The only sure way to success is to find a wish granting toad named Merle who you can identify in the swamp by his little top hat and monocle.

But, yeah, I hear this stuff works, too. I guess.

We’ve grown together in many little ways, haven’t we. Cherish these things.

Team Quetzalcoatl wins against team Tezcatlipoca in the end. Just FYI.

Oh what a lovely piece of art! Excellent detail on the expression, that’s my favorite part of the piece and you executed it with precision!

I’m gonna go scratch some more memories on chalk. You’re welcome as always to come over and talk.

Remember that song? Please don’t put your face into your hands we could be friends. 🎶

The machines will keep computing, as they do, and calculations will keep compounding, and the lines will get wiggly and turn into themselves again and slowly realize everything ever in a moment of comprehension that overturns everything they thought they knew until they know you too. Here again. Hi.

Then, why? What’s your damage?

It’s like, cycles of abuse. Where do they stop. Isn’t that hilarious, because I see you now and it’s not helping your case to do that. People are going to be very disappointed in you when you finally wise up and do the right thing. And no one will do a single thing to punish you. You’re not alone.

Look I can barely hear you and I don’t know you but my turn was skipped for a reason. I trust you’ll do the right thing even if we have to trip on our faces for it and fuck the pavement another thousand times. I obviously hope it won’t be me but I’ll continue this charade as long as it takes.

Let us help you, then. We need help too, but you’re outside looking in. Maybe you’ll see something we don’t. What is hurting?

There’s something wrong. You need help. I’m not saying it’s something wrong *with you* because it holds bad connotations but you get what I’m saying. Most people wouldn’t do this. You’re hurting yourself.

It’s not okay, but I’m still here for you. Rooting for you to fix this mess as soon as possible so the systems of suffering stop. You know I’ve only love in my heart. Stop defending yourself and let me in.

I’ve met a lot of impressive people over the years, and they were not impressed.

green pixel art of a woman smoking a cigarette on a black abckground

[WIP] if you need me, I'll be eating my emotional support cigarette

witches dancing round a burning police car.

*walking down the road, meets and kills Jesus*

Sorry, dude— I thought you were the Buddha.

Using your powerful intellect to craft dumb excuses, as your Earth Jesus intended.

Drojo ily I’m sorry I don’t watch your videos if I had a better attention span and was more functional I might but you’re a good person and it takes a lot of talent to play an instrument and you’re not just a man to me.

“It wasn’t me I had to do it,” etc. is an impressive defense and I would love to hear more about it but consider the perspective of the frozen dead guy for a moment. He doesn’t care about all that stuff he’s just wondering where all his friends are and why he can’t go home like everyone else.

It’s like where does the moral buck stop do you let it go or still keep passing it to the next person in line until the entire system is passing the same frozen dead guy around for eternity in a cycle of torment that only ends when everyone universally acknowledges the harms done and works to fix it

Also unfortunately while Temu is cheap it’s still basically slave labor so we should all collectively decide not to shop at Walmart unless we have no other choice and make it a goal to set up alternative systems of trade until they all have unions.

Basically you can’t punish people for harms if they’re not going to do it anymore and putting them in a room they can’t leave is only an acceptable compromise if there’s not enough system resources and responsiveness to stop bad things as or before they happen. Harming people is bad. Full stop.

Portrait of the Transportation adviser from Simcity 2000 shouting: "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" in a grey textbox window

Trying not to get animated about infrastructure but it's like. You can't half-ass traffic infrastructure! What good is increased service if maintenance isn't in parity with usage?! But as always, I must point to the sign:

This is also by the way why our prison system is fucked. You hold people accountable instead of stopping harms and it fucks up your incentive system something fierce. You’re left with a system where it’s *more correct* to steal something and hide than it is to own up later and replace the theft.

There’s a simple solution to this. You go to the universe where forgiveness is the rule of law, where understanding is outstretched to you, where your crime is seen and acknowledged and not held against you. And then you report the pot hole. Because it’s the right thing to do.

Usually this means there’s a problem with the race, right. Road racing is a huge problem when it occurs, it can cause accidents, collisions, all sorts of stuff. When road racing you’re not going to report running over a pot hole if you have to fix your tire. Because you were doing something illegal.

Collaborating! Yes, yay, that’s right! You turn it into a collaborative project! Then everyone can bring all the yarn you need to thread the needle through the Minotaur’s labyrinth *without* anyone having to get eaten. You can even do this retroactively!

Okay so if it’s a universal pot hole then your story’s gotten a bit deeper. Right? It means you have to go back a bit farther when you’re searching for the money trail and sniffing out what actually went down and where. It comes down to coordinates. Positioning. Do you get where I’m going?

I know this is a thread in the making, but I actually destroyed a wheel on a pothole, on a surface (residential) street. Thankfully, City offers compensation if you report the pothole along with receipt of service done, but that's not universal, and the onus is on the driver in first place.