ad astra, artemis ii 🌒 #illustration

Reminiscing about my time living in DC. If you've lived in DC or spent time there, especially in the Cap Hill area, let's look at some of the places you could be killed for being in range of the blast radius of a Mk 84 2000lb bomb dropped by the USAF or Israeli Air Force on a legitimate target

Current status.

Rotating view of the new Pelta Frigate

Updates to this: matte lines added, tie fighters added, a few more extra tie shots, soukd effects... The goal was to produce something that had the old fashioned, minature effects photography, optically composited look. I looked at the originals *very* *carefully*

New article investigating a collection of viral panic-inducing claims. This clickbait treats every horrific potentiality as an inevitable eventuality, undermining our ability to accurately access risk and effectively dedicate resources to oppose pressing threats. open.substack.com/pub/shatterz...

MacArthur after Truman sacks him:

why is this so funny

light reading

This is a real thing for me, imagine the one thing that would make Columbo better, it’s if Columbo could take out a lightsaber

Therapist: So imagine a post on the Internet. BlueSky user: It makes me angry Therapist: I meant like a joke BlueSky user: I'm even angrier

Maomao from Apothecary Diaries 🌸 trying to improve my lighting work, hope you like it!

Average bsky dming

Evening sketch

Full art on its own~

sorry, I saw this on a server I'm on and started kind of laughing hard and had to share this.

JOHN WICK: [shoots fifty dudes] WINSTON: jonathan you’re expelliarmus. I have no choice but to instigato you to the syndicaticus HOT LADY: thats right [she tries to kill John Wick]

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

another day in which, on top of everything else, I'm mad about the SFF cover shift from "little pre-raphaelite painting you can put in your pocket" to "we gave the intern our Canva log-in"

Corbeau

Anyway, my opinion about Star Trek, which is Good and Correct, is that two things have gone wrong: it is best served by 22 episode seasons, which streaming has killed, and also it is a franchise that needs you to inhabit the worldview of a Centre-Left Army Guy that few in modern US TV do.

thai food is no joke

The wizard takes a nap.

Found the most bluesky board game possible.

I liked that map of full-court-press malicious compliance, but I thought it could be improved. So a while back I went ahead and made: 𝕬 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖊 𝕰𝖝𝖈𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝕸𝖆𝖕 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕶𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖉𝖔𝖒 𝖔𝖋 𝕸𝖎𝖉𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

Recent converts to Catholicism be like:

when you’ve got red carpet at six and battling the X-Men at seven

In Chinese, there is a concept of sacred, so essential to the essence of life and meaning entirely, that it cannot be disentangled or translated - only understood exactly as it is: 味精

Inflation Timeline xkcd.com/3223/

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

for self-serving reasons, I fully endorse this

In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase

at long last we have created the "fighting jack reacher" scenario from the critically acclaimed series, "don't fight jack reacher"

Shen Yun: America before gamergate

Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math

[Watto voice] sissy-hypno doesn't work on me, only money

"Hey Chabi! Zhenjin! Get in here! Bayan, get in here! You guys gotta hear this, it's hilarious! Venetian, come here. Write all this down! I want you to document this idiot's stupid statement in your precious little journal before I feed his entrails to the swine..."

[𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙂𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙏 𝙆𝙐𝘽𝙇𝘼𝙄, 𝙆𝙃𝘼𝙂𝙃𝘼𝙉 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙔𝙀𝙆𝙀 𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙂𝙊𝙇 𝙐𝙇𝙐𝙎 𝙐𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙍 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙉𝘼𝙇 𝘽𝙇𝙐𝙀 𝙎𝙆𝙔, 𝙀𝙈𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙊𝙍 𝙊𝙁 𝙂𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙏 𝙔𝙐𝘼𝙉, 𝙎𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙁 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙑𝙀𝙉, 𝙇𝙊𝙍𝘿 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙁𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙎, 𝙍𝙐𝙇𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙉𝙊𝙍𝙏𝙃 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙎𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙃, 𝙈𝘼𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙄𝙇𝙆 𝙍𝙊𝘼𝘿, 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙎𝘼𝙄𝘿 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏...]

john waters’ full name is jonathan international waters

arm thingies 🙌

People forget this but Chuck Norris jokes were originally Mr. T jokes. I don't know why that changed but clearly the world would have been better if it hadn't

i interviewed nick frost last year and asked if he thought there was conflict in doing a show like transaction and then signing up to do hagrid. his answer was what you expect. then immediately after, back in the press room, we were asked to avoid any more harry potter questions

New Englanders face a grim choice: Fill up their car with gas or eat a lobster roll www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/19/l...

The current administration is really living up to its promise of bringing back Spartan military ethos by talking loudly and losing more than winning.

This rocks I’ll finally play baldurs gate 1