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

The problem, to my mind, with the word “bitch” is that a) it doesn’t really mean an awful lot and b) it sounds angry to the point of bitter.

Well, sometimes one does need to express bitterness succinctly.
I would rarely, if ever, use the word “bitch” to describe someone. But the word “bitchy” is a very useful way of expressing a fairly common behaviour, and I would use it equally for men and women. “Resting bitch face” has its uses too.
Are we still allowed to use it for: “A person in a subservient sexual role, especially an incarcerated male who provides sex to another male under threat of violence or in exchange for protection”? Because in that sense the word is traditionally used of men.

It’s as if those “fight racism” SJWs actually want non-racist wypeepo to be racist.
Historically, encouraging all white people to think of themselves as an ideologically unified bloc hasn’t worked out well.

It’s as if those “fight racism” SJWs actually want non-racist wypeepo to be racist.
Historically, encouraging all white people to think of themselves as an ideologically unified bloc hasn’t worked out well.
The Dems in the US are explicitly anti-white; I wonder how long even the most woke whites might take to realise this isnt going to work out well for them.
Also see the Noticer on Telegram to see who’s pushing this philosophy.

Will this close the italics in the earlier comments?

Uh-oh. Sumbuddy’s in twubbol…

Yeppers. All clear.

Plan B, since you ask, involves forehead tattoos.

Funny thing … in the late 1960’s, at least in So Cal, the word bitchin meant something was just the coolest thing EVAH!
If George Lucas is accurate about his period slang, and why wouldn’t he be, it’s what teenage girls were saying in Modesto CA in 1962 – “Wow, that’s bitchin’ tuck-and-roll”, “Hey, you got a bitchin’ car”.
http://www.unz.com/anepigone/islam-is-right-about-women/

The reporter and those he talks to are unsure who the fliers “target”. So completely does Wokeism forbid intellectual curiosity of any kind that the simple message could be making a statement intended to provoke those reading it into ponderment cannot be given any consideration. The women interviewed are merely unsure of whom the Who? is and who the Whom? is (*), and so are uncertain of how to react. Their consternation is our amusement.

(*) One news channel is framing it as “controversial signs are showing up in Winchester about Muslim women…”.

So completely does Wokeism forbid intellectual curiosity of any kind…
Heh. It does reveal the cognitive dissonance quite neatly. There’s an economy, a kind of elegance.

Now, that “judge by character not by skin” ethos is dismissed as “racist” itself.
And that’s becauss it turned out not to be useful to the race hustlers in dividing up the herd.

My second, successful attempt
Actually, it wasn’t. The whole place was still italics before I posted.

Actually, it wasn’t. The whole place was still italics before I posted.
! So exactly what did you do to fix it? Viewing the page source, it appears that you typed the following. Is that correct?
[i][/i][/i]Uh-oh. Sumbuddy’s in twubbol…[/i]
(Replace every [ and ] with left and right angle brackets.)
I’d swear that what I did worked once before, so is there anything edifying that we should know?

This.

This
Remember “food deserts”, the Left’s ploy to get an army of government apparatchiks into the retail food business?

I left Instagram and said why. I didn’t feel safe. Hatred and chaos were reigning supreme. Gossip was spreading like wildfire. I didn’t want to be a part of it…
Come now, surely that’s an exag
A few activists were frantically going around hunting down my followers or anyone who had designed a pattern in my yarn. They told them to unfollow me and remove my name from their patterns…or else!
F%(%^^(ing hell.

F%(%^^(ing hell.
As noted previously,

One small mercy is that the more unlikely the context – in this case, the world of knitting – the more obviously contrived and dysfunctional the woke-lings seem. This doesn’t appear to inhibit them, of course – they seem quite shameless – but it does make their behaviour, and motives, easier to spot…
Viewed objectively, there isn’t anything to be offended by. Ms Templer describes her excitement and says that for her, a young woman with little experience of global travel, the opportunity to fly halfway around the planet is “like being offered a seat on a flight to Mars.” That’s it. But for those inclined to recreational grievance-seeking, that’s the appeal. The less basis there is for indignation, the more pleasurable the scolding becomes. It’s a twisted power dynamic, a form of gaslighting. And for a certain kind of person, making someone anxious and confused, and then making them prostrate themselves in public – when there’s no reason to do so – is the sweetest triumph. It’s a game for budding sociopaths.

You’d think some parents might object to what their children are being turned into. At considerable expense.

Yes, this is a conference but my safe space badge says I don’t want to talk to you.
Formalised neuroticism, the signature of the woke world.

Islam is right about women
What did we see in those news reports – women demanding that the police protect them from words on a piece of paper, women expressing their boredom and confusion at having to think about difficult ideas, women unwilling to accept the existence of intractable conflicts that can’t be solved by being nice, women wishing that everyone could just accept the multikulti future our betters have planned for us.
Those kinds of women are drawn to Islam, to the idea that women need the protection of assertive, authoritative men so that they can live out their gifts of nurturance and modesty in a safe space that’s protected from the rough public sphere. They’re seeing something about themselves that goes against their feminist indoctrination, so there’s a bit of confusion. But that confusion can be made to go away by binge-watching Handmaid’s Tale.
in the absence of mass immigration, “Islam is right about women” is a fun ideological koan. But feminism is no real competition for Islam. Islam wins in the long term because its women are having babies and its men are willing to stand up for their beliefs.
It’s a hate crime for us to express our objection to Islam in terms of we live here, our ancestors lived here, our culture and society is intertwined with Christianity, church steeples belong in our cityscapes in a way that minarets don’t. It’s not yet a hate crime to express concerns about Islam’s treatment of women. So that’s where the ideological battle is fought, and will be lost, because women don’t find Islam as objectionable as all that.

because women don’t find Islam as objectionable as all that.
Come on now! Most women find Islam quite objectionable in regard to its treatment of women, including many that have been born into it. Women don’t have the power in many Islamic countries to do anything much about their status, but that’s largely because of concerted action by the powers that be to prevent them.
The non-authoritarian Islamic countries aren’t much worse in the treatment of women than a whole pile of non-Islamic countries. The difference in the way women are treated in Georgia and Azerbaijan, for instance, shows that culture and history over-rides religion. Arab countries tend to treat women very badly, but not all Moslems are Arab.
Most people are happy to let other people live their lives any way they want (provided it doesn’t impinge on them directly). That’s quite different from women — or men for that matter — finding the treatment of Islamic women as acceptable.
Maybe you know different types of people, but all the women I know would be horrified if it was suggested that they had any sort of hankering to be treated like a Saudi woman.