Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

"Fuck your facefist!"

#ShitAnthraciteSays

TIL the term "crosshairs" derives from the use of actual hair strands in reticules. Huh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticle#Wire_crosshairs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Babnik_Brown#Hair_donation

This has been one of those days where I feel like I should be getting weight-gain related hazard pay for all the restaurants I have to look at during the day. -_-

I would basically scrag half of you right now for a Scottish munchie box with pakora. -_-

"😺👍🏻🤡👍🏻"

#AnthraciteWasOutvoted

I learned something very important while trying to work on Parallax with MST3K in the background.

It is absolutely impossible to have rational thought with the "Goosio" sketch in the background. Productivity is mathematically impossible. I just don't think it can be done.

Ultimately, I did the right thing and took a break to watch the finest children's entertainer Malta will ever know. ;___;

Wark wenk kwak wenk drugs wenk wark on Neptune. *nods and gulps down six of 'em in one peck*

https://doyouknowjapan.com/sweet/

(Seriously, some of these are gorgeous, and probably totally impractical and disappointing as actual dessert substances.)

I don't actually have anything interesting to say. Todd's asexuality arc in Bojack Horseman is just so fucking pure. I just want to hug him so platonically.

Wenk wenk wenk news?

*waddles across newspaper conveniently spread across arctic floe*

*bends neck and peeks at the headlines*

Wenk wenk wenk nope wenk.

*jumps into ocean*

(Seriously, the morning clickbait headlines gave me a fright, but the articles really just said what I already knew: the Democrats are still strongly favored to grab the house, but polls have errors and anything could happen.)

(And don't worry, I'll probably be over the penguin thing by, say... November 7th?)

Wenk wenk kinda down wenk? *nod* Wenk wenk rough week? *flutter*

Wenk wenk deserve this, wenk best song wenk history wenk. *slide*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ized1XMRp_I&list=PLWiaTQ91EE2E916sGvFGYlUF_6wpkrXVg&index=52&t=0s

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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." -- Edward Abbey

(Source: Wikiquote. But I only started digging into it because of the Murray Bookchin misattribution in this otherwise neat-looking podcast: https://www.eater.com/2018/10/19/17991578/zingermans-ari-weinzweig-interview I kinda want to wave it in front of certain old Twitter debating rivals who seriously thought anarchism was about having no rules or ambition whatsoever," not just doing away with hierarchies.)

#moodsnapshot

RIP my original Reddit account. It died well, defending Christine Blasey Ford from a right-wing troll with no sense of humor, who decided to call for the banhammer because I poked her too many times to follow through on her promised "list of video evidence" that turned out not to exist.

Never fear. I am like a hydra. A fierce penguin hydra. Another head has already taken its place.

Net time to bailing on Reddit this morning: 15 minutes.

Net time to bailing on Masto this morning: 45 seconds.

Fuck this, I'm gonna see if there's anything left of Club Penguin. Maybe I can get some nuanced opinions *there*.

Better yet, I'mma sit on the front stoop and talk to Peggy's crow friends. At least I can't _understand_ their political prejudices. -_-

Awwww. I debunked a local woman's worries that the bike thieves she chased off were going to come back to slaughter her family or something, and it apparently worked. (Among other things, I noted that bike thieving is not exactly a high-ambition career, and threatening potential witnesses, compared to just fucking off to another neighborhood, would be WORK...)

She thanked me and called me a "cheeky devil," which I am gonna treasure for days. =^____^=

#TigerRescueSquad

Once again, I've succeeded in making a stew so spicy that it technically counts as a psychedelic. Two full cans of chipotles in adobo. Even spiked with sour cream, one bowl and I'm already tingly and weak in the knees.

It's been a good day. My retinas are still vibrating. @_@

Current activity: rewatching Nathan Barley in preparation for Patrecon.

It's funny, when it came out, the critics panned it for missing the boat on IT-bubble culture. But in retrospect, what it actually did is predict Youtube click-hustler culture. The pundits' mistake was thinking the collapse of the economy was going to get rid of these people. Nathan is basically just Pewdiepie v0.1, with a nicer phone. -_-

(If any of you have seen Lodge 49-- and I recommend you do-- let's just say I've already told Peggy I intend to "Dud it up" something fierce at this con. :) If I come across as some kind of Holy Fool who just kinda got in as a fluke and doesn't really belong there... Working As Intended, baby.)

#ThatTigerReallyTiedTheConTogether

So basically, I'm anticipating feeling like the Slacker Barbarians At The Gates through the whole con.

I can totally deal with this. There's a lot to gain and nothing to lose, really. So my current plan is to pack a bathrobe, get a White Russian from the bar as soon as I get there, and play up my Dudeness as much as possible. I have absolutely NO fear of coming off as a hilarious low-rent outsider there, and if anybody has anything to fear, it's them. :D

On one hand, this is pretty awesome, I won't lie. :D As far as I can tell, we had to pass at least _some_ hurdle to get a free membership and hotel room out of these people. (I don't _think_ we just got picked out of a hat?) For a con that was invite-only to start with, that's pretty awesome...

On the other, ugh, their event site is so full of Monetization, Disruption, and Self-Branding gorp. It's clearly NOT aimed at small, static-medium creators like Peg and me...

Popping in to leave this Reggie Watts song. I'm pretty sure I've linked to it before, but it feels like the sort of song you just can't remind people of too often. There are a lot of good ideas here, a LOT of them, and if you're feeling down or stressed over interpersonal stuff, I can't recommend it (or Reggie in general) highly enough.

https://youtu.be/vO1CCXXMzBI

Love y'all. Don't kill each other please. n.n;