One of the weirdest advantages of teaching this Codebreaking class is I'll catch myself having fun and "goofing off" in my office, chastise myself for it, then realize that, no, I'm actually prepping for class. :-D

Weird how they leave out the fact that a single container ship can generate as much pollution in a year as 50 Million cars (or one container ship = 100x all the world's inhalers) or the fact that there are about 1 billion cars in the world (so inhalers = .0005 car pollution).

Having just re-watched Helpless, I'm not even inclined to give Giles a full "withstanding." >.<

Ironically, this is almost exactly what I said about the country when Trump took the debate stage in the 2016 presidential primaries. >.<

Are we seeing the same feedback on this? Because the pushback I'm seeing is less "here's a woman we can judge for the zeitgeist" and more "there is no person here at all."

(And yes, this post could have been a chat message, but I'm still not comfortable giving Bsky's nanny-vendor a copy of my driver's license for the privilege of using chat, so there.)

I don't know what is more surprising: that @rhadden.bsky.social is on Bsky, or that @rhadden.bsky.social found *ME* on Bsky, given my whopping 8 followers. :-D

A few years ago, my wife worked retail with the fully-expected age gap with most of her co-workers. In one conversation with such a co-worker, co-worker confided that her Dad liked classic rock: "Like AC/DC... and The Killers."

No love for the venerable clay tablet?!?! I can't even with these kids... >.<

Holy poop, I wasn't sure how many people realized the turn that comic took but didn't want to call attention to it by asking.

Part of me REALLY wants to write a book about the Aughts webcomic scene, but another part of me is like "I'll have to address this comic, won't I?" I SO don't want to.

No... no, I think you got it right. I've tried to follow this without actually sending traffic his way, but this not only sounds right, it actually fits with more recent comics.

Ready to have your world really rocked?

They're edible.

So basically, one day, somebody was just "Dang...we left these veggies on the vine too long. Shame to throw them away. Has anyone tried exfoliating with them?"

I don't currently follow any influencer accounts, but if you started this I would smash "Like" and "Subscribe" so hard the platform would have to re-program it from the ground up.

(Last one, I swear):

Pascalle Lepas (@lepas.bsky.social). I missed her work in the once-upon-a-time on Zap!, but I've really been enjoying Wilde Life.

www.wildelifecomic.com

Art Class

Double oh! And Sam Logan (@samandfuzzy.com) is hardly new to the block, but the stuff he's been doing over at "Sam and Fuzzy" recently -- messing with the fourth wall, panel borders, panel chronology and causality -- has been a ton of fun!

www.samandfuzzy.com

Fairmeadow Comic An Orcish warrior joins an isolated pacifist commune - can she learn to live alongside those she was sworn to fight?

OH! And KP (@hagofbolding.bsky.social)'s "Fairmeadow" is another recent must-read. (Slow update, due to RL, I understand, but always worth the wait.)

fairmeadowcomic.com

www.howtobeawerewolf.com

I've got a list going back 25 years just of cartoonists, and that's just folks who publish primarily online. (And most of them have already been mentioned on this thread).

More recent to my reading lineup, though, @shawnlenore.bsky.social 's as been a delight!

Ooooh... so like a "pants (which are) hampers" rather than "pants (get contained in these) hampers."

Dang... you're probably right. :-/

Hampers contain things, and these don't contain pants.

"Poop Hampers" seems more likely to me.

So... instead of washing this car, you use this car to wash other cars?

IKR!? I feel like we're in the Alt-timeline and in the main timeline I was supposed to meet you in the PacNW before we both wound up in Maine...

And I typed that as a joke before realizing that I accidentally passed up a job offer in Washington and wound up in Cleveland instead. o.0

Cat, WTaF?!?! How did I not know this?!?!

I'm area code growing up was 205. o.0

Hmmm.... It just occurred to me that Corey Doctorow used to release his novels under CC-NoCommercial-NoDerivative licenses. I'm wondering how (if at all) that might play here. I mean, I imagine it's a pebble-in-an-avalanche situation and won't come up at all, but still...

Jokes on you, Weingart: It's already scheduled! Ha!

We're talking about people who profit from speculation. You can't "buy low, sell high" unless those prices get tanked at some point.

I don't think it's a bug: It's a feature.

Upshot: Looks like I won't be using Bluesky's chat feature. Anybody still have a functioning IRC server?

(Of course, then I wound up getting called more by the name I used online than the name on my driver's license and stuck and now it's how I introduce myself and... look, I'm not saying it worked out perfectly, but seriously. This all just has dystopian vibes.)

Look, I'm old enough to remember when we didn't even use our real names on the internet, nevermind upload our driver's licenses. o.0

I have to do age verification to access Bluesky's *CHAT* feature?

Is there... uhm... "adult content" going on in the chat feature that I should know about?