Jen Coster

I can honestly say the weirdness (complimentary) of the boss fights has only increased

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

America! Are you preparing to vote? Do you know anyone feeling apprehensive about voting? A group of us made a free guide for you to print and distribute in your communities! howtovote.tips

This is so, so, so, so important.

It's my observation that a ton of people, even those who follow politics every day, simply do not understand how the government works.

surprise surprise

The Last Fifteen Minutes is such a beautifully crafted film about finding bittersweet solace and comfort and love in the face of unmitigated disaster, told with Shing's characteristic whimsy and humor and heart, and if you have the chance to see it immediately, you absolutely should 😭❤️

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

this is the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life

If I were their dad I would look at this, feel a deep well of pride in how smart and talented my offspring is, hold it carefully, look at them lovingly and say 'see, I told you. All fish shaped."

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

This piece from @papapishu.bsky.social is so good. A survey of the desolation

this remains a great study of the estranged parents movement, and one of the almost universal features of these narratives is the missing missing reasons--the extreme caginess with which these parents present the events that led to the estrangement

I'm just one data point but I've been sick exactly twice since 2020. Once was covid from someone I was staying with who didn't mask outside our lodgings. The other was a cold from visiting my nieces who don't mask at school. Pretty sure my pre-masking illness rate was higher than twice in 6 years.

the sad walk away is 🧑‍🍳🤌

This is a stellar round-up of some of this year's excellent horror (plus, I am on here for MAKE ME BETTER!)

Yesterday I provided my immune system with the latest enemy intel and let me tell you it is working VERY hard on those cellular combat drills right now 🫠

Time for a lil zine making party 🎉 🗒️ 🎵

Spoonquill is an online (fully remote!) residency for spec fic writers with chronic illness. it's free to apply and attend! and I love that it builds in time for life, rest, and digestion/integration of information

so excited and honored to be a part of this alongside such amazing people!

first time seeing one of these four-quadrant charts that i actually enjoyed. not sure if it's a "bisexual perfume," but i really enjoy carlen parfums's "butch femme," which smells like pho (the vietnamese soup) substack.com/home/post/p-...

I am writing and editing but all I actually want to do is live deliciously. It is witch season.

Relentlessness.

As a comics writer I'm the first domino in a long row. If I miss my deadline, I'm handing crunch to my everyone else on my team. And that crunch compounds the deeper into the process we get, so my "oops I'm two days late" could turn into my letterer's "I only have three hours to get this done"

Gailey is a monster who must be stopped (complementary)

missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!

"Wicker" is now at the top of my must-see list. If anyone tries to light that man on fire I will kill to stop them

my instagram has started feeding me reels of beautiful women telling me "it's going to be okay" anyone know what that could mean

My lino prints decided to be fully dry today so I was able to sneak these in as part of the drop

Sometimes you’re lucky enough to decide to work on a project where one of the creators matches you in a commitment to overdocumentation and spreadsheets.

some very compelling points here. worth taking the time to read in its entirety.

this is really really fascinating. what's happened on ravelry is almost certainly reflected across every single other creator space online — your youtubes, your tiktoks, your instagrams. there's just not a lot of space left in the middle:

ultimately if your reaction to someone saying "I think this is bad, I am ethically unhappy about it, I don't want to touch it" is to go "well it's useful so. it's everywhere. nothing to be done" I just kind of think you're an asshole

HOW DARE

the economics of AI is everyone burning fossil fuels to abuse silicon into generating semi-usable facsimiles of ordinary knowledge work in vain hope that this claws back some of the value that is destroyed by the tide of spam and slop

whatever utility LLMs have in generating useful output (which is less than what anyone using these systems thinks, given their inherently misleading nature) is inevitably swamped by their much greater power at generating hard-to-detect garbage. the negative net value is baked into the tech.

missed the window for beastlies 😭 but if you don't have a nibblet, I highly recommend them as little desk companions