here’s some vis dev I did for Fionna & Cake season 2, Grandfather and Watchdog.

in hindsight, this one was a little too birder-specific to make it into the New Yorker

Here are my four most liked cartoons of 2025 on Bluesky:

New Perspectives (rerun)

Mr. Bean Podcast (rerun)

around the time The Breakfast Club came out, Judd Nelson tried to cut in front of me to get to the bar at CBGB. i didn't let him.

maya angelou COME. AND BE MY BABY.

binging Tod Dockstader while reading Stephenson's REAMDE

@marisakabas.bsky.social asks important questions.

great groove in 7/4 from @dmandl.bsky.social on @wfmu.bsky.social !

Tonight at 7:00 ET, the final installment of my radio show, "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music), for 2025. Sixty minutes of lovingly assembled music that just may change your life. Listen on the web at wfmu.org or by way of the miraculous @wfmu.bsky.social app.

“The tech industry has run out of hypergrowth ideas, and in its desperation hitched itself to the least-profitable hardware and software in history, then spent three straight years lying about what was possible to the media, analysts and shareholders.” — @edzitron.com

sigh, the Sisyphean slog from 1,290 followers to 1,299 has begun again. we all know how this ends* *1,285

Zoo For Poorly Drawn Animals (rerun)

Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025

"Prestige was not as unified, but it did set a tone with artful photographs, often printing in two colors. Typographically, its artists, most notably Reid Miles, made bold compositions, like the cover for 'Monk' below." All That Jazzy Record Cover Design:

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Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or Brigitte Bardot what she thinks about “race mixing”

"Mr. Urbaniak went on to record more than 60 albums, collaborating with other fusion notables, including the guitarists Larry Coryell and George Benson, the drummer Billy Cobham and the bassist Jaco Pastorius." Michal Urbaniak, Pioneering Jazz Fusion Violinist, Dies at 82 (gift link):

The implacable Ron Mael talked Jeremy Allen through his 13 favourite albums, from fiery free jazz to cutting edge J-pop, via militant hip hop and Bach Quietus Best Of 2025: Ron Mael of Sparks’ Favourite Albums buff.ly/nMUsnQ3

You don’t even need the sound on to know this kid means BIDNESS But turn the sound on

Hope we can all find something in life we love as much as Brigitte Bardot loved getting convicted and fined for inciting racial hatred by a French court.

RIP www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

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This is an expert takedown by @acollierastro.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzE...

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everything is better with Bach

enjoy this clever post and its many clever replies by clever posters being clever. the cleverness is off the charts

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

AI-generated video proving morons will believe anything without checking.

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last minute entry @paulisci.bsky.social

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Discogs has 1,493 master entries for "[The/That] Girl From Ipanema." it is my life's goal to hear them all.

238 years of politico-esophageal violations: “I don’t know any reason there can be for *driving [the Constitution] down our throats*, without an hour’s preparation.” — Rep. Robert Whitehill (PA), Sept. 28, 1787 Maier, Pauline. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (p. 61).

marble...armrests.

it's all bullshit like everything else

Factory Fire (Rerun)

what a legacy. R.I.P.