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Betsy Streeter 🐋

@betsystreeter.bsky.social
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Artist, Animator, Cartoonist, Teaching Artist at Richmond Art Center in CA No AI, man Funny little weekly email: buttondown.email/thespaceboat Website: betsystreeter.com Wherever we go, we are friends

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 THIS FRIDAY! 🚨 You started a newsletter. You are interviewing for a job. You opened a store. Etc etc etc. Now you need to tell people about it, but it’s hard. You’ve been told self-promotion is creepy. Humility is expensive. Bring us your problems. We’ll turn smol beans into beanstalks.
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Self-Promotion Clinic
We will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there.
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This week's Space Boat is called On No Man's Land and features launching tardigrades and a lot of tennis analogies buttondown.com/thespaceboat...
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On No-Man's Land
There’s a thing in tennis, where if you stand in the middle of the your side of the court, based on the way people hit the ball, you’re probably right where...
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I also highly recommend card games - you can play one-person stuff or get with a friend or friends, it's tactile, it's lovely
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am sad to learn of this clearly special soul at such a time, but now I'll read his work and I suppose that's evidence that it will travel well beyond him
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
duck duck duck BEETLE
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HELLO FRIENDS
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just ordered this from Green Apple in SF, it looks really lovely
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am told it is decorative gourd season
Illustration by Betsy Streeter of a skunk and possum messing around with decorative gourds
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Friday! www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-get...
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How to Get Laid Off
It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward. Join us this Friday for How to Get Laid Off, the next Mule Summer School session! No gaslighting. No toxic positivity.
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How to Get Laid Off
It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward.
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter in which a vampire says "Man, I'm so glad it's getting dark early again. In the summer I can't get ANYTHING done."
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OH HELLO WHACK WHACK WHACK
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Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 16/09/2026
No one on the planet i’d listen to about voting more than Dana Chisnell, this is so cool!
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OH HELLO VENUS
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Made by an all-star team. Free for you to share with all your people and their people and their people's people. This is the way.
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Really great.
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've made it past page 300 of the 3rd Brainwaves book, here's a particularly dumb one on page 304
Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter in which a woman whacks a toilet with a newspaper and says "No, no! Bad! Back in the bathroom!" with the caption, "Potty training"
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Very much enjoyed this panel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1tJ...
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Reclaiming our Humanity in the Age of AI
YouTube video by SXSW
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This merch is amazing
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Got up this morning and watched The Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia, no idea why that particular thing would be floating around in my head at this exact moment in history
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Sorcerer'S Apprentice Brooms
Alt: Scene from The Sorcerer's Apprentice in Disney's Fantasia in which Mickey gets run over by a bunch of soulless brooms that he's allowed to get totally out of control
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
HELLO BINX
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Been watching a lot of basketball lately and sometimes it seems like
A drawing by Betsy Streeter of a very diminutive frog trying to guard a very enormous bunny in a game of basketball
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I love reminders. They are like little helpers along the way in life. This week's Space Boat is about those, and how a troubling thing can be a reminder of an awesome thing buttondown.com/thespaceboat...
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On Being Reminded
Perhaps you have heard of the Streisand Effect, which is where someone tries to suppress a thing (I think the original was Barbra trying to keep people from...
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excellent point and thread Latchkey kids are not afraid
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For a friend's birthday, because today we got into a discussion of civets somehow
Drawing in which Sloth and Manatee encounter a civet in a tree, who says "hullo"
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Welp, we ate everything." "Yep, we ate it." "What now?" ... "Wait for more stuff to eat?" "Yeah."
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The first pages of "Yes Yes," "Ocean Adventure," and "Sloth and (Moon)atee" are all the start of journeys to find new places and friends - and all are available at @radiatorcomics.bsky.social , yes yes www.radiatorcomics.com/series/sloth... #comics #friends #yesyes #books #booksky #sloth #manatee
Page 1 of "Yes Yes! A Sloth and Manatee Collection" in which the friends greet the sun and think about going therePage 1 of "Sloth and Manatee Ocean Adventure" in which they take off from the beach and over the seaPage 1 from "Sloth and (Moon)atee" in which the friends leave Earth and head toward the Moon
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trees move water from the ground to the sky They host whole ecosystems They hold the soil together They outlive humans Trees are intelligent
A Sloth and Manatee page in which the friends are admiring of trees
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Since it’s the US Open and all
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Workin on the next Brainwaves book, here's one that'll be in there
Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter in which a boxing mitt has knocked out a reader with the caption "Muhammad Ali publishes a popup book"
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The latest Space Boat is about what it's like when you are reading something good
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hello here is this week's Space Boat buttondown.com/thespaceboat...
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On Reading
When I read something amazing or fascinating or beautiful, it feels like I’m dipping into a pool of water and paddling around for a while. I become unaware...
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Statement about AI from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists: marcmurphy.substack.com/p/the-sun-se...
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The Sun Sets In Baltimore
My Letter On Behalf Of The AAEC To The Sun And Its Slop
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24/08/2026
I just opened up pre-orders for my next comic, SCAM, it's all about how white women use aesthetic, image, identity and style to further their scams. A5, 60 pages, $20, ships to 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦 in mid-September. Here's the front and back cover of it - more to preview, too: frogby.bigcartel.com/product/scam
The cover of my comic "SCAM (The careless whispers of white women scammers)"

Everything is a performance.

The cover art features a face with wide eyes behind the word 'SCAM', it wasn't necessarily intentional, but it does evoke the iconic cover art by Francis Cugat for The Great Gatsby, the mouth is whispering the words "the careless whispers of white women scammers"

Beneath this, there are six marble statues of white women all on pedestals, one of them, with hair in the style of Marie Antoinette, has no pedestal and lies horizontally

The eyes in the face cry to the point that the pedestals are slowly being overwhelmed by the flood.A sailing ship called 'The Scam' attempting to get a hook into a big sperm whale, but the whale is about to chomp on that boat, there are birds in the sky in the distance
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Quel GIF apparaît quand tu tapes ta profession ?
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Muppets Animal's Wild Painting Session
ALT: Muppets Animal's Wild Painting Session
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For everybody out there entertaining little ones today
Page from Sloth and Mana(tree) in which the friends are playing a spinning game to entertain some baby owls
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Me rn
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hello here is this week's Space Boat buttondown.com/thespaceboat...
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On Reading
When I read something amazing or fascinating or beautiful, it feels like I’m dipping into a pool of water and paddling around for a while. I become unaware...
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Got the Friday disco lights goin
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
omg look at them
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This one was recently licensed thru CartoonStock.com
Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter in which a dog says to a vet: "No offense, but I'd really prefer to be seen by a dog. I'm sure you understand."
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This week's Space Boat buttondown.com/thespaceboat...
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The Thinking and the Doing are the Same Thing
When I teach a comics class my interpretation of “comics” is really broad. In fact it includes pretty much anything with words and pictures, and anything...
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter with the caption "The first kids section" showing a bookshelf with titles like "Why is Billy in the Stocks?" and "Picture Book of Leeches"
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Who told you you can’t write a book? Who told you you can’t build a rollercoaster in your backyard? Who told you you can’t paint your living room hot pink? Who told you you can’t have cereal for dinner? Who told you you can’t wear that? Not us. Come hang with us. We’ll talk you into things.
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How to Just Do Things!
Who's stopping you? Is it you?
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Such a fascinating sister discussion to this one about Uni-Context www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5W6... Both are extremely worthwhile
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A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird | Plain English
YouTube video by Plain English with Derek Thompson
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey California people!!
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
From frying an egg, to writing a book, to building a backyard guillotine, to expanding the Supreme Court… you can just DO things. Join me and @erikahall.bsky.social for this week’s Summer School session, where we will be happy to give you the permission you absolutely do not need to DO things.
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How to Just Do Things!
Who's stopping you? Is it you?
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Workin on the third Brainwaves book today, here's one that'll be in there
Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter, in which two cave people say "Play thump-thump-thump song again!" and musician cave person says "Me so sick of that one..." with the caption "The first one-hit wonder"
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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I did pretty good today Found a Rarity-83 word worth 95 pts 3 finds no one else found today Woo hoo playoutlier.com/s/YV4V5V
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OUTLIER · Day 102
player-3237 scored 816 on Day 102. Can you beat them?
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