"vague sense of imminent apocalyptic terror"

From my series Secret doorways of Poland.

Great, now I have to spend the afterlife dodging an endless parade of Founding Fathers demanding to know if I gave up fatty foods or some crap to save the republic.

Update: my Google browser seems to have disabled everything except AI summaries. Shrewd move.

computers are now battlefields

Today, Google's function is to plunder all the works on the internet and chop them up and arrange them in an unimaginably vast, multidimensional array for the explicit purpose of *preventing* audiences from connecting with those works.

At 79, Biden Is Testing the Boundaries of Age and the Presidency (Gift Article) (07/09/2022) f the nyt

I just wanted to share a glorious panel from this week's Dick Tracy. I don't know what's up with the little dude, but that's part of the genius. #comics #dicktracy

Pff. AI could have made this video at a fraction of the cost.

I was never a Narnia guy, and the new trailer reminds me of every single reason why.

Anthropic engineers race to break the world and there's nothing they can do to stop it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's a terrible truth that once fun and curious people get famous and release a book and do nothing but promote that book they aren't as fun to follow.

Watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix and I'm wondering why they even got rights to Shirley Jackson's novel if they were going to do something that was so completely not The Haunting of Hill House.

Iowa District 2, you know what to do.

Just another day in the city.

Just got a rogue Odyssey article in my news feed and for a moment it felt like summer again.

Author: I used AI to write a story about how AI is a threat to writers. Journal: We don't accept AI assisted writing. Author: Ah. Case in point.

Open note to journal editors: In the Table of Contents please label what the thing I'm going to read is. Essay, story, review. Not hard.

While lotta people doing a whole lot of rhetorical gymnastics rather than admit a song they don't really like may in fact be a well-liked song.

America still leads the world where it matters.

Yeah, I'm here for the job interview?

I recently realized the only way to fix my current novel in progress is that I have to read it. The whole thing. I didn't sign up for this. #amwriting

Keep the faith, GenX.

I don't know, it's probably me, but whenever I try to use AI, I end up staring at prompt that says "What do you want to do?" And the answer is usually 'go get a cup of coffee'

Will Kraft give Ed Sheeran 2 million USD? Stay tuned.

Nothing quite as satisfying as a Viking comeback paired with a Packer collapse.

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

As many people have observed, the problem with vaccines is that they work *too* well. The incredible, astounding, profound wonders of vaccines led many people to think of measles as a rash, the flu as a bad cold, mumps as a thing that makes you look like Brando playing Don Corleone.

The proto-Effin’ Birds was my Tumblr “Swear Trek”. It opened a lot of doors for me and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. I don’t have plans to revive it (one daily comic is enough work), just wanted to thank it for getting me here on this 60th anniversary of Star Trek.

Every five years someone tries to get rid of the Mercator projection, a map which I personally haven't seen in twenty years.

Go befuddle yourself with this AI-generated piece on Zuckerberg's superyacht Launchpad. deyachting.net/blog/mark-zu...

Welcome to my podcast Bald Guys with Beards Talking Sports. Today we will be talking about sports.

Today's Popeye at @comicskingdom.bsky.social : comicskingdom.com/popeye/2026-...

Idiot Wind (16th May 1976, Tarrant Convention Center, Fort Worth) "It's a wonder you still know how to breathe." -- Bob Dylan #IdiotWind #Dylan youtu.be/CuX3PwKEkWM?...

Hugh Howey on writing during the end of an era and the dawn of the AI age: hughhowey.com/the-end-of-a...

The question isn't whether she gets money for being fired, it's whether the books are in the library. Are the books in the library? Who knows.

Oh Lordy this week. I had forgotten I had drawn Dolly in Patrick Nagel's style. I've certainly drawn a ton of Frank n furters.

What you've been crying out for: My review of Elmore Leonard's Mr. Majestik. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...