Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Fat Patients, Fat Patience #FatAcceptance
- Untitled May 17, 2024Thinking of that time that Degas painted the actress Ellen Andree sitting and looking pensive in a cafe, and Monet saw Degas' painting and decided to find the same actress and get her to pose in the same cafe so he could do his own version.
- Untitled May 17, 2024Copyright claims often go too far, crushing free speech and not allowing for the way artists are influenced by, repurpose, and even coincidentally echo, other art. Not this time, though! Jeff Dieschburg is a straight-up tracer who adds NOTHING original when he paints his copies of photos. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Defending Free Speech
- Untitled May 17, 2024My niece dyed her hair pink but there are bees here and now they follow her around because they think she's a big flower.
- Untitled May 16, 2024The Existence of Trains Debate #PoliCartoon #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Open Thread and Link Farm: In A World Of Sheep Edition
Undocumented immigrants in Flint say they’re denied water | Fusion The official policy was changed so that undocumented immigrants could get water – but not all government officials are obeying the new policy. And emergency flyers on how to get … Continue reading
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Odds of a severely obese woman becoming “normal” weight: 1 in 677. For men, 1 in 1290.
[Image from Jes Baker’s awesome “Empower All Bodies” project.] Another reason it just makes more sense to encourage fat people to love our bodies, rather than teaching fat people to hate our bodies until we attain “normal” weight: The chance … Continue reading
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Open Thread and Link Farm, Brick in Washing Machine on Trampoline Edition
Fixing the Eyewitness Problem – The New Yorker Excellent longread, about an innocent man’s conviction for rape in 1986 due to bad police ID procedures. This story could make a good movie, although movie producers would be tempted to focus … Continue reading
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Mad Hatters, Jews, and Aliens: What I Published in 2015
I didn’t publish much in 2015. People who know me well will know that I’ve been dealing with health issues (and related writers block) for a few years now. I hope last year was the nadir, as far as publishing … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Mad Hatters, Jews, and Aliens: What I Published in 2015
I didn’t publish much in 2015. People who know me well will know that I’ve been dealing with health issues (and related writers block) for a few years now. I hope last year was the nadir, as far as publishing … Continue reading
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Open Thread and Link Farm, by Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be remembered! Edition
Alan Rickman’s most memorable film roles and quotes – NY Daily News Oscars 2016: The nominees are blindingly white. Again. – Vox Of the last 40 actors nominated for an Oscar, 40 have been white. The Angoulême Grand Prix Controversy … Continue reading
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Interviewing Tina Connolly
A few weeks ago, I discovered that it was a lot of fun to hand people some casual interview questions and see what they had to say. This is the fourth interview I’m putting on the blog. I met Tina Connolly … Continue reading
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New Cartoon at Everyday Feminism: “What If The Defaults Were Reset?”
At Everyday Feminism! This one has sort of an unusual design approach for me. If you like the cartoon, please help me out by sharing it on social media.
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