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An important part of creativity is allowing yourself the opportunity to mark out on a regular basis.

Slowly catching up on all my rewatch/reread podcasts, any underrated ones out there?

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)

I've heard different reasons on why, but if you change the font to Comic Sans when editing it's easier to spot errors.

If I'm stuck while outlining, I'll start a list called "Stupid things that could happen next" and write a bunch of nonsense ideas down. Pterodactyl attack. Everyone starts singing. Someone transforms into a werewolf.

Eventually the ideas become less stupid, and usually I find a solution.

Maybe I'm just not in the right circles, but I feel like Hilda and Kid Cosmic deserve way more credit than they seem to get.

a real vhs cover of the UK edition of TMNT Return of the Technodrome, but in the UK they actually changed the name to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles

There were signs

Godzilla: The Series surprisingly managed to correctly predict the advent of Gen AI in 1998, and had an appropriate lesson at the end of the episode.

IMO, it just has the vibe of a fantasy story over sci-fi (despite the explanations being science based)

Fake quote from me on "Canada Resists"

Fake quote from me on Dean Blundell substack

Fake quote from me in (allegedly) Haitian website

A large number of articles with fake quotes from me have appeared on "Resist"/Dem accounts. I suspect they were written with AI because they are so formulaic. Other "experts" are cited -- all without links. If you see a quote from me without a link to the source, beware. Examples of fakes:

This quickly became one of my favorite podcasts, well worth your time even if you're not into anime.

But I do enjoy his stuff alot. Christie: What about Jim Davis? Watterson: Uh...Garfield is...(long pause)...consistent. Christie: Ooo-kay... Watterson: U.S. Acres I think is an abomination. Christie: Never seen it. Watterson: Lucky you. Jim Davis has his factory in Indiana cranking out this strip about a pig on a farm. I find it an insult to the intelligence, though it's very successful. Christie: Most insults to the intelligence are.

something genuinely hilarious to me about bill Watterson going miyazaki-taking-long-drag-on-cigarette-with-eyes-closed mode about u.s. acres

Dear elderly woman taking vigorous notes while watching Transformers lore videos in the library, never change

Absolutely agree, there's so many interesting mechanics and systems in some of these other TTRPGs.

I also think people don't put enough weight in the Actual Play Podcast Fan > LitRPG Fan pipeline.

Many people in power are not offering an honest assessment of where we are politically in this country because that assessment would call on them to do things they simply refuse to do. That's where we are right now.

Digital pencil illustration on toned paper background of an antique hand-cranked gramophone with a big bell-like speaker out of which is emerging the open-mouthed head of a shark. From way down inside the shark’s gullet is entering a speech balloon as the shark sings the words ‘Maybe it will happen today.’

Younger folks will never understand just how unbelievable Google search was from like 2004-2010. You could unearth so many amazingly detailed and thoughtful expert resources on any topic. The first three pages of results could give you weeks worth of info to comb through and dive deeper into. A joy.

@jordanjessego.bsky.social

Cooking up my next piece

Big upside down tree!

I shouldn’t be - but I continue to be kind of shocked the degree to which some American businesses and their owners are really misreading the current populist moment and the boiling anger and discontent that’s driving it. It’s like watching someone drive their car into a flooded road.

This is part of what makes poetry (and art) such a potent vehicle for liberation in fascist times.

When liberatory open speech becomes illegal, art can be a refuge and shelter that preserves radical truth.

Charcoal drawing of a strange, rubbery skull flying past the viewer.

Somber digital painting of a strange bulky figure, hands vaguely outstretched, head alight. Ruins are visible on the horizon.

Eerie digital painting of a creepy, featureless arachnid.

Ominous charcoal drawing of a cathedral in front of the full moon, at night.

Thank you for hosting!

Hi, I'm Manuel and I make mostly spooky art using charcoal and digital means!

Cuomo's victory was absolutely meant to mark Me Too's grave, and it's the unstated reason the elite is throwing a tantrum about his loss

How to Live Like the World is Ending or: on the planting of trees

this week's post is something I wrote in 2019 but has been offline for awhile, How To Live Like the World Is Ending.

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...

I am saying this as a joke, though this is a type of fencing that I would describe as tiger-style fencing, suitable for saber-type weapons, in particular those that descend from cavalry fencing.

Screenshot from NHL 94

Screenshot from Neo Turf Masters

Screenshot from Sensible World of Soccer

Screenshot from NBA Jam TE

Sports games in the 90s. We had it so good.

hey if a country sells a person to another country for imprisonment and slave labor I don’t think we should call it deportation

Truckers, Tired of Being Exposed to Hazardous Waste, Call on the Feds for Help They say the oil and gas industry is ignoring HAZMAT procedures, endangering them and the communities they drive through.

NEW for @inthesetimes.com: The oil and gas industry has long cut corners on transporting its toxic waste, and truckers—and the towns they drive through—have been paying the price.
A coalition of truckers and environmentalists are trying to change that.

inthesetimes.com/article/oil-...

Going to write the most incomprehensible nonsense when I get back to my keyboard.