i pissed in god’s eye, and he blinked

Duel (1971) dir. Steven Spielberg

raggedy agatha

I did not have a good time in 7th grade

22 years ago on 9/11, I was ten years old. Here's what I wrote about it in my journal at the time

burning man 2023 explained

and lastly: when the ground here gets wet, the sea monkeys hatch

Legit question for OP: Let’s say you work some middle-class IT office job and save up $600 to buy a ticket and fly overseas for vacation. (Anywhere in the world you want to go most, idk, take your pick.) Plenty of childless people in their late 20s are lucky enough to find good jobs and are able to save that much. My point is you don’t have to be anywhere close to a millionaire to save up 600 bucks, even though I guess that’s how we of little means often see things. Anyway, while on your way to the airport, you happen to see some protestors who are picketing airline carbon emissions; they inform you that your flight will contribute to the airline industry’s yearly 1 billion tonnes of carbon waste. You feel a bit bad, but pass them by. If your plane then got stranded somewhere in the middle of nowhere and you got really sick, would you say you “deserved” it? Was it karma? Meanwhile, a private jet soars above you.

Well —

I know a close family friend in his mid 50s who works as a civil engineer / urban planner on the west coast. He’s an aging nerd who collects old IBM computers and model trains. The man has also gone to Burning Man several times (though not this year). He doesn’t “glamp” — he puts up his own tent and it’s amazing to see him set up the frame, tie the knots, and set the stakes, just like his dad taught him to do on countless camping trips when he was young. To me, a lost art. You could say it’s cringe and wasteful for him to go to Burning Man, but that’s true of a lot of things that someone in a wealthy imperialist country can do, whether it’s going to Burning Man or Disneyland.

I want to laugh at rich people getting karma. I don’t particularly want to imagine Jim’s feet swelling with water and erupting into bacteria-infected sores as he wades through mud outside his tent. In reality it’s not the rich who are getting those horrible diseases — they’re lounging around in their luxury campers with private latrines — it’s probably the people who brought small tents or applied as volunteers in order to get into Burning Man for free. And that’s the tragedy, isn’t it, that the rich can always find a way to escape even in these situations where we believe we can laugh at victims of conspicuous consumption. This catharsis, the righteous cleansing flood, is a fantasy. Like always, a natural disaster washes away only the most vulnerable in its sea of shit. And yet we laugh.

The sea monkeys are finally awake. Are you?

Diagram of a fungal cell, the building block of all fungi and yeast :)

morning rush

kenergy

another OOTDoodle! this time it’s for my clouds miniskirt ✨✨

I’m just Ken

Humans only have one ending. Ideas live forever ✨💧💖

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sketch of an OC :)

scenes from my animated thesis film, “THE OLYMPIANS”, which you can watch here! it’s about greek mythology, 70s disco, and being gay

chinese jade corn ornaments 

Cornaments