My super power is being able to never again speak to long time friends or family at the slightest whiff that they're actually selfish bastards.

my Neopets will only fuck to the Meepit Juice Break theme.

I mean. One of them could have at least mentioned one of my stories or something.

The response to Bad Bunny's inclusion shows just how racist our society is. Racists are angry about the halftime show? Good! Everything about our society should make racists feel alienated. How do we make racists feel even more alienated from even more of society? 👏 👏 👏

love watching wildlife videos of lions taking down yogurt

Important lesson which I learned from my dad's dad: Never drink into a black out with a loaded gun in the room.

The most important lesson somebody else can ever teach you is to be yourself.

I never give good advice because just as many evil people as good people might take it.

Would Prince have been so popular without roller rinks?

get out of what? I don't even know what they think reality is anymore.

Trayvon Martin should be turning 31 today. He should be surrounded by friends and loved ones celebrating him. He and his family were robbed of that because a grown man stalked him and killed him. Without accountability.

Unfortunately thanks to protestant work ethic people have learned to fear above all anyone getting something they personally feel wasn’t earned. They’ll spend $50 to prevent $1 reaching “undeserving” hands. They’ll pay luxury prices for needless cruelty and call it thrift.

Here's my young adult novel pitch: "Randall, a syphilitic werewolf, doesn't believe in science. But when an asteroid heading toward Earth threatens to destroy everything, he teams up with eleven year old science fair winner, Bethany Hateswolves, and a box of raccoons to save humanity."

Someone said Republicans are school shooters and Democrats are the Uvalde cops and man…

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

My credo.

I saw one of these hanging from Claudia's Pub on Hawthorne in Portland at the time and just said as we drove past, "Was that a Mooninite?" My friend Marc grabbed one in Seattle and gave it to another friend of ours. She keeps it hanging in the living room.

Please CHRIST look at the UK; Starmer’s Labour didn’t win the last election; the Conservatives lost it. The thing to do is to *BURN AWAY* Schumer, Jeffries et al through direct action, protests, primaries. You and I are in charge (sorry! but also: congrats!) Catch up with us, Dems, or be retired.

Excerpt from my blog about me. I mean about comics. tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/2024/01/just...

Review of June 1992's Eclipso: The Darkness Within: Superman Annual #4 by Dan Vado, Scott Benefiel, and Trevor Scott: tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/2026/02/ecli...

Review of We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider (2012): tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/2026/02/we-l...

judging by this post I guess Dan hasn't found the second witch yet

Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time. 1166: Damn. atd1line.blogspot.com/2026/01/chap...

Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time. 1165: "Not lately." atd1line.blogspot.com/2026/01/chap...

Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time. 1164: "Just like what's in your pocket." atd1line.blogspot.com/2026/01/chap...

Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time. 1162-1163: "All right, all right. And you swear this is made of silver?" atd1line.blogspot.com/2026/01/chap...

Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time. 1161: "Photography, this is Merle, Merle—" atd1line.blogspot.com/2026/01/chap...

Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time. 1160: By the time the sun rose over Shaker Heights, Roswell Bounce had introduced Merle to photography. atd1line.blogspot.com/2026/01/chap...

Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time. 1159: So the night went on, spent mostly washing things in different solutions and then waiting for them to dry. atd1line.blogspot.com/2026/01/chap...

Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time. 1155-1158: "It's a negative. When we print this, it'll all flip back to normal. First we have to fix it. Reach me that bottle of hypo there." atd1line.blogspot.com/2026/01/chap...

Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time. 1153-1154: "What is it? They look like spirits, or haunts or something?" atd1line.blogspot.com/2026/01/chap...

Review of June 1992's Eclipso: The Darkness Within: Detective Comics Annual #5 by Alan Grant, John Wagner, and Tom Mandrake: tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/2026/01/ecli...

Review of The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (1955): tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Review of The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954): tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Review of The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954): tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

traditional software development is dead

Eee! Tess Ate Chai Tea the Newsletter #20 (April 2018): tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/2026/01/eee-...

Imagine knowing a Trump supporter right now. What do you say to them? There's nothing left. I think he's publicly and unequivocally done all the things we said he would do

They're never the hero of the story. It's why they hate art.

Aging isn't transmutative; aging is just insetting more and more parenthetical references into an ever-lengthening clause.

People complain about Alan Moore's Jerusalem being too long, repetitive, and incoherent but nobody cares that Garfield's story has been going on for forty years.

the current administration is made up of people who once got massively owned by some kid on tumblr

ICE/GOP/corporate Dems/Trump are DOWN but not OUT. Now it is time to (metaphorically) KICK THEM. Never forgive, never forget.

And here again is my favourite ever Batman poem...

Yo' momma's so stupid she's lettin' folks tell her what her own eyes are seein'.