Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@anthracite Isn't that what you're paying her for, though? #StabbingAndCrying

"Don’t screw with a fat predator. They’re obviously good at what they do." -- /r/hardcoreaww

*rests enormous fluffy paws on her own deergut and beams with pride*

@anthracite *marches Olivia up to you and makes her give you the Big Pleading Kitty Eyes*

@Phorm Don't forget the time he rode a kirin to the moon to defeat Obama's anti-democracy missiles. -_-

It's one of those days where reality feels so damaged, you feel the need to fish a dollar bill out of your wallet and look at it every so often, just to make sure it's still got GW on it instead of a screaming Trump head. >_<

Peggy says we're all out of Ubik, so I guess I'm off to the local Dick's outlet to stock up.

@zx3 As bad as things are, I'm at least settling into a reassured feeling that the grown-ups are coming to outnumber the toddlers. We don't need *everybody* on the front lines right now. Please yes just go take a break and take care of yourself.

And know that you may sleep peace­ably in your bed at night, because enormous red cats from space stand ready to do rhetorical vio­lence on your behalf. :)

(Mostly kidding, I get that it's the anger itself that you're getting tired of... FWIW, I've been trying to cultivate more of an "unimpressed schoolmarm" attitude in my disputes, because yeah, anger is just exhausting... *hug* )

until trump came along instant coffee was mankind's biggest lie

@mmsword Happy birthday! Eat something extravagant and confusing for me!

@001zlnv Tinned sardines in chili sauce over rice, so three mini-fish.

ate 3 fish

more fish tomorrow maybe

Incidentally, we're also back home from our little home repair "vacation." The apartment is more than a little musty, but it's venting nicely and except for a BIG GAPING HOLE in the ceiling we're looking pretty good here.

I'm going to get very very very stoned, I think, and play Slay The Spire until it's time to help Peg take her art over to the biscuit shop* down the street.

*this phrase does not even begin to convey the majesty of Morsel, if you're in seattle you should GO THERE

everybody have a great day out there! 🐯​

i should just move to the uk

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46846467

no but seriously what if we destroyed all humans

#benderwasright

Well, hello, screaming young drunkard immediately outside while I'm trying to run an errand in my torn-up stinky apartment! Did you know that I made myself a little pact that I wouldn't eat anybody today, specifically because I wanted so very badly to do so, and I sincerely want to be a good kitty today?

You should know, though: tiger pacts come and go like the breeze. You'd best be moving along before that breeze blows, lean and lumbering little human. You would be so easy to catch, and you've clearly been delivered to me pre-marinated.

@Leucrotta My main thought about the whole thing is "isn't it sort of a stupid idea to declare No Quarter Asked Or Given, when you're basically already a political minority holding sway over a group that outnumbers you 2:1?"

I can understand why some of our friends are panicking, because that is some pretty scary rhetoric, in or out of historical context. But man, does it sound like a desperation ploy to me-- not to mention, implicit permission to sweep away right-wing resistance the moment it becomes possible.

Meanwhile, I have at least gotten much better in the last year or so at keeping my mouth shut where *personal*, as opposed to political, frustrations are concerned.​

For example, in response to the massive flood of bad ex-roommate memories that a random stimulus just triggered, I have arranged to neatly discharge all the pent-up exasperation, bewilderment, and disillusionment thusly, with no further detail needed:

"Grr."

Thank you for your time.

@mona@cybre.space scan and post!

this is a vital part of the history of the Meadow Party!

@JulieSqveakaroo Sounds pretty reasonable to me, roo. *hugs tight*

Super, super cranky. I had been doing so well at walking away from stupid political squabbles on Reddit lately, but I've let no less than five different people have it today. They all deserved it, in my humble opinion, accusing democrats of being "childish" about the Wall for example, but... I don't like being in that state of mind one bit, not after all the things my shouty, bitchy temper has ruined for me in the past few years.

I just want these ambulatory logical fallacies to no longer be a factor in my life. I want to live in a country that's not being actively gaslit every fucking day. I just want to be able to read the subreddit for my own fucking city without feeling like I have to trudge through a canal of type-A blame-the-poor libertarian poop six feet deep, one that wasn't there when I arrived in 2011.

And it's hard, it's just hard to believe any state of real civility exists here anymore. When the other side's made it quite clear that their principles are only there for keeping _you_ in check, why the fuck NOT just let it all fly? Why the fuck be the one who always has to expend the effort to be civil? Why not just let the beast off the leash? Why not walk right up to the conservatives who are suddenly all "come now, why can you not be reasonable" and show them just how badly they've already ruined that possibility?

Because it's fucking exhausting, that's why. Yet-- maybe not morally, but just in pure tactical terms-- grinning unrepentantly and shoving them into traffic is actually starting to sound like the _most_ reasonable option. And those of you who remember what a compulsive devil's advocate for conservatives I was ~2005 know what I must have gone through in order to be saying that.

It's still a lot of fun to tear into them. I won't lie. But you can only wake up in a cage at the Woodland Park zoo, still woozy from the tranq darts, maw still caked in Trumpiste blood, so many times before you start wondering if there's a better way everyone could have been spending their time. -___-