Friday Ephemera
Nommy-nommy-nom. (h/t, Jeff) || Portal says no. || Night vision injections. || Incoming enrichment. || Discharges of note. || Scholarship, baby. || It has four bedrooms and a room full of sand. (h/t, Things) || Bad art, breasts and adhesive tape. || Behold young love, it’s a precious thing. || Wee things called euglenoids. || 251 words you can spell with a calculator. || Cities, accelerated. || Sisterhood. || Teaching AI to play hide-and-seek. || Doing it for science. || Odeon cinemas of the 1930s. || Does anyone here know sign language? (h/t, Darleen) || He’s making the rest of us look bad. || He does this better than you do. || Hers is bigger than yours. || And finally, as situations go, it left some room for improvement.
“breathing in hate-molecules
Album title …”
I’m sure The Hate Molecules did a Peel session back in the early ’90s.
but I don’t get doing it in such a fantastically silly way,
If someone is sufficiently insecure to pretend the things woke people pretend, it’s unclear what the upper limit of the absurdity is.
However woke you are, it’s not good enough
I’ll confess that I’d read several paragraphs of the article before I cottoned on.
My response, therefore is to express my admiration for Isabel’s Hardman’s inventiveness but also to express dismay that articles like this can be taken – at least for a few moments – seriously. We have come to a stage where satire, delivered with a hefty dose of caricature and absurdity, can pass as genuine news.
I’ll admit that I am often a bit slow on the uptake, but I’m not all that dim. The very fact that this piece is so believable is, surely, alarming. But I suppose, David, that’s what you’ve been warning us about all these years.
If only we’d listened.
If only we’d listened.
My brilliance is a burden. I bear it heroically.
My brilliance is a burden. I bear it heroically.
And with such panache.
And with such panache.
Excuse me while I lick my own eyebrows.
Huge turtle: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/daf64m/interesting_but_terrifying/
Huge turtle:
Just some harmless nuclear testing they said, nothing could possibly go wrong they said, Gamera is just a movie monster they said…
You’d think there’d come a point at which the people being targeted in this way would realise, belatedly, that their super-woke peers are just really awful people.
Something about all this sounds terribly familiar.
Huge turtle
Not big enough to be called the Great A’Tuin, so we’ll name him The Pretty Good A’Tuin.
The house with the room full of sand looked great. Until I remembered I had four cats.
Right. All you lot who have been making cracks about helicopter rides, cease and desist immediately or be shamed and cancelled as a “sinistrophobe”, and don’t dare make anti-antifa jokes, memes, or images, or you will be nicked.
“…dedicated themselves to actively opposing and exposing white supremacists…”, in Wolkenkuckucksheim.
I am not saying the ADL has completely become a parody of an organization that once had a real purpose, but other things according to them that are right out include 100%, the numbers 12, 13, 14, and 28. Do not ever buy a clearly Nazi BMW 318 or fly in a Boeing 737 either, you racist scum.
The house with the room full of sand looked great. Until I remembered I had four cats.
Heh. Although there is too much in that house that is, um, “unique” for me to really like it–design ideas that are eye-catching but impractical and, after the first look, will lose any interest.
For example, a common alt right meme offers “free helicopter rides” to people on the left, a reference to the tactic used by right-wing dictatorships in Argentina and Chile of throwing left-wing critics of the regime from helicopters.
So the commies who were conspiring to impose a Communist dictatorship were merely “critics” in the eyes of the ADL, and the depredations of Fidel Castro’s Cuba teach us nothing about what might be worth doing to prevent such a catastrophe. Is there anyone at the ADL who is not a communist? Who does not long to be an apparatchik in a totalitarian regime?
The house with the room full of sand looked great. Until I remembered I had four cats.
Three hundred hamsters.
Just sayin’.
Three hundred hamsters.
Do you write from personal experience? The sequel to Mister Popper’s Penguins will be Mister Thompson’s Hamsters.
Do you write from personal experience?
Happily, no.
But the idea of 300 of the buggers scuttling around in a room full of sand is not without its charm.
But the idea of 300 of the buggers scuttling around in a room full of sand is not without its charm.
Maybe if it’s somebody else’s room.
Maybe if it’s somebody else’s room.
Oh yes. It could get a little aromatic, especially if the females are in heat, which they are quite often. Every four days.
“…especially if the females are in heat, which they are quite often. Every four days.”
Are you confusing them with Kardashians..?
Damn white people and their
[flips cards]
“eco-fascism”.
@Darleen: “With a towheaded baby in her arms, she greets customers and makes small talk. “
She’s clearly a monster!
Damn white people and their
[flips cards]
“eco-fascism”.
Like his expensively educated peers, Mr Adler-Bell doubtless imagines himself a righteous and iconoclastic thinker. And yet they’re so eerily uniform in their reflexes and conceits.
Damn white people and their [flips cards] “eco-fascism”.
And yet the New Republic is one of the magazines which is much more likely to advance fascistic ideas…albeit with a mask of universal benevolence.
“…especially if the females are in heat, which they are quite often. Every four days.”
Are you confusing them with Kardashians..?
I don’t recall that being mentioned in any Star Trek episode.
Well, all righty, then.
independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech
Gadgets and tech, “The futuristic design of the Sarco – short for sarcophagus – has raised concerns that it is glamourising suicide. A virtual reality experience of the Sarco was on display on 14 April in Westerkerk church in Amsterdam for the city’s annual Funeral Expo” – fun for the whole family !
Well, all righty, then.
Kurt Vonnegut’s Ethical Suicide Parlors were supposed to be a warning, not a suggestion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House_(short_story)
Kurt Vonnegut’s Ethical Suicide Parlors were supposed to be a warning, not a suggestion:
That, and Futurama, but the Sarco is ecological, don’t you know.
With a towheaded baby in her arms…
We knew from “towheaded” that it was going to be a white supremacist family. Unashamed procreation of Northern European hair genetics.
“The identifying features of right-wing families, it contends, are that they are “inconspicuous, blond, cute and engaged”.”
By the way, “towheaded” – is that a word people still use these days (instead of just saying that they baby has scruffy blond hair), or was it chosen here for its archaic, rustic, blood-and-soil connotations – Huck Finn shading into Hitler Youth?
Seeing how Prince Harry is turning out after marrying an American divorcee it appears that you dodged a bullet with Edward VIII.
Damn white people and their
[flips cards]
“eco-fascism”.
If they’d been eco-communists, advocating a global North Korean regime for all – you know, significantly closer to how many greens actually believe – one assumes there’d be no scare article in the New Republic.
“you dodged a bullet with Edward VIII.”
Can’t remember who said it, but one wag suggested putting up statues to Wallace Simpson in every British city to thank her for spreading her legs for him.
All you lot who have been making cracks about helicopter rides, cease and desist immediately or be shamed and cancelled as a “sinistrophobe”
I’ll wear the label proudly.
whup – whup – whup – whup – whup – whup – whup – whup