Janie Larson

I don't know how deal with the growing amount Americans who just make things up and believe them, like not lies or denial, just people treating delusions and hallucinations as reality.

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

It’s probably going to be something really stupid. It’s going to hit a thermocline and everyone will be like really, this is where your line is??

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Maggie the Pug is majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with Josh. She’s wearing Cher’s classic yellow plaid ensemble.

It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better.

I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.

I got recommended a YouTube video featuring a watercolor brand that was completely unpronounceable because it was like 16 vowels and three consonants and I thought of you. 💜

One thing I admit I prefer about freelance writing over freelance art is that a place commissioning a piece of writing will tell you what they can pay you. Art commissioners often ask your rate, want you to guess the magic number they’re willing to pay, and may ghost you if you guess wrong.

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

A fascinating read.

A pug looking out the window at a chipmunk on a patio table

I have a chipmunk that is “friends” with my pug. When she has nap time he bangs on the window at me to wake her up so he can taunt her. We bought him a little picnic table for his food so she can watch him.

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

If you’re confused about the rise of Bari Weiss, consider that she’s gay and conservatives LOVE token minorities who endorse their ideas

a group of cartoon girls are standing next to each other with their arms in the air . ALT: a group of cartoon girls are standing next to each other with their arms in the air .

Husband and I watched K-pop Demon Hunters last night. It gave me JEM and the Holograms vibes. If they ever tried to seriously reboot that franchise they should look at K-pop Demon Hunters for inspiration.

Your secret chocolate

Aw, I missed a Gilmore Girls event?! Boo!

We spent the weekend in the Dells for a special occasion. I hadn’t realized they were having a wine walk and I missed that too. 🤣

gilbert poses after his pizzas fall on the floor

a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."

OH MY GOD

I had a super dumb realization. I realized I don’t like it when my weird obscure hobbies become popular because I have always enjoyed my weird obscure hobby but if I keep doing it after it stops being popular then I just look like a loser who doesn’t realize the trend is over.

The exact tenor of knowing people are going to mistreat you if you do the thing you think everyone should be doing, and choosing to do it because you know that, if they do, that mistreatment will be Wrong; autistic self-awareness in the face of moral opposition. A sort of fuck-it hopeful fatalism

I keep forgetting to take my allergy pills when I go on vacation because my allergies mysteriously disappear when I am not home. I wonder why.

This is why I had a meal subscription kit for a decade. I like cooking so I can get my food texture correct but I hate going to the grocery store.

🤔It only seems fast if you don't talk to or listen to any Black people in the US.

If you talk to or listen to Black people, then this US crashout has been a 20+ year slow motion train wreck.
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Like I said, listening to Black people in the US is pretty much a superpower. You can see the future!
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I’m mad that I never learned how to double dutch this good as a kid 😭

People like to claim that autistics are bad at communicating and like, my dude, the problem does not lie with us, it lies with the web of manipulation and lies and passive aggression and ulterior agendas that you weave around yourselves instead of just doing what we do, which is saying what we mean.

On a more serious note, Collins thinks the Riyadh lineup reflects something dire about both American politics and the bifurcated woke-versus-anti-woke comedy scene. Collins says there’s “a lot of money” behind enticing anti-woke comics to shill for the political project on the right. “I also like money, but I think getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell jokes for 10 minutes about ‘airline food is bad’ is actually illustrative of a much larger thing: The stuff that’s getting greenlit is not necessarily popular with the populace. It’s popular with rich people who are sick of being yelled at in the media. They are using some of these people as vehicles for whatever the comedy equivalent of greenwashing is.”

A quick note about money and comedy and power.

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gamepass and similar services (google play, apple arcade) were never a long term good deal for developers. they were always going to lead to industry collapse.

the people who claimed otherwise got one-off cheques from the big companies early on, but that was never going to last.

Oh Jesus Christ… 😱

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Truly, these are the end times

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."