Friday Ephemera (801)
How to warm your car, or possibly a friend’s. || Some might call it karma. || “When I’ve been pulled over before,” she said. || Fun with Goffin’s cockatoo. || The gentle touch. || Quit griping, they had it worse. || Engaging maximum girliness. || He also loves his girlhood. || Scenes of lively tilting. || An oddly tricky question. || On pharmaceutical sortedness, portable warehouses, and raving in Cramlington, 1993. || The thrill of candles, 1972. Or possibly Things To Come. || How the North Pole was thought to be, 1595. || Can you power your computer by typing? || This, and the quoted post. || An educator speaks. || She’s taken time out of her busy schedule to tell you how magic works. || Gradient horse. || Scenes of suboptimal ice clearing. || Intriguing baggage detected. || And finally, an influencer at large.
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It took about 5 minutes for the Friday Ephemera to arrive here in the States. Obviously packet speed depends on ambient temperature. 😉
The blasted fish stopped working.
Electrons are livelier in the cold.
That’s different from all the magic bullshit I heard in the 70’s, but it has the same loony airhead feel. [ Feels wave of unpleasant nostalgia. ]
An educator speaks.
How can she wear a kefiyeh and yet show that much leg – AND her hair?? So much blasphemy.
/sarc off
Remigration, please. AND strict limits on tourist visas.
I first read that as Remington. I denounce myself and will get my computer glasses.
“Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Some Remingtons are useful in enforcing remigration.
Should this be a Toyota Hilux ad?
Gollum’s uglier brother.
“Drugs are bad, mkay?”
Follow the link for more raving lunacy from the raving lunatic.
We meet at last, Mister Bond.
Cheeseburger
Cheeseburger
Cheeseburger
Why do the girliness and girlhood ones always seem to be pure nightmare fuel?
Reminding a priest that “Thou shalt not bear false witness” applies to him.
Law professor Goodman is clearly not a good man.
Cleric at UK mosque tells teens that captives are permissible under Islam.
2016 source here.
When did Slavs become people of colour?
Oh. Gee. More ‘enrichment’. Yippee.
They don’t even count against the limit of 4 for wives.
The interpretations aren’t ‘twisted’, it’s what’s in the bloody text.
Muhammedism is a bandit’s charter with a religious gloss.
Explains the earlier chortling.
“[T]he incompetent servant, by whomsoever employed, is always against his employer. Even those born governors, noble and right honourable creatures, who have been the most imbecile in high places, have uniformly shown themselves the most opposed (sometimes in belying distrust, sometimes in vapid insolence) to their employer.” — Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
If, like me, you hate the YouTube Shorts display, because the bottom third is covered by obnoxious text, you can replace
/shorts/in the URL with/watch?v=, as I’ve done in the above link, and it opens in a normal window.Band name.
“Fun with Goffin’s cockatoo.“
‘Now’, I’m sure you’ve seen a cockatoo’.
Oh, narrator, a lady never tells!
Morning, all.
Speaking of suboptimal.
Well, he wouldn’t want to get his skirt caught in the shifter.
Can you say autogynephilia.
It’s like they have to make things worse.
Yes, it’s like destiny. Or some kind of moron gravity.
You watch these things unfold and think, “Well, it’s a minor issue and everything will be okay provided you don’t do THE THING THAT’S UNCALLED FOR AND OBVIOUSLY BAD.”
They immediately do THE THING THAT’S UNCALLED FOR AND OBVIOUSLY BAD.
And then you think, “Okay, well, now you’ve made things worse, bizarrely and for no obvious reason, but we can still salvage the situation provided you don’t do THE OTHER THING THAT’S OBVIOUSLY REALLY STUPID.”
At which point, they do THE OTHER THING THAT’S OBVIOUSLY REALLY STUPID.
Only more stupidly than you’d think would be possible.
And on it goes.
As I said a while ago, regarding the reality series Cops:
If you’ve seen even just one or two episodes of the series, or any of the similar YouTube bodycam channels, it soon becomes glaringly obvious that there’s a pattern of doing the worst thing possible.
Again, moron gravity.
‘Frozen’ Klingon version.
“You have not experienced Frozen until you have heard it in the original Klingon.”
Screwing over the modestly paid in the name of progress.
Previously and related.
“When I’ve been pulled over before,” she said.
I want to smack that attorney in the face. “We fight to the death . . .” – bitch, please, you’re not some gladiator.
But forget it, Jake – it’s Illinois.
After the 8th Air Force and Bomber Command was done this place was completely rebuilt and restored to pre-war conditions. Having been there many times since, this crap being allowed is beyond disgusting.
The blasted fish stopped working.
¿Que?
Where do they all learn this finger-claw thing?
Screwing over the modestly paid in the name of progress.
I am going to start playing the age card.
Husband has been told that he will be laid off at the end of the month. Not a biggie – he was planning to retire May 1st this year. Next week he will turn 67 and later in April I become 65. We have little debt, a low mortgage, and good retirement savings. Oh, and the first post-op PET scan showed still no cancer – next scan in March and only a CT. Poor man – I’ve already a list of home projects for him.
When I see people like this woman, it angers me as part of the Boomer generation (although we late Boomers prefer to use “Generation Jones” to distinguish ourselves from the immediate post-war baby boom). As such, I think I have standing to go up to her and tell her she’s full of shit and a bad person. Having been raised with the notion of respecting one’s elders, screw it, I AM the elder now. And evidently the elders need some policing.
Meanwhile, here in the South . . .
[ Slides moisturiser to Stephanie. ]
I give you – Dwarves vs Female Giants. There’s a sentence I would never have expected to type.
https://youtu.be/f25TH8IW38c?si=KWzmGQzdH72e8AIe
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m upping the price of the drinks.
(searches Youtube for Joan Baez singing “Forever Young”…)
My mom is the pre=WWII eldest cousin – followed by a bunch of peak-era New Yawk liberal Baby Boomers.
I have the photos to prove it – bell bottomed velvet suits at Chanukah parties, miniskirts at barbecues… “This Passover, we set aside a matzah to show solidarity with the oppressed migrant farm workers …”
et cetera.
I have absolutely no doubt that some of these people are out there with anti-ICE signs zip-tied to their walkers…
The delicious irony is that the Boomer’s own nihil-anarchistic Marxist grandchildren – deprived by their progressive elders of both Western culture and Jewish values – just voted to “redistribute” their Manhattan lofts and townhouses… and it looks like they are fixing to do it…
I think you’re supposed to post this photo if you write that.
For you Trekkies – magnets are not her friends.
Kirk and Spock go to the Starfleet Academy. The end is worth it.
Except my riveting is more precise, this is exactly how I make mine.
There is nothing wrong with “redistributing” Marxists’ property.
I only worry about how non-Marxists will be harmed.
Interesting idea, but not at all sure I’d wish that on the Danes.
January 2026, Toronto City Council:
landtaxpayer acknowledgement.The city council members seem… less than pleased.