Howard Dafuq
@zwlocklin.bsky.social
She’s with the mole rats now, mole rats ruined her life
He/him
He/him
Snoop Dogg?
Cameron Diaz?
or the trombonist from Reel Big Fish?
YOU DECIDE
Cameron Diaz?
or the trombonist from Reel Big Fish?
YOU DECIDE
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Snoop Dogg?
Cameron Diaz?
or the trombonist from Reel Big Fish?
YOU DECIDE
Cameron Diaz?
or the trombonist from Reel Big Fish?
YOU DECIDE
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I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.
February 12, 2026 at 1:09 AM
I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.
One of my former students, in an email: You’ve witnessed so much.
Me: [collapses into a pile of dust, slowly dispersing in the breeze]
Me: [collapses into a pile of dust, slowly dispersing in the breeze]
February 12, 2026 at 3:23 AM
One of my former students, in an email: You’ve witnessed so much.
Me: [collapses into a pile of dust, slowly dispersing in the breeze]
Me: [collapses into a pile of dust, slowly dispersing in the breeze]
I was treated like the “dumb one” in my friend group because they were all good at math & science, and I was good at reading—because anyone can read, I guess—and I’ve never quite gotten past that
But man, that lingering anger, pain, and spite in my heart about how the pervasive culture around me in the educational spaces of the 90s and 2000s told me that I was a useless eater just for sucking at my math SATs is always going to be with me.
February 11, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I was treated like the “dumb one” in my friend group because they were all good at math & science, and I was good at reading—because anyone can read, I guess—and I’ve never quite gotten past that
Rereading @nadiabulkin.bsky.social ‘s SHE SAID DESTROY because I assigned it in my creative writing fiction class (which I don’t get to teach often), and my god it is a work of beauty. Each story is flawless, heartbreaking, unnerving, politically razor-sharp
The students are loving it, of course
The students are loving it, of course
February 11, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Rereading @nadiabulkin.bsky.social ‘s SHE SAID DESTROY because I assigned it in my creative writing fiction class (which I don’t get to teach often), and my god it is a work of beauty. Each story is flawless, heartbreaking, unnerving, politically razor-sharp
The students are loving it, of course
The students are loving it, of course
You’re telling me he … called an expert?
February 10, 2026 at 2:59 PM
You’re telling me he … called an expert?
Meanwhile…
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Meanwhile…
This book, in fact, rips so hard. It feels exactly like if Shiraishi Koji wrote a book, minus the humor
which makes sense because I understand it is the basis of his next movie? or is it a novelization of his next movie? I rly don’t know causality on this one
which makes sense because I understand it is the basis of his next movie? or is it a novelization of his next movie? I rly don’t know causality on this one
Hell yeah brother. All hail @locklinreads.bsky.social for getting me an early Valentine’s Kinki
February 9, 2026 at 6:10 AM
This book, in fact, rips so hard. It feels exactly like if Shiraishi Koji wrote a book, minus the humor
which makes sense because I understand it is the basis of his next movie? or is it a novelization of his next movie? I rly don’t know causality on this one
which makes sense because I understand it is the basis of his next movie? or is it a novelization of his next movie? I rly don’t know causality on this one
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“The question isn’t *does* Frankenstein’s monster have a dong, the question is *why* does Frankenstein’s Monster have a dong?”
“The question isn’t *does* Frankenstein’s monster have a dong, the question is *why* does Frankenstein’s Monster have a dong?”
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Sadly, not aliens."
"Sadly, not aliens."
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"It's not designed to work that way"
"It's not designed to work that way"
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“The question isn’t *does* Frankenstein’s monster have a dong, the question is *why* does Frankenstein’s Monster have a dong?”
“The question isn’t *does* Frankenstein’s monster have a dong, the question is *why* does Frankenstein’s Monster have a dong?”
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I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
lataco.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
John Clare spent a full month’s pay from working in the fields just to buy a single notebook so he could write his poems down. He had a fieldworker’s education, so he could read & write but his grammar and spelling were atrocious.
But he did it anyway, and became (briefly) a bestselling poet.
But he did it anyway, and became (briefly) a bestselling poet.
Not going to repost that shill insisting that anti-AI artists are "gatekeeping" art and that it's unfair that some people are simply too poor or untalented to learn how to draw without AI.
But I do want to talk about my cousin. 🧵
But I do want to talk about my cousin. 🧵
February 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
John Clare spent a full month’s pay from working in the fields just to buy a single notebook so he could write his poems down. He had a fieldworker’s education, so he could read & write but his grammar and spelling were atrocious.
But he did it anyway, and became (briefly) a bestselling poet.
But he did it anyway, and became (briefly) a bestselling poet.
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horror is perhaps the only genre where an inactive protagonist is key & more useful than an active one. Where things happening to them increase the terror and the story, & if they start being active, it has to be in a way that fails in weird and scary ways
else the terror lessons, & it's not horror
else the terror lessons, & it's not horror
February 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
horror is perhaps the only genre where an inactive protagonist is key & more useful than an active one. Where things happening to them increase the terror and the story, & if they start being active, it has to be in a way that fails in weird and scary ways
else the terror lessons, & it's not horror
else the terror lessons, & it's not horror
Hell yeah brother. All hail @locklinreads.bsky.social for getting me an early Valentine’s Kinki
February 6, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Hell yeah brother. All hail @locklinreads.bsky.social for getting me an early Valentine’s Kinki
Oh my god all of these are so good. THE HATCHING is seriously a no-miss, like you absolutely must watch this movie. GRETEL AND HANSEL may be my least favorite Perkins movie and it’s still better than every other American horror movie ever made—and visually sumptuous. SUMPTUOUSSSSSS.
It's Fairy Tale February on #FolkHorrorFriday. The lineup:
2/6 THE LURE
2/13 THE HATCHING
2/20 GRETEL AND HANSEL
2/27 THE HALLOW
All movies are free to stream on Tubi. We start at 9pm ET every Friday and post using the hashtag.
2/6 THE LURE
2/13 THE HATCHING
2/20 GRETEL AND HANSEL
2/27 THE HALLOW
All movies are free to stream on Tubi. We start at 9pm ET every Friday and post using the hashtag.
February 6, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Oh my god all of these are so good. THE HATCHING is seriously a no-miss, like you absolutely must watch this movie. GRETEL AND HANSEL may be my least favorite Perkins movie and it’s still better than every other American horror movie ever made—and visually sumptuous. SUMPTUOUSSSSSS.
I’m of the belief that it is better to acknowledge what we’ve lost—to say, yes, Harry Potter meant a lot to me and Rowling has ruined it for me—in part to emphasize that this isn’t easy or performative, and in part to show that it’s a moral imperative, not just yelling at things you don’t like
one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
February 4, 2026 at 6:40 AM
I’m of the belief that it is better to acknowledge what we’ve lost—to say, yes, Harry Potter meant a lot to me and Rowling has ruined it for me—in part to emphasize that this isn’t easy or performative, and in part to show that it’s a moral imperative, not just yelling at things you don’t like
We seem, through no effort of our own, to have acquired a new stray cat
February 3, 2026 at 6:20 AM
We seem, through no effort of our own, to have acquired a new stray cat
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The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026.
Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
January 31, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026.
Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
Elon Musk creates a homunculus with the body of Stephen King, the head of John Updike, and the craven mediocrity of JK Rowling
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Elon Musk creates a homunculus with the body of Stephen King, the head of John Updike, and the craven mediocrity of JK Rowling
I am No (Negative)
(obviously)
(obviously)
January 30, 2026 at 4:57 AM
I am No (Negative)
(obviously)
(obviously)
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a week or so ago @tonyisabella.bsky.social was looking for as complete a list as she could assemble of comic creators who are trans-inclusive
i named a whole bunch of folks, so i added in a buncha editors and made a starter pack!
i named a whole bunch of folks, so i added in a buncha editors and made a starter pack!
January 26, 2026 at 10:29 PM
a week or so ago @tonyisabella.bsky.social was looking for as complete a list as she could assemble of comic creators who are trans-inclusive
i named a whole bunch of folks, so i added in a buncha editors and made a starter pack!
i named a whole bunch of folks, so i added in a buncha editors and made a starter pack!
I deeply do not like this drawing (complimentary!)
It’s giving SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK but with a haunting restraint appropriate to THE WOMAN IN BLACK
It’s giving SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK but with a haunting restraint appropriate to THE WOMAN IN BLACK
I left my old job a couple of years ago. I’m getting by (just) but crikey, having done my tax return & seen how little I’m earning it was a shocker, it’s getting more & more difficult to earn money from illustration.
I have been out of action too so…I’ll get cracking!
Buy my art (FEBRUARY) 🙏🏻
I have been out of action too so…I’ll get cracking!
Buy my art (FEBRUARY) 🙏🏻
January 27, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I deeply do not like this drawing (complimentary!)
It’s giving SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK but with a haunting restraint appropriate to THE WOMAN IN BLACK
It’s giving SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK but with a haunting restraint appropriate to THE WOMAN IN BLACK
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call a Democrat and tell them pre-capitulation will lose them your support and we'll give you a free eBook or $3 off any book in the shop.
code: ABOLISHICE
kithbooks.com
code: ABOLISHICE
kithbooks.com
Word is from NBC that instructions from Mr. Schumer to his caucus are: “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” 1/ www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
call a Democrat and tell them pre-capitulation will lose them your support and we'll give you a free eBook or $3 off any book in the shop.
code: ABOLISHICE
kithbooks.com
code: ABOLISHICE
kithbooks.com
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Again it's good Bovino got pulled back. It's good there might be even a temporary drawdown in Minneapolis. But DHS is surging in Maine. It is grabbing people around Los Angeles. They aren't stopping. Maybe they're scared but they aren't stopping. The American Dirty War continues.
something i'm kind of stressed about is that every time someone at dhs was ousted during trump 1, no matter what odious shit they were connected with, they had been ousted for being insufficient hardline
January 27, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Again it's good Bovino got pulled back. It's good there might be even a temporary drawdown in Minneapolis. But DHS is surging in Maine. It is grabbing people around Los Angeles. They aren't stopping. Maybe they're scared but they aren't stopping. The American Dirty War continues.
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January 25, 2026 at 7:01 AM