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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When you swim in the sea,
Something chomps on your knee,
That’s a moray
She seems to have a good voice? But look what she did with it!
I detest American roundabouts. Ones that go backwards would be even worse.
That, as they say.
She specialises in giving bad haircuts. To “trigger MAGA snowflakes.”
And so we arrive at the concept of heroically bad hair.
From the replies:
Captures the dynamic.
Heh.
Did someone mention trail cams?
As someone who regularly hikes in the dark, there is something titillating when your headlamp picks up a set of glowing eyes and your brain goes aw fuck, what is it . . .
I’m having that experience in which an actress whose work you’ve enjoyed, in this case as a highlight of Andor, starts opining on politics.
That’s what I assumed.
And it drastically reduces the attractiveness of living there.
I’ll bet that the “traumatic experiences” that she ran away from LA to escape had nothing to do with crime and everything to do with people politely disagreeing with her silly opinions.
The desire to be “original” and “experimental”. I wonder how many of these people think they are creating beauty. I have known a few people who had very intellectualized definitions of beauty–sort of like the authors and critics who prize works of fiction which are all form and allusion but lack any interesting story or sympathetic characters.
White people rap.
“I don’t understand it…”
Curious how those who bang on about ‘solidarity’ and ‘community’ do their best to inculcate disruption and disunity.
Is it realising she’s as thick as treacle in January that’s troubling you?
Many varieties of stupid actors.
Consequences.
“Why would they feel so aggrieved with Kier Starmer that they would behave in this fashion?”
My guess is the checque bounced.
“incompetent to stand trial”: laws that let such creatures go for this reason are simply wrong, extreme versions of compassion gone wrong. If someone is dangerous and incompetent, then they are insane and need to go to a ward for the violently crazy (there used to be such). Letting them go to prey on us is not a solution.
Denying visas to those who wish to destroy the US is NOT a political litmus test, contra our legal “expert”, unless you view destroying the US as a legitimate political stance (looking at you Obama),
I don’t know about thick, but it seems unwise to rely on pop-culture analogies, given that our pop culture is overwhelmingly produced by people of a particular political leaning, with all of the blind spots that might suggest.
Can we second the quality of the Meadowfresh pies, please? We also came across them at the Chatsworth Farm Shop, and they are VERY GOOD INDEED!
Jimmy will f— you up.
Elon Musk: “I have mental illness….”
“howler head monkey spirit”
From the many mocking replies.
Note to self: Do not watch actors whose work you’ve enjoyed talk about politics. It retroactively spoils what you’ve already seen and makes taking them seriously in any subsequent role somewhat unlikely.
“Community”: this is a trope on the Left. It is what they claim to be protecting or promoting. It is what is supposed to raise your child. But it does not exist. I belong to multiple “communities” such as my church, my immediate neighbors, a close group of friends, my relatives. But a great big “community” does not exist. Deep in our genes, we spent a million years as part of small tribal groups and still long for that sense of belonging. Not to be found. As someone noted, the Left spends much of their time trying to demolish bonds of community. Family? attack. Fraternities, lodges? destroy. mixed race? split. Male sports? deride. It is strictly an appeal to emotions and not at all a part of what the Left truly wants to achieve.
Howler head: the attitude seems to be that cops have no right to stop or arrest anyone or touch them, if black. huh. But these people are “just like us, but oppressed”. Uh, no,
Howler footnote: and this is why there were 6 cops for a traffic stop. and the race baiting was priceless.
Zero. Ought. Nil. Ninguno.
They’re creating “anti-beauty,” because the job of a True Artist is to challenge traditional notions of beauty, a project that began over 100 years ago.
Intellectuals love this stuff because it’s something you appreciate with the mind, not with aesthetic sensibility. The proles hate it, which proves how stupid and unenlightened they are.
The point of her exercise is to create sounds that are explicitly NOT tuneful, NOT harmonic, NOT pleasant. And that’s what makes them interesting, you see. If you ask for an analysis, they’ll produce a string of buzz-words to demonstrate how terribly deep they are to come up with such a thing.
Not one of them will admit that the Emperor is nekkid. Not a one.
The trail cam itself has a pair of red LEDs that light up when the infrared detector senses a body, and I’ve been startled a couple of times by that.
Here’s a sunnier video it picked up earlier this year.
I have memories from the 60’s of liberal and leftist hostility towards lodges such as Elks and Rotary. It’s mostly vague, although I do recall Harlan Ellison saying gratuitously nasty things about them in his Glass Teat columns. Significantly, the reasons we were supposed to hate them were never clearly laid out.
What IS the point she’s making? If you free Palestine, that causes the whole thing (Sudan, Congo, Nigeria, “all of it”) to explode?
I guess I’m not clear on what she thinks is happening in Sudan and Congo and Nigeria. In Nigeria, Boko Haram is killing Christians like so many ants. Liberating Palestine does what, now, with that?
She specialises in giving bad haircuts. To “trigger MAGA snowflakes.”
Once again Lefties Project.
They are only ones consistently triggered by silly things. The rest of us see it as aposematic markings and avoid. MAGA is just not that into you, sweetie.
I grew up out in the boonies up north and learned from a young age what an amanita mushroom looked like, and to never, ever eat the things – deadly poison (I was told). I look on nose-rings, weird hair, and the like in similar fashion. Best to keep my distance.
I guess that’s OK? Though it does seem odd to uglify your own self to pwn your enemy. Like trying to spite someone by jamming a spork in your own eye.
The truck with the cam drifts to the right just before the impact. That seems like odd behavior.
I guess you have to wonder why Baldwin was positioned such that said drift would force him farther right and into the tree.
In a sense, the truck did “cut him off,” but he wasn’t supposed to be where he was.
Nitwit.
Baldwin tried to pass the truck on the right, and in a parking lane, while the truck was starting to turn into the next customer’s driveway.
The Cloud…
When the first wireless speakers came on the market (in the 90’s?) they did not make use of an internet connection. Each manufacturer had their own home-grown proprietary broadcast technology. I wouldn’t even be surprised if the technology was so primitive that two homeowners in close proximity would receive each others’ audio broadcasts. Of course, this was purely a speaker connection system–no music services at all.
iTunes still recognizes my iPod Classic. It’s a pretty good player, but I resented the steady move to touch screens which require eyes on the screen. The first player I used had physical buttons which allowed me to operate it while driving. I made great use of that while listening to podcasts and Teaching Company lectures: If I missed something I could easily rewind a little without taking my eyes off the road. Of course that problem goes away now with cars equipped with digital displays and automatic syncing with compatible devices.
Bose vs Sonos vs BlueSound: Let the religious wars begin!
Gene Wolfe on driving in England:
What was that Microsoft music downloading service which blocked piracy by tying your downloaded music to a unique ID derived from your computer’s hardware components? When Microsoft discontinued the service users were doomed to lose the music they’d paid for when their computers died.
While we Amurricans were in Devon, we hired a local tour guide (Unique Devon Tours) to take us to Project Eden. My wife, after experiencing English country roads a year ago, still blesses me for not trying to drive them myself in a hire car.
Of course, I reassure her that we would have been all right if I had, but you know women…
Several reasons:
The Cooper Mini exists for a reason.
From “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle” to this.
Because nothing enhances driving safety like having a touchscreen computer monitor in the middle of your dashboard.
There are some things which can be done safely, while others require finding a place to stop.
This.
Per Perplexity:
Using the Earth as a basketball size reference, the relative size and distance of the Earth, Moon, and 2025 TP5 asteroid scale as follows: