Ferdi Z's primary Tumblr

Because Tumblr sez you have to have 1 (one) primary Tumblr blog,and that primary Tumblr blog has to be public. I often use Tumblr's queue to reblog. This blog also has an about page...

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My latest New Scientist cartoon

[ferdifz]

War is Over (*for Legal Purposes)

So I heard that Trump has declared the Iran War is over*...

___ * For the purposes of complying with the War Powers Resolution of 1973, where a president must get congressional authorization within 60 days of starting military action. Friday (May 1st) was the 60-day mark for Operation Epic Fury, which began on February 28, 2026.

[dmcfadzean]

[ferdifz]

There are many possible ways to interpret this cartoon. One way is as a metaphor for willingly and completely uncritically letting yourself become dependent on LLM AI controlled by antisocial cryptofacist techbros.

[weepingwidar]

Gary Bunt (British, 1957-2025) - The Storm (n.d.)

[nevver]

Ultramedium, Lee Stewart

[ferdifz]

Fair disclosure: meme pics stolen from The Internet. Based on the teachings of The Christian Bible, which is in the Public Domain.

[ferdifz]

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Also the punishment will continue until morale improves.

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A bunch of cliches. Yes of course.

[ferdifz]

Banjir Jakarta Januari 2026

Ya gitu deh, hehe...

Update: sorenya udah mulai surut lagi sih (atas upaya heroik segenap unsur RT-RW dan instansi pemerintah setempat, dengan pompa dan seterusnya), dan sekitar pk00.00 aspal jalanan mulai terlihat kembali.

[ferdifz]

"The Gun Nuts joined ICE"

Cartoon by Nick Anderson [@andertoon.bsky.social, nickanderson.substack.com]

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[ferdifz]

To rattle on the cages of your mind prison.

To rattle on the cages of your mind prison.

Frustrated by the bars which are your limited life experiences and your fatigue at having to learn yet another new thing, after what feels like you've learned and forgotten at least ten million things.

To yearn so badly for rest. For sleep.

…Anyways I think this can make for an interesting drawing or think-piece, maybe?

[ferdifz]

a spontaneous sketch/study of a face in the rain (Nov 25, 2025)

[incidentalcomics]

Happy Failoween!

Some notes on embracing failure, including my biggest creative and professional failures:

Failoween

A Celebration of Failure

[ferdifz]

Katy Perry (allegedly) Fucks Trudeau

I DON'T CARE that this is gossipy and speculative. I will even fully admit that this quite possible might turn out to be completely false.

Regardless of all that, I want to save this joke for posterity. It's a funny one and I chuckled.

[ferdifz]

*ping*

Edit a few weeks later: Nobody pinged back. And I do mean nobody.

[jamesusilljournal]

Illustration from ‘Zen and the Art of the Macintosh - Discoveries on the Path to Computer Enlightenment’, Michael Green, 1988

[70sscifiart]

Happy Computer Plant Life monday everybody

[ferdifz]

I want to talk about "Derangement Syndromes"

(this is a mostly spontaneous draft text, essentially completely unconsidered and with very little thought, that I decided to publish on the Internet anyway.) (I reserve the right to evolve this text in the future at my convenience.) (And/or to not to.)

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I want to write about "derangement syndromes".

Not just Trump Derangement Syndrome. Not just Elon Derangement Syndrome.

I also want to write about Zohran Derangement Syndrome. Also Gavin Newsom Derangement Syndrome.

Bernie Sanders Derangement Syndrome. Alesia Ocasio Cortez-- I mean, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Derangement Syndrome.

Joe Biden Derangement Syndrome. Barack Obama Derangement Syndrome. Kamala Harris Derangement Syndrome.

IDF Derangement Syndrome. Hamas Derangement Syndrome. Putin Derangement Syndrome. Zelenskyy Derangement Syndrome.

Taiwan Derangement Syndrome. Mainland China Derangement Syndrome.

Jokowi Derangement Syndrome. Prabowo Derangement Syndrome. Megawati Derangement Syndrome. Rocky Gerung Derangement Syndrome. SBY Derangement Syndrome. Soeharto Derangement Syndrome. Soekarno Derangement Syndrome. Aidit Derangement Syndrome.

All these derangement syndromes. All driving us to hate beyond hate, to feel righteous anger to the point of murderous imaginations.

Humanity. Why are we so deranged?