Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Sig fwiw i'll probably never own my own home and i'm just freakin' delighted for you both :D :D :D

@001zlnv Man, that sign is some Dark Hallmark vapid bullshit right there. If that were really true in any sense, your CEO would be some kind of rainbow unicorn who ran around handing out puppies--and not the sullen old greyfaced piece of shit they probably are. >___<

@kistaro ...

No. ;>

Heh. Turns out our next-door neighbor was a stoner all along. Got to take the last couple hits off her joint and she might even talk to "her guy" for us.

It feels nice to have a body that doesn't feel like a wet paper sack again. Take that, nerve-eating nanoweasels!

@mawr No images! They're literally just a can of beans, a sock, and a spoon from an old novel. :) And I'm not sure I can even recommend the novel, cause I'm not quite sure the author's gender perspective is gonna fly these days--which is a shame, since the rest of the book is BEAUTIFUL. It's... the most Seattle thing I've ever read next to Tom Robbins's _other_ books.

@kistaro I'm ALMOST tempted to link to the old Smart Pipe "infomercial" from [adult swim], since it's definitely relevent to the (um) Internet of Shit, but it's got one too many cw's to fly in this place, I think... >__>;;

@mawr I'm SO tempted to ask for Can of Beans, Dirty Sock, and Spoon so I can make Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All references. n.n;;

@SangriaSnake (Oh, the stinger of this whole story... he kinda HATED being a professor and was totally open about the fact he intended to get back into construction as soon as he could. :> )

@SangriaSnake I got broken of that attitude good and hard my first year of college. I had a Creative Writing prof who had been working as "unskilled labor" for Reasons but had an MA.

He was quite proud and happy about his old day jobs but needed more money, so he got some carpentry training... and then found out he was now OVERqualified for all the available jobs.

So he said fuck it, went back into academia, pulled some strings he had from his long-running sci-fi newsletter, and became an Assistant Professor. *shrug*

Any prejudices I might've had against "unskilled" work were totally demolished by that experience. He was a bit "beardy" in retrospect, but he was a good professor and a very sharp guy. After meeting him, it was REAL hard to stereotype people for their jobs.

@LexYeen@snouts.online Hmm. Is it definitely wax? I can not speak to the accuracy of this, but one of my doctors warned me not to use straight hydrogen peroxide because it starts its action immediately instead of getting down towards the blockage. If you can get carbamide peroxide (your basic OTC drugstore earwax formula), that might be more effective?

Failing that, if you get so desperate that it's either this or start sticking a screwdriver in (DON'T) maybe squirt the hydrogen peroxide in with a syringe? The only time in my life that my ears have been totally clear was when another doctor just took some kind of blue powder—which I think was just another peroxide formula–and flooded my ear with it that way. Be CAREFUL though, if you resort to that, and I'm not sure I recommend it—note she did it fairly SLOWLY so as not to put too much pressure on the drum.

@Leucrotta <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Dear god, have you ever read the Torg RPG's Nippon Tech supplement? THEY. PRINTED. THE. KANA. ON. THE. COVER. BACKWARDS.

Oh, look. Howard Bloom is dead.

Neat.

@anthracite I wondered!

@kistaro I celebrate this holiday by spending a full 24 hours being totally fucking ashamed to be Italian. I wish I could, like, take an Lokono out to dinner or something. >__<

@anthracite DAMN YOU, TOADFISH! *shakes fist*

Man, its gonna take some serious effort to maintain my natural healthy depression this morning, after walking outside to 70° in mid-October and an ambush by a random licky border collie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=918Zv9u-e_U (SFW)

@Leucrotta "Aw, cool!"

@Leucrotta "What's the court?"

@kistaro fwiw it was an mst3k, so it's almost certainly up on Youtube—episode 812.