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Inspired by @fyeahaudiodrama's do you love the color of the audio drama?, I have finally reorganised the contents of my podcatcher:

#79-ish that I've at least tried an episode of #a couple of these I MISS VERY MUCH #I wish it were easier for second seasons of audio drama to happen

slowlikehoney1996

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

catchaspark

californians, consider calling your state assemblymembers in order to object to the current budget proposal stripping Medi-Cal (our Medicaid) from asylees and refugee applicants except in emergencies. also, they’re agreeing to reduce the asset limit for many Medi-Cal recipients back to $2000. That number means that the maximum amount a Medi-Cal recipient who is aged, blind, or disabled can have in the bank at any time is $2000. That figure is obscenely low, and it’s actually lower by about fifty bucks than the amount they’re allowed to get each month in income.* if enacted this policy change will vastly hurt thousands of seniors and disabled people and i’m not kidding. please speak up if you can.

#ugh

jenny-holzer

#happy June

The epic return of the RPG-slash-board game about flying to the suburbs in a janky trash ship and creating furry, ring-tailed chaos

listen, I don't often give Kickstarter recommendations, but Raccoon Sky Pirates is a delight. this was kinda-technically one of the first TTRPGs I facilitated outside of Monster of the Week and it's brought many hours of stupid silliness to my life. and now you can play it with CHARACTER ART and BOTTLECAPS and a rules upgrade that might actually make it GMless this time, lol.

anyway, you're raccoons doing B&Es on a ship made of trash, what's not to love?

#raccoonstronauts

mynorthernattitude

they should make a sleep that feels like you’ve slept

gnomebutch

there’s no such thing as tmi. let’s overshare together ❤️

pads

tampons

cup

birth control that stops periods

free bleeding

crumpled up toilet paper or whatever else works just shoved up there

gnome

Voting ended onMay 26

#technically it's not birth control it's an endometriosis drug #because estrogren gives me migraines #I haven't had a period in like 8 years it's great #also probably the only reason I didn't actually fall over and die during the pre celiac diagnosis years #when I had a hemoglobin of like 10 #not that this train isn't also for women but boy in retrospect my 'never bleed again quest' could be seen as an early marker #for the pronouns in my bio now #to say nothing of the top surgery

digitaldeathx-deactivated202605

self-awareness check, list five things you like that aren't media pieces in the tags now ‼️

#cold brew #when Onion curls up at the top of my pillow like a living hat #the ocean #waking up at 8 a.m. and realizing I can and will be going back to sleep #making AUs with the mutuals

periwinklish

Ghorse you are everything to me

#I love him #city council of darkness #dimension 20 #ghorse

Do you ever think you are developing an anxiety problem and the go on vacation and get two consecutive nights of sleep and realize you probably need to quit your job or are you lucky?

tam--lin

it's pretty easy to imagine that you are one of some fractional holdout against AI while everyone else has fallen into some misguided love affair with LLMs, and I am so happy to tell you that this is not the case.

the US public is deeply suspicious of AI's impacts on jobs and education. Kamala Harris and the Republican party are both polling better than AI. 8/10 gen zers are concerned about AI's impact on education and only 18% are positive about this technology. there is widespread, bipartisan grassroots organizing against data centers. 97% of Britons are against Grok's "undressing" technology. the majority of Americans are concerned about AI in arenas like self-driving vehicles and healthcare. Even polling data from companies centered on AI shows significant concern around generative technology. OpenAI isn't meeting internal growth bench posts. On top of all that, Musk and Altman are currently both making fools of themselves in a very public trial.

tam--lin

I wrote this to ground myself because within the last month my workplace and gym have become overrun by AI graphics, then I logged out of Tumblr and immediately discovered that my Chemistry professor has switched to transparently AI generated exam feedback

#honesty getting out of the Bay has been such a good cultural reset #the rest of the world is not brain rotted to nearly the extent of stop hiring humans land

prokopetz

Historically, one of the most reliable sources of widespread banditry was rulers ramping up military recruitment for major wars, then cutting their soldiers loose afterwards without pay, leaving a bunch of heavily armed men with military experience floating around broke and homeless.

Knowing this, whenever someone jokingly refers to raccoons as "trash bandits", I get a vivid mental image of, like, a raccoon succession crisis leading to a raccoon civil war, the aftermath of which forced the former soldiers of the losing side (who are all raccoons) to take up the life of the raccoon outlaw.

#premise for a raccoon sky pirates hack if I ever heard one #or: Root the TTRPG I guess

jse-egopocalypse

spell your username without using the letters in your name

mine is ptipi

#thischmig #chmig has a pokemon quality to it i am not mad at

exit-path

so i accidentally went down a wikipedia rabbit hole and came across the funniest thing that's apparently been plaguing scientists for centuries

exit-path

it's called "maxwell's demon" and it's so easy to learn but difficult to disprove. basically a tiny demon controls a trapdoor, letting some particles through, and eventually it changes the temperature of two gases without applying any work. the fact that actual physicists are fighting over this 💀

but most of all imagine the tiny demon that's doing all this. all of this impossible effort and for what. why is he doing this. what does he gain

exit-path

*does a gay little violation of classical thermodynamics that pisses you off*

thischarmingand

Wait, that's what this is referencing?

#Brian Slade I didn't know you had that STEM dog in you #Youtube

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Fuck your dream job what’s your dream hobby that you don’t have the means to take up yet. Mine are falconry and aerial acrobatics

#vegetable gardening and ceramics

lucybellwood

As some of you might recall from this essay, I spent the latter half of 2025 working on a comic for the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum in Savannah, Georgia. Tania Sammons, a curator at the museum who had previously licensed my guide to sailors’ tattoos for a show, wrote to me with an irresistible pitch: four cartoonists would be hired, assigned a vessel from the museum's extensive collection of models, then given six months to produce a short comic for publication in an anthology alongside an accompanying museum display.

How could I say no?

My original brief was to research the Anne, the ship that brought the first colonists to Georgia, but in the aftermath of my dad's death the story took off in directions I couldn't have foreseen.

I'm releasing the whole comic online to coincide with the opening of Drawn to the Sea, the exhibition in Savannah. If you're in the area this week (or anytime over the next nine months!) you can stop in and see all the amazing work that came from myself and fellow artists Avery Hick, Rich King, and Sharon Norwood. Details about the museum show are here.

In the meantime, here's a very personal comic.

Content Warning: this piece deals with suicide and parental mortality. Readers with trypophobia may want to skip pages 14 and 15.