Eric Lotze

(In this alternate timeline, the inventor of the doughnut is named Lars apparently)

HOW DID I NEVER KNOW THIS AMAZING FACT

This is like finding out that the inventor of the doughnut actually just invented the holes, and we only got proper doughnuts because other doughnut-makers looked at each other and said "we can fix this weird choice but we have to wait until Lars is dead, ok"

It’s funny because an Obama or even a GWB could have said this and everyone would have understood it as a joke and had a little laugh. Trump says this and you know he literally doesn’t remember.

A screenshot of Mox’s current website. It just says “Fuck ICE” in large letters, and then “don’t buy things today, to give money to someone who needs it.” All of the e-store links are gone.

@moxiest.art just went to your website to pick up a t-shirt for my daughter, and all I can say is you’re the realest one. Don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone as willing to sacrifice their own security to benefit others. We see you out here.

They are truly wonderful. The Cat Kid Comic Club is genuinely funny and blows the doors open on what a comic book can look like, and Dogman has real moments and delightful characters. Captain Underpants is just... well, it's precisely targeted at a young kid's sense of humour, and hits that target.

Happy New Year, friends! I have some ~personal news~, which is that the Bluesky team is generously giving me some contract work (which could possibly turn into a job) welcoming more indie media and local govt to Bsky and supporting those already here.

Excited to take my amateur Bsky boosterism pro!

a screenshot of text from a website. it reads: The History of the January 1 Birthday The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

That is such a layered joke! I feel like you could build a whole course out of that 90 seconds, there’s so much depth in there to think about

I’ve definitely got people in my life like…well, everyone in this story in fact

Mine are a) less coffee, and b) less scrolling on social media, so I’m sure you can appreciate my reaction to seeing this post while simultaneously making another coffee and scrolling social media

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:

- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’

No worries if not!!!

Am running a books giveaway on Instagram for those who might be interested 👀‼️

www.instagram.com/p/DS5PtjgDUJ...

A screenshot of Faine’s post immediately followed by one from Ai Jiang, who is trapped in the very situation being discussed and running giveaways for her work on Instagram

Timeline serving up an incredibly on-the-nose example of this very thing just now:

“Buckle up” is just ahead of “You do realize…” and just behind “And you’re surprised?” in the canonical list of phrases that signal the onset of Dreadfully Online Nonsense.

Really a wonderful image

Possibly your most relatable post yet

Woodcarved plump capybara with a round duck on its head

Woodcarved humanoid goose with plate armor, shield and a mace with a red robin sitting on it

Woodcarved plump hog

Woodcarved humanoid crow with a hooded cloak, a sword, satchel on its belt. It has a squirrel climbing its arm, and a cat sitting next to its feet

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Hello !

I'm Bison, a woodcarver from France !

I take commissions.

You can find my shop here :
bisonrimant.fr

Find me in other places here :
linktr.ee/bisonrimant

And some extra juice for those who started to build the play kitchen at 9pm thinking it might take an hour, and are slowly realizing you’re not getting to bed before 1am

It will be worth it

To be clear for the people who didn’t know this happened, it happened because the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final. It was not for, like, racial justice or anything righteous like that

A sharpie drawing of Trogdor on the plywood of a boarded up window, saying “Dirty Trogdors Burned our City.”

After the riot in Vancouver (the one in 2011), people from all over the world grabbed their sharpies and wrote healing messages on the boarded-up shop windows downtown. Including this person who I hope is living a blessed life.

C. Frankenberger (active 1920s)
"In the Station - Chicago", ca. 1925
#photography #train #railway #station #C.Frankenberger #Chicago

This is a concept I got from
@theferocity.bsky.social; keep the machine running, but don’t break it trying to power through a block, or just an off day. Just write something else. That is what causes those writing practices to collapse for me, and once they collapse they are so hard to rebuild!

The variation on this that works for me is to write every day, while not being at all strict about which thing I end up writing. I start with the Main Project, but if those words aren’t coming, I keep downshifting to easier things (prompts, character sketches, …) until words do come.

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you

PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.

CHOTINER: And this is because

PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish

CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example

PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

I did the same. Self-preservation instinct kicked in immediately. Everything was so self-evidently awful, and I knew The Discourse was just going to be a lot of angry people tearing everyone and everything down into a pit of despair and doom, and I did not want to get pulled down there

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Wait is this a thing, I had no idea

Brb going to put hams on as many doorsteps as I can find, if you don’t have a doorstep that’s too bad, no ham for you, should have made better home choices

Even now, I’m not sure if this is a thing they actually believe—that there’s a microchip in my brain that activates when the Jewish Sauron desires something and compels me to provide it, whether it is antifa-branded chaos or, I dunno, lactose-free snacks—or if they know it’s a lie but just like it

I am both super excited about exploring these titles, and dumbfounded that there is time enough to thoughtfully read so many books, in one year, that you can cull a list of twenty great ones. I struggle to read 3 or 4 in a year! I need to reevaluate my life choices!

These are amazing. I had no idea of ACD’s father, either his alcoholism and/or madness (if those are even separate), or his artwork. They’re really lovely.

Ok wait I have to ask an embarrassing question. I see washi tapes and think they look cool (these are wonderful) but I don’t actually know…how you use them. How do you use washi tape? Just like regular tape except whimsical or fun? Or is there like…a Washi Tape Protocol