Lisa Frank: bedazzling school supplies since 1987 (the fact that this company promising rainbows and dolphins and unicorns was so fucked up behind the scenes is a little too on the nose for the millennial experience 💀)

and if you mean the first one I remember listening to . . . BEHOLD 1987 OG cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera

mission successful 🙏

the miscreants in question (both of whom have apparently decided they felt left out from all the attention their big brother got when I didn't sleep for a month 💀)

if you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses (how on earth was this 10 years ago????)

hmmm I wonder if my mom's trying to tell me something 🤔 (no, this isn't her -- just a thing she reposted)

you know it's World Cup time when the fam group chat starts popping off like

*snort*

trying to explain root canal edits to a non-writer like

remember to check *every time* Office or Windows updates a lot of users (many unknowingly) have all Microsoft product updates tied to regular Windows updates -- you can decouple them in Settings if you like (shown below) you can also just tell Office not to update, but no promises on the stability

tfw you replay comfort games to distract you from the impending apocalypse and then

lol looks like somebody's been playing FF7 on an all-nighter again

was explaining to a friend why I call Tr*mp "Orange Caligula" and happened upon this delightful passage 🫠 (the source quoted is "Barrett, Anthony A. (2015). Caligula: The Abuse of Power (2nd ed.)")

🙏

WHAT YEAR IS IT (and don't ask me why a triple-A 2017 remaster/upgrade of a triple-A 2006 game doesn't have a quest log 💀)

who wants to tell her about writing a manuscript pre-sub

my #1 "most-anticipated sequel" that released on Tues 🙏 (the author, unfortunately, has informed me she is not able to pay for my therapy bills 💀)

of all the inspirational things I have done in my life, this still ranks near the top

damn, Rumiko Takahashi was really on to something, huh?

making a breakthrough on your stalled project in the year of our lord 2026 be like

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

ooooh yes let's play this silly-looking little gacha game it looks so cute and--

anywho I shall leave off on a positive note -- one of my favorite moments from my time as a reporter covering college sports 🙏 (said youngest kid grew up to be an absolutely stellar person and pro athlete and let me tell you when I say I'm proud 😭)

if you'd like to hear the description of the events, which took place between 1034 and 1041 AD, from our man Skylitzes himself, here is John Wortley's translation (w/alt text) (this passage can be found on pg 372 of "John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057: Translation and Notes")

for no reason whatsoever, I am bringing out my favorite 12th-century illumination today, which depicts 1) a Thracesian woman killing a Varangian Guard who tried to assault her and 2) his comrades praising her and giving her all of his stuff for her very understandable and justifiable actions 🙏

communal emotional support kitten demands that when you stop to admire his beauty, you take a deep breath and drink some water before you resume scrolling all right, carry on

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally.

not sure if you're looking for actual responses to this (and 1000 apologies if you're not), but I know my agent-sister Judit Mallol sold an artbook that just recently came out -- she might have more insight? www.instagram.com/p/DPeUVu5DPO...

same for Bad Chancla in Seattle! awesome ppl over there

20) okay, breaking my own rule and posting a snippet bc even though it's a few years old, it's become darkly amusingly relevant (and sickening) as a certain group of fascist thugs 🧊 has been thrown into the spotlight (formerly online serial now turned project: "His Heart is the Cruelest Hunter")