Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Dammit, adorable six-year-old who just bounced through the café saying hi to everybody, I had JUST managed to work up a good solid hatred of humanity, and you hadda go and spoil it.

I'll probably never see you again. I hope you have the best life, kiddo. I hope I get to see you in the White House someday, undoing all the shit the last four generations did.

til i learned led zeppelin's bron-yr-aur stomp was a love song for robert plant's merle collie Strider and it's so pure and perfect imma cry

pretty puppy, too!

@Balinares *hug* Thanks, darlin'! I am doing much better now, thanks to exactly the species of hugs being discussed. Diversity of dragon huggification never hurts! <3

Whoo! Peg sat down with me for like a half-hour and we went through a bunch of the stuff that's been wearing me down, item by item. S+ rank for tiger care, both her and you lot. <3

Honestly, most of it is exactly what y'all have been telling me, ordinary move stress and not dealing well with all the ambiguity. That flood here in Mid-City really freaked me out, and I had a bunch of necessities still hiding in boxes, and... yeah. Just redlined for a bit and felt Ms. Panic Tiger, who is bitey and stupid, rising to the surface again.

Better now! <3

07:00 - 07:05 too tired to have a mood
07:05 - 18:00 christ i'm an idiot
18:00 - 20:55 look at this shit i'm doing at work i'm a motherfucking genius
20:55 - 21:00 oh right like half of my friends are STEM making eight times what i do
21:00 - 21:05 hey let's look at the internet and attempt to socialize or something
21:05 - 23:00 christ i'm an idiot

@LeDiva That one was something like a 7 or 8, but by definition no longer applies in a state with adequate BBQ. 🐯​

Seriously interesting blog entry about contagion, critical thresholds, and network topology-- with nearly a dozen cellular automata simulations to play with. This was a great and fun-scary read.

I never realized just how TINY the mathematical margin is between a passing outbreak and a pandemic. Explains quite a few different things about 2019.

https://www.meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/

@Leucrotta And...? Which do I scritch first?

@JulieSqveakaroo *makes Pac-Man deathrattle[1] but does not actualy die*

[1]deathwaka?

@Thaminga *massive stripey hugs* Hey, as long as the Geogaddi Elves are at bay, I'll be all right. I've hit a 9 maybe once in the past two years, thanks largely to excellent tiger care from @anthracite...

@001zlnv Bad. If I'm listening to Boards of Canada's Geogaddi in a dark room by myself... generally something broke and the Faceless Haunted-Forest Children sound like better company than my terrestrial friends. No need to run or anything, but you'll want to remove all your unsecured dessert items from the area immediately.

😿​

@Leucrotta Oh, and extra points for quoting the samples from Underworld's "Beaucoup Fish" album.

"Brother, there's a little sale on vests at Walmart
9 dollah. Nice little vest, light." Repeat to dragoness ad smackulum.

@001zlnv As the Subgenii used to say, "I'm Up For Any Program."

@Leucrotta Counterpoint: getting it wrong is HILARIOUS, especially when you're all-but-married to a local. Especially if you work the term "airboats" in >3 times.

Nothing much interesting to say. Feeling stressed out and deeply misanthropic for a whole spectrum of reasons. NOLA is nice but intermittently scary, like Monday when the entire neighborhood flooded and half the cars on the block were ruined. Got a free couch and loveseat, which is nice. Have a ton of work lining up in front of me, and a ton of move-related debts to work off.

The Internet feels more and more like a hostile place, even here a bit. I keep running into identity politics that is WAY off my crackpottery scale, whenever I stray more than a degree of separation away from you lot. I've just got nowhere else to go.

Feeling very emotionally disconnected from everyone and everything, advanced to the point where it doesn't really bother me anymore, and that should probably concern me. Oh well. I'm 2600 miles away from... The Thing... and its other major players, and a little numbness and indifference might be the best thing after all.

I miss having a social life with any emotional or imaginative character to it whatsoever. It'll probably hurt a lot more in a few months in the profoundly likely event I am unable to fix it, but for now This Is Fine(TM).

Maybe we'll all die in a simultaneous multi-coast string of disasters, a hurricane and an earthquake hitting at the same moment, some Lars Von Trier-grade act of God's indifference and disgust. At this point, I'm not sure I wouldn't go down laughing.

@spacewastrel@snouts.online @kobi_lacroix Yeah, that pretty much nails the last two years of my life... *raises glass to you both in toast* Start our own hole with blackjack and unionized labor?

utter GoT schadenfreude

never put your faith in a franchise

never assume a series is "yours" somehow

if you've gotta obsess over an imaginary world, and it's gotta be tailored to your desires, dammit DIY

#moodsnapshot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Bp31R3Am0

@JulieSqveakaroo Ooo-ers! Also, I found what purports to be a bingo pinball emulator from a Dutch hobbyist. I'll letcha know if it's any good! And whether I can make heads or tails outta the gameplay!