Folks if I sell 40+ million books and am still reading and internalizing bad reviews instead of living my best life, please stage an intervention.

Just to help with my scheduling, how many tens of millions have you sold so far? 🙂

"This is an important thing to think about."

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Every single article I read about Madonna at Coachella mentioned that she’s 67. Not one article I read about Nine Inch Nails at Coachella mentioned that Trent’s 60.
ISN’T THAT WEIRD?
It’s almost as if everything Madonna has ever said about misogyny is true, or something. 🤷‍♂️

Ah, you have the Midas touch, but only with words. Midas well not bother! 🙂

In a nutshell. 😊

They don't cancel out.

Coachella is removing these videos, so they might be about to learn about the Strokesand Effect.

Art is 'product', it would seem. Something that the proles will inexplicably buy to stimulate their emotional responses or something.

People of the Book: Sonnets in the Christian Mythos. By Jason Mills.

Some of my best work. 🙂

People of the Book: Sonnets in the Christian Mythos

What does the serpent have to say about all this? How does Lazarus feel about being raised from the dead? Let's hear from Job's wife and the worm in Jonah's gourd!

mybook.to/peopleoftheb...

It's precious little consolation to the dead, the sick, the impoverished, that one asshole will in fact be remembered as an asshole.

These prayers don't seem to be achieving much. How would the situation be different if no one was hearing the prayers?

Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

Shark sketches

Non serious sharks

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026:

Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

"Dragon-shaped" seems to mean wiggly. 😃

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

#oopsie
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Why do the bars have no connection to the percentages?

Some of my doctor bills are out of network and don't count against our deductible. Which is just insane. I was unconscious and could not consent to care 'out of network'.
Upshot, it would be nice if I could get some book sales. Anything would help.
And it would make me feel better.
😁
Link below 👇

Sometimes I forget how to write and think I have to know what to write or how to do it before I start and so I don't start until I just can't take it anymore and start anyway thinking I don't know how to do this and then I write and I like it and it works and I remember that that is how it works

Comic. I’m at my desk, leaning over to the doorway, saying “Hey! Foghorn! Foghorn Leghorn! Get in here!” Foghorn Leghorn is walking past the doorway, “Boy, I tell ya, I tell ya, not so loud, boy. What, I say, I say, what d’ya want?” Next panel, I’m gesturing to my computer. “How do I find that really good manga you recommended? It’s an anime now? I keep getting Halloween costumes.” Foghorn leans over my chair, “well, boy, I say, I say, you ain’t typin the entire title.” Last panel, I turn around- “you said ‘witch hat.’ Foghorn gets in my face- “open your ears, boy!! ‘Witch Hat Atelier, I tell ya! I tell ya ‘Atelier,’ I tell ya’”

How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)

How Christians
Justify Evil.

The Pillar of Popularity 19th April 2026 YouTube video by Bert's Books

Hey, you wanna update to the Pillar of Popularity? Then look no further!

(Well, actually look a little bit further to our YouTube channel, and hey why not subscribe while you’re there?)

youtube.com/shorts/lTKxq...

People of the Book: Sonnets in the Christian Mythos. By Jason Mills.

Some of my best work. 🙂

People of the Book: Sonnets in the Christian Mythos

What does the serpent have to say about all this? How does Lazarus feel about being raised from the dead? Let's hear from Job's wife and the worm in Jonah's gourd!

mybook.to/peopleoftheb...

It might help them a little more if you named the store and linked the website. 🙂

Rockwell Painting man standing up

“My eyeline implies that the stage where the people I’m looking at is, like, 30 feet high.”

Concrete suggestions like that, for specific parties to take specific actions, are useful. My quibble was with Sam's nebulous call. Every well-meaning person in the country could 'take it seriously' without it resulting in any action at all.

L: A young W B Yeats wearing pince nez and a large bow tie. R: A middle-aged Aleister Crowley wearing a large (possibly homburg) black hat and the ‘I’m mad, me’ expression that he always put on for photos

Ah! 19 April – 126th anniversary of the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley downstairs as they fought for control of the British branch of the not-at-all-ridiculous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Battle of Blythe Road. According to legend, anyway... 🧵