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Erika Moen draws with a cartoony, textured line against muted watercolor purples and yellows. Erika, a white woman in her early 40s with tattoos, leans against the armrest on her couch, scrolling on her phone. Matthew, a bespectacled white man in his early 40s, sits against the other armrest, doodling on his ipad which he rests against his raised knee. Panel 1 The couple are comfortably engrossed in their devices while lounging on the couch. Panel 2 Erika shifts slightly as a flowery word balloon emanates from her butt, asking "proot?". Neither Erika nor Matt react.

Panel 3. In turn, Matt shifts slightly, releasing a much more forceful "rrrum PRUMP" word balloon from his bottom. Again, neither of them look up from their devices. Panel 4 Now looking at each other, Erika asks, "Did our butts just talk to each other?" "They're having a conversation." Matt agrees.

Text: Join me on patreon.com/ErikaMoen for free for more comics, art, and weird bullshit! Link in profile Art: A cartoon of Erika stands with her back to the audience as she scrutinizes the text before her. The space is filled with oversize puzzle pieces.

20 years in and we still have plenty to talk about U_U

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some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly

NewWire tweets: "Americans set to pay more for cars, coffee, adn clothing as average U.S. tariff rate jumps to high not seen since Great Depression — WaPo"

this is crazy bc some of you need new clothes

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Really like this project by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek. Titled Exactitudes, it's a series of portraits stretching back 20 years that shows how people style themselves to signal they're part of a group and unique individuals within that group.

exactitudes.com

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

Yes Kyle, housing homeless women in your neighborhood is just like colonization. You know what they say - #abundance has a theory of power, but you aren’t going to like it. If you think only corporations and billionaires can do evil, you’ll ignore the people at your level punching down.

This discussion between Sam Seder and Ezra Klein is a succinct distillation of the intra-left conversation about housing affordability.

Am I the only one left that listens to podcasts at 1x speed?

You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.

“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

The only good use of read receipts I’ve ever seen

So this is just because Mercury is in Pisces right?

If Paul Weiss and Skadden don't think they can out-litigate the doofuses in Trump's DOJ willing to take these cases, why would any client stick with them? Have a spine. You're not going up against top legal minds here. You are the top legal minds.

Also loved that @contrapoints.bsky.social is willing to be in dialogue with her own videos. It reminded me of reading Ursula Le Guin's essays; she includes footnotes from decades after the essay was published that address the ways her thinking had changed, or her own personal blind-spots.

I can't stop watching @contrapoints.bsky.social new video. It is somehow soothing despite the serious nature of the content? Conspiracy theories can be so weird and alarming to encounter in real life, and she deftly breaks down what people get out of them in a way that just makes sense.

Honestly?

This might sound like crank nonsense but I think a large part of why we're in this mess is we're all too willing to discuss issues without mentioning solutions.

It's why I never simply say "people cannot charge at apartments" - that's a political reality, not a practical one.

Did he hulk out of this shirt? Did someone else rip it for him? Did it split itself in sheer terror? And what’s with the little smile?!? #seakraken #bigcat

I’m not saying you should bully your friends into sending you their art, but you should bully your friends into sending you their art.

See @contrapoints.bsky.social video on envy

YouTube video by Technology Connections Algorithms are breaking how we think

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

it’s that time of year to consider getting severed.

This energy.

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Easy certifications are resume candy. They’re reg-jaziling” @karaoke.bsky.social

I’m not a born hockey fan, and I’m rarely able to pay visual attention to a game that I’m not physically at, so I would say my love of the game is 90% because of the announcers and commentators for the Kraken. These guys (and Alison and Piper) make it fun to just listen to the game. #seakraken

Looking at RFK right now it's like wait maybe McDonald's IS good for you