Happy birthday, boyyo!

A can of pâté cat food has been dressed up to look like a faux cake, with squeezy-treat icing and a faux candle reading 6. The black cat birthday boy lurks on the wooden floor below.

Birthday boy Caltrops, a black cat, taste tests his faux cat-food cake.

It’s Caltrops’ 6th birthday! My sweet little April fool! 5.5yrs since I brought my voidling tripping hazard home 🖤

All Your Base

Obligatory xkcd:

xkcd.com/286/

Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
And all my base
Are belong to you.

A screencap of the infamous intro to the Sega game "Zero Wing", in which the captain looks down on the ground and defeatedly goes "What you say!!"

"25 years ago..."

25 years ago today, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US began its worldwide invasion on @newgrounds.com.

A stick figure made of overlapping punctuation marks from a typewriter labeled as Craig saying: ladies & gentlemen, the world that was promised to us in our childhood has been stripped away from us by the very people that forced us to work toward it. the only future left for us is one that we make for ourselves, and one that abandons the lie, accepting that the world will never be back the way it was. you were all lied to, and it is our sacred burden to hold the liars to account, and take back from them all that we have given to build the castle they, now hide within as our world crumbles to dust. also, the weekend.

believe me or not, this is a drawing of two black cats, but their shape resembles a semicolon

two black cats lying down, their shape resembles a semicolon

“oh, i wish there were some kind of punctuation to chain these two sentences together”

the humble semicolon:

Caltroos, a black cat, stares out a white-framed window from the left. The snowy road below and snow-covered industrial building across the street are both visible in the window, along with dots of swirling snow captured in the moment. The cat’s bronze-green eyes are bright and reflect the snowy outdoors as he stares out with interest.

Throwback to this past Sunday…

Caltrops report on the weather: the sky is falling! *chitters at snowflakes and stares*

We heard you liked countdowns, so we're bringing you a new one:

Desert Bus for Hope 2026, our 20th voyage, will be launching on October 23rd, 2026. #db2026

More information to follow.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

Looking for a 3rd job I guess.

As if I’m not precariously close to burning out and breaking down already.

My partner started selling Pokémon and Magic cards he’d collected over the years to make ends meet.

If our electric bill doubles because it’s winter and chilly now… I don’t know if we can handle it. I don’t know what to do.

So the amount of time I missed at work (remember when I was in the ER?) ...much of it went unpaid since I didn’t have enough sick time to cover it all and am not allowed to use other accruals to cover. I’m essentially down 2 paychecks and we barely made rent this month.

Finally back home. Pharmacy wasn’t even open to pick up my Rx yet. Cats are yelling at me and chiding me for being gone. I’m need a shower and a good sleep.

Thanks 🖤🖤🖤 but I’m just tired and defeated. I want to go home, but the sunk-cost of the ER means I’m still here, waiting for results.

(I’m also mostly okay - urgent care sent me to the ER for imaging to rule out appendicitis and I’m just low priority without exhibiting more concerning symptoms.)

I have rarely felt as invisible in my life as I do now, approaching 4am after 12+hrs in the ER, sitting out in the halls of triage, waiting on results.

American healthcare is just… great.

A silly how to guide on drawing a horse. It is probably not best to take it seriously.

I made a How to Draw Horse guide in 2017, and I still think its accurate.

Tabletop manager asleep atop freight

Games were played one after another
From boxes stacked up on each other
Pax East was in May?!
But it cannot stay.
We hope that you called your mother

Seven gars are swimming in the lime green background. They come in a variety of sizes and shapes. There are heart-shaped water droplets around.

Happy gars 🐟

a wide slice of bread with avocado slices, remoulade, and other bits of food arranged to look like Jabba the Hutt.

What's wrong babe? It's #MayThe4th an you've barely touched your Jabbacado toast.

Caltrops, a black cat, lounges on top of a stack of repurposed boxes. The 2 stacked boxes are apple boxes from a big box store, one upright and one flipped upside down to create a large cat cave. There is a blue cat bed and several toys in the cat cave.

Mimosa, a calico cat, lounges in the blue cat bed within the impromptu cardboard cat cave. She braces one white front paw against the entrance and stares at you expectantly.

Caltrops, a black cat, lounges on top of a stack of repurposed boxes that are creating an impromptu cat cave.

Caltrops, a black cat, lounges on top of a stack of repurposed boxes. Mimosa, a calico cat, sticks her head out of the impromptu cat cave created by the stacked boxes. The cats are therefore stacked along with the boxes.

Had some boxes to recycle. But after a few days, I have successfully stacked the cats instead.

Never enough baba yaga houses! #babayaga #procreateart #witchy #art

Turns out the funding for my office is on the cut programs list in last week’s 68pg leaked letter.

Thankful that my office is being very transparent about this and how they’re fighting back. Our grant year renews in July, fed budget is confirmed in October.

I have hope. But also a lot of fear.

me: i’ll do it when i have more time

also me: *wastes free time feeling guilty about wasting free time*

It is an awful thing sometimes at 2:26 am to be an adult man full of childish dreams that you will never bring to life because reality is too real, too unforgiving and too devoid of magic.

Am I depressed because of what's happening or am I depressed because of the people who somehow didn't see it coming?

Both. It's both.

here's a distraction: what song reliably makes you feel warm and safe? i'm talking real late afternoon on a summer day vibes, like walking into a house & hearing a bunch of people you love clattering around in the kitchen shooting the shit, regardless of the actual content of said song

As an elder millennial, I'm super excited to experience my fifth "once-in-a-lifetime" event since high school.

And during said bad seizure (which hospitalized her for the whole summer ‘07), because mumbled Czech sounds kinda like gibberish to your typical American healthcare workers, some of the nurses thought she was mentally handicapped. But she understood them fine! They just couldn’t understand her.

She fascinated her doctors with these language skills, and after some particularly nasty seizures/medication interactions in 2007, they did some heavy monitoring, neurosurgery, removed a piece of her brain, and she’s been seizure-free since!