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Thinking about Half-Life.......

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Oh and I want to fight all the Gen Z kids who are like ‘teehee, we’ll just do lavender marriages instead!’ Some of us are adults who want equal rights and protections under the law of our land.

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Man, they don't let you have any fun.

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The thing is Robert Jordan looked at the high fantasy genre and saw it was full of healers who are soft spoken, demure, and passive, then said "None of you have ever met a med student"

And wrote Nynaeve al'Meara.

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Can I Please Eat In The Computer Room Tonight? by Nicole Nikolich (2025)

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A friend that stays until the end (and beyond) A small comic related to Heather's world

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A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Prints & PDF

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Okami Amaterasu inspired by Mucha's style

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I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.

So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.

Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.

This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.

Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.

And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.

Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.

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I'll be doing 5 slots at a time 😎

If you're interested, please let me know via my inbox

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Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

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300 year old leather star map by the Skidi, one of the four bands of the Pawnee tribe. The Skidi Pawnee historically lived on the Central Plains of Nebraska and Kansas.

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I feel like at this point Engineer could recite the entire plot of the My Little pony series because of it being a niche interest to Pyro and he wanted to learn about it so he can understand what bud is talking about

His probably favorite character is Applejack because how much she cares about her friends and family and her job

You're goddamn right

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the weed dispensaries should ask if you would like to round up your purchase to donate to PBS. and if you say yes you get to scan a QR code that gives you 30-day free access to the full run of antiques roadshow. this is how drugs can win the war on drugs again.

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Gold Dust Woman Buries the Digger's Hearts

Megan (Guná) Jensen

from the website: Emerging from the shimmer and shadow of ancestral memory and intergenerational pain, Gold Dust Woman conjures a reckoning. She is not a symbol of vengeance, but a force of karmic return—an ancient and irresistible embodiment of what happens when the land, the women, and the spirits remember.

This painting brings together the madness of the Klondike Gold Rush and the deeper violences buried beneath its golden shine—particularly those inflicted upon Indigenous women. In this piece, she buries the hearts of the diggers—those who came to extract, consume, and abandon. She does not collect their heads. She takes their hearts. This gesture is not just punishment; it is relational surgery. It is the removal of that which was twisted by greed, entitlement, and desecration. These buried hearts—identical in shape, but situated differently—become echoes, testimonies, and warnings. The act is ceremonial. To mourn Indigenous women’s bodies, made into sites of conquest, transaction, and silence. This work arose from deep research and dreamwork. In one of many shared reflections, it was discovered that many women in the brothels of the Yukon ended their own lives in the aftermath of colonial rupture. Yet these brothels, paradoxically, had also offered some a fragile form of safety. These contradictions live in the layers of this painting.

Gold Dust Woman does not look away from the trail of damage. She is both the elegy and the reckoning. The land around her hums with the memory of stolen gold, poisoned rivers, and vanished kin. Gold Dust Woman rises from that trauma not as victim, but as an elemental power. Creating this painting was prayer. Ritual was held ever day when creating this work, where sacred medicine and smoke filled the room. In that way, the painting itself is ceremony—it holds rage, grief, and love.

To stand in front of this work is to be asked:

What has been buried here, and by whom?

What must be unearthed to truly heal?

And what happens when the Earth’s daughters reclaim their own mythology?

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Hey, we've got another public comment period with a rapidly approaching deadline here in the United States! Short version is that the Department of Agriculture, which manages the U.S. Forest Service, has severely curtailed its obligation to public outreach and comment on its activities, to include timber sales and environmental impact reports. The foundation of a democracy is in the power of the voices of the people, and this decision circumvents our ability to give feedback on Forest Service decisions.

That means that it will be easier for the Forest Service to clearcut old-growth forests regardless of the ecological impact, and make it easier for profiteers to exploit the natural resources of these publicly owned lands. This decision was made to benefit the few, not the many, and it's blatantly obvious.

The deadline to make a public comment on this disastrous decision is August 4. Please get the word out!