it does kind of feel like a lot of bluesky users spent four days around their extended family and immediately got on here to be like "the pizza you ate as a child sucks. the twin cities are overrated. what else. pencils should be illegal" you all are disregulated and you need to settle down!!

I had a lot of fun with my friends this week. I logged on to Bsky for some reason and you all are irony fighting about whether or not fast food should be grey cubes/fighting who can celebrate B Bardos death the most. Is this really something I want to subject myself to? Why am I here?

12/24-1/2 the risk of me just deleting every single email in a fury is very high.

I was talking with my friend last night about writing and he mentioned drama comes from conflict, conflict comes from *difficult* choices and a choice between doing good and doing evil is no choice.

flipside of the slop tsunami: companies like Google aren't just flooding our digital existence with AI gruel, they're actively, intentionally destroying real human-created content too, because they know that we largely still value real content and that ultimately the slop can't compete

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My absolutely not aesthetic tea set up.

Everyone working with Justin Sun, including the sons of the President, have access to this public balance information and so presumably find the behavior that looks like insolvency to be acceptable for their business partners

If you use Microsoft 365 they are asking for feedback about copilot right now. It's a great opportunity to tell them it's trash and it sucks! I'm sure it will be used for targeted marketing to address concerns about how it's trash and it sucks, but you can still complain.

I found a very bracing youtube channel I enjoy: These professional builders go through and fix DIYs. Let me tell you, people really trust nothing bad will happen. They approach house wiring with a boldness and confidence I will never have in anything.

Happy Holidays, everyone!! I'll take the opportunity to share this starter pack full of my amazing fellow colorists!

“Cast,” with art by @aaronlosty.bsky.social, coloring by Aaron and @marissadraws.bsky.social, and lettering by @illusclaire.bsky.social

Hehehe. Paul loves me. He loves to take me out for little treats.

My toxic trait is I think if I buy it, it should last at least 15-25 years.

This is the last thing then I'll shut up: Hopepunk fundamentally misunderstands existentialism, modernism and post modernism. It has no interest in correcting those misunderstandings, because it's in service of marketing and coziness. Hopepunk is where cozy Ghibli comes from.

I've written a big piece for the Observer about the Big C. Would be lovely if you find time to read it sometime and feel free to share. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Huh... You'd think I'd be exactly the target market for hopepunk. But I hate it! I should figure out why I hate it. It kind of feels like the warmed over corpse of the ideas I actually like. What's the difference?

The two ideas that always resonate with me in media are: -You need other people -You will survive If it's earnest, it just does it for me every time.

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

I preordered WORST MAN with my local indie bookshop and if you're a sucker for romcoms with gorgeous art and impeccable acting, you should too! I've been blessed with peeks at this OGN over the last couple years and each was better than the last because Ro, Ted, and Frank are simply the BEST.

I recently rewatched 8 1/2. I first saw it when I was 15 and that probably alienated me from most of the population. Except that one other nerd in our two person film club. I'm glad in the years since I've more or less learned how to talk to people in ways that don't judge or condescend about taste

Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.

Hey Marissa how is learning CSP going?

Want to feel old? The dinosaurs from Jurassic Park are now 65,000,032 years old!

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

Happy Holidays to all of those who celebrate and best wishes to you all ✨❤️ Thank you for your support in 2025, it means more than I can express!🙏✨

Saw ‘snow rollers’ for the first time.

Ehehehe

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

In more pleasant things, I got the new palette set up, made some adjustments and in testing it I had a major oopsie. But that oopsie taught me how to do this nice grey effect. So I'm really excited for that! Better painting here I come!

I'm sorry this isn't a gift article, but I think this one is vitally important to share with friends and family. It's video so it breaks the advertising illusion of what border patrol is sharing on Twitter. I hope this reporting reaches people. Summary below.

Maybe I like the eagles strategy of making your opponents think you forgot how to play football for the first three quarters. It speaks to me as a bills fan.

Part of me wonders how many bad posts show up online just because people are hangry

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You're being insufficently mean

I took the liberty of fixing it even more.

fixed it for them

this is how you end up with serial killer boobs

Philly sandwiches are insane.

I'm going to lightly engage in discourse. I really, really struggled to get divorced. I was in an incredibly bad marriage. I was on the verge of suicide constantly in that marriage. I kept catching strays like this. It kept me in the marriage way longer than I should've been.

Just a quick reminder that we’re making a whip-smart gay romcom about love, unusual crime, and hating weird billionaires and you should really preorder it

Even though I know alligator meat isn't that good tasting a whole grilled alligator always looks very appetizing to me. Hell yeah I'll eat that monster! Take that primordial struggle!

Be loud about Trans rights over the holidays with friends and family. Tell them about what you’re doing to support people. Help people get involved.

I am live, drawing comics on twitch please come hang out pleeeeaaassseeee twitch.tv/osohista #art #comics #stream

Anyway every day my heart is at war with deep existential sadness and profound joy of being alive.

You guys know effective altruism has been one of my axes to grind for years now. Lrt shows one of my fundamental problems with it: they "value logic" but cannot pivot from their position. In this case "AI good". There is significant & measurable harm. By their own Philo it's bad, unless+

I hadn't really been able to follow this one, so I appreciate Ketan clarifying it.

TFW the dog tries to convince you nobody fed him dinner yet.

One of the best things I did for myself this year was switch to listening to a lot more public radio. Don't know what album to put on? KEXP. Get rid of some of the decision paralysis. Put on WFMU

Why did no one ever follow up with FriesDAO? They raised 5.6 million. Binging with Babish boosted it. Lost all but 60k of it. Then just crickets. I guess that's how crypto works. No system to follow up on losing millions. Just tough luck, kid.