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(For the record, the "Frank" there is Frank Conniff of MST3k, who had been making a similar argument to mine and was getting DRILLED by Grim Tankies*, and I WILL fight anyone who says a word against the guy. :> )

* if you resemble that remark I still love you very much but you are what you are and I am not one of you <3

Don't have energy to debate it individually, but... As for Frank and America, if there's ANYBODY out there running around trying to, say, find cake ingredients in the break room under everybody's nose and MAKE some fucking cake on the sly in the microwave, so we don't have the eat the moldy cracker OR the turd, I 100% support them. :)

That whole thing was written at a time -- Nov 2020 -- where it was IMHO very clear that it was either "cracker" or "turd." And it was posted in frustration at someone on the Federated timeline who did not seem to geth that THERE WAS NO CAKE ON THE MENU in the situation they were raving about.

I want to go on the record as saying I 100% supporting doing ANY GOD DAMNED THING YOU CAN POSSIBLY DO to get us some cake in 2024. D: Shit, if your plan is to stomp the cracker on the ground and run down the street and triumphantly return with a cake, yes, please, do that. D: D: D:

I am skeptical. I really think it's gonna be cracker vs. turd again. But I REALLY DO NOT WANT THE CRACKER EITHER, BECAUSE WE ALL DESERVE SOME FUCKING CAKE RIGHT NOW and I hope that much was clear. :)

guess i gotta drag this one out again

This fucker.

I'm looking for the "SLAP USER" button on my keyboard.

Wikipedia ONLY mentions "dihydrogen monoxide" as a parody. It says NOTHING about it being valid. I even went back and checked the version that was current the day they posted. Couldn't have been clearer it was satire. Bet they didn't even look at the actual article first. They just Knew A Fact and linked to the Fact Place.

This may seem trivial to you, friends, but the phenomenon it represents? It's the Root Of All Stupid and it's reason #1 after good old-fashioned greed that we can't have nice things.

(OK, a few sources are pointing out that TECHNICALLY MAYBE you could call it dihydrogen monoxide-- but chemists just *don't* because it doesn't represent the actual chemistry very well at all. The best I'm seeing for an official IUPAC name is "oxidane," which is fascinating...)

This is today's friendly reminder to the entire world that IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT GOOGLE RESULTS TELL YOU, "DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE" IS NOT VALID NOMENCLATURE FOR WATER/H₂O, FOR THE SAME GODDAMN REASON WE DON'T CALL SULFURIC ACID "DIHYDROGEN MONOSULFUROUS TETROXIDE" OR SOME SHIT.

GOOGLE IS NOT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, IT IS A STRAW POLL OF UNEDUCATED PEOPLE. If half the fucking population of Earth is convinced water is "dihydrogen monoxide" because of a piece of satire, it will tell you "water is called dihydrogen monoxide" and it will do it with a confident friendly smile.

baby goats!??!

Siouxie, B-52s, Violent Femmes, Blondie, and fucking PYLON, right in a row?!?!

Yeah. This place gets me.

Came across this screenshot and it couldn't define my current mood about the world any better.

Yeah, um. I'm the one on the left, in case there was ever any doubt.

I've really tried, but Kinga, Max, and Synthia just aren't makin' it for me.

At the very least, I'm probably gonna continue my habit of skipping the host segments when I watch these.

I really do miss Joel. I would do anything to have one of them make a reference to Shake-A-Pudding or Marx Toys right now.

On Birdsite, I'm three days into a seven-day sentence for telling a Russian official I hope he gets a social disease. :> I am reminded of this every time I reflexively do so much as fave something over there.

But I'm very annoyed and disturbed to find that, now, every time I go to click something OVER HERE ON MASTO, I can feel my brain pitching a momentary guilt response, as if I'm about to do something I'm gonna get punished or rejected for.

I hate corporate social media with such a thorough and bleak passion right now. I feel sick in my heart every single day about the world it's created and all the subtle things it does to stifle our spirits.

Hey, who's got six paws, another new managerial-level responsibility at work, a performance bonus coming in May, and a $25 per paycheck bonus for home office expenses?!? THIS MANTICORE! ​​​

(That's a quote from In The Mouth of Madness. Good film. Feels relevant. Wish it didn't. Wish I didn't feel so much like a Light That Failed today. Wish I didn't know deep down in my heart that if Sutter Cane showed up at my doorstep, I'd probably invite him right in, because any magic is better than none.)

"Trent stood at the edge of the rip, stared into the illimitable gulf of the unknown, the stygian world yawning blackly beyond. Trent's eyes refuse to close. He did not shriek, but the hideous unholy abominations shrieked for him as in the same second he saw them spill and tumble upward out of an enormous carrion black pit, choked with the gleaming white bones of countless unhallowed centuries. Trent began to back away from the rip as the army of unspeakable figures twilit by the glow from the bottomless pit came pouring at him toward our world."

I can't, Trent.

I read it to the end.

Thanks for the softball, Worldle, but I'm still mad about Nauru yesterday.

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i can not fucking wait until i hear the fuck back from my therapist

i know she's swamped rt now, she's the nicest person, was SO PATIENT when one of my appointments took place DURING an Artie rescue, but...

god i need to talk to someone who isn't peg and hasn't heard all my shit a million times before and isn't mired in it with me