So, there’s a good news/bad new thing going on in the sky. It’s a situation when the signs are saying different things, so you have to know which sign applies to whom. There is some really bad news going on in Scorpio but there is some stellar protection against it.
That protection comes from a couple of alignments. Most importantly, we are aligned with Venus and Jupiter. So this means you’ll be able to keep your house in order, and your domestic bliss won’t be any more troubled than whatever your default situations is. The other also has to do with Jupiter, this time in alignment with the Sun and Mercury. So again, lots of positive for domesticity, and good news for rulers.
Nothing but good news (literally, Mercury is acting as the messenger here with the Sun) for Librans. However, Libra is a bit selfish, and keeping all that good news contained for itself.
The moon is in Virgo, so expect emotional instability
So Scorpio is the sign that rules the fun bits. And in Scorpio this week is Venus, the planet of love and sexuality. Good combo, right? Wrong. Because Venus has gone retrograde. Now the rest of us are shielded by that pulse of anti-sex force, but those of you who are actually born into Scorpio are going to catch the full force of it, resulting in a dry spell that should last until… nearly November without other intervention.
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121 responses to “I Fucking Love Astrology: The Horoscope for the Week of October 7”
Bullshit. Libras are not selfish. We just deserve all that good stuff.
And first.
*fist bump*
Having my birthday off work for once is nice.
Happy birthday!
Congrations. Happy Birthday. It’s my twin daughters’ birthday, too.
Today, around 9am:
“Is she OK?” asked Balloon Fiesta security.
“She’s fine. I’m a bad dad, and I’ve been drinking.”
Yeah, when one of the two was piggybacking the other, I told her I’d give her a dollar if she could carry her sister all the way back to our truck. This was on the south end of Balloon Fiesta park. We were parked in the north lot.
Hilarity ensued. I let her and her two friends stretch the requirement into “get her back to the truck without her feet touching the ground” and they won their dollar using a piece of cardboard trash as a portable waystation to switch her between carriers.
Well played, ladies.
You’d think the market would put a higher value on such innovation.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! October is an excellent birthday month.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, cs!
*fist bump from a Pisces*
Happy b-day!
’80s skanks are the best skanks of any era.
And I can never see videos like that without remembering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk53gspIfIU
I was sure your link would be this
No, that link was sincere.
Plus I’ll take any excuse to link Cusak’s best work.
Somehow, I have spent my entire life with no knowledge of that film. Is it honestly good? If so, I’ll check it out.
I love it, but I have a deep appreciation for absurdism. I would recommend watching the theatrical version rather than any “director’s cut.” There are so many bizarre things in that film that were not intentional but happened from editing the film down to meet an arbitrary time length that just aren’t as ridiculous when they’re set up “properly.”
“You’ll be seeing this hopping sausage lover in every campaign ad this month…”
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1048953655657996288
Protest-larping is fun.
60 years from now:
Grandma, why were you jumping like an idiot around that old man?
Oh who are we kidding, she’s gonna abort any child she has.
“BREAKING: The man who allegedly assaulted an anti-abortion protester on video in Toronto, Jordan Hunt, has been charged with nine counts of assault and seven counts of mischief following two separate incidents, police say. He turned himself in today.”
https://twitter.com/Reporter_Ryan/status/1048680751468875776
“He turned himself in today.”
Maybe the female protestors with him realized that having someone actually be violent against women, wasn’t so good a look for their rhetoric.
Looks like Cuck Norris might be in some trouble.
*energetic applause*
“White Women, Come Get Your People
They will defend their privilege to the death.
After a confirmation process where women all but slit their wrists, letting their stories of sexual trauma run like rivers of blood through the Capitol, the Senate still voted to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. With the exception of Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, all the women in the Republican conference caved, including Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who held out until the bitter end.
These women are gender traitors, to borrow a term from the dystopian TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale.” They’ve made standing by the patriarchy a full-time job. The women who support them show up at the Capitol wearing “Women for Kavanaugh” T-shirts, but also probably tell their daughters to put on less revealing clothes when they go out.
We’re talking about white women. The same 53 percent who put their racial privilege ahead of their second-class gender status in 2016 by voting to uphold a system that values only their whiteness, just as they have for decades. White women have broken for Democratic presidential candidates only twice: in the 1964 and 1996 elections, according to an analysis by Jane Junn, a political scientist at the University of Southern California.
Meanwhile, Senator Collins subjected us to a slow funeral dirge about due process and some other nonsense I couldn’t even hear through my rage headache as she announced on Friday she would vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh. Her mostly male colleagues applauded her.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/opinion/lisa-murkowski-susan-collins-kavanaugh.html
“tell their daughters to put on less revealing clothes when they go out”
So telling your daughters to not dress like a cheap whore is bad now? What is wrong with a parent telling their kids “No daughter of mine is going out dressed like that?”. Seriously these people are out of touch.
I remember 20 years ago we were headed to a park and my daughter insisted it was too hot out for long jeans so we needef to buy her some shorts. So we stop at a Wal-Mart we were driving by and went to the pre-teen section where I had to ask the person working there if they had a non-slut clothing section as none of the shorts were by any standards appropriate for a child. She ended up wearing her long jeans.
Not hating men is hating / betraying women. Not-giving is taking, not-taking is giving.
“All but slit their wrists”
Is this what we get to look forward to next time? That’ll be fun. (Especially since it’ll be a
womangender traitor nominee.)So how come people always try to assassinate presidents and not SCOTUS judges? (Besides Scalia, of course. lloooooll)
If they do slit their wrists, let them bleed out.
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/1yALNSd0iME
“Rage headache.” The fuck? Are you the She-Hulk or something?
“other nonsense”
Stare decisis for a bunch of cases that didn’t rely on precedent, or the Constitution, at all? I’m sure that’s what she meant. n_n
Hey HM, sorry about being adversarial last night. My intent wasn’t to say that you were apologizing for Kav’s treatment.
It’s still kind of surprising that the erstwhile stuffed shirts at the NYT will now just print any random, racist, sexist lunacy.
Yes but credentialed lunacy.
Pretty blatant admission that the author thinks due process is nonsense.
Just like Trump after the Florida school shooting! They should hang out.
Need to be precise when referencing nonsense.
OMG. I’m responding to the wrong post of MY OWN.
How much have you been drinking?
I was expecting NYT to print something overly dramatic glad to see them keep their composure
These women are gender traitors, to borrow a term from the dystopian TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Y’know, treason requires an enemy. If you’re committing treason against your gender, it is required that the other gender be your enemy. #thereareonly2genders
The mask is off. Anybody who knowingly uses the term gender traitor sees men as the enemy. Modern feminism is the hatred of men.
I had to look it up: misandrist. All of them are misandrists.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1048955348961447944
LOLOLOLOLOL
i find the word mischief for some reason to refer to something fun and rather innocent but legally I understand it can mean bad stuff
I was promised good news last week, and it turned out to be an unremarkable week. Is my run of cosmic good luck nothing but an absence of bad news? That seems awful.
Seems like the Universe owes you something. Best go to DC and yell about it.
I mean, I’ll take it, but I’m not looking forward to the week after next.
The moon must’ve been in retrograde. Or something. Or you didn’t take into account all your other signs that aren’t just your star sign.
Astrologists and its believers are really good at pivoting to explain everything. Weirdly, a huge proportion of California progressives and gays (I repeat myself) are such people. While they shit on ‘organized religion.’
I’m the crazy one. I just know it.
Oops, not the moon. Mercury.
No, Mercury was in direct motion at the time. If he did something to negate his good luck (like touching himself at night) then I can’t be held responsible.
Perfect!,
https://twitter.com/Dande01/status/1048912612551999488
Lol.
I was a Johnson supporter lad time, so why not?
We’re talking about white women. The same 53 percent who put their racial privilege ahead of their second-class gender status in 2016 by voting to uphold a system that values only their whiteness, just as they have for decades.
Yes, yes, of course. Nobody who disagrees with you could possibly have arrived at their position by a rational thought process. . You know that because your opinions are all based on kneejerk emotionalism.
Since anecdotes equal data (much like woefully incomplete memories count as credible testimony), they expect nobody else does.
Room ready for mom – check. Chicken stock cooling – check. Hmm, maybe I’ll bake bread.
I’m in a similar countdown. Today’s goal is to have the dining room usable.
Sweep, then sweep, then sweep some more
/Bella sheds like a Big Dog!
As my constribution to the house cleanup, I’m clearing out the bar. Disposing of things in a manner respecting all rules of chemical safety.
Sorry if I misspelled anything. Coincidense Im sure.
Dense……..
Next weekend’s goal is to finish sorting and filing paper. My dining room table is covered right now. But, I have taken 5 boxes to goodwill this week.
That’s awesome. I’m similarly engaged in getting rid of stuff. Just not fast enough.
Have a nice visit with your Mom.
y yo. I’m sitting here with mrs trshmnstr pricing out baby stuff for a consignment sale.
I’ve got more than a month before she gets here. I just wasn’t sure how long it would take to clear stuff out/order furniture. My office is now a (tiny) guest room. My house was built in the 1940s. The second bedroom is only 100 inches wide and just 10 feet long. The closet is only 24 inches wide and a hanger barely fits. Figuring out how to make it work was the hard part.
Wife made Chicken and Dumplings yesterday. Bread dough attempting to rise but wife thinks that our Instant Yeast may be too old so we’ll see.
Didn’t you proof it?
Not the Instant Yeast. Goes straight in. Looks like it’s starting to rise some now.
From that NYT “White Wimmenz” excrescence:
The pedestal is a superior, if precarious, place. For white women, it’s apparently better than being “stronger together,” with the 94 percent of black women and 86 percent of Latinas who voted for Hillary Clinton.
During the 2016 presidential election, did white women really vote with their whiteness in mind? Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, a political scientist at U.C.L.A., recently measured the effect of racial identity on white women’s willingness to support Trump in 2016 and found a positive and statistically significant relationship. So white women who voted for him did so to prop up their whiteness.
*cough* bullshit *cough*
94% of black women and 86% of hispanic women? Did it hurt when you pulled that out of your ass, lady?
Which is super extra Hitler levels of bad.
But Obama getting 96% and 92% (IIRC) of the black vote is totes OK.
More larping.
Something actually worth reading at TOS.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/10/07/everything-you-know-about-state-educatio
Did TOS always have so many crappy ads all over the site?
AdBlock?
Yeah, without an ad-blocker it’s been lousy with ads for many years.
Like Glibertarians, it randomly logs me out, but unlike Glibertarians, it takes me back to the home page after logging in instead of the article I was reading. Infuriating.
I go back to the Post I was looking at, go figure…
Are you telling me that throwing massive piles of cash at retired teachers doesn’t get results? I am floored.
Whoa, they disaggregated by race? Steve Sailer’s been doing that for his audience of 20 racists and anti-Semites for over a decade!
But good on TOS.
Yeah, I’m thinking that right there will ensure that their results will be completely ignored by the establishment.
Terrific article. Thanks, dood!
That article is a must-read! It answers a question that I have long been trying to pry apart. Why does the only metric of good schools seem to be the demographics of the student?
Well, they provide that apart. And they controlled for demographics and made a new ranking.
This is an extremely important article. Everyone should read this.
So, why am I yet to see Pisces mentioned here? Is it just way the stars are, or do you have some sort of anit-fish views that we need to beat out of you in the name of social justice?
I have mentioned Pisces occasionally. However, the idea that every sign has something going on is bunk that was invented to sell newspaper columns. There are twelve signs, but only seven “planets” (no anything beyond Saturn does not count) so most of the signs are like the universe itself: empty, boring, and uncaring.
In spite of my snarky question, I really was honestly curious…thanks for the great answer. I guess I just missed the Pisces references.
So, when a sign doesn’t show up in the reading, is that kind of a neutral outlook then? I.e. nothing good or bad is going to happen?
If your client is a Pisces, then you need to offer them something relevant to keep them giving you money. The best ways are either to take the nominal traits of Pisces and relate them to what is happening in the sky, or to take a specific question they have and use the stars to answer that particular question.
It’s also possible to take derivatives and sub-derivatives of celestial events (houses, elemental influences, etc) and then apply that to the client to make them feel special, but they have to be a pretty solid believer (not just in the system, but in you particularly) for that to work IME.
So, you want us all to believe you’re a scientist, but it sounds like you really have the pro side of this locked down. Hmmmmm.
Romania update: at this point t is safe to say we fought the gay and the gay won
18.87% with 2 hours left. so no quorum
the final score seems to be under 20%…
Celebrating rape culture!
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/man-wins-woman-s-weight-in-beer-at-wife-carrying-contest/1504572165
I thought the wife-carrying contest was the first week of July.
Yup, the link is to a copycat. 😉
Hey, a good idea is a good idea.
Guess my recycling will get picked up tomorrow after all.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/no-columbus-day-in-columbus-city-to-honor-veterans-instead/1504589138
Veterans don’t need yet another day to honor them.
Uh huh. Funny how every protest gets co-opted by these “allied groups”.
I downloaded a sweet app called SkyView Lite that shows all the stars and planets in their real positions as you move and tilt your phone. if you linger on an object in the center for a couple of seconds, it tells you the name of the plant/star/point of interest. If you hover over a constellation, it turns it from the “stick figure” points of light to an illustrated interpretation of the constellation, like Libra or Virgo etc.
Pretty fun, even during the daytime.
Sweet, thanks for sharing:)
My wife will love that. Thanks ‘splosives for earning me a couple “points”. 😉
I see you are using your traveling handle. Anywhere special?
Dugway Proving Ground. Middle of nowhere Utah.
Yep. I LOVE sky apps.
We should gather a force of counter-protestors to counter the RHEEEEing left. Someone, take this down:
“I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists!”
“Could you repeat that, sir?”
Stampeding cattle count?
Goddam right I’m a bit selfish right now. Flight to the beach went mechanical. 4.5 hour delay so far.
Tundra you asked about the bar name. McMullians is the name. Off strip by the Orleans Hotel. Another fun place is Crown and Anchor…nice atmosphere with chicks wearing plaid skirts.
Thank you!
Oops forgot link:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-kavanaughs-appointment-isnt-a-step-backward-its-a-head-first/
Oh FFS.
I have a random text generator that makes more sense than most of the stuff we are seeing about this.
Borborygmi.
Your daughter is far less likely than your son to be murdered, commit suicide, become homeless, become incarcerated, or die on the job. She is more likely to get a university degree and will report higher job satisfaction. She might take advantage of some of the various scholarships and hiring programs just for women. She will have a longer life expectancy. Also, as we have seen recently, she is growing up in a world where she can utter one word (with no evidence) and get a male fired, kicked out of college, or even imprisoned.
But yes, it’s your daughter who is oppressed. Keep telling yourself that, pumpkin.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-kavanaugh-verdict-a-harbinger-of-havoc/
SCORPS!!!!
*makes double hookem horns hand gestures and raises over head.
-end 80’s flashback
SCORPS!!!!
So we should rock you like a hurricane?
Information terrorists!
As with Gamergate and Pizzagate and QAnon, the information weapons being fired in the Kavanaugh controversy are uncontrollable and adaptive. We are beginning to see the cost of this—but now the question is: Who will pay?
It is clear that foreign powers seeking to manipulate Americans with these asymmetric tools of information warfare must pay a price for doing so. But what about domestic forces that use the same tools and tactics? How do we judge those who apply disinformation against their fellow citizens to improve their odds, seeking to benefit from the ability of this architecture to spark frenzy and fear, intimidation and violence? What price should they pay for the scorched earth they leave behind?
Cognitive warfare is a dark, seductive rabbit hole. It is powerful and unregulated, and right now, thanks to social media in particular, the information domain is as lawless as the wild west, as demoralizing as the terror of World War I trench warfare, and as adaptive as the guerrilla tactics in the Philippines in World War II. There are state actors, nonstate actors, private sector and other independents—armies, mercenaries, and terrorists, all looking to master these techniques. Even small groups, like the cadre I described here, can achieve significant outcomes when the network effects kick in.
Long, tedious paranoid screed about Nazi propaganda offensive against democracy, or something. It all started with Gamergate.
Gamergate became Pizzagate became QAnon became entrenched modern narrative architecture ripe for exploitation. The cadre mobilized a movement of misogyny and white nationalism and intimidation—of angry boys who reveled in the chaos god of Roger Stone—and cultivated the narrative to make it acceptable to a wider lane of conservatives. This is triggering violence and identifiable forms of extremism that we can no longer ignore.
This is Donald Trump’s America. But more, it is Roger Stone’s America. Whatever it takes to win is fair game, even if they burn down the minds of Americans in the process. This willful radicalization is a campaign of information terror waged on fellow countrymen—the necessary domestic counterpart for hostile nation-state information warfare to be successful. It seems no accident that Stone is apparently in Mueller’s sights, possibly for behavior that suggests coordination with Kremlin-linked actors.
Trump’s America. What a shithole.
“Nobody could possibly disagree with me: a fever dream in narrative form”
OMG, they’re installing crowd control transmitters across the world!!!!111!!!eleventyone!!
Using this same logic, everybody has a bunch of cancer emitters installed in their light sockets.
*checks light socket*
Do they . . . . glow?