Notices by Poloniousmonk (uair@autistics.life)

Does anyone know where to buy old-fashioned Champion-style sweat pants? You know, with the elastic ring around the ankle so they don't ride up over your knees while you sleep?

I'd be annoyed but willing to pay the fifty bucks plus shipping Champion asks at their website, but there's all kinds of choices about the fabric and whatnot. I don't know that shit. I'm not spending my entire monthly discretionary income on pants I don't want.

and seriously people. We need to get off this thing where men are only allowed to buy skinny, tight pants. Some of us like baggy pants. I haven't been able to buy pants for ten years. The used pants game is getting thin. It'd be nice to buy some new ones.

Just reading about youtube "influencers" and I'm still baffled by a basic premise.

Why would you provide your labor to a corporation that can, after the fact, decide how much it feels like voluntarily paying you?

@inthehands

How do you reshape society into a more egalitarian one?

I'm not being snarky here. I just never found the means.

@burnoutqueen

I am very much not surprised :)

Ever spend any time in an Islamic country?

@inthehands

This very much reads to me like beating yourself over something you had no control over. It's a sexist pig society. You can't fix that. You can only do your best to navigate it while not succumbing to it. Sounds to me like you did.

I'm watching the old movie "Game Change" again, and at the 52 minute mark you can see her handlers realize Sarah Palin doesn't know shit about shit. They end up deciding, since she's a good actor, to feed her lines to memorize.

The absolute absurdity of this, that a person who could be one heartbeat away from the presidency doesn't know, for example, that the Queen of England doesn't hold any actual power, is hilarious. Not to mention the political wranglers and fixers who are stuck with her and trying to make it work.

We really are in the most ridiculous timeline, and it well predates Trump.

@kibcol1049

Apparently, New Jersey isn't very different than the Old.

Tony Soprano lived in NJ.

@kibcol1049

Believe it or not, there are enough Tony Sopranos in New Jersey that my home town had a Tony Soprano's pizza parlor. He won the lawsuit against HBO because it was his real name.

@manjusrii

You might appreciate:

@drmike @dgar

Don't wait until it's too late. We'll never get to execute Reagan and Nixon. If we had, these assholes might not be running things today.

@inthehands

So it's not a done deal? The stuff I've read makes it sound like they already gave up.

@inthehands

Is there still time? I thought they'd already caved.

@bmacDonald94

"Profanity is the refuge of those whose vocabularies are insufficient to add emphasis to their statements in any other manner."
--Isaac Asimov

"Fuckin-A right!"
--me

@bmacDonald94

"Good taste" doesn't get the respect it deserves any more. It's labeled "gatekeeping" and scorned.

@dgar

I just grabbed this one yesterday:

@hellomiakoda @minego

Yup. I've heard of these things called emotional needs, but never spotted one in the wild. I've literally never had a scrap of emotional support in my whole life. Two autistic parents who hated each other, and by the time I was building found family I was so much stronger than everybody else I provided the support, not leaned on it.

@hellomiakoda @minego

ooooh, I loathe that one. The faux empathy makes it even nastier.

@minego

My dad used to sing the Stones song, "You Don't Always Get What You Want" at me as a kid.

What a dick.

This is pretty cool. She called various churches pretending to have a starving baby. Most of 'em told her to get fucked:

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-tiktoker-is-exposing-churches-that

election humor