Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

huh, looks like i hypothetically made eight bucks already on predictit

maybe there really is a profit to be made by betting against delusional conservative optimism XD XD XD

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite Yeah. He's at least eating and seems comfortable and at least not being vocal about any distress. We didn't get to set anything up tonight but we're gonna try to get a hold of someone tomorrow or Monday.

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite Not that sort of bloated. ;__; It's one of the boys. He's defintely got something going wrong.

Well, Sugarfoot is definitely the barfer, but in the process we noticed that Ceejay has a distinctly bloated belly and... um... other inflammation I won't detail.

Guess it's vet time. I'm okay, dealing with the stress by reminding myself I'm less those cats' parent than I am their caretaker, friend, and caseworker.

There's nothing I can do for them immediately (though Peg is looking into contacting vets later today, hopefully for a Monday appointment), so the best thing I can do is stay calm and professional, get on with my day such as it is and act when there's an opportunity to act.

Still can't help worrying about the critters. Ceejay more than Sugarfoot now, though this does make three days in a row this has happened.

I knew the job was an emotional attachment risk when I took it. I have every reason so far to think a vet trip, stressful though it might get for everybody, will fix this in the long run. And if it can't, I'm prepared to make whatever decisions have to be made. I need to be OK, so I will, right?

@JulieSqveakaroo by god you're right

@Leucrotta Oh my god I actually found it...

@Leucrotta

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Dial H For Hulk
Being Hulk Hulkovich
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@Leucrotta трактор! репа! ягодицы!

*hopes you were a Bloom County reader* :D

@001zlnv 1000 years jail for zebra ;__;

except that ceejay ain't like that

i can not imagine he would support the carceral justice system, little anarchopacifist refusenik that he is

if anything he will simply grieve the damage to my soul during tomorrows meditations in our papaya grove (which we do actually have if two trees are a grove) and quietly contemplate the decay of the human political state

i found ceejay... but i also accidentally booted the little guy as he was bounding up behind me in the dark and now he's a little scared of me D:

that poor kid just can't catch a break

But seriously, "trollbots" really distracts from the reality that much of this activity is by paid human agents. And I think that's *fascinating* somehow. I always have the hope that I'm gonna be one of the lucky few who can actually get a glimpse under the mask. It HAS to be possible to press an emotjonal button so hard that one slips and exposes themselves. It's the countertroll's Holy Grail.

(oh right, context:

that one REALLY delusional congresswoman, marjorie taylor green, announced impeachment articles against biden and the botfarms turned out to support her)

listen i'm not saying these shenanigans are going to help one bit

i'm not even saying i think it was that clever

i'm just saying that it was really really fun to post

i had a good time and that's what's important

PATIENT: Artemus, Princess Heir of Shadow

ALIASES: Unknown

CLINICAL NOTES: ate treat, snuggled, bounced around

PRELIMINARY DIAGNOSIS: adorable, hyper, no clear sign of acute digestive issues

Five down, just gotta track down our wild little shaman Ceejay. He's gonna be the tough one to watch, only one who won't set foot in the apartment.

@JulieSqveakaroo YES. Thank you. It felt like a short about history that had no real depth to its concept of what history actually IS.

It had that stereotype Faintly Liberal White Literary Guy sense of "Gosh, Earth is just so good, it's all good stuff, let's not get into the messy parts." His version of history was so squeaky clean, with all the emotional intensity or skepticism of a guy collecting stamps or matchsticks or dead butterflies something.

And I couldn't get past thinking, "Why the FUCK would anybody do it this way to start with?" Why hire ONE guy? For that matter, what was wrong with all the OTHER histories written on earth? Are we suddenly no longer going to have access to electronic storage? Why was he not an academic? Is this really an engineering or clerical sort of job that needs someone who's just really diligent -- and not someone who will ask the HARD questions? And WHY IS IT A MIDDLE-CLASS WHITE GUY AND NOBODY CARES AT ALL?

The whole thing just felt like it didn't ask any questions, it just kinda came along and asked us to bask in the same warm centrist humanist "Gosh we sure did a magical thing together, didn't we folks!" fuzzies.

And in the process there was one glaring question: "Why do you pick NOW to mourn some of this stuff, just because aliens are gonna wipe us ALL out -- yes, gosh, even the white middle class, how dare they!" Humans have been GLEEFULLY wiping out other humans' history from the first recorded day. Are we seriously supposed to get all sad just because it's happening to the rest of us now?

I just spend the whole time kinda shrugging and going, "Yup. We all end up in the Void, buddy, and some of us get pushed. Did... did it really take you this much of your life to figure this out?"

And there you go. If I had to rewrite this myself... that's what it would be about. Instead of just going over his pretty little collection of disjointed historical moments, he'd stop and REBEL. The process of looking over human history would leave him really unimpressed with human history. Maybe he'd even decide to trash the whole record at the end.

well, peebers is definitely her usual self, i.e., the largest snuggle capacity per pound of any cat on earth

i'm kinda trying to take em each in one by one to observe 'em for a couple minutes, see previous post on their tummy upsets, and so far 4 of the 6 seem fine? still gotta check artemus and ceejay, peebs wasn't into a treat but no big, and sugarfoot was a little sneezy but no signs of lethargy at all so maybe I can worry a bit less...

@LexYeen I am already in a fine position to reciprocate, given the first one's about L Ron. This is PERFECT here, my favorite podcast episode of all time.

https://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-45-part-1-l-ron-hubbard-featuring-andrew-daly

https://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-45-part-2-l-ron-hubbard-featuring-andy-daly

What really impresses me is how much research Andy must have done for this. It's quite difficult to tell Andy's (brilliant) improv from lies L Ron really told, and that's what makes this the mathematically best possble bio of the SOB...

@LexYeen Oh, BTB! I have been meaning to get around and listen to these for AGES, I just didn't recognize Robert's name!

@LexYeen NO. I WANT THIS. <3

@LexYeen Yeah. It's like interviewing Al Capone about Eliot Ness. You might get a SLIGHTLY less than objective evaluation. -_-

Of course, the metaphor isn't quite perfect, given this is Mitch, until Capone's in some pretty advanced neurosyphilis stages. :p