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About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

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cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings

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"'boys will be boys' should mean-" why are you obsessed with this phrase. why does it have to mean anything. why can't we just get rid of it.

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horse walks into a bar and the bartender says “actually the gay bar is next door” and the horse says “I’m not gay”

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imagine if your boyfriend was like I can smell an ant. and started tracking

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So… I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today.

I was already really grateful to whoever in the Seattle Passport Office worked late to get these things processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded?

They're my fucking hero.

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Call your senators and tell them to kill themselves!!

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more singers need to start moaning

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Made this a while back and never posted it, but I figured I should now that I actually started T!!!

(Not a self portrait, this is just some guy)

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Some Sentences Sunday

thanks for the tags @that-disabled-princess @orange-peony @thewholelemon @roomwithanopenfire and @j-nipper-95!

today i have some more Helenus POV, also featuring everyone's favourite war criminal Odysseus and tired dad Menelaus.

“Why is he bloody?”

“I must have nicked him when I cut his hair.” Odysseus shrugs nonchalantly.

“And why did you cut his hair?”

“He was talking back.”

“I was not.” I rasp.

Odysseus barks out a laugh, “you’re doing it right now, you insolent-”

“Okay,” Menelaus cuts in like a tired parent breaking up squabbling children.

unlike last week, i don't really have much else to share... oh, i made a bullet point list of the back and forth between Helenus and Odysseus. Odysseus is put in charge of torturing Helenus for information on how to make Troy fall, and though he does break, he doesn't lose his spirit. thanks to his gift of prophecy, he makes Odysseus suffer in his own way. still... ya boy is suffering.

note Apollo fixing mostly superficial things despite being the god of healing, withdrawing all but the barest support when Helenus disobeys him, support Helenus clings to as a sign he's still loved and protected, while Menelaus, with no medical knowledge or obligation to the enemy, helps as best as he can anyway.

i tag @forabeatofadrum @cutestkilla @run-for-chamo-miles @prettygoododds @bookish-bogwitch @youarenevertooold @confused-bi-queer @aristocratic-otter @artsyunderstudy @alexalexinii @hushed-chorus @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @martsonmars @meanjeansjeans and @leithillustration

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usamericans, do you remember in the incredibles when syndrome made the robot go haywire just so he could swoop in and 'save the day'

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I am not your fucking boy! I am an old man with all the triggers that come with it.

Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy | Interview With The Vampire (2022-)

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She should show up at events where Prince Charles is. Give him a scare 💅 Watch to the end for the result!