Jesse Mostipak

if you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.

- Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

Two baby T.Rex figures that look like fluffy chicks. They are colored like gingerbread cookies and sit on a blanket of snow with gingerbread trees in the background.

My first Holiday drop is coming this Monday at 1pm MST. I will have four of these little gingerbread T.Rex figures, priced at $145 each. Check out my shop to get a full preview of everything that will be available on Monday!

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awhile back I set a metric for dating men: I would only date men that didn't need me to teach them basic life skills like cooking, budgeting, and personal hygiene.

I remain single, generally happy, and entirely unburdened from raising someone else's son.

Kitten in the Tinsel. Kitsel, if you will.

Santa’s little helper…

I think there's got to be some kind of regional collapse. In the Midwest, any gender, and you're either a DJ or holding up a fish//kneeling next to an animal you shot

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

✨ decaf ✨

We have a whole routine. There's a body pillow across the top of the bed, where two cats sleep. The third sleeps under the covers and stretched out next to me, like a baguette. The dog sleeps at the foot of the bed, away from my sleep kicking.

I don't think another person would fit in my bed.

Bjorn, a black and tan Schipperke, chomping on a stuffie and side-eyeing the camera.

trying to explain to Bjorn that we do not, in fact, go for walkies in sub-zero temperatures.

The Midwest really woke up and decided not to hold back on winter this year

welcome to the wonderful world of cat math!

Every time I wonder if I will ever fall in love, I remember there are people trapped in terrible relationships and at least I am going through this challenging period of my life without a terrible partner or the stress of kids.

A Manticore with the caption "I am not a toy. I am not a pet. I am not a Christmas present. I am a 400 year commitment."

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

Photo of a dilapidated Chuck E. Cheese animatronic rotting outside in the middle of nowhere

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die.

I want to meet the person who decided my phone alarm suddenly needed a second step to set it after years of it being only a single step.

AKIRA (1988, Katsuhiro Otomo)

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

I enjoy books that start with maps.

A detail from a manuscript page showing a crane-like animal with a long neck in between paragraphs. The crane is walking into the text, and his head is like a manicule: read here! (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott.lat.1908), Source: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott.lat.1908

Today, let's celebrate a drawn and illuminated crane that functions as a pointing gesture to a new paragraph (in a fourteenth century manuscript). It looks like he is walking into the text, right? #bookhistory

I'd much prefer it were cookies. or even coffee.

absolutely devastated to learn, yet again, that a challenging workout remains the undefeated attitude adjuster.

the coach from Friday night lights

strong floor, no ceiling, cant win

Photo of a collection of icicles that have formed outside a window that look like a creature or a ghost or a demon idk it’s got a nice ass tho

if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Tell me about it. My bulb shipment got delayed until Tuesday, so I'll be out digging through snow to get about 200 bulbs in before the ground freezes.

It's the climate change! Growing up we'd have snow on Halloween - now we go entire winters without snow 😭

Photo of Bjorn, a black and tan Schipperke, standing in the snow. His head is covered with snowflakes, and his nose is caked with snow from digging around in piles of the stuff.

happy first major snowfall day to all who celebrate!

Wait is Pennywise just a balding Ronald MacDonald?