Friday Ephemera (717)
Custom cars for rats. || Mouse trap. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Navigational error. || Nature and its wonders. || Also available in red. || “What’s your job on the leftist commune?” “Pouring hot cocoa for folx in the reading alcoves.” Also, “writing workshops,” “therapist.” || Related. || Also related. || Having it both ways. || Bath time peekaboo. || By “radical pursuit of pleasure,” she means her amputated breasts displayed in a jar. (h/t, Paul Dover) || The top speeds of beasts. || The progressive retail experience, parts 546, 547, and 548. || It’s amazing how quickly the day can turn to shit. || Tread carefully. || Let’s go ice fishing, they said. || It’s “fully functional” and will sort itself out in no time. || “The fake bus stops keep them from wandering off.” || The perils of fitness activity.
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That really is quite clever.
[ Looks nervously at Correction Booth. ]
One might bore people with talk about Crossfit.
How about Crossfit vegans who are “into” homeopathy and aura reading?
Custom cars for rats.
That was awesome!!
It’s “fully functional” and will sort itself out in no time.
I can’t see the twit, but my well-trained lab rat senses immediately conjured up some trans-man’s addadicktomy or trans-woman’s new barbie pocket.
[Goes back to the rat video for mental cleansing]
They go wait at the bus stops, and then they can be retrieved by staff later on?
I need it spelled out.
Good news in the NYT: Colleges Warn Student Demonstrators: Enough
Top reader comment. Emphases mine:
Second highest:
Third:
Most of them are like that. A few are nostalgic for the Vietnam protests (and say that these students are different), but most of the comments are in the same vein: enough is enough.
Take with that Google firing the protesters and even some getting arrested.
Maybe it’s all going to collapse like the Berlin wall. Maybe the preference cascade is finally here.
If the leopard doesn’t eat you, I guess it’s the safest place.
No, no, no, no, no. Nope.
Morning, all.
Romance blossoms.
“Mouse trap.“
Whut?
The idea is that agitated dementia patients who would otherwise wander off and perhaps get hurt or distressed often sit at the bus stop, calm down in the fresh air, forget what it was they were agitated about, then wander back inside.
There’s a darkly tragicomic aspect, but I suppose that’s hard to avoid, given the nature of the illness.
Read that as ‘top speed of breasts’.
The lefty commune thing is hilarious.
It’s an intriguing snapshot of a… mindset.
And,
Our Betters, assembled.
At least one of them can cook eggs.
I enjoyed the based “Doom” comment at the bottom right of the lefty commune “work” wishlist
Heh. I suppose that’s the thing. It’s not just the hilariously awful and stupid ideas. It’s the hilariously awful and stupid people to whom those ideas appeal. The utter bags of toss.
Your lab-rat senses served you well. The, er, item is still there, but I think you need to be logged in to X / Twitter to see it. I should point out it’s quite… graphic.
The leftist commune stuff is interesting.
I can’t recall the book title, but I read that most of the communes from the 1800s all failed because the ratio of people who wanted to be artists was way out of proportion to the number who wanted to grow food or other productive activity.
Nice to see that the utopian left is keen to keep tradition alive <sarc off>
The titans who will build our glistening utopia. Just don’t loan them anything.
In Pride news, today’s word is autopaedophilia.
Nature and its wonders.
Been there, done that. And I’m not sorry.
It’s the arrival of a curious third party. Who came for a sniff.
The top speeds of beasts.
See that human? Yeah, that’s not me. Nice to know the various animals I can’t outrun that can kill me.
How about Crossfit vegans who are “into” homeopathy and aura reading?
AND they shoot with Sony cameras.
NPR’s new woke fascist CEO Katherine Maher explains how “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way“.
I think what she means is that you need to value her lies as highly as the truth, since you won’t be getting any more of that.
Given that her worldview seems based, to an extraordinary extent, on self-flattering fantasy, you can appreciate why the truth of the matter, almost any matter, might be a sticky issue.
Attention Scum: The White House has clarified that Joe Biden’s Uncle was not in fact eaten by cannibals.
Please update your files accordingly.
Given the personal habits of some of the many leftists I have known, I would prudently cook my own breakfast.
? Is there a Sony fad/cult that I haven’t heard of?
“Sculpting.”
“Read people’s tarot.”
“Checking in and doing pause-to-breathe with folx.”
“I give great rubdowns.”
And virtually none of them knew anything about farming, while farming is in fact hard time-consuming work, and it is far from easy to make a go of it–at least if it’s a livelihood rather than a mere hobby.
Also,
They’re just too good for this world.
I’d go much farther, and return to the days when universities were strictly apolitical and on-campus protests and agitation were strictly prohibited.
Education and scholarship.
Universities have fallen far, ever since they allowed radicals to impose demands of “relevance”.
Somewhat related:
Fear not, comrade. Our Betters have a plan.
As with previous projects of this kind, involving very similar people, notably the supposedly self-sufficient ‘farms’ and encampments of Occupy, I suppose we should await news of rampant sexual assault and the resurgence of diseases long forgotten.
Sentenced to only four years for a home invasion? I wish she had been armed so that she could have shot him dead when he broke down her door.
Always remember what the Dalai Lama said:
Navigational error.
That’s just them Duke boys on vacation over to Japan.
Meanwhile over in Blighty, this sentence seems a bit harsh for this comely lass.
Or, mentally ill man behaves like mentally ill man.
Yes, six months is a bit harsh. Six minutes suspended ought to do the job.
Today’s other word is curvy.
Gangster culture: “I don’t care whether [Reid] shot [at police], he should still be alive!”
I do miss the concept of shame.
I also miss the concepts of banishment and outlawry.
“What radicalized you?”
“What radicalized you?”
Related, two plod and a psych nurse suspect a gent of religious wrongthink.
Today’s other word is curvy.
I am not sure whether we are denied or spared by another apparent “Ya gotta have an account” link…
Surprised that mice are into that sort of thing.