preaching to the choir here, but El Sayed won because most people voted for him. Not the “online left.“ This election just further proves that The Baileys of the political middle are a fiction of the democratic establishment. sorry for your loss, new york times
daryl seitchik
@darylseitchik.bsky.social
cartoonist and teacher publisher @ parsifal press
god i love watching the aipac goons get primaried
the auto-generated ai responses to my personal emails on gmail make me want to kms
based on how many people inquire about it, i could probably make a living teaching private art lessons. but i haven't figured out how to not hate doing it, so i don’t
boomers: young people shouldn’t use ai because their brains aren’t fully developed also boomers: My brain is fully developed — not growing. Not changing. Fully cooked.
the teens in this week’s comics camp keep making jam comics of two characters wordlessly interacting until the last panel, when one of them says “i’m aroace”
looking for good podcasts to listen to while i package dozens of letters
we are lucky that self publishing is encouraged rather than stigmatized in comics. not the case for pretty much every other literary endeavor
the algorithm is convinced that since i’m 36, i must have children, and keeps sending me ads for children’s clothing, but after years of subterfuge and careful planning, i have fooled the system: i am in fact a child-sized 36 year old without children.
now that i think about it, on this random day in july, eventually dying is a good thing
the last time I was patriotic: a page from missy 9/11
there’s this narrative that young people are addicted to their phones but i’ve observed that they generally have way better boundaries with technology than older generations who didn’t grow up with smartphones
currently teaching at a two week long pre-college program where students aren’t allowed to even bring phones/ devices. we’re a week in and they are all thriving.
There's a couple things I want y'all to do when you see allegations on the internet provided from one perspective: 1) Were good faith opportunities taken advantage of before going public? 2) What is there to gain from going public?
charity & sylvia is a masterpiece w/ a website for all its historical references. there is a convo worth having about crediting sources, but those of you acting all outraged & wishing the worst for someone you dont know, who made a comic you didnt read, need to shut the fuck up and go outside
can everyone fucking chill and leave tillie alone, thanks
i know i am a good a teacher bc i can command a room full of teenagers who are all taller than me
Short people are allowed to do evil because for them it's mischief
in my 20s, i had depression. in my 30s, i have The Sadness
every time i see a photo of netanyahu it looks like bats are about to fly out of his mouth
this actually works....i can hardly believe that after spending my entire zine-making career grappling with indesign's user-antagonistic "print booklet" function, i'm finally free 👼
For two decades I've been too lazy to code and deploy this tool, but here: this takes a sequential pdf and returns an imposed zine version: humaniterations.net/imposedonline/
the best fantasy show of the early 2000s is buffy and the worst is the gilmore girls