What, These Knockers Here?
In academic news, Yasmin Benoit, “model and award-winning asexual activist,” announces her new position and wants you to notice her cleavage:
I’m honoured to announce that I’ve been given a visiting position at @KingsCollegeLon! We’re going to be conducting research into asexuality together & our first academic paper will be coming out this month! I’m in my academic era. 🎓#ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike pic.twitter.com/cam5uhAvvt
— Yasmin Benoit, MSc (@theyasminbenoit) January 3, 2025
Because she’s so asexual, you know.Â
Via Ophelia, who asks a not unreasonable question.
Readers are welcome to speculate as to what, exactly, “asexual rights” might entail, and how being asexual, or, more coyly, aromantic, differs in any meaningful way from having a low sex drive. Other than the statusful, rather pretentious labelling, I mean.Â
Update, via the comments:Â
Clam quips,
*tries not to look at tits*
Truly, we live in an age of wonders.
At which point, I should add that Ms Benoit’s insights, aired via Instagram, include a revelation that SpongeBob Squarepants is also asexual. Which may hint at the dizzying levels of scholarship to be anticipated.
Inevitably, Ms Benoit shoehorns in a racial victimhood angle. Because… well, one can’t be seen without one, I suppose. Not in academia. And so, we’re told that asexual people who are also black “just aren’t perceived as the ideal type of asexual representation, nor are we as amplified or included within the asexual community nearly as much.”
Yes, it’s tears and contrivance all the way down.
And I have to say, Visiting Research Fellows aren’t generally so keen to show off their bras in their social media avatars, or to foreground their breasts in every single photo, or indeed to do interviews with Playboy magazine. Complete with breast-heavy – but, like, totally asexual – photoshoots.
Above, one of many such items. For research purposes only.
This one gets it.
That’s part of the somewhat fascinating exchange going on between my wife and her sister right now. Her sister keeps referring to Elon as being a “foreigner” with the implication that such a thing would/should of course concern us, seeing as we are so concerned about the border situation.
Tried to post that on fb but my wife says she can’t view it. I’ve noticed some X posts where you have provided an alternate link for those without X accounts. Is that an option on X that I’m not seeing or isthere some link converter that you are using?
DifficultImpossible.USAID: aid is in 4 categories: 1) direct relief of disasters, providing vaccines. 2) useless woke foreign crap like trans coloring books 3) direct corruption/graft to foreign and US politicians 4) funneling $ to US Left wing causes not authorized by congress.
The screeching by the Left is so hilarious. They know that billions flow through USAID and into their NGOs. where did I leave my tiny violin?
Insubordination is why it was shut down. Congress had asked to see their books and they refused (no consequences) but when Musk asked and they refused….BOOM. The Deep State thinks they do not answer to congress or a R president. ahahahah they do.
Huge slush fund and money laundering in service of the Ruling Class. It was established by a JFK EO, no reason why it can’t be changed/curtailed/absorbed the the State Department the same way.
Creatures like Chuck ‘reap the whirlwind’ Schumer are freaking out *hugely*. What, audit us??!! How dare you!
Delicious.
Word of the day: fleurons
The element in the reporting about the USAID craziness that set off every alarm bell my psyche possesses was the buried-lede mention in a few of the stories that AID was trying to prevent DOGE from accessing its SCIF, WTF is an aid agency doing with a SCIF? Why would they even think they needed one, much less actually have one? That single mention alone told me the organization was massively dirty — Augean Stables level dirty — and needed to be nuked from orbit,
He routinely survives his own plane crashes to prove how tough he is.
Democrats are vociferously opposing deportation of convicted criminals. They do not want corruption and waste at Treasury and USAID to be rooted out. It is frankly not a good look.
And yet so many of the liberals I know go along with that.
…the USAID craziness…
Speaking of which, via Ace, we’re paying for the Beeb to the tune of 2.6 million Imperial Dollars.
I apologize: I can answer my own question. The Left are black and white thinkers. They cannot admit that natural gas is better than coal for the climate–all fossil fuels are absolutely bad. They cannot admit that some criminals must be in jail/deported–all criminals are victims. They cannot admit that landlords do the poor a service by creating rental units–all landlords exploit the poor. etc.
As to USAID–this is their personal slush fund. How dare Musk question it?
It’s always the ones you least suspect.
Not really. They play a long game, incrementally changing the parameters of the argument while indulging in selective amnesia & counting on the short memories of the public.
I wonder how many people have had this sort of clarifying moment.
(Via CdrSalamander.)
Mistakes were made.
Informal DOGE member wins the internet with this insult: https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1886652836446187869
I’ve got a tenner that says she’s autistic as hell.
Yeah, there is some of that going on, although who knows how long it will last? If there is a silver lining for the Great White North, it will be that this is the kick in the ass we needed to build the infrastructure to get products to market. Northern Gateway (crude to the Pacific) was cancelled, as was Energy East (crude to Quebec and the Maritimes), Transmountain Expansion (crude and refined products to the Pacific) took forever, and cost mega-bucks because the government encouraged and funded activists to oppose it. We might all remember when the German Chancellor was begging for LNG exports from Canada the Dauphin blithelyinformed him that there “was no business cse for that” – but tried to iterest him in “green” hydrogen from a plant that wasn’t built using a process that hadn’t been proven. Such are the resuts of letting morons vote.
In the long run, this would be bad for the US, since Canadian products sell at a discount to world prices since we have not developed external markets. When that changes, the discount dissappears, and US consumers pay more. To be honest, what Trump is demanding (control entry into our country more closely, and take action against drug manufacturers), are both the basics of good government – which the Dauphin has never eve pretended to deliver. It is a little embarassing that a foreign leader has to blackmail us into running our country like a serious undertaking – see above re voting standards.
I have some friends and acquaintances who voted for the little smarmy puke a couple or three times: I have suggested to them that since theyhave shown themselves incapable of voting intelligently, they might sit out the next election to spare the rest of us from their incompetence. They react with horror, since they now intend to vote for the NDP (think Labour, without the rigour) or Green (’nuff said). How sad that we get the governments that the stupidest among us deserve.
Well – 60 days in advance, actually. That border protection plan was announced in mid-December.
Yes, I have heard that — but bearing in mind this was apparently an agreement with a senile old man ( and given Trudeau’s pretty stark refusal to do anything concrete before, not to mention the state of Canada’s finances and the fact that Parliament is prorogued and incapable of anything) has the plan been 1) FINANCED 2) STAFFED and 3) ROLLED OUT as a functioning operation? I would be betting against any of the 3 having taken place, or being capable of taking place at any time in the forseeable future.
[ Slides single Nestlé Shreddie along bar to dcardno. ]
Sorry — late night posts are a guarantee of confusion. I was trying to point out that the December “plan” is a pretty vaporous set of offers, not an agreement or treaty (which would have to have been a Biden product since Trump had no de facto status until inaugurated). So, Trudeau and Biden, both on the way out politically, somehow generated this pious pretence in December; Justin, naturally, has taken no action on it at all, and Biden most certainly had no recollection of it 10 minutes after the “plan” was announced, Since then Biden has mercifully left the building, Trudeau has announced his resignation (only not really, just the usual vaporous Trudeau non-promise) and prorogued his own Parliament to prevent anything of value to his own countrymen from happening. Seriously want to run with the take that we have some kind of binding commitment from Canada? I don’t, and I reckon neither does Donald Trump, who gave Justin 30 days to come up with something of actual substance.
That’s how I see it, anyway.