Friday Ephemera (824)
Plenty boom. || At last, weeble chess. || The autonomous bins of tomorrow. || Snug but not impossible. || Meaty treat. || Choices were made. || Random malice, a possible series. || Sweet dreams. || On the Throne: 100 Years of the Toilet, 1984. || Engine trouble detected. || Someone stole his truck. || On curing cancer. || Suboptimal scenario. || You want one and you know it. || Good to know. || Leggy. || Discourse was attempted. || Jupiter. || The progressive retail experience, parts 741 and 742. || Pretty big, I guess. || It could go either way, so place your bets. || Mid-boom miniatures. || Intrigue. || Unstaffed all-night ramen store. || How to delay a flight. || Footwear was chosen. || Yes, but what if we added fire? || Man starts fire with penis. || Frock and penis. || And finally, use was made of furniture.
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Was expecting Tom Cruise to pop out of one of the bins, at least ’til the Mos Eisley bar band started up.
Told you the stylist used too much mousse.
Okay.
What’s the past tense for ‘wanker’?
Make a lovely athamé.
‘Discourse was attempted‘
Love the way he stands there totally nonplussed.
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The circus in town?
Those are brilliant. How do they do the explosions?
Ew. They’re just pathetic.
Morning, all.
It is a bit sad. And the infinite mirrors are almost too on-the-nose. Endless self.
At least he’s wearing a helmet.
Question asked.
It occurs to me that if you’re running a “trans-owned LGBTQIA+ bookshop and coffee shop” – “queer books, queer haircuts, queer coffee” – and your patrons have to be reminded, via signage on every table, of how to behave like even minimally civilised people, you may want to seek out a better class of patron.
And that’s before we get to the bits about “violent, abusive, and disruptive behaviour” and “crisis support.” Oh, and taking your craft projects home with you when you leave.
Engine trouble, I wonder what they goanna do next ?
Too early to drink?
I’m guessing their relationship was… complicated.
Stately Wayne Manor for sale!
And in ideological capture news.
Want.
£320 from Amazon.
Not sure I want it that much.
I’m up at 3:30 in the morning for no good reason, and now that I saw your link about the flies, I’m never going to sleep again.
Then my work here is done.
How to make a nose out of chicken breast.
You heard me.
Band names.
That last one could be a girl band, but what is a woman?
An earlier turn of phrase, recreational malice, captures the phenomenon even better.
Kind of like that video about the flies.
Only possible without “diversity”.
Bonnie Tyler has left this mortal realm and so I think this video needs to be resurrected.
Rest in peace.
Well, if you want a high-trust society, it does have certain… preconditions.
What struck me most was the readiness of customers to clean up after themselves, even with no staff watching.
Er, what time do you call this, madam?
[ Taps watch. ]
These are not fellow Americans.
Mexican lawyers don’t cost as much as U.S. lawyers.
Not really news is it? They’re just less coy about it than they once were.
What? You’ve never dueled using Roman candles?
[…] a rocky relationship […]
Understatement.
Why they go for the white guy.
Further on that front.
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A family affair.
By Jove, he looks angry!
So many problems could be solved by shooting more ferals.
It is usually the case that the close relatives of a criminal are also criminals.
…Not to mention their friends.
At Harvard, a student thought A Clockwork Orange was written in “Old English” and used AI to “translate” it.
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Heh. Gloopy.
Random malice: Start with someone with 80 IQ and tell them over and over they are oppressed. Now add drugs. You get someone who cannot navigate the modern world. There are no jobs herding cattle or growing yams. All around him is complexity he does not understand and rules he doesn’t grasp. You get rage.
OK, that was twice as much penis than I was expecting. I’m not paying extra for that.
Amnesty International has been obviously a BS organization since at least the 1980’s when they decided that murderers on death row in the US were “political prisoners”. Why does it take people 40 bloody years to see these things? Not that this won’t get ignored as well.
I’m just going to leave that there.
No reason.
Palate cleanser.
Rare photo of the birth of an electrician