pretty suspicious that the pilots are already on the plane when you board it. starting to think there’s more than one “airport”

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

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!

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.

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 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

Cover art for “Beetle Moses: a Comics Menagerie”, the debut comic collection from beetle moses.

My debut book of comics is officially LIVE for PREORDER!

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

if your garbage disposal ever gets a hold of a knife it’s gonna use Spin Attack (the only move it knows)

what year are you on the “I Got…” lyrical chart

common bear questions, the third being most important (answer:NO)

there should be a middle blinker you can use to indicate to other drivers that you are continuing in a straight line

the predicted searches sound like an octopus vacillating between harmless fun and murder

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

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

to improve your afternoon:
here is how to sing the times between 3:01 and 3:30

[tune of Mr. jones and me]

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