Comic Strips

Literally today heard a preteen at my daughter's dance class say she was "rawdogging" the parking lot because she was walking around without shoes. No, child. Just... no.

Wait all this time I was supposed to wear a condom while on a flight?

Oh no I have a lot of phone calls to make.

That's 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

I mean... from the cat's point of view that's EXACTLY what it is emotionally.

Better played with a cookie in the middle

Not at work without some serious eyes

Someone is going to feel so edgy when they use it as originally conceived unwittingly.

You're supposed to eat AROUND the hole

Yeah, I think how she is using it is completely acceptable. We all understand what she is saying and what she means... that's a win in my book.

Someone once described LimeWire to me as, "having unprotected sex with the internet," and they were completely right.

As a fanart hoarder, the number of great artists I know of who seem to exclusively post their work on Twitter, a completely unsearchable platform that lossy compresses anything you upload to it and makes it a pain in the dick to get highest quality downloads, as opposed to a browsable upload platform like deviantArt, Pixiv, or Tumblr, infuriates me.

I think I know why a lot of them do it, too. To them, their work is intentionally ephemeral. They want to draw a thing, release it to the world, be admired for a day, and let it fade away into the aether. They don't want a browseable archive of their past work. Art they draw is disposable. Twitter is the best platform for this, as everything on Twitter is naturally consumed this way. That, and its audience is way larger than any of the other platforms I mentioned, so they get more eyes on their work.

Yeah, an archive exists on Twitter, but unless you want to scroll scroll scroll through every single tweet they've ever made in reverse chronological order, you're never going to find what you're looking for without some kind of external indexing tool. All of this before Elon bought it and further enshittified it within an inch of its life. You can't even browse posts without being logged in anymore.

My daughter, still in elementary school a few years ago, asked if we can Netflix and Chill after a long day.

I had trouble explaining to her what it meant.

So ugh where’d she post it again?

Her friends don't appreciate semantic drift. She's innovating the language.

I once used the word twat around my then-girlfriend and she "corrected" me, insisting it was pronounced "twah". Turns out she thought people saying it were trying to use the French word toit and mispronouncing it. No idea why she thought anybody would want to call somebody else a French roof.

You're friend wasn't the first to make such a mistake. There's a poem from 1841 by Robert Browning, called Pippa Passes, in which he misunderstands the meaning of the word "twat." Apparently he thought it was the name for part of a nun's outfit.

But at night, brother howlet, over the woods,
Toll the world to thy chantry;
Sing to the bats' sleek sisterhoods
Full complines with gallantry:
Then, owls and bats,
Cowls and twats,
Monks and nuns, in a cloister's moods,
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry!