MY NEW COMIC ZINE FRESH FROM THE OVEN!

It is a 32-pages long comic essay about how I enjoy romance but from a safe distance, how I understood I was aroace, about aegoromanticism, and about living by myself.

The comic is available on Itch as a pdf, and you can get it in English and in Finnish! I will be selling the Finnish physical version in events and online soon.

ENGLISH version: https://annikcomics.itch.io/from-a-safe-distance

Batman has to stop taking himself so seriously

You can listen (and watch!) the new episode of The Downside podcast #375 with James Ortiz on Spotify and YouTube!

Your Ghost makes a list of the things he wishes he could say to you:

“I’m here. I’m still here.”

The working title for this was "a quiet goodbye". Sometimes you dont get the fanfare. The mission is last minute and the vanguards send you off alone. Thats what i wanted to capture because thats what it felt like.

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

Here's a UK version:

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.