Friday Ephemera (660)
“Can it be done?” || A dispute over parking, in two parts. || Telesnaps of TARDIS interiors. || Tough stuff. || A feminist’s view of autogynephilia and transgender ideology. (NSFW) || Workplace woes. || Twerking woo. || What “equity” involves. || Spot the dots. || Steady, boys. (h/t, Darleen) || His – and I say this with some confidence – is bigger than yours. || The bloody cheek of it. || Suboptimal visualization. (h/t, Asiaseen) || Our betters talk about borders. || How it began. || Today’s word is moshpitting. || The progressive retail experience, parts 450 and 451. || “Critical race scholar” can’t get a date. || If he has to deal with it. || He seems very happy about what sounds like an infection. || First, you have to tilt them. || And finally, with some agitation, a domestic drama unfolds.
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Testing…
I’ve enabled pop-ups, and still am not seeing the comment count update automatically. How long should it take to update?
YOU BASTARD.
Basil does it best.
It should work regardless of whether you’re logged in. Assuming that your browser or adblocker hasn’t taken exception to it.
Presumably, you’d have to log out to change your screen name, then log in again to be your usual self.
It updates once every 60 seconds. I think it excludes your own comments.
If all else fails, you could just refresh the page. Like a peasant.
It updates once every 60 seconds. I think it excludes your own comments.
It’s been 5 minutes and my phone still does not see recent comments.
The struggle is real, man!
It’s punishment for that Canadian loonie joke since your coat was set alight just yesterday for a similar bad humour infraction.
Tissues? When you could sell me a drink?
Right, I’m off to do something else. Play nicely.
Use coasters.
Weird things are happening. It says there are 110 comments, but there are only 92 showing.
Scratch that. Now it’s working.
Propaganda to promote paranoia.
a proper response.
Another…
Why Modern Movies Suck–They Hate Men (Part 1).
Just one quote: “One of the things that seems to have really taken hold in modern entertainment is the idea that the smartest person in the room can never possibly be a man.”
A necessary solution to these sorts of crimes: Swift, severe, sure retribution. Criminals must be made to fear the police and citizens.
I have questions. HTF to ask them I have no idea.
Purity is demanded.
Not unfair.
I bet I know what Meghan is doing at home whilst Harry is on his book tour – refining her exit strategy.
I used to work in Family law in Southern California and a common occurrence with the wives of men who have a limited window for earnings and profitability (e.g. he’s an NFL football player who isn’t the type ESPN or FOX Sports will pick up, and he’s too dumb to invest his money) is to watch the trajectory and when they feel the lifestyle is at its peak or starting on the downward slope, they file for divorce, and get their half and get out.
Part of that strategy is “conflicting out” top notch attorneys. If you consult with me on your divorce, even a potential one, I cannot consult with or represent your spouse. And in our age of Zoom, Meghan does not even need to leave her Montecito estate to meet with attorneys, lest the “paps” see her walking in and out of West LA office buildings. Even better, none of those attorneys can say anything about such a meeting due to attorney-client privilege, even a potential client’s name.
I recently had this conversation with another California attorney. We both agreed, as attorneys, this is what we would counsel Meghan to do, as well as make sure the kids do not leave the state so that California retains jurisdiction over custody. We also agreed that Laura Wasser, Kim Kardashian’s divorce lawyer, will likely getb the job with Meghan. The more volatile Harry is becoming, the more I expect to see allegations of PTSD placing Meghan in “fear for her life and the children” as well as allegations of psychedlic drug abuse, bolstered by Harry’s admission in his book and recent interviews.
I do not mean this post to be facetious. This IS what goes on in Family Law in California. No, I do not think women do better in court than men because I have represented both, but I do know that judges tend to “err on the side of caution” when allegations of risk to children are presented. Meghan has already been through one divorce so she knows how to play this game better than Harry.
Not inconceivable.
Purity is demanded.
“Punching down”* at an army of malcontents, malcontent adjacent, and “allies”, who won’t for a second shut their yaps whining on every leftist run media (BIRM) platform on the planet.
Each and everyone of these loudmouth SOBs** is a veritable Horatius, don’t you know.
*(another painfully overused cliche)
**(I denounce myself for misgendering – they could be, for example, D, NB, or 2SSOBs***)
***(I further denounce myself by using the misogynist term “B” in the acronym)
Purity is demanded.
As Sebastian Croft (who he?) turns out to be a grovelling wokester himself (but not so much as to turn down the paying gig) he deserves any crap that is posted about him.
Meanwhile…
A comedienne…
A wee bairn…
“The content of our activities was mentioned for context”…
I do hope the taxi was OK:
https://twitter.com/brianbarou/status/1614617761740619776
I do hope the taxi was OK:
If only punks who did that died at the hands of their victims.
Par for the course.
As God intended it.
https://pjmedia.com/culture/megan-fox/2023/01/14/miss-universe-is-the-weirdest-thing-youll-see-all-week-n1661884
The Miss Universe event, run by women and owned by a bloke in a frock, was pretty much what you’d expect.
Kudos to Miss USA for just about staying in her feet. The horns on Miss Ukraine were pretty good as well.
If only punks who did that died at the hands of their victims.
Harsh, but fair.
How to drive away “homeless” people.
Chicago airport baggage claim areas are now de facto “homeless” shelters.
The fusion of Queer Theory and Disability Studies:
The future of space travel belongs to crippled people with colostomy bags.
The fusion of Queer Theory and Disability Studies:
AKA “Academic Crip Theory”
I admit at first sight I thought it had to do with studying gangbanging not the joy of ostomy bags.
Scenes.
The disabled in space? (deaf, maybe). Being an astronaut is very very physically demanding. Just the launch has multiple G-force to endure. Everyone is not capable of getting a participation trophy.
My grocery store has about a dozen handicapped bagging groceries and such, mainly very low IQ and some with some motor difficulties. I applaud them. But these employees have limited capacity. The US ADA has actually resulted in a DECLINE in the % of handicapped employed. Why? Because before an employer could try someone and fire if too disruptive or unable. With the ADA they dare not fire, so easier not to hire. Incentives, how do they work?
Beauty pagents–first they got rid of the swimsuit competition. Are we picking beautiful or not? Now it is a total clown show. Feminists have been attacking such contests for years. Hope they are happy.
The future of space travel belongs to crippled people with colostomy bags.
The author of that nonsense is everything you would expect. and checks all the intersectional boxes in Oppression Bingo.
I guess we are back at Lysenko yet again but now with inherited disabilities.
Here you can see her discuss “disability justice”, complete with land acknowledgements. So much flummery, so little time.
She who must not be named …
Sadly, this rather telling video is no longer available, but some of the text seems relevant:
When not randomly disdaining Donald Trump, and badmouthing Whitey as the source of all earthly wickedness, the panellists insisted that hiring deaf and disabled astronauts is an obvious priority. Because space exploration just isn’t difficult enough and dangerous enough as it is. And choosing astronauts with hearing problems, poor eyesight and motor-control issues will make things much more exciting.
It gets worse – another learned author brings us “Cripping Incest Discourse(s)”.
You will be surprised to learn that the author is a university lecturer.
Additional scenes.
She who must not be named …
So much for the Right of Attribution.
Additional scenes.
He looks like he might have heart failure caused by anxiety rather than mRNA jabs.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, mentioned in the video, suffered from that phenomenon to the point that its supposed protagonist – the character you’ve actually turned up to watch – wasn’t deemed worthy of anything approaching an arc, resulting in a film that feels flat and rather pointless.
There’s one supposedly important scene in which a long-awaited debut by a fan-favourite character, the smartest man in the Marvel universe, is soured and entirely undermined by making him behave out of character and do something gratingly stupid, shortly before being killed. And in the same scene, you can practically see the identitarian calculation of race and sex – and who must therefore lose first – such that the ensuing battle is entirely predictable and robbed of any drama.
He looks like he might have played too much “the floor is lava” as a kid.
Bait and switch; use the brand name to trick customers into buying the product. Or
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
For those who missed it, how Marvel shat the bed – one woman’s point of view.
It highlights the mindset of the people currently employed to write so many of Marvel’s projects, and illustrates how wokeness generally results in creative incompetence, in Very Bad Writing. You could think of it as a how-to guide for alienating a huge chunk of your audience while applauding yourself. And then admiring yourself even more when the customer complains or simply loses interest.
Yet more scenes.
Yet more scenes.
A tire iron upside the head would get her attention.
Public transit scenes.
Ouch.
Miss Universe Is the Weirdest Thing You’ll See All Week.
No, David posts weirder things almost every day.
No, David posts weirder things almost every day.
Which reminds me: Should pickled eggs be that color?
Yet more scenes.
Now down under.
Public transit scenes.
Serious? Facetious? Sarcasm? All three?
Now down under.
An anti-tourism advertisement.
Now down under.
That was a bit of a scary rabbit hole
I suspect there’s no coming back from where she is. Sorry, them is.
Now down under.
Meanwhile in The Netherlands…
Here you can see her discuss “disability justice”, complete with land acknowledgements. So much flummery, so little time.
“The Disability and Intersectionality Summit 2018 National conference (DIS2018) took place on Saturday October 13th at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.”
I suspect there’s no coming back from where she is. Sorry, them is.
Not at her age. But what about MIT? Can it recover and return to sanity? A number of former professors have recently said that they believe academia may be beyond saving and that it will be necessary to build new institutions.
That may well be true. Much of it, certainly.
So much flummery, so little time.
Have you noticed how these “revolutionary justice thinkers” all sound so much the same?
“And I think it is terribly hard and terribly important for us to envision a radical future that is cripped the fuck out, that is sick and disabled, that is deaf, that is neurodivergent, that is black and brown, that’s gay as hell.”
I tried to tell people that MIT was going woke. I think even people here. For many years I had an MIT coffee mug I drank from at work. I liked it because it was black and his the coffee stains….anyway…about eight years ago or so I got so disgusted by PC/wokey news that I saw coming from there that I put a strip of duct tape over the MIT logo. When I would explain why I suddenly didn’t like MIT anymore, that I was seeing wokey stuff from them, it was “explained” to me, sometimes in condescending terms, that those people were scientists and real engineers who would be the ultimate firestop against this idiocy that I was worrying too much about.
it was “explained” to me, sometimes in condescending terms, that those people were scientists and real engineers who would be the ultimate firestop against this idiocy that I was worrying too much about.
I have encountered that, too. In some cases the explainers seem to be merely ignorant and stupid. But others have said things which revealed their leftist sympathies–and thus called into question the sincerity of everything they previously said.
In some cases. But for the most part, especially in small groups, those people don’t bother me. No, it’s the people that I respect, or at least used to respect. People whom I had in the past attached value to their opinions. The conservative…”conservative” ones. Or the ones whose politics were not generally discernible, except maybe to me. My doctor being one of them. Those are the people that most irritate me. The confident ones. The leftist ones are only there to annoy because the conservatives failed to heed the obvious (to me) warning signs.
No, it’s the people that I respect, or at least used to respect. People whom I had in the past attached value to their opinions. The conservative…”conservative” ones.
Those are the sorts of people I had in mind, too.
Yesterday was the 104th anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Disaster.
And where was this information when my mother would tell me when I was a child that I moved like molasses? Now there’s a conspiracy…
It’s almost as if they’re reading from a script provided to them!
It’s almost as if they’re reading from a script provided to them!
Pull the string and the doll talks, just like a real person!