Friday Ephemera (820)
He’s having his creases attended to. || Incoming. || Mop-related drama. || Secret snail business. || Let’s just say choices were made. || A bathtime temptation. || Today’s word is parenting. || More joys of public transport. || Like professional wrestling, but in libraries. || I think we need clarification, ladies. || Today’s other word is logistics. || Question asked. || The totally radical tedium of “queered” Tolkien. || If We Lived On The Moon, 1930s. || On Night People, 1966. || The progressive retail experience, parts 733, 734 and 735. || Un-parking is also hard. || Horse yoga. You heard me. || How women dress, 1961. || Yet what caught my eye were the boots. || What’s In Modern Food?, 1975. || Surface tension. || And finally, scenes from the World Yogasana Sports back-bending competition.
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Re, shrieking woman’ head movements…perhaps this helps. Or this similar from a brother. The latter is actually real.
Then name is offensive and one of the preeminent engineers of the time was yte, so let’s rename the thing to be “cooler”.
Well a cook and cricket team are certainly more important to UK history than Brunel, so who’s to argue?
Yet the lie goes much deeper than that. When we tell children in school that they are not allowed to defend themselves against physical violence or construct elaborate, unrealistic and/or ridiculous barriers on what little that they can do to defend themselves, we create a much deeper psychological crisis that undermines pretty much everything. And “conservatives” go right along with it by pretending that the problem isn’t there…And we’re back to the obvious lies thing.
The wonderful thing about Canadians is how incredibly nice they are.
Absolutely, using the 12th- and 13th-century definitions of the word:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/nice
My next band, Secret Snail Business.
Not entirely unrelated.
Sort of like a rain dance, but with sides.
It would appear that blacks’ boundaries overlap everyone else’s boundaries.
For those of who you recall the deliberately awful volume controls, mentioned in a previous Ephemera, this Reddit on bad real-world UIs may entertain.
One step forward, two steps back.
Forbidden truth: The people in charge are not nearly as intelligent (or wise) as they pretend to be. Any random person of average intelligence could run an admissions department using a few simple rules: Filter applicants by SAT and ACT test scores. Then filter based on interviews with professors of the subjects they want to major in. But that won’t justify their 300, $400, $500,000 salaries.
“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”
–George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism”, 1945
The UK’s rulers are serious about prosecuting citizens for Wrong Think.
This gives citizens the right (duty?) to eventually prosecute them and put them in prison for a very long time.
When listening to YouTube podcasts on my phone, I must click “skip ad” twice in order to actually skip the ad.
Leftist Student Wants to ARREST Conservative YouTuber for “Illegal Opinions”
I guess not everyone is watching the World Cup.
I have encountered Tolkien slash-fic* in which Frodo responded to some stressful experience by begging Sam to bugger him.
* Slash-fic = homoerotic fan porn; slash meaning “/”. The earliest form was “Kirk/Spock”. Generally written by women.
This does remind me of Moebius
Dear Lord… But I shouldn’t be surprised. The mindset is a mystery. I haven’t known enough slash fans to speculate on any common personality features. (Heavy levels of sadomasochism in the fiction.)
“family voting”?
Reason #5059 why women live longer than men
Mendacity of media, variously discussed…
One of my sidelines is coaching startup company founders on how to talk to potential investors. I eventually abstracted my chats to three basic rules, but then found I needed to add a fourth, which goes like this:
“The most important thing you bring to the table is not your product or your company. It is your personal credibility. Never say or do anything to damage that. If you do, the investors will simply walk away.”
Still waiting for the ladies to clarify this matter.
I think they just smoosh/flatten a bit? Unlike the photos, there’s usually brassieres and other clothing in between so you don’t feel much of anything. At least in my experience hugging female friends and relations. I’m rather short, so very rarely is it an exactly boob-to-boob hug. Often with taller, more …erm .. gifted women, it’s my face which is at an awkward height when hugging.
This is a matter that requires further research. Extensive, lengthy research.
Where do we apply for funding?
It’s only awkward if you don’t enjoy it.
It keeps happening:
refugeechimp stabs young girl in the throat in Burnley EnglandGrad school was my realization about how much we lost the plot….
“[…] it felt like they treated minorities like Jane Goodall treated the apes.“
Goodall respected the apes she studied.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m upping the price of the drinks.
Also, smoosh.
Another one of those “isolated incidents,” of which we’ve seen so many, this time from Barcelona, 2024.
Also, inevitably, “a history of violence and mental health issues.”
What’s striking is not just the number of these “isolated incidents,” now an all-but-daily occurrence, but their wildly aberrant nature, the sheer outlandishness of them. The fact that these fits of enrichment are often so far outside of the usual range of indigenous delinquency.
The attempted beheadings, the bitch-slapping of random one-year-old toddlers. That kind of thing.
Let’s just check in on the Green Party.
Okay then.
And because it’s important to say.
The responses should be just as far outside the usual range of retribution. So far outside that millions of migrants spontaneously self-deport.
The names alone, Jesus . . .
Still chuckling.
I denounce myself.
I, too, denounce myself.
[ Ups price of drinks. ]
Never mind girl’s names like Latrina and Chlamydia.
Psst! No price increases!
[ Opens coat to reveal rows of pockets holding bottles of wine, spirits. ]
You could increase them even more if you brought back that jello wrestling.
[ Flicks through rolodex, looks up number for Darius and Bruno. ]
Dumbass.
Super Dumbass.
Wherein some of the brightest lights of our time inform us Musk is an unintelligent freeloader who misappropriates black vernacular.
Join The Trans Army!
Some people say it is “a legitimate form of political resistance”, others call it a dick move. Be sure to scroll down and read of Audrey’s
travailsmake believe tales.The irony of a Fabian socialist condemning monopolies.
She’s still mad.
Please spay and neuter your pets.
It is impossible to excessively hate government news organs.
Meanwhile in Australia, things don’t go quite to plan.
Merlin is a bird, not a magician.
The national media doesn’t want to give attention to a story unhelpful to making Karmelo Anthony out a martyr.