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I need a vcr repaired. Looks like possibly a mouse was living in it. Anyone bored and have some spare time?

Additionally, who tf is this and why are they are in our attic?

Remember Doreen? This is the sort of stupid shit she'd have been responsible for.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4qOzzXrEsp/?igsh=a3kzMXBzOHRqM2cy

Shorted out my phone and my synthesiser so now I'm having to type in rubber gloves.

For the record: still can't talk more than 'yes', 'no', 'more', 'want' and 'stop'. Once we realised all my mouth parts were fucked up and my brain wasn't wired for oral speech, all my childhood speech therapy went on using ASL and AAC. They were basically the only words I new how to say before, too and I wasn't great at them then, either.

had a report. followed it up because my job is nothing if not glamorous. I'm sharing it because why the hell not? It's not linked to any of our ops, to the Brotherhood's current mercenary actions or, whatever.

Relevant facts are that a masked man shouting Shakespeare and Led Zepplin managed to break into the command compound of one of the various anti government militia there and murdered everyone in some horrifying ways involving what my guy tells me are actual, antique medieval war axes.. As an aside - some (most) of the various mercenary types out there are really just psychotic thugs who enjoy the way we've made the mass murdering serial killer life semi legitimate. All the people he murdered were also terrible but that's not the point.

My guy tells me he walked off into the distance singing "You are my sunshine" and like I said, there's a lot of weapon for hire types leaning into the psychotic lunatic life as hard as they can.

The local authorities, such as they are, are moving into the power vacuum.

@Doug

So, researchers have found a way to turn dead spiders into necrobiotic grippers.

Putting this in the nightmares folder.

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1552662721124081664?s=20&t=Sb9jf5_vVtuWGFGPMIj25Q

Hey, welcome to being old! It's all downhill from here. Trust me.

To celebrate, we're getting drinks in the DX. Bring your friends. Yes, this post is public.

I normally stay quiet and just seethe inside but, hell. Screw it. I'll say what I really think for once.

Never forget that we live in an explicitly human superior world and our participation and lives are always conditional on humans. We've been fighting for the barest minimum - a little less murder, please - for years as though limited tolerance and what? Exclusion, unemployment, slums? Not being hunted by Sentinels, mad scienctusts or human militaries is an end goal, not a starting point.

We will never have equality under human institutions and laws.

1) if you are fighting someone and you hit them in the head - even if you are sparring - you will cause traumatic brain injuries. these are otherwise known as brain damage.

that is what a concussion is. brain damage. multiple non concussive hits will also cause brain damage.

2) if you hit someone in the head with the aim of knocking them out, there is a chance that you will kill them. this is significantly higher than you would expect. if you do not hit them hard enough to kill, they might just kill you anyway.

3) this may not bother you if your options are: they die, they have potential life long brain injuries or you die and you would prefer to stay alive.

4) however, if your goal is generally not killing people, you should probably remember that any method of making a person unconscious in the field contains far higher risks of killing someone than you would expect, actually.

addendum: 5) the mansion and all teams located within it would likely be happier, healthier and more emotionally balanced if most people around here were not actually suffering some degree of post concussion syndrome.

So, some scientists have grown ...brain pieces in a lab, for want of a better technical term that I can't really be bothered looking up again right now.

The brain pieces have eyes. More or less. They can perceive light.

Now, here's a question for the telepaths in the room: how many pieces of a brain do you need before it develops a rudimentary consciousness? and are we creating sad little trapped entities in jars (again)?

Anyone know a friendly telepath who wants to go break into a German lab and listen to some petri dishes and determine where we're at in the mad scientist scale?

Are we at normal and creepy or approaching the point where a strike team, some car bombs and a bullet in the back of someone's head are needed?

(X-Force have my full report already. This is the redacted version, because hell, some of you deserve nightmares about brains in jars, too.)

(I mean, y'all, what if the brain pieces have a link back to the astral plane and are hosting a disembodied consciousness because someone was psi sensitive.)

I went up to the attics today to look for some things I put into storage a while ago - some art materials I didn't need back when but since I'm spending more time around here right now, I thought, hey, let's have a weekend.

Do. Do you people never throw anything out at all?

I found some of Leech's toys. Leech.

He hasn't lived here in 14 years.

I found some boxes of crap that belong to a bunch of other people who are also long gone and I've dumped them in the front foyer. No, the original owners do not want them back because if they did, they'd have picked them up in the last ten years.

There's some classic VHS in there, some cassette tapes, some really fuuuuuuugly clothes Haroun used to wear. Have at it. I'm taking it all to the dump when I get around to it.

Laurie is a goddamn psycho who has publicly admitted to growing mold in the kitchen for science.

Yeah, I don't fucking know, either.

It is not our responsibility to let that bitch get away with this shit by cleaning up after her. Dump the crap in her room, sure but don't clean up after her.

She's 29. It's time she either got intensive therapy around social skills and living with other people or - for once in her fucking life - has to actually face the consequences of her actions.

"Hahaha, aren't I quirky and smart and interested in science" is bullshit when all you're doing is being obnoxious.

She's too to pull shit shit. it's not cure, it's not endearing. It's like - she's either got serious psychological problems or she needs to stop thinking that Zooey Douchenal is a role model or just move the hell out.

Reasons 2 to 9999 why I'm never going to Tennessee all now start with "methgators".

Goddamn people.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/16/dont-flush-your-drugs-mkay-police-warn-of-the-possibility-of-meth-gators?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2cdcIE4l7BnHhTFWWcVCCtCv5tYSKSWrm-3QLqrz8aYC-92fN5k-lwsTY#Echobox=1563351804

I'm going on a week long vacation. I will be on a beach in Thailand for Thanksgiving at a resort chosen entirely for the bottomless cocktails and because it is not run by people who celebrate Thanksgiving.

I loathe this holiday and everything it stands for.

I am going to drink my feelings and remember my dead instead.

It is April 2.

Kindly remove whatever sadistic deathtraps you might have left lying around thinking they were "funny" because no, actually they weren't.

In unrelated news,I have a twisted ankle because someone taped an air horn to the door jam so it went off when I opened a door.

At this point, I'm honestly surprised that one of you hasn't done this already.

https://youtu.be/vI7tWd7B3iI

Interconnection - visionary projection mapping - the winner of iMapp 2016 from Limelight 3d Projection Mapping on Vimeo.

Bucharest: Still not my favorite city, still not anything other than a shitshow for most of the year but if you have to go spend a month on the other side of the former iron curtain, at least you can get away for a bit, right?

(See also, the three days on the Croatian coast drinking little drinks with umbrellas in Dubrovnik pretending it was summer and also, pretending to be an extra in Game of Thrones.)