Friday Ephemera (767)
A compendium of near misses. || The thrill of automation. || Taken: The Musical. || Snugger than thou. || Augmented-reality surgery. || The machine uprising, day 10. || Bigger than yours. || How to scare children. || I have a question for the ladies. || Modern slutting woes. || You want one and you know it. || A lot can happen in two weeks. || The airport passenger you’ve always wanted. || A trip to the shops. || He has an all-pink apartment. || The progressive retail experience, parts 628 and 629. || “Don’t expect passing to get rid of your dysphoria.” Related. || You’re threatened by her creativity. || Rather overshadowing the task at hand. || A situation had arisen. || Trans wing of Antifa showing their inner loveliness. || The fangs are the icing on the nightmare cake. || An unorthodox fight scene.
To enable extra commenting options – including @username mentions, upvotes, and live notifications – scroll down to the black ‘Meta’ box at the very bottom of the page and click register. It’s free and quite painless.
This blog is kept afloat by the tip jar buttons below.
Weren’t we just discussing littering?
Incoming.
That’s one angry bread slicer.
I think it may be a machine for making un-toastable bread. The randomly shaped lumps being suitable only for gnawing and dunking.
Circularity?
Band name.
wasn’t there a Ray Bradbury story about angry appliances?
“…his codpiece hits different…”
I feel I should be fist-bumping someone.
Sound comparison.
[ Fetches velvet bag full of razor sharp and/or sticky objects. ]
Do help yourself.
Seems that congress critter who shouts profanities at Trump (Crockett?) has been getting (or family has been getting) social security since 2004 from a dead relative. Contra claims by the left that it is “absurd” to think that dead people are getting SS. hahaha but claims it is their personal business (in a sense true).
A fashion choice was made.
One more for the compendium of near misses:
https://youtu.be/c0M7NeSYw2E?si=sM7in8uGvgItJVYB
It’s the word ‘fashion’ I question.
That’s been going around. I saw it at Insty and reposted it on FB without checking. A conservative, a real conservative not the RINO fake kind, friend of mine said it was fake news. Everything I checked pointed to the source as being a satirical site. Others pointed out that the same trope had been used previously regarding other leftists. If you can find a trustworthy source, let me know.
Glenn Reynolds/Stephan Green should know better than to fall for that.
The demographic group quickest to resort to racist insults:
“I’m not trying to start anything, but the handicap spot is not a loading zone.”
“Fuck you mother fucker! White ass mother fucker!”
On educated people opining on crime, a thread.
I strongly suspect it wasn’t the restaurant but his youthful taste buds.
F Muldoon:
Racial bias in jury verdicts.
…where jury trials had to be abolished in favor of bench trials…
Some friends of my father were attorneys in Chicago. They had defended many accused black criminals. One of them said (and the others agreed) that when an accused black saw another black on the bench, he’d say “Get me a honky judge.” Apparently (at that time) black judges tended to be very hard on black miscreants, while white judges were usually dismissive.
This, this, this.
I long ago lost track of the number of acquaintances who were educated fools.
.
Excellent prank.
Educated fools: I can tell when someone is talking if they get all their news from facebook or CNN. It is like a script, with no thinking. Some is even obvious nonsense, like back in the Russia Russia Russia fandango.
Don’t know how you can tell about FB or social media in general as it’s quite eclectic unless the someone is in the same general domain as you, but CNN definitely yes. And for me, the biggest tell over the last quarter century or more was how I could spot the NPR/PBS listeners. I found it very creepy especially when it was local/state news. And they were always the smaaaart people. My doctor or managers, especially mid level types. Or when I worked for defense contractors, even the low level managers. The mantra…
If “as long as the American education system has existed, cutting funding to the arts has also existed,” how come there’s so much funding for the arts?
I’m thinking of some creative ways to remove that ring from her nose.
I note that if you are a musician, an author, an actor, an artist, a scientist, etc., there is no stigma about your stepfather being a fan of your work. Hmmm.
Hot flashes are different for each of us when going through perimenopause, I got the heat but never the sweats. And I remember my husband at first wondering if my perception of ‘hot’ was just my perception, until he touched my skin and realized it felt like having a very intense fever all over. (I was lucky … I came out of the other side of menopause and all symptoms stopped)
So yeah, I can see the top of a bald head steaming under the condition.
I’ve always said this place is educational.
Though, frankly, I’m not sure how much use I’ll get from this new information.
A necessary statement of the obvious.
On poverty, benefits, and gratitude.
When it seems that the obvious thing to do is to throw a small dog at the police.
I hesitate to mention this but at 6:13 am you linked to the same tweet twice.
[ Quietly fixes link, smashes antique vase. ]
“Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”
Cue “Entrance of the Gladiators”.
Maybe you’ll need to warm up a soft taco one of these days, you never know.
I’m still processing the framing of fetishistic mutilation and life-shortening hormone abuse as healthcare.
Meanwhile, among the by-definition-delusional, and those who exploit them.
Paywall, though I was able to screen shot it before the login/ad popped up. You actually pay for a subscription to something that calls itself Business Insider that does stories about trans beggars?
As for the second link, I’m actually a tad impressed. Professional circus clowns don’t put that much effort into their costumes.
There is that, but I am still wondering what, “…permanently broken foot, neuropathy in her legs, carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands, and gastroparesis…”, has to do with, “…the legal minefield of providing gender affirming care in Idaho…”
There is, of course, the injustice and indignity of having Medicaid deny, “…Other procedures that Todd is seeking, from bottom surgery and breast augmentation to laser hair removal…” which obviously should take precedence over his litany of other issues.
Also, “permanently broken foot”. Untreated fracture, untreated malunion of a fracture, untreated non-union of a fracture, OK, permanently broken? No such thing.
“Business Insider”, great googly moogly.
At risk of sounding more heartless than usual, it occurs to me that a mentally ill man who isn’t sure what sex he is may also be somewhat disorderly and unreliable in other areas of life.
At times the sotto voce addendum surpasses the main point.
Gratitude? Endangered, if not extinct.
[ Recalls Manifold Destiny. ]
Well, the fact that the prospect of gratitude doesn’t exactly rush to mind, as if the very idea were utterly improbable, despite decades of subsidised housing, food, clothing, education, medical care, etc., probably tells us something.
[ Recalls Manifold Destiny. ]
If the women don’t find you handsome…
I realise the word despite may be creaking under some strain there.
Much less annoying than Europe’s various red-green coalitions.
The green is an optical illusion – they’re all red.
[ Starts checking women for steam. ]