Category: gram time

(This isn’t just happening in Texas–read this thread, contact your legislators.)

(If you want Twitter updates, Anne Helen Petersen recommend following Jane Lytvynenko for accurate info; she linked to this site to help Ukrainian orgs.)

 

Evergreen:

Work has felt like the movie Groundhog Day (everything is bad, nothing is changing) and while I know there’s the Austin Kleon approach to that, I’m taking the “meme-ing my feelings” approach instead.

A big mood from artist Roger Peet:

 

Another one from Clotheshorse Podcast:

 

Accurate (from Cheerful Nihilism)

 

And this, from Fiorenza Art. We’re all trying so hard.

SUCH a vibe (source):

Anxious? Me? (source)

Please? (source)

So true (source):

Also true; I think we’re all feeling all the things (new-to-me artist Sunlight After Dark)

The Utah news this morning reported that there aren’t enough covid tests, school bus drivers, teachers/substitutes, or healthcare workers and we’re hitting over 10,000 (reported) cases a day…but everything is fine! Continue to go about your business! God forbid we let anything interrupt the wheels of capitalism:

 

Also this makes sense:

As does this:

 

This was a good moment of perspective, but I might be jealous of everyone in 1870 and not now:

I want this juice. PLEASE.

(Posts from here, here, and here)

2022 feels like a lot already, doesn’t it?

(From the caption: “This is just a PSA that grief doesn’t go away at Christmas“)
 

Existential Moomins
 

We got this, right? (source)
 

OK, yeah, when you think about it, traditional holiday characters are super weird. (source)

Things* feel a little much, you know?

*The Supreme Court debating the rights of half the population, school shootings, new Covid variants, changes at work, winter darkness, the inevitable passage of time…what’s on your list?

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The time change finally caught up to me; just picture me as that frog yelling at its brain.From Frog Witch

 

From Sick of Wolves

via this account

Originally Nihilisa Frank, which is the absolute best name; seen first here

Yes let’s be eco-friendly (source)

 

Afraid of going gray? Don’t be! (source)

 

As much as I possibly can (Ruth Mora Illustration)

 

You’d better have candy (source)

This is a wholesome (and massive) thread of people who cave to their pets’ ridiculous demands. As someone who does this as well, I was delighted and reassured:

 

Greg and I have to stand in these spots every mealtime for the dog or he won’t eat. He looks at Greg who says MORE then he looks at me and I say MORE and this lasts til he’s done. We used to have dignity pic.twitter.com/dnKAPfIrG9

— broti gupta (@BrotiGupta) October 13, 2021

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