HUMAN ARTIST, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

I didn't invent the rules of summer, I just know that you're allowed to play Bonnie Tylor at whatever volume you please with the windows down.

My new peccadillo is all the articles reviewing/complaining about "reboots" when they actually mean "sequel" or "reimagining." These three things are not the same!

I cannot believe I am fighting with Windows because it refuses to believe the US has more than one timezone. Truly the worst operating system.

Lens is one of the few phone features I use consistently and this update made it harder. If the phone didn't secretly update in the dead of night I wouldn't have ever allowed it.

I've reached the phase of jaded where something I love is going to be adapted into something else and my first response is, "oh no."

I understand that no one can watch every movie, or indeed ingest all media, but I'm gonna need people to do a little research if you're using something you've never experienced as a reference. Otherwise you will end up someday using an image referencing something you did not intend.

One of the problems with this book is that when it mentions names or nouns or places that I want to look further into, all of them have been colonized by DnD.

I was sold a bill of lies.

I have work to do today but first, am library Christmas. This time the hold list gods have given me Phantom Armies of the Night, a scholarly work about the wild hunt and its surrounding folklore.

If you're tall and need a trusty whip, here's my latest built. A 1985 Trek 450 Single Speed. minneapolis.craigslist.org/ram/bik/d/sa...

Patches Is RIGHT. He pushed you into a pit because he thought you were a cleric, and the clerics abandon maidens in the tomb of giants to loot their corpses. He's doing to clerics what they do to everyone. You're just pissed because it happened to you. But Patches Is RIGHT.

New Kindles are all touch interface, which is why I hate them. My G2 still works, has nice big buttons on the side to turn pages, and doesn't have ads. Of course, the Kindle store is also garbage, so I've been using alternate methods of obtaining books for years. www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/a...

Good reminder that the police are a militarized force who view the public as the enemy and civilian oversight as a threat to their power. Hennepin county has 98 reflex sights the military just gave to them, and a mine resistant vehicle. For all those mines. In uptown prob. youtu.be/zo4TnUxHnWs?...

🧵 Sometimes it's not about failing upwards. It's about the intertia of a system enforcing that system, even though it shouldn't. The story says he'll land on his feet, so it describes an outcome where he does. The difference is when my coworker sucks at his job, nuclear war is not a likely outcome.

Everytime someone brings up Rosemary's Baby in an essay it's extremely clear they only know the movie. And ok, it had an outsized impact on the culture, but the book is so much better and THE ENDING IS DIFFERENT. I cannot recommend Ira Levin's work enough. 7 novels, 6 certified bangers.

When a mutual deletes a post and you were just about to have a long talk about medieval undergarments. T°T

Another rejection letter. Feels like I'm spinning my wheels. (╥_╥)

Another rejection letter. Feel like I'm spinning my wheels lately. (╥_╥)

Flooded with memories of my grandmother, who would vanish in the time before Easter because she did probably all of this, and STILL had the osterlamm ready Sunday on top of everything. She had the energy of a hummingbird and I miss her dearly. Hug your grandmothers today.

Add food to a movie title: Rum Lola Rum

Hey cartoonists, do not sign on for this. If they aren’t paying animators or authors, they sure as hell aren’t paying livable graphic novel advances. And also, it sucks.

6 years ago I liberated two boxes of heavy mailing tubes from a dumpster, complete with end caps, and now I feel like I have to include a note when I ship prints. "I did not give The Bad Wisconsin Company money, I will use these until they run out and purchase from some less shitty place."

I'm finally out from under this migraine and doing everything I can to avoid retriggering. I don't know if anyone else's migraines have a panic button where if they smell something specific within 24 hours they slam the button and come back.

Migraine means I will be limited in the amount of anything I can do for probably 3 days. Not a great time to have deadlines.

I don't love showing my layouts because they are garbage drawn on garbage. Like, this one is done on a dissected grocery bag because I needed a big piece of paper to fold up, and it's economical. You can make art with anything, on anything. There's no bar except "you made it."

My latest! This piece on the extraordinarily long history of indigenous bird knowledge has had a *very* long and winding road to publication, and I'm super happy it found a home at Foreign Policy. A hearty thanks to @beijingpalmer.bsky.social for snapping it up and carrying it over the finish line!

I don't think people realize there is no continuous protected north/south bike infrastructure in Minneapolis except the trail along the lightrail. Anywhere else, no new bike infrastructure meaningfully crosses Lake. You must always take Lake or the 31st death trap, neither of which have bike lanes.

I'm honestly stunned. Now extended it south of Lake. Seemingly all bike infrastructure is forbidden to pass Lake. Some of us go north/south, it's hell.

Criterion is having a 24 hour flash sale which means I am, finally, getting my own copy of Klute.

This bottle has survived numerous bike crashes, including one that launched it down an overpass. I lost the top and liberated one from an expensive brand. She has seen things and been places. I ain't giving up on her.

I COULD throw out my steel water bottle because it developed a pinhole leak after being dropped the billionth time. Or. I could use a food grade silicone sealant to repair it.

Let's talk about predatory practices! Yes that image is complete garbage. It will cost "500 generative credits" to spit ONE out. This currency expires monthly. Premium currencies are used to detach people from how much money they're spending/losing. This is Adobe of Duty. These are AdobeBucks (AB).

Biked and around the city gathering bits of Minneapolis music history for my uncle, who is turning 70 and will never visit this city, but should enjoy it. Euphoric Recall is a breezy read and I'm tearing through it at a coffee shop before it gets mailed to Germany

I need to be able to download Brandi Carlile's cover of Uninvited.

This is not the first day of the year I've taken out the bike. It's not even the fifth. But it's definitely the first day I've seen so many other people take their bikes out.

If I ever see one of these in a bike lane, I'm buying a baseball bat.

This is his cat, Phoebe, in her shrimp pose. This means "rub my belly," it is not a trap, she wants more belly rubs than any dog I have ever met.

Val Kilmer is not starring in anything. Val Kilmer is dead. Even death cannot save anyone from capitalism.

How did it take me this long to learn there is a riso printing space within biking distance? I'm going to print so many cryptid comics this summer.

$38 million would pay for 76% of Hennepin County Medical Center's budget shortfall.

A $50 million budget shortfall, or 12% what the Hennepin county paid for the baseball stadium, or 33% of the city alone's contribution to the football stadium, or 10% the total public contribution of that stadium. We got sports teams, but probably not a hospital. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Already upset one person today because I refused to participate in the "so how much did shoveling suck?" ritual. I dislike shoveling far less than I loath tedious smalltalk. I went for a walk this morning to enjoy the crisp silence. I got to pet a dog wearing a jacket. I will not whine about snow.

Saying "films cost too much to make, you only need a $1000 laptop to write a novel" is asinine. That film budget includes the salaries of dozens if not hundreds of people. The author writing that novel ALSO NEEDS TO BE PAID. Such a comparison presupposes writers work for free.

What if I just like snow? I make hot tea and sit by the window with a book and a blanket. Perhaps tomorrow I shall sled.

"Canon" is a millstone around the neck of the industry.

My plan to see more local music at more small venues might be curtailed this weekend by, apparently, a blizzard?

It's taken me two days to figure out how a Win11 update broke my ability to control the RGB lighting on my components. And then I had to go through and uninstall all the stupid things it reinstalled. So now I have to look into what I need to edit in the registry. I hate this.

5 artists at an event, all wearing wrist braces, talking about the worst background we ever inflicted on ourselves and how we'd all do it again.