Ethan Nicolle’s animated guide to goose fighting
Errol Flynn, eat your heart out. Here. Nicolle is one of the Babylon Bee guys. I learned about this goose fighting guide because it got a mention on one of their recent podcasts, on the day he did it,...
View ArticleKatharine Birbalsingh on the racism of David Starkey and on the nation state...
I’m about half way through watching this “interview” on YouTube, done by the two Triggernometry guys (don’t yet know their names) with Katharine Birbalsingh, the quotes being because it doesn’t take...
View ArticleDominic Frisby’s Chicken Song will be on YouTube this evening
Tweet, linking to YouTube. Teaser lyric excerpt, the intro I assume: When something’s pissing you right off And it’s left you vexed and blue Look to our friend the chicken She’ll show you what to do....
View ArticleThat a manufacturer of something complicated is using 3D printing to make it...
I get emails from Google concerning 3D printing. These emails happen daily and each contains links to many reports of 3D printing being done by this or that enterprise. When I first learned about 3D...
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Photoing the cricket in 1938 – and photoing it now
Cricket Monthly has a piece up about the tech that accompanies cricket, with some great historic photos of the tech of yesteryear, including this wonderful photo, from the yesteryear 1938: I found it a...
View ArticleJames Lindsay talks to and with Joe Rogan
I’ve had my morning deranged by watching and listening to this video of … well, see above. Lots of wisdom in this. Lots. James Lindsay is a new name to me, and towards the end of this he talked about...
View ArticleQuite a lot of links to Steve Stewart-Willams creature tweets
Steve Stewart-Williams does great tweets, and his animal tweets are especially appealing. If you just want cute, there’s plenty of that. But if you want to tell yourself that you are also learning some...
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Poetry on the South Bank
Last summer, when wandering about where those Modified Social Benches are to be found, in the vicinity of the Royal Festival Hall, I happened to look downwards and I encountered, beneath my feet, this...
View ArticleOn Ex-Muslims and on the lack of social media omnipotence
Over the course of the last few days, Facebook suppressed Ex-Muslim TV but has now allowed it back on air again. Which provides me with a perfect excuse to write some topical commentary on the subject...
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Taxi with sealant and construction adhesive advert
I continue to keep an eye out for taxis with adverts. But, taxis are a lot less busy at present, because of You Know What, and their adverts now reach far fewer people. But, the above observations may...
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Some more creature tweets
A scary tweet: The other thing I found out was that the female monarch butterfly has an array of chitinous teeth inside her ‘vagina’ … Chitinous? Excuse me while I google that. Here we go. A...
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The great upward kink in the graphs of human creature comforts
My go-to guy for creature postings, which I like to do on Friday, is Steve Stewart-Williams, and he has recently tweeted about plenty of impressive creaturely behaviour. There’s this shark, jumping out...
View ArticleCovid-19 is all over bar the “Casedemic”!
I got to this ten minute video lecture by Ivor Cummins via a Facebook posting by David Ramsay Steele. Steele had earlier written a piece which I half noticed a few days ago, as a result of someone...
View ArticleTwo videos I enjoyed
Both of them quite short, and both of them reached via favourite bloggers. First, one of David Thompson’s clutch of oddities linked to last Friday. (There’ll presumably be more such tomorrow.) This...
View ArticleBeethoven String Trios concert on video
Having been at the Wigmore Hall for the concert, right when Lockdown was getting serious, I note with pleasure that I can now watch and listen to the complete Beethoven String Trios, at the Wigmore...
View ArticleFucking amazing rant by Scott Adams
Yes, this is fucking amazing: For about ten minutes I thought: this isn’t a “rant”. It’s a calmly but firmly made argument. But then, the argument having been made, it suddenly turns into the fucking...
View ArticleNo sport and strange sport
It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that one of the weirdest features of what you might describe as “classic Lockdown”, Lockdown when Lockdown was at its most Lockeddown, was the complete absence...
View Article“I love it when Dawkins admitted that!”
I recently watched this duet rant by David Wood and, when he can get a word in, Robert Spencer. David Wood, a new name to me, is a Christian, but not the sort of Christian who believes in turning the...
View ArticleDucks eating … things off … a giant furry thing
Indeed: Trying to chill through the culture wars in 2020 pic.twitter.com/ikBHStDyqz — Ben Winegard (@BenWinegard) August 27, 2020 Setting aside the culture wars, is that a really big … hamster? … in...
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