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by David M Willis on April 26, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Media Rumble
└ Tags: jennifer, joyce

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  1. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    April 26, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    But morning hugs are the best hugs.

    Or maybe by mugs she meant mugs of coffee to wake up Billie. Isn’t Joyce thoughtful?

    • Matt of Steel
      Matt of Steel
      April 26, 2011 at 12:05 pm | #

      Joyce’s Morning Mugs … the best part of waking up.

      Hmm … that sounds almost dirty. Almost.

  2. Rognik
    Rognik
    April 26, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Ri rate being mugged ih te morring.

    • Cranberrier
      Cranberrier
      April 26, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

      Rut rut ru ru rate it?
      (repetition entirely accidental)

  3. Vivvav
    Vivvav
    April 26, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    That smile in the last panel is mildly terrifying.

    • George
      George
      April 26, 2011 at 12:48 am | #

      Billie agrees.

  4. Henry
    Henry
    April 26, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

    Joyce in pj’s PSL.

    Just puttin’ that out there.

    • LimeTH
      LimeTH
      April 26, 2011 at 1:52 am | #

      While we’re at it, Billie with her hair down PSL.

      • ProtonCon
        ProtonCon
        April 26, 2011 at 2:16 am | #

        Billie PSL

      • Bill M.
        Bill M.
        April 27, 2011 at 12:32 pm | #

        Some of us have been harboring PSL for her since before the term PSL came into being.

  5. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    April 26, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

    AFFECTION!!!!!

    lol xD darn you, Phoenix Wright!!!!!!!!!

  6. DrDVD
    DrDVD
    April 26, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

    joyce has rabbies!!!! AH!!!!!!!…………… I’d still hug her.

    • CWR
      CWR
      April 27, 2011 at 3:38 am | #

      Is rabbies a really cute form of rabies? Maybe something to do with bunny rabbits…?

  7. calendarman27
    calendarman27
    April 26, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

    can’t joyce be in your circle billie? you won’t just be adding her, you’ll also be adding jesus, that’s two friends right there!

    • NCP19
      NCP19
      April 26, 2011 at 12:31 am | #

      Heh, excellent.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      April 26, 2011 at 1:47 am | #

      Two friends at the cost of one’s sanity is not worth the bargain.

      And before someone says anything, I’m not saying Jesus wouldn’t make a good friend. I rather think he would. It’s the people he hangs out with that I find problems.

      • gangler
        gangler
        April 26, 2011 at 4:03 am | #

        She still has her sanity? Goodness goodness that limits her options. Really, she should have ditched that years ago. It’s just gonna get broken after the first exam season anyway.

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        April 26, 2011 at 7:10 am | #

        I’m not so sure Billie still has her sanity.

        • dchorror
          dchorror
          April 26, 2011 at 8:51 am | #

          She doesn’t need to still have. Just to believe that she does.

  8. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 26, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

    This might sound dumb, but what is a halfbath?

    • Cranberrier
      Cranberrier
      April 26, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

      It is a place for midget cleansing. In the watery sense, not in the final solution sense. Also, your gravatar will haunt my nightmares.

      • NF
        NF
        April 26, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

        “It is a place for midget cleansing. In the watery sense, not in the final solution sense.”

        The second sense sounds like something Mike would say.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 26, 2011 at 5:09 am | #

        Your ava make your helpful reply way more sinister and thanks, that’s the response I want my Joyce ava to evoke.

    • You
      You
      April 26, 2011 at 12:31 am | #

      I dunno about college dorms, but at Job Corps, the halfbath is a toilet and a sink in a room halfway between the bathroom with the showers and the end of the hall. The toilets in the shower room were pretty much no-man’s-land in the coed dorms.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        April 26, 2011 at 1:11 am | #

        Basically this.

        It’s half a bathroom. A full-bath is a bathroom with a sink, a toilet, and bathing facilities (ei: tub & shower, or just a shower) and a half bath lacks the bathing facilities.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 26, 2011 at 5:14 am | #

          So a halfbath is a loo/shower/sink combo minus the bathtub huh?

          Here in Oz, a lot of places don’t have toilets in the bathroom, the loo has its own room.

          • Bekah
            Bekah
            April 26, 2011 at 5:12 pm | #

            No, it has no shower either. Just a sink and a toilet.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      April 26, 2011 at 1:48 am | #

      Sink and toilet, maybe a shower, but not a tub.

    • Matt of Steel
      Matt of Steel
      April 26, 2011 at 12:07 pm | #

      A halfbath is a place you go when you don’t half to bath.

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      July 8, 2011 at 7:55 pm | #

      It’s half a bathroom with half a sink (it only has cold water), half a toilet, half a shower (again no hot water), half of a tube of toothpaste, and a half used toothbrush.

  9. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    April 26, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

    Every day Joyce reminds me a little more of a girl I actually know. It’s actually a little uncanny.

    Willis, I would never accuse you of spying on her with hidden cameras. At least, I would never accuse you of doing so if you agreed to share some of the footage with me.

    • goatman95111
      goatman95111
      April 26, 2011 at 1:11 am | #

      I don’t know whether I want to meet this person you know, or run in fear.

      • dchorror
        dchorror
        April 26, 2011 at 1:48 am | #

        Is study with caution an option?

  10. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    April 26, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

    Well that half explains it.

  11. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    April 26, 2011 at 12:21 am | #

    Is Joyce gay in this continuity?

    (SORRY SORRY I HAD TO MAKE THE JOKE SORRY STOP HITTING ME PLEASE OW)

    • NF
      NF
      April 26, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

      “Your fandom isn’t a real fandom unless it has a gay subtext.”

      • beeftony
        beeftony
        April 26, 2011 at 1:14 am | #

        And this is a rare case where my chosen avatar is more appropriate than a randomly assigned one.

    • arjay2813
      arjay2813
      April 26, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

      you may actually be right on that account, we’ll probably see if she spends moar time w/Ethan

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      April 26, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

      It’s written by David Willis – EVERYONE is gay. There are just differing states of denial.

      • Tristan J
        Tristan J
        April 26, 2011 at 6:56 am | #

        Including and especially the reader.

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          April 26, 2011 at 9:48 am | #

          EXACTLY.

    • R
      R
      April 26, 2011 at 2:11 am | #

      I think Willis said somewhere that everyone’s sexual orientation is the same as it is in the other ‘verse.

      Although, honestly, if I squinted, I could see this Joyce as possibly gay, just because of how she doesn’t address any of her own sexual feelings, but that’s just because closet cases are repressed, as is Joyce.

      I don’t think she’s actually gay.

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        April 26, 2011 at 9:50 am | #

        Well Joyce-prime was really into a girl once… Sure, it was a sex changed Walky, and she was a dude at the time… But still… 😛

        • R
          R
          April 26, 2011 at 10:09 am | #

          Well most people aren’t purely 100% hetero or homosexual. She’s probably only 99% straight, with the 1% gay being reserved for guys-who-have-been-turned-into-women-when-she’s-been-turned-into-a-dude-when-they’ve-previously-been-attracted-to-each-other-when-their-genders-were-natural. Just like how I’m not into blondes at all, but when my wife dyed her hair, I still found her very attractive. 🙂

      • Shift
        Shift
        April 26, 2011 at 1:07 pm | #

        I honestly wonder if Joyce in this continuity is A-sexual, and her desire to marry is solely because of some sort of religious or Disney-esque programing created by her hyper-religious/home schooled childhood. I mean, yeah, she blushed like hell when Joe was interested in her, but that could be just because its never happened to her before.

    • Matt of Steel
      Matt of Steel
      April 26, 2011 at 12:10 pm | #

      Of course she’s gay. She’s so gay in fact that her gay-odometer has rolled over to straight.

      Isn’t that how gay works? Just like time singularities?

  12. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    April 26, 2011 at 12:29 am | #

    i’m almost surprised joyce wasn’t drawn with bubbles from her toothpaste to make her look feral, that would make the mugging comment slightly funnier

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      April 26, 2011 at 10:55 am | #

      She does have them – they’re just completely white, therefore subtle.

  13. NF
    NF
    April 26, 2011 at 12:33 am | #

    I’m wondering if Joyce wants to give Billie a morning hug because Joyce likes her, or if Joyce likes to give morning hugs to everyone she knows. If the second, I wonder who out of the Dumbing of Age cast would least want a morning hug from Joyce, and who would most want one.

    I think Mike would least want a morning hug from Joyce. The only character I can see wanting a morning hug from Joyce is her best friend who is at a different college.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      April 26, 2011 at 1:51 am | #

      I’m of the opinion that Mike might by more on the most side. It makes it easier to plant something on someone’s person when you are actually touching them.

  14. kater
    kater
    April 26, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

    Well, Joyce has offically gone from being cute if a little ignorant to ignorent if a little cute to fucking TERRIFYING!

    Thanks, Willis, I don’t need to sleep tonight.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 26, 2011 at 5:18 am | #

      Joyce won’t be terrifying until she has tentacles growing out of her FAAACCCCEEEE!

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        April 26, 2011 at 7:12 am | #

        Hey, we made it forty comments without the meme, even after Joyce’s expression in the last panel! Good job, guys!

        Tomorrow it’s gonna be in the first comment isn’t it

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 26, 2011 at 8:11 am | #

          Life’s pretty straight without memes.

          • voodoo_curse
            voodoo_curse
            April 26, 2011 at 10:12 am | #

            Almost as straight as Ethan?

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              April 26, 2011 at 7:42 pm | #

              YES!

        • Tristan J
          Tristan J
          April 26, 2011 at 9:36 pm | #

          See, I was about to come here and say that if Billie wants new friends she should go on FAAAAAAAAAAAACEbook but that just ruined it.

  15. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    April 26, 2011 at 12:40 am | #

    I remember the one semester when my room was directly across from the bathroom.

    the things I saw

    the horror

    the horror

    kill me

    • kilonum
      kilonum
      April 26, 2011 at 9:34 am | #

      thankfully I was a commuter student

  16. Hello, Mr. Anderson
    Hello, Mr. Anderson
    April 26, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

    Now THAT’S not something you want to wake up to!

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      April 26, 2011 at 1:12 am | #

      So… you’re saying that I should stop doing this to my boyfriend?

      • drpepperfan
        drpepperfan
        April 26, 2011 at 1:17 am | #

        Ha ha ha, Walky has a boyfriend.

        Yes, I am that immature.

        • taekwondogirl
          taekwondogirl
          April 26, 2011 at 1:34 am | #

          hahahaha

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          April 26, 2011 at 1:56 am | #

          I thought you were Osaka.

        • Cha
          Cha
          April 26, 2011 at 5:17 pm | #

          Exactly what I thought as I was scrolling down. Scary!

  17. drpepperfan
    drpepperfan
    April 26, 2011 at 1:16 am | #

    Billie looks good with her hair down. Very nice, you should draw her with it down more often.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      April 26, 2011 at 2:02 am | #

      YES!

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        April 26, 2011 at 11:00 am | #

        Billie looks good when she’s Billie.

        You know, on account of all the being Billie.

  18. dchorror
    dchorror
    April 26, 2011 at 1:53 am | #

    That does not look like she’s trying to get a hug.

    For a second, when I first read the last panel, I thought she’d called Billie a mirror.

  19. Undrave
    Undrave
    April 26, 2011 at 2:04 am | #

    Poor Billie… you already have a circle of friends! Just stop pushing Walky away and embrace the ‘nerds’.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 26, 2011 at 5:20 am | #

      NEEERRRRRDDDDDDD! *crushes can on forehead*

    • calendarman27
      calendarman27
      April 26, 2011 at 1:58 pm | #

      Yes Billie…join the nerds…succumb to our divine coalescence…one of us, one of us, ONE OF US!!!

  20. Grayven
    Grayven
    April 26, 2011 at 2:48 am | #

    Is it just me, or does Joyce’s smile+toothbrush in panel 4 look like a jesus fish?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      April 26, 2011 at 10:52 am | #

      Jesus fish don’t have eyes!

      Also they have a pointy nose – that’s a Jesus whale.

  21. Lulu
    Lulu
    April 26, 2011 at 3:17 am | #

    She definitely should. 😀

  22. Ezzy
    Ezzy
    April 26, 2011 at 7:55 am | #

    Oh gawd, I wanna hug her.

    Course, then I’d probably grope her and she would freak out and hire Mike to kick my ass and sleep with my mom for a nickel.

  23. daughterofthestars
    daughterofthestars
    April 26, 2011 at 8:44 am | #

    I don’t remember how these two know each other. :/ Classmates? That doesn’t seem to warrant the need for “morring mugs.”

    Course, this is Joyce we’re talking about.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      April 26, 2011 at 12:24 pm | #

      Joycemetand followed Walky (and Mike)and she followed them because they go to the same math class. Joyce also follows Billie on Twitter and re-tweets bible verse at her :p

  24. nothri
    nothri
    April 26, 2011 at 8:55 am | #

    I…have no idea what Joyce just said….

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      April 26, 2011 at 12:21 pm | #

      “Billie! Morning hugs!”

  25. TheDoctor
    TheDoctor
    April 26, 2011 at 10:26 am | #

    Okay I’m a little slow today so what does PSL mean? Tried to Google it, got multiple hits.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      April 26, 2011 at 10:54 am | #

      Perverse Sexual Lust.

      It’s actually an internet meme in its own right, including having an entry on tvtropes, and it’s all Willis’s fault.

    • OmegaDez
      OmegaDez
      April 26, 2011 at 10:58 am | #

      Same.

    • das-g
      das-g
      April 26, 2011 at 11:58 am | #

      Googling that could be a bit tricky. The meaning this abbreviation has in the context of Willis’ comics can be found on Walkypedia! and tvtropes.

    • Matt of Steel
      Matt of Steel
      April 26, 2011 at 12:15 pm | #

      Pandas Smoking Licorice.

      These poor pandas were force to smoke licorice as part of a circus act in their native land. Harboring them is incredibly brave as nothing is quite as scary as a panda going through licorice withdrawal. But if you can step them down to twizzlers you’re through the worst of it.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 26, 2011 at 7:52 pm | #

      PSL is when you lust after a fictional character. If the character exists/ed in real life, then it’s just normal lust.

      eg: If you fancy Emma Watson, then it’s lust.
      If you fancy Hermione Granger, then it’s PSL.

  26. iggzy
    iggzy
    April 26, 2011 at 12:39 pm | #

    I love how “hugs” turns to “mugs”, you should be afraid of either of those

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      April 26, 2011 at 2:55 pm | #

      This is Joyce, it could very well be morning mugs.

  27. Shift
    Shift
    April 26, 2011 at 1:32 pm | #

    At what point has Billie ever demonstrated any sign she like hugs to Joyce? Joyce really does lack any sort of social understanding.

    • calendarman27
      calendarman27
      April 26, 2011 at 2:00 pm | #

      Dude, hugs kick ass, even Billie has to know that

      • Shift
        Shift
        April 26, 2011 at 4:37 pm | #

        Somehow I doubt Billie knows that… Especially when she’s sober.

  28. Cha
    Cha
    April 26, 2011 at 5:19 pm | #

    I swear she’s looking at Billie’s boobs in that last panel. xD

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      July 8, 2011 at 7:57 pm | #

      😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀

  29. Clementine
    Clementine
    April 28, 2011 at 1:26 am | #

    I feel like this may have happened in real life to someone.

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MAN: Dear wife, look! My 18 months of work are done! I designed this one tiny crystal to hold ALL of Krypton’s knowledge!

PANEL 2: The man stands against a white background, still holding the green crystal.
MAN: AND! I designed it to build a “fortress of solitude” out of nothing but ice! AND! I designed it with fully autonomous holograms of us! They can answer any question!

PANEL 3: The man slaps his hand on a metal object next to him, which his wife looks on happily, holding the infant.
MAN: AND! It slots right into this interstellar starship I designed to go to Earth!
WOMAN: And you designed it with three seats, right?

PANEL 4: The man bites his lower lip, eyes wide in regret. His wife yells at him.
WOMAN: …YOU DESIGNED IT WITH THREE SEATS, RIGHT?!?

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social ⋅ 6d
Harsh, but fair
To teach my kids a lesson about socialism, I gave all my kids a list of chores that I thought they could handle, but set their allowances at the same level. 

Then I had the CIA murder me and install a puppet dad.
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Wack'd @wackd.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
"what do you ship in #dumbingofage? joyce/dorothy? joyce/joe? dorothy/walky?" i am so glad you asked
a complicated diagram of romantic and sexual relationships, including
- joyce/dorothy
- joyce/joe
- dorothy/walky 
- an arrow pointing from dorothy to joe with an angry face
- arrows pointing between joyce and walky with a meh face
- arrows pointing between dorothy and jennifer with an angry face and sweat drops
- arrows pointing between jennifer and ruth with the lyrics to
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3h
Not sure where I am
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Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
"...I cancelled the show but I stand by my decision"
Tweet from Variety:
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com ⋅ 8h
I hope Josh Johnson is given The Daily Show and is allowed to rebuild it from scratch in his own image just like Jon Stewart got to do in 99. He has built his own groundbreaking form of topical comedy, and imitating the style of others is something he is great at, but better than.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
thinking about how mario's head has stayed the exact same size his entire life, while princess peach's head has shrunk on its way into adulthood
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 16h
do you think Mario, Luigi, and the Princesses have, like, existential crises about the baby versions of themselves also just casually being next to them in all the races like I would be having ego death right now, not leaping triumphantly
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
Dumbing of Age: "Take stock" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
www.dumbingofage.com
Take stock
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 16h
do you think Mario, Luigi, and the Princesses have, like, existential crises about the baby versions of themselves also just casually being next to them in all the races like I would be having ego death right now, not leaping triumphantly
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 16h
y'know not sure I trust the impartiality of a race track that has a giant statue of one of the guys I'm racing against
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 17h
For July's first bonus strip, folks voted for DEXTER and MONKEY MASTER! For world domination! Read this bonus strip and hundreds of previous at the Dumbing of Age Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-... and remember you can always pledge up to read tomorrow's strip 👀
dexter and monkey master decline, apparently, to take over the world
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
Good news for the people still circulating this post: it is now a real t-shirt you can purchase and wear to let the world know you take responsibility for the actions of fictional characters:
emotion-engine.bsky.social's user avatarThe Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
Normally I’d let this sort of thing just die out but an alarming amount of you have asked where you can buy this and my wife had to have an emergency surgery the day before I made this, so here is my chance to live the American Dream (selling print-on-demand shirts to pay down medical debt)
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amber @goronamber.bsky.social ⋅ 20h
I just wanna post this in the comments bsky.app/profile/emot...
emotion-engine.bsky.social's user avatarThe Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social ⋅ 13d
Working on a t-shirt to sell to the weird people that show up in your mentions every time you talk about enjoying something that has crime or impure thought in it.
A stock photo of a man holding a phone wearing a shirt that says “I PERSONALLY ENDORSE EVERY BAD THING IN THE MEDIA I WATCH. MAY THEIR CRIMES ONE DAY BE MY OWN”
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Tekno 😈🌐👑🇨🇦 | TEAM FOSSILS @generaltekno.bttoons.com ⋅ 1d
Someone leaked the entire unreleased Micronauts animated series to archive.org All 52 episodes Yes they FULLY FINISHED a Micronauts cartoon in the early 2020s and mothballed it
vangelus.bsky.social's user avatarVangelus @vangelus.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
tested ep1 of Micronauts, skipped to the credits so I could see every name of every crew member who put in so much work with the expectation that anybody would ever see the thing they did as part of their vocation in a creative field, working in service of what should be a reliable client & partner
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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
tested ep1 of Micronauts, skipped to the credits so I could see every name of every crew member who put in so much work with the expectation that anybody would ever see the thing they did as part of their vocation in a creative field, working in service of what should be a reliable client & partner
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Wack'd @wackd.bsky.social ⋅ 21h
gotta go back to the original tagline
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
admittedly, i might be arriving at a little annoyance on behalf of anyone responded to ever with "WELL it's not called SMARTING of age" because that's become a lot, i think the fork might be in that one, it's done
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
the people have spoken
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Senator Meow @senatormeow.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
they're selling twink dongs at the grocery store now
Hostess Ding Dongs x Twinkies mashup with delicious Twinkies cake covered in Ding Dongs fudge
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
today in #9chickweedlane i learned that "how to lie" is not, actually, achieved by cupping the balls, despite the evidence of the entirety of the first panel, but by some other giant pile of words i guess, tl;dr
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
“It’s not me who’s a bigot,” they always argue. “I’m fine with all you people. But the rest of the electorate is full of bigots, on whose behalf I will now speak”
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Same, Dunkin, same
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
factpostnews.bsky.social's user avatarFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
House Republicans have shut down floor votes and will likely adjourn for 6 weeks to avoid voting for the release of the Epstein files.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
😬 Rainbow Friends
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me ⋅ 2d
this is why layout matters
video thumbnail
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com ⋅ 2d
The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
fklein907.bsky.social's user avatarFrances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
I still love this Glen Brogan artwork capturing a truly iconic Star Wars moment...
Glen Brogan art of a trio of seagulls attacking a fleeing Yoda, who is valiantly trying to protect his head from the onslaught...
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