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Brandon Ketchum
@brandonketchum.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writer (fantasy, horror, and sci-fi, in that order) and LCSW working for the Pittsburgh VA, trying to understand life, the universe, and everything.
A hearty thank you to all my fellow vets on this day.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
C'mon, you gotta post a gross politician warning first.
gotta go taste that boot in person, I guess
fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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This takes a common ‘not knowing with whom you speak’ social media failure to a truly splendid level. This has become very amusing.
this was the most hilariously bad defense of Elon I saw in her responses
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I'm of two minds when it comes to people sharing AI videos. On the one hand go fuck yourself, but on the other hand drop dead and burn in Hell.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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OK, I made this dopey cartoon real. You're welcome.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I cannot agree enough. Going through social work school then working the various associated jobs, really opens the eyes to, you know, reality, versus the Republican narrative.
This is exactly why I hate the Republican party, So much of their ethos is based on the idea that anyone who needs help is lazy or a crook. The "Welfare Queen" lie is the classic example. It will never change. They will never change. They are loathsome in their superiority and faux piety.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For only the third time in my writing career, I have found a short story call that I felt was so perfect for one of my stories that it must be accepted. For fellow submission grinders, you know how little certainty there is. Here's hoping I'm write (haha), er, right again!
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Elon just got a trillion dollars. Will he go to Mars? Fund Nazi white nationalists around the world? Will Bezos have to build a super-hyper-yacht to keep up? Old time rich guy Andrew Carnegie was a piece of shit in many ways, but he also used his money for this. How about it, Elon and Jeff?
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Make ICE Smell Like Mustard And Onions Again (MISLMAOA)
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Holy crap! This is the Burger King in my neighborhood!
link via @violetblue.bsky.social
www.cracked.com/article_2801...
The Story Of The Rogue Burger King In Pittsburgh
Every city has its own fast food urban legend, here's Pittsburgh's.
www.cracked.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. I am in Spain this week launching the book - come along! www.tomgauld.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Let theme at cake.
Not one of these assholes knows that Gatsby gets murdered and Daisy kills a woman while drunk driving. Lots of laughs.
Trump hosted a glittering ‘Great Gatsby’-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago — just hours before millions of people were set to lose SNAP benefits
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If this were a movie, this is the point where the highly skilled combat veteran snatches the pistol away from the cowardly bully boy federal agent, pistol whips him with it, and calls him out. Because that "federal agent" is a little nothingburger with a badge.
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I agree with Lynda Barry. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Amongst the Witcher’s glaring idiocies is its gross mishandling of archery. Ima dive into the water with my bow and come up and immediately shoot a bunch of guys smfh
November 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop
October 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Harrison Ford on Donald Trump: "It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. ... I don’t know of a greater criminal in history." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
For Halloween, I will quote Wednesday: “Woe to the republic.”
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Gm! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Brit TV is the best
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM