Backtalk: A Medium Place
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
An Open Thread For Wednesaday. Because I hate spelling Wedbssbsdsyay.
Hello. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. Hi.
Morning, sunshines! Who has got crazy weather going on? Who has got crazy going on in general?
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
toozdeevninopenthredd
Tuesday AM OT
Hewwo.
Don’t be stressed. Listen to these cool critters and just float through this week...
Monday, June 28, 2021
Monday Evening Open Thread
Looks like we may have a tech barrier to break through.
I see C'estLavie has a thread up as a draft so if that goes live I'll pull this down
What's up Backtalk.
It’s the little things...
Another week, another Monday. Who doesn’t like to learn about others’ points of view and share their own? That’s where Parley Vous Mondays come in.
Sunday, June 27, 2021
I'm melllllting Sunday evening hOTtie
It's been a lazy summer day. 
It's been a quiet day at home. I think I'll have popsicles for dinner! I need to finish the last couple coffee pops so I can plan the next frozen taste sensation. I'm thinking some kind of frozen smoothie popsicle.
I was looking for some ocean videos to help us think cooling thoughts, but I guess the algorithm knows I'm a geek for dinosaurs because it gave me nothing but prehistoric nighmare fish. However here's one of a whale hiding a diver from a shark, and generally being a good citizen (well maybe not from a shark perspective.) It's heartwarming, and you can imagine you're floating in nice cool water with a cetacean friend.
The Photo Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Sunday Almost Noon Open Thread
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Even on Summer Weekends WannaBe Fascists Masquerading As Republicans Keep Doing Literally All They Can To Take Our Rights
My
sun-activated stress hives are ruining both my hands, y’all
Of
course Kavanaugh waits till Congress leaves town. Of course he and Kemp and DeSantis and Abbott
take people’s rights away literally in the dead of night. (Latest SCOTUS ruling in comments.)
What bothers me the most is that WE SHOULD KNOW who paid off his tens of millions of dollars worth of debts just before his SCOTUS confirmation hearing – because generally candidates who hold that level of debt are not considered for a seat on the high court because of the extent of the possibility that candidate could easily be compromised – and who paid the several million dollars worth of mortgage on his house.
Here’s
what I think I know – it doesn’t take the Nap Ministry to repeatedly assert it
for even the semi-conscious and –conscientious among us to know that rest and living
wage and healthcare and housing are penumbral rights every American should be
able to enjoy.
If
we don’t remain vigilant even when we rest, however, we have to know there are
people who are hungry and eager to take those things from us and hoard all this
society’s benefits for themselves who have been enabled to do it because they
were empowered by mechanisms decades in the making that were activated and
propelled while we were too busy, too tired, too underpaid, or too uninformed
to be looking.
Feeling Blue?
Smurfing to smurf, you smurfity smurfers with smurfy smurf stuff? It's Global Smurfs Day, so don't feel blue, just remember all woads lead to Rome. Argh! I've now got the Esso Blue song stuck in my head.
Friday, June 25, 2021
The Friday Evening Post
Good evening.
#SummerSolstice, Isle of Skye 🌞 pic.twitter.com/kfCb5aEWjL
— Andrea Blackie (@Andrea_Blackie) June 21, 2021
It's about time we've reached this point, isn't it? Anything special to look forward to?
Lead image via Sardonicus.
Fur Face Friday over on Group Talk today.
Fur Face Friday is over on Group Talk.
https://groupthink2.blogspot.com/2021/06/fur-face-friday_01883239560.html
Have you tried singing John Cat to the tune of Top Cat?
Friday Morning Open Thread
Almost there.
Golden Retriever gathering in Scotland, broke the World Record for goldens in one place at 361. 🦮😁 pic.twitter.com/KLxZYhkAJ9
— Fred Schultz (@fred035schultz) June 18, 2021
Not expecting to break any records at work today. Hopefully it won't be too bad and the workday will go quickly.
How are you feeling about today?
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Thursday evening open thread
Kinja'd! Blogger ate my original post, so I'm doing up a really basic one, because I don't know what happened to it, or why, so;
Blaurgh!Talk
Thursday Morning Open Thread!
Can’t argue with science people.
Sorry this is a quick hit. Power is sure to go away soon. Big storm is going through and the sirens just went off, long night and early AM of tornado warnings for me.
Got a non traditional breakfast you like? Want to complain? Want to brag? Fire away below.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Tuesday Morning SUMMERY Open Thread ⛄️☀️
Good morning Balkers ☀️ Enjoying that weather we’ve been having lately? 🔥
Sunday, June 20, 2021
Sunday Evening OT
Today is the soltice! Super Summer Solstice to northern Balkers, and a Wonderful Winter Soltice to Balkers in the southern hemisphere! Unfortunately, celebrations at Stonehenge had to be cancelled this year, but you can DIY a similar experience at home.
Or you can save yourself a lot of trouble by coming to Sardinehenge pic.twitter.com/dD2gtpq0vu
— Banx (@Banxcartoons) June 20, 2021
I made the first batch of coffee popsicles! Here's the astronaut.
Tasted good, but a couple notes for next time: I need to strain the coffee grounds from the french press better, because they collect at the tip, and it matters which way the legs end up! This astronaut is doing a little spinal twist.
Tonight is a zoom family dinner to celebrate Fathers Day with my dad. Happy Fathers Day to all the dads and father figures amongst us! On the menu: veggie burger, and grilled squash.
How has the weekend been treating you?
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Sunday Morning Open Thread
May your Sunday morning involve good dreams.
Link since the videos don't seem to show up consistently on mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13FbIhVkC1I&ab_channel=UkuleleOrchestra
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Champ Passing on Juneteenth Feels Like Someone Is Trying to Tell the Country Something Even If We’re Not Sure What – RIP & OT
Only 8% of U.S. high school seniors this year
know that the Civil War occurred because of slavery. - @ACLU
UNTITLED, MOBILE, ALABAMA, Gordon Parks, 1956
When it feels kinda strange the person in the White House cares about something other than pussy, money, and power, you could be suffering from post-traumatic whiplash. If the Overton Window shifts so much that basic human compassion feels refreshing, you might be living in a deeply dystopian society.
Anyone remember time before Garfield took over the world?
It's Garfield the Cat Day! Lasagna all round!
Friday Evening Open Thread: Heat Wave Edition
Good evening.
Ready to put the top down and hit the road?
Ever seen a Pygmy Owl?
Ralph Crane #photography
— Loeky Firet (@loekyfiret) June 12, 2021
Pygmy Owl, 1950 pic.twitter.com/5F3h9O5Sft
Lead image via Sardonicus
Fur Face Friday
Fur Face Friday
We're well into summer here at Fur Face Central and after a relaxing week, it's gotten HOT. But our pals know how to beat the heat.
kristinbytes' Bindi waits until the cool of the evening for her walk.
In case you're new here, favorites are chosen by one of the Snout Selectors (facw, k2b, Hannibal, leahaven, iroqdemic and myopicprophet), entirely on our own whimsy. WHIMSY! However, in the interest of solidarity, we try to select one dog picture and one cat picture (minimum!) each week. Other pets will also, of course, be considered. We love all your rats, bunnies, ferrets, and other furry, feathery, and finny pals. WE WILL NEVER DISCRIMINATE AGAINST CUTE.
