me when my 32mm scale model Meiji Restoration-era Japanese village is out for delivery

Here is a comic from March 2024 that I forgot to post here, featuring my whimsical characters whose names I also forget

I know spooky season is closing in when there's a sudden uptick in sales of my NES Castlevania map without me even having to do anything: mudron.bigcartel.com/product/nes-...

This is a zero-strikes We Are Not Friends, You Are Not My Ally indicator for me and I won’t budge on it

dudes rock

Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Feeling uncomfortable about something is not a morally superior stance. Disgust is not an inherently correct reaction to something, nor does it prove something's sinfulness. You can't consume your way into moral purity.

you busy? the monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey is here. it wants us to—yeah, beat each other to death with bones

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

idk why but these days it’s almost a small pleasure to discover a product is for sale on Amazon and then (usually, though not always) pay extra specifically to another business to send it to me instead

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

Let’s see if I’m allowed to post images today, even though this is my least favourite social media I am proud of what I made and do want to show it off.

19 Sep 25 -- Video from Natl Women's Law Center, 9 Dem state Atty's Gnrl (CA, DE, MA, MD, MI, MN, NY, OR, & VT) declare "I promise to fight for trans students" & do "whatever it takes" as school year begins. (There are 50 states folks-- it's not enough.) @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Part of the "born this way" narrative I struggle with is it says "I've always been like this! Get over it!" versus "I am always growing and changing. We all deserve the chance to do that." A demand of static acceptance (easier to sell?) versus a call for grace and radical compassion

My parents brought me some items from when I was a preteen and it turns out I have always been like this (very cool with tolerant friends)

The purpose of a boycott is not to hit 'em in their pockets. That's just the instant emotional hit of it. The purpose of a boycott is to find ways every day to live your values. Draw lines in the sand, and hold them. It's good practice.

HANG IN THERE BABY!! #art

As I have said often - the value of calling out hypocrisy isn't to shame the hypocrite into changing their behavior. It's to reaffirm our consensus reality, which is extremely important when they are trying to erase truth.

who up strokin' they sword while lamenting the social realities

The state has authorized pharmacists in Oregon to administer Covid-19 vaccines without a prescription.

if you’re a trans american and following the news right now, it can feel pretty terrifying. that’s because it IS terrifying. just… the number one thing you can do right now is to live as long as humanly possible and make it to the other side of all this. because we WILL win. and that’s how.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Just let us live. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

If it can get worse It can get better.

There is nothing like realizing a guest is arriving 24 hours sooner than you remembered to make every sphincter in your body snap shut at the same time

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

hayao miyazaki refusing to go to the american premiere of howl until he found out bacall was gonna be there at which point he adjusted his tie & vanished in a cloud of dust headed for manhattan is possibly the most relatable thing dude has ever done

Hive mind: I need a list of good movies/television shows with transgender characters in the lead or major support roles. Bonus points if actuality played by trans actors but not necessarily a requirement. Please reply with anything you can think of and please share this post for maximum visibility!

Salem from the 90s Sabrina show should continue appearing in stuff. He should be in commercials, maybe host the oscars or something

trans people were largely either unknown or treated as scientific curiosities and interesting stories until the cultural moment of visibility in the early-mid 2010s and the subsequent backlash

My absolute favorite thing is when you're having dinner next to a slightly fancier place and then you suddenly hear a live band muffled from the other side of a fence. It has happened three times in my life, each a different summer in Portland, and it delights me to my toes

Tried meeting my spouse at a different Amtrak station and I cannot express the degree to which that train stop at 8 PM on a Saturday was husky boy central Husky boys to and fro, thithering AND hithering as far as the eye could see, all of us sweating in the end of day sun

no no no you misunderstood. I said “fuck YOUR feelings”. MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Teenage me 🤝 adult me Feeling way more balanced after taking a long drive and hollering along to They Might Be Giants

Paywalls. Paywalls fucking everywhere. As if the sheer number of ads behind said paywall aren't enough to cover things. I know everyone needs to make their money, but holy fuck -- no wonder the world is teeming with a bunch of incurious, under-read mouth-breathers. Curiosity has a bill.

Do y'all have any tips on giving constructive feedback in regards to creative work? I'm not a designer, but in my freelancing I try to ground my feedback in what I know of design, web standards, accessibility, and copywriting best practices... But I struggle in framing my feedback to be inviting

You can "honor" Kirk's memory by doing the thing he'd hate and donating to an organization that wants to help low-income trans adults receive gender affirming care: www.transincomeproject.org/donate (also read my interview with TIPs executive director in the original post)

i know as a nation we've given up on health & disease control, but it IS kind of wild they don't pass out N95s on airplanes. like if you can afford complimentary earbuds--

Lawyering at its best. I wish we had awards for this sort of heroic representation.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

It's raiiiiining, god, did you know that no one else can feel the rain on your skin FOR you? Turns out only you can let it in?? Wild. Why is no one talking about this

I think about this stock image a lot and how it presaged modern llms

We live in the era of "why did you post this" but this comment, in response to a short from a Canadian YouTuber sharing they are struggling with tariff fuckery, truly left me winded

over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone

Thank you, Maru, for being such a good friend, even from afar. sisinmaru.com/2025/09/06/%...