And A Boob Job Would Be Nice
In hardships-of-prison news:
But in 2024, the clinic discontinued access to the private room, and told transgender inmates they would have to use the device in their own cell. Caldwell deems this unacceptable, writing: “My cell door has a window where any male inmate or officer can see inside my cell and watch me use the device on my maturing female body.”
His maturing female body.
If the above doesn’t sound sufficiently unhinged, I should add that the inmate in question, the one suing the Department of Corrections and invoking his human rights, Mr Michael R Caldwell, is a rapist of children.
Mr Caldwell, who prefers to be referred to as Skeggi Hildof Katrinssonr or “Hildi,” isn’t alone, of course. His fellow transgender complainants are,
Pride, baby.
Mr Caldwell, our transgender rapist, insists that his alleged hardships constitute “sex discrimination,” and that the failure to provide a private salon for his twice-weekly laser hair removal sessions is impacting his mental health, such as it is. Indeed, the inmate has insisted that he will “not consent” to any perceived infringement of his womanly privacy. Stated sorrows include “elevating anxiety, depression, skipping meal times,” and frequent crying.
The invocation of consent may strike readers as somewhat ironic, just a little tone-deaf, given the criminal activities that resulted in Mr Caldwell’s current situation. Activities regarding which Mr Caldwell seems much less tearful, having blamed his crimes on the victims. And nothing suggests remorse like demands for fetishistic cosmetic procedures at someone else’s expense.
Not to be outdone, “non-binary” inmate Mr Hunter S Christian, our violator of dogs and enthusiast of child pornography, complains that he was denied access to Minoxidil treatments to correct his receding hairline – apparently, an unthinkable transgression – and likewise, testosterone supplements, supposedly to address his “shrinking testicle size.”
Hey, I’m just reading what it says here.
Mr Christian invokes “mental anguish… and a loss of the forward momentum in maintaining the delicate balance between my masculine and feminine sides.”
I’ll give you a moment to suppress all that sympathetic weeping.
Mr Andrew S Kennedy, the third complainant, and who is serving a 31-year sentence for the torture and murder of an eleven-month-old baby, claims to have been “repeatedly misgendered,” supposedly a violation of his human rights.
The trio’s additional demands, and they are numerous, include “body contouring services” and significant monetary compensation.
At which point I’m inclined to suggest we could just submerge the trio in hot concrete and get on with our lives.
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Try ShareX‘s OCR feature. I used it to capture the above from a screenshot; it took about 3 seconds from first click to pasted text.
Thanks. May give that a whirl.
But it’s worth noting how X now makes needlessly difficult – about as difficult as possible – the very thing that made the platform interesting and useful for a great many people. And in terms of traffic, it’s become non-reciprocal. The current goal, so far as I can tell, is to make the thing fold in on itself, so that users spend hours inside it, never leaving. Endless scrolling.
Which, as stated upthread, doesn’t sound remotely appealing, or healthy.
Hey! I resemble that remark.
I should add that to the banner.
I suppose I should make a start on throwing together Friday’s Ephemera.
[ Rolls up sleeves, fetches welding goggles. ]
I first saw this story about a jihadi “terrorist” in the Post Millenial and immediately realised something was off. The Gorlock pictured in the article quite obviously possessed the intelligence of a low-functioning turnip, and was likely incapable of manufacturing weaponry. Or furniture.
It seems I was right and the whole thing was another FBI entrapment scam.
I’m unsure how I feel about that.
But I bet her neighbours are pretty happy.
That went suspiciously smoothly. Now living in fear that some Reddit moderator is going to go on a fevered deleting mission.
What have you got against turnips? Don’t do them like that.
There is an opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal: “Ascendant No More, Democrats Are a Coalition of the Pathetic.: To wit:
There are your Reddit mods. They are “anti-fascists?” The way they run their subreddit kingdoms would make a dictator proud.
There does seem to be some basis for the unflattering stereotype.
Link here.
Obama cynically stoked racial resentment and paranoia, although I’m sure some of his dupes sincerely believed the hype.
I do have a tasty Slow-Cooked Jihadi Turnip recipe, if you’re interested?
So, eventually, it will disappear up its own bottom?
Second the motion.
Drives the old one too. What is communism but Marx’s grievance against his parents writ large?
Well, X is still useful for inspiration, for finding starting points for a post, but I’ve never developed much of a taste for having discussions on it, insofar as that’s possible. I comment there very occasionally, but I don’t particularly like the format. It doesn’t really suit what I like to do.
X is real-time and potentially huge in reach (provided you avoid including external links, which, for me, defeats the object), but it’s extremely ephemeral, driven by the algorithm. It’s a continual churn and doesn’t have the longevity and, dare I say it, atmosphere, the vibe, of a good blog.
Like this one, in fact.
And Substack just strikes me as too generic. Like a newsletter with very limited reader interaction and participation.
Sometimes I like to give posts two or three days to breathe, as more comments come in, because I haven’t finished thinking about whatever the subject is. The posts here often get updated as a result, sometimes substantially.
The comments, the interaction, are important. Because the commenters may have other bits of the puzzle.
[ Straightens beer mats. ]
I agree with you about X.
The new name (X) reminds me of a cartoon cat’s asshole, and with the demise of xcancel it I’m even less likely to give it any attention.
Yeah, I realized that X is pretty useless for sharing things. It could have been Instapundit writ large, but I realized recently (as I returned to and spent time) that it’s political rage-baiting with a four-year-olds mentality. Lie upon lie upon lie (pansy gov. Waltz’s rage against Trump for not fighting the fires in Ottawa was just a recent example) that I realized I was trapped in a recursive loop.
So I use my lists now for specific safe subjects (although some of the political goons appear there) and ignore the main feed.
Speak English, dammit. I kinda like the ending, of this clip anyway.
Just in the last six months or so, X has become difficult to use in ways too difficult to describe. Though that’s true of a lot of tech lately. User interfaces have gone to shit as behavioral consistency, especially across different apps but even with progressive releases of the same app, has declined.
Well, it’s not of enormous use in drawing attention to a blog, or at least to this blog.
I’ve occasionally had posts on X getting, say, ten thousand views, hundreds of likes, and you look at the click-through rate and its laughable. Lots of people may be liking or reposting the screengrab of a short paragraph, maybe two sentences, but almost no-one clicks through to the link in order to read the whole thing.
The vast majority of users seem to just stay on X, scrolling through an endless churn of disjointed snippets. Soundbites. Random sentences.
I made an X account maybe six months ago, so I could read threads there which had been linked to from other sites. But I found it chaotic as a source of news, and unnecessarily awkward to operate. Also, I think both of those issues have gotten significantly worse over that short time. Even Reddit, for gods sake, is better (although irredeemably bananas politically).
Elon! Time to fire more people!
The rhubarb gin(s) are evidently mellowing our host. Or perhaps it’s a ruse, and soon, like a Q-ship, he will rise up, guns blazing.
Interesting theory.
[ Checks stockpile of rhubarb and ginger gin. ]
A daily dose of rhubarb rectifies the humours.
Also asafoetida.
[ Discreetly waves catalog of fireproof coats. ]
Any humours they can’t rectify, the gin certainly can.
Laudanum can do even better.
Uh, what? What two-terms of “racial-healing” did that writer live through?
Putting the “fornication” in Californicate.
Oh come now Darleen. It’s the WSJ. They’re conservatives. Gotta be fair. Balanced, even if it’s not in their own slogan. It’s simply the right and good way to be!
Amazing. I disagree with essentially EVERY WORD of that graph. Whatever movie was that writer was living through, it wasn’t anything like mine.
And WTF is a “coalition of the ascendent” supposed to be? If they were ascendent, they wouldn’t need to form a coalition, now would they?
Do these people know that the United States of America isn’t a democracy? And that that was a deliberate choice by the Founding Fathers, not some kind of accident?
Matthew Continetti is a conservative, but seems to have…blind spots.
I cannot recall the last time a liberal or leftist has acknowledged that America is a republic. Admitting that could be a fatal admission leading to unwanted talk about civics and the unfortunate fates of pure democracies.
Who’s got the popcorn?
Speaking of popcorn, Coyote vs. Acme opens tomorrow (locally at least).
Yes, I’m sure that the same people who today will vehemently defend the actions and tactics of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Weather Underground, and frequently even Joseph Stalin are only moments away from realizing the error of their ways and accepting responsibility for their own failed policy preferences.
the non-existent narrated world
Again, don’t you understand? These are conservatives. At the Wall Street Journal. They don’t have time for your silly history lessons. They have money to make!
Methinks it’s a leftover from the Cold War era.
People were always talking about communism vs. democracy, with “democracy” being shorthand for any non-commie or non-totalitarian government where there are free elections.
I know purists get annoyed when people don’t say “republic,” but if you take all the places where people say “democracy” and plug in “republic,” it doesn’t change the meaning.
At least, not until an “everything a referendum” government starts showing up.
I’d like to see it, too.
Just going to dip a toe into the world of transgender Reddit.
Okay then.
One of the odd things about browsing the various trans subreddits is that you can find places where it is very much not done to use the words fetish or sexual arousal, but where at least half of the participants are breathlessly deploying euphemisms for precisely those things.
And in the moral slums of leftism:
Some people just seem bent on being chronically resentful.
I felt a sudden need for the meme.
Not unfair.
They just want to shit on things.
I’m now trying to imagine being the kind of person who, when a much-loved singer and philanthropist dies, the first thing you do is check whether she ever gave some of those millions of free books to kids in Israel. Because that would be your excuse to invalidate everything else. And all while saying, entirely without irony, that “it doesn’t matter if [she] was a good person.”
The above, by the way, is by no means a one-off. This morning I’ve seen a dozen or so posts along very similar lines. Sort of, “How can you mourn Dolly Parton’s passing, or remember how much you’ve enjoyed her work, without knowing whether she disapproved of all the things I disapprove of? Did she ever denounce white supremacy, for instance?”
It’s like eavesdropping on Bedlam.
Never forget: At the roots of the “Palestinian” cause is rage at the sight of Jews who are prosperous, free,and happy. The Koran says that Jews are inferior and must be kept in a degraded condition (when they aren’t being murdered) so happy Jews are an affront to all true Muslims. It was okay to have a few Jews in the Holy Land as long as they were kept down the way the KKK kept blacks down–daily degradation and the occasional pogrom–but when European Jews started to arrive who were not willing to abase themselves the situation became intolerable.
You’ve got a point; I definitely recall that. But what I don’t recall, because it was before my time, was how people talked before then.