Step Six: "Arbitrary detention and release."

Do lesbians face discrimination in the United States? On the one hand, Renée Good was murdered. On the other hand, I am highly paid to relativize such crimes. by Bari Weiss

The rhetoric we're seeing on the Sunday shows this morning again brings to mind this strip by @tomtomorrow.bsky.social from 2018…

I adore the fact that there are people here on Bluesky who must believe with all their blessed little hearts that the NY Times is unaware of the "NY Times Pitchbot" account and that they must rectify that by tagging the NY Times account in a reply to each pitchbot post. It's adorable.

If anything was helpful to their case it would have been released by now.

There's a reason certain cartoonists portray him to be dressed as a hotel bellhop.

I can get behind this 100%

A question on my mind: why do people include bias or bigotry in TTRPGs? This doesn't just include older games or games made by bigots but games that have good intentions but miss the mark? What can (if anything) mislead intentions do to us and how does that effect look via TTRPGs?

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Is anyone else reminded of that Monty Python skit where two men (Eric Idle and Michael Palin) go back and forth making up increasingly ridiculous reasons why they're dressed as a tiger?

So ICE murdered a woman in cold blood in Minneapolis, I see. At the time of her death she wasn’t trying to promote racist ideology or murder Congress to overthrow democracy, so American conservatives are not going to consider her a hero or a martyr.

also for Christ's beloved sake block don't engage with the nihilist clowns who show up in your mentions. cut off their oxygen.

Listen, I swear, look at my waistline, I am doing more than my share!

Wait, is that the guy who ran away terrified from a pair of nerdy teenagers wearing backpacks and hid behind a group of uniformed law enforcement?

Every day I think we're inching closer to The Wasteland as depicted in comic strips by @mattbors.bsky.social from almost six years ago…

we're all in this boat together and social media is not a substitute for therapy but ... fuck, this is all a lot to deal with, ever single fucking day

The plight of the Dilbert guy has me considering the importance of living one's life such that people don't dunk on one when one is on one's death bed.

You know it!

Is it my imagination or does Mark Kelly look like if Hugh Jackman switched to playing Professor X in the movies? (Those photos the media uses of him with the harsh overhead lighting don't do justice to his looks.)

I feel you, wizard, I honestly do.

new cartoon. mostly written before saturday but if you squint really hard you might be able to tell which part was shoehorned in at the last minute. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I don’t believe in a whole lot but I believe that art will forever contribute to undoing of the schemes and designs of fascists and fucking losers. Keep making your art. Experiment. Consume. Talk about art with people you like. Talk about art with strangers. Believe in your ability to create.

Of course.

The first things you learn in journalism school •love America •never apologize for it

CBS News has a message for Trump.

"All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked!" "Yeah, but John, when the Pirates of the Caribbean ride breaks down the pirates don't eat the tourists."

Oh I do wonder at some of the choices people make, all right, especially my own

"The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. Their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."

Dude looks like a sleep paralysis demon

How I'm walking out of 2025

It's so disappointing sometimes.

Make a Bond movie casual Doctor Maybe

Starting next Friday, lots of stretching every morning!

I watched It’s a Wonderful Life last night, and it reminded me of this comic I did 2016, right after Trump was elected the first time.

Wait a minute, are habitual "A.I." users really yelling at each other about "stealing prompts"?! I might laugh until I puke, here. That's like a kid claiming ownership of the sound his bicycle makes now that he's attached a playing card to the frame.

45 minutes later…

Hey folks! I lost my 10k titkok account and I am trying to rebuild so everytime I hit a 500 follower mark I hold a raffle to run a free TTRPG for THREE lucky winenrs. To enter you need to follow me and comment on the video linked below! You've got 5 days until the 25th to enter

Now I get to spend all next week worrying about what's going to happen to a cartoon penguin. Not even gonna tag the cartoonist, that's how upset I am.

The best time to stop using Meta products was a decade ago. The second-best time is now.

I'm setting down the menu in front of Facebook and the only offering on it is my whole ass.

I think the funniest thing to me is that the people who are working to create an Artificial General Intelligence is that it’s a bunch of libertarians who have never realised that what makes us smart as humans is community, society, empathy. The things they find an anathema.

I have no words other than to say "Pointed descriptions" is a glaring understatement.

This is a tough question, it's been so long, and I started playing and running TTRPGs well before I had my own money to spend on them. I remember getting the D&D Player's Handbook for Christmas around 1980 or so, might have gotten Top Secret for my birthday the following year.

going into 2026 like

If a novelist writing a satire had a US president send out a missive like that one, they'd be told by an editor to tone it down, it's too over-the-top insane and evil to be effective.

HOLLY: Jean-Paul Sartre said Hell was being locked forever in a room with your friends. LISTER: Holly, all his mates were French.

Ten years ago.

I was watching a TikToker remark that Trump's own supporters know how much they're paying for groceries at the supermarket and for gas at the pump, and I would tend to agree, but then I remembered the "MAGA Goggles" @tomtomorrow.bsky.social strip from last year.

when I wrote this panel last week, I didn't *literally* expect him to say that questioning his health is tantamount to treason, but I didn't *not* expect it