Not far off from Tellersülze. Blech

Tremendous warning, sir, you should issue more of them, and more often.

I recorded me drawing these on Instagram, videos slightly too long for posting on here 😔

I suspect that you have depression.

The Laughing Ogre’s Gib Bickel has passed away Popular Eisner-winning retailer Gib Bickel of the Laughing Ogre has passed away, and the community remembers him

Popular Eisner-winning retailer Gib Bickel of the Laughing Ogre has passed away, and the community remembers him

Columbus loses ‘a giant’ with the passing of Laughing Ogre cofounder Gib Bickel – Matter News Comic book writer Paul Jenkins praised the attitude Bickel brought to the shop, cognizant that the Ogre wasn’t just a comic store but ‘the epicenter of an entire community.’

This is a tough one. Gib Bickel was a true light, one of the guys who really made Columbus a great city for comix.

The Lauging Ogre shrugs off the insular stereotype of a comic store and is a hub for creativity and storytelling of all types.

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I’m still angry & disappointed with the Biden administration & most Congressional Democrats for trying to “move on” from Trump’s corruption & maladministration during the pandemic, instead of a commission & enacting reforms to close the transparency & accountability voids his illiberalism revealed.

I despise Biden more each passing day.

Can somebody explain to me what a presidential library is in the first place?

Drop something red

Same, robot. Same

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"

Exactly one year ago today:

the most evil guy in the country wants to feed everything you've ever done into a machine that replicates you so he can eliminate you, and some people still walk around saying "well, there ARE some uses for this technology"

My wife forgot to close the back door now she gets to chase me through the neighborhood

“Some of the studies are testing new treatment regimens for drug- resistant tuberculosis,” I explained, hoping I could convey the very real danger in terms that would register with this audience. “Thousands of enrolled patients are at risk now that their lifesaving treatment is stopped. But that’s not the only danger. We only have limited options to treat drug- resistant TB. We’re using our antibiotics of last resort in these trials. Interrupting treatment midstream risks the development of new, even more drug-resistant strains that could be untreatable. For an airborne infectious disease, that is a serious national security risk.” Adam thought for a moment and then responded, noting that the political appointees at USAID were “not health people.” It would be hard, he surmised, for nonexperts to understand this issue. And so he suggested that we draft a simple, “Barney-style” set of slides to help the political leadership grasp the dangers, referring to the purple dinosaur of children’s television. He recommended that we use the term “Super TB” instead of “drug- resistant TB” to describe the mutations that can develop when treatment is interrupted, because it might be more likely to “catch their attention.”

A Trump guy who was part of the team dismantling USAID didn't think political appointees could grasp the concept of drug-resistant tuberculosis so he asked workers to explain it as "Super TB" in "Barney-style" slides.

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Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

A gouache painting depicting a tortoise with a treehouse world on his shell

"A New York Minute"

Sometimes life feels like it's spiraling out of control; Stress, day to day "go, go go," feelings, and just the general pacing of everything is a bit much. This is my reminder to you (and to myself) to take it a bit slower.

#Gouache on #paper

Ian Watson's novels Space Marine and Inquisitor

Very sorry to hear about the passing of Ian Watson.
I think for many of us of a certain age his imagination & prose lit the torch for a lifelong love of the 40k universe.

A remarkable sci-fi writer outside of the GW books too.
I will have a drink in his memory this evening.

a just and loving god would have let Hilary Mantel live to hear “the pope is weak on crime”

I don’t think film dystopias do a good enough job portraying what keeps people going despite their terrible conditions, and I think it’s related to a lack of introspection and curiosity about how enslaved people psychologically survived enslavement

BREAKING: DOJ investigates the Hungarian electorate for Mortgage Fraud

Considering the winner is a conservative ex Orbán loyalist, well, I'm not holding my breath.

It's funny that Trump called Iran tough negotiators because he said "Give up your only two points of leverage forever" and they said "no"

Please share this with everyone you know. I don't know how to verbalize how important this is to me and how important the Endangered Species Act is to protecting so many habitats and species at risk of disappearing forever

Pet or parasite?