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.
Apparently, in Illinois it’s illegal to retain thieves’ “biometric data” in order to identify them without their permission.
The “biometric data” in question? The private, secret, intensely personal biometric data that must be vigilantly protected against unauthorised access?
Their face!
It was disturbing how many of the commune people wants to work/teach the kids. No freaking way
They’re all just taking in each others’ washing – and not even getting the stains out.
In between all the ancestral healing and proof-reading of manifestos.
Why is a levitating armoured medieval crusader running the world’s strangest zoo?
Ruth Hunt: the smugness shows on her face even with the sound off.
Socialism: Back in the day I visited some communes. They were all supported by an outside source such as a rock band or drug dealing. A commune type coffee shop near me lasted 6 months.
A free market harnesses the energy and motivation of the individual. Socialism (including labor unions and gov offices) empowers the lazy. They are not equivalent.
Mr. Doom the Medevac guy has the only useful job on that commune. Not really sustainable, though.
“We’re a very bright bunch and we talk a lot“
Well, it’s got it half-right.
But nothing like the real thing (spoiler alert)
F*** ’em. It’s Target. They encourage the shoplifting by their passivity and wokeness. And they should be sued by every non-shoplifting customer for capturing their biometric data. Granted that’s probably like three or four people..but still…
Communes: if you go to college, it is like a commune–you live in a dorm, never have to clean, food just appears in the cafeteria, you hang out and get high. Of course either Daddy pays or you are racking up huge debts, but the wankers kind of like the lifestyle and say, “hey, let’s have a commune like this”, totally oblivious of the costs.
Fake vagina: I had the sense not to look. urgh If you are a guy and really want someone to fuck you, just do anal. Much much safer than the surgery.
Tortoises: the leopard knows he can’t eat them, so they are safe. The mating attempt is funny–it is a miracle they can reproduce.
Oh why oh why did I click? Ye gods – I’ve seen day’s-old squirrel roadkill that looked better than whatever that was – I’m guessing barbie pocket gone awry? This is gender euphoria? Where the fark are the lawsuits? How can the world not see the mental illness shrieking from this? No sane person would do that to themselves. Yet it’s no longer a mental illness but something to be celebrated and worshipped in the new woke religion. Or Else.
I should point out it’s quite… graphic.
There’s not enough eye bleach.
There are some things I need know nothing of.
To hell with “reform” and ‘rehabilitation”. Throw all of them in a deep hole.
Are ‘smugged’ and ‘smuggery’ actual words?
A smuggery is where insufferable oenophiles gather to drink and sneer.
Could you not feel the affirmation…?
Worse, no sane person would do that to another human being. The doctors who perform these butcheries, the nurses who assist, the hospital administrators who coordinate these things…but especially the doctors and nurses…are their own kind on insanity. One can argue it being more or less so than the patient, but the patient itself doesn’t disturb me anywhere near as much as the people who do this to them. Where is the effort to stop them? Why do other doctors tolerate them being in their profession? Why do other doctors willingly associate in any way with those institutions?
They say that surgeons tend to have a bit of sadism in their personalities. But med school is supposed to weed out all the bad ones, dammit.
Further proof ‘health experts’ are not to be trusted:
Has any sentence’s meaning changed more than “I blew a tranny at the drag race”?
No, don’t bother, David, I’ll let myself out.
There is a reason Hadrian built a wall.
This program(me) brought to you by the same government paid bunch that last year was in hot water for the thing that never happens.
[ Prepares weighted nets, fires up generator. ]
London is now host to frequent Pro-Palestinian “Hate” marches at which the woke express their love of kindness, diversity and inclusion. Vigorously.
Last Saturday, however, a pedestrian was inadvertently confronted with one of these events (they are now everywhere) and was immediately stopped by the Metropolitan Police who informed him that he was being “quite openly jewish” and that this was “causing a breach of the peace” by “antagonising the large group of people“.
The nice police officer offered to have THE JEW “escorted out of the area so you can go about your business” or “if you choose to remain here … you will be arrested”.
The nice police officer then assisted THE JEW into a protective wooden enclosure running on rails which would transport him to a safe and secure area. Probably.
If you laugh at this, you’re a terrible, terrible person.
What?
Frankly, the more time I spend with my own family the less I want to redistribute my wealth amongst them. So I can only imagine how I’d feel about the murderous Danish poor.
I have a giving nature. 🙂
Thanks for the hours of wrongthink.
Such is the stuff of which dreams are woven.
I’ve been reading Theodore Dalrymple’s Life At The Bottom: The Worldview That Makes The Underclass, so the findings had a certain… resonance.
Bless you, sir. May your favourite old shirt fade in a pleasing way.
[ Remind self, again, to heed warnings ]
[ Peers over spectacles. ]
I did say…
Each culture has its own language to hide the truth. France has “les Jeunes”. Britain has “Asians”. America has “youths”. How many items can we add to this list?
I’m back.
How do we know those turtles aren’t gay?
from the link:
also true:
Exposure to university professors reduces support for subsidizing universities.
All the more reason to usher them out of it posthaste.
Which gives me an excuse to once again dig out this baby, on ‘litter inequality’:
Oh, there’s more.
The court is a ass — a idiot.
Or usher them into the socialist paradise they desire: Let them do agricultural labor 16 hours a day in exchange for a subsistence diet and a cot in a ramshackle barracks. If they survive they can write memoirs with such titles as One Day in the Life of They/Them Denisovich.
Treating people as having agency is wrongthink.
As I said in the original thread, a remarkable number of progressives don’t wish to acknowledge certain, quite common – and quite obvious – differences in behaviour. And so, our Guardian columnist, a professional academic, along with his editor and the authors of the quoted report all share the same ideological blind spot. The same bizarre failure of basic logic.
To the extent that a supposedly serious report on litter inequality, a supposed basis for government policy, somehow avoids any suggestion of agency on the part of the local population. Thereby giving the impression that nobody is actually dropping the litter, no-one is responsible. No-one keeps on doing it, over and over again. The litter just appears, mysteriously, like overnight snow.
Are you a terrible, terrible person because you laugh or do you laugh because you’re a terrible, terrible person.
His If Symptoms Persist, If Symptoms Still Persist, and Second Opinion, collections of columns written for The Spectator, are worth the time.
[ Points to Amazon affiliate links, top right. ]
Could you not feel the affirmation…?
Oh I felt the affirmation all right – the affirmation that my initial assessment of insanity was correct. That isn’t the first image of roadkill crotch posted on twitter or reddit – how can the same people whose tolerance of risk is extremely low when it comes to covid be so high when it comes to carving up the delicate bits? I guess med shows on tv have got people thinking surgery is no big deal. That and they’re crazy.
Also at the linked post, a mention of “penile preservation vaginoplasty” – isn’t that what that Ontario court decided the Canadian NHS must pay some Canadian guy to go to Texas (!) to get done?
German man fakes being dead. Brazilian man fakes being alive. Same but different.
1 have also considered shooting up my former elementary school because little kids make easier targets. (via Not the Bee)
She seems nice.
Migrants in NYC complain that people who live there and provide them with free services are not willing to learn hundreds of different African languages. They go on to call NYC “racist” and “shameful.”
I am happy to suggest that they fuck off back to where they came from. And when they get there they can fuck off some more.