Old school surreal. Hasn't been updated for our times, sorry.
I also liked
this rabbit hole collection. Sadly, the animation is inferior.
Back to more serious stuff (though comics, moving or otherwise, are
serious business as far as I'm concerned).
Baker Meant Me and He Meant You Too – Jeni HarveyWhether witches, suffragettes or terfs: there is always a reason as to why we – she – deserves it. Male violence is not random or isolated, but rather has a purpose, and whether directed at an individual or a particular group, that remains much the same: a tool of social control by which men assert their power, maintain their sense of superiority, and keep women in line. The threat of both physical and sexual violence is used to this end as all women, whether victims or not, become constrained by the fear of what could potentially happen to them if they were to step outside the bounds. If, for example, they were to walk alone freely at night; reject a drunk and overfamiliar stranger at the bar; demand the vote; or state freely their belief that male people are not female people just because they say so. Any and all of the above have, at some point, resulted in a punch in the fucking face.
As part of this pattern we can see that Baker’s threats on July 8th served as warning to every woman watching – yes, even to those cheering along. For every woman in attendance and every woman viewing the clip open mouthed over the internet, it served as that ultimate attempt at patriarchal control: one meant to ensure our understanding that any step outside the bounds could easily be met with violence and the sound of cheering crowds. Not one single woman hearing that crowd erupt at a man calling for disobedient women to be “punched in the fucking face” could count herself exempt.
Jo is fantastic. Not sure I'd want to arm wrestle her.
Here's one of the people she's talking about.

Good conversation going on
at the usual place.. . .
At this point there are no end of overviews on the harms of trans activism. When I saw this one by 'Brad' (not sure why I put that in tongs), I was skeptical. It's actually not bad, if you'll excuse a few too many quotation marks (oh, that's why) and the relentlessly anti-woke framing, which starts to be a turnoff after you've seen it 50 thousand times. I do like the name of his substack.
Brad (American, obviously - or maybe Canadian) didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but we get a dopamine hit when reading things we agree with.
Some of his word choices made me think. Take this:
The crisis of authority ushered in by the cataclysmic inception of the internet has resulted in previously authoritative institutions now lacking confidence in their own ability to lead, and they’ve decided that the trans community is a victimized group that can act as a source of moral authority, even as it erases sex-based rights and undermines the welfare of kids.
'Cataclysmic' set my eyes rolling at first, but it's fair. Anyway,
see what you think.