@kellythompson.bsky.social 😘

Someone should tell Gavin here that "continuing Charlie's work" is a really terrible thing to be doing.

Hello, lovely people! I have news today, and it's not good news. I have esophageal cancer. We're just getting started, so I don't have too much detail. Son Brian and I are working with all my medical teams to finish a plan of action. We will come out swinging and fight this every way possible!

EV too loud. #ev #noise #dodge

Uhh... how many pages was that again? #trump #epstein

1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

The National Guardners

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

“Soldiers wear camouflage to conceal themselves from the enemy they want to kill. Safety vests are what municipal workers put on so you can see them at work,” @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the “comically absurd” spectacle of Trump’s army of garbage collectors in DC.

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

Mate-seeking spiders looking to smash are getting smushed by cars in Southern Colorado. So the state is building tarantula crossings.

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

Marvel's Thunderbolts* is now available to stream on Disney+.

Strangely, the more I watched it, the more it looked like the video you see waiting in line for a ride at Disney World. For a ride that’s ten years old. #FilmSky #movies #WingCommander

Dual Roomba xkcd.com/3133/

Troops in DC in full camo with red and yellow "high visibility" vests on top as they pick up trash.

Hey! Are you reading Jeff the Land Shark? New issue out tomorrow features mutants! Here's hoping Quire shows up! (Is a sentence I never thought I'd type)

NOM! 🦈 Jeff the Landshark #3 ✍️ @kellythompson.bsky.social 🖌️ Tokitokoro 🎨 Jim Campbell

There is something wrong with this graph.

It's amazing that so many of the films noir that I just take a chance on because they're free on Amazon Prime turn out to be excellent movies. #FilmSky #noir #movies

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Just walking around the hellscape that is my Chicago neighborhood this morning

anyway this is basically the defining social studies text of the 2020s internet

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.

The obvious advantage of streaming over movie theater movies is you can watch them at home. The secret weapon of the streamers, particularly when it comes to movies where the characters have strong accents: subtitles.

I'm not saying the cutest kiss of all time is in this preview but, well, okay, yeah, I am: aiptcomics.com/2025/08/22/m...

In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.

Oh my god

Wow. I believe this is my first Ringo nomination. What incredible company to be in. Congrats to all the nominees.

Zelensky wore a suit this time.

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

I just never could have imagined when I was younger that there was going to be a time in my life when I thought about 1984 every single day. And yet here we are.

Shitocracy, says someone I’m delighted to have just been gotten back in touch with.

Conversations with the 8yo DM: Me: Is there any cover nearby to avoid another blast of dragon breath? 8yo DM: There are some large barrels on one side of the dragon’s lair that could provide some cover. Me: I hide there. 8yo DM: Unfortunately, they’re filled with gunpowder.

Where Babies Come From xkcd.com/3127/

Activist voter Angela Cochran stars with a joke, and then provides Texas lawmakers with “an opportunity for you to change course.” #texas #trump

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

You stink if you don’t like Jubilee. I don’t make the rules.

Nathan Fielder, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross PEEL IT BACK NORTH AMERICAN LEG AUGUST 10TH • VANCOUVER

JUST IN: President Donald Trump says National Guard soldiers will be deployed on the streets of Washington, D.C., and he asserted federal control over the city's Metropolitan police department.

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her