Cat dancer

Well, the tech doing my mammogram said something in the wrong rhythm so now I have the Cha-Cha Slide stuck in my head.

tweet from lisa desjardins reporting SOTU might be up to 3 hours long

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

An impressive number of skaters playing to the cameras in the Olympic Gala, but an even impressive refusal of the director of Peacock’s feed to use any of the cameras to which they were playing.

Those of us over 45 watching Lee Hae-in at the end of her show all “noooo you can’t die on the ice!” 😂

(Context for younguns - at one point in the 90s I think, “dying” on the ice at the end of the long program was so popular that it was banned in ice dancing.)

Extremely not a fan of coming down with norovirus while at work in the office.

The apparently AI driven subtitles are cracking me up though. They did a similarly magnificent job with “Non, je regrette rien” the other night also.

Continuing to enjoy the Olympic subtitles that just stated that the snowboard cross racers exited the Stargate rather than the start gate.

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

Snoop Dogg is so 2024. More Stanley Tucci in my Olympics, please.

Work (alas) is keeping me from watching much of the ice dancing rhythm dance but I am very much enjoying the 90s music as a playlist.

Footage of Kaori Sakamoto skating to “Non, je regrette rien” in the women’s team final, with a caption that reads “FEET. COME IS WHAT? BARKELL.”

You know what NBC, don’t tell your AI caption generator that it doesn’t need to caption accompanying music, especially non-English music. The inadvertent comedy is great.

Settling down into my family Super Bowl role of “identifying the old guys” (other than football players).

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Aw yay, love that Italian geek astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti had a part in the Opening Ceremonies.

A fan of GB’s Olympic style also…maybe I just like mega scarves.

Very sorry, Germany, I cannot endorse this Olympic fashion decision.

The Canadian Winter Olympics style game strong as usual.

Confused by the Brazilian parka capri pants (?) but I aspire to the amount of fun they are having.

the experience of having a dance spectacle narrated by the sports team always makes me want an option to go to a ballet where you have, like, John McEnroe in an ear saying “I’m being told that this is Drossel… Drosselmeyer? ominous cape there! watch how he jumps on the clock! no capes in my day”

I really want one of these Italian team escort silver jackets, lol.

Exactly. He only cares about appearances. He doesn’t *get* empathy himself, and thinks that the rest of us are faking it for appearances, so he expects Noem and Bovino to fake it if it will benefit him.

Nice try, but we remember who put these vaccine deniers in positions of power… and who, once they proved utterly unfaithful to their promises, are still keeping them there.

ICE agents will continue to execute our citizens in the streets for as long as they believe they can get away it. There will be more executions like this. What are our leaders doing to prevent it?

On the plus side, I have unsubscribed to a LOT of stuff this AM.

Cool, all the things that Gmail said I have to give up to turn off AI are now broken anyway, along with the AI.

Yup. And no email summaries from AI…the things that are failing are all the things they said wouldn’t work if we turned off Gemini. I didn’t turn it off yet, but it seems to have failed and taken it all down anyway.

So baller to do this in a German speaking country

There’s having cats, there’s watching birds, and then there’s explaining to your cat exactly what bird she’s watching.

This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.

Love how the streaming era was sold to us as being able to stream anything you want on demand for a monthly fee. We pay for multiple services every month, and none of the three movies we were interested in showing the girls were streaming on ANY paid service.