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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*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.