Gentle Observation 255 and Gentle Observation 301 (Drew these a while ago, but saved them for a good day.) patreon.com/kochalka

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

love doing cat commissions, current WIP for a friend is a little less fantasy flavored than usual website: shaferbrown.com commission inquiries: [email protected]

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

Again with the evening post. It's fine, whatevs, better than no post at all. It's beneficial for me regardless.

Getting back into gear is almost always a bumpy process, especially with an abundance of external stressors, such as what Reader's Digest might call Life In These United States. At least I have a daily online jigsaw puzzle in these trying times.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

I'd like to be posting in the morning but at least it's the same day as desired; I'll take it. thefinalfivepercent.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/d...

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

"Kiwi" x.com/tttttt0303p/...

It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

People who think they are good at using LLM's are little different than people who think they are good at driving while drunk, except that in the former case almost half the US economy is tied up in a cargo cult of telling them they are right.

What's this? Posts two days in a row? How 'bout that?

Today I learned, in a bad way, that the tilde ( ~ ) is a wild card character in Excel. To be clear, "a bad way" is I chose it as a marker for sorting that I could easily delete later, but the text filter didn't see them, and then when I tried to get rid of them it went, "Oh, delete all?" Such fun!

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months for medical reasons, and I'm still about 1000$ behind on being able to pay for my car and storage. I'm sorry to keep asking, but if you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Anderson Cooper, normalizing an authoritarian: "Shouldn't voters obey in advance? Isn't not obeying in advance a hassle? Aren't I, as an extremely wealthy scion, the wrong person for this job? But isn't my gotcha question sparkly?"

Sorry but muffuletta sounds like a euphemism for eating a girl out

Yeah, I'm doin' it! (posting)

Get your *free* e-book of CARCERAL LIBERALISM: Feminist Voices against State Violence edited by Shreerekha Pillai! mailchi.mp/illinois/q6l... #CriminalJustice #CulturalStudies #WomensStudies

Autocorrect changed "What's happening?" to "What's harrowing?" Which, you know, one the one hand, accurate, but on the other hand, can we not with the horrors for like five seconds?

Arlo remains suspicious of Halloween, as the "trick or treat, smell my feet" method determined these were not even real bones

Imagine I'm clanging a very large down-on-the-ranch style bell right now. "Come onnnnn down, today's the last day to order a shirt that will actually come in your exact size and color choice, get those orders in today, because I'll be en route back to Philly come tomorrow." Get one: SquidFacts.net

At some point, I apparently drew mating cardboard boxes. I have no memory of this.

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

I shut off the first alarm of the day in my sleep and doomed myself to several hours of snoozing the cascade of subsequent alarms. Fun!

lolol, all the adhd people going "oh shit! Oh well, I will be a month's worth of aware for the next 2 hours"

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Grading tomatoes. All the fully ripe ones were only partly reddish or pink before they went in cardboard boxes with bananas on the 28th. Wanna say this is more ripening faster than I got with just cardboard in '23, but I don't have hard evidence. I AM confident that the banana trick works though!

We've been keeping separate emergency supplies, but there isn't space for enough to see us through a long term issue, so we're using up the separate stash. This dried soup from ALDI is okay, but with a little help it became a #GoodLunch. Not pictured but also used for soup: butter, diced chicken.

Sam watching helplessly as Frodo starts to identify with Gollum, a weird, transparently insane bald freak in a diaper who eats live birds and mutters about murdering Sam and Frodo all the time, was a mood without a strong modern parallel until people started falling for AI.

I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB

"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?

i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

The waning hours: Buttercup Festival 3-352

Animals don't send emails. Animals don't post rage bait on social media. Vampire bats feed their friends. Humpback whales make dinner together. We can learn so much from animals. Learn a new lesson from animals every month in the Love Notes from Nature 2026 calendar! Get one at squidfacts.net

Comic update! Surprise! What a twist 🤓! 🔥Tapas: tapas.io/episode/3701... 🔥ComicFury: magicfreelance.thecomicseries.com

Catching up with comics - Buttersafe by Raynato Castro and Alex Culang. Mostly gag-a-day, but with recurring characters such as Veiny Dog and Saddest Turtle. This mopey slasher is seasonally appropriate, though slashers are year-round. Click for full comic: www.buttersafe.com/2025/07/10/b...

This is Minnie. She let out her first ever puppy bark today in an effort to bravely fend off her own reflection. 12/10 (TT: minnieandme11)

If you think people should starve, you’re a monster. Money should not factor in.

Hiii, it’s my birthday and, as they say, the best gift you could give me is sharing my art!! Thank u 💛

Frog fairy. The most magical of critters.

Motherfucker.

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

Today on Opportunities! Jack gets a... present?? That raises more questions than answers. 🎄 opportunitiesinspace.com 🎄 #webcomics #oppsupdate #comicoop

Catching up with comics: Kicking Cones by Katrina Constantine (who does not seem to be on here) Just hitting an old Halloween comic while going through the Tumblr archive. So cute!!

Saw a tumblr post saying AI is turned on again in a hidden Google Drive menu, but its not a menu you can find on mobile; its only desktop. anyhoo. here it is with a picture and clearer directions Google Drive > MyDrive > (Gear Icon top right) Settings > Manage Apps [switch off Gemini here]

you are so much closer to needing disability benefits than you are to becoming a billionaire.