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Robo-bike. || Place your bets. || Come, see her box and the base of her tongue. || Suboptimal. || Modernity, baby. || On asymmetrical multiculturalism, a short thread. See also. || The machine uprising, day 12. || Getaway car. || A guide to chopstick gaffes. || She’s energising her genitals. || More joys of public transport. || Newcomerliness. || A lively altercation. || But not enormously versatile. || A Night in a Soho Jazz Club, 1959. || Onions on a burger. || Shadow of note. Some climbing required. || Quality control, I’m guessing. || Hey, it’s a collection, like bubble-gum cards or stamps. || The progressive retail experience, parts 711, 712, 713, 714 and 715. || Plenty, you hear. || Plot twist. || Ladies of effortless grace. || When you could use some extra legs. || Phone hell, it turns out, is a real place.
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I struggled to get past the word healthcare.
Unnecessary surgeries in general fly under the radar. We really need to get that radar thing fixed. Why it’s almost as if…nevermind. Anyway, where are the professional medical associations in dealing with this stuff? Seems they have a primary responsibility to police their own.
Speaking of which… Self-mutilating woman who poisons herself with life-shortening cross-sex hormones says her body “deserves the respect of being fed.“
Money for anti-psychotic medication?
so I asked grok about this (insert usual caveats here):
And thus let me repeat what I stated on the X link:
Added: More per grok but for the whiners who will say that it’s an area too blue to be bothered about:
The guy won by 600 votes.
Thanks for that. I plan to convert the suet camera to a birdseed one. I just happened to have one of those suet feeders handy (found it in the woods out back) as a proof of concept/trial with the security camera. Haven’t seen coyotes in our immediate area but they are all over elsewhere. We had a fox here a couple years ago but something…happened to him.
It’s not that she learned the word ‘no’ but that she never learned when to employ it.
Here’s some red state bullshit for you. First Fargo, ND PD fucks up by relying on AI, then the state of Tennessee (gee, isn’t there a fairly well known law professor in TN who spouts off about nearly everything but he somehow wasn’t aware of this) sends armed police to arrest this grandmother sitting in her trailer in TN, locks her up for months before extraditing her to Fargo. Six months in prison. Kafka would blush.
They’re what we Irish call skangers. That’s Dublin.
The suet one seems to capture more visits but the cardinals are only showing up at this seed feeder.
The cardinal’s favorite food (or one of anyways) are black sunflower seeds. I used to buy the el cheapo walmart seed mix, then splurge on a bag of black sunflower seeds and mix it up in a plastic tub. Always had a bunch of cardinals at my feeder.
I miss those days – here there’s mostly squirrels, a family of raccoons, stray cats left behind from the dorms, and of course the city rats, so I haven’t put up a feeder since I moved here.
I’d forgotten about this tempest in a
teapottoilet from 2011.Addressing the most pressing issues …
[ Prepares sandwiches, flask, monitors lawn for raccoons, bears, elk. ]
Nothing yet.
“…my neighbor. He’s not an idiot, but he is a f^ckwit…”
Ooh, a woodpecker.
The Guardian‘s Zoe Williams shares her thoughts on football.
Scroll down for the inevitable corrections.
Previously in the strange mental landscape of Ms Williams.
Dear Zoe’s reliable wrongness has of course cropped up many times.
They voted for this.
The police were far too gentle.
Clever.
Like my state senator in GA bragging about his work on getting a bill passed to move Georgia into the Atlantic time zone. Because of course the only way to fight the very important fight about clock changes is to find the position that somehow manages to be stupider than all the other ones and pass that. Meanwhile, they are still “striving” to pass some sort of election integrity bill. Which will likely be moot because we will be voting via QR codes at least through the midterms.
Well he’s a lawyer, so…could have been a doctor or a financial advisor I suppose. One of those smaaaaart people anyway.
Apropos use of profanity, IMHO. The fw lawyer is of the same blindness as those Chaz people who bought little pots of veggie sprouts, put them on a tarp and claimed to be raising their own food.
It’s underpants gnomes in the flesh.
The disconnect in “modern” people who use stuff they have no clue on how it got to them or are baffled by what was considered “basics” by just a couple of generations ago* is depressingly large. “More electricity” doesn’t come from just adding outlets to a wall any more than “more food” comes from adding a grocery store.
*(I still remember a training I took where at one point I had to speak off-the-cuff on the term “frugality” and I mentioned I was taught at an early age how to “darn a sock” and everyone under 30 had no clue what that term meant)
Could have been “niggardly”.
i.e. Cargo Cult. Ironically. Sort of.
Arthur C. Clarke weighs in:
But he wasn’t thinking of current technology when he wrote that.
Stone cold, frothing-at-the-mouth racist fears fake racism.
Not surprising at all. Utterly predictable:
MAiD is legalized murder for the profitable harvesting of organs.
Wouldn’t it be more ethical to harvest the organs of MAiD advocates? Preferably by these clowns?
@David: Important reminder.
By the way, what is it with blacks sticking their tongues out at people? I thought that was something only children did.
Announcement: Today I spent hours in the company of 60 working dogs. During breaks I manager to pet all of them. It was good.
Now, sated, I feel sorry for all y’all.
60 working dogs. Band name. Big band, presumably, but hey.
ebt, it was an all-vocals big band. All those Good Boys and Good Girls were huskies of some sort.
For reasons unknown, today the twiXer algorithm began flooding wholesome Japanese posts into a lot of conservative accounts. (Or at least I think it was into conservative accounts. Might have been a different determinant.)
Anyway.
Turns out there’s a Japanese subculture that is obsessed with Texas and all its accoutrements.
And one of their favorite things is BBQ culture.
Because twiXer posts now show up in your feed pre-translated, communication between the two countries is suddenly effortless, and much love was share on the feeds today.
As a Korean observed: “Western right-wingers’ deep admiration for the Japanese proves they’re not irrationally xenophobic. They simply dislike dysfunctional people from dysfunctional cultures.”
[Please Mr Spam Filter, let this post pass through safely.]
I’ll just leave that there, I think.
The police were far too gentle.
I am buying some bear spray for hiking but I think I’ll just carry it everywhere.
Strongly recommend firearms.
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Time to check in on Canada’s Democratic Socialist Conference.
Okay then.
The black racists get you coming and going:
If you like suntanning, you are showing your envy of those obviously superior black people. If you avoid getting tan, you have a phobia.
In other “trans”gender news, some info on a song’s origin.
“…only to notice stubble…”
Your previous posts about those freaks were…interesting.
EDIT: For instance: Your Host’s Idea of Hell.
Double serving of hell: leftist academics.
In 1991, I think it was, I had dinner with Moby. We didn’t get on.
#TrueLifeDrama
Husky agility training
Please tell us more.
Prescience?
There isn’t much more to tell. Aeons ago, as a sweaty yoof, I worked for a record label and ended up at a gathering with various people, one of whom was Mr Moby. We didn’t throw plates at each other or anything. We just didn’t, as they say, vibe.
This was before I was aware of his unhinged politics.
What in the name of Heaven is a ‘no question debate’?
‘[W]e don’t notice if this person is lighter or darker.’
Tell that to albinos in Africa.