Sorry for using comics and art to vent and cope with the world changing around me. I will return to drawing whimsical and silly frog wizards and adventures.

Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images

“Donald Trump is the first President to combine fascism with daffiness.”

Sheesh – using the filler word “like” about nine times per sentence (minimum: some effing long sentences here too) makes this an irritating chore to follow which is a pity because some of what she has to say IS quite interesting…

“Give a man a fish, and he’ll have food for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he’ll be pestering you with fisherman tall tales for the rest of his life. Or yours.” Rolf England

It’s time to stop saying that we need to understand these people. We do understand them. We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything: not facts or data or truth or their own eyes. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-cant-ch...

The Trump regime is torturing innocent civilians kidnapped by ICE, serious violations of human rights and international law. #OpDeathEaters #3E #EndImpunity www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...

Google has a long-standing and well-documented practice of censoring Palestinian content or content critical of the Israeli government. interc.pt/3MMgoVO

Trump’s executive order directing government agencies to halt issuing new wind leases and permits was ruled illegal by a federal judge

Make America Healthy Again my ass.

Today is Octidi the 18th of Frimaire in the year 234. Frimaire is the month of frost. Today we celebrate ivy.#JacobinDay More information on ivy

Can’t invent this stuff. “Police officers have been watching the suspect closely for six days and recovered the pendant after it came out the other end without medical intervention.”

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

By seeing ourselves not as static nouns, but as unfolding processes, we can soften the sharp edges of existential fear and embrace life’s constant becoming – a reminder that who we are isn’t a fixed point, it’s every choice, every feeling, and every moment of transformation.⁠

Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

What if everything you thought you knew about the Three Wise Men was wrong? For two millennia, we've pictured them as kings from the East, bearing gifts. But what if they weren't kings at all? New research reveals they may have been elite Mediterranean warriors on a secret rescue mission.

For Elizabethans, food and drink was more than mere sustenance. Eating the right foods in the proper quantities, 16th-century Britons believed, balanced mind and soul. So in Shakespeare’s plays, roasts, ales, and pies are not props, but clues to characters’ souls, moods, and motivations.

#quotes #quote

Most gnostic song ever… Lyrics: What power art thou, who from below Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow From beds of everlasting snow? See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old Far unfit to bear the bitter cold, I can scarcely move or draw my breath? Let me, let me freeze again to death.

Since the romantic rehabilitation of Lilith from child-murderer and seducer of men to symbol of feminine power and defiance, Lilith has become one of the most recognizable of modern demons. Curiously enough, Lilith may have emerged as a linguistic mistake and a text meant to parody rabbinic legends.

Heh

The elite few who run Big Tech exercise the same level of influence that feudal overlords once did. Except now, they not only threaten democracy but wish to rewrite the rules of global power themselves.

Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016 for his research on how cells recycle and renew their content, a process called autophagy. Fasting activates autophagy, which helps slow down the aging process and has a positive impact on cell renewal.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

UK scientists tested more than 1,000 chemicals on gut bacteria samples in a lab, and identified 168 that appear harmful.

Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan.

We have very few eel-related metaphors English now. But there used to be many more. One of my favorites is from William Lisle’s 1631 play "The Faire Ætheopian" where he describes a procession of haughty maids as being “smug as Eeles." Have you ever been that smug? Has anyone? 🗃️🧪

If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….

Nerds’ Classic Warning: This site contains adult themes, violence, profanities, and other such fun stuff.

I’m still enjoying how MAGA Twitter will never live down that they’re all troll farms from Russia and Bangladesh. The whole MAGA ‘movement’ has been fake bullshit from top to bottom from the very beginning.

Things online are often not as they appear.

RIP Jimmy Cliff