Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Leucrotta @mmsword @hystericempress That would be rad!

@Cerulean @mmsword @hystericempress That would be fantastic! You'd been quiet lately so I was having my usual worries if we were still Hello with each other... <3

@mmsword @hystericempress Heeey, you two! I know space is limited in your place, but... I might be able to visit Seattle as early as next month and I'm nosing around to see if there's any crash space available. I can probably spread the damage around or get a hotel/BNB for a couple nights, but any interest in having me around for a night or two?

@LeDiva thanks, pam

@hummingrain @EmergencyBattle@mastodon.art Well, poo, it won't let me look at it from awoo.space. Is it the kid hugging the giant kitty? ^___^

@LexYeen@snouts.online Yeah, honestly, I was starting to feel So Over Steven Universe. Its insistence that all the baddies can be converted with the Power Of Friendship really felt... deprecated, after everything that's happened personally and politically in the last three years.

But after that trailer, I'm finding myself right back in, damn them all, because fuck do we need more stories about a future that just plain turns out *good*.

Also Lapis just looks so damn happy. ;____;

@kelseyhusky So, one of the novels I read in my Counterculture Literature class in college had a line like, "If the Hero of the People needs a cheeseburger, give them a fucking cheeseburger." And this was right in the middle of a rant about how terrible McDonald's was for the environment.

I always thought that was good advice. Purism doesn't do us any good, and as I've seen some very good articles about ecology assert recently, putting all the burden on us as consumers takes the moral burden *away* from the people who are manufacturing and profiting from these problems. In a better world, there wouldn't be disposable plastic between you and that cider THAT YOU DESERVE, GIRL.

So what I'm saying is: you haven't failed us. *Please*, have your cider and enjoy it. We've all only (approximately) human. Just put as much of that Awesome Synthetic Husky Lady Energy as possible into fighting the system any way you can, and it'll all be okay. <3

@LexYeen@snouts.online "They’re friendly pieces of code used for marketing purposes."

That sure as hell sounds like an oxymoron to me.

Now they've switched over to classical music. Current selection is Brahms's Lullaby, which is making the entire cafe feel like a Bugs Bunny cartoon. >____<

OK, rule of thumb: if the musical selection your cafe is playing over the PA is mistaken for somebody's ringtone by more than three customers... you might want to reconsider your playlist choices.

(Actually, I think this is St. Wendy Carlos so I have probably just committed a shameful act of blasphemy but COME ON NOW.)

Spent my afternoon work break looking at old NE Ohio UHF station nostalgia. All gone. You really can't go home again.

On the other hand, I found the Facebook of one of my old PBS heroes—Bob Kupa'a Smith, host of Wordsmith, an etymology show for kids—and his last known activities were basically learning to play word games on his new smartphone, playing mentor to a local teen (in a very non-creepy way), moving to Sonoma and enjoying the local restaurants, and using the word "shit" with a shocking frequency. :)

And then the Facebook abruptly stops in 2017, when he turned 89. Oh, well. I really hope Bob just kicked the FB habit, but if not... he apparently had a hell of a life. And he kindled my fascination with language and its roots.

Valedictions, Bob—from the Latin "vale" meaning "goodbye," and dicere, "to say." *drops the last ball back into the Magic Word Machine*

This morning was a successful exercise of the principles of stuffed-flamingo-based conflict resolution.

Thanks, Lauderdale!

#wark

@Leucrotta That's what keeps the prime numbers from falling out. >___>;;

@Leucrotta @anthracite

I'm pretty sure that none of the apocalypse beasts in the Revelation of St. John the Divine are traditionally raccoons.

But that's not gonna stop me from trying. I'm pretty sure if I drink enough mutagens, I can get up to at *least* ten eyes and seven horns.

And I hear that the blood of saints is a taste you can acquire with practice. Maybe I'll start putting it on salads.

All I gotta do then is get big enough for @anthracite to ride me down the streets of Babylon (aka Washington) and this nightmare will finally be over.

@Leucrotta Insect-Guy Insect-Guy
Frightened neighborhood Insect-Guy
Strong as a normal fly
So unfair he wants to cry
He's scared
Shitless of Spider-Man

it does exactly what it says on the tin

@anthracite Awww. <3

(We should hit them up someday and see if they'd like some kind of Parallax exclusive, maybe even as a PR freebie.)

@Phorm "I... I should eat a pony."