Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Wow. Normally I try not to bring people's physical appearance into things, but... this Richard Grenier neocon fellow had some serious Planet of the Apes shit going on in the facial area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grenier_(newspaper_columnist)

#backpfeifengesicht

Today in Republicans Have Always Been Shit:

The classic TV film The Day After was heavily criticized in the right-wing press for being (gasp) against nuclear escalation.

Today my parents are taking me to Mountaineer Casino, in the WV panhandle. A few of you might remember me posting on LJ ages ago about how damn depressing this place is. It's dreadful, full of silent glum retirees in the worst states of empty compulsion. It's Vegas drained of all color & glamour. My usual habit is to pocket the money my folks give me to gamble with, and bring a good book.

This seems like a real good time & place to break down and finally read Blood Meridian. ^__^

re: previous toots i just want to remind everybody that i'm pretty sure it says somewhere in the new testament that tigers writing poetry is a sign of the end times

um somewhere towards the back, maybe in the appendices

(although these days, you have to entertain the possibility that this was *knowing* bullshit, fabricated to drive user clicks... but isn't that actually kinda worse?)

This Snopes article conviently encapsulates a number of reasons why humans can't have nice things. Compare this kind of reasoning with our current political and informational dilemmas and I think you've got a pretty good picture of why I've given up on Homo pseudosapiens.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pyramid-location-speed-light/

I saw it with my own two eyes
A vision of Masto's demise
Corps and fascists totalize
While leftists merely balkanize

Just in case you missed my previous reply, I have an announcement:

In the interest of non-conformity, I am declaring my gender and pronoun to be equal to the following mathematical expression:

TREE(3→3→4→2)

where TREE is Kruskal's TREE function & the arrows are Conway's chained arrow notation. TREE's argument is thus equal to Moser's number. Therefore, my gender is no longer computable with the total time & matter available before the heat death of the universe.

#NowThatsWhatICallGender!

Remember, kids, on so many levels this is a battle between Chaotic Good and Lawful Evil. So polish your rubber jester cap twice a day, keep your itching powder dry, and don't lose your sense of the absurd due to sheer overexposure.

I just wanted to let you know: good luck, we're all counting on you. *srsly face*

But, I mean, if you can build a bot that just scavenges content from /r/creepy and posts a random image in a reply to anyone who even mentions, let alone links to, K***F**** or any of the major drama-stirrers...

...then I was never here, and we never met, and you've never heard of me. You've never heard of any tigers on Mars. You don't even know what a tiger *is*. O:)

The key is to leave them feeling like they left you: angry but w/o a clear target.

But honestly, if you can build yourself a nice bunker and wait it out instead... that also works great. They're quite capable, in my experience, of turning on each other and destroying themselves, if all their usual targets are nowhere to be found.

Good luck, kids. Aunt Rezy will be here cradling her shotgun full of willfully miscaptioned Russian animation stills and 1950s advertising clip art photoshopped with queer iconography if you need her. O:)

I'm a terrible person for saying it, but yeah. If you really truly don't want these people around, or want to strike back but don't want muck on your delicate fluffy paws... roll out the anonymous untraceable accounts and confuse the FUCK out of them with technically innocent but bewildering and vaguely sinister content.

You would not believe, for example, the chaos and outrage I managed to create once in an anti-furry troll community simply by anonymously posting High Art nudes. They were CERTAIN it had to be some kind of attack (and it was), but they had no idea what it was supposed to mean. Reduced them to frothing witch-hunty madness for days, and hopefully distracted them from some other poor target.

High-larious!</monty_burns>

More seriously, as a vet of the LJ Psychic Wars, my sincere advice is if you see anything that resembles 4chan or Encyclopedia Dramatica, kill it with fire and plenty of it. It's the social equivalent of John Carpenter's Thing.

Flat-out ridicule works surprisingly well. So do efforts to turn them vs. each other. But the most effective solution, in my opinion, is surrealist-meme saturation bombing. Their babble is already empty; help the process along.

OTOH, I'm pleasantly surprised and a little bit proud to say that every single damn person you good people have mentioned by name as having a role in this drama has proven to be someone I had apparently already blocked LONG ago for being excessively, irritatingly, self-consciously "woke."

Bouncing naked Eris on a goddamn pogo stick. Never trust anyone under 40. >__<

Okay, now just spitballing here, and maybe this is Martian cultural bias talking, but...

What if we just killed them, ate their brains, and sent all harvested data to the moon, where their minds would serve for eternity directing robot slave labor?

I don't even know for sure who "they" are at this point, but it's always worked for us in the past (read: "future").

(Tip of the hat to Rudy Rucker, Cobb Anderson, and Mr. Frostee.)

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

if i were a pc and this world were an mmo i would be doing a respec right now, taking a whole bunch of damage penalties so i can buff my range and area effect to ridiculous levels

and then i would just haul back and smack the entire human race on the cheek at once like some tetrated three stooges routine

you terran numbskulls

(Seriously. If I can get past the procrastination and actually get it DONE... Parallax Ch. 1 is gonna be a hell of a story. I'm excited all over again.)

No, Rez. You're not allowed to use all that extra manic caffeine/Gungeon energy to torment the right-wing Tolkein purist asshat arguing with @anthracite on Reddit.

You have Parallax to write. You can't afford to waste time on strangers. You have your _dear fictional friends and progeny_ who need tormented much more urgently.

(Though I did already add 1k more words to our revision of the Vek-10 half of the story. New improved climax, 200% more painful for everybody involved! ^_____^ )