ok it’s actually over 700 now I did not plan for this

My first Xitter art post of 2026 got 400+ likes. I am quite content.

Thank you everyone for sharing your perspectives. Yes, I was already aware of the U.S. holding the world at regular gunpoint, my reason for writing this post was mostly because of my own anxieties of a looming nuclear catastrophe. I’ve had many nightmares ending with a mushroom cloud on the horizon. It was also a long winded way to express my morbid curiosity about how far the U.S. will be willing to go in the future.

Thank you all for grounding my perspective, I conclude that a nuclear gun just isn’t as effective as a regular one. I also conclude that even if the leadership of the U.S. is evil incarnate and their country is a modern bandit kingdom they still wouldn’t dare push the button when Russian and Chinese nukes exist.

I hope this still holds true. I really do.

I suppose it was my naivety to think otherwise. But despite me accidentally describing modern American global dominance, nuclear bombs were not dropped on a civilian population post-1945, the Cold War forced the U.S. administration to mask themselves as heroes because the U.S.S.R. had the ability to shoot back with nuclear payloads.

I really have this morbid curiosity about how far the U.S. will take things in the age where there is no peer opponent willing to oppose them.

I love my straw.page so much. Happy New Year to whoever is reading this!

Content warning: testicular torsion

Remember that improvement takes time, take it easy and keep going.

I set up my straw.page yesterday and I already love it.

it’s done, it was a fun process, eventually I will add a second page for the portfolio, hopefully one day a third page for commission details

Looking more into it, it seems straw.page is actually quite useful for many things, it has functionality for different pages and can serve as a link aggregator. It’s possible to set up one personal site to suit all your needs in one place, how neat.

I saw another artist set up a straw.page and it looked fun, I think I will also set up my own custom straw.page complete with the anonymous drawings and messages.

It can definitely be a big avenue for one-sided harrassment, but at the end of the day I got to get thicker skin and “take it aisy”, as Engels once said. I believe the beauty of getting random kind messages, suggestions for things to draw and sketches from people who follow you outweights the downside of some people maybe coming in to throw a rotten tomato at you.

Factorio: I briefly tried it in the totally completely legal way before I switched to Linux, it was great! But, post-Linux I lost interest in acquiring it in the totally completely legal way again.

Risk of Rain 2: It’s always fun, the new DLC that released this year was a hit. To me the game feels complete without mods at this point.

Hearts of Iron 4: I was gifted the new DLC that added content for the People’s Republic of China, perfecting the strategy for early ahistorical expansion and victory on ironman was quite engaging.

Minecraft (Modded): This year I got the idea for making my own mod pack that turned it into a factory building game with a persistent enemy threat similar to Factorio. In December I finally got through my attention deficit to write my first functional lines of code, I feel quite proud of myself.

Signalis: pain and suffering

Atomic Heart: I was gifted the game on my birthday and it was beautiful, the retro-futuristic Soviet environment really comes alive with all the little details the artists put into the game, it will definitely be a big source of art inspiration for the future.

I overall scaled back my consumption of video games at the end of 2025, the goal is to eventually replace video games with consistent daily drawing and illustration practice.

From yesterday’s practice sheet.

I picked an interesting time to make an account on Xitter.

I would happily ditch it if everyone else did, but Mastodon is too niche and Bluesky has the energy of an American suburb.

I sometimes wonder if it would take Elon outright taking a sledgehammer to the Twitter servers for it to finally die and the world to finally move on.

Whenever I want to dull my brain I go to r/romania. Like going to a zoo but the subjects are bots and people with some of the worst, most misinformed and contradictory perspectives imaginable fighting each other while speaking exclusively in a tortured hybrid of Romanian and English.

What keeps me coming back is that rarely I get to see one comment that has a lucid, material understanding of the world among the sea of verbal refuse. I admit it’s not a healthy habit.

The United States is the world’s most successful bandit kingdom.

Let’s say that you were trying to represent as many fields of work as possible by making a list of tools, what tools would you include?

Genuinely stoked to read such a comment. Thank you.

Glad to provide.