The scientific term for the small brown spots that many of us possess in abundance on our skin are "unexploded melanoma grenades." Please, friends. Do me a solid. Wear sunscreen when you go out this summer, yes? 🙏

*PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ!* And so sing all of us. 🎂

Had rice for supper. Rice is lovely. People should eat more rice.

I'm quite happy to report that I have a "Trump-less" passport, and seeing as how it shall not expire for a decade, I believe that it probably shall outlast Ginger Caligula, god willing.

Sex should be both fun and at times funny. If you and your partner can laugh in bed, you've got a good thing going.

The U.S. has a weird, horrid, Calvinist cultural psychosis where we have normalized a stigma against people seeking love and praise. Jesus is the fist. You shall be hit until you become better and once you are better you shall hit the little ones and they shall learn to hit. The fist is love.

I love how you can instantly tell when an article is unmitigated horseshit. Sentence one: "Within the next 10 years, our phones will no longer be our primary personal device." STOP. If anything tech-adjacent uses a time-span like "10 years" they're selling you magical unicorn poop. Move on.

"Oh, aye, the cap'n...he were a hard man. Not only did he order the lash of the cat, but he ordered the crew to document the procedure for making the cat o' nine tails in OneNote and if ye didn't keep the documentation up to date...well, god preserve ye, lad..."

Now what's going on in here I wonder?

Every day, I am increasingly convinced that Jack Welch was one of the most evil men who ever lived. He trained multiple generations of business leaders not only to view employees as fungible widgets, but also that there would be no negative consequences for discarding them like used tissues.

I think I might know the three most crucial Russian words: • Spaceba! (спасибо!) • Nichevo. (ничего.) • Khorosho. (хорошо.) You can literally populate an entire sentence with these.

*Gently fanning all of my English friends who are currently melting from the infernal heat.* *Just imagine a big guy with one of those massive fan thingummybobs waving it to create a gentle breeze.*

You are trapped in a room with a man who talks about nothing but AI and cars. His favorite person is Jeremy Clarkson. Discuss.

Hey yall lots of meds are dangerous in heat: antidepressants, SSRIs, ADHD meds, ACE inhibitors etc. this explains how, the dangers, etc:

I'm such an annoying liberal person. I know (and I have numbers) that most of society's most problems are solvable if you throw smart policy and money at them. The intractable thing is that rich people cannot abide the notion that the number on their spreadsheet might go down to deal with this.

An iron rule that I just made up: if you know how to prepare rice really well, you are a good cook. Period. Full stop.

What’s this, what’s this! Why it is book-mail from the marvelous @swanriverpress.bsky.social! Richard Gavin is a wonderful writer of strange stories. I eagerly await tucking into this tonight.

5/4 time is one of my favorite things in the world. The way that the notes hit off the beat creates beautiful musical tension.

If ever you wonder why a seemingly intractable social problem seems insoluble, there is a three-word answer for this. "Greedy Fucking Assholes." Try it. You can apply this to practically everything that is bad about society.

Language is a technology that hominids invented to more efficiently deceive and manipulate one another. (Can you tell that I'm not having a great day?)

I am governed by Daleks. (No, I am not being hyperbolic.)

Saturday sketch: “Quinquireme of Nineveh” (fountain pen on paper.)

At the risk of sounding a bit trivial, I keep wanting to swap "Naftali" with "Gordon!" (I did pronounce the exclamation mark.)

CW: Politics (sorry) One thing that I wish a lot of people on the left could get is that corruption and relentless ridicule are REALLY effective attack vectors. For a brief moment, the Democrats pointed out "These people are weirdos!" and it WORKED. They're weirdos WHO ARE RIPPING YOU OFF.

CW: Politics If someone were to say, "Cancer is God's way of getting rid of worthless people." you would beat them to a pulp with your bare hands. And speaking of the U.S. Government and how we've decided to stop funding research...

At the risk of sounding like a shill, this is worth every single penny, particularly during the sale.

Uh oh...the semiannual B&N Criterion sale is on.

Every hometown's got an ominous megastructure, what's yours?

True fact: BLADE RUNNER and THE THING were both released on the same day. Both of them got squashed because everyone went to go see E.T. instead. I have never rewatched E.T.

People have weird hang-ups, including myself. I know that the word 'brusque' rhymes with 'dusk' in an American accent and YET that just sounds wrong to my ear for whatever reason.

HALLELUJAH. After explaining the same thing in roughly a dozen different ways, I have FINALLY gotten my point across.

I feel like I'm having to explain the concept of a paperclip to a Venusian.

Dealing with a meeting from Hell. Send thoughts, prayers, and sweets.

I must confess, I'm faintly intimidated by China Miéville's massive slab of a novel forthcoming this autumn. I'll read it, but the words "over 1,300 pages" make me tremble a bit.

Good heavens, there is NO sun this morning... "Check the angular vector of the moon!"

I'm a bit leery about Matryoshka dolls...they seem awfully full of themselves.

Blimey! Wordle 1,833 2/6 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I am naked and in bed. Supine, one might say. (Hey, in my middle life, I’m embracing being a decadent roué.)

At some point, I'll tell the terrible saga of "why I'm not a professor." But this is not that night.

Art is an act of friendship.

I decided to make this drawing about love.

Am I going to the cinema to see THE ODYSSEY? Yes. Am I going to pay extra for an IMAX ticket? Also yes. Feel free to judge me.

One of the pleasures of doing a horror illustration in a public place is that it takes people aback. A young fellow just said “DUDE. That’s fucking SICK!” I believe this was a compliment.

No one wants to shag the malevolent George Costanza.

Oh! I need to draw a background. (No context for you.)

A grisly warmup sketch (evil laugh) Fountain pen on paper.

Someone else I work with said that I resemble Alan Moore. Either I need a shave or someone needs spectacles.

Wow. Vibes are sour here. Going off to go make some art. Heal thyselves, folks.

Leftists really need to learn how to work with liberals because, let us be frank, incremental improvements are *IMPROVEMENTS*.

A lot of my art is about cities. I genuinely love cities. I was born in one, grew up in one, as the old song goes: 🎶 Find a city, find yourself a city to live in. 🎶