The Child, age fiveish: Let's pretend!
Me: I've been pretending this whole time, dude! NONE of this is real
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CrustaceanSingles
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I make comics & some jokes I'm too lazy to turn into comics.
My immune system has been eating my brain since 2004, so that's fun.
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Andrew (he/they)
The child, age five, has already resolved to become a usurper
full-length sesame street parody of Stagger Lee (Nick Cave version): "Broccoli"
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You may find yourself thinking, as I did, "I'm already paranoid, so I can drink the juice no problem." Friends, this was a bad idea. #comics
can't believe my whole life nobody told me about David Byrne. what the hell, guys. I should have been listening to this for decades already
The Child, age four, has designed a biblically accurate pizza
hello fellow tetrapods
"But Pagliacci, I *am* a doctor!"
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Well, yeah, but we also made our own instincts wrong, so. #comics
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Trust the process. #comics
The Child, not yet five, describes the range between A and W as "above A and below W". This kid has abundant experience with books and text going top to bottom. This kid can read hundreds of words. Does not care about your arbitrary conventions.
Working on a "statement on AI use" for a report on experimental cactus grafting. How's this?
> First of all, "AI" is a marketing lie (redundant, I know). Because the overblown text predictors sold under that name are terrible at what they do, and because I can tell the difference between good and bad things, I do not use them. Ever. At all. And unless you are an aspiring p-zombie, you really shouldn't either.
In which Grambo encounters a kind of line
The Child is doing SOV word order, as a bit
Every time I remember it I take a tiny bit more psychic damage from it
I can't reflexive an intransitive and that is why I lose my mind a little every time I see or hear "self-rising flour"
No Minds, No Matters
having a Spiritual Experience learning about flow cytometry and getting to this hermetic diagram
PS if you know how to get access to a flow cytometer* please tell me because I am going to need to compare chromosome counts in botanical samples in the next year.
*in the regrettable USA, specifically SLC
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Alt text reproduced here: Photograph of a young Ferocactus and Graptopetalum potted with red stone and small turquoise fragments in a glazed blue teacup. The cactus has dark blue-green skin and bright pink spines with white tufts at the base. The thick leaves of the Graptopetalum are purple at the tips with dark blue-green flesh beneath a pale blue farina. The pot sits on a west-facing windowsill during the last hour or so of sunlight. I grew the cactus from seed and the other succulent [1/2]
Poe stock air go proctor hawk
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Thanks, mirror. Good talk. #comics
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[2/2] from a single fallen leaf. I bought the pot at a thrift store and carefully drilled drainage holes into it.