Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@frameacloud And to be fair to your original post, raccoons *are* innately somewhat vaporwave, especially when we get our Lisa Frank on... =(^)_(^)=

approx current sanity level

(image courtesy of cricket arrison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mok11_0nqFM -- do not expect this link to enlighten you)

@frameacloud There's a Crash Pandas one-pager TTRPG, too, which is about... well it's also about stealing cars. What can I say, we're obsessed. ​

@frameacloud It looks adorable but I think I'm still holding out for Wreckoons. If it's got a raccoon in it but you can't steal a car, it's a good raccoon game but it's not the ideal raccoon game. :D Thank you for the link, though! I still need to slog through that bundle one of these days...

@anthracite Our art critic misspelled "embarrassment."

@Sig (I had some trouble digging up a free public copy so here ya go brother <3 : https://usflearn.instructure.com/courses/1058273/files/47476872 )

@Sig Right? I love satire like this, that turns some cultural blind spot right on its face. Ever read "Body Ritual Among The Nacirema?" (If not, go read it and come back -- I have STORIES about that essay. XD )

@catoxis@snouts.online Granted, it was really not outside the realm of possibility. I mean, you're a semi-local--I probably don't even need to explain that, say, the best empanadas and crawfish pies I've ever had down here have come out of gas stations.

In fact, come to think of it, I *have* eaten at a phone reseller! There was a fantastically seedy little food court on Winter Street in downtown Boston, with abysmal pizza and world-class falafel. And for a while the phone shop there had a chest fridge with surprisingly good $2.99 banh mi...

@catoxis@snouts.online There's a Chinese restaurant at the same address. I have a sneaking suspicion Grubhub is doing speculative client dumping again...

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@Austin_Dern I'm *frightened* by how much I already know about that topic, and how interested I already am in that book. :D

(I think it's Czechia that has the dual numbering system, because they had one that dated back to military conscription...)

@001zlnv YOU ARE LISTING MY BROKEN DREAMS. D;

@anthracite

I can not be the only person who remembers this glorious, brilliant, cranky old science goat. <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2oALaRfL4

The kindest and most compassionate thing we can do right now is openly cheer for conservatives to defy COVID-19 quarantine guidelines and for Red States to relax their lockdown guidelines.

It's the same way that the best way to stop an adolescent fad is for adults to aggressively, cluelessly adopt it. Even if we secretly *want* them to live and learn from their mistakes, the best way to do it is to make them think they're Owning The Libs by wearing a facemask.

At this point, the only way I can imagine achieving this is by telling them we APPRECIATE them flouting public health policy, because we're FINE with them dying for us. I really think it's gotten to the point where they will literally just do the opposite of what they think we want, no matter what that is.

@Leucrotta I dunno, there's a lot for a white supremacist to like in Forbidden Zone... ;p

@001zlnv That... that sounds like WORK.

Granted, it sounds like extremely sexy work, and I haven't been able to indulge in that in quite a long time... and it'll certainly make the time in a legalized state more interesting...

Her Majesty hungers for the rhetorical blood of evildoers.

In other words, I'm all fighty and crotchety this morning. Everything's nagging at me just a little bit this morning except for the cats. I don't know what I'd do if not for those cats.

And that dragon, although to be totally honest, after three goddamn months cooped up here, her presence is a non-zero level of irritant too. The bug infestation in our kitchen, and our differing feelings about how serious it is, has been wearing on us both. Still. The fact the stress level here's as low as it is, given the whole fucking city's shut down and we've been stuck at close quarters, is a huge testament to her relationship skills and general lizard-like ability to remain chill.

Anyhow, my latest Reddit chewtoy has threatened to call the mods on me. *blush* And now I'm all grumpy and need someone new to bat around.

Believe me, you would NOT sympathize with him. Last round, he was trying to argue that certain anti-woman Biblical atrocities were "just human nature." Before that, it was a Blue Lives Matter tirade, "Columbus never committed genocide," and whining about "virtue signaling." My tactics against him may be Chaotic Neutral at best, but he's sheer Lawful Evil. And I just don't care anymore.

I need to get the fuck outta here. There is a part of me that is sorely tempted to blow my entire savings on a full rubber catsuit with a functional filter helmet, a week's car rental (with the AC cranked up ALL the way), and a road trip to any 420-friendly hotel in any legal state.

Instead, I'll just sit here and take some pleasure in the fact that the Red States are getting EXACTLY what we predicted for them, and if it doesn't know some sense into them, maybe it'll at least reduce their numbers a little.