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Christopher Paulsen

@chrispco.bsky.social

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Creator of the webcomic Precocious. Currently force-hiatused and disabled thanks to good ol' malpractice. Still trying to get back to creating. 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻 Many, MANY cat photos shall be shared, including foster kittens!

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 8h

it's getting rapidly memory-holed that in 2012 kennedy claimed to a divorce judge that the brainworm affected his brain function and therefore future earning potential
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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 12h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 11h

Before Alaska flooding, Trump & Vance’s EPA had cancelled a $20 million flood protection grant.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 15h

Please, Mina, remember football players do their thing wearing helmets! I know no one’s face! I couldn’t pick my all-time fav players out of a lineup!

Save bums like me with alt text, at least. 🙏

Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 16h

More from the disaster wobble kitten, Pigpen:

-Very bravely climbing despite wobbles.

-Confusion as jumping on my lap fell short - so he slid off, taking the towel on my lap with him.

-There’s a gap between cat tower and scratching post bases that he rolled in, and wobble boy turtled and flailed!

Wobbly fluffball tuxedo kitten, Pigpen, uses a scratching post and starts to try climbing it. Great ambition!

Fluffy disaster Pigpen the kitten tried to jump on my lap despite CH limitations, and he came up short. He tries to climb the towel that is sliding off my lap with him in an attempt to reach the summit. This did not succeed.

Playful disaster Pigpen the kitten rolled over while playing with a toy and found himself on his back in a Pigpen-sized gap between the bases of the scratching post and the cat tower. With wide eyes, all four paws are waving as he tries to get back to right side up.

Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 16h

“Help! Help! I’m chomped and distressed!”

“Come and see the violence inherent in the kitten!”

🧛🏻🐈‍⬛🩶

Pigpen, a fluffy tuxedo wobble kitten, who is an undersized runt after developmental delays caused by kitty covid, is playfully chomping on my hand. He’s always gotten away with it because he was so little, but he’s now on the border of growing up enough he’ll have to learn responsibility!

Disaster fluffball kitten, Pigpen, opens wide again to chomp down on my finger while playing in my lap.

Petting Pigpen, the disaster wobble kitten in my lap, ends in an adorable chomp on my hand as he makes intense eye contact with me.

With a look of pure determination, the disaster kitten named Pigpen has chomped down on my thumb, only getting away with it because he’s using kitten-level pressure and it’s playing instead of mauling.

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 19h

It’s covered up with a hoodie, but it still feels gross as I walk around. Like I’m constantly being groped by the type of jackass who’d wear a wifebeater. I hate this.

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 19h

Folks, because my back spasms reached a level where I got fully wiped out over the weekend, I have gone to the most desperate of measures: I am wearing a wife beater so my PT can reach the problem spots.

I have never looked as ugly as I do now. It’s the least-flattering thing I could wear. Ugh.

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 1d

The evil beasts.

None of the Little Stuff pics from today were in focus, so I reused an older one I liked.

The fluffy cat brothers, Big Dipper, who’s dark gray, and Pirate, who’s a brown tabby, in closeup atop a cat tower. Dipper is leaning over as if to say something in Pirate’s ear - and, going by Dipper’s expression, it would be something silly.

A closeup of Pearl, a light gray tabby shorthair cat. She had climbed atop the kitty couch fort to look dramatic in the low light.

Little Stuff, a dark gray shorthair cat, looks up innocently as she reaches from her perch on one cat tower to use the cat tower next to her as a scratching post. The bonus context is this is seconds after I slid over the new tower, so she’d automatically declared, “this is now mine to destroy!”

Pulling back from the fluffy cats, smaller Lula, a shorthair brown tabby with white streaking down his face and covering his undercarriage, is flopping around goofily, trying to draw my attention from the majestic floof bros.

Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha, thinking of her as kitty is still weird, even tho it’s all I ever drew. I used my human cast as tests developing my comic style, then went back during disabled downtime and fixed designs as a mercy. Now I’m STRUGGLING to accept “Precociousverse fiction” forms became their default in my mind.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 2d

Well played, BlueSky.

A screencap with a meme and replies about brassica oleracea memes being varied, but fundamentally the same. Go google it and you’ll get where this was going.

Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 2d

Another lazy day Nate, cuz it’s so hard for me stand up with a migraine, much less sketch (hence the same subject over and over) and I show her forgiveness I’m not allowed.

Be kind (and not creepy) to her. She has an incompetent creator that limits her potential and often forgets how anatomy works.

A sketch of Natalia, a character from one of my in-my-head stories I play with to keep from going insane during bed rest. In this version of Momentum - where she’s part of a video game/cartoon franchise the kids from Precocious play/watch - Nate is an anthro longhair brown tabby cat with long curly hair, with the locks in front tucked back between her ears and cheek fluff. She is sitting on the floor in lounge pants and an undershirt, making casual fun conversation. She has an out of place choker leftover from when I intended to draw a button down shirt, before I then drew her arm stripes when I forgot I was meant to draw sleeves and panicked. I try to give these cartoon characters clothes that can slide over their big cartoon heads, so the need for the gap ended in more cleavage than planned. Sorry, girl. You only go casual and lighten up like this when you’ve had a long time to gain trust. Guess she trusts you BlueSky creeps, even tho she shouldn’t.

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for your service, Carolina 🫡

Rico Dowdle vindication! (I learned who he was last week!) Over 200 yards and a TD? Did I read stats right? Well done.

Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 2d

Not amused.

Three cats all taking up my designated sitting space on the couch instead of using the kitty couch fort area. They are also yelling at me for not sitting down and making a lap they can get into. The fools.

Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 2d

I spend way too much time in my day singing the Apothecary Diaries' third opening song, but with nonsense lyrics about my cats. For the ta-ta-ta bits I just meow at them, OBVIOUSLY!

"You're a kitty cat, who's a total brat. I think that you are rude, whatcha think of that?"

youtu.be/sYC5BfJy2nw?...

The Apothecary Diaries OP - Opening 3 | 4K | 60FPS | Creditless |

YouTube video by Anicrad

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 2d

To confirm, if I trust a random poster instead of looking it up myself: 9 completions, 9 sacks taken, -10 yards total in passing today.

Perfect London game example, with the spirit of Thursday Night Football too.

Football truly is the beautiful game.

Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 2d

Did ANYONE not see that ending coming?

I was already search for the Tyra “we were all rooting for you!” for Aaron Glenn when he made another bonehead move. (Maybe don’t put faith in a useless QB who probably has negative yards on dropbacks today???)

Tyra Banks I Was Rooting For You GIF

Alt: Tyra Banks I Was Rooting For You GIF

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 2d

Eet Mor Dewormer

Drink silver

Burn books. Yadda yadda…

rip to ur department of eduction but im different

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 2d

“Those bastards took all the lead out of American diets, and people started getting smarter. But my ability to hold power relies on using TONS of idiots, so that could NOT stand!”

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3d

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 3d

In her actual grumpy gardening flashback/intro, she's trying to uproot a shrub to clear space for a new gardening plot, and has a pickaxe malfunction. It's more embarrassing than gory, but I ain't drawing that! (The pickaxe hit the quest disc, which was buried in the roots, as you could guess.)

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Christopher Paulsen @chrispco.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking how, if Momentum were real, our intro to Nate would look like one of these two moments. She finds her quest disc during grumpy gardening, and is all awkward and overdoes it when greeting the main party.

(Don't like reposting a sketch I had to heavily photoshop to make postable, but alas!)

Natalia, a character from my (not real, just in-my-head testing grounds) story Momentum, sitting a little awkwardly - matching her broad and awkward smile (as her nervous eyes look slightly away, making my deadeye mistake in drawing actually fit canon!) - holding up a magical stone and demonstrating how it generates light constructs. She is an anthro longhair tabby in this version, with some of her long hair not pulled back and clipped as usual (apparently this is the constant in her two intros?) and wearing a long dress, plus a vial of miracle potion as a pendant. Look, this sheltered girl hasn't hung around peers in 24 years. Give her a break!

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