At this rate, I'll be ringing in the New Year by chasing a beetle out a lamp into the great outdoors. It's going to take that long.

I’m an easy chap to please, just gimme a story about an ancient intelligence stirred up in the ocean and include a malicious Storegga slide.

I'm reposting this because I'm strangely proud of myself for happening across these two muppets in the wild of a PDX vintage store. A big accomplishment, me, to wrap up 2025, a miserable year that would have been improved with more muppets.

How I'm walking out of 2025

For $50 each fist, I could make this a meme come true.

I have trained my entire family to refer to jumpsuits as fashion onesies. This will be my legacy.

How is it that I can go to sleep in a normal position every night but every morning I wake up pressed against the headboard because a 11-pound cat decided she wanted my warm spot while I was sleeping?

Oh hey I forgot to cross-post my 2025 short story favorites. It's a short list this year; you can see depression leaking out of my reading habits (I'm fine).

For those who might find it of interest.

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV. There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

I'm sure I've done it all wrong, but my poor poo brain is all I have. Anyway, I have listed my comic in my Etsy store, look: www.etsy.com/listing/4427...

These might be passive aggressive gifts but both The Incandescent by Emily Tesh and Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer are great for people who are NOT huffing the fumes of Harry Potter or "this is what they took from you" memes. (And people who are don't deserve them but hey, authors need $$$)

I should just mute Mark Cuban for my own well being, shouldn't I?

I do not want to "nano banana" my goddam photos, phone. But your branding was clearly done by people who don't like you, and I'm mean enough to feel smug about that. (I'm actually never going to buy a Pixel again because of this and other attempts to coerce adoption of AI functions, though).

Even HONEYEATER? You’d better believe it.

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

Thinking about this skit for about the three thousandth time.

Boomer parents texting me so I can explain buttered Jorts to them. This involved telling them what jorts are, introducing them to Reddit, and a soupçon of union discourse. I'm a little fearful of the results.

Occasionally Zoë interrupts me at my desk until I follow her to a rug, whereupon she sits and demands I pull the rug around the apartment. She'll bring a toy or attack the fringe during the ride. Lately she's realized she can get back on if she steps off. So the rides don't need to end.

I named my fists Statler and Waldorf because we haven't even started and you can already hear the jeering from the upper balcony.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: -red fox -woodchuck -black squirrel -river otter -townsend's mole

Me, a little too enthusiastically: it's a holiday, time to assemble some IKEA! The open box:

Trying to explain tariffs and supply chains to my pickiest cat so she understands why we don't have her only preferred food is not going well.

Top 5 film genres - no plot, just punching - no plot, just trading quips -humans are definitely the villains (not sure anyone involved with the film knows that, though) -no plot, just choreography and set design -brooding (subtitled because half the dialogue is inaudible)

I feel like I've made a mistake being online this week. Maybe this lifetime. My refusal to take time and touch grass has led to me reading too many Epstein emails and now I can't decide whether I should puke or punch a brick wall.

FINE, fiiiiine, I did it. I'm making a newsletter so people can keep up on shop updates. I generally only do a shop drop once a season at most so this combined with my aversion to emails makes it so I physically cannot spam your inbox. join if you want updates from me www.pamwishbow.com/news

We took on a powerful incumbent who was expected to coast to reelection. We faced more corporate PAC money than has ever been spent attacking a candidate in a Seattle election. We built a people-powered movement rooted in hope for our city’s future. And we won. This is YOUR city!

Mayor Katie Wilson? It's Sure Looking Likely! Wilson surges in the final big batch of ballots that remained uncounted, moving above 50 percent. publicola.com/2025/11/11/m...

Tuesday ballot count just dropped. "KING 5 has reached out to Harrell for comment at least five times in since Nov. 10. He has not responded to requests."

1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")

"The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches — deliberated the charges for several hours Wednesday and Thursday before delivering the verdict."

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Between Dick Cheney kicking it and the wins of Mamdani, Sherrill, et al, today has been pretty great.

Today is #ElectionDay in 39 states across the country. Know your voting rights! Images: When We All Vote

Ah, the simple pleasure of checking your hold list at the library and then wondering if you should be responsible and delay some of them (never).

Pet food is usually not covered by SNAP (depending on where you are), but needing to cover more groceries may take up what you would have spent on it. Many animal shelters have pet food pantries, so check your local if you're struggling to feed your pets.

I came back from a couple days out of town and my roommate got new nightlights and this is how that went down: Me: these are amazing RM: (inaudible) Me, getting closer: why is the light purple? RM: They're actually fly traps, we had a problem, wait, don't get—Jesus, stop that, you are not a fly.

This is the most feral book I've ever read and I ate it all of it Come for the horny sapphic entanglements, stay for the feast.

I don't have a platform so I don't post often, but Ruaa's is one of the GoFundMes that I have been supporting with what I can. I know it is easy to think that things are fine now that there is a ceasefire. But the border is still closed, food is only slowly getting into Gaza, and most homes have 1/2

I don't have a platform so I don't post often, but Ruaa's is one of the GoFundMes that I have been supporting with what I can. I know it is easy to think that things are fine now that there is a ceasefire. But the border is still closed, food is only slowly getting into Gaza, and most homes have 1/2

Tag yourself (I'm a colourist of artificial fish)

I just had to explain fridgescaping to someone. What have I become?

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE. Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

I thought I'd play Koriko to give myself a benign project. Now I'm completely obsessed with over-engineered layout spreads and my cat is helping.

I love this for them, too.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Me: I'm definitely not depressed. Me, checking my phone activity time: ... Oh no.

Just a normal Sunday evening, drinking some chai, convincing my cat she doesn't need to groom my eyebrows, writing to my senators hoping I can persuade them to get Chuck Schumer to step down from leadership in favor of someone less inert.

Each one of Portland artist Erika Rier’s sculpted creatures has its own story, and most of them are at least a little unsettling. Join us for Anatomy of a Sculpture!