The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

I drew a tree, the TREE OF FORBIDDEN LOVE. Available for purchase, cheap, in my Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/listing/4425...

I drew a giant robot! It’s big!

literally every professional and hobby writer I know will tell you they have a million and one ideas and never enough time to write them. these weaselly talentless hacks are saying that their brains are full of mush. thirteen year olds with wattpad accounts are worth a hundred of those guys.

It's hard to believe that it's only been ten years since UCLA English Lit grad Lee Gold launched her influential zine Alarums & Excursions (named after Elizabethan drama). Its hard to believe, as it's actually 50 years, as it launched in 1975, and she only wrapped it this year.

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Fantasy should be sincere and self-invested and indulgent and complex and idiosyncratic and chiefly, unapologetic

How's capitalism going lately? Oh, the same? Well, fuck me, who would've thought.

Stories like this remind me of a true story from small-town America, where a municipality's residents voted down local tax increases over and over, for years. Then, one day, the streetlights turned off. For good. And every was just so angry and confused.

I can’t agree that people stopped “virtue signaling” because the term almost instantly became meaningless; it was applied to any expression of caring or thoughtfulness. I don’t think the vice signaling came from an absence of virtue signaling, rather from the non-cessation of expressions of decency

Ahhhh, the memories! Bionic Commando was my favorite NES game.

Here are some hearts I drew! Which is YOUR favorite?

here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science. 1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader their book. 3. Every book its reader. 4. Save the time of the reader. 5. A library is a growing organism. they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚

What If: Jim Starlin and Steve Englehart were locked in a room and forced to produce a Thanos vs Mantis comic where one character definitively lost to the other. How long would it take for that room to explode?

#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Mrs. Claus! Mrs. Claus was once better known by her given name, Alba. She was the nymph of the silver fir tree, a captain in the retinue of the goddess Artemis, and she first met Saint Nicolas when he came to do battle with her Lady. 1/

Not much could make me hopeful about where White Wolf was headed... But this did.

Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.

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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!

some of the available originals

it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

…😤😤😤 Well. It’s time. I’ve put this off long enough. Its been a rough year and you all have earned this thread. And Yes. I SAID THREAD. B E H O L D : “Y’ALL COME EAT: Thanksgiving Dinner Bombardment Ver. Pt.1: Better Plate Than Never!” ❤️🙂👍🏾

Tony: Hey Dave. Check it out. I added a button to the login page. Dave: Oh yeah? Tony: Yeah it's right there. See that right there, little oval in blue with a check mark next to it, says "stay logged in on this device"? Dave: Oh yeah ok cool. What's it do? Tony: literally nothing

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People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"

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This being named a NYT Notable Book of 2025 seems to prove it's thesis

Mere hours left until the Kickstarter for Prison Pits of Larubia is done! Check it out! I'm excited for this new Million Colored Sun module!

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This orangutan can't be beaten at climbing up a tree. Imagine its skill and poise as our next secretary of education.

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Carter makes a compelling point here.

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Know the law! In America, ALL motor vehicle operators are required to stop at railroad crossings, obey posted signs, look both ways, and in a clear voice, out loud, say, "Jack Kirby created the Fantastic Four, not Stan Lee."

I am at U-Con, I will be running a game at 2:00, come on by!