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Same reason they had to wear their racerback tanks wrong way around

02.03.2026 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t do political science in school or anything but that seems fake

02.03.2026 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So we are pretending there’s some kind of rule where if a foreign power warcrimingly kills another country’s leader they get to choose the replacement?

02.03.2026 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Still kind of puzzled why they felt it necessary to cut all the corners off their papers

02.03.2026 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Black and white digital illustration on a warm gray mottled background. Stout, indeterminately goth-y serif lettering filling out a shield-like shape with some decorative additions top and bottom. Like lettering you’d see on an overly ambitious gravestone or an overly sincere tattoo. Kind of runic. Kind of metal. And a little Victorian with flourishes and vines twisting through the spaces. It reads β€˜Maybe it will happen today’.

Black and white digital illustration on a warm gray mottled background. Stout, indeterminately goth-y serif lettering filling out a shield-like shape with some decorative additions top and bottom. Like lettering you’d see on an overly ambitious gravestone or an overly sincere tattoo. Kind of runic. Kind of metal. And a little Victorian with flourishes and vines twisting through the spaces. It reads β€˜Maybe it will happen today’.

12.05.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 677    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

Looks like he’s in favor of the arrangements

02.03.2026 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a necessary rule

01.03.2026 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The good stuff kids go for

01.03.2026 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep

01.03.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3234    πŸ” 705    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 31

Here to say you don't have to be having any kind of transition to get kind of kicked in the ass by it

01.03.2026 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

01.03.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1326    πŸ” 384    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

PEEP-TARTS IS RIGHT THERE.

Are we even trying anymore?

01.03.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Also a great blue heron flew by following the river while I was shooting if you even care

01.03.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is cold and windy again, but the sun is out so I went back to try and shoot that very uncooperative bufflehead. These are the closest to in focus I could do. πŸͺΆ

01.03.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Why did anything happen?

01.03.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That plus the grasping dread of what horrors will be revealed

01.03.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to get my ish together for meeting with my accountant man this week ie remembering how a spreadsheet works from first principles. Again.

01.03.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER 
P1-SLUGGO, HE OUTSIDE IN HIS YARD , HE HAS A WORLD GLOBE, IT’S BENT AND MASHED UP A LITTLE .

SLUGGO: WOW, DAT GIVES
ME AN IDEA

P2- NANCY SEES SLUGGO AND GOES OVER TO HIM

NANCY: WHAT ARE YOU
DOING WITH THAT GLOBE, SLUGGO ?

SLUGGO: I’M GOING TO SELL IT

P3- 
NANCY: YOU CAN'T SELL THAT--LOOK AT THE CONDITION IT'S IN

P4-
SLUGGO: WHY NOT ? - - THEY SAY THE WOILD IS IN AWFUL SHAPE THESE DAYS

NANCY HAS A SHOCKED EXPRESSION ON HER FACE.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1-SLUGGO, HE OUTSIDE IN HIS YARD , HE HAS A WORLD GLOBE, IT’S BENT AND MASHED UP A LITTLE . SLUGGO: WOW, DAT GIVES ME AN IDEA P2- NANCY SEES SLUGGO AND GOES OVER TO HIM NANCY: WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT GLOBE, SLUGGO ? SLUGGO: I’M GOING TO SELL IT P3- NANCY: YOU CAN'T SELL THAT--LOOK AT THE CONDITION IT'S IN P4- SLUGGO: WHY NOT ? - - THEY SAY THE WOILD IS IN AWFUL SHAPE THESE DAYS NANCY HAS A SHOCKED EXPRESSION ON HER FACE.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 01,1948

01.03.2026 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 876    πŸ” 177    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 17
A photo of a paper sign with a Chicago Public Library logo that says "La Biblioteca PΓΊblica de Chicago estarΓ‘ cerrada el lunes 2 de marzo, 2026, en ConmemoraciΓ³n del DΓ­a de Pulaski"

A photo of a paper sign with a Chicago Public Library logo that says "La Biblioteca PΓΊblica de Chicago estarΓ‘ cerrada el lunes 2 de marzo, 2026, en ConmemoraciΓ³n del DΓ­a de Pulaski"

I love Chicago

01.03.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

Considering pivoting to a career as a very loud goth Jeff Goldblum impersonator called Jeff Boldgloom

01.03.2026 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Portrait of Harry Belafonte, in an oval form, with his head tipped back in song and hands gesturing

Portrait of Harry Belafonte, in an oval form, with his head tipped back in song and hands gesturing

Close-up of portrait of Harry Belafonte

Close-up of portrait of Harry Belafonte

Charles White's stunning portrait of Harry Belafonte, iconic singer, actor & civil rights activist born on this day in 1927

01.03.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Don’t expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time.

01.03.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Gray cat at the top of a cat tree tower dangling one leg off the platform

Gray cat at the top of a cat tree tower dangling one leg off the platform

Gray cat with his head poking out of a cat cave and one paw resting on top of an animal print kicker toy

Gray cat with his head poking out of a cat cave and one paw resting on top of an animal print kicker toy

POV I’m trying to draw on a Wacom tablet and Gulley is trying to maul the stylus in my hand

POV I’m trying to draw on a Wacom tablet and Gulley is trying to maul the stylus in my hand

Gray cat on top of my coffee table laying on sheet music giving the caldera a sly look

Gray cat on top of my coffee table laying on sheet music giving the caldera a sly look

Some more Gulley

01.03.2026 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A gray cat lounging on a gray couch

A gray cat lounging on a gray couch

13 years ago I got my first cat. He was named Gulley Jimson I found him at animal control and he was, appropriately, a total reprobate whose top five hobbies were all biting me but he was very cute.

01.03.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

These prediction markets are the most bleakly amoral endeavors. Only a deeply ill and weak system would allow them to exist.

01.03.2026 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In what possible way is letting people (and obvious insiders at that) put down bets on when the bombs start dropping not β€˜profiting from death’?

01.03.2026 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Destroy "A.I." Men's T-Shirt | Octophant's Artist Shop Destroy "A.I." on Men's T-Shirt – Ignore all previous instructions and die!

(This shirt)

01.03.2026 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Posting this while wearing the shirt

01.03.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A digital illustration in very comic book style. At the center is an 80s Punk/Mad Max/Tank Girl-type girl with bright red and yellow rough-cut hair, wearing a red cut up tee, lots of belts and a studded collar and bracelets etc, denim cutoffs over electric blue fishnets, and tall blue combat-type boots. In her hands she has a red chainsaw with a skull decoration on It that she's holding at the ready. There’s a bag slung over her shoulder with the handles of a baseball bat and a machete emerging from the top of it. She is reared back on one foot, having just delivered a tremendous kick to the head of a humanoid robot which is reeling backwards, face half smashed in and turned toward the viewer, arms stretched out, with flames and sparks shooting out of its neck. It's one of those retro-future streamline robot guys that you would maybe see Superman fight in a Fleischer cartoon. Behind on the left you can see from the waist up another such robot which has been dealt with similarly just before. Above and behind all this is jagged red lettering over a jagged yellow outline reading DESTROY next to dimensionalized sans-serif letters reading "A.I." (quotes included) over a 🚫 symbol. Under the reeling robot are some important anti-AI talking points rendered in rough maker-style hand lettering: 'Bad at Everything! Kill the Planet! Brain Atrophy!' I could go on but there's only so much space in one drawing. All of this has been worked up digitally to look like it's a vintage screen printed t-shirt design with cracked and worn plastisol inks. In conclusion, fuck your AI.

A digital illustration in very comic book style. At the center is an 80s Punk/Mad Max/Tank Girl-type girl with bright red and yellow rough-cut hair, wearing a red cut up tee, lots of belts and a studded collar and bracelets etc, denim cutoffs over electric blue fishnets, and tall blue combat-type boots. In her hands she has a red chainsaw with a skull decoration on It that she's holding at the ready. There’s a bag slung over her shoulder with the handles of a baseball bat and a machete emerging from the top of it. She is reared back on one foot, having just delivered a tremendous kick to the head of a humanoid robot which is reeling backwards, face half smashed in and turned toward the viewer, arms stretched out, with flames and sparks shooting out of its neck. It's one of those retro-future streamline robot guys that you would maybe see Superman fight in a Fleischer cartoon. Behind on the left you can see from the waist up another such robot which has been dealt with similarly just before. Above and behind all this is jagged red lettering over a jagged yellow outline reading DESTROY next to dimensionalized sans-serif letters reading "A.I." (quotes included) over a 🚫 symbol. Under the reeling robot are some important anti-AI talking points rendered in rough maker-style hand lettering: 'Bad at Everything! Kill the Planet! Brain Atrophy!' I could go on but there's only so much space in one drawing. All of this has been worked up digitally to look like it's a vintage screen printed t-shirt design with cracked and worn plastisol inks. In conclusion, fuck your AI.

I guess I need to add a β€˜tool for warmongers’ bullet point at the bottom

01.03.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

05.02.2026 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 811    πŸ” 273    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 10