Frank Bottom: Adventures in Procrastination!
I posted this Frank Bottom sketch on my Cara account a year ago. ONE FUCKING YEAR AGO. I've been so wrapped up in how fucked up the world is getting, and being unemployed for 18 months, that I just ended up putting this aside for a while and never came back.
It's been very difficult for me to work on personal stuff since the pandemic peaked and then just… never went away. We've seen that public health has been decimated everywhere, a further symptom of letting far-right ideologies creep their way into governments and take over, abolishing science, fuelling racism and transphobia, normalizing the live-streaming of a genocide, and generally just dumbing down the population who just can't afford to live or eat anymore. How low can we go?
The story of these characters has been unfolding in my mind however, and I really need to get back to doing it. In many ways, what's been going on is influencing its world-building. I'm thinking of doing it as a simple 8-fold zine comic, and just dropping them around town.
What will this turn into a year from now though? Will I act?
Hayao Miyazaki on A.I.
“I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves.” Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence
BBC’s Pro-Israel Agenda
Yes, this is genocide.
Do what you love
International Law
I'm watching a live-stream from Al Jazeera of thousands of missiles being fired between two nuclear nations, Iran and Israel. This is horrific.
Listen to Noura Erakat talk about the hypocrisy of international law.
DIY Collective Embeds Abortion Pill Onto Business Cards, Distributes Them At Hacker Conference
“This Card is an Abortion,” read a handful of business cards distributed by Mixl Laufer, a DIY biohacker, at a hacking conference in Queens Friday. Embedded in the cards are three doses of misoprostol, a medication that safely and effectively induces an abortion when properly used.
Poocharé
One of the best SCTV skits ever.
