We tape our flamethrowers to our pulse rifles

I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.

On one hand, I died a little at the kaleidoscope of neutrals that my mother thrust into my hands this morning with a desperate, "I trust you to pick a wall color for me."

On the other, I can distinguish nuance in color very well, and quickly discarded 99% of the samples with the reasonings why (wrong color temperature, too close to the couch's beige, poor base tone given other items in the room, etc.)

Sadly, I was not able to convince her to go with a red sampled from the couch swatch on the table (she's done red in the past from my advice and loved it). But I did find a good warm & bright ivory that will pull that couch away from looking muddy and play well with the art for the walls.

Anyway, it's very funny to me, because *my* house looks like this -- as someone whose favorite colors are brown and taupe:

Decorating advice my mother *did* take from me today, though:

What you draw on paper won't match how the layout feels like when walking around in the actual room, so be prepared to move or even ditch furniture

You need area rugs to create little islands in an open plan space

Fixtures go a long way between a bathroom looking cheap / like a hotel room, and being cozy

You do not have to recreate your old room layouts when you move

You do not have to follow the "rules", such as a formal dining area

You can repurpose furniture to serve different needs - if you like the china hutch, but not the china anymore, put something else inside

A room should reflect how you plan to use it 90% of the time

Figure out what "entertaining" means to you - your parties do not have to look like someone else's, which influences how you change your space when company is over

WHOALY SHIT???????????

We cast her anyway, in a chorus role. Offered her lots of support and encouragement and kindness and grace.

At the next audition she whispered. Anyone who had never seen her before would have thought she was the most nervous kid there. But the directing team was abuzz afterward. Did you see? She did it! Once or twice I could actually almost hear her! Amazing.

Got cast again, in a chorus role. She’d been making friends with the other kids, and they offered her encouragement too.

And the next audition we said wow I can hear her! She’s speaking! Let’s give her a handful of lines! She can do it!

Over 50% of trans men and nonbinary people assigned female have experienced sexual assault.

Trans people in the USA are about 3 times more likely than cis women to struggle accessing abortion related healthcare following abortion bans.

Trans and intersex people are at least twice as likely to attempt a self managed abortion than cis women.

And, I don't have a link at hand, but pregnancy has been used as a tool of forced detransition.

The National party claims that this was done purely to speed up the vote count after election day (there are ways to do this without disenfranchising people but whatever). The leader of the libertarian(ish) ACT party, David Seymour, had this to say:

Frankly, I'm a bit sick of dropkicks that can't get themselves organised to follow the law. [...] It’s outrageous that someone completely disengaged and lazy can rock up to the voting booth, get registered there and then, and then vote to tax other people’s money away.

At the time my conclusion was:

This isn't a slam dunk; I could maybe believe that somebody cropped a real small piece of a photo and did some cleanup work on it. You could almost see places in the photos I've posted where a crop could be taken and the results would look similar to OP's image. But without a citation I'm awfully dubious.

That being said, I am absolutely positively certain that Operation Epic Fury was called that because a guy called it that. I have no doubt in my mind that a human being came up with that name because they thought it sounded cool and badass.