Page 105 of Phobos and Deimos. The rest is here.
Look at the face my cat made when we were petting another cat
My cat, Pingguo, has a nemesis, and I see the feeling is mutual.
And this after Luna (alegedly) gave Pingguo a Christmas card.
Tumblr Apocalypse
The end of Tumblr has been coming, I think, for a while. I don’t think I have nearly as many active followers here as I used to, and a lot of blogs I used to follow have gone silent. That was even before the current censorship crisis. I’m going to continue to post page updates here for a while, but I don’t expect to spend a lot of time reading my feed.
Geocities, ICQ, TheWebComicList forums, LiveJournal, Google Plus, Facebook, the scenery always changes, but the community goes on. You can continue to find me online at:
My website, www.phobos-comic.com, where all the comics happen
Twitter, @ grasshopperpie, where all the garbage happens
Pillowfort, where I’m lostcitycomics, which is new and buggy, but I’m hopeful about.
Instagram: lostcitycomics, where cat photos and works in progress are the norm
My store, where I have books and ebooks you can buy
Kickstarter, which I’ve only used the one time, but might again some day.
It is critical to clarify the media stories about “birth tourism” and “anchor babies” that are based on a study by former Harper-era immigration official Andrew Griffith.
First, the study and media describe a significant rise in “birth tourism” based on hospital coding of patients as “other country resident self-pay.”
But this number includes international students, temporary foreign workers without full access to health care, undocumented people, and non-resident Canadians.
That is to say, it includes people who are in fact residents, not “tourists” simply visiting Canada for a short period. They work and live here full-time but are denied permanent residency.
Second, much of the media coverage suggests that giving birth in Canada gives parents privileged access to permanent residency and citizenship.
This is absurdly false. While being born in Canada does give a child access to citizenship, few parents get any immigration benefits.
If the family is undocumented and apprehended, the children are kept in immigration prison (it’s not just the U.S. that jails immigrant children) and even deported in some cases.
As can be seen from the case of Deepan Budlakoti — who was born in Ottawa but whose citizenship was challenged by the government decades later — not all children born in Canada get citizenship either.
The media by and large has missed the most significant conclusions to be made from the study. Canada’s immigration system is largely impermanent, as over 70% of permits issued each year are temporary. And these families are largely unable to access Canada’s universal health care.
gaining eldritch knowledge is just finding out how to be woke and hp lovecraft was scared of it because he wanted to keep being very racist
the callout of cthulhu
chthulhu: “just stop being racist”
lovecraft: “this knowledge is too much for the human brain to comprehend, just by thinking about it you fall into madness”
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn’t trust the evidence of one’s eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.”
— Edward Said, ‘Orientalism Once More’
(via lehaaz)
Empires are built on murder, theft, forced acculturation, and thought-policing the citizenry, and they always have been, from Ancient Babylon to Rome to Qin to the modern Superpowers. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be empires. The only good empire is a dead empire. No, scratch that, even dead empires are bad, because the next empire will see itself as the proper reincarnation of the last one.