Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Oneironott I hope I didn't spook you too much with that digression about "Fake" vs "Real" stuff a couple weeks ago! <3

It was DEFINITELY only supposed to be an admission of where my own philosophical roulette chips are on the table, and if somebody else does actually win by betting on the No, Literally Not Human jackpot I will be nothing but delighted. 😺

(There's a whole iceberg of personal background stuff there— a lot of it is about "I'd LOVE to believe this, but I got burned so bad by going all-in on Christianity once...")

Just follow what makes you happy— and make sure you can still navigate the material reality it's all (allegedly? i dunno, i do still have some philip k dick gnostic moments) happening in as comfortably as possible. You seem to be doing basically okay there, tailbrain. ​😽​

@Soreth @anthracite

🎵​Beautiful bloom 🎵
🎵Love the vest 🎵
🎵Knifey smile 🎵
🎵Oh yes 🎵
🎵Beautiful bloom 🎵
🎵Love the vest 🎵
🎵Who they chomped now 🎵
🎵We can only guess 🎵
🎵Cause they're NOM DADDY NOM 🎵
🎵Their love is NOM 🎵
🎵Cause they're NOM DADDY NOM 🎵
🎵Their love is NOM 🎵
🎵And their parents are so gay 🎵

(apologies to the Violent Femmes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekL7o8BQkZM )

I mean, I'll tell ya what, though, it worked. I definitely am feeling the "Research: 💯​" tonight. I mean, I just taught a coworker the difference between an Ortschaft and a Gemeinde without having to look it up.

Also, I mean, look at that LRB. Look at that little gatorbloom. Just look at 'em. Parallax is going great, and I have to admit my creative life is going great. It's just the connections— to you and to my inner "spiritual" life— through that creativity that I really miss. A lot. A fucking lot. 😿​❤️​

@Momentrabbit It's true. I just told Peg, after she fanned me the latest set of roughs, thank fucking god for Parallax.

I guess while I *miss* my creative and social lives being the same thing, this is probably the more Healthy Responsible Profitable Adult Way to use those skills? And that's not _necessarily_ a bad thing.

There are just a few vital changeling nutrients that I'm still a little deficient in here, but I know I'm preachin' to the choir. *hugs tight*

Once again, I find myself fleeing towards my day job, for emotional shelter from my increasingly vestigial social/imaginative life, and am being crushed en route by nostalgia for a day when it was the other way around.

@KinkyTurtle Yup! :D

Can we make Steven Crowder into the next Richard Spencer?

With your help, we can turn every milkshake duck into a "Milkshake! Duck!"

#PunchBigotsEarlyAndOften

@Balina Happy anniversary, moof. <3 <3 <3

On one hand, I feel like I should explain that "Mackerel Jones" reference For You Kids Out There.

On the other hand, it's... um... usually accompanied by animation that's really quite extremely problematic.

[In fact, video has been redacted because even the thumbnail was RACIAL YIKES. Luckily, I found one copy without the animation, and the song is... well, it's a lot _less_ problematic. You're still on your own here, kids.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlhWPVJNAOo&lc=z13jsv2avz2nhvkvh22yz5x5cka2wlbef

@001zlnv *dons mirrorshades*

Cool jones.</homestar_i_mean_dangeresque_too>

🎵​ mackerel jones
🎵​ i got a mackerel jones
🎵​ mackerel jones whoo-hee-ooo

🐯​🐯​🐯​

@Aradia @mawr

Did I mention lately that I love you, foxen? 😻​

So, first I need to explain to you the Alice Trillin Law of Compensatory Cash Flow. This was a financial "um, principle" discovered by the late and much-missed Alice Trillin—author, teacher, educational TV luminary, and least of all, wife of journalist/food maven Calvin Trillin. Calvin would tease her about this "Law" in his food essays.

Basically, the ATLOCCF is something like "unexpectedly unspent money is equivalent to revenue." For example, if you were seriously thinking about buying a $6,000 television and suddenly you decide not to... bingo, you just made $6,000!

Well, I went to get my prescriptions filled at Walgreens, and my insurance app hasn't gone through yet, so I was about to pay ~$200 for a 3-month supply... but the pharmacist took pity on me, did some bureaucratic magic, and got 'em down to around $50.

So yeah, you remember that sushi order I was sensible enough not to make last night?

Yeah. Trillin's Law. It's just good sense. Basic math, really. A sound investment in the fish market. 🐯​

@dodec OK, you are *definitely* not falling prey to the Caterpillar's Dilemma, then. Just had to make sure! Cripes, even tigers don't put that much effort into making sure we look graceful when we walk. :D

@dodec Heh. Eh-heh-heh. Ever read the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon books?

HINT: Just take a day and figure out EXACTLY how to walk with so many limbs and PRACTICE until you know precisely how you do it... Otherwise, anybody who's read those books can crash you faster than a self-driving Tesla. >:D

Weirdly, this article makes me feel like everything's going to be okay...

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-bees-link.html (cw: bees, math)

(thanks, @LexYeen@snouts.online!)

🎵​ Hold my bones, you necromancer
🎵​ Count my ribs, make sure there's twelve please
🎵​ Bind my skin in linen ribbons
🎵​ So I don't reek of a disease

--inscription from the Velvet Sarcophagus of Pharaoh El-tanj-han (c. 1972 BCE)

@Leucrotta Oh HELL yeah. Thank you, I had not been aware of their glorious existence! (Grant Morrison, somehow I feel this was supposed to be YOUR job and yet again you have disappointed... ;p )

Oops, the only good sushi place stopped delivering 7 minutes ago. Saved from myself!

Oh, snap, found a $50 bank card I had written off after getting shut out of it by a really stupid password glitch. Looks like it finally reset.

*stares at the sushi listings on GrubHub and twitches, desperately trying to be one of those grown-up kitties with, like, impulse control and things*