Friday Ephemera
There’s a story here, I think. (h/t, Damian) || Knick-knack of note. || You know you want to. (h/t, Holborn) || Manly feats, a possible series. || Papercraft computers. Build your own and impress your friends. (h/t, Things) || Fun with cardboard. || Fun with cardboard 2. || Boom. || What’s behind the belly button? || It’s a Toshiba. || Temples in snow. || Super-metals, metallic glass. || 1960s Los Angeles. || Roland is the one of the right. || Always read the label. || In romance news. || Chords and scales visualised. || Cat storage solution. || If you like wine, look away now. || The teeth are a nice touch. || Attention, heterosexuals. || A historical dictionary of science fiction. || And finally, his voice is deeper than yours.
This wristband gives its wearer a surprising buzz:
https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1354667329133678600
Knick-knack of note.
She should tie it to her pussy hat.
Seas shanties for hedge fund managers
Manly feats
SHAI-HULUDD
‘The most dangerous festival in the world’? I presume the participants are those left over from kamikaze training in WW II who didn’t pass the initial ‘screening tests’ at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Anyway what about all those Poms who chase a cheese down a steep hill in Gloucestershire? They’re certainly mad.
Comrade!
Enemies are everywhere:
A reminder from Facebook, Twitter, Google, et al:
Professor Jane Ward: “From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic.”
I think this recent headline ‘Elliot Page [ex-lesbian] files for divorce from wife Emma Portner two months after coming out as transgender man’ demonstrates the principle of the pot calling the kettle black.
“From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic.”
And yet LGBT couples have higher domestic violence rates than heterosexual couples.
I presume the participants are those left over from kamikaze training…
Presumably the very best never made it out of the training.
Anyway what about all those Poms who chase a cheese down a steep hill in Gloucestershire? They’re certainly mad.
As if the pronunciation of “Gloucestershire” was not in itself enough evidence of their madness.
And yet LGBT couples have higher domestic violence rates than heterosexual couples.
One of the dirty little secrets in the lesbian community is that domestic violence rates are highest among lesbian couples (around 40%) but it’s near impossible for abused lesbians to get help or services because the domestic violence industry is predicated on the notion that women cannot be violent.
I’ve read that before, Daniel. There is also a book, What Cops Know by Connie Fletcher, about 50 years old. At the time, the messiest murders the Chicago cops dealt with, the kind spread out over a ten-room apartment, were invariably domestic-violence murders of gay men. I have not seen anything on that topic since, nor did the book provide any info on whether that situation was unique to Chicago or not.
[being straight] looks actually very tragic
Intriguing. Maybe somebody will write a novel about it, or a play, or an opera, or a country and western song.
1960s Los Angeles.
1950’s San Francisco, with an interesting coincidence.
“Cat storage solution.”
I bet there were dishes. Shortly before the photo was taken.
Always read the label.
Stiff upper lip?
Morning, all.
I bet there were dishes. Shortly before the photo was taken.
Heh, yes. And it looks like the cats are fully charged.
demonstrates the principle of the pot calling the kettle black.
As noted upthread, the rates of domestic abuse among lesbian couples suggest our woke educator is jumping up and down on very thin ice. And it’s odd how so much “queer studies” content – so-called “queer theory” – suggests glorified name-calling, an attempt at revenge for an unhappy adolescence.
See also.
And finally, his voice is deeper than yours.
That’s incredible.
David: “… an attempt at revenge for an unhappy adolescence.”
I suggest that they live in perpetual unhappy adolescence forever looking for the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the alphabet rainbow.
perpetual unhappy adolescence
As the archives testify, academia’s Clown Quarter does seem to attract a very high concentration of perverse, unhappy people, some of whom appear to be teetering on the brink of quite serious mental health issues.
Not, I think, an ideal influence on impressionable teenagers.
Today’s word is suboptimal.
A historical dictionary of science fiction.
Rabbit hole alert!
I’m not sure that I’d call that glorified Dymo a typewriter. Still, it’s pretty cool.
A historical dictionary of science fiction.
A cursory glance will show that it is far from complete, and in fact contributions are welcome:
“This site is meant to be a communal effort, and there are many ways in which it is possible to help….”
One of the dirty little secrets in the lesbian community is that domestic violence rates are highest among lesbian couples (around 40%)…
The continued suppression of such hate facts tells us a great deal about the morals of “progressive” people.
…but it’s near impossible for abused lesbians to get help or services because the domestic violence industry is predicated on the notion that women cannot be violent.
Again, the low morals of “progressives”, for whom ideology and public posturing are more important than the people they pretend to care about.
A cursory glance will show that it is far from complete,
Spotting the omissions is part of the fun. “Aha!”
…an interesting coincidence.
Part 2.
And finally, his voice is deeper than yours.
Another yte culturally appropriating Tuvan throat singing.
Part 2.
One might laugh.
…attracted to authenticity…
Indeed:
For some reason I am thinking of the Zoolander Derelicte Collection, but I probably just need regrooving yet again because I thought we actually had a supermodel as First Lady for a while and am too daft to know “It’s not really about shape, size or gender any more…”.
Meanwhile, in the DC comic universe, Captain Holstein vs. The Flamingo.
Meanwhile, in the DC comic universe
Heh.
an attempt at revenge for an unhappy adolescence
More hatefacts: the incidence of childhood/adolescent sexual abuse among gay men is ~80%; among lesbians, ~95%; among sexual dysmorphics, 95-99%. As long-time readers of my particular monomania know, this is the etiology for the Cluster B personality disorders.
“Scientist” fails to understand the concept of “projection”.
One might laugh.
One might cry.
an attempt at revenge for an unhappy adolescence
“I wrote this book because I love straight people” is a laughably clumsy appropriation of the Mean Girl tactic of pretending to be the concerned friend of the girl you’re smearing.
Chords and scales visualised.
A clockface representation of the twelve semitones would have worked very well for me when I was a kid causing my piano teacher mental distress by my inability to plonk through a major scale. My musical friends on the other hand, who can hear intervals in their ears and form them with their fingers, aren’t impressed by my concept that going up a fifth is just like adding seven hours to whatever time it is. They find it to be shall we say a tone-deaf analogy.
Most recent models have Huawei parts behind the belly button anymore.
A historical dictionary of science fiction.
Anything in there about transdimensional portals into alternate realities?
It’s just I think we may have passed through one without realising it.
It’s just I think we may have passed through one without realising it.
Was Stalin ever nominated? /sarcasm
[checks Nobel website]
Why yes he was, twice. Also Hitler, Mussolini, and Juan and Eva Peron.
Fun with cardboard 2
Epic.
Get your grandads teeth and make one of these.
My grand-dad died in 1975. Is it OK if I use my own teeth?
The most dangerous festival in the world
More dangerous than the running of the bulls in Pamplona? I doubt it.
going up a fifth is just like adding seven hours
I was told there would be no math.
alternate realities
I think that BLM nomination is for the Nobel “Mostly Peaceful” prize.
TBF, the Hitler nomination was a joke…or meant to be anyway. BLM nomination though…I have been rather outspoken, for quite some time, as to the true nature of BLM. That nature being extortionists. I am beginning to think it may get me killed. Nothing immediate mind you. Depends on how the current situation pans out. Just a suspicion about a (former) friend…or two. And many of my (former) friends will say it will have been of my own doing. I know for a fact that I lost at least one sure-thing job opportunity. Likely many others. I have seen the patterns shift.
“Papercraft computers.”
I don’t have a colour printer any more. And all the print & copy shops are shut because of the pan
demic. Dammit.Definitely bookmarking that, though. It’s probably the closest I’ll ever come to owning a Sharp X68000.
“1950’s San Francisco, with an interesting coincidence.”
I defy anyone who remembers the ’70s to see the headline “The Streets of San Fransisco” and not blurt out, “A Quinn Martin production”. Definite contender for best theme tune ever. One of the best TV shows ever, if it comes to that.
“Fun” fact: there used to be a law firm in Glasgow called Quinn-Martin. I always wondered if they chose the name deliberately. I mean, presumably there was a Mr. Quinn and a Mr. Martin (I think my dad actually knew the former) but they could have been “Martin & Quinn”.
“Today’s word is suboptimal.”
Again? There’s a lot of it about, to be fair.
TBF, Hitler and Stalin did kill a lot of communists and fascists. I think I’m joking…I think.
True dat.
Today’s word is suboptimal
An excellent illustration of the meaning of “tipping point”
It’s just I think we may have passed through one without realising it.
From the link: “Norwegian MP [Petter Eide] cites global impact of BLM in raising awareness and consciousness of racial injustice”
Well, it has raised my awareness of black criminality and just how much the left loves vicious criminals.
Petter Eide is, of course, a radical leftist. (In his book The New Quislings Bruce Bawer writes that Norway’s ruling class–politicians, academics, etc–is pretty much entirely left-wing with many Stalinists and Maoists.)
“I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality”
Well, inequality does breed conflict: inferior people resent those who achieve. Especially when the left constantly tells them that they are not failures but victims and that they should make war upon their “oppressors”.