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 …
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 ...
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!”)