Hump Day Meme Dump...

Diagnosing your busted Vatican…

Remember, black smoke from the Vatican means the mixture’s too rich and white smoke from the Vatican means it’s burning oil.

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Meme Dump…

Big Bada Boom...

Handguns chambered in 5.7x28mm tend to be noisy, and up to now every one I've fired... FN Five-SeveN, M&P 5.7, Ruger-5.7...has had a barrel five inches long or thereabouts.

The PR-57 from Kel-Tec has a four inch tube and the increase in muzzle blast and flash is noticeable.

There's a code in my indoor range pictures. If you see the orange TQ on the PHLster Flatpack tourniquet carrier, there are other patrons using the indoor range. If not, I've got the bay to myself.

Yesterday the range was crowded and I was using lane 11 in the rifle bay. It was hard to distinguish between the muzzle blast of the PR-57 and the dude shooting a 5.56 AR in lane 12.

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Monday Meme Day...

Tab Clearing...

• Apparently seasteading is in the news again.


• Are em dashes a sign of ChatGPT-generated content, or just a literate and very correct writer? (I tend to be extremely casual about typography and layout here at VFTP, while Bobbi is a stickler for correct formatting at her blog.)


• "If you have nothing to hide, citizen, you have nothing to fear!": More antics from the party of small government and personal freedom. A bunch of script kiddies amalgamating a bunch of previously siloed federal databases into a single point of failure is a breathtakingly bad idea and an irresistible target for future abuse.

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Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #255...

Coming soon to the pages of Shooting Illustrated, a full review of the Ruger RXM, seen here sporting a Trijicon SRO with the 2.5 MOA dot.

Between the true swappable chassis system, the shape and texture of the gripframe, and the optic mounting system, this thing's a legitimately Product Improved Gen3 Glock 19.

I don't want to spoiler it here, but... well, I'm probably buying the test gun and may tote it for six months to a year and run it in classes and some matches.

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The Meme Also Rises...

Tab Clearing...

• Why you'll never see me type "Remember to mash that Like button and subscribe!"


• If I had a bajillion dollars and built a custom home, it sure wouldn't look like a suburban municipal library circa 1998.


• It's that time of year again.

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Meme Dump…

It’s a Good Friday for Memes…

Meme Dump...

Tab Clearing...

• Robocop: Look, there in your modem! It's a fed! It's a bot! It's both!


• Remember when Republicans decried using the IRS as a political weapon? Good times.


• I know you're going to find this hard to believe, but it looks like Fyre Festival 2: Electric Boogaloo is shaping up to be yet another fraud fest.

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Meme Dump...

Ghoulish...

There's a service called InTouch that'll have an AI call your elderly parents if you can't be arsed.

Called inTouch, the service uses an AI generated voice so your parent receives a phone call in which they can talk to the AI about, for example, how their day is going, their hobbies, and how they’re feeling. An AI-generated summary of the conversation is then sent to the child or whoever setup the account, and includes a visual indicator of their state of mind, such as “bad mood” or “neutral mood.”

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Meme Dump...

This may not work...

BezosMart grocery delivery services did not have cans of Spicy Hot V8 available so I got cans of V8 Spicy Bloody Mary mix instead. 

 The jury is still out on the advisability of this call.

Somehow, "Spicy" is hotter than "Spicy Hot".

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Monday Memery...

Persistent...

Way back in... I dunno, probably 2011 or so, I opened a Photobucket account to share a few pictures on a forum that didn't have the ability to host photos itself.

That forum added photo hosting and I pretty much forgot about my Photobucket account.

Over a year ago Photobucket started sending me emails saying that my account would be deleted so I should log in and download my photos. I couldn't even remember what the photos were, let alone my login info, but whatever the photos were, I'm sure I have them on my HDD anyway, so I ignored the emails.

The emails keep coming. And keep coming. And keep coming.

Just delete the account, already, y'all! You're as weird and needy as UberEats!

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Tab Clearing...

• Syria trying to cut off remaining weapons-smuggling routes from Iran to Hezbollah.


• Gift corpse.


• Measles outbreak in...Brooklyn.

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Meme Dump...

Thank God it's Meme Day...

Tab Clearing...

• The Citroën Kar-A-Sutra: a love shack on wheels. It's from 1972 and it's shag-a-licious, beby!


• Actually digital magnetic tape is good for secure archival storage.


• Black Mirror: The game.

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This tastes like crap...

They found poop in some butter.

Cabot Creamery butter parent company Agri-Mark is recalling more than 1,700 pounds of a butter product over concerns that it could be contaminated with coliform, a type of fecal bacteria.

The company is voluntarily recalling 189 cases of Cabot's 8-ounce Extra Creamy Premium Sea Salted Butter, according to a March 26 enforcement report from the Food and Drug Administration.

Of course, the FDA is under the umbrella of the Department of Health and Human Services, and between HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. and the efforts of DOGE, it's being gutted, so pretty soon you won't have to worry about them finding poop in your butter anymore.

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Meme Dump...

Have you changed and grown?

I grew up hip-deep in the Lost Cause mythos. From third grade through high school graduation, I had annual field trips to Kennesaw Mountain and Stone Mountain. It took me a while to dig my way clear of that brainwashing…

So, anyhow, today is the day to dunk on the Silver Medal winners in the Great Rebellion of the 1860s…

I was wrong. I’d been fed bad data. I got over it. You could, too.

Midweek Memes...

Lonely Robots...

I keep getting spam emails from Uber Eats with subject lines like "We've been missing you around here!" and "It's been a while since you ordered from us!" which I find amusing, since I've never once even used Uber Eats and the only reason they have my address is because I use Uber to get to and from the airport a few times a year.

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Tab Clearing...

• Oahu is covered with accidental man-made ecosystems.


• David Brooks remains the most predictable professional Take Haver out there this side of Ross Douthat.


• A review of Careless People. I bought it in dead tree, because this is one of those books that has a non-zero chance of getting disappeared off your Kindle.


• "Y'ever see a commie drink a glass of water, Mandrake?"

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Meme Dump…