Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@LexYeen@snouts.online Yes... but be warned if any Eeyore Lenin types show up to tell me it's all futile, their rhetorical blood is on your hands, not mine. :D

Ok. You've probably seen the news: we are gearing up for an honest-to-goodness ideological war in 2020. Propagandists, homegrown and otherwise, are already gearing up to sow discord and confusion on the left.

And, um, bad news: you and I are basically the remaining counterculture. If people at our level don't prepare themselves to fight, we're probably not going to win.

Start thinking about it NOW. For instance, it wouldn't hurt to get an elevator-pitch sized case against Trump into your head. Personally, I'm thinking of starting a list of undeniable Trump "fun facts" we can use to steer forum threads back on track. (e.g.: "Hey, isn't Trump ALREADY a known fraudster because of that Trump U thing?" "Hey, didn't Trump's own biographer say he's probably a Kremlin agent?") (I know, the base is hard to crack and never admits it's wrong. We're not _aiming_ for the base.)

Next: be wary of anything you see that turns you against a fellow Trump opponent. Remember that we KNOW FOR CERTAIN some of that is deliberate sabotage. Save your ire for the opposition-- and even then, think ahead to how we can draw them into the fold if Trump is ever properly defeated and humiliated.

And most importantly: for fuck's sake, don't despair. I grew up with the sincere expectation we would all be reduced to radioactive ash by the time I was 20. Instead, the Big Bads collapsed. Granted, they came back in a new form, but... here we are, still breathing.

This is a new era. We are the FIRST. GENERATION. EVER. to face this kind of targeted memetic infiltration online. You don't even know what we're capable of. The memetic immune systems we develop now could protect American humanists and progressives for generations. Quit fixating on a doom that will only become truly inevitable *if* we keep fixating on it.

We get back from NOLA on March 13th, incidentally, though I will probably beg for a week to myself, to recuperate and plan our Grand Exit Strategy. :)

If it's any comfort, there's a chance we'll be leaving as soon as April, but that looks really unlikely. Peg and I are both expert procrastinators, so it's probably going to be more like June?

Since I'm terrible at saying no... my social calendar is now officially BOOKED SOLID. No new visits until Peg and I get back from our week and a half in NOLA.

I've stretched as far as I can to try to accommodate everybody-- and I really, really truly don't mind, 'cause I want to see as many people as possible-- but if I stretch any further I'm gonna start losing day-job hours, and I just can't afford to do that right now.

I'm saying this here and now, because I know I'll cave if you ask me in person. :) This DOES NOT MEAN I want to cancel any existing visits-- I am TOTALLY into them, and I'm not quite freaking out YET. :) But I absolutely can't do anything else until I get home. I'm probably already facing a short workweek from the trip itself.

EUROPE: "Haha, silly primitives! Look at them hulling this 'maize' stuff with their primitive technologies! We have MACHINES to do that!"

ALSO EUROPE: "Hey, let's take a bunch of this 'maize' back to Europe and eat it, without bothering to talk to the locals about it first, since everything basically belongs to us and we're smarter than everybody!"

ALSO ALSO EUROPE: "Hey, let's die in heaps because we never learned about nixtamalization, we aren't getting any niacin out of this snazzy new food, and now we all have pellagra!"

ALSO ALSO ALSO EUROPE *STILL*: "Man, I can't believe how much more sophisticated we are than everybody else."

ALSO ALSO ALSO ALSO EUROPE (AND ITS KIDS) STILL: "Let's base our entire diet around maximizing corporate profit and discover bold new health problems nobody has ever seen before!"

@mawr Break out the HARD kibble and go crazy! :D

@LexYeen@snouts.online

Humph. You'll have to speak to my publicist:

MS. MONTECORE-SAINT-HOBBES CATEGORICALLY DENIES THE BASELESS RUMORS THAT SHE IS SCP-247-1. SHE IS *ONLY* EIGHT FEET TALL. THOSE SCIENTISTS WERE DEFINITELY LIKE THAT WHEN SHE FOUND THEM.

THREE unrelated "hey Rez I didn't know you wrote for $SITE" toots in 24 hours.

Love you guys, thanks for helping maintain my brand identity. 😻​

@Austin_Dern I am not familiar with the fake vixen you are talking about, never met her... >_>;;

@mawr Mostly I just really like the phrase "appellation d'origine contrôlée" and try to use it as often as possible. :D

@mawr Yeah, that's why I edited out the "plush" part when I saw it was an RT! I can not speculate on Mx. Kamilumin's compositional status. Looks like flesh, but it's rude to guess, I know. n.n;

@mawr Applying appellation d'origine contrôlée to political discourse...? Pure genius. *chef kiss*

"Lobotomy Luthor."

@JulieSqveakaroo "I would buy me a Senator..."

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/asyeik/i_stayed_in_an_airbnb_in_southern_utah_that_was/

I really hope I just overhit the bong today and I'm not getting sick or something. >_< I guess I'm overdue for a cold, but I think I'm gonna start snarfing zinc in the morning anyhow thanks.

@Balina Awww! *blush* I missed ya too, losing touch with you was definitely one of my (few) regrets about leaving Birdland!

@JulieSqveakaroo Basically the first one. There's precedent, sitting around on an index card somewhere. :D

Walking Dead fandom, summarized:

"I used to love this show, but it hasn't been the same since Rick woke up from his coma and met all those dead guys."

Peg wants to put an extra in the trade paperback of chapter 1: two pages of Parallax written by *her* and drawn by *me*, to show the audience just how easy we're letting them off. I am so looking forward to this now. >:D