Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Leucrotta I really hope you can make it to Seattle! That household does NOT sound functional. *hug*

@Oneironott @catoxis@snouts.online oh no, don't pin this one on me! 😺​❤️​

@Oneironott @catoxis@snouts.online Of bloody course it was. Our contagion models are 100% accurate, because Neptunians are kind of predictable for some reason. O:D <3

I summarized the Pentagon Papers incident for some guy on Reddit, and another Redditor rewarded me with this neat inside story.

Strive in all things to be as big a nuisance to the system as this guy.

@coyohti I'm at my parents house with a laptop with a minimal set of images, but I'd be delighted to dig some up when I get back, thank you so much! :D

Watching an old Kids in the Hall. Bruce McCullough is cracking jokes about Canada and England being the 51st and 52nd US states.

How things have changed. Time devours all. I think I'm gonna have one more good cathartic cry, far too many cookies, and that nap I'd been threatening.

Enjoy whatever you are while you are it, folks. You too could end up here, covered in dust.

On Schadi! On Laika!
On Jwyl and on Marhime!

On Laudanum, Lucifer,
Pnoikelur, Tsouris!

On Ichschmerz! Ereshkigal!
Maybe Strangetheeka!

On Fernweh! On Kummerspeck!
Putzfimmel and Sigrid!

Your sentences have all been commuted. The brig is unlocked. Go wreck some shit up.

Have a blast, you little shits. I don't fucking care anymore. -_-

ended up foregoing the nap, had a lengthy and very good commiseration session with my awesome mom instead. she's got very much my temperament and bs tolerance and... yeah, i didn't know what a rough couple decades she'd had friends-wise herself.

it still sucks to feel like i've been locked out of the very group of people i brought together and not quite understanding why -- so i could at least know exactly what parts of myself i needed to fucking work on -- but if you all stuck around i guess some of the guesswork went okay and i'm not such a completely horrible person.

whatever. in this case, i lost an acquaintance who mostly only showed up looking for a friendly place to complain, and i went down defending my principles, because i am not gonna let someone play devil's advocate for someone who's idea of free speech includes running all hope of real discourse into the ground.

@Phorm actually i know exactly what i would wish for, but i don't think i have the heart to ask genies to dabble in apparently-forbidden knowledge *hug* i'll gladly take the faces instead pls, preferably either pseudorational centrist or rich software-engineer leninist with no awareness of their own privilege flavor, but beggars can't be choosers

thank you <3

God damn it. I think I've had like three emotional circuit breakers thrown at once. I'm outta here for a while, and by "here" I mean consciousness. -__-

Have a better day than this, folks.

@Leucrotta Yeah, um... I'm just gonna ring up Director J and YOU can tell her that in person. I think you will find that a ginormous fangéd maw is a more than adequate substitute. :D

Every time a real scientist has to barge into a thread and debunk an alarmist, a blue whale waiting for real ecological progress dies of sheer frustration.

If you're seeing articles that tell you all our plankton are dying off and they provide 70% of our breathable oxygen and we're all hyperdoomed? I'd say ignore it. I'm seeing some pretty convincing counterarguments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/a8wdhj/scientists_raise_alert_as_ocean_plankton_levels/eceojdp/ (Counter-counter-evidence is, of course, most welcome. I'm still sorting through all this myself.)

Things are genuinely dire enough without turning every little climate factoid into a folk devil of imminent human extinction. Despair is comforting, but it's not a very good strategy for meaningful action.

@anthracite You've learned so much about drawing grumpy kitties in the last year! I wonder who from? 😺​

(Also, the subpersona currently in charge of meting out Inner Justice is an 8' jaguar lady with the voice of Rosa Diaz from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and while she's very nice when you get to know her, frankly she even scares the shit out of *me*... >_>; )

Well, at least I can say this is the least grumpy I've gotten during a holiday tolerance break. I've managed to keep my tirades mostly limited to Trump voters, and haven't gotten snippy with my parents even once.

Still. I can already feel my internal censor starting to get woozy. I've already had to redact a few "you and the horse you rode in on" type comments moments before hitting "submit." (Trust me, most of them would've deserved it.)

And there's some rowdy part of me that really, really wants to talk about What Happened This Past Year, maybe even finally break down and demand some concrete fucking answers.

But I know there are innocent people who would suffer if I did. So the responsible subpersonas have been swiftly brigged without trial, and will not be released until I'm back in Seattle, Glowtide has safely passed, and I am unlikely to see Certain People ever again.

The prisoners are having a real rough time in there, though. Any donations of media, toys, games, and <s>kittens</s> hygenically packaged changeling rations would be much appreciated. I'm not unsympathetic to their cause, but the law is the law.

@Balinares Other than spinning around madly preparing for the New Orleans move, not really!

@catoxis@snouts.online It was inevitable, really. *watches on closed-circuit monitors, nods gravely, and adjourns to the panic room to ride out the Ottpocalypse*

This Flight of the Conchords bit always cheers me up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuXdhow3uqQ

@mona@cybre.space @Leucrotta Sure! There are plenty! Let me give you a complete list:

Better Call Saul.

Okay, never mind, there's been exactly one good prequel. :)

Fuuuuck. Still reeling. I think that's legitimately the hottest thing I've ever eaten. (FWIW, the old record was a Level 5 macchi dopiaza at the Punjab Grill in Arlington, MA. Still grateful to this day that they took me seriously. :) )

This is one of my few concessions to machismo, I'll admit. But it's real nice to be able to stare toxic alpha types down and think, "Motherfucker, this femmy soyboy cuck has eaten things that would make you buckle in two and cry for mommy."

And I'll also admit... it's one of multiple reasons I'll be grateful to abandon Seattle for NOLA. If *Anthy's* people can't even hurt me good, there's no hope for America.