It's the first day of astronomical autumn. 🍂 The apple tree. Ink on Saunders Waterford HP. A piece I did back in 2014 as a sample for Crabtree & Evelyn on an apple wassail theme. In the event, C&E decided on a different direction and I didn't get the gig (boo). Still, I got an artwork out of it.

A new bill, H.R. 5171, would strip gray wolves in Washington and Oregon of ESA protections. Human-caused deaths are already the leading threat. This bill, like others introduced this year, will not solve conflicts. It will only lead to more wolf killings. #ProtectWolves

More discussion, originating from my previous re-share post. Seriously, this is some good cultural awareness – especially for those of us who grew up in an era of casual racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. When we know better, we can do better. And that's heckin' cool.

TIL that all of the "white glove" cartoons have their origins in minstrel shows. And it seems so obvious once it's pointed out. (This whole thread and the dialogue around it is a good rabbit-hole to fall down.)

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

I wrote a song this morning. Enjoy.

hitting the "ascend later" button like it's a Windows update

There are plenty of books at your local libraries and bookstores to read and learn about autism that do not focus on Tylenol. Best of all, more and more books are being written and illustrated. More and are being published! 📚 😊 Here are a few:

The Offering 🗡 (at a price) #art

#WorldRhinoDay Black rhinoceros, _Diceros bicornis_. 'So nice they named it twice.' Pencil on Arches hot pressed, 89 × 64 mm. From 2017.

LOL

Also, autistic behavior has been described throughout pretty much the entire history of human civilization. It's almost like (see also: transgenderism) they just want to pathologize and demonize any naturally-occurring variation in humanity that doesn't conform to their narrow standards.

waow

Did... Did JB Pritzker just quote "Andor?" (Yes. Yes, he did)

they should've gotten Dio on the Muppet Show back in the day, that would've been real swell

Half of the US really is failing the world's most awful open-book history exam.

i need you to look at these excerpts and tell me you see what’s really going on TELL ME YOU SEE IT

Do not underestimate the soft spoken, the kind, the gentle. It takes strength to be those things, sometimes more than you will ever know. If you look closely at someone who conducts themselves honorably, you will find something fierce inside.

In the past hour, the weather forecast here went from a 5% chance of rain, to a severe thunderstorm warning and 100% chance of rain, and this is why we shouldn't have gutted NOAA, I'm just saying.

You're not my real mom, Tombkick! I'll quote post if IiiiiEEEEEEEEOWOWOWAAARGH–

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

PREORDERS for September’s booklet are open (FYI booklets will cease production with Dec’s issue) 15 available Free Little Mari Autumn adventure sticker set (TBC) US customers- I had to include to 50p handling fee in the shipping cost, due to tariffs :( skullsandsheets.etsy.com/listing/4373...

Really wanted to draw something and saw a saint satute pose I quite liked so just doodled a mari in a Beardsley / Harry Clarke style

See 'cause THIS is the better solution. This right here: the ability to label, tag and filter content so people can decide what they do or do not want to see.

bans on art is never about the art that you don't like, it's about the art you DO like. what makes you think the art you like is safe? because you're following the rules? there's nothing gross in it? the fact you make art at all is what's gross, kid. you aren't safe unless the art you hate is.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

I'm very fond of Bactrian camels. Detail from a drawing from 2022. Brown and graphite pencils on Fabriano Medioevalis, 95 × 64 mm.

HOT SINGLES ARE IN YOUR AREA HOT SINGLES HAVE BREACHED THE PERIMITER HOT SINGLES ARE ZEROING IN ON YOUR LAST KNOWN LOCATION HOT SINGLES ARE INITIATING ATTACK FORMATION DELTA

who you gonna call?

September 19, 2025

If you're antivax and you follow me, just know I'm getting my covid vaccine now and when my Autism score doubles, I'm turning into a kaiju dinosaur nugget and coming for your city.

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

The fact that the Washington Post published an op ed by Karl Rove decrying the opportunistic, racially-charged wave of censorship following a high-profile murder was quite the choice. Especially just a couple of days after WP had fired Karen Attiah for decrying the opportunistic, etc etc.

Every day that passes I become more convinced that Magneto was right.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

A pitch for those of you canceling Disney+/Hulu this week would be to use that cash and subscribe to PBS/PBS Passport. Public media is foundational to our democracy and supporting @pbs.org is just about the best value for your dollar. Plus, there are so many British mysteries!!!

Perfect…

US politics in a nutshell

Ah, missed opportunity - when I canceled our Disney+ account, I really should have just written "I have friends everywhere" in the explanation box. (Although "One way out" may be the more applicable quote right now)

Something my mother said to me when I lamented being atypical. "That brain you have produced twelve novels. And who knows how many more before you're through. It started a business where queer artists thrive. You love and are loved. You have a friend group of 25 years. BECAUSE of that mind."

One of our 15/10s, Eeyore, was just adopted after 586 days in the care of his rescue ❤️‍🩹

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

FOR THE FOLKS WONDERING WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: There is a direct ideological throughline between the "anti-CRT" movement/attacks on Black studies and the firing of Stephen Colbert and suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. Not posting this to say "I told you so" but bc you must understand the storyline.

i don’t know how to explain it but the more overtly hostile the government gets towards trans people the less scared i feel

exactly 48 years ago, voyager 1 took the first image of the earth and moon in the same frame from over 7 million miles away.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

🎵 Tentacle pots, tentacle pots 🎶 (For some reason, these just bring me a lot of joy. Plus it's fun to sing "tentacle pots")