90 thoughts on “It’s The Last Train To Memes

        1. Showoff.

          Seriously, this is one reason why I don’t join social media. I wouldn’t interact with it nearly enough to earn all the badges of honor that I feel I should. I’ll keep my disappointing underperformances to myself, thank you.

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          1. Rather the opposite, me.

            I would be banned at all times. The filter most folk have between brain and mouth is missing on me, and that tolerance for bullsheep that tolerant folks have, well, the GAF button wore out decades ago and I ain’t about to be replacing it.

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          1. Yeah. The library Facebook page account has been hacked by Hindis since I abandoned it, and the personal pseudonymous account I cannot recall the login for. Hilariously they need me to scan in my ID to let me reset my password. Do they not know that voter ID be rayciss!?

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            1. The only reason I’m still on FB is the private groups, including the one for the historical family graveyard, which is used to communicate about the graveyard. Generally half a dozen posts a year (usually only two). Clean up, and annual meeting, is coming, what date – Saturday the weekend before Memorial weekend. Minutes of annual meeting (minus bank balance which is in the official minutes, but have to show up to get that). Beyond that members might post pictures of the graveyard, or research on the Applegate trail, and any other work parties (fence replace, tree planting, shed install, water catchment system, etc.) that happen during the year, plus reports on the work parties.

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    1. Nonsense.

      Of course, you can trust them … to give you what exactly what you asked for but not what you wanted. :twisted:

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            1. Not sure if they are Fae or are Creations of the Fae.

              Either way, I don’t want to annoy them. :wink:

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        1. If only. The worst software systems are not those that do exactly what you ask for but those that try to be ‘helpful’ – with no “Just do what I ask for!” override.

          Autocorrect. Search engines that return hits for “sticks,” “pillorys,” or “bonds” when you try to search for “stocks.”

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          1. As I often say ” Lord preserve us from overly helpful Software”. The current generations of AI skate solidly into that category.

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          2. LOL. We had to add a “not required” option to sorting for reporting on the system I last worked on because people, for example, were using “employee number” to find all raw records that had certain cost centers or projects, for the cost of what was being searched. Without that not all the records were being pulled, when they wanted it sub-sorted by employee. The problem? Not all the records needed had an employee number (didn’t apply). There were a few other examples where “it doesn’t match” where similar options had to be implemented because how the reports that “were suppose to match” couldn’t because of the reasons the source records existed. Lot easier to tell them how to properly modify report setup and tell them to rerun reports than to explain “Can’t and here is why.”

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    2. That’s one of the things that bothered me in Shrek (which I know you shouldn’t take seriously). They threatened to break the magic mirror. No, idiots! If you break it, you won’t be killing the spirit there, you’ll be setting it free!

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      1. Perhaps for some Spirits but for others breaking the Magic Mirror just means that the Spirit just losing access to the place that contains the Mirror.

        Still one shouldn’t break the Mirror unless you know just what type of Magic Mirror it is. :wink:

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      2. On the other hand they WERE idiots and the magic mirror, ultimately set them up to fail. Head cannon is Magic Mirror did it on purpose with how he presented the princesses (and which ones he presented).

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  1. The sticker on the car … Wonder if it works. It is too dang hard to get over the console in the middle if I have to get in on the passenger side. I mean. Really a pain in the back.

    The 2024 meme’s are hitting too close to home too.

    Great meme round up, as usual.

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    1. gooserberus! Scary monster either way.

      Also, I am laughing with and not at the caffeine memes today, because inspite of drinking Diet Coke today, I managed to send out an email campaign for my latest release with all the links correct except the one on the gigantic cover art embed…which instead links to the previous release. sad trombone

      Also enjoyed the thickening/thinnening/clumpening plot, and Chief O’Brien.

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    1. Depends on why the Alien is there.
      Rabbit: “So you’re here to audition as the new Black Beast of Arrrghhh?”

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  2. Um, about the middle of the book … I’m there, in that meme, and I do not like it. (33K words on the WIP.)

    And yes, here’s to 2024 being less interesting than the last three. (Hey, a cat can dream, can’t she?)

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    1. Plot thinner? Ack. I just tend to throw action scenes at it, and hope the whole “plot” thing will work itself out while I’m not looking at it. Totally not planning a crisis moment any time soon. Nope.

      computes how long it will take for a given volume of breathable air to go bad with varying levels of oxygen replacement.

      Nah, that’s too easy on the characters. Let’s make it suck worse! Without Socialists, I mean.

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    2. I once saw a thread stemming from that meme where people were exclaiming over the revelation — about why corn starch wasn’t doing its thing in their recipes.

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    1. I have too many plot bunnies. Free to a good home.

      Anyone want a nice little system apocalypse with a side of HFY? Adversarial systems come to Earth and the human one gets shafted. Decides to embrace humanity and go full defiance on the universe. Shenanigans ensue.

      Already got the zombies. And the other zombies. And the plant dude. And the mil-sf in space. Not to mention the other ones.

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        1. There would be a lot of spots of survivors and even places improved because the fae got bored with what they were doing.

          Lots of horrors, too, of course.

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  3. I am also amused at the coffee portal. I mix cocoa and instant coffee, how has this not happened to me yet….

    Trans deer. Dude. What did you think would happen?

    Spy vs. Spy. SNRK

    Book collectors: I’m in this picture and I don’t like it….

    I would so read the rom-com with the Jewish widow and Chinese restaurant owner… bonus if he’s descended from the Kaifeng Jews!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews

    And the last one… d’aww. Supportive relationships!

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  4. I finally resolved to give up all my bad habits for 2024; but then I remember that no one likes a quitter…

    Oh, and that wedding-dress photo was really sweet.

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  5. Hey, I like Guayaki Yerba Mate. But it’s too damned expensive (had it once on sale 99¢/can, then next time it was $2.50+) and they likely hate me.
    I notice there is too much beer in that Socialism Beer glass.
    The bobcats, lynx, and cougars also liked box traps, but Tigers flattened the box before laying upon it, Pierre thought he’d be a tiger (well he was an orange tabby) buy squishing boxes (and lions just tore them up – iirc)

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      1. My dog it is either she has to go out, immediately (yes, I take her out before bedtime, she even has a “potty” command). Or “mom wake up, right now” alert, “now reward me” (dogs don’t work for free).

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        1. Our dog knows that he needs to go out before bedtime. The trouble is that, even after almost four years of living with us, he still hasn’t figured out WHY he’s supposed to go out before bedtime. He goes out his dog door, waits for me to close it up for the night, and then goes around to the main door to sit and wait for me to let him in.

          Best as I can tell, he thinks its some sort of ritual, where every night we symbolically cast him out of the pack, and then let him back in.

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          1. It is hilarious to watch her go out when it snows. Goes out to the snow line, turns around to come back to the door. You’d think she was a cat :-) Seriously, we have to clear a path to the grass, and clear an area in the grass. Luckily it doesn’t snow much here.

            I started the “Let’s go potty” when she was a tiny pup from the first day she was home. First thing in the AM, last at night before being kenneled (she sleeps with us now), after naps before playtime, after 30 minutes or so of playtime inside or outside, you know typical try to prevent puppy accidents. Didn’t know I was teaching her potty on command. She doesn’t always go, I know this, but she always sniffs and squats. I know she doesn’t always go because too often she’ll announce she has to go not an hour after going to bed. My response is “You just went out!” Don’t ask me how I got her to announce how she needs to go out. That just happened. Got some floor bells and tried to teach her to use those. That didn’t happen. Cats play with them and scare her.

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    1. That was me this AM. We had finished a bag of the crunchies last night and wife had put the empty (perhaps with 10 crunchies in it) bag in our bathroom trash (closed with a foot pedal to lift the top). At 4:15 am I woke to hear lots of scrabbling in the master bath. Got up to look 15# Tiger cat sitting on the lid imitating a trash panda trying to lift it (clearly brain swapped out). Void Cat is more efficient trying to work the pedal but stopped as he’s only 13# and chonky brother was on the cover. Didn’t get back to sleep until about 6:30. I love cats but somedays…

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  6. Am I evil for laughing at the wannabe deer getting shot by hunters?

    And if I’m not, what more will it take?

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      1. Eh. Humans are made to stick together. That’s how the whole species thing works. A lot of effort was put into splitting us up and making the whole relationship thing a lot more complicated and difficult.

        Women tend to, by and large, like men. Men also tend to, by and large, really like women. And both tend to love little babies (they can be plenty adorbs when they’re not spewing toxic waste from both ends).

        We’re more alike than different. It’s surprising (and somewhat disappointing) how so many talking heads tend to ignore that.

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  7. On the first meme.

    I Do Not Consent to tomorrow being the Start of 2024!

    I want a Tardis that could take me to other Times & Places where “things are better”. (Of course, the Tardis could also hold all the books that I dream of having). :grin:

    Of course, the Tardis is fiction I’ll have to accept that tomorrow is January 1st, 2024 and hope the Good Lord will help me survive 2024. Who knows, maybe 2024 will be the start of better time.

    Happy New Years Eve and Hopefully A Good New Years Day! :grin:

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    1. Miracles do happen. I remember going to bed November 8th 2016 dismally certain I’d wake up to hear all about how President-elect (Gag!) Hillary was going to save us from all those horrid Deplorables — only to wake up and find that reality supplanted by a much better one.

      Mind you, I wasn’t thrilled about Trump, but he had to be better than (Gag!) Hillary. How much better, it took a couple of years to see.

      Now several states are trying to implement Jungle Primaries after seeing how they’ve failed everywhere else. Idaho is even pushing for Jungle Primaries AND ‘ranked voting’ — which is how Alaska wound up putting the 3rd-place Democrat in the Senate even though both of the Republicans got more votes.

      Jungle Primary and ‘ranked voting’ are both evil; putting them together compounds the evil.
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      Elections are far too important to be left up to a bunch of uncontrolled voters. The Party MUST exercise oversight and management to prevent mere voters from electing the wrong candidates!

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      1. Miracles do happen. I remember going to bed November 8th 2016 dismally certain I’d wake up to hear all about how President-elect (Gag!) Hillary was going to save us from all those horrid Deplorables — only to wake up and find that reality supplanted by a much better one.
        ………………………

        I had to get up to let the dog out at 4 AM. While I waited for her to tell me she was ready to come in, turned on the news. The reporting was “if confirmed”, etc. My response was “Holy C*$%, Trump won!” I too wasn’t real thrilled. After all Trump was an ex-Democrat. At best he was RENO-lite. Maybe. But first and foremost he is an American first.

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    2. Our Tardis seems to be stuck as a flaming dumpster, that while making a great deal of “wwwhhhhhaaaarrrppp!” noise goes mostly nowhere.

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  8. Good haul this week. Had to share almost 3/4ths of them. Farcebook DID slam me with a fact check on the trans-species one since their fact checkers are too stupid to understand satire or sarcasm, and they love to censor anything they can get away with.

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  9. Just opened a bottle of bubbly given to us by a kindly (and very knowledgeable) vinyard owner in Albuquerque to mark the end of 2023. We (ok, I)were getting afraid it might be getting past its prime. I am happy to say it has not. (The vinyard owner gave it to us as a gift back in 2018, not as a gift to celebrate the demise of this year. That was our idea).

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  10. How can ‘Science!’ predict ‘A Climate Catastrophe In 10 Years!!’ when the hourly weather forecast changes drastically between 8AM and 10AM? At 8:00 this morning it forecast 59°, clouds and 18% chance of rain at 1PM. Now it shows 63°, sunny and 1% chance.

    Not to mention the fact that the computer models they use to predict the future can’t even predict the past.

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