Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

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@001zlnv yes but that sounds like work :)

Theoretically, I could order the springform pan for my instant pot and dig up the steamer tray -- apparently you can make pretty damn serviceable cheesecakes that way -- but our kitchen and I are currently Unhello for reasons i prefer not to elaborate upon

@frameacloud Nah, I think a hint of it, as the gods intended, is charming! Let's put it this way: I'd trust *your* judgement with it, because you already have the damn sense to be asking these questions. :)

You know, now that you mention it, cologne *is* a little old fashioned, but I think it's potentially the "genuinely charming and stylish affectation" kind of old-fashioned, like still having a watch.

current mood:

realizing that i have a jar of peanut butter, a pint of half and half, a bar of cream cheese, and a bottle of caster's sugar, and wondering what exactly the fuck should stop me from just mixing all, and I mean ALL, of it together and eating it with my hands

oh right the fact that i can go to the grocery store tomorrow and buy some graham crackers and mini reeses cups to crumple up in it

oh plus i'm not quite ready to die yet

@frameacloud I mean, it's fine and I like some perfumes, but it's also a touchy point for me because my mom is VIOLENTLY allergic to some cheap perfumes and colognes and has nearly died at events where she's had to sit next to someone who just splashed it on. So it can be a mild plus, but it's REALLY got to just be a touch.

So my smartphone (which I love and has revolutionized my life, o generous draconic donor <3 ) just went "bloomp."

And as a former and still occasional gynoid myself, I love it when things go bloomp. But I looked at my notifications and there was absolutely nothing. And that's vaguely frustrating.

And now I'm sitting here pondering what a good metaphor that is for my mood this year: a constant, distracting, annoying alert with no semiotic value and zero actionable content.

There is no information. There is no problem except for the ambient ones that are just built into the operating system (and the needs of 21st-century capitalism to have constant access to my attention span). And there is nothing to be done about it. There is just the Bloomp. Every so often, my brain just has to take a Bloomp and like it.

I feel like every single day of my life has become that bloomp. It's like that Don DeLillo novel* about the Airborne Toxic Event, where nobody knows what it is and it may not even exist but everybody is absolutely terrified of whatever it is.

(*"White Noise," it's such a stereotypical White Guy With An MFA Novel but it's such a classic po-mo paranoia novel if you can get past the Hitler jokes and the daddy issues. >_>; )

Oh, I also spent about half the day in a low-grade panic, since Peg ran into our next-door neighbor at the laundromat, who apologized for her dog chasing "our" kitten Arthur down the block this morning.

This kicked off a whole relapse of Umbra Panic, since that's pretty much how Umbra got lost: he wound up down the street and just never found his way back. Granted, instead he found his way to Semiferal Paradise, with a loving home and daily pate, but I swore no more lost kittens. :(

Gods, I wish I could just take all these little dudes in and care for them properly but we just don't have the space, furniture, or resources.

Anyhow, Arthur showed up at dinner just now, right as rain if a little hungry. He even bravely consented to let Big Scary Food Tigress scritch him behind the ears. So all is well in Shadow's Empire.

Fuck, watching Paddy Chayefsky's Network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film) ) was a good idea. I've been walking around all day feeling violently allergic to my culture all day, and really needed to watching someone who felt the same way... the year after I was born.

God, this country has been heading in this direction for so long, and we just sat and stared. I *am* in fact mad as hell, but know myself well enough to know I'm probably going to sit here and take a lot more of it. 'Cause what the fuck else do I have the energy left to do!?

@001zlnv arcee noooooooooo

Found in the wilds of /r/skeptic. Made me smile, especially at being enough of an insider to know *it's probably true*.

@hystericempress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJXgox_fl3E

@hystericempress Yeah, that... is fair to demand an explanation for.

@001zlnv Although I *have* had a beer brewed with bonito flakes, and it was a bit disappointing. I was honestly hoping it would be fishier.

@001zlnv Didn't buy it. :)

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@Phorm And "Hairballs Are Forever."

Today's special guest star: Ms. Kittylump.

The look on the face of a Christian COVIDiot when an Evil Cultural Marxist starts quoting scripture at them has gotta be priceless. I'm so sad I can't be there in person to see it.

It almost makes the eight years I wasted as a Christian worthwhile.

@Phorm @JulieSqveakaroo The solution to COVID-19 is becoming (a) increasingly obvious (b) a better and better excuse for supervillainy.

@Oneironott I love that little critter, yeah. Ended up doing a two-hour wikidive on chromatophores and wondered why I never covered my spacesquid-modded kittydrone with 'em. n.n