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According to my own statistics, the first snow usually falls in the beginning or middle of October, so it’s a bit late this year. We had our first proper snowfall…

Happy Sunday:) just popping in to let you know I've added Monstrous Existence vol. 3 to the shop this morning. It's a one-page (double-sided) zine about being saddened by the…

Those calls you get when THEY ask YOU to prove who YOU are, when YOU don't know for sure who THEY are. Yeah those. This is a rant about those.

When I woke up on Wednesday morning, I was shocked. I had not expect the US election to end up this way and with such a lead. I’m lucky in…

I struggle to journal or otherwise write privately: I don’t find myself a worthy audience. Source: se acercan tiempos oscuros (el finde) | yours, tiramisu This is what I struggle…

I know, I know; these days, everyone and their five-legged, three-eyed dog is writing a piece about AI. I can’t promise that this one will be more insightful or educational…

Every current and common explanation for the reelection of Donald Trump — whether inflation or immigration, culture wars or campaign tactics, blaming Harris or Biden or the party — elides its true and root…

Here’s a collection featuring one of my all-time favorite subjects … relics, in the way of cabins, shacks, sheds and other remains from a gone by time. To qualify as…

Six Word Saturday

Got off my tushy and started a new comic. I even took a couple work in progress photos, so you could enjoy the mess. It’s been a while since I…

Command-Option-Shift-Escape (or as shown in macOS (arranged differently): ⌥⇧⌘⎋) is a shortcut to force quit the current app, and is the most useless shortcut ever. This shortcut to force quit…

Low-tech people tend to be good at preserving commons. They have to be, because they don’t have a global supply chain to save them if they wreck their environment. And…

I’ve yet to find a bulk dealer in typewriter ribbon that has a significant website with listings of their offerings and options. (Let’s hear it for analog!) Baco Ribbon certainly…

A brief note on using solar and batteries as generic power sources. Over the last few years of work at Terraform Industries, we’ve developed several useful heuristics to understand how…

Trump won, which is depressing beyond words. I just deleted a long thing, Forget it. Here we had a chance. Closet racists and misogynists let Trump do their talking for…

Getting to know the local area better.

Over the summer, I visited Guyana (pronounced Guy-ana), mostly in and around the capital of Georgetown. I had plans to see far more of the country but they didn’t come…

In college, I was a Fiction Writing major. I wouldn't say this was, like, the smartest decision I ever made in life, but I had spent literal years farting around…

Sometimes, when we’re just hanging out having fun, I’ll tell Kim, “I need you to add something to my urn.” Like ‘he sure could make a sub!’ or ‘he was…