(1515) And so into the evening, heavy rain, low temps.
21. Today’s rubbish in parlmt
The starmer theatre is one thing. Quite another is getting the king to announce digital ID. It’s just one thing after another after another, ad nauseam.
20. Moo corner
19. Two of the banned “far right”, lol
18. The pressures upon the ordinary person today
17. The demise of London
16. When combined, they’re more interesting
You saw Wed 7, now this:
… or tomorrow’s first short today:
(1050) Approaching elevenses. (1105)
15. Secret filming of you through those glasses
14. King’s speech
13. When it suits them
12. Andrew B
11. Andy B and Pete
(0916)(0944)
10. Moo corner
9. Ah. Yes.
8. Yikes
7. Judge for yourself
I’m conscious that neither SKB nor our Steve can defend themselves here with this sshot, so I’m saying nothing but we must run it as mise à jour all the same.
6. Tomorrow at Unherdables
The way it’s shaping, I really need to finish any blogging tomorrow before 0800. The only major post till evening will be at Orphans, on charity shops, Julia’s watching over Orphans.
Here, I’ll do the early things, but really must stop at 0800 … only mise à jour, new events, plus I’ll schedule the film for about 1000. That’s it till evening, folks. DAD I’ll signpost in the evening … you can always get over there to NOWP and read it.
One reason is the radiation now … if I go near any of the pads, I start coughing, throat, nose, ears … can’t afford that tomorrow.
In which the machine behind producing films to influence the common people is at odds with what the common people’s belief systems had been for eons … in fact, it had defined “the west”. Now the demons were picking away at the edges through popular entertainment.
It pretty much started in the 50s and took off in the early 70s with Peckinpah etc., as western society’s defences fell away and people drifted from their roots … quite biblical really. As well over half our readers here would not go with my take on all this, I’ll stop here.
The ultimate joke, imho, is that “nikto” is actually a straight Russian term “ni-kto”, direct translation “no one”, nobody. Ni means “not” and “kto” is Russian nominative for “who”, usually a question.
Klaatu is the name of the alien, “barada” then remains the enigma. Because if you run them together, those words, they could mean, “Klaatu, death “to” nobody.” But they could also mean, “Klaatu, “leave alive” nobody.”
Of course, it’s just a film, innit? Innocent like every film on planet earth. Yeah.
In producing this “short”, the early spelling error aside … the narrator/uploader just had to include “shocking”, just as every “short” uploader of the type seems to do:
Now, whether YT has those in its guidelines I can’t say, but it sure starts to look that way. Having said that though, this narration above was not too bad overall.
There’s another short I had before deleting, on Nancy Mitford, and at the start, a line appeared onscreen, saying that no AI was used, the voice is human … but then on came a smug, jokey youngish voice, heavy with sarcasm. That was the joke on us … message being that AI is better.
(0533) Morning all. Light appeared slightly at 0459, by 0525 it was 80% light in the sunroom, but there was heavy nimbus out there and there has been earlier rain. How do I know? I had to check in response to DAD’s “Test” post at 1380:3 … that response by me is continued in Wed 1 below here. (0627)
5. Planning any boat or shed building soon?
4. Would you prefer the official food guidelines
… as put out by three letter agencies and big pharma, on packets, or would you prefer “The Food Babe”?
3. The steal
2. DAD at 1380:4
a) On the sidelines of the Africa Forward summit, Emmanuel Macron called on dual nationals to fully embrace their dual identity: “Being dual national means being 100% French and 100% from one’s country of origin.”
b) France. Bobigny (93): A magistrate tasked with combating narcotics admits to his own addiction to methamphetamine and chemsex; he obtained his supply within his own jurisdiction.
c) France. Agde (34): After being tasered and taken into custody for vandalism with a machete, a Roma man in his sixties died in his cell after hitting his head against the walls. Witnesses described him as a “hysterical individual, unable to control himself.”
d) France. Vegetables, bread, meat… Food vending machines have proliferated in rural communities… but are increasingly targeted by acts of vandalism and looting, which cost their owners dearly.
e) France. The left-wing politician wanted to get her money back. That could summarize the case that the 13th Criminal Chamber of Paris is to examine this Tuesday afternoon, with the slight difference that the left-wing politician in question – Sophia Chikirou – allegedly broke the law in the process.
1. Response to DAD at 1380:3 continues
The interesting aspect of DAD’s “Test” comment is why … why had it not appeared? (By the way, rain has just started heavily falling now outside at 0543.)
It may have been something in DAD’s works over there … had not clicked send … or had clicked send but something had delayed it. Let’s say the latter … he has Macron to contend with, we have Starmer, there is trouble with Ada and Eva and five others related to TR Saturday … thus the cyber agencies were delaying posts to peruse them.
Might have been, perhaps not. Either way, DAD’s drop came through. And you’ll notice … only DAD’s. We know Steve has gone away for R&R.
But there’s another aspect … Monday’s drops saw this:
And there it stopped. The streak stopped. 158 days, goes back now to 1. Was going to put up a new post, then thought nah … let’s have NOWP as a DAD blog just now … why not? ☺️
(1533) It’s been mainly deliveries and chores which have eaten up the time, with four hours sleep. Let’s restart. And now sign off at (22:59) Night night all.
27. Just thinking
… there I go again … I’ve quite a few items from X but it’s convoluted to run them as separate items this late in the evening. So …
26. The well placed snooze
Ah had a thought!
Yes, frightening, that. Ah had a thought about snoozes. Ah had a thought that if the natural tendency, after blogging 0500 to around 1230, is to snooze in the afternoon, why not a half hour rest instead, then some more RL jobs, then snooze late afternoon until 2030 say, then blog a bit again, as I’m doing now?
Coz it’s more reader friendly being here at this time, your time. For example, I can go to X for developments now. Just an idea, thinking out loud as it were. Shall think on’t. What’s your pattern?
25. Uncanny what we have coming up tomorrow till Friday
I’m referring above to the YT on charity shops … was not planning the BB thing at that point. Uncanny really how it all goes.
24. Post-snooze notes
Yep, crashed around our late afternoon, until our 2008 hours, now 2025. Still light out there but not for long. Plan to fall sleep around midnight (current cunning plan). Not being a complete idiot here, just a part one … this shows signs of age.
Toods and I had been discussing Steve, if he’s ok. He will be but needed R&R, so do y’all, good readers … I’m conscious that you manage your time now maybe better than you once did. It’s basically two speed living now … crash for awhile, then physical activity … don’t be caught in the armchair, sedentary trap.
Now, Babylon Bee … you might know them for the humour (with or without the “u”). They also do typical Christian charity work, which I think I’ll write ✝️ian from now on for the bots. My position at Unherdables is that we readers know very well what “Charities” are, so to find one which is not corrupt is the whole point.
Am I right in thinking that we like to give, it’s a tradition, even if we are a bit skint, but no longer trust Charity fatcats or those concerts for warlords’ lavish lifestyles in Africa and the Caribbean. Sadly, that’s very real. That’s why I do not offer these next two paragraphs with any sort of “sell” attached to it, just posting it, that’s all:
“This summer, you and your family, group, class or church can provide a practical blessing and encouragement by filling Action Packs for persecuted Christian families during their time of great need. Each pack is filled with daily necessities like soap, a towel and a bedsheet.
VOM has shipped thousands of Action Packs to persecuted Christians over the past two decades, but front-line workers in hostile areas and restricted nations report that the need is still great. You can show your love for our persecuted brothers and sisters by giving them tangible help through an Action Pack.”
Now I am not pushing this Voice of Martyrs, just putting it up here, which is our prime directive or mission at Unherdables. Often I skip over the BB and Gab type requests, obviously, old Christian charities too, e.g. the Salvos … well, I have no idea how sound they are these days … we hear horrendous tales of graft, Wokery.
And that’s that for now.
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23. Things just happen, don’t you find?
22. Way to go
21. About as interesting as ablution
20. Moo corner
19. Chap plans a road trip
18. Thirsty “data centres”
17. Ghana communist Bass
16. Bee colonies dying
“Having lost two agents in Berlin, British intelligence chiefs arrange for American agent Quiller to report to the local controller, Pol, and continue the assignment, which is to find the headquarters of Phoenix, a neo-Nazi organization.”
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 60% of critics have given the film a positive rating, based on 15 reviews. Variety wrote that “it relies on a straight narrative storyline, simple but holding, literate dialog and well-drawn characters”. Ian Nathan of Empire described the film as “daft, dated and outright confusing most of the time, but undeniably fun” and rated it with 3/5 stars.[9]
(0947) Deliveries, cooking for a few days, lunch, just finished, cream-crackered. I need to complete Tue 11. (1201)
Also: https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/05/at-daggers-drawn.html
15. Places of worship
14. Govt smuggling
13. Independent windows
12. Vox
11. Saw this on Quora just now
… from a lady called Colleen Wysocki:
“My mom is now 65 years old and she is a covert narcissist. One night I was in her house and I heard her crying in her room, I went to see what was happening, why she was crying. Then she started to tell me how she wasted her whole life. And she said she never should’ve married my dad and her life would’ve been so much better if she hadn’t.
My parents got married when my mom was 22 years old, and back then she hadn’t a family, she had no education and no money, nothing at all. My dad worked so hard and he became a teacher, made a good life and always treated her well. He never hit her and never cheated and he never even drank.
With all of that she was miserable, and of course in her opinion, it’s always someone’s fault. Now she sits in her room every night drinking and feeling sorry for herself. She tells herself that she is special and that she could’ve gone far in her life if my dad hadn’t ruined everything.”
Classic hypergamy. Also, daughters often enough support one or the other. How to get across to someone like that mother that she’d caused him to give up hope? Of course, it could have been the other way with the next family … sort of a Ryan Giggs maybe.
There’s an ego factor, a dumbness factor too. Dumb and greedy is not a good mix.
I sometimes look back and wonder … could I have visited more countries? Could I have done this or that? What fraction good to bad? I’d say 5/8 good, 2/8 my own bad choices, 1/8 diabolical luck but 2 of the first 5/8 maybe the Guardian Angel.