Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Of course, we've all got a *little* of that going on in our heads... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIuDOihRlQ (cw: extremely mild self-satirical racism in video)

I'm strongly of the opinion that most neurological "disorders" are things that happen in the brains of most "normal" humans, just turned up to 11. Nobody, *nobody* with a forebrain is wholly sane and rational.

(And as someone with recurring OCD issues, it's all... weirdly familiar. Basically, this is what you'd be seeing if you saw the inside of my brain-- I just am lucky enough to have the standard neural stuffing needed to suppress it. It's a constant stream of weird, weird repetitive babble in here-- colorful obscenities, fears about loved ones, rituals, 20-year-old media references, and REALLY bad hindbrained lyric filks you're so glad I don't share. 😳​)

(I hate eggs. :p )

Video by a charming, funny teen with Tourette's, showing us what dealing with the condition is actually like. Spoiler: it involves a lot more muscle spasms (and collateral ovoid damage) and a *bit* less cussing, than you usually hear about.

http://digg.com/video/girl-attempt-omelette?jwsource=cl

An elegy for the old American Left, for better or worse, whatever happens tonight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx2eCO3DgKk

#moodsnapshot #americananalogset

Hope you had a productive experience in the voting booth!

#VoetNoOnPrapazishunRawr
#NoMorStuopidHyenuzStielRFud

Here's that promised update on my Head Council rearrangements, BTW. (cw: weird weird kinstuff)

https://dragon.style/@enmerkar/101026682376282951

It's this one, ya lovable goobers. <3

https://star-hawk.livejournal.com/4113.html

(At least, this is the best rendition I could find on currently available energy levels. The last paragraph, about consoling the *other* parents, is highly emotionally problematic for me and does not appear in any version I've liked, nor any I've seen before.)

Be fierce. <3

https://imgur.com/gallery/SQw8tQJ

Back home from con. It was great. Stories later. Disappearing until after the election, though I might drop in to check on troop morale and such. Good luck, and for the love of god, whatever happens, don't forget the Taoist Farmer Parable. <3

They're desperate. You can tell they're desperate when they quote people whose actual research, in its full context, doesn't support them in the least. They're hoping nobody will notice, and in the case of Trump supporters, they're absolutely right. But I see what they're doing. *They* don't think the facts support a GOP win, either. They just know they can't afford to admit it.

Haha, I just caught the Political Insider, one of the pro-Trump sites I hateread, blatantly snowjobbing its readers. They were crowing about how *one* poll shows the general election margin is something tiny like three percent... when they just got done the other day lecturing readers about how nothing matters but *individual* races... which are still going great for us, per Nate Silver's models. But their source for the OTHER assertion in their article? Nate Silver. :D

Also... you know you've had a hell of a weekend when your entire Headfriend Council restructures itself during the course of a single shower. Details of the Goddamn Furriness later, maybe.

That was bloody fascinating. Had lunch with a couple of Peg's friends from the animation industry. They were both Spumco veterans and had some... fascinating stories. Super-nice folks, and it was gloriously weird listening to them talking about taking meetings with $INCREDIBLY_PROMINENT_HOLLYWOOD_PERSON. Neat cap to the weekend, kinda reminded me of the dragoness's powers, and... yeah. We're both pretty exhausted and pretty excited right now. At Burbank Airport, about to head home.

So after that quote about grief from Nick Cave, BoingBoing listed a bunch of other related articles, presumably based on the first articles "death" tag: a website for finding out who's died in your house, a recipe for sugar-skull pastries, cremain-scattering at Disney parks...

...and then "master Python with this complete training package!" I presume this is because (a) pythons eat people or (b) learning to code is like letting a little bit of your soul die. O:)

(of course, the above quote doesn't really offer much guidance in the event that the people you're grieving for are still, in some form or another, quite alive... but luckily i've always been good at improvisation 😔​ )

It's 2018. Reality has gone Full Philip K Dick. The answer to any question of "Is X Valid?" "Is it OK if I just go ahead and believe Y?" or "Does A count as B?" is YES. The people in charge of any kind of social or political consensus about anything have completely lost their fucking minds, and we can't even guarantee Consensus Reality will allow basic daily survival anymore.

If. It. Harms. No. One. Do. And. Think. What. Ever. The. Fuck. You. Want. (And fast!)

"It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That’s the deal. That’s the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable." -- Nick Cave

(source: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/05/if-we-love-we-grieve-nic.html )

(n.b.: While Peg sat on Santa Monica Beach and did nothing, I started reading Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis, which is about a billionaire asshole who suffers large during a city-wide traffic jam. I'm enjoying it so much, and thinking fondly of @acetone_kitten every time this rich financier prick is unhappy. <3 )

#AmericaHasNeverNotBeenAnAmoralShithole