PORK-PIE https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/ Homo-kink cartoonist & misanthrope. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:32:17 +0000 Orwell's Final Warning https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/orwells-final-warning <![CDATA[The world we're in now. iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9kptxWsadI?si=pp1ZAuIVFvAGHaTV" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen/iframe Orwell's Final Warning &nbsp; ---]]> The world we're in now.

Orwell's Final Warning

 

]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/orwells-final-warning Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:33:40 +0000 Frank Bottom: Adventures in Procrastination! https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/frank-bottom-adventures-in-procrastination <![CDATA[Illustration showing a group of cartoon characters. From left to right are: a drag queen in revealing leathers, a dinosaur in a lab coat, a naked man with two angry-looking monkeys holding onto his leashes, a rugged woman in a ball cap, a very tall insect-like alien, a happy muscular leather daddy, and a small cube-shaped robot. The backdrop is teal-coloured sky with a few stars. I posted this Frank Bottom sketch on my Cara account a year ago. markONE FUCKING YEAR AGO/mark. 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? &nbsp; ---]]> Illustration showing a group of cartoon characters. From left to right are: a drag queen in revealing leathers, a dinosaur in a lab coat, a naked man with two angry-looking monkeys holding onto his leashes, a rugged woman in a ball cap, a very tall insect-like alien, a happy muscular leather daddy, and a small cube-shaped robot. The backdrop is teal-coloured sky with a few stars.

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?

 

]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/frank-bottom-adventures-in-procrastination Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:35:14 +0000 Hayao Miyazaki on A.I. https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/hayao-miyazaki-on-a-i <![CDATA[iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ngZ0K3lWKRc?si=c4DQguAqnkLOokc4" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen/iframe "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 &nbsp; ---]]> “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

 

]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/hayao-miyazaki-on-a-i Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:39:38 +0000 BBC’s Pro-Israel Agenda https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/bbcs-pro-israel-agenda <![CDATA[iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EaBaMFF9QhU?si=HWoKvr6PXWlOmghd" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen/iframe BBC News Staff Expose Channel’s Pro-Israel Agenda &nbsp; ---]]>

BBC News Staff Expose Channel’s Pro-Israel Agenda

 

]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/bbcs-pro-israel-agenda Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:32:35 +0000 Yes, this is genocide. https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/yes-this-is-genocide <![CDATA["Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis" iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h818UuiAm4?si=8N-nLQHmhmMhpThJ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen/iframe &nbsp; ---]]> “Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis”

 

]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/yes-this-is-genocide Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:47:24 +0000 Do what you love https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/draft <![CDATA[Photo of coffee mug with the following words printed on it: "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life". With a line drawn through the words: "never work a day in your life". Which are replaced instead with the words: "work super hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally". Found on Bruce Sterling's Tumblr &nbsp; ---]]> Photo of coffee mug with the following words printed on it: "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life". With a line drawn through the words: "never work a day in your life". Which are replaced instead with the words: "work super hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally". Found on Bruce Sterling's Tumblr

 

]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/draft Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:30:59 +0000 International Law https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/international-law <![CDATA[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. iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oulm-LD8?si=v1aZOR18UwQ5hLMv&amp;start=412" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen/iframe &nbsp; ---]]> 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.

 

]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/international-law Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:06:09 +0000 DIY Collective Embeds Abortion Pill Onto Business Cards, Distributes Them At Hacker Conference https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/diy-collective-embeds-abortion-pill-onto-business-cards-distributes-them-at <![CDATA[blockquote“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. /blockquote Link to Vice article image &nbsp; ---]]> “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.

Link to Vice article

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]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/diy-collective-embeds-abortion-pill-onto-business-cards-distributes-them-at Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:33:27 +0000 Poocharé https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/poochare <![CDATA[One of the best SCTV skits ever. iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F7r6XXI_oX0?si=S5bQNhYT0CvZpiHm" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen/iframe &nbsp; ---]]> One of the best SCTV skits ever.

 

]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/poochare Thu, 08 Aug 2024 01:07:02 +0000 I’m on Cara https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/im-on-cara <![CDATA[Frank Bottom title card Follow here: https://cara.app/post/0c30c5c5-4321-4864-98ca-25eb2d8a5686 &nbsp; ---]]> Frank Bottom title card

Follow here: https://cara.app/post/0c30c5c5-4321-4864-98ca-25eb2d8a5686

 

]]> https://write.zeroes.ca/porkpie/im-on-cara Thu, 11 Jul 2024 05:05:24 +0000