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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

I fucking love high school drama kids not a cishet to be found for love nor money the male romantic lead is being played by a shaven-haired butch with a PUNCH NAZIS patch on their leather vest and a guillotine earring they asked if I’ve looked up my plays on AO3 I would die for these Youths

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

America's Biggest Problem By me and @valigarmander.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels. The same bespectacled, bearded man appears in all four.

PANEL 1

The man walks past several masked ICE agents. Two agents are dragging an older man toward the open back of an SUV. Nearby, a distressed woman stands with a small child who is crying. An ICE agent is pointing a gun at the child.

MAN (thought): Hmmm.

PANEL 2

Outside the Supreme Court, several Supreme Court justices in black robes are drinking and celebrating around a bonfire in which the Voting Rights Act is burning. The man walks past in the background, watching them.

MAN (thought): Hmm.

PANEL 3

At a bus stop, a woman is reading a newspaper. The man stands beside her, leaning slightly to read the front page. The newspaper’s main headline says: ANOTHER COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED UNNECESSARY WAR

MAN (thought): Mm-hmm.

PANEL 4

We see an open laptop. On its screen, the man is appearing on a TV interview show, grinning as he holds up a copy of his book, Polarization: Both Sides Did It!

MAN: America’s biggest problem is… POLARIZATION!

CHICKEN FAT WATCH
In panel 2, the burning Voting Rights Act is depicted as the “I’m Just a Bill” character from Schoolhouse Rock!

In panel 3, the newspaper is called The Daily Gab. Under the enormous war headline is a much smaller headline: "Study: No one reads smaller headlines or studies." A sub-headline says "'My life is pointless,' says sub-headline writer."

On the wall in panel 3, graffiti includes tags from all eight captains from Star Trek shows (Pike, Kirk, Janeway, Burnham, Freeman, Picard, Sisko, and Archer) plus Taggart from Galaxy Quest. Other graffiti includes “Skitter Lives!” with a spider; a huge "BG," for "background"; and “Never obey! I order U not to obey!” It only occurs to me now, writing this transcript, that I should have made it "not 2 obey." Oh well.

In panel 4, behind the laptop, a large orange cat is sleeping. Curled up asleep on the cat’s tail is a tiny mouse wearing a sleeping cap.

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 22h

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Two people looking at a sign that says ‘sidewalk closed.’ One person says “we could try that new sidewalk that opened up in midtown.”

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Moment of appreciation for The Window Ledge in the lobby of my aunt and uncle’s apartment. A lot of good clothes and stuff cycled through there, no texting needed.

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🥵 Gah, I sat down to read and didn’t notice it getting hotter all afternoon and now I’m grumpy-sleepy. Did you know that 80 is hot even if it’s October

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Are there rent control studies that account for what a fucking time sink and money sink moving is? 😑 Are workers perhaps less productive when they’re exhausted from learning a new supermarket layout and trying to figure out which box that important thing is in?

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

blue shampoo is so fun, when you rinse it down the drain you can pretend you killed someone from the dimension they used to film tampon commercials in

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Roy Lichtenstein could have used his art as a platform to make the case that comics were always art, the people who made them were always artists, and the museum context forced viewers to see what was already there. He could have acted in solidarity with his fellow artists. He just *didn't*.

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

effing architectural alt text 😅 googling "what do you call it when the front door of a shop is sort of further in than the front wall and there are windows on either side argh it's so common and I never thought about it before"

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026

Some real Wile E. Coyote level of failed traps to get this shark back to the sea but she says Busan is Good, she's a city girl now.

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🎂 Have you ever watched a comedic locomotive chase scene? 🍿

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ugly-crying at bear videos; happy Saturday 🥲

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How to design a Barcelona-style superblock. 🧵

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026

*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)

Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps.

Caption reads:
CALIFORNIA POST
California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

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BikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a 40% jump in walk fatalities on Halloween compared to control days (10x increase in risk for little kids). Block parties are a great idea + Halloween is an excellent night to avoid driving. 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙮 𝙊𝙘𝙩 𝟣𝟨 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝟦 𝙛𝙪𝙣! Thanks @pbotinfo.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/pbot...

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I like how @sarahchaundler.bsky.social talks about communities that "have been blighted by dangerous driving." That's exactly the way to think about car dominance: As a form of urban blight like any other we do not find acceptable.

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

😊 My heart is a full as the bike racks at the Hollywood Theatre 😊

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

😣 I straightened up the house before my parents visited, including the Important Paper Floor Pile, and now I can't find the important paper!

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Northern Lights 12x12 acrylic on canvas monicamorrillart.etsy.com

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This chapter is so lovely, and I'm glad THE WORLD gets to read it!!!

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love that they avoid eating the leaves like they’re Thumper in Bambi 😂

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not even abstaining out of snobbery like I simply know that TikTok would ruin my life. that would be a wrap on "my brain." I recognized this immediately and never touched the stuff

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The context (science research getting defunded) is super depressing, but it felt so good to draw scientists getting excited about their ideas, and knowing that those ideas would one day allow an octopus to listen to YouTube while doing dishes 🥲

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a ghost in two panels. In the first, the masked ghost is, "HERE'S WHY THIS GENRE I HATE IS BAD." In the second, the ghost is unmasked to turn out to be, "I HAVEN'T READ OF IT BUT"

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And this is why it’s also important to fund historians, so we can know what the present is built on!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's postcard: view from Great North Coffee

Looking west on NE Alberta and 29th, a commercial street with old but well kept storefronts with large windows and planters outside the doors. One building is pink with a floral mural on the side street. The light is coming from in front of the viewer, casting long diagonal shadows from a bare tree onto the sidewalk. A bicycle is parked at a staple behind the tree.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Bunch of Einsteins By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels.

PANEL 1

A bearded man in a red cap is recording a video of himself.

JAKE: Why should taxpayers be on the hook for science research with no real-world value? If their research were worth anything, private industry would already fund it!

PANEL 2

Jake’s rant continues over a cross-section of the landscape, from farmland and suburbs to a city; his voice is coming from a little cabin. A fiber-optic cable runs underground all the way across the panel.

JAKE: Believe me, these researchers aren’t a bunch of Einsteins!

CAPTION: There wouldn’t be high-speed internet for this doofus’s videos without fiber optic cables!

PANEL 3

Under the ocean, a fiber-optic cable runs along the ocean floor. Word balloons coming from the fiber optic cable contain the icons of many internet-based services — Facebook, Zoom, Discord, Netflix, Minecraft, and more.

CAPTION: Without fiber optics, the internet would be far too slow for how we use it today.

PANEL 4

CAPTION: So where did fiber optics come from? Well…

CAPTION: 1966

In a laboratory break room, an excited scientist throws his arms wide while another scientist eats at a table.

SCIENTIST: Now that lasers exist, we can use ultrapure glass fibers to carry light long distances!

OTHER SCIENTIST: How does that do anything?

PANEL 5

CAPTION: 1960

A scientist proudly holds up a diagram of a newly invented device. Another scientist sits at a microscope.

SCIENTIST: I call it a “laser”! It’s based on the old theory of stimulated emission.

OTHER SCIENTIST: But Theo, what use is it?

PANEL 6

CAPTION: 1917

Outside a university, a pompous-looking man gestures indignantly as he reads a scientific paper. He's speaking to a young Albert Einstein, who rolls his eyes.

MAN: Albert, where’s the practical value in this “stimulated emission” drivel? It’s a waste of taxpayer money!

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But We Mustn't Ruin HIS Life By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

Four-panel cartoon with a tiny kicker panel below.

PANEL 1. A Black delivery worker stands beside her van, holding a package. She looks downcast.

WOMAN: Everywhere I went I was terrified I’d run into **him**. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t concentrate…
WOMAN: After I failed two classes I lost my scholarship.

PANEL 2. A girl in pink sits on a bicycle on a residential street, looking down.

GIRL: He sent the video to everyone in school. **Everyone**. I had to be homeschooled until I could get into a different school.

PANEL 3. A woman sits in an apartment armchair, holding a baby who pats her face. She looks sad.

WOMAN: It’s been ten years… My therapist says PTSD isn’t ever cured, but it’s something I can learn to manage.

PANEL 4. A hand holds a phone showing a male podcaster at a microphone.

MAN: Nobody feels worse than me about what happened — but we can’t ruin these young men’s lives!

KICKER. The podcaster speaks with Barry, the cartoonist.

BARRY: What sort of thing would “ruin their lives”?
MAN: Being expelled. Or being publicly criticized. Or made to switch dorms. Or to switch a class. Basically, anything he might notice.

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's postcard: view from Great North Coffee

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a HELL of an ad. Would love to see a lot more like it.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026

Many low income people are in fact stay at home parents because the cost of daycare is so high that their salary if they went to work would not cover it.

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Akira at the @hollywoodtheatre.org! People are bringing their best niche tshirt game tonight 😄✨

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚲 advice: always carry snacks in case your body is suddenly like “HOLY SHIT WE’RE HUMGRY” a mile and a half from home Sent from my iPhone, a mile and a half from home 😂 🍫

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Instagram: Getting a whole new view of my city! #autumn #pnw #carfree Bluesky: $&¥% freight trains $&¥% elevator broken again $&¥% have to be a triathlete just to go on a $&¥% grocery run

A view of train tracks, trees, and warehouses in soft autumn sunlight, from a high walkway

Looking down 3 flights of stairs with little bicycle wheel wells on each side. At the bottom is a sidewalk and trees to the left, train tracks to the right. The sun on the trees and rust colored bridge is still lovely

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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing is you don't need to do like a whole monologue about why harrassment is bad. You can just say "really?" in a disappointed voice or "come on, man."

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ginger ninja @funkasarusrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If one day we want the students of Starfleet Academy to be able to come into the city and continue it's horny legacy long into the future we need to start those transit connections now

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've had this shirt for sale for longer than LLMs have been a Big Thing; but it's still a "fuck you" to them. www.teepublic.com/hoodie/23562...

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make bad art by chekhovsraygun

you have permission

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚲 🦽🚶 NEXT SATURDAY: Test out some street designs and give your feedback! They’re working on a connection from downtown Cornelius to the future Council Creek Regional Trail. www.washingtoncountyor.gov/lut/projects...

RSVP now for this innovative live-action hands-on workshop
Help shape local connections to a new regional trail in Washington County.
Test out temporary layouts using your own bicycle, scooter, mobility device, or walking shoes. Evaluate how proposed designs for bike and walk facilities will connect to this important new multi-use path. Share your valuable feedback with the project team.
Bring a hi-viz vest, and your phone to provide feedback with our mobile app.
Location is accessible by
• TriMet Bus Line 57
• TriMet Lift
• 15 minute bike ride from MAX
Blue Line

Timeline
9:00 AM — Coffee, project overview and orientation
9:30 AM - Test ride designs and provide feedback
10:00 AM — Group conversation, debrief and thank you

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Art Nouveau jewllery designed by Glasgow School artist and Frances Macdonald (1873 –1921) #WomensArt

Four photos of brooches created in silver and enamel in an Art Nouveau style

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Ripley's Believe it or Else 🎃 @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All this iced coffee interview nonsense going around when you could be showing a potential employer your mad skills with homemade cold brew instead 😎 bsky.app/profile/ripl...

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