Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

To be fair... Zen is HARD. And it's a relatively primitive technology, invented with no firm knowledge of the actual structures of the human brain.

But that only increases my cynicism, because if even people who genuinely devoted their whole lives to killing their worldly delusions regularly failed, how the hell are we going to fix any of this?

And our body politics just doesn't care at all. It's actively working AGAINST a fix. I'm just done waiting.

The one thing humanity can still do to win back my faith and loyalty is put some SERIOUS work into cognitive science, and find a software patch for our catastrophic neurological security holes that people will actually adopt.

But I'm not hopeful, since we already kinda *had* something like that. It was called Zen, and it got eaten by the exact same hierarchical thinking and dogma everything else on this shitty planet does. *shrug*

Uspol gets a lot easier to deal with once you stop rooting for humanity, and I think I genuinely have.

Honestly, I don't think we're going to be exterminated, even by extreme climate change, not unless the planet goes Full Venusian-- and I haven't seen a lot of predictions that say we're going that far.

But I'm increasingly worried that humans have some unfixable cognitive glitches and we might be better off letting nature try sapience again from scratch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626pNZB8xXE

#moodsnapshot

love you li'l guy

#benderwasright

Tonight's "extravagance" is a Spanish cocktail called a "kalimoxto." It's just half cheap red wine and half Coke. It's supposed to be an icon of modern Basque culture, but so far it just makes me feel like Linda Belcher.

#Alright!

DEAR YHWH COLON TY FOR RELIGION STOP INSTRUCTIONS FROM SON WERE UNCLEAR STOP PLEASE ADVISE COMMA WORSHIPPING OWN PENISES UNTIL NOTICE RECEIVED STOP LOVE COMMA EARTH PATRIARCHY STOP END

I read somewhere that it was long traditional to consult a random line in the Aeneid to predict one's future.

Fuck you, Virgil.

mood

Feeling betrayed by left-leaning media outlets that conveniently failed to mention the bit about Elizabeth Warren being, what, 1/512th Native American? I'm really glad I smelled something weird and looked for some news outside my bubble.

On the other hand, it just leaves me even less impressed by Donald Trump's intellectual and moral character. Lazy dishonest fuck had a perfect, factual counter... and lied about making the offer anyhow?! Poorest quality supervillainry. :(

Disclaimer: when I say things like "I'm not actually sure 'Nazi' and 'fascist' are the right terms for Trump's admin," I say it in the same sense that a zoologist might say "technically, that's not a crocodile, that's an alligator."

I maintain there are important genetic/historic differences between 21st-c. racist kleptocracy and 20th-c. industrial militarism. However, for the purposes of someone who doesn't want to get eaten, they are similar enough that you should get running.

*waits until you get up close and nips you* <3

i warned ya 🐯​

Never been so disappointed by a headline in all my life.

Dude. My day job finally confirmed that we each have eight hours of paid volunteer time coming. Can anyone recommend a good charity in the area, especially one that suits my personality and putative skills? n.n; No sense in letting them to go waste...

Despite a lovely visit to friends in Shoreline, one half of the Parallax script finally put to bed, and the rich sense of accomplishment that comes with successfully feeding a fussy dragoness, I've got a melancholy that just won't go away.

Maybe if I get really stoned and spend the rest of the night playing Enter the Gungeon I can at least transmute some of it to frustration. Regardless, the worlds and especially my immediate world feels very high-entropy tonight.

Okay, either the Café gods are real or someone from Bauhaus is on awoo.space, 'cause they finally switched out the depressing folk for Mac DeMarco, and this is much more my speed.

#WhatGrandmaRezyListensTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaV8qZRT-N4

Okay, Bauhaus Cafe, I was willing to sit here patiently and not take all the sadcore on the PA system personally, but the Velvet Underground and Nico?! That's just not funny. My feelings are valid too, you know.

"[T]o carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- CS Lewis

That's what I thought, you astroturfing scumbags. Knew it the moment I saw your disingenuous little commercial.

Guess I'm voting Yes on 1631.

(source: https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/campaign-explorer/committee?filer_id=NO1631%20507&election_year=2018)