A photo of a bumper sticker on the back of a pickup truck. The photo is cropped to only show a little striping of the truck, with two white stripes at the top, one thick, one thin; there is some scratch marks over these. Below it is black, where the sticker, itself black with white text is located.

The text reads:
"Trans people existing
does nothing negative
to your life
you crybaby bitch"

A black and white dog laying on a deck.

CDN media

Me in shades

four phone pics of a tortoiseshell cat rubbing against the legs of a weirdo in purple pants and black boots

Parks and Rec scene with the caption "I didn't think March 31st existed"

pokey the penguin in lo-fi holding a trans flag and saying "HOORAY FOR MY NICE TRANS FRIENDS!!!"

vintage box marked "practical burial slippers"

A black man in a marching band drum major uniform of the USC Trojans (maroon with gold) signs an autograph or something similar for a white man with short blonde hair in a similar uniform holding a trombone.

A person with curly hair sits on a low concrete ledge beside “Computing a Future” (“Grainger Bob”), a life-sized bronze sculpture by Seward Johnson depicting a man reading a book. The statue wears a blue shirt and light-colored pants and holds an open book on its lap. Both are set against a red brick wall, with a paved walkway in the foreground.

A vintage-style comic panel shows a soldier standing on a rocky rise in a desert setting, speaking to others. He is gesturing toward his clothing while saying, “Everybody take off your shirts and pants… and do what I tell you!” Other figures stand nearby in shadow, and a rifle lies on the ground in the foreground. One man in front looks uneasy, gripping his shirt as he listens.

Ernie and Bert fainting

Warriors scene in which a character asks a crowd "Can you dig it?"

A deep canyon, with craggy reddish cliffs on both sides. The sunlight is coming from the left, turning the upper half of one of the cliffs a bright orange. The sky is heavily cloudy and an eerie yellowish-green. On the left cliff, so close to the edge it looks like it is about to fall off, sits a white three-story house, one side blazing in the late afternoon sunlight. On the darkened side of the house, one window is lit. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Human banner on Ocean Beach, San Francisco reading: "TRUMP MUST GO NOW! NO ICE - NO WARS - NO LIES - NO KINGS

Screenshot of a blog post with photos titled “March 2026 in photos.”

Drawing of a knife laid on its side

puppets in a conversation pit

After 27 years of rearranging pixels, I’m trading my mouse for a microscope and attempting to teach high school biology before the climate finishes us off. I’ve launched a Substack to document this mid-life metamorphosis, my recent autism diagnosis, and a vast collection of half-baked creative projects I’ll almost certainly never finish. It’s a digital graveyard for my works-in-progress—ranging from indie comic scripts to biological deep-dives—at various stages of "good enough to post but too much work to complete." Full disclosure: in the spirit of surviving the machine, I'll document using AI in other ways, I’m also hoping to claw back some extra money to offset the terrifying jump to teacher pay. Come for the science and self-deprecation, stay for the cynical-but-hopeful inner monologue of a 45-year-old starting over while their adult child looks on in pity.

https://coryottenwess.substack.com/