Cat and Girl walk the surface of a desolate planet. 'If you believe - ' starts Girl. 'A fun game is' says a smiling Cat. ' - technology is progress -' 'when you read the fortune from your fortune cookie' '- then things are the way they are because we haven't invented our solution yet -' 'you add 'on the moon!'' '- and not because of choices we've made.' 'You will have good luck in business - on the moon!' says Cat. 'What we allowed to become important.' says Girl. 'A chance happening will reveal your destiny - on the moon!' says Cat. 'Or', says Girl, 'a decades-long national project of government and business to eradicate our empathy for each other and isolate us.' 'Mission Control likes my jokes' says Cat.
  • David Thomsen
    May 29, 2026

    Our current government in New Zealand is trying to speedrun this project

    lol

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The Other Places

September 13, 2023

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus) illustrated by Charles Dessalines D' Orbigny (1806-1876). Digitally enhanced from our own 1892 edition of Dictionnaire Universel D'histoire Naturelle.

As the monoplatforms that displaced the monoculture shudder (above: monotremes), we here at the Cat and Girl social media department (employees: 1/28 of a person) would like to celebrate the fact that all the feeds and accounts you need to keep you from looking here, at this website, are – briefly – working. So come join us for your distraction-from-environmental-catastrophe needs –

via mastodon
via email (and millionaire) at Substack beehiiv
via millionaire at tumblr
via billionaire at bluesky
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and, for luddites who don’t mind web-based subscription platforms, there is a (millionaire-adjacent) patreon that sends out zines

Or, as drewtoothpaste.bsky.social said: “‘why would you use that site? don’t you know it’s financed by someone evil?’ yeah well i made my own websites and you all stopped going to websites so i have to use the evil ones you like instead of my own.”

What’s in your time capsule?

June 26, 2023

Drew a comic about time capsules, Flushing Queens and how long 5,000 years is – over at the Nib.

All Times Are Limited, Strictly Speaking

November 25, 2022

For the next week the attic store is going to be OPEN AGAIN for orders. There’s a limited amount of stuff in there! And I have a limited amount of patience with the current modern era of packing and shipping things. So this will be it for the next couple of months, good luck getting three Graces on coasters when you decide you need them THEN.