Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

INTERPRETATION: "You got lucky once and accidentally created something interesting. Now, you have to go do it on purpose. Yeah, sure, your era is terrible, but the cosmos is still beautiful. Staying in prison past the end of your sentence is not really penance. You've owned your anger, dependence, and instability. If you want to prove to the world you're doing better, find something constructive to do it and fucking do it already. Like, say, Mom's comic. Love, Dawn (Sr.)."

QUERY: "Dawn, it's not looking so good out here. I've made mistakes in the last year that make me seriously question my self-image as a decent, empathetic person. And you don't even want to know what the REST of humanity is looking like. Is there really any way forward?"

Querent: Moon
Conditions: Universe
Past: 99 Pents
Future: King of Wands
Subconscious: 4 Wands
Conscious: Progeny of Wands
Self: 10 Wands
Others: High Priestess
Hope/Fear: 9 Cups
Summary: 9 Wands

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612212/the-first-social-network-of-brains-lets-three-people-transmit-thoughts-to-each-others-heads/

There was a day where I would have been really excited about this. Right now, it absolutely terrifies me. We're not even remotely ready.

@acetone_kitten You're making Turkish food? I hardly even recognize you anymore. <3 <3<

American Vandal Season 2 is really good, better than the first. Most profound extended poop joke I ever hope to see.

Seriously, it was kind of beautiful, and there isn't actually THAT much poop in it. (Note that this, of course, confirms that there isn't zero poop in it. It's still worth it.)

@catoxis Haha, of COURSE you are. :D It's still a really nice place, the rents are just getting steeper fast-- plus my SO is a NOLA native and she's getting tired of the, um, "harsh" winters. :)

A couple of folks have asked about my move schedule, so here's the PSA! Our lease is up in around April of next year, and then we hope to be moving to New Orleans.

So if you've been worrying about not getting to see me before I go, you've still got about six to eight months. Even *I'm* not that bad at logistics. =^_^=

@mmsword @CeruleanK @Cerulean

Apologies for being flaky... did we ever settle on date(s) for getting together? This weekend is free-possibly and next weekend is free-definitely!

lewd; pfaf

@LeDiva "A bunch of tuneful jerks who were first against the wall when the revolution came." -- The Floating Robotized Head of Lester Bangs, New New Musical Express, Third Sorrow of Emperor Jon-Jon (old calendar: Jan. 2036)

I took what could have been a perfectly healthy pound of super-firm tofu and created a sour, sweet, bright-red chili nightmare that still makes my tongue smart a hour later. And I'm very pleased with myself.

(Crumble tofu. Season with pepper, garlic, salt, cumin, coriander. Mix with crushed peanuts, macadamias, and/or fried jalapenos. Bake 10 min@400°. Mix in descending order: soy sauce, honey, chili paste [sambal oelek], sesame oil, lime juice, fish sauce, Worcester. Add; bake.)

@kaputotter Yeah, it's like, I can imagine a parallel universe where a similar food could be pleasant and tasty... but this is just Lutheran hot dish served inside a crisp wafer, which makes no sense.

Somebody's "chicken and waffles" school lunch. Aren't you glad you're a putative grown-up like me, and get to eat whatever the fuck you want?

Honestly, though, I could probably salvage this. I could make something that resembled this, only it would be food. Just get me a waffle iron, a deep fryer, and the wandering soul of Kenny Shopsin.

that's a really enviable box, plus i wanna be made mostly from european pork bellies too =-.-=

#felinethings

Pondering all the Goodfellas conceits of S6E7, and VB's recurring theme of its characters admitting the hero/villain game is a silly pursuit, for arrested adolescents who can't do anything else.

Really, what they do isn't so different from what mafiosi, celebrities, financiers, and politicians do, and I suspect Doc and Jackson damn well know that. These are all laughably stylized, unreal worlds.

Moral: do what you love, because there's no such thing as adults.

@chalcedony@octodon.social @Thaminga Don't be so hard on yourself. You didn't do something really *stupid* like saying Candlejack out lou

Somebody entered the cafe reeking of Halloween candy, and I am now paralyzed by nostalgia.

Olfactory memory is weird. The scent of candy corn brings my late father back. The scent of air conditioner fluid turns Florida back into an inviting, friendly place. (Formative ice cream parlor. Long story.) The scent of cloves makes me 19 and agonizingly insecure. Maybe someday I'll order an espresso at some NOLA cafe and twitch, because I'll be here & now again.

@mawr I wouldn't start to panic... unless it was a job doing online recruitment for LinkedIn... and the notice came from an account labeled "Mawr." Then I'd at least check myself for paradoxes. O_o;

Been doing a lot of processing about The Past Year this week. I think it's mostly been in a healthy direction, finally figuring out a path forward for myself and owning some of the ways I've fucked things up.

Otherwise, it's mostly been good-boring. @anthracite and I are still poking at Parallax. It's slow but still exciting. And things are settling back to normal at work-- looks like not much is changing for our team right now, at least.

Enjoying the relative calm, mostly.

PSA: Awoo is being slow and flaky for me today, so any weird follows or unfollows you get from me are purely a misclicky technical glitch, not some coded message or something!

People's user pages are being slow to load, so people I should have friended keep showing up as unfriended, and I keep accidentally unclicking y'all during the wait. =^___^;=