Friday Ephemera (759)
Hot gasses. || Algae and turtles. || Ah, that would explain the cones and tape. || “It had three tentacles and started tapping on my window.” || Not in fact a dog. || Ditto. || Definitely pregnant. || The progressive retail experience, parts 618, 619, 620, and 621. || She advises on mental health and her pronouns are turtle. || Packaging of note. || The future of shopping, 1982. || Leg man. || That can’t be good. || Gummi innards. || Excessive jiggling. || Ice integrity test. || Loving the monster in modern academia. || And speaking of academia, from The Journal of Lesbian Studies. || Hey, baby. Wanna reproduce? || “Heads for all occasions.” || Green Party’s Carla Denyer ponders womanhood. || A Guardian retrospective. || Unforeseen difficulties. || And finally, I’m sure it seemed a good idea at the time.
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By the way, this morning’s expedition to the British coast – specifically, Mablethorpe – went well. It was cold, as you’d expect, but sunny. We found an unglamorous café, where we had a surprisingly good breakfast. And we marvelled at the tat on show in souvenir shop windows. The Other Half toyed with the idea of buying me a foot-high plastic gorilla adorned with faux diamanté.
The remake is still relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fohoawphzw
Related.
The X links work for me, too.
There is a special place in hell for people like Michael Mann.
“Far right men — who are some of the biggest fetishizers of trans women”
let me stop you right there. No evidence for this whatsoever. Contrary to logic. False. Blatant lie. insane. It is not the far right who attend drag story hour or who hire these creeps. This is probably an opposite day definition of “fetishizer”, meaning “upset by”.
Blast from the past.
re Blast from the past.
This. Western civilization has castrated itself. Anyone younger who dares to step in or even…speak up, will be criticized, shunned, mocked, and possibly even prosecuted. It doesn’t have to be this way. Westerners choose for it to be this way. Mostly by their silence. Especially those who say that they don’t like what is happening, but only say so in their safe spaces.
The left’s casual, routine, and endless lies are unforgivable.
It should be legal to shoot dead, without warning, any hooligan who threatens a citizen.
NASA’s Artemis project is not a mission to the moon; it’s a marketing campaign for DEI.
Which is why NASA is crying havoc.
“We’ve got to protect our phoney-baloney jobs, gentleman! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately, immediately! Harrumph, harrumph!”
It’s fine if they do it.
They.
Only.
Wish.
Many of the links I click show only an “X” on a black background.
Sometimes, in Firefox, on my home internet connection, Twitter links take forever to load, and they show the X on the black background for what seems like forever, but eventually, the page will load. Tonight they all were doing that, so I switched to Brave, and then the links loaded just fine. Firefox is loading X again in fairly short order, so who knows.
They really don’t get it, but is that a good thing or a bad thing? As long as they don’t get it, they’ll keep digging the hole they’re in. If they figure it out, maybe they’ll become more powerful manipulators.
The projection is strong with this one. Quoth his respondent Diana:
Heh. It calls to mind an unhinged Salon article, in which we were told, emphatically,
As I said in reply,
But hey, we mustn’t inhibit the fantasies of Salon contributors.
Meanwhile, New Jersey is trying to out California California.
An apt response might be, “I will not participate in this farce, and anyone attempting to compel others to do so, at a time when they are likely to be tired, stressed and susceptible to manipulation, should, at the very least, be ashamed.”
An apt response might be,
At a time when they are likely to be tired, stressed and susceptible to manipulation, I can think of many more, the most polite and succinct of which is, “Piss Off”.
It’s curious how a supposedly oppressed and voiceless demographic can corrupt and make absurd almost any institution in which its name is invoked. And with remarkable swiftness.
Ooh. Being taken out for a pub lunch.
Score.
An even better, follow-up, response would be a coordinated nationwide effort to make the people responsible unemployable in healthcare, education, etc.
Maybe some demographics should be oppressed and voiceless.
This sort of misbehavior could be solved with the proper application of truncheons and firearms.
The world improves when people like this get shot resisting arrest.
[ Sips beverage, awaits pork roast. ]
The world improves when people like this get shot resisting arrest.
Naperville – if the “Chicago man” had been in Chicago and not the ‘burbs, he’d probably already be back on the streets.
Meanwhile in the Great White North an embargo is threatened. Of course it would shut off their main source of revenue if there was no such thing as a VPN.
Canada’s best and brightest rival our own.
LOL.
But if it’s Canadian, isn’t it mostly moose porn?
Carusone is an MMFA operative so a large reserve of salt is recommended.
Yet another professor creatively misunderstanding a serious point, in order to defame an honest man.
Rory Stewart, Professor in the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University.
I propose the Rory Award for the Most Obviously Dishonest Speech by an Academic.
So after a rather loud night, with a metal roof even mild storms sound like a bloody German Opera, we go out to survey the damage and I’m rather impressed/happy. Power is out but nothing but twigs in our yard. Walk around the neighborhood of about 80-90 homes or so and only see a couple small trees down, so I’m thinking not so bad. Then we come around the corner and a tree is lying/leaning on a power line. Oh. Well that explains the power…no biggie but might take longer than usual to get the power back on. Maybe later today. Then a couple more houses around the corner and…this. Nice day today, temps in the 60’s, but expecting to hit the 30’s tonight. Fortunately I have some firewood for whatever that is worth. Hope Stephanie (?) in Knoxville is ok…
As others have replied, Mr Stewart – sorry, Professor Stewart – seems to be struggling with the ideals of masculinity.
[ Boxes canned goods, toilet paper, air-mails to WTP. ]
A common problem in academia.
I would not have mocked Rory if he had displayed any honesty in his replies. But resolute dishonesty seems to be the only form of resoluteness in most of academia. Intellectual and moral authorities my ass.
David, thank you for lengthening the window within which one can edit a comment. It has allowed me to fix a number of errors that I did not notice at first.
Behind the scenes, I toil ceaselessly, tirelessly, heroically.
Shakespeare’s birthplace to be ‘de-colonised’ over fears his success ‘benefits the ideology of white European supremacy’
And so, once again, the resentments of the inadequate are paraded as a virtue.
Vandals in tweed are nonetheless vandals.
The reason why men die sooner than women.
How I wish Heinlein and Pournelle could have lived to see this.
Do university professors still wear tweed jackets with leather elbow patches?
Band name.
And we have power back on. Yay. They cleared the big downed tree out of the way, replace the pole, transformer (or maybe just remounted), took care of another tree over the power line, all in about 4 hours after first showing up. Impressive. May still burn a couple logs tonight to celebrate.
Don’t worry. You can keep the baked beans and toilet paper.
You can keep the baked beans and toilet paper.
The
sand paperBritish bog roll might come in handy if repairs are needed, and I guess the beans might make a good filling compound, being inedible and all.Shakespeare’s birthplace to be ‘de-colonised’
How do you you de-colonize something that wasn’t colonized to begin with, and England in general was de-colonized when the Romans left anyway.