Astronaut Readjusts To Life Back On Earth

okay fine you can have a few more, as a treat.

part one

(friend birthday special set)

im proposing we replace rush hour with either fish hour or russian hour

i will not be taking questions at this time

I had a vision

absolutely bonkers that “teen sex, kills!” and “time eats all his children in the end.” and “sexy cat women from zolar” and “it took a horrible accident for me to realize how goddamn wonderful everything is” and “i want to be that fucked up girl” and “you’re just sailing through space, there’s no up or down, so beautiful and strange, but it’s more than spinning ‘round” and “my song will only have profanity in chorus” and “from ashes i was made, and ashes i return, and so i walk alone, and wonder why?” and “porno is magical” and “you knew all along i could never do it… choose myself.” and “for being a spielverderber” and “i would gladly take my seventeen years over nothing” are all lines from the same show

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

Climate crisis is coming for all of us. We need to vote for people who are not insulated from reality via donor bribes.

We need a robust EPA. The current Supreme Court wants to end the EPA and Federal power to regulate our air and water. Never forget.

Get involved. Vote.

It’s the beginning of fire season, so I’m going to share this memory and some advice I learned the hard way.

In fall 2020 the wild fires on the west coast were so bad that you could barely see 15 feet at times. Where I lived the aqi hit 590 at one point. We could not evacuate and we had no insulation in our house.

The gas masks saved us. Me and my roommates taped our windows shut and wore respirators in the house for a week. I did this sketch of them while we were watching the muppet movie one night.

Most of you will have experience a fire or smoke storm at some point, this is not going away. Smoke inhalation can have permanent and long term effects.

Get a respirator mask, and get replacement filters for organic and biological material. They can be as cheep as $12, and even if you don’t think you’re at risk, it is not something you want to find out you need afterwards. If you can afford to, get extras. Someone you know might need it.

Also useful at protests, just saying…

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.