Los Angeles tells city to 'Ride the D'

Wet Leg love the big D Line in "Chaise Longue" and chase it

I love riding the D! Just look at me.

It's a moral outrage. Who is running the marketing department for the City of LA? "Ride the D, Ride the D," it's everywhere. There's a double entendre in there, as if they aim to drain the main vein or choke a lizard. The "D" is the new D Line, of course, but some school-age kids might think it refers to a real Richard Johnson.

The Metro is the new partially underground way of getting around the west coast megalopolis, Earthquake Town. As we continue to await "The Big One," which we have been waiting for for the past 30 years since the last time they re-announced it's another 30 years, but it's coming. It's coming. And there's no need to ever ask after every temblor, "Is this the Big One?" Why?

Unisex hoodie, sexy crop top (shorts not included)

It's because when it's the Big One, you'll it's the Big One, because you won't have to ask, "Is this the Big One." Your certainty will obviate the question. Lately, Netflix is a Joke has taken over every venue in the city, even far off post-fire Altadena, at the Eagle Lodge on Woodbury.

Section 1 of the D Line Extension is a historic moment bringing rail transit for the first time to a part of Los Angeles' Miracle Mile on Wilshire Blvd. Commemorate this LA transit milestone with a comfy and stylish "Ride the D" dad hat to look like a real D Head! A classic dad hat never goes out of style—made of 100% organic cotton.

LA wants us to "ride the D"?

Who knew mass marketing worked so well?

Last week the Los Angeles Metro announced three long awaited subway stations on the D Line. The video has over 1M views across platforms. An hour after posting, the team quickly followed up with merch to celebrate, a shirt that simply reads “Ride the D.”

They did a full year’s worth of sales in under 24 hours. The design made it onto Late Night with Seth Meyers. They couldn’t have predicted one piece of merch could become this big of a moment.

We can't hardly wait for hardy May Eight!

When working in social, one is often asked to see the future. What format will break through? How can we get this to go viral? The truth is, even the best social teams surprise themselves.

Jane Ashley, who leads the social media strategy at LA Metro, told me: “We didn't anticipate that the announcement post would be completely eclipsed by something we barely officially promoted.” That’s the fun of working in this industry:

• LA Metro wants us to ride the D (Rachel Karten)
• Ride The D Crop Top – Metro Shop
• Ride the D? Reddit - the heart of the internet

Trans Intersex Island in Pacific for '6-7'?

Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender

This academic book by American and other scholars explores historical, textual, and social questions relating to the position and experience of women and gay people in the Buddhist world from India and Tibet to Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. It focuses on four key areas:

1. Buddhist history,
2. contemporary culture,
3. Buddhist symbols, and
4. homosexuality.

Scholarly light on many topics

And it covers Buddhism's entire history, from its origins to the present day. The result of original and innovative research, the authors offer new perspectives on the history of the attitudes toward, and of the self-perception of, women in both ancient and modern Buddhist societies.

They explore key social issues such as abortion, they examine the use of rhetoric and symbols in Buddhist texts and cultures, and they discuss the neglected subject of Buddhism and homosexuality (from pandakas and pederasty). (Edited by Jose Ignacio Cabezón)

Europe: Utrecht, Netherlands, Intersex Canal Pride Festival, summer 2018 (wiki)

The international intersex flag (LGBTQI+)

Pseudohermaphroditism leads to "intersex" (the "I" in LGBTQIA+ acronym, showing an unbelievable spectrum of biological sexuality and phenotypic gender expression).

Biology and hormones are a strange thing we share with plants. Yes, plants have hormones, too, as do animals. There are, for example, intersex pigs on Vanuatu, the island of kava kava, a recreational drug plant. Are the "Lotus-eaters" on this island, as mentioned in ancient Greece.

Ever wonder what "6-7" means? Quigley scale for androgen insensitivity syndrome (Wiki)

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Odysees men on Lotus-eater Island

MYTHOLOGY: In Homer's epic, The Odyssey, Book IX, Odysseus tells how adverse north winds blew him and his men off course: "I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of 9 days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus-eaters, who live on a food [the "intoxicating pepper" kava, Piper methysticum?] that comes from a kind of flower. Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid-day meal on the shore near the ships. When they had eaten and drunk, I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be...." More

• Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: Gender

EVERY BODY (official trailer) beyond the binary only in American theaters on June 30

Third International Intersex Forum

The Buddhist term pandaka refers to non-normative gender expression in ancient times. It might be translated as "pervert" but also crossdresser, transsexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, tomboy, effeminate male, butch female, sodomite, receptive males, active females, hermaphrodite, bisexual...or an intersex person to the extent such individuals were understood in ancient India, Southeast Asia, and surrounding areas.

INTERSEX people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies" [1, 2]. The opposite of intersex is endosex ["cisgender"], which describes persons born with sex characteristics that are seen as typically male or female at birth [3]. More

• Vanuatu culture: incredible secrets of Vanuatu's sacred pigs
• Odysseus' lotus flower, Lotus-Eaters: mythical island tribe
• Lotus-eaters Island The Odyssey
• University of Oklahoma fires teaching assistant after zero grade [for citing the Bible in] scandal | Fox News
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• How Minnesota's fraud ‘mastermind’ allegedly wielded [anti-Somali racist] power to promote scheme

The origin of the meme "6 7" in brief

Bhutan: Enlightenment thru sex, drugs, rock?

Drukpa Kunley (1455–1529), also known as Kunga Legpai Zangpo, Drukpa Kunleg (Tibetan འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་, brug pa kun legs), and Kunga Legpa, the Madman of the Dragon Lineage (Tibetan འབྲུག་སྨྱོན་ཀུན་དགའ་ལེགས་པ་, 'brug smyon kun dga' legs pa), was a Tibetan Buddhist lama, missionary, and poet in the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of the [Himalayan Bon sorcery-influenced] Vajrayana Buddhist Mahamudra tradition [1].

• "Crazy wisdom," divine madness (yeshe cholba)?
• Crazy wisdom or just crazy? (dhamma musings)
• The Enlightenment Trap: Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain by Scott Carney (Foxtopus Ink)

He was trained at Ralung Monastery under siddha Pema Lingpa. However, by the age of 25, he had returned his monastic [Vinaya] vows [2] to take a wife, whose name was Tsewang Dzom (tshe dbang 'dzom) [3]. He is often counted among the Nyönpa ("Mad Ones"). He is considered to have been a reincarnation of Saraha [4]. More

The Enlightenment Trap: Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain

(Audiobook) Author Scott Carney has 4.3 out of 5 stars (with 137 reviews). The 2023 edition of The Enlightenment Trap includes two new chapters, photography, and updated total revision.

In 2012, 38-year-old Ian Thorson's search for spiritual transcendence ended in tragedy on a remote Arizona mountaintop. His wife, a woman anointed as a goddess by an eccentric Buddhist community, held him in her arms as he slowly died from dehydration and dysentery.

For Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, Thorson's death was just the most recent iteration of an unspoken epidemic that connected intensive meditation and mental instability.

The Enlightenment Trap explores how Tibetan Buddhism in the West morphed from its roots in the Himalayan foothills into a fundamentally new American religion. For Thorson, the entry point into this new faith was Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University.

Carney unravels the cult-like practices of Diamond Mountain to illuminate the uniquely American tendency to mix and match Eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces. The result is that for some, enlightenment is a synonym for almost god-like powers, and achieving it can become more important than life itself.

Aided by Thorson’s private papers and cutting-edge neurological research, the book reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain.

Carney exposes stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes. The Enlightenment Trap is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger.

Sad Guru's truth about masturbation

(Shermaroo Spiritual Life) Sadhguru (Vasudev) reveals the truth about masturbation

O, Wick Men, give me your knuckle babies

The Christian and Jewish Bibles have so little to say about masturbation that in a mindboggling reach, Church officials (guilty Catholics or officious Protestants or killjoy Jews) could only come up with the story of Onan and the awkward, inapplicable synonymous term "onanism." Nothing could be less connected to masturbation.

A Jewish man's brother dies, leaving his wife without a child. By Jewish custom and (levirate) law, he has to impregnate her in his absence. But just as he finishes the fun part his duty, he thinks better of it, reflecting on how troublesome another child and/or wife will be for him and not wanting to be burdened by those responsibilities, he withdraws as he finishes. God is so p'd off, we're told, that He smites (murders) him on the spot for "spilling his seed" on the ground rather than the fertile woman. Voila! Masturbation. Which as we all know involves having procreative sex with a partner but then changing your mind, right? 🙄

• Buddhism and sexuality In Buddhism, prohibitions against masturbation apply to monastics. By extension lay people may undertake to avoid them, and that is healthy and good, but one can no more find a "commandment" against it for ordinary people in Buddhist texts as one could locate one in Christian texts. Inciting lust, particularly through porn, is terribly harmful, and the Buddha did say something to the effect that it would be better to swallow a red-hot iron ball. But even that is in reference to being an "immoral monastic" swallowing food offered as alms by laypeople. If one insists on having sex (or fornicating, which means doing it without being married), go Tantric.

One is reminded of a truly tasteless joke:

A man nudged his wife for some nookie in front of their child. She asked him, "What?" - "How about we, you know?" - "What, are you crazy? You're going to ask me for that in front of our baby?!" - "Well, what do you want me to do?" - "Next time you want some whoopie, ask me to do 'a load of laundry.'" - "Oh, O.K." - Later that night, the wife primps and preps and makes a dramatic entrance in the bedroom. But the husband rolls over, turning his back to her. She pokes him and angrily and says, "I thought you wanted me to do a load of laundry!?" - "Oh, that's O.K. It was a small load. I did it by hand."

Fortunately, Wiki has this caveat: The word onanism is not based on the biblical story of Onan itself but on an interpretation of that biblical story. For the word onanism is not found in any form in biblical texts. Thus, the etymological connection of onanism (as masturbation) with Onan's name is religiously misleading" [62][47]. More

What about it, Pope?

Pope Francis speaks on porn and masturbation

(Breaking Points) Filthy lawyer for Israel and Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, conspired to crush...

Trump lies to cover up Epstein Files

(The Young Turks) Trump can't handle the heat over the Epstein Files

MTG stuns Trump with Epstein bomb | ‘Israel gov't behind coverup?'

(Tara Palmieri) Listen to the children Epstein and his longtime best friend Trump preyed upon

• Weekend Update, SNL, Nov. 15, 2025; The Tara Palmieri Show; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Happiest Place on Earth: Buddhist Bhutan

(60 Minutes Australia) Is Bhutan the Happiest Place on Earth?

• Bhutan's economy: Gross Domestic Happiness

Buddhism in Bhutan

Guru Rimpoche Padmasambhava

(World Travel Guides) A French man journeys to Bhutan to become a Buddhist monk. Buddhism in Bhutan. Vajrayana Buddhism is the most widely practiced religion in Bhutan. It is the state religion of Bhutan, and Buddhists comprise 75% (with Hinduism at 23%) of the population. Although the Buddhism practiced in Bhutan originated in Tibet, it differs significantly in its rituals, liturgy, and monastic organization.

What lifestyle leads to longevity?

The state religion has long been supported financially by the government through annual subsidies to Buddhist monasteries, shrines, monks, and nuns.

In the modern era, support for the state religion during the reign of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck includes the manufacture of 10,000 gilded bronze images of the Buddha, publication of elegant calligraphic editions of the 108-volume Kangyur (Collection of the Words of the Buddha) and 225-volume Tengyur (Collection of Commentaries), and the construction of numerous chorten (stupas) throughout the country. Guaranteed representation in the National Assembly and the Royal Advisory Council, Buddhists constitute the majority of society and are assured an influential voice in public policy.  🔔 @travel-guide

THIS IS LIFE IN BHUTAN: The most isolated country in the world?

The Last Buddhist Kingdom

(WOW) From ethic polyamory to royal monogamy: marriage in Bhutan

(Lifeder) This video embarks on a journey full of charm and mystery through Bhutan, a majestic former kingdom (now a constitutional semi-monarchy) located in the heart of the Himalayas. Its culture is preserved in its purest state due to its geographical isolation and its strong devotion to Buddhist traditions. Get to know what life in Bhutan is like, from the serenity of its ancient Vajrayana Buddhist monasteries to the joy of the colorful festivals. Discover the impressive fortresses called dzongs, silent witnesses of Bhutan's rich history, understand the monarchy and why it stepped aside to invite modernization, as it was formerly an integral part of the country's history, ethnic groups, what the people are like, and much more.

• LIFE IN BHUTAN: Most isolated country in the world?
• Museum quality Buddha statues (HD Asian Art)
• Lifeder, June 10, 2023; World Travel Guides; 60 Minutes Australia, Oct. 2025; Buddhism in Bhutan, May 6, 2022; WOW; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Taylor Swift's nasty 'Wood' and LA pop up

She's gone blue. What/s blue? It means "obscene"

• The Boner 🍆 Song: Taylor Swift’s “Wood,” her raunchiest yet, lyrics and meaning (Cosmopolitan)

Like wood? Come to Penis Museum

LYRICS: "Redwood tree [rock hard red boner], it ain't hard to see / His lovе was the key that opened my thighs." "Forgive me, it sounds cocky." "Girls, I don't need to catch the bouquet, mm / To know a hard rock is on the way...The curse on me was broken by [Travis'] magic wand."

• Taylor Swift – "Wood" lyrics | Genius
• Are Taylor Swift's nasty 'Wood' lyrics about her sex life?
• Taylor Swift's raunchy Life of a Showgirl lyrics in 'Wood' explained | Us Weekly

It's not "porn," Dad! It's romance, erotic fantasy, and WOOD shop talk. It's free speech art!

I love wood, Big Daddy!

It used to be all influenced by Lana Del Rey and Billie Eilish, and now is Swift "borrowing" from Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Tate McRae, ad nauseum? It's not just the sound but the themes, as if she's so impressionable at 16 that dating that junior varsity football player Travis Barker has detracted from her [f]"art." - She's not 16, and it's not Barker. That's the Kardashian gal. - No, how old is she then? - She's 35, and his name is Woodrow "9 Inches" Kelce. - And she's bragging? - It would seem so. - That would explain why it's 2:30 in length, which in cm is 9 inches, and it's Track 9. Hmm, Easter egg. And it also suggests what mean Bart Baker is on about. - Well, how bad could it be? Mothers like it, like they used to secretly sing Britney "Brit-Brit" Spears.

These two are SO in love! You can tell. It's 4ever!

All the 'Easter eggs' in Life of a Showgirl

Age progression: Tay gets more plastic surgery and Trav take job at an insurance company.

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Life of a Showgirl the movie!

• Taylor showed up LIVE to our movie screening!!!

Los Angeles activation!

Los Angeles Activation, Century City Pop Up : r/TaylorSwift

This is getting exhausting. I'm glad he likes it.

(myreputation1989) Oct. 2, 2025: OMG, Los Angeles it is your turn @taylornation and @TikTok just announced a The Life of a Showgirl activation in Los Angeles!!! I definitely will be going on Sunday!!! [I cannot wait!!! I'm so excited!!! This is life-changing!!! Is that pee in my panties??? Oops!!!] - Instagram #rich #ts12 #taylurking #thelifeofashowgirl #taylorswift #tsthelifeofashowgirl #taylornation #swifties #swiftie #taylornation13

She's so deep: W knew you were TROUBLE, Tay-Tay, Bart 'n me.

Taylor Swift - "The Fate of Ophelia" (official music video)

• Taylor Swift; Bart Barker, Taylor Swift - "Shake It Off" PARODY; LISTENING PARTY, Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Proof: Trump's GAY tendencies revealed

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  Deep down [his throat], DJ Trump is with us!

  (The Jimmy Dore Show) Jimmy Dore and wife Stef Zamorano showcase gay humorist who has detected what MAGA afficionados try their hardest to deny. Surely an incestuous sexist pig, rapist, child molester who creeps female children and women could never be G-A-Y, not in the slightest. Except maybe he's so horny, so unrestrained, that like a pirate he'll do his sons and boys Epstein and Maxwell employ or men under him to satisfy his ego and deep emptiness? See more on The Jimmy Dore Show website: jimmydore.com
• WatchMojo; Jimmy Dore, Aug. 27, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Epstein Files: Trump’s reaction South Park

Anonymous EXPOSES Donald Trump’s penis' furious reaction to savage South Park parody

• HeTrumpedUs.com
• Comedian Jay Leno criticizes political late-night hosts amid Colbert 'Late Show' cancellation