Turtle Person

@turtleperson.bsky.social

Haven't had time to draw "Gotta Have My Nazi!", but it writes itself: Panels 2-4: Graham Platner flexing w/tattoos before two (D) ding-dongs. Ding-Dong: Increasinly terrible points about Platner. Effusive Ding-Dong: Rationalizing bullshit Last panel: "Who am I kidding? Gotta have my Nazi!"

Gotta Have My Batman, a comic strip satirizing hardcore pop culture fans who continue supporting things not because they genuinely enjoy hem but because they've always supported them.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Gavin Kliger, Elon's DOGE hitler youth shutting down USAID, is now indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of children. His Instagram appears to be @gkliger. He's scrubbing his online footprint. Here's an archived copy of Kliger's resume: web.archive.org/web/20240418...

screenshot of the private IG account of a Gavin KligerScreenshot of Gavin Kliger's now-deactivated GitHub account

Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his payroll. I will not tell him the whereabouts of my friends nor of my enemies either. I will not map him the route to any man’s door. Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I should deliver men to Death? -St. Vincent Millay

A poster reading "Build a wall of resistance—don't talk to ICE" with a drawing showing a line of houses slamming their doors at the approach of a man who can be identified as a heartless and despicable mercenary by the letters "I.C.E." emblazoned on his jacket.

so you're telling me the head of bluesky trust and safety got caught in 4K liking porn bot posts like a pervert and as a mid-jerkoff panic response banned the trans woman who made the bot that noticed it? is that about the size of things?