Life at Toodles corner [2 of 3]

JH: Last instalment tomorrow.

“Again, I was too late getting off my duff and find my phone to get the glassy river for y’all. It was at a standstill much longer yesterday. I thought I had more time so I was again lazy getting up to shoot it. I was reading the blog instead!

Anyway a few more shots. Enough to make you sick of the place.  But fairly glassy. …but not now. It is becoming lively now … these were when it was glassy … ish.


I find that days can appear similar at a glance, but just like people or anything actually, no day and no one is just the same…not even identical twins. Almost the same but not quite. 

I am going to pull weeds for a bit. Oh! The fish have started jumping. Turtle is floating with his snout poking out like a piece of wood, the water fowl gracing my view as several in formation skim the water as I look up, dog barking in the distance for a very good reason…to him anyway, and that lazy lone plane makes me want to snooze on the verandah.  

Neap tide too . Just in front of me on the dock there is a battle between incoming and outgoing tide! Also, a paddler just quietly scooted inches from my dock and therefore in front of me. She never saw I was there!


More happening here, but I haven’t the wherewithal to describe and you haven’t the time and want-to to read! You know …. like the breeze and swaying of the trees…rustling sounds…but the sounds of swaying trees and bushes are more muffled in early summer/late spring than other times. That dancing of tree and plant limbs present themselves in such interesting ways…almost like marionettes as they bounce and sway in the breeze and light.

Of course the shadows cast by the light add more , ummm…what is the word…oomph…than they would have otherwise…more dimension because of the  light….the shadows cast certainly contribute to the depth of this lovely display before me.”

Saturday [4 to 7]

(0508) Gates bleah appearing out there … great summer, eh? Still … early days. (0529)

 

7. Yesterday’s news


6. DAD at 1068

a) Late Thursday afternoon, June 5th, no fewer than 27 live lambs were found by police in the Vallon des Mayans, not far from the North Hospital, in the 15th arrondissement. [JH: pretty clear what the invaders are up to.]

b) In Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône. During a search and rescue operation at “The Before Lounge” hookah bar, government services and the Val-d’Oise police seized a strange herd.

c) Hungarian commentator says while it is “forbidden to talk about,” the attacks and mass riots in Paris were done by [JH: … usual suspects.]

d) Since April, more than 16,000 irregular m1gr@nts, including children and women, have been expelled from Algeria to Nigeria.

5. Remoaner curiosities


4. Steve at 1068

  • Grassley Launches Investigation Into “Prohibited Access” Files at FBI and Special Agent who Illegally Wiped His Laptop While Working For Mueller
  • Kash Patel Says FBI Found Phones and Devices Fauci Used During Covid Outbreak and is Looking at Hard Drives
  • Joe Biden Used Autopen to ‘Sign’ All Pardons During His Final Weeks In Office With One Glaring Exception
  • Large-Scale Missile And Drone Attack Leaves [The] Ukraine With Heavy Losses
  • Is faulty AI being used by German law enforcement to issue fines for speech crimes?
  • Portuguese Left in Freefall After Chega’s Electoral Surge
  • Palantir’s unchecked surveillance empire expanding: How a CIA-backed data giant threatens liberty and fuels global oppression
  • Much more.

Saturday [1 to 3]

(0357)(0452)

 

3. Repeating myself here but

  • Have a robust, organised set of your own archives somewhere, esp. in dead tree
  • Have a list of ‘trusted’, ‘usually trusted’, ‘hobbyhorse-prone’ etc. etc.
  • Don’t visit lazily.

Meaning … by all means visit to pick up snippets … that’s our main job, the magpie mind. But some of you are more thorough … you deep dive, you have a life, you have little time for anything else, certainly not running a series of blogs. But the combination of all of us in a small, unherdable meeting up … ah, that’s quite different … it’s useful. But not too useful. Too useful sees us swatted, as N.O. was.

Evaluate names … there are two here:


I don’t know this Claire Wills but she seems an honest, concerned lass … women are most concerned nowadays. John R is one of our lot … a gruff unherdable.

2. IYE had

“Some history.

The Sea Island Conspiracy

Don’t be surprised if Elon eats crow under orders from his techie backers. They want him close to Donny.”

……

JH: It’s a home truth that you the reader cannot really do all this unless:

You are of sufficient age to know who Pat Buchanan is, why he dropped out, a la Farage and TBP and remember that comment by Tom on mine being a magpie mind. Thus I point you to Jstack, quiet, relatively unassuming … but look at Mark Matis’s constant warnings, put those with IYE’s symbolism and plain sight warnings, esp. back to N.O. days, plus Steve’s filtering and his own bkgd, p,us my own reply to Redacted in comments yesterday, plus what he points to.

We don’t do central link lists, registers here … it’s truly up to your due diligence to keep your own archiving … I do some, we all here do much … but we can’t cover everything, it’s an unrealistic expectation, esp. given our age and state of health.

We constantly look for snippets in passing, e.g. look at Flaxen Saxon in Scriblerus in blogrolls. This is not wisdom on my part … it’s just experience … with many of you too. Memory is a precioys commodity, yes? But memories of a dozen of us are that much more enhanced.

But so are ‘false prophets’, appearing to be what they’re not. See … we have to sort those out in our minds too. Etc. etc. Nuff for now.

1. Summarising a complex series of issues

Roobeedoo wrote:

CLICK5: Timing The Swamp Womp Womp Womp…

These are my takeaways from the Elon/Kash/Rogan things …

  • Talk of Elon and an America Party for the midterms, backed by the Demonrats as they have no one else.
  • Kash Patel says he was swatted. Says. Says. Ok?

Then:


In our sidebar:


Roobee “seems” locked into the free WP security filter which can be set at various levels. I get in because of long association … Redacted is relatively unknown there, hence the 3rd degree. This is why our security here does rely on my eventual oversight, but all WP using the platform has at least a modicum of their oversight …

… which they can’t be blamed for in one sense, protecting themselves from wrecking, DDOS, that sort of thing … even rogue site admins.

It truly is wild west.

Then we come to what you don’t see unless a techie … all sorts of minor glitches, obstacles in the composing of posts, in which I could go on for pages as to what prevents this post item even getting to you and the moves which must ge made to get around it.

I’m no techie but am a mid-tech or ‘super-user’, so I see many traps but not the vast majority of them.

And don’t forget that much of that above was on X, ‘disgruntled’ Elon’s site, run by WEFer Yaccarino. Juss sayin’. Ditch it? Not at this stage … it’s still part-reliable. That’s the state of play.

Friday [15 till close of play]

(1657) Almost evening all.

 

17. Taking another look at Max Headroom

Why? Answer: Because two or three suggested vids and vlogs came up on it on Youtube … so what does that say about my consumer habits? The power of suggestion.

Backstory: Chrysalis had a song to promote in the early to mid 80s, so I believe, they needed some kind of computer generated character, Matt Frewer appeared and looked the part as a model for the ad. There are various truths about it, including his own:

The computer graphic wasn’t, it was him with masses of prosthetic makeup … the computer generation was suggested by the artwork backdrops, plus the voice glitches, which were electronic. So they had this concept for a character … how to use it?

TV series of course … but it needed a backstory … good reporter (Frewer) finds out some deep truths about network TV, late night talk shows, the whole talking head thing. The Man wants him dead, there’s a chase, he crashes into one of those 80s road or building signs saying Max headroom, meaning vehicles needed to be lower than that. All good as an idea.

But what to get him to do? Here was the first glitch … those who’d created him were earning their money from The Man … and they were mocking, satirising, exposing it all … there was this ‘keep it safe’ thing … yes, he was rude, abrasive, nonWoke, embarrassing, all sorts … including witty, fast on the uptake … it was good for awhile … Elvis Costello had been doing it, the new Gen X were irreverent. One part of the joke was he looked vaguely pre WW2 Aryan … which was real irreverence towards the black nobility.

One disaster was New Coke, with them using MH to sell it … disaster. Plus technology was rapidly improving … it was an idea which, as one analyst put it … had had no major wins in the final analysis … the Sex Pistols had, others had … but there was only so much he could do on TV, for so long. The Letterman and Wogan “interviews” had gone off well enough:

… but where to next? And in this, I’m going to insult the arrogant Left which thinks it’s oh so clever, chortling over the latest joke played on the plebs. And the worst plebs to these people are those on “the joyless Right”, forever angry about this or that … about the oh so clever Left.

It’s a motif played out by the Demrats and Labour today … they hate the people of the land, think them lesser beings, real hicks. In short … exactly whom is Max going to satirise? He’d already offended Slebs, Leftists expecting to be feted, but MH instead played on their weak ego spots. Joke fell flat. Was the Right watching the show? Nope … just the Left, and these creators were mocking them.

The character, the shows, died a natural death. Everyone watching wanted MH satirical in his/her own way, never about them themselves … who lacked humour now?

Someone mentioned MH was very 80s … it had had its time, that was that.

16. Keeping it real

15. Steve and war room at 1068

  • 3,000 Deportations A Day: Steve Bannon Reacts To Momentum On Sealing Border
  • Sen, Josh Hawley: Judges are issuing nationwide injunctions against Trump more than any other president combined
  • Jack Posobiec: “If You Want To Keep Your Country You Need Mass Deportations”
  • Sense of Urgency: Kevin Czinger Calls On Washington To Act On Industrialization Of A.I.

Life at Toodles corner

JH: I’d asked Toodles how things were at her riverhouse a morning or two ago, her time and she sent:


The river is like glass atm.

Some of the clouds are dark and hovering, mixed with fluffy whites along with lovely blue patches. A few birds are chasing one another. They are fussing, while the background of nature’s choir is sweet and just slightly dissonant.

Oh! A boat just went past, cutting through, little ripples tapping the bank.

It’s started raining across the other side of the river. Like an army, it is marching quite deliberately over to my side!  On the once smooth river the sound is nice … steady and heavy but not pounding … it brings a nice fragrant breeze up to the verandah … now it’s gotten to the house, making music on the tin roof.


It has been fresh and sweet but now with notes of earthiness. I am getting spray on me, here in my cave, looking out enjoying the breeze and spray….

… oh, that small plane who visits just went through the rain clouds, adding to the music with its low, slow rumble …

… and as it came, it has gone in a flash.  A few dripping soldiers linger drip drooping from the tin and from the cypress needles … the river now flowing at a quick pace.

Interesting texture.


JH: Just a word about those rocks … they’re meant to halt erosion of the bank but apparently, some ex neighbours got naughty about the rocks (lovely for their garden I suppose) … the Toods clan has been repairing the damage since.

Three more pictures tomorrow to give an idea of the Toodles habitat in southern Bama.