perpetually liminal, as a treat

classics et alia | connor, 20s | uk

[cuprohastes]

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.

[alexaloraetheris]

OP did it hurt when Apollo's dodgeball hit you and made you write that story?

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

compiling some mutual aid projects and nonprofits working in sudan. though depending on where you get your news you may not see very much coverage of the unfolding crisis, millions of people are in danger every day as the situation continues to deteriorate. i've been really astounded by the scale of your response to the earlier list of gazan initiatives, and i hope you extend the same support to these organizations too!

khartoum aid kitchen - currently running 12 community kitchen sites and supporting five others that collectively provide food for over 10,000 people

fill a heart - provides financial support to sudanese hospitals and families displaced in egypt. updates are available on their instagram.

sudan solidarity collective - supporting civil society organizations and providing psychological and educational programs for displaced people. can also donate through their paypal

darfur women action - runs programs for displaced women and girls

sudanese american physicians association - provides medical treatment and supports healthcare infrastructure

amal for women - currently focused on providing water, food, hygiene products, and shelter for displaced people. general projects include education programs for children, support and professional training for single mothers, and providing trauma care. also has a gofundme

hadhreen - provides food, water, solar panels for hospitals, children's educational programming, and a variety of other support services

hometax - provides necessities for displaced people, including food, shelter, and medical assistance. updates can be found on their instagram.

barana hanabneiho - originally focused on rebuilding and equipping schools, currently providing food, water, tents, mosquito nets, and weather-appropriate necessities to displaced people. they have an instagram and also accept donations through zeffy

saving algeneina initiative - provides a variety of necessities, including food, rain covers for tents, and medical care. works with displaced people in both sudan and chad.

sudanese red crescent society - runs health programs across all 18 states as well as delivering essential supplies

sadagaat - various initiatives including water stations and community kitchens

hope relief and rehabilitation for disabilities support (hrrds) - originally focused on disability justice programs. currently providing food, water, hygiene products, mobility aids, and other necessities with a focus on supporting disabled people and other vulnerable groups

medglobal's sudan emergency appeal - provides medical supplies, equipment for doctors, and fuel for hospitals

sudanese american medical association - provides food, water, and medical equipment, as well as training clinicians and sending extra doctors to hospitals

siha network - provides menstrual products and obstetric/gynecological care

as before, this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add any similar initiatives or organizations you know of. and as always please donate whatever amount you can and share! every small action makes a difference, even if it feels inconsequential to you.

[ladyofmelk]

The Satyricon (1969) | JOYRIDE

[argumate]

the Sinner’s Prayer of may I not be found dead on the toilet, and if I am found dead on the toilet may I not be holding my phone, and if I am found dead on the toilet holding my phone may I at least have been reading something edifying and not composing a half-finished post as a ghastly conclusion to a life wasted.

[yieldsfalsehoodwhenquined]

where were you when you wrote this post?  just curious

[argumate]

I was in the library reading Seneca in the original Latin.

[kalligraphy]

partner follows me on here now hope they’re ready for my intolerable amount of ciceroposting <3333

[e-pistulae]

Happy 2130th Birthday Cicero!

Salvete, patres subscripti.

e-pistulae annual birthday post tldr:

cicero died. but he got better

i miss himmmmmm

it is now 58 BCE ‼️

[grecoromanyaoi]

strapon sounds like the name of an ancient greek historian

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

i will say this as a person who is not white: i think being called racist as a white person is like way lower stakes than anyone makes it out to be. and like, the reality is that white people have an inflated sense of anxiety about what being called Racist Means when like. let's be fucking real for a second. it does not meaningfully often result in Material Violence to a person for being "called racist." and I think being racist is just a thing that happens. and like if we are going to say that being accidentally racist from time to time is something that like, is relatively low stakes, that has to go hand in hand with being like. ok well I guess i should take some time to think about why someone might think I'm racist and like Do something about that.

like I think the paranoia and anxiety about how Being Called Racist is something that Does Violence to People is rooted in a white guilt racialized anxiety and if I am going to be real with you I do not think it is based in material reality. you can be a little uncomfortable it's not the end of the world. i think it's frustrating as a racialized person to see so many white people more frantically hand-wringing over the prospect of being called "racist" than over the prospect of Being Racist. it's annoying to say the least.

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

like idk girl. what can i tell you? do you know how frustrating it is to be a racialized person and have nobody hear you when you say something is hurtful to you because of racialized reasons? even people nominally "in your community" whatever that means? does the materialism fall out of your head when it comes to race for whatever reason? grow past your anxiety and your discomfort.

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

i think many people are racist frequently and "unintentionally" for what it's worth and i think it's low stakes for the most part. how are you able to handle telling other people that it's transmisogynist or homophobic to treat you a certain way but you pearlclutch when people are like that was kind of racist. it's not a cosmic sin. it's just a thing that should be understood and grown from, graciously. come on.

[hiveswap]

man this year is gonna be the year i either die or become someone else i dont know which one maybe both

[hiveswap]

Everytime i think of the future i nearly throw up

[wrecked-cuticles]

hate to say it but the cow is right

[hiveswap]

Oh plush cow we're really in it now

[snazzymolasses]

I don't know why, but I find it even more comforting to look at it this way:

[hiveswap]

[kalligraphy]

Why does my heart beat for u js

we shall have a spring wedding??????

[moldavite]

oh well. at least there's research into topics no one but me gives a fuck about

[thoodleoo]

the other day i was taking a walk in the senate when i saw catiline conspiring. people were trying to stop him but he was too clever so i stepped forward and caught him in his conspiracy (i win court cases a lot). then, this popularis told me i had to have violated the law because i had saved the republic. i looked him straight in the eye and said, "it's 63 BC. anyone can save the republic, including plebeians, women, and gay people. the only person who's violated the law here, is you." he started crying and gave me 50 denarii while everyone clapped, even the vestal virgins

[necrophilologist]

if you're not very familiar with ovid you must know. if you're reading pre-exile works and something sounds ominous re: his future exile: there is a good chance he edited/added that in exile

[necrophilologist]

much like caelius i met cicero at sixteen and clearly something really wrong happened because look at me now

[fay1z0-blog]

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[sqished]

Reverse image search clean - Vetted by association

£2,338/£25,000

Associated with @ibtisams through @japanmp3

#355 here

[remanence-of-love]

[alexandriad]

jumping on the bandwagon with an ancient greek miku