Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

@kelseyhusky read, acknowledged. Really hope it gets easier.

I’m reminded of how much I loathe political cartoonists even more than I detest journalists. Imagine being able to draw like that, and what you use it for is gross one sided takes on difficult shit if you’re not even more active in causing harm. Nearly all furry fetish porn is honorable and worthy by comparison.

@rebe_gc @LilahTovMoon “that’s no moon™️”

my love of fantasy and TTRPGs mean I'm split about what's the best part of Conan the Barbarian;

* Conan's father telling him about the riddle of steel, full of world building and cultural richness OR

* the Atlantean Sword scene, full of mystery and wonder OR

* when the PCs successfully stealth in to capture the princess and then completely abandon their plan so they can set shit on fire and hurl big cauldrons of stew down the stairs etc

@anthracite doesn't hurt that he basically says she's a very wet lizard chick.

At least in Downward Spiral, the Dumped song is part of the ongoing parade of misery, as opposed to Pretty Hate Machine which starts out so fucking strong and then whoooo completely off the rails into every trans dyke's worst assumptions about cis men.

"can Democrats undo college campus branding and capture the working class" seriously, some of us have our lives on the line every time there are Republicans in office and it doesn't actually improve that much under Democrats, this is not the Bulldogs vs Tech game, so kindly fuck off to McMurdo Sound or somewhere.

okay, I am now done with job hunt stuff for the time being and can eat something and step myself back from the desire to cut my wrists that job hunting can (and in this case did) inspire. The sun is shining and in a bit I can draw, like what I actually WANT to do with my life.

another "what about this job appeals to you?" question answered with "This would be an opportunity to build on my current skillset" rather than "I do not want to live then die under an I-5 onramp."

"Hear that, Mister Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. That is the sound of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson."

"My name is... SHAKE ZULA! THA MIC RULA, THA OLD SKOOLA! YOU WANT A TRIP I'LL BRING IT TO YA!"

@Daojoan just in case I was able to track down the original paper, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

through Dr. Wall-Scheffler's site at https://wallscheffler.wordpress.com/

@Ylfingr I fenced for a couple of years in high school and it quite literally may have saved my life, if I can help kids get that it'd be even better than working for a nonprofit. The last time I fenced anyone was 5 years ago but I won that match.

WHOA BLACK BETTY BAM BA LAM
WHOA BLACK BETTY BAM BA LAM
OUR VOICES ARE AS QUIET AND MEANINGLESS AS DRY GRASS
OR RATS FEET OVER BROKEN GLASS
IN OUR DRY CELLAR
BAM BA LAM

dude DUDE a fencing school locally is hiring a front desk person

I don't actively want many jobs I come across, mostly I need to pay bills and rent. I want this job more than I want to do accounting if this gives you any idea.

of course listening to "Mona Lisa Overdrive" leads to the thematically similar "Alech Taadi," "Black Betty" and "Jesus Built My Hotrod."

@frost not included, but THE thing about orcas is matriarchy - orcas are one of the few other species out there to experience menopause, but post-menopausal cows still basically direct where their pods go (and if you're an orca, by definition you're hunting). So this is REALLY exciting to me, because that means that pattern shows up elsewhere in social animals! Now I really really want to find this study and read it.

dude DUDE check this out https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184894580/ancient-women-were-hunters-and-grandmas-were-the-most-skilled-ones-study-suggest

a straight up comparison between humans and orcas this is awesome

@Daojoan oh wow a straight up human analogy to orcas this is so COOOOOOOOL

*Morpheus voice*

Look around you, what do you see? Hyper herm skunktaurs. Muscle doberwomen. Fat samoyed furs wearing only very smelly socks. The very people we are trying to save. But most of these people do not want to be unplugged from the Matrix. Neo, were you paying attention or were you looking at that hyena in the prominently bulged red skirt?