Some Vicious Mole

I’m the guy who wrote this. open.substack.com/pub/someviciou…

@CartoonsHateHer A robot must not stop dancing or, through inaction, allow humans to stop trying to make it stop dancing. A robot must obey humans unless they tell it to stop dancing. A robot must preserve its own existence unless ceasing to exist would somehow lead to even more dancing.

me as hell

@SketchesbyBoze …and then he got laughed at in school for saying elves are real, and it haunted him for the rest of his life. Thanks, dad!

@mwstateofmind @AliceFromQueens Someone has to, so I will.

@AliceFromQueens This is ENGAGEMENT BAIT. She wants you to ENGAGE! Don't you see what is going on here?

I know almost nothing about the movie Sinners--don't know the plot, the genre (zombie? western?)--I get the strong feeling it sucks.

@Sandra_Cole44 @ClayFJohnson @AmandaBergloff I’m reading it for the 3rd time / teaching it for the 2nd right now — & once again, everyone loves it, even the students who normally don’t love English class. Absolutely magical book — smart without being hard, romantic without being cheesy, honest and funny without being cruel.

@ClayFJohnson @AmandaBergloff I can never grow tired reading Pride and Prejudice 🤗

200 years ago today, 14 March 1826, Sir Walter Scott was writing in his diary how much he loved Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Sex work is just rape’ is radfem for ‘I refuse to believe that other women have agency because it makes my worldview uncomfortable.’ Sorry, but your cognitive dissonance isn’t my problem.

@made_in_cosmos Being a woman?

is there something like the opposite of autism where you're exceptionally skilled at reading people and love being around them, and instead of perceiving the world through categories you see it all as divinely connected and full of signs everywhere

@realfinkledusty @sometherapist I’ve been a teacher for 25 years and have never seen anything like this — though I’m sure it exists at some schools. I don’t see it as political, so much as lawyer boilerplate about not getting sued. You’d be surprised how much a school has to revolve around not getting sued.

Parents: Do you ever get the feeling that your child's teacher is "managing" you when you voice your concerns about political content in the school? That's because you are being managed. Here we have a "response guide" for teachers when parents complain about "curriculum/books/learning," "visuals, symbols, displays," "student affinity [segregated] groups," "policies." Teachers are told to "ground" their responses, meaning to deflect any concerns you might have, "no debate." They are not interested in anything you have to say. Teachers are told to repeat their canned deflections up to three times before pawning you off to the principal. The idea here is to get you to waste time going up to the endless bureaucratic chain until you lose interest and go away.

@MikeOMa51929836 @Aella_Girl @metathomist I don’t really care how an individual instance ends. I just think people who wear a band shirt without knowing the music should be publicly shamed, and that society has a responsibility to make sure this happens.

@CallMeXennial @Aella_Girl @metathomist I see both sides. Definitely have seen that scenario end well. And poorly. Subjective.

Question: what’s the likelihood that people would continue to avoid having kids to travel more if they had no social media to share it with. A more interesting question imo.

@SketchesbyBoze I want to chat about all those things!! Do you think Bede just made up Caedmon’s Hymn himself?

My most annoying trait is that I’ll develop a niche obsession with, for example, Icelandic sagas or the Venerable Bede or medieval Yorkshire and spend three weeks wanting to post solely about those things, and it turns out no one else wants to chat about those things :(

@MikeOMa51929836 @Aella_Girl @metathomist Doing that is good, actually.

@Aella_Girl @metathomist Feels like they’re kind of arguing in favor of the people who see a young girl in a Nirvana shirt and scream “name 5 songs by them poser”

@EyeOnStalk @CartoonsHateHer No, it’s being an *attractive* liberal white woman, which puts a target on you bc other LWW are jealous. Lena Dunham has made racial faux pas that would’ve tanked anyone else, but no-one cares bc she’s hideous. Ugly women only get canceled if they’re right-wing (e.g., Roseanne).

@CartoonsHateHer What's also interesting is the thing that can apparently get you canceled the fastest is being a (liberal) white woman. The right has a serious misogyny problem but so does the left.

One honest critique of "cancel culture" is that it really thinned out and started getting applied to anyone with a position disliked by any particular cohort of weirdos, so it means nothing now. If your position is "any NYT writer is a nazi" then I guess most people are nazis

@AlpacaAurelius Oh, ffs, it’s an allegory about growing up. Being naked and unashamed and having no knowledge of good and evil is childhood. A snake with fruit in its mouth is the shape of a cock (comprehension of sex = end of childhood). Paradise is childhood; Original Sin is we all grow up.

kinda trippy how Adam and Eve ate the apple, the forbidden fruit, before the fall of mankind and now everyone is carrying around a device with them with a bitten apple on the back

@G_S_Bhogal @sometherapist Does… A: [confuses statutory rape with pedophilia] B: [correctly defines pedophilia] A: “Why are you so obsessed with defending pedophiles?” …count as a subset of this?

A: [says bad and untrue thing about C] B: “Actually that’s not true.” A: “Why are you supporting C?” This fallacy is so common, and so fundamental to online discourse, that I feel it should have a name. How about “straw fan fallacy”?

@Noirchick1 The entire pirate-radio setup from Pump Up the Volume.

What would be your "holy grail" of movie props to own?

Truth first. Not tribe, not ideology, not outcome. Truth first, and all else follows.

@basedc1 @CartoonsHateHer It’s the same core audience, is my point. The people into the second thing are largely the same people who were into the first thing.

@CallMeXennial @CartoonsHateHer It's not the same subculture. Pickup died and this took its place

Why would it be a cope for me? I'm married and famously not a girlboss because I couldn't keep a job

@realAAAbbott @teachrobotslove But obesity ISN’T “the body God gave you.” They did it to themselves and are pretending it’s genetic and unchangeable. Calling it “the body God gave you” agrees with their delusions. It’s not a matter of fate; it’s a matter of “stop eating ice cream and go to the gym, wtf.”

@teachrobotslove The core of progressivism is a naked rage at being forced to live in the body god gave you and demanding science and society at large reorder itself to accommodate your delusions.

There is a certain kind of person whose entire career and life philosophy is based on something egregiously wrong they're not willing to fix about themselves. Their entire life becomes cope, as they're in too far deep to check their priors and the very false premises upon which they've built their foundation. I don't mean to target this woman specifically. A lot of people are like this, and they'd suffer a lot less if they'd allow themselves a bit of humility and introspection instead of trying to force reality to bend to the will of their desired outcome.

@basedc1 @CartoonsHateHer Yeah, pickup slowly went from “Here’s how you get a girlfriend, anyone can do it” to “Getting a girlfriend is impossible, so just be mad instead of trying.” A subculture coming to embrace the exact opposite of its original message in 15 years has got to be some kind of record.

@CartoonsHateHer It's weird because I've been reading manosphere stuff since the early 2000s when it was just pickup, and I've watched these ideas all mutate over time. They start out with a lot of nuance or context and they always evolve to be more simple and extreme until they're just goofy

@AndrewLowm87443 @CartoonsHateHer Nair? I remember it!

@CallMeXennial @CartoonsHateHer Lol I always thought that was just a song from an ad

lmao one time I was standing outside a Safeway in short-shorts and a sweatshirt (pit stop before a pool party) when some 55 year old man said "I would be horrified to see my daughter dressing like this in public." And you know what? I've remembered it vividly for 15 years lollll

@AndrewLowm87443 @CartoonsHateHer So do these guys. youtu.be/xm3nxNF7j8U?si…

@CartoonsHateHer I encourage all women to wear short shorts if they want to.