Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

That look of relief when I realize the guy putting up café flyers for "Sisters of Christ" is referring to a local punk record shop and the name is 100% ironic. Apparently, the whole store has kind of a "good-natured sacrilege" theme going...

(I would have also been happy with them being, say, both real punks and real social-revolutionary Christians. As long as they're not just another gang of Republican Mammonoids disguised as "the cool kids"...)

Looks like one of my favorite lost Youtube videos got reuploaded. You don't really need to have seen Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni to get the joke— especially if you've seen any of the abysmal 4Kids dubs they're parodying— but it *is* my favorite "friendship magically solves everything" show, and has the highest (temporary, it's a long story) body count of any of them. ^_______^

(No, seriously, Higurashi is actually a really heartwarming story... eventually. Just remember time heals all wounds. And the video below is itself, gloriously, implausibly G-rated.)

#TACOACTION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVSqFRgs1Qw

@packbat Possible inspiration?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomes_%26_Talismans

(Be warned, if you track it down on Youtube— it's charming, it's nostalgic, it's not necessarily *good*.)

I love this big fluffy cat so much, I want to give it complete arbitrary power over life and death for everybody on earth. Whether you are nice to this kitty will be the sole remaining arbiter of survival or ruination.

@001zlnv Hey, I mean, I'm not looking to convert them. At this point I'm perfectly contented to just annoy them, and enjoy watching the gears between their ears smolder a little as the cognitive dissonance kicks in...

Excuse me, I have about 20,000 transphobic pseudo-rationalist Gamergaters to troll. Guess this undermines their whole "trans people are mentally ill" argument just a tad... 😂​

@Balinares Nah, I'm OK. <3 I wasn't really close to my step-grandfather, and as noted, I have a weird perspective on death and can't really mourn for a 96-year-old. A round of applause and a "well played, sir" is more my speed. Put the hugs in storage for now-- I'm gonna need all I can get someday.

@Leucrotta I'll take the hugs, but honestly, I'm fine. My poor stepdad, though, gotta deal with my stepbrother essentially being terminal thanks to some fuckrod at Monsanto, and this on top of it. It's been a shitty year for him, on top of his cancer from a couple years ago that he's STILL recovering from, and I just wish I knew what to do to help the guy. :(

pro-socialist essay from some libtard, i dunno, some scientist or something

people who believe in this pinko crap are not exactly einstein yanno

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism

(spoiler alert: it's literally by albert einstein 😺​)

I looked into these guys. These signs are 100% real, as is the church. We are not without allies, and the boundaries are not always as coarsely defined as you may think.

Step-grandfather died today. Stepdad is apparently a bit of a mess, understandably, but I'm OK—and my parents said I didn't need to come home for it and they didn't really need anything from me, so... I dunno.

We weren't super close. He was always reasonably kind to me, but he had some ugly political views and was never really a super-outgoing guy. This is all about my stepdad as far as I'm concerned, and he's a Hank Hill kind of guy— a real decent fella who *really* does not like to talk about his feelings— so... yeah. I guess I just sit here and roll with it. Feels like I should be doing or feeling more, but...

I dunno. He was 96. I have some real funny feelings about life and death these days. I can't mourn for 96, all I can do is applaud. He had a happy and comfortable life, apparently did not suffer at all, and I can only hope to make such a late, gracious, and— relative to the agonies that stalk us in this world— _stealthy_ exit someday.

Every time I see two people I follow on Masto stridently insist that two completely opposite and irreconcilable points of dogma are self-evidently correct, I have a momentary and luckily surmountable urge to lock both of them in a closet with sharpened pool cues and not let them out until only one is left standing.

Lucky for you, this is not Mars, conscripting potential allies into deathsports is frowned upon here, and in the interest of "when in Rome" I've learned the fine art of yawning, making a snarky remark in the general range of "cripes, people," and going right the fuck back to sleep. =^___^=

@Balina ...ones, wondering why you don't remember anything prior to waking up in a room full of new clones?

@coyohti Oh, gosh, I have a soft spot for those. Saw one in Boston long before anyone had any clue what was going on with them...

i was a bit proud of this one

@Leucrotta (still love ya and thx for trying, sincerely <3 )

presenting my new short-duration personal savior

(do... do you kids know what citizens band is? actually you weren't missing much but they did have much cooler slang than we do :p )

fuck it
fuck social media

who wants to just get a shortwave radio or something and talk to me there

maybe we can revive citizens band or something