By David Futrelle
Hurricane Irma is cutting a wide swath of destruction in the Carribean, en route to Florida. Meanwhile, Equifax doxxes 44% of all Americans, a racist Twitter lady waxes poetic about white guy spooge, and wolves are fucking huge, man.
I combined the images of Hurricane Andrew (1992) & Hurricane Irma (today) at scale in a gif. Irma is a damn leviathan. pic.twitter.com/4HEw1NNxxd
— this place is hell (@OkayWordsByJoel) September 7, 2017
NHC Update, 11am:
Hurricane Irma remains a catastrophic threat to Florida. Its eye size doubled overnight, peak winds = width of the state. pic.twitter.com/R7GyzpIJTJ— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 8, 2017
JUST IN: Hurricane Jose upgraded to category 4 storm behind Irma https://t.co/s7L4UhQhMD pic.twitter.com/KEFzJve4ue
— The Hill (@thehill) September 8, 2017
Barely a building has been left untouched in Barbuda. Mass evacuation underway by all means possible pic.twitter.com/QoizrjzRK2
— Laura Bicker (@BBCLBicker) September 8, 2017
After calling hurricane warnings a liberal hoax to push climate change agenda, Limbaugh quietly leaves S. Florida. https://t.co/OPke00izwu
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) September 8, 2017
Rush Limbaugh Tuesday: "Climate change is a hoax and Irma is no big deal!"
Limbaugh today: "I HAVE TO FLEE BEFORE MY OXYCONTIN GETS WET!!"
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) September 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/905977139970834432
FEMA's disaster relief fund goes broke Fri, while GOP considers Trump's proposal to..cut FEMA disaster relief fund; https://t.co/6YKjtIZzAw
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/906141653915787264
https://twitter.com/TheAnonJournal/status/906017338855534592
But, hey, maybe Trump will be able to profit from the hurricane. He’s done it before:
That time Trump took $17 million in insurance money for non-existent damages to Mar-a-Lago https://t.co/FTm6Z0NI28
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) September 8, 2017
In other news, Equifax basically doxxed haf of all Americans, by accident. Oopsie daisy!
https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/905895607906295808
Equifax $EFX executives sold stock after data breach, before informing public https://t.co/P8qcuIRRvb pic.twitter.com/sqelpgYUtK
— Kevin Kelly (@KevinKellyIntel) September 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/906178254331142144
https://twitter.com/zerobeta/status/905921089636839424
https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/905895821207416832
In other other news:
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/906135740068847617
At the New York Times TimesTalk with @SpeakerRyan, he wasn't able to answer a very simple question:
"What's the minimum wage in Wisconsin?" pic.twitter.com/hzQLIIRsNo
— Nicholas Kitchel (@nicholaskitchel) September 7, 2017
Tucker Carlson this week has defended a Nazi salute tweet, a social media app for white nationalists, and an anti-LGBTQ hate group: pic.twitter.com/TQuIb3E3eN
— Media Matters (@mmfa) September 7, 2017
Oops. Stumbled into "alt-right's response to hurricane" Twitter. #Irma2017 pic.twitter.com/0ItQShej86
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/jaredlholt/status/905788687157428226
https://twitter.com/Irish_Atheist/status/905628470650261504
On a somewhat lighter note:
deep thoughts, online pic.twitter.com/2j3SozdZxg
— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) September 7, 2017
On the Beach (a story in four acts) pic.twitter.com/CnU9F7RToQ
— Blind Chow (@BlindChow) September 1, 2017
And some cute animals because, damn, we need some at this point.
https://twitter.com/dognkitty/status/905907120150859778
https://twitter.com/MeetAnimals/status/905561500227645441
I had no idea wolves could get this big. Damn.
https://twitter.com/MindBlowing/status/889893646325080065
Goddamn, flat Earth people. That’s not even how that scene worked. They just flipped the fucking boat upside down.
Speaking of Fox News dipshits, Eric Bolling is out.
Because Eric’s bolling was out.
Meanwhile I just saw a satellite image of Irma…
and José…
and Katia, all on the same picture.
Doesn’t look like Katia will hit the US–just the area of Mexico that got the 8.0 earthquake yesterday.
Thank God all that climate change stuff is a lie, or we would be expecting a lot more of this kind of trouble.
Oh, BTW, “Tom Fuzzywit” is a female cat. Just saying.
Well, I guess he might be a trans tom, so, never mind.
@Otrame,
Odds are you’re right, and that should be ‘Tomi Fuzzywit’ instead of ‘Tom’.
On the other hand, male calicos do exist, and this could be one of them in the flesh.
Hard telling from just that photo, though.
It’ll be a cat2 when it gets to us, supposedly. And, of course, I have work. Just had to pull a swerve, huh? Be safe, everyone else in the way <3
Sorry to hear Axe. We will try to soften her up for you some 😛 Though I hear she decided Tampa was more her liking. Mind you she is big enough that we will still get messed up.
The paper I was reading seemed all concerned that some celebrities’ Caribbean vacation homes got damaged in Hurricane Irma. Is that really the important thing here?? As for Trump’s retreat in St. Martin or his Mar-a-Lago resort thingy, boo-fucking-hoo.
@SinisterPigeon – Stay safe!
How does one ‘use’ porn? I mean, I do enjoy porn, but I wouldn’t call it ‘used’ when I finish with it. It remains the same as it ever was, ready to be enjoyed again and again and again (tissues, on the other hand…). The question I’m getting at is: If I prop up a wobbly table leg with a dirty magazine, am I committing white genocide, or does that only happen when I jerk off?
And if I commit white genocide every time I jerk off, why are there still white people? Seriously, I estimate I’ve genocide’d the white race a minimum of 7,000 times since I was 13. It’s pretty much a daily thing. I generally do it right before I go to bed (sort of like a glass of warm milk).
Maybe I’m doing it wrong. My most favoritest porn all involves dragons. Not dragons and humans, mind you. Just dragons. Sexy, sexy dragons. You’d think a dragon would be an ideal engine of destruction, but perhaps not. I also enjoy demons; I wonder if that would be more effective. Hmm. I’d best conduct some research.
Be safe, everyone.
That pictured captioned Harvey and Irma is actually a picture of Irma and Jose isn’t it?
David,
Badum *tish*
Re:the size of wolves
It actually varies widely, mostly dependent on region. Generally speaking, the further north you are, the bigger the wolves. In Southern Eurasia and Africa, they’re mostly about the size of a Labrador retreiver, but up in the wilds of Canada and Siberia they rival Great Danes or big mastiffs.
@Jojo Mojo
It’s not just possible but common for entirely neurotypical people to have an extremely poor grasp on reality, usually due to a limited range of experiences combined with a number of fascinating cognitive biases that Scildfreja is infinitely more qualified than I to educate you about.
Oh he’s got a tangible grasp on reality alright. He’s a salesman first and foremost trying to get as much money as possible out of his followers. He just has chosen a very small niche for some very gullible people to make a lot of money from.
Here’s a link to the wind patterns of all three hurricanes Katia looks to have made landfall and is much smaller now, but Irma and Jose are scary big
Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Harvey. Mexican earthquake. Midwestern wildfires. Nuclear war. Charlottesville rally. Obamacare repeal. Russia investigation. Terrorist attacks. Migrant crisis… sometimes, these days, I wonder if I’m living in a Roland Emmerich movie.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again; never, in my life, have I been more thankful to be an Australian. I’ve also said this before, I’ll also say this again; Move. To. Canada.
@Abars01
Not an option everyone has.
I don’t think my link showed up. The site is earth.nullschool.net, it’s a global wind map if you’d like to look it up. You just need to move and zoom the map over the Caribbean to see the three storm systems.
@Dalillama
I’m aware of that. I’m just being hyperbolic.
Black-headed gulls – the most common gulls in inland England – are about pigeon-sized. Herring gulls are more common on the coasts, and are the size of gulls in most other places in the world. The surprise at seeing a flock of gulls that are about twice the size of the ones you’re used to is a common experience for kids visiting the sea in England.
The only Chroicocephalus (smaller, inland) gull in North America is Bonaparte’s gull in Alaska (and nearby bits of Canada), so Americans don’t get the same experience with smaller inland gulls.
The extremely violent Nazi group NMR has been permitted to organize a march through my city on September 30, passing by the local synagogue during Yom Kippur (total coincidence, I’m sure). This is a terrorist organization that has recently been responsible for bombing several refugee centers and political centers in the area. Fuck these guys so much. We’re gonna drown them (not literally) in a sea of counter-protesters.
@IP
The Baltic might work better.
@Dali
I’d vote for the canal! It’s right there, after all.