Friday Ephemera

Knick-knack of note.
She should tie it to her pussy hat.

Manly feats
SHAI-HULUDD

Comrade!

A reminder from Facebook, Twitter, Google, et al:

“From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic.”
And yet LGBT couples have higher domestic violence rates than heterosexual couples.

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.

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.

“Cat storage solution.”
I bet there were dishes. Shortly before the photo was taken.

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.

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.

Today’s word is suboptimal.

I’m not sure that I’d call that glorified Dymo a typewriter. Still, it’s pretty cool.

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.

…an interesting coincidence.
Part 2.
And finally, his voice is deeper than yours.
Another yte culturally appropriating Tuvan throat singing.

…attracted to authenticity…
Indeed:

The deal comes one week after Emhoff went viral for the embellished Miu Miu coat she wore at her stepmother’s inauguration — making her an instant style icon.

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.

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.

One might laugh.

I never saw that as being part of my timeline

One might cry.

What’s behind the belly button? || It’s a Toshiba.

Most recent models have Huawei parts behind the belly button anymore.

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.

Get your grandads teeth and make one of these.
My grand-dad died in 1975. Is it OK if I use my own teeth?

going up a fifth is just like adding seven hours
I was told there would be no math.

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.

TBF, Hitler and Stalin did kill a lot of communists and fascists. I think I’m joking…I think.

Today’s word is suboptimal
An excellent illustration of the meaning of “tipping point”

“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”.

BLM nomination though…I have been rather outspoken, for quite some time, as to the true nature of BLM. That nature being extortionists.
That more people cannot seem to see what is an obvious hustle of brazen self-promoting opportunists often leaves me genuinely bewildered.
Its major proponents seem to me to be little different from so-called spiritual mediums. Just as someone like the late Derek Acorah used to claim that he had a direct channel to the dearly departed of members of the audience in whatever run-down seaside town he was in that week, the likes of Sean King and so on seem able to find racism – sorry, systemic racism – in the most unlikely of places.
This is not to deny police brutality continues to this day or that more or less overtly racist policies were carried out in the past. But since 1995 or so at least such claims have become increasingly absurd in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The hue and cry surrounding Darren Wilson’s legitimate use of (lethal) force against Mike Brown is still the classic example.
I find it hard to put myself in the shoes of people who support BLM and to see through their eyes. The nearest I think I can get is the genuine anger that I have felt and still feel at the astonishingly long list of mostly Islamist attacks, Vienna 2020 seems to have passed almost completely without notice so many have there been, or responses to them, such as Brenton Tarrant’s Christchurch massacre.
But those are actual terrorists and their actual intent in each case is explicitly to commit murder on families out celebrating with their children (Bastille Day, Nice 2016, 87 dead, 434 injured), children and teenagers at a concert, some with their parents (Manchester, 2017, 23 dead, 1,1017 injured), people enjoying an evening out with friends (the first London Bridge attack, 2017, 11 dead, 48 injured), people running (Boston, 2013, 5 dead, 264 injured) or people praying (Christchurch, 2019, 51 dead, 40 injured).
I find it next to impossible, if not actually so, to see those attacks as no different from Mike Brown or Breonna Taylor.
If you are rude and abusive to a police officer who calls out to you, then punch that officer in the face and try to rest his gun away from him, then charge at that same policeman after he has already managed to shoot you once, it is hard to suggest that your untimely end is a consequence of an act of terror.
Similarly, if you hear three knocks on the door of your drug dealer boyfriend’s apartment accompanied by voices telling you it is local law enforcement, it’s not an act of terror if you lose your life while shooting at self-identified police officers.
Tragic? Of course. Terrorist action by a white supremacist police state? Err …, no!

It is only a matter of time before the idiots in San Francisco (BIRM) make this real, a a way to know which houses to avoid.

The blue verified badge on your house lets people outside know that you’re an authentic public figure.

Important news for you Aussies
So much for my emigration plans. It was bad enough when I learned that I’d have to change my name to Bruce, but now this???

Important news for you Aussies
I thought the Aussie national anthem was “Slip, Slop, Slap”
It’s gonna take a lot of “Slop” to cover that.
I pre-emptively un-volunteer.

It’s just I think we may have passed through one without realising it.
A peace prize, you say?

Apropos comments about the worldwide reaction to George Floyd:-
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55866716
And as for Ashli Babbit and her executioner? Reply was there none.

Similarly, if you hear three knocks on the door of your drug dealer boyfriend’s apartment accompanied by voices telling you it is local law enforcement, it’s not an act of terror if you lose your life while shooting at self-identified police officers.
Well that is what is in dispute. A literal midnight raid on an apartment with unproven incidental involvement with a group of drug dealers. The original warrant was a no-knock warrant and was changed very late in the process to a knock and announce warrant. One of the occupants of the apartment claims there was neither a knock or announcement until the door was broken down with a battering ram by plain clothes officers. The other occupant is unable to tell us if she heard a knock because she is dead. The raid continued even though the central characters in the wider round-up had already been taken into custody.
The apartment belonged to Breonna Taylor not her ex-boyfriend. It was the ex-boyfriend who was involved with drugs. Taylor’s boyfriend at the time of the raid was not a subject of the warrant and not known to be a drug dealer. He was also licensed to own the gun he used to shoot at the officers breaking into the apartment. He stated that he and Taylor feared it was the ex-boyfriend breaking in.
The police incident reports are littered with errors and omissions. They stated no force had been used to enter the apartment despite breaking down the door with a battering ram. In addition Taylor’s injuries were listed as none despite having been shot.
This was a sh!t show from beginning to end. While not an act of terror you can see how it has been argued that a midnight raid on the authority of a questionable warrant after the main actors had been arrested might just be the act of a fascist police state.
Here is a summary of the events. https://www.nytimes.com/article/breonna-taylor-police.html

That more people cannot seem to see what is an obvious hustle of brazen self-promoting opportunists often leaves me genuinely bewildered.
True. But even beyond that is the refusal of people, (formerly) close friends of mine over decades, educated intelligent (or so I thought) people who cannot/will not look beyond nor critically question what NPR or NBC or whatever MSM source tells them. Their minds are steeped in the Narrative not just because of the MSM but nearly every piece of popular fiction, every movie, every TV show over the last couple of decades has at least one, usually more, PC reference/reinforcement.
This is not to deny police brutality continues to this day or that more or less overtly racist policies were carried out in the past. But since 1995 or so at least such claims have become increasingly absurd in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
And blm was founded, not as the result of a police brutality case but the result of the shooting of Travon Martin. A case that I am extremely familiar with partly due to it occurring not far from a couple places of previous employment. A case involving a private citizen who did nothing wrong. Yet the vast majority of people are so brainwashed to such a degree that he did that they will deny the meaning of words and simply ignore evidence presented at trial clearly implicating TM as being far more responsible for the confrontation that led to his death. They will deny that elements of the MSM altered transcripts and even video attempting to undermine George Zimmerman’s defense. And let’s not forget that this took place in February or March of 2012. Presidential election year and Obama wasn’t looking too strong.
The whole “hands up, don’t shoot” from the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson situation being icing on the cake. They had their lies rolling and accepted. They were, still are, on a roll. What I find interesting is that there have been a number of clear cut cases of police brutality, mostly police overreaction, in the past 10-20 years where the police were clearly wrong. These cases were addressed without nearly as much noise and media attention. It’s almost as if (almost…I kill me) the violent protests and overreactions from the left MUST occur in cases where the police acted as appropriately as possible. They must hard-sell the lie.

The whole “hands up, don’t shoot” from the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson situation being icing on the cake.
Also “I can’t breathe”: I have seen a number of videos–even in Europe–of police arresting violent blacks in which the moment the police touch them they scream “I can’t breath!”

[T]he school “is currently in the grips of a mania” that has led to an unprecedented amount of “division, paranoia, and hatred” within the institution [ … ] employees are afraid of being labeled “racist” and getting denounced on social media. According to the student activists, to disagree with any part of their agenda is to admit to racism.

It’s precisely because such reports as this now seem so unexceptional that makes them worth reading.
Even more so in this case since the school in question is:

the school of choice for the world’s elites, teaching the children of diplomats and leading figures in international banking, finance, technology, and business at a cost of up to $44,000 a year

If this is how, as children and adolescents, they are capable of treating people whose names they know, whose faces they recognise, and who they interact with on a regular basis, just imagine the kind of crude, stunted stuff that will have to pass for something like empathy when they inevitably move into the ranks of elite influencers in business and politics.
It’ll be like something out of a J. G. Ballard novel.

“I can’t breathe!”…”I can’t breath!”
I can’t type! [hangs head in shame]

According to the student activists, to disagree with any part of their agenda is to admit to racism.
The pantomime politics of spoiled children.

The school’s political climate was already thoroughly liberal and progressive… The dynamics at this bastion of elite progressivism reveal something important about the American political environment. The children of the most privileged people on the planet have donned the mantle of oppression to satisfy their moral narcissism and to exercise power over their elders.

Readers will be shocked, shocked, I’m sure.
Judging by the various demands and Instagram posts, it seems we’re expected to believe that the wealthy and statusful are paying $44,000 a year to have their own children brutally oppressed, that any kind of “disparity” is proof of bigotry, and that having one’s phonetically unobvious name mispronounced, even once, is “thinly-veiled racism” and a form of “racial trauma.” A trauma inflicted by “the white man’s mouth.”

It’s easy to get the details wrong.
Everyone’s being very civilised this evening. To mark the occasion, I’m reducing all drinks by 20%.
That’s the size of the beverage, not the price, obviously.

That’s the size of the beverage, not the price, obviously.
Considering the rumors about what goes into them…

A peace prize, you say?
The Dalai Lama advises:

(It must be true; I found it on the internet.)

Re Breonna Taylor.
So you wake up at 2AM to somebody banging on your door shouting “Police!!!!”.
Seriously, are you going to open the door?

pst314: “When David’s Gone to Bed”
David is allowed to sleep? I thought ‘he’ was some kind of ‘humanised’ computer like Hal in the film 2001.

I think they’re choosing to canonize these particular people precisely because the narrative can’t hold up to scrutiny.
The combination of hysteria and dishonesty was surreal, in a Quatermass-episode-people-taken-over-by-malign-alien-influence kind of way. There were ludicrous, elaborate shrines, built around bus stops thousands of miles away. So that idiots could pretentiously mourn the overdue expiration of a meth-and-fentanyl-addled thug, a career thief and burglar, a practitioner of home invasion, who targeted women and beat them at gunpoint.
Not an obvious martyr, or a great loss to human flourishing. But as we’ve seen, many times, wokeness is deranging.

For an English equivalent of privileged class syndrome you don’t need to go too far back:-
https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hither-green-residents-funeral_uk_5aeadfdfe4b022f71a0588f8?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFoqvvelywUwFXtF-LjjOAoKasjXrz6LCXSZY-HuDEdQBdZUmn5tZETaRof8Mu0XiYEwhWAu420T_869pEihhSiiW1thEtXOdiSrCMVCbhJRQwpH25k326jqXsLXN1JI_Hfcidbqf66S16YpBE-iS7_G1x5qJgVI2Zk1uR5yf0Up
And now “here’s the rest of the story”:-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8764357/Burglar-Henry-Vincents-fraudster-father-makes-1-5m-selling-farm-bought-325-000-OAP.html

A historical dictionary of science fiction.
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Yes, Daniel, that is what I’m saying. Except that it is not just the useful idiots, low-information voters, etc. that fall for it. It’s the leaders of our corporations, “conservative” political parties, churches, educators, and for me close friends and neighbors.

And now “here’s the rest of the story”:-
Like father, like son? But my Progressive friends have told me many times that I must not “judge” a family by the members who have actually been arrested, no matter how much suspicion falls on them.

Except that it is not just the useful idiots, low-information voters, etc. that fall for it. It’s the leaders of our corporations, “conservative” political parties, churches, educators, and for me close friends and neighbors.
I believe this is largely explained by the fact that most people’s time is almost entirely occupied with work, family, etc., leaving little for independent study of current events. Thus, they only “learn” what the left-dominated news media tell them. That excuse does not work, of course, for political parties and for individuals who do take the time to learn about these things. I have a few other thoughts about them.

Yeah…it’s not just “liberals”. Conservatives…”conservatives” are so afraid of being associated with the msm-demonized right that they are now virtue signaling, often via their Christian religion, how much they support this or that cause that ever so subtly has become racialized. One example, food banks. Because of something blurry called “food insecurity: the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.” Note the several qualifiers there. “Sufficient quality”, “affordable”, “nutritious”, that one can make to mean whatever one wants them to mean. Not hunger, but that’s the Christian cover for it. Feeding the hungry. Though hunger, the kind Jesus talked about, is very hard to find in America. What we do have is a lot of irresponsible parenting, behavior issues, drug dependencies, and crime that drive supermarkets out of certain communities, that undermine self-sufficiency, and that are creating a dependency culture. To suggest that people should be required to do something, to change their behavior such that they are less likely to be dependent on the productive elements of society, or that society should address the underlying crime and poverty of the soul makes one into a monster who wants children to starve.
That’s just one example of how the camel’s nose gets into the tent.

The Greatness of English literature: