After a marvelous 2 year streak of near pestlessness I have accidentally given the apartment fruit flies. God dammit.

okay, Treadmill Lubricant in the teen section is a new one

i slept so little last night i just started to call mushrooms "elephants"

All schemes and self-pity postponed, stopping by my friend the island from summer 2025 today

Hospital

it is actually possible to draw something and go "well. I'm pretty displeased with how that turned out." and not have that collapse your entire sense of self worth. it's possible to go "oh well haha" and then enjoy the rest of your day. and, get this: you can still make good art that way

some tips for actually doing this: -shitty is better than incomplete -you are the ONLY one who can do what YOU'RE doing -people LOVE seeing the artist's hand in their work, esp in the age of genAi -the more you say "this sucks," the more you believe it. the opposite is also true

I need to remember to extract important documents from the base to which I have gone turncoat. I believe I have intel on their location, however, and suitable cover...

P. Craig Russell

interesting fact I just learned on Wikipedia is that pieing somebody can be a tort(e) under civil law

dogs aren’t dangerous #art

Happy Pride Month! Here's a short comic I've been chewing on a while, it's about playing a sport while trans in high school.

Q: is "Formica" the material related to ants? A: No. It's a portmanteau of "for+mica", because mica was the material it was first synthesized to replace.

“Good heavens, John! Call someone! ... The entire basement looks dry!”

im pretty far on the anti-AI and LLM end of the spectrum, but you have to constantly think critically and reassert your reasons *why* you oppose it, otherwise you end up taking positions like "it's good to manually complete tasks which could be automated and doing avoidable work is virtuous"

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

Looking at the Boston skyline, I wonder if previous generations felt as baffled by the rise of architectural styles which we now consider decade-defining. Nobody consults you, you just see a really weird looking new building and it takes several years to realize this is the New Thing

happy #makeaterriblecomicday to all who celebrate (all of you, as it is compulsory) #makeaterriblecomicday2026

how I feel this week

@pseudonymjones.bsky.social today i made a #makeaterriblecomicday comic =8)-DX

hell yeah! got my lampreypalooza tshirt!

Make A Terrible Comic Day is my favorite holiday. It's like Christmas except we all forgot presents until the last minute and also that's socially acceptable

My beautiful horse. #makeaterriblecomicday2026

Notes app #makeaterriblecomicday2026

#makeaterriblecomicday2024 wow it’s that time of year again!

reminder that tomorrow is the day again

shmancy 6/23/26

OK finally finished the @tmbg.bsky.social photos from the second Boston night. I really should have done at least one more cull to get the numbers down but I couldn't be bothered! Enjoy! #TMBG flic.kr/s/aHBqjCXnwG

Albrecht Dürer

the day approaches

started laughing about but the bizarre sensation trying on my mouth guard for the first time, which apparently made my grin look so funny the dentist started laughing hysterically too and the other hygienists came in to investigate

"why Newton York hates Doctor Worm" #x&y

Happy Millennials Are Killing Day! @ok.glass This is the best song. Cannot over-recommend. ✌🏻 😎 okglass.bandcamp.com/album/same

Today I discovered just how delightful a second weekly 70s Sci-Fi Art email could be. Friday is for giant caterpillar creatures. Thanks, @70sscifiart.bsky.social

TMBW wishes a very happy birthday to Mr. John Linnell!

God: Next we need a bug to live in their walls and air ducts. It exclusively eats other bugs that get into homes, it'll be scared of people, and it can't even bite them. A helpful fella Gabriel: Another banger, Lord. How will it look? Your ladybug was a big hit God: Think of a centipede from hell

Human-socialized. #RunawayToTheStars

Please Use AI

Humiliations endured by the commute-haver: - ordering food - running to catch a train - those parking garage kiosks you're supposed to lean out the window to use when your arms are short

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My sentimental affection for/interest in New England is only further inflated by talking to TMBG fans from all over the place recently

Ugh I need to either learn to order food in the wild or start preparing meals at home. Thankfully for my wallet the second one of these will probably win as less frustrating

this teapot is occupied #art ✧ #cat ✧ #crossstitch

Finis! The quilting on this one shows up better on the front. The backing fabric is a white on white print and it just doesn’t show.

post-TMBG concert I have.... Girls by The Dare stuck in my head. Thanks Flans

Intermission posting! #tmbg

I may have picked the wrong aspirational showbiz butch comparison