Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 2, 2024I love that Caterpillar boots were among the returned items, and in this photo an Amazon worker took, you can clearly see the "CAT" logo near the cat. Cat climbed into Amazon return box, found alive 630 miles away wapo.st/3JJ3vqT
- Untitled May 1, 2024A new cartoon for May Day! This has been an incredible year for unions in the USA - may next year be even better. Unions Have Always Done The Impossible! #PoliCartoon #Union #LaborDay2024 #MayDay2024 #May1st #UBI #LivingWage
- Untitled April 30, 2024People on reddit are fighting about a cartoon I did about why the US health care system sucks and I am enjoying this too too much. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1ch0l0r/why_us_health_care_is_such_a_terrible_system/?sort=old
- Untitled April 30, 2024I just posted a new cartoon! It's patreon supporters only for now, but in a week or so I'll make it public. :-) https://www.patreon.com/posts/deus-ex-machina-103359912?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
- Untitled April 30, 2024Nothing against Brian, who of course needs and should make a living. But I'm increasingly frustrated by the Substackization of blogging/news writing. To read Brian's work I have to subscribe, which at the lowest price level is $75 a year. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled April 30, 2024Cartoonists and illustrators: Watch out for this scam (it's been going around for a while, but I only heard about it recently). Person emails you wanting to commission a bunch of illustrations to go with a presentation. Pretty high offer. At the end, they mention they want to pay you by check.
- Untitled May 2, 2024
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Open Thread and Link Farm, Street Kids With Dog Edition
Opinion | The Terrible Things Trump Is Doing in Our Name – The New York Times (Alternate link.) “Family separation, it turns out, never really stopped. According to Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the A.C.L.U.’s National Immigrants’ Rights Project, just … Continue reading
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Open Thread and Link Farm, That’s A Photo Not A Painting Edition
I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave – Mother Jones “My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine.” A very disturbing article; thanks to Grace for the link. For-Profit Firefighting Was Terrible for America. Climate Change Is Bringing … Continue reading
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Open Thread and Link Farm, Cartoon Physics Edition
Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship – Areo This trio of writers wrote twenty deliberately bad hoax papers to submit to prestigious “grievance studies” journals, and were able to get seven papers published, or accepted for publication, before … Continue reading
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I Am Deeply Disappointed in Junot Díaz…
Not because I know him (I don’t); not because his work has been important to me (I have read very little of it); but as a fellow survivor of childhood sexual violence. In April of this year, when I read … Continue reading
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Open Thread and Link Farm, Babe Ruth Edition
This game contains absolutely no triggering material | Ben on Patreon This small game (written by the Ben who leaves comments on “Alas”) is fantastic. And searing. Anthony Kennedy, the Trump Court and Minority Rule “The House has a massive … Continue reading
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Goodbye, Kay Olson
Long time “Alas” readers may remember Kay Olson, aka Blue, whose blog The Gimp Parade I linked to frequently. Kay was one of my favorite bloggers, and I learned a lot from her. But she stopped updating The Gimp Parade … Continue reading
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Some Photos From My Israel Trip
Hey folks! More photos from my trip to Israel. Some of these have already been posted on Twitter, but most of them I’m posting for the first time. Jerusalem. I don’t understand why I find the sight of mountainside cityscapes … Continue reading
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Open Thread and Link Farm, They’re Both Dumplings Edition
Trans kids massively benefit from being allowed to socially transition – ThinkProgress Support for free speech is rising, and is higher among liberals and college graduates. – Vox Someone is wrong on the internet, millennial savings edition | FT Alphaville … Continue reading
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Open Thread and Link Farm, Abe Lincoln Disguised As A Beggar Edition
Trans Women Face Extreme Levels of Abuse in Men’s Prisons. “For trans women in prison, it’s often the abuse by the guards that is the most abhorrent, and that abuse doesn’t stop at misgendering or inappropriate strip searches. According to … Continue reading
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