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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · Jul 24
Update: Decided on a spreadsheet instead.

This is a Google Docs spreadsheet transcribing all 100+ pages of Dan Pelzer's reading list "What Dan Read, 1962-2025." Feel free to contribute so I don't have to do the entire list myself!

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What Dan Read 1962-2025
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23h
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d
Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day
A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d
I saw this comic strip in the Sunday comics page this week. I really think we're going to win.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d
Wasn’t expecting to find this in the comics page of the local Sunday paper.
The comic Six Chix by Isabella Bannerman: a one-panel comic depicting a chicken painting a green stripe in a colorful pedestrian road crossing. The caption reads: “Why did the chicken cross the road? To help repaint the Pride rainbow.”
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d
("Wasn't expecting" as in "wasn't expecting to find an actual pro-Pride message in what is usually a bland comics page," but then I don't think I've ever heard of Six Chix before. Either way, I think this is a sign that we're winning.)
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d
From comicskingdom.com/six-chix/202...
Six Chix Comic Strip 2025-10-12 | Comics Kingdom
Read the Six Chix comic strip from October 12, 2025, and check out other Six Chix comics by Bannerman, Xunise, Konar, Lawton, Patrinos & Piro.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d
Wasn’t expecting to find this in the comics page of the local Sunday paper.
The comic Six Chix by Isabella Bannerman: a one-panel comic depicting a chicken painting a green stripe in a colorful pedestrian road crossing. The caption reads: “Why did the chicken cross the road? To help repaint the Pride rainbow.”
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 2d
RFK Jr with a speech bubble
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 3d
Although it’ll be more like “How the Democratic Party’s cover-up of Hillary and Biden’s health scares led to our current crisis.”
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 3d
“…with JFK Sr. AND jr. at his side.”
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 3d
“Why didn’t the Democrats warn us about Donald Trump’s failing health?”

Yeah, sounds right.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 3d
In about 6 months the newest Q-anon conspiracy will be “Trump isn’t dead, he just went undercover to expose the pedophile deep state. Once he defeats them all he’ll return to begin his thousand-year reign as our glorious god-emperor.”
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 3d
I mean, I don’t expect those questions from *this* press corps, but I can still dream.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 3d
Can’t wait for Vance to take over.

“Mr. President! What did you know about Donald Trump’s health and when did you know it?”

“Mr. President! Was there a cover-up in the White House about Trump’s health problems?”

“Mr. President! What else are you hiding from the American people?”

And so on.
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 3d
Must be nice to be part of a religion that'd never go to war.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beauti...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Part 1/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a person is prompted to describe Christian values as they are delineated in writing to underline that a lot of people do not actually understand or follow them in reality. Part 2/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a person is prompted to describe Christian values as they are delineated in writing to underline that a lot of people do not actually understand or follow them in reality.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 3d
When he first got diagnosed with whatever’s wrong with him, his doctors probably sugarcoated it and let him pretend that nothing was wrong. But if he’s getting enough IV infusions to bruise his hands, experiencing mini strokes, and everything else, there’s really no way to keep denying the obvious.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 3d
His doctors probably tiptoed around his initial dementia diagnosis, so he could easily pretend to himself that nothing was wrong, but there’s no way to sugarcoat things with all the (secret) procedures he probably has to undergo now.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d
How it is, there is no telling
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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 4d
This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 4d
I’m currently working retail, and there are plastic skulls popping up everywhere this time of year.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 4d
Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out
Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 4d
This was his first mentor.
The corpse of Roy Cohn
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 4d
If Trump's support collapses and he's forced out of office, will Vance have any power, or will Stephen Miller keep running the show?
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 5d
I am the very model of a modern major smartypants,
My PHD in being me is here if you would have a glance.
Enrollment at the school of smarts is easy, so just take your chance,
And when you also graduate we both can dance our smarty dance.
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 5d
RFK Jr with a speech bubble
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 5d
Clinton, Obama, and Carter.
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