Friday Ephemera (682)
She does this better than you do. || Birds and sheep. || Today’s words are bee cartridges. || Larger forces were at work. || Incongruous Dalek. || Daylight. || Those load-bearing arguments. || Compression test. || The robbery attempt did not go entirely to plan. || Plot twist. || Plot twist 2. || Today’s other word is stealth. || It’s not a sex toy, it’s a prayer robot. || “Am I gonna be in, like, a jail with, like, a lot of, like, ghetto people?” || In this case, far away is probably a good thing. || “I’m just gonna see what happens,” he said. || For those of you wondering what an Antifa admin-moderator looks like. || Cake and a shower. || Incoming. || When you hear a bothersome rattling noise. || Safe and reliable. || Some serious toe. || And finally, furtively, there’s quite a lot going on between the ladies’ legs.
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What, Friday again already?
What’s worse, Friday the Thirteenth was only two days ago. Two days!
It’s chicken whacking time.
Animation: Every recorded earthquake from 1/1/1901 through 12/31/2000.
We will expect a lengthy review, David.
A restaurant where every kitchen worker has HIV.
CaesarDavid, beware the Ides of June.We will expect a lengthy review, David.
This what you were looking for?
Tell us you’re retired without telling us you’re retired.
Akshully…
For two seconds I wasn’t sure…
Actually impressed. 😀
Morning, all.
Yes, I shouldn’t think the watermelon was an easy challenge.
[ Hydraulic whine. ]
Attention, insecure cis people:
The ladies will doubtless be thrilled to invite him into their bathrooms.
Just a small one.
Don’t worry, everyone was fine.
Hydraulic whine
Album title.
LOL. Real-life AbFab.
I believe this is called gusto.
Your link goes to the same place as mine. I just double-checked.
It was the Ides of June when I posted that comment.
I’m not sure exactly how unusual that UK heatwave is, but my gut impression from thousands of miles away is that it’s pretty rare.
“And loving it.”
–Maxwell Smart
[ Hangs up list of prohibited activities, including loud music and skateboarding. ]
Projecting much?
It is, shall we say, a recurring theme of the demographic in question. And if chappie needs validating with a T-shirt, and can’t look at his own physical reality without flinching or getting depressed, or having some kind of meltdown, or indeed threatening to stab people, then I’m not entirely convinced that he’s free from insecurity.
According to this learned legislator making a troon feel uncomfortable or unsafe should get you a trip to the hoosegow, so I am sure she would feel the same about something like the guy with the stabby shirt making a normal person feel unsafe.
I felt inclined. Keep up the good work, barkeep.
Via Iowahawk, an AI commercial that doesn’t quite go to plan.
Pretending that the seriously, sometimes dangerously, mentally ill are somehow not – and threatening to punish anyone who notices – isn’t, it seems to me, a recipe for safety.
Bless you, sir. Should you be obliged to watch an old episode of Star Trek, may it be The Doomsday Machine, and not Spock’s Brain.
And note how they repeatedly conflate disagreement and disapproval with violence and threats of violence. Even a mere reluctance to join in public celebrations is labeled a “threat”.
*Glances over at Strat & Vox*
Nooooooo!
Well, that was one Akshully, my OCD compels me to point out the other. A common misunderstanding that is interesting in itself,
As entertaining as that is, back in the 70’s when I was a kid, this was the gusto I was promised. Pity about the beer.
Kitchen where they have HIV: we know for a fact that Hep A is widely transmitted via restaurants. It is known that HIV is harder to transmit casually–but not at all? Is it just one sneeze away into your food? We don’t know because it is forbidden to research it. I would say the health censorship tyranny began with HIV.
By the way, gain of function research still going on at Wuhan lab.
Heat warning in GB: yes, 101 F is hot but we had temps over 100 for 20 days (10 in a row) one summer in South Carolina when I lived there. I still went running. Helped someone move and then had to move myself. Yes, I understand that brit housing may not be ideal for it. But come on. Media love to be scary.
I did not see that coming.
That was satisfying.
As with this example from a few weeks ago (and which also features the use of a chair), it’s the kind of thing that ought to happen every damn time.
True. But notice as one of the Twitter responses points out, the criminal is now likely to sue and the proprietor/customer/whomeverfightsback is likely to go to jail. And even if not, significant legal expenses are in their future. I see Daniel Penney’s GiveSendGo fund is up to $2.9 million. George Zimmerman’s legal fees were around $2.5 million and that was back in 2013. But hey, at least he got justice, right?
Yes, although I was hoping to hear shrill screaming.
I knew a lot of liberals who wanted George Zimmerman to be convicted.
May those liberals experience what they wished upon good people.
But if your body is not acclimatized to such temperatures, and your home and car and workplace do not have air conditioning, you could be in a world of hurt.
Hell. I know a lot of conservatives who felt the same way. Even supposedly pro-2A ones. Damn near everyone I know gets real quiet when I point out that he did nothing wrong. I have been over and over the evidence presented in that case and reviewed many times the media’s distortions and outright fabrications of evidence. Conservatives don’t care. They blame him. Especially the cops do. This for doing exactly what for decades cops, since they for the most part became weak kneed little p****s (just like the bullies the naturally are), asked citizens to do. The neighborhood “watch” thing. Oh, oh…we cops can’t be everywhere! We need the help of Joe Citizen. F****g pathetic. WLM. WHLM. FTP.
100 deg F pst314: yes and I do sympathise but note that the brit press do this even for 80F. Heat warning at 80
Attention, insecure cis people:
Yeah, good luck with that, bro.
celebrating Pride by encouraging employees to read about “glory holes”
Heh. Do they also issue “not cloudy and rainy all day” warnings? 😀
celebrating Pride by encouraging employees to read about “glory holes”
Not the worst of it … down further in the thread is that FoxCorp has an AI-generated “social score” for its employees.
As I said regarding this pernicious, controlling claptrap:
The needy, unviable mental states of random strangers are not my burden to carry. And to impose one’s own psychodrama on others, to demand their complicity, is, at best, rude.
Somewhat related, this.
…based in part on how often employees practice “micro-affirmations.”
WTF?
OK, so how are they going to quantify this? Active listening devices? CCTV everywhere? How many times you respond “Yassss kween, slay!” in an e-mail to a BIPOC/BAME/LGBTLSTKV1 collegue?
*Glances over at Strat & Vox*
You’ll need one of these too.
When you realise you should’ve stayed in a better hotel.
Vince has a discussion with his neighbors.
A restaurant where every kitchen worker has HIV.
As well as HIV, what they have in common is inadequate professional training, openly expressed resentment against society, and for some of them a history of unsafe sex/drug use, risk taking, transgression seeking. A lot of red flags there to expect them to dot the i’s and cross the t’s on hygiene.
But what’s really backwards here is that the burden of proof isn’t on these resentful inadequates to prove themselves to the general public, but the other way around.
Overrun by condiments.
Oh, how fun. TQ+ activists now are going to define who is/isn’t an authentic Muslim.
We all know where this is headed. But should anyone publicly point out the bloody obvious, many people, and especially many conservative…”conservative” people will jump on whoever tries to say such a thing and mock them for overreacting. Like with the gas stove thing. Only the vegans will likely be more patient and wait on it a bit.
BTW, what is with the little WiFi looking icon underneath everyone’s avatars now? Am I just now noticing and they have been there a while? On Chrome/iPad. Also, I just noticed also the number of recent comments pops up in a little bubble next to the comment icon. I think this was referenced when the cutover from Typepad first occurred but I don’t recall seeing it until now.
Hover your cursor over it. By clicking the ‘wifi’ icon (and turning it orange), commenters can follow other commenters, which means you should get an email notification whenever the followed commenter posts a new comment. The option is only available to registered, logged-in users. I don’t see much need for it, frankly, but it’s there if you want to use it. To unfollow, just click it again and it should turn grey.
We have mentioned the comment bubble live notification before. I installed it months ago. When new comments have been posted, the maroon bubble, bottom left, should change colour and a smaller, secondary bubble should show the number of new comments since you last refreshed the page. (It updates every 60 seconds. It won’t work, however, if you’re browsing in private/incognito mode, and it doesn’t include your own comments.)
Busby Berkeley, eat your heart out.
Just be thankful I didn’t install this bloody thing. Or private / clique commenting, or custom emoticons, or…
[ Flicks through catalogue of plugins. ]
You & Churchy LaFemme.
Always.
BBQ: there is literally an automatic notification of grilling…on the wind.
Are you aware of particular browser tweaks that must be made for this to work?
I am still not seeing this.
And could you please post a screen shot of exactly what it looks like?
All I see is this:
I was silently hoping that someone would mention that.
I have no idea, unless some adblocker setting is stopping it from working. I’m assuming you’re registered and logged in. It works fine on my laptop, tablet and phone.
See here, scroll down for “Comment Bubble Live Update.”
Heh. Yes, if anyone knows what the cursor-hover equivalent might be for us lazy-ass iPad and other tablet(?) users is, let me know. Good to know though.
And I do indeed remember that. It’s just that I don’t recall actually seeing it until this week or so. Thx.
I have tried it, without success, in Firefox and Edge. I have tweaked both browsers to allow pop-ups by your URL, wp.com, and ko-fi.com.
Uh huh.
Right, off to watch The Grand Tour: Eurocrash.
Play nicely. Use coasters.
Hubba, hubba!
This should turn out well.
Another test
Creating a WordPress login solved the problem.
(But only in the browser where I logged in. Still had to log in a second time in the other brower session. Not surprising.)
I didn’t notice anything on the WordPress site that this feature only works for logged-in users.
testing Testing…
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room.
Not allowing children at drag shows now threatens national security.
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room.
Yes that was good when it was posted in last weeks Friday Ephemera. ;-p
I know how hard it is to keep track of all the things we’ve seen and where we’ve seen them.
Even more satisfying: this failed robbery attempt.
We are not being led by serious people.
Talk to people outside of your social circle, neighborhood, locale. You will find that collectively we are mighty far from being serious people. That is the far more dangerous problem.
LGBCVAIBM+/- clown vs. Muslims, fails to convince them, for some reason.
Failed robbery attempt.
It wasn’t a robbery. The barber was killed. The now ex-shooter had already shot two other people in separate incidents that same afternoon. All eerily reminiscent of something from The Wire, probably involving Omar.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/15/off-duty-baltimore-cop-kills-gunman-who-fatally-shot-barber/
At a pride event held this month at the Pentagon, Space Force Chief Operating Officer Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt speaks:-
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/space-force-chief-says-state-anti-lgbt-laws-threaten-us-military-readiness
”…..I am compelled to consider a different candidate, perhaps less qualified”.
At least she can’t be accused of pulling the ladder up after her.
It can be enabled for guests too, but:
So, while the site is both beefy and protected, I’m not sure I want to make things any easier or more tempting for the malicious.
It’s surprisingly rare for a public figure to acknowledge that a way to reduce serious crime is for the perpetrators to be killed during their criminal activities. And it has to be said, it does have a certain economy.
Which gives me an excuse to recommend that readers register with the blog using the options at the bottom of the page. (Click thumbnail below.) You’ll just need a username and an email address. Thereby unlocking a world of comment bubble excitement.
I did notice that the “incident” began with the thug shooting twice at a barber, but assumed the accuracy of the post’s description and inferred that it was a particularly violent robbery. It’s fortunate that more robbers don’t begin by shooting their victims.
A very attractive economy. We may not want the judicial punishment for armed robbery to be death, but it’s always a good thing when armed robbers get that from victims and bystanders.
As for Zack Ford and his ilk, they are rats gnawing away at civilization. Treat them accordingly.
A more extensive quote:
You have to wonder what sort of person would regard sex-change surgery for minors to be “critical health care”.
The bloody arrogance is only exceeded by the stupidity. As if serious candidates would want to live in places like California where they seem to be on the cusp of removing children from parents who oppose the gender idiocy. My God this is all so bloody stupid. This woman, quite clearly, is a bloody overeducated idiot. And not even all that educated. How does this record qualify someone to be a three star general?
It’s academic bloated up bullshit. She’s little more than a flight instructor. And that’s a slap in the face to flight instructors. A three-star general? Ah, but let’s look at
Yes. Big nothing burger again. She held a bunch of positions. Likely annoying TF out of people in those operations who were trying to do the real work. Bloody idiocy.
Quite often “hover” can be simulated by long-click or press-and-hold on touch devices. If there isn’t a right-click menu to present.
Your mileage may vary.
My faith in the US military has hit an all time low. But such things don’t just happen without a ton of support or at least indifference by so-called serious people. Seriously serious.
I get the impression that there is a lot of that bullshit nowadays.
During peacetime, or in the absence of wars that seriously threaten the survival of the nation, military organizations tend to become politicized and full of dead weight.
As I understand it, general officer promotions must be approved by the Senate. Thus, everyone knows that one must play the political game in order to rise above field grade ranks. Competence will only take you to colonel; beyond that you have to please politicians and the already-politicized generals above you.
She’s white, married to a man, has no LGBTQ children (if she had she’d have told us) and no disabilities. Doesn’t even appear to be a Muslim.
She should therefore immediately relinquish her position in favour of a more intersectionally appropriate individual, even if that means one lacking her own stellar ability and qualifications, for the sake of equity.
Except of course she won’t. It’s only us deplorable little people who are expected to step aside (in the unlikely event that we ever “got there” in the first place). .
While we are on the subject of crime and punishment, the ACLU is upset this guy didn’t get “gender-affirming care” because people who rape corpses should have “human dignity”, or something.
What an utterly rancid organisation the ACLU is nowadays.
“I am compelled to consider a different candidate, perhaps less qualified”
Not just people – there has been talk of moving Space Command HQ to Huntsville, Alabama, logical because Huntsville-Decatur has the highest number of engineers per capita in the country, is the real home of the US space program, and has every aerospace contractor known to man and probably some unknown, however, the decision has been delayed.