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?
Hardly anyone today even knows what that word means.
He is when he is harmed by someone who is not a mascot minority. Otherwise, not much.
Your comment is the first I’ve heard of the mob violence against Israeli soccer fans, but I’ve been too busy since yesterday lunchtime to do more than quick casual hops on the internet.
This is nothing surprisingly new: Bruce Bawer wrote about Muslim violence in the Netherlands in his 2006 book While Europe Slept. And I had random encounters with smart educated Europeans who laughed contemptuously at his book.
From what I can make out, it’s some kind of flocking powder that’s meant to imitate the feel of fur or velvet or whatever. Hence the stickiness, I suppose.
So, not asbestos. Or cocaine.
Today’s word is impervious.
Other words are available.
…in terms of aretḗ. George Clooney?
Speaking of whom, he is now one of the reasons Harris lost.
The utter flailing of these bozos is a wonder to behold, always something other than “we sucked so hard we could air start a deuce and a half by sucking the exhaust, maybe we should see where we went wrong”..
Meanwhile, never having picked up a real history book, one nitwit is suggesting anyone who voted for Trump should be made to wear a red hat, another says she is going to “get a Glock” (apparently the only shooting irons in the world are Glocks and AR-15s) and shoot yte men (only hwites, only at night, only in the street, though), and in a unique twist on the concept fellow anti-Trump types should get a tattoo – all this stuff to identify the “fascists” of course.
However, to liven the mood,
Shot:
Chaser:
Stay with the last one…
[ Muffled laughter. ]
I don’t know who he is, but I think I know what he is.
A handy identification chart for her and her friends:
You’re in luck. They’re still warm.
A handy identification chart for her and her friends:
Pretty much.
…another says she is going to “get a Glock”…
Here is that fetching lass, BTW.
Gents (hwite only, thank you very much, the verdict is apparently still out on yte Hispanics, Asians, and light skinned mix-race Trump suppoeters) if you are out at night anywhere near this loon and the ground starts shaking, seek cover even though I reckon the only safe place would be the target.
Related, from the late great Jeff MacNelly:
“I’m a political analyst, I’m telling you right now, the numbers are there, she’s taking this election.”
Shot:
Chaser:
“It was absolutely magnificent, I’ve never seen anything like it in my entire life, impressive on a level…she has the campaign playbook, if you’re gonna win, that’s the playbook that you use,”.
“I’m not deluded, you all are deluded”, she added.
Good news everyone!
George Clooney is off the hook, Carrot Top says Taylor Swift is to blame! (For the love of all that is holy and your sanity, skip to about 3:30)
“Political analyst” is usually a euphemism for “professional liar”.
The ignorance is stunning. The wokies (and so many TV ads for candidates) claiming the Supreme Court and Trump took away abortion rights is so insane. All that happened was that the court (without Trump) said it goes back to the states for legislation. That IS democracy, but they don’t like being denied their demands. And of course in places they demand abortion right up to the day of birth.
Oh, this. There even ought to be a word for that problem itself. Kidding only slightly. For many years I struggled to explain certain things about how haywire things were getting but would get lost in trying to describe the concept, thus distracting from the point I was trying to make about the concept. “Cancel culture” being a big one. Amongst friends I was calling it “Litmus test culture” but even that didn’t catch on such that I had to explain it every time the subject came up. “The narrative” was another one. I tried to put it in terms of that stupid Matrix movie, but my disdain for the movie was its own distraction. What has been interesting to me is that in the last few years, as the terms ‘narrative’ and ‘cancel culture’ have caught on, there has finally been some pushback on those fronts.
Castros got there first.
Dude, spare the real Carrot Top the slander. As far as I know, he’s a conservative or conservative-leaning guy. We have a few mutual friends (I know, right? I’m just two phone calls away). Kinda, sorta met him once.
Trump around, Trump around!
Heh. Do help yourself to the inverted, boneless rectums.
It’s easier (& cheaper) to repeat the same pabulum as everyone else than it is to be original in any fashion. And by repeating the same pabulum in every venue, the populace at large assumes everything is normal because, well, everyone says so. Think of it as the triumph of mediocrity.
The kids are alright.
In Spain they removed hundreds of dams for “the environment” and over 200 died in floods. Many things exist for a reason, such as dams. Dams don’t care about your ideology.
‘Joined-up thinking’ not among them.
“Sophron” pop culture rants about “getting in touch with your feelings” for men, and “don’t be afraid to cry” crap. No respect for the stoic, boring, steady man
Every time I see her she looks more and more like Herman Munster.
*plays it again*
Replace the “y” in the job title with an “i,” and you get a better description.
A 70 year old snark, updated:
Well, it’s worth keeping in mind that the people having these juvenile, theatrical meltdowns – and the women setting up cameras, cutting off their hair, badly, and then screaming into pillows – are the ones who assume that they should be in charge.
Of pretty much everything.
Two thumbs up from Quasimodo.
Randy Newman warned us.
Recommender algorithm is broken.
Ok, that made me laugh out loud for several minutes.
Seriously now, if you’re running into people who wonder why Trump won, quote from this paragraph. It’s a nice summation of the last four years from Curt Anderson.
https://thespectator.com/politics/finally-democrat-autopsy-republican-consultant/
I’m sure it won’t change their minds, but it’s a nice receipt.
@WTP, who said:
Repeat after me the following mantra: Language is a tool for thought. Language is a tool for thought…
If the word doesn’t exist for a concept, it can’t really be discussed.
If you capture the meaning of a word, you can warp the discussion of it.
Note the leftoid Marxist creation/capture of the term “Capitalism” to discuss what ought rightly be termed “traditional human market activity”, rather than this horrible thing they turned it into with their jargon; they won that battle, we should not cede the field to them in this or any other endeavor.
Language is a tool for thought. Perhaps, the tool…
Won’t somebody think of the taxi drivers?
@ccscientist, who said:
I don’t know that there’s anything in modern pop culture you could even remotely tag as possessing any sort of anything close to the sense of the word I have. “Sophron” is the diametric opposite of everything there, these days.
David Niven? Sophron, with style. Clooney? Yeah, I’d want my money back, on that one… Same with the rest of the waily-waily-woe crowd in public life. The repudiated VP candidate Walz being an excellent example.
“I can’t be the only person who, watching this video, became absolutely certain that her house smells powerfully of cat piss and box wine.”
To the Left, you are either a believer or a heathen. There is no concept that other people might have different values, goals, needs. Such as not getting mugged or buying butter for less than $7. Or wanting things that are good for their kids. Or going to church. No concept that such things are possible. Their certainty is their armor. Take it away and they fall to pieces. hahahaha
The most delicious thing to me is Dems discovering that hispanics are not a reliable voting bloc after they scuppered this election bringing in millions of them illegally to be loyal voters. I saw that in some place (or nationally?) they went 45% for orange man. I saw interviews with black men who gave very clear reasons for voting trump. It was also funny as hell to see the denial that Trump rallies had POC there, as if someone was just making that up. Trump increased his % vs 2016 in every demographic, even white women (probably married ones).
When Trump promised to deport millions, the claim was made by the MSM that it would cost too much, as if flying them in, giving them housing, giving them food cards, was all free.
Theirs is bigger, too
Elon Musk’s election celebration rocket
Heh. Speaking of taxi drivers, anyone heard from Thomas Friedman lately?
Believe me, I’m no fan of Noam Chomsky but that SOB knows his stuff. Another big thing the right generally doesn’t get. Some do, but not enough.
Furry convention in 2018.
Something you rarely see at gatherings of golfers, decorators or accountants.
I can’t fathom why her media team failed.
Sign of the times…
I’ve posted incessantly on this here and elsewhere, for the last twenty-thirty years.
The minorities are at about the end of the time when they could turn this crap around; from here on out, there’s a definite risk that enough of the marks are going to cop to the grift, and then it will be game on.
The real problem here for the blacks and others is that “Hispanic” and “Asian” can very easily morph over into “white”, which makes it probable that they’ll be able to pass right on in with the majority. Blacks, however, have a literal mark of Cain they have to overcome for that to happen, and it likely won’t.
Did it to themselves, though… I’ve got zero pity and even fewer f*cks to give about it all. For the group, that is… As individuals, I find it tragic. I worked with and for a bunch of outstanding black Americans while I was in the Army, had no problems with them as individuals. As a group? With all the leveraging of the race card that many used? Nope; not even on a bet. They’re toxic to any good organization, once above a certain percentage. Much like Muslims.
And yet I’m told in no uncertain terms that furry is not a kink.
Sometimes stereotypes are accurate.
Devon Eriksen nails it on the door… Again.
I’d like to submit Mr. Eriksen as a candidate for X/Twitter poster laureate, being as the man is a genius.
I know he is, because he agrees with me so much, but is so much more articulate than I am. He somehow does these long-form pieces without reducing himself to gibbering rage as he writes…
“In Spain they removed hundreds of dams for “the environment” and over 200 died in floods. Many things exist for a reason, such as dams. Dams don’t care about your ideology.”
Well, frankly, they don’t give a…
I’ll get me coat.