Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

🎵​ Oh, start your day the Martian way, and chew on a Pepe's face!

The funnest part is when they scream "ad hominem! facts not feels!" and I link them to the rationalwiki page explaining, suddenly very polite, that's not how ad hominem works.

Oh, I got a spare fedora, anybody want one? It's a bit bloody and clawmarked. =^___^=

#reddit

@violet @kittypuffreloaded@lgbtq.cool @PaladinQuinn Hey, that's my wife's deck! :D If you'd like to see what she's up to now, have a look at http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/ -- we've got a web comic!

Hope you don't mind the bit of shameless promotion, but a friend pointed me to this thread. Anthropomorphized chemical elements are right up my alley. :)

João Gilberto, the father of bossa nova, has died at 88.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F3wHdDu1bw

Some teacher did that neat thing where they have an art class full of kids draw something, then pass it off to college-age artists to redraw. Here's some of the best of this batch...

@Leucrotta https://tomsmith.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-gayle-killed-frank-herbert

@Austin_Dern To this day I remain VERY proud of just ​how many robotic/futuristic/shiny alts got mistaken for me on Tapestries. 😼

This woman should be able to make a fortune as a street performer in any city that's got legal weed.

https://gfycat.com/untriedlittleethiopianwolf

Today Peggy nearly killed me for a lousy round of mini-golf.

No, just kidding! I wanted to make a toot to contrast with my LRB and give the other side of the story.

Nah, honestly, the walk home _was_ grueling but we had a lot of fun! Turns out mini-golf is much less time-consuming when you're 44 and jaded and there are only two of you, instead of 12 and outright sullen and going with two stepsiblings and your parents—or gods help me, this really happened to me, an entire summer PE class.

@hystericempress Do please scriffle the Just And Incorruptible Canine Magistrate for me! <3 <3

@chandra Yeah, we found it pretty vindicating. :D

@Leucrotta Was it due to a miracle marketing strategy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afCZQyhrn6U

(God, I love Peter S.'s Beatles parodies...)

OK, this generative art is genuinely gorgeous and I want to see a comic illustrated with this technique someday...

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/05/applying-ai-filters-to-an-1830.html

@Austin_Dern If Parallax ever gets a sequel/expansion, we'll have to arrange for the Mixolynes to invade a planet of these guys in grand Star Trek "Planet of Hats" fashion. :)

#PlanetFedora

@hummingrain I mean, to be fair, Joe Walsh did really like singing about dog doo. >_<

Let's just say that reading a bunch of "worst rock songs ever" lists in pursuit of a clear definition of Poo Rock was a... humbling experience. :>

I don't care. You'll pry my Spandau Ballet and Steely Dan out of my cold dead paws. This is a hill I'm willing to die on. 🐯​🎵​

@Sig Also, fair is fair: your measured response is a fine example of the exact _opposite_ of what I was griping about. It's made my day little brighter and my claws a little less extendy. <3

@Sig Yeah, I had no idea there'd been such a dogpile on them (if you'll pardon the expression). That's not only not a solution either, it's more of the same problem wearing a different-colored banner. >:3 I have zero trouble imagining this as a perfectly sensible kid who just bit the wrong tail by accident.

I've CERTAINLY been there, and I know what it's like to have the ONE GODDAMNED EXAMPLE among thousands turn out to be the unwarranted one. Just... you know... measure twice, cut once. It's the culture's fault for not encouraging that, not the kid's. I'm the first to admit it's fucking HARD to get any kind of reasoned discourse going when the other side's just as ready to leap on any kind of mistake... and then follow up with zero self-reflection.

Culture war's like any other war—it's so easy to shoot first and ask questions later under duress. You're still responsible for the casualties, and opening fire at full auto is rarely best practice... but the bastards who provoked the war are MORE culpable. :|

And the enemy sure as hell doesn't get to scorn you for the violation of the rules of battle... and then fire indiscriminately right back. It's hard to extend empathy when experience tells you you're not gonna get any back. >_<

The local cafe has apparently decided to end its multi-day run of fun New Wave and goth-pop I'm fond of, in favor of a two-hour marathon of Poo Rock.

I'm in enough trouble today, so I won't tread on anybody else's sensibilities by disclosing what I consider to be "Poo Rock." >:3 (And don't take me too seriously on this. Chumbawumba got dismissed as Poo Rock for "Tubthumping," and they're an anarchist collective that wrote a song about the Ursonate, FFS. Very few bands are Poo Rock when you dig past their hits.)

But let's just say it's not funky enough to be Crap Rock, not hard enough to be Butt Rock, not sensitive enough to be Wuss Rock, not lulling enough to be Office Rock, and not drunk enough to be Frat Rock, but still probably sold more copies by an order of magnitude than Television's "Marquee Moon"*. :p

Speculation is still welcomed. That way it won't be _my_ fault. O;)

* Sorry, I screwed up the other day: there are THREE perfect albums. ;D