Monica

Portlanders beware, the Zine Symposium is extra good this year. So many beautiful illustrated stories, daily art challenges, lists, recipes, and on. Vibes are also immaculate. Smith Ballroom, PSU, today and tomorrow!

It’s fig season and I just ran down the mail carrier with a takeout tray full of fruit, in case you want to know how the “smaller” first harvest crop is going.

Now, most people are like “Sure! I’ll eat a fig!” to be polite, and that just doesn’t work for me. It’s a reverse tax, motherfuckers. There’s a minimum quota! Come a month from now when the “main” harvest ripens, I’m showing up to your house with a pallet jack.

It’s fig season and I just ran down the mail carrier with a takeout tray full of fruit, in case you want to know how the “smaller” first harvest crop is going.

Pix Patisserie has done up this bake-off in STYLE. Lots of indoor and outdoor seating, snacks, drinks, big screens. Portland, again, reigns supreme in the food scene.

Proposing an art trade with my niece was a brilliant move to get me more practice (and more Niece Art). This is our second round of 👍 so I hope I can convince her to try another pose next time. Now to possibly RUIN EVERYTHING by adding an ink wash. It’s getting mailed either way!

That feeling of frustration when you can’t make your pretty ribbon form a pretty bow, so you just tie a tie. But then you discover that the bottle actually looks amazing wearing a tie.

A quick lunchtime entry (hah! I FINISHED IT) about Himalayan blackberries. The siege is eternal here in the Pacific Northwest. #makeaterriblecomic #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026

I’ve been buried in work and haven’t had time to post artwork and projects like I’d prefer, so I’m afraid today you get some thoughts about AI instead. There are countless excellent reasons to hate genAI. My overpowering reason: it’s always offered in bad faith, and I despise bad faith.

These very smart people are ignoring the fundamental rule of Fuck That Guy: if That Guy builds the temple, then whether there’s treasure or not*, there’s no treasure worth having. * and this “whether” clause is giving them more dignity than they deserve, honestly

I’ve been buried in work and haven’t had time to post artwork and projects like I’d prefer, so I’m afraid today you get some thoughts about AI instead. There are countless excellent reasons to hate genAI. My overpowering reason: it’s always offered in bad faith, and I despise bad faith.

There are so many great minds in tech who are ducking and weaving through the AI cognitohazards like Indiana Jones in a cursed temple, trying to find the powerful relic at the center. The relic will make the whole death trap worthwhile. Now imagine the temple was built by shitheads, not sorcerers.

I’ve been buried in work and haven’t had time to post artwork and projects like I’d prefer, so I’m afraid today you get some thoughts about AI instead. There are countless excellent reasons to hate genAI. My overpowering reason: it’s always offered in bad faith, and I despise bad faith.

We know this already; we have sunk it deep into the cultural hindbrain. We watch how someone treats their mother, or service workers, or small animals. I am here to tell you, it doesn’t matter if that “someone” has a Tinder profile or eighteen Senior VPs. That same protective instinct can apply.

I’ve been buried in work and haven’t had time to post artwork and projects like I’d prefer, so I’m afraid today you get some thoughts about AI instead. There are countless excellent reasons to hate genAI. My overpowering reason: it’s always offered in bad faith, and I despise bad faith.

When you engage Fuck That Guy, you wouldn’t buy a house from them, you wouldn’t take a job from them, you wouldn’t ask them to water your plants, you wouldn’t even accept an unopened drink with a tamper-proof seal. Why? Because Fuck That Guy. That’s all you need.

I’ve been buried in work and haven’t had time to post artwork and projects like I’d prefer, so I’m afraid today you get some thoughts about AI instead. There are countless excellent reasons to hate genAI. My overpowering reason: it’s always offered in bad faith, and I despise bad faith.

So, we have companies willing to steal all the world’s work from artists, writers, everyone, and sell it back to us; they induce psychosis in vulnerable people with barely a shrug; they call it “hallucination” when predictive text prints things that are not true, and blame you for uncareful prompts.

I’ve been buried in work and haven’t had time to post artwork and projects like I’d prefer, so I’m afraid today you get some thoughts about AI instead. There are countless excellent reasons to hate genAI. My overpowering reason: it’s always offered in bad faith, and I despise bad faith.

You don’t need to keep all the facts lined up like soldiers in your short term memory, ready to fight at a moment’s notice. All you have to know is these people are shitheads who take pride in their money, not in their work. They will hurt you if you let them, because they don’t care enough not to.

I’ve been buried in work and haven’t had time to post artwork and projects like I’d prefer, so I’m afraid today you get some thoughts about AI instead. There are countless excellent reasons to hate genAI. My overpowering reason: it’s always offered in bad faith, and I despise bad faith.

This is true, though in this scenario, we stop that number from growing. We have to prevent them from doing what torturers have done for decades: take their festering sickness with them to police, prison, and “private security” jobs where their victims are even less visible.

It was “baby’s first tear gas” for so many of us, including some literal babies. This crowd looked exactly like the No Kings march, so as you can expect, we saw the gas approaching and thought it was just smoke from the flash bangs until it started burning.