Friday Ephemera (792)
There are reasons not to do this. || Not entirely unrelated. || Her list may be longer than yours. || You’d never tire of it. || It’s a good-news-mad-news thing. || The thing that isn’t mentioned. (h/t, Aelfheld) || Modernity, baby. || “It’s the butter situation” and other worries, 1959. || How often do you wash yours? || His other senses must be heightened. || Only some kinds of dress-up-and-pretend are allowed. || Passions. || DIY project. || Rapper has jaw issues. || A test of patience. || The progressive retail experience, parts 678, 679, 680, 681, 682 and 683. || I couldn’t help but notice that Dad has quite the rack. || Train signals. || Status signals. || Newcomerliness. || A scoreboard of failed apocalyptic predictions. (h/t, Things) || And finally, it requires a quite vigorous back and forth motion.
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On declining a poisoned interview question.
Related memes.
A longer version of the interview clip, and its tendentious framing, can be seen here.
It’s much more fun to rant against the Baked Bean Menace, because you can do it without making enemies, all the while trading escalating barbs over the virtues/evils of baked beans, a-loo-min-um/al-u-minium, etc.
These frequently pop into my head for no apparent reason…
She dresses – including dyed pink hair and tattoos – to attract the most attention possible and wears pins to warn people on how to treat her … I’m the most special Princess that has ever lived! Better behave! …
I know people on the spectrum (family and friends) and they never want to draw untoward attention to themselves or be treated as ‘special’. They want to be treated as “normal” as anyone else. So, excuse me if I find this woman costumed as an escapee from the local Sanrio store a total fraud re: her “hidden disabilities.”
And that makes me mad because it’s like the fake “service pet” crap. It puts ME in the position of questioning “is this real or a scam” when there are individuals who are genuinely disabled and need accommodating.
Can confirm.
But how else can she find an excuse to list all of her fascinating complications? I mean, you’d never tire of that, listening to someone’s endless self-description.
Police called to Tractor Parts store parking lot…
https://x.com/Thefactsdude/status/1986750481709101194
Perhaps this ‘keeping an open mind’ thing has gone too far.
This has been your educational moment of the day.
And for those wondering about Jashanpreet Singh, who killed three in Ontario, CA, his prelim is this morning. And he remains in custody with no bail.
I drove the freeway where he murdered people uncounted times. He shouldn’t have been driving … hell, he shouldn’t have even been in the country.
Why hello, Mongo.
Runcie Balspune:
I live on a ranch and have herd dogs and, honestly, dogs will consume a lot of plant products. Often “pre-digested” if you get my drift. Like coyotes, they’re opportunistic scavengers as well as hunters. They’re not nearly as strict carnivores as cats.
My dogs stand underneath my horses every day and eat the bits of soaked alfalfa cubes and grain pellets that they drop. It’s like the highlight of their day.
HOWEVER, I would never suggest that I could simply feed my dogs on a primarily plant-based diet. That would be terrible.
As a snack probably their very favorite thing is hardboiled eggs. It’s an excellent food for them as, again, in the wild coyotes are big egg eaters.
Be an ally? Hell, I’d help fuel the plane used to deport him.
A Yankee to a Southerner is a target.
Pity, derision, rock salt & bacon rind, double-ought shot . . . take your pick
Tonight, more Maigret. Also a large gin and tonic.
That is all.
An “asylum seeker”. What the hell is that bullshit? No sane adult honestly believes that Sikhs need to flee India.
There is still hope that such southerners will grow up. Otherwise we might compare them to black racists such as the ones mentioned here.
[ Recalls encountering the expression “egg sucking dog” long ago. ]
Cats are obligate carnivores – insufficient dietary taurine causes blindness.
[ Clink of ice, slurping. ]
When a young girl my grandmother helped make up poisoned eggs for one that was depredating her aunt’s hen house. Turned out to be one of the neighbour’s coonhounds.
We did. We added Californians to the list.
How to light up a cat
Are you enjoying the cultural enrichment?
A reminder:
Think you can blame Muldoon for this one?
A cautionary reminder for utopians of where dystopias come from:
[ Recalls encountering the expression “egg sucking dog” long ago. ]
Brings to mind I movie I saw when I was a wee seedling called The Biscuit eater which featured an egg sucking dog. It also had a family of Black children who were named after parts of the Bible including Text (because the preacher often referred to the Bible as the Text) and the twins First and Second Thessalonians. I think it was a Disney movie.
“No, it wasn’t this one.”
My dog, like many I have known, loved carrots. Sister-in-law’s dog would sit in the middle of the kitchen, look at his human, then at the refrigerator, then back at the human, repeatedly until he was finally given a carrot.
IT’S NOT A FETISH
All while playing Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot.
Bare-handed prodding and pushing it.
Or as one commenter said, “The Prometheus School of Not Wearing Headgear Protection and Touching Alien Shit.”
Aposematism.
“My dog, like many I have known, loved carrots. Sister-in-law’s dog would sit in the middle of the kitchen, look at his human, then at the refrigerator, then back at the human, repeatedly until he was finally given a carrot.“
In a previous house, we grew raspberry canes along each side of the back garden path, but quite often, would go out to find the ones nearest the path edge had been harvested. and not by us. We suspected birds, bu the culprit turned out to be our dog, Max (a Battersea Dogs Home mutt, part German Shepherd, part Labrador) who was adept at plucking a ripe raspberry clean off the bush and leaving the hull as he walked down the path.
Sure dogs can eat veggies and fruit, it’s quite good for their digestion, but my concern was grains, which are not as good and certainly should not replace protein based pet food, and I suspect “plant based” is going to include some wheat-protein monstrosity.
As if I didn’t have enough worry about them while hiking . . .
She’s giving her “an opportunity” to apologize for being white.
I see that Ms Stoeffel, the features director of GQ – the woman so kindly and so persistently offering “opportunities” to submit to a struggle session – has blocked the rest of us from seeing her social media.
Perhaps people were being beastly and mean. Or perhaps self-knowledge is just too much to ask.
[ Hangs head in shame. ]
David, could you please fix that comment with this link?
Hadn’t thought of it quite that way.
Done.
I charge double for working over the weekend, you know.
[ Loads freezer with new stash of steak pies. ]
Thank you very much.
Does that mean two sessions in the correction booth? [ Trembles. ]
Boring Company coffee mug
(via Dicentra): There is no biological basis for transgenderism.
I wonder what all my bien pensant acquaintances are going to deal with this in future. How will they explain away their embrace of yet another fad promulgated by the barking mad and amoral opportunists?
That’s going to be a pain to wash.
They won’t. They never do. They’re locusts, only looking towards the next spoliation
Hadn’t thought of it quite that way.
“I’m trying to debate, and they are trying to diagnose”
https://archive.is/cuguN
Aelfheld, bottlebrush. 19th century tech. It still works.