Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

An incel is basically the human incarnation of Del Amitri's "Roll To Me," covered as black metal by Varg Vikernes, who has for some reason elected to dress and style his hair like an emo kid.

Poignant reading from Dawn, Jr this morning. Asked her about my impending trip to visit my family in Ohio. Got a bunch of happy, creative Cups and a Universe... capped with a Maya (worldly matters) and a 7 of Wands (failure and desolation). These sandwiched a couple of cards about stoicism and preparation.

My take: prepare for a welcoming, productive visit... but don't forget for a moment that things are slowly falling apart for these people there that you love, and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it but comfort them and show them you, at least, are one less thing to worry about. Meanwhile, Peg stays home, drinks, and touches herself a lot.

@LexYeen@snouts.online If only that were true, I'd be ruling most of the Eastern Seaboard by now. Or have already fled to the mountains a la Spider Jerusalem to get away from the Orthodox Postfurries who would have long since pushed me out into exile oh wait that already happened. O:>

@LexYeen@snouts.online It's funny, Peg and I were having a conversation about all the Bird scooters cluttering up Atlanta, and I remember saying something like "They talk like we're asking for Stalinism, but dammit, all I actually want is some healthcare and a public biking system..."

Not only were our home and possessions completely untouched, a package that was delivered the day we left was missing... and it turned out one of our neighbors had grabbed it for us the moment they noticed we were gone. I'm probably gonna get 'em a box of cookies from Brocato's tomorrow.

Feelin' crapped out and might be getting sick, but man, even that would be a small price to pay. I'm looking forward to a very dull week. (And then it's straight home to Ohio for 8 days, speaking of dull...)

@Leucrotta De mo... hotoke no kao mo sando made. *nod*

@001zlnv Oh, that's bloody fantastic. :D

just left mobile. the only good things i can say about this greyhound trip so far are (a) they haven't ruinously fucked up anything but my mood and (b) i have learned so much about the morphological diversity of the human chin.

more henson <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFbyujLT8HQ&list=PLWiaTQ91EE2EtcrrjGb4j3U5RoTlToKcE&index=45&t=0s

@Austin_Dern Hmm. Let's check the metrics. How many pounds of mackerel can you eat in a sitting?

@Austin_Dern @001zlnv

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP5F2-yNOEQ

@Balinares Me too. I only had HBO sporadically when it was first airing in the States, so I missed large amounts of it!

@Austin_Dern Mine too.

The puppetry gallery is now captioned!

https://imgur.com/a/WW9MKio

Oh, and in case you missed the SUBTLE HINTS there to go see Jim Henson's philosophical allegory "The Cube"...

https://archive.org/details/TheCube-JimHenson-1969

@Leucrotta There is some really good stuff in there, and I hope it renews your sense of hope as much as it did mine! If you've got questions about any of the individual pics or exhibits, just let me know! In fact, I've got a good healthy chunk of day-job done given the circumstances, so I might take a break to start annotating the pics...

@hystericempress It's like how they take all the clocks off the walls of casinos and deliberately build them like labyrinths, so you're constantly passing a new attraction on the way "out." >_<

Here's my image gallery from yesterday's trip to the Center for Puppetry Arts. Summary: lots and lots of animal puppets and rare Henson memorabilia. I might caption them later.

https://imgur.com/a/WW9MKio

@Leucrotta Yeah. Are you familiar with the Alan Berg incident? Ugly, ugly stuff. People act like this shit is all new, but it's just more brazen and has a bigger megaphone. >_<

Been watching Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio in the background while I work. It's exactly what it sounds like, adapted from a one-man play about a shock jock who's tilting towards an angry nervous breakdown on the air, over a failing country and a failing personal life.

It's weird. The politics in it were too intense and depressing for me to ever make it all the way through before. Now? Nothin'. The callus has gotten so thick and all the problems they're talking about have gotten to be so normal...

But I take a certain amount of relief from it. This movie was made in 1988, for crying out loud. We've made it thirty years with the kind of racist losers, trolls, and health crackpots portrayed in this film—and somehow managed to push gay marriage, a television renaissance, and open public discussion of democratic socialism past this cretin parade, even as its ranks have swollen.

Plus, oh my god, this film is a memetic gold mine. I think I'm gonna get about 40 ringtones from it. :) Some real gems about the high cost of freeze peach, too, especially if you let it rot in the gutter... Totally worth watching *if* you don't mind a quick, highly educational jog through an ideological sewer. But I have the requisite tolerance for sheer assholery, so maybe you're better off just letting the big mean kitty watch it for you. :)

Also, seriously, HUGE HUGE HUGE anti-Semitism CW for this film—the real-world radio host it was based on was murdered by Christian Identity loons. >_<