Friday Ephemera (750)
Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Machine uprising, day 8. Previously. || Please deposit keys in secure storage box. || Load-bearing rave balcony. || Improvised theatre deemed insufficiently gay. || Gather sandbags, passports, and be ready to sell the house. || He’s a hugger. || Width issue. || When starfish attack. || “The owner serves customers while moving like a robot.” || Penetrating rays. || “Salaam, don’t stress,” he says, helpfully. || The progressive retail experience, parts 603, 604, 605, and 606. || To prevent cheating, obviously. || Quality care. || Adventures in modernity. || He “combats racism” by being obnoxious and racist. || Best not to, really. || I suspect the first sentence may be a lie. || And lo, an alarming wind. || Wheel of fortune. || First taste. || And finally, you want one and you know it.
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I didn’t want to scandalise the ladies.
You know how delicate and prone to fainting they are.
We’ve all heard about those pervy dolphins, but I not a bonfire of the manatees.
a bonfire of the manatees
How long do you have to be at sea before you think that looks like a mermaid?
When you hear that all the midshipmen and cabin boys are poxed.
Aircraft carrier: I do in fact want one.
width: how did she get in the store if she can’t get out?
Feeding the bear: bears are MUCH faster than humans. It seems Darwin still has work to do.
We had to divide the church to unify it.
Dammit! I swear I tested it after posting.
Thanks for the fix.
Just keeps going and going . . .
Dammit! I swear I tested it after posting.
Well yeah, you can’t go around using his bandwidth to steal the memes and images he used someone else’s bandwidth to steal them in the first place.
Can you imagine the chaos if everyone went around sharing links to memes and images – why, someone might miss out on a click and cost a mill in ad revenue.
No, the Powerline guys are perfectly reasonable to block hotlinking: When you hotlink to somebody’s images, you are in effect using them as a free data repository without them getting any traffic to actually read their posts. This increases their data storage and bandwidth costs without them getting any benefit of readership. I first encountered this issue with bloggers for whom lost revenue was not an issue because they had no ads on their sites.
Ice-T let his auto registration lapse for 3 years. Then tries to drive to the DMV but gets stopped by the police. I suppose we should be thankful that the “Cop Killer” rapper only exchanged words with the officers rather than bullets.
And yet it seems so… AOL-era. I haven’t seen a blocked hotlink in ages.
Looks like another immigrant killing random people, this time in Rotterdam.
6 foot 5 inch “woman” stabs postal worker to death in New York deli.
Yeah, that doesn’t look like a real woman, just another deranged trans criminal.
It OK when they do it, though, it is not as if the memes are their originals.
If so, they made a poor choice of host, I use one for primarily for email that for the princely sum of about $10/month gets me a domain and unlimited storage and bandwidth.
There’s a difference between them downloading a meme once, and posting it on their blog, and on the other hand someone hot-linking to their image.
Ice-T let his auto registration lapse for 3 years.
That puts it right around the time of CoVid when renewing licenses and registrations etc wasn’t the easiest thing to do. (I know, my license and health card expired with no notice from the appropriate departments.) He said he had 7?, 5? vehicles. I can see how this happens. He was on his way to fix it and was feet away from the DMV. It would have been easy for the cop to say park it here and go get this sorted out at the DMV.
It would also have been easy for Ice-T to take a taxi. I would never have done what he did because I know it’s illegal and unnecessary.
Attention, menfolk.
Though I’m not sure what you’re supposed to do if you don’t own a paper fan.
Can’t tell whether that’s a dude or a transdude.
pst314: “Ice-T let his auto registration lapse for 3 years. Then tries to drive to the DMV but gets stopped by the police“
What is it with rappers and vehicular naughtiness?
I’d forgotten about that one. And with it, Dr Riley’s claim that being gratuitously confrontational, and repeatedly and needlessly colliding with random men, is somehow an “empowering” habit, a roar of feminist superiority. And not, as one might suppose, evidence of an obnoxious and dysfunctional personality.
I’m now wondering if Dr Riley has consequently been punched in the face, or bumped into the path of oncoming traffic. Which might conceivably happen to a man behaving in a similar fashion.
Keep this space or tear it out?
Plenty of good ideas in the replies.
Oh dearie me. But Mr Stormzy has been deemed a person of massive importance in school music lessons. An inspirational figure. What with his ditties about ejaculating on the faces of other people’s girlfriends.
More significant than Mozart.
“But Mr Stormzy has been deemed a person of massive importance in school music lessons. An inspirational figure. “
Is that why he’s all over the BBC all the time?
Ah, but, you see, when not boasting of his sexual dominion over other people’s girlfriends, Mr Stormzy is, we’re told, busy “using his work to address social issues.”
A bit of levity.
[ Spends twenty-five minutes denuding Christmas tree, packing away baubles. ]
Not to mention every other form of naughtiness, up to and including murder.
Social issues such as the pleasure of committing crimes and the racism of police arresting criminals?
from the link:
Only if “white supremacy” is a euphemism for civilization.
Yet another philosophy professor who is a moral degenerate.
“Steak therapy”
The moment that liberals get pushback on crazy assertions.
[ Misses baubles. ]
steak therapy: because my second freezer is giving things freezer burn, I am undergoing “steak therapy” all week to rescue the contents. The freezer burned broccoli can fend for itself. I can testify to the benefits.
Video needs a dun-DUN.
Did the salesgirls chase him out of the makeup department before they explained concealer?
It’s not the freezer, it’s the packaging. Get a vacuum sealer.
I’ve always said this place is a one-stop shop for lifestyle advice.
No refunds. Credit note only.
[ Strongly considers gin and tonic. ]
Does this kerning drive you to drink?
Does this kerning drive you to drink?
(Whoops Error Happen)
Paramilitary social workers & other observations.
Yeah, I want to watch a 57-minute video to glean one or two points.
Ah, the voice of moral authority.
It’s almost like they’re daring us to notice how much they lie.
Related: Paul Mason’s 10-point plan to defend “British democracy” from Elon Musk: The Anti-Musk Playbook.
Mr Mason, a former Trotskyist and BBC economics editor – because, well, obviously – does seem to live in his own little world. I recall his conviction, aired quite emphatically, that “computer games can help us overthrow capitalism.”
I mean, when you’re 64 years old, as Mr Mason is, it is, I’d suggest, time to grow the fuck up.