Friday Ephemera
Best friend. (h/t, Damian) || One battery, two magnets. || At last, a mobile bowling alley. || As WWII-zombie-Nazi movies go, this one isn’t bad. || “I hope you find a way to abolish criminals, too.” || Grey Sun. || Radical solution. || Steep sprinting. || A sidelined history of slavery. || Cactus encounter of note. || Today’s word is neoteny. || How computers work. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || The thrill of the Western Electric Model 500. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Moment of triumph. || The pale devil and his works, a small compilation. (h/t, Amalama) || The 20 most expensive penthouses in New York. (h/t, Things) || And finally, encouragingly, via Perry, some ladies ponder the issues of the day.
[ Quietly hides breakables. ]
Lovely people, spreading love, lovingly:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/11/aoc-jen-rubin-wapo-and-former-buttigieg-staffers-launch-effort-to-purge-trump-supporters-from-public-life/
Cary Joji Fukunaga sounds like the un-naturally busty Japanese agent assigned to assist Bond or, more likely, Austin Powers.
the un-naturally busty Japanese agent assigned to assist Bond
What?
… un-naturally busty…
Are you suggesting fake boobs, or very large real boobs?
p.s. I’m not obsessed with boobs.
p.p.s. Honestly, I’m not.
What?
Everyone hates lawyers until they need one.
My attorney buddy likes to say this, and you’re both wrong. Imagine if disputes were settled by murderous gladiators instead. That you want your gladiator to win doesn’t mean you like them, or are happy hiring one, and wouldn’t lessen the relief when you’re finally rid of gladiators.
Imagine if disputes were settled by murderous gladiators instead.
They were called berserks – the real ones, not the “berserkers” of fantasy and bad history.
They were known to be assholes.
Now that you’ve made me consider it, the reasons why weren’t fundamentally different.
Gladiators don’t get to make their own rules. Nor the rules everyone else has to live by. I have watch the legal system draw out an HOA case about where someone planted an f’n tree over a dozen years. It was sickening. And all because of little rules and customs and such that go on beyond the purview of many of the most aware citizens. Little time bombs they drop. Seemingly (heh…seemingly) intentionally vague wording of contracts, the abuse of “usual and customary” to create laws that no one ever endorsed in the light of voters.
Also, amongst “conservatives” the greatest concentration of elitist NeverTrumpers is in the legal profession. They’re grifters. Rats. And this is why we are where we are today. An unelected class of leeches sucking the life, liberty, and property out of each of us. But they do it (mostly) slowly. Like The Fed dilutes the money supply.
Cringe … Cringe everywhere … A vast wave of cringe.
Cringe as far as the eye can see and in every direction, cringe.
Tech support scammer dialed random number and Australian Police’s cybercrime squad answered
From the comments
For 2019-20, Tate galleries received £36.7 million from the UK taxpayer and made a further £38 million from merchandising and other sales; about £40 million came from fundraising activities and donations.
The Tate galleries’ mission statement:
Our mission is to increase the public’s enjoyment and understanding of British art from the sixteenth century to the present day and of international modern and contemporary art.
The Tate galleries’ Tate Kids activities for children includes:
QUIZ: WHICH ART ACTIVIST ARE YOU?
Question 2 is Do you work well with other people? for which two of the four options are I love my group of fellow activists! and Yes, especially if everyone is equal.
Other questions include completing the statement Your best skill is, which includes the option Making people aware of the injustices in the world, What would you consider a productive day?, including the option If I’ve made one person aware of the importance of climate change, and In one word, you’d describe yourself as: with the option Lover – you know that can’t get rid of hate with more hate.
Another section is:
MAKE A PROTEST POSTER
In the latter, children’s attention is drawn to Patrick Brill who goes by the Pseudonym “Bob and Roberta Smith”. This makes sense since Bob and Roberta’s art consists of making sloganed posters such as the presumably unironic I Should be in Charge (2011) and The Creation of Tate Modern Has Been as Important to British Life as the National Health Service(2013).
Not really a long or particularly slow march through the institutions so much as a victory lap with fanfare.
Not really a long or particularly slow march through the institutions so much as a victory lap with fanfare.
They’re largely unopposed and they have your wallet. A certain hubris is to be expected.
BLM and Biden supporters show just how solid their coalition against
White peopleTrump Is.This isn’t sinister at all:
via Battle Beagle
What could possibly go wrong when Biden has just promised to unify not divide?
However in the unlikely event that the called for non violent confrontations get a bit boisterous there may be the occasional whiff of grapeshot. There’s rather a lot of grapeshot along with the expertise and means of deploying it properly in much of the USA.
Google “privapath diagnostics covid test statistics” and you will see this…
See that? 100% accurate results. We truly live in an age of wonders.
David, did you mention a while back that you were on Parlor? Many people whom i know have just today mentioned it but the interface seems…mmm…iffy…
David, did you mention a while back that you were on Parlor?
Parler. I did, yes. Though I only use it to link to the blog, and I haven’t found it to be exactly humming with activity.
Well that might/could change with this election given that three people that i know who don’t know each other inside of an hour or so mentioned it. I just joined but having authentication problems between different devices. May have been because wife and I were trying to register same account at nearly the same time on different devices but it also hasn’t updated certain information twixt devices. Not sure what I think of it. Will see. Curious if anyone else here has used it much.
Curious if anyone else here has used it much.
Well, as I said, I basically post links to blog posts and that’s it, so my own (low) level of engagement may help explain the (low) level of engagement I see. But having the same kind of conversations on two different platforms, in parallel, just seemed a recipe for endless repetition (and madness).
Well that might/could change with this election
I have to say, it’s interesting how self-styled progressives appear largely unconcerned by the possibility that the election may have been subject to an unprecedented level of, shall we say, irregularities. Despite what that may entail for the country’s future.
But hey-ho.
I’m guessing you didn’t get “real world verified”? I’m hoping that’s an option that isn’t impacting my account verifications.
Now up to six people I know who have joined in the last 24 hours and mentioned it…
I’m guessing you didn’t get “real world verified”?
I have no idea what that is, so, er, no.
Something I stumbled upon in the profile area. Asks for a driver license or passport and photo. Kind of a bluecheckmark type thing, I’m guessing. Seemed a bit too much to ask one to volunteer but the verification glitches made me wonder if it was required. After recommending it now, I suspect I will soon be getting questions from my less technical friends. My God, what have I done…
WTP
It’s probably just a once in a lifetime thing.
Yeah. I’m letting the days go by.
Yeah. I’m letting the days go by.
…let the water hold me down…
Same as it ever was
The best Bond film in the last decade?
Assuming you can get past the ludicrous premise that Richard Grieco is a teenager, the 1991 If Looks Could Kill tries so hard to parody Bond films that it ends up aping them so well as to be a damned good homage instead.
The best Bond film in the last decade?
The last three Mission: Impossible films have been entertaining. More so than, say, Spectre.
I hadn’t been gripped by the earlier films – they were things I’d watched distractedly on TV. But Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation and Fallout drew me to the cinema and were great fun.
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Always respect the media.