Overheard at the theater during the Amazing Digital Circus finale: "I thought this was a kids' movie." And they had indeed brought their young children with them. Who seemed to have a great time, regardless of the mature themes.

How did I never notice before that the "6-7" meme is my birthday? I am fueled by the power of youth culture. Whenever they speak of it, I gain another tiny bit of vitality

I made some fanart for @nothingdoingcomic.bsky.social

Ironically, it's been a net benefit to my own mental health that my country/the world is going the way it is. 'Cause whenever I get into a really low mood, I can look around and see that I'm not doing any worse than the rest of society right now

When people say "weegee board", or "orangatang", or "expresso", I dunno whether to go along with it for the sake of fitting in, or to say the words the right way and risk coming off as a snob.

Maybe the original House of Wax was better, and that's why the 2005 version got such mixed reviews, but I liked it! Kind of a slow burn, but it established the characters. The acting was better than your typical slasher film.

If a tree falls in the forest, and it doesn't get a single like or comment, did it even happen?

Louis Pasteur worked his ass off to make milk safer because people were dying, and now some very comfortable people have decided live dangerously because they don't trust the government. As if that's got anything to do with anything. Some mo-fo's always trying to ice-skate uphill

The most important skill I'm trying to learn right now is when to apologize when I'm in the wrong, and when to stay my ground because the other person is wrong, but full of bluster. Too many times I've shrinked away from conflict and then something totally preventable happened. People can be dumb.

At a certain point -- possibly after a fateful party where you had to mask as normal and were chatting it up with some real assholes -- you realize it might not be so bad to just be cringe, and find who else is cringe, too, at the expense of, well, being cringe

It's a bit juvenile, but when I was 19, I was really into Bleach, the manga. I kept trying to draw Ichimaru Gin, and he kept looking like shit. It's what inspired me to get into drawing, and it's why he's my profile pic

I like to let people know when they're doing a good job with their art. Don't mistake this behavior for "simping". I'm one of those autistic nerds that think status is trash, I just calls 'em like I see's 'em

I keep thinking back to that classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, where Steinbeck was so sure that change was brewing. Centuries before that, people thought Jesus was going to show up any minute now. So much justified rage can be starved of the oxygen it needs to do anything about it.

Me in my 20's: If I should die suddenly, I want my family to burn all of my sketchbooks. The world must never know of my strangeness Me in my 30's: Y'all better plaster the walls with my weird porn at my funeral

I don't like how Pavlovian it's become to click on text on the internet when a colored circle is hovering over the top-right corner. An itch builds up when I try to ignore it. Gettin' trained in FOMO like a dog

This is probably not an issue that many people share, but I am so sick of dreaming about parking lots. I don't know what it *means*, but it's every other night. I'm always looking for my car. What *is* that?

always feel bad retracting a "follow" once I find out that an artist I liked made a good piece because they're essentially making the same piece again and again forever, but a breath of fresh air goes stale if it's the only one you ever take

My fatal character flaw is that I think I can do life completely on my own. I recognize this, but it has not reached true understanding. If my life were a movie, overcoming this would be my character arc. But since life isn't that simple, I'll probably be stubborn about it and then die

I want to dunk my head in a bucket of ice water. Just to do something for me, y'know? A little treat. A little "if you're gonna cancel my health insurance, I need to remind myself what real adrenaline feels like". I *will* go live in the woods. They'll never find me.

Gerrymandering was portrayed in my high school textbooks as a clearly unethical thing that people way-back-then did. We were supposed to be past this sort of thing. I guess there's a new "we" now, and "we" have been trying it again for a while.

I hope that drinking all the juice out of a giant jar of whole pickles doesn't come back to haunt me... seems like the sort of thing that could be fairly healthy or *really* unhealthy

Cooking is *hard*. You know when you try your little heart out, and it's just slop? And then you think maybe everything you do is slop? And then you remember that it felt like that for everything else, at first, so you just take the punch to the sternum and wheeze for the rest of the day

MAY THE FOURTH BE PAT YOU! lol we're putting Later Alligator on sale today the 4th for FOUR dollars! $4.13 US, $4AUD, $4CAD, 4 euros! FOUR! Buy it for 4 friends. Use your last 4 smackers for a fleeting moment of alligator passion. Play it four times. Send me four angry emails. Later Alligator!!!!

Why are dandelions considered a weed? They're gorgeous, and you can make wine out of them. Whoever's classifying plants must hate joy

So we've abandoned the pretense of democracy, right? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they're finally saying the quiet part out loud with this gerrymandering war. History repeats.

If the mid-terms don't put the brakes on whatever the hell is happening in this country, I think I have to leave. I like it here... but I might just have to go somewhere wildly else and try to get a gig teaching English

Why are American psychos so good at killing children and so bad at killing old men with a coterie of trained anti-assassination professionals loitering around them?

The world may be falling down around us, but we can still support each other, and get a little better every day in every way

Pretty sure I'm going to have the Beach Dream tonight. The dream where I'm at the beach. Excited for it. I need that kind of mellow vacation right now.

People think I'm flirty just because I'm not afraid to make friends with women. I like talking to women; they tend to be more interesting conversational partners. Guys have some weird cultural barriers, and a vague sense of competition. We can try to form friendships but it's an uphill battle

It's about time to realize that there are faux-organisms made of money, which is cycling around in an imitation of a bloodstream, that are trying to supercede humanity. There is a perverted new form of life trying to push us out, and we can't let it happen

Everyone else I encounter in society seems to have successfully built this calcified barrier to shield themselves from the world. Walking around like they only need to perk up if something actually happens. I can't turn it off. Every sight and sound is so powerful. I look like something's (1/2)

I'm so sick of the trajectory of the world being decided by sociopathic morons. We're better than this!

I NEED. TO LIVE. IN A CITY. There's this... blanket of complacency smothering everything in this town. It all just goes like the best thing to do is to live the same O.K. day of your life until you die. I need an environment that matches the instability inside me. EVERYONE IN THIS TOWN IS WHITE

It's difficult to let my thoughts just stay thoughts when I've been trained by social media, but the internet is just gonna be bots talking to each other in five years, so I'm trying to get into the practice of not over-sharing. It's going poorly

It is weird that in Christianity, we have a holiday dedicated to that time we killed God

I get that news media needs to at least pretend to be objective, but you're allowed to point and laugh sometimes; we don't need to treat every development in the world political sphere like it deserves gravitas. Some very stupid things are happening lately

We might need to just start over. Things are very stupid now. Could we maybe reboot civilization? Come at it fresh, and make rules and laws and systems that don't suffer idiots in positions of power

Hey let's go to war with Iran why not we've got all this military funding and if everyone's just sitting around twiddling their dicks we might have to wonder why we have all this military funding in the first place... let's bomb a school! Apparently we can get away with it scott-free

Instead of having a whole TSA bottle-necking everyone who's just trying to get where they want to go, why not just have a security officer on the plane?

Calling something an "illegal war" is funny to me. I mean, the war itself is deadly serious. But when has war ever played by any rules? It's like calling out a bank robber for not taking off their mask when they walk into the bank... you're not really grasping the situation

the internet truly allows you to immortalize your dumbest thoughts forever. the ones that should have passed fleetingly through your head. But with this, social media, you can be on record as a dumbass and never live it down

Look, either we enforce copyright law on the AI stuff, or we ditch the concept altogether. You can't just bypass laws because there are billions of dollars invested in -- oh. Okay, so the money wins, but at least strike down the copyright laws so the rest of us can have fun, too

I'm very aware of my flaws as a person, but they keep happening anyway. You'd think I'd have more control over that

I think Tarsier's making a mistake by pricing Reanimal at 40 dollars. Is it worth that? Sure! It looks like an awesome game. But the thing about a price point is that the higher it is, the less people buy it. I think it would do better at 25 dollars. I'd buy it at 25... I can't justify spending 40.

It's not a great world to be living in. But it's bringing out the best in the people who aren't trash goblins. For everyone whose soul isn't a pile of dead flies and rat droppings, this fascist inclination in the U.S. brings out the best in the rest of us. We are reminded what evil looks like.

The cool thing about art is that you can just do it however you like. It doesn't work that way with, say, surgery. Or accounting. You have to follow a very specific process for those things. Art? You can do whatever. It's encouraged, even. Tape a banana to the wall. We're having fun with ideas.

I'm getting into cooking, lately. It has always intimidated me to work from a recipe... I get anxious about getting the measurements right. But I'm finding it fun and rewarding to mix ingredients by intuition and just see what works and what doesn't. Doing food science!

Goin' into the Superbowl blind! I don't know who's playing, but as always, I'm gonna pick my favorite team based on the design of their logo, theme, and uniform. It's just men smashing into other men... I'm there for the party, and the snacks

Internet bad. Google self-sabotaging to keep people on Google longer. News sites putting the dumb face of the dumb guy on articles to bait clicks. I want to establish a feasible colony on Saturn, and live there instead of here.