Come work for Acme Co., we have vison, dental, a good pension plan and last week we all went downtown and saw the big stinky flower at the botanical gardens

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

If a person cannot work or be productive under capitalism, they do not cease to be human. A concept of personhood predicated on labour value is essentially eugenics

I live in Busan now and the weather here has been so unaccountably lovely that I keep feeling guilty about how relieved I am not to have moved literally anywhere else this summer. I don't know if this is normal or if I'm just having good weather luck this year, but I got to enjoy June for once.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

The housemate and I have taken a sort of fandom-y approach to the planties. We're each separately checking them every single day, and then excitedly reporting progress to each other when we next talk. We're saying stuff like, "Did you see that there are several tiny peppermint leaves up now?!"

Noncompliance is such an innocuous word for such a powerful act. Ultimately, authority has only the force that those who comply with it grant it by their compliance. Though power can impose consequences, it cannot compel. Noncompliance is what happens when authority encounters its natural limits.

Ah. I have reached the stage where I wake up and can tell the weather without so much as opening my curtains or getting out of bed because every single joint hurts worse when it's raining.

"Elon Musk is being a disgusting Nazi bitch, so instead of punishing him, we're going to punish YOU instead and take away YOUR freedom. Because we would never play hardball with a billionaire."

Thanks, John. Should have thought of that: bookshop.org/p/books/char...

Im so exhausted by this pattern. Historians spend years in the archives to write detailed accounts of the past. Only for journalists, doctors, podcasters, and now cartoonists, to swoop in and get paid a lot of money to trot out the same work, "uncovering hidden histories" that are not at all hidden.

I've moved internationally, and had to downsize multiple times. I think the oldest thing I use FREQUENTLY is a jewelry box from the end of the 19th century. It's got my pendants in it, and I wear a lot of those. Most of my stuff is still around a decade old at least, though? I don't LIKE updating.

Reposting because they still have a ways to go to meet the goal. This is horrifying bullshit on top of a lot of already horrifying bullshit.

Before any of you all go "BuT tHiS wOn'T aFfEcT mE", yes if will. It will affect EVERYONE. Not jusy here on bluesky, on EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. You would have to give up your fucking ID info just to use ANYTHING on the internet. It's mass surveillance. theintercept.com/2026/06/28/a...

My plant babies are doing so well! The thyme is popping up all over, the basil has gone bonkers, and the coriander is coming up leggy but it is still coming up. I have also planted peppermint and chives this week, it remains to be seen how they'll do.

I was gone all day on a quick trip up to Seoul, and Ollie is attempting to convince me that he has been woefully neglected the entire time I was gone. This is a blatant falsehood, as the housemate kept me updated all day on spoiling him, but Ollie doesn't understand that we cheat by using phones.

Got a few more of my collected webcomic art up on the wall this week. Feeling happy to see steadily more personality filling up my apartment.

Y'know, I used to think a general strike might be sufficient to take back the reins, but I am no longer confident that people could make enough impact where it matters through one. They might also have to stay off the internet the whole time, and that... I don't think people would be willing to do.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

MY PLANTS HAVE SPROUTED! I am a terrible gardener, generally speaking, but I had decided that this year I was going to try to grow something anyway. Bringing new life because of grieving a death, etc. I started way late, but my window boxes are indoors on my balcony so I'm trying anyhow.

Apropos of nothing, I grew up with a Quaker who was a freedom rider, war tax resistor, and at one point dumped blood in the White House fountain to protest a war. Except, blood wouldn't have been as visible. So what he actually used was red dye. It still turned the fountain red, and made news.

Webcomics are the Zines of Comics. Both in the OG "No barriers to entry: just print, copy, and staple"-sense, and the "Has blown up into a thing with professional/high-achieving expectations on it and now people think they have to be making polished/premium work in order for it to count"-sense.

My players: So maybe we need an extra barrel to hide our target in... Me: There are a couple of water butts in the yard. Players: Okay, how big is that? Me, blankly: A butt. The Bard: Like, are we talking Sir Mix A Lot, or— Me: No, a butt! Like a standard imperial butt. *explains barrels*

Seems reasonable to me the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Took Ollie on an adventure to the local vet office, and according to her he is in excellent health except for being gloriously round, which puts him at risk for diabetes. He was also extremely well behaved for a cat on an adventure to the vet, though, and she called him very sweet.

One of the important lexical contributions my housemate has made since moving in is exclusively referring to Ollie's various fecal and urinary atrocities as "crimes." Which is fair, because this cat is FAR from a law abiding litterbox user. He's a poo criminal.

Something I was kinda shocked to discover once I was engaged in my lit degree was just how accessible and easy to read a lot of the literature I grew up hearing about actually is. This stuff sold enough to become semi-immortal for a reason, and I DON'T have to think of it like a vanished artifact??

Hurray, going Girl Mode and politely asking the aircon installer to please use his Serious Drill to put in the wall anchors for my heavy museum glass framed photos has worked perfectly, and the photos are up. AND I remembered the Korean construction for "I really tried but I couldn't," so bonus!

Today's Random Curiosity: At what point did humans start needing and using waste bins? I know we've got middens and such going back well into prehistory, but when did the average household have enough disposables to necessitate trash cans being a Thing? It seems like it'd be pretty recent?

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

LRS, the only things I need to be "protected" from seeing are unsolicited advertisements. And even then, if people wanted to make and distribute the artistic content of ads to consenting audiences I wouldn't want to censor them. I want to fix the "did not consent to see this" part, not the content.

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

Ah, after nine years in Korea, I have finally resorted to trying the sticky herbal pain patches. I have been reluctant to try them because my skin allergies can be aggressive at times, but the local pharmacy was closed and the pain was significant, so the housemate thought it was worth trying.

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

Ollie is full of screams this morning, including while my housemate is actively petting him as he stands on the table. Housemate: "Ollie you are licking plastic while I am petting you. This is the greed they talked about in the bible." Ollie: "MEE-EW!"

Ollie has decided that the thing he really needs to do, all the time, is scream. While I am fully sympathetic to this impulse, it is also incredibly fucking annoying that his screams don't seem to be FOR anything in particular. I can't help him. He's just meowing his head off because he wants to.

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

Adding Jim the @vhswizard.bsky.social to our DnD game was 100% a boon. Easiest session to DM I've ever done, even coming back to the game 3 months later, because I barely had to do anything. I just let him be his character and encouraged the others to talk so they could bounce off each other.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

The movers packed the entire cabinet of original comic pages in a mixed order that it is going to take me at least a month to unravel. I am Displeased, bordering on Wroth.

"[C]orporations only exist because states allow them to. Which means that every power a corporation has was given to it by the state. Hawaii just took one of those powers off the list—starting next year, corporations in Hawaii can no longer spend money on state + local elections." #ShareGoodNewsToo

We're always skating on thin ice over here with our work since we primarily sell our artists' work online. The only reason that we're able to do it is by the whims of shopify and the credit card processors, and it's always a battle. If you care about porn, smut, and censorship, let kickstarter know

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Hey Dragon Con people. Start exercising now so you don’t pass out during the con. This has been a public service announcement from the over 40 leaf blower lady.

But as of April 29, 2026, there is no federal statute in the United States of America that can stop racially discriminatory voting laws from going into effect, or can be used to litigate against them once on the books.

Absolute nightmare fuel. Hopefully there are backups for a swift recovery.

Here's a fun thing to think about... What percentage of the stuff you know did you learn because you were actively taught and told to study it in a structured way, vs what percentage did you pick up in passing or go learn on your own simply because you were interested enough to be curious?

This is a long shot, but Ohio Wesleyan's (Delaware, OH) history dept is looking for adjunct teachers for Fall 2026 to teach two in person classes: Introduction to medieval history and an upper level class on the Black Death. Please let me know if you might be interested!