Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

This jigsaw puzzle looks like pure fucking evil.

https://puzzle.lamingtondrive.com/products/1000-changing-colours#instagram

I'm so glad the response to the anonymous high-level "resistor's" NYT op-ed seems to be basically "Fuck you, coward, you don't get to have your cake and eat it too."

Whoever the hell it is-- my guess is Pence and/or one of his speechwriters, look up the "lodestar" theory-- I hope he hangs with the rest of them. Nobody gets to wriggle out of this by pretending to be Secret Friend To Democracy at the last minute.

#MarcusJuniusBrutusWasRight
#ButHeWasStillAnAristoPieceOfShit

Crickets and fireflies. <3

#Ohio

Many thanks to @Leucrotta for this ocelot footage. Well, I have my style goals for the next year.

@anthracite, you'd be okay with being randomly pounced and mauled in this fashion, right? 'Cause I'm getting a lot of good tips from this little dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oSh_zOaVFk

So, in the 90s tabletop RPG "Torg," there was an alternate universe mentioned in passing, named Zone Dubbed Dol.

All the other worlds in Torg were measured by numbered ratings from 0 to 30, in Social, Tech, Magic, and Spirit. Zone Dubbed Dol, as the result of a reality-weapon accident, had a zero in all four categories.

In totally unrelated news, I'll be spending the next week in Northeast Ohio. Please send all the possibility energy you can spare.🙄​

Man, I am in a weird, tender state of mind today.

I'm in a good enough mood, just been getting all sentimental and nostalgic at the drop of a hat lately.

Part of it's just that damned Joanna Newson/Gumball earworm, which has gotten to the point of being a genuinely frustrating problem.

Part of it's heading home to Ohio for a week with my parents, knowing that they're not getting any younger. I've been thinking about loss, a lot, this year.

Part of it's just missing some people bad.

For the 12th time... could someone please explain boycotts to the right-wingers!?

"So, let's go over this again. You DON'T buy the product then destroy it. You just don't buy it at all."

"But then we never have the thing we want!"

"Yes. That's right. You never have the thing you want. Because you don't want them to have your money."

"Never have the thing? Sounds un-American! Can't we just buy one and trash it or rip off the logo or make them write Merry Christmas on it instead?"

Shot in the dark here:

I remember someone in the community mentioning something about a year back about work-from-home jobs helping edit (NOT write) students' essays.

Was that any of you, was it any good, are they still going, and do you still have their contact information?

If anyone has a lead on any other decent work-at-home job, I'd be grateful for those, too! My HERE job is still quite stable, I'd just love to put in a few more hours and start helping @anthracite with rent. ^_^;

Is anybody else consistently getting a blank personal timeline, or one that only has posts from your last login? I'm wondering if I'm not having some kind of funky issue with settings relative to some update or something...

Random thought: I think I really need to just pick a night, rustle a group of friends together somehow or another, and watch something really shamelessly cute and sentimental.

Peg has a hell of a lot to offer as a partner, but mush is not really her forte. :)

Can't get something painful and sentimental out of my head today. Otherwise, I live with a silly dragon lady, I'm making ends meet, I'm increasingly excited for my NOLA adventure, and things are pretty good.

Also, ngl, a little verklempt that Adventure Time is ending today.

(standard disclaimer: it sure as hell wasn't any of you people -- i had to go pretty far afield on masto to find this specimen)

There's sort of a nightmarish beauty in reading an argument that's immune to rebuttal due to sheer syntactical incoherency. Not just "incoherent" in the base sense of "makes no moral sense in my world," but literally just so poorly written you can not actually figure out what they're trying to say, let alone debate it.

It takes a certain... anti-skill to craft such things. A truly fine example can be marvelous in its craft, much the same as the aposematic markings on a toxic animal.

https://i.imgur.com/XmYQRSy.gifv

Okay, that maudlin Joanna Newsom track and the Amazing Adventures of Gumball track based on it (EXTREME HAZARD and maybe also problematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjlJLqofRx4 ) are still stuck in my head.

Time to pour myself a tall glass of Earworm Juice: Daft Punk ft. Strong Bad alternating with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu until everything between my ears is DEAD AND FLUSHED.

Drop a train on 'em, Strong Bad.

Watching @anthracite feed and chat with the local crows is just the most endearing damn thing.

The other gaping hole in my tiny besieged emotional survival shack has been boarded. For the moment, the hordes of restless undead regrets outside are silent.

I think it's time for lunch and a nap, then it's time to check in on Noa and Kirt and see if they're ready to finish their little space adventure. I'm at that perfect cusp between melancholy, relieved, and maudlin that's perfect for writing Cute Gay Fungus Person Romance.

TIL that the traditional collective noun for a group of raccoons is a "gaze." =(^)_(^)=

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_terms_of_venery,_by_animal