Lili Saintcrow"Even if he were to enact your fondest policy wish, he would do it in a way that maximizes harm and creates a dangerous precedent. His gift is that he is capable of poisoning everything." https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/monkeypaw-wishes
Charlie Stross@lilithsaintcrow There was this *great* kids' cartoon show in the 90s called I Am Weasel, about a super-genius superhero mustelid, and his idiot frenemy I. R. Baboon, an arrogant and stupid baboon. My headcanon for Trump is that he's basically the POTUS version of I. R. Baboon …
Janne Upla
@cstross @lilithsaintcrow pinky and the brain also live in my headspace rent-free
@cstross I never saw it, but that sounds *painfully* accurate. I’m just so goddamn embarrassed by the whole farce. It’s like all the worst parts of Reagan and the Bushes rolled into one and doused with reality-TV sewage.
VardyAlvarado@lilithsaintcrow @cstross you know that series?.
Alan Bellingham@cstross @lilithsaintcrow Oh gods, that series was so good. Basically that channel (Cartoon Network) was so good, what with that and Cow and Chicken and Samurai Jack and The Big O and ...
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Jos Dingjan@cstross @lilithsaintcrow @bellinghman Wasn’t Dexter’s Laboratory on there as well? “Dee Dee! Getoutofmylaboratory!”
mauvedeity@mauvedeity @happydisciple @cstross @lilithsaintcrow They'd already been mentioned so I felt it redundant. But yes, so much good stuff that we pretty much watched just that channel for a while
@bellinghman @happydisciple @cstross @lilithsaintcrow oh, I didn’t see that! But yes, I pretty much paid for cable when my sprog was small so we could share all those cartoons.
Tubemeister@happydisciple @cstross @lilithsaintcrow @bellinghman A lot of that stuff has ended up in people's vocabularies.
30 years on you can still get half the office laughing if you say "OooooOOOOOooooh what does this button do?" when somebody is poking at some piece of uncooperative tech.
@cstross @Tubemeister @lilithsaintcrow @bellinghman (not to mention “My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire!”)
Wes George@bellinghman @cstross made better by the fact that IM Weasel was voiced by Michael Dorn, resulting in lines that are funny on their own being hilarious when one imagines them being delivered by Worf.
@wesgeorge @bellinghman I have no idea who that is. Star Wars actor?
@cstross @bellinghman Worf was the Tactical / Security officer on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Klingon. Very serious, much gravitas, honor, duty etc.
@wesgeorge @bellinghman Excuse me, were you trying to imply that they made another series called "Star Trek" after the first? Outrageous lies and calumnies!
Jef Poskanzer
Chris (so far)@cstross @lilithsaintcrow Does this mean that Vance is the devil character in that series? Cause I could see it if you made that devil way more incompetent.
@cstross @lilithsaintcrow Ha, yes, that was good.
I remember thinking Weasel sounded familiar.
It's Worf.