night of the living chester

to be clear, the numbers I cited are the retail price before insurance, both generic. I pay the same copay for both! Which is part of what really caught me off guard!

Paying more detailed attention to the prices of my mediation as an insurance switch looms, and... why is the exact same number of the same dosage of generic brand attention meds $30 for the normal ones and **$200** for the extended release ones

The truth can be harsh. That doesn’t mean that anything harsh is the truth.

factory birds on the march

The Integrated Survivability "Onion" Don't post Don't get followed Don't be RT'd Don't get ratio'd Don't be the main character Technology driven. Warfighter focused.

Aside from the obvious, what's really dumb about the word "content", is that "contents" only exist in relation to a container- so in this context, a literal web container, on a page. Div fillers. Sure mate, your rectangle is the star of the show. What's wrong you haven't eaten your plate toppers

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

Deciding to finally let my freak flag fly but when I take it out of the box mice have chewed a hole in it

My illustrations celebrating Nancy Drew entering the public domain

Professor Messer’s CompTIA N10-008 Network+ Course Professor Messer’s CompTIA N10-008 Network+ Course This is the index to my free CompTIA N10-008 Network+ training course videos.All of my training videos

hmmm www.professormesser.com/network-plus...

This is a dramatic way of saying, I am not sure how well I will do back at a software job Without a treadmill on the office floor.

Maybe it's spring! Maybe it's madness! Get me outta this skin! Teach me something outside my wheelhouse! Show me the guts of the world! Give me a story to tell! Answer my calls, god dammit!

Week 3 of ominous silence I find myself drafting up a cover letter for an 80% travel job based out of Nevada with something approaching divine fervor

A thing that I have discovered that you don't actually have to do is comment on things that you don't understand.

Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

The brain drain continues – the U.S. has lost arguably its most important scientific awards ceremony:
arstechnica.com/science/2026...

i redrew Tony Auth's famous "where do you work out?" "at the library" comic panel but it's TM Opera O as the buff man saying "Pray tell, where DO you work out?" and scrawny Admire Vega with especially long ears saying "Audible"

Pokemon Gogh

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

You need to call your reps and demand that they OPPOSE:

-the KIDS Act
-KOSA
-the Screen Act
-Sammy's Law
-the App Store Accountability Act

And additionally, oppose:

-reforming/sunsetting Section 230
-online age verification/ID laws

www.congress.gov/members/find...

I remember feeling struck by The Hunger Games trilogy being written in first person present tense, very immediate

Dirt Eclipse

Round the Block

WIP comic panel of devious alien worm(?) visualizing mind control

This goes for American comics, too. Take what you think they make, halve it, then halve it again. And if they aren't working for the Big Two, halve it again. And to be brutally honest, if they're writing and drawing graphic novels, halve it yet again.

My creature for this zoom call is just Fritz realizing someone beat him to publication.

A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022

Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️

Rhea, a regal little dog girl sitting on tuffet and wielding a teacup. She's being held up by Quincy, a wolf-dog who looks resigned to this position with a giant teapot balanced on his head

Final Artfight attack for @lsdolphin.bsky.social and @broncoburro.bsky.social of some pups from their game!

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]

“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein

GenAI can generate pretty much photorealistic images but that doesn't make it a camera

you *will* read third person and you will like it.