Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

So, I made new year 2026 cards! I held off on posting this until most of the people i personally gave/sent one to got to see it in print. 3 ink Risograph print on brown kraft, and this is my mood going into the year: yeah, older and sort of broken, but stubborn as hell about resilience and repair

hi, girls

I got Hades 2 for christmas, so that's what I'm obsessed with this week. It's really good! And you know what, if you were to guess my favorite boss fight in this just based on what my general deal is, you'd probably be right

once again spent all week adoring the christmas boy

good news for christmas, my family got me this photo of the cats in mug form!

Merry Christmas from my parents house in my hometown, I woke up from a dream where a female friend from high school was pregnant and I wasn’t sure if it was mine

holiday miracle, my sister managed to find the unsettling half-remembered 1930s cartoon that somehow defeated our attempts to identify it for years

Some thoughts on some things I've been dealing with lately. 1/6

I remember this post, it inspired me to mock up my hypothetical impression of "Ski or Don't". I think it's only fair for virtual winter sports enthusiasts to have the option of hanging out in the lodge all afternoon, too.

ha ha, I'm happy to see Geomaquarium going around again! R.I.P. to my old twitter with its original fun thread with lots of people discussing this aesthetic and era of games

Hi! I’m Kathleen, a designer and cartoonist from Vancouver. I haven’t been actively making comics the past few years due to some ongoing health problems, but you can read almost 300 pages of my goofy, gay, silently musical comic series Band Vs Band at bvbcomix.com

a cozy girl

I moved these stools to vacuum the floor, so of course now begins the rivalry of the wizards atop their towers

one of the worst things about The Algorithms and everything trying to use personalized data is like. oh, you have anxiety or OCD around certain topics? Cool, cool, heard those are your Interests. you love to see and engage with your interests, right

Luna is sick (poor baby, I’ve called the vet), and it’s so cute that she went and curled up next to her sister on purpose. She’s usually more of an independent type who likes the other cat to give her a little space.

A thought I keep coming back to is: for at least 3 or 4 generations, people have been SO primed to want to be Friends With A Robot. Cool and fun idea, even taking into account the cautionary & sinister sci-fi depictions of them. frankly incredible how much popular goodwill to robots has been blown

whoa, google maps has entirely disabled reviews on a bunch of types of location like elementary schools, prisons, and geographic features like oceans? RIP to the discovery I was fascinated by several years ago: that they had reviews in the first place, which were often weird, funny, or concerning

serious moment: I've spent the past four years gradually getting pieces of my life back after losing a lot of ability, and besides physical limitations I've been in brain hell about it. so. feels great that I got really into putting together a goofy Halloween costume! that's 100% the old me spirit

in conclusion, this halloween: I bought pink glasses And yellow glasses to make this, so, uh. The hell am I gonna do with two pairs of these?

update, the list of people’s guesses about my halloween costume today is so funny and good. Twin Peaks, Persona, Someone From Anime, Someone From The 70s, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Elton John

ha ha, almost nobody i’m encountering in real life knows what this is, but someone just recognized it instantly, Halloween Accomplished* (* but really, the main thing for me is doing costumes that look fun & intentional regardless of whether people are familiar with it as something specific!)

* HEY EVERY BUDDY! IT’S YOUR [Number One Rated Salesman1997!] * I USED TO BE A [Big Shot], AND NOW I’M A [$4.99 Halloween Costume] FOR [Some Lesbian?!?] (happy halloween, I’m Deltarune Spamton!)

Hell yeah they are

oh man, I wanted something inexpensive that looks like a men’s business suit dress shirt for halloween, and the only thing that wasn’t way too big on me was for kids. little boy church shirt. bart simpson miserable with his hair combed core

I think about the Night In The Woods constellations pretty often. really good, really iconic and evocative

anyway

a slightly different looking bus pulled up to my stop, and my first thought was "imagine that took me to hell"

(nature documentary) and by October, the house cats are ready to hibernate in their Nest

(actually spending most of my free time worrying about everyone and everything I care about being killed under 21st century fascism) yeah, i've been getting back into physical media. it's nice to watch DVDs again

a well-worn observation at this point, but: okay, this sentence starting a news article would make a person from the year 1990 malfunction and catch on fire

Just as well I never had kids. Besides, you know, everything about state of the world, they would probably be horrified about how I'm going way out of my way to get an old non-smart TV

as above, so below

cat report, got a new chair and i’m really pleased by how clearly the fabric shows their tiny paw prints

Ok, update: I finally did this, and it's great? I got a decent but plain no-internet-nothing-smart LED "business" projector...and now i guess one of my little joys when everything feels like the walls closing in and the world burning is i get to watch old dvds of the simpsons at like 5 feet wide

...I FINALLY beat it, right before an update patch that came out *today* made it slightly less brutal! hell yeah hell yeah, i'm almost embarrassingly proud of this

Ok, Deltarune update, I'm playing through it again to get the stuff I missed, particularly the secrets of chapter 3, and oh my god, this boss fight has been kicking my ass for like a WEEK. when I finally beat this I feel like I should get a master's degree or something for it.

oh, a bunch of stuff, but one of my favorite symbolic bad omens for millennials was seeing one of these tipped over in a ditch in like 2021

sleepy silhouette girl

some of my least-favorite disingenuous cowardice: the idea that our biggest problem, politically and culturally, is that people are "divided". playing a gross little Both Sides game treating division & conflict as the part that's inherently bad, regardless of motives, actions, harm done, CONTEXT-

it’s #makeaterriblecomicday2025 and i thought it’d be fun to just make something quick and dirty totally by hand, no undos

she had to go to the vet this morning and get her heart checked out, and she is Not happy about it (but I am thrilled that apparently her heart looks pretty good)

it has been a really heavy week both personally and, you know, for the world…but on the plus side, I finished the new Deltarune and am once again obsessed with it. No spoilers, but: Chapter 3 had a lot of fun stuff, and then 4 was just a damn work of art that I’ll be thinking about for a long time

starting to feel like maybe there's no Magical Bad Idea Warned Against In Sci-Fi And/Or Fantasy that half of humanity wouldn't just, like, go for if sufficiently advanced technology made it easy enough. oh, i know they come back Wrong, but the raise the dead machine is so convenient

I'm enjoying seeing photos of all the comics people at TCAF At The Ice Rink, and, incidentally, it's bringing back childhood memories of having to go to...Church At The Ice Rink. always been something strangely funny to me about when the rink beckons for non-ice activities

my cat Rose is wearing a cone for a few days after her vet visit, and i feel bad for her...and also a little guilty about how I always kind of like her coned persona, who I've named Sad Baby Lamp. baby lamp is the cuddliest lap cat in the world

once again, gabbo is here, and she is Not happy about it

also let me be clear on this as a cis gay: pride means solidarity with trans people, non-negotiable. i have a literal trans sister and trans friends & colleagues who I love...but also, this is about human rights, dignity & freedom regardless of whether it's individuals you personally know and like

Rose is having some issues and she's going to the vet later today, so we're in the whole preparation routine of like, cone, pheromone diffuser, gabapentin, separate Luna into another room, looking at the clock with military precision

happy pride month, I'm Gay