Friday Ephemera (761)
Street food. || Lumpfish. || Crab versus grape. || Woman versus sofa-bed. || Boneless. || Just like blogging. || A collection of cartographic objects from the thirteenth century onwards. (h/t, Things) || It’s a lot to unpack. || Aspiring to cliché. || She, not he, was deemed a “risk to the public.” || The Unspanked walk among us. || He wasn’t sure what they wanted him to do with it. || “Do not comment on my shit,” says she. || Today’s word is dupe. || Airport scenes. || Question asked. || It’s seasonal. || Just a touch more. || She teaches small children. || I’ll bet the ladies feel reassured. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || What he said, and then some. || There was smoke, some shouting. || Hiking scenes. || “They needa give y’all refund.” || And finally, the joys of parenting.
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If this be democracy I want none of it.
A micro-identity for microcephalics.
A desperate need for grapeshot. Just a whiff.
The spicy kind, clearly.
To loosely paraphrase Mike Tyson: Everyone’s an anarchist ’til they get punched in the mouth.
He’s still not going to get laid.
What the hell for? I’d pay extra for a flock of birds in my room.
Grok thinks they were likely Palm Warblers in migration who were also trying to escape a hurricane, so they got confused and ended up flying through open balconies. Could also have been Cape May and Prairie Warblers in the mix.
I didn’t know that airports were pubic places.
Seems like the guards would have been better able to restrain her if she weren’t buck nekkid, but her nudidity acted as a shield. They didn’t dare touch her, lest they be accused of indiscretion.
Oh dear, our nude airport screamer has been identified.
So, a manic episode. She’s traveling with her 8-yr-old but forgets to take her lithium.
If I were at risk of doing that without my meds, I’d keep extras strapped to me like phylacteries.
@Steve E
“… Mad studies…” was all that was needed as it pretty much covers all the other waffle
More likely to be lunar
Ok, here we go: Fellowship of the Ring from Studio Ghibli.
Perfection.
I resemble that haircut – but wider across the top and all natural
If this actually is a left-wing meme, it’s pretty good: https://x.com/DrClownPhD/status/1905406446403022855
When I tell people I’m a Calvinist.
Morning, all.
I suspect the charm might fade. Also, not entirely sure that the best solution is to allow the birds to fly around the rest of the ship.
He does strike me as someone whose jaw requires breaking. As often as should prove necessary. Until he learns to behave.
It’s a big mousetrap with a mattress.
Though I think wrangling the comments is more like this.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
I believe this is called a course correction.
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
One university, 249 “diversity” employees.
Again, the words course correction come to mind.
You know those big rotating plastic wrap things at airports? One for him and one for the flailing nekkid chick.
Jesus wept. It shows how mad things got. Thank God Trump won.
As if the people likely to enlist in the armed forces – and whom you’d want in the armed forces – would somehow be enthused by the prospect of a military made up of pouting, vogueing transvestites.
I mean, you say this stuff out loud…
They lie like breathing.
Today I discovered the term civilisational doom-loop.
Ok, here we go: Fellowship of the Ring from Studio Ghibli.
Perfection.
Ghibli . . . homages? Knockoffs? Either way, since ChatGPT came out with their 4o image generator this week, redoing everything in the Ghibli style is trendy now.
I am trying to keep up with all the AI image generators.
And because I think I’ll need a bookmark to return to the comments later – my Bronx among the daffodils.
“Democratic” in a People’s Democratic Republic sense.
Finally, Dicentra says something I can disagree with. It’s too cute looking.
One fragmentation bomb, smack in the middle of the intersection.
She, not he, was deemed a “risk to the public.”
Not her fault, the NHS didn’t give her this fine Canadian training.
Meanwhile in Kentucky, reactions of colleagues of a “legislator” who is discussing sex dolls for
pedos“MAPS”.And you are… Ming the Merciless? Dale Arden? Flash?
My aunt used to have the video of that movie but the presence of Brian Blessed and Timothy Dalton(!) had completely passed me by.
These unspanked leftists are not human beings. Treat them accordingly.
Surgically implanted slow-release drug delivery. Or incarceration. I feel sorry for her daughter, though.
That.
Heh.
Ah, but will those kommissars be laid off, or will their DEI activities merely be shifted to new locations in the bureaucracy?
Iowahawk weighs in.
Though I think wrangling the comments is more like this.
It has not gone unnoticed worldwide, behold The People’s Monument Of Glorious Blogger Labor.
The “All Seeing Eye” is what really sets it apart from more mundane labor monuments
Setting aside the housing supply and access to services and so forth, it seems to me that, to some extent, starting a family presupposes a certain optimism, a sense of future possibilities. Yet massive, unprecedented, indiscriminate immigration, including inassimilable tribes who will contribute next to nothing and who will likely be, and remain, net welfare recipients – is a fundamentally alienating and demoralising phenomenon.
When your neighbourhood, your home, is being so rapidly and radically transformed, without your consent, such that even a simple bus queue becomes a grim shorthand for civilisational decline – one’s shrinking territory – then those future possibilities, that sense of good things ahead, may, for some, seem rather remote. Which may in turn have bearing on any thoughts of having children.
Likewise, the consequent decline of social trust and the not unjustified concern that any children one might decide to have, and their children in turn, may find themselves an alienated minority in their own schools and neighbourhoods, their own cities, and perhaps their own country. A country in which “white” and “whiteness” are fashionable pejoratives. None of this is inspiring or a basis for optimism. Which, again, may be a factor in deciding to have a family.
And yet the demoralising effects of so much progressive dogma are remarkably under-examined.
Me too (not sure if I should dump Midjourney), so I asked Grok:
Current AIs with Image Generators
Ranking the Best AI Image Generators
Here’s my ranking based on image quality (realism, detail), usability (interface, accessibility), features (editing, customization), and cost-effectiveness:
Conclusion
As a form of respect to real citizens, we ask you to piss off to Pakistan.
But where is the baked beans version?
The true cause of power blackouts
In response to her claims, NHS lawyers have said that Christian beliefs Mis holds, that we are born male and female, are ‘not worthy of respect in a democratic society.’
I think she should find another NHS nurse who is a devout Muslim (I doubt there’s a shortage of such in modern Britain) and invite her to join the suit. And then ask these lawyers to state that Islamic beliefs “are not worthy of respect in a democratic society.”
The street food one reminded me of when I worked for a paving company. One of the workers would pack chicken in aluminum foil and bury it under some of the asphalt in the paving machine. Cooked to perfection by lunchtime (I took his word for it.).