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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Fun to do, but not nearly enough.
Hey, I’m switched-on and plugged into the scene, man.
Not digging it.
This place is happening, man.
…
Unfortunately it sometimes happens while I’m eating.
More to the point, how much good science would be found?
Not Haitian I think. The accents aren’t right – Haitian Creole imparts a different lilt – and I think I saw ‘Ghana’ imprinted on the back of the elder’s (?) garment.
Yes, unfortunately. Shaved-monkey touchiness is all the thing in academia.
The popularity of home truths.
As Mr Webb says, he speaks in everyday terms and doesn’t share any shockingly outlandish or complicated insights. Merely questions of a kind one isn’t supposed to ask – and with reference to realities that are often widely known, but regarding which we’re supposed to pretend something else entirely.
Not unlike this place, if I dare say so.
If not quite as happening.
We’re way more showbiz here.
[ Rummages under bar for flashing lights, smoke machine. ]
Which can get in the way of effectively arguing one’s case. Toughness is valuable. And if disagreement puts one in psychotherapy, another field seems advisable.
As for those who weaponize their resentment in order to attack and destroy critics, well, another field should be mandatory. Cleaning toilets seems about right.
From Mr Webb’s blog:
How to get a job at the BBC and a page on Wikipedia: Lie shamelessly?
She’s not happy.
Stephen King stole this joke from horror author Robert Bloch, I believe. Bloch was telling that joke to audiences at least as early as the 70’s, while King’s career didn’t even begin until the 70’s.
(via Eric S Raymond): Something is wrong with Tim Walz.
Something is wrong with the people of Minnesota, that they’d elect this creepy weirdo.
Prescription: Strong meds and a straitjacket.
I would guess that’s AI or digitally manipulated. Though Mr Walz does strike me as an absurd figure, so I suppose there’s always room for doubt.
Same here, no matter how often the jiggling thing is pushed towards me.
From the video it appears to be something cooked inside the stomach of something else, possibly with a section of intestine at the top? With some kind of chili sauce poured over it?
You’re intrigued, I can tell.
“You will live to see horrors beyond your comprehension.” –Nikola Tesla
Fatigue: “I don’t feel comfortable with y’all.”
Well, I don’t feel comfortable with creatures like her.
Magalodon. …Because I can.
*Snatch a hat out of child’s hand
*Double down on how it was a great thing to do
*Threaten people who are criticizing his dick move with legal action
He should be flogged.
His representative has said that what was posted on GoWork was a hoax perpetrated by someone else.
I’m still waiting to see if he will break his silence about what he did.
Boys will be boys.
He couldn’t hire enough lawyers to sue the millions who are going to drag his sorry thieving arse from one end of the internet to another.
Well, his company’s reputation is certainly taking a beating.
#Equity: Master’s thesis by a “queer Albanian immigrant” argues that Canada’s child welfare system should stop keeping records of child abuse because they lead to higher rates of Indigenous children being placed in foster care and “into White-Canadian families”.
I now assume that anyone identifying as “queer” is up to no good.
No Department of Defense ever won a war. — Robert A. Heinlein
“You’re not a gay woman, you’re a trans-man.”
*THE* most insidious “conversion” ideology around.
Hate the media? Not enough.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own. Comments that-a-way.
Bit of a free-for-all when it comes to jokes like that. But Tom Lehrer did it better:
I hold your hand in mine, dear,
I press it to my lips;
I take a dainty bite from
Your precious fingertips –
My joy would be complete, dear,
If only you were here –
But still I keep your hand
As a precious souvenir.