Friday Ephemera (684)
I thought it was a sandwich. || Choose your weapon. || Thief deterred with wetness and warmth. || And the winner is. || Today’s word is irony. || “Euphoria overload, gotta spinny.” || The good, the bad and the gayageum. || Good to know, I guess. || Houseguest of note. || Hold space to fly straight, a one-button game. || Strange gull detected. || The thrill of fungus. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || The rise and fall of the movie poster. || Perhaps a tad excessive. || Place your bets. || Big plane scenes. || Car park scenes. || Sporting scenes. || Today’s other word is parenting. || School-board meeting pushback. || Upscale catfight. || He thought it was a caravan. || Elvis, the unreleased recordings. || And finally, “I do have this huge aura of feminine energy.” And very busy hands.
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Very skillful, but the tempo is a little too fast. The original better matches the mood of the film.
best summation of a Twilight Zone plot
Surprisingly entertaining.
Ditto. Although it isn’t a patch on Jonathan Coulton’s version.
Reminds me of the universal limerick:
There once was an X from place B
Who satisfied predicate P.
Then X did thing A
In a specified way,
Resulting in circumstance C.
I thought it was a sandwich.
The Earl is turning in his grave. Just as Prince Andrew spun on this one.
And the winner is.
It’s the dog world’s version of this.
Strange gull detected.
Here comes a stingray, there goes a manta ray
Sporting scenes.
This is all I could hear watching this.
Tourist makes remarkable discovery about natural spring with steam rising from it.
You got me.
Choose your weapon
Did anyone else see the giant rat behind the counter?
Should’ve been boiling oil.
*follows Twitter account Thieves Getting Fucked*
Often Asians isn’t it – they seem to be very good at this sort of shit.
Often … (better see myself out)
“I thought it was a sandwich.“
Ad campaign for Subway’s new footlong sub is not a success,,,
“He thought it was a caravan.“
‘The craft, which has an engine…’ Not hyperdrive, I’m guessing..?
Morning, all.
I was re-watching Karaoke and Cold Lazarus a couple of years ago. 1996 seems so long ago.
“Diversity” and dishonesty.
Never seen them. Any good?
Erotic scenes.
It’s a sort of two-part story, with an intermission of four hundred years, and of the two, I prefer Cold Lazarus. It’s a bit heavy-handed and doesn’t entirely work, and I gather it’s not Potter at his best; but there are some interesting ideas and some stirring moments. The politics is predictable and crudely caricatured, but the camp dystopia is quite funny. Someone described it as “Dune dressed by Liberace.” Frances de la Tour is fun to watch, and some of the score, by Christopher Gunning, is quite good, too.
A mixed bag, let’s say.
LOL. One for the ‘maybe’ list then…
Unfortunately, Twitter seems to have changed the way it works, so that it’s insisting I sign in before viewing anything. I don’t want to do that, and didn’t have to until today.
Any thoughts from anyone on how to get round this?
That’s odd. Are you browsing incognito?
How camp can one gay guy be?
He’s positively flaming. And given the context, the words “stay you” have a certain unintended irony. Also, if you’re standing in snow, maybe swap the crop-top for a goddamn coat.
Same Twitter login required here as of today. Not using Incognito. Oh well.
Twitter is also requiring me to log in. Not using Incognito.
Unfortunately, Twitter seems to have changed the way it works, so that it’s insisting I sign in before viewing anything. I don’t want to do that, and didn’t have to until today.
Me too: initially seen in Brave, but it also applies to all the other browsers I have installed – not browsing incognito or anything.
It is still possible to embed a Tweet in a post so that it can be read by anyone.
Here is an example.
Finally! I no longer have to wade through the river of effluence that disgorges from society’s nether orifice that is Twitter.
I wonder if my attention span will grow back?
Deleted all Twitter cookies. Login still required.
“Proud Democrat.”
Pronouns, naturally. So, parody, or unwitting honesty?
I invoke the law of Poe!
As so often, it is difficult to tell. I mean, it’s essentially the same message as you’d find in the New York Times and other ‘progressive’ publications, only stated a little more… clearly.
Either way, clarifications have ensued, and quite a lot of blocking is underway.
Madam, we don’t have time for your shit.
Not entirely unrelated.
https://twitter.com/ericareport/status/1674449561702776832?s=20
She doesn’t seem very nice.
I think he’s excited to be in the ladies’ bathroom.
Social interaction of note.
Similarly…
I didn’t regret watching it, and some bits are good. There are some interesting ideas in there. I even liked the gratuitously floaty lab chairs. But it is, as I say, a bit heavy-handed. A lighter touch would have made it better, I think.
Using Safari on an ancient phone, no luck getting around the Twitter sign in. Ah well.
Looks like there is a way to get around the Twitter login requirement thing: replace twitter.com in the URL with nitter.it (and apparently there exists a browser plugin that will do that for you). How long that will work for, I don’t know.
It may be a glitch or sabotage by Musk’s hard left new CEO, but if the twitter login crap continues, it is is bit of a PITA but Nitter can be used to see David’s voluminous twit links, e.g.,
Can also be used to go VFR direct to a twitter user.
I wonder if WordPress offers a comment box plugin for embedding Tweets.
There is a wpDiscuz Embed addon, which enables readers to embed pretty much any social media, along with videos, etc., but it has implications for loading times, appearance, cost, etc. And then there’s the likelihood of someone screwing something up – and of me having to faff about trying to fix it.
Good reasons to avoid it.
I have been tempted by some of the bells and whistles available, but they do tend to slow things down, and they do add potential for screw-ups, and they would all end up on my annual bill.
Besides which, I would guess that the Twitter issue will be temporary.
Twitter is now demanding I sign in to view any of the titbits on offer.
Ah well, I likely have better things to do.
Yes you do: Searching for more tidbits to post here.
Unwitting, certainly, whether honest or no.
Though I often wonder why, I do like David Thorne’s little excursions.
Links to twitter don’t do it for me. I am not a member!
https://twitter.com/TaraBull808/status/1674622607755448320?s=20
Someone has been very naughty about the “proud democrat” lady.
That is nasty. But deserved.
She’s practicing “equity” or “reparations” or “restorative justice”.
I’ve never had a twitter account and I haven’t had any issues. Except for the must-be-18-years-old ones, but I can accept that.
That said, posting Twitter stuff on Facebook is often a crapshoot as to what will be displayed so I usually do a screengrab of the tweet, then below it I post the link. Just a thought.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
Social interaction of note.
I note she doesn’t blink (maybe once) during whole weirdness and almost no pupils. Heroin or fentanyl … my money on the latter.
And that poor puppy!
useful advice for the under-tens still learning about wine
oppressed by choice
The descent of Erica Marsh in three tweets:
Courtesy of Cockburn at The Spectator World
Via Ace, the twitter login nonsense is temporary.
What, no rape? What’s pillaging without rape?
Help me out here…maybe it’s a misperception on my part but it seems like, amongst conservatives, having a Twitter account is totes acceptable but references to one’s Facebook account are met with significant scorn. Yet Twitter mostly, as far as I have seen/know, consists of connections amongst strangers while FB is more oriented to people one actually knows, has known, or to someone somehow related to someone they know. Granted, both tools allow for blocking but who is more likely to have a greater reach, the person who has personal connections to people who are less likely to block them or the person only connected to people with whom they share interest in a subject up to the point that they disagree?
Choose your weapon
Did anyone else see the giant rat behind the counter?
I thought it was a kitten scurrying for shelter
That. Why do they think strangers should be interested?
It is, I think, an odd starting point. It’s generally some variation of, “This is me, and these are my fascinating complications. And these are the various ways in which you must address me, depending on my mood at any given time on any given day. Remember them and obey.”
It’s not much of an enticement to interaction.
But competitive complication, and the assumption of inexhaustible interest on the part of other people – and a willingness to defer – are pretty much signatures of such videos. And so, the idea that one might prefer not to be needlessly unpleasant to the sexually dysmorphic is being exploited, quite successfully, by pretty much every obnoxious narcissist with an internet connection.
As I said a while ago,
I should point out that there are dysmorphic people who also object to this bundling and affirmation of very different phenomena, and the exploitation of their condition by insufferable twats. (See, for instance, the YouTuber Marcus Dib, “The Offensive Tranny” – “a biological woman living life as a man” – and who parses trans activism and the pretensions of the ostentatiously “non-binary.”)
And yet, even to attempt to differentiate these things, these different motives, may be regarded as taboo, an act of bigotry, even “hatred.”
If you poke about in the thread, it seems that the chap in the video ‘adopted’ the dog, which now appears quite happy.
Oh well, so much for Nitter.
Neither does she, apparently, and going by the evident hesitations at around 0:17 and 0:23 where she is apparently having to stop herself from saying “I” and switching to “We”.
In fact, I wonder in general how many takes such individuals have to do of TikTok videos as they revert back by force of habit to the first person pronoun they’ve been using since the age of around 2 or so.
Likely one of those times when the Left is reminded that receiving a higher education does not result in a 100% conversion rate.
I took it as a rat as well. Granted, a well cared for rat. I saw where others described it as a puppy or a kitten though. Personally, I refuse to be gaslighted about this.
As for this pronoun BS… It seems like, near as I can tell, I’m the only person who has considered this but should this sort of thing ever come up in my presence, I am fully prepared to state firmly and in no uncertain terms that I am to be addressed, in every way/manner, not by impersonal pronouns but by the formal address as Mr. WTP (or whatever my real name is.. I forget). Unlikely to occur given where/how I live but….
I dunno. A good number of the people I know (liberals and conservatives and libertarians) have Facebook accounts, and they use them for a mix of maintaining personal connections and posting political opinions. None of them have Twitter feeds, although it is possible that they have Twitter accounts simply to be able to read other people’s feeds (that is all that I have ever used my account for.)
I think it’s a small dog. Its gait seems more dog-like, its tail seems furry rather than naked, and its butt is squarish where a rat’s would be pointed.
Old joke: “No, no, Sven. First you rape and pillage and then you burn.”
And then there’s Blazing Saddles, of course.
*de-lurks*
*PING*
*re-lurks*
Bless you. May any bathroom you visit be free of disagreeable odours.
David notes that one must not parse the different types of trans, they are all categorically the same. This is true of all leftist views. One must not parse the cases where women cannot do a job (combat, patrol officer) and just lump them all together (ie women can do all jobs). One must not parse that women do not want to be roofers or plumbers, and call it all discrimination. One must not parse BLM separately from overall justice. See how easy it makes things? It is the categorical thinking.
See also, the deserving and the not.
The Highly-Trained Minds of the Democrat Party and the United States Government spent months figuring out a slur to villify and marginalise Trumpian Republicans and the best they could come up with sounds like anime mech robot. Which, you don’t need me to tell you, are awesome.
“Let them fight…”
A reaction to the recent Supreme Court rulings.
Glancing at that comment thread, I see this observation by Karl:
I have noticed something very unusual in Jordan Peterson’s podcasts: He will throw out ideas to get the interviewee’s reaction*. Sometimes the interviewee will disagree and Peterson will then sometimes express willingness to reassess his own opinion. You just don’t see such humility very much nowadays; absolute certainty about everything is the norm among public intellectuals.
* Partly to test his own ideas against the interviewee’s critical thinking, but very often to test his understanding of what the interviewee is saying. He wants to make sure he and his audience fully understand what the interviewee is saying. That, too, is a mark of integrity.
In that same thread, Geezer commented:
That seems to happen most in interviews of concerning topics closest to Peterson’s own field. I wonder if, in such interviews, Peterson should invite the interviewee to return for a later, second, interview in which they discuss anything that the interviewee did not feel he was able to fully expostulate upon.
“One ping only, please.”
Heh. Greta is a psychologically damaged child, being used by her communist parents. Joe is a dementia-suffering old man, being used by the Democratic Party.
Maximum size of a PDF.
“Bank of Uncle Dave is closed …”
Heh. I’m assuming these ‘agony aunt’ pieces are usually inventions, written to order; but this one does distil a familiar mindset.
I have the same reaction: stories which are “too
goodbad to be true”. But maybe they are exaggerations of actual events: I could cite some things that have happened to me which have that sort of flavor.Likewise, my initial response was that this was an amusing literary invention.
Then I remembered 19 year-old Saga’s eulogy at her own father’s funeral.
Unspanked narcissists often catch one off guard.
Unarmed too.
Her pronouns and black supremacist ideology are strong clues that she is lying.
I would like to read some day that everyone in her extended family has written her out of their wills.
… usually inventions, written to order; but this one does distil a familiar mindset
Well, I am suspicious of tales of precocious 4 y/olds lecturing random adults for not being appropriately green in their grocery choices …
But this kind of shunning, ghosting of family members for WrongThink and WrongVote is more common than I ever believed. I know of several in my circle of friends.
AI. Making pointless lives better.
AI. Making pointless lives better.
Good lord, the BOFH. I haven’t read anything of his in decades. There goes the rest of July…
[ Fetches binoculars, peers across English Channel. ]
[ Rummages in archives. ]
Attention, ladies. The fundamental essence of womanhood has been discovered.
It’s all about the hair ties and bra clasps, obviously.
If one googles, or in my case duck duck goes, the word shoplifter and selects images there is almost unanimity in the colour of the offenders depicted. Just not the colour I was expecting.
Refining the search to “Walmart shoplifter” or “San Francisco shoplifter” stirred the pot slightly while still leaving no doubt this was an overwhelmingly white crime.
As I recall, the Muslim Youths were rioting at least as far back as the 90’s.