Notices by Poloniousmonk (uair@autistics.life)

@Em0nM4stodon

I don't understand why this isn't inverted. Why isn't there a browser setting that I can use to decide my level of consent that every website has to obey? Why do the predators get to take the lead and I have to deal with an enormous amount of bullshit in order to deflect them?

Women have been asking this question for a long, long time. There may be a connection here.

@Pistolenkind

Amusingly, there are two extremely different reasons why that ad wouldn't have flown then or now. Then we were too prudish. The FCC would have fined any teevee station that aired it. Now we're too feminist.

Some things got better.

@actuallyautistic @actuallyaudhd

In case anybody missed the Landover Baptist Church. This is a lot of fun.

https://www.landoverbaptist.org/

@jeffowski

Better you than me. I no longer have the patience for that kind of stuff.

If you haven't read my 95 theses, you'll probably like. I destroy religion. Raping children is a feature, not a bug, and I explicate that.

https://poloniousmonk.substack.com/p/here-lies-one-whose-name-was-writ

@jeffowski

you are being trolled.

@jeffowski

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they always turn out to be, or be indistinguishable from, self-righteous sixteen year olds with infinite free time."--Neil Stephenson

"Arguing with religious people is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon will knock over all the pieces, take a crap on the board, and fly back to its flock to claim victory."--Scott D. Weitzenhoffer

@jeffowski

Also, if you're not equally agnostic to the existence of Harry Potter as you are to your god, you are not agnostic. You are religious with doubts.

@kimlockhartga

This is long, but good.

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/human-sex-gender-nonbinary

@bmacDonald94

Education is a lifelong, self-directed process that forced schooling is designed to subvert.

@azonenberg

I'm honestly curious, and baffled.

I'm AuDHD, but never saw the point of fluffy toys. Not even as a kid.

Now they need grounding?

There's something I'm missing about all this. Are all blahaj electrified?

@Em0nM4stodon

Somebody made me an image of J Edgar Hoover in drag.

@bmacDonald94

I wish I was allowed to buy weed.

It's legal to own in my state, but illegal to sell. I don't know any criminals.

#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 20. What role does religion play in your writing?

None.

@feld

I know there was an old wive's tale that cold weather caused resp infections. It was actually the ventilation once everyone came indoors and closed the widows.

Maybe?

@actuallyautistic

Harper's Weekly Review

A weekly dispatch taking aim at the relentless absurdity of the 24-hour news cycle.

The number of people confirmed to have been killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar increased to 3,354, and the United States increased its tariff on Myanmar exports to 44 percent.1 2 The U.S. president imposed a 20 percent tariff on imports from the European Union, and then his secretary of state advised the bloc not to stop purchasing American weapons.3 4 5 The U.S. president increased the total tariff on Chinese goods to 54 percent, and it was reported that the U.S. government had banned employees in China from having sex with Chinese nationals.6 7 8 The U.S. president applied a 10 percent tariff on the majority of goods imported from the United Kingdom, and a British mother filmed her son eating her father’s ashes.9 10 The U.S. president put a 10 percent tariff on an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean, and a 24-year-old American was arrested by the Indian Navy for bringing the world’s most isolated tribe a can of Coke.11 12 In South Korea, the parliament removed its president from office for declaring martial law, and its speaker proposed amending the country’s constitution to limit presidential power.13 14

More than 150,000 people protested in the streets of Madrid to demand affordable housing, and heavy rains in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa caused flooding that killed at least 22 people.15 16 The former CEO of a German insurance corporation said a global temperature increase of 3 degrees Celsius from the preindustrial era would “destroy capital,” cause a “climate-induced credit crunch,” and lead to “market failure”; and the chairman of a British oil company announced plans to resign due to shareholder anger over his attempt to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.17 18 A study found that climate change strengthened a March heatwave in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, where temperatures were more than 15 degrees Celsius above average; the Florida senate voted to ban weather control devices; and NASA doubled to 3.8 percent its estimate of the likelihood that an asteroid collides with the moon in 2032.19 20 21 A man in Nevada claimed that the seven tigers seized from his home were service animals, and marine experts in California reported that a neurotoxin present in algae was causing sea lions to be more violent. “Its expression was,” said the victim of a sea lion attack, “almost demonic.”22 23

A smartphone company announced that it would release a phone that emits pleasant odors, a software developer used artificial intelligence to build an app that provides users with recipes for cyanide-laced ice cream and uranium bombs, and a man in a New York appeals court attempted to state his case via an attorney generated by artificial intelligence.24 25 26 “I come here,” said the avatar, “a humble pro se.”27 Doctors surveyed in the United Kingdom reported a rise in Victorian diseases, and it was reported that five nurses who work on the same floor of a Massachusetts hospital all developed brain tumors.28 29 The CEO of an American financial firm was arrested for choking a man whose wife requested he wear shoes on the dance floor of a cruise ship, a man in Florida was arrested for battery of an adult attendant after a children’s lemonade stand denied him a free refill, and the city of Montreal converted an occupied parking space into a bus stop and then issued a ticket to the vehicle’s owner.30 31 32 34 In Canada, the leader of the New Democratic Party suggested that the country resume selling WWII–era Victory Bonds; and in Afghanistan, the Taliban announced that it was investigating a man’s claim to have been in his thirties in 1919, at the end of the Third Anglo–Afghan War.35 36 “Everyone,” he said, “thanked King Amanullah Khan for chasing the British away.”37 —Joe Kloc



Read the web version at harpers.org

@inthehands

Don't forget--they drown you, too.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/14/angela-chao-tesla-accident/72969299007/

@bmacDonald94

Another installment in the great tradition of "killing the woman you love" songs.

See also: "I used to Love Her" by G'n'R

and

"Possum Kingdom" by The Toadies

@actuallyautistic

Hello all. Could you please like, forward, or reply to this? The only way I know to silence a browser tab is if I hit the speaker icon on the tab itself, and I have about 1.5 secs to do so. I spend days struggling to silence the notifications from this page, and I just accidentally unsilenced it when clicking over from my email. Just make the thing make some noise so I can silence it again. Thanks.

@inthehands

My new slogan:

It's pointless to debate a nazi.

@actuallyautistic @movies

Anyone remember the time Jon Stewart walked onto "Crossfire" and literally killed the show? He gets some good quips in on tucker carlson.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE