Josh Kramer

Incredibly good joke

That's great, my friends and I got really into him in high school and each have way too many

Ooh did you get any $2 Steve Keene paintings? I saw he was there on insta

📖Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 16: AMERICAN CULT edited by Robyn Chapman 🕯️
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks

The Wind Rises vibes

YouTube video by New America Open Technology Institute Lightning Talks: “Reconnecting Public Media to the Public”

Have five minutes? Our own @joshpkramer.bsky.social has a lightning talk on Public Spaces Incubator and reconnecting public media to the public:

“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”

DC statehood now.

In "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes about how one way to show love on the internet, as opposed to just “liking,” is by revisiting things.

I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷

www.robinsloan.com/fish/

I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷

In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”

What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?

www.robinsloan.com/fish/

James Gunn seems to have learned a lesson from the Raimi Spider-Man movies: show regular people reacting to disaster and the emotions of the danger hit so much harder.

I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.

New comic!

What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬

www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...

It's frustrating that ANC meetings are so long, and the minutes are approved months later.

However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:

docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....

join an org in your neighborhood to combat despair. bring someone some food. make some art about your pain. distraction doesnt work forever, okay?

AI has been able to generate Celery Man and Oyster without any issues, but so far it refuses to show me a nude Tayne

Amazing thread

An illustrated poster drawn by me that depicts 12 species of colorful sea slugs and nudibranchs found on the pacific coast of California. They come in a rainbow of colors and shapes and are illustrated on a light blue background. Numbers are assigned to a key that has the names of the species.

love finding these colorful little guys while tide pooling!! 🌊💕

😍 My favorite is the hammerhead nudibranch

"We must have fast, frequent, reliable, and dignified transit from east of the river to downtown through the H Street and Benning Road corridor."

Hell yes

I agree ultimately, that too many people interpret a cover as an aggro takedown when it's often more like, "hey, isn't this interesting?"

This is the whole point of comics journalism I think

I'm on board with digging this deeply and engaging with art on its own terms. I am also surprised you didn't take on the context of what a "NYer cover" means and the overall genre. There's a rich tradition here going back a hundred years now.

There's something about the idea of two billionaires sniping at each other from, as the NYT put it, "their own social media platforms" -- that is, the platforms they each own -- that encapsulates something deeply deeply off about the current era

aka... here are all the inside jokes you missed

Annotating the tech references in Mountainhead "What we have is toxic, not terminal"

You can enjoy Mountainhead without a deep dive into the tech world its enmeshed in, but there’s a lot of fun stuff to unpack. So let’s dive!

Also, I offer my guesses for who everyone is supposed to be in real life.

Yes, there's so much to learn from Mon Mothma

Is google cal using AI?

It interpreted a receipt from my library, which included a book titled "Southwest road trip : drive the loop from Las Vegas to Santa Fe, visiting 8 national parks along the way" as a new calendar event called "Train to Santa Fe" complete w/ a fake departure and arrival time

Damn, what size brush are you using for this? How big are you working?

Excuse me, I'm not paying for these...

🎁 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

What happened to Ratatat? That Kid Cudi song rips

screenshot of a NPR Tiny Desk Concert video featuring the Cow Tools Cow playing Cow Tools. The cow stands with its table of crude tools in an office setting surrounded by shelves jam-packed with records, trinkets, plush toys and various other tchotchkes.

been waiting for the cow tools tiny desk