Friday Ephemera (744)
Dublin man. || Oh dear. || Best not to dawdle, I think. || Your bedroom buddy. || His is bigger. || Theirs is bigger, too. || Houseguest. || A game about making wigs (and buying hair, and drones, and a war against hats). Previously. || It was a day of ups and downs. || Alas, I don’t know the name for this. || Well, that escalated quickly. || Luckily, he had a sandal. || At last, a guide to vomiting. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || No, I have no idea. || Ideal teacher material. || Satellite made of wood. || How to move the Moon (while melting quite a bit of it). || “I’m pressure. I’m pressurelicious.” || Project Sundial. || The progressive retail experience, parts 591, 592, 593, and 594. || He says fortune smiled upon him. || Bigfoot. || Fun for all the family. || And finally, oh don’t pull that face, you want one and you know it.
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Leonard Serrato, Assistant Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University of Oregon, tells all Trump supporters to kill themselves.
What a sweet guy! Because he cares so deeply.
Bonus: He once served jail time for a fatal fraternity hazing incident.
Better check him for rabies.
De-escalated.
“Leo’s passion is anti-hazing […]”
Sure it is.
You tell me…
I read that, and I think the whole thing with all of its associated links is ideal fodder for the insanity that is the Friday Ephemera.
I mean… They’re saying that the Left has no media ecosystem. WTF? Am I crazy, and just somehow managed to miss all the right-leaning media for the last forty years of my life? Have I slipped into some bizarre parallel universe, where up is down, white is black, and all the media sources are actually right-ish, but somehow manage to portray everything to the benefit of the left?
Did I take crazy pills, this morning? Am I hallucinating? Inquiring minds would like to know…
Chickenshit hurricane thinks it can wreck Havana then hide behind the Yucatan Peninsula. Like the Cubans won’t be able to see it there.
They’re saying that the Left has no media ecosystem. WTF?
Appears to be a new talking point among the court scribes.
What I’m waiting for are the tribunals when they are forced to explain how the hell it is that all the damn media outlets are somehow coordinated and using the same wording with the same interpretations passed out at the same time, across the country.
Once you’ve seen it, when you watch news feeds from separate markets, you can’t unsee it. There has to be a huge coordination effort going on behind the scenes, somewhere. It’s like watching a flock of birds all veering the same direction all at once… Truly amazing coordination. Hell, you even hear the same emphasis put on the words like they’re all Stepford Wives or something.
I hate to say it, but the US media is in better lockstep and coordination than the Soviet Union’s was. That is not natural, not for a supposedly “free” press.
Amazing to realize that they’ve done it themselves, voluntarily, without a hint of coercion from something like the KGB or GRU. It’s an incredible achievement.
They will get away with it if the right continues to let them, as they have for decades now.
Like bright pink or blue hair, take this as a danger sign.
@WTP, who said:
Y’know… I don’t know that its so much that the “right” is “letting them get away with it” as it is that this crap is so buried in the background that nobody notices it.
I’ve got the misfortune of having a mind that is very OCD about some things, and I’ve been reading the daily papers and reading the news on the internet since I was in high school. Unless you’re an obsessive, you simply aren’t exposed to enough of this crap to really get a perspective on how uniform it all is. Most people have one or two sources of news that they use, and that’s it.
Which explains how they get away with it all. People don’t pay attention; the bias and diversion simply aren’t things that register for most.
Another point about the news media monoculture is the way that they all report on the same things, and they all equally ignore the same things. Most of the actual lies are lies of omission, where they provide incomplete information and use that to artfully conceal what is actually going on. You’ll see something like “Burisma” highlighted as being investigated for corruption, but they’ll never bother to mention how half of Congress has relatives working there on do-nothing jobs… Things like that. You have to go digging, do the research, make your own connections.
As the commenters note, YOU ALREADY HAD THEM AND YOU DROVE THEM AWAY.
Zero self-awareness.
What’s that song in the background? What kind of Cluster B erotic fantasy is that?
Also, the commenters keep winning:
Like bright pink or blue hair, take this as a danger sign.
Well, the French did the same to identify collaborators with the real fascists, so history repeats, I guess, as inadvertent as it may be.
“I’m pressure. I’m pressurelicious.”
Strangely, inverted, boneless, pork rectums come to mind.
Shots fired in the Anglo-American soup wars.
Who was in charge of make-up?
I do, I do!
Morning, all.
Or, Neurotic Women Are Neurotic.
See also this, among many other examples.
When they tell you who they are, believe them. As I’m told the kids say.
I mean, if a spiteful, childish, slightly camp, leftist ideologue announces to the world, on camera, that his weird political fixations are much more important to him than his supposed loved ones, his family and lifelong friends, and that he wishes death on them for daring to disagree with him, then I see no reason to assume that he must mean something other than what he’s actually saying, having thought about it and filmed it, and having then shared it with the world.
Where students might see.
But hey, pronouns in bio.
I know, I know.
You’re thinking about buying one right now.
“Now is not the time to rest on your laurels. Now is the time to work.”
“No, I have no idea.”
Stress testing?
“Well, that escalated quickly.“
Whicever country that is, do they not have those big red escalator stop buttons? The ones that always make my hand itch as I cruise by?
@dicentra: “What’s that song in the background? ”
Shazam says it’s ‘Labour (the cacophony)’ by Paris Paloma.
Such a horrible atonal modern dirge the only surprise is the music director for the new ‘The Day Of The Jackal’ hasn’t included it on the soundtrack with the rest of them.
Although I’m only three episodes in so far, so I guess there’s still time…
Why is it sticky?
I. DON’T. KNOW.
Heh. Maybe it’s the sound.
As someone quips in the Reddit comments, it seems to be packed in asbestos.
Oh, and you’re not supposed to eat them.
As seen, for instance, here, these are not things said and done reluctantly, in some momentary fit of anger, or under duress. This is something that’s been considered, chosen, rehearsed, and then willingly shared. Something that he feels emboldened to do, presumably because many of his peers will be saying the same things. As if it could have no negative repercussions.
Happily, and somewhat surprisingly, he was wrong, on this occasion at least, and has, it seems, been placed on “administrative leave.”
I’ve added Mr Serrato’s contribution to the previous post.
It looks like they are applying white/clear fuzz over a printed rubber body.
I remember watching the 70s film, some years ago, but I wasn’t even aware the new series existed. Probably says something about my confidence in modern retellings.
Is it any good?
@Kirk at 3:17
Exactly.
I can’t see any instructions.
I think that’s sort of the point. Try going to options, then click flat mode, then, when invited to create a wig, try clicking the space bar, vigorously. Nothing much will happen, at first, but over time things may get rather complicated.
The Universal Paperclips game may be (slightly) easier to fathom. If you haven’t, er, played it, I’d start with that.
I should, however, add it’s a path to madness.
Hmmmmm…
Yeah, you can’t hide something like this forever… We’re being lied to and manipulated.
They think being a wanted terrorist is a ‘social justice’ qualification.
Man has a point…
Worth a read… I think he’s accurate in what he says; the utter falsity in what our elites tell us is something that more and more people are picking up on. Which can only be good.
Band name.
Laura Helmuth, mentioned here, wants you to know how much she respects you.
Previously in Ms Helmuth’s strange mental world.
When someone speaks under circumstances like that, they’re telling you rather more about themselves and their true beliefs than they are when they speak “with consideration”.
Consider what we’ve said before about self-regulation; the majority of the left cannot self-regulate under duress of any sort, and they consider duress anything that resists their ideas and self-image.
Frankly, I’d strongly suggest that we ought to do away with IQ testing entirely, and create a test that rates the ability to self-regulate; if you can’t demonstrate that, you don’t get anywhere. Not school, not jobs, and certainly not governmental positions.
Almost all of our problems as a society go back to this deficiency in self-regulation.
Dysregulated women would also be a plausible band name.
Regulate, in the sense that we are talking about, is a vastly underutilized word/term/concept in our lives.
Most people associate it with “regulation” as in “a rule”, when the meaning here is more along the lines of “under judicious and considered control”.
I think there ought to be a discrete term for it, in the common usage. If there isn’t a word for something, it doesn’t get discussed clearly because you can’t just shorthand your way into using it in communication. You have to talk around the issue-without-a-word, and that’s both awkward and confusing.
The ancient Greeks had a thing they termed aretḗ, a concept expressing the idea of generalized excellence and grace. Even had a god devoted to the idea…
We’re woefully lacking, in this regard. No terminology, no convenient way to talk about it. The Greeks had a term for both aspects of this: akrasia and sophrosyne. I’d like to suggest that we ought to bring both of these terms back into common use.
Much of the histrionic display we see online these days exemplifies akrasia as a concept, and that alone ought to serve to tell you that the people exhibiting it are not serious people whose ideas are at all worthy of consideration.
Ah… Here is something we ought to be using: Sophron.
One should strive to be a sophron, demonstrating aretḗ in all aspects of life.
Most of the idiots on the Left are utterly lacking in either of these virtues. They’re mostly human scum acting out their personal insanities.
I seriously doubt that it’s millions.
“Is it any good?”
It’s a very modern production with media darlings in the main roles, quite slick, lots of on-location filming but will make you wonder how much a hit on the music director would cost.
I see that the New York Times and Washington Post are still maintaining total silence about Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, the African Muslim illegal immigrant who shot a randomly chosen Jew in Chicago, even more than a week after terrorism and hate crime charges were filed.
Think about celebrities we have today: Are any of them at all like Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant?
I have a hard time thinking of any leading men of today’s acting world that could come close to either of them, in terms of aretḗ. George Clooney? Tom Cruise? Anyone current strike you as being at all self-regulated or controlled?
You don’t see it in public, you don’t try to emulate it. We live in dramatically coarsened times, I fear. Same with the politicians… I mean, Trump is effective, but does he possess grace? I haven’t seen anything even vaguely graceful on the Left in my lifetime; it’s all histrionics all the time.
@pst314, who said:
Well, he shot a Jew… It’s not like that’s someone who matters.
To them, at least.
Observe how they cover this latest outrage in Amsterdam. Examine how they’ve memory-holed October 7th and the ongoing hostage situation. Do you know how many Israelis are unaccounted for, still? It’s not like that’s anything the media in the west is concerned with.
When they start killing journalists like they kill Jews, I’m simply not going to give a damn. Hell, I may even play rock, and call out their names while they’re hunted.
And what’s that thing hanging in the background? Some kind of mannequin?