Friday Ephemera (782)
Big beast incoming. || Interspecies battle of wits. || Cheeeldren of the night. || Eight literally dark days in history. || Trajectory detected. || Trajectory detected 2. || Gratuitous gesture. || A gathering of dragons. || Hot and steamy jiggling. || The joy of budgeting, 1957. || Suboptimal driving mindset. || It’s a “joyful noise” of resistance, see, so suck it up, neighbour. || It involves a rug. || “No recognition was given for improving literacy, numeracy, or classroom learning outcomes.” || On history and the tragic vision. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || On medical ethics and body modification. || Over a vape. || For portable storage. || The progressive retail experience, parts 655, 656, 657 and 658. || Experiments in sudden-onset upwardsness. || Finger licking good. || And finally, somewhat flappy at speed.
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Not worth the bother then, is it?
D—-d few leftists are worth the unsaturated, responsibly sourced fat needed to fry them in Hell.
It would not, I think, be a practical, or indeed sane, use of one’s time. I mean, when the terms of membership include compulsory masking, your choice of wedding ring, and which genres of YouTube video you’re allowed to watch…
As [+] said recently, following this,
Less a matter of politics as one of weird compulsions.
Around the 11 minute mark, while being led through the house in handcuffs to retrieve the knife she stabbed her cousin with, she says, without irony:
That was AWESOME. I would totally do that. ~:D
Oh, there’s plenty of irony in there, though none of it intended.
It’s one of those where you’ve a pretty good idea of what’s going to happen, yet it’s still pleasing when it does.
I’m just going to leave this here, I think.
Do tuck in.
What does it say about the world that there’s a subreddit called DontPutThatInYourAss
Do tuck in.
What…is that?
[ Slides jiggling foodstuff closer to ComputerLabRat. ]
Don’t be shy.
That’s why most of Hell is a Brobdingnagian air fryer.
[ Jiggling intensifies. ]
[ Glares. ]
[ Begins researching cost of fitting out a panel van as a mobile correction booth. ]
“Refugees”, they say.
Thank you, no. I’m trying to cut back on . . . erm . . . hmm . . . give me a minute, I’ll think of something.
What…is that?
A genuine Northumberland bean fountain, generally served with deep fried cabbage and boiled eels in aspic.
Not sorry.
One for the ladies, I think.
Menfolk, avert your eyes.
Magnetic urethane.
The petition for lenient treatment of the illegal truck driver who killed 3 in Florida is now at 3.2 million signatures. It was just over 3 million three days ago. So I think it is reaching its asymptotic limit.
That’s hysterically funny.
When you’re too old for Burning Man.
My wife was leaving mass with her parents and her parents’ best friends Lois and Gurd. As was their habit, the men walked ahead talking sports while the women followed a pace or two behind. Gurd seemed to be having some troubles with his right eye. He complained to Pat about how it was irritated and stung him. My father-in-law, struck by sudden inspiration said, “Gurd, you’ve burned your vagina.” Gurd quickly replied, “You know Pat, I think I have. I’ve burned my vagina”
The only thing funnier was my very proper catholic mother-in-law dying of embarrassment.
Florence King would laugh.
Could swear they said they took back their dignity.
When the tyrants have the approval of their own conscience but can’t be bothered with the pretence it’s done for the good of its victims.
Sasha Shakur, yet another trans killer. With the usual cluster of “causes”.
From melting pot to stir-fry.
“When someone tries to kill you, you should just kill him right back.”
If the victim had been armed, she could have killed the “migrant” kidnapper, which would be much better than the 27 month sentence he got.
“beep if you think Starmer is a wanker”
Well, it is rather large and heavy for a child, not to mention the recoil. She’d do better with a crew-served weapon.
Possible clue why sheriff executed judge in his own chambers
Dunning Kruger on steroids:
Trans-sovereign?
“Joy Reid just openly admitted she’s a DEI hire:”
In other breaking news, the pope admits being Catholic.
That’s hysterically funny.
ISWYDT
I guess she’s too old for the nose ring.
She asserts that he attended that Catholic school, but I don’t think he did. (His mom used to work at a different Catholic school.)
He said in his journals that he chose it because it was a soft target full of innocents, and he wanted to be like Adam Lanza, who shot up Sandy Hook elementary.
Lanza had the craziest damn eyes I’ve ever seen. Westman looks smug and not a little sociopathic.
I just did an image search for “Adam Lanza” on Duck, Duck, Go and quite a few pictures of Westman came up, too.
What exactly happens here?
I can’t tell what he did to mess himself up.
Eyewitness account of what happened in Dundee with the hatchet girl.
I was waiting for some kind of insight, but instead she starts with a fundamental error – “that poor girl” – and goes downhill from there, via unconsidered platitudes and grotesque inversions. And so, amid the horror of children being murdered by a mentally ill cross-dressing man, the thing that seems to bother her is that people may associate transgenderism with mental illness, as if this somehow weren’t a basic, definitional reality.
Progressive women. The civilisational analogue of bone cancer.
Oscar – “they/them” – wants to acknowledge his privilege.
Selfishness and consequences.
Bookmark for the weekend.
Now for some happy news. My husband got his latest PET scan back after three rounds of chemo.
The old tumor isn’t showing any active cancer.
There’s just a small, faint area on the other side of the tongue that’s probably nothing serious, but surgery will give them a chance to check everything directly.
The neck lymph nodes look better and there’s no sign of the cancer spreading anywhere else.
What this means: The doctors are going into surgery with a clear picture: the cancer looks contained, there’s improvement since treatment, and nothing new has shown up elsewhere.
So on Tuesday he gets a two-day nap, first surgery to remove the tumor and then on Wednesday to reconstruct what’s needed inside his mouth. I won’t say I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel but . . . there’s a gleam.
The very best, madam.
Best of luck, Stephanie.