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NYCFC sporting directors sowing U22 signings: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! NYCFC sporting directors reaping Julí Fernández, Augustín Ojeda, and Jovan Mijatović: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Four months left until TAZGN7: Story & Song!! We're gonna be starting to talk about the exclusive editions this coming week! Stay tuned! I'm excited!! 🔥 theadventurezonecomic.com 🔥

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Entering #chilivoid, be gentle

Quick, no reference sketches from this weekend #birds #trees #drawing

however you can, try to live with love and joy. fascists hate that.

Happy belated birdiversary, hard to believe I’m still at it #birds #bluejay #featherreport

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Tree practice and a very triangular #birb inspired by a recent #tuftedtitmouse visitor. #birds #fuckice

this morning I got up and decided to write about fascism. between that moment and hitting publish ICE killed another person in the streets mattufford.com/2026/01/24/t...

Well that was something.

2026 goal: water colors

This latest one didn’t affect my job but is the exact kind of chaotic bullshit we have been dealing with for a year now | H.H.S. Reverses Decision to Cut $2 Billion for Mental Health and Addiction Services www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/h...

2026 book thread 1. The Harem Protagonist was Turned into a Girl by Fern V Bedek 2. Saga, volume 12 by Brian K Vaughan. Only just learned that they are doing a book for each year until Hazel turns 18, so we still have a way to go

night ham loading

happy tuftmas y'all

Sure, two more job rejections on Friday afternoon, why not

annual holiday reminder, female cardinals are brown so any time you see two red cardinals snuggling on a branch, they are boyfriends

Simplicity was one of my favorite books this year and if you don’t buy it you are an oaf (derogatory)

Woodworking is great! Buy three copies!

Critical support to parents of NYC fifth graders, today is middle school application deadline day. (Yes, that’s a thing.) (Yes, it’s as bad as you’re imagining.)

Black-capped Chickadee, based on a picture by @birdsbyalex.bsky.social

Warbler with imagined coloring aka I felt like using markers #birds #art #warblers #drawing

I canceled my Spotify subscription this year so they sent my Wrapped through my living room window attached to a brick

if you’re cold they’re cold let your demons in

New iphone, how do I make sure all the AI bullshit is off? I declined the apple intelligence set up

Catching up on book posting until I get bored or accidentally break the thread: 35. Woodworking by Emily St James ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 36. A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan & REDACTED. Series ends are always a bit of a letdown, it was fine. Happy to not feel obligated to read any Brand Sand

The lighting is not great in here #cardinal #birds

First bird since June I believe #birds #rosebreastedgrisbeak #ink #drawingsibley

We’re drawing shadows #art #pencil #drawing

Fight Club

Dissolution of a relationship novel but it’s set on a porch giving out Halloween candy

Made a thing. It took three months and I only had to remake two parts. Based on a design from Chris Schwarz/ Lost Art Press #stickchair #bullshitchair #lostartpress

Still struggling with inspiration and motivation, and working my way through a list of d&d monsters the kiddo requested in the meantime. This wyvern is 7th of the twelve he asked for

Me discovering Butlerian Jihad is a Dune thing and not a Judith Butler thing:

Don’t put down that pencil and for the love of god never listen to anyone who tells you to draw something “nicer.” Find your niche and fill it. You’re the only you, and you’re indispensable.

May your ‘tober be sober if you want it to be

47th book of the year: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by V.E. Schwab. Always good to have people to trust for book recs

Trans rights are human rights.

Dubliners name boats well

Business idea/ A plant growth supplement called root-a-bigga.

Behold! I have made a Neo-Grunge record under the name Anti-Spectacular. The primary musical sources of inspiration for this one are: Nirvana, D'Angelo, George Harrison and Prince. It's called "I Don't Want to be Angry Anymore." anti-spectacular.bandcamp.com/album/i-dont...

34th book of the year: One of the Boys by @dirtbagqueer.rocks This book is amazing, I give it eleven stars. What I wouldn’t give for this to have existed thirty years ago

Black-Throated Blue Warbler, 📸 by @birdsbyalex.bsky.social #art #drawing #bird #birds #sketch #sketchbook #warblers

33rd book of the year: I Accidentally Bought A Plant Lamp To Treat My Winter Depression And Now I’ve Taken Root In My Apartment by Alex Zandra