WE'RE SO BACK

“Why tylenol?” Because it’s the pain medication that pregnant people can take. That’s it. That’s why.

genuinely crying at this one

me when my 32mm scale model Meiji Restoration-era Japanese village is out for delivery

dudes rock

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

Thinking about Ernest Hemingway and how he loved his cat, a polydactyl cat named Snow White, so much that he put it in his will to give all her descendants full run of his estate

Triple if it's during football

I like how the new indicator for if something is bad is if it has a daytime TV commercial

Art by • Daniel Merriam

THAT'S TODAY

the funniest part of kids is you can condition them to be hyped about anything. I suggested we water the plants and the preschooler shouts "BIG BOY BROMELIAD TIME"

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

FORM: what is a special unusual fact about you YOU:

this exists it is called thinking

Out of curiosity how do you get consent from a drawing. Like maybe you should worry less about whether or not a cartoon has rights and more about whether real life trans and Palestinian people do

I see someone's angling to be sold to Automattic

He's turning into Ursula Le Guin

I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.

My DMs are open. Capybaras can sub for pigs. In theory, I've love one huge jello mold that is the size of a VW beetle in shape of (redacted for now), but recognize that might defy the laws of physics. If you have insight into an abandoned pool, great. In terms of who to approach as well.

It's like this everywhere on the internet, and I dealt with it with humor on my Patreon, with interrupting to the porno comic with the characters giving "consent." But this won't be funny if I *have* to do it *every* time.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Beach Boys and Pink Floyd

Woke up feeling very anxious and down, then I drove by a protest, had lunch with a dear friend, and another friend invited me to work on a very cool project.

yet another bad day to be a systems thinker

this is completely false. the "unanimous" vote consisted of one person, Rick Scott, voting. The chamber was entirely empty except for him and Tommy Tuberville, & both of them had to be prompted as to how to execute the vote:

New essay out now at Reactor: Exploring trans themes in classic SF author CJ Cherryh. She wrote gender-exploratory books back in the 80s! reactormag.com/exploring-ge...

the story does not say “the FBI will label all trans people as violent extremists” it only says some trans people they were already looking at for crimes will be labeled based on their identity this is bad. it is also not what a plain read of Ken’s post would make you think it says

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Okay I actually read this, and they are recommending a return to two separate vaccines (MMR and chickenpox) to reduce the (already low) risk of febrile seizures. But this can have impact on insurance coverage, so parents might have to juggle 2 vaccine schedules instead of one and done.

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I become so powerful in the autumn, it's absolutely unreal I become a 1 HP slime in the other three seasons but it's worth it for the fall

LMAO

I know I'm more than a day late on this, but for some reason it came across my feed now — I confirmed with Sanofi today that they haven't yet shipped the Novavax shot, so it isn't available anywhere. They plan to start shipping next week.

My local pharmacy said it will take them *3 months* to get Novavax in stock, anyone have details on this?

ME: *watching video game stream* CHARACTER: yesterday my friend was reading a complicated looking book ME: House of Leaves STREAMER: House of Leaves

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Annd submitted We are 2 weeks away from another Goldfuss special out in the world

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Someday I will learn that writing a story full of unusual words will eventually result in me making a pronunciation guide for said words

smooth peanut butter (derogatory)

boy im sick of all the stuff happening

lol I hate that the really good "AI is making artists suicidal" article is on a re-branded Substack, dammit

Jesus Christ.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.