So after #csm232 I'm gonna just post my head-canon of what Pochita is the actual devil of: Not chainsaws, but the movie editor/the cutting room floor, represented by a chainsaw because of the sequential images of a film reel mixed with the act of cutting them.

After making a Letterboxd account, I realized how incredibly energized I get when thinking about how much I hate “Citizen Kane.” I genuinely HATE the film. I recognize the skill in making it & its wider impact, but I hate the film itself.

I hate driving. I especially hate driving behind Fords & a few other 🇺🇸 car brands—they have brake lights that go from “on” to “more on” & the middle brake light goes out on them constantly, so in poor lighting, I constantly risk rear-ending them.

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Woke up. The sad version of the Doctor Mario theme with the Japanese lyrics about a dying dog got stuck in my head for some reason. Commence the uncontrollable sobbing because I don't have my pills in me yet!

The Conspiracy nuts back on Twitter are all saying Netanyahu is dead and his recent photo op was AI slop made with a years-old photo. Fuck I hope they're right.

One Piece live action s2 not bad but not great either. Probably still an ok introduction to the series for ppl afraid of several 100 episodes/thousand chapters. But about the time Chopper shows up, it becomes Cry Time™️ all the time—no fun, only crying. It’s exhausting & terribly paced.

I really can't wait for Steam OS to be available so I can get my laptop off of Microslop Windows...

So, the place I may or may not have been watching anime illegally went down. Found an alternative but it doesn't seem to have one of the things I was watching... damn.

The state of the internet is a bunch of people who are on record as having raped children telling you that artistic expression is immoral.

Started reading Der Wergelder, a manga by the mangaka as Blade of the Immortal, that's basically Black Lagoon with a slightly different ratio of kungfu to gun fights*, & anti-capitalism to anti-imperialism. Which is to say it's pretty great. *although shotgun nunchuks blur the line a bit.

I let my house cat Blotto out under strict supervision on occasion, today a neighbor was walking a tiny dog. Usually the sight of someone walking any sized dog makes Blotto flee, but today... He decided he could 'take' the dog & prepared to attack. I scooped him up & took him right back in inside.

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

Two years ago today. RIP Aaron Bushnell.

Hey, I could have swore they used the real name brand in the original Game Cube version.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Couldn’t think of what to draw. Start drawing a goth girl but I suck at designing OCs. The expression/shapes coincidentally ended up more cartoony than planned. “Guess I’ll turn this into Stocking…”

this is about billionaires

Seeing all this shit from the Epstein files, I almost feel like we owe the PizzaGate terrorists (or was it just the one guy?) an apology. ALMOST. They were still grossly misinformed & useful idiots for the actual monsters, but I fully understand their frame of mind/actions in believing it.

After a bunch of technical issues with my local comic shop, I finally got Noss & Zakuro v2 by @rariatoo.bsky.social So I decided to celebrate by drawing Rudy the werewolf eating a sausage.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

This past week Hinge has only been showing me 1 profile a day, for a 75 mile search radius. Yes, I have filters on, but is it seriously too much to filter out conservatives, ‘moderates’, & people who have/want kids?! I’m ~35 miles from Detroit! Is the platform dead this close to Valentine’s Day?!

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

Aside from the obvious, my favorite part was the assertion that imperial oppression is "alien to the traditions of American and Christian morality." I too have never read a single paragraph of history!

Cop-respecters seem to think that pigs should be safe. Why because they're "brave." But they're only brave if they're unsafe. To protect is to put oneself in harms way. A school cop's title should be "designated casualty;" they signed up for it. But that's taking far too many false axioms as true.

nadella continuing to try and position it as a "cognitive amplifier" is driving me crazy because it's literally scientifically proven to make you stupider lmao

Perhaps it’s for the best that I never got a tech job after college…

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Awoke, looked down, noticed a new asymmetry. My right forearm is just slightly thicker than the left. I don’t know if it’s muscle or inflammation, but I’m guessing it’s the former. I really should work out, but don’t feel comfortable unmasking to either swim or not overheat immediately.

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Okay, so I was only recently made aware of the "For you" feed everyone likes, and it was pretty cool. Except it was showing me too much gay/furry/futa porn. So I hit "show me less like this" & it started showing me MORE OF IT & LESS SHIT I LIKED. I don't know what happened, but can it be reset?

Ok. Found a video with a better breakdown.

“Refuses to be controlled” is very funny for someone whose whole thing is doing whatever the oligarchs want her to do

Inhalants are hard to dose. Reused the same bowl as a week ago on Sunday in my dry herb vape, just stirred it up a bit, & got so high from one hit my brain is trying to act like I’m taking another every time I take a deep breath for the last 2 days.

It’s really frustrating wanting to be a digital artist when I find myself making small mistakes in analog that could be easily corrected in digital, but my laptop crashes running solitaire, I’ve always had issues with my drawing tablet, & the ctrlZ brings out my inner perfectionist. So analog it is!

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I’ve been avoiding drawing hands entirely since returning to drawing… so today it’s time to draw hands. 😑Not even sure how much I can use my own hands as reference with things like a bone spur that looks like a ganglion cyst & slightly short fingers. Well, time to look up a tutorial or something.

As I slowly get back into drawing, I’ve found it so incredibly strange how no matter how much I may struggle on other things, I seemingly can’t draw an outright bad butt. Maximum effort or lazy doodle, it comes out right every time. I should up the difficulty with angles/poses…

曜日を教えてくれる「ねこたまちゃん」のまとめ✨

Disgusting. The IDF calls children crossing an invisible, arbitrary line a ceasefire violation, but not killing those 2 children nor 300+ other Palestinians since the so-called ceasefire. Israel has violated every single ceasefire agreement it’s made in my lifetime, btw.

I mostly understand nonviolence, but I don’t understand why people with/want kids aren’t all violent revolutionaries at this point. The planet is dying & we’re all being poisoned, how is that not triggering parental protective instincts?! I don’t want kids, what’s y’all’s excuse?

The work requirement for SNAP (MI previously had a waiver so this is the 1st year I've encountered it) feels especially cruel in that it will be forcing me out of the house in December. Not because of the cold, but because the GODDAMN ENDLESS CHRISTMAS MUSIC EVERYWHERE! That's a form of torture!

A lot of my favorite shows of the time loved to lay it on thick. It made them resonate a lot more growing up. Static did it semi-regularly.

Catching up on anime, gotta say Fujimoto Tatsuki’s 17-26 episode “woke up as a girl syndrome” is probably my favorite of their many bangers so far. The older brother is almost unbelievably woke for 2000, but that makes him all the better a character.

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Has it been said before that the true reason everyone went mad in Lovecraft’s works at the sight of greater beings was because they were all incredibly racist & couldn’t handle being on the other end of the supremacy stick? Because I’m like 99% sure that’s why.