Friday Ephemera

treasure in the attic
I’ve seen plenty such photos in my beekeeper group. Bees love the walls or ceilings, if there’s enough hollow space.
It’s often worth contacting beekeepers to collect the hive – they’ll remove as much of the wax and honeycomb as they can and will be able to offer advice as to how to block up entrances from future swarms.
Pest management guys will probably do a less thorough job; if a big hive remains in your house with no bees, that’ll attract other pests.
The job is known as a ‘cut out’, and is distinct from swarm collection/management.

I suspect trickery.
Halfway through they reversed the video.

In re Munch, a few years back there was a series of tissue boxes that looked a lot like Ensor’s The Entry of Christ Into Brussels. Thought you’d like to know.

Straya. Where the animals will disembowel and eat the hearts and liver of their enemies.
(Or, you know, wait patiently in a queue at a Fish ‘n’ chips shop.)

Unusual business concern:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/23/hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-tells-police-10971438/?ito=article.mweb.share.top.link

Bit late now, love. || Brain-eating amoebas.
ISWYDT

Sir, this is a species-neutral bathroom.

Remember, this is not a Hate Crime.
Ah, Rochdale, you think they’d’ve learned their lesson after the child sex ring scandal, but you’d be wrong.

“Please refrain from gendering us.”
“Texas jury: Father can’t stop chemical castration, gender change of seven-year-old son”
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/10/22/texas-jury-father-cant-stop-chemical-castration-gender-change-seven-year-old-son/
“a jury in Texas has ruled against a father’s petition for sole custody of his twin seven-year-old boys as a means to protect one from undergoing hormonal gender-change therapy at the hands of his mother.”
I have a sneaky suspicion the mother does not have the child’s interests at heart. Surely she can’t be acting out of sheer spite in any case?

Posted by: jones | October 25
The judge, probably due to the public outcry and the fact that the Governor and other Texas officials are launching an investigation into this farrago, has overruled the jury.

The judge presiding over the case of Jeffrey Younger, the father who is trying to protect his seven-year-old son, James, from chemical castration via a gender “transition,” ruled today that the parents will have joint conservatorship over James, which includes making joint medical decisions for the child.

Despite the gag order on the father not to speak to the press, this ruling at least buys time for the kid and for more rational people to sort this mess out.
Meanwhile, on the topic of emotionally disturbed persons, you can’t call them that in NYC anymore, thanks to a diktat from the mayor.

Calls for law enforcement that have been referred to as “EDPs,” or “emotionally disturbed persons,” will now be referred to as a “mental health call,”…Other measures taken by the city would require mental health professionals instead of law enforcement to respond to certain types of calls.

Because in an emergency you always have perfect knowledge of the actual situation. It should be interesting when they send a shrink to see the nutcase brandishing weapons, and the rozzers to the depressed dude who has locked himself in his bedroom, because the mayor and his minions don’t want to upset a crazy person by calling him “emotionally disturbed”.

Twitter rules and censors, it is almost as if they are arbitrary and clueless.

Bit late now, love.
So of course she will be resigning and throwing what political capital she has left over to the AfD (or whomever?). Ahhh, but…

“For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it,” she told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. “Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.”

Of course not. We mustn’t learn anything from our mistakes. Because that would be wrong. Unless of course “those who bring the country forward” means what it literally means and not the PC BS that such convoluted language has meant for decades now. But then again, leaving Germany has been a German tradition for centuries. On the one hand, it’s the reason that I even exist. Still TBD if in a small way that’s a good thing or not, but I digress…
Curious if anyone over yonder has noticed this…Growing up in, and frequently visiting, South Florida I saw a great number of German tourists. Also our next door neighbors were post-war German immigrants. Much more so than other non-English speaking tourists, the Germans always look confused. They seem to lighten up after a few beers or whatnot, but I can pick out the Germans on the beach (insert lame reverse D-Day joke here) even before hearing them speak because they seem terribly unsure of what to do with themselves.

Continue the research.

Will you just knock it off?
[ Carefully places ear buds in spider-proof case. ]

inadvertently comical Naomi Wolf
Wolf is – without exaggeration – every bit a conspiracy theorist as Alex Jones, yet one is too racy for most social media platforms, much less major publishing houses and mainstream organs like the Guardian.
We reside in the timeline where Alex Jones is right.

If you laugh, you are probably a very bad person.

he was probably just going to ask the cashier to put it on his bill.
I’ll get your coat.

Re: Batwoman and Terminator
A lot of this reminds me of Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal, in which the writer points out that movie studios don’t really know what sells or what doesn’t; they just produce so much stuff that the big hits pay for all the damp squibs. At the time of writing, DVD sales were completely savaging studio profits and the book was mostly stories about the studios flailing around and having no idea how to function in a market where they had to make ROI on nearly everything.
The New Wokeness is just studio execs being their usual clueless about what audiences want. We didn’t want six Transformers movies and the later ones didn’t do very well. There’s not much wokeness in the entire DC cinematic universe and half of them were absolute box office bombs.
Unfortunately this means that the poor financial performance of Batwoman and Terminator won’t likely make much difference. If the greenlight guys were capable of spotting a bankable property, we wouldn’t have gotten these to begin with.
Keep an watchful eye on Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters sequel next year. If it does well, that may be the bellwether studios need, as it’s a clear A/B test.
Texas jury: Father can’t stop chemical castration, gender change of seven-year-old son
There’s something really off about this case. The father requested a jury trial in lieu of a bench trial; I’m assuming he felt 12 normal people were going to be a lot more sensible about the issue at hand. And yet, 11 of the 12 jurors voted to give sole custody and conservatorship to psycho mom.
The judge who overruled the original decision merely gave 50/50 conservatorship (i.e. medical decision-making) to the father. Psycho mom still has sole custody and the father is under a gag order such that he can’t talk about the case.
There’s something about this case we’re not being told.

Trans individual sets new cycling record.

Pool shot of note.

Pool shot of note.
Broken link of note. 🙁
Was it by any chance this one? 🙂
(Found via Charles Murray’s twitter feed.)

Aw, the code doesn’t work. 🙁

Something to think about…
In the podcast series “Welcome to Nightvale” there’s an announcement from the narrator (the local radio station guy):
“New research has shown that there is at least one spider on your body at all times. Yes, you. Further work is needed to clarify its intent, but it is pretty certain that it is one of the ugly ones.”

Come bask in our two-hour poverty simulation.
Two whole hours?

There’s a strain of this in (of all goddamned things) tabletop roleplaying games. It’s been sardonically dubbed by its critics “misery tourism”.