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(He/Him) UX Designer, Painter, Admirer of Trees, Parent, Partner, Friend. I aim to make the world a better place by listening, learning, lifting, and doing.

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iethatis, for example @iethatis.cryptoanarchy.network · 11h
I've been doing quick #pleinaire #casein sketches while waiting to pick up the kid from school and this last time I had a few brush strokes where I felt I was learning something. I do hope this schedule works out and I can keep practicing.
A casein sketch of a cluster of trees along the edge of the water under a bright yet overcast sky. Predominate colors are subdued warm and cool greens representing a variety of vegetation. The water is slightly rosey for some reason.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20h
This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
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iethatis, for example @iethatis.cryptoanarchy.network · 13h
It would be really wonderful if Seattle had a real newspaper. What we have now is a merely a broadsheet for the business class and those who want to suck Seattle dry of joy, culture, competency.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19h
The Taming of Sméagol Donato Giancola
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 18h
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.
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iethatis, for example @iethatis.cryptoanarchy.network · 02/10/2026
I do my best to avoid all this as much as possible, but this week, I had to create a report detailing exactly how various AI tools were absolutely not fit for the tasks we were being asked to use them for; just wastefully garbage output.
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If a Dem loses a close race in one of those GOP-run states, I don’t wsnt to see thrm just concede. Bring on the lawyers and challenge it. You know they’re cheating.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 02/10/2026
"Sheryl, why do you focus on the US and Israel so much? Do you hate Western civilization?" I was born in a country built on stolen land with the forced stolen labor of enslaved people. Therefore, I will talk about how evil it is to steal land and enslave people and how we must make that right.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
ICE has expelled people from all over the world to Costa Rica every Thursday or Friday since April. Last week's flight was canceled due to the First Circuit's ruling in DVD vs. DHS. But with SCOTUS's outrageous stay on Tuesday, this week's third-country removal flight appears to be in progress.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ICYMI — Hegseth and Trump are turning the 🇺🇸 military into a Christian army. Seems like this should be a bigger deal 🤷🏼 (As we accuse other countries of being religious fanatics) (H/T @atrupar.com)
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's interesting that budget chair Strauss doesn't think providing food is a "charter responsibility." I wonder how recently he's read the charter. Politicians love to say "public safety is our number 1 charter responsibility," but actually the charter lists "health" first, followed by "safety."
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/10/2026
This is going to break people. This SHOULD break people. WTF are we even doing? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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iethatis, for example @iethatis.cryptoanarchy.network · 02/10/2026
We would eat these with a spoon, sans water when no one was looking.
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A new kind of redlining just dropped
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iethatis, for example @iethatis.cryptoanarchy.network · 01/10/2026
This is great! Just bought and read it now. I may have to gift it to a couple of people it's so good. Thank you!
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
oh yeah I forgot IT'S HALLOWEEN SEASON which means it's finally time for It's Bitter to shine! please enjoy my 34-page horror comic about 3 teenagers on October 31st, 1994 keezyyoung.itch.io/its-bitter
cover of it's bitterpage 1page 2page 3
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky
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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax
There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I almost forgot that it’s cow parade season
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/10/2026
The Israeli government has spent the last three years committing genocide, invading Lebanon, starting a war with Iran, shipping weapons to the UAE and RSF to commit genocide in Sudan, and claiming they're doing all this in the name of all Jews,
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/10/2026
I think most people in the US genuinely believe we live in a world where good people do good things because they're good people and bad people do bad things because they're bad people and both good and bad people are born that way,
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In San Francisco, Lurie's RV ban—on which Dan Strauss' similar proposed ban in Seattle appears to be modeled—hasn't gotten people into shelter, but it has pushed them outside city limits, often after losing their RVs and becoming unsheltered. Is this what "success" will look like here?
missionlocal.org
S.F. cracked down on RV dwellers. A year later, many have left the city altogether.
Data shows that a year after San Francisco's RV ban, 1/3 of RV dwellers using city aid have moved outside city limits.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Senate Republicans just BLOCKED Democrats' bill to stop Trump's scheme to steal taxpayer dollars. Republicans are once again rolling over for Trump.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/09/2026
Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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iethatis, for example @iethatis.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/09/2026
I remember both, but the egg thing felt like it got more play. Also, it always made me hungry.
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iethatis, for example @iethatis.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/09/2026
I was there recently and saw a version of the same billboard, but the AI was apologizing for getting it wrong, you know in that obsequious, insincere way AIs typically do. So gross. I love the town, but it's infected by a plague of techy capitalism.
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iethatis, for example @iethatis.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/09/2026
Mr Ed?
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For Seattle residents who just spent months listening to grocery giants and their council allies claim algorithmic price-setting improves affordability for low-income people (lol), this book is timely. I'm buying it to learn more about this widespread scheme to put more money in owners' pockets.
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Gouged
Gouged Book by Linsday Owens
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New at IPR! Weird Heroes of Public Access - investigating the bizarre supernatural mysteries of your small town. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have engineered a virus that invades and destroys glioblastoma one of the deadliest brain cancers while turning the immune system into a relentless tumor-killing force. This could be a historic shift in cancer treatment.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Congress passes a law to fund health care research, housing, and more. The President signs it into law. Now Trump wants to illegally refuse to spend it, STEALING from the American taxpayer. A top nonpartisan government watchdog agrees: this is ILLEGAL.
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Congressional Watchdog Says Trump’s ‘Pocket Rescissions’ Violate the Law
The GAO has the power to sue the Trump administration over the Impoundment Control Act.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump is stealing nearly $1 billion from the American people, plain and simple. Republicans don't care. It seems like every time Trump says “stoop” The only response most Republicans can muster is: “How low?”
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 24/03/2026
Hey bsky! If you didn’t know already, we’re making a romcom! A heated, queer romcom set at a wedding! If you like romance, comedy, heists, hating billionaires or ridiculous farces, you should check out #WorstManOGN! Written/drawn by us, logo and lettering by the incredible @gofrankgo.bsky.social!
The cover to Worst Man. A handsome, skinny white guy with red hair, wearing a red suit, black shirt and orange tie is front and centre, toasting the camera. He's clearly been caught by a burly guy with olive skin and black curly hair, who's wearing a purple suit jacket, white shirt and purple tie. The burly guy is sat in a gigantic wedding cake, with the implication being he fell backwards into it catching the skinny guy. As a result the cake is collapsing around them, but the skinny guy's foot is holding up the cake topper, which is cartoony representations of a bride and groom.A comic page, with 5 panels. 4 panels are arranged in a stack down the left side, the fifth is a splash panel.

Banner at top of page: Saturday. Wedding in T-00h59m

PANEL 1: 

A close-in profile shot of a handsome, red-headed guy; he has a black eye and a thin trickle of blood running from his nose. He’s looking up, and mildly grinning.

GUY: I hate to be a bother, I do, but there’s an itch on my nose.

GUY: Hardly the end of the world, but would you mind?

PANEL 2:

A close shot behind the guy; we can see his hands, handcuffed behind the steel folding chair he’s sat on.

GUY: I’d do something about it myself, but my hands appear to be caught on something.

INTERROGATOR (OFF-PANEL): Is playing games something you really want to be doing right now?

PANEL 3:

The guy is cheekily flirting with the interrogator, who’s walking behind him.

GUY: You’re the one who put me in handcuffs…

INTERROGATOR: Come on, man…

PANEL 4:

The guy is rolling his eyes.

GUY: Fine. What do you want to know?

SPLASH PANEL:

Looking over the interrogator’s shoulder, as the guy is looking up at him, with a cheeky grin.

INTERROGATOR: What exactly have you been doing here? And why the fuck are you doing it?

GUY: Oh, you actually want my story? Colour me surprised.A comic page of 8 panels.

PANEL 1: a photograph of a group of people disembarking a fancy boat onto a jetty.

GUY (CAPTION): I was contracted to work this wedding, which let me tell you is stressful at short notice.

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): Contracted?

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): Who the hell contracted you?

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): What is it you even do?!

PANEL 2:

A cut-out panel of the guy one arm draped over the back of his chair, the other hand gesturing. He’s grinning charmingly.

GUY: I’m the Worst Man.

INTERROGATOR (OFF PANEL): …the what?

INTERROGATOR (OFF PANEL): And how did you get free?

PANEL 3:

The guy is flashing a grin and showing his hands in a shrug.

GUY: Oh, come on, I talk with my hands.

PANEL 4:

The guy is holding his hand in a “so-so” gesture.

GUY: Ok, so.

GUY: Sometimes there’s a couple that are settling, right?

PANEL 5:

The guy is pulling a “yikes” expression.

GUY: They’ve convinced they’re happy, they’re forever happy.

PANEL 6:

The guy is looking serious.

GUY: A friend or family member knows they aren’t, but doesn’t want the social fallout of pointing it out.

PANEL 7:

The guy is lazily gesturing to himself.

GUY: So they hire me to reveal the truth in a more subtle way, before they get married.

PANEL 8:

The guy is looking up.

INTERROGATOR (OFF PANEL): So why are you involved here?

GUY: In this case, the story goes back a while.A comic page with 4 panels.

PANEL 1:

A sprawled dossier showing research on a couple; a cis woman and a trans woman. 

GUY (CAPTION): Several years ago I was contracted to work on Galatea Telford and Merritt McElligott—

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): That’s the bride’s sister, not the bride.

GUY (CAPTION): Uh, yeah. What’s your point?

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): So she’s not who I’m asking about.

GUY (CAPTION): Patience. This is background.

PANEL 2:

A shot of the guy talking to Merritt and Galatea around a school teacher’s desk, planning some sort of schedule.

GUY (CAPTION): So I got a temp job at the school where Merritt and Galatea work.

PANEL 3: 

A shot of the three of them in a bar, with some other people. All of them are laughing except the guy, who’s a little more detached.

GUY (CAPTION): Even met some of their friends.

PANEL 4:

A shot of Merritt and Galatea back at the teacher’s desk, flirting. The guy is looking in through the door, a small, sad smile.

GUY (CAPTION): But what I was coming to learn was—

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): Enough. I’m dying of old age here.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
In RBG hall. Symbolism vs material reality. “The latest allegation was reported to Cornell University Police by a third party on September 23 and is said to have taken place four days earlier inside Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, a residence dorm on the school's North Campus.“
dailymail.com
Cornell rocked by new sex assault probe days after 'gang rape' lawsuit
The latest allegation was reported to Cornell Police by a third party on September 23 and is said to have taken place four days earlier at Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall on the school's North Campus.
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