Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@woozle I grinned when I first glanced at this but when I realized the kids were JOINING IN, I beamed. :D

I ended up giving Toto's 99 the same 0.25x speed treatment and it was terribawesome. Did exactly what it said on the tin.

so this must be pretty good stuff because this is my FIFTH failed attempt to play that zappa track at 1/4 speed again -- i keep ending up wait what am i doing on mastodon @__@

@JulieSqveakaroo I wanna see the Cheetoh....

(I wanna see the Cheetoh...)

Fu-uck off!

@JulieSqveakaroo I still treasure this one fondly, as I do the gooshy wired-up xenobunny. <3 <3 <3

we have so much of it right now

bless you doofy millennial guy we met on reddit

@Balina @anthracite (exhibit a ​ )

@Balina @anthracite To the best of my knowledge Rezeya has *always* had a head!

Tiger needs head!

For bitin'! 🐯​

(Now, the fake vixen and raccoon on the other hand...)

Also I spent a good chunk of the last hour composing a Guerrilla Ontology reading list for a woman seeking help deprogramming her QAnonized boyfriend.

It left me feeling like a foot soldier or a spy, in a good way. It also reminds me how uncommon it is that I've had the intellectual grounding needed to immunize myself, and how much of that is wrapped up in *incredible* undeserved emotional and socioeconomic privilege.

Thanks mom and dads. And special thanks to my childhood mentor Barb, her stacks and stacks of Games Magazine logic puzzles, and her iron-willed devotion to calling out my youthful bullshit, <3

Shemp had it explained to him at great length this morning that he was being a butthead last night. He seemed sufficiently contrite by cat standards, in that he did not respond in any way at all.

Just to make sure he got the message, I unleashed my absolute cruelest punishment: trapping him in the Mysterious Netherdimension between the screen door and front door for ten seconds and laughing at him.

(He fits in perfectly comfortably, remains calm, and generally has not actually figured out he's trapped by the time we give in and let him go. It's just SUPER funny to watch. :) )

Periodic reminder that I keep a health and anxiety journal and it is one of the best ideas I've ever had.

Every false COVID scare, every political anxiety, every weird ache and pain and heart flutter, it all goes in.

And I go back every so often to annotate it with the results. Page after page of "nothing happened... everything fine... Shemp did NOT apparently die in a ditch somewhere... no, it was NOT cholera."

It's unbelievably comforting, having objective evidence of all the times I was not, in point of fact, doomed. I just can't recommend it highly enough, especially these days.

Maybe the possum on the porch (who ended up being pretty harmless) riled them up, or maybe *I* riled them up by introducing Arthur to the Jingly Man with a (jealous?) Shemp still present, but the kitties were right bastards tonight and I got scratched (mildly) four times. >___< Shemp even growled for the first time I've ever heard him, while most uncharacteristically picking on poor Arthur (who was also being a dick).

That's it, motherfuckers, it's time for the ultimate punishment. 10% reduction in your scritch rations.

@001zlnv @anthracite Just hanging! We stared back and forth for like ten minutes until I determined it really wasn't interested in harassing our cats. Looked it up on the Opossum Society website and apparently they are pretty chill and will just move along if hassled.

@Phorm @anthracite You're the only one to propose actual lyrics though <3

oh my god i wasn't gonna bother linking but at 1:16 it turns MAGICAL at x0.25 and i want to harness this power for myself somehow

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

@zx3 lol stupid canids 😼​

Frank Zappa's "Father O'Blivion" holds up remarkably well at 0.25 speed. Heavy as fuck, kinda wish I could play guitar so I could record a cleaner (less distorted) version.

@Phorm @Djinnanigans@dragon.style Get your ass in this bottle, fox. You've recruited enough genies in your lifetime that even if somehow you HAVE lost your credentials, TFing you right back is *trivial* for us. <3

I feel so civilized. I'm sitting here in a socially distanced cafe, drinking what I'm calling an "Arnault Palmieri": half black tea, half San Pellegrino Limone e Menta soda.

Now that I know how, I'm thinking of installing one of these in Peg while she's asleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhyqQ51RO6Q