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Art and musings, and generally making it up as I go along. 40s | he/him | INTJ-T (The Architect)

[santapau]

Master post, June 2026

I'm Juan Santapau (he/him), and I make THE SECRET KNOTS, which is a series of short stories in comic form. I live in Chile. Hola.

If you've been on Tumblr for some time maybe you've seen some of these comics: the one about a city of secret names; the one with a misunderstood cryptid; the one about enshittification. 

The full web archive is here: The Secret Knots.

If you'd like to support me with a few dollars every month (which helps me enormously to pay bills and keep making art), you can subscribe to my Patreon, where I post updates about every comic in progress and different extras. You can also follow for free and get notifications for new things.

Here’s the Newsletter, where I send reminders about new stories, and miscellaneous art.

I’m on Bsky and Reddit.

Here’s the PDF store, with some E-comics. Finally, here’s an invitation to the Secret Knots Discord, a community server that always brings nice recommendations, and regular sightings of the weird in the world. Feel free to drop by and say hello.

[maxsindiecomics]

Sidekicks: Super Fun Summer Special #1 (July, 2003)

writer: Joseph Torres (aka J. Torres) | penciller(s): Mike Wieringo & Mike Norton | inker(s): Jason Bone & Mike Norton | letterer: Bryan Lee O'Malley | editor: James Lucas Jones | publishing company: Oni Press

[designforliving]

They Live (1988) dir. John Carpenter

[haunted-666-soul]

Hedi Lemar

[thefox1982]

Now that The Boys is over, can someone please let Karl Urban make a Dredd series?

[higgsbison]

happy glorious 25th of may

[brucesterling]

[cosmonautroger]

[snowbairdd]

We each need to find our own inspiration, Kiki. Sometimes it's not easy.

KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[technofeudalism]

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.”  Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet). 

Link to the Guide at Project Gutenberg can be found here

A Wikisource entry can be found here.

Mirrors can be found here, here, here, here and here.

[breelandwalker]

Gosh it would be a shame if this got even MORE visibility.

Whoops my cursor slipped.

[thefox1982]

Is Bronwen Price AI? Legitimate question. Just finished Gibson's Patten Recognition read by Shelly Frasier and was very comfortable. For whatever reason the rest of that series is not available, and the blue ant editions that cone up when searched for are the Bronwen Price editions. Starting Spook Country and its already fucking horrible; the cadence and pronunciation is off and feels artificial. Apologies to her if she isa real person, but she's no Shelly Frasier, I can say that with confidence.

[thefox1982]

Fuck me sideways! If she's a professional voice actor she's fucking awful; what fucking direction was she given? I'm going to need to find my paperback copy of this book because I don't think I'm going to be able to make it through this audio book with that fucking voice.

[thefox1982]

Is Bronwen Price AI? Legitimate question. Just finished Gibson's Patten Recognition read by Shelly Frasier and was very comfortable. For whatever reason the rest of that series is not available, and the blue ant editions that cone up when searched for are the Bronwen Price editions. Starting Spook Country and its already fucking horrible; the cadence and pronunciation is off and feels artificial. Apologies to her if she isa real person, but she's no Shelly Frasier, I can say that with confidence.

[cosmonautroger]

[thefox1982]

Questionable opinion. I won't call it an unpopular opinion or a controversial opinion, because you might or might not share my point of view. I was just watching the opinion of The Cannonball Run 1981 and was reminded that Dom DeLuise is in it. I believe that every movie I have seen that starred Dom DeLuise would have been demonstrably better if it had not starred Dom DeLuise. Is the joke that he is talentless and unfunny? Is he the James Corden of the 70s and 80s? Just every scene I see him in is tiresome and borders on the unpleasant.

[gcballet]

Discworld Textposts III

[<-] Discworld [->]

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[synthbiosis]

Sorry but Walton Goggins confidently asserting that there are no horses in Fallout because if there were the Ghoul would simply NOT be walking will never not be funny. He's right. If they existed that man would have that two-headed horse-adjacent monstrosity trained to do fuckin rodeo tricks.

[sfaira]

Listen. Listen. He's between horses right now. He lost his last one somewhere in 2289 and simply has to find a new one. I will keep counting on it.

[thefox1982]

There's always a yao guai; they're ornery and stubborn, but so's the ghoul.

[mrpinchy]

Disable AI In Firefox

Quick reference for how to turn off AI features in Firefox

Firefox updated recently, don't forget to open config and turn off the AI shit the update turned back on