Innovation is when you make every street a panopticon.
One time I was walking down a street and this woman rushed out of her house and starts yelling that she knows what I’ve done and she’s got it all recorded on her doorbell camera. To this day, I still don’t know what I was supposed to have done.
Doorbell cameras.
Let’s turn the whole fucking planet into a surveillance state because some people like to jerk themselves off about (typically racialised) fears of petty urban crime.
If TV shows count: Earthsea.
It was such a poor adaptation that Ursula Le Guin wrote an article denouncing it.
Coc oen.
Literally translates as “lamb’s penis”, roughly equivalent to calling someone a dickhead but with an emphasis on belittling them.
Twmffat twp.
“Idiot spout”, someone who doesn’t think things through before speaking.
On the political side “Dic Siôn Dafydd” is how you refer to a Welsh person who’s aligned themselves on England’s side in an issue between England and Wales.
Thanks for the sympathy. I haven’t felt that bad for a couple of years by now.
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Bunch of failed suicides, an accident in a school swimming pool, and the time my neighbour accidentally diverted a fuck tonne of carbon monoxide fumes into my house. All the times I’ve been close to death don’t make for particularly interesting reading.
How about a brush with serious injury instead?
1st year of uni. I’m in the labs for the first time and I am hyped to do some microbiological analysis. We were given a bunch of techniques to try and I’d decided to start by doing gram staining and then observing a slide. Most of my class mates had less experience on the microscopes than me and I was feeling great about how quickly I’d calibrated everything. Cocky enough that I hadn’t noticed just how coated in immersion oil my gloves were, until my hand accidentally passed through a Bunsen burner and went up in flames.
Thankfully I’d picked a bench close to the sinks and was able to wrap some damp towels around the hand quickly to try to smother the flame before I got seriously burnt. But the scars on my hand are a reminder to me to be aware of my surroundings in the lab at all times.
look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
Fandom.
It closed for a few months after the arrests, and has since reopened.
There’s an ice-cream shop in my town that I 100% know is a front because the partner of its owner got done for drugs dealing, sex trafficking, and possession of illegal firearms a couple of years after it opened.
“Oh you don’t like the idea of always on cameras monitoring every street at all times? Guess you want burglaries to happen all the time.”
Statistically, doorbell cameras don’t lower this risk of burglaries. A lot of the claims that they do come from companies selling them.
This study found that they actually increase the risk of being targeted by burglars
All the while you are sticking a camera with a history of shoddy cybersecurity to your home.
Look at this case of harassment that involved the use of a doorbell camera and try to pretend my concerns aren’t valid.