Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

life is fragile and precious

stay mindful of your little joys

be ready for the bubble to burst at any moment

absolutely nothing about this world is fair, except those we struggle to make fair

entropy hates you and everything good you do is an act of defiance against the laws of thermodynamics

[I'm good, actually. Just playing soothsayer atcha. Remember, thou art mortal. Especially when you hang around with huge overeducated crazy jungle cats. 🐯​❤️​]

bojack horseman is a buddhist allegory

bojack is the icchantika, the proverbial unenlightenable soul

todd is the buddha

i'm feeling really called out here 🐯​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCW8xftdOA

I always associated this song with my time in Seattle because it reminded me of the show Community. I never really expected the actual lyrics would fit my feelings about this city so well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGbjR1Y9Qo

At least we were here. And I do still love you more than words can say.

Yes, them too.

Everything Thomas Pynchon says about British hard candy is, in my experience, absolutely true.

http://bella.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Fun/gravity.html

CHRISTMAS IS OVER! (if you want it)

Happy Kulturkampf, from all of Mars. 🐯​❤️​

*watches trailer for Jordan Peele's Us*

*sits there in dead silence for 2-3 minutes*

*blinks*

Fuuuuuuck.

Yeah, I'm in.

Apparently Trump is all alone for Christmas and has been whining about it on Twitter, and I just can't stop smiling. :D

Let's celebrate, with the only good Christmas song ever recorded that wasn't by Tom Lehrer or Weird Al: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KWj2WRd5PE

i am very fierce you know

(No, Rez. Looking up at the Martian sky, shaking your clenched paw at Terra, and muttering is _still_ not a subtoot. It's just a good idea. --Ed.)

You know, I originally came here to gripe about something, but on the way I found out there's a new Local 58 up and... you know, I can't even remember what was bothering me now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-vBhGk9F4

[CW: creepy. as. all. fuck. also this one is probably outright blasphemous to some of you <3 ]

Yeah, um, I think it's safe to say I finally got the hang of Through The Ages.

It still humbles, moves, and flatters me that people still talk about themselves in Puzzlebox warp terms. Not _everything's_ decayed, and it was definitely not all for nothing.

Now if we can just get y'all talking the same way about Parallax, friends, that's what I've been told the Terrans like to call a "career." ^__________^

I summarized the Pentagon Papers incident for some guy on Reddit, and another Redditor rewarded me with this neat inside story.

Strive in all things to be as big a nuisance to the system as this guy.

Watching an old Kids in the Hall. Bruce McCullough is cracking jokes about Canada and England being the 51st and 52nd US states.

How things have changed. Time devours all. I think I'm gonna have one more good cathartic cry, far too many cookies, and that nap I'd been threatening.

Enjoy whatever you are while you are it, folks. You too could end up here, covered in dust.

On Schadi! On Laika!
On Jwyl and on Marhime!

On Laudanum, Lucifer,
Pnoikelur, Tsouris!

On Ichschmerz! Ereshkigal!
Maybe Strangetheeka!

On Fernweh! On Kummerspeck!
Putzfimmel and Sigrid!

Your sentences have all been commuted. The brig is unlocked. Go wreck some shit up.

Have a blast, you little shits. I don't fucking care anymore. -_-

ended up foregoing the nap, had a lengthy and very good commiseration session with my awesome mom instead. she's got very much my temperament and bs tolerance and... yeah, i didn't know what a rough couple decades she'd had friends-wise herself.

it still sucks to feel like i've been locked out of the very group of people i brought together and not quite understanding why -- so i could at least know exactly what parts of myself i needed to fucking work on -- but if you all stuck around i guess some of the guesswork went okay and i'm not such a completely horrible person.

whatever. in this case, i lost an acquaintance who mostly only showed up looking for a friendly place to complain, and i went down defending my principles, because i am not gonna let someone play devil's advocate for someone who's idea of free speech includes running all hope of real discourse into the ground.

God damn it. I think I've had like three emotional circuit breakers thrown at once. I'm outta here for a while, and by "here" I mean consciousness. -__-

Have a better day than this, folks.

Every time a real scientist has to barge into a thread and debunk an alarmist, a blue whale waiting for real ecological progress dies of sheer frustration.

If you're seeing articles that tell you all our plankton are dying off and they provide 70% of our breathable oxygen and we're all hyperdoomed? I'd say ignore it. I'm seeing some pretty convincing counterarguments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/a8wdhj/scientists_raise_alert_as_ocean_plankton_levels/eceojdp/ (Counter-counter-evidence is, of course, most welcome. I'm still sorting through all this myself.)

Things are genuinely dire enough without turning every little climate factoid into a folk devil of imminent human extinction. Despair is comforting, but it's not a very good strategy for meaningful action.