Jesse Tokarz

@xplainthexmen.bsky.social Where can I find a link to the Discord server?

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

A hobbit leaves his home in the dead of night, he carries a backpack and sets out on a journey. In the background, we see a lively birthday party under a well-lit tree, and a sky full of fireworks.

The Party Tree - happy belated birthday Bilbo!
Watercolour and acryla gouache on paper

One of my Tolkien-inspired works. If you're here because you enjoyed the Smaug I painted for Magic: The Gathering, I have more where that came from!

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Nobody has ever had to pass a law or issue an order to say that the earth moves around the sun, and yet it does so, despite any proclamations to the contrary.

You are real, I am real, we are here and we live, and even if they kill - including by degrees or decrees - they cannot undo our existence.

Imagine if people showed pride for their country by making it a genuinely nice place to be and welcoming others so your actual actions reinforced the very thing you are proud of

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine that dramatically BOOSTS the immune system’s ability to fight tumors- even WITHOUT targeting a SPECIFIC cancer type. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery AND radiation treatment.

FOMO

In the center of the forest,
there is an unlikely stone that remembers when the mountains
were new.
It waits in a circle of moss like the pupil of a green eye.
You kneel and ask it a wordless question.
It answers.
“Cherish exactly who you are. For there can never be another.”

Radical Honesty, by Downupright 16 track album

It's Bandcamp Friday, and would you look at that... my 2025 full-length Radical Honesty is available over on Bandcamp!! Neat.

Come join me and rage against capitalism in "Sold" and "Funeral... Internet", celebrate queer hoy in "Box in a Box", and more!

downupright.bandcamp.com/album/radica...

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Woke up and my abscess had spread up my nose and is now also chilling on my eyebrow.

Please help before it kills me, its so close to my brain?

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PayPal.me/MousePounder
Cash.app/$WishMage
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I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

The way all these people are talking about getting _____ out of “our country”—we really need to be clear about the fact that once you’re talking that way, you don’t actually care all that much about how the “getting out” part is done

They are already fine with mass murder if that’s what it takes

Gonna talk for a second about Nazis, Republicans, DrivethruRPG, that Star Wars game, and more importantly, my grandpa.

Bear with me, the edibles are just kicking in. Might be a little thread.

Happy Global Smurf Day! Here are six names of Smurfs in other languages:

6. Italian Papa Smurf = Grande Puffo
5. German Wild Smurf = Tarzan Schlumpf
4. Spanish Crazy Smurf = Pitufo Loco
3. Dutch Jokey Smurf = Lolsmurf
2. Portuguese Hefty Smurf = Smurf Robusto
1. Czech Scruple the villain = Kluk Fuk

I know, my friend,
that in this moment
it may feel
that there is nothing
nothing we can do
except watch
as things get worse,
but remember
oh, my friend, remember
if we can watch
as things get worse,
we can also try
to watch out
for one another.

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

"Someone," rather

Showing once said "the stock market is not the economy."

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to…
A: find your mom’s Facebook
B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were
C: badly photoshop that into a locket
D: convince you I’m your daughter.

Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

"May I have your name?" the faerie said.

"William," she said with a smile.

"Ah ah!" The faerie gave a wicked laugh. "I have your name! Now no-one will call you by it!"

"Thank you," she said.

"To win it back, you must- what?"

"I will find me a new one," she said, "one that suits me better."

Find how that premise seeks to control and define and dominate other humans—it always does—and reject that lie in favor of something better.

Before answering, always reject the fascist venue.

Make a better invitation.

YouTube video by downupright Downupright - "A Funeral Service For The Good Internet (1992-2014)" ft. Cory Doctorow, Caius Hubris

It's here: "A Funeral Service For The Good Internet" is a 7 minute power ballad about how we had something relatively carefree, and names and shames the men who took it away from us. Featuring award-winning author/blogger Cory Doctorow and rapper Caius Hubris.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxYY...

Not a bad way to spend time between gigs I suppose. Their most recent album was in 2022 and they're still active with live shows and remixes and such.

Friends and I tried to sell tickets for @stabbingwestward.bsky.social to the lead singer for @stabbingwestward.bsky.social .

YouTube video by Brass Against Hey Man Nice Shot | @Officialfilter Cover | ft. @SamuelHopeOfficial

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5GvU...