this shit is like my pager going off

truly the height of irony that the better his lettering got, the more unreadable the comics became

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

The debate.

And hooray! I love to hear it!

Yes!

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

"[W]e observe that the more repressive a State is, the closer life under it resembles Death. If dying is deliverance into a condition of total non-freedom, then the State tends, in the limit, to Death."
-- Against the Day

I walked to the pharmacy and saw some incredible dogs! Only one with no leash because "he's cool, it's fine."

Deleting the thread because everyone got too kind and griping about what you see as the weaknesses in your own craft quickly felt self-pitying/unprofessional, etc. We're all poor curators of the strengths of our work because we are too close to it.

It's Friday! The windows are open!

It's also true that at least when I do a more genre-y thing I don't indulge it at all. It's more like I have a mode I can shift into that in my head is like Peanuts: big-headed overly self-aware worryworts given the curse of consciousness.

Just too lazy to tell it slant lol

This and Starship Troopers are movies I saw too young, then came back to and was like, "Oh, OHHHHH, I see the point I missed when my brain was still forming."

Support requested!

I've been looking for my next job for a while; haven't landed it yet.

My family still needs to eat, and I still need to pay the bills.

So I'm asking if you have a few $$ to spare today. Any amount helps me cover expenses.

I'm thiiirdperson on Cashapp, Venmo, Kofi, and Paypal.

Any creative experience you can limp away from...

Everybody's assuming I'm a lot more clever than I am lol

Oh! Oh right! This was the joke! I WAS NOT FUCKING UP BY TRANSCRIBING MY WORRY JOURNAL INTO "CHARACTERS" BUT ACTUALLY SUCCEEDING!

ugh my check still hasn't come, I'm so fucked, if you want to buy me a beer (or groceries) my venmo is @nattystrange

Missile is such a pessimistic name. They should call them hittles

You cannot use moral reasoning against fascists, because moral reasoning does not motivate them. You cannot argue against the law against them because they do not care about the law. What they care about is violence, and what they use is power. They will only respond to a superior display of power.

The reason is they are bullies and cowards. They don't care about fixing problems; they just want to hurt people, and it is easier and less risky for them to hurt people who can't defend themselves.

This, not coincidentally, is why confronting them directly is more effective than making speeches.

maybe I should become the menswear guy of metrical feet. account goes wild in December when every single ad is like "twas the night before Toyotathon, and all through the dealership are huge holiday savings for pre-qualified lessees"

please teach your children about meter and scansion we are facing a fucking global crisis of this shit