Jonathan Aul

@mudshark58

Ground crew for The Tiny Air Force USDA Zone 9b

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Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· 27d

I thought "This sounds like someone I probably want to block." As it turns out, he's already blocked me... apparently, for no specific reason. lol

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Jun 24

🦀 See a crab, post a crab 🦀

character 'Crabby' from comic strip "Mutts" by Patrick McDonnell

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Jun 21

For #ShowYourStripes day: I'm sorta midway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, so here are stripes for both places.

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Jun 21

Image of Swamp Thing standing superimposed on image of greenish baseball cap with lettering: "Make Algae Great Again"

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Jun 20

"Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks."
-- Harlan Ellison

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· May 23

Star Trek: The Animated Series title card
"The Flurble Option," written by Harold Eyedropper

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· May 22

"Be veeeeewy quiet. I'm huntin' wabbit. Huhuhuhuhuhuh!"

Smirking Donald Trump as an Elmer Fudd-like Pilgrim, carrying a blunderbuss.

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· May 5

The pics of Lauren Sanchez at the Met Gala keep reminding me of another scene. The vibe isn't supposed to be the same, and yet...

Gov. Le Petomane in "Blazing Saddles," distracted by the cleavage of his scantily-dressed secretary, to which he is saying "Hello, boys!"

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Apr 28

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Apr 27

Sign is apparently located in a park in Crystal River, FL, 3 or 4 miles from the Gulf. Albert Alligator:

Frame fro "POGO" comic strip, showing Albert Alligator leaning against a tree, with speech bubble altered to read: "Close, but no see-gar!"

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Apr 21

Last time I bought gas, it was $4.79 per gallon.

Donald Trump pointing w/ caption:
"I DID THAT!"

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Mar 26

post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

Cover of 1974 Frank Zappa album "Apostrophe (')"
close-up full-face image of man with long dark hair and heavy dark moustache

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Mar 21

Come to think of it, there was a National Geographic cover which would have come just about the time the second tower opened.

National Geographic magazine cover dated June 1967, showing nighttime photo of Marina City "corncob" towers in downtown Chicago (image stolen from eBay)

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Mar 20

Hey, @alepresser.com and @kbspangler.com , looky what I just got.

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Mar 12

Spring may be just around the corner, but the 100-plus temps will be here sooner this year.

screencap of weather page 10-day forecast, showing high temps of 101 (3/18), 102 (3/19), 104 (3/20), and 104 (3/21)
(equal to 38 C, 39 C, 40 C, 40 C)

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Mar 11

If WashPost has paywalled that, try here: archive.is/202603111606...

Possible 'unflattering' Hegseth photo.

(DUI Sec Kegseth gesticulating with both hands and wearing a less-than-photogenic facial expression.)

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Mar 10

Me: "White people deserve... " sounds like the sort of entitled thinking guys like Tucker Carlson have been badmouthing for years, whenever it comes from anyone but upper-class WASP Americans.

Tucker Carlson, with the constipated "But... but...I don't understand" facial expression which has long been his trademark.

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Mar 3

Silhouette, facing right, which may or may not be Donald Trump, appearing to speak. The whispered word "Rosebud" is seen in a soft puffy speech balloon.

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Feb 17

If you see this post a Star Trek

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Feb 17

If you see this post a Star Trek.

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Jan 1

It was between this one and "laughable". Nothing else I found seemed a good fit.

Screenshout of Merriam-Webster "Your 2026 Word" generator -- the chosen word is "slapdash".

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Dec 28

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

cover for 1999 album "Fundamental" by Puya

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Dec 21

I will always remember the cartoon which referenced that particular interview appearance.

2018 Lalo Alcaraz cartoon showing Stephen Miller holding up a spray-can to apply a swastika to the top of his head -- a reference to Miller's TV-interview appearance that year with very conspicuous spray-on hair.

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Dec 6

Or on the wall of their corporate boardroom, perhaps.

Plaque from the boardroom of Engulf & Devour (Our Fingers Are in Everything) -- the evil adversary company plotting to ruin the heroes in Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie"

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Nov 30

It seems to be more due to inertia than anything else.

The Curse of the Diaeresis
newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis
Mary Norris
April 26, 2012

The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching out the two dots that we then center carefully over the second vowel in such words as “naïve” and “Laocoön” will be getting a workout this year, as the Democrats coöperate to reëlect the President.

Those two dots, often mistaken for an umlaut, are actually a diaeresis (pronounced “die heiresses”; it’s from the Greek for “divide”). The difference is that an umlaut is a German thing that alters the pronunciation of a vowel (Brünnhilde), and often changes the meaning of a word: schon (adv.), already;

schön (adj.), beautiful. In the case of a diphthong, the umlaut goes over the first vowel. And it is crucial. A diaeresis goes over the second vowel and indicates that it forms a separate syllable. Most of the English-speaking world finds the diaeresis inessential. Even Fowler, of Fowler’s “Modern English Usage,” says that the diaeresis “is in English an obsolescent symbol.”

It’s actually a lot of trouble, these days, to get the diaeresis to stick over the vowels. The autocorrect on my word-processing program (I was just kidding about the hole punch) automatically whisks it off, and I have to go back, highlight the letter, hold down the option key while pressing the “u,” and then retype the appropriate letter. The question is: Why bother? I am not getting paid by the hour.

The fact is that, absent the two dots, most people would not trip over the “coop” in “cooperate” or the “reel” in “reelect” (though they might pronounce the “zoo” in “zoological,” a potential application of the diaeresis that we get no credit for resisting). And yet we use the diaeresis for the same reason that we use the hyphen: to keep the cow out of co-workers.

Basically, we have three options for these kinds of words: “cooperate,” “co-operate,” and “coöperate.” Back when the magazine was just getting started, someone decided that the first misread and the second was ridiculous, and adopted the diaeresis as the most elegant solution with the broadest application. The diaeresis is the single thing that readers of the letter-writing variety complain about most.

We do change our style from time to time. My predecessor (and the former keeper of the comma shaker) told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died.

This was in 1978. No one has had t…

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Nov 23

Goin' back home To the Village of the Sun Out in back of Palmdale Where the turkey farmers run, I done Made up my mind And I know I'm gonna go to Sun Village, good God I hope the Wind don't blow

Image showing the Pope singing into a microphone, with eyes closed

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Nov 21

This makes CBP agent Donahue sound like a Certified Public Asshole (CPA).

Screencap / excerpt taken from Unraveled Press article https://unraveledpress.com/identified-federal-agents-who-pointed-gun-punched-detainee-in-evanston/ describing multiple offences by CBP agent Timothy Donahue and including a photo of him pointing a weapon at unarmed bystanders while another CBP agent beats a handcuffed man lying on the ground.

"Unraveled has verified a social media account on X (formerly known as Twitter) belonging to Donahue. While not a prolific user, he has used the account to make disparaging remarks about women and trans people, share racist imagery, and cheer on hate crimes. His tour across Chicagoland this autumn—during which he was easily spotted due to a distinctive red beard and lack of a face covering—included several known instances of reckless driving, menacing people with chemical weapons, and questioning them about their citizenship status."

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Oct 17

"Just one thing: If the parents aren't having children, then where are the teenagers and the girls hitting puberty coming from?"

Captain Kirk, in "Star Trek: The Final Frontier", trying to interrupt God:
"Just one thing... "

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Oct 15

Oh, I'm sure he knows nothing about it.

Image taken from "Dave Taylor for Congress" website, showing Taylor standing in a warehouse and holding a semiautomatic rifle. https://davetaylorforcongress.com/meet-dave/

Jonathan Aul@mudshark58· Oct 1

And you can see on Trump's face exactly how well his Alaska meeting went: