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April 6, 2025 108 Comments

For newcomers, some items from the archives: 

But Paying Attention Is Hard.

Mathematics is “saturated in whiteness.” Selfish inadequates hardest hit.

Throughout the paper in question, the term “brilliance” is deployed no fewer than seventeen times, as if it were some obviously inherent, pre-existing attribute – of students who can’t be arsed to study, who don’t pay attention in class, who undermine the efforts of others, and whose grades, as a result, leave much to be desired.

Even more frequent is use of the term “whiteness,” an alleged phenomenon on which the paper is premised. Though readers in search of some clear and convincing definition, or some compelling evidence of its existence, may find their hopes dashed. We are, however, assured that “whiteness” is something that gets in the way of black students “maintaining their Blackness.”

Readers will note how any feelings of incompetence and not being welcome are immediately blamed on external causes, on some ectoplasmic “whiteness,” that Befouler Of All Things. As if such feelings had nothing whatsoever to do with the choices and behaviour, and the personal shortcomings, of the students themselves.

Instead, Dr Jasien and her colleagues expect the teaching of mathematics to be driven by the goal of “healing… intellectual trauma,” by paying “attention to the minds and bodies of students.” The students being, it seems, much less obliged to pay attention to anything beyond themselves.

And so we’re told that “exclamations” and “cacophony” are “to be both expected and valued.” Because when you picture a maths classroom and people getting to grips with differential equations or vector calculus, the first thing that springs to mind is the word cacophony.

Only Suckers Pay Their Way.

On the fare-dodging hipsters of San Francisco.

It’s worth noting that the replies to Ms Malan’s fare-dodging dramas are almost entirely sympathetic. Her admirers applaud her recreational mooching, a measure of hipness, and offer tips on doing the same. “Best way to live,” says one. “God, I love this city,” adds a likeminded bint. “It’s a simple and beautiful life,” says another. Albeit a life based on exploiting, and sneering at, those more honest. The ones being left to pick up the tab…

As one might imagine, this modish, habitual freeloading – now estimated at 20% of users, possibly higher – has had certain consequences, including the alienation of many paying customers. Say, those not impressed by orange-vested climate activists who repeatedly screw the law-abiding, and the taxpayer, while applauding themselves for their belief that “Muni should be free.”

Left unchallenged or actively reinforced, the disregard for paying bills may of course spill into other areas of life, and losses from municipal parking garages are also mentioned as a “concern.” The fiscal state of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is described by insiders as “incredibly dire,” with a deficit projected to rise from a mere $15 million to a rather more impressive $322 million.

The Bollocks Is Bolted On.

Come, marvel at the world of politically radical tableware.

Ms Burgher approvingly cites Ms Robin DiAngelo, a fellow peddler of neurosis, the L Ron Hubbard of wokeness, and whose devotees, as we’ve seen, are often wildly unhinged and nakedly malevolent. Which probably tells us much of what we need to know about Ms Burgher and her racial affectations. The mindset she wishes to inflict on others. And by extension, those who succumb.

And so, Ms Burgher makes her unattractive tat, and calls it art, and treads on ceramic eggshells, and calls it performance art, while listing the hallucinatory evils of having pale skin. And while telling those sufficiently credulous that “whiteness is oppression,” the source of all that is wrong, a basis for eternal shame, and that white people should “not behave white.”

You see, we will purge the world of bigotry by embracing wholesale the mental habits of the bigot.

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

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Friday Ephemera (762)

April 4, 2025 164 Comments

Mongolian rave scene. || Not sure if it’s the shoes. || What… are you? || Just a few weeks. || “Why does he have no pants on?” || She’s certain that’s what he’s doing. Or, when your opinions are determined by status, not reality. || “Ecolesbianism asks: what if our interspecies relationships are lesbian too?” Related: Situated bodies and a butch dyke Earth. (h/t, Muldoon) || Wiglessness. || When you’re determined to make things worse. || Chadd is a grown man. || Attention, menfolk of pallor – new instructions have been uploaded. || Professor at Stanford, an expert, is mystified. || She’s going to assume you’re racist. || Best not to waste your pity. || What’s up, party people. || He did not wash his hands. || The gods, they mock us. || Escaped dental patient. || And finally, in a jam, helpfulness.

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Try It Now, They Said

April 1, 2025 127 Comments

New hosting, fewer bumps. At least, that’s the theory. There may be some minor behind-the-scenes tinkering left to do as the hosting changes propagate, but the bulk of the unpleasantness is now behind us.

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

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March 28, 2025 176 Comments

Street food. || Lumpfish. || Crab versus grape. || Woman versus sofa-bed. || Boneless. || Just like blogging. || A collection of cartographic objects from the thirteenth century onwards. (h/t, Things) || It’s a lot to unpack. || Aspiring to cliché. || She, not he, was deemed a “risk to the public.” || The Unspanked walk among us. || He wasn’t sure what they wanted him to do with it. || “Do not comment on my shit,” says she. || Today’s word is dupe. || Airport scenes. || Question asked. || It’s seasonal. || Just a touch more. || She teaches small children. || I’ll bet the ladies feel reassured. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || What he said, and then some. || There was smoke, some shouting. || Hiking scenes. || “They needa give y’all refund.” || And finally, the joys of parenting.

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Ladylike Behaviour

March 27, 2025 75 Comments

And in transgender-sex-offender-urine-hurling news:

A trans-identified male in Giessen, Germany, has been sentenced to ten months probation after repeatedly exposing his genitals in public, soliciting migrant children for sexual abuse, and spraying them with his urine. During the hearing, the public prosecutor assigned to his case argued that the crimes were simply an attempt by the man to “affirm her femininity,” to which the judge agreed.

The chap in question – known, by himself, as “Sophie Koko” – originates from Kazakhstan and boasts an extensive history of sexual offences, numbering over fifty. His leisure activities – outside of bottling his own urine and then spraying it on children – include searching out articles about his crimes and then threatening any commenters who dare to “misgender” him.

Despite his prodigious criminal activity, often repeated in the same locations, Mr Koko – complete with bicycle and polka-dot dress – proved difficult to apprehend. Possibly due to the public being told by both the police and the media that the person engaging in such activities, and for whom they should be alert, was somehow a woman.

During Mr Koko’s trial, the prosecution demanded “a prison sentence of one year and eight months without parole.” Which, for a man with a catalogue of fifty offences – largely against children, at whom he flashed his genitals and threw his own bodily waste – may strike readers as a tad lenient. Judge Sonja Robe proved even more forgiving, opting for probation, 100 hours of community service, and “a requirement to visit a counselling centre for transgender individuals.”

The judge then justified the criminal acts by explaining that KoKo… had exposed his genitals in response to the “negation of her femininity” by “outsiders.”

Perhaps sensing the atmosphere of weird indulgence, Mr Koko took to social media, where he blamed his habitually criminal behaviour on those who dared to register the actual sex of the person threatening violence against women, including murder, and spraying children with his own piss:

“I’m the one who exposed myself because they attack me, saying I’m a man man man,” KoKo wrote under one of the articles. “I’m a woman, and that’s it,” KoKo said, going on to threaten those who misgender him. “If you keep calling me a man, I’ll keep showing my pussy in the city, and then there’ll be jail again because of you.”

Because of you.

“I have aggressions against people who refer to me as a man,” KoKo said… “If you hadn’t referred to me as a man, this wouldn’t have happened.”

And that whole piss-bottling thing, already underway, was in no way a sign of impending derailment or a pre-existing urge. So live in fear, ladies, lest you say the wrong thing. Or notice the wrong facts.

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