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Friday Ephemera (766)

May 2, 2025 78 Comments

Scenes of a kind I’m struggling to categorise. || Six Greenlandic ice cubes, only $100. || For the detectives of tomorrow, a crime-scene doll’s house. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || Dressing for pleasure. || Question asked, answered. || Question asked, answered 2. || When you’re an asshole. || Some bending, thumbs up. || The thrills of Portuguese public transport. Previously and related. || And it’s posture-optimised. || Improbable portraiture. || The many penises of the Bayeux Tapestry. || Butterfly repair job. || Lithium brine. || For all you chess enthusiasts. || Quivering meat. || You want one and you know it. || The endless war against chili seeds. || Incoming. || Incoming 2, 3. || Man down. || At last, a gold-melting ATM, for all your ooh-while-we’re-here gold-melting needs.

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April 27, 2025 197 Comments

For newcomers, some items from the archives:

Perhaps The Cardboard Has Magical Properties.

It’s a San Francisco vibe, so doing the obvious is out of the question.

The cards, we’re assured, are “a concrete way to deal with an unsafe situation.” Though given the consequences of recent attempts at intervention – or what Bay Area Rapid Transit refers to as “allyship” – readers may wonder whether prompt and meaningful assistance may be less frequent than one might wish. Perhaps we can look forward to the issuing of “I am being stabbed” cards. And some “The man next to me is masturbating” cards. It does have the makings of an unhappy board game.

By issuing little cards, they’re creating “new social norms.” To supposedly address the problem of having created other “new social norms” in which punishing criminals is deemed unjust, racist, and terribly old-fashioned.

But hey, if you’re travelling to work on a BART train and some deranged creep starts masturbating against your leg, or pissing on the floor, or you find yourself standing next to yet another knife fight, or overdose, or commuter mugging – and no-one else does anything, or dares to do anything, except watch impotently and demoralised – because even noticing such things is racist – at least you’ll have a little card to clutch. Apparently that’s something.

Members, You Say.

The thrills of modern gym membership.

In short, female customers who perceive incongruity, discomfort, and possibly danger should simply ignore those perceptions. Danger, it seems, is something one can now just pretend away.

You see, in the progressive pecking order, the fantasies of sexually dysmorphic men – and the preferences of male sex offenders – are of much greater importance than any “discomfort” felt by the women and girls on whom the former groups choose to impose themselves. Women and girls whose role, it seems, is merely to understand and tacitly affirm. To be reluctant accessories to some strange man’s psychodrama, while remaining free of judgement. Which is frowned upon.

Because the modern, not-at-all-insane response to repeated acts of indecency and sexual intimidation – by a predatory man in the women’s changing rooms – is to ask him not to keep waving his erection at women and children. On grounds that what he’s waving could somehow be a lady’s penis. Such is the sophistication of our times.

The Unspanked Spread Joy.

On fabulist “identities,” and malice with impunity.

If, for instance, I were considering whether to amuse myself by flinging tomato juice over people and over their computers and whatever, while grinning with satisfaction, I’d expect a not insignificant likelihood of consequently being punched in the face. This expectation is important.

The risk of being punched, vigorously, is important. It inhibits quite a lot of recreational malice.

It’s Trivial When The Victim Is Someone Who Isn’t Me.

Canadian socialist podcaster solves problem of all crime, everywhere.

Habitual car theft is a “victimless” crime. Says Nora the socialist. Nora doesn’t think that a third conviction for car theft should result in incarceration. Because, and I quote, the victims “get new cars though.” “I write books and I know things,” says Nora, who lives in Quebec, where, in the last year, the rate of car theft has practically doubled.

Perhaps it would be ungentlemanly to wish on dear Nora some first-hand experience of the crimes she so merrily diminishes when inflicted on someone else, someone who isn’t her. Though it is, I think, tempting.

Behold ye this snapshot of progressive innovation.

For those craving more, The Year Reheated is a pretty good place to start.

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Ephemera

Friday Ephemera (765)

April 25, 2025 140 Comments

Inhaling scenes. || An unthrown stick. || Neighbourly drama with bonus fire. || I remain unconvinced. || Not a parent, you say. || Suspension test. || Pacemaker of note. || Hairpiece of note. || The progressive retail experience, parts 625, 626 and 627. || Pole dancer. || There’s something to be said for unclean glass. || New niche crisis detected. || Possible enhancement detected. || For those of you concerned for the safety of cyclists. || There’s someone at the door, Maureen. || Vertical mouse. || According to mood, I guess. || Ethereal and gorgeous. || At last, a fool-proof test of heterosexuality. Can confirm. || “Can I father a child with the appendage made out of my forearm that you’ve sewn onto my groin?” || On surface tension. || And some deep, sweet rumblings from a rest-stop bathroom.

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Concurring

April 22, 2025 150 Comments

And in crime-news news:

There’s no way @7NewsAustralia thought they could post this with the comments off and not have anyone say something.

Is this clip farming? pic.twitter.com/ADp8nx9jfV

— What’s News!? (@Whats_Newsss) April 21, 2025

I have to say, I didn’t see that coming. 

Via Rod Dreher.

Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

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Anthropology Pronouns Or Else

How To Invalidate Your Own Vocation

April 20, 2025 71 Comments

Via Muldoon in the comments – and the pages of Psychology Today – the evaporating standards of “affirmative psychotherapy”:

Trans people don’t suffer for being trans – they suffer from how the world treats them…

Mental Health Professionals Can Help…

Validate Their Experiences – Your clients are not exaggerating. Listen without pathologising. Validate without hesitation.

Affirm in Every Interaction – Use the correct name and pronouns like it’s second nature. Audit your forms, website, and policies to make sure they reflect that commitment.

Sharp-eyed readers may have registered the seeming absence of curiosity, of enquiry – say, regarding very common causes of the phenomenon in question. Readers may also wish to ponder the inevitable tensions between affirmation and investigation – and to place bets on which will be dispensed with in favour of the other. In this Yes, You Are Napoleon school of psychotherapy, where the unwell must always be told whatever they want to hear. Possibly before being steered towards irreversible mutilation and lifelong pain.

That gender-affirming care.

Readers may also wish to ponder how a similarly affirming approach might fare with other mental health issues – such as anorexia, with alarmingly cadaverous young women being told, “Yes, dear, you are every bit as fat as you imagine and should definitely continue starving yourself.”

A consequence of all this affirmation and declared solidarity is a hasty jumping to conclusions. A begging of questions. For instance:

Trans people don’t suffer for being trans – they suffer from how the world treats them…

The author of the above, Tess Kilwein – PhD, pronouns “she/they” – would have us believe, and would have her patients believe, that the most pressing and fundamental causes of woe are “bias,” “microaggressions,” and “anti-trans bills” – among which, laws that restrict women’s changing rooms and other intimate spaces to use by actual women, rather than delusional and/or predatory men.

And yet, a person with sexual dysmorphia – someone vehemently alienated from the physical reality of their sex – would presumably still feel that way even if stranded on a desert island. Just as they do now, when alone – say, in the shower or when making tiresome TikTok videos. Seems to me it ain’t the world that’s causing the problem.

This willingness to pretend – and to then applaud oneself as righteous and heroic – is, I’d suggest, a less than ideal tendency for a mental health professional. Someone to whom a person’s wellbeing, or hope of wellbeing, has been entrusted. Likewise, the rush to externalise all causes of misery. While social interaction – knowing that other people are likely to perceive you as you actually are, not as whatever it is you wish you were – may amplify the existing dissonance, such interaction doesn’t cause it. It isn’t the root of the problem.

That’s an, as they say, you thing.

In this supposedly therapeutic context, the words affirmation and validation translate as a willingness to lie. A willingness to indulge obvious bollocks and play along. And so, one might wonder how Dr Kilwein might affirm and validate some of the chaps seen here. Or this merry bedlamite, who violates women’s toilets and pushes his phone camera under the doors of occupied stalls in order to livestream to his admirers, all those affirming fans, the protests of his latest victim.

But, says Dr Kilwein, we must “validate without hesitation.” Because this practised, habitual dishonesty is, she says, “justice” and “courage.” And therefore, a basis for in-group status. At which point, the nakedly partisan activism of such people – and the abandonment of anything approaching detachment and objectivity – even basic curiosity – appears jarringly at odds with any claims of professionalism.

We are, however, assured that Dr Kilwein is a proponent of “bold storytelling.” Which is just what a patient needs when their perceptions of reality are wildly unreliable.

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