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Lichen on a stick (Xanthoria?). NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

It's happening!! Pub date of Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine is just 2 weeks away. Order now with code NR26 & get 30% off @psupress.bsky.social! #GraphicMedicine www.psupress.org/books/titles...

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

At my VPL talk to talk about making community-engaged comics and it feels like such a silly little topic in the face of The News But I'm trying to tell my brain it's important work. Teaching people how to make comics about what's bothering them IS part of resistance and empowerment

Holy SHIT!! This is your reminder to always stop in at tiny, overcrowded used book stores look at this TREASURE I found!! Signed Krazy Kat!!!

Sometimes they don't have the slightest clue what I want. But they do this time. They got me. Take my money already. #AKnightsTale

Saw a bunch of folks posting nuthatches for #Birbfest2026 and figured I’d resurface my old art

MORE. I hate how so many laypeople (not in tech or my industry) still use that garbage

YAY! I got an LSTA Mini-grant through our State Library to buy books for our nascent World Languages collection! Could not be more excited to see this collection really starting to take shape!!!

What's your pet's name in GIF form?

Rumpled forest library

still feels like folks outside of MN are kind of not getting it: our state has been under attack for over a month, and the resistance is being organized by literally your regular old neighbors and coworkers and friends.

How to get into nature.

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As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts. Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:

If your response to what's happening in Minnesota is "lol well they voted for this" may I clarify for you that they're being targeted specifically because they did NOT, in fact, vote for this.

When I see you “playing around with” ChatGPT “for fun” this is what I see you contributing to btw. It’s not cute, it’s not fun, it’s damaging. Just because you don’t personally see it doesn’t mean there’s no cost.

You can now read an excerpt of the Spanish translation of my book! It comes out this week! I'm stoked!

For some reason, children's publishers and TV producers are uninterested in my self-esteem-building animal character, the Try-lobite.

AI is explicitly, intentionally racist, not just incidentally racist

I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link. DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS. This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it! Stay frosty, friends.

It's here! The 2025 Annual Sketchbook is now available :) This one has a lot of comics and studies, as well as fanart and research work. Check out the public recap here: www.patreon.com/posts/jammy-...

A note to make sure to read this entire thread and enjoy the cow videos and not just stop at the pleasant meme juxtaposition.

Bit of a confused breakfast this morning, I think everyone's still half asleep. #EverybodyLovesMousecow #ScampiVonMonkeyface #AndMissyToo

Something a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics

"Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows." #AI

Noooooooooooooooo!

Things are.... Extremely bad. Maybe you need Girl Scout cookies? digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/miriam... (It's the best I've got in the grim today.)

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

More than 10,000 people joined me live on Monday night to kick off our virtual travel festival — and together, we enjoyed a mouthwatering hour of my favorite foodie tips and tastiest experiences. Missed it? Watch a recording here: www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/travel-classes/festival-videos

Hey Minnesotans, that green smoke is BAD! It's zinc chloride, and they used it in Portland. Here's a quote from a science paper about it: "...led to acute, delayed, and persistent health issues in the exposed population, including bystanders." pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/uerc/2021/Po...

since everyone loves a good orange cat story, i have one from this weekend 🧵

I thought someone opened cat food can but it was just onion soup. Please respect my privacy in this difficult time

A rather quiet morning today, with only Mousecow singing for her breakfast (but with a guest appearance from hooman granny) #EverybodyLovesMousecow #ScampiVonMonkeyface #AndMissyToo

The launch of the Spanish translation of my book has been moved FORWARD to January 22!! :O

No, that's ok Adobe Acrobat, I don't need an AI summary of a W-9 tax form

Sending feelers out: wondering if there's a such thing as Appalachian cyber-punk? What rural communities do to survive megacities and corpos? Anyone writing such things?

On Jan 22 I'm giving a talk about my work and my latest book The Birding Dictionary for the Green Mountain Audubon Society, and all are welcome: www.greenmountainaudubon.org/events/yjn7q...

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

Want to know what emboldened them to do more evil? No fucking consequences. That's what did it.

HOLY COW! Look who is up for best webcomic!!!! (spoilers: it me! Please vote for Nap Comix!)

My yearly Insurrection Remembrance Day reminder. January 6 is a heavy day, every year.

The Burden of COVID-19 Illnesses, Medical Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the US From October 2022 to September 2024--After Biden lied and claimed the pandemic was over. #Medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Anyone else get sad that they have go back to work from annual leave AND stop getting @askamanager.org updates at the same time? Updates to get us through January, pleeeeaaaasssssse 🙏

This is Ollie. He found a perfectly placed carrot snack on his walk. Simply can't believe his luck. 13/10 best day ever (TT: maxime_aries)

A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for www.beampaints.com

I don't have a single complaint about Japanese toilets. #comics #boumeries

Okay, my one major issue with Bluesky is that it has not implemented a "turn off reposts by user" I feel terrible unfollowing or muting someone because they just repost TOO MUCH, or of a genre that's very outside my interests (and also, usually, too much). Is there some backdoor way to do this?