Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Phorm Very briefly, Maneki Neko is about a mobile network that assigns people with tiny favors to be done for other network users, without any particular context or explanation-- you just get a message like "Would the closest person to the Nakamura flower shop in Chome 2-7 please pick up the lunchbox there and deliver it to the secretary at the elementary school." It's all very benign and positive except when it isn't.

@Phorm Short version is that I'm imagining a similar network that's entirely mediated and accessed via genie-like entities... all of whom are curiously identical and discreetly have the same hive-mind back-end... and all of whom are discreetly and subversively working to the same greater goal of benevolent world domination, created through fostering genie-dependent populations...

@Phorm (Linking to it on general principle. not to give you reading homework but b/c it's a good story and I want it circulated for anyone in the mood for a neat story about a network gift economy and its unintended consequences...)

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/maneki-neko/

@Phorm I mean, the overlap between "genie" and "AI assistant" is pretty substantial.

In fact... this is giving me some worldbuilding ideas. Before I get into them, have you read the Bruce Sterling story "Maneki Neko" by any chance? I can reduce the length of my babble by about 80% if so. :D

@xinjinmeng @anthracite "He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically, and aggressively unattractive that one is fairly shaken to ponder how little one has been missing." -- Dorothy Parker on Tiffany Thayer.

I am SO in. <3

Today I:

* slagged a colossal number of Trump conspiracists
* got a nearly-clean bill of health for my ear and probably won't need another ENT visit
* had perfect lemon gelato at Angelo Brocato's
* got a quarter of really good trippy weed
* had a really good deep-dish pizza and probably shortened my lifespan by a week
* finally beat a million points in Nova Drift
* pet the hell out of Peebles who loved the shit out of it and wants me to tell you all: "MRAP ​"
* got to have a very nerdy conversation with my coworkers (we collaborated to find an old piece of Second Empire architecture in Salem, MA that one of them saw on an architecture blog and wanted an address for -- i didn't score the goal but i got the assist :D )

@PennyPennyPenny

Spice?

o/` And don't it make my brown eyes blue... o/`

@PennyPennyPenny Clearly your powers are greater than I thought. Even the great Martian chili-priests are not worthy of this elixir. <3

@hystericempress "I, Werner Herzog, approve of your sentiment. Nature is only a colossal shitshow."

if i get one more notice from one more financial entity saying i might owe a completely unspecified amount of money within an unspecified amount of time, i am going to put all my remaining funds into the most nondescript white van i can buy, fake IDs, burglar tools, architectural records, bulk ammonium nitrate, and snack bars

gotta have the snack bars

#LifeDuringWartime

I want a forcible-vaccination twin-stick shooter.

@Austin_Dern Which park? :D

@JulieSqveakaroo Oh yikes! Best and swiftest recovery, roo!

@anthracite He yelled at you that you wouldn't even tell him off to his face, which is fascinating, because I counted no more than six inches between that middle finger and his stupid face. XD

@001zlnv I'm not familiar with its cultural connotations? Either way, I'd probably drink it. If it doesn't have something gross like an egg in it... I'll drink it. I like Campari neat FFS.

@anthracite stroke! stroke! stroke!

stroke! stroke! stroke!

i am the jeppson's malört of furries and the older i get the more okay i am with that

i will never be popular

you have to develop a taste for me

thank you all for appreciating the unique and flavorful bitterness of a barrel-aged tigress <3

@JulieSqveakaroo Whereas I will content myself with a Martian Sunrise: tequila, grenadine, lime juice, triple sec, club soda, bitters, and the blood of the Terran oppressors. <3

@JulieSqveakaroo Now you've got me thinking what kind of fancy non-alcoholic mixed drinks would appeal to the kitties!

I've been a fool. My ear is still bothering me and I can't even use the vape because it irritates my eustachian tubes.

Yet, I'm in New Orleans. The solution was not only right in front of me, it's ubiquitous.

Hi, booze! I know I've told you in the past you're not my *favorite* drug, but I did kinda miss you.

Maybe I should even amble down the street to Twelve Mile Limit and get some proper fancy cocktails to write Parallax to...