Dzee Szed 🟤

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Board games, technical writing, lurking. Mostly reskeet art because they deserve the reskeets. He/him.

A random commander card: Rosnakht, Heir of Rohgahh. A zero-one commander for a single red mana that makes another zero-one kobold whenever you target it with a spell.
A.magic the gathering card called deranged hermit, a card that puts several squirrel tokens into play, featuring a person with gray hair possibly naked with squirrels climbing all over them
A transformer robot bound in a laser ring and saying "I have nothing but contempt for this court!"
Comic of a storefront that reads "Cats on the block chain!" Two cool happening dudes in polo shirts and raybans discuss it and change the sign to "AI Cats".
Pukicho: doctor earns $140,000 a year. Furry artist on patreon earns $160,000 a year. Trillizard420: I think you're lowballing the furry art amount to be honest. Pukicho: I'm sorry for the inaccuracies, doctor yiff. Trillizard420: no matter how I respond to that I don't look good, well played. I walked right into that. Boob-a-chu: well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor so I can see that. Pukicho: did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8 plus years in a university to give you your lung transplant
Someone posted on Facebook last night, "How's that boot taste, Sam?" My reply is simply, "It tastes like freedom." Ever since I made the decision to step away last night while sitting in church...
Fundamentally, we have to stop understanding liberalism as a series of separate boxes labeled “state” and “market”, and understand them, as every successful movement for political and social reform has, as mutually complementary and interchangeable. Without this underpinning, any attempt at just playing the game without rewriting its rulebook is destined for ingominous failure.
The question, then, is why was there such a proliferation of thoughtlessness in American and liberal culture? The subheader for this post reads "You used to have interesting ideas and now all you do is browse the Internet”, a quote from one of the latter seasons of Lena Dunham’s Girls; the line is said to Hannah, Dunham’s character, in a moment of tension with one of her friends. In the early seasons of the show, particularly the arc where Hannah works for GQ, this is a present theme: the challenge of balancing the ability to work creatively with the mundane drudgery of daily life.
In his critique of “identity politics” titled “Exiting the Vampire Castle”, writer and “thinker” (I’m not sure how to describe his background) Mark Fisher talks about the phenomenon that we now call “wokeness” at some extent (I’ve also written about it relatively recently). Fisher describes it as, basically, the progressive wing of neoliberalism: a profoundly self-obsessed movement driven by branding and self-promotion. Quoth Fisher: “The first law of the Vampires’ Castle is: individualise and privatise everything. While in theory it claims to be in favour of structural critique, in practice it never focuses on anything except individual behaviour. Some of these working class types are not terribly well brought up, and can be very rude at times. Remember: condemning individuals is always more important than paying attention to impersonal structures.”
I feel like, at this point, it’s pretty much undeniable that liberal democracy as a system of government is in terminal crisis. The United States has seen, in the past few weeks, armed agents of the state murder two civilians. The government has, largely, defended it and blamed them for insufficiently obeying their orders. Even longtime opponents of the term are starting to describe the situation as “fascist”. On a much less serious note, the New York Times had an article saying Gen Z doesn’t like Harry Potter because they reject liberalism. What’s going on?
This puts the concept of authenticity in a tough spot: it can both justify feelings of liberation and emancipation, and movements built on their opposite, frequently at the same time. To quote Christopher Lasch’s The Revolt of the Elites: Standards, we are told, refer to cultural hegemony of dead, white European males. Compassion compels us to recognize the injustice of imposing them on everybody else. When the ideology of compassion leads to this kind of absurdity, it is time to call it into question. Compassion has become the human face of contempt. Democracy once implied opposition to every form of double standard. Today we accept double standards—as always, a recipe for second-class citizenship—in the name of humanitarian concern. Having given up the effort to raise the general level of competence—the old meaning of democracy—we are content to institutionalize competence in the caring class, which arrogates to itself the job of looking out for everybody else. This also opens the door to an even more interesting and even more important question: why are people incapable of achieving a “sufficient level of competence” to engage in thoughtful examination of harmful essentialist thinking?
A picture of an ASCII clock but the screen isn't wide enough for the entire circle of the clock so there's a line break after each line of the clock and it's squished together
Screenshot of a spam folder from Gmail showing an email about a case of State of Utah versus Google on 12/29/25, titled "Notice to consumer who made payments through the Google Play Store"
A comic panel from Gwenpool. Gwen is wearing a bee costume, standing in a man's bedroom, and opening a bucket full of bees. GWEN: Gosh, Frank, seems pretty irresponsible to keep a big jar of bees under your bed for no apparent reason. FRANK: What the (censored swear word) is this? GWEN: It's bees.
An armored knight speaking to a black dragon with a saddle on its back. KNIGHT: Oh, Minerva, we've grown a lot together, haven't we? I'm so glad to have you by my side. I know you'll always be my best friend. A soldier calls to the knight while standing beside a large brown bird. SOLDIER: Hey, Cherche, I found this griffon. Do you want it? In the last panel, the dragon looks at the knight with concern as the knight stares wide-eyed at the griffon.
A comic strip from three panel soul, showing the spirit of a dying woman and a large cloaked grim reaper. WOMAN: By rights, I may challenge you to a game for my life! REAPER: Very well. We shall play... A Study in Emerald. WOMAN: A... what? REAPER: I backed the kickstarter. I have to play it sometime.
Artsy abstract picture of Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium
Soup for my family
A green-haired anime woman in a black uniform. The caption says "Wendy works in human resources for Team Rocket, and holds a grudge against Jessie because of something that happened years earlier. One day, they were working out together and afterwards got smoothies at the Rocket Café. Jessie left Wendy to pay for them and said, "I'll pay you back someday." While Jessie forgot this over time, Wendy never did, and thus held a constant grudge against her."
Radar forecast showing a line of heavy storms from San Antonio to Dallas at about 10:30 pm.
A magic card called preposterous proportions, a sorcery that gives creatures plus 10 plus 10 and vigilance. The flavor text says "I think you mean giant lemures, a type of malevolent spirit that... OH GODS, WHAT IS THAT?!"
A magic card called Final Fortune, with the abilities, "Take another turn after this one. At the end of that turn, you lose the game."
Screenshot of a Bluesky feed. Randy's post about a very detailed pornographic drawing is on top. Below is a comic from Shen Comic with a man describing the difference between alpha men and beta men. An artist asks "What if there was a third type that could get pregnant? And the man replies "Bro I am so freaking scared of you."
Cover art of the album With A Hammer by producer Yaeji, showing a woman in a denim jacket holding a hammer with a mischievous cat-like face drawn onto it
From the linked politico article: A long table for the 30-some guests was set with top-of-the-line crystal and China. The guest list included Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Interior Secretary Doug Burgun, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, SBA Administrator Kelly Lowfflee, Medicare and Medicaid chief Mehmet Oz, plus venture capitalist David Sacks, Palihapiyiya's partner on the "All In" podcast.
Mrs. Blue Ink at a restaurant saying "ooh that tasted expensive"
Wheeler in sunglasses and an open shirt looking shocked about being forced to draw a card
GLORY TO YOU AND YOUR HOUSE from a wide-eyed Klingon holding a knife
A Magic card named Spider Climb, which gives a creature +0/+3 and reach, showing a woman climbing the side of a tree
Jerusalem Demsas: I don't view using Twitter as leisure time. I view it as part of my work & politics. I'm open to the arguments that my time doing so is wasted there, but I think if black people decide we should only do politics in places where we won't hear the N-word...
From the How To Geek website: a list of commands to open specific programs or website using Shift Ctrl Alt Win and a letter, with links to Microsoft word, excel, teams, PowerPoint, outlook, Yammer, and OneNote.
Song lyrics: Hey you, the muscles and the long hair Telling me that women are superior to men Most guys just don't appreciate this You just try convincing me you're better than them So he talks for hours about his sensitive soul And his favourite subject is sex I don't even think he really wanted it But Christ, this guy's too much (I wanna tell him) I'm as human as the next girl I like a bit of flattery But I don't need your practised lines Your school of charm mentality So save your breath for someone else And credit me with something more When it comes to men like you I know the score, I've heard it all before
A small dog holding a stick in its open jaws with all teeth bared and glaring at you
Strongbad having a webcam conversation with the lead singer of Limozeen
THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER
A truck trailer for McDonald's showing an egg sandwich and the phrase "Freshly cracked for a fresh start"
A reddit comment that reads: Navy vet here. Army phoned it in, by design. No dress uniforms, out of step while marching, not caring at all. Upset that they have to do this on a Saturday and I don't blame them. My army Brothers and sisters deserve better than this and trust me if the army wants to look sharp, they absolutely can. It was definitely a message. Well done army!
Wrestler Scott Steiner doing the famous Steiner Math promo
Shakespeare's Sonnet 144 Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Magic the Gathering card called Stab showing someone about to put a long dagger in someone's back
Art of a gigantic squirrel standing above the trees
Picture of three women from Marvel Rivals (I think Emma Frost, Sue Storm, and Dagger?) with the comment "POLYMERIZATION! By fusing my three Blue Eyes White Bitches together they become BLUE EYES ULTIMATE BITCH!"
A tweet by Anna: "Happy Halloween from me, the pole that blocked Jenny Nicholson's view on the Galactic Starcruiser." Jenny Nicholson replied "oh my God."
Magic card, Uktabi Orangutan, has the type "Creature — Ape"
The person we're complaining about says "Rogan has crossbows, flamethrowers, UFOs, workouts, dick jokes... stuff that appeals to boys and man-boys. The rightwing indoctrination gets slipped in between those offerings. The Left offers nothing as seductive or fun."
Email from human resources advertising an employee appreciation day with brunch and raffles, for the dedicated, passionate, excellent drivers who are in Louisiana or Oklahoma for all of that day.
Several black tanker railcars at a complete stop on a railroad crossing
On top, a low resolution wedding ceremony in Metaverse, with real photo jpegs as the backdrop. On bottom, a high resolution wedding ceremony from Final Fantasy 14 with guests in lavish costumes and an ornate cathedral in the background.
YouTube comment: "There's a reason communists who want to destroy America are warming up to Trump"
The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland
DC comics superhero Hawkgirl
Fox News running on a TV hanging in the corner of a truck stop
Lina is on a list called "Secret MAGA Cockroaches" by kennethqueer
As he sketches, Miyazaki expounds on why he’s able to do the things he does, saying: “You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.” “If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it.” “Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.” “Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know.” “It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans.” “And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!”
Randal Keith Milholland patreon "A whole world to explore" with a picture of "Founding Daddies - John Adams"
Magic the gathering card floodgate
The Arby's logo visible through a small truck window
Grave of Thomas Magliozzi, with the epitaph Non Labor Difficilis Qui Illum Occidit
Scene from deepblueink animation of drawfee with Julia happily showing off her drawing of two people with the same face