half-tipsy with the wonder of being alive

Male Fig beetle — Cotinis mutabilis! I love his little face so much. 🥺💚✨

I’ve been messing with the settings on my OM TG7, can’t say I’m too happy with today’s results but practicing has been fun!

Tuesday, July 21st, 2026.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

My online shop is open this week! ✨

If anyone is interested in getting prints directly from me, I am doing a limited signed giclée print run of four of my most loved recent illustrations. They'll all be hand-signed, titled and numbered by me in pencil and some of my art books and original drawings are also up in the shop.

To avoid waste, I'm going to print in batches so this time please get your orders in by the 22nd July, they'll be shipped by August 3rd.

Sadly I can only ship original artwork (not prints or books) to the EU at the moment, but regular prints are available on my INPRNT too if that's a better option for some. 🌸

Oh fuck do I ever-

This whole entire affair has fascinated me for ages because, to be frank, this device was an absolute masterpiece. For those ignorant:

This thing approached levels of complexity usually reserved for atomic devices. The FBI themselves say as much and they're the ones who managed to induce a high-order detonation in the thing by trying to separate the detonator and payload with a shaped charge. Which, to be fair, was the only viable approach for a device like this.

They had detailed and advance warning of what would cause a detonation, which covered basically every non-destructive approach at disarming the thing. And with a note and a device like that, you tend to take it at face value. I can't rightly say I would have done anything differently.

The authorities, in this case, took what they perceived to be the approach that would put the fewest people in harm's way. And they were right! No one died, leaving only (albeit sizeable) property damage. Lowering property values along with the mean elevation above sea level of a town by means of a crater is preferable to picking up body parts in my estimation.