Back in 2013, CJ Cherryh got in touch to compliment this strip of mine. I need to print and frame that email... www.dorktower.com/2013/05/14/p...

Why do some scientists say "Bluesky is dead. I have no engagement. I have more engagement on X"? My TL is full of cool science, queer art, weird history facts, politics and whimsy. You're just not doing it right, man. Plus the fascism

I took a 4 day weekend to celebrate my birthday, now I gotta drag my ass back into the office. I begin to see the appeal of running away and becoming a bog-witch.

Not all of Canada is a winter wonderland.

Deep in the forest, a forgotten temple ruin overgrown by moss is the final resting place of an old god. A stone is heaved aside, sunlight warms ancient flagstones. An offering is placed on the altar - salt, bread, oil. A prayer is said: "If you can help, do so. If not, persist." It is answered.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I got “Galvanic” That type of year already.

Let's be very clear. White supremacists and neo-nazis should never feel safe anywhere. And Canada should absolutely be planning a few things to add to the checklist.

When they ask me what radicalized me

Happy Tibbs Eve!

How often do you check the news to see if he's dead?

The single best piece of art ever. Made by @muskratjohn.bsky.social

I felt like doodling in wool this weekend. (Sorry for the pun) Anyways, here's some mushrooms.

Ballet [1/4]

Thanks for your service to the community❤️🏳️‍🌈🥰

Does anyone *Not* have The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald stuck in their head right now?

One of the befits of working for the public service is the annual flu shot. Microdose a virus to get the day going and back to the desk with a fresh cup of tea. #PunkAsFuck

Frodo wakes. ‘Where am I?’ ‘In the House of Elrond. It is ten o’clock in the morning. The morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’ ‘Gandalf!’ ‘Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’

You will have to pull the Oxford comma from my cold, dead, hands.

Back to the picket line again tomorrow. We've moved to mediation, so maybe this will get done by Halloween? #BCGEU

If you're looking for some October as fuck horror vibes, y'all should check out this video. 🪾🕸️🪾

I mean, if you let me go about my morning routine, I'm highly likely to make you a coffee and possibly breakfast, but you gotta let me enjoy my morning rituals without too many outside demands.

I see from CNN that Canada’s economy is in “crisis”. A word of unsolicited advice to everyone: don’t believe a single word any US media says about Canada. None. They don’t know shit about us and they don’t care. It’s in the US’ interest to describe us as being in crisis. Not ours.

1/5 Elon Musk and David Sacks are attacking Wikipedia again. They say they will replace it with “Grokipedia.” Why? Because quick, free, independent fact-checking is their enemy. They cannot control it. And that terrifies them

#BCGEU the disrespect from the employer is unbelievable

Only 90 days till Xmas. You're welcome.

22912 steps today. I should picket in the spring for that summer bod. #BCGEU

First day on the picket line #BCGEU it was mostly amusing chaos, though we did accidentally shut down the central branch library. With hundreds of picketers milling about in circles a couple meters from the Library staff entrance, it was bound to happen. They were cool and joined us in solidarity.

Today I grabbed a bit of scrap marble, did an easy pattern on it with wax, dunked it in a solution of acid, and started figuring out how to etch stone. It worked surprisingly well. Now to do some proper sculpting.

Time to recharge the megaphone and bake some cookies. Just got notice that my office is out on strike as of Tuesday. #BCGEU

It is time once again to put skeletons in things that have never had skeletons before.

The "theory" is overwhelmingly supported by the evidence, which continues to be updated and refined by ongoing discovery and analysis.

Just finished "record of a spaceborn few" by becky chambers. I think this is the 5th book of hers I've read this year, and "the galaxy, and the ground within", is lined up to read next. This hopepunk stuff is just what my ongoing existential crisis needed. @beckychb013.bsky.social

Is that an ART??! 🥨🥨🥨

here's a nice mushroom

The problem with a soapstone doodle is it never stops being a WIP. I’ll be working on something else and along the way this little guy suddenly gets hooves and fuzzy legs

I've been thinking about how to de-emphasize the American perspective in my news and social media. It's more about adding accounts that are focused on other things, and It's a big world with a lot of good in it.

Ice cream truck funerals apparently produce the most horror movie ass sound you can hear in real life

I've been using drugstore readers for about 16 years. The other day I gave in and went to the eye doctor, because the eye strain is now saying something more than just time to go up another perscription strength. So now my progressives are in. I have feelings about it.

Went to Dragball Vic West Ended up with a friend who really wanted into my pants. (Mostly for burrowing and shade)

When you're checking social media on the wrong side of 5 am, seeing if the usuals have also given up on getting back to sleep, and remembering the days that you'd be dragging your ass back in around this time..

The artist and the deep blue sea.

Um, Excuse me! You can't bring them in here unless they're an Assistance Centaur! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Heracles and Nessus (who is *not* an Assistance Centaur 👀), by Giambologna, 1598, at the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social , Florence 🇮🇹

Brilliant. Also, Topless in Scotland in May? That takes some courage.

Woke up to these 2 goblins eating a rat in the hallway. They were not impressed with me taking it away. #farmcats

Farm sitting for the weekend. There's something very satisfying about gathering fresh duck eggs in the morning.

Rules are rules