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June 14, 2026

Walk of shame

by David M Willis on August 29, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: jacob, jennifer, lucy

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  1. Xronium
    Xronium
    August 29, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    walk, accompanied by shame

    • anon
      anon
      August 29, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

      i think she’d be more cranky than shameful but maybe asher dumped her via text versus face to face lol

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        August 29, 2024 at 4:46 am | #

        She dumped Asher to his face actually.

        • anon
          anon
          August 29, 2024 at 3:50 pm | #

          @ nymph i thought that was more so like ‘act like a ”good” bf’ or so/some kinda bs game/’test ‘ or so versus “we’re through” but yeah

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            August 29, 2024 at 9:57 pm | #

            They’re the same picture.

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    August 29, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    well according to the majority vote you should be dating a SOCK, so yeah, “””shame””” XD

    • Xronium
      Xronium
      August 29, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      socks are very versatile! no shame in that 😀

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      August 29, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      I knew Sarah would never win the vote, but I can’t believe they both got beat by a sock.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        August 29, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

        Do you understand the depth and potential story and character growth the Sock x Jacob pairing has? It would destroy the fabric of this comic and reshape it! People see the vision!

        • Strain of Thought
          Strain of Thought
          August 29, 2024 at 2:08 am | #

          Sock x Power Booster Rod

      • Psychie
        Psychie
        August 29, 2024 at 2:48 am | #

        Better the sock than Lucy, as far as I’m concerned.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        August 29, 2024 at 3:16 am | #

        “Beat by a sock”

    • anon
      anon
      August 29, 2024 at 3:51 pm | #

      i just keep thinking of that ‘sock princess’ adventure time fan comci XD;

      https://sabertoothwalrus.tumblr.com/post/727767214231552000/i-wanted-to-revisit-sock-princess

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      August 29, 2024 at 10:25 pm | #

      I have no regrets for voting for the sock. He wouldn’t be saying shit like “my walk of blessed privilege” to a sock.

      He’d be saying “my walk of this is kind of warm and squishy, ew”.

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    August 29, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    I just keep losing. Almost every part of this strip seems designed to hurt me personally.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      August 29, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      How so? If you don’t mind me asking.

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        August 29, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

        I’m guessing relationship problems, or lack of relationship may be the case.

        • Amós Batista
          Amós Batista
          August 29, 2024 at 2:05 pm | #

          Both haha

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        August 29, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

        I mean I don’t wanna hate. I just like Jennifer and shipped Jacob with Sarah. So this strip kinda stings. I predict things will get worse for me in the future though.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          August 29, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

          Them’s the breaks.

        • True Survivor
          True Survivor
          August 29, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

          Thanks for sharing.

          PS.

          What the heck did you do to piss off Kyrik? They just came in swinging!

          • Sirksome
            Sirksome
            August 29, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

            ??? I didn’t even read that as a burn until you just mentioned it. Now I’m kind of questioning if it was mean spirited or not? I generally assume all comments are in good fun since I try my best for that even if I fail sometimes.

            • Ryan
              Ryan
              August 29, 2024 at 1:53 am | #

              Yeah. I think it’s just that you come across as so earnest that I hurt you personally.

              • Ryan
                Ryan
                August 29, 2024 at 1:55 am | #

                *sigh* that IT hurt you personally.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          August 29, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

          on the plus side, Sarah’s spared from hearing the phrase “walk of blessed privilege”.

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            August 29, 2024 at 10:11 am | #

            I don’t really get his dig at Jennifer. All I see is her reasonable mood for a January morning.

        • Seralyna
          Seralyna
          August 29, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

          Makes sense. I do think the nature of jennifers arc is to probbbbably eventually come back around to to being more active in the story anyway, thanks specifically to this breakup, but its possible it’ll be a long road

  4. Nono
    Nono
    August 29, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    I can’t recall off the top of my head why Jennifer would be stewing.

    Is it because Asher isn’t begging for her forgiveness? Or is it the sexile?

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 29, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

      she’s frustrated she can’t beat Asher’s high score in the breakup game

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        August 29, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

        Asher played games and got game last night (in-universe). Unbeatable combo.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      August 29, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      ¿Por que no los dos?

    • Dante
      Dante
      August 29, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

      Sexiled because her roomate, who unabashedly likes what she likes with no pretensions and has recently learned what self-esteem is, got to have her very first sexing with the hottest dude of Read Hall – on a single night, first try.

      AND he actually wants to (and gets to) hang out with said roommate, out in the open, and do all the romantic mushy stuff Jennifer secretly craves and resents herself for wanting – The latter being why she was yo-yoing Asher so hard until she lost him: Babygirl is convinced she can only accept a honeymoon phase if it comes within a regular crash-and-burn cycle.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        August 29, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

        Hit the nail in the head. I love this little trainwreck of a human being.

      • AlexaSpuds
        AlexaSpuds
        August 29, 2024 at 3:42 am | #

        That’s why she and Ruth are perfect for each other (for better or worse), they just understand each other’s quirks well and eventually even started improving one another.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        August 29, 2024 at 7:09 am | #

        Yep in her mind Lucy cheated by going straight for the honeymoon phase without even having the courtesy of feeling extreme shame afterwards. curious how she’s going to try to explain herself to them.

      • BorkBorkBork
        BorkBorkBork
        August 29, 2024 at 10:07 am | #

        Gravitar checks out.

    • Queezle
      Queezle
      August 29, 2024 at 2:06 am | #

      I am assuming that her mood is not going to get better once she finds out about Asher and Ethan. But she 100% dug her own grave there.

    • Lars
      Lars
      August 29, 2024 at 2:27 am | #

      Because Danny/Sal beat her in beating Amber in Super Mario.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      August 29, 2024 at 5:27 am | #

      Both. AND she’s upset that Lucy and Jacob are HAPPY.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      August 29, 2024 at 10:18 am | #

      It’s morning and cold, and her annoying roommate is still annoying.

  5. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    August 29, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Alright you two, tone back down the sweetness before you give everyone diabetes; especially Jennifer.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 29, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      No, no I think they should amp it up. It might make people who are weird about them to leave.

      • ktbear
        ktbear
        August 29, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

        In comic or irl?

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          August 29, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

          Yes.

  6. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    August 29, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Seeth harder Jennifer!

  7. Dara
    Dara
    August 29, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    It’s not a Walk of Shame unless you’re dressed in good quality eveningware in a terribly muddled and disheveled state. It’s just not.

    Extra points, naturally, for a hangover.

    • Dday
      Dday
      August 29, 2024 at 11:08 pm | #

      Don’t forget There’s Something About Mary hair.

  8. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    August 29, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    That is very detailed background in panel one. I hope Mr. Willis gets to reuse it, as all that work for one panel just seems cruel.

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      August 29, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

      It used up all the scenery budget for the last panel, apparently.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        August 29, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

        Or maybe Jennifer is seething so much that she’s just surrounded by a white-hot corona of rage.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        August 29, 2024 at 3:36 pm | #

        I assume panel 5’s blank background is so the distance between her and them could be abbreviated, she’s like 10x as far back in panel 1.

  9. Pocky
    Pocky
    August 29, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    common Jennifer L

  10. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    August 29, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    I’ve got to say, Jennifer’s reaction is WEIRD. Even for her.

    Why is she taking this so damn personally?

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 29, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

      Have you meet Jennifer? She takes EVERYTHING personally.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      August 29, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

      It’s worth noting this is coming immediately after her relationship imploded. Granted, the relationship had clearly needed to end, and she’s still very blatantly in love with Ruth, who in turn has her own boyfriend, and now her ex has a dude, too, which Raidah basically told her about if I recall?

      So, getting kicked out so Lucy could get her horn on and now the two being uber-sappy is going to be more obnoxious to her than it otherwise would be.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        August 29, 2024 at 11:17 am | #

        And a couple of days after the “I’ll go to church with you to make my not-particularly-religious parents stop being racist” shenanigans she had to put up with.

    • PhyrexianRogue
      PhyrexianRogue
      August 29, 2024 at 1:45 am | #

      I doubt this has too much to do with Lucy and Jacob, and more with her own self-image about being the person who knows how things work being shattered once again when Asher simply ignored her and broke up, rather than changing and doing whatever she wanted to get back with her.

      If Asher had gone back to her she’d probably riding her high horse about how her brooding angst-ridden relationship was more real than Lucy’s saccharine fling with Jacob.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        August 29, 2024 at 3:23 am | #

        But she’s the main character! Why wouldn’t Asher change everything about himself in pursuit of the moving goalposts in her passive-aggressive guessing game?

    • DashWallkick
      DashWallkick
      August 29, 2024 at 1:45 am | #

      Jennifer just bombed her relationship on purpose because it reminded her of something she doesn’t like about herself. She was denied drama from it too.

      Not only was she sexiled by the people she’s walking to class with, they’re also (to her) probably rubbing their healthiness and sincerity in her face because that’s something she can’t do.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        August 29, 2024 at 7:21 am | #

        she’s also bitter because in her mind theres a hierarchy of who gets the hot guys first and Lucy totally cut in line!

        • DashWallkick
          DashWallkick
          August 29, 2024 at 12:58 pm | #

          It is absolutely savaging her conceptualization of “hot people” and “nerds” to watch her roommate score a total fucking hunk, yes.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            August 29, 2024 at 11:19 pm | #

            Billie crawling through the microwave hallway, except the microwave emitters are people who live outside her bizarre perception of reality

    • anon
      anon
      August 29, 2024 at 3:52 pm | #

      i mean she was literally booted out of her room/sexiled, it’s fine as a comedic punchline/end to a strip but irl i would hope most roommates would be considerate enough to ask/text for some privacy lol but yeah it’d make more sense if sarah was skulking behind them at a distance and just silently fuming

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        August 29, 2024 at 4:18 pm | #

        to be fair Jennifer did previously give Lucy’s last bf that exact treatment unprompted and the last time Lucy tried to hook up in her room Jennifer deliberately stayed to cockblock them the last time Lucy was polite about it. I saw her being more forceful as her saying to Jennifer you will not ruin it for me this time.

  11. Angel
    Angel
    August 29, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

    I’m too broke for the porn patreon, are these two banging yet or just at the hand/mouth stage?

    • TulipKitten
      TulipKitten
      August 29, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

      I mean, there was a ad of the Slipshine on the blog showing them fucking.

      • Freezer
        Freezer
        August 29, 2024 at 12:53 am | #

        Technically, it’s a one-page splash, not a “proper” Slipshine.

        But it definitely confirmed coitus, nonetheless.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      August 29, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

      I am subscribed, and they had intercourse, yes.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      August 29, 2024 at 1:34 am | #

      They fucked. He put his penis inside of her vagina and then moved it around a bunch. She got her boobs out and he touched them on purpose. It’s canon and there’s nothing any of us can do to stop it.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        August 29, 2024 at 4:50 am | #

        This is so explicit. My poor eyes. Reported for writing kinky fanfic on site.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        August 29, 2024 at 10:19 am | #

        He put his sex in her sex and they had sex.

  12. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    August 29, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

    Welp, Walky’s ex girlfriend along with Joyce’s ex attempt-at-home-wrecking/Sarah’s ex attempt-at-sharing-her-feelings are about to meet up with said Walky, Joyce, and Sarah so they can all go to class.

    And this won’t be awkward at all, especially not because Walky saw Jacob’s Other Jacob in the shower once and can make a reasonable guess about where it’s been.

  13. DorJoJo
    DorJoJo
    August 29, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

    Dang son whoa

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 29, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

      These two flirting is very good for my soul.

      • Queezle
        Queezle
        August 29, 2024 at 2:11 am | #

        It is kind of cute. And very sappy.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          August 29, 2024 at 4:35 am | #

          Sometimes sappy is exactly what you need.

  14. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    August 29, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

    I was thinking that all the couples would meet up unknowingly to walk their significant others to class, leaving Sarah and Jennifer as the odd women out, but, looking through previous strips, I saw no confirmation of that potential drama.

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      August 29, 2024 at 10:31 pm | #

      I mean, Walky’s still working on getting Dorothy to go to class…

  15. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 29, 2024 at 12:42 am | #

    bwahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahha they’re so cute together

  16. Taffy
    Taffy
    August 29, 2024 at 1:01 am | #

    Who’s the chick behind them?

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 29, 2024 at 1:05 am | #

      I don’t know, but they look like they have issues.

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 29, 2024 at 1:13 am | #

      Mike.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 29, 2024 at 1:28 am | #

      I think that’s Jennifer, the earthling formerly known as “Billy”.

    • Bruno
      Bruno
      August 29, 2024 at 2:34 am | #

      That’s one of Raidah’s friends.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      August 29, 2024 at 2:21 pm | #

      Maybe Jacob is faceblind, he met Lucy’s roommate. twice.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        August 29, 2024 at 2:40 pm | #

        Yeah? He didn’t imply he didn’t know her, he just call her Lucy’s friend.

  17. Ellegos
    Ellegos
    August 29, 2024 at 1:05 am | #

    By friends, does she mean Raidah’s group?

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      August 29, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

      “Raidah’s group.” That’s like one guy at this point. I don’t get how she got that popular status when the main cast group is much bigger.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        August 29, 2024 at 7:59 am | #

        not sure Radiahs group is even popular, Lucy thought it was because she looks up to Jennifer, besides her i don’t see anyone being impressed by them. Radiah wants it to be the students of elites clique but so far she’s doing a terrible job keeping people in.

        • superglucose
          superglucose
          August 29, 2024 at 10:53 am | #

          probably because it’s immediately obvious she and everyone she hangs out with are kinda terrible

      • Mturtle7
        Mturtle7
        August 29, 2024 at 2:36 pm | #

        Raidah is charismatic, manipulative, outgoing, has good grades, and knows some people with high-class connections outside of school. Also, she usually has at least one or two friends on hand to back her up at any given time. Most of the cast has at least a few of those qualities, but not all of them, and thus Raidah is able to present a much more convincing impression of “popularity” than anyone in the main cast!

        Sure, there’s a pretty high TURNOVER in her group of minionsfriends, between Dana, Sarah, Jacob, Chan, Char, Asher, and (possibly) Jennifer, but that should be fine as long as she keep finding NEW suckerslonely people in need of a kind, supportive, group of friends with strong leadership and organization!

        • Archieve
          Archieve
          August 29, 2024 at 5:02 pm | #

          the more I think about Radiahs high turnover and the fact that she doesn’t have a single person from her own year besides Carl makes it even worse then I originally thought, apparently only people younger and less experienced at student networking then her are impressed with her and Carl.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            August 29, 2024 at 10:31 pm | #

            My assumption is still that she’s still got the other two girls, but is keeping them at arm’s length from Asher & Jennifer because they’re not subtle enough to keep from spoiling the long con.

    • Bash
      Bash
      August 29, 2024 at 1:39 am | #

      I think she means Joyce-Sarah-Walky, which will not be awkward AT ALL.

      • Jess
        Jess
        August 29, 2024 at 2:35 am | #

        Let’s not forget that it’d also include Sarah…

        • Jess
          Jess
          August 29, 2024 at 2:36 am | #

          Oh, best grav for that. lol

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      August 29, 2024 at 5:32 am | #

      omg Raidah is going to burst a blood vessel.

  18. Nevermaker
    Nevermaker
    August 29, 2024 at 1:30 am | #

    Careful Jacob, you might change your tune once you guys get to the dorm and Jennifer finds out her new relationship status.

  19. Dday
    Dday
    August 29, 2024 at 1:53 am | #

    “Walk of Shame” was always a dumb phrase but I’m sorry “Walk of Blessed Privilege” is just dripping with goopy syrup, ick.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 29, 2024 at 2:00 am | #

      And I am eating it up!

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        August 29, 2024 at 4:52 am | #

        Note: Please do not ingest the goopy syrup. Goopy syrup contains lead and carcinogens.

        • spriteless aunty
          spriteless aunty
          August 29, 2024 at 12:06 pm | #

          u repeat urself

  20. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    August 29, 2024 at 1:53 am | #

    I didn’t realize that shame was a finite resource.

  21. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    August 29, 2024 at 3:50 am | #

    Don’t think that’s shame, looks more like irritation

  22. Tan
    Tan
    August 29, 2024 at 5:05 am | #

    Challenge: Name someone in Lucy’s “other friends” that they’re going to meet up with who is on friendlier terms with Lucy than with Jacob.

    • jflb96
      jflb96
      August 29, 2024 at 1:48 pm | #

      I was just thinking ‘Is there anyone other than Jacob’s roommate and Jacob’s occasional gym buddy who would have a problem with not hanging out with the happy couple any more?’

  23. Adept
    Adept
    August 29, 2024 at 5:17 am | #

    Is Billie getting even more messed up and irrational?

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      August 29, 2024 at 5:32 am | #

      That’s what tends to happen when you are 18 and think your emotions have peaked.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        August 29, 2024 at 7:16 am | #

        but but she has so much more adult experience and social clout then Lucy!! is probably what Jenniferis thinking.

        • Da Boy
          Da Boy
          August 29, 2024 at 9:37 am | #

          It would help if most of those adult experiences weren’t bad decisions she made XD

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      August 29, 2024 at 2:20 pm | #

      I don’t know if she can GET more irrational. From the lunch with Raidah where Jennifer spent the whole time being ashamed of Walky as a reminder of her childhood while at the same time desperately clinging to Walky as a reminder of her childhood and onward, she has seemed to me completely consumed by the irreconcilable difference between what she wants out of life (nerd stuff, the comfort of family relationships) and what she’s telling herself she wants (high status hobbies, drama and friends who will make her look important and cool).

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      August 29, 2024 at 11:00 pm | #

      She’s walking down a sidewalk.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        August 29, 2024 at 11:17 pm | #

        Damn women, always walking on concrete.

  24. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    August 29, 2024 at 6:20 am | #

    To have your boyfriend stolen by a socially awkward nerd with depression whose first willing social interaction in probably months was hitting on your boyfriend XD

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      August 29, 2024 at 4:24 pm | #

      it was Jennifer that decided Asher wasn’t really her boyfriend so she cany have something she never had to begin with stolen. I know she flips back and forth but that was definitely what she communicated the last time to Asher.

  25. thumb
    thumb
    August 29, 2024 at 6:41 am | #

    Cool, let’s meet up with Lucy’s ex and probably also Jennifer’s ex. Whose new boyfriend is the roommate is Lucy’s new boyfriend.

    This has good potential. I like it.

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      August 29, 2024 at 7:12 am | #

      Why stop there? let’s also have a chance meeting with Jacob’s ex too!

    • Colin McKenzie
      Colin McKenzie
      August 29, 2024 at 10:05 am | #

      This sex group is getting inbred. All the babies will be born with two heads.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        August 29, 2024 at 10:24 am | #

        Finally, Dumbing of Age will have some Blessed Siblings representation.

      • CianM1301
        CianM1301
        August 29, 2024 at 1:59 pm | #

        The family tree is slowly becoming a wreath.

  26. EntropyToaster
    EntropyToaster
    August 29, 2024 at 7:04 am | #

    Aw I actually find Lucy and Jacob’s dynamic really sweet, it’s nice to see them both with partners who actually joke around with them and they vibe well with. I really hope we get a plot line w/ them both

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 29, 2024 at 3:55 pm | #

      Me too.

  27. Lamppost
    Lamppost
    August 29, 2024 at 8:25 am | #

    I’m happy for them but this is so sappy gives me the ick lol

  28. Sajuuk-Khar
    Sajuuk-Khar
    August 29, 2024 at 12:27 pm | #

    Jennifer is still seething about the crimes of Taco Bell

  29. spriteless aunty
    spriteless aunty
    August 29, 2024 at 12:29 pm | #

    I’m liking the seeds this storyline is planting. Things are moving in a sort of visceral direction. Not car chase visceral, probably, but still pretty satisfying. Just from the potential!

  30. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    August 29, 2024 at 4:42 pm | #

    Whoever will read this words and looks back, the transphobe nearest to them will ░P░ ░E░ ░R░ ░I░ ░S░ ░H░. 👁️

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      August 29, 2024 at 5:31 pm | #

      Uh, there was a mirror behind me and my reflection died, but I’m still around? Is that how it’s supposed to work?

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        August 29, 2024 at 5:54 pm | #

        i don’t know how that happened, what happened to your reflection may have been a hallucination or something

        i dunno i just pissed rn and sippin at booze

        also PayPal management should fuckin expect gorilla shit in their mail box

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      August 30, 2024 at 2:51 pm | #

      Amém, Insha’Allah, Asé … let it be, Satan do you goddam work

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FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post
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www.makeship.com/petitions/tr... Wanna Tricerahoodie Dina plush? GO PLEDGE FOR ONE! We need 200 people to make it happen! Pledge period will end in 10 days!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 11h
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 12h
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
I think you mean the Slug-Maker
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
today in #9chickweedlane i guess we're memory-holing again that 1997 story where amos and edda kissed for the first time after she, uh, got shot at school
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It’s been awhile since I’ve more seriously read up on Ugaritic and Canaanite religions (alas, w/semi dated scholarship), but this is interesting, and not in a peaceful matriarchal fantasy kind of way.
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If you do a close read not only of the Bible but the archeology, it starts to look like the Israelites, & all but a couple of Judean kings, worshipped a goddess for pretty much the whole First Temple era. The implications of this are... far ranging-- & her name might not be what we've believed.
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fellas, is hasbro trying to make toys for children again
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So, I put my mind to it and retaught myself 3D modeling.
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I will say for the umpteenth time that the Democratic establishment is terrible at understanding enthusiasm math. An energized base is crucial to winning fights-- electoral and otherwise-- because they will drag the low info folks out to vote and protest and engage. You NEED that energy.
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It's not just that he and his policies are unpopular, there's a clear and demonstrated enthusiasm differential now. His base is energetically absent, ours is livid and out in the streets.
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Pretty good Spider-Man figure, I don’t care what they say.
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Turns out the guy was Chuck Ayers, a nationally recognized cartoonist and creator of Crankshaft. He had a lot to say but the thing that struck me was that when he talked about whats going on now, I could see he was holding back emotion. All this still hurts him to see 55 (!!) years later.
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Right now, these sweet kids have no clue how impactful this period in history will be for them, but I hope they will be proud of the time they made the best protest sign ever: The green one that says “Trump eats boogers” #NoKings
Kids and adults standing on a pedestrian bridge over the highway with protest signs that say fascists out and no Trump no ice. The best one is green and says Trump eats boogers.
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We can’t make the actual event at the capitol today, so you’ll find us with the kids on University with our signs (and I might bring the megaphone too). Even if you can’t make it to the capitol - come out in your own neighborhoods, even if it’s for a few minutes. Be seen. Be heard. #nokings
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At Comic-Con 2009 I was getting misgendered a fair bit and feeling anxious AF about it. Robert Downey Jr. was doing a press conf for Sherlock Holmes. I wanted to shout out a question but hated drawing attn to myself. I did it anyway. He gestured at me: "the lady in the blue shirt." I was so happy.
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Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
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