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Kaoru Yamada

#art

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Your commentary really added nothing to that post that had not already been said. Also "try to design a better system"? We are. Look up prison abolition or even criminal rehabilitation.

I don’t think you will enjoy my tumblr much

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TUPPERWARE

A comic I made for @melgillman ‘s horror comics workshop a few months ago! Thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it :)

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leave your laundry on the floor for them

#pockets #comics #goblins

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Everyone, we can fix Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet if we just switch the leads.

Romeo wakes up in Hamlet's body and meets the ghost of "his" father telling him to kill his uncle. So if course Romeo just fucking does it, because he never considers consequences, and then gets onto more important shit, like romancing Ophelia, political fallout be damned! But given that he's the son of the murdered king, he'd probably end up on top.

Hamlet wakes up as Romeo and is told that he can't marry the love of his life because his family hates her family. Instead of killing Tybalt and getting Merucio murdered, he's planning elaborate meet-cutes for the two warring families. He's putting on plays about blood feuds and how to overcome them. He either succeeds in bringing the families together or bores Juliet enough with his indecision that the glow wears off and she moves on; both positive options. Everybody lives.

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I really resent the way that the Overton window has shifted for online privacy, so that I sound like a hysteric when I say that I don’t want Facebook and Google to know everything about my life.

‘I don’t mind Facebook showing me pretty dresses.’

Cool! That’s the absolute least of what they do, though! They’ve experimented on inducing depression in their users! They actively interfere with elections! And they spy on everyone – not just their users, but all internet users. And they’re capable of working out who non-users are based on information their users feed them! Pardon me for thinking that’s not okay!

‘Advertisers don’t listen into your phone as much as everyone thinks.’

Cool! But they do fucking do it! And the amount I would like them to listen in on my conversations is none! I would like none spying! Zero tracking of my internet activity! Especially by companies who want to sell me shit!

Remember how in the 80s, ad companies would listen in to your private conversations in your house, and then send different catalogues to your mailbox as a result? No! Because they didn’t, and couldn’t. And people would have – quite rightly – considered that a massive invasion of privacy.

Remember how in the 90s, ad companies opened and read all of your personal mail, making copies to keep on microfiche, before allowing the re-sealed envelopes to reach your house? Because they didn’t, but it’s what Google does with your email! So they can serve you ‘more relevant ads’ in your inbox!

Why am I the outrageous radical for thinking that I should be able to at least partly control my own data? My own likes and dislikes? I’m not even proposing leaving the internet entirely! I didn’t even stop using Facebook because they’re shitlords, but because using it made me miserable. And I’m considering switching from Gmail to something else like Protonmail. I already use Firefox, and have an add-on installed that reduces Facebook’s ability to track me from site to site.

Why am I so strange for wanting to return to an internet where the people who serve me ads can’t name my age, postcode, eye colour, purchasing history, dietary preferences, and half-dozen closest friends without having to try to do it?

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Documenting a foraging trip through my 2024 hourlies this year!

#hourly comics day #mel gillman

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Dude this page is a lifesaver Google is really bad for working out the order to read them in

#discworld #terry pratchett

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My little fruit-foraging comic hit 2000 downloads tonight, which is very :,) for me! Thank you for being so excited about eating weird free food with me <3

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i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

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butch4butch

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I got a Bird & Blend tea advent calendar this year, and drew sketches to help remember which ones I liked!

#bird and blend tea #tea reviews #mel gillman

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A little guy I drew for this year’s Project Pizza fundraiser!

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The Bird Daughters. A comic about a bird woman and her dreams. made in the spring of 2023.

#comics #madeline mcgrane

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personal rules for winter ❄

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'Owls' by Louis Wain, (1860 - 1939)