What's going down in the 'hood?
The latest entries into the pit of despair
- The age of a corpse
- 27 January
The body of a 38-year-old woman, who is thought to have died in November 2017, was found in her home over three years later, in May 2021. It's a sad and tragic case.
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in the news; random thoughts & brain farts- Black on black
- 27 January
Five black police officers are under investigation for the death of a black motorist in Memphis, TN. Ironically, they were part of a special team to police high-crime areas, named SCORPION: Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods. As tensions in Memphis rise, that's not going to age well.
- crime & punishment
- Fish out of water
- 26 January
First minister for Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, is at it again. The
(more…)it
being not thinking things through to their logical conclusion. In the case of a transgender woman rapist being remanded in a women's prison, she seems to think that transgender women aren't a threat to real, biologically-relevant ones.- crime & punishment; pandering; politics
- Sore loser
- 25 January
Chinonye Chukwu, who wrote and directed Till, which garnered no nominations for this year's Oscars, showed magnanimity in rejection…by accusing Hollywoke of
(more…)unabashed misogyny towards Black women
. This is despite AMPAS doubling its female and ethnic minority members in 2020, as well as mandating arbitrary diversity criteria for nominations in the best picture category.- entertainment; snowflake
- Popularity contest
- 25 January
In what might be seen as a desperate attempt to garner public interest, and viewing figures, this year's Oscars nominations for best picture include some that were actually popular with cinema-going audiences.
(more…)- entertainment
The latest updates to past woes
- The safety dance
- 24 January
The catatonic shitheads in HR have been bypassed by those among the company's executive
(more…)leadership
, who've decided to apply a blanket 0% achievement for our personal safety goal. They've gotta save money somehow.- corporate cobblers
- Psycho
- 17 January
Sarah Beasley first approached me on 06.12.2022, grubbing around for submissions to volume 5 of Medicine and Clinical Science. At that time, the deadline for submission was 15 December.
(more…)- bonkers; predatory publishing & conferences; unsolicited commercial email
- Educating Elena
- 17 January
This has just arrived in my inbox this morning. I'm not sure if she's now mocking my terrible English. If she is, that's incredibly meta of her. (nod)
(more…)- predatory publishing & conferences; unsolicited commercial email
- Nurse! The screens!
- 11 January
Waffle may obtain its definitions from Wiktionary, but I'm not so sure about the in-use examples. The problem is—as with any open-source, free-to-edit, hivemind database—Wiktionary changes almost capriciously. So it's difficult to know what was valid at any time without sleuthing. And, even then, it may be a fruitless task. So I'm not even going to bother.
(more…)- language; random thoughts & brain farts
- Of obesity and weight management
- 5 January
WOC 2022 may well be over, but that simply allows us the opportunity to gear up for WOC 2023! Perhaps it's too early for the organisers to decide on a theme for this year's cerebral shenanigans, because Sharon has neglected it if they have. But they're going to be hard-pushed to better the already classic
(more…)Lifting Endless Possibilities in Resilience to Obesity
.*- predatory publishing & conferences; unsolicited commercial email