Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@JulieSqveakaroo "I already told you, I don't want to be called that any more! I MADE A MISTAKE!"

(naturally it should go without saying that if you *actively* mock or shame anyone for *actually* having continence issues, you're a far, far bigger piece of shit than anyone complaining about "Diaper Dan" on Twitter and I don't wanna know *you* either, but I don't think that could ever apply to anyone I know here... and I'm willing to double and triple down that THIS ISNT WHAT THAT FUCKING HASHTAG IS ABOUT)

@spacewastrel@yiff.life For the longest time I believed that Rik and I were the ONLY tourists the PdP had ever had. XD Are you perhaps the third, then? :)

oh this goes decatuple if your Objectively Correct Woke Moral Proclamation revolves around a space, hyphen, or word order

and that is not to say that those differences *can't* matter -- it's that maybe just maybe the connotations you apply to those things aren't universal or objective after all, and just maybe not everybody's gotten the memo yet that This Is How We're Doing It Now.

or maybe they have a valid reason why it's ok in that context, because THAT'S HOW WORDS WORK -- above all this comes down to the fact I cut my philosophical teeth on post-structuralist philosophy.

word are not magical sigils of power that pull energy exclusively from, say, The Primordial Plane of Ableism -- they are contingent and contextual and slippery by their very nature.

my personal experience tells me that trying to treat words like they're very cut-and-dried little units of Perfect Meaning is not only inaccurate, it's fucking dangerous, probably responsible for a solid plurality of Bad Human Ideas.

i've said it before: having a idealized world where there's zero possibility for linguistic "harm" due to an unpleasant connotation is like having a world where everything is perfectly sterilized of all microbes. you're just gonna give everybody an allergy, you absolute fucking doofus.

is doofus canceled yet? can i still say doofus?

i seem to be in "how many followers can i lose today" mode over on birdsite and i regret absolutely fucking nothing

getting real tired of random Woke People issuing linguistic proclamations to the rest of the world. criticize, yes. debate, yes. appeal to our humanity, yes. absolutely. things like ableism and queerphobia really do exist and language really can be very damaging.

but tell us What All We Now Must Never Do And Say because you (all one of you) got together one morning with a burr up your ass and decided to proclaim your Objective Moral Revelation to the world, honestly i'm just gonna either block you or eat you depending on my mood

awww dammit twitter won't let you report your own tweets XD

my favorite ex just told me they are off to "go play legos" with their current partner-or-whatever and the sheer nerd wholesomeness of this entire interaction even being possible warms my heart

"It's... it's like the Place du Portage in Ottawa ate Cthulhu and shat itself."

I should really put some more effort into "building" and getting to know my new persona for handing Cat Stress and related issues.

I've finally got a hazy identity starting to form for her. Her name is "Brill" -- as in the type of fish, a weak pun on the fact she was inspired by encountering a beautiful sweet dog named "Oyster" -- and like Oyster, she's an Aussie shepherd.

Personality so far is somewhere between Applejack, Buffy Summers, and Shreve (that saint of a rancher who raised the late, much missed Charlie the Coyote of dailycoyote.net).

She's slightly punky, brusque, and ruthless in the nicest damn "OK honey that's nice but you still gotta get up and do it" way. She's already been in my head, though not quite in the control booth, a couple of times during recent Cat Issues -- she was especially helpful while we were rounding the kids up for Snippage.

I look forward to knowing her. Maybe I'll be in a position to introduce her someday. She'd probably enjoy getting to run around in someone's RPG world and boss people around for their own good. Arf arf arf arf arf arf arf get the fuck back in that pen stupid sheep. XD

@mxsparks They are the latter for certain. I am not so sure about the former. XD They're... they're about as good as 7-week-old kittens can really be expected to be, and while I'm VERY concerned about their mama apparently going into heat today, she has also been REALLY helpful and just a real good Cat Mom through the whole process. <3

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If any of y'all with a Birdsite account could go vote in this poll, I'd be really gratified.

https://twitter.com/CatAndAHalf/status/1332381201559064576

I'll be perfectly honest: if your choice is somehow actually "Leninism," not only would I prefer you keep it to yourself, but you might want to sidle away from me slowly because we're probably gonna end up enemies someday. I took too many history courses in school to be with you on this one. :(

You know. Like this absolute fedora-brained dimfuck. Feel free to take a shot at him, I think I've already got him pinned.

https://twitter.com/contrarianski/status/1332365588828655622

every time i inform a conservative "contrarian" that einstein was a socialist, i grow a new stripe

someday i will be all stripe and that megastripe will rise up and devour the corporate state

so help me out here -- link this EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. you see someone trying to conflate Scandinavian-style social democracy with Bolshevism

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/

@JulieSqveakaroo So in summary, unless you're willing to drive down, pick up a couple kittens, and drive back... XD Nah, we're doing as well as can be expected.

And the kittens should be ready to adopt out in another month, absolutely max -- some sites are saying we can do it as soon as next week, but I really wanna give the little monsterbabies as much time with mama as possible.

@JulieSqveakaroo Oh, I meant emotional and psychological resources, not financial ones! But thank you so much!

We are doing pretty much OK moneywise thanks to everybody's previous generosity! Plus the fact that we djdn't end up having to pay premium vet prices for the Snippages, just a bunch of donations to some VERY nice local catcare volunteers.

We just... we love Liv and Snowy a lot, and having Sugarfoot living indoors with us is not without substantial charms. But Peg and I REALLY miss quiet nights, unimpeded passage through our shotgun house with a Kittenarium right in the middle, and me having a proper home office that Basically Has No Cat In It instead of a labyrinth of cat toys and litterboxes patrolled by three excitable minipanthers. :)

At least if we ever get an proper indoor cat that is actually a *pet* at some point in our lives -- as opposed to "3 to 8 friends that live under the porch" -- it'll feel like Easy Mode. Kitten rearing is just not a good match for my anxiety, and even Sugarfoot is kind of a handful -- especially this week. D:

oh gods i think Sugarfoot is going into heat. she's superclingy and vocal and i dont even wanna discuss what she tried to do when i innocently petted her flank. no spraying yet, fingers crossed

about a week, they're saying on the cat care sites. *deep breath* We can do this. Depending on the site, theyre saying we can spay and rehome Liv and Snowy anywhere between a week and a month from now. We're holding out as best we can, but its 2020 and resources are low...

@packbat God, that's infuriating isn't it. My Reddit username is the name of a CLEARLY FEMALE film character and I still constantly get called "this guy" and such. The idea that male is "default person" somehow, and not just on the net, doesn't seem to be getting any less pervasive among the mainstream.

@Aradia @Ratttz @SangriaSnake God *damn* I'm envious. :D Especially of that lasagna!