Friday Ephemera (753)
Just a bit of a bump. || Boiling water is hard. || How to build an omni-directional bike. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Bills above. || The adventures of Rupert the Bear. || Because he has been deemed more important than you, ladies. || Dinner and a show. || I’m guessing it tickles. || Good to know. || I suppose it would pass the time. || And it’s wipe-clean, which is always a bonus. || Clearly, she was feeling it. || Venting, near and far. || Vending-machine diplomacy. || Does a doctor’s self-vasectomy video count as oversharing? || Fat Japanese mascots jammed in infrastructure. || More joys of public transport. || Today’s words are time and place. || Pianist enhancement. || Pottery and LEGO, together at last. || Four legs good. || And finally, the experiment in time travel was not without its hazards.
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It’s quite maddening, in that, during the week I’ll find things to include in the Ephemera, only to discover, just as I’m compiling the thing, that most of them have been deleted by moderators. And rarely for any discernible reason. In this respect, it’s much, much worse than any other platform.
Except, perhaps, BlueSky.
Back in the Nineties, when we lived in an unglamorous part of Nottingham, we would routinely register this. I recall one afternoon when three of us were heading home from the cinema, walking through the city centre, when I spotted a group of four ferals pointedly spitting at the shoes of passers-by, so as to provoke an altercation. They seemed to enjoy the looks of disgust and the air of intimidation. Luckily, they’d run out of spit before we were in range.
To some extent, you may age out of their radar. They seem especially focussed on provoking conflict with others of similar age. Though not, of course, entirely. And it goes without saying that the ferals in question should have had their jaws forcibly dislocated.
More cuteness.
Feds: Another thing Trump needs to do is Patel needs to send orders down immediately that there are to be no false flag operations of any kind. No marching around in Khakhis pretending to be “patriot front”. No more governor kidnapping stings. Also, the identity of any mass shooter must be released, not hidden if inconvenient.
Heh.
Fulminating MDS.
Or Orson Welles doing a voiceover.
How dare you reproduce.
You have to wonder who they think is going to pay for their retirements if not those born in this country.
The notion those invading the country will become respecters of law & custom, gladly paying taxes & the like, once they cross the border is delusional to the point of requiring pharmaceutical intervention.
A wariness of criminal and antisocial behaviour is really just a fear of “poor people,” says he/they.
The scare quotes around ‘crime’ were a cute touch.
Or, person of fabulist, imaginary sex embraces fabulist, imaginary politics.
She has an OnlyFans, obviously. Where you can ogle her mastectomy scars.
If that’s your thing.
I’m betting it’s another troon and sooner or later he will become “justice involved”.
Her X bio reads, “i live to punish god.”
Which possibly conveys more than was intended.
See also the Guardian‘s Zoe Williams, who would have us believe that the only problem with ‘problem families’ is that they’re poor. That, apparently, is the only reason one might not wish to live next door to violent, thieving ferals who blast out loud music at 3am and throw pets from upstairs windows.
Needless to say, Ms Williams does not live anywhere near the kinds of creatures whose sociopathy she excuses. A convenient distance that I recently suggested shrinking.
I spend a fair bit of time on Reddit. The whole insane Elon thing has yet to invade the subreddits I inhabit, like Aviation and Machinists. The general subs and of course the news and politics subs have all gone (stayed?) visciously, aggressively, bonkers.
If even a quarter of this story checks out, it’s pretty frightening. People need to go to prison and our legal system needs to be completely overhauled. Tho I give that a 1% chance of ever sufficiently happening. If that.
Doh. I see Dicenta posted the same thing. Thx.
So you asked for flying cars, this is the best 21st century can do.
[ Gorged, rolls onto sofa, watches Grand Tour Colombia Special. ]
Since you ask, it’s the one with the cocaine hippos. And the donkey shagging. And in which the music system of Clarkson’s Jeep Wranger is sabotaged so as to blast out It’s Raining Men.
So this happened…I was posting on a comment on a Facebook group page regarding the JFK assassination. There was all sorts of conspiracy theories running wild concerning multiple gunmen, etc. I find it very weird how confident these people can be. Not wanting to get into every single theory’s flaws, I said the only one I could possibly believe is that maybe, just maybe the CIA got to Oswald and he shot Kennedy because they presented to him a window of opportunity…or something like that. But that all these other crazier and crazier theories are perpetrated by the CIA as cover stories for that much simpler explanation. So here’s where it gets really weird…just as I post that I get logged out of Facebook.
So I go to one of my other devices and try to make a comment on my own timeline saying, “heh, isn’t this funny”. I then relate the story above and as soon as I post that I get logged out of Facebook again. I could not get back in nor access my account. Go to wife’s phone, as she refuses to get her own account, piggybacking on mine. Same thing happens. I check my email that is clearly associated with my account but there is nothing there. So…if I suddenly disappear here…well… not suicidal and I know nothing that will lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton. Well, not anything that anyone else wouldn’t know.
Yet another security guard who is a killer.
No lie detected.
I am not sure about that. Trump is moving fast and breaking things. I think going after J6 abuses is one of the things he wants to do.
I also don’t know how deeply engrained that abuse is. Are there other times prior to J6 when people were persecuted like this? Is it something the system does regularly, or was it a one-off thing?
If new leadership says “this BS stops, and it stops now,” how many lower-level folks will be relieved they don’t have to carry out crooked orders? How many have enough institutional memory to know how to behave with integrity?
Watch and wait, I guess.
I hope I am wrong but much of this is out of Trump’s hands. The judges and the legal system have many, many ways to defeat him. He has razor thin majorities in both houses. The Senate is hardly a majority given that Vance had to get called in on the Hegseth vote.
This isn’t just a one-off thing. Lawfare has been going on at many levels for decades. Our legal system is way out of our control. They effectively run things and they will not give up that power easily. Especially when doing so will expose their corruption. They and the lawyers are not answerable to anyone.
Previously the feds preferred to set buildings on fire then shoot anyone trying to escape.
I worry about that, too. The left has infiltrated everything.
“My new gender is defiance”. Reminds me of the old lawyer joke:
What’s the difference between a lawyer and a rooster?
A rooster clucks defiance!