Friday Ephemera (666)
It’s called health-conscious cooking, darling. || Modern dating. And yes, she’s a Guardian contributor. || You know, I’m no expert but I’m not sure it’s meant to do that. || Same deal here. || Today’s word is suddenly. || Classroom scenes. Well, at least it’s keeping the kids quiet. || Incoming. || Look, I’ll tell you when to stop. || “Is mine normal?” she asked. (NSFW) || Neighbourhood of note. || Signalling detected. || Moral conundrum: gum or matches? || More joys of public transport. || It will tock again. || Waiting room scenes. (h/t, Julia) || She was wearing strange clothing and carrying a box. || Zoomable tree of life. || As a lair, this baby has potential. (h/t, Things) || I’m not familiar with the kind of thing I’m seeing. || And finally, not quite a force-field, but I suppose it’s a start.
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Friday Ephemera 666
There are no coincidences.
Friday Ephemera 666
There are no coincidences.
The devil, you say!
As a lair, this baby has potential.
David, lots of space for minions. Can you fill it?
[ Gauntlet is dropped. ]
I’m not familiar with the kind of thing I’m seeing.
In the interest of science, I need to see it done without the t-shirt.
There’s a person on this thread named TerrorJester. He is the personification of everything wrong with design today. And not just design. The profound refusal to accept reality is thick.
And when she tweets that she’s going to take revenge by searching for the man’s name in court records, wouldn’t any reputable news organization treat that as grounds for dismissal? If she were my neighbor, she would go on my “do not call 911 for them” list.
Really? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had told me that was a human sex organ…I mean at some point…well like someone there said it looks more like a calzone. Not one…ah, nevermind…
…wouldn’t any reputable news organization treat that as grounds for dismissal…
Guardian contributor, case closed.
I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing,
First, one would think that someone so convinced she was a man would know, at least have half a clue, what a real johnson looks like.
Second, this is why it never pays to go to strange and exotic lands for cut rate plastic surgery – not that the so-called reputable surgeons can make one that looks real, but at least they will put it where it is supposed to be.
Gum, near the scalp. Less likely to go to prison but still entertaining.
Incoming.
*hides under table*
“Is mine normal?” she asked.
Good job she went to a medical professional.
Morning, all.
I’m still rather taken aback by the rudeness of it. I mean, how does one become that selfish?
In coming years, I suspect we’ll be seeing an awful lot of lawsuits.
All things considered, he’s taking it quite well.
I mean, how does one become that selfish?
By having parents who didn’t teach you manners?
I’m generally punctilious about personal space. And violations of it strike me as terribly common, in the pejorative sense. I have been known to judge people based on their behaviour in a supermarket checkout queue and whether there’s any needless crowding, as when all but piling their shopping on top of your own. As if it would somehow get them to the car park, or bus stop, any quicker.
It’s a hill I would die on.
As if it would somehow get them to the car park, or bus stop, any quicker.
LOL
Post of the beast.
(I recall this going on for quite some time in one of the sci groups on Usenet)
It’s a hill I would die on.
I’ll join you.
I was once at a checkout and the woman immediately behind me actually started nudging the plastic divider thing that sits on the conveyor belt between your shopping and that of the next customer. As if compressing my groceries into a smaller but taller pile would somehow be of benefit. A, shall we say, meaningful look deterred further encroachment.
“Is mine normal?”
No refunds. No credit note.
Somewhat related, another triumph of surgical affirmation. Again, not suitable for work, or for the squeamish.
The watch restoration is amazing.
Modern dating: “Guess who’s name”. Journalistic standards I see.
It’s precisely the kind of thing I would not have the patience for. Or indeed the skill.
It’s almost too perfect.
Gum or Matches?
Simply lean forward and sneeze several times (hacking coughs are also acceptable) for plausible deniability.
Not familiar with the kind of thing?
At first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth glances my impression is that those are rather fine examples of their type. A shame about the shoulder tattoo when she has so much more to offer the casual observer.
It occurs to me that I may not be the target audience. I mean, to the extent that I have a preference, I suppose I’d rather they were tidy.
[ Straightens coasters. ]
The watch restoration is amazing.
It is a quartz movement, so really all the guy has done is clean the case and swap out all the other bits including the movement.
This guy, on the other hand, with step by step explanation of what he is doing and what the bits do, does truly amazing work on real watches.
Meanwhile in the Great White North, some “academics” are going to decolonize light.
No, really…
…which is easier than understanding it as something that involves all that math and logic, I guess.
Read through the thing, it is genuine frontier academic gibberish. Have a buzzword bingo card prepared, not recommended for a drinking game unless you want to get really hammered.
[ Clears throat. ]
[ Clears throat. ]
TBF, I don’t have your database of absurdities, so what harm if it is brought to light again?
Meanwhile…
Heh A;
Heh B.
Trying to picture our host’s face…
It was quite extraordinary. The items that so offended the woman weren’t scattered about. There wasn’t an acreage of wasted space or anything. My groceries were practically tessellated. But even this feat of organisation proved insufficient to prevent the tight-ass twitching.
I’m not entirely familiar with the kind of thing I’m hearing.
Lisa with her AI art brings us horrors beyond our comprehension.
Neighborhood: if there was ever a time to get all the groceries in one trip, this is it.
Phalloplasty: well, I had to look, but now I’m sorry I did. Wish eye bleach was real. Hurts just to look at it.
Suddenly: of all the crazy things that could happen, he seemed to be prepared. wow.
It’s impressive, yes, but it’s a pity he’s put all that time and effort into restoring a fake Vacheron Constantin rather than a watch actually worthy of the effort.
arrow: he must have walked to the ER because he couldn’t get in a car like that. Great dad though, the son is still alive.
“Your mother must never hear of this.”
decolonize light: “science as a social field”–in the case of Newton, it was an “anti-social” field.
Seriously, physics attracts the most nerdy and thing-obsessed people, which most women are not. If you can do the work, no one cares if you are green or blue. In fact Indians and Asians make up a big proportion of the field.
What’s more, the guys are delighted to have some female colleagues.
Hold that thought.
As noted in the post on these intersectional grifters, they repeatedly invoke “marginalisation,” as if it were proof of virtue and high purpose, yet fail to demonstrate any. Apparently, we must take this professed victimhood and injustice on trust – and assume the position. Just as they invoke “indigenous bodies of knowledge” to which we must defer, as if the very secrets of Creation were on offer, while carefully avoiding any actual particulars, lest we laugh:
In a saner world, these two-bit parasites would be chased out of the village. With nail guns and fire.
Thanks, Muldoon. I had thought that David had posted something similar a while back about a far more expensive mechanical watch as well. But thanks for posting this one. It looks exactly like my uncle’s (USAAC who is currently buried in Tunisia) watch that I wore every day to grade school. The slightly odd shaped hands and the face reminded me of it. I have wonder what happened to it. The nearly 30 year old leather wrist strap broke at some point and last I remember it was in my box of odd things that a 12 year boy old keeps.
This one, via Elephant’s Gerald, is also worth a squint.
Oh wait. Same guy.
Just repeat to yourself over and over, “It was only a bad calzone, it was only a bad calzone…”. Does that help you any?
The niece of a friend/classmate of mine was in a car accident about 20 years ago or so and had a rod of some sort through her chest that pinned her to the seat. They were able to remove it, at the hospital of course, and she has been fine ever since.
“Is mine normal?” she asked
This is alarming on several levels. On what kind of fantasy level do so many people exist who believe plastic/reconstructive surgery can ‘make stuff’ that looks (let alone functions) like the original equipment? Oh, yes, reconstructive surgery has come a long long way in helping people recover from catastrophic injuries from accidents or cancer. But it is still clear to any casual observer that “work has been done” (see: Madonna)
But making body parts that never existed is even a step beyond reconstruction. Women who have had mastectomies due to cancer and opt for reconstruction are not guaranteed any successful outcome. Infection, rejection, complications with scarring, pain, etc. And that new skin has to come from somewhere else on the body so there’s a whole different site now subject to invasive procedures in order to harvest tissue. And it will never fully look like a real breast.
And breasts are very simple objects when compared to a penis. Was this girl not shown any pictures of what she was getting? Was she just patted on the head and told what a good candidate she was for having her body carved up and sewn back together … just sign here, dear, and we’ll take your check now.
This idea that body parts should be considered like after-market accessories is, frankly, criminal. Or should be.
“… guess who’s name I’m running through the court records tonight…” A “journalist” who doesn’t know that “who’s” means “who is” or “who has.” Color me surprised.
Not too long ago, pre-Elon Musk, Twitter’s moderators – a remarkable number of whom were themselves sexually dysmorphic – were shutting down accounts that dared to share photographs of the aftermath of such surgical adventures, even when accompanied by an adult filter / warning page.
For those with strong stomachs, we’ve been down this hole before.
Adventures in publik skool
And couldn’t have anything to do with the relentless indoctrination of kids that yt people are irredeemably evil.
Your comment made John Varley sad. 😉
Pronouns more important than murder.
Was this girl not shown any pictures of what she was getting?
I have a urology textbook, 42 years old now, that describes phalloplasty done (back then) usually for reconstruction after trauma, cancer, or some other damaging reason, that looks nigh exactly the same as David’s second link above.
So, apparently not, even ignoring her procedure was evidently done by Dr. Nick. If whoever did it showed her anything else, and what a real one looks like, as Darleen said, criminal or should be, regardless of where it was done.
Phalloplasty: having a real one of these penis thingys, I can tell you that it is not just a sausage but has functions. I have seen accounts (not reliable I’m sure) of post-op trans who complain about lack of said functions, but just to clarify, I seriously doubt that an erection is possible, am sure that ejaculation is impossible, and am pretty sure that orgasm is unlikely. The ideal surgical outcome.
Dammit. Out of my price range, I’m afraid (although not by as much as you’d think, given that I’m selling a three-bedroom flat which cost £3000 in 1968).
While taking the 3D virtual tour, one of Strutt and Parker’s “chat operators” popped up onscreen and asked if I needed any help.
Clearly, I need to up the price of the drinks.
Just as they were shutting down accounts that dared to document violence committed by leftists and islamists. But don’t you dare suggest they have malevolent biases.
A bullet in the head would have been an appropriate way of ending that attack.
I seriously doubt that an erection is possible…
Possible only if you get the implant upgrade as used for ED which is either flexible rods which can be bent to the desired position, or the Deluxe Inflat-O-Tubes that have a reservoir you use to pump up tubes.
Absent that, yeah, it is basically just a tube that under the best conditions you run water through occasionally and has no other function.
the implant upgrade as used for ED which is either flexible rods which can be bent to the desired position, or the Deluxe Inflat-O-Tubes that have a reservoir you use to pump up tubes.
sounds so sexy…
Bask in the wonderfulness of BLM racism.
sounds so sexy…
This may be a video of the device in action, just imagine it set to “Let’s Get It On”.
Murder suspect screams “I can’t breath!” and “They’re killing me!”
The animals wouldn’t try that ploy if there weren’t a lot of gullible and/or depraved people who heed it.
Adventures in publik skool
UPDATE. Anyone with blood pressure issues may want to skip this.
Re: Update…
This is not this child’s fault.
He is not a threat,’
Urban said in an emotionally Facebook Live. ‘This is a mental health issue.
This is a problem with our system,
it is broken.
‘That post needs to be removed from the Flagler County Sheriff’s website immediately.’
Urban, who also has a stepson in the same behavioral wing as the boy in the video,
told DailyMail.com this special wing is for ‘children that are not in the general population of the high school,’
and that her son and the boy were ‘school friends,’ but in separate classes.
‘This is not just a thug,’ she told DailyMail.com.
‘People need to be educated on children that have ESE [Exceptional Student Education].
They should also be educated on impulsive aggression behavior,
if they are working in such an environment
and that most times these children do not understand the consequences of the behavior.’
She also told DailyMail.com that the child lived in a group home and his mother did not live in Flagler County, which a faculty member told her at the school board meeting on Wednesday night.
In an emotional Facebook Live, Urban, who became a mental health advocate after her son’s death,
continued: ‘That child has mental health issues. He is just that, a child.’
‘That teacher – that paraprofessional – should have never been left alone in a situation where she could have been attacked.’
Urban said she is ‘sick of these kids being labeled as a threat.’
Many have taken to social media to call for jail time for the student – who has been charged with a juvenile felony for aggravated battery – and to call the boy an ‘animal.’
He is currently in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice and could face up to five years for the attack.
‘That child should not have been transported to jail, he should have been transported to a mental health facility,’ she said on Facebook Live.
‘Please stop labeling this child as a monster.
Yes, his size is a big factor,
[but]
he did not know he was doing wrong.
‘These kids are given extra attention in those classes.
They are given leeway to have these devices,
so when they do lose their tempers or if they do get into that mental space, that they can have those Switches or phones or their comfort devices, [so] that they can calm down.’
Somewhat related, another triumph of surgical affirmation.
I wish I hadn’t clicked on that.
It’s quite surreal how these procedures are excitedly advertised, given the notorious failure rate, the subsequent, life-long medical dependency, and the very high risk of complications and further supposedly corrective surgeries. And given that what’s on offer is essentially a grotesque tube of transplanted forearm flesh, or thigh flesh, that will never resemble the intended organ, or function as one, and which will likely be devoid of sensation. Except for the pain, of course. You have to poke through quite a lot of fine print before you find admissions that, “outcomes often do not match expectations.”
So, I should imagine there’ll be quite a lot of regret going around.
That applies to everything the left promises.
Question asked.
Urban is a threat. As is everyone who thinks like her. We should encourage people to see this and to treat them accordingly.
“F*** you. I don’t want to go to jail. I have more important places to be.”
This hulking boy-man is never going to be functional. He is remain too stupid, too impulsive, and too violent to be allowed to walk free.
Monsters indeed. It’s a wonder their heads don’t spin around while they projectile-vomit green pea soup.
As our host would say somewhat related…
Perhaps you could sell shares in the property to your patrons: Plunk down X pounds and you can be one of David’s minions with full rights to a position on the rota for guard duty on the parapets and daily work either as a stone mason or agricultural worker.
Very much so. Even assuming the best of intentions, which I often see little reason to do, it seems to me they’re trying to fix a software problem by smashing up the hardware. Something of a long shot.
Still, it’s being peddled to people with serious mental health problems and wildly unreliable perceptions, so hey, I’m sure it will all be totally fine. After the cheque has cleared. And those fees – upwards of £50,000, plus all the subsequent decades of maintenance and corrections – will be a comfort to someone. If not the patient.
17-year-old special needs student, who weighs 270 pounds
Even at 6ft 6in he needs to cut down on the burgers and hot dogs and gallon-size soft drinks.
I’m sure it does.
Of course said process that uses lots of electricity from lightning bolts they evidently shoot from their eyes and not some generator somewhere is more “sustainable” than (checks notes) sawing a piece of pine.
Eco-Science!™
Comrades, we will only achieve True Luxury Communism™ in The Glorious World of Next Tuesday when AI runs everything.
“Deluxe Inflat-O-Tubes”
Meh. Let me know when the MegaUltra Inflat-O-Tubes w/Bluetooth & WiFi hit the market. With a sim card slot, m’kay?
With a sim card slot, m’kay?
Wrong section, sir, I believe you are looking for the adult toy department.
I’ll just leave this here, shall I…?
Machines? Are all the handmaidens on disability leave with carpel tunnel syndrome?
Why not make fertilizer out of all that dung? Other zoos have done that.
I know we’ve visited the topic of national parks and how they are (checks notes) racist, cisnormative, heterosexist and (gasp) capitalist. So another “Queer Ecologies Panel” is not surprising. But I do admit a bit of a giggle when finally someone tried to give an example of queer ecology.
And who knew that expressing alarm at an herbicide’s side effect on frogs (males developing female organs) was really “unexamined homophobia”?
WHY are these clowns taken seriously??
Of course said process that uses lots of electricity from lightning bolts they evidently shoot from their eyes and not some generator somewhere is more “sustainable” than (checks notes) sawing a piece of pine.
David has documented here before the ability of some peoples to–ahem–throw lightning.
[ Corrects Darleen’s wayward and heretical blockquote font. ]
[ Straightens coasters. ]
with what she said were “more enclosed, more private spaces in which sexual and other, quote, ‘illicit’ activity might occur.”
The expression “get a room” was tailor made for circumstances such as this.
When AI runs everything you say? Godwin’s law even applies to AI…
https://www.businessinsider.com/bing-compares-journalist-to-hitler-and-insults-appearance-2023-2
Jeff Goldstein, here. Links aplenty in the original.
Ooh, this. I saw Walsh, of whom I’m not a huge fan but I do like him in general, getting this sort of pushback from conservatives….”conservatives”…loser conservatives. It looked damn near coordinated. I could barely stand to read/listen to much of it because I wanted to reach through the web and slap these idiots. Even though I might agree (and I cannot emphasize might enough) with some of their finer points, WTF is with that sort of thing? And this is something else that bugs me, every damn discussion twixt conservatives…”conservatives” now must be in public? Transparency is one thing but this is just plain stupid. Quibble where you may but unless the man was factually wrong, and hard factually wrong, why? Why TF why?
National parks: concern about herbicides making males into females (if true) is not about homophobia but about causing their extinction. A population of only females cannot reproduce.
“more enclosed spaces for sex”–so everything has to be about sex? Freud would be proud.
A word about patriarchy/privilege: White (and asian etc) middle class kids learn things that help them in life. A big one is to control your emotions. When I have to return some item to the store, the fact that I approach the clerk calmly and use reason leads to success in cases where yelling would not. The inability to control yourself leads to many young black men committing crimes against people who know them, which is a truly stupid thing to do. Rob your drug supplier or shoot your cousin or commit a crime in broad daylight under video cameras, what could go wrong?
Jeff Goldstein:
To them, it is always about tone. It is always about appearances.
Or so they claim. Me, I’ve come to believe that on the field of the culture wars, these types tacitly side with the credentialed elite, and they despise the kind of “God, Family, Country” conservatism that coalesced around America First populism.
Dennis Prager has written extensively on why Leftwing Jews are Leftwing and only nominally Jews. It goes to history of Hellenization of Jews — Wanting to ‘fit in’ with the X-cultural rich & powerful and not be associated with those other – coarse, crude, uncultured, “too religious” – Jews.
Ditto “conservatives” who are all for NOT conserving the principles they ostensibly stand for.
And not just Jews. In Thomas Sowell’s book Black Rednecks and White Liberals he describes/compares the Jews in Europe/America as being in a similar context with Lebanese in Africa, Chinese in SE Asia, etc. The middlemen who get the things done that the overriding culture pretends don’t need to be done or for whatever reasons will not touch. But to do so, they still need to fit in. It’s a very good book that I highly recommend. And I’m not one to recommend many books..
In an emotional Facebook Live, Urban, who became a mental health advocate after her son’s death
I get very strong Pat Pulling vibes from this one. Displaced guilt and projection is a heady combination.
It is always about appearances.
Speaking of which, scenes from a lesbian dating app.
“How did South Africa collapse into a pre-industrial hell-hole of starvation and mass murder?”
“Slowly, then quickly.”
Why not also honor homeopathy, orgone, bleeding, cupping, and the theory of four humors?
“A number of other Black creators are using [white supremacist] AI to build more inclusive worlds.”
“belligerent, sex-mad, illness machines”:
That’s Jeremy Clarkson talking about sheep, but it could be about the not the psychological wrecks seen so often in this blog.
…the psychological wrecks…
…who needs to get some momentum going first.
Meanwhile, and related to noting but ephemera, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Walsh was criticized not for being wrong factually, but for being correct in a way that many on the right evidently continue to fear is too aggressive.
Everything he said about Mulvaney was true and should have been said a long time ago.
Well, the basic assumption that informed so many of the reactions was hard to miss, and, I think, a little strange. The gist being that stating the point clearly, bluntly, will, somehow, not get the point across. And while many of those chastising Mr Walsh for his directness claimed to share his views, and claimed to have similar concerns, it seems those observations must not be aired publicly, in simple language, or with anything approaching confidence. Lest they be heard.