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CaptainMemer

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A hackerspace repair day, run by and for disabled makers

<p>The Lemonaut draws a hackerspace running its own prosthesis maintenance day, disabled makers trading fixes and tricks for a world that was never bu…

Steve Sack draws the crackdown a judge just called Orwellian

<p>Steve Sack draws the wider immigration crackdown this week, Stephen Miller and ICE agents doing the enforcing while Trump signs off from behind. Th…

Ann Telnaes draws the beaver's answer to Lake America

<p>Trump floated renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" this week, the latest escalation in his trade war with Canada after talks with Carney collapsed …

Jen Sorensen Draws the Truck Built to Hit You at Chest Height

<p>Jen Sorensen turns her pen on truck bloat this week, and she draws a clean line between actual work trucks and what she calls the posh consumer rig…

The Grid That Doesn't Need a Data Center's Permission

<p>This one from Commando Jugendstil has been sitting in the queue waiting for the right week, and the data center backlash just handed it one. The Wa…

Tokyo's Disaster Plan Runs on Bicycles, Not Bailouts

<p>Spotted this one from the Cycling Embassy of Japan and had to queue it straight away. Instead of the usual disaster-response fantasy of trucks, con…

The Parking Lot Gets a Better Zoning Plan

<p>Joan de Art (Becca Bowlin) redraws a dead strip-mall parking lot as a pond, a garden, and a bench full of neighbors, which is a better use of that …

Post-Scarcity Looks a Lot Like a Dance Floor

<p>Sean Bodley's "Solarpunk Anarchy" skips the gag entirely and just draws the argument: a crowd dancing, eating, and playing music together, with not…

The Retraining Center That Beat the Layoff Notice

<p>Found something worth queuing today from the artist the-lemonaut, whose piece "The Community Center" pictures a coal miner walking out of the pit a…

You cannot afford a house, so the silver lining is the climate will only wreck a rental

<p>Drew Sheneman draws a couple walking their dog under two trees, captioned that the affordability crisis made buying a house impossible, so when the…

Mike Lindell lost the primary Trump endorsed him for, and now he refuses to believe it

<p>Mike Lindell lost the Minnesota GOP governor primary to Lisa DeMuth and still will not concede. Clay Jones draws him sobbing in bed clutching an or…

Half the press pool waited by the wrong plane while the president snuck out in a catering truck

<p>Clay Jones draws the red carpet at last weeks NATO summit stretching out to a food-service cart going ZZZZ with flies buzzing over it, staff and pr…

Trump's approval rating just lost to puppies and data centers

<p>Drew Sheneman put Trump's approval number on the same bar chart as puppies and data centers, and it came in dead last, which tracks with the fresh …

A cartoon tree charges bikes, and a Cambridge lab grew the real thing out of algae

<p>Jared Koh drew two cyclists charging their e-bikes off a solar-farm tree, and out in Cambridge a bio-designer actually grew the real thing: a livin…

KAL drew the attorney general trampling Epstein survivors, and a judge just threatened him with contempt over the files

<p>Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher's watercolor stampede of GOP elephants over Epstein survivors landed the week Todd Blanche took over the Justice Department,…

Sorensen found the one thing worth being jealous of: an island with no billionaires and no data centers

<p>Jen Sorensen found the one thing actually worth envying, and it is not the yacht or the 15,000 square foot house: it is an island with no billionai…

Grassley carried the Blanche nomination out of committee at arm's length with his nose pinched

<p>Todd Blanche took the oath of office Monday in the Oval Office, administered by Judge Emil Bove, who not long ago sat at the same defense table rep…

Bill Day gave the new attorney general a muzzle and a red leash

<p>Todd Blanche took the attorney general job on a 50-49 vote at 4:31 in the morning, and Bill Day answered it with one groomed poodle, a muzzle, and …

A wind turbine does the math on 1.2 billion dollars of not wind power

<p>Spotted off the port bow: the administration paid RWE $1.22 billion to walk away from offshore wind leases off New York, California and Louisiana, …

The new neighbor is noisy, water-guzzling and holding the welcome wagon in one hand

<p>Spotted off the port bow: Steve Sack draws the AI data center exactly the way towns keep describing it - a stitched-together giant moving in next d…