Portuguese table cannon sun dial, mid 19th century
These dials has been very popular since the 18th century, combined with a cannon and a burning glass, is set so that when the sun reaches its highest point at noon, a charge of gunpowder is ignited by the bundled rays of the sun, so that a loud bang sounds.
Huge examples were palced in Dockyards and Arsenals to signal noon and lunchtime.
“It’s become a sort of purity culture staple to call out Archive of Our Own, because we cannot apparently enjoy nice things.
[…] Some fans argue that AO3 should be actively moderating more of the content posted on-site, even though it has exclusionary tag systems so that you can, personally, tailor and be responsible for your own AO3 experience.
Don’t like a pairing or tag situation? Hide it and you never have to worry about seeing it! In addition, AO3 does have a Policy & Abuse team that deals with issues like plagiarism, harassment, and violations of its content policies; it’s not the Wild West out there, despite what this new breed of moral panic-mongers would have you believe.
[…] There’s a persistent, and, for me, exceedingly strange swerve these days towards demanding The Powers That Be censor and remove fanworks that some users deem problematic, often with a pearl-clutching sentiment attached that the youth are being corrupted from exposure to unsavory themes, or the mere possibility of exposure.
These sentiments always remind me of the people who used to assert in the 18th and 19th centuries that the act of novel-reading would corrupt a young woman’s mind, and that (especially) women couldn’t be trusted with so dangerous an activity as reading or choosing their own reading material.”
y’all, if even uninvolved people writing articles can see that you’re being jackasses, it’s time to own up to your jackassery and knock it the fuck off.
bring back the era of “dont ilke; dont read” where you simply just dont read the stories that have tags you dont like
YOURE TELLING ME ELON MUSK HOSTED SNL AND EVERYONE FUCKING HATED IT????
AND DOGECOIN TANKED BECAUSE THE SKITS SUCKED ASS SO BAD???
I know a lot of y’all just like love to cheer for his downfall or whatever but I’d like to remind everyone that he actually does have Aspergers and that’s why his jokes didn’t “land”. You can hate on his ethics all you want to but it’s bold af for someone to host SNL especially when they have a syndrome that limits their ability to do that and invites ridicule.
I assure you his mental divergence had nothing to do with his jokes missing their mark. One skit was called Gen Z Hospital and was loaded on nothing but horribly misused AAVE. That was it. There was no punchline outside of using AAVE improperly. That has nothing to do with him being on the autism spectrum and everything to do with him being an out of touch billionaire boomer trying to belittle the generation that most often sees through his bullshit.
He’s also, despite his claim in his monologue, not the only SNL host to be neurodivergent. Dan Akroyd, former cast member and later host, is also on the autism spectrum and has spoken often about it.
plus it doesn’t look as good as you think to say “he’s autistic so that’s why he’s not funny :///“ because actually we’re hilarious and he’s an asshole.
me and many of my friends are on the spectrum and we’re funny AF. dont insult us by handwaving elon musks poor, out of touch attempts at humor as the product of autism.
