Profanitory Warbler

Unburying the lede from my essay on why we all feel like numb frozen crap these days…

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"no defensible use case for gen-AI"; well, have you considered that some people are born with incomprehensible wealth and privilege, and never develop imagination or creativity? and these people are still expected to produce output such as "memos" or "emails" to justify their exorbitant salaries?

BREAKING: Latest horror a distraction from many other horrors

Current internal battle: Should I be terrified of Trump on main, or should I recognize that pretending like he has powers he does not have helps to grant him those powers.

A helpful hint to my pals who are new to Bluesky: follow @midnightpals.bsky.social if you think you might enjoy unhinged short-form fanfic about horror/sci-fi authors meeting up to talk shit around a campfire. It’s one of my favorite things.

This apparently real London police recruitment ad from the 1930s reads like the précis of Netflix’s next lesbian-bait series, which they should start filming immediately if not sooner.

Someone on Twitter writes: "Unfortunately die work wear or whatever is a psyop to turn men into women . Cuz why the hell else would he be telling them to dress that gay"

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

Reread Frog and Toad as an adult and tell me they were “just friends”.

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

It's mushroom season! Here are all the types you will see.
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Flat illustration of a black-and-white-warbler admiring several patterns of bird-safe glass as if in an art gallery. Captioned "Bird-Safe Glass is Beautiful!"

#Inktober retrospective, Day 2. 2018-2022. 2019 is omitted because apparently Bluesky won’t allow more than 4 pics per post.

I’m not doing #Inktober this year because I’m going to be on the road half the month. So instead, my Inktober day 1, 2019-2022:

A magazine cover in fashion mag style titled Tern Vogue, with a picture of two very elegant Caspian terns doing a mating dance.

This is probably my crowning artistic achievement to date.