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Coffee Badger Don’t Care

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Return-to-office rebellion sparks wild office behavior as Wall Street and Amazon demand workers show up
Daily Mail | 8 August 2025 | Alice Wright

… The most popular trend du jour, driven largely by millennials, is ‘coffee badging’. It involves showing up at the office just long enough to grab a coffee, greet the right people, and then quietly leave to finish the day working remotely.

“Hey, Steve, working remotely or remotely working? Heh heh.”

Three-quarters of companies say they are struggling with employees coffee badging, a recent report found.

Spokesmen for the other quarter could not be found.

At Samsung, the practice got so out of hand that its US semiconductor division has rolled out a return-to-office monitoring tool, Business Insider reported earlier this week.

A “return-to-office monitoring tool.” Gee, what could that possibly be?

Assuming, of course, that the supervisor has shown up for work to do headcount.

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Those Rules, They Keep On a-Shifting

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Apparently, it is now unhip and totally square to know that it’s hip to be square.

Similacly, the Sixties generation found out that the diapers, they need a-changin’.

And as property owners, they realized there need to be signs, signs, everywhere signs.

And the House of the Rising Son would really be a nice change of pace.

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Climate Alarmists: “We Are Having Increasingly Numerous and Stronger Hurricanes Due to Climate Change!”

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“So We Need To Build More Windfarms in the Ocean in the Path of These Devastating Hurricanes!”

Source for the following:

WOODS HOLE, MA – The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is taking part in a collaborative program to enhance our understanding of extreme weather events such as hurricanes.  

“The Study on Air-sea Coupling with Waves, Turbulence, and Clouds at High Winds”or SASCWATCH,

Their acronym skills could use much improvement.

will involve the deployment of ocean sensors over the next three years, bringing scientists across many disciplines together to observe and better predict storm activity. 

Due to their volatility and the hazardous conditions in their proximity, air-sea fluxes

Air-sea fluxes?

are a poorly understood

But they build climate models with them?

yet essential element in understanding inclement weather. 

But they build climate models without them?

The work will include in-sight observations,

Duh. A scientist sitting in a beach-facing cottage.

turbulence simulation

Stirring the pot

and computer modeling,

The Woods-Holy Grail!

and tropical cyclone meteorology. 

🙁

… which already exists …

The study is funded by the Office of Naval Research and builds on existing programs such as Argo and ALAMO,

Never to be forgotten.

which gather water temperature and salinity data. 

Do the Office of Naval Research and the Woods Hole Institute gather similar data with federal funds?

If so, why?

Or do they gather different data with federal funds?

If so, why?

Straight Line of the Day: Updating Classic Versions With Classic Perversions: …

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Audiences are left shocked by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s ‘aggressively provocative’ Wuthering Heights movie with ‘BDSM sex scene
UK Daily Mail | August 8, 2025 | Sean O’Grady

… those expecting a faithful adaptation of the beloved work may be in for a rude awakening as Fennell’s upcoming film is said to lean into the ‘stylised depravity’ she has become known for after directing Saltburn.

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Oliver! With a Twist!

Mobius Dick

A Farewell to Harms

Porning Becomes Electra

All’s Quiet on the Chestern Front …

Poetry Corner

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Wonder Woman, undressing and leering,

Asked — I thought — if I wanted a tuck

Unfortunately, I’m hard of hearing

And just as hard is my luck.

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Your turn:

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There once was a liberal plan

To make a woman resemble a man;

“We’ll have this perfected,

It’ll get us elected!”:

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Tragically, My Mind Tends To Wander Whilst Reading News Stories

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… even the ones that aren’t intrinsically funny.

Registered sex offender pleads guilty after cutting ankle monitor, abusing 10 PNW teens

Star Wars sound effect: “PNW! PNW! PNW!”


KOIN | Aug 8, 2025 | Michaela Bourgeois

“The name is Bourgeois. Michaela Bourgeois. I’d like a Michelob in a wine flute.”

A registered sex offender pleaded guilty to federal charges in Seattle on Friday after sexually abusing teenage girls in Washington and Oregon, authorities announced.

Not funny. This story turned dark quickly.

But at least he was registered!

The United States Department of Justice said 28-year-old James “Jake” Harrison Newcomer admitted to sexually abusing 10 teen girls he met through social media between February and April of 2024.

James “Jake” Harrison Newcomer.

James “Jake” Harrison Newcomer.

Nope. Can’t see it as a Witness Protection Program name.

According to records filed in the case, Newcomer was on state supervision after more than two years in prison…

Define “supervision.”

On January 19, 2024, however, the monitor lost connection and when officers went to arrest Newcomer on January 25, 2025, he had left the home and could not be found, the DOJ said.

Ah. OK. As long as you have a definition.

Over the next three months, Newcomer posed as a teen boy online and contacted teen girls on social media, authorities explained.

And you want us to believe that after April 2024 he just magically stopped until you arrested him nine months later?

… Authorities noted that travel with the intent to engage in sexual acts is punishable by up to 30 years in prison …

Wait, what?

Wouldn’t that make dating illegal?

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