The character next to Elmo is supposed to be Rapunzel with her hair up, which makes it look an awful lot like the alien's golden tiara. Rapunzel and the alien both have green skin and mostly white eyes with what looks like heavy black mascara. The alien is flanked by two annoyingly cute little guys -- Minions with SpongeBob faces, I think. If you look closely, you'll see that Rapunzel is similarly flanked by two Elmos (the gold standard for "annoyingly cute") -- a picture of Elmo on one side and the muppet himself on the other. The main difference is that the alien is enjoining silence, while Rapunzel has her mouth wide open.
Tam multa, ut puta genera linguarum sunt in hoc mundo: et nihil sine voce est.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Above Majestic (with an excursus on turban jokes)
The character next to Elmo is supposed to be Rapunzel with her hair up, which makes it look an awful lot like the alien's golden tiara. Rapunzel and the alien both have green skin and mostly white eyes with what looks like heavy black mascara. The alien is flanked by two annoyingly cute little guys -- Minions with SpongeBob faces, I think. If you look closely, you'll see that Rapunzel is similarly flanked by two Elmos (the gold standard for "annoyingly cute") -- a picture of Elmo on one side and the muppet himself on the other. The main difference is that the alien is enjoining silence, while Rapunzel has her mouth wide open.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Burying the lede: Australia makes it a federal crime to ACCESS "violent extremist material" on the Internet
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Moonlight Shadow
Monday, February 20, 2023
I'm feeling excluded.
"Inclusion," in a single screenshot:
This is from an organization that was in the news recently for vandalizing the works of Roald Dahl (removing such offensive words as black, white, fat, and attractive), so I went to their website to send them some hate mail -- er, I mean some diverse mail expressing my own differing viewpoint as informed by my lived experience as person of diverseness.*
I guess I'm not the only one. The "contact us" page on the site is now blank, although the Wayback Machine shows that it didn't use to be. Oddly enough, their donation buttons are still operational.
Also scrubbed from the current site, but still viewable on the Wayback, is the list of individuals involved: directors Jessi Parrott, A. M. Dassu, and Heather Lacey; and founders Beth Cox and Alexandra Strick. (Hmm, one "diverse" group is rather surprisingly conspicuous by its absence. Almost every single time.)
As the unexpurgated Dahl himself put it, "I do not wish to speak badly about women. Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are women."
*I can't be diverse because I'm white, you say? Fool, I'm Ukrainian. Beat that!**
**I hope the inclusionnaires appreciate how I self-censored and went with "fool."
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Friday, June 17, 2022
Duke of Earl 1, Big Tech censors 0
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Brave and Presearch absolutely DO censor search results.
So DuckDuckGo has just decided to do this:
Even Google doesn't go that far! They at least give you a few RT articles in foreign languages.
Brave has claimed that they don't censor anything, which is a lie.
In fact, Brave seems to be just using Google's algorithm. What are the chances that two different search engines would independently return the Wikipedia article on Tim Burton as the first hit for christopher walken infogalactic?
Notice that my own blog is fifth result -- not the post where I mention Walken but one where I quote one of Paul's epistles without comment!
Presearch, which also claims not to censor search results, is the same as all the others.
They do at least return the Christopher Walken page on Infogalactic -- though for some reason it ranks lower than "1969 texas longhorn football stats."
Okay, what about Yandex, then? I mean, they're actually Russian, right?
Yeah, well that's a mixed blessing.
To be clear, this is what happens when you run this news search on their English site: it automatically switches you to all Russian.
So . . . any other ideas? Is there any search engine at all that returns uncensored English-language results?
Ace of Hearts
On the A page of Animalia , an Ace of Hearts is near a picture of a running man whom I interpreted as a reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger....
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