Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@LexYeen But yeah, I've though it through, and if I ever ended up like Winston from 1984... I'd probably end up screaming "DO IT TO PEGGY" but not after I'd bitten off at least four of my handler's fingers out of sheer spite.

@LexYeen A yeen after my own heart. I have SO MANY outright threats to the gods outstanding and, given the quality of my life, apparently unresponded to.

(It could just be the quality of gods I worship, though. The Jackalope Mother is EXACTLY the kind of lady who would wield supreme power pver all other gods and just... never have it dawn on her there'd be a reason to tell anybody else about it.)

And nobody's gonna tangle with Bast FFS. You'd have to be such an asshole even for a god...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTV7gNpECW0

So... the above is a Sundance-winning animated short about a man asked to chronicle human existence before the world is destroyed by hostile aliens. It came recommended on Boing Boing, and now that I think of it... that might answer the question I'm about to ask all by itself.

I didn't like it. It should hypothetically have pushed all my warm humanitarian buttons. It should not have triggered all my "yes but what about X?!" literalism about a premise. That's not a tendency I usually indulge; I usually am very willing to suspect disbelief and go with the flow.

But I'm very tired after a day of cat stress, tech support at work, and (unrelated) severe headaches. And our dealer hasn't gotten back to me yet. :P So I don't really have the mental energy left to dig into why it didn't work for me. Or why it left me muttering "Yup, that's definitely from the New Yorker" and shaking my head.

Would anyone else care to watch it and speculate on why it bombed so badly for me? I already have some REAL good guesses, but some of y'all know me better than I do...

@kistaro @JulieSqveakaroo My anxiety journal's been an absolute godsend. *nod*

Dammit, found kitty barf on the porch for the second consecutive day.

Found a lot of hair and some grass in the first batch, have not inspected the second and -- yuck -- probably won't, there's not enough left after the rain anyhow.

I guess with six cats there's a huge chance that two different cats ate the same questionable thing, but... now I still can't help being worried one of my babies is out there sick and I don't even have an easy way to tell which one.

We'll keep a close eye on 'em I guess. Nobody's lethargic and I _think_ everybody at least showed some interest in eating this morning?

Fret fret fret, though. D:

I absolutely love finding out the Trump cultist I'm arguing with is a Marine. Because "crayon eater" is one of my very very favorite slurs and it's always a joy to be able to deploy it. ^______^

this morning's attempt at filming a little shempovision failed completely and it's a shame because shemp is the best shemp you will ever meet and he is being quite exceptionally shemp today <3

i hope he would not take offense if i were to say he has Big Dog Energy, just rambunctious and friendly and outgoing. I like to speculate that he was a big dumb friendly working dog or something in his last life, and such a Good Boy that now he doesn't have to do NOTHIN' but cat for a good 10-12 years...

@001zlnv (Exhibit A: Naziism explicitly required sacrifice and martial discipline from its citizens and was focused around a cult of physical power. Whereas Trump couldn't even get out of his seat long enough to get himself a Diet Coke. And I didn't exactly see his followers doing a lot of outdoor exercise. O:) It's a whole different animal a mix of Mussolini, Putin, and a used car salesman, and requires a whole different set of extermination gear. :p )

@001zlnv (*checks my notes here* Wait, check that. I wouldn't call Trump a *Nazi*. I WOULD call him a fascist or at least a proto-fascist. But my standards were a lot more strident than many, in that they were more than "He's a right-winger and I really REALLY don't like him and I seem to have heard Nazis were really really bad." >_< And I know it seems like hairsplitting, but... )

@001zlnv I'm already backing way the fuck outta this thread. XD But yeah, exactly. The differences MATTER and just picking the worst thing off the list out of sheer auxesis and Righteous Anger is just plain *tactically* a terrible idea. I can hate Jack Chick -- saying "he would have been horrified to be called a fascist" is not defending him, it's describing a real distinction. He (like Trump the Kleptocrat, IMHO) was a whole different, if similarly dangerous and ugly, animal.

@hystericempress "Gee, Dr. Forrester! Is that when you knew you were mad?"

"No, Frank. That's when I knew I was a SCIENTIST."

My new go-to slur: "biomass."

It's not only gender neutral, the only demographic group it singles out is "organic beings," a group that conveniently includes every single person I hate! Should be able to keep this one on the Euphemism Treadmill at LEAST til the Robot Wars.

@duske Oh I had my time in the spotlight, once upon a time. :D Don't especially miss it! It's actually been really nice haivng Anthracite be the more visible one in the relationship. ^__^

@Thaminga Where's the lie though?

@duske Seriously, I hope it isn't weird to say, but it always gives me extra warm fuzzies when any of Anthracite's users sends me good wishes. Like, "Oh, right, I'm married to the respected proprietor of a Dragon Salon (in the old French sense of a place to hang out and chat). What did I do right, again?!?"

@Austin_Dern It took me all of 0.0005 seconds to recognize the irony in your tone there. XD

I lovehate Rush with a fiery intensity and if I knew Geddy I would good-naturedly give him shit EVERY SINGLE DAY FIRST THING IN THE MORNING for having ever been a Rand fan. XD

@Austin_Dern Oh lordy, please tell me you steered clear of the Contractual Obligations Album. :O

Not that there aren't plenty of other examples from the films and show...

it dawns on me after reading a couple Fox News articles about the Portland ICE protests that the most helpful thing Antifa can do for Biden and America right now is attack the shit out of him and make it clear, umm nope, he might fit a Trump cultist's idea of a far-leftist but he sure as fuck doesn't fit the far left's

let's remind those fuckers every day that there are far, far worse enemies than Biden out there -- and they is us -- and we're still coming for their fascist asses so they better PRAY for any little concession Joe gives 'em and be GRATEFUL

@kistaro yeah, sadly i was getting some results from Buproprion + Citalopram, but there were massive insurance complications last year and i wasn't able to ask for a dosage increase to see if I could get it the rest of the way >_<

my long term looks bright, though -- got all new snazzy insurance from work and while i still have to start from scratch, it should be a LOT easier getting this stuff dealt with this time around!