Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

== INGSOC DOUBLEPLUS REALNEWS ==

WE HAVE
ALWAYS
BEEN AT
PEACE W/
EASTASIA

Meh, the floaters are still there. Can't tell if it's a few small ones or one huge one, but I'm seeing a ring shape that's supposed to be a bit concerning. (It's called a Weiss Ring apparently. It's never a good sign when doctors have ascribed a person's name to a symptom you've got.)

It's one of those especially frustrating situations where every damn website assumes the reader has infinite cash, insurance quality, and resources and it's really no problem to "get it checked out just in case."

There's only, like, a <15% chance of this sort of thing getting complications, but when they do, it's fairly urgent stuff like retinal tears. Fortunately, when those actually start happening, they're also heralded by some pretty obvious symptoms like bright flashes and showers of little dots. None of that's happening at all.

I really can not take on the stress of a medical adventure right now, so I'm gonna be dumb and chance it for the time being. Basically, if I don't roll a 1 on a d8, I'm fine. As long as the retina doesn't peel off in the process*, the floaters themselves are apparently quite harmless.

It's been a week, and apparently the risk drops off over time and most really bad cases are in the first 5-7 days, so... Oh, and I should also reiterate that this is all happening in my eye that already had a retina warp, so... On one hand, might be at higher risk. On the other, I've already come to kinda consider that eye a bit of a write-off. So whereas this would be FUCKING MY SHIT UP if it were happening in the other eye, I can watch all this with a sort of amused hateful detachment**. :)

Anyhow, I am starting to get in gear to hunt down the ACA application for Louisiana, so with any luck I'll have local insurance by June or July. In the meantime, I'm JUST worried enough that... talking about it here makes me a feel a lot better, so if you read thru all that Eye Ick for me, thank you. <3

*That was the "yikes" part. Sorry for that explicit imagery!
**Um, no pun intended. I should not have said detachment. >_>;

@lugh Oh man, you have no idea -- I found a copy of an old Italian giallo horror that I'd been looking for for *years*...

(figure A:)

i wonder how i'd look if i started dressing like dapper dog from tuca and bertie

i'm honestly not sure how much i'm kidding here, i'm 44 for fuck's sake and should have at least *one* style before i die

====== KITTY ALERT KITTY ALERT ======

one (1) tortoise-shell kitten sighted by eyewitness @ 15:16 hrs

suspect was observed peeking head up from pile of toys on front porch and saying: "*squeak*"

agent has been dispatched to site with jingly toy for further investigation

(tiger hates world less, licks friends, has breakfast; check local listings for details <3 )

@troodon

>we're actually running low on baby squirrels,

*envisions a cardboard cutout of a baby squirrel on a shelf rack, printed "PLEASE REORDER"*

@troodon sib your fluttershy-grade concern for these critters is about the only thing keeping my heart beating this morning *HUG*

tiger hates world, goes rawr, film@11

@lugh Wow. OK, I'm familiar with the Internet Archive, but I had no idea this particular collection was *this* good. I did not expect them to have this many things I'd actually want to watch, thanks for the reminder!

somebody did a mashup of westworld and GoT and it's very technically clever but it feels kinda like watching two different kinds of paint dry at once

tbh this is how i feel about almost all Big Fanbait crossovers these days

adding "captain trips from the stand" to the list of things that were right

"the internet is going to be such a boon for humanity!"

(Gee, and all I did today is phone up the guy who's trying to primary Rep. Amash*—for, you know, actually fucking reading the Mueller Report and admitting Trump's guilty—and ask Peg to play circus music into the mike. =^___^= )

* who is still a tea party jerk and not our friend

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/20/nigel-farage-doused-with-milkshake-in-newcastle

Milkshake a conservative for Christ. The contrast between Farage's previous threats-- e.g., to "pick up a rifle and head for the front lines" if Brexit failed-- and his utter indignation at being hit with a _goddamn milkshake_ is a gift that I hope keeps giving for years... because it becomes a habit among leftists.

I think that's the style goal, folks. Make sure your attacks on our enemies make a cute headline and are as ridiculous as possible-- no matter how much legitimate malice we feel underneath it all.

If you get shot, you become a martyr. If you take a milkshake to the snoot and BEHAVE like a martyr, all you become is a joke.

Okay, Bean Gallery, I have to admit playing "Ashes To Ashes" immediately after I made the above post was really timely, but it still wasn't very nice. 😿​

#HopeYoureHappyToo

Spinny and twitchy and bitey today. Not at all likely to take it out on anybody I *like*, but I could just chomp straight through a couple hundred forum commenters today, and follow up by launching the Martian Ouch Missiles straight at every Terran city.

Dunno how much longer I can hold out, without some good news at the national scale or bigger. Real good news, not feel-good crap about someone throwing around money to undo ONE lousy case of a much bigger issue. Next person who tries to pass that off as "heartwarming" is probably the next to be mauled.

I can feel my life priorities sliding, collapsing, from "be as nice as possible and make the world a brighter place" to "bury my own moral failings in the sand and run down the next 0-30 years of life coming to me as quickly, quietly, and inobtrusively as possible."

My dreams, thanks to cannabis withdrawal, are back. It's a pity my hopes expired right before the dreams got back. If I can finish Parallax, never get wrapped up in drama again, minimize contact with political toxins of all creeds, and die peacefully... well, that's an ending. That's enough.

I wish I had something more hopeful for y'all, but between Seattle, DC, and 4chan, all the gleam's been beat right outta me. I'm sorry, or at least struggling to care enough again to be sorry. I still say it ain't nothin' human extinction and raccoon ascension wouldn't fix. >_< ​

@Austin_Dern Yeah. *hug* Yeah.

*picks up a boombox and plays Gotye in the rain*