Friday Ephemera (810)
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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Meanwhile, in the news of military affairs…
Rule
Brittania, Germania, Germania rules the waves…Someone has been watching too many scifi movies. Video plays at the paywall link.
Vladimir Vakhmistrov was unavailable for comment.
Ben Obese-Jecty? Is someone taking the mick?
Huh?
[ Checks maps ]
Time to require all elected officials be a natural born Citizen?
Epsteined?
“He shouted at me.”
No sordid tabloid “what he did at the after-show party” story? Damn.
Maybe that was a sign, since politics is downstream from personality.
And they damn well do notice in America and Europe. The lies are endless.
[ Does Rutger Hauer voice: ]
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
The NHS hasn’t run out of money, though.
Or he really did kill himself, because that seemed better than the slower more painful death that inmates promised him he would get?
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack journalists on fire over innocent remarks. I watched c-level celebs glitter in the flashbulbs at award shows in Hollywood.
Those “Italian scientsts” are at it again.
Guy, possibly gay, in nyc with blue hair, goofy glasses has thoughts on the No Kings protests.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2026/03/friday-ephemera-810.html/comment-page-4#comment-210036
F Muldoon,
Flying aircraft carriers? The US Navy has “Been There, Done That”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_(ZRS-5)
(Sadly the experiment didn’t end well.)
Kinda reminds me of the teachers who would mock those kids who were into comic books while shoving Guy de Maupassant and Emily Bronte at us because…well, whatever. And which is more relevant? That is amongst productive people anyway. I often wonder how often Bronte comes up in corporate board rooms or at dinner parties with highly successful people. I mean real successful people who are successful because they truly add value.
Product placement
I doubt that would change anything. The electorate would still elect people just as stupid as her. Partly because “conservatives” don’t pay attention nor do they get off their lazy asses and vote.
Swear to God, I had that idea when I was five years old. No. Really. I would think (hope?) that Vakhmistrov had some sort of engineering chops but how did that even get out of the design stage? Blimps/Zeppelins/Dirigibles/whatever with attached fighters made at least some sense but…I’m real curious what even the back-of-the-envelope calculations were on the lift/thrust/wing surface (wtf, I used to kinda know this stuff but the words fail me) numbers would be. Did they calculate that with just four other aircraft attached and say…hmm…close but for an extra safe load factor, let’s add one more.
An honest accountant might dispute that.
The gods, they mock us.
Oh my. There is more.
And while laughing, do remember, they would rule over us.
Yep, but the Brits were there first, actually first twice, and who can forget the XF-85 and FICON?
The algorithms.
A number of David’s readers have remarked that nasty stuff started showing up in their social media after following David’s links.
They’re already do, effectively. Their agenda is more mainstream, in the cultural sense, than much of anything to the right of MAGA, if not even more so than MAGA itself.
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My God, she has big ears. Is her name Dumbo?
This is my innocent face.
[ Points to face. ]
I’ve just been told I’m being taken on an outing tomorrow.
[ Hastily throws together a post to keep the rabble diverted while I’m out cavorting and galivanting. ]
Should appear just after midnight.
Be still my beating heart.
This is about half the median price of a home in Los Angeles. What’s the catch?
I hate to imagine what David’s social media feed looks like.
[ Does Rutger Hauer voice: ]
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
David cavorting.
I hate to find fault, as you know, but you’ve made a right cow of that link.
Worthy of Muldoon.
[ Hangs head in shame. ]
Could you fix the link to this, please?
[ Grovels. ]
Done.
But only because it was setting off my Tidy Sense.
And I wasn’t even wearing any polyester.
“The decline in intellectual standards in Britain is severe.”
Is the graveyard included?
More evidence that the British government doesn’t care about keeping out criminal migrants.
Well, he didn’t make a goat of it.
You have to live in France?
My link included that image, which was one of the reasons I chose it. <grin>
Was that under or behind the cow?
No, Lars Larsson was behind the cow…although he denies it.