Friday Five: Five things make a post
Apr. 17th, 2026 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniOne: For reasons I may (or may not) go into in my "Disability Discussion" access filter, I was recently handed a pamphlet from my city's Adult Protective Services. which includes the following definition:
2: Speaking of which, I have very mixed feelings about the recent Artemis 2 Moon Mission. On the one hand, I am grateful that human beings are willing to take the risks to explore beyond ever-expanding horizons, and show us portraits of Home that prove we really are in this together. On the other hand, I hate how this stinks of colonialism and capitalist exploitation. On the one hand, we dream of finding life on Mars (even simple, unicellular, life); on the other hand, if we followour Elon Musk's other dream of building a colony on Mars, our very presence could cause the extinction of whatever life is there.
Three: Speaking of which (again), I think this is my favorite photo taken by someone on the Artemis crew. That faint blue crescent is us - all of us (who each need help meeting our physical, psychological, and social needs).
IV: I've been watching a lot of YouTube. One of my favorite channels is PattyCake Productions. Located in Orlando. Florida, their bread and butter is fully cinematic parodies of Disney fairy tale classics, told from the P.O.V. of side characters and villains. All their songs and music are originals. This is their latest. With properly human-edited closed captions (the [cc] button is in the upper right):
Five: I've been getting the itch to write prose fiction again. But the last few years have been (barely acknowledged by me) emotionally and cognitively draining, and I'm having trouble getting over the hump of inertia.
Self-Neglect: Self-Neglect is when an adult is unable to meet their own essential physical, psychological, or social needs, which threatens their safety and well-being.Oh. So you mean every single human being who has ever lived on this planet, who will ever live on this planet, or who may, one day in the far future, live on other planets?
2: Speaking of which, I have very mixed feelings about the recent Artemis 2 Moon Mission. On the one hand, I am grateful that human beings are willing to take the risks to explore beyond ever-expanding horizons, and show us portraits of Home that prove we really are in this together. On the other hand, I hate how this stinks of colonialism and capitalist exploitation. On the one hand, we dream of finding life on Mars (even simple, unicellular, life); on the other hand, if we follow
Three: Speaking of which (again), I think this is my favorite photo taken by someone on the Artemis crew. That faint blue crescent is us - all of us (who each need help meeting our physical, psychological, and social needs).
IV: I've been watching a lot of YouTube. One of my favorite channels is PattyCake Productions. Located in Orlando. Florida, their bread and butter is fully cinematic parodies of Disney fairy tale classics, told from the P.O.V. of side characters and villains. All their songs and music are originals. This is their latest. With properly human-edited closed captions (the [cc] button is in the upper right):
Five: I've been getting the itch to write prose fiction again. But the last few years have been (barely acknowledged by me) emotionally and cognitively draining, and I'm having trouble getting over the hump of inertia.
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Date: 2026-04-17 08:07 pm (UTC)But I'm sad that (whatever happened). :-(
Good to know the usual crack team of emergency leaflitters reached you in time tho. Leaflets being the bestest medicines and carers combined!!1!! /sarcasm, obv
2. I'm gonna be a spoilsport and say there's no evidence for life on Mars, and I'd be happy to help Musk travel there on the inevitably one-way ticket with his brainwashed cultists, but we all know he doesn't intend to go himself.
Three. Yes, we live on the tiniest fingernail imprint in the unimaginably vast void of space, and we need to understand and behave like it.
IV. For me this shows up with the only good youtube ad - for prettily painted home interiors with an Old English Sheepdog. :-)
Five. Good luck!
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Date: 2026-04-17 11:42 pm (UTC)IV: Huh. *Puzzlement* I'd understand, if you don't have an ad-blocker running, that you'd see a pre-roll ad before the video proper... But to see only the ad? hm. :-/ Anyway, here's a link to the video on YouTube: Charming (ft. Jordan Litz) - Disney Princes Are FED UP! (Original Song)
Three. Yes.
2. I don't believe there's life on Mars, either. Though there may have been something bacteria adjacent 3.5 Billion years ago. Mostly, I'm frustrated with our collective, cultural, fascination with the so-called Fermi Paradox. Maybe the truly intelligent aliens out there realize that life, and whichever planet it evolved on, form an integrated Whole. And one simply can not be separated from the other at scale.
One: It's mostly fine, now, besides *gestures vaguely at the Christo-fascist state of my home nation, right now.* The irony is, the fact that I had the knowledge and ability to reach beyond my usual support network when my S.N. got A.F.U. (thus drawing attention of Anonymous, who contacted my city Bureaucrats) is evidence that I am not, actually, suffering from "self"-neglect.