Don’t Oppress My People With Your Comprehensible Sentences

Woke pumpkin carving,
She’s a little brittle, isn’t she?
Though the pattern is familiar. A feminist lacking in self-awareness, a self-styled “educator,” proudly announces the doing of a juvenile and trivial thing while assigning immense significance, and intimations of personal daring, to said trivial thing. Passers-by point out that said thing is not in fact of immense significance and is, to boot, done badly, such that the intended, allegedly radical message is not entirely obvious and is at best an invitation to parody. Feminist is immediately hostile and starts barking juvenile insults at anyone who fails to appreciate her self-imagined radicalism. This is followed by cries of “harassment” and accusations of misogyny.
It’s practically a template for feminist behaviour.

and is at best an invitation to parody.
*applauds*

The Seattle school district is planning to infuse all K-12 math classes with ethnic-studies questions that encourage students to explore how math has been “appropriated” by Western culture and used in systems of power and oppression, a controversial move that puts the district at the forefront of a movement to “rehumanize” math.
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/10/11/seattle-schools-lead-controversial-push-to-rehumanize.html?cmp=soc-edit-tw-teach

A lot to unpack. Instead I’ll have a vodka on the rocks please barman.
I think we’ll need something stronger to get through that one.
[ Starts chopping out fat lines of coke. ]
It’s mostly bathroom scouring powder. Except for the grey bits. We’re not sure what those are.
It may sting a little.

It may sting a little.
Is the blindness permanent?

“Not now, not ever.”
My thoughts exactly.

““Woke pumpkin carving”
And I thought those pussy hats were stupid…”
I thought it was a silhouette of Obama. 🙂

tentacle drones
A Japanese remake of The Prisoner?
Hokusai’s little known The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife Who Woke Up in the Village?

I really wanted to see them that year but they didn’t come to Toronto. Had to wait until ’78
Saw them in (I think) ’81. One of the Rock Super Bowls (aka Rock Stupor Bowl) in Orlando. UFO, Firefall (why, I’ll never understand), Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, and then Heart as headliner. Problem was Cheap Trick was so loud (excellent though) my ears were ringing. Also, had to pee like a race horse but knew if I left I’d never get back to the spot on the field we had worked so hard to get to. And the bass line from Cheap Trick resonated with the exact frequency as my bladder. Fortunately due to the excellent bladder training I had from family road trips (thanks, Dad!) I was able to hold out. Did make the whole Heart set a rather anxiety driven affair, however.
What, TMI?

What, TMI?
Perhaps. But the Heart can make you do anything. ;-p
I have a Chryssie Hynde story too. I had bought Pretender tickets (Front Row!) at the beginning of the year for a summer concert. I went to Europe for two weeks before the concert date to visit my mother who was working on an armed forces base there. When I returned the day before the concert I found my grandmother had visited the house and decided that my room was too messy (I kept all my concert tickets and stubs stuck in the frame of my bedroom mirror). She had thrown away all the tickets and stubs. I couldn’t replace the ticket on such short notice. My friends went to the concert without me. The drummer tossed his drum sticks into the crowd. One landed on my seat. My friend still has it.
How’s that for TMI?

Was anything learned here? Yes. My co-worker realized that I wasn’t wrong when I said that nobody ever reads those objectives, let alone care about them.
Faculty members of my department were once asked by the administration to list all the grants they’d held in the previous N years, the grantors, the amounts in total (broken down by year), the dates, etc. My colleagues took most of a day looking up all the required information.
It took me about about 20 minutes. Why? Because I just made up the information. It was generally correct, insofar as I remembered it, and I just roughened up the numbers to make them plausible (e.g., not $500,000, but $497,219). My reasoning was that if the administration had to ask me, then they must not know the answer, and so could not realize I was guessing.
I never heard another word about it.

The Seattle school district is planning to infuse all K-12 math classes with ethnic-studies questions…
If this proposal turns into policy and curriculum, which is the more likely outcome:
A) Students from the Designated Victim Classes will have an epiphany, realizing that mathematics has a powerful role to play in their lives, or
2) Students with an aptitude for mathematics will be turned off and bored to tears at having to sit through yet another hour of SJW nonsense every day.
I know which way I’d wager.

sofa-sized lumps on three rudimentary legs, with no discernible hands or any kind of dexterity – managed to build machines of any kind, let alone space vehicles and heat rays.
Do they wear pants? Maybe they have prehensile tails that you just can’t see. Or possibly other prehensile…umm…parts?

Well, you know what they say. The best horror flicks never show the real monster until the very end. They give hints, vague references, shadows, etc. Perhaps there were bulges? Did you watch it to the end?

Perhaps there were bulges?
Perhaps there were, and white after Labor Day.

The Seattle school district is planning to infuse all K-12 math classes with ethnic-studies questions…
I can see the segment on vector analysis now:
“Tyrone be rollin’ with his homies when he spots Jamal a mofo from a rival set, standin’ on a street corner. If Tyrone be goin’ 25 mph, the mofo is 20 feet away, and the muzzle velocity of his gat be 800 ft/sec, where do he have to shoot to hit the mofo?”

“Tyrone be rollin’ with his homies…
I was imagining something about “Jew landlords” and “Korean store mofos”–reminiscent of word problems in Nazi textbooks since the attitudes are so similar.

managed to build machines of any kind, let alone space vehicles and heat rays.
Telekinesis.

My impression of Wells, mostly through Chesterton, is of a utopianist, world-government, I-fucking-love-science type who would be a regular panelist and presenter on today’s BBC
I suppose what irks is that the revisions were so predictable, all but predestined, and so clumsily done. The BBC seems unable to make dramas, even supposedly ‘faithful’ versions of 19th century science-fiction novels, without shoehorning in modern left-leaning assumptions, all declared in a heavy-handed way and at wearying length. And so, inevitably, we get a feisty female lead who doesn’t feature in the novel at all, an improbably modern woman with terribly modern lifestyle choices, and who is depicted as much more capable than the men who bumble and bluster around her. Because anything else would apparently be unthinkable.
I was rather taken with Spielberg’s ‘War of the Worlds’.
It had some alarming, and rather haunting, scenes, and the first tripod appearance was suitably grotesque. Though I found the children aggravating, and more so as the film went on. Telling the story from the limited viewpoint of one family was an interesting choice, but the family we were given was much less interesting. There’s also the basic problem of the story, which has become harder to fudge with the passing of time. It’s now very hard to believe that an alien intelligence “vast and cool and unsympathetic,” one studying the Earth and its lifeforms for decades, and capable of mastering interplanetary travel and high-tech instruments of destruction, would somehow have no inkling of bacteria.
Telekinesis.
Heh. It seems more likely that if your species doesn’t have hands, or something very much like hands, then you don’t have any technology to speak of. Dexterity seems a prerequisite.

A ludicrous series of non sequiturs and tendentious claims (left entirely unchallenged by the host)
As noted a while ago in this thread, the BBC’s Thinking Allowed uses the same smug and insufferable template, in that it’s largely a platform for a narrow and uniform subset of middle-class lefties to congratulate each other, and thereby themselves, for sharing leftwing assumptions. And so instead of widening the listener’s horizons with its intellectual daring and sophistication, as it claims, it actually feels claustrophobic and parochial.

Heh.

A ludicrous series of non sequiturs and tendentious claims (left entirely unchallenged by the host)
Speaking of the ABC’s Philosopher’s Zone, where our moral and intellectual betters chat among themselves.

Naturally one of the male scientists has been removed, and the role given to a fictional female character,
It seems to be part of the wider trend, most obvious on campuses, according to which we must no longer be allowed to experience the past unedited, as it were – uncorrected by whatever sensibilities prevail in the current year. With lots of tweaks and deletions and pre-emptive tutting.

…would somehow have no inkling of bacteria.
By way of non-communicable analogy, we have malaria pretty much doped out, can send troops educated on the threat, prepared with all kinds of preventive measures, put them on the highest tech transport made to an endemic area, and it is dead certain somebody is going to do something stupid and get whatever form is endemic to the area. Back on the first world home front, nigh every day there are reports of outbreaks of foodborne illnesses because some bonehead didn’t wash his hands after visiting the can.
Meanwhile, back at the mothership, Private Major 2nd Class ◄♠╩░ⱷ₴ of the Martian Imperial Tripod Hussars is tired after a hard day of mutilating humans and forgets to put his blood soaked Discombobulator 945X through the Decon-o-Mat, and the rest is history.
“There is no such thing as Soldierproof.”

Tune in for the next exciting episode of “All The The Things Are Racist”, today, Black Pumpkins !

“We understand that someone complained about them and so once we got word of that we immediately took them down,”…
Wilbur Aldridge is the regional director of the Mid-Hudson/Westchester NAACP. He released the following statement to News 12 Westchester:
“By now I would believe everyone [knows] that anything in blackface is offensive… Equally as offensive is that a retail store would have such an item in [their] inventory for general purchase. This [too] shows an extreme lack of sensitivity.”

BRB, have to go plant some of these*.
*(Yes, I know there are really just very dark green, but on your porch at night, I don’t think anyone will be pulling out a Pantone chart)