And So the Memes Have Come!

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

And now the blog fundraising song and dance. Well, dance at least.

This will be going on until the 18th of July.

This is the reason for doing a fundraiser.

If you read this blog a few times a week and feel like donating, I’m tremendously grateful.

If you read this blog and don’t feel like donating, that’s fine too. Your presence is appreciated.

The Give Send Go is still active. Lately I’ve gotten more disenchanted with them, though. Not only have they hosted fundraisers for the kid who stabbed the track star through the heart, but there was some appearance of encouraging racialist bs. True or not? Don’t know. Haven’t looked that closely. Still, that and the fact they calculate how much of the raised money you actually get in some weird way makes them less than shiny.

So, what else is there? Well, there is paypal. Yes, I removed the button from the side (though I’ll return it) because they were threatening to fine people for badthink. Whether that was entirely organic or part of the Autopen administration it’s open to debate. They were being very enthusiastic about forcing everything from social media to everything else including debanking. At any rate, I think it is safe to use a paypal link for the next four years. Give or take. (Look none of these services are pure. We use what we can and seems safe at the time.)


So, here’s the paypal link.

While on that, yes, the address in Las Vegas is still available:

Sarah A. Hoyt

Goldport Press

304 S Jones Blvd #6771

Las Vegas, NV  89107

(Note this is a drop box. Please don’t send perishables that will be damaged by heat. If you want to send something out of the ordinary, contact me first. I’ll figure out antoher place to send it where things won’t be damaged and I can retrieve it. And if you want to give me physical stuff, it might be best to catch me at a con. (Younger DIL says I have do do more cons. Sigh.)

Please, please, please do not send Indy a multi-tool. I realize this is probably futile pleading, but he’s enough trouble as it is. No, seriously. If you want me to have time to write, don’t send Indy a multitool.

And that’s it for now. A heartfelt thank you to anyone who contributes, thinks about contributing or (“merely”) leaves a nice review on one of my books.

You guys keep me what passes for sane around these parts. Thanks you.

92 thoughts on “And So the Memes Have Come!”

  1. I’m just saying this now before the cops come. I woke up at 0430 and saw this post. I’m going to tell the cops that it’s all your fault that I woke the neighborhood up by shrieking uncontrollably in laughter.

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  2. I was laughing at Grandpa with the headphones. If he goes to church tomorrow, his grandson has made a difference in the world.

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    1. What’s worse is that most *hearing aids* are Bluetooth these days. I get all sorts of exciting things in the middle of my head from time to time. Usually while I’m talking to a patient two rooms away from my phone so I can’t disable it.

      I usually fall back on nodding and smiling until I can excuse myself at this point since the have gone from aids to complete hindrances about then.

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  3. Looking at the ducks and thinking of the Aflac duck. Also of the bemused black gentleman in the early commercials who was the only human noticing the duck was talking….

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  4. You and your blog have helped me put down the black pill several times in the last two years. For that I owe you my donation. This is the only place I always read the comments. Love the community. Thank you.

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  5. “I talk to myself because I’m the most intelligent person around and because I’m the person most concerned about my problems.”

    🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲

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      2. I’ve always maintained that it’s OK to talk to yourself. It’s OK to answer yourself. When you start going “Huh” or “This bastard’s crazy”, there may be a problem.

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        1. It’s “interesting” when you get into a three-way argument with yourself… and lose. [Crazy Grin]

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  6. a) Doom came out long enough ago that many Grandpas might have played it.

    b) Lotta the early ones ‘I feel seen’. But, I have not showed any Discord to my psychologist, and have not had requests to speak with folks from there.

    c) I’ve been keeping on, keeping on. Maybe making a few important shifts in my mindset, but the habitual poor choices are ones that I will not easily quickly permanently shift.

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  9. Re: Communicating with the dead:

    “Look, Mr. Ghost. I get it. Your wife betrayed you. You were murdered by her lover back in 1634. I’m sure this must all have been very traumatic. BUT DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU THAT I’M TRYING TO READ? I’M RIGHT AT THE CLIMAX OF MY BOOK, AND YOU KEEP YAKKING AT ME DURING THE BEST PART! FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, WILL YOU SHUT THE F- UP?”

    Re: setting off Iceblock at Walmart

    I know it’s wrong, but given the glacial speeds of the checkout lines at my local Walmart, I’ll admit it’s tempting.

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    1. We don’t even shop at Walmart. I’m tempted. So tempted.

      Remember, I’m in Eugene, Oregon …

      Very tempted.

      Just saying …

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      1. Read the FBI blog one to hubby …

        He said I have a warped sense of humor …

        Bet he repeats it during the BS session after golf … His humor is more warped than mine.

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    2. Actually, since Iceblock isn’t a federal or state program, submitting false information into it probably is not a crime. And at most, it is a valid form of civil disobedience.

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      1. There is usually a chest of ice at the local walmart. Folks might need it for fishing, picnics, etc.

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        1. Already did via GSG. Paypal for some reason doesn’t like me, probably because it thinks I’m my wife. This whole trans-gender thing has obviously even infected payment systems.

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  12. The “duck in your hand” bit reminds me of something that happened a long time ago on the Babylon 5 message boards. I wasn’t there, but found out about it later.

    JMS was on those boards, and apparently someone asked him a question about “Sinclair’s d*ck” (asterisk in the original). JMS ran with it, and started posting at length about Sinclair’s duck – a rubber ducky that Capt. Sinclair had.

    :P

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  13. I fully agree about the “statue” in the doctor’s office.

    I have been known to weird out people when I licked to rock to see what kind it was. (Clean rock, in the formation, not on the ground, testing for salt.)

    How much does Milei spend on keeping his hair looking so.. well, as if he combed it with an eggbeater? Did he get tips from Boris Johnson’s barber?

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  14. Democrats in 2025: “Without illegal aliens, who will grow our weed?”

    I think a more accurate map would be ‘Danger presented by Illinois’. With Cook County in extra-extra-bright red.

    Perfect timing (and framing) on the MOON sign!

    I’d like to see two people who’ll be occupied for several hours park 2″ from that BMW on both sides. :-D

    Never save liberals from a flood. They’ll blame it all on you.

    For extra credit: come up with a caption to turn the ‘squirrel dance’ into a meme. :-D

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  15. Hmmm… If people were to flood the ‘ICEblock’ app with false alarms, it would be useless… Even better, someone could program a bunch of bots to do it automatically! :-P

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    2. I saw (on X, I think) a suggestion to turn ICEblock into a game. Go to a random place, report that ICE is in the area, and bet on how many people leave with inordinate haste..

      makes me wish I had an iPhone.

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      3. I feel a certain dark hankering to see ICEblock copied/modified to track BATF agents instead. And to sit back and listen to the “reeee!” from the Usual Suspects about how terribly terrible that is.

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  18. Some comments:

    The one about AI and cocaine reminds me of the cartoon “You know how we republished all those articles about NFTs after we searched and replaced blockchain with NFTs? We now need to do that again, replacing NFTs with AI”.

    About “passive voice”, I remember a blog post that explained how all the advice that passive voice should be avoided unless you need to provide info in a detached, emotionless way, were all wrong — and the post even highlighted several times where passive voice was used to tell us not to use passive voice — and the post then went on to explain how the purpose of passive voice is to enable the proper flow of action in a paragraph — sometimes the object of one sentence needs to become the subject of the next — and passive voice makes that possible in a natural way.

    Finally, about GiveSendGo — I’ve been intending to say this on the first day of the fundraiser, so I’m only now finally getting it off my chest — shortly after the stabbing happened, Tim Pool had one of the founders of GiveSendGo as a guest, who then went on to address both issues: the first is that by enabling this young man to get the best defense possible, when he’s convicted, it takes the excuse of “but of course he was convicted, he didn’t have a good defense” off the table — and I’m strongly inclined to agree with this reasoning, and it’s the particular reason I despise GoFundMe, who had cancelled fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny. He also defended allowing the comments about racialist bs stay on ths platform, because it gives us a window into the souls of those who are donating and their motivations — and again, I agree with that motivation.

    I cannot answer for how they calculate what you get from those who donate, except to say that I worked for a donations app for some time, and have learned that the fees taken are largely what’s needed to interact with the bank and credit card system, and are also what’s needed to keep the lights on — and I don’t know how much of that is the fault of the financial industry, and how much of it is GiveSendGo.

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    1. You forgot to wonder how much of those expenses are the fault of the government.

      Whenever something costs more, takes longer and/or is far more complicated than seems reasonable — always, always suspect government meddling. You will rarely be mistaken.

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  19. Confound it, WordPress, what did you do with my comment? Hopefully it just went into moderation for who knows what reason. I fear re-sending it in case it would duplicate it …

    But I also almost forgot: that 89° angle? Of course it’s not 90°! If it were, it would have a little square indicating it was so! Without that square, the angle could be anything! (Up to and including a duck.)

    …

    Ok, I’m just paranoid enough to think I should paste the contents of the previous comment, just in case — and if it turns into a duplicate, I apologize in advance!

    …

    Some comments:

    The one about AI and cocaine reminds me of the cartoon “You know how we republished all those articles about NFTs after we searched and replaced blockchain with NFTs? We now need to do that again, replacing NFTs with AI”.

    About “passive voice”, I remember a blog post that explained how all the advice that passive voice should be avoided unless you need to provide info in a detached, emotionless way, were all wrong — and the post even highlighted several times where passive voice was used to tell us not to use passive voice — and the post then went on to explain how the purpose of passive voice is to enable the proper flow of action in a paragraph — sometimes the object of one sentence needs to become the subject of the next — and passive voice makes that possible in a natural way.

    Finally, about GiveSendGo — I’ve been intending to say this on the first day of the fundraiser, so I’m only now finally getting it off my chest — shortly after the stabbing happened, Tim Pool had one of the founders of GiveSendGo as a guest, who then went on to address both issues: the first is that by enabling this young man to get the best defense possible, when he’s convicted, it takes the excuse of “but of course he was convicted, he didn’t have a good defense” off the table — and I’m strongly inclined to agree with this reasoning, and it’s the particular reason I despise GoFundMe, who had cancelled fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny. He also defended allowing the comments about racialist bs stay on ths platform, because it gives us a window into the souls of those who are donating and their motivations — and again, I agree with that motivation.

    I cannot answer for how they calculate what you get from those who donate, except to say that I worked for a donations app for some time, and have learned that the fees taken are largely what’s needed to interact with the bank and credit card system, and are also what’s needed to keep the lights on — and I don’t know how much of that is the fault of the financial industry, and how much of it is GiveSendGo.

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    1. Note I didn’t link to GoFundMe.
      Also GiveSendGo is more transparent than substack who seems to go “Whatever we want to send is fine” and explain nothing.

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    2. I never saw the Tim Pool interview, but he was also interviewed by Piers Morgan (although what I saw was more about Shiloh Hendrix than Karmello Anthony.) I expect Tim was less directly confrontational than Piers, who had a bee in his (regrettably, figurative) bonnet about hate speech.

      Dude just couldn’t wrap his head around the idea that, just maybe, naughty words ought not permanently expel you from the human community.

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  20. I’m tempted to cut the Vet versus doctor one out and mail it to my doctor’s office just for mutual giggles.

    Name five things:

    Umm. Sunshine, peace, fresh air…

    Then my brain started riffing: “Jesse James before he died named five things that he wanted to ride….”

    Wait; it was three things, but you always named four: “bicycle, tricycle, automobile, and the chest of a commie on the battlefield.”

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  21. I survived first summer camp. I even have a week to go before second summer camp. Doing all the laundry and even washing the wool camping blankets (which generally don’t get washed, but may as well.)

    Just so folk know, camp was good, but one, ah, “willfully obtuse” person in a key spot can cause no end of issues. Description is the polite triangulation from several far more helpful people who did what fixes they could pull. (We have an ADA adult. All paperwork was correctly filled out months ago. We were not put in the ADA campsite(s) and they ended up having to put them half a mile away from the rest of the troop. Not a great start to the week.)

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      1. Camp Baker. It’s only open for three weeks, but it’s because they take part of the staff and send them up to Melakwa for the other part of the summer. (Our troop will never go to Melakwa due to aforementioned ADA issues. Our scoutmaster isn’t quite ADA yet, but he’s getting there.)

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        1. Dang. Where did they put you?

          Some knally camp sites definitely.

          Only one handicap site (been almost 20 years so could be changed), plus the one building with bunks. But there are two sites west side of parking lot that are easier access.

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          1. They put us in Heceta, which has been upgraded to an adirondack/mini-dak site. Right next to the campfire bowl. The fully ADA site got upgraded big time and also expanded, so the aforementioned person doing assignments stuck a big troop in there. The council executive was informed, as well as being informed that having a small ADA site would be a good idea to prevent reoccurrences.

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            1. Not as narly going down to the campfire bowl area. But definitely down a hill.

              Yes, they really do need another ADA site.

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        2. Dang. Where did they put you?

          Some knally camp sites definitely.

          Only one handicap site (been almost 20 years so could be changed), plus the one building with bunks. But there are two sites west side of parking lot that are easier access.

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        3. Dang. Where did they put you?

          Some knally camp sites definitely.

          Only one handicap site (been almost 20 years so could be changed), plus the one building with bunks. But there are two sites west side of parking lot that are easier access.

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  22. Re the famous story of “Hercules and the Cat Pill”, specifically all the sculptures thereof: Since Hercules has Deity-Muscle-Syndrome thanks to his dad, wouldn’t he look all skinny and weedy and pre-super-juice-Steve-Rogers thanks to those Muscle-Fibers-From-Dad hardly having to do any work at all in the human world? Unless he went around his whole life curling mountains just in order to expand his biceps, wouldn’t he be doing super strength without showing super bulk?

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      1. Actually, Herc’s muscles are “naturally” big and bulking thanks to the “god energy” flowing into him.

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    2. Dad is a *Greek* god. Looking pretty and muscl-y comes as part of the package along with the strength and durability.

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    3. Giving a cat a pill. Brawn is no help. What is needed at least two more hands. The medicine instructions are always very explicit until they get to the critical step of getting the pill from the outside of the cat to the inside of the cat (my, look at all those sharp little teeth).

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      2. Agree about four hands needed to pull the cat. Holding the paws was my job.

        My wife had the technique down, though. Peanut butter and the pill on the middle finger of her left hand, then thumb and little finger over the cats’ head to pinch the corner joints of the jaw to force them open, them pivot the middle finger with the pill down the throat.

        I had to wait a while to comment. Was laughing too hard.

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        1. After a traumatic trip to the vet, he prescribed a (fortunately liquid) antibiotic for my dear sweet Kitten. First attempt did not go well (I never saw the set of left hooks coming that lacerated my thumb). Then I remembered the use of guile from an old humorous cat book. Administer the dose on her back (against the grain of her fur so it doesn’t run off). Her glare bespoke of bloody murder and death in my sleep, but she grimly licked until her fur was pristine again. And swallowing the medicine in the process.

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      3. Agree about four hands needed to pull the cat. Holding the paws was my job.

        My wife had the technique down, though. Peanut butter and the pill on the middle finger of her left hand, then thumb and little finger over the cats’ head to pinch the corner joints of the jaw to force them open, them pivot the middle finger with the pill down the throat.

        I had to wait a while to comment. Was laughing too hard.

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      4. Agree about four hands needed to pull the cat. Holding the paws was my job.

        My wife had the technique down, though. Peanut butter and the pill on the middle finger of her left hand, then thumb and little finger over the cats’ head to pinch the corner joints of the jaw to force them open, them pivot the middle finger with the pill down the throat.

        I had to wait a while to comment. Was laughing too hard.

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    3. The hackers tell no tale; but even as the internet was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Knowledge’s Bane. 

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  24. If people do send multitools to Indy, put a price on them and sell them at a Con as “Confiscated from my cat, Indy”

    That should raise some good money. :-)

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  25. If people do send multitools to Indy, put a price on them and sell them at a Con as “Confiscated from my cat, Indy”

    That should raise some good money. :-)

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  27. Az on Heel vs. Babyface raised money to pay a mortgage, and people kept sending money for his cat, Belle, to buy treats and a cat palace. The cat ended up with enough money to buy her own property, as far as I can figure.

    Of course, then he moved to the US to avoid potential legal trouble, and, you know, date a pretty girl who likes comics. So Belle is living in luxury back in the UK with one of Az’s friends/family, because an elderly cat can’t be put into quarantine like that.

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    1. Pretty sure that Az also ended up with enough money to buy a house in the US or the UK. But obviously it’s not a good idea to publicize one’s plans right now, and it also seems like a transition period for him.

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