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Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

what a week, huh

Net-Approval For Taking Greenland By Force:

🔴 All: -72%

🔴 Democrats: -94%
🔴 Independents: -80%
🔴 Republicans: -40%

🔴 Black: -86%
🔴 White: -70%
🔴 Hispanic: -66%

🔴 Women: -78%
🔴 Men: -66%

YouGov / Jan 16, 2026

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press f to pay respects

Excerpt from a New York Times articles entitled “After Trump Reignites a Trade War Over Greenland, Europe Weighs Going All-Out,” with an excerpt highlighted that read “Greenland shows little sign of wanting to be acquired, by money or by military force.”

grave mistake reading this NYT “analysis” of Europe’s Greenland Coercion response. What in the actual hell would signs of a populace _wanting_ to be acquired by military force be?

trump has basically hit the "can only get worse if you lose a war or the economy goes into the shitter" benchmark

Virginia's legislative session only started yesterday, and it was a very big day.

The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.

Next: Senate.

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

Your daily reminder that having to do this radiates weakness, not strength. Yes, there are people who will buy this. But if they thought enough people were going to buy it, they wouldn’t have to do this.

They have to do the hard sell precisely because they know how many people aren’t buying it.

Screenshot of a habit tracker, showing a timeline of 2025 with 283 days spent drawing for a total of 500.5 hours.

500 total hours spent drawing in 2025. what a year, huh?

oh no I put the dash in the wrong spot. I am a fraud

A pen and marker sketch of an A7-E Corsair II light attack aircraft

A7-E Corsair II

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

ink sketch of a greater roadrunner

I retreated from the world for a bit to focus on therapy against OCD

Reemerging now that I’ve made a fair amount of progress. That, and because sharing my thoughts and self online is itself a form of exposure for me

anyway, here’s a drawing I did of a cute little Roadrunner :)

overcame a lot of anxiety today and sketched on my subway morning commute.

FeelsGoodMan

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

ink sketch of a Band of Brothers scene: an American soldier stands high on the edge of a ridge, holding a rifle aimed down toward the viewer. In the bottom right, we see the back of a standing German soldier, closer, cut off by a frame, with bullet holes in the back of his uniform, smoke emerging from them.

fun study of an iconic band of brothers scene

i really need to practice effects lol

really observing negative space when drawing is such a cheat code. the resulting improvements in accuracy feels like magic

as i've said in the past, the delta between a certain subset of ""liberal"" elites and the liberal base is genuinely astounding

they have no idea how angry we are

One of the defining experiences of my life, and I think yours, is gradually witnessing the internet degrade from the most sophisticated tool for information distribution in history into a cesspit of misinformation and falsehoods.

It's a world-historical tragedy, what's happening to us.

my art instructor last week told me I’d be a great storyboarder (shocking because I thought I was deficient in all the requisite skills lol). now every online platform is pushing me ads for storyboarding courses. Coincidence????? Kinda sus???

Trying to remind myself now that if you worry about EVERYTHING, sometimes you’re gonna be right. Broken clocks and all that

Experienced one of those truly tragic moments where an OCD rumination turned out to be all too…. prescient

Ordered a lychee iced tea, thought “when was the last time I had lychee? Ever? What if I’m allergic?….” Pushed through the nerves, ordered it. And. Well. You’ll never guess what happened next

another round of blender learning progress :)

a low-poly person standing T-posed

what a glow up

a screenshot of Blender, with a torso, head, one arm, and one leg constructed out of basic boxes

operation smoothie is officially launched. first steps in learning blender by making the world's blockiest little dude

Underrated big shift in the influencer era in terms of who has cultural capital: away from performers, writers, artists, musicians etc and to people who are really good at running a small business and doing SEO/social media.

Pretty polar opposite political valences in those skillsets.

he is so so good