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Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting:

Would you like to be chased by a pack of hounds? It’s a question often put to highlight the cruelty of hunting, because the answer would seem to be no. Or so you would think.
Yet increasing numbers of people are volunteering to be chased across the countryside by baying bloodhounds in what could soon be the only legal way to hunt with dogs in England and Wales, rather than pursuing animals or their scents.

I seem to recall that the pursuit of children with bloodhounds featured in the Mitford children's childhood (or was this just one of Nancy's fictional artefacts?) but as I recall that did not involve pursuing them across country on horseback.... (and presumably the children were already acquainted with their father's bloodhounds).

Maybe this would have struck differently - jolly countryside japes? - if this had not been the same week in which there was

a) a review of the new remake of The Running Man:

Ben signs up for a top-rated reality TV show called The Running Man; he has to go on the run across the US, hunted by professional killers, and if he can survive for 30 days, he gets a billion dollars. But all too late, he realises that these shark-like fascist TV execs aren’t going to play fair.

(pretty sure I have come across similar scenarios set in nearish future dystopias) and

b) this creep-making report: Italy investigates claims of tourists paying to shoot civilians in Bosnia in 1990s:

[J]ournalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni, who describes a "manhunt" by "very wealthy people" with a passion for weapons who "paid to be able to kill defenceless civilians" from Serb positions in the hills around Sarajevo.
Different rates were charged to kill men, women or children, according to some reports.

I'm really not sure it's a great idea to start this sort of thing.

splash_of_blue posting in

ways_back_room

Afternoon folks!

Monday do be Mondaying here, as is so often the case.

Your pup has a tummyache and they're not being very brave about it How are they dealing with it?

phoebeandherunicorn_feed

https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2025/11/17

Comic strip for 2025/11/17

https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2025/11/17

oursin

Happy birthday,

masqthephlsphr!

dialecticdreamer

Safe Return
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1301
[last days of November/first days of December of 2016]

Herb sighed as the plastic bottle crinkled, draining the last bit of water from it. He heard a truck and patted Elisabeth on the shoulder. “Abe’s back. Probably alone, since he’s edging over the speed limit.”

Elisabeth turned to watch the truck approaching in the rear view mirror. “He’s determined to be a good example for his grandson?”

“That’s a good deduction,” Herb laughed. “It’s wrong, and funny to anyone who knows him, but a good deduction. He’s got a lead foot, and used to race out at the salt flats.”
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Current Mood: awake

conuly

"It's set in a time when things were hard for black people in America" - a line which so flabbergasted me that I don't think I ever figured out what to say.

But this one may have topped it!

"The story is about a black girl, somewhere between 8 and 16 years old, from a black family."

...I'm dying to ask why they think they need to specify that this girl is the same race as everybody else in her family, when that's usually how this works. There's no indication in the rest of the post that we might have reason to think she's not.

nebris

Incels are what I refer to as Useless Beta Males, men [mostly young] for whom the Social Order, because of changing economics etc, no longer finds useful.

kengr

So today's Oglaf had a "header" graphic about vagina polish. Silly yes?

Anyway

fayanora and I were joking around and I remembered a fake ad video from years back, It was essentially a Bedazzler for your crotch. I thought the names "Clitter" and on a whim, I googled it.

Much to my surprise an actual product came up.

https://www.fizzinbathbombs.com/products/adults-clittercapsules
warning, while not explictly adult, probably NSFW in many places.

Basically capsules of shimmery "glitter" lube to be inserted before sex. Definitely a WTF moment.

Frankly the best use I could think of was as a special effect for an R-rated horror movie involving some sort of alien VD...

"Yup son, you got the Rigellian crotch rot. Looks like we'll have to amputate"

Current Mood: giggly

oursin

Last week's bread actually held out pretty well, though was rather dry by the end, however, that meant there was enough left to make a frittata with pepperoni for Friday night supper.

Saturday breakfast rolls: eclectic vanilla, which for an experiment I tried making with Marriage's Golden Wholegrain, fairly pleasant but I think nicer with strong white.

Today's lunch: bozbash, with Romano peppers, aubergine, okra, baby courgettes, fresh coriander, crushed 5-pepper blend, dried basil, and finished with tayberry vinegar. Was going to serve couscous with this but I was not impressed by the way this turned out given the instructions on the packet. Not really necessary, anyway.

phoebeandherunicorn_feed

https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2025/11/16

Comic strip for 2025/11/16

https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2025/11/16

matt_zimmer

Also a review for the latest episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

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Current Mood: sad
Current Music: Songs From The Cool World

oursin

Happy birthday,

lurksnomore!

twistedchick

A little family history and some pie...

conuly

Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.

***

Link

dialecticdreamer

House Call Gone Wrong
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 3 of 3, complete
Word count (story only): 1597
[last days of November/first days of December of 2016]

:: During Elisabeth Finn’s maternity leave, she makes time for a follow-up appointment with her six-week-old patient. When the mother doesn’t show, Doctor Finn sets out to make a house call. The trip is disrupted, but may have VERY positive results for her new acquaintances. Written for the November of 2025 Magpie Monday, from a prompt by

siliconshaman, and posted for everyone to enjoy, with my deepest thanks. ::

Back to part two
:: Thanks for reading! ::

“Would you know who to sell it to?” Herb asked slowly.

“I can ask a friend in the hospital’s pharmacy; they order for one of the hospitals in my hometown. The blue chamomile leaves have to be processed, and my farmer friend can help explain the process to me. That part is outside your wheelhouse unless you’re interested.”

The older man hummed. “So, it’s just like growing lettuce for grocery stores. A cleaning station on site will bring better prices, but that’s expensive, especially now.”
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Current Mood: awake

oursin

The Spanish government has granted citizenship to 170 descendants of volunteers in the International Brigades in recognition of their fight against fascism.

Go them!

The daughter of a Manchester man who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War has reflected on his "incredible feat of solidarity" as her family is set to become Spanish citizens.

***

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.

“We don’t even know all of what we have,” Mr. Nightingale marvels.
The basement is a trove of artifacts, including old editions of Black-owned newspapers that tell the life of Black Americans during the 19th and 20th centuries. Articles cover slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights era. The archive project, which is part of the university’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, is bringing to life the faces of yesterday by merging them with the digital world of today. This way, the hope is, they won’t be lost ever again.

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Disentangling obscured women: One Artist – ‘Mary Katherine Constance Lloyd’ – Dismembered To Create Two: or The Importance Of Biography:

Googling ‘Mary Katherine Constance Lloyd’ led me to the ArtUK page for ‘Mary Katharine [sic] Constance Lloyd’, which included birth and death dates and a short biography[i]. It was then only the work of a moment to discover on Ancestry that the woman with the given dates was not a Mary Katherine Constance Lloyd but a Katharine Constance Lloyd. How peculiar, I thought, and looked again at the ArtUK page. It then seemed obvious that the paintings displayed were unlikely to all be by the same hand. Four, including the one described by Birrell in the chapter on ‘Mary’, might be classed as ‘impressionist’, while the others were formal portraits of worthy 20th-century gentlemen, attired in various robes of office.
A little more online research established that there was, indeed, another artist with a similar name, Mary Constance Lloyd, and that a succession of art reference works had carelessly blended their two lives together – to create ’Mary Katharine Constance Lloyd’. I suppose it is a measure of how little importance is attached to the lives of such women artists that in 50 years no author had bothered to research either subject ab initio – but, when compiling a new biographical dictionary or making a footnote reference, had merely copied the – incorrect – information.

Don't think I shall be rushing to read that book on women artists and still life cited in the opening of the post!

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We are always up for some toad-related phenomena around here: Newly identified species of Tanzanian tree toad leapfrog the tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets. How about that.

technomom

Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint

A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.

Researchers say they have identified the first genetic risk factors for fibromyalgia, offering compelling evidence that the chronic pain syndrome is fundamentally a disorder of the central nervous system.

FMS has long been posited to be a disorder of the central nervous system, but identifying the genetic markers strengthens that argument. This discovery could lead to tests for FMS!

Mirrored from TechnoMom.

phoebeandherunicorn_feed

https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2025/11/15

Comic strip for 2025/11/15

https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2025/11/15

nebris

January 8th, 2013

“The Awakened Being needs Purpose. But the contemporary Social Order has become structured in a way that eschews Purpose and works relentlessly to fit each of us into a little box. Most submit to that as their Fear causes them to seek Comfort rather than Purpose.

You are Awake and seeking greater Awareness. You have also found a Purpose, the building of a New Matriarchy.

And you have old habits that will distract you from that Greater Goal. Not to worry, that is common to the human condition. Even a Great and Glorious Guru such as myself still has days when he finds his head deeply embedded in his ass.

All this is a Process, not an Event. Just keep at The Work and you’ll be fine in the long run. That may frustrate you, but look at it this way; you’ll always have something to do. 🙂

Your Great and Glorious Guru xoxox”

nebris

Apr. 26th, 2016 at 3:56 PM

~The modern world is the result of nearly six hundred years of European Economic, Political and Cultural domination. As such Patriarchy has become synonymous with White Males. But that is really just a cultural conceit that grew out of the Imperialist propaganda of White Superiority used to justify said domination.

Therefore, lot of you, my Sisters, are understandably operating under the delusion that the end of White Supremacy will mean the End of Patriarchy.

But think about this: non-White males have had the White Man's boot on their neck a long time, those nearly six centuries. When it comes their 'turn at the wheel', do you really think they'll be willing to share that with women, even women of their own color, ethnicity, etc?

No, after so many life times of powerlessness and abuse, non-White males will react very badly to giving up any power at all, violently I expect, and will slip comfortably into all the old Patriarchal prerogatives as easy as you please. You see, all men ARE created equal and the Cock is The Cock no matter its color.

You'll hear a lot of 'aggrieved manhood' noise and be told “It's not your time yet”, which are the exact words Frederick Douglas used to Susan B. Anthony when he resisted her attempt to include the word 'Sex' [as in gender] in the 15th Amendment, which would have given women [of all colors] the Right to Vote. 'Your turn' had to wait another fifty five years.

If you allow that happen, my Sisters, you will find yourselves longing for the 'good old days' of White Male condescension, because my non-white Brothers will clamp your asses down at lot harder than many of my White Brothers would dare to at this point and they will call you 'racist' or 'race traitor' when you question them. So will many of your Sisters, trapped in a toxic mix of the Patriarchal Slave Thinking 'stand by your man' paradigm, deep seated racial resentment and festering White Guilt.

The harsh truth, which so many of you, my Sisters, are loath to hear, is that the only way the End of Patriarchy will come is with The End of Men.

...and so it is.

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