Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@eredien @Leucrotta @seventhhorn SECONDED. YES.

@Leucrotta @seventhhorn I should point out by the way

That all of these cheesecakes were very delicious

@Austin_Dern It admittedly kinda was! Aquapunk is a severely undervalued genre.

@Austin_Dern (Was Bubbles ever NOT mind-controlled?)

@Austin_Dern I want say something snarky, but that show just had too much good kinkbait for me to be unkind to it. n.n;

@chimerror I don't know, but I had a fraternity brother (I know, I know, long story) who had an UNCANNY gift for instantly coming up with the objectively correct name of the porn version of any film. We would bombard him with dozens and he'd just rattle off the replies. I would sacrifice my very soul for this magic.

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@Leucrotta EXACTLY. It's like damn near everything else about uspol-- it's determined purely by who's in charge, who's making the rules, how the rulesmaking process can be gamed, and what they can get away with. Abstract principle means NOTHING in the fact of it.

@LexYeen in your house, stealin your quote <3 <3 <3

A dear dear friend came to me first and foremost for help pronouncing a Chinese name from pinyin. I dunno how much help I was, but I gave it a good try and am just BEAMING that people still think of me sometimes when they have a research need. <3

@Leucrotta I did pick up that basically there has to be a compelling reason-- in the interests of the COUNTRY, not the president-- for the documents to be kept secret.

And oh crap, I'd missed that Bush's 2001 executive order was REVOKED by Obama. There's still precedent but... OK, it's much more complex than I can offer an informed opinion on just yet. Let's just say it's complicated(TM). :)

@Leucrotta Well, it's complicated(TM). There doesn't seem to be any rule that executive privilege CAN'T be exercised by an ex-president. But the ruling was for a specific context and specific cases-- IANAL and couldn't really summarize what those cases are.

So it's still very very possible that Trump's CURRENT issues do not qualify for EP-- it's just that it's flat-out not factually correct to say you "have to still be President" in order to invoke EP. That does not guarantee by any means that Trump can do it as a frickin' insurrection defense.

And this is all my impression based on a frantic 5-minute skim of https://www.lawfareblog.com/can-former-president-assert-executive-privilege-impeachment-trial mid workday so feel free to read and correct me on the details I missed!

And now 4 Non Blondes is trending and I just don't feel like there's a place for me on this planet anymore. :)

I'm just so tired. I felt like these topics were about to be fucking settled and people would move the fuck on, but here I am, ready to pull out defenses of lifestyle furry and gender transition I wrote in '05 for use against edgy hipsters and apply it to a professional journalist.

I hate 2021 so fucking much. Good thing tigers can run perfectly well on hate for years at a time. 🐯​​

I feel like I'm having another allergic reaction to my own alleged culture. Just keep running into things-- and people-- that make me feel low-grade icky about everything.

I'm so fucking tired of people picking on the things that I love. I thought I was done with this shit after the first-gen troll farms fell apart.

But nope, here they are, right down to an article by some steely-eyed leftist shithead who's determined furry transhumanism is "narcissism" because he vaguely read somewhere Extropians are both libertarians and transhumans, and Libertarian Things Are Selfish, plus a healthy dose of "the only reason someone would want to engage in self-expression is because they think they're the center of the universe."

Toxic. Fucking toxic, right on top of a bunch of uniquely cruel and petty-minded TERFery, and dealing with My Dear Allies getting a basic political fact wrong*. And I don't have time to shovel it out today. And I don't have time to sit around feeling like my life is on the defensive.

All I can do to reassure myself is remember that our very presence INFURIATES these people. They walk around with the same kind of ennui and low-grade irritation every day just because we do our thing. That feels pretty good honestly, because increasingly these are people I WANT to be unhappy. >_<

* Trump CAN invoke executive privilege as an ex-president. There was precedent set in 2001. The leftists confidently knee-jerking that he can't are not 100% wrong but yeah it's about 80%. >___<

@Phorm @001zlnv @anthracite PHORM WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY.

@hystericempress @Daikanu She's indisputably got that Bea energy. Noelle has the Yooni Council's eye on this one for sure... <3

@Austin_Dern There is at least a copy up on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WltjaxiowW4

@Austin_Dern Paul Michael Larson died for our sins. *nod*