Friday Ephemera (663)
Crabs give pedicure. || Deaf man and his cat. || Not quite what I imagined. || Calling International Rescue. || The calculator drawer. || Random Street Views. || City living scenes. || A.I. attempts to make sign-language manual. (h/t, Dicentra) || At last, music generated from text. || Smart slime and throbbing bloblets. || Bruising of the soft tissue. || You had one bloody job. || But only when it rains. || Back passage of note. (h/t, Damian) || Ancient Earth Globe. || Theirs is considerably bigger than yours. || Gently does it. || A decision was made. || Thriller, Indian version. || Chain reaction. || ChronoPhoto, a photographical history game. (h/t, Things) || Coffee can do anything. || And finally, don’t worry, it’s a weight-saving measure.
City living scenes.
Dancing to “Baby Shark” song?
A decision was made.
I would take that as a warning to not buy the house. God Only Knows (TM) what nightmares of wiring and plumbing are concealed within the walls.
No, no! I look forward every Friday morning to reading the Ephemera. It’s still Thursday night here in Appalachia, so I shall resist.
Not having a good day.
Medicine guaranteed to make you feel better, no matter what ails you.
Find the trans person.
ChronoPhoto, a photographical history game.
Addictive! Top score so far 3542.
I laughed and I am not ashamed.
I’m still trying to figure out how the street views got an underwater picture of a humpback whale, perhaps Captain Nemo has a clue.
If this harsh sentence doesn’t teach him the error of his ways, nothing will.
Addictive! Top score so far 3542.
New high score 3703! Please make it stop.
If this harsh sentence doesn’t teach him the error of his ways, nothing will.
They’ll use chemical castration for “transitioning” teens but not for these monsters.
Please make it stop.
Indeed.
3984, but this batch was easy – Cassius Clay at the ’60 Olympics, the Spanish Civil War, one that was at Shorpy recently.
Is that how you summon Cthulhu?
Morning, all.
I see my work here is done.
“I genuinely believe the shit that I say like this down to my fucking gut.”
One for the ladies.
Additional dimensions not included.
Chat GPT was very bad at identifying this, proposing ‘Lethal Weapon’, ‘No Man’s Land’ and ‘The Half of It’ after a couple minor re-wordings of the description.
“Movies or TV series in which a dead body is discovered on the border of two countries, forcing cooperation between two cops of different backgrounds. In some versions the body is female and discovered to be cut in half with upper and lower halves from two different people.”
I Gefyra 2022
Greece / Turkey
The Bridge 2018
Russia / Estonia
The Bridge 2018
Singapore / Malaysia
The Bridge 2013
USA / Mexico
The Tunnel 2013
UK / France
The Bridge 2011
Sweden / Denmark
Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2006
Canada (Quebec / Ontario)
Maybe there are more but I gave up after finding these…
ChronoPhoto
That is kind of fun
I did not know these existed.
Bookmarking Random Street Views for when I want to joyfully waste some time in the day.
Dysmorphic man has two transgender children. A coincidence, I’m sure.
Dysmorphic man has two transgender children. A coincidence, I’m sure.
Transhausen-by-proxy.
I genuinely believe the shit that I say…
Personal property is OK, but not private property. We all right then.
Meanwhile, in other leaps of logic, a headline of note.
That does seem to be the most likely explanation. And so the cross-dressing child abuser declares his own pride and accuses others of being hateful. Of being “barbaric and morally repugnant.”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is where we are now.
While Scotland wrestles with the existential question “Are trans women rapists women rapists?”, Italy has a solution of sorts.
The cynic in me wonders if coffee rescue guy was the one who froze the kittens to the ice in the first place. You know, for the millions of views.
I’m gonna go find me some puppies since today is -25C…
The cynic in me wonders if coffee rescue guy was the one who froze the kittens to the ice in the first place. You know, for the millions of views.
Tails do seem very unlikely to get frozen in place. And there do seem to be a lot of amoral opportunists on the internet.
Slime mold: I wrote a program 20 yrs ago to solve a spatial optimization problem based on slime mold behavior. The journal accepted it in 4 days without revisions–fastest I ever did.
Who the hell thinks pennies have a smell? And is that supposed to be an insult?
ChatGPT: It will confabulate a journal citation for a fact that it gets wrong because it can only assess words in relation to other words, and not reality or truth.
It has been programmed to refuse to provide an argument against climate change or against covid vaccination. Whatever the topic if you just ask for a summary, it will give you the most likely thing, without assessing arguments.
Cheerleading scenes.
Wow. White supremacy and toxic masculinity!
“Do you want to buy my frozen gloves?“
What could possibly go wrong?
Take the test yourself! Completely free of bias!
I did not know these existed.
Further down that thread, a sign: “Stop killing babies to make baby oil“.
Gender identities test: hahahaha it basicly asks you if you are trans. That is it. Science!!!
clam-o-meter
You’re not alone in that…
Curious if I’m alone in this…Did anyone catch Groundhog Day on AMC last night? Not satisfied with scewing up Christmas, July 4, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, etc. etc. the wokesters have moved on to Groundhog Day to find something to be offended about. We watched it last night. It started with a content warning about violence which seemed oddly amusing. I felt the movie was a bit disjointed. Scenes didn’t seem to flow right. Then we got to the end of the movie and I knew at least the scene where Bill Murray drives off a cliff or something with the groundhog had been cut. I checked the wiki on it and realized what we watched had been sanitized. All the suicide scenes had been removed. Like you’re not supposed to notice this in a movie the essence of which involves repletion such that people have watched it over and over again.
I did not know these existed.
Many such devices, because more often than not, this is tame compared to trying to do a procedure on most kids in ERs or clinics.
This is now my new profile pic on FB. Thanks!
Things that just seem to happen on a school bus. It is unfortunate. Terribly unfortunate that these things just spontaneously occur.
Step 1: Set up camera to show off your ass in gym;
Step 2: Try to squat to show off your ass but with way more weight than you can squat;
Step 3a: Be offended that people are looking at the ass you are trying to show off;
Step 3b: Wonder why no men are coming to help you;
Step 3c: Be too stupid to sit back and drop the weight.
Chose one or more from Step 3.
Ooh, this by Sarah Hoyt. Yet even she glosses over the dangers of a lot else about modern fiction.
Cat has issues.
Actual ephemera, on an actual Friday afternoon: When Did You Fall Out Of Touch With Popular Music?
(And I can see myself doing this over the weekend. Oh dear.)
Things that just seem to happen on a school bus.
Yes, “spontaneously”.
And the “civil rights” lawyers have made it virtually impossible to stop this.
The Guardian is still outraged when terrorists open fire but police dare to shoot back.
I never heard of this work of “art”. Just more bollocks, of course.
I hope this doesn’t mean war.