@acidgraffiti.cryptoanarchy.network I just want you to know that I have been rocking out incredibly hard to the whole bravern soundtrack. why is it so good???

I’ve just read that every bsky post is permanently archived by ICE. this doesn’t surprise me (DHS does similar things), but: I hope y’all are bored. You can’t actually sort your data for shit but if you ever stumble upon this, appreciate the tedium of my whiteness

I got my results back/saw my neurologist today. -C3 spinal lesion -was probably present in July 2024 but was distorted by a “motion artifact” -explains a lot -probably the cause of weird autonomic episodes, so next time they happen I should go to the hospital on MS protocol. This is a relief

The Reddit algorithm has taken me down quite the rabbit hole. Did you know that there are people who think gifted classes were Psychic MKUltra for Kids™? True story.

I’ve received a Mystery Turbo™! Whence??? Thank you!

This sucks: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no more. “Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell.” GOP ghouls finally killed it. [apnews.com]

It’s Yamato Time.

I’ve had a uh, minor(?) neurological situation. in an attempt to turn my brain off, I made the mistake of watching the first season of Rise of the Shield Hero and OOOOO that made me mad. Terrible idea, not recommended

Greg got me this Hong Kong repro of Bild Lilli for Christmas. She’s delightful. I have to put her in something very modern/inappropriate now.

the AI spiral folks are at it again

Shockingly simple under here.

Happy Holidays, folks! You ever wonder what the inside of a broadcast model mid-century turntable looks like?? I DO

this box was lumpy as fuck so there was only so much I could do, but god I love folding flaps in along an imaginary center seam and offering no explanation. “Why is it so neat” fuck you is why. Run your fingers along it. Enjoy.

Hide Kojima on @wired.com ‘s Tech Support! Nice!

I like to anthropomorphize my immune system by imagining it as a bunch of very dumb but gung ho Space Marines

back on my Skinner box shit again, discovered new age AI spirituality subreddits and r/myhusbandisai

I’m not quite sure how to articulate this, but - I was talking to my therapist about *not actually hating things*. I pass for what the internet might call “a hater”, but I didn’t even hate the person who assaulted me. Didn’t hate my parents. Didn’t hate the person who stalked me.

Comic creators often talk about "flow" through the composition of comics pages, but little work has actually studied it. So, our newest paper explores what flow is and how it works, which I’ve summarized in a more accessible way in this post: www.visuallanguagelab.com/2025/12/goin...

I had to go find and read this article, because the premise seemed like a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs work. as it turns out, the title is somewhat misleading but since this guy is an editor I don’t think he can blame his editor on this one

Sharing this because it's funny.

some day the government is going to scour my social media and I hope they are bored AND confused

unrelated to anything, this is not AI. I took like 10 pictures of this dog because I was unsure of whether I was, in fact, seeing a dog with driving goggles sitting patiently in a Chrysler convertible in the hardware store parking lot

“Get a newer car,” they said. “Stop driving Ratsuns,” they said. here I am driving this comparatively boring-ass mini like everybody wanted and then it breaks down and costs OVER A THIRD OF ITS OWN VALUE to repair

from Strangers In Paradise

I should disclose: I don’t hate AI. Do I feel threatened by it? Not in the same way many of my peers do, sure. It is neither capable of, nor interested in, writing or drawing the way I do. If LLMs are a probability engine made of chopped up people-tendencies, what I do just isn’t popular enough.

it is generally frowned upon in these circles to spectate on the LLM race but the corporate dogfighting and user-generated conspiracies are genuinely fascinating

"get that bag" can stay but will require means testing

went back to the climbing gym. I am, if it is possible, “out of arm”

review of gym-based bouldering: if you are able-bodied, try it out. even if u got a little of that autoimmune flare business u kno what I’m sayin. unless it’s one of the real bad ones. intro is a brain and body puzzle, less about strength then “how do I get over there with my short-ass self?” 7.5/10

I am at the rock gym. dam

CHRISTMAS PLATYPUS

It's my book's release day! The Patterns of Comics is now officially published, featuring an extended data-driven analysis of the structures used in 350+ comics from Asia, Europe, and North America analyzing diversity, regularity, and change over time www.visuallanguagelab.com/poc

I just learned that Microsoft is trying to revive Three Mile Island. I wish it was for a different reason, but I’ll take it

Malcolm X is deceptively difficult to draw. I think it’s the intensity of even his “neutral” expression

on the off chance you’re the specific kind of “HMM WHAT IF I-“ dumbass I am don’t put the gel pen in the microwave

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com

Anyway, i just found @nsfwocdaily.bsky.social and I think it’s pretty rad. I particularly appreciate the world building questions.

I can’t imagine them being used as intended by any of them. Instead: -Kharyl: taunting by leaving them in ominous, semi-public locations. The Game, with edible underpants (with added danger of being a public figure seen reacting to edible underpants). not sexual, just human shitpost behavior

The whole “Trump likes Mamdani, actually” thing is EXTREMELY fucking funny. If I gotta be here for the collapse of democracy, it’s nice to get a chuckle in there

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 is a rare thing. Not only did they remake a 1970s anime and not ruin it, they aggressively improved it. IMO.

Anyway, let’s all unlearn shame. Just enough, you know. It’s probably best if we continue not to streak through our neighborhoods while shouting shonen catchphrases.

So, for most of my life I drew nearly daily. About a year and a half ago? Maybe two years? I stopped. There are a lot of things that go into that. I don’t fully get it, myself. It’s been… self-alienating? I’m not sure how to describe it. It’s like identity negation.

Older creators bellyaching about feeling left outside of the comics industry have a myopic misunderstanding of what changes have taken place over the past few decades. The industry didn’t push you out, any sort of real coherent structural functional industry at all, sadly ceased to exist

I am trying to understand visual novels as a medium. Can’t really say genre, even though there’s a lot of shared conventions. It’s one of those things where you see it, you consider what’s possible vs. what exists and wonder, “where’s the good stuff?”

You ever read a thing and think, “you write like an asshole”? I don’t mean “you were an asshole”, I mean “the specifics of your craft screams asshole” Craft is malleable and prone to experimental failure (as it should be), so lenience is probably warranted but

I used to work in a special utility escalations department that mostly dealt with this. It’s tragic. You get entire families who can’t get a utility anymore, entire communities, because they bounce from account-holder to account-holder.

lord help me I’m gonna watch the bad hellsing

I have heard so much noise about stellar blade. come to find out it’s just “hyung tae kim’s brain: the game” oh. he’s the ceo of the company that developed the game. ah say what you will but for your aesthetic to be distinctive enough to be IDed on sight is pretty impressive