Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

the only good carols are robot carols

https://aiweirdness.com/post/189845472982/the-ais-carol/amp

@Oneironott It's OK, I did the opposite with American Movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Movie), thought it was a fake documentary until I read the Netflix DVD sleeve days later...

Got a fretful note from my mom, reminding me that my stepdad is walking around with three heart blockages and needs to keep his stress to a minimum, and now—even after a long phone chat with her where she felt bad for alarming me—I'm in a mild panic.

It's gonna be a long, long week. He is not taking the loss of my brother to cancer this year well at all, nor should he be expected to. And on top of that, this is his first time meeting Peg, who my mom outed to him just like two months ago.

It's probably gonna be fine. Mom assured me her main worry is NOT Peggy, it's just the general chaos of the holidays and the lingering fear I'm gonna want to argue politics. *blush* Peg has promised to be chill and I trust her, I just...

A week in Ohio is a lot, to start with.

I feel a bit sad that I'm missing Festivus this year.

I have SO MANY GRIEVANCES. :D

@kistaro OH MY GOD, look up "talkie toaster" on Google. Someone beat us to it...

@kistaro Oh, god, and it's a coffee maker. "Can I make you a coffee? How about some espresso? A latte? Maybe a flat white? How about a cortado?"

"Shut up."

"Wait, no, I have one more question."

"It's... not about hot coffee, is it?"

"No! I wouldn't waste your time like that!"

"Go ahead."

"Can I make you an affogato?"

@anthracite Storm Plisken isn't really from Two Moons.

@Soreth I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD GET THE REFERENCE <3 <3 <3 <3

@anthracite YES EXACTLY. <3

I ran into a particularly unpleasant TERF on Twitter and noticed that most of her tweets were in Russian.

Apparently possessed by the spirit of Sacha Baron Cohen, I translated "Turnip rutabaga tractor, polonium vodka, ruble, nadsat circus bear, comrade pelmeni buttocks, babushka?" into Cyrillic with Google Translate and left it as a comment.

I'm neither particularly proud nor ashamed of this, though I'm afraid I am inordinately amused by my own sheer pettiness. I am in a high mischief/low empathy mood tonight I guess. Don't mess with things bored raccoons love.

@zx3 TV's Frank is just such a stand-up guy even totally divorced from MST3K...

@chimerror Hmmm. After a brief search, this is the least petty and annoying resource I can find on the few technical differences...

https://writingexplained.org/may-vs-might-difference

This is one of my favorite musicians of all time. I saw him in concert in Boston once, and he spent most of his set telling stories about airplane silverware and playing with a plastic spoon at us. He wrote the official Postvixen anthem, "I Wanna Be An Anglepoise Lamp." I love Robyn like an uncle.

(I was making fun of a hypothetical John Cleese GPS module.)

One of those days where I kinda wish I knew enough about web design to make a bot that would scrape FurAffinity, e621, and fchan for keywords like "vore," "sounding," and "unbirth" and anonymously repost them to the timelines of TERFs.

Just to remind them that trans people are the LEAST scary things in their fragile little worlds, and if they're not nicer to us, we will drop all pretense of politeness and stop holding the gates closed. :>

It's pretty good.

Sorry, everybody. O:)

@Leucrotta Yeah, he did get mentioned in the Wiki article for Goryokaku!

Star forts!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_fort

These came up at work today as I was researching a famous one in Japan. (https://goo.gl/maps/vBxRhfqkJ4bFSu1fA)

Basically, I just love anything that has a huge specialty vocabulary, and I could nerd out over all the little spokes and spikes and moats and outcroppings of these things for hours. Plus, as military bases go, they're real pretty.

Man, I wish Mid-City in NOLA had a ravelin. =(^).(^)= (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravelin)

@anthracite You'd make a GREAT sphinx. <3

There's something unironically comforting about someone laughing at me and saying, "Oh, come on. You're not cis."

I dunno if I'm trans, either. But I've been more comfortable with a feminine or neuter (or in the case of Kirsch here, "it can not be expressed with this character set") identity online since for about 20 years, so I'm probably _something_.

Just don't lock the clubhouse doors on me as things get uglier out there, okay, folks? I'm pretty sure there are at least a few valid stamps left on my Trans Passport, even if ever doing anything about it in RL is just a distant dream—and even if I'm increasingly OK with that, because I just don't give that much of a shit about meat.

Heh. Oh, yeah. I guess I had another dream about THEM last night. They were mad.

Well, one of the three of them was actually very nice. And it bewildered me. I was so happy and confused and excited for the chance to patch things up.

And then SHE showed up and started laying into me. I remember her face just got redder and redder with rage, the more I tried and failed to communicate with her.

It ain't like that, brain. But you know, if she's gonna demonize me for not winning her guessing games, there's no reason to hold you to a higher standard. We held out and thought the best of them for as long as we could.

Anyhow, it was another one of those "stuck alone at a furry con" dreams, where y'all just kept wandering off with the people I was staying with and forgetting to invite me alone, so it was plenty depressing on its own.

I really hope I can get back to dreaming about being hounded by monsters, zombies, and aliens soon. Or maybe back to that college where I forgot to ever go to class. Nobody needs _this_ shit.