Totally not sprite sketches

One of the driving forces behind my politics is every Redwall book being about balancing protecting the sanctity of life and brutally slaying sea rats at the base of your volcano with a hundred hares that talk like 1800s British officers

A lot of people don't know this, but infant mortality was actually 100% before someone invented a stupid chat bot.

It appears they are filming Game of Thrones in Chicago. This morning's sunrise hitting the skyline.

It’s a fun joke, but also I got to shoot a yew longbow this autumn and I just fell in love with it and need to figure out when I can get my own. Maybe…maybe next year’s event?

Nerdy co-parking always amuses me. I don’t know whose this is but they have the same basic model from one of the same few years. I think they have the Limited trim though, and I only got the middle level SEL. Still.

Chicago Snowfall

christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)

It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all

Now this #FursuitFriday is very special as I FINALLY GOT TO SEE REAL AMERICAN TRAINS IN PERSON AND I GOT TO SEE BNSF GEVO LOCOMOTIVES! 😍😍😍😍😍🧡🤍🚂🥹 ▶️ @senkolke.bsky.social

Definitely some pieces in the art show and a few items out on the dealer floor that I would have been very interested in if I wasn’t heavily constraining purchases in favor of funding another training trip to Japan in summer. I got a few very small things but, that’ll be it this year.

I gotta say too that Pirate Artisans make great stuff and are very passionate about their work and lovely folks to chat with. It is a highlight of wandering a dealers room to get to stop and chat with them and see what cool things they have. I have a couple rings & a wolf skull pendant that I love.

Shocked that she is still available for purchase! Easily my most beautiful work, and the whole reason I am the artist that I am! It's impossible to show how pretty she is in photos and video. She's only $300, and she can be yours!

155mm for dictators, 155% tax rate for billionaires, $1.50 hot dogs for the public

Love Discord being like "bro you didnt complete any quests this year" yeah man I dont know what those are and I'm working really hard not to have to learn

Maybe the third year of bringing the tools to do a good coffee in my room and having some stuff for breakfast (often my croissants) and some OJ in the cooler, and man it’s a relief to avoid the coffee lines and not be spending $20-odd bucks a day just to get started… and mine is better.

Once again I managed to get all the mail in art into my car in one go… just no passengers allowed.

Honestly have reached a point with the community and the department I’m in this year and my own states that I don’t really want to be at the con. Some of that is just me being tired from a day of baking and a busy year and only really seeing the stressors right now. But man. Sometimes it’s too much.

A lot of people expressing shock that bayonets were being used for crowd control in 1966 A little background Until the late ‘60s, soldiers were not equipped or trained for riot duty. They used weapons of war for policing In Detroit alone in ‘67, troops fired 156,000 rounds of ammunition

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Took tomorrow off before the con. Going to pack and make pastry. Three batches of croissants ready for tomorrow.

I colored the thing 🌞

The metaphors are getting about as subtle as Marvel easter eggs

Forgot his tactical kilt

Make America Only Normally Racist And Violent Again

Megafauna really give me a visceral “oh this is where gods come from” feeling. Even like… just looking at the fossils displays at the Field Museum.

And is relieving himself on us, constantly. While his spin team tells us it's raining.

I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.

November has fled, somehow we are in December now. This year has been entirely too much year in the year. Good gods. Well I have most of next year planned so hopefully I can keep it sparser, as currently planned.

I keep seeing Facebook videos of folks touring luxury-ish long haul busses that are … close. They have modern bus looks externally, which is boring, but the interiors are reminiscent of these cutaways.

While you’re at it, bring back the Nairn “desert Pullman” ;-; warhistory.org/@msw/article...

Welcome to December 2025! This morning's first light to start off the workweek.

Like 29% of being a furry is seeing a good pic of a friends fursona species and sending it to a friend of that species and going "it's you" So if you're trying to discover your fursona try and make it one that you'll enjoy seeing many photos of from friends saying it's you.

"There is no mistaking it. If there ever was another mech like it, there isn't now" Commission for the wonderful @kallidorarho.bsky.social and the release of her new chapter SHOWHOUND Part One~

I just found a ramen noodle packet with a use by date in 2021 and folks, I am here to tell you they can absolutely go bad.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

CEOs are venal and evil but most of them can see which way the wind is blowing and I don’t think they’re expecting the thousand year reich anymore they should be aware that continuing to be complicit will not go well for them

a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration

Oh well. Not going to bother going out in this weather, that’s just unnecessary risk. I’ll miss classes and shop time. I won’t miss sloshing around the side streets until I get to something plowed.

I wanted to go tot he shoo today but the drive is an hour and it shouldn’t be and I have no patience for that at this hour. Sadly it means with the weather I may not get in at all. I guess we’ll see how much snow happens tomorrow. Maybe in the evening? Maybe it won’t be too bad.

A drawing from 2016 which feels relevant for my American friends today

Sweet Potato Dish Stopped Being Healthy 5 Ingredients Ago

Dinner! Pie in a bit. Not quite traditional but plenty of good food for me for today.

Conversations anyone can have after the sports and politics talk at thanksgiving dinner: • Did an Anglo-Norse creole exist in the Danelaw? • Did oceans become battlefields only in 1805 or was that artistic license by Peter Weir? • Did Bilbo and Frodo actually go to Valinor or merely Tol Eressëa?

Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!

Happy Thanksgiving

Maple pecan pie. Modified a recipe based on the “syrups” ratio from another recipe to make this maple-molasses instead of the just maple from the King Arthur recipe. Now it bakes.

I haven’t normally done this for Thanksgiving, but I’m enjoying keeping up with the Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade while I work on food. Also waiting for the Chicago Swordplay Guild to show up, our first show in the parade in a while. www.youtube.com/live/kYQMR2Y...

Holiday Past. Chicago’s Buckingham Fountain in lights and the Hancock with a star hanging between the antennas. Happy Thanksgiving.

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