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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 30/09/2026

I posted a tiny book I made! You can read it for free at ko-fi.com/post/Ive-bee...

The cover of a tiny lo-fi book titled Look What I Can Do, with a blobby stick figure T-posing.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 09/06/2026

The child, age five, has already resolved to become a usurper

A five year old child's handwriting on a white board which reads "I am your dad"

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 25/02/2026

This baffling exercise in windows11-ification took a menu that had nearly everything I needed in a single tap to now require multiple taps to get to several common functions ("more" circled below). But at least it's all spaced out and round and ???

A screenshot of Firefox on Android, specifically its dogshit new three-dot menu.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 04/01/2026

The Child, age four, has designed a biblically accurate pizza

A child's design of a pizza, drawn in marker on a cut-out piece of paper from the recycle bin. The design is very radially symmetrical and the inner circle has six circles that look like eyes.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 30/12/2025

In which Grambo encounters a kind of line

Implied frame 1: Grambo approaches a line and muses aloud, "I wonder what kind of line this is." Implied frame 2: Grambo very apprehensively steps one foot over the line, grimacing.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 14/12/2025

having a Spiritual Experience learning about flow cytometry and getting to this hermetic diagram PS if you know how to get access to a flow cytometer* please tell me. I am going to need to compare chromosome counts in botanical samples in the next year. *in the regrettable USA, specifically SLC

A diagram depicting the operation and function of a flow cytometry device.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 03/12/2025

The Child, age 4, has a powerful urge to decorate for any holiday. We are making increasingly tiny christmas trees. This one is for Mouse Christmas. Where will it end

Photo of a tiny sprig of juniper, potted in a bottlecap, wrapped with golden string and topped with a purple star bead. Two toy mice are looking at each other across the tree.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 07/11/2025

Please accept this cube of cubes as a token of my appreciation

A cube of 27 chrome-plated cube magnets sits on a rock in a pot next to a cactus graft.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 28/10/2025

@firefox.com Firefox once again re-enabled this stupid-ass RAM-hogging bullshit "use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" setting even though I keep disabling it. Stop shitting up the last decent browser goddamnit

Firefox once again re-enabled its fucking stupid-ass RAM-hogging bullshit "use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" setting even though I keep disabling it

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 30/07/2025

I've just written something about a really esoteric pursuit of mine, except I wrote it for the dozens of fellow cactus grafting nerds on the internet, meaning it has no glossing or explanations for normals. I posted it free for all to read on my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/post/Dear-re...

Pictured, a cactus graft in which a seedling of Weberbauerocereus winterianus has been vertically bisected and attached to two correspondingly cut stems of Pereskiopsis 'spathulata'. The scion half in this photo is healthy five days after the operation (as is the other). The photo includes a ruler in the background showing that the scion is about 7 mm tall and not more than 3 mm wide.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 27/07/2025

A sign of life: ko-fi.com/Post/A-sign-...

Illustration: Grambo sits in the bare branches of a gnarled and leafless tree that grows on the edge of a cliff.

Caption: Sometimes, when you don't hear from me, it's not because things are going bad. / I mean, things are still not great. But that's not why.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 01/04/2025

I don't like this one very much. People said they wanted to see the ones I didn't like, so here it is. All told, with constant interruptions and the weaknesses of the fleshy vehicle, it took me at least an hour, which hardly feels worth it.

ALT TEXT: Top panel shows three increasingly close shots of a stick figure in a manic pose with a rictus grin who says, "Look, everybody! I feel fine! I'm not sick and nothing hurts and I have positive feelings about myself and the future! / did I get you? Did I have you going there?" The bottom panel shows two stick figures reacting: "You are so bad at April Fools." "I pity you more and like you less now."

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 25/02/2025

I'm practicing divination by bread-baking & I regret to inform you that we are all thoroughly fucked #wizardposting

Pictured: a freshly baked loaf of homemade bread with a slightly chaotic shape and nonsensical scoring.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 24/02/2025

A delightful little tome from the wizard's library #wizardposting

Pictured: a book with the excessively long title "Fun Nonsense Words to Say Out Loud inside A Candle Pentagram on the Floor (which DEFINITELY won't turn you into a cursed book; they're just FUN TO SAY!)"

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 22/02/2025

"You say that about everything, Hoarder Wizard." #WIZARDPOSTING

Panel 1 of 2: a wizard holds a crystal full of darkness and purple and says, "We must seal away the ancient evil!" A warrior with a sword asks, "Why not simply destroy it?"
Panel 2 of 2: closeup of the wizard's face. "Well what if we need it later? Did you think of that, smart guy?"

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 14/01/2025

This is the first time in weeks I've felt like some semblance of myself. And, thanks to this unexpected respite, I have emerged from the underworld bearing juice. The juice is for you, my friends. Thank you for being here.

Four panels. First, a stick figure reads small print on the label of a bottle of "GUZZ [cut-off text] J". Second, a closeup on said small print: "Shake well before drinking". Third panel: the stick figure has put the bottle down on a small round table with legs in the form of cephalopod limbs. The figure stands rigidly and shakes their whole body rapidly in place. Fourth panel: the figure holds the bottle up over their mouth while thinking, "I hope that was well enough."

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 31/12/2024

I haven't forgotten about you, dear readers, and I haven't given up on making comics. As you surely know if you've read more than a handful of my posts, I am permanently Going Through Some Stuff.

Grambo stands almost on a line extending forward from the left and ending in an arrow at the right edge of the frame. Pensively and not without some concern, Grambo thinks, "Time is doing that thing again."

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 15/12/2024

You gotta try it, dude. Changed my LIFE

Panel 1 of 2: a door, open about a quarter of the way, allows a voice to pass outside the room where its unseen speaker is: "I am a serene beast / in the cool of the shade / upon the precipice / of the ambush / my path is inevitable / and none shall deliver". Panel 2 of 2: A person (looking alarmed) says to another (cheerful) "So...I heard what you were saying in there..." The other replies "Just doing my daily affirmations!"

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 30/11/2024

This was about a week ago. I am so proud of these little fellas. The seed packets all came from the SLCPL seed library and were all at least four years old, so the germination rate was much better than expected.

Arugula seedlings growing inside a small tunnel greenhouse. Behind them, along the plastic membrane wall, reused bottles and jugs contain water to act as heat storage, built up during the day and slowly released at night.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 24/11/2024

this is what I have been becoming all along

Grambo, sitting in a puddle, recounts an important tale to a small child, also sitting in a puddle and holding a toy that appears to be a potted branching cactus and the pot has the legs and tail of a Tyrannosaurid dinosaur. And so anyway Grambo says, "So I made a humorous reference to wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time..." The child experiences puzzlement. The end!

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 15/11/2024

This one was only meant to be grafting practice (self-grafting, specifically) but now am calling it Étude in Austrocylindropuntia subulata 003: "Zigged when I shoulda zagged" because I am a real sucker for long titles. Still needs suitable potting and possibly a companion plant; open to suggestions.

Photograph of a small cylindrical cactus of the species Austrocylindropuntia subulata, green with hints of red in the areoles and tiny leaves, sparsely spined and with small tufts of hairs at some areoles. This specimen has been cut at slight diagonals in three places; the pieces were rotated 180 degrees and reattached to the segment from which they were cut. The effect is of a cactus growing in a sharp, unnatural zigzag shape.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 07/11/2024

I do not claim it will get better—though for all I know, it might—only that there are good reasons to remain. / This is not a sentiment original to me and has quite likely been said before, but it's what's on my mind so here it is in comics form.

In black and white. Red Guy, currently in the form of a sort of flattened ovoid blob, says, "Why do we struggle so to survive? What motivates us?" Blue Guy, a spiky ball, answers with gritted teeth: "Spite, mostly."

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 03/11/2024

Ehhh (You know the drill: Red Guy and Blue Guy are shapeshifting beings whose color is an accident of birth and whose guyness implies no gender. What low-stakes nonsense will they get up to next time? I personally do not know yet!)

Red Guy, who doesn't seem to be having any fun, looks down at Blue Guy and asks, "How much longer will you keep your silence?" Blue Guy, in the shape of a blob with two shrugging arms, has also shape-shifted the letters to spell "SHRUG" across the top of their head.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 28/10/2024

this is a nothing but I would like to not lose the habit entirely, anyway, so. (Want to hear how my cactus grafting is going?)

BLUE GUY: I have so much to tell you.
RED GUY: Tell me so much!
BLUE GUY: I hope you enjoy the profoundly trivial.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 20/10/2024

It sure doesn't seem to be working. Maybe this one?

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 20/10/2024

I made a GIF! In 2024! I am relevant! Also, I wrote some stuff last night and you can read it at ko-fi.com/Post/Some-wo...

This is an animated GIF of Red Guy and Blue Guy saying "words". That's all it is.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 06/10/2024

Be the change etc etc. (You know the drill: Red Guy and Blue Guy are shapeshifting beings whose color is an accident of birth and whose guyness implies no gender. What low-stakes nonsense will they get up to next time? I personally do not know yet!)

Blue Guy, in the form of a floating ghost, asks, "Does it feel spooky in here?" Red Guy, shaped approximately like a skull, answers, "Not nearly spooky enough."

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 04/10/2024

You are doing another of your "metaphors"? (CrustaceanSingles presents: Red Guy and Blue Guy, where the 'guy's are gender-neutral and the colors are an accident of birth, not a sign of political or sports affiliation. And they change shape! It's fun.)

Red Guy, whacking self over head with a club labeled "self-congratulation" and grinning vacantly: "I am good at this."
Blue Guy, limbs writhing pensively and placing one finger on the chin, also pensively: "This one may be too subtle for me."

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 26/09/2024

No, I don't think I will. (CrustaceanSingles presents: Red Guy and Blue Guy, where the 'guy's are gender-neutral and the colors are an accident of birth, not a sign of political or sports affiliation. And they change shape! It's fun.)

Red Guy, whose head has sprouted an arm that holds between thumb and forefinger a piece of paper reading (in pixelated text) "Click here for more information" with an image of a mouse cursor (also pixelated). Blue Guy folds two arms and extends a squinting eye on a stalk to read Red Guy's paper. Blue Guy scowls.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 25/09/2024

"We should say cactus things." "Go hug yourself! Is that something?" "The thingness is not in question. But is it a cactus something?" (Tiny landscape cultivated and arranged by Andrew Livingston, who is also me.)

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 24/09/2024

Today I can comic, but I cannot effort. (CrustaceanSingles presents: Red Guy and Blue Guy, where the 'guy's are gender-neutral and the colors are an accident of birth, not a sign of political or sports affiliation. And they change shape! It's fun.)

Blue Guy, who has sprouted two arms posed in an aggressively pensive configuration, asks "Do I dare defy the universe?" Red Guy, who stands on two limbs that end in something not unlike a simian hand or an avian foot, says, "Blue, I watch you do that several times a day."

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 19/09/2024

Next question. (CrustaceanSingles presents: Red Guy and Blue Guy, where the 'guy's are gender-neutral and the colors are an accident of birth, not a sign of political or sports affiliation. And they change shape! It's fun.)

In a closeup, Red Guy looks nervous while asking, "Is it always wrong to lie?" Zoomed out, Red Guy and Blue Guy stare uncomfortably at each other. In another closeup, Blue Guy looks nervous while saying, "I am not prepared to comment on the matter at this time."

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 14/09/2024

Not a comic. Just some little studies I was working on last night. . (CrustaceanSingles presents: Red Guy and Blue Guy, where the 'guy's are gender-neutral and the colors are an accident of birth, not a sign of political or sports affiliation. And they change shape! It's fun.)

Top caption: "Red Guy & Blue Guy are concerned." Pictured: three sets of Red Guy and Blue Guy, shapeshifting variously and looking disturbed, alarmed, disquieted, &c.

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 09/09/2024

Bummer. CrustaceanSingles presents Red Guy and Blue Guy, where the 'guy's are gender-neutral and the colors are an accident of birth, not a sign of political or sports affiliation. And they change shape! It's fun.

Blue Guy, shaped like a fluffy cloud, floats wordlessly at the top of the frame. Red Guy, shaped like a cloud if a cloud could sit ponderously on the ground, says, "Though I change my shape to that of the cloud, I cannot float, for my heart is heavy."

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CrustaceanSingles @crustaceansingles.com · 03/09/2024

I wasn't gonna, but now I kinda want to.

Red Guy, blob-shaped: "You OK, Blue? You've gone all pointy." Blue Guy, shaped like a sharp-edged pyramid and with pointy teeth, says, "I am not to be trodden upon."

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