@mcc the rat is really angry :(

@mcc I opened up my laptop to type "this toot could have been a text" and what do I see at the top of the timeline. The Matrix is _so_ glitchy lately

@mcc (to the tune of Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads)

@mcc this climate crisis could have been a nice day in the park.

@mcc #mood captured!

@mcc and yet here we are...

@mcc I need this embroidered and framed on my wall

@mcc I think I'd prefer if the building was a grassy knoll rather than a field sometimes.

@mcc With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

@mcc this meeting could have been a windows update

@mcc Please add the #poetry hashtag

@mcc
Despite all my rage, I'm still just...

@mcc hahahaha

@mcc But Then Bob existed!

@mcc "Click here to restart and install updates."

@mcc @hacks4pancakes
This life is a simulation.

@mcc

ab·at·toir
/ˈabəˌtwär/
noun
British

> a slaughterhouse. <

"exporters are circumventing laws requiring all livestock to be delivered to approved abattoirs"

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[I had to look it up.]

Image is from the Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse

@mcc this rat in a cage pushing a button over and over could have been loved and cared for and given nice food and a big cage to explore and other ratty friends to hang out with

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Feels like an entirely apropos (but not appropriative) sequel to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised

@mcc Deeply and justifiably distressed at how specific and concrete of an example of that phenomenon comes so quickly to mind.

@mcc I had to sit with "This building could have been a grassy field" for a while.

@mcc What did the rat do to deserve that fate?!