Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Phorm From the writing staff that brought you Get Me Hennemore and the costume designer who brought you... um... Cats!

@Leucrotta Basically, we need to figure out a way to make critical semiotics and formal logic really popular as mainstream American hobbies, and we need to do it fast. This might be a bit of a challenge in the most intellectually averse nation on Earth. :O

@Leucrotta I feel like I can't even, say, point people towards the Discordians or the Subgenii anymore-- for entirely valid reasons like "Kerry Thornley died an anti-Semitic human septic tank and broke my heart." ;___;

@Leucrotta I feel like we're about one or two levels down the tech tree from Memetic Chemo. We need a couple of bodies of knowledge to leak into each other a little better. We're right at that point where a society NEEDS to become motivated to cure a disease, so I think we'll have real efforts into solving this problem within a decade or so.

And no, a decade isn't nearly enough time. This is "Dammit, Scotty, we don't have five minutes" kind of stuff.

I did my best but it turned out I was as stuck in the webbing as everybody else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@chimerror Have you ever seen the arguable source of that particular Nile, Tim Hunkin's Secret Life of Machines? Aired on Channel 4 in the 80s/90.

I highly recommend it, especially because the host loves cats, it was largely filmed on his own property, and he insisted they just keep filming if one wandered across the set. IIRC there's at least one occasion where he just keeps narrating straight to the camera while he delivers scritch. <3 <3 <3

@anthracite Exactly. He probably doesn't even have any cats living with him at home-- just 4d6 You Don't Live Heres at any given time. He doesn't mind. He's a star attorney. He has a full-time live-in vet staff. I mean, you don't want to LOSE Bast's hereditary favor.

we're dropping parallax completely to work on our NEW killer pitch:

"Tony Catblest, Attorney At Law."

He's a perfectly normal, serious professional in a perfectly normal, serious legal drama.

Except an ancient family "blessing" means that he is followed by 2d6 cats at all times.

This turns out to be completely covered and protected under the ADA. So he and his coworkers have pretty much gotten used to, say, having to slide important documents out from under snoozy floofers, and the judges all have special padded gavels so they don't wake anybody up.

Attorney Catblest wins 99% of jury trials. For some mysterious reason.

@Leucrotta that's probably the right answer :D

@Leucrotta now draw a portrait of mao, tape them to the dirty bastard's eyes, and mail it to the nearest PRC consulate >__<

i am proud of this and i mean every word >_____<

this will suffice until we have bullets and a clear aim

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raccoon feels

@hystericempress Also a related search just now brought up this, which I just find so quaint and charming. Calvin was SO EXCITED over a Hayes modem.

@hystericempress I am not ashamed to say I spent at least 30 minutes yesterday plugging "buffet" into Google Maps and pouring over the results with the intensity of Rommel moving plastic figurines across a map of Angola.

@001zlnv good

if you're queer and don't still see yourself at least partially as an outlaw you are of no value to the movement whatsoever

@hystericempress oh wow you ARE strong :D <3

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if anybody invents some fake hidden meaning for this totally innocent random string of characters i will be outraged because you clearly just don't understand the context

@hystericempress Dose 1 or 2?

I think "I bear you no ill will but I can no longer guarantee your safe passage through my lands" is the best kissoff I will ever deliver to a former friend. One that dates all the way back to the last time I was interested in socializing with "reasonable" Republicans.