Notices by Poloniousmonk (uair@autistics.life)

@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

@bmacDonald94

Hmmm...what do I got for ya...

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=25r0sIGVgjM

@Susan60 @youronlyone@app.wafrn.net @actuallyautistic @autistics @youronlyone@c.im

I had a hard time with uhhh multi textured food. Like steak--I wanted hot dogs as a kid. That was the only time I ever got catered to like that. I did eventually figure out I was getting a raw deal.

It took me until I was thirty years old to not skeeve at chicken wings.

I'm just adding some data to your query.

@Susan60

Reading that actually made me queasy.

It can be overcome, though. Now I eat damn near anything. Except rhubarb (yuck) and octopus (too smart).

@Fragglemuppet

I just drank two cups of decaf black tea.

Maybe it's time to investigate herbals. Thanks for the thread.

@cykonot

@tech
@forestpines

Hey--my youtube just stopped working. It demands I sign in, otherwise it treats me like a bot. Does anyone know a workaround for this?

For some reason, I really want to listen to the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" Help?

@br00t4c

The Dumbest Cabinet Members.

Like this is a bad thing? We want the trump presidency to fail, don't we?

@mekkaokereke

"People unwilling to endure social discomfort to oppose racism aren't bad people!"

--This sounds like the "white moderates" that King identified as the real barrier to progress.

@RickiTarr @coldfish

It's a psyche thing. Think of the Southern plutocrats, the slavers in the antebellum days. If they'd simply shut the fuck up about it, the rest of us probably would've let them keep their slaves, at least for a few more generations. But they insisted that we all validate their bullshit worldview that Black people weren't people. And they fucking attacked us over it. Reality only defends.

You can also say the same thing about WWII. The Nazis just couldn't tolerate the existence of neighbors who don't believe the same hateful bullshit they do.

I also see the US Civil War and WWII as the same kind of thinking that produces a mass shooter. It's people who chased their denial mechanism all the way to death. Rather than admit they are just full of shit, they lash out and try to take down the world.

Tangentially related: Christianity, to which both the Nazis and slavers subscribed, is a death cult. Never forget that. Once a death cult conquers its territory, it immediately schisms and attacks itself.

@GreenSkyOverMe

Thank you.

I just learned about this two minutes ago.

https://www.dw.com/en/halloween-origins-history-traditions-customs-religion-celebrated-explained-v2/a-36214983