Friday Ephemera (772)
Relax with a little gardening. || She felt the important thing was to self-narrate. || Mom, I suspect, was not home at the time. || One for the anatomy quiz. || Men With Long Hair, 1967. || The floor is lava. || Ploppy chocolate. || For armchair tourists, a walk around Pall Mall and St James’s Palace. || Some improvement needed. || The progressive retail experience, parts 630, 631, 632, 633 and 634. || “People keep saying that Hamas hates us, but, like… maybe we vibe.” || It helps to have the children afterwards. || The new minority. || Not maddening at all. || Cursor anxiety, a thread ensues. || Our totally balanced betters express their feelings. || Balance shifted. || Belated pushback. || Unboxing video. || No, he doesn’t own a grocery store. || Not sure it fits, love. || Customer feedback.
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The much better, more entertaining video that followed David’s lively exchange of views link.
oh, and sound on for full effect.
First, hedgehogs, now this.
There seems to be an . . . exotic . . . theme developing.
[ Rummages in cellar, returns with enormous magnifying lens, almost a metre across, positions in front of face. ]
[ Does innocent face. ]
Does anyone ever ask those ‘giving voice to the voiceless’ for evidence the ‘voice’ is genuine?
[ Sits in garden, watches enormous bee. ]
Think you need a bigger lens.
There ya go…
Crime is concentrated.
Related to the above, this:
The post includes links to more eye-widening statistics.
isn’t this a good thing, build your enemy a golden bridge to escape, rather than them waiting Downfall like?
Classic leftist diatribe, note how suddenly the grocer is not included in “the public”, as if the collective noun that represents everyone, including the grocer, has been elevated to a separate entity, which, apropos to leftist thought, can simply kick out it’s constituents on a whim.
Another one for the Climate Change – what can’t it do? list: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/19/flavour-of-gin-and-tonic-could-be-impacted-by-climate-change-study-finds
Even accepting the idiotic premise that a changing climate (and when in the history of the planet has the climate not changed?) will change the flavor of the juniper berries, I highly doubt the cut-rate bottom-shelf gins are going to taste much different than they do now, so only the most expensive ones could possibly change – and thus only the wealthier clientele would be affected. I thought the Guardian hated rich people, so why should we care about this?
Grapes have terrior too, and wines probably have changed flavor over the years as soils have changed, but somehow the wine industry has adapted. No doubt the gin industry will too, if it ever comes to that. Besides, Sharia law forbids alcohol, so how are they gonna square that circle?
You can argue that DS9 is the best among them because they question Federation dogma.* The Hell to the Chief episode, Hard Time, where O’Brien experiences simulated years and years in prison, wherein he kills a fellow prisoner over a food ration. He comes out changed by what he did in the simulation, which is not what he thought a good Federation officer would ever do.
There’s also a scene in one episode where Nog challenges Jake about the Federation’s nonsensical attitude toward currency. Quark is a great foil to the Federation’s idealism while elevating Ferengi ethics to practicality over Evul Capitalism.
The Visitor (a young writer visits the aging Jake, played to perfection by Tony Todd) was outstanding in that you could ONLY tell such a story in the sci-fi genre.
Then there’s Gul Dukat’s descent into messianic madness alongside the brilliant Louise Fletcher. (She plays Cluster B women absolutely perfectly.) I just skimmed the episode guide, and there were a lot of bangers.
* Also, that Tribbles episode.
Coincidentally I’ve just completed finishing a binge watch of DS9, now moving on to Enterprise
I struck me how Trek writing was brilliantly escapist, and by recent iterations that are adapting to “modern audiences” it just shunted back into the real world, kind of defeating the whole point of the series.
Yes, DS9 did have some pretty solid non-space-monster antagonists. Louise Fletcher was always fun to watch. Ditto Dukat.
Oh, and Weyoun (and his clones).
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Hm. Good luck with that one. Just getting past the theme song – and it is a song – was enough of a challenge. The Trek formula was getting pretty tired and repetitive by that point and I can only recall a couple of entertaining episodes.
[ Fetches heavy-duty gloves, rolls shelled, fluff-encrusted hard-boiled egg – now roughly the size, weight and appearance of a coconut – along bar to @PiperPaul. ]
[ Rolls strangely discolored, debris- and fluff-covered chocolate towards David. ]
Two questions: How did it get out of the tank and how long can it survive out of water?