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Historian. Absolute angst kraken.

Philadelphia/Lenapehoking
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They say that when Shaggy stood atop the golden Jennie-O turkey, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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When your galactic bounty hunter is worried about his tea order, that's called a Boba Fret.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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call me crazy but if 20,000 people a day are going to use the 40th and market trolley diversion stop until who knows when maybe they should install a shelter? some heaters maybe? or at least a bench?
November 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Kermit meets The Corps in:

“It’s Not Easy Being Green Lantern”
November 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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RFK Jr. took the CDC pledge off the website entirely last month and replaced it with a conspiracy screed. they took it down because don’t believe in any of it. what a small, sad man compared to walt dowdle
The Pledge to the American People was a foundation for Walter Dowdle’s Mountin lecture in 1990, and it used to be as prominent on our website as this 20ft mural in the lobby of one of our buildings.

I used to walk past these words every day, proud that we could rise together with these principles.
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
In a non-trivial way, DRACULA was a reaction to the possibility of a BLACULA.
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
A legit fave.
Ok, on Jan. 11, 2022, I posted what I think is my favorite police log strip

#comicoop
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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One of the truest ones I’ll ever draw
October 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Pug innocent.
#FreeThePug
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Another fave, I was really cooking in the summer of 21

Looking more closely: I must have been mad about Mike Love when I drew this one
September 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Another all time favorite
September 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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August 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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July 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Succinct and accurate.
There is no way to read these agreements, at a moment when the presidency is so obviously both lawless and unpopular, other than a willful collaboration by university administrators who see utility and purpose in the overreach by a flailing fascist government.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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This is overtly genocidal.
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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tfw when you remember you're not biteproof
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM