Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Austin_Dern @001zlnv That's another thing I miss about Boston: Indian grocery stores that would sell a huge variety of those for $1.50/bag. They have a tiny selection at our godawful local grocery store but they're like 5.99 a pop. >_<

A rare photo of all seven members of Clan Shadow holding relatively still

(after 2-3 rounds of gentle expulsions, 'cause I gotta work dammit, and there's no trace of storm hazard here rt now)...

I realize there are many, many, many more pressing issues right now, but...

Fuck, I miss Indian buffets.

@Austin_Dern We should be okay, only forecasting moderate flooding and somr wind out here, and we're a bit far from lake & coast for storm aurge, i just feel bad for folks to the west of us...

Shadow came in to visit last night, right on the heels of four of her kids wandering in and out. We both kinda sighed and said, "It's OK, Shadow's fairly chill, we can just let her hang out here for a bit."

Neither Peg nor I remember even letting her back out. I was even briefly worried she'd gotten herself stuck inside, fell into some box or bag or something and met some horrible fate -- which is crazy, because Shadow is pretty vocal when stressed out and I'm sure she'd have let us know she was in trouble.

And there she was on the porch this morning, happy as a... well... happy as the little moochbeast she is.

We're both fairly certain she phased through a wall.

@Oneironott @Aradia Well for starters, the amount of casual racism I see in comedy all the way up to around 2010. It's still there, but... well, seeing Gilda Radner trying to do comic-opera Korean on SNL circa '76 and have it literally come out as "DOYNG DOYNG DOYNG DOYNG DOYNG" was particularly heartbreaking.

I mean, you gotta remember, when I was young it was an ABSOLUTE SHOCK that a single actor, Rock Hudson, came out as gay. It was barely even speakable in all but a few quarters back then.

Also, I went back and watched a few Knight Rider episodes for a lark. The gender politics were far, far worse than I'd even expected -- Michael Knight is ALL OVER every single female character, to the point where his Strong Female Character techie assistant is uploading porn OF THEIR SUPERMODEL CLIENT to KITT because "she knows Michael has certain needs." It's so casually sleazy and indifferent to ANY agency of ANY female character...

@Aradia There's still a lot of cruelty in this world... yet I still just marvel every time I go to watch some piece of media, almost ANY piece of media, from 20 years ago at how many forms of cruelty became unacceptable and it's now taken for granted... If there's one thing I wish the left were better at, it's ADMITTING TO OUR OWN SUCCESSES, especially in the culture war.

fuck despair

@LexYeen@snouts.online This is the core of one of my biggest sources of survivor's guilt... I had not realized until I became an adult just how goddamn lucky I was to have a mom whose attitude was "I just want you to be happy" and really MEANT it.

Looks like Laura is tracking considerably west of us. Barring a sudden shift, the worst of it should miss us. I can barely even detect Laura's presence on the standard 10-day forecast for Mid-City NOLA.

The current Nat'l Hurricane Center maps show tornado, wind, and storm surge risks as lowest non-zero category for us.

We're probably still gonna try to round up the kitties tonight, or at least keep an "open door" policy for 'em in case they'd like somewhere to hide out and stay dry. But now we're much less concerned about them blowing away. :O

Today in "verify absolutely all information you see on the Internet," a Reddit user has alleged that *most* of the notorious "Scots" language Wikipedia was written by a single user who, um, does not actually know any Scots.

If this is accurate, the entire Scots Wikipedia is basically the new "English As She Is Spoke*."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/ive_discovered_that_almost_every_single_article/

(*My god, if you haven't seen this absolute literary treasure... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke)

@anthracite wait wait wait where is this?

This old Clickhole sketch remains one of my favorite things. (cw: "um, religion?")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Eck2Mv3UA

#FuckYouTrigonometryBaby

@mmsword It's like Soylent but it's made from nutria. Look for it in the orange bottle.

@LexYeen@snouts.online by which i mean louisiana in general -- i don't want to give you the impression hordes of orange-toothed R.O.U.S.es have overrun midcity

@LexYeen@snouts.online to be fair we have WAY TOO MANY nutria down here

Gentlebeings, this is the state I live in now.

@LexYeen@snouts.online Does this really surprise you? I always just kinda head-canonically assumed they were actually made of the same soft plastic as the toys, given the crazy stuff they do with their "hooves"...