Why does Bandcamp Friday always land when I am broke af?

also pleased to inform you i made this for your studying or chilling or vibing or

The real secret for turning my not-lap-cats into lap cats is a fuzzy blanket.

Worship the blep

Someday putting on house pants feels so good I want to melt.

Wow today was at least 3 days worth of things and noises compressed into a day at work. I almost hid in a lab closet.

I can't recall what my grandpa's did for a living but one was competent in carpentry and the other could count cards and had a bookie.

Colored another beautiful piece by @kellybrack.bsky.social! Went simpler for Catwoman.

Waiting in for me in my pull folder this week: Seven Years In Darkness, year 3, #4 The Nice House By The Sea #8 Nectar #1 Exploit #1 I am going to read these way too fast and will need to reread them over the weekend.

The Sakura Blossom Festival is the best event for people watching right off my back porch. People stop to sit on the tiny hill and take photos under the cherry trees out back all day. A lot of folks are dressed in kimonos and other traditional Japanese dress.

One of the best people watching events is just a month away!

Oh boy, a never ending onslaught of gimmicks and fan service here we come! I will always treasure the Akira volumes from my college boyfriend from over 20 years ago that Dark Horse put out though.

Did you know that Dubai is the world's busiest airport? Yeah, it is. It has more travelers than Atlanta, which comes in second.

Qatar Air is basically evacuating its employees and their families that are based in places like Doha and putting them up in hotels in hub cities like London, all paid for.

Nothing makes me more spiteful and obnoxious faster than me asking what the priorities are and being told everything.

Fuck. They better treat that cancer the fuck down to nothing. Fuck cancer.

My brother had to certify college softball bat density pre-game at his job the other day, while I went and bought macarons at the local bakery that matched nail polish colors for my employer. My dad says we both do unusual things for our jobs sometimes. I have to agree. Funny part, I am a chemist.

The past week I have been trying to train myself to drive slower so I get better gas mileage and its going about as well as you would expect for someone used to going at least 80 mph on the highway, which means I have zero chill and have a twitchy eye on arrival.

Holy fuckballs why do women keep insisting on looking like Katherine Helmond's character in Brazil?

Dad just called from Florida after seeing Detroit play Toronto. He reported a tie game, perfect weather, and almost as many Toronto fans as Detroit fans. Dad is Detroit to the bone.

For the first time in my life I ran out of a bottle of hot sauce. Now I have to go to a full sized grocery store to get another one.

Making depression chili again, but adding a little bit of cinnamon to see how that goes.

Anyhow, cats, and comics, and art, and people who make both, and friends keep this timeline from becoming hopeless.

Found out another family member has cancer, but apparently its the kind that is non-fatal and just requires some (dietary) lifestyle changes after surgery. They just had thyroid surgery. Like damn 3/5 siblings have had cancer at this point. I feel like the area they grew up has partly to do with it.

King Asshat:*does a war* Me:*angry Gene Hackman in The French Connection Face*

Don't forget kids, the USA was directly responsible for the rise of Iran's theocratic government in the first place. Whoops.

It's so, so important right now that everyone reads or watches Persepolis. Convince your grandparents to do it. Your friends. Your children. War cannot happen if we see each other as human beings with souls and those in power will try very, very hard to make sure that doesn't happen.

I am fairly convinced that COVID has seriously messed with word recall and memory retention far more than my psych meds alone have. I have had COVID twice now and my brain has been frustratingly screwier during and after each one.

Story time: way back in the 00s, in one of my quant chemistry lab partners was from Lebanon and many of her family lived in Baghdad when Shock and Awe went down. She would be on the phone and the connection would abruptly cut out due to the US bombing the fuck out of the area.

I think we should all go shit on a certain lawn of a certain house occupied by a certain assclown right now.

Yay, more postcards writing!

Hey kids, don't forget you can request things like your FBI records through the FOIA, if you need to. And yes, you probably have an FBI record. I know I do.

I got this nice little "Fuck ice"cookie from a local bakery today.

"Have you ever thought you let your mental illness get in the way of your happiness?" What the actual fuck? The dipshittery of this statement is just another hurdle. Get tf out of my way. I don't need your garbage takes, because the decadent richness of life isn't just "happy" you fool.

This weekend's comic reads: Alice Forever After Red Book Temporal Miss Truesdale and the Rise of Man The Author Immortal Bleeding Hearts The House of Lowther Echoes

Pontypool is a great movie that not enough people have seen and I need to rewatch it because I have a feeling it would definitely hit in a whole different way now.

I have been enjoying the hell out of this comic.

Today I learned a little about neat molecules called Brochosomes. It seemes they have piqued the interest of some in the cosmetics industry.

Go check out the first 7 pages of Romeo & Juliet & Godzilla! This was an absolute BLAST to work on. Penned by @adamwritestuff.bsky.social Thanks a ton to @jakebrianwilliams.bsky.social and @tomscioli.bsky.social for bringing me aboard!

Tatjana Wood has apparently passed away at age 99. Her father was Jewish so during WW2 her parents sent her to the Netherlands, then NY. She studied as a dressmaker, met/married Wallace Wood and began assisting him, then pivoted to becoming one of the best colorists in comics.

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

Roli Mosimann played with JG Thirlwell in the Wiseblood project from 1985-1990. Roli died last year and left behind many instruments he used throughout his career. The instruments are being sold via this link to help raise funds for his daughter’s education. rolimosimann.com

as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f... (some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)

A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

A certain person might have volunteered to go to a local bakery this weekend to find macarons of certain colors for photo shoot props at work. Purely for research purposes. *snort**cackle* I am going to make my pancreas scream so hard.

yeah this government's just gotta get toppled and obliterated into dust

Anyone know how to bust the Kickstarter algo?

This is excellent news. The thread and comments keep saying "unethical" without making clear why. The study would have not given hep-b vaccines to half (~2000) of the infants in the study to see what happened. Think Tuskegee: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskege...

No thoughts only knee jerks.

Right now my coworkers get to hear me get pissy about not being able to send a nastygram to a government agency that sent an email stating they sent certain emails they never actually sent but sent 6 emails last year saying they were going to send those emails they never sent. Sounds crazy? It is!