Capitalism sucks, but there are worse things than democracy

 

In my flurry of t-shirt designs, most of which involved the clerk manifesto cafe, and a few "Library Card Cafes" for yesterdays missive, I did make a couple "capitalism sucks" cafe designs as well. These were a reference to a bit from my weekly cartoon from 30 years ago where I pretended to sell very expensive "Capitalism Sucks" t-shirts. And why not? It's a fine bit of satire standing the test of time!

Anyway, here's one or two of these designs:

I know, so cute!

I'm not sure though how much punchy economic criticism I was going for here though. These might be as much a fit of pique over how I keep making t-shirt designs and want to order more t-shirts but can't quite afford it because I keep buying more and more tools to help me make better and better t-shirt designs.

Is this Capitalism's fault?

Probably. Most things are. But I've got some of my own things going on here too.

Ah well.

If I get really down about it, I can head on over to my local clerk manifesto café and grab a cup of coffee.

For like, eight dollars!

Bughearts on my mind

 

 I usually have some kind of AI subscription going, and the capabilities of that subscription tend to inform the pictures and movies one might see here. I am currently burning through a month's allowance of credits on a dizzyingly misnamed AI platform called Freepik.

It costs money! And it's called Freepik!

But it does give access to a lot of different tools, the main ones I've been using being its image generators, editor, and upscaler. And though I began making bughearts for T-shirts, well, I've bought all the T-shirts I can manage right now, and I am just making more bughearts because...

because...

I can't stop!

So maybe it's lucky I'm almost out of credits. I've got bughearts on the brain!!!!

Wait.

That gives me an idea.

Wait here for a minute will you?

Well, that's intense.

Anyway, the rest of these shouldn't be so gory. Also, they're still designed as t-shirt logos, so they basically have clear backgrounds (unlike the one above). They also have kind of a porous quality to them because I have found that if the image is too much of a solid decal, it feels like it's plastered on the shirt, and also it falls apart far more quickly.

On the websites where the designs are or will be available, one can change the color of the t-shirt and see the significant differences of how the designs look on different colors with the different color coming through the back of the design.

I'm afraid here we just automatically default to a white background color. So it will have to do.

You will find a strong vein of product placement in this collection.

Flotsam and Jetsam

 

One could say that clerkmanifesto presents each day a meticulously crafted work of small art. And though it be tiny in a World that is far too big for its own good, there is no scale when one looks at something. For when we regard, that is all of the conversation, and a pebble mused on in our hand is no different than a star.

Or

One could say that clerkmanifesto is simply the detritus of a tide. And the tide washes up the shore, and leaves behind whatever has fallen out of the ocean. And here you are walking along the beach, and, voila. It is all random and wild.

And now it is yours.

What will I wear

 

As what could be our very last deep winter starts to show signs of relenting, my thoughts turn to my ragged collection of overused t-shirts.

I'm going to need new clothes.

So I am making some. Or, I should say, I am working on some more t-shirt designs for the companies that print them on demand for me or anyone else who would want them, but really just me.

What does this mean for you?

More bughearts!

It is the rite of passage for every clerkmanifesto reader to occasionally see our symbol here, the bugheart. And so today is...

A normal day at clerkmanifesto: