Kelsey Atherton

handshake meme with the WUBRG magic symbols and the city of Boston

Wasp Bottling Company Bottle it up forever! [image is a wasp in an old timey seltzer bottle]

Comically I cannot remember what inspired me to make this years ago

new set really nailed the flavor of avatar

Saw Notorious RBG merch on sale in a college bookstore yesterday. She died when college freshmen were in 8th grade and defiantly didn't retire when they were in kindergarten. The class of 2026 had just started when SCOTUS killed Roe. (Legal abortion persists in NM because we planned better than RBG)

[the worm in JFK's brain (every Kennedy has one) right before he decided to make a rapid exit in Dallas, November 22, 1963]

Sometimes Kennedys just do that

worked out!

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if we're doing a Coaching Tree, @attackerman.bsky.social is the one who nudged to me PopSci, and to whom I ultimately trace back everything good I've ever written for money online bsky.app/profile/dara...

so good, I'm overdue for a reread

1) While unemployed I tweeted a drone fact correction at a journalist who, in what I assumed to be staggering magnanity and now understand to be long-form revenge, messaged me about an open position covering defense technology for Popular Science

2) With friends ran an unpaid Left-FP blog in 2018

Why grant anonymity to someone who is lying to you with the company line? This adds nothing but misinformation to the story and the person quoted isn't going to get in trouble for saying it.

Fight Club plane scene: THAT'S CLEVER HOW'S THAT WORKING OUT FOR YOU

Inside you there are two language consultants, only one of them reaches the working masses via soundbite media

200%

THIS PIECE OF PIE IS AWFULLY DARN SMALL! LIFE COULD BE WORSE, CALVIN. LIFE COULD BE A LOT BETTER, TOO! ... BUT WORSE IS MORE LIKELY.

Bill Watterson anticipated BlueSky

A FAMOUS FABLE DESCRIBES AN ATHEIST WHO HATED GOD. GoD? THERE IS NO GOD! ALL HIS LIFE, WHATEVER HE DID, HE KEPT REMINDING HIMSELF-. THERE IS NO GOD THERE IS NO GOD THERE IS NO GOD THERE IS NO... UNTIL HE DIED. THERE IS NO GOD THERE IS NO GOD THERE NITT FIIT SURPRISE! BY CONSTANTLY DENYING GOD, HE HAD KEPT THE THOUGHT OF GOD CONSTANTLY IN MIND! 14 MY FACE RED: HERE WE DON'T EXACTLY HAVE FACES... SAY... HOW DID ANYONE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE GUY DIED? OF COURSE, AIS SOUL WAS INSTANTLY UNITED WITH GOD! 46

Cartoon History of the Universe is deeply formative for me, I particularly find this self contained parable about a subcontinental atheist charming

MR. BERNANKE, HOW'S THE ECONOMY? "K-CHIK" 'POOOGH" 3PS

been laughing at this Three Panel Soul for 17 years now www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-sob...

when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship

Chaco Canyon is one of the most important living cultural landscapes on the planet and we have long called for its permanent protection. It's not about the past–it’s about the generations to come. I’ll continue to fight for it because it is a place worth protecting.

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

Heritage report blasts Trump's record on deportations "The American people voted for mass deportations. They're getting mass communications instead."

Dismantle the Heritage Foundation and build public housing on the rubble www.axios.com/2025/11/21/h...

An Archive of our Disowned

What if Nurgle was Slaanesh, the most horrifying thought in the entire 41st millennium

Part 2: She Did It Again If you are new to this series, start here.

I'm not going to pay to read more but incredible that he continues the bambo metaphor before the paygate, this is what substack was made for: news without legal departments or editors saying "kill your darlings" before hitting publish www.telos.news/p/part-2-she...

[several pounds of gravel in an industrial tumbler] Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest

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When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the Public Option

It's absolutely Top vs Bottom but not in any way in the sense that Ryan Grim wrote it

it's perfect

you're not wrong, is the thing