See also: no technology should go on the market without passing inspection by the sort of person who immediately thinks "how could an evil stalker ex use this having been given full access before they became an ex?"
Gouache painting in my bullet journal for week of March 2: Emolga (a cute electric sugar glider Pokemon) has just taken off from a branch of an apple tree and is catching air, a big grin on her dumb face. (There's another flying Emolga silhouette hidden deep in the background, but it's hard to see.)
March in the bullet journal: "March" in brush marker with a mini-calendar with moon phases. On the bottom of the page is a gouache painting: Pawmot (a giant orange teddy bear Pokemon, electric/fighting type) flopped on its back in a clearing full of flowers, mostly tulips. It's a fish-eye view to squeeze in a whole forest in the distance. Pawmot's big electric paw is towards the viewer, giant with foreshortening The facing page has "one line a day" with days 1-31 going down the page, the weekends highlighted with brush marker stripes for readability.
doing pokemon scenes again for March, just to feel something
(these are both expansions of official card art scenes)
#bulletjournal #pokemon
A wedge of red onion (that we keep in the fridge because we only need a little bit of it at a time) is growing a lil green sprout protuberance
calm down, fridge onion
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.
this book is so special to me, and reading it out loud to Aloe on a road trip when they were in elementary school is such a good memory
If you've only ever seen the animation, treat yourself to a day with this prose. it's a feast
A wedge of red onion (that we keep in the fridge because we only need a little bit of it at a time) is growing a lil green sprout protuberance
calm down, fridge onion
A sign that says “Do not feed the birds” and features a cartoon illustration of a pigeon and near it a human hand scattering tiny toasts.
even if you brought tiny toasts just for them
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
"I used to believe, as I was taught, that literacy was primarily about decoding text. But watching how people actually learn and think has convinced me that literacy is about something deeper: the capacity to construct and navigate environments where understanding becomes possible."
Screenshot from Scrivener. This is from my script, the chapter called "evolution... re-redefined" (the chapter on "curiosity" as a fruit of the Spirit). I've got a screenshot from the music video dropped into the script for art reference. It's a school textbook that opens up to a black and white video of Geoff Moore looking judgy. Script says: "CAPTION: ...while the lead singer, trapped in a Myst book, shakes his head"
anyway, glad for Steve Taylor keeping teenage me critical of the grifters
and this wasn't in the podcast, but I need to get past my issue 1 blocker (33% pain flare, 33% tech, 34% fear) because it's gonna be fun to riff on Geoff Moore and The Distance's "Evolution ...Re-Defined" in issue 5
I have listened to a lot of @worstpossible.world this week and called it "research, for the book"
(it does actually spark some ideas! no fair that listening to a cool podcast — and not writing — doesn't solve my writing problem)
podcast episode is here (or on your podcatcher of choice) and their guest has a perfectly curated bouquet of songs: some bangers, some cringey, all interesting. sharing for you former CCM heads
...is that michael sweet video where I learned those false condom efficacy statistics? oh no it WAS
I haven't thought about this creepy stop-motion video (affectionate) in 30 years oh my god, thank you The Worst of All Possible Worlds backlog youtu.be/6r6LV02QscU
god saves his spiciest mustard for his bravest lil corndogs
box reading “the dream milk should…”
initially thought this plant milk box read “the milk should dream” and was like hmm. don’t know about that
A fluffy gray and white white cat staring pissily with his cheek smushed against a pillow
Have you ever seen a cat whose facial expression better represents how all of us feel these days
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
a series of folders, with eyes and nose and mouth glyphs on them, loosely resembling a face. loosely
a lot of you are hesitating to update to macOS 26, which is too bad, because i'm over here making my new best friend: foldy
Celebrate Chicago's birthday buy buying this Chicago-style scorpion from me
I am not spending a birthday on doomscrolling, I'm gonna pop on some podcasts, learn to play warrior, and at least make some fake money hitting things with a gingerbread greatsword
Guild Wars 2 screenshot: A white tiger-patterned Charr warrior is posing on the beach, holding a (cloud strife-sized) greatsword that looks like it's got a pile of sugar gathering on top. Her armor is dyed with copper & green patina. She's got a copper green wreath on her head.
abridged chat from the main hub town: person A (joking, suggesting numbers): 8675309? person B: it's an older meme sir, but it checks out, it's just really really old person A: i can't tell if I just got called old me, named "March Fourth": I definitely did and on my day too
can't believe March Fourth wasn't taken
(also this is gonna be a good bit today)
The possible price of loving someone is having to grieve them eventually and AI cannot stop that. It cannot soften the blow or fill a void and it is quite frankly disrespectful and weird to try
If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there
perfect representation of the vicious asininity of our persecution and the banal mechanisms of its implementation: these regular-ass people, the staff at the dmv, dutifully inflicting whatever absurd degradation they're told, no matter how blatantly, cruelly pointless. would you do that? will you?
painting of a guitarist frog with a spiked collar, combat boots, and a plaid shirt
guitarist frog
you are not prepared for the soundtrack
Incorrect. This church is entirely roof. 100% roof.
