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carlyorosz.bsky.social
Writer, wrangler of children, enthusiastic-if not always successful-grower of edible plants. Avid consumer of caffeine and fancy cheese.
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My favourite childhood memory is having energy 🥹

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

Anyone who does this is a fucking scab www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet...

I think we're well past the point of "someone turn Elon off and back on again, maybe that'll fix him" to the point of "his CPU is fried and he's full of malware, just get a new one already."

I don’t have regrets. I have a collection of poor decisions that I’ve rebranded as “life lessons.

Since it looks like the White House squatters look to be coming for our sea lamprey control programs soon, I guess us folks in the Great Lakes region had better get used to eating this.

Finally got my kid to open up a little about why she randomly hates sleeping in her room sometimes, and it's apparently because, "sometimes I feel like I'm alone in the house, and then I wonder, WHO'S GOING TO DO MY LAUNDRY?!" Kids are weird.

A big reason I went to college was so I wouldn’t have to wear a shirt with my name on it.

I think the only thing that's gonna get me through the next four years is the Onion covering Trump's middle-aged failsons as if they were a pair of particularly dim eight-year-olds.

Besides posting new comics, I thought people might enjoy seeing this older storyline where a drug-addicted asshole billionaire has some wildly bad luck, for reasons totally unrelated to anything happening right now. Art by @kaistarlight.bsky.social, writing by me. #webcomic #webcomics #writing

still true

I like to eat tamales and imagine that every time someone eats tamales within US borders, Tom Homan gets an excruciating days-long migraine.

The classic question of how many toddlers one could take on in battle takes into account size and intelligence, but not tenacity or energy. If one actually spends time with a mass of activated toddlers, as I did this morning, the answer is always 0. The toddlers will win.

We need this on the market so arrogant billionaires can reject it in favor of eating a shit-ton of organic fruit.

The neurodivergent urge to disappear because nobody understands you. Your direct communication makes people think you're rude. Your pensiveness makes people think you're angry. You're constantly having to overexplain yourself because what you say is rarely perceived how you meant it. IHTL....

New webcomic installment! Art by @kaistarlight.bsky.social, writing by me. Again, nocturnal pets just aren't a great idea, especially when they're big enough to drag you roughly out of bed and destroy your bedroom in a rage. #webcomic #webcomics #writing

More elected Democrats need the energy of my 1 year old who, upon being told "not yours, don't touch," looked me right in the eye, jabbed the item she was told not to touch with her index finger, and said, "TOOOOOUUUCCCHHH!"

Pretty sure I've received most of these #writerlife #writingcommunity

Slava Ukraine!

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

More good news for Michigan! ✊💙

We are now five days out from Valentines Day, and I have finally managed to (mostly) convince my kid that "one card meant for another kid ended up in my card box" =/= "I win because I got one more Valentine than everyone else."

Me: I'll use this Goldbelly gift card for something wholesome and healthful. Me two days later:

Gulf of I Hope the Entirety of Mar a Lago Gets Washed in Here by a Giant Superhurricane from Hell.

Never been much good at self-promotion, but I've recently been able to start posting my webcomic again. Art by @kaistarlight.bsky.social, writing by me. Anyway, large nocturnal pets are a bad idea. #webcomics #webcomic #writing

"I should get $20 for doing my chores cheerfully and $1 for doing my chores not cheerfully." --My kid. I'm a little bit tempted to take her up on it, because she never does chores cheerfully.

Me, standing in the corner making my best bitch face while sipping rose tea.

Nobody: My toddler after being allowed a single 30-minute nap in the big bed with daddy: This bed is my bed It isn't your bed Daddy went potty It's finders keepers If you remove me I'll throw a tantrum This bed is only meant for me

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

I can’t imagine that riding a named horse will improve your experience in the desert

I'm at the age where I no longer work out to be hot. I work out because if I don't my back hurts

The Beef Man (made of Beef) #Deathmatch #OscarMacuahuitl #OCSky #wip #muscles #transgender

If non-elected as sinister unelected shadow president, I promise to fire all the DOGE bros for being not aesthetically pleasing enough and replace them with BTS. Also, that I have no interest whatsoever in stealing your tax info. I don't even want my own tax info.

My shower gel seems too appropriate for the moment.

“tea is nasty, its for old people” me:

It's absolutely maddening to be autistic with justice sensitivity and see literal villains constantly get away with crimes other normal people would be eviscerated for and feel like no one will ever do anything about it and they just keep getting away with it.

I really wish all these people who want to be ruled by a king would just fuck off to a country that has one. Thailand’s pretty and has amazing food. They’ve even got lèse-majesté laws to stop people from upsetting your bootlicking souls.

I am growing increasingly suspicious that my kid thinks the moral of The Lion King is, "Simba was cool when he was singing about how he can't wait to become king and abuse his power, but then he learned, like, responsibility and stuff and became all boring."