Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@anthracite oh gosh 😻​

maybe basing our sociopolitical movement largely on our personal trauma, especially that reflexively felt merely by first glance at a particular word or phrase, is not the most sophisticated or reliable path to a just society because of, you know, the whole HUMAN SUBCONSCIOUS IS A BIG HOT REACTIVE MESS thing

@Leucrotta Darlin' scuzzpuppies.

Not that I have any room to talk. *scoops up half of someone else's, er, artisanally wet-aged cheeseburger from the bin they're's squatting*

=(n).(n)= <3

@Phorm That is the mathematically perfect obfuscation of TTE's name. Bravo, Doctor. They will mock you at the Academy of Mad Friendship no longer. <3 <3 <3

Current activity: queueing up six different Black Sabbath songs at once, playing them all at 4x speed on repeat, and leaving them on all night, in the hopes that this will somehow immanentize the impending eschaton.

You know what is magical, though, if not friendship?

Swiftwind's eyes. Pony eyes are magical. Sweet Etheria, they're pretty.

@hystericempress Yeah, this and Adventure Time are basically my antidote to—as much as I loved them in their own ways—Steven Universe and MLP, for exactly that reason.

@Soreth @Phorm Not a kitty.</janet>

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@Phorm Yup. Took me YEARS of battle experience—and a right pranging from one particular very talented troll-frenemy who really knew how to push my buttons—before I could develop an immunity to those tactics.

Thank you Ilthuain, wherever you are, for being the Yosemite Sam to my Bugs Bunny (and sometimes vice-versa).

Every time Catra makes a snide remark about the Princesses and their naive belief in the Power of Friendship, my love grows.

Fuck that noise. It just doesn't work.

@Phorm If it's any consolation, Reddit does not seem to deserve its reputation as a hotbed of MAGA. There's The_Donald and a bunch of incel communities and such, but many of them are quarantined, and I consistently get huge upvotes for slagging Trump—even on supposedly apolitical communities.

@Phorm I have to admit it's pretty damn shocking how many positives botsentinel gives me. Even with the criticisms of it I mentioned early today—there's still a remarkable number of accounts I interact with that have ZERO personal tweets and mostly do nothing but retweet other Trump supporters and insult dissenters.

@Phorm Don't forget that Russian bots are a very real thing, and their exact purpose is to make us feel exactly that way—like Trump has overwhelming and demoralizing support, when his base is actually in the minority.

@Soreth I think it started the first time I realized just how superior your Python/MST3K knowledge base was to mine. :D

See? Perfectly accurate. Rezy's exactly 25% inorganic. She is, after all, a quarter plush on her grandfather's side...

Shameful confession:

I love using botsentinel.com, even though I know there are serious and valid criticisms of its methodology and its owner, even from the left.

It's just so damned effective at shutting people down. If people actually did their homework and brought up some of the algorithm's limitations, I'd be screwed. And yet, it's never come up, not once.

And at this point, I'll do whatever works. Trump supporters have gotten far enough on sheer ugly innuendo, I feel like turnabout is only fair. And if they do argue, I can always point to the huge number of conservative pundits who score really LOW on botsentinel as evidence that it's not biased.

Even though I suspect it really is. Oops, oh well. =(^).(^)=

@Soreth *blush*

It would be terrifying if you were ever to realize just how much respect I have for you, actually, Ms. Dragon.

fed rezeya a trollbot​ or two and we're all feeling much better in here <3

just doin' my part—damn they get mad when you find NATIONAL REVIEW articles, ffs, that debunk their talking points about healthcare

@Leucrotta It's ok, thanks to @Valerie_Elysee I _just_ got done compiling a list of spy jazz playlist links. :D I'll share if I ever get them into any quasi-organized/centralized format!

@mmsword Finally solved the murder, incidentally. I knew the Big Buggy Encounter was coming... but I had no idea.

Truly the kindest creature. What a beautiful ending. Recruited Kim to the 41st too—OTP.