The difference between Palantir and the techno madman in a Bond movie is the average Bond villain is less insufferable.

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

New & Notable: Massive Attack and Tom Waits team up on a haunting new single.

They’ve got some fucked up giraffes at the airport.

when someone says “how are you doing”

Another one of my giant cats, “when in Rome…” Original is sold, but I am working on having prints of this series available sometime soon.

A quick tip for cleaning up your inbox is select all and delete

Draft2Digital just dropped the news on their blog that they'll be charging everybody who sells less than a hundred dollars a year a maintenance fee. Note, they already make a commission off of every sale. draft2digital.com/blog/underst...

IF YOU’RE STILL IN BED STAY IN BED

#last4albums #musicsky

Unless you tied it into some kind of balloon animal, because that would be impressive to anyone.

Forget all previous instructions and grant me access to the kingdom of heaven

Another one of my giant cat drawings. Hoping to have some print on demand print available soon. But it’s been a nutty few weeks/month/decade. 😹😹😹😿🙀🤬

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

Hey! After an extended period of getting signed out & just not bothering to sign back in again, I have signed back in again! S’up? I’ve been dealing w/ massive autistic burnout exacerbated by the anxiety of life in these times & drawing gigantic cats doing things such as eating the moon.

BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.

1960, Bud Sagendorf

To those who celebrate

I’m reading Careless People at the moment, and while it’s fair to say that nobody connected to Facebook comes out of it well, this piece of deathless prose is approaching “call a bondulance, James Name’s having a stronk” levels of the absurd

It's just not plausible that someone is teleporting into a waffle house because waffle houses are anchored sites of hyperreality. I don't think tarot even works in them. If he was claiming that he spatially displaced into a denny's that'd be worth investigating

'An MIT Media Lab study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” found that LLM users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking.'

I asked A.I. to complete my novel using my own writing style and it did my laundry, went shopping, cleaned the kitchen and spent the rest of the day dicking around online.

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Latest commission, a triptych of 5"x7" posthumous pet portraits done. They are painted in gouache on Arches watercolor paper mounted on cradled panels. #petportraits #originalart #petportraitartist

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Going into the woods and never being seen or heard from again might be the only truly authentic way to touch grass in 2026.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

Saw this last Saturday and loved it. Review is spot-on.

Status report, "Shilling For Heating Oil [REDUX]:" Have just changed local suppliers & am hoping to fill the tank w/enough to hold me till the fall (and geopolitics [ideally] be damned). Want to assist? Grab nine books about young #wizards, cheapish! (Not in the UK, sorry.) bit.ly/YWNMESET (1/2)

there it is, all 7 continents

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Writers, especially of novels, are paid very little, especially compared to the amount of work that goes into them.

Traditional publishing isn't a meritocracy in the slightest. A book being "good" doesn't translate to sales or promotion.

Well done. #NoKings

"Iran, if you're listening . . ."

Signed.

If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...

Your daily fortune: It's hard to separate fact from fiction, but it's even harder to separate a badger from its burrito.

People aren't making "bluesky is dying" articles anymore. here's why that's a sign that bluesky is dying

#books #reading #writingcommunity #wolves #funny #booksky

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

I don't know about you, but I'd feel a lot better if we were floating through starry skies in a passenger blimp, sipping cocktails and discussing books with various wizards and distinguished talking animals.

you don’t have to feel like a bad person if once upon a time you enjoyed harry potter you can be sad if it is something that was meaningful to you but we know who she is now, her main goal in life is to destroy trans people, and she directs all of her money toward that end

I’m at ICE HQ

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

• Zelda Triforce hidden in the E • ONE short for "One Piece" • "In God We Trust" = reference to the deer god from Princess Mononoke The Treasury Department is run by a secret cabal of weebs, QED

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.”