I was thinking at work how this country just feels so on edge and hateful and high tension. And then I saw (the aftermath of) some guy get shot outside my workplace. Yeah. Yeah... We are very angry and upset all the time and we are given firearms.

kelty comic this week about to make the onion store a zillion dollars

"InDesign is unable to save the file. We tried, but it appears to be damaged." This is an actual error message in modern software. It doesn't tell you what happened, and it refers to itself with a pronoun. What. Who is "we?"

Can the upcoming patch just let me keep it

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living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Totodile from Kalos be like:

If one can believe in the passage of time, it's been 13 years since my brave little pooch did nothing in the face of chaos. Thank u for allowing him to burn. 🙆 🙇

My follower count on Twitter goes down every day and I treat Bluesky like a side account. I may have to clean things up here because Twitter truly is a dumpster. I only keep it because of all the Japanese fanartists, but I imagine they may leave too because of the unregulated AI stuff.

How's everyone's lemon pig doing?

I want Trump to 💀 (he's old, yall. It happens to us all). But I've often wondered what. JD Vance presidency could be. JD didn't condemn the ICE murder. He didn't say "that person doesn't represent what we are trying to do." He said "Keep it up." Bit scary innit.

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

You are standing kind of sort of in front of a vehicle for some reason. You have a gun. What should you shoot to stop the vehicle? A. The driver B. A tire C. Don't shoot. Take down license plate and confront later like a sane person D. Yourself The answer is C.

It's authentically terrifying that things have gotten to this point. Fuck up? Death. Because someone decided that was an acceptable punishment and gun make easy. Scary scary scary. Opposition is now a fatal choice. Yipes.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

"It was one of the most precise attacks on sovereignty." - Donald Trump 2026

Hey if you are like me and just woke up to a mile long feed of very vague really panicked reactions, this was really helpful in getting caught up on what's going down right now: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Arguing with random strangers online is funny because I told someone that "art is subjective" and their response was "well that's you're subjectivity ideology." Like.

Cartoonists only want one thing and that is to be appreciated for their hotness by a weird little guy (who is also the mayor of New York) who will take them on a date once in a while.

"The way I acted was a direct consequence of your actions." My sister is never changing. She authentically used this line against me. Mmm I love gaslighters. If I could afford therapy, the conversation we had last night would be a psychologist's dream. Fortunately I see through her words on my own.

Happy New Year. I want to make money in 2023. Going from spending an easy $5k in Japan in 2023 to nearly emptying out my bank account due to job loss in 2025 stinks! Hoping this freelance test I took goes through and I will immediately achieve that goal. :)

If this shows up in your Steam library it was my doing.

Hours later I finally got shiny charm in ZA and the only shinies I got after trying for something cool were a sandile and a pidgey I'm kms.

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

I think Gem should return to the Splatoon community.

People say interesting things in DMs. I think it is important to read Gem's side of this issue.

What happens when Splatoon's TOs and staff play in tournaments and the players commentate? Raise 4 RAICES put TOs up front to raise funds for charity and give them a chance in the spotlight! How much was raised for RAICES? www.splatoonstronghold.com/news/raise-4-raices-2025

Being sick is the worst. I just spent Thursday night sleeping from 9pm to 7am and last night from 6pm to 9am. Get these damn fever/flu symptoms outta here. I'm still tired, and I want some cheerios with bananas but I don't have any.

I love having Bengal cats. I had the opportunity to register Moxie but never did. His full registered name would have been Moxie Thundercat of Spotted Oaks. Marble never got the option to register. His name would have been Marble Olympus of Wild Prairie Rose. Bred animal naming conventions is fun.

Heated blankets are so incredible and I cannot believe I have lived over three decades without using one of these. Oh, you need to regulate your body temperature? 4 heat settings and you can hang your feet outside of the blankets for balance.

Also yay Hades

This is the first Game Awards during which I am not working in game dev. I'll be back. Current job is gonna be huge for the resume anyway. :)

AI is just shifting the (stolen)labor to the consumer. They are like hey I know you're paying us for TV and movies but we don't feel like doing the work so why don't you prompt this AI thing for us. Thanks. Oh and don't forget to share it!

Looking up local Holiday pop up bars and poking at their menus and. What heinous person is ingesting this?!

They locked my (second) fave behind a 30 dollar pay wall. I spent $100 on this shit game lmao.

Still playing through post game Hades 2 and Autism Incarnate saw fit to tell me he discovered the concept of anxiety. Me too, me too.

I'm gonna be in this. 🥰🥰

Had an idea for a comic-y thing but it is going to take forever because I am so slow at drawing eh

Treating someone shitty and then using "I love you" in the resulting discussion about it is so emotionally manipulative. "I always thought I'd be the one to hold the family together" while lacking the self-awareness of her own behavior is insane.

Man Getting High And Eating Taco Bell Thousands Of Miles Away From Family Having Best Thanksgiving Of Life https://theonion.com/man-getting-high-and-eating-taco-bell-thousands-of-mile-1845721340/

Thankful to my Bluesky feed for giving me these two posts from @mamavitelli.bsky.social and @baronduki.bsky.social back to back

Thanksgiving sucks this year. My oldest sister decided she doesn't like me? So my parents are telling me to "just apologize" (for what?) and "you know how she is" (why am I compromising for her weirdness?). It's so frustrating to be the one who is to blame for someone else's emotions.

Made LiveJournal icons a lot. Wanted art job that would be consistent and reliable. Got graphic design degree. Have worked in art and design since.

IMPORTANT A new scam is going around where you'll be walking down the street and there will be a big red X painted on the sidewalk. DO NOT STAND ON THE X!!! If you do, a grand piano will fall on your head!!! This happened to a friend of mine and his teeth were piano keys for weeks! BE SAFE!!!

Yaaaaay Hades 2 GOTY orchestraaaa

Redraw based on the meme by @/quackysprouts on twitter dot com

I'm so rusty with art right now. Prioritizing video games over drawing was a mistake. Drawing is so much cooler and I'm struggling.

"Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine that one day I would paint a picture of hot Bowser for official material, announced by Miyamoto himself. 😭 I laughed so hard in disbelief while painting, you have no idea lol"