For some reason, I imagine bear cancer to look weirdly cute, like tardigrades:

This is one of his newer comics, he started drawing them digitally and that’s why it looks differently:

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

So a few years ago—finally fed up with my once-loyal but now reliably traitorous pen—I decided to try a digital tablet. I knew nothing about these devices but hoped it would just get me through my annual Christmas card ordeal. I got one, fired it up, and lo and behold, something totally unexpected happened: within moments, I was having fun drawing again. I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered, all the creative potential it contained. I simply had no idea how far these things had evolved. Perhaps fittingly, the first thing I drew was a caveman.

From the other site, this is apparently the shooter ranting about people “not knowing what sex they are”:

https://xcancel.com/TropicalVertic1/status/1933959644373819818

There are some claims (of course) that this guy was a Democrat and this is all Walz’ fault, but that’s based on him being on some minor board under Walz or because there were “No Kings” signs in the car, which are nothingburgers, to borrow the term:

Apparently Walz appointing the guy 6 years ago in an effort to toe the line

Not even to “toe the line”. It’s a non partisan board that currently has almost 50 people on it and 11 open spots that anyone who fits that niche can sign up for. It’s pretty much a volunteer position that only requires meeting 4 times a year or so.

It’s not a full time job, it’s not anything that really requires proper vetting outside of ensuring that the person signing up for it has something to do with the workforce (since it’s a workforce commission). There are hundreds if not thousands of collective spots like this across various niche boards and commissions, it would be weird if Walz (and other state governors) did vet this guy (and others on these boards).

It would be like if the superintendent of a large school district individually vetted each school’s PTO participants; just a huge waste of time and they have far bigger, more important priorities.

Yeah, it’s a moth. I’m sure there’s some other small flying insect attracted to lamps that starts with “M”, but The Far Side was written with your average newspaper reader in mind so generally isn’t that obscure

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (draft):

I work for this scientist… I dig up graves, fetch brains, mop the floor-general stuff… you wanna see the lab?

blah blah blah… and you?

Looks like they updated the comic at some point to make it more clear. Today’s post has a little strip of white that’s not there in the original.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

A few days after this cartoon was published, I started getting a considerable amount of reaction from people who enjoyed it. But I found it interesting that, without exception, they were enjoying it from a different standpoint from the one I had intended. If you look at the enlargement of the two little calves, you’ll see that one of them is doing the old hoof-behind-the-head trick to its sibling. Apparently, it was just too subtle in the original. (In fact, it sort of looks like the one calf is just wearing a ribbon.) I wish now I had developed this into a series of places the Holsteins had visited. (“The Holsteins visit Three Mile Island” would have been interesting.)

The link wasn’t working for me, it seems PieFed doesn’t like capitalization differences in the links? Lemmy ignores capitalization. This works, at any rate:

https://quokk.au/c/sighfi

I don’t see the new post on my instance at https://discuss.online/c/sighfi@quokk.au, you might want to check that it’s federating properly. I’ve heard that recreating communities like that can make things get into a weird state.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (comic draft):

“Look at that… Man, in our day, Bernie, we could skeletonize a cow in less than two minutes.”

Transcript (commentary):

Just about every time I’ve heard or read anything about piranhas (as you might imagine, I’m drawn to the subject), it’s always mentioned how quickly a school of them can skeletonize a cow. I’m not sure why a cow is always the standard unit of measurement for this sort of thing, but pondering it eventually led to this cartoon.

Neat, are you involved in activitypub.rocks? What sort of updates can we look forward to?

The biggest reason is that @jgrim@discuss.online runs it really well. It’s stable, updated frequently as Lemmy is updated, and he’s really responsive to issues like trouble uploading images. I’m also a Lemmy admin on here, and since lemm.ee is going down in large part because of not enough admins, I think it’s good to rehome the community to somewhere that I can help fix that issue if it crops up again.

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Where were you looking?

Are you maybe looking for flohmarkt?

The name flohmarkt is a german word and translates to flea market or garage sale in english. This is a symbol for each flohmarkt being meant to be a small place for a somehow connected group of people. All the flohmarkts willing to federate make up one big place for small advertisements about exchange of goods and services.

I said bad actors, not amazing-and-underappreciated-in-their-time actors

Does Bello specialize in bear hugs?

I’ll plug my home instance, discuss.online. We’re generally low-key and don’t heavily moderate stuff, but will also respond to bad actors.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

My inclination is moving it to discuss.online, since that’s my home instance. Does anyone have opinions?

Of course they’ll claim that, and not face any consequences if they’re lying. Regardless of the reason, MN should tell ICE to fuck off, we can handle that sort of thing ourselves.