Friday Ephemera (800)
For a second, I thought it was chicken. || Intriguing meat. || Less difficult than it seemed. || For whumping. || It weighs 60 tonnes and arrived 80,000 years ago. || They do this better than you would. || On heels at the beach. || “A less crazy candidate,” says she. || The 100 most spoken languages. || Mother of six. Also drunk. Also a moron. || Two cats, two theremins. || The wrong concerto. || How to aggravate wasps. || On who should be in charge. || She knows she’s pretty, you see. || A three-year project to see music. || Pounder. || Point well made. || Today’s word is parenting. || Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue. Previously. || And yet what I noticed was the finger pinch. || He, unlike you, has an autonomous flying umbrella. || Frozen dinner. || And finally, a notable display of vocal range.
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“Just because we’re from Minnesota does not mean we’re dumb.”
and:
and an extended essay here:
Social pressure works on both sexes, but is especially hard on women. But how to make the internet less toxic? That’s the question.
A suggestion: Only citizens may hold any government office, local state or federal. And they must be the children of citizens. Case in point: this worm.
Ender’s Game
Speaker for the Dead
Gotta love the Napoleon Dynamite ref.
Well, unless that IS Jon Heder.
Niven. Pournelle. Zelazney. Pratchett. The Stars My Destination. Dune. Fritz Lieber’s Fafhred and the gray Mouser. Judith Merrill anthologies.
Body armor that Ned Kelly would have wished he had.
The short story was, to my taste, better than the book & its sequels.
The same with his Lost Boys.
Michael Flynn, Tom Deitz, Melanie Rawn, Michael Scott Rohan, Fred Saberhagen, Theodore Sturgeon, Simon Hawke
Someone watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs one time too many.
This one has got the idea.
I’m detecting some self-flattery.
Underlying this absurdity is how we have legislated ourselves into virtual anarchy. This problem, like most of our policing issues, is a function of laws written to fix other laws (well, according to the Narrative) that were written to fix other laws, etc. All this has happened in the lifespan of the boomer generation.
per Grok:
Indeed, someone glancing at her with a quizzical WTF look is not exactly “male gaze”. OTOH, “Woof!” is certainly apt.
I denounce myself for rabid misogyny.
What? You mean you’re not sexually attracted to chunky butch lesbians in stereotypical butch lesbian attire uttering stereotypical butch lesbian diatribes? You sexist pig!
Clearly I must educate myself to do better.
There’s probably a Social Justice Kittens meme for that.
See, there are some jobs low-paid immigrants won’t do.
ICE: in case anyone was under the delusion that this is actually about ICE, the same twits have been assaulting law and especially feds over one issue or another for years now. I was supporting GAZA it was BLM it was who knows what. It is just the desire to attack authority, create anarchy.