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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Online forms that make you enter your year of birth would be better like this
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I saw some wacky inflatable guys out protecting crops today. If this is actually a more effective scarecrow, my next question is how much funnier could Wizard of Oz be?
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
productivity hack: do the annoying task first. what’s that? you have multiple annoying tasks? uh…which one needs to be done today? oh man all of them? oof wow. I got nothing here
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
if I were CS Lewis this vending machine I saw in New Jersey would be the wardrobe
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
so many sports gambling commercials. newsflash: theres a whole documentary about what a mess you make when you bet on sports, it’s called Back to the Future 2
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
it is extremely entertaining to me when someone activates the unflinching ball-strike robot
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
some intangibles that will make me like your hotel more
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
pretty suspicious that the pilots are already on the plane when you board it. starting to think there’s more than one “airport”
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Panel 1:
Earth pulls back a slingshot while Moon orbits around her. 
Earth: do you trust me

Panel 2:
Moon continues to move along its orbit
Moon: not really 

Panel 3:
Earth releases the slingshot. A tiny spaceship flies toward Moon’s orbit 
Moon [scared]: AHH

PANEL 4:
The spaceship curls around very close to the Moon and begins a return back to Earth
Moon [continued screaming]: AHHHHH

PANEL 5:
Earth rejoices: Yessss
Moon [relieved]: PHEW

PANEL 6:
Earth points at Moon: YOU OK?
Moon [giving thumbs up]: I’m ok
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Beyond thrilled to announce that “Extremely Accurate Birds: An Anatomically Precise Field Guide” is coming this April via Running Press! Been working on this thing for years now and can’t wait for you to see all 200 pages of accurate bird information and *extremely* accurate illustrations!
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42. slate.com/life/2026/03...
I had gone to the local ER, expecting a run-of-the-mill gallbladder removal that would have me back at work by Monday. Instead, they shipped me down to the big regional hospital in Fargo, North Dakota, where an MRI showed a gallstone, yes, but also a 9.5-centimeter tumor wrapped tightly around the main bile duct and several major blood vessels in the liver.

The gastrointestinal specialist was in the room with my wife and me when the radiology report came back. I watched his face drop and his entire demeanor change as he read through it for the first time.

He was an affable guy roughly the same age as me. “We just don’t see this in guys our age,” he said.

I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. As far as cancers go, it’s an especially brutal one: The five-year survival rate is around 10 percent, and most people diagnosed with it are dead within a year. That was going to be me.

Cholangiocarcinoma is deadly in large part because it is so rare: There are only about 8,000 new cases in the U.S. each year. Cancer treatment advances patient by patient, clinical trial by clinical trial. Each patient is a new data point. When there are few data points, the science advances very slowly.

“There are some chemo and radiation therapies that can slow it down a little bit, maybe buy you some extra time, but nothing that can kill it,” the GI doc explained. “The only way to cure it is to cut it out completely, either by surgically resecting the liver or doing a full-on transplant, but by the time most people are showing symptoms, it’s too late for either of those.”

“Is it too late for me?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I think it’s beautiful that if you told a bunch of vegetables to imagine being at a water park, only the celery would imagine being the water slide
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My debut book of comics is officially LIVE for PREORDER!
Cover art for “Beetle Moses: a Comics Menagerie”, the debut comic collection from beetle moses.
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
i bet if you are the spare button that is sewn into the bottom of the shirt that you have one specific varsity button whose downfall you pray for
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
if your garbage disposal ever gets a hold of a knife it’s gonna use Spin Attack (the only move it knows)
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
what year are you on the “I Got…” lyrical chart
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
common bear questions, the third being most important (answer:NO)
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
there should be a middle blinker you can use to indicate to other drivers that you are continuing in a straight line
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
the predicted searches sound like an octopus vacillating between harmless fun and murder
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
tip: by drawing a simple shape on top of your cat photo, you can create a charming rendering of a large-headed cat in different poses
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Panel 1 
Parent: 
We celebrate because we completed a revolution around the star

Panel 2
Child:
So it is identical to emergence day ?

Parent:
Emergence Day is for one individual’s survival

Panel 3:
Parent (continues)
New Revolution’s Day celebrates collective survival

Child:
Oh 

Panel 4
Child [raises arms triumphantly]
We did not die

Parent:
Exactly
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
to improve your afternoon: here is how to sing the times between 3:01 and 3:30
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
[tune of Mr. jones and me] 🎵 apple Bottom Jeans 🎵
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I’ve drawn all 50 states 1/50
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
today i was surprised to find a hole in my bread. But not nearly as surprised as the bread
A peanut butter sandwich with a big hole in the middle. And two m&ms for eyes. The bread now looks surprised
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
it’s important to show your 4 year old how to shine a light through the mystery flavors so she can select her favorite
diagram of a flash light and a lollipop, light shining through the lollipop to show the color underneath the wrapper
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
a more interesting thing to tell your kids is that these are all scale replicas of the monsters that have attacked our city
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
would it kill the mechanic to say something nice about my car for once
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
there’s always one person in the family who looks at the Doppler radar
5 emotionless people look at one person who is viewing a  laptop screen and saying hmmmm
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
if a dish doesn’t say “dishwasher safe” i just give it a big pep talk before i put it thru the dishwasher. it’s gonna be scary and wet in there, but u got this
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Panel 1
a calm banana (Banana friend) sits reading a book, looking up to see Panicked Banana entering room. 


panicked banana: SOMEONE STOLE MY DEBIT CARD

panel 2:
banana friend: don’t worry they can’t use it unless they guess your PIN

panel 3:
panicked banana frowns

Panel 4:
Banana Friend: Is it 4011?
panicked banana: it’s 4011
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
on one of our first dates, my wife and I drew each other. this is when I knew
A drawing on a menu, two people looking sweetly at each other. One is drawn like a cute person the other is drawn the way a child might draw a werewolf
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A beeping smoke detector is drawn in the center negative space between 4 panels 

Panel 1
Two characters on floor, listening for a sound below them

C1 - smoke detector needs battery 
C2  - ok it’s below 

Panel 2

C1 - wait 
C2 - over there?

Panel 3
 C1 - now above?

Panel 4

C2 - how is it moving
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
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Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
the fun font choice here makes it look like this is the SHOPPING CART sequel
sign in parking lot reads:

SHOPPING CART (in sans serif all caps)
RETURN (in fun script)
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A dentist being holds up a scraper as a patient being sits in the chair 
DB: I’m here to scrape your mouth stones 
PB: wonderful 
DB: have you been forcing string 
PB: seldom

(Patient being is now reclined in chair, with a bib on) 
DB: now wear the trash necklace 
PB: ok
 
(DB places hand in the PB mouth)
DB: now feel completely helpless
PB: ohay
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
when you ordered the salad but then you see the antelope burger
statue of a lion pawing at what appears to be leaves in a bowl, so it looks like a salad to me close up of the lion statue’s face, Lion looking a bit distressed
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
birds are hard to draw. one reason: photos of birds often look absurd
a small bird taking 
flight but the wings are tucked in
so you don’t see wings
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
a cool combo sport would be "Ice Hockey But Eventually Water Polo" where they keep turning the temperature up throughout the game
Two ice hockey players on ice, then the ice is melting and they’re throwing their helmets off and then they are in water playing water polo
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
take a break with crab
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I drew the cover for this week's @newyorker.com
A cover of the New Yorker magazine for February 10th 2025. The image is of a dark, rainy street scene. One figure shelters under an umbrella and another, wearing a large raincoat, walks a sad looking dog. A large window casts warm light onto the street. Inside a woman (wearing a bright yellow coat) and her dog, look at a summery painting of a figure basking under a hot sun.
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Cheese counter employee [standing behind cheese]: have you been helped sir?

Customer: by so many people my entire life 

Employee [smiles warmly]

Customer [smiles warmly, rests chin on hand]
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A young being holding a stuffed animal stands in the hallway. Their parents are seated on the couch, and one of them looks back at the young being. 

PARENT1: why are you conscious 
Young being [shrugs]

parent2: return to unconsciousness
YB: why must I?
P1: your body is growing 

YB: but you are both conscious 
P1: our bodies are in decline 

YB: that is unsettling 
P1: for us too
P2: please be kind to us
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nathanwpyle @nathanwpyle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Panel 1

a blue alien (being) plays with a laser pointer as their cat pounces on the red dot

being is seated on a couch and has a video game controller in their other hand

Being (to cat): ha you enjoy pretending you are a mighty hunter 

Panel 2:

being (continued): when it is just a simulation with blinking lights 

Panel 3:
Being puts down laser pointer and puts both hands on video game controller

Panel 4:
A red light flashes onto the being, bathing the room in red light
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