On the reality and impact of title IX, can’t recommend @kelceyervick.bsky.social’s memoir The Keeper highly enough. kelceyervick.com/the-keeper

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7h ago

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

"the rocket’s second stage remained in space, floating aimlessly among thousands of other pieces of space junk that active satellites must steer clear of." Just a reminder that there's an ethos behind all of this, and it's not one of stewardship. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision

Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour

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Listen to my latest podcast with The Grading Podcast superhosts and superstars Sharona Krinsky and Robert Bosley. It's about #Schoolishness and #ungrading and #alternativeassessment and more! #AI might make an appearance. thegradingpod.com/episodes/160...

160 – Schoolishness, AI and the Future of Education: A conversation with Dr. Susan D. Blum.

What if the biggest challenge facing education isn’t grading—but our assumptions about school itself? In this episode, Sharona and Boz welcome anthropologist and author Susan Blum for a wide-…

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20ya I made a billboard on car culture: marching figures & then leaping figure appearing as you came alongside that greeted drivers for 6 mos on Woodward Ave, I reworked the images for opening to Unflattening. It’s returned to me in case anyone has a home for it! spinweaveandcut.com/slow-streets...

It’s not just that this is absurdly awful, which it absolutely is, it’s that these people have nothing better to with their time and their role as public servants than come up with ways to make everyone’s lives worse on all levels.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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This face! One of two praying mantises my boy found and we got a lot of closeup looks at it. Watching its mouthparts move was otherworldly! (This was part of a thread of us finding cicada’s shedding exoskeletons, but the closeup on its mouth was just too good!)

My boy spotted a cicada in the process of shedding its exoskeleton today. We got a great look at it until it went on its way in its new skin!

Early on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...

A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI

In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?

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Comics versions of The Odyssey that I own…

This article by @smellosopher.bsky.social on Mary Hesse, of whom I was/am scandalously ignorant is a brilliant introduction to a brilliant and important thinker about how science works.

Bernard Suits’s The Gradshopper is such an important book - reference frequently in classes and talks on the constraint aspect of comics making!

Maria Popova@mariapopova.bsky.social · 3d ago

The grasshopper, the game of life, and the "lusory attitude" essential for playing www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/02/s...

Visiting home and one of the first thing my dad excitedly shares is this phenomenal composite photo in Astronomy by @tunctezel.bsky.social showing the position of Saturn and Neptune in retrograde loops across the night sky! Super cool! www.astronomy.com/picture-of-t...

Incredible piece on the Prairieland 9 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa

“We are not terrorists.”

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If you meet me on the airport shuttle bus in Detroit, and you’re talking comics on the drive, there’s a good chance I’ll give you a print of my superhero syllabus and an excerpt from Unflattening (with teaser to Nostos). As one does…

All the hysteria and rhetoric that consumed a community around these bike lanes ended and now no one talks about them and people use them (including those with mobility devices) all the time for work, school, play and everything in between. Change is hard for some people but we all adapt.

New arrival!! Comics in the Classroom by @eggyhelen.bsky.social & Lucy Starbuck Braidley (@comicboom.bsky.social) - great addition to anyone seeking to use comics in their teaching! But don’t take my word for it, check out these blurbs!! See more here www.routledge.com/Comics-in-th...

Ok, I’ve read, I’ve sketched, I’ve read more, designed more, been stuck, been surprised, & finally I figured out all the boundaries for each page for this ch on life’s origins so I’m good to go & start in earnest! Each page will mean reading again + more but I’m off. Onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

Another review, of my recent book along with “The dignity of dependence: A feminist manifesto” by Leah Libreville Sargaent. marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2271...

‘Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other’ by Anthony Chemero,’The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto’ by Leah Libresco Sargeant reviewed by Guy Lancaster

Cartesian dualism, never the strongest of premises, has come in for a right beating in recent years. Evolutionary theory had already broken down the barriers between the animal and the human, and furt...

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“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Awful. “The section of 6th Street where the crash occurred is quite wide, with four vehicle travel lanes — a street design that drivers often feel comfortable speeding on and is a long distance for pedestrians to cross,” - and if this is a known issue, should be addressed by the city…

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 7d ago

The 57-year-old man was pronounced dead after being struck by a driver while riding his bicycle in the city’s South of Market neighborhood.

New (overdue) arrival! @neilcohn.bsky.social’s Speaking in Pictures is an inviting journey on visual literacy, linguistics, & of course on & in comics! Brings together a lot of Neil’s work in easily accessible form, & covers lots of ground! (& look whose work makes a cameo…) Will deploy in classes!

Glad to see @lforlloyd.bsky.social post Moore’s essay on VfV -my favorite on creative process. While it seems planned out entirely, its genesis is instead a tale of accidents, synchronicities, unexpected twists leading to its emergence. A testament of human creativity that won’t come from shortcuts…

Great piece from @jamellebouie.net on the most prominent white supremacist influencer in the world, who is also the richest man in the world www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com. Inspired by recent news about the SpudCell. NS subscribers can read about it here: www.newscientist.com/article/2532...

I hate it here ... 🫠 New from me, on the Canadian discount coffee chain in the year 2026 (!!) choosing to partner with the British anti-trans lady's three-decade-old children's book series ⬇️ xtramagazine.com/culture/tim-...

Tim Hortons and the no good very bad ‘Harry Potter’ collaboration | Xtra Magazine

Tim Hortons licensing “Harry Potter” in 2026 essentially means directly funding J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans crusade

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“It’s not so much a question of “How can we make this better?” as it is “How can we make this immeasurably worse?”” Apt for so many things in this moment…

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last wk.

Bari Weiss is shaking things up at CBS. From New Yorker Humor, here’s what she might change about the Hoover Dam, Dawn dishwashing soap, and other things that we working perfectly well: newyorkercartoons.visitlink.me/YIXguw

Only two day left on the Kickstarter campaign for OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE: BROKEN BLADE. If you're wanting extras, this is your chance to get them! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...

Yes to this from @kellysue.bsky.social ! Make em, carry them with you, and hand out to anyone you can!

Mary@thislemontwist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kelly Sue Deconnick opens up the panel "Fight the Future! Resistance in Comics" with a banger about why comics are the best medium for encouraging people to misbehave. Comics are "fast, cheap, and persuasive." "When you dismiss popular art you dismiss the populace." @kellysue.bsky.social #SDCC

This man & his mis-administration are not only destroying our present, but our future and our past. Good reporting here by @dmain.bsky.social (coincidentally I had a student make a comic about a related pupfish from the one in the story - also endangered with a tiny habitat)

Douglas Main@dmain.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have a story in @theguardian.com today, please read or share if you have a minute: Border wall threatens Quitobaquito Springs, home to an Indigenous cemetery and three extremely rare species — two of which live nowhere else on Earth www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...