The Bard's Lair

Advertising myself always comes with a huge dose of guilt. Join my Patreon, commission me, buy my little trinkets - I try not to add to the noise but how else am I suppose to live

Permit me my gripe for the day but the worsening ad bloat resulting in user apathy definitely contributes to the lessened feasibility of being a self employed creative. Patreon is in this list, for crying out loud.

Chuck Dixon created Bane. I don't bring this up to argue that creating that character somehow negates his current behavior, but to talk about a problem very prevalent in comics. And that is bigoted people making bank off the very marginalized groups they later demonize and discredit.

Every time I read something about the U.S., stuff gets bleaker and bleaker. It's really sad to think that so many countries (including the one I'm from) looked up to it and thought that we all should be like it. Kinda awful to know that there are still people that aspire to that...

Simon Belmont: "ah dang, I have low health, what will i do?!"

The ever so useful wall chicken:

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

Just because it doesn't carry his name, doesn't mean that Trump didn't win the Nobel Prize; this is a triumph for him and the right-wing extremists of Latin America who idolize him, and I find it appalling how many people are celebrating this as a "win for democracy"

Washington presses regional governments to secure Maduro’s ouster in Venezuela The Venezuelan crisis has exposed all bourgeois nationalist governments of the Latin American pink tide and their pseudo-left apologists as instruments of US imperialism.

María Corina Machado is a far-right leader connected to fascist-paramilitaries. Machado supports the privatization of state-run entities in Venezuela, including oil company PDVSA, which would cause mass poverty. She fucking sucks shit and does not deserve "peace" remotely associated with her name.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

But really, the behavior was their attempt at desperately clinging to things that made the world make sense to them.

This is not inherent cognitive rigidity. It's an attempt at making sense out of what feels nonsensical.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

As someone very into the technical side I can get into it.

Bluesky the social network was never supposed to be the product. This was a prototype/proof of concept for the underlying tech (atproto). It blew up past their intentions and so they've been trying to stick the landing since.

It may seem a bit extra (since it's a fountain pen) but if you're used to nibs, I've gotten great results drawing sketches w/ a Pilot Kaküno. It's wet enough to feel smooth but dry enough for the ink to not fuck up the paper + they're quite durable. Best of all: It has a smiley face on the nib :)

Why invisible autism is hurting so many of us.

A timeline.

We do things. We experience consequences for those things. We mask...

Absolute loser shit.

The world has no need to give any time or energy to 'Israeli art' or whatever the fuck.

Boycott it all.

THE WOLF OF HERZLIYA DiCaprio-linked luxury hotel at Herzliya Marina gets building approval Hollywood actor and producer would own 10% of the environmentally friendly, 14-floor, 365-room hotel project first announced in 2018 By ZEV STUB v 31 Jul 2025, 1:09 pm FOLLOW

And before you go see this new DiCaprio movie, remember he's building a luxury hotel in Israel right now

Yesterday I talked about how long-term unsupported autism can lead to self-implosion after years of an autistic person's needs not being met, and I just realized something...

This explains why s**cide rates are so high for autistic people. 😞💔

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown:

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Them: You don't look autistic

Me: You don't see it because my autism mostly affects me. I've spent most of my life painstakingly minimizing the impact it has on others... so now it has no effect on you at all, but my life is indescribably more difficult and exhausting

My "high functioning autism" is basically everyone else seeing me as completely normal but maybe just a bit picky/particular... while internally it's me in constant sensory overload, social overload, and fighting against my executive dysfunction to just do stuff...

Anyone else?

Hey friends, lots of comicsgate / anti-trans / general bad actor types joining bluesky over the past 24 hours, seemingly to harass anyone supporting gretchen felker-martin.

keep an eye on your new follows and block on sight

Weird how this is always go to Jupiter or live in the center of the earth but not “everyone has a good union job and healthcare”, like that’s the thing that is believing in unicorns

Welcome to the fear everyone else lives with thanks to the hostile and violent environment that Conservatives have created. It’s not very nice, is it?

Horror ‘It Girl’ Gretchen Felker Martin on DC pulling Red Hood after Charlie Kirk comments: ‘I had no regrets’ - The Comics Journal As if you've never gotten in trouble at work? Gretchen Felker-Martin dishes on the abrupt cancellation of her new DC series, Red Hood.

New at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: Gretchen Felker-Martin speaks out about DC Comics cancelling Red Hood, and her comments on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "I had no regrets."

www.tcj.com/horror-it-gi...

Shameful to see a creator fired off a book and the whole series immediately cancelled on the same day because she was glib about the murder of someone who famously said that people like her should be stoned to death.

Visa and Mastercard reportedly coming for FAIRIES and CAT EARS

Get on the phone and ask them wtf is up because this even made me double take
bsky.app/profile/dark...

Anyways, I have nothing more to say other than go listen to this album because (as the kids say) it fucking slaps!

I'm not gonna get into specifics bc I don't have much worth saying, but the thing I must agree on is: Yes, Hayley's vocal delivery in Parachute will fuck you up. In my opinion, the raw emotion from the second verse felt extremely close to what you'd see in early Paramore, like in I Caught Myself