Undercover Elephant Cafe

In Tokyo, the cyberpunk future arrived in 1981
by hiro tanaka

The power of nature -- man is catapulted through the air after the roof he is trying to hold down is ripped off by powerful winds. In fairness, Crom laughs at your four winds.

Horse is a cuddle bug.

Supposedly, this is what schizophrenic hallucinations look and sound like. JackStraw, is this what you see when you "toke" the marijuana plant?

A beaver rubbing itself.

Capybaras feel at easy in every situation.

If you live with a cat, congratulations, you live with a celebrity.

You know that odd bird call you always hear in movies set in the jungle? Apparently it's been a Kookaburra all along. But it's an Australian/New Guinean bird so I don't know what it's doing in every South American, Asian, and African jungle. Thanks for ruining jungle movies for me, Facts. And jungle movies are the best movies.

Steve Inman:

Street justice. The first clip I linked a month or so back, featuring a bunch of girls in cocktail dresses pulling hair and kicking each other. One girl gets her top pulled down and another girl seems to be wearing a thong or no underwear at all. The last one is great -- some "prankster" punches random people and videotapes it to see their reaction. The reaction is a knockout punch.

Some lone idiots decide to pick a fights with entire road construction crews. It doesn't work out for them.

Community justice.

Classic FAFO: Giving the kangaroo molesting your dog a little chin music.

New haircut.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/2LFAFgVaZM
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 9, 2026

Overnight time-lapse photography of the earth's rotation pic.twitter.com/vCpiMKUyoo
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) March 28, 2026

The best mornings in Yosemite are ones where you are treated to low fog in the valley pic.twitter.com/GIihiKF8Vi
— Brandon Yoshizawa (@bay_photography) May 14, 2026

Nursing a paralyzed dog back to health:

Unconditional love.. 🥺

Never give up.. pic.twitter.com/kZLCJMJI7z
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 3, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:38 PM

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)

2 That picture of Tokyo makes me anxious. I kinda think I'd like to visit Tokyo, but I'm not sure I could manage more than a couple of days before overstimulation wins.

I'd need to go to the Swiss mountains right afterward to detox.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:42 PM (zYpTz)

3 Good evening, skip. I hope you are well.

I bugged out of work a little early and just got home. Beautiful out here o the beach. 62, partly sunny and windy.

I wish the pollen counts would go down though. Everyone has a runny nose and stuffed ears and is sneezing. Even the dogs and cats.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 07:43 PM (A5RD0)

4 I love fog, as long as I'm not driving in it.
There's something profoundly mystical about it.

Posted by: Delurker at May 14, 2026 07:44 PM (gtcuf)

5 Undercover elephant?

Must be a rather large cover.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 07:45 PM (lSIaC)

6 willow
142 Buy cheap computer fan (Amazon $2) and mate it to one of the million transformers you have. Make a little box for the fan and place it in an appropriate position to cool the laptop. Even if you have a brand new one it will extend its life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 07:45 PM (nzPxx)

7 That schizophrenic hallucinations really what some people see?

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0)

8 Why do elephants paint their toenails red?

So they can hide in cherry trees.

Must work great, I've never noticed an elephant in a cherry tree

Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 07:46 PM (lSIaC)

9 That schizophrenia simulator is pretty disturbing...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 07:46 PM (gnNyN)

10 Barely 60 today, better 60s tomorrow and Summer arrives finally Saturday

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)

11 Caw caw TV

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at May 14, 2026 07:48 PM (nVdR7)

12 I am having a whole bunch of problems getting any sound and/or pictures with X. It says "media could not be played." I think they want folks to sign up. Nope; it's not happening.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2026 07:48 PM (dSKRp)

13 I often have to refresh the page to get Twitter stuff to play

Posted by: Accomack at May 14, 2026 07:50 PM (8jVAy)

14 I love fog. When I was a boy scout (Dad was the scout master), our troop drove up to the top of Rattlesnake Mountain to gather firewood. It was cool and foggy. We had cubed roast beef and taters, wrapped in foil and thrun* in the fire. One of the best meals I ever ate.

*thrun is a word my Dad's best friend used instead of thrown. An homage to my dear departed Pop.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (0aYVJ)

15 kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
eating all the gum drops he can see

Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (3uBP9)

16 Fen was saying that yesterday or day before, not getting sound on X clips. Know my YouTube plays fine

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (Ia/+0)

17 Supposedly, this is what schizophrenic hallucinations look and sound like.

>>> I will ask my resident expert when he gets home.

Posted by: pookysgirl has to live with the aftermath at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (Wt5PA)

18 Posted by: Accomack at May 14, 2026 07:50 PM (8jVAy)

That doesn't seem to work either, but thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (dSKRp)

19 You know that odd bird call you always hear in movies set in the jungle? Apparently it's been a Kookaburra all along.
———-

I still want to know what “instrument” they use in old Western movie soundtracks. It’s intended to sound like boot spurs being spun, if that makes sense. But I doubt that’s what they are.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 07:52 PM (1cMxB)

20 Kudos to the guy in the last video for nursing his dog back to health.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2026 07:52 PM (viF8m)

21 In Tokyo, the cyberpunk future arrived in 1981
by hiro tanaka

Sure, Just look for the sign, you cannot miss it.

All I can see is the little white triangle on her heinie.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 07:55 PM (/lPRQ)

22 Cowboy wisdom: Never squat with your spurs on.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1)

23 Supposedly, this is what schizophrenic hallucinations look and sound like.
———

That was one of the “selling points” psychologists claimed when L.S.D. first came on the scene, a way to study Schizophrenia, since the effects are very similar. Maybe, they surmised, Schizophrenia is a defect where similar compounds are produced by the brain. Strangely enough, they found that L.S.D. has almost no effect whatsoever when administered to Schizophrenics. (Your tax dollars at work again)

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (1cMxB)

24 15 kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
eating all the gum drops he can see
Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (3uBP9)

The 1960s music class songbook...which reminds me that there was a song about marching to Pretoria. Bet they don't sing that one at school anymore.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (zYpTz)

25 >>>It’s intended to sound like boot spurs being spun, if that makes sense. But I doubt that’s what they are.

I know what you mean. It's in the Good the Bad and the Ugly. I don't know what it is. Sounds like some kind of spinning noisemaker, like a rotor inside a wheel.

Posted by: ace at May 14, 2026 07:58 PM (1wjle)

26 A commenter earlier today pointed out the beneficent effect bats have in reducing mosquito populations.

Unlike penguins, who do nothing to eliminate mosquitos.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 07:59 PM (0sNs1)

27 South Africa had a robust scientific and industrial base at one time. They had even developed and tested thermonuclear weapons. Once the Communists took over, they got rid of those. Probably a wise move. I think the very first heart transplant Doctor was a South African. Or maybe artificial heart? Something like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:00 PM (1cMxB)

28 A beaver rubbing itself.

Grasshopper, what is the sound of one beaver tribbing?

Posted by: a Zen mastur at May 14, 2026 08:01 PM (VHUov)

29 A commenter earlier today pointed out the beneficent effect bats have in reducing mosquito populations.
——-

Eh, probably a rounding error as far as numbers are concerned.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:02 PM (1cMxB)

30 >>> Supposedly, this is what schizophrenic hallucinations look and sound like. JackStraw, is this what you see when you "toke" the marijuana plant?

Just ignore the creepy shadow people. After me,
"That motherfucker ain't real!"

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 08:02 PM (/lPRQ)

31 >>A commenter earlier today pointed out the beneficent effect bats have in reducing mosquito populations.

If you live in an area where you can attract Marten or Swallows, they eat an insane number of mosquitos.

Simply building the right nesting box for them will do amazing things to the insect population around your yard.

Posted by: garrett at May 14, 2026 08:02 PM (4ljtY)

32 That last video fucked me up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 08:02 PM (zZu0s)

33 I am pretty sure I do not have schizophrenia, but that video is weirdly illustrative of my dream world. I have crazy dreams, usually very vivid. I think it's because I am a shallow sleeper.

My deep sleep period is early on; then I wake up around 0100, then doze wake, doze wake, etc., until I get up for work at 0630.

Seems to work because I never feel tired or groggy during the day.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:03 PM (0aYVJ)

34 FenelonSpoke

Not a Tech guy, but I have a similar problem. There is a solution.

The cause is your internet browser, like Safari, is not up to date. X will not play on older OSs. You can update your OS, or:

after the x in the address, type cancel. xcancell should allow it to play.

It is part of forcing people to upgrade, and I deplore it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2026 08:03 PM (u82oZ)

35
Would be willowed, but is was in FO mode, reading a book.....

How that's pronounced "Knak o tish" is beyond me.
Posted by: man

That is exactly how it is pronounced.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 14, 2026 08:04 PM (QVmho)

36 Cowboy wisdom: Never squat with your spurs on.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1)
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A hunker is not a squat.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:04 PM (ZOv7s)

37 Capybaras feel at easy in every situation.

Grasshopper, when you meditate under the waterfall, be like the capybara.

Posted by: a Zen master at May 14, 2026 08:04 PM (VHUov)

38 I know what you mean. It's in the Good the Bad and the Ugly. I don't know what it is. Sounds like some kind of spinning noisemaker, like a rotor inside a wheel.
—-

That’s it! Always used to add a dramatic accompaniment or whatever. Something Bad is About To Happen. Whatever it is, I’d like to have it, and carry it with me, so I could deploy that very special audio effect at suitable times and places. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (1cMxB)

39 "In Tokyo, the cyberpunk future arrived in 1981
by hiro tanaka
Here's another one."

Both those look Photoshopped, or AI. But I could be wrong. Which means the cyberpunk future is now, when I can't tell if anything is real or not.

Posted by: zombie at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (Av6i5)

40 The 1960s music class songbook...which reminds me that there was a song about marching to Pretoria. Bet they don't sing that one at school anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (zYpTz)

I remember that song. Sang it in school, in Cody, Wyoming. Weird.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (0aYVJ)

41 if you like fog, you'll love Nova Scotia

Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 08:06 PM (gKWVE)

42 Common Tater

Heart Transplant.

The favoring of an alternate invader of South Africa, because of racism, over the Boer, has destroyed an industrial country.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2026 08:06 PM (u82oZ)

43 I only met one elephant years ago when I was young, but I'm pretty sure he knew more than I did.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 08:07 PM (D1E+2)

44 I am having a whole bunch of problems getting any sound and/or pictures with X. It says "media could not be played." I think they want folks to sign up. Nope; it's not happening.

Could be or it could legit be something to do with your particular computer or browser. Try changing x.com in the URL bar to xcancel.com.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 14, 2026 08:07 PM (vTZFs)

45 Both those look Photoshopped, or AI. But I could be wrong. Which means the cyberpunk future is now, when I can't tell if anything is real or not.

"Your memories are false; they have been planted."
- Major Motoko Kusanagi, Public Security Section 9.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)

46 Toads are another creature that can eat bugs at astonishing rate

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)

47 Thanks very much, Salty. I will try that when I'm more alert.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2026 08:09 PM (IEV/x)

48 That Schizophrenia thing is like nothing I ever saw in real life.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 08:09 PM (snZF9)

49 Pretoria is famous for its Jacaranda trees. Every spring they bloom purple foliage. Really spectacular.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2026 08:10 PM (viF8m)

50 Anna Puma

Is anemia part of why the population is declining in Japan?

Unrealistic expectations or something?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2026 08:10 PM (u82oZ)

51 I haven't been to Tokyo in a decade. I miss it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 14, 2026 08:11 PM (T6aVk)

52 It’s an odd thing, fen, because I have had to do that for years here.

Posted by: Accomack at May 14, 2026 08:11 PM (T8bqm)

53 I remember that song. Sang it in school, in Cody, Wyoming. Weird.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (0aYVJ)

It is weird. Middle American elementary school kids singing a song about the Boer War (?). I guess it was the international songs portion, though. Because now I remember Balalalaika in there, too.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 08:11 PM (zYpTz)

54 “The favoring of an alternate invader …. because of racism …. has destroyed an industrial country.”

Hm. Sounds strangely…. familiar somehow, but I just can’t put my finger on it. Oh well, I’m sure it’s probably nothing.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (1cMxB)

55 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (77rzZ)

56 49 Pretoria is famous for its Jacaranda trees. Every spring they bloom purple foliage. Really spectacular.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2026 08:10 PM (viF8m)

I'd love to see it. Hell, I'd love to visit the RSA. But it is such a bloody mess.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (T6aVk)

57 > That schizophrenia simulator is pretty disturbing...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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yeah I bailed on that almost instantly
don't want those pictures in my head

Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (ZxPkt)

58 Years ago, when our boys were still kids, we got a room at a motel in Dubois, WY, and sat on the bank of the Wind River at dusk, watching the bats flitting around eating skeeters. Just one of so many great memories.

Cherish your family.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (0aYVJ)

59 more like a Mescalin Simulator.

Posted by: garrett at May 14, 2026 08:14 PM (4ljtY)

60 That Schizophrenia thing is like nothing I ever saw in real life.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 08:09 PM (snZF9)
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I watched it a few times. The more I watch it, the more "demonic" those shadowy figures get.

The one that looks like it's sitting in a patio chair is particularly gruesome, because it does look like *something* is occupying that chair...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 08:14 PM (gnNyN)

61 >>I'd love to see it. Hell, I'd love to visit the RSA. But it is such a bloody mess.

Beautiful country. But I have no desire to go back now. Place is going feral.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (viF8m)

62 I shot an undercover elephant in my pajamas
duh
he was undercover

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (/+uur)

63 Grasshopper, what is the sound of one beaver tribbing?
Posted by: a Zen mastur at May 14, 2026 08:01 PM

* scribbles notes *

Posted by: Primus at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)

64 We sang “Marching to Pretoria” in our church daycamp back in the day.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

65 Land Down Under by Men at Work has the Kookaburra song on flute in the background

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (V6/y0)

66 We sang Waltzing Matilda in grade school. They issued (well mom and dad bought them probably) plastic Recorders and we played (tried) to play Bach. That “one song”. You know the one.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM (1cMxB)

67 he thot he was undercover

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM (/+uur)

68 Jacarandas here this year have shown a weird pattern. Many seeming to go straight to full foliage without the blooms. Far less bloomage than normal.

Those blossoms are nasty, stain any surface worse than olives from olive trees. But very purty when they're all blooming at once, big lavender balls of color.

Typically they peak first week of June here. Not this time.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM (U/Byj)

69 re Schizophrenia - David Reich's lab is arguing that the old 1970s "bicameral mind" theory was real. It's just that the split, so to speak, happened around the early Bronze Age.
As long as our ancestors were roaming around and hunting, it didn't matter if someone heard the spirit of the bison calling to him. If you could channel your insanity to going totally primal against a bear, that was good enough for the tribe. Being a little weird about the gods of the crop didn't even matter all that much if you were in a primitive neolithic village.
It did matter if you were piloting a ship from Knossos to Sicily. Or tallying ledgers in Canaan.
hopefully this doesn't blow the margins -
dwarkesh.com/p/david-reich-2

Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM (gKWVE)

70 64 We sang “Marching to Pretoria” in our church daycamp back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

We did the same to but Marching to Poland

Posted by: Hilter Youth Camper at May 14, 2026 08:17 PM (/+uur)

71 They issued (well mom and dad bought them probably) plastic Recorders and we played (tried) to play Bach. That “one song”. You know the one.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM

Roll over, Beethoven?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 08:18 PM (0sNs1)

72 We sang “Marching to Pretoria” in our church daycamp back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (77rzZ)
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YMCA day camp actually sang Christian songs. We even sang "Taps" at the end of the day.

The counselors liked to sing the "C.I.T. Song" from "Meatballs."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:18 PM (ZOv7s)

73 12 I am having a whole bunch of problems getting any sound and/or pictures with X. It says "media could not be played." I think they want folks to sign up. Nope; it's not happening.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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insert the word cancel in front of the x as in xcancel,
do not disturb anything else. Press enter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:19 PM (nzPxx)

74 We did the same to but Marching to Poland
Posted by: Hilter Youth Camper at May 14, 2026 08:17 PM (/+uur)
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It's no "Marching Through Georgia."

Posted by: The Western Armies at May 14, 2026 08:19 PM (ZOv7s)

75 It did matter if you were piloting a ship from Knossos to Sicily. Or tallying ledgers in Canaan.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM

* smiles *

Posted by: zombie Ea-nasir at May 14, 2026 08:19 PM (0sNs1)

76 *pats mounted elephant*
I shot him in my pajamas
*admirer*
nice garaminals

wait what no
No its an elephant

Posted by: Hilter Youth Camper at May 14, 2026 08:20 PM (/+uur)

77 off sox

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 08:21 PM (/+uur)

78 Come, we that love the Lord,
And let our joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
And thus surround the throne.

We’re marching to Zion,
Beautiful, beautiful Zion;
We’re marching upward to Zion,
The beautiful city of God.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 08:22 PM (/+uur)

79 Remember when Trump made that joke about Pearl Harbor recently? That really caused Japan to breathe a huge sigh of relief. They no longer had to bear the shame of their war (although they really never apologized for their atrocities). Now they're thinking about amending their constitution (forced by MacArthur, and understandably so) to put forth a real professional military, not this Self Defense nonsense.

I think the return of testosterone to Japan will rapidly take care of their falling birth rate. A proud people are a productive people.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:22 PM (kqNni)

80 It is weird. Middle American elementary school kids singing a song about the Boer War (?). I guess it was the international songs portion, though. Because now I remember Balalalaika in there, too.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 08:11 PM (zYpTz)

We also sang old slave songs. I remember one:
" O Mr. Moon, moon, bright and shiny moon, won't you come from behind that tree...
My life's in danger, but I'm scared to run
there's a man behind me with a big shotgun..."

Seriously, weird. As a kid it was just another thing they made us do in school. I hated school. All of it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:23 PM (0aYVJ)

81 I still want to know what “instrument” they use in old Western movie soundtracks. It’s intended to sound like boot spurs being spun, if that makes sense. But I doubt that’s what they are.
Posted by: Common Tater

I'm not a big Western guy, but I did ~~stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night~~ play percussion in high school band, so here's a couple guesses:

A cabasa, if you just spun it rather than using it like an inside-out maraca?

https://youtu.be/weMXR0xtEXA

A vibraslap? (Yeah, I know, but that's what it's called. Run with it, Morons.)

https://youtube.com/shorts/XK98Oc-SdHw

Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 08:23 PM (VHUov)

82 Way past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 08:23 PM (Ia/+0)

83 Happy Thursday, friends!

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 08:24 PM (pZEOD)

84 I've noticed that Twitter/X is posting clips about Franco, scenes from a film I ran to ground on Youtube. It's "Mientras dure la guerra," translated as "While at War."

Apparently, it's a Spanish Civil War version of "Starship Troopers," a film meant to convey one message and ends up conveying the opposite. I can't find the whole thing streaming for free at the moment, but I'm watching for it. These things usually come around.

I'm feeling rather bullish at the moment. I think Antifa is going to make a play and get absolutely routed. The networks have been mapped, the groundwork laid, and we know that their bench is very thin. NGO money is drying up. Without that, Soros and Co. have to make direct contributions, which is problematic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

85
It’s intended to sound like boot spurs being spun, if that makes sense. But I doubt that’s what they are.

I know what you mean. It's in the Good the Bad and the Ugly. I don't know what it is. Sounds like some kind of spinning noisemaker, like a rotor inside a wheel.
Posted by: ace

The ratchet?

https://youtu.be/rkYJh5KinOA

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:24 PM (Cqx++)

86 Night, Skip!

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 08:24 PM (pZEOD)

87 Ea-Nasir thought he was dealing with a bumpkin. His ancestors likely knew how to snow Indo-European and Elamite bumpkins.
We know about Ea-Nasir because he tried to rook a fellow Semite.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 08:25 PM (gKWVE)

88 Bah. Inman vid is age restricted. Hate it when that happens. Anyway, thanks for the cafe, ace.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 14, 2026 08:25 PM (ceJ0R)

89 -- that natural selection has been dormant in our species since the agricultural revolution. --
--

Who on earth would ever think that natural selection ceased? I mean, except for the dead, their choices are limited.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:25 PM (nzPxx)

90 58 Years ago, when our boys were still kids, we got a room at a motel in Dubois, WY, and sat on the bank of the Wind River at dusk, watching the bats flitting around eating skeeters. Just one of so many great memories.

Cherish your family.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky

I hear you, Pug.

My boys and I were visiting friends in Marion,MT. We sat out in the yard and watched dozens of migrating hummingbirds dive bomb each other trying to get to the feeders. They were amazing. We made all kinds of commentary while watching. It was hilarious.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 08:26 PM (A5RD0)

91 I think the return of testosterone to Japan will rapidly take care of their falling birth rate. A proud people are a productive people.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:22 PM (kqNni)
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I've said for two decades that the rebirth of the warrior spirit will also cause the Japanese to make babies again. Women want strong men, and the Japanese are some mean hombres when they want to be.

Glad they are on our side this time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:26 PM (ZOv7s)

92 Through an extraordinary sequence of events, I forgot to buy peanut butter at the grocery &@$!!.

I did manage to buy some fancy grape jelly, in anticipation that I would not neglect to buy more peanut butter. I try never to be at Zero balance, there’s maybe enough on hand for one sandwich. (I am out in the sticks, resupply is too far to be convenient).

Other than making toast, is Grape jelly good for anything else?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:27 PM (1cMxB)

93 88 Bah. Inman vid is age restricted. Hate it when that happens. Anyway, thanks for the cafe, ace.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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If you've never read the work around here you don't spend much time reading other comments.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:27 PM (nzPxx)

94 It is weird. Middle American elementary school kids singing a song about the Boer War (?). I guess it was the international songs portion, though. Because now I remember Balalalaika in there, too.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

We also sang old slave songs. I remember one:
" O Mr. Moon, moon, bright and shiny moon, won't you come from behind that tree...
My life's in danger, but I'm scared to run
there's a man behind me with a big shotgun..."

Seriously, weird. As a kid it was just another thing they made us do in school. I hated school. All of it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

At the tiny grade school I went to, the music teacher had a "TV theme songs" songbook.

I liked singing the Greatest American Hero song.

In retrospect, it was amazingly weird that we sang the MASH theme song. Didn't think anything of it at the time; I just thought it was neat that it had lyrics 'cuz they weren't on TV.

Posted by: mikeski is now 29 and not at all painless at May 14, 2026 08:27 PM (VHUov)

95 Glad they are on our side this time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

But double the guard at Pearl Harbor, just in case.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:28 PM (kqNni)

96 I looked out my patio.

The dog is stalking the cat which is stalking a bird. The dog is in. Snoeflake may have a gift tomorrow. My yard sound like an aviary.

For now....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 14, 2026 08:29 PM (Sco7b)

97 Bats. There are bats in our neighborhood, at at twilight we can sit out and watch them move across the yard. There was a hole in our siding and bats got in, and that was not so good, as one got through a cold air return and into the youngest's bedroom.

Total mayhem. Middle kid (recently promoted to Staff Sergeant) took the bat with a tennis racket. I caught it in a towel, and we brought it to animal control to see if a round of shots were in order. Nope, but it was the end of the bat.

Siding and roof repairs last summer solved the problem (or so we hope).

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

98
But double the guard at Pearl Harbor, just in case.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

We have satellites and much better radar now.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:30 PM (Cqx++)

99 In retrospect, it was amazingly weird that we sang the MASH theme song. Didn't think anything of it at the time; I just thought it was neat that it had lyrics 'cuz they weren't on TV.
Posted by: mikeski is now 29 and not at all painless at May 14, 2026 08:27 PM (VHUov)
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I remember the moment I realized the TV show was based on a movie and the movie was...weird.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:31 PM (ZOv7s)

100 If you've never read the work around here you don't spend much time reading other comments.

Not sure why you even bothered to respond. Oh, well.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 14, 2026 08:31 PM (ceJ0R)

101 But double the guard at Pearl Harbor, just in case.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:28 PM (kqNni)
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Those sneaky krauts are up to something...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 08:32 PM (gnNyN)

102
*flicks invisible dust from sleeve*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:32 PM (HdYcL)

103 I still want to know what “instrument” they use in old Western movie soundtracks. It’s intended to sound like boot spurs being spun, if that makes sense. But I doubt that’s what they are.
Posted by: Common Tater

Boot spurs spinning? Really? It's supposed to be the sound of a revolver's cylinder being spun.

Posted by: The Foley Tech at May 14, 2026 08:32 PM (5QSoL)

104 Fun fact: to entrench their control, the Popular Front government created the Assault Police, paramilitaries loyal to the central government. Basically cops with rifles.

It kinda worked. When the July Rising took place, only 1/3 of them joined the rebellion.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)

105 It's amazing to think that Harrison Ford played three iconic characters, Han Solo, Rick Deckard and Indian Jones.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 08:34 PM (XV/Pl)

106 >>> The 1960s music class songbook...which reminds me that there was a song about marching to Pretoria. Bet they don't sing that one at school anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (zYpTz)

It is the only song I remember from grade school. Why that song? I guess it is a little catchy. We must have sang it a lot.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:35 PM (3uBP9)

107 Thomas Bender

Not bad for an on-set carpenter.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2026 08:35 PM (u82oZ)

108 102
*flicks invisible dust from sleeve*

Good evening, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:32 PM (HdYcL)

You missed a spot.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 08:36 PM (lSIaC)

109 It's amazing to think that Harrison Ford played three iconic characters, Han Solo, Rick Deckard and Indian Jones.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 08:34 PM (XV/Pl)
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...and Jack Ryan

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 08:37 PM (gnNyN)

110
Went to Mass today, even though the Obligation for Ascension Thursday is transferred to Sunday. It was a bit odd to go and see a completely different bunch of people than at the 7:00 Sunday Mass I habitually attend.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:38 PM (HdYcL)

111 The mr. moon was also a barbershop quartet song I did a lot. I remember it from that.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:38 PM (3uBP9)

112
Otherwise I should have done a number of things today.

But I didn't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:41 PM (HdYcL)

113 That’s it! Always used to add a dramatic accompaniment or whatever. Something Bad is About To Happen. Whatever it is, I’d like to have it, and carry it with me, so I could deploy that very special audio effect at suitable times and places. LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (1cMxB)

There is a video of the Danish Symphony playing music from the Good, Bad, Ugly. it might show what they use for that sound.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 14, 2026 08:41 PM (8avO+)

114 Fuck me, did Kimmel really drop Exxon Valdez humor?

So edgy, so now.

What is this, 1991? I'm surprised he didn't compare himself to Turner and Hooch.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:41 PM (vE0+H)

115 The Nips have had it up to here ^ with muslims.

Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 08:42 PM (ZxPkt)

116 112
Otherwise I should have done a number of things today.

But I didn't.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You accomplish more in a morning than most people do all day.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 08:45 PM (A5RD0)

117 It's amazing to think that Harrison Ford played three iconic characters, Han Solo, Rick Deckard and Indian Jones.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 08:34 PM (XV/Pl)

It's amazing to think of even a such thing as an iconic character.

Has there been one deployed since the Pedowood Devolution of 2015? The last one I can think that remotely fits is John Wick and he was still 2014.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:45 PM (vE0+H)

118

We're so sorry, Uncle Albert
But we haven't done a bloody thing all day

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:46 PM (Cqx++)

119 Isn't categorizing movies as "Jungle" movies raciss in some way?

Posted by: George Of The Jungle at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (oftw2)

120 Other than making toast, is Grape jelly good for anything else?
Posted by: Common Tater
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My aunt had this clamshell thing, hinged with two matching sides that had a shape similar to a pot pie tin and long wire handles; only just the right size to line with a piece of bread. Line the two halves with bread and fill with peach preserves or your favorite. Fold together and hold over a flame from your range until the bread was toasted.
mmmm good

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (nzPxx)

121 The 1960s music class songbook...which reminds me that there was a song about marching to Pretoria. Bet they don't sing that one at school anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (zYpTz)
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We had that songbook too! I remember one about the Erie Canal -- "Low bridge, everybody down, low bridge 'cause we're comin' to a town ..."

Gotta see if I can gurgle that book on the intertubes .

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (kpS4V)

122 I can hear "voices" but only under the unique condition that I'm surrounded by people that are talking a lot. Being an introvert that is not very common.

But, like going to a conference, or a big party, and being around a lot of discussion and engaging in discussion for hours. At the end when I go to bed alone then my mind won't shut up and I hear all this background ambient discussion in my head for a while before falling sleep. Not really full coherent speech, but streams of words and phrases that I've heard over the day mixed and mashed together.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (3uBP9)

123 Went to Mass today, even though the Obligation for Ascension Thursday is transferred to Sunday. It was a bit odd to go and see a completely different bunch of people than at the 7:00 Sunday Mass I habitually attend.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:38 PM (HdYcL)
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Welcome to my parish! We've got the Daily Mass early risers, the ones that go to the school Mass, and then each segment on Sunday, plus the Saturday Vigil crowd.

I've done them all, and right now I'm the 11 o'clock Sunday because my friend is going to that one. But once OCIA starts, we'll be at the 10 o'clock at the 'student location.' I know that one well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:48 PM (ZOv7s)

124 Got a bunch of pepper plants into the greenhouse this afternoon. Damn, it's hot out there. 60 degrees and sunny, and about 90 in the greenhouse. The dogs are prostrate at this point. No snow to cool hot paws.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 14, 2026 08:48 PM (DwqWV)

125 Gotta mule and her name is Sal...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:48 PM (Cqx++)

126 Gotta mule and her name is Sal...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:48 PM (Cqx++)

127 The Nips have had it up to here ^ with muslims.
Posted by: Don Black

That Somali asshat that the Koreans are putting in prison was recently booted out of Japan. They probably regret not just lopping his head off.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 08:50 PM (/lPRQ)

128 Has there been one deployed since the Pedowood Devolution of 2015? The last one I can think that remotely fits is John Wick and he was still 2014.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:45 PM (vE0+H)
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Justine Bateman observed that culture basically stopped in the Aughts. Nothing has changed. No new trends in music, films, fashion. It got gay and conformist, but it all has the same washed out colors, terrible blurry CGI, and the films are all diverse and nihilist. Things might be breaking open again. Here's hoping.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)

129 My aunt had this clamshell thing,

Phrasing!

hinged with two matching sides that had a shape similar to a pot pie tin and long wire handles; only just the right size to line with a piece of bread. Line the two halves with bread and fill with peach preserves or your favorite. Fold together and hold over a flame from your range until the bread was toasted.
mmmm good
Posted by: Braenyard

They make cast-iron ones for campfire cooking.

* searches *

Apparently they're called "pie irons."

I enjoyed using them as a kid when we went camping; I just didn't know they had a proper name. Apple pie filling with cinnamon-raisin bread. The breakfast of champions.

Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (VHUov)

130 My aunt had this clamshell thing, hinged with two matching sides that had a shape similar to a pot pie tin and long wire handles; only just the right size to line with a piece of bread. Line the two halves with bread and fill with peach preserves or your favorite. Fold together and hold over a flame from your range until the bread was toasted.
mmmm good
Posted by: Braenyard

LOL

I think that was a "hobo pie" maker.
Supposed to be used over a camp fire.

Sounds like you got your merit badge for urban camping in Auntie's kitchen.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (/lPRQ)

131 Uh oh.

NEW: 7 years ago, on this day, Joe Biden predicted a Republican “epiphany” where the party abandons Trump after 2020.

Many primary voters bought into it. But the prophecy failed.

Now Democrats are moving on to a more combative style of politics.

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Comity is dead.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (ndZc7)

132 Not really full coherent speech, but streams of words and phrases that I've heard over the day mixed and mashed together.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (3uBP9)

Some intense version of Random Synapse Firings. Everyone gets those every night as they are falling asleep, it's one of the stages - the night I learned about them (long time ago) I started being able to hear them.

I only get the thing you get when I'm around particular people, like ones who are extremely and annoyingly talkative, for a long part of a day. Then it's like I have a tape recording of them in my brain that has to unwind.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (vE0+H)

133 Boot spurs spinning? Really? It's supposed to be the sound of a revolver's cylinder being spun.
Posted by: The Foley Tech
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Spurs 'cling', as one walks on the porch going into the saloon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:53 PM (nzPxx)

134 Fog is bad juju.

Posted by: Adrienne Barbeau at May 14, 2026 08:53 PM (wVcYX)

135 I don't trust elephants

Posted by: Ray's Cyst at May 14, 2026 08:53 PM (jrgJz)

136 Gotta see if I can gurgle that book on the intertubes .
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (kpS4V)
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For a lark, I typed in garbled lyrics of a camp song I vaguely remembered from 1979 and it popped right up. Quite popular, tons of variations in verses, and yet millions sang it while slathering themselves in Deep Woods Off and drinking Hawaiian punch out of a can with a pull tab.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:55 PM (ZOv7s)

137
Comity is dead.

Dying is easy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:56 PM (Cqx++)

138 The Nips have had it up to here ^ with muslims.
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 08:42 PM (ZxPkt)

Way up firm and high?

Posted by: Bob Seger at May 14, 2026 08:56 PM (wVcYX)

139 >>> I only get the thing you get when I'm around particular people, like ones who are extremely and annoyingly talkative, for a long part of a day. Then it's like I have a tape recording of them in my brain that has to unwind.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (vE0+H)

I see it as an auditory version of the visual phenomenon where you are traveling 100s of miles through west Kansas, nothing but flat wheat fields, and then you stop at a hotel for the night you will see continual movement, like things spinning, in your peripheral vision for hours.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (3uBP9)

140 >>>I don't trust elephants

Posted by: Ray's Cyst

>The pink ones will definitely stomp a mudhole into you and demand recompense.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (D1E+2)

141 I'm starting to think the Brits are going to have to just drive a stake through Queer Starmer's black heart. Everything is stacked against him and he won't leave.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (kqNni)

142 Undercover Elephant Cafe

Supposedly, this is what schizophrenic hallucinations look and sound like.

Doubly on-topic music.

https://youtu.be/M2NllMn1HpI

Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (VHUov)

143 Boot spurs spinning? Really? It's supposed to be the sound of a revolver's cylinder being spun.
———

Really.Yeah, I think that’s supposed to be spurs, that’s kinda what it evokes. You might be right. But.

Why didn’t they just spin a revolver cylinder, then?
There’s also the “rattle snake” sound effect they use. And the “buzzing” feedback sound, when they show the Sun in the Desert. No water. Hot. You’re gonna Die.

Another oddity in shows, whenever they do a time countdown, or have a clock ticking, it’s always off, way too slow or too fast. Weird.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:59 PM (Iwnxp)

144 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)

I noticed something happened in the 90's too but there was at least still a life and a creativity to things. Then suddenly in 2015, as if it was planned (it was), media got infiltrated and overtaken almost wholesale. For a few years before that we were saturated with black black black black, and in 2015 it "coincidentally" became women women women in preparation for the inevitable ascent of Hillary.

It wasn't just a cultural cliff push, it was supposed to appear that Hillary herself had done it. Trump knocked all the pieces off the table but they kept their weight on the culture as the primary purpose of post-2015 "entertainment" was to not let our society rally around or remotely agree on *anything*. Not one thing. Not one news story. Not anything.

Best way to do that is exactly what they did. Woke entertainment was never about teaching, it was about bifurcation. As normal opponents, going along with it meant you are aiding the divide. Similarly, in trying to stop it, you are aiding the divide. Either way "they" get their divide.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 09:00 PM (vE0+H)

145
Everything is stacked against him and he won't leave.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (kqNni)

___________

"I say, bobbies, you won't apprehend me alive!"

*fires seltzer water*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:01 PM (HdYcL)

146 schizophrenic hallucinations??

I think this was a Saturday morning cartoon back in the 1980s. Ralph Bakshi, maybe?

I didn't get it, but the kids loved it.

😃🫠😶‍🌫️🤯

Posted by: mindful webworker - Or maybe I'm thinking of Scooby Doo at May 14, 2026 09:02 PM (tcCok)

147 My Grandpa put grape jelly on his grits. We forgave him though, because he was from Maryland.

Posted by: Cid at May 14, 2026 09:02 PM (vFG9F)

148 My aunt had this clamshell thing, hinged with two matching sides that had a shape similar to a pot pie tin and long wire handles; only just the right size to line with a piece of bread. Line the two halves with bread and fill with peach preserves or your favorite
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The Celebrated, venerable Tonka Toaster! Accept no substitutes.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:03 PM (Iwnxp)

149 Just ignore the creepy shadow people. After me,
"That motherfucker ain't real!"
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

It's the Punkin Heads comin' at me that scare me so.

Posted by: Gimme, Gimme, Shock Treatment! at May 14, 2026 09:03 PM (oftw2)

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