Let the flirting commence.

Bedtime

New blog post: Auto-parsing added to the #NantucketLit online editor. Thanks, @zeigert.com! nantucketlit.com/blog/2026/02...

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Excalibur.

the knight of seeds

you keep expecting trump to give a shit about anyone but himself, to be persuaded into goodness, because you refuse to understand what a personality disorder is or think that you could be duped into following someone with nothing but a dial tone inside him.

Hi, 62 followers! I post more at mastodon.social/@zeigert. It's never gonna get you the numbers you get here or got at the old place, but the vibes there are weirder and chiller.

Dreamt I went back to the ruins of St James’s Church in Bix Bottom. It’s been weeks since I’ve visited any ruins and my Saturnine nature is longing for them.

another good takeaway from the attack on Ilhan Omar really. people who aren’t cowards don’t reach for their guns first

Triple Image. Page 3-4

Alfred Zacharias (1901-1998), before 1956

In case you need to hear it today.

I keep thinking about @daringfireball.bsky.social’s suggestion that simply hurling “fascist” and “Nazi” at these freaks is insufficient. We have to get “MAGA” and “Trumpist” in the same category broadly across society.

Another depressing layer to this is that some of the defining images of Alex Pretti's murder--certainly the most viewed--are "enhanced AI" versions with headless ICE agents and bizarre limb configurations, explicitly used to push for an understanding of what actually happened.

Retreating publicly so your inner circle starts tearing itself apart and your own senators are calling for resignations while simultaneously doubling down on a pogrom that turned your strongest-polling issue into a liability that has you underwater with whites and men: That's the Art of the Deal

So odd to watch leftists become big 2A people since for decades I thought we agreed that the second amendment was deeply flawed and demanded reform.

Old enough to remember when DHS was created, old enough to remember people arguing it was an awful idea *at the time*, and old enough to know that the term "homeland" is deeply coded in western imperialist fascism. DHS is a national, historical shame and must he abolished.

Want to once again remind you that the best way to view pixel art is to order fine prints of it from my shop and free them from the tyranny of the screen! www.inprnt.com/gallery/mech...

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

As always, the fact that we're even having the "can robots *feel*?" discussion while we torture sentient animals for food makes me want to become the Joker.

Some of the first amphorans ever drawn (circa 2009), located while digging through my primordial archives

There will be a birthday sale of my art @splashpageart.bsky.social from midnight tonight until midnight tomorrow, buy 3 get 1 free! Only sale we do all year!

My bsky feed, Jan. 2026: - Cool art from familiar and new artists - Pre-order my book pleeeeeeeeease, RT'd 3 times per day - Bit of state terror/revolution begins - Read my review of a mid TV show, RT'd, then un-RT'd, then RT'd again - Good animal pic - You don't hate AI enough

Literally EVERYTHING else aside: Officers involved in shootings - even shootings that everybody agrees were justified - always take time off to emotionally process their experience, go to therapy, process it. Sending somebody right back out says "this is an everyday part of your job, expect it."

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

it’s pretty insane to think about how the dumbest most violent pieces of shit in the country have been given the message that they can kill with impunity if they join this one government agency

Is anyone else just utterly exhausted with this shit?

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

Everyone from the trust-the-process center to the far right has been lying to us all our lives about what they purport to value and we never need to take a single thing they say seriously ever again

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Every time a mainstream news outlet covers what's happening with ICE and adds the caveat that Trump campaigned on "only deporting criminals" (which they do every time), they launder what we saw him and his movement telegraphing from ten thousand miles away

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

whether you think america is literally the great satan founded on a bedrock of violence or you think america is a deeply flawed country with a celebrated tradition of resistance, i think we can all agree it's only one of those and anyone who disagrees with your read is naive or irredeemably evil

the tension between the "this is not who we are" set vs the "this is exactly who we are" set (tabling the "who do you mean we" thing for now) i do think misses out on the "who we pretend to be" angle. i do think it's probably at least somewhat bad that we've completely stopped pretending

New He-Man movie looks like a pile of shit. 👎👎

"You're not ready for how much the rest of the world hates Americans" I live here man I'm extremely used to the concept of hating Americans

Man Allows All Cookies So Website Won’t Be Mad At Him https://theonion.com/man-allows-all-cookies-so-website-wont-be-mad-at-him/

listen, you can’t hate america more than americans hate america.

Look at this beautiful hawk I just saw!!

I've found religion

"I'm a woman" ad spot to help fix company

This Trump Peace Prize stuff is the most maximalist endcap to having to hear about Republicans get mad at participation trophies for 40 years.

The man is not upset that someone else received the Nobel Peace Prize. He is upset — and knows deep down in his soul — that he will never, under any circumstances, receive one.

SAD has robbed me of all my energy and my motivation, so here’s a #CrushingOnCushing for anyone struggling.