Bait. || Old boiler. || Balloon surgery. || Coming through. || Choices were made. || Something is missing. || Incoming. || Question asked. || How to glue Styrofoam to fabric, and answers to other glue-related questions. || Just like a guitar, but with really hefty magnets. || Rather more leg than I was expecting. || The progressive retail experience, parts 721, 722, 723, 724, 725, 726 and 727. || I suppose we could call this irony. || School science project of note. || It’s hers now. || She’s called coconut. || Testing weightlessness, 1958. || “What animal is chicken?” || What do you mean, it’s distracting and inapt? What are you, sonny, some kind of bigot? (h/t, Smallish Bees) || Suboptimal solution. || May encounter fog. || All the fun of the fair. || And finally, incendiary felines to burn down your enemy’s castle, 1584.

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Lifted from the comments, some beverage-related economics news:

This is like the entire left versus right debate on markets pic.twitter.com/5PlEn1uWS5

— wanye (@xwanyex) April 29, 2026

What things actually cost is “incredibly rightwing,” apparently.

As Rafi says in reply,

The inability to grasp how things work is quite remarkable. There’s an air of imperviousness. And it does, I think, capture something of broader attitudes. Certainly, I’ve had several not dissimilar conversations.

I’m now poking at the implication that the All Powerful State should have an army of po-faced minions patrolling the nation’s coffee shops, correcting the price of oat milk and other disgusting boutique substances. Regardless of the actual cost to the owner of the coffee shop.

And so, not comprehending fairly obvious things, despite being adults, Our Betters invoke conspiracies and call for a kind of ludicrous tyranny.

By the way, Mr Cohen – the chap upset at having to pay a few extra cents for oat milk in his coffee – is an assistant professor of sociology at Berkeley. He has pronouns in his bio.

He teaches those less knowledgeable and worldly than himself.

Oh, and being an assistant professor of sociology, a statusful intellectual, Mr Cohen has, at the time of writing, not seen fit to respond to any of the numerous comments pointing out his error.

Including polite and informative replies from owners of coffee shops.

On a theme of Very Modern Education, some items from the archives:

The Psychology of “Social Justice” Is A Thing To Behold.

Don’t learn to spell, just insult potential employers. Says leftist professor.

They Feed On The Young.

On San Francisco’s taxpayer-funded Woke Kindergarten.

Not Entirely Similar.

What your children are being taught and why you mustn’t find out.

For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.

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Because you look starved of culture, I bring you the formidable figure of rap sensation Dajua Blanding, known to her admirers as Dank Demoss:

What’s her rap name? pic.twitter.com/OvrfklCc0R

— TaraBull (@TaraBull) April 26, 2026

Bonus points if you spotted the location of madam’s phone.

Keen-eyed readers may recognise Ms Demoss from her previous adventures in enormousness. Which seem to consist largely of harassing Lyft drivers fearful for their suspension.

For those erotically intrigued – and with a taste for what I can only describe as front arse cheeks – glamour shots are available.

Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

At last, toilet lasers. || The alphabetical clock. || Today’s words are bear suit insurance fraud. || In Chinese car-making news. It’s voice-controlled and comes with a fan. || Amenities on high. || Chopped ham and eggs. || A map of cheese. Semi-hard buffalo cheese, Mongolian horse cheese, it’s all in there. || Four minutes of near misses. || The thing you’re thinking with. || Why the dryer wouldn’t work. || A Rear Window timelapse. || A racist tool. || “Tyres for moon traversal were still a novel idea in 1971.” || Not entirely perfect. || On crime prevention. || Vortex. || Suburban bear relocation. || Assorted birdsong. || The French and their stilt dancing. || Fat old guy in pants twerks for the kiddies. || Via Elephants Gerald, tracking fencing tips. || And finally, they had insufficient fuel.

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