If I really love you, when I pick you up at the airport, I park and go inside to meet you at the bottom of the escalator, instead of picking you up curbside. If I merely like you a lot, I'll pick you up curbside and make sure you know I'm pretending to be a garbageman picking up the trash.

Coloring process experiment.

With all the crap happening in the world right now, my bright spot is for the first time since college (mid 1980s), this morning I weighed less than 200 lbs. I'll take any win I can.

We're at war with a country that specializes in exporting terrorism and Trump wants ICE in airports? Because, of course, there's NO CHANCE AT ALL that an armed terrorist couldn't just put on a mask and ICE vest and walk into a crowded security check point and wreak havoc.

Sad to hear about Sam Kieth's passing. I was the artist on one of his comic creations back in 2003 (didn't get to print) and we would spend hours on the phone talking comics, story, and life. Good dude. Godspeed, Sam.

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For the love of god, if you're trying to sell your company's burger, hot dog, or taco bowl to normal people, stop calling it 'product.' Get out of capitalist business-think for 2 seconds. The people you're trying to reach are still human beings. Hint: you'd make more money NOT saying "product.'

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It smee! And so many other folks. I love Baltimore Comic-Con.

Markwayne Mullin is so dumb that when he says he wouldn't be the smartest person in any room he thinks it's false modesty...

Breaking in a new watercolor sketchbook- watercolor and India ink.

Editing or entering someone's phone number in my contacts on my cell phone is a slow, careful, and stressful process for me like I'm disarming a bomb or something because I'll lose my shit if I accidentally call them in the process.

Trump bought big shoes for his idiot cabinet members back in January. Did he do it again this week, or is this that same older story finally getting seen more widely?

I'm constantly astonished at the number of people who think the cost to fill up their gas tank is the only real hit they'll take whenever oil prices shoot up. Like, dude, the trucks that deliver stuff to factories and stores- how do you think those companies will recoup those fuel costs?

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Crazy when I go to a recipe site for some directions on a dish and click on the little video, and see someone with a name like Kayleigh Joy show how to make a Cantonese dish with some borderline racist music playing. Fucking gong at the end and everything.

When Iranian sleeper cells start det*nating b*mbs in Iowa, Trumpers will be all "yeah, but you gotta give Mr. Trump's plan time to work, this is still a good thing."

I know I'm old and cranky because any time I see someone use "scared" instead of "afraid," or "how come" instead of "why," I just presume they're 11-years-old.

No matter how far they bend over backward to delude, debase, and fool themselves into still supporting Trump, the one question they can never NEVER answer (to the point it actually befuddles them) is "show me where, despite all the pushback, you can AT LEAST say your heart was in the right place."

Why can't the/a Supreme Court just say "um actually, Mr. President, we changed our minds and rule that you CAN be prosecuted for the crimes you committed as president?" I mean they just decided one day to overturn Roe v Wade, why is the President so sure he's in the clear on this?

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I'm done all the complaining that no one under 40 can possibly figure out how to fix a printer paper jam unless a Gen-Xer comes along to save them. My fellow Gen-Xers need to stop this patronizing. My grandpa didn't belittle me for not knowing how to play Maple Leaf Rag on a wax cylinder. Be better.

Mindless herd of MAGA distracted by the key jangling of war. No reason for them to question "what happens next if we do that" because they've never seriously asked that question about anything.

Not using a seatbelt because you're simply a stupid person is actually a BETTER excuse for not using it than the reason Markwayne Mullin gives for not wearing one- he wants to be able to get out of his car quickly in case he's carjacked in DC. omg.

Nuts how about 25% of Americans are a group that proudly identifies as being as dim and awful as possible. They're loud and happy to be antithetical to even basic decency or critical thinking. Beyond any notion of politics, it's like they're a separate sub-species eager to branch off to extinction.

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Crazy how Caroline Levitt and Mike Johnson are suddenly back to calling it "The Department of Defense" now that we are in a war with no discernable objectives beyond the rhetoric.

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Idiot blunt instrument Noem is actually going on record with the defense that her employees are allowed to lie in court if, after the fact, the judge they lied to could be considered an 'activist judge.' Please please please may this be a jailable offense.

I don’t think you should be fans of politicians or political candidates. Your support should be conditional not adoring. You can switch. They are our public servants. The leader thing is something we grant them if they do a good job.

That new animated Gorillaz short for The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God really hits the spot and is a good hard ball return for so much of the AI trash out there.

That's one shitty head of state permanently down for the count. Room for one more?

At this point I don't expect Trump-lovers to have any sense of shame, decency, or self-introspection, but it'd be nice if they at least looked up the definitions of those words.

"Oh look out, here comes Operation Epic Fury," or "Uh oh, we got Operation Epic Fury over here!" Just workshopping how to use it as a pejorative against any self-proclaimed wanna be badass.

One thing's for sure, if I wanted my war to sound like it was concocted by a bunch of cringy tryhards, I'd DEFINITELY call it Operation Epic Fury

Also: "Blackmail" isn't a universal word for extortion in the same way you wouldn't call all sandwiches "Philly cheesesteaks." I mean, yeah, language is dynamic and always changing, but come the fuck on.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Gaslighting is term for a specific form of manipulation used to make one constantly doubt their reality, but people use it as a catch-all for ANY perceived deception. Trust me, you ordered a shitty set of watercolors, Temu isn't gaslighting you.

So crazy how you see someone you know do something just so incredibly stupid, or they just generally are doing stupid things that defy rationale. Then you realize people like that exist everywhere, and education, class, or wealth doesn't mitigate idiotic choices, and if anything exacerbates it. 1/2

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It's been 46 years, but I think I've finally come around on The Beat (The English Beat) cover of Tears of a Clown.

If these assholes get away with all this because the system fails to punish to them, there are millions of us who'll do everything we can to make these cretins (and their supporters) miserable in every way possible...for generations. The system might forget, but people won't.

Sorry, I couldn't focus on all you were saying in your TikTok rant because I was too distracted trying to read all the reverse lettering on your shirt and background posters. They don't give you a button to flip this shit when you post?

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Oh MAGA...you mean to tell me one of your own tried to kill your guy AGAIN?

Babe, wake up, new endless war just dropped. (fuckin' MAGA)

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I think it's clear that the Republicans in Congress who won't help to remove Trump of office are actually worse than he his. They're the parents ignoring the screaming toddler running around the restaurant grabbing food from people's plates.