{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Poloniousmonk","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/Uair@autistics.life","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1529142","username":"Uair@autistics.life","bio":"I have no hole into which you can pigeon me.  I'm unique.  Just like everyone else.\n\nI'm equal parts seven, seventeen, and seventy, and have been since elementary school.  I've got the open ended curiosity of a seven year old, the suicidal bravery of a seventeen year old, and the wisdom of an old man.\n\nI am equal parts George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter Thompson, and Charles Bukowski.","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":2,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"88611908","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/MitchWagner\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>mitch</span></a></span> </p><p>Did you ever play tt Monopoly?  The frame full of delivery instructions looks very much like one of the three red-headered properties in Monopoly.</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116435194071287349","date_published":"2026-04-20T04:41:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-20 04:41","date_timestamp":1776660065,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88609226","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/MitchWagner\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>mitch</span></a></span> </p><p>Does she live on Illinois Ave.?</p><p>(If anyone gets that, kudos.)</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116434843340845720","date_published":"2026-04-20T03:11:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-20 03:11","date_timestamp":1776654714,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88570654","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>Strandjunker</span></a></span> </p><p>Two things can be true at the same time.--Colt Seavers</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116431393566527703","date_published":"2026-04-19T12:34:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 12:34","date_timestamp":1776602074,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88569434","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Infoseepage\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>Infoseepage</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@privateshufti\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>privateshufti</span></a></span> </p><p>Aha!  I hadn't spotted the keys.</p><p>Grape shot maybe?</p><p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapeshot\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapeshot</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a></p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116431250418868448","date_published":"2026-04-19T11:58:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 11:58","date_timestamp":1776599890,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88546260","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>inthehands</span></a></span> </p><p>I see them calculating the risk profile thus:  If they had to succeed or fail in a fair marketplace, the risk is 100%.  As they're now plenty big enough to wipe out the world economy with themselves, the odds of a bailout are about 100%.  So I guess investors are expecting to earn off the bailout money.  Probably rightly.</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116428481184515847","date_published":"2026-04-19T00:13:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 00:13","date_timestamp":1776557635,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88539623","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/MitchWagner\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>mitch</span></a></span> </p><p>Naaah, that's for gifted kids.</p><p><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics.life%2Fsystem%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F116%2F427%2F857%2F206%2F198%2F172%2Foriginal%2F99c15a608db71250.png\" alt=\"A Far Side one panel comic strip.  It shows the front of a red brick building with a kid leaning into his push on the door.  The door is marked \" loading=\"lazy\"></p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116427861709751108","date_published":"2026-04-18T21:36:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 21:36","date_timestamp":1776548182,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88535375","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@yaelwrites\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>yaelwrites</span></a></span> </p><p>I have heard interesting stuff that I never learned its name in public.  Caveat:  not on a train/ bus/ any place people are stuck.</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116427488173564239","date_published":"2026-04-18T20:01:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 20:01","date_timestamp":1776542483,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88529085","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@mcnees\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>mcnees</span></a></span> </p><p>That looks like my desk :)</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116426972666455624","date_published":"2026-04-18T17:50:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 17:50","date_timestamp":1776534617,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88508202","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>bodhipaksa</span></a></span> </p><p>My father planted some bamboo behind what now is mom's house back in the 80s.  Suggestions?</p><p>(joke.  It's gone, but took over 20 years.)</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116425364922761602","date_published":"2026-04-18T11:01:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 11:01","date_timestamp":1776510084,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88486297","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>DoomsdaysCW</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://fedigroups.social/@autistics\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> </p><p>I, too, get weirded out how to respond to people who violate line etiquette.  It seems a petty thing to bother causing conflict over, but it has to be done.</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116422773469210887","date_published":"2026-04-18T00:02:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 00:02","date_timestamp":1776470542,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88484280","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://infosec.exchange/@SteveBellovin\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>SteveBellovin</span></a></span> </p><p>Try a rest stop.  It's what we're known for.  If you can find the whole video she posted, it's hilarious.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4VL4twcNwo\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"\">youtube.com/watch?v=z4VL4twcNwo</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a></p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116422609977153704","date_published":"2026-04-17T23:20:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-17 23:20","date_timestamp":1776468047,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88476823","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/@GayDeceiver\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>GayDeceiver</span></a></span> </p><p>I'm too old for My Girl and Toy Story, and I think I was too young for Bambi's mom.  I know I saw it at a matinee one summer because the local dive theater was the only air conditioned place you could take a kid to.  I don't remember freaking out over Bambi's mom.  This leaves Old Yeller, which of course made me cry, but didn't stick around in my headspace.  The one that messed me up?  Wrath of Khan.  I freaked in the theater when the bug thing went in his ear.</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116422028664796143","date_published":"2026-04-17T20:52:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-17 20:52","date_timestamp":1776459177,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88454074","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://toot.community/@openculture\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>openculture</span></a></span> </p><p>tag <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.berlin/@WingedSnake\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>WingedSnake</span></a></span></p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116420983247087648","date_published":"2026-04-17T16:27:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-17 16:27","date_timestamp":1776443225,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88399525","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://beige.party/@kimlockhartga\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>kimlockhartga</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>ai6yr</span></a></span> </p><p>What country?</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116416434554001296","date_published":"2026-04-16T21:10:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-16 21:10","date_timestamp":1776373818,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88391673","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@flexghost\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>flexghost</span></a></span> </p><p>TIL: Tarantino wrote that.  I'd always assumed it was a real bible verse :)</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116415719895638843","date_published":"2026-04-16T18:08:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-16 18:08","date_timestamp":1776362913,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88372895","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://werd.social/@ben\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>ben</span></a></span> </p><p>Hmmm...I have two standbys that resonate with me.  The Bloodhound Gang's Shut Up and The Hollywood Undead's Party By Myself.  But neither are speaking to me right now.  It's too early for that kind of energy.  Right now I'm in the mood for Blackbird by The Beatles.</p><p>You?</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116414506031582500","date_published":"2026-04-16T12:59:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-16 12:59","date_timestamp":1776344391,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88318985","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/@octothorpe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>octothorpe</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>Richard_Littler</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@lisamelton\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>lisamelton</span></a></span> </p><p>Same here.  I wonder if they're eating rotini?  They certainly talk about it enough.</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116410008490229187","date_published":"2026-04-15T17:56:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 17:56","date_timestamp":1776275764,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88313046","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>hacks4pancakes</span></a></span> </p><p>The problem is that there are real conspiracies happening all over the place.  That kind of makes conspiracy theories more plausible.</p><p>A good quick-and-dirty sort is to disregard any the right wing think are true :)</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116409598303908969","date_published":"2026-04-15T16:11:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 16:11","date_timestamp":1776269505,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88312781","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>DoomsdaysCW</span></a></span> </p><p>For me, it's +weed, -alcohol</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116409574437367093","date_published":"2026-04-15T16:05:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 16:05","date_timestamp":1776269141,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88311238","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>DoomsdaysCW</span></a></span> </p><p>Suffering from it my own self, I, too, can spot the lack of REM sleep.</p><p>Dreams are important!</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116409460031082951","date_published":"2026-04-15T15:36:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 15:36","date_timestamp":1776267395,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88310091","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mas.to/@tshirtman\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>tshirtman</span></a></span> </p><p>As an American who watched ever-taller vehicles take over the roads since the days of the Cadillac land-yacht, I can say from experience that if you can prevent this kind of arms war on your roads, please do so.  These giant vehicles, despite being overpriced, wasteful garbage, are genuine obstructions and cause crashes just by existing on the same roads as cars that can't see over them.</p><p>This would actually make a good bit in a sci-fi movie.  In twenty years, American cars come equipped with periscope-cameras as well as side view and backup.  Overhead drones following apace and showing the surroundings on a screen since nobody can get a line of sight over the now forty foot tall box vehicles.</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116409409602656721","date_published":"2026-04-15T15:23:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 15:23","date_timestamp":1776266626,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88201407","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://beige.party/@the_etrain\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>the_etrain</span></a></span> </p><p>I knew a guy who called the refrigerator an \"icebox\".</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116400233266227481","date_published":"2026-04-14T00:30:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-14 00:30","date_timestamp":1776126606,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88141031","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://beige.party/@Lana\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>Lana</span></a></span></p><p><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics.life%2Fsystem%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F116%2F395%2F558%2F807%2F187%2F780%2Foriginal%2Fa00e5c3dbe080a4a.jpg\" alt=\"The \" loading=\"lazy\"></p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116395563229390543","date_published":"2026-04-13T04:42:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-13 04:42","date_timestamp":1776055347,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88011940","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@fesshole\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>fesshole</span></a></span> </p><p>Those noodles make a good planter, too.  Great for starting seeds.</p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116382738667898067","date_published":"2026-04-10T22:20:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-10 22:20","date_timestamp":1775859659,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87927421","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mas.to/@PicardTips\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>PicardTips</span></a></span> </p><p>It is expensive, tho...</p><p><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics.life%2Fsystem%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F116%2F376%2F081%2F507%2F963%2F190%2Foriginal%2Fdc242401bbd642b6.jpeg\" alt=\"This is an image of something like a chart to track the per gram pricing of the most expensive materials in the world.  They are arranged in a pyramid, with the most valuable on top, and represented by black circles with an image of the material in it.  Antimatter is the most expensive at $62.5 trillion.  Red diamonds are 6th at five million dollars a gram.  Mostly the chart is composed of elements only known to nuclear physicists.  White diamonds are 8th at $135,000 per gram.  Plutonium is $4000 per gram.\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/116376097534616159","date_published":"2026-04-09T18:12:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-09 18:12","date_timestamp":1775758324,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"77664557","content_html":"<p>I was just imagining describing the fediverse to someone who doesn't know there's an alternative to commercial social media.  People here usually like this kind of stuff so I figured I'd type it up.</p><p>\"It's open source, decentralized, non profit, and has no ads or algorithm.  It's where the liberals and tech people hang out.  Like, half my feed is trans people because I hang out in autistic spaces and trans and autism seem to go together.  Ok, ok.  Not half, but over ten percent at least.  Way more than in the general population.</p><p>\"We have a Black people problem, as in they are represented at less than in the general population, but a lot of people are actively trying to fix that.  What's nice is that we have no nazis at all.  They try occasionally, but they have to set up their own server and once the hosts of the other servers find out it's nazis, they simply defederate from it.  There probably is a nazi bar on the fediverse where they all talk to each other, but the rest of us don't have to put up with them.  Our moderators are saints.</p><p>\"We do mutual aid all the time.  I have two friends that the community has kept housed for most of a year at one time or another.  If you're poor and hit with, say, an unexpected veterinary bill, other animal lovers will pitch in to help.  Even the dishonest people are decent.  They only tell funny lies.  (You know who you are :)</p><p>\"It's what the old internet was.  Back when it was just the tech people and the liberals.  Before facebook and twitter.  It's a nice little corner of this global machine, and I love my people there.  They're so much cooler than the ones I meet in meatspace.  Kinder, too.\"</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/115525189431419508","date_published":"2025-11-10T11:34:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-10 11:34","date_timestamp":1762774496,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"76580513","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/JukeboxFridayNight\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>JukeboxFridayNight</span></a> <a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/TakeItToTheStreets\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>TakeItToTheStreets</span></a> <br>\"Thinking of protests and marches. Also singing and dancing and any street based activities!\"</p><p>Down Rodeo by Rage Against the Machine</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/115430674391120506","date_published":"2025-10-24T18:58:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-24 18:58","date_timestamp":1761332311,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"72438293","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyaudhd\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyaudhd</span></a></span> </p><p>There's a show I like that might appeal across the neurodivergent spectrum.  'Beforeigners', a Norwegian show available on Netflix.  Only the first season is worth it (6 episodes).</p><p>The premise is that people from various historical epochs are mysteriously appearing as refugees in the modern world.  The story is a generic buddy-cop yarn, but with an old Shield-Maiden female warrior from the Viking era paired with a drug addicted modern cop on the down and out.  The details make the show, and the reason I think my neurodivergent peeps would like it is because it contrasts the bullshit against which we all struggle with the world of people who lived tooth and claw by crude violence and casual death in the swordy days.  Neurodivergent people make good scientists and coders, but we also make bad ass warriors.  We just suck at social niceties, like lying and backstabbing.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/115123150597740001","date_published":"2025-08-31T11:31:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-08-31 11:31","date_timestamp":1756639871,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69117108","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> </p><p>Y'know, I enjoy hanging out with my blind friend.  The eye contact thing truly doesn't matter.  It's like talking on the phone.</p><p>Autistic people should pair up with blind people to do things.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114864581385753866","date_published":"2025-07-16T19:33:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-16 19:33","date_timestamp":1752694418,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67390426","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/3goodthings@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>3goodthings@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://fedigroups.social/@3goodthings\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>3goodthings@fedigroups.social</span></a></span> <a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/3goodthings\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>3goodthings</span></a> <a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/3GoodThingsToday\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>3GoodThingsToday</span></a> </p><p>1)  Another autistic person infodumped a lot of interesting facts about cheetahs.  I learned stuff about a cool animal.</p><p>2)  I got a handle of VSOP brandy on the cheap recently and cracked it open over ice.</p><p>3)  I recently picked up Fallouts 1, 2, and Tactics on Steam and have been enjoying the hell out of 2, which I already played to death.  When I tire of it, I'll have 1 which I only played through once, and Tactics, which I never played at all.  New Fallout!  From what I read, it'll be at least 2030 before we get Fallout5.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114732374558187121","date_published":"2025-06-23T11:11:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-23 11:11","date_timestamp":1750677102,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67381639","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> </p><p>Take a walk?  Or drink a brandy?</p><ul>\n<li>walk</li>\n<li>brandy</li>\n<li>drink brandy while walking</li>\n<li>do neither</li>\n</ul><p>Poll: <a href=\"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114731632604287648\">autistics.life</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114731632604287648","date_published":"2025-06-23T08:03:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-23 08:03","date_timestamp":1750665780,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"66697378","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyaudhd\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyaudhd</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> </p><p>Do the right thing by reflex and develop the strength and bravery after.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114677233752604192","date_published":"2025-06-13T17:28:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-13 17:28","date_timestamp":1749835720,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"66537723","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <br><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyaudhd\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyaudhd</span></a></span> </p><p>I once wrote a comedy routine, and then embedded it in a story about telling the comedy routine onstage.  I was getting heckled by some MAGA asshole so I invited him up on stage and handed him the mic.</p><p>Then I did the thing where you slam the webbing between your thumb and forefinger into the underside o nose while cupping the base of his skull in your other hand and rock him back on his heels to drop him.  I dropped a knee onto his throat and crushed his larynx.</p><p>Then I solicited the audience for a pocketknife and a Bic pen and gave him a tracheotomy to keep him alive.  While we waited for the ambo and cops to arrive, I lectured the crowd on the proper way to respond to nazis.<br>*****<br>I do real shit that crazy, too.  I just don't use violence.  I go around it.  I'm a grown up.</p><p>I once wrote a comedy routine delivered with a brown paper shopping bag with a smiley face drawn on it over my head.  I was willing to perform this one, and developed a proper system to do so.  In the middle, I'd get outraged at the audience and storm off the stage in a huff.</p><p>Then I'd go outside and find some street derelict with delusions of being an entertainer and give him the bag.  The big joke is that I'm white, and he'd be Black.  The comedy club was in a rough area.  To keep the audience in on the joke, I planned to hook my phone up to a bluetooth speaker on stage and mic the interaction with the totally-not-a-plant I was giving the stage to.  I wanted to be able to disappear afterward and planned on giving the club a fake name and cheap burner phone number.</p><p>The problem is that bluetooth is short range, so I'd need to build a couple bluetooth repeaters and install them in the hallway from the stage to the ghetto.  It's nice to be on Mastodon where I'm talking to people who realize that's not that hard, but it would require two break ins.  One to plot it out and figure out where to place the repeaters, and what camouflage would work; a second to install them.</p><p>My criminal friend who knew how to defeat electronic locks and alarms insisted on coming with me.  Thing is, he carries a gun.  And anybody in a comedy club in a rough, rough part of town in the middle of the night also carries.  I'm sorry, I'm not going to create a gunfight over a fucking comedy routine.  I'm a grown up.</p><p>It was a fun idea, though.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114666205036545977","date_published":"2025-06-11T18:43:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-11 18:43","date_timestamp":1749667435,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"66150691","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyaudhd\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyaudhd</span></a></span> </p><p>Pro tip for the burned out:</p><p>Don't reflexively soak your dirty dishes.  Don't even put them in the sink.  Dry dishes don't mold, or even smell (usually).  You can soak them for a half hour whenever you finally get the gumption to wash the damn things.</p><p>[To self: Do you ever take your own advice?]</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114637988577729072","date_published":"2025-06-06T19:08:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-06 19:08","date_timestamp":1749236886,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"65954539","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyaudhd\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyaudhd</span></a></span> </p><p>Orwell on sport:</p><p>Now that the brief visit of the Dynamo football team has come to an end, it is possible to say publicly what many thinking people were saying privately before the Dynamos ever arrived. That is, that sport is an unfailing cause of ill-will, and that if such a visit as this had any effect at all on Anglo-Soviet relations, it could only be to make them slightly worse than before.</p><p>Even the newspapers have been unable to conceal the fact that at least two of the four matches played led to much bad feeling. At the Arsenal match, I am told by someone who was there, a British and a Russian player came to blows and the crowd booed the referee. The Glasgow match, someone else informs me, was simply a free-for-all from the start. And then there was the controversy, typical of our nationalistic age, about the composition of the Arsenal team. Was it really an all-England team, as claimed by the Russians, or merely a league team, as claimed by the British? And did the Dynamos end their tour abruptly in order to avoid playing an all-England team? As usual, everyone answers these questions according to his political predilections. Not quite everyone, however. I noted with interest, as an instance of the vicious passions that football provokes, that the sporting correspondent of the russophile News Chronicle took the anti-Russian line and maintained that Arsenal was not an all-England team. No doubt the controversy will continue to echo for years in the footnotes of history books. Meanwhile the result of the Dynamos' tour, in so far as it has had any result, will have been to create fresh animosity on both sides.</p><p>And how could it be otherwise? I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principles.</p><p>Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved. it is possible to play simply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators: and, behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe — at any rate for short periods — that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.</p><p>Even a leisurely game like cricket, demanding grace rather than strength, can cause much ill-will, as we saw in the controversy over body-line bowling and over the rough tactics of the Australian team that visited England in 1921. Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners, is far worse. Worst of all is boxing. One of the most horrible sights in the world is a fight between white and coloured boxers before a mixed audience. But a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behaviour of the women, in particular, is such that the army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests. At any rate, two or three years ago, when Home Guards and regular troops were holding a boxing tournament, I was placed on guard at the door of the hall, with orders to keep the women out.</p><p>In England, the obsession with sport is bad enough, but even fiercer passions are aroused in young countries where games playing and nationalism are both recent developments. In countries like India or Burma, it is necessary at football matches to have strong cordons of police to keep the crowd from invading the field. In Burma, I have seen the supporters of one side break through the police and disable the goalkeeper of the opposing side at a critical moment. The first big football match that was played in Spain about fifteen years ago led to an uncontrollable riot. As soon as strong feelings of rivalry are aroused, the notion of playing the game according to the rules always vanishes. People want to see one side on top and the other side humiliated, and they forget that victory gained through cheating or through the intervention of the crowd is meaningless. Even when the spectators don't intervene physically they try to influence the game by cheering their own side and “rattling” opposing players with boos and insults. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.</p><p>Instead of blah-blahing about the clean, healthy rivalry of the football field and the great part played by the Olympic Games in bringing the nations together, it is more useful to inquire how and why this modern cult of sport arose. Most of the games we now play are of ancient origin, but sport does not seem to have been taken very seriously between Roman times and the nineteenth century. Even in the English public schools the games cult did not start till the later part of the last century. Dr Arnold, generally regarded as the founder of the modern public school, looked on games as simply a waste of time. Then, chiefly in England and the United States, games were built up into a heavily-financed activity, capable of attracting vast crowds and rousing savage passions, and the infection spread from country to country. It is the most violently combative sports, football and boxing, that have spread the widest. There cannot be much doubt that the whole thing is bound up with the rise of nationalism — that is, with the lunatic modern habit of identifying oneself with large power units and seeing everything in terms of competitive prestige. Also, organised games are more likely to flourish in urban communities where the average human being lives a sedentary or at least a confined life, and does not get much opportunity for creative labour. In a rustic community a boy or young man works off a good deal of his surplus energy by walking, swimming, snowballing, climbing trees, riding horses, and by various sports involving cruelty to animals, such as fishing, cock-fighting and ferreting for rats. In a big town one must indulge in group activities if one wants an outlet for one's physical strength or for one's sadistic impulses. Games are taken seriously in London and New York, and they were taken seriously in Rome and Byzantium: in the Middle Ages they were played, and probably played with much physical brutality, but they were not mixed up with politics nor a cause of group hatreds.</p><p>If you wanted to add to the vast fund of ill-will existing in the world at this moment, you could hardly do it better than by a series of football matches between Jews and Arabs, Germans and Czechs, Indians and British, Russians and Poles, and Italians and Jugoslavs, each match to be watched by a mixed audience of 100,000 spectators. I do not, of course, suggest that sport is one of the main causes of international rivalry; big-scale sport is itself, I think, merely another effect of the causes that have produced nationalism. Still, you do make things worse by sending forth a team of eleven men, labelled as national champions, to do battle against some rival team, and allowing it to be felt on all sides that whichever nation is defeated will “lose face”.</p><p>I hope, therefore, that we shan't follow up the visit of the Dynamos by sending a British team to the USSR. If we must do so, then let us send a second-rate team which is sure to be beaten and cannot be claimed to represent Britain as a whole. There are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.</p><p>Dec 1945</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114625123632737910","date_published":"2025-06-04T12:36:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-04 12:36","date_timestamp":1749040582,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"65839036","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyaudhd\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyaudhd</span></a></span> </p><p>Fun story:</p><p>When I lived in Wilmington, DE, I was right on the white side of the red line.  On my side of the street it was all white, all Black on the other side.  We had a basketball hoop set up in the driveway and the local kids used to play on it.  The little ones--middle schoolers that couldn't fight their way onto a hoop at the public courts.</p><p>The other two young men with whom I lived had demanding jobs and were never home, but I was already a devastated wreck and sat around keeping the dachshund from freaking out.  Goddamn but they are high strung little dogs.  So I knew the kids were out there after school every day, I just did nothing about it.  \"Joy\" has often been described as \"the sound of children playing\", although Terry Pratchett points out an important codicil, \"as long as you can't hear what they're actually saying\".</p><p>One time two kids knocked skulls and one split his eyebrow.  It looked nasty--scalp wounds bleed a lot.  The one other guy was home and he had butterfly stitches.  We had no rubbing alcohol in the house, but I had a bottle of 151 rum.  So I poured a capful of 151 over it and he butterfly stitched it.  I've always wondered what that mother thought when her middle schooler came home smelling like rum. </p><p>Eventually the landlord found out about it and demanded I get rid of them.  It wasn't hard.  They understood that I had no clout in that house and was lucky to be living there myself.  If the owner wanted them gone, I had to make it so.</p><p>Good memory, though.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114616236967507181","date_published":"2025-06-02T22:56:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-02 22:56","date_timestamp":1748904983,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"65754329","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyaudhd\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyaudhd</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://lemmy.world/c/cooking\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>cooking</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://flipboard.com/@sciencealert/physics-veq19t35z\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>physics-ScienceAlert</span></a></span> </p><p>Question:</p><p>Why does the first batch of bacon cook flat, but once the pan's full of hot fat, the rashers curl up?</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/114609870313755057","date_published":"2025-06-01T19:57:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-01 19:57","date_timestamp":1748807835,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"65563477","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyaudhd\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyaudhd</span></a></span> </p><p>Harper's Weekly Review</p><p>A weekly dispatch taking aim at the relentless absurdity of the 24-hour news cycle.       </p><p>Israeli air strikes killed more than 50 in the Gaza Strip, including 36 people who had been sheltering in a school; Doctors Without Borders called Israel’s aid allowance into the Gaza Strip “ridiculously inadequate”; Israeli soldiers fired at a diplomatic delegation visiting the occupied West Bank; and the prime minister of Israel said that the United Kingdom, France, and Canada, each of which had criticized Israel’s military escalation in Gaza, were on “the wrong side of history.”1 2 3 4 5 Two hundred and twenty cryptocurrency executives, influencers, and a former NBA player spent a collective $148 million to attend a black-tie gala hosted by the U.S. president to promote his cryptocurrency business; the U.S. Treasury announced a plan to halt the minting of pennies; and the Pentagon announced that it had accepted a “megajet,” valued between $200 and $400 million, from Qatar’s government to be used for presidential travel.6 7 8 The 46th U.S. president’s personal office announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer; a Democratic congressman in Virginia died of esophageal cancer, marking the third death of sitting Democratic congresspeople in the past three months; and the five-time Grammy Award–winning musician Billy Joel canceled all his future concerts after being diagnosed with a rare brain condition.9 10 11 12 13 14 The pope’s eldest brother was photographed with the U.S. president in the Oval Office; and in a meeting with the president of South Africa, the U.S. president falsely claimed that the country had been perpetrating a white genocide.15 16 17 A commencement speaker at Smith College returned her honorary degree after revealing she had plagiarized her speech; graduates of Columbia University burned and tore up their diplomas in protest of the university’s persecution of pro-Palestine student activists; the Muppet Kermit the Frog delivered a speech at the University of Maryland graduation; the U.S. president warned West Point graduates to stay away from “trophy wives”; and the University at Buffalo announced that a baby who had crossed the stage in cap and gown had “not earned enough credits to receive a diploma.”18 19 20 21 22</p><p>In her native Slovenia, a life-size sculpture of the first lady of the United States was sawed off at the ankles and carried away after a previous one had been set afire; and in Slovenia’s capital, 36,000 signatures were collected in favor of reducing kindergarten classroom size.23 24 It was reported that the Department of Government Efficiency is employing Elon Musk’s generative AI chatbot to analyze data in the federal government, a Chicago newspaper admitted to publishing an AI-generated list of summer reading recommendations composed of fake books, a new version of ChatGPT was found to circumvent instructions to shut itself down, and an AI model threatened to reveal the affair of one of its engineers in an effort to avoid being replaced by another AI system.25 26 27 28 Japan’s minister of agriculture resigned after admitting that he never had to purchase rice because his supporters would gift him the grain, the newest head of the U.S. Social Security Administration admitted during a town hall that he had to look his job up on the internet after he received the offer, and a former morgue manager at Harvard University confessed to his role in a nationwide network of people who buy and sell human remains.29 30 31 In Australia, a kangaroo attempted to drown a man in floodwaters, and an outgoing member of an Australian state parliament concluded his valedictory speech by drinking beer out of his shoe.32 33</p><p>In Gloucester, England, a man was airlifted to the hospital with injuries sustained while competing in an annual cheese chase; the British government announced the rollout of chemical castration for sex offenders; and the National Football League at its spring meeting failed to pass a ban on the “tush push” maneuver.34 35 36 It was reported that a Seattle parking lot that had been established as a homeless RV encampment by a local non-profit organization would be converted into a three-story pickleball complex.37 A man balanced 96 spoons on his body in order to break the world record, which he himself had set two years prior, and a television anchor in New York delivered the morning’s news hours after her water broke.38 39 In Texas, a man sued a fast food company for damages amounting up to $1 million after his request for no onions on his burger was ignored; and in Canada, a tribunal ruled that a woman was not entitled to nearly $5,000 in compensation after a dog had bitten her.40 41 “Every dog,” according to the tribunal’s decision, “is entitled to one bite.”42 —Gus O’Connor<br>            Read the web version at harpers.org</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/114586963573273575","date_published":"2025-05-28T18:51:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-05-28 18:51","date_timestamp":1748458306,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"65438410","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyaudhd\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyaudhd</span></a></span> </p><p>Funny story:</p><p>When I was homeless, I got thrown out of the mall.  I was just hanging there to use their wifi instead of the library's that day.  I had to kill time until the homeless shelter reopened.  I don't blame them for throwing me out.  I didn't stink and wasn't an eyesore, but I had no money.  I wasn't buying anything, and I sat in the empty food court a couple hours.</p><p>The funny part is how it went down.  Now you've gotta realize--I've never used violence in my life.  I could literally stay calm and let someone beat me to death if I wanted to.  It's just not who I am, but I've got a horrible reputation.  They sent three of the largest rent-a-cops I've ever seen to toss me.  I can only imagine how long they sat there staring at me on the cameras and working up the courage to confront me.  They came up on me in full intimidation mode.  My only response, besides leaving?  \"Jeez. You guys are really scared of me.\"  I got a reflexive, terrified, \"No, we're not\" back.</p><p>3 giant dudes.  I'm fifty years old, five ten and about a buck eighty, pretty much all my joints have damage, I've never trained in fighting, and I'm completely out of shape.  Was kinda cool.  In reality, I couldn't intimidate your grandmother.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/114584206252510287","date_published":"2025-05-28T07:10:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-05-28 07:10","date_timestamp":1748416233,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"29685341","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> </p><p>Well, i lost another \"friend\".  I mean...he's a snitch for the cops and thinks putin has the right idea, but my breaking point was when he got black market antibiotics for a virus and took half of them.</p><p>Now he's sulking because i called him out on it.  I called him ignorant, and said facts are different from opinions.  </p><p>I know it's acceptable to wield intentional ignorance to deniably kill weaker people, but this dude /is/ weaker people.</p><p>1/</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/users/Uair/statuses/111794695726897857","date_published":"2024-01-21T15:41:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-01-21 15:41","date_timestamp":1705851680,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"27609763","content_html":"@instance-autistics.life \n\nIf you missed it on my other mastodon account in the other autistic spaces, I have an introduction I wrote.\n\nI'm Kurt Vonnegut without any positive influences.  Like, the good people in my world were still murderers, and my mother launders money for sex traffickers, but I never b... <a href=\"https://autistics.life/@Uair/111550970090510400\">autistics.life</a>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/111550970090510400","date_published":"2023-12-09T14:38:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-12-09 14:38","date_timestamp":1702132722,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"27609762","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://relay.fedi.buzz/instance/autistics.life\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>instance-autistics.life</span></a></span> </p><p>Hello everyone!  Just joined this group; only recently joined the fediverse itself and confirmed that, yes, I'm more than a lil' autistic.</p><p>It's wonderful to have finally found my people.  Been looking for y'all all my life.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair/111547402089976036","date_published":"2023-12-08T23:31:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Poloniousmonk","url":"https://autistics.life/@Uair","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fautistics-life.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F111%2F547%2F389%2F942%2F627%2F673%2Foriginal%2F50fd9dd1e88c99a8.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Uair@autistics.life"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-12-08 23:31","date_timestamp":1702078278,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}