Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

As per last boost...

Yeah. Shadow is DONE with her sanitarium visit. She escaped through a crack in a window this morning and we had a merry 30-minute chase around the neighborhood.

Ultimately, we decided to take off the cone and set her free. Does German have a word for "guilty relief?" But I think everybody will be happier now. Shadow was getting more and more bored and restless, and less affectionate, every day.

We still think her chances are excellent, or I would've fought harder to keep her indoors. She's still loaded with antibiotics, she got through a week of the recommended two weeks, and the vets were impressed from day one with how fast she was already healing.

Now it's mostly a matter of how soon she'll forgive us for her abduction and captivity...

Ultimately, it was clear that Shadow chose freedom and adventure over safety. Who am I to question such a choice? Enjoy la vie boheme, Shadow, and good luck. You've earned it. You are always, always welcome in our bed or on our transom.

@hystericempress I'm so angry on your behalf. >_< *hug*

@hystericempress No promises but I start my new hours cap in a couple weeks. I'm really tapped thanks to Scratchycheek McWoundyface The Wonder Cat, but my funds should start to replenish through March and April and I might be able to send more help. <3

@anthracite Yeah, failure is really not an option here. She's been such a sweetheart otherwise. And you and I have never given up on each other when we've done the equivalent of picking our wounds. All for one. <3

Don't worry, I'm just fine. I'm just a little achy and grumpy tonight and my thoughts turned to mortality in general. And I thought a little bit about my relationship with it and how I feel about being 45 next year.

And I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes about suicide. It was from the "99p Challenge" a British comedy panel quiz.

The challenge of that round was that the host, Sue Perkins, was about to jump off a building, and the panelist had to convince her not to.

And (paraphrasing here) her old partner Mel Giedroyc came back with a chipper: "Don't worry, Sue! You WILL die, I promise! You may just have to be a bit patient."

That's basically how I feel about death these days. I'm getting old. I'm tired. I'm quite unimpressed and disenchanted with the world at large. And I'm scared a lot of the time.

But the worst that can possibly happen between now and then is a lot of uncomfortable neurological static, all of which will be promptly rendered moot in my last moments.

So it's fine, really. There might come a day when I'm in so much pain that it's just not worth seeing what's next. But I'm not in any rush. Why bother chasing it, when it's already loping after me at a healthy pace?

It's not a comforting thought. It's a very... British thought. But it's stayed my hand more than once in times of despair.

@chimerror What always gets me about white supremacists is, OK buddy, if you are absolutely certain racial gaps in IQ testing are (a) meaningful (b) genetic (c) follow neat traditional ethnic categories in statistically valid ways (d) sociologically actionable... why are you not offering to surrender yourselves to the care of Ashkenazi Jews and East Asians immediately, as a clearly and objectively inferior specimen? *facepalm*

@chimerror More seriously, I read somewhere that (paraphrasing and using hypothetical examples) the typical Spaniard has more DNA in common with the typical Nigerian than the typical Norwegian, and the Nigerian has more in common with them than the typical Ethiopian. That's my current position on race--a big dog's breakfast of cultural fetters lumped inexplicably into one bowl because of skin color and history--and I'm sticking to it. :3

@chimerror Hey, give us a break, cold climates do shitty things to a person. :D

Except Italians. We're damn near perfect. *grin* But that could be the food, or possibly all that robust North African DNA? ;D (3/4 of my family's from Rome. I have not entertained the delusion I am descended from ethnic Romans for some time. The historical odds just ain't there. :) )

@Leucrotta It was definitely a zoo chimp so I presume it was for some valid veterinary purpose!

I pointed out to a white supremacist on Twitter that if you shave a chimp, they're white underneath, along with photographic evidence and gratuitous commentary about the resemblance to their Uncle Dad.

They were real mad. I am very pleased about all this. ​

loooooooooongcat

Speaking of Japanese place names, I got 70% on this one. ^_______^

https://www.sporcle.com/games/Alcas/henna-chimei

This came up at work. I love Japanese naming conventions, warts and all.

https://soranews24.com/2016/12/01/w-t-f-japan-top-5-most-insane-kanji-place-names-in-japan%E3%80%90weird-top-five%E3%80%91/

@Balinares I mean, this is the second time I've seen this guy, so... it might be worth the investment. >:D Though I think Plan A next time might be "record him with my phone and present you all with highlights for suitable mockery."

Everything this shithead says reeks of sleazy careerist hustle, it's giving me flashbacks to the financial-sector pricks I used to transcribe when I lived in Boston, and if you don't hear from me for a couple days, it's because I gave the POS the Space Rabies and am under observation in some CDC clinic somewhere. Take care of each other while I'm gone--no crummy human lvl 5 biolab can hold me.

@chimerror I AM STILL SO MAD ABOUT TUCA AND BERTIE. >________<

There is a man at one of the tables with a headset, conducting lengthy phone calls about real estate at the top of his lungs, and it feels like the cafe has become haunted by a Rich White Male Entitlement Elemental.

I want so badly to just, like, move to the table immediately next to him and whip out a kazoo or start beatboxing or something, just loud enough that his clients can hear me. Or maybe eat another six or seven sausage biscuits and just go over and flatulate shamelessly at him.

@chimerror That, however, is probably the correct approach. There is still some tough stuff in the last season--I mean, it's Bojack. It is so good though, of course.

@chimerror Oh gosh, I don't want to spoil anything... *bites nails*

I think can at least tell you that Judah does return and does not get a sad ending though. ^_^

Someone on Reddit--sadly, I've lost their name--drew a zoomorphic version of Judah Mannowdog from Bojack and I just want to say that I would fight and die for this absolutely perfect kittyman.