Friday Ephemera

J. S. Bach’s Crab Canon on a Moebius strip.

Objects in ice.
Fish, and plankton, sea greens, and protein from the sea.

My aunt was trained in classical Thai dance but hulaed professionally. There’s not much demand for Thai classical dance.
Someone on Twitter said the dance shown was Chinese. I don’t know who’s right.

‘Someone apparently put a decimal point in the wrong place’
https://o.canada.com/news/spain-builds-submarine-70-tons-too-heavy

Morning, all.
This made me laugh.
But then, as you know, I’m a terrible, terrible person.

This made me laugh.
“Warning”
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1174938880853700608

“The corpse showed signs of movement”
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Members of the audience greeted his stunt with rapturous applause”
Not our countrymen.

Toilet-mirror note of note.
Sounds like the start of a horror film.

“Bus terminal rotation.”
Ah, but is it chewy?
“some cheesy music”
I think the word you’re groping for there is “awesome”. Although they need to re-shoot in the dark with more neon and dry ice.
“Warning”
I can’t help thinking of the Monty Python sketch: “And now, a massage from the Swedish Prime Minister…”. This is surely the new dividing line in politics: people who find this “scandal” utterly ridiculous and the sour-faced scolds working their knickers into a twist over it.

‘Someone apparently put a decimal point in the wrong place’
“Measure twice, cut once.” doesn’t translate into Spanish?

Islam is RIGHT about women.
The sign itself is poetry; to squeeze so much meaning into five short words is a work of art. Honestly, it causes a deeper reaction and spurs more consideration than most of the performance art our gracious host shares with us here.
Also, I’m delighted by the social media posting from the woman who was interviewed in the news segment:

Conversation Starter
I’m all for free speech, but this is just awful…. Please tear them down if you see any more! 🙁 🙁 🙁

As the kids are so fond of saying: “Anything written before the word “but” is meaningless.”

I wonder if Mr Slowthai knows the name of his MEP.
I see what you did there.
Somewhat related.

Checking in engineering is no longer required because we have CAD now.

Twenty-first century headlines.
Holy moly! Turns out there’s poetry everywhere around us!

Heh.
As someone notes in reply, “Not yer call, lady.”
Very much related.

“but you know who *really* tells it like it is…? Judith Butler!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzVc7s-_e8

Henry, you prolix little bitch…

‘the Canadian Prime Minstrel’
A scenario presents itself.

Further to the Douglas Murray tweet in the post above, this, on the dishonesties of the gay press, seems apposite:

On Monday morning I went on the BBC’s Today programme. My fellow guest was the British writer Afua Hirsch who is the author of a memoir about her own upbringing, in which she describes how she managed to flee the badlands of Wimbledon only to suffer in the hood of Oxford University.
Anyhow, during the conversation I mentioned the idiotic recent case of Sam Smith. This is the pop singer who came out as gay a few years ago, came out as ‘genderqueer’ a couple of years after that and last week came out as ‘non-binary’. As I said in the Telegraph on Monday, and reiterated on the BBC, I do not believe there is any such thing as ‘non-binary’. In particular I think it is impossible to tell what the difference is between coming out as being ‘non-binary’ and simply shouting ‘Look at me’. If there is a difference, then nobody (including the Smiths) has yet been able to explain it.
When this came up Afua accused me of ‘bullying’ Sam Smith. Because of course everything is about power and I am definitely in a position to bully the downtrodden, multi-millionaire crooner Sam Smith. Despite berating me for not using ‘they / them’ pronouns for Sam Smith, Afua then herself outrageously and unfortunately ‘misgendered’ Sam Smith, referring to him as ‘him’ and ‘his’. Not as easy as it looks, this woke stuff, is it?

Do read the whole thing.

On cutting ripostes of note:
https://twitter.com/timfarron/status/1175035971068452864

Chastised? Not a bit of it. Maybe I’m a bit of a sledgehammer, and not in the Peter Gabriel sense.
Anyway I’m hardly the biggest feminist in the world, am I? I just like your pointed descriptions more is all

“British rapper Slowthai has sparked controversy after he held up a replica of Boris Johnson’s severed head at the Mercury Prize ceremony on Thursday evening.
How quickly everybody forgets the rodeo clown who was hounded out of a job for mocking Obama. But he wasn’t stunning, brave, or trangsressive because he was transgressing against the wrong people.

Within this piece by Andrew Sullivan … amazing how the mugging of reality has brought back some reasonableness on his part … is this by an actual teacher who demonstrates how much he loathes teaching a certain demographic of his students …

I worry about White boys who barely try and expect to be rewarded, who barely care and can’t stand being called on it, who imagine they can go through school without learning much without it impacting in any way the capacity for their future success, just because it never has before. White boys who expect privilege to carry and protect them, because that’s what it does, without ever stopping to wonder if it works the same for everyone else. […]
This week, a student spoke up in class to say that every time a particular writer talked about White people and their role in racism, he would start to feel really guilty, and it made him not want to listen … I try to keep an arm around the boys who most need it, but it’s hard, because I’m also not willing to give an inch on making my room safe for my students of color. It’s not their job to keep hurting while White boys figure it out.

Now think if this were a teacher speaking about “Black boys”.

On a lighter note, Soviet soldiers and Eurythmics:
https://twitter.com/communistbops/status/1173691180967759872