This is a great expression of the thing I keep saying about text-generating algorithms: “Hallucination” isn’t some kind of glitch. ALL their responses are hallucinations. Sometimes they align with reality, sometimes they don’t.

It's good to work with collaborators who make you spontaneously write IMs like: "AAAH! The way you laid this out is so much better than what my script describes. I'm way happier with this cartoon now that I've seen your layout." Hi, @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social !

I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US. Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

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In 2021, Bari Weiss famously published a resignation letter by former Smith College librarian Jodi Shaw. Shortly after, I asked Smith if Weiss had reached out for comment first. “She did not,” spokesperson Stacey Schmeidel said via email. Weiss’ agents declined my requests for comment.

"We Beat 'Em Before... (Portland's Version)" This idea came to me late. I think it fits really well since Portland Frog Brigade literally carries no weapons and yet ICE has no idea how to respond to them. Just feckless incompetent goons all around.

So cruel to think of the number of American lives given in WW2 so people would remain free of the very fascism now rampant in America itself.

IF BOXING IS JUST GONNA BE NAZI RAPIST FUCKS GETTING THEIR SHIT FUCKING ROCKED, ESP BY BLACK MEN, I AM NOW INTO BOXING

Me: I hate Joss Whedon and his wretched self-insert character Xander Harris. History is a record of their atrocities My therapist: Of course Me: But I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer S3E13, "The Zeppo" My therapist: Who doesn't

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A lot of this is WTF-ish (a five foot tall nude Pan statue on the kitchen island?) but I have to admit, I'd be very happy to own this sofa.

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Jessica Kirson admitted that she made a mistake by performing in Saudia Arabia, but "I thought seeing an open lesbian comedian might help LGBTQ+ people in Saudi Arabia feel seen and valued” is still 10000x a better reason than Chappelle's "I wanted an audience that shares my bigotry."

I'm smugly fond of the bird/mouse/balloon subplot going on in panels 1-3.

One of my personal favorites among the online cartoons I created a couple years back: a decidedly "meta" joke that calls attention to the nuts and bolts of gag cartoons. I had fun trying to emulate the style of something that might conceivably be seen in the pages of The New Yorker.

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Every single democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Every single one. Not one “no” vote.

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

it is not possible for random assholes in line to tell whether someone is able bodied or not. the bad outcome in these situations is when someone who has a disability doesn't take advantage of the service because they worry about being judged. (this happens all the time.)

This is going to trigger another round of abuse for this woman but the basic facts appear to be that she was separated at the time and so was the CEO. She recoiled on the jumbotron because her husband was attending the same concert.

Pediatric phalloplasty is something that takes place when there is severe genital injury or a congenital condition. I have not been able to find a single report of phalloplasty performed on a transgender minor. This is grotesque fear-mongering.

This is true. My transition is long since over and rarely figures much in my life any more. I really only think about being trans because obsessed creepy Republicans can't help themselves.

The purpose of blaming any and every tragedy on trans people is convincing each other "wouldn't life be so much better if we just got rid of all the trans people"

The Trump White House has added partisan, insult filled descriptive plaques beneath portraits of past presidents along a White House colonnade he’s labeled the Presidential Walk of Fame. Reagan received praise because he was the scamvangelical trickle down prototype Trump learned from.

NSFW—But fascinating! New Delhi-based trans artist Shubnam sent me a link to her 2018 digital comic (on Behance) titled "Sediments". It includes some daring expressionistic passages and wild uses of both color and typography—in three languages, no less! (translation at bottom of each frame). 1/3

so is he announcing an actual invasion of Venezuela tonight or is this some rambling grievance session here's hoping it's the latter, I guess

17 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Another nice quote from McBride's press scrum, "They are obsessed...I actually think they think more about trans people than trans people think about trans people. They are consumed with this and they are extreme on it.”

the sarah mcbride speech in front of the capitol about the anti-trans legislation is one of the more affecting moments i have ever seen in the fight over trans liberation in congress literally walked thru her transition the only news outlets sharing it are “lgbtq+ news” clickbait & erin reed

Introducing the Shadow Docket Sunlight Act, Sen. @blumenthal.senate.gov told Law Dork that the Supreme Court's September order OK'ing "Kavanaugh stops" shows the need for his bill, as it would "require[] the Supreme Court to be accountable and explain its rulings." www.lawdork.com/p/100-days-o...

"It was warm", the ultimate alibi.

The richest man in the world bragging about starving people to death sounds like a plot from an over-the-top dystopian movie but that's what happened

Also, I get why the networks caved and agreed to air a clearly political speech not related to breaking news: They're scared, it's his first year back, and it's not worth the blowback. But the same networks refused to run Biden's Democracy speech and Obama speeches on health care + immigration.

Vultures (Rough)

Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )

If you are a registered member of the Democratic Party, it is now your sacred duty to make sure not a single one of these motherfuckers has returned to office next year.

What a shock that having one company monopolize distribution for an entire industry turned out bad

Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."

The perhaps inevitable result of air-drying a sweater on my bed.

6/6 Reclassification carries risks. Expanding WMD authorities into drug enforcement increases the risk of large-scale violence through conventional means by making escalation a justifiable response to a problem newly framed as a weapon of mass destruction.

1/6 On December 15, 2025, President Trump signed an EO labeling fentanyl a WMD, but the EO is not really an assertion that fentanyl functions like a WMD. It is an instrumental choice. infoepi.substack.com/p/why-fenta...

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Amnesty International found in a new report that the use of harsh punishments at Alligator Alcatraz, like locking people outdoors in a two-by-two foot cage-like structure while their hands and feet are shackled to the ground, constitutes torture.

R.I.P. Rob Reiner (1947-2025)

A beautuful thread about Rob Reiner.

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

So wait, who took *this* guy's picture??? Was there an infinitude of photographers up skyscrapers under construction taking pictures of photographers taking pictures of photographers [... repeat until infinity...] taking iconic shots of workers???

At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.