Friday Ephemeraren’t

I always admired the goths you’d see in Sydney (Australia), it takes real dedication to wear a black wool trench coat when it is 40 degrees Celsius outside. Cold climate goths have it easy.

A better board game on the same theme.

Oh, and this.
Are they looking for investors?

And… yet another fake “hate crime.”
Via dicentra.

You want one and you know it.

You want one and you know it.
The cat won’t be happy.

You won’t want this.

Michael Barone discusses cultural appropriation.
Alas, he muffs it when invoking “Italian” pasta. Everyone knows, noodles were appropriated from the Chinese when Marco Polo returned from visiting the Khan. Not to mention tomatoes, which originated in the New World and were appropriated by the Spanish and were then promptly swiped by the Italians for lasagna-based outrages.

Today’s Diane Abbott maths fail
She’s Labour’s very own random number generator.

President Trump has become so powerful that his enemies are forced to tell the Truth
For decades, critical social scientists and humanists have chipped away at the idea of truth. We’ve deconstructed facts, insisted that knowledge is situated and denied the existence of objectivity. The bedrock claim of critical philosophy, going back to Kant, is simple: We can never have certain knowledge about the world in its entirety. Claiming to know the truth is therefore a kind of assertion of power.
Hey, we invented ‘alternative facts’!
Call it what you want: relativism, constructivism, deconstruction, postmodernism, critique. The idea is the same: Truth is not found, but made, and making truth means exercising power.
But it seems the truth is not their friend.
Some liberals have argued that the best way to combat conservative mendacity is to insist on the existence of truth and the reliability of hard facts. But blind faith in objectivity and factual truth alone has not proven to be a promising way forward.

Medieval Manuscript Star Wars
The archaeologists of the distant future are going to be very confused.

This didn’t turn out quite as she’d hoped.
I can’t help thinking this may be related to your previous comment.

This didn’t turn out quite as she’d hoped.
I was rather impressed by this feat of obliviousness:

And I’m sure that the lovely Rebekah is far from alone in her conceit.

She’s approaching Godfrey levels of wokeness.
Who??!?!
Oh.
‘k, that vaguely rings a bell.

Godfrey Elfwick‏ @GodfreyElfwick 9h9 hours ago
Can we PLEASE stop the working class from voting, so that we can have a more tolerant, Left-leaning, inclusive society?

Ehn, not the clearest example of multiplying by zero that I would cite for an explanation of mathematical concepts, but . . .

I notice GE fails to mention xirs being fired from the Dalston Mercury for being too mercurial…whatever that means.

Have a butcher’s at this.
As someone notes in the thread, the idea of Godfrey chairing Question Time is not unappealing.

I think he meant the board game was based on John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There,” a sci-fi classic.

What’s this Thing?

And in shocking, truly shocking Antifa news.

Junkie dominatrix becomes professor of creative writing and writes creatively for your favourite news site:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/06/dominatrix-to-professor-students-imagine-melissa-febos

Yep. I definitely need to stop by here more often.

OT, but I think a lot of readers will be interested: Anna Raccoon, although she’s stopped blogging, is standing for Parliament against Jeremy Corbyn, campaigning on reform of NHS compensation payments:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4480714/Cancer-sufferer-standing-against-Jeremy-Corbyn.html

you could be attending one of these events
I suppose the clearing up afterwards is less… harrowing.

On the subject of manure cleanup (from vague memory, sorry Terry)
Oh, so the current reading queue involves finally getting around to reading through all of the forty one in order—and having electronic files on a tablet does happen to be rather useful . . .
And so, from Mort;

AH. THE STABLES. Death paused, his hand on the spine of the book. AND WHY DO YOU THINK I DIRECTED YOU TO THE STABLES? THINK CAREFULLY, NOW.
Mort hesitated. He had been thinking carefully, in between counting wheelbarrows. He’d wondered if it had been to coordinate his hand and eye, or teach him the habit of obedience, or bring home to him the importance, on the human scale, of small tasks, or make him realize that even great men must start at the bottom. None of these explanations seemed exactly right.
“I think…” he began.
YES?
“Well, I think it was because you were up to your knees in horseshit, to tell you the truth.”
Death looked at him for a long time. Mort shifted uneasily from one foot to the other.
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, snapped Death. CLARITY OF THOUGHT. REALISTIC APPROACH. VERY IMPORTANT IN A JOB LIKE OURS.

Today’s Diane Abbott maths fail
She’s Labour’s very own random number generator.

I shouldn’t think she’s that limber.
Well, It’s not Abbott, but as far as public backflips and related gymnastics, there is this one instead. With the badly fitting glasses, too.

A student chosen to introduce Jeremy Corbyn at his local election launch has quit her senior post with a university Labour group after posting a series of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic tweets.
Bethany Barker, who welcomed Mr Corbyn to the stage in Newark, Notts., last month, referred to the “n***** race”, described a skull cap as a “Jew cap” and referred to another Twitter user as a “f****t”.
The tweets were posted between 2012-2014 and Miss Barker said they did not represent her current views, but resigned as general secretary of Nottingham Labour Students.

There was supposed to be complete innocence because twit posts just type themselves?