he had to go around to each section and ‘splain they weren’t going to leave their stuff on. Everybody had a reason why “you can’t turn this off”, some pretty good ones too, but they didn’t have any choice.

I think they went from a normal DC current draw of 50 or 80 amperes down to less than 10, which is pretty remarkable. I think my old 60s pickup drew about 8 or 10 amps with all the lights on, ignition, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 09:30 PM (lqKtE)

172
Jim Lovell and Fred Haise's footprints should be on the Moon. If we ever get back up there, they need to carry some of their shoes up there and make prints with them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2025 09:33 PM (w6EFb)

173 I don't even have to click on the "Gavin Newsome's Social Media Team" do I? Pretty sure I know exactly what I would see. "Things" would be a good description.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 25, 2025 09:34 PM (CHHv1)

174 I saw Quint tonight, though it was not as Quint but as the bad guy in "The Taking of Pelham 123." If you haven't seen the original then you should.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 25, 2025 09:36 PM (CHHv1)

175 Jim Lovell and Fred Haise's footprints should be on the Moon.

[ b]If we ever get back up there, they need to carry

Posted by: publius

WNBA Neon Green dildos.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 09:37 PM (pRe69)

176 Gave in Newsom.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 09:37 PM (dxWFK)

177
"Report: Trump Administration Planning to Phase Out COVID-19 Vaccine"
Posted by: runner

A) Voted for this!
2) What's the hold up?
Posted by: mikeski

SEATTLE - Medical experts are backing the American Academy of Pediatrics' immunization schedule recommending infants and young children to get the COVID-19 vaccine, differing from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC's new COVID-19 guidelines.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 25, 2025 09:38 PM (63Dwl)

178 Trump fired Lisa Cook. The Dems will have strokes tomorrow

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 09:38 PM (rRoxM)

179 SEATTLE - Medical experts are backing the American Academy of Pediatrics' immunization schedule recommending infants and young children to get the COVID-19 vaccine, differing from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC's new COVID-19 guidelines.

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Criminal

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 09:42 PM (JkO4W)

180 Alan Shepard assigned himself to the next available moon flight once he was cleared medically. That was 13. I always thought he was a cock for doing that. Bumped everyone in the pipeline, he hadn’t flown for nine (9) years.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 09:42 PM (lqKtE)

181 Trump fired Lisa Cook. The Dems will have strokes tomorrow
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 09:38 PM (rRoxM)

Oh I'm quite wure they've been bloviating on lefty cable news all night. I mean, it's lefty cable news and Democrats, what else are they going to do but bloviate?

Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2025 09:43 PM (gKDq2)

182 Looks to me like Abrego put on a few pounds since he was incarcerated.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 25, 2025 09:45 PM (3ImbR)

183 >> Trump fired Lisa Cook

Total DEI hire. Her academic record is piss poor, and I think there was some plagiarism there. Basically, just social justice nonsense.

She's about as qualified to be on the Fed Board as Jumanji Brown Jackson is to be on the Supreme Court.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2025 09:46 PM (w6EFb)

184 Some medical experts.

Some medical experts will tell you “hell no” too. For just that specific vaccine.

Just so everyone is clear on that. Women, children, pregnant women, teens. - when it came to the completely experimental, emergency use authorized brand new tech mRna - they said “EVERYBODY” should take it. No exceptions.

That is completely insane.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 09:46 PM (lqKtE)

185 182 Looks to me like Abrego put on a few pounds since he was incarcerated.
Posted by: IrishEi at August 25, 2025 09:45 PM (3ImbR)

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Drinking Margaritas with Dem senators will pack on the pork.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 09:47 PM (JkO4W)

186 Poor Kilmar, he does know how to order a low fat.latte at Starbux.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 09:49 PM (dxWFK)

187 Looks to me like Abrego put on a few pounds since he was incarcerated.

His cell mate prefers 'em on the heavy side. More cushion for the pushin'.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 25, 2025 09:50 PM (U4c/V)

188 SEATTLE - Medical experts are backing the American Academy of Pediatrics' immunization schedule recommending infants and young children to get the COVID-19 vaccine, differing from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC's new COVID-19 guidelines.

==

lol, they've stopped HHS development and investment and cancelled all contracts

Posted by: runner at August 25, 2025 09:52 PM (g47mK)

189 no money , no vaxxx

Posted by: runner at August 25, 2025 09:52 PM (g47mK)

190 ABrego was starving, like terrorists in gaza

Posted by: runner at August 25, 2025 09:53 PM (g47mK)

191 153 151 Senior Wenches?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 25, 2025 09:07 PM's

's awright.
Posted by: Eromero at August 25, 2025 09:09 PM (LHPAg)

"All right? S'ALLRIGHT!"

Posted by: joemarine at August 25, 2025 09:53 PM (y171U)

192 SEATTLE - Medical experts are backing the American Academy of Pediatrics' immunization schedule recommending infants and young children to get the COVID-19 vaccine, differing from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC's new COVID-19 guidelines.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 25, 2025 09:38 PM (63Dwl)

I am not sure if the AAP will be able to give the same legal protection as the CDC's recommendation if something is proven bad about the vaccine

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 09:54 PM (rbvCR)

193 190 ABrego was starving, like terrorists in gaza
Posted by: runner at August 25, 2025 09:53 PM (g47mK)

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He looks pretty juicy to hungry Ugandans.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 09:54 PM (JkO4W)

194 >>> Just so everyone is clear on that. Women, children, pregnant women, teens. - when it came to the completely experimental, emergency use authorized brand new tech mRna - they said “EVERYBODY” should take it. No exceptions.

That is completely insane.
Posted by: Common Tater
===

Everyone was 'voluntold' to take experimental drugs.

There were probably hundreds if not thousands of formulations.
Get maximum data if literally exeryine was forced to participate.

Sure, a significant portion were controll samples of just saline, which were also given to VIPs. The rest... Eggs must be broken.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 25, 2025 09:56 PM (/lPRQ)

195 Chris Van Hollen has a creepy man-thing for Abrego. It's disgusting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 09:56 PM (JkO4W)

196 from NPR June 25 2020

When Lisa Cook tried to publish her research showing how segregation and racial violence held back Black innovation, she encountered obstacles. Now her work is considered groundbreaking.
Patent filings by black investors in America declined noticeably following the Tulsa massacre of 1921. That is just one fact out of some fascinating research on black wealth creation that our Planet Money podcast . . .

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 09:59 PM (rbvCR)

197 ONT is nood

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