Life isn’t simple like math where every problem has an answer; it’s more like math, where problems have many answers or no possible answer at all!

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Got this last week and haven’t been able to put it down.

My favorite writing method 🧚🏼‍♀️

This is what I spent most of last week working on with other people who cannot leave this stuff alone. Gotta put the facts in order in a stable place and then see what meaning emerges.

Had fun at Matt Madden’s workshop on “Tritina comics” @comicsworkshop.bsky.social last Friday. It brought together all of my interests: writing, mathematics, art. Love it when that happens 💫 Got a first draft done in-session and then redrew it yesterday.

Harris Schiff

Time to relax 😌 #PairedTexts

Ended a nine-hour shift and drove to watch a Board of Commissioner’s meeting on regulating data centers, as one does. Riveting discussion and information 🧚‍♀️

Just published a deep look at where open social networks stand in 2025: Mastodon’s leadership change, Bluesky’s trajectory, AT Protocol, ActivityPub, cross-network tools, and more. For newsrooms and public service orgs, this moment really matters. werd.io/the-state-of...

Pre-ordered 🌸 The end of the year's gonna be so cozy 🤗

Light + Park #WinterSolsticeSketchdown Didn’t want to draw a finished piece and decided to “just doodle” instead. Ended up drawing five finished pieces 🙃

Good things 🧡

This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...

Night + Walk #WinterSolsticeSketchdown

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Tree x Café #WinterSolsticeSketchdown Found myself getting a little too precious about this one and limited the time to 15 minutes. Have decided to focus on expression and ideation for now; keeping a list of techniques to work on for later.

“Night” x “Interior” #WinterSolsticeSketchdown

🎶 Full Moon Playlist 🎶 🌕 “Strange Times” by The Black Keys 🌕 “Smokestack Lightnin’” by Howlin’ Wolf 🌕 “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone 🌕 “Sinister Kid” by The Black Keys 🌕 “Leavin’ Trunk” by Taj Mahal 🌕 “Yukon” by Justin Bieber 🌕 “Blue Moon” by Ahmad Jamal 🌕 “Solar (Explorations)” by Michel Camilo

To celebrate the changing season and practice drawing, I’ve created a list of prompts for the next 45 days. Personally prefer a non-linear order, with the option to combine prompts and take days off, so I’ve turned the list into a grid, collection, and picker wheel (pickerwheel.com?id=f9f2z) too.

"He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again." -- Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home" #PairedTexts

"I know I’ve found the right topic when my reading makes me angrier and more motivated to write about it [..] I take it all very seriously and personally" 💅💅💅

Ran into a Phoebe today while climbing a tree. Say hello to my little friend 🌿

“Truck” #Peachtober2025

Immaculate. brevitymag.com/current-issu...

“When national politics feels too heavy to hold, there’s something healing about turning to what’s near. Tending to the things we can touch, like soil, getting a street sign, or painting a mural, becomes a form of resistance. It’s not just civic engagement. It’s a kind of care work.”

Had so much fun at @davidlasky.bsky.social’s Haiku Comics workshop at @comicsworkshop.bsky.social tonight! Have spent this year exploring creative disciplines outside my own to carry my work to a clean finish; and this session brought all of them together❣️

There's nothing quite like finding a tree with the perfect toehold after a long search. Here's my twenty-minute attempt to capture the experience. #Peachtober2025 #Comics (Highly recommend Kevin Lucbert's work, btw. Learned a lot about capturing light from him: www.kevinlucbert.com/index.php?/m...)

That’s such a fluffy, sleepy pumpkin 🧡 #art #cozyart #caturday

“Leaf” 🍁 #Peachtober2025 Still hate colored pencils, but experimentation’s worth it 🧚🏻‍♀️

Had some time to doodle tonight. #Peachtober2025

Resistance. Refusal. Ridicule. Those are the ingredients to bring down regimes and among them ridicule is arguably the most delicious. The emperor isn't just naked; his goon squad is afraid of an inflatable frog. Portland is TOO FABULOUS FOR FASCISM.

Joined #Peachtober2025 yesterday. No plans to do it everyday: weekends are enough. Our prompt was “gingham”.

Nice things I did for myself this week: 1. Attended a five-day embodied writing workshop series. 2. Found a place to take sewing classes in-person. 3. Started turning off all electronic devices before bed. 4. Attended #FridayNightComics 5. Ate a delicious pumpkin muffin from the farmer’s market

It is also an important time to be reading and writing. Fortifying yourself with truth & good argument. Rest and take a break. Repeat as needed.

These interviews are delightful. Do yourself a favor this evening and make some hot cocoa, get a cozy blanket and maybe even a sketch pad, and enjoy being in the presence of greatness 🍁🌙☕️📝

1. Advocacy isn’t harassment. 2. You’re running a social platform, which by definition means dealing with politics and disagreements at scale. If that bothers you, quit, improve your processes, or don’t scale. 3. What if creating an environment where minds can change depends on banning someone?

me, after not asking anyone for help

Have been frustrated by claims that we'll beat fascism when we embrace reason. It's more complicated than that. Attempted to show and explain why here: organized.ghost.io/getting-to-f...

Climbed a tree for the first time in 24 years this afternoon. Forgot how good it feels to have bark under my feet.

Visited my favorite library today and got some reference materials.

Sunny tangerines ☀️🍊🐈 #art #traditionalart #cuteart #caturday

“The word autocracy conjures images of police officers violently crushing protests and dissidents going to prison for their ideals…but for many people, the experience is more passive: Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking.”

I write, erase, rewrite Erase again, and then A poppy blooms. ⚘ Katsushika Hokusai

Feel like Sailor Moon fans have a competitive advantage when it comes to surviving techno-fascism because we know evil is fundamentally about stealing energy at scale. Once you understand that principle, you can avoid getting distracted by details — what, how, why — and focus on winning.

Blue Eye Samurai is so good 😌

There’s nothing quite like opening a book and getting exactly what you needed. 🔥 “Anger is like the primary color of emotion. If you can summon your anger, you can write anything.” ☄️”There’s a word for anger turned to constructive ends, and that word is ‘justice’”

I used to be motivated by the realization no one’s coming. Now, I’m just tired.

a good reason to write is that u start noticing what themes compel you. for example: all my novels are preoccupied with capturing the nostalgia of the past, and how u can never move on/you must move on. could i have figured it out in less than 300k words. yea. but then i wouldnt have three novels

so many harmful conveniences (AI, fast fashion, cars) don’t have an easy alternative, imo. they do have alternatives but they’re inconvenient. often when something seems magically convenient, it’s because you’re not the one paying the price (at least not yet).