Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@LexYeen This is about the closest to the old BBS scene that I could ask for. I'm glad it's here and gladder still that it seems to be weathering the influx of people pretty well.

@woozle HI there! My wife is starting some motion towards getting newbie-professionals like them started with Masto culture, she thought you might be interested in the Masto admin thread she links to here!

https://dragon.style/@anthracite/109320342681094794

@Phorm Another of our brave volunteer corps of slutty, kinky vixens-- ready to apply the protective layer of sleaze that keeps furry fandom safe from normal goddamn people. <3

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite @Phorm OK, that definitely checks out...

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite @Phorm also wait what

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite @Phorm DON'T YOU EVER COMPARE THAT ORANGE MONSTER TO THE BIG GUY EVER AGAIN

( *wink* <3 )

@Phorm I think this is not an impossible outcome. I think backfiring horribly and spelling the end of Big Social Media is also very possible.

For what it's worth, I've been reading up frantically on what the Professional Worriers are saying about the prospect of violence in the US.

And I almost wish I *did* know something that would justify giving you a dismissive headpat and telling you everything's going to be fine. But I am at least getting the impression that experts don't think it's gonna go down like the "first" Civil War nor like Berlin 1932 -- more like isolated shenanigans from militias.

Which is still bad and scary and heartbreaking 'cause I don't see any way through it. I just keep trying to remind myself that I had myself *dead convinced* in October 2001 that random acts of terrorism were going to become part of daily life and that just... kinda didn't happen.

This is different. This is a real threat closer to home. I am genuinely very scared that we're about to go through the Stupid Lyin' Bigot Version of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire.

My honest prediction right now is that it's gonna be more like Brazil -- the movie, not the country -- than Red Dawn or something. A little incident now and then, thoughts and prayers and then back to normal. One more fucking thing for anxiety-prone people like you and me to fixate on and suffer, just because some asshole can't accept he lost an election.

It's funny. Most of us don't really even have a model for what this stuff would look like when it happens. When I was in college we read a book about the Russian Revolution and I remember being absolutely flabbergasted that the operas ran all through the violence and upheaval. I honestly thought living through a revolution was all violence, all the time.

I think it's gonna be a lot like COVID: another huge fucking drag on a society already stretched to its limits. I think we're all gonna lose a little bit more from it, but we can get through it.

This is a HARSH comfort, but remember: even the Actual Dang Third Reich only lasted twelve crummy years. Granted, they necessitated the whole "free" (heh) world coming to stop them, and the Trump cult is weirdly lacking in that kind of international ambition -- unless you count trying to buy Greenland. *sigh* 🙄​

I don't think it'll be the end. We're gonna see some of the Big History I have been braced for all my life because I KNEW it had to be coming, no generation is that lucky... And I will be here trying to help preserve a safe niche for genie foxes even if I have to don the Lady Humongous mask myself and come get you with an armored jeep. <3

@spottyfox the WHO eradicated the last sample vial of chickenella known to humanity in 1973

i am of course speaking of the english rock band, which i capitalized because i am just such a daltrey fan

you really gotta look this stuff up first hun <3

@Leucrotta gonna fix that last omission, rite? :D

"2022 LEFTIST ACCEPT A FUCKING WIN FOR ONCE CHALLENGE"

@Orb2069 @anthracite ok yeah this guy is basically just freebasing ground-up connect-the-dots books at this point

@Austin_Dern I mean, I failed at it WITH THE INVISICLUES and never got off the damned Heart of Gold because I apparently made a trivial prepositional era with the dangly bit. At like age 12. Hardly fair. -_-

@Orb2069 @anthracite Oh, I'm not fallin' for THAT one again! Do I look like someone who hasn't seen Strong Bad Email #102?!?

That link is a fantastic bit of eccentric scholarship, though-- Peg's more the Oz fan here, but I'm *definitely* curious. Thank you!

i'm good

cats are good

peg is good

work is busy

miss ya <3

@001zlnv "How do you patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?" 😇​

@Phorm @JulieSqveakaroo Oh, are you now?! Well, as far as I'm concerned that fan can go... sit and spin! ​

@xinjinmeng My god, you're right! I'm cutting calories with every bite! I should be eating this stuff daily!

@xinjinmeng

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Well, crap.

Nah, I was doomed anyhow. My mom sent me a huge bag of little lemon crisp cookies, and I realized I could mix them into the local fior de latte gelato and make what is basically lemon icebox pie gelato.

Now I'm just twice doomed, because it dawned on me I could crumple up peanut butter cookies in there instead.

Sorry I've been scarce. Mostly been on Discord. Life is meh. Stressed about everything from politics to the state of our apartment. Kind of a mess. I'm fine in that "rocking back and forth and saying 'I'm fine' over and over" sort of way.