Wishing us all a better 2026 than 2025, in whatever way is meaningful. Take care of yourselves tonight.

It seems to me that if you're going to write a deep think piece about how politics, activism, and culture on the whole are becoming less literate, then you need to ensure your pithy examples are things that actually are comparable to one another. Otherwise, are you not contributing to the problem?

I got a bone to pick with the devs

And all that was left at the bottom of the box was hope

junk store

Sister approved!

Finding out that I'm an optimist and now my brain has to rearrange all its furniture to make sense again

Twinkling stars

Now MIND YOU I think there's just a loneliness crisis happening in general? I don't think it's just men who feel isolated but don't know how to go about making friends and community? But it really doesn't help that the social role assigned to men is one that kinda derides deep friendship

YUP A lot of manosphere types talk about it as though it's only about Needing A Wife but like. That's bound up in the whole "but men can't be friends with *each other*" thing, innit. Which is kinda the whole point.

I very much need my Local Mouse to stop being as brave as it is and also to get stupider so it will go into the trap and I can take it down to the garage

imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin

And all that was left at the bottom of the box was hope

I dunno I feel like maybe my bank's authentication processes have gone a bit far

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

I do love that the answer to "whatever happened to the dinosaurs" is just "they got small and kinda round"

SOOooo kinda thinking about visiting Norway next summer. I'd probably have 5 days to see the sights. Fjords and hiking would be priorities for me. Anybody been there or from there? Any thoughts?

Screeeeeeeeeming and kicking my feet bc LOOK at the glorious author portrait @heymonsterboy.bsky.social made for my Enchanting Alter Ego what writes romantasy!! 💃💃💃 Going to have all kinds of fun setting this persona up with some social medias in the new year 😎

What's that? I just signed up to try a medieval European sword/dagger fighting class? YES! Yes I did

this greatly pleases me to look at

Do not attempt to trap a cranberry goblin under any circumstances. They'll think you're playing a game and then they'll trap your soul in a mason jar for a hundred years to keep the game going.

A friend invited me to play wheelchair basketball today & altho I'm bad at basketball in general, it was a good time! Wheelchairs are shockingly intuitive to use (tho I guess sports chairs are lighter/easier to handle, which makes sense). My fave was when everyone stopped bothering to keep score c:

Companies that do this should be forced to pay taxes into UBI, and the amount should increase per position eliminated by "AI"

Bandit Crab

Just realized nobody can stop me from drawing homoerotic finance bros 🤠

Anyhoo off I go to spend time punching things

Been getting very into Canadian Dad Rock lately. Big Wreck, OLP, Tea Party, Great Big Sea, Headstones, etc. Just found out Finger Eleven are Canadian?? Wild.

If there's one episode of TV I wish I could force everyone to watch and internalize, it's the 30 Rock where Liz, who has always seen herself as a bullied nerd underdog, finds out she's actually been hated all her life because she's mean.

(Blowing the dust off the box in my head labeled "Loving To Draw Actually") Let's fuckin GO

I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT

I am so tired of the way people are about politics. Me: "Yeah I don't like the party in power, but there's no progressive alternative right now and the conservative alternative is WAY worse." Someone with no reading comprehension: "You support EVIL policies!!! Here's why the party in power sucks!"

Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.

Cis men are so bad at dating app profile names... "Stamina"? "Hunk"? "All Night Long"????? Dude just use your first name. Please. For everyone else's sake

Any similarity between chinchillas and Nox Hill house imps is purely coincidentally on purpose

today is my birthday and I’d love nothing more than for everyone to help fight the darkness with kindness do something kind for someone today (this includes yourself, you are Someone) and tell me about a kindness someone did for you! let’s celebrate some goodness in the world 🩷

It is my birthday today and I got an early birthday gift last night: Went to a concert and got CARDED at the 19+ venue 🤣🤣🤣🤣 STILL GOT IT

Spells are living demons. Everybody knows that. But you know how vampires have to count grains of rice that you drop? Spells have to read. That's why you trap them in books. The writing on parchment is a labyrinth the spells are walking, trapped, until you're ready for them.

Last night Copperfield tried to steal my crochet hook but didn't succeed... So he stole something else very loudly to make sure I would notice 😂

So we all know September vibes are cozy, October vibes are spooky... What are November vibes?

Kinda seems like a lot of people would be well served by replacing social media with coffee catch-ups and a physical diary

I can't be on that grindset I'm busy experiencing joy and whimsy ✨

Made stickers to hand out while I'm at the garlic festival tomorrow :D

Starting to think maybe as a creator it's best to only answer fan questions or correspondence if they've been sent in as snail mail

The smile / The reason

Canada is doing it right - fighting censorship by payment processor If you are a Canadian creator, getting them an email so they have a case to put in front of Parliament would do the world good

Comics are beautiful and I like them a lot

Does anybody still play Pokemon Go? And would any of you wanna be FRIENDS on there to exchange gifts and such? I have so much research that hinges on giving people gifts...

When your desserts need that BE NOT AFRAID quality.

There's a real and tangible relief to finding out what the hell Your Latest Issue has been yanno

Men on dating apps are ridiculous. Mate, if you're "straight" why are you Liking my profile