Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@JulieSqveakaroo I mean, after 30 years of "psychoceramics" studies, dealing with everything from circle-squarers to Elvis worshippers, you'd think I'd know better...

I.. I didn't even know there were still furry Twitter randos who thought corporations were unfairly oppressed and maligned.

I thought those people were extinct in BOTH camps.

Yikes.

If the United States is the greatest country in the world, why does every delivery place in town charge twice as much for a Mexican Coke?🤔​

I THINK IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT EVERYBODY HEAR THAT PEEBLES IS A GOOD CAT AND IS GETTING SPOILED AND PETTED RIGHT NOW UNLIKE SOME CATS I COULD NAME WHO RHYME WITH FARTIE

@hystericempress OK, it's... it's like Blaseball without either the blase or the ball but with all of the deservedly obscure mid-20th-century boardgame. That's all you need to know. :D

@hystericempress Yeah, I am VERY low-key pro-Wordle. It's fun if you like it, it's absolutely 100% trivial and safe to ignore, creator seems as shocked by all this as anyone else.

Ah, there we go.

"It's been sorted."

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So there's this book. General Systemantics, aka Systemantics, aka the Systems Bible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

It would be an AMAZING inspiration for the comics side-project I've been nattering about over at https://twitter.com/zebratron2084/status/1484210017117089794 but the only remotely affordable copy I've found is a $7ish Kindle edition on Amazon.

Given the whole fucking comic is about heartless corporate minmax algorithms crippling Terran society, I'd really like to NOT give Amazon any money for this goddamn apparently rare-ass book. And there's probably a cheaper copy, but I really need to get my butt in gear on other projects, like Artie and That Parallax Thing.

So. I dunno if I have any good karma coming, but if anybody would like to help hook me up with this book, with either info or cash (ideally with a SMALL used bookshop with a cheap paperback of it-- or a cheapo OCR, honestly), you would have my undying gratitude. <3

(It's an important book. I know BITS of it. They were very influential. I'll get into it some other day.)

Joe Manchin has now received a very flattering voice mail from a certain Herr Fritz Oberstromgruppen, thanking him for opposing voting rights doing doing so much for "Ze Fourth Rei... I mean ze Nazi Par... I mean ze Republica... I mean America! Sieg heil!"

@Owlor Meh, I could fight if I felt like it, but anyone who champions Bauhaus can't be all bad. *shrug*

@Owlor Was... was there anyone NOT callling it a mind-control fetish show?! ;O

@Austin_Dern YES EXACTLY <3 <3 <3

@Austin_Dern Those are Eyebrows Of Power, too, and I definitely mean that as flattery. Those are, like, Alan Rickman-grade eyebrows. You could probably kill at 20' with waves of pure archness. <3

@Austin_Dern Oh, you got a VIBE there and I really like it. I hesitate to use this terminology, but you really look like a Player Character or at least a Fully Scripted NPC there. <3

"motherfuckin' terfs treating my best friends about the same way the Pythagoreans treated the square root of two-- with a combination of outrage, denial, and futile hopes that the gods will intervene"

@Phorm *loses it* :D

DR. REZEYA'S SUPER FUN SCIENCE QUESTION OF THE DAY:

Hey kids! Have you ever wondered how many consecutive times Dr. Rezy would need to call Joe Manchin's office and leave a recording of Kate Nash's "Dickhead" in order to be arrested? Let's find out! :D

(I'm not actually doing this. I'm just stopping at one.)

@JulieSqveakaroo @Austin_Dern "You're from Ohio? Oh, neat, I've got a friend in Indiana! Do you know Chuck?"

@JulieSqveakaroo Oh geez, I'm so glad you've got a good one too, I hear your work can be frustrating sometimes and you of all people really deserve someone good on your side! <3