Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

This reeks of urban legend to me, but it's still fascinatingly weird:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_stroke

@anthracite Yeah, but without its light this whole mess wouldn't have happened in the first place. >___~

At the *very* least, there are four:

@anthracite

>breakfast

You posted this at like 4:12 pm. Please promise me you're eating more than once a day. ;____;

#moodsnapshot

@chandra No, I think they just synergize and form an Uber-Spread. Hypothetically, they could amplify the flavor of everything within a 10-15 meter radius...

@spacewastrel@snouts.online Wow. That is genuinely bold and I think I admire it.

@spacewastrel@snouts.online Hmmm? There's so much continuity to dig through, I'd love a summary 'cause this does sound interesting. Poor Jean's storyline's been all over the place over the decades, both in content and quality.

One of my bucket list items is to visit Australia. It's a lovely country and has a lot to offer (including the promise of a swift, romantic wildlife-related death), but my main reason is that I want to eat a whole spoon of Marmite in front of them, tuck in for another, and see the look on the lousy bogans' faces. XD

@anthracite (actually i probably wouldn't get past the sausage-roll concession at the tube station but i'm willing to give it a shot)

@anthracite SHALL WE BE OFF TO BASINGSTOKE TOGETHER MY LOVE

@Aradia Grant doesn't count. Grant never counts. ;D Not because I don't respect his work, but because it's like playing with a 52-joker deck, all puns intended.

So... damn near *anything* is possible in the DC universe. We're all in agreement with that, right?

Meanwhile, Batman's narcissistic handwringing over his "code of honor" has conveniently let thousands of innocents die, just so his psychopathic playtime buddy can stick around.

I want to see an arc where some super-scientist or uber-psionic gets fucking sick of this and just performs massive, non-con psychic surgery on the Joker to FIX him.

Naturally, the premise is that Bats decides it's the surgeon who has to be hunted down and punished. The B plot is that the Joker is reassimilated into society and EVERYTHING'S WORKING OUT FINE until some busybody crusader decides to restore the status quo for the usual pseudo-humanist "BUT HIS SACRED FREE WILL!" reasons.

@tastymochafox Curiously, the third best time is sometime in early June, 568 A.D.

I'm at a loss to explain this, but the math definitely checks out. *shrug*

(apologies for all caps but all martian opera is in all caps)

YES, I LOVE RAWR!
ANYTHING GROWLY AND GROUCHY AND FIGHTY
ANYTHING SNARLY AND POUNCEY AND BITEY
YES, I LOVE RAWR!

JUST ASK THE GAZELLE THAT I TOOK DOWN THIS MORN
HIS JUGULAR VEIN IS ALL MUNCHED ON AND TORN
JUST CHECK MARTIAN YOUTUBE
WE WATCH IT LIKE PORN
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE FOOD

"Human earns a pound
Tiger gets a shilling
Eat just a little at a time
Terrans are quite filling."

@mona@cybre.space Fun fact/counterpoint: have you heard of the Buddhist concept of the "issendai?" (That's Japanese; the original Sanskrit is "icchantika.")

It's the hypothetical "least enlightenable person in the universe," the VERY last person who will ever wake the hell up, receive the dharma, and presumably turn the lights out on the phenomenal world when they leave.

I have long suspected it's me. ^____^;

Well, hemp's legal. Guess all of our problems are now over, since it's a miracle plant that's good for absolutely everything. Otherwise, I'd have to believe that a bunch of bearded countercultural types had fallen for their own hyperbole, and I just can't believe in that sort of a world.

I fully expect a cancer cure by next Thursday, an end to world hunger by the end of the year, an end to global warming by February at the latest, and free clothing for everybody for eternity. I see no reason not to assume we'll all be living in $500 compressed-hemp homes by the end of next year.

(Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy about the news. It's just... I was told we had to fix this because The Man Was Suppressing A Miracle Plant That Could Solve All Human Ills--- not, you know, because the prohibition made no fucking sense at all unless you were a shithead newspaper magnate with a lot of money in paper mills.)