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(This was originally posted in Mental Health Support on August 14, 2025 and the last edit was made on August 18, 2025. I started drawing these (characteristically lazily drawn) caricatures last July when road closures diverted extra heavy duty traffic onto my street at a time when this street should be closed off to all non-essential traffic, seeing as this is a burgeoning complaint whether Prof Hennessy and his Si Valley Musical Quartet continues to dazzle society with a fine ostrich act or not.
Oh come on Prof Hennessy. I cannot keep pretending to pretend that you are only stupid and not also kinda tacky and scammy and symbolically pinning the blame on me as I pin it on you.
Here is this stoner slacker - the atomized only child of a nuclear family and generally various things that you would need way more resources and investments made in you than I had with my unique genetics and experiences to not be.
Hennessy probably wants fl scale it up as Operation Slacker Reintegration! But that is overly broad and goes for a cheap gag, where Hennessy is endlessly entertaining without it needing these degrading..
He is terrible ..That guy. But while reality is too complex to reduce to any cliche:

Prof Hennessy and I do capture a peculiar dynamic as an old, rich, white guy who is a nightmare and me..I am dead average.
This was uncalled for by any realistic standard and I protest the constant attempt to diminish…


This is so funny. I was a Stewart and Colbert fan from way back. I had a kind of brain injury I guess..around Dec 2011.
I am okay as of this date. Though I keep.

I can’t always remember. I at least generally believe the various “sfories” one tells oneself about the world. It would be embarrassing and shocking if one didn’t as they are very routine.

Hennessy is crazy..Man..imagine having to pretend to either take that guy seriously all the way or completely discount him. I don’t want to know that guy!

These people all live in that part of reality that no one cool lives in except Yasha Levine and Christopher Ketcham. But Yasha is also sane.
He wouldn’t..he isn’t histrionic and he cares about stuff, but he is no crazy. It is not very clear with many of you what is going on back there.
I am a total fraud in some of this to the extent that I should be surreptitiously shoring up my skills and work, but not tackily and desperately like old man Hennessy. God..it is just bathos and thanatos in Prof Hennessy’s world.
Wtf? That is how non influential, new “rude little shrimps” whose lives you all affect damn you!
Stop having so many kids all of you!

I can’t comprehend this high collateral damage survival strategy I intuit with this kind of pointless speed.
I sometimes meet devastatingly shallow people and think “This is the type of Person Prof Hennessy would like”. Or well at least the type of person Prof Hennessy views and wants as this like automaton that sits around repeating shit like this as if it about something important:

Surely a guy who made some sort of tacky processor knows how much bullshit fuels this world and how you would not need to be mean-spirited towards anyone but: Marc Andreessen, Sundar Pichai, my sleazy and corrupt communist chief minister here in India, Mark Zuckerberg and his moll, Bezos+moll, Ambani+gold toilet, Adani, Byju Raveendran, Sebastian Thrun, Woebot (a load of bollocks if I ever saw any..Elizabeth Holmes cab justifiably feel aggrieved about being the only scammer stupid enough to pick an easily detectable scam), Satya Nadella (Ed Zitron got the ball rolling…good for him. I have immunity! I was tortured by lousy technology and a few creepy humans), the MIT Media Lab, Aaron Elkins, Rana Al Khalouby, Sheryl Sandberg, Wynn Williams/ (False critics are a scourge..Yasha Levine is the only human I completely trust in journalism and probably also Chris Ketcham. But I know Yasha longer and better. I love Yasha. He is totally one of us. He is like someone one would know irl in a serious slot - like a labmate/mentor/friend or doctor).

Because on the one hand it is all really lame and non-lurid. Otoh how is that immaterial when that is so much of what is wrong and Hennessy’s negligent ways are so people remain focused on this emotionally manipulative, time wasting hogwash, whose reality makes it an aberration. But not one I would encourage the growth of so much as see as a cautionary degrowth tale around my stuff and life.


Look..I am not in this pantheon of archetypes etc. It all looks very strenuous. I did like Andrew Manson in The Citadel. Even competent people start somewhere.

Or I wasn’t and well. Now I have to fill it out as it is woefully (Hey Woebot lady, I am sorry for calling out your scam but I have to be even handed and there is no way , but you are right in a way.


After seeing the pseudo elite I get this disproportionate amount of focus on these very identity specific culture wars.

Over here..in the rabble realm, my intuition is that for a cross section of us and the only people one can conceivably talk to seriously, we are all..we are all kinda equally screwed.

But I did and do want to stick it to these guys wherever they have given me an opportunity and sort of shield my mentor (though 🙄..I remember thinking this guy will need help to not have both of us turned into laughing stock because…I could never make sense of the guy).
On my darker days I hope he isn’t like Alex Pentland. I hope he is closer to a Norbert Weiner with some talent at civil dissimulation.

No..he was cool..Or at least I really hope so. That was the truly awesome thing about my mentor. He was as predictable as my parents or my two best friends. Like it is not just because he is decent, honest etc. He would intuitively get why being this like member of the “List of infamous American University Presidents”like old Hennessy at least is guranteed to be is myopic somewhere deep inside his brain.
His world is far from this somehow perennially creepy program . Mockery is a tool and one has the right to..All eyes on Hennessy.

I mean I should have been a better scientist and person etc. But I promise you Hennessy is far worse.

That is the thing about my mentor. He tries to “win at life” or whatever in the sanest way in terms of not needing to destroy history because of your position in it Idiocracy.

These guys are really dumb..

Caveat/Warning: Some of this material may be offensive or unpleasant. It is not anti-psychiatry/anti-science nor hateful. It is satire and anti charlatanry. The point is that using the language of health and wellness charlatans get away with: conflicts of interest (e.g.: tech/defence contracting connected sleazy, lightweight and mediocre fluff is not the best fit for serious mental health sciences), misogyny, encroachment, intrusions on seclusion for no valid reason, harassment and the shilling of worthless crap (which would be harder without such guff). I have also slammed anti-psychiatry and wellness influencers like Laura Delano. I don’t like any self-serving charlatans. I try hard to be an honest person and am tired of suffering liars, morons etc. YMMV ;-/.
Finally, this is recommended only for someone whose critical thinking skills are advanced enough that they don’t make serious decisions about health or anything based on satirical cartoons (involving oblique references) online. I am not a fan of explanations as a rule. This is directed at specific things and you may not get what I mean. Don’t take this as relevant to you if you stumble on it. Imo you can’t child proof the world-especially at this level(the internet has lots of far worse shit). Shrug. I’ll take it down if it is flagged as harmful or offensive. If anyone even reads it. I put it up for my own sake really. It is intended only for well adults.

I focus more on the misogyny than on the sleazy women I came across (not that there was any shortage of such persons) because :1) I dislike the tacky “catfight!” dynamic that titillates creeps and plays to the lowest common denominator and 2) weight for weight the average sleazy woman gets the message faster than the average creep (who never seems to get it).
(I am an autodidact in creep/sleazebag psycho-sociology!) There are always the corner cases ;-/.
Absurdist Kafkaesque reality. Shrug.


This was a fun exercise I started mid July, going by the time stamps on my images. I posted it on DU July 21, 2025 if not earlier. And I completed the series with the last image I posted yesterday (August 18, 2025). I made the mock thought stream a week or so earlier.

I am very proud of my scrawls though, because I had fun drawing them. A final post wrapping up something I was experimenting with. The text is a bit disjointed, but I have to go work, after a long hiatus for all sorts of hideous and complicated reasons.

I have never suffered from mental illness. If I did, while I wouldn’t talk about it, I wouldn’t explicitly deny it either. I honestly don’t really see any stigma in illness. Another area where I feel out of sync with such hoary chestnuts. But if you aren’t ill, you aren’t.

Existential angst perhaps and chronic stress worsened by sexual harassment and intrusions on seclusion. Ruth Cain had a good piece in The Conversation about it.

Usually you end up like this guy or worse if you don’t have the slightest intention of pacifying the technolibertarian crew running most places ;-/.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr46npx1e73o

It’s hard for anyone to be well these days, but I try.
Don’t take life so serious, it ain’t nohow permanent is me motto…I was never big on that sharing/ vulnerability stuff ;-/. I likes me defense mechanisms just fine!

But enough about me .

I found some relief in viciously caricaturing the types of men I encountered/lousy tech I was plagued by during a 13 year period from 2012-the present. That’s behind me now.

These are not misandrist or anti-psychiatry ;-/. They are anti-stupidity and anti-corruption though. I liked most of my shrinks even if I didn’t agree that I needed much shrinkage (especially unsolicited shrinkage).

Some of these caricatures are a bit broad ;-/.

Anyway I made these as a tribute to all the creeps i met or read about over the years. I suppose they generally mock meninists; a specific type of Yimby; incompetence; contemporary tech; influencers; advertising etc.

Influencing is a particularly bizarre concept-the movie Tusk comes to mind as a cautionary tale ;-/. The walrus body horror one..

How Creeps and Opportunists Affect Free Will:



Parody Paper on Creeps Figures:


Proportionality


Crazy Catlady vs Creeps



Advanced Crazy Catlady vs Creeps



(Explanatory Footnote: Advanced schizophrenia! Not the basic kind! ;-/)

This looks a bit like a creepy man I met in a state office where I had gone for something related to digital id. He picked his nose, which is not depicted to keep things tasteful.

Musical Pervert


This is not Sundar Pichai

Advanced Musical Pervert


Him


It's a Bird... It's a Plane... No, It's a Creep!

20 years ago The Male Creep was considered an endangered species (mostly by male creeps). But by 2025 we can rejoice in the fact that the Creep Population is no longer in decline..



I had originally named this next one “The Saint” till I remembered that it’s in the name of a viciously racist book. I changed it to The Martyr and to be inclusive (focused as I usually am on our creeps here in the Global South), I threw in a couple of Nazis.

It ended up looking a bit like a holographer/defence contractor (Lockheed Martin) who sexually harassed me in 2014. My dad is a military vet and disapproves of defence contracting.

The Martyr


The Martyred


I went to school in the US. But I moved back to Podunk, Global South (which I view with an affectionately satirical eye).

Most men I meet irl here are nice-my doctors, the delivery men who come here etc. Podunk, GS has an oblivious charm as long as it doesn’t start going the way of SP’s “Cancelled”.
BTS creepy defence contractors, creepy technocrats and corrupt officials are a concern. But hopefully, that’s in the past.

Govts classify stuff and have classified projects. For that to work it has to be limited hangout and not about the enrichment of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats.

I’ll give you an example of how things work in some parts of the Global South I have visited (culture!). A type of industrialist exploits a specific type of bullshit framing (which I think is overused even on any semi-legit left; e.g.: “Colonialism and Western Imperialism” ) to justify his own encroaching and corrupt ways.

Example: a crass billionaire whose son’s wedding cost 170,000 times the average annual salary of a local, talked about “colonialism” when Zuckerberg wanted to pile on with some sort of icky “Internet for poor people” scam.

Two professors then wrote a decent enough editorial to the telecom regulatory authorities urging them to stop that and Zuck was bounced out.

Two years later Zuckerberg comes back, but now he is in bed with this creepy billionaire and no one has any problems with it. They are all fine with colonialism as long as they can participate in the colonizing I guess. Anyone who is straightforward loses. That’s just not right.

This really captures it. I call it
Creep Rights are Human Rights!



(I would attribute those first two images if I could find them. The second one especially is really awesome. I downloaded that around 2015 and can’t find it anymore).

And it’s the same in most places. Humans like to exploit humans and of course the planet/non-human life. In US with Trump/Musk etc. The US is pretty much like any corrupt developing country now.

Now take this Indian ecologist Madhav Gadgil who is the rare type of human even I respect.
Gadgil wrote an extensive scientific report urging against exploitation of the Western Ghats, an ecologically sensitive region under immense strain. (IMO due to the effects of overpopulation, overconsumption and overdevelopment). The communist CM of a state called Kerala tossed it aside. The resulting natural disasters caused significant loss of life. So much for man versus nature and the benefits of corrupt overexploitation of natural resources.

I live in another one of the few communist states in the world. Though I am well to the left, I have no illusions about our communist govt unlike people who have never lived in a communist state. Even Nathan Robinson whom I respect has these blinders about China for instance. He had this Indian version of Steven Pinker (Kishore Mahbubani) on recently. Life is getting better! People are living longer!

That Pinker stuff is so blind to the effects of population explosion, deregulation, roiling tensions between some 1000 different microcultures.
I have no illusions about any politicians/industrialists here. They are all okay with destroying the planet for profit.

You gotta have a consistent worldview to withstand corruption and alarming levels of industrial encroachment and deregulation.

There are no good guys when it comes to oligarchs, industrialists, most politicians and those in their pockets. Conspiracy theorists -the natural endpoint of an Idiocracy make it worse.

Scientists and doctors are pretty much the only people I trust (any shills aside). A caveat though -I do not consider behavioral economics (nudge theory, Bschool fluff), what the MIT Media lab does, most AI, the Facebook emotion contagion study, behaviorism etc. science for the most part.

The hard sciences and anything conducted using strict and rigorous scientific methods. Ai seems to allow for a lot of lightweight stuff as well. Yan LeCun is the sole prominent AI researcher I have seen out there who seems completely honest.

I suppose to be fair, one feels a bit resentful. I was shocked to read how much money people like Gino, Ariely etc. made prior to scandals. That stuff is such junk!

In the hard sciences you toil and spin (after a fashion if like me you are half assed) and then die a lonely horrible death..ha ha.

I am working on a research paper trying to tune out endless nuisances to get it right. Science and medicine do take a lot of dedication..I had good mentors, so I was lucky there. My main postdoc mentor especially, though all 3 of my mentors were cool. I had 3 between 2001-2012. Now I mentor meself!

I do have to go work on that ..feel a bit weary at times..Like The Martyr!

This one was a tribute to the specific type of socialist you see in The Jacobin-very Yimby and “pro-development” (Ben Wray, Freddie DeBoer, Casey Phillips etc.). Ben Wray said that “abortion rights are still broadly popular”. Good to know man ;-/.



I was just being funny. There’s a bit of artistic license in there. Technically the rape advocates I saw online were Rooshv and Andrew Tate. I hope I am not sued by NaziReputationManagementInc.com…

These cartoons skew Global South centric since I am not American and left the United States over a decade ago. So they focus on our creeps here rather than your creeps over there. (It is also why the creep parade doesn’t cover anti-vaxxers. Thankfully, that bit of lunacy is less common here than it apparently is in the US. People were pretty good about social distancing, masking and vaccinating during the pandemic. So my creep parade doesn’t not focus on that. An unvaccinated creep parade would be the limit.)

The left can totally meme . Though I think memes and “going viral” are a bit gauche. I made these for private use and only posted them here out of exasperation over deregulation and corruption.
Tech criticism is a joke. That’s part of what I was mocking. How every tumor of a non-industry launches more reactionary tumors like faux critics and insincere tell-alls-Tristan Harris, Tegmark, Eff, Wynn Williams.
Yasha Levine is the exception not the rule. But he is too honest a journalist to get a job these days.

Lina Khan on the other hand, much like Gadgil, is the rare person even I am enthusiastic about. She got so much accomplished it scared the tech creeps into destroying society.

My first “Images of Creep” series featured her prominently and even had MTG! Don’t remember where I pulled that image from except somewhere online so can’t credit it.


(Can’t remember where I got the sobriety, Khan and MTG images from. And in fairness this intense obsession by sleuths over 0.3-3.5% fraud in academic research and plagiarism etc seem a bit overdone when Google/Meta/OpenAi etc make a joke of such concepts.)

I see places like those pompous schools with ties to the tech industry/industry broadly- MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard get all tingly about OpenCourseWare, RetractionWatch and Wikipedia etc…it’s so…douchey. I can see so easily that it gives them a chance to make life hell for the average struggling scientist while letting the Google/Palantir/Hoover creep types force snoopy and broken AI agents on people. For open science of course. Who can object to that? Puppy murderers that’s who.

Democratizing science-one WWE style disgraceful reality show at a time! Jokes aside, another way for opaque and corrupt tech companies to subvert notions like open science, health etc

I am all for good science and within reason even health. I try not to die. That counts I think. But honestly, not in this blatantly bogus way. It’s not good for old-fashioned and more honest NIH science of the best kinds. Shrug.

Now to wrap up..someone who unscrambled my brains a little was that Rick Rude Calves guy. The couch joke did some damage and the typical douchebag would have tried to capitalise on that. He was the first person I ever read about online who seemed like an actual non-retiree with a real offline life. He got that “going viral” is a bad thing not a good thing.
I felt a twinge of recognition when I read about him last year. He is from your Global North Podunk and I am from Podunk, Global South! I suddenly got why, left as I am, I could never quite mesh my worldview with that of the left liberal Americans whom I genuinely like …communication gets complicated.

I am trying to acquire some communication skills these days..but it’s a work in progress..was never very sociable ;-/. Was able to pull it off superficially and now I will be able to again.

I am not wildly original (which is why this is not my day job), so homage to (a mix of tech critics, political writers and comedians): Rex Huppke, Lyta Gold, Cara Smith (mostly Cara Smith), Andrew O’Hehir, Chauncey DeVega, Herman Wouk, Rick Rude’s Calves (a personal role model-a rare anon/non-retiree with an offline existence), Plork Blogspot, Candyboots WW Cards, Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, R K Laxman, my beloved childhood authors Lewis Carroll and Richmal Crompton, ‘How Love came to Prof. Guildea’, my mom/dad/best friend/ex-husband, an unknown human user or two of Rollo Carpenter’s Cleverbot, Hatersaurusrex (Reddit), Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, South Park, Nandita Bajaj, Samuel Miller MacDonald, Nathan Robinson, Yasha Levine, Evgenia Kovda, Evgeny Morozow, Nicholas Carr, Tim Wu, John Naughton, Ed Zitron, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Amanda Marcotte, Jill Filipovic.

No Ai-that stuff is nails on chalkboard
Finally, most importantly, all my muses mostly here in Podunk, Global South. I have left out any women (though there were quite a few women I was displeased with) . But I avoid attacks on other women. You see I try to bite down and tolerate most things that stop short of outright creepiness. I have even left out mere jackasses where male.

An exception to that is these assholes who ride their bikes down my street with their silencers off. They were such a source of stress that my dentist said she could see signs of strain in my mouth from grinding my teeth. That’s why I have included them.

Sexual Harassers: All the sexual harassers/creeps I met in Podunk, Global South between 2014 and the present and one sexual harasser from this part of the world I met at a clinic in 2010, while in the US. These cap wearing creeps who used to ruin my morning jog in 2023 when I was still recovering from losing my mom.

Inept Shrinks: Two boorish male shrinks here in Podunk in the Dec of 2012. They are the primary inspirations for the cartoon shrinks. But the worst shrinks were at the hospital at my last place of employment in the US. They even harassed the only shrink I ever went to voluntarily and who was of use. Thankfully, the psychiatrist/therapist they had me see outside were cool, as was the counsellor.

Assorted morons: All the frauds and morons I met between May 2010 and the present. The (unknown) creeps exploiting my street and neighborhood.
I definitely think the local tech companies, defence contractors etc would be wise to stay away from my residence, street etc for all illicit experimentation. That’s what it is-completely non-consensual and illicit. Between 2012 and the present, my doctors or routine oblivious people aside, I never saw anything at all unusual locally that was not outright creepy, completely exploitative and mind numbingly incompetent. This stuff is an embarrassment and reminded of similar garbage I saw elsewhere.

These (indifferent) cartoons wouldn’t have been possible without them or the various annoying public figures/hucksters who diligently dedicate their lives to destroying planet earth and human society every day of their lives.

One final anecdote to wrap up this post:

I was trying to improve my memory a few weeks back and also fish in my head to see how I think so a greasy data miner doesn’t understand one’s mind better than one does..I have seen conspiracy theorists do this, but I was only trying to see any links I make. It was a useful exercise some.
This graphic is lightly edited to give Planned Parenthood a shoutout, but it’s mostly the original concept stream of a Saturday weeks ago when I was trying to escape the ghastly reality show feel of modern life where real science and medicine are displaced by marketing, junk like AI border security lie detection, emotion AI, behavioral economics, sublimnal messaging, sleuthing by dimwits, nudge theory and other worthless trash that should not exist:



It was somewhat useful, but at one point when I was going over this, my eyes hopelessly scanning from the icon on “GOP podcasts” to Matt Walsh asking if he is a racist, to MTG, with pompous exhortations from The Atlantic about good taste on the side, it struck me that this must be what hell looks like:


This society is hopeless ;-/. But you are looking at the wrong things! Crispr! Heart transplants! We have shoes now!

Possibly a slightly jaded take ;-/.

Last edit: There was a very funny article in the NYT about ChatGPT induced delusions with the standard issue Stanford Reefer Madness type weighing in. That piece was everything I satirized in this post. Stanford is the gift that keeps on giving. It’s such a ridiculous institution. Like Trump, they are beyond parody. Well at least they took down their “Women’s Bodies and Alcohol” piece. That institution is everything I have ever mocked in concentrated form ;-/.