Friday Ephemera (789)
Cleavage. || Big Derek and the haunted Sheffield nightclub, 1970. || American driver versus British roundabout. || At last, a rotary keyboard. || And in women’s volleyball news. || It goes on forever. || Yoga, you say. || How to get shot. || The 10 drunkest countries. || Dubious PhDs, from queer captioning and the “systemic ableism of visual arts” to lesbian houseboating. || Canned chicken, chowder, and freeze-dried cheese. || For $100 an hour, she offers coaching in “texturism” and “child liberation.” || Oh, to be young and in love. || The thrill of laundry. || Not quite grasping the concept. || Not quite sensing the causality. || It’s not a vape, it’s an anxiety pen. || Social interaction is always a pleasure. || Someone took her feathers. || And finally, enliven your houseplants with Mother Earth’s Plantasia.
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How many cows were in that meadow?
They don’t skimp on the cow.
It’s a smallish Chesterfield company, though I discovered their excellent pies via the Chatsworth House Farm Shop. They’re very good indeed – much better than anything you’d be likely to find in a supermarket.
[ Writes down onion gravy. ]
Apparently, Grok is “transphobic” now.
With spuds, or triple-cooked fries with Cornish sea salt?
I know. Silly question.
Reality is ‘transphobic’.
cough Cleavage cough
I hate when that happens.
Moral of the story: Never trust explicit or implicit promises made by businesses and governments.
This is why pre-internet wireless speakers were better: They could not be bricked.
All my speakers are wired, although I have a BlueSound unit for receiving internet radio stations.
One does not really need a special audio component to access internet radio. It’s perfectly feasible to do this with a browser on a laptop–just make an audio out connection to your stereo. The audio component is merely more convenient.
Just as reality is “structural racism”.
Stolen from Ace of Spades:
One for Muldoon. Only 39p.
Haven’t heard from S Weasel in a while.
Louis Rossmann is leading a crusade on his YouTube channel, offering bounties to programmers who hack certain devices bricked by the manufacturer.
Latest target: Bose’s smartspeakers, bricked after 10 years of making people use their servers to access Spotify streams, broadcast throughout the house and other functionalities.
Lou Rossman Bose linky link
Needs work.
Bears repeating.
Yep, Halloween is about 2 weeks away and he ain’t winning any prizes with that get-up.
There’s only so much that can be achieved with theatrical chin-fingering. And the I’m-just-going-to-flick-my-fake-hair-over-my-shoulder was rather more manly than I’m guessing was intended.
Officers respond to shooting. Bystanders chimp out.
Ya know, I’m doing my part to put the US on the list, but apparently I can’t do it all alone. Step up (to the bar), American people!
Modest suggestion: Ship them all to Haiti, where they’ll fit right in.
I think we both know what’s needed.
Good lord, that fills me with an overwhelming urge to protect children from ever encountering her, with lethal force, if necessary.
Also, I AM FULL OF STEAK PIE.
Time to dismantle “sociology”.
This makes me feel pretty good about the coming race war.
Honestly, I can’t tell if that’s satire or not.
Is that a relatively recent development?
Since around 1995, after the county went bankrupt.
Warrant issued for arrest of Jessica Yaniv after alleged harassment charge
That concept or feeling she’s orbiting around in her resentful transactional language of privileges, connections, resources, opportunities, language, environment – the English word for that, used by normal unresentful people, is home.
When you realize you’re not a global citizen, you’re just a tourist, you go home. When you’re hanging around the expat bar but no longer getting the quality of invitations you got when you were younger and fresher, you go home.
That alienation and friction and lack of rapport you feel in Costa Rica – home is where you don’t have to feel like that or live like that. Alternatively, if you wanted to be as miserable here as you are there, you could bring all five million Costa Ricans with you, or any foreigners in similar or higher orders of magnitude. But nobody would be that stupid.
Do results improve with repeated plays?
Do let us know.
Fifty or so should do it.
Perhaps a rule, hard and fast, that, when bystanders first interfere, the police, firemen, medics, et al, shall pack up their equipment and leave. No exceptions, no ‘do overs’, one and done.
‘But I have a certificate and everything!’
Better if the police become very quick to start shooting these savages.*
After all, the person they’re trying to help could be entirely blameless.
* And ship any survivors to Haiti.
And the bystanders could be trying to administer last rites or faith healing.
After a certain point you just have to stop caring about what could be.
Fuck the violent bystanders.
What if, for instance, I was on my way to the University of Chicago and got shot when a traffic accident forced me off Lake Shore Drive onto “diverse” South Side streets?
2025 winners.
Tease.
Emesis sets in much, much sooner.
2025 winners.
If an eel bites your hand
And it’s something not planned
That’s a moray
2025 winners.
The giraffes are beautiful and sublime. As is the lioness on the beach. And the cheetahs with their prey. Just wonderful. The cacaphony of the seagulls around the fishing boat is great.
The monkeys and hyena are captured by camera trap. I have looked into that simply for fun. A camera trap is akin to a very sophisticated trail cam – a proper camera and flashes are set up with a a device that has a beam that triggers the camea and flashes. It sounds easy but the trick is to first identify where the animals are going to be because you are going to leave that gear in place hoping it gets triggered for some time – from what I have read, usually a month. So a lot of folks who do camera trapping first set up a trail cam in an area they think the animals might be to confirm it, e.g., a log from a fallen tree over a marsh or swamp might be that bridge, or a wash with visible tracks. Great shots.
A diameter of 16 meters could make a very nice bang.
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Today I photographed my 178th marriage proposal. Sunrise at Newfound Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains NP. My “office.”
The young lady mentioned that he had told her they’d watch the sunrise and then take some pictures for their Christmas card. So I took them to Morton Overlook to do a picture there for their card.
Thank God I had these clients with me because I get there and two heifers are using a sharpie to graffiti on the retaining wall there. Fucking pigs. If I had not had clients, I would have gone full Bronx on them. Seeing anyone disrespect my mountains triggers the hell out of me.
I take the picture and decide I will spend some time on it. I cleaned it up but I wasn’t satisfied. So, I took it into AI and made a Christmas card.
I hope they like it.
Picture didn’t attach, damn it.
Real life or 28 Days After?
Standard on every home in that part of the world. Heavy metal doors or an iron grating as a screen door. The back patio is enclosed by a wall that goes as high as the roof, and embedded in the top of the wall are pieces of broken glass and/or razor wire.
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
They tried to pull this garbage during the counterculture revolution in the late 60s. Objecting to child sexualization was just an old “hang up.”
One proponent was Frank Marshall Davis, who was a friend of Stanley Ann Dunham’s father, and through Mr. Dunham a young Obama was mentored by Davis.
Further than that, who knows…
Did someone mention trail cams?