Depression.
From my own experience, even though i know the shitty thoughts in my mind are lies, they're comforting. It's a false sense of security to look at life through a singular lense of despair because at times having hope is painful.
Living in the fear that every piece of literature and art will be “remastered” by AI and presented as definitive while the original unaltered versions are memory holed and erased.
Yes, and I will keep saying it like that because pronouncing it correctly sounds like a hate crime.
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Paul Giamatti as Nis Braka in Statfleet Academy
Wait. Could I cosplay as Nus Braka? If I had the prosthetics and the wardrobe and. Oh right, I don’t any of that. Just the salt and pepper facial hair and resting bitch face. Maybe I could just go around criticizing the Federation and manipulating people.
Has anyone drawn Aquaman with a shirt that reads:
MEN FEAR ME
FISH WANT TO BE ME
If not, why?
I think it would be fun to have a piebald pup hood with one floppy ear and one erect and name myself Scruffles.
Totally did the cliche put the garbage outside the hotel room and let the door close behind me routine. Thankfully, I‘m in gym clothes and not my underwear.
Almost 6 months since last beard shave or trim (8/18/25)
Also, hotel lighting, blah blah blah.
I’m in California on business but can’t really take advantage because there is a lot of business to do and it’s all inconveniently scheduled. Time off is only happening with last minute notice (like today) and all I want to do is nap.
However, the money will be worth it.
Rewatching She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and my love of my AuDHD queen, Entrapta, has been thoroughly renewed.
If you want Girl Scout cookies, consider buying from one of the trans and nonbinary scouts on this list: www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans...
There is a bunch of unclaimed yarn and notions laying around the office from a learn to crotchet event and I’m resisting the urge to turn into a crow and collect all the bits of string and shiny things for my own.
It feels like it’s now a prequel to The Expanse. I’m cautious but hopeful.
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Maybe this is a galaxy brain take but could the name Rost in Horizon Zero Dawn be a bastardization of Aristotle?
There is an audio note at one point that one of the Lyceum guides for the children was called Aristotle. Is there an intentional parallel there?
Well, I do like a dark beer.
Either I have a thick neck or off the rack button up shirts aren’t really meant to be buttoned up all the way.
They’ll all try to weasel around it with statements like “we still love you, it’s just not in the budget” and “the legal landscape was uncertain and obeying the law is important”. None of them are going to be honest and say “there wasn’t enough profit in it and we had fascists to toady up to.”
Clair Sombre: Day Trip 33
It’s a squirrels running around in my head day. Not good for productivity.
Also the year I gave up on my hair and started buzzing it, apparently.
A middle aged asshole with a salt and pepper beard
A 40 something asshole with a very long beard
Asshole with a medium length beard
Asshole with no beard
Today me vs 2016 me in the year I would not pick a lane with the beard length.
My goodness. What a cutie and he’s one of ours apparently!
I’ve only used it this way myself but find it fascinating that it originally meant the opposite.
Pride Nation (or similar, I’ve forgotten the actual title) - A superhero saga where the queer community spontaneously gains powers and is (further) persecuted. Notable to me for the story of a teen who could fly while wearing sneakers and dies when he loses a shoe while trying to escape bigots.
This morning’s random thought: Webcomics lost to time.
Anders Loves Maria - Most of it is lost and probably never to be recovered but what has been restored is here: anderslovesmaria.com
At best I’m skating on thin ice by that metric.
