11th of November, fuckos. Important date, we must show our reverence and respect... For the 50th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government and the 1975 Constitutional Crisis of Australia.

we all know the old joke about how if most blokes got their periods, tampons/pads would be called ULTIMATE SUPER SOAKER 9000 etc right? well that's now happened with vacuum cleaners, since now they are all literally called shit like ULTIMATE POWER ADVANCED SUCK 9000 etc. so men must be using them.

thinking about heeem!!!!!! go see Good Boy!!!!!

I deslike the way some US trgions use 'drug' as the past-tense of 'drag' instead of 'dragged'. I'm usually pretty cool with Americanizations of English, but this one, for some reason, is my hill to die on. Or maybe it's just because my neck pain is really bad today, who can say. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

for real tho, how do you tell Amazon there's a spelling error in a part of their user settings on their website? (when you go to devices & content > content > Docs > filter settings. not present on other types of content views, just the Docs)

that is some Nice Art (finally, some good fucking food, etc)

One of the things I always find telling is the idea that we have to judge past people by the standards of their time, as if the fact that they did bad things means that everyone thought it was okay. They didn't. Pretty much every obviously evil act had people saying that it was, in fact, bad.

my hot take is some of y'all need to stop only reading comics. read prose, go to a museum, learn scrimshaw, wtfever. go be an interesting person first because i can TELL when people don't ingest anythiinnggg else but comics

It includes customers appealing an incorrect age verification, if you're wondering.

Today: sfx lettering and cover design with constant feedback from my supervising editor

If you wanna see something good that doesn't waste a single minute of its 2 hour and 14 minute runtime, go watch Exhuma. Fucking banger of a movie, I've thought about it every day since I watched it.

You really know when a podcast is written by someone from the USA, because they don't know/forget that Pakistan is a nuclear power.

Weapons had a really good movie in there somewhere, but it desperately needed a WAY more ruthless editor. Felt like Zach Cregger was too close to that editing suite & the released film unfortunately suffered a lot because of it.

TIL just as koalas are full of chlamydia, elephants tend to have TB, especially if they are in captivity or living near humans with TB. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I love how pro-pockets Alien Earth is. Mega corporations may run the universe but if the trade off is all clothing will have a minimum of 4 pockets per piece then maybe it's worth it.

if you can help my wonderful friends and their very sweet pets out of a garbage situation, i would love you forever also, if you donate, i'll voice something for you 💕

Silksong: here's a new enemy, the pathetic worm. He's 3 inches tall and has the voice of an 80 year old man. Me: heh, cool Silksong: the pathetic worm has 7 different attacks, 400 hp, and will take two of your health per hit Me (through tears): very...cool...

youtube: we're only using AI to deal with resolution issues, pinky swear every youtube short: looks like steaming AI bullshit with mannequin-smooth humans creeping everyone the fuck out. so even if you're a creator who doesn't use AI, you're gonna have it thrust upon you, without consent

made some new cards for my dice game at conventions :3 🌿 #art #kpopdemonhunters #KPDH

Timothy Oliphant is really carrying Alien Earth, isn't he. I guess that's the risk with a cast consisting of mostly younger actors.

love it when podcasts use Aussie cockatoo screeching as stand-in for a Jersey devil or a thunderbird *eyes @grimandmild.bsky.social re: Bridgewater* I mean, they are terrifying demons so you could have subbed in cockatoos instead of something made-up as the thing your characters were running from.

you all know I fucken love listening to narrative audio drama podcasts but I fucken hate it when the cast is famous enough that the three ads that keep repeating on the show are a) expensive cars, b) gambling, c) BHP.

am I just old and grumpy or is there actually a vast increase in the amount of spam marketing bullshit I get sent these days. I feel like it's the latter but I come from a long line of dementia patients so I'm probably losing my fucking mind.

related: if you quote stephen king as an influence but you idealise small US towns in your horror novels, you've grossly misunderstood his writing or just refuse to get the fucken message.

I binged all of this podcast yesterday specifically because I was looking for something a) made by grown ups, for grown ups, that doesn't treat its audience like idiots and b) not made by North Americans. And it delivered above and beyond what I expected. Cannot recommend enough.

hmmmm, interesting but also not surprising. if you're gonna bloat your network with mediocre true crime podcasts in an already oversaturated market, it's not gonna end well.

on behalf of all sane Australians, I would like to apologise for the stupid itch.io & Steam bullshit currently making the lives of creators everywhere hell. but also, what if the platforms could implement their own fucking content rules instead of mass-banning the metaphorical babies & bathwater.

Nothing prepared me for FTM to mean “First Time Mom”. I’m hanging out in very different corners of the internet.

shoutout to all my millennials who feel such relief at the idea of their parent(s) dying but then immediately feel horribly guilty for feeling such a thing afterwards. or like not, since that last part is probably just the Catholic brainwashing I was subjected to as a kid.

I would like to ban Guy Montgomery from frowning at any camera too intensely because it gives too much Tony Abbott circa 1994. Especially if Guy is wearing the brown jacket.

Every "women are falling behind in AI" article I've read in the last couple years has been pro-AI propaganda. I've yet to read *a single one* that actually takes any concerns about AI (ethical, environment, mental, etc) seriously. Even the ones written by women take a "bitches be crazy" tone.

It's also really funny because you'd assume this quote about women being afraid that using LLMs will hurt their critical thinking skills would be followed up with all the studies that say, yep, it does that. Nope. The fact that this fear is both logical and backed up by science is never brought up.

Ladies, you have to use AI, it's the future because it makes tasks so easy but also it's really hard to learn so you definitely can't just start using it once you're required to at work, you have to go through an arduous process first to figure out how to use this tool which simplifies everything.

ketamine is a hell of a drug

just a reminder that I'm still looking for animation work! I've got a wide range of experience, and I'd be delighted to help you or someone you know make a funny little cartoon. (recruiters, please email for access to NDA work)

hey all! a really lovely person and friend needs some help. if you can pitch in to keep them housed, it would mean so much 💖

This is wild. I've written/published two memoirish nonfiction books, and the GUILT I felt about trying to improve the structure by making the tiniest of unimportant tweaks to the strictly true facts...

@dwstatic.bsky.social happy birthday from the future! may you have a nice time full of good things.

As someone built like a German tank/brick shithouse etc, I've never been compared to any celeb. Where my fat people at who can relate?

Happy birthday to me. From the River to the Sea 🇵🇸, if you're in Australia, buy a kufiyah from kufiyas.org.au is all I ask for my birthday wishes, thank you.

it’s july (old art)

If you want a small escape from our horrifying world, & you enjoy weird, complex, strange, & beautiful stories, made by incredibly skilled & hardworking people, I cannot recommend @thesiltverses.bsky.social enough. The full podcast has been released as well, so no waiting for new episodes either.

Lrt wish I had a clamshell

After a tough day, octopuses sometimes have to improvise to find somewhere safe to have a snooze, just like in this clamshell ~ photographed in Lembah Strait, off Indonesia, by Franco Tulli (Australian Nature Photographer Awards 2021) theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Make art about it. Make art to process it. Make art to escape it. Make art to protest it. Make art to change it. Make art to grow from it. Make art to recover from it. Make art to understand it. Make art to question it. Just make art about it.

I'm so tired of living in Americaworld.

please for fucks sake Yanks, fix your fucking country, if only because tour universally incorrect political colourisation continues to drive me fucking insane. everytime I see the words 'red hat' I am every confusiondotgif you know until I remember how fucked your country is.

TIL Artamon is a Sydney suburb, honestly thought it was a Digimon creature before.