Auntie Kip: Rec Therapist, Pro GM, Sleepy

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

The true geographical size of the Western and Asian powers illustrated using Africa. Image: An outline map of Africa with coloured shapes of other countries scaled by actual area rather than mapping projection designed to show that they all fit at once relatively easily inside Africa - the countries included are the European nations including Eastern Europe, USA, China, India, Japan and the UK. Some areas are split down borders to make inclusion easier. There is probably enough free space left to include Greenland. There is a legend listing the areas in meters squared of each country with totals at the bottom compared to Africa's total. Image by Kai Kraus. See this article on immappancy https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/the-true-size-of-africa-a-small-contribution-in-the-fight-against-rampant-immappancy-by-kai-krause/

I liked this map showing the true size of Africa to give an idea of how distorted our view of the world has become by the flat maps that we see most - Mercator projection. Image by Kai Kraus. See this article on immappancy legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/the-true-siz...

Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace!

A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!

For all the new artists joining Bluesky:

🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi.

🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted.

🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!

Years ago (maybe ten?) I was at a reading/Q and A with Jhumpa Lahiri and the interviewer asked her something — I forget what — and she replied, “I don’t accept the premise of your question,” & then clammed up, and they just moved on. I respected it so much and never forgot it.

The No-Tell Motel bundle on a wood grain desktop. It features a copy of No-Tell Motel, two keychains with the logo on one side and "7" inside a star on the other, the door hanger with Stella the cover model saying "Shhh...." and the Dice Tray, which is clearly an ash tray.

The No-Tell Motel "Dice Tray," which has the logo in the bottom and "sleep among the stars at the Stellar Motel!" on the rim.

Two sides of the Room 7 Keychain, which is royal blue with gold embossing and a gold ring. One side is the No-Tell Motel key logo, the other is "7" in the No-Tell Motel star, for room 7.

The No-Tell Motel door hanger. On one side Stella the cover model says "Shhh...." and the other side says "Please clean! It looks like someone died in here!"

NO-TELL MOTEL is so back.

The Employee Bundle is BACK in stock, and now includes the Door Hanger for when you wanna tell people to slink away or slink inside.

Keychains, door hangers, "Dice Trays" still available a la carte. Matchbooks with every order.

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A tweet from the account “The Yeti of Kananaskis” (@littleskinnyeti) reads: “If you knew that you were expected to just accept repeated infections of a novel virus forever, you would reasonably want to know everything you could about that virus, and if you learned all you could about Covid, you’d never be ok with just infecting yourself repeatedly forever.” The post shows the timestamp “4:13 AM · Dec 1, 2025” and “6,637 Views.” The profile image is a circular photo of a mountainous outdoor landscape.

COVID is a systemic disease that can harm the brain, heart, immune system and more.

Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.

If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Show off the range of your music taste.

5 songs you like that are musically as far apart as you can manage.

• Rome is Burning
• Walking After Midnight
• Frontier Psychiatrist
• Bonden og Kragen
• Cool for the Summer

I'll keep repeating it til' I'm blue in the face - making comics is actually an exceptionally difficult task. I'm quick as hell but each page I draw represents about 10-20 hours of work from writing to final output. I deserve to be paid for that work.

hey friends, I've got a big ask, but I really need this

I've got an opportunity to get a mobility aid that would work so much better for my living circumstances than most

for hundreds of dollars cheaper than usual

but it means I need to make $3960 by the end of the month

please help if you can 💙

They say politics makes strange bedfellows, but it's still legal to sleep alone.

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.

Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

if you want to buy homophobic chicken or christian nationalist craft supply or jk rowling products i cannot stop you but it's kind of weird to talk about it where i can see

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

@lek.bsky.social

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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

you can trace so much evil christian shit back to this man and his ratfuck legacy this is a day of celebration for every kid who got sent to pray the gay away camp, every kid who was forced to carry a child to term or had to get a dodgy secret abortion, school shooting survivors, the list goes ON

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

Jarritos Tamarindo is the best soda

All of my friends are astonishingly beautiful.

I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.

Okay, okay.
One like = one non-political opinion.

TIL some people truly believe that "not taking precautions for a pandemic" is the same thing as "a pandemic being over".

As though the pandemic is the precautions and not the actual illness.

!!! I read the passage three times looking for it!

What typo?

But when people responded saying, "it's not coercion to ask people to address you politely,"

He responded with, "Which I am free to politely decline without being subjected to the kind of social abuse and microaggression that amounts to coercion."

And I'd like to pick that apart for a second.