Inside Outrance

An abstract painting

Accidentally lost this painting in Denver a few years ago. I was carrying too much stuff on the walk over to a friend's house to finish it, sat down on a bench, and walked away with everything but the painting. It was gone when I came back 25 minutes later. Oh well

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An abstract painting of blues greens and purples on an upcycled wood from a drawer with a dovetail cut on two sides

Finished most of this while attending my very first sci-fi/fantasy convention over the last few days. Excellent panels, including one with Cory Doctorow and two library directors on the future of libraries, made some new friends, and had an amazing time hanging out with cool people.

One Battle After Another: Everyone Weighs In. A roundtable discussion about Paul Thomas Anderson's sensational tenth feature film

First time I've ever participated in one of these. Discussion groups are fun and it's nice having smart friends.

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One Back Tickle After Another adapting Vineland and interactive movie experiences.

Wrote this for a roundtable a friend is doing, will post the details for it soon. open.substack.com/pub/informat...

Picture of Melania Trump in a hat captioned: She's awful, or whatever, but this really is the ideal way to wear wide brim hats. You want to be able to pull up your bandana and be completely unrecognizable in order to rob trains with impunity.

Sharing from a different platform, but I'm pretty proud of this joke

got a bad case of book too big

Too many scars to risk getting scurvy

Two mugshots of men with gold spray paint around nose and mouth

average MAGA response

Love means never having to use this idiom

One of these had snuck into our house recently in the southern US. Pretty sure we got it before it bit any of us while we were sleeping, but I did not sleep well for awhile.

The series finale of Walker, Texas Ranger should've been more like that of The Sopranos

You are cursed to either have smart people think you're dumb and hate you or dumb people think you're smart and hate you, which do you choose?

This child in front of me at the grocery store had a pink sweatshirt with the words "MAKE HEAVEN CROWDED" embroidered in primary colors on the back, which gives heavy "kill em all" energy

Buy a new phone every year until you die.
The rent will go up every year until you die.
A meal costs more every year until you die.
The weather gets worse every year until you die.

just wrote a new ad campaign: VATCH DE TEENNIS CHEANNEL

It's worth the read if you enjoy political sci-fi and the premise is similar to your post!

Have you read Infomocracy by Malka Older?

It probably says more about me than about James Dobson, but my first thought upon hearing about his death is that somewhere in hell a demon just got an erection

They only accepted 65% of the murders they were offered.

Epstein and the Theory of Gravity on pedophiles and power

I'm not an expert on political messaging, but I am visiting DC so I felt like I should give it a try. If pedocon theory is a theory like gravity, Epstein and Trump are a black hole. informationalexistence.substack.com/p/epstein-an...

Not just you.

Why would you give a mouse a cookie when you know how much they like cheese?

I think Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the best meditations on this. Also just a great book all around

Got a photo op of some soldiers kneeling while putting out the red carpet

I could see maybe comparing them on a specific issue (trans rights), but as far as sweeping generalized comparisons, not really

The thing is if you stare at yourself long enough you become the abyss quit screaming at me

Unripened Onyx Candy peppers. Apparently the Puma peppers will turn this color when they ripen

Not positive, but I think you can tell how gentrified a place is by how likely you are to see a unicycle there.