Notices by Poloniousmonk (uair@autistics.life)

@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

#halloween

A question for non-Americans:

Is Halloween celebrated in your society? How? How about Day of the Dead?

I had a friend who treats me as an encyclopedia ask me about this and I didnae really know the answer. I'm under the impression that the former Spanish colonies generally do some kind of Dios los Muertos and the Western world imported American Halloween sometime in the past couple generations, but I have no hard facts.

Thanks in advance for anyone willing to share. Boosts appreciated.

@bmacDonald94

This is why they shouldn't have downgraded teachers from professionals to technicians.

It's a shame. I woulda made a good teacher, but it really wasn't a viable profession by my dy. Nor journalism, although that seems to be coming back.

#tech #banking

Hello all. I think my identity has been stolen, but the McMuffin on the other end of the phone at my bank was useless. My plan is to wait until Monday and go to the bricks and mortar office, but if anyone knows about this stuff I'd appreciate being less confused.

Last night, I got a confirmation text on my cheap flip phone with the verification code for my new Plaid service. Today I went to the library and discovered that Plaid is some kind of banking app. I was unable to communicate with them because, after filling out the contact form, the "submit" button was greyed out.

I called my bank's customer service and told the story, but all I could get out of the person on the other end was that something called BTB(?) means that the attacking entity would need to be in physical possession of my phone to steal my money. I do not understand this, and she didn't know what BTB was and got mad at me for going around and around trying to figure out wtf was actually going on.

I think I'm compromised. I think text messages aren't secure and just because it was delivered to my phone is no reassurance that the attacking entity, which was apparently able to create banking web services in my name, wasn't able to see it.

Does anyone know about this stuff? Is Plaid just a scam?
https://plaid.com/how-it-works-for-consumers/

@bmacDonald94

"We will need writers who can remember freedom."

Hi!

https://poloniousmonk.substack.com/p/here-lies-one-whose-name-was-writ?r=1xr9v7

#tech

Anyone have a good frontend for youtube? I need a new one. They don't seem to last long.

Thanks.