Joe Medwid
@joemedwid.bsky.social
UX designer to the stars, occasional comic artist and illustrator. He/him
Just realized on our umpteenth viewing that this long-faced extra in Love Actually is ALSO in Sean of the Dead.
Is this how people feel when they crack conspiracies?
Is this how people feel when they crack conspiracies?
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Just realized on our umpteenth viewing that this long-faced extra in Love Actually is ALSO in Sean of the Dead.
Is this how people feel when they crack conspiracies?
Is this how people feel when they crack conspiracies?
Extremely pumped to see @jpbrammer.bsky.social’s takes on the Catholicism in Wake Up Dead Man
December 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Extremely pumped to see @jpbrammer.bsky.social’s takes on the Catholicism in Wake Up Dead Man
I’m the Best Communist because this is my top album, but the Worst Communist because I’m using Spotify
December 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I’m the Best Communist because this is my top album, but the Worst Communist because I’m using Spotify
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SUGGESTION [Heroic: Success] —
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
SUGGESTION [Heroic: Success] —
Probably accurate, but my takeaway from this is still “Those things are real? Sign me up!”
me to me dreaming of a Fisk metallic burial case(tm):
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Probably accurate, but my takeaway from this is still “Those things are real? Sign me up!”
Poppin' back into all of my government Slack threads like
a woman is laying on her back on a rock with her arms outstretched .
Alt: Rita Repulsa from Power Rangers, finally free after 10,000 years
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Poppin' back into all of my government Slack threads like
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The bees have discovered Brutalism
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The bees have discovered Brutalism
Me: “Five first-class stamps, please!”
Post office: “Do you care which? We’re trying to get rid of these.”
Me: “Nah.” (Internally: …so long as they don’t have someone horrible on them, or something like that, haha)
The stamps:
Post office: “Do you care which? We’re trying to get rid of these.”
Me: “Nah.” (Internally: …so long as they don’t have someone horrible on them, or something like that, haha)
The stamps:
September 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Me: “Five first-class stamps, please!”
Post office: “Do you care which? We’re trying to get rid of these.”
Me: “Nah.” (Internally: …so long as they don’t have someone horrible on them, or something like that, haha)
The stamps:
Post office: “Do you care which? We’re trying to get rid of these.”
Me: “Nah.” (Internally: …so long as they don’t have someone horrible on them, or something like that, haha)
The stamps:
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I don’t really ever have useful creative advice. It’s always gonna be like, “Make stuff up, see what happens, pick the parts you like, then put them next to each other in different configurations until they make your brain tingly.”
September 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I don’t really ever have useful creative advice. It’s always gonna be like, “Make stuff up, see what happens, pick the parts you like, then put them next to each other in different configurations until they make your brain tingly.”
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“Improving our nation through better design” is certainly important work: we know this, because it’s exactly what we were doing when DOGE eliminated 18F entirely.
Improving Our Nation Through Better Design
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
August 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
“Improving our nation through better design” is certainly important work: we know this, because it’s exactly what we were doing when DOGE eliminated 18F entirely.
@hankgreen.bsky.social Assume I’m the ~10,000th person to send you this, but re: DH&J 419
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-0...
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-0...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2011-07-13
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2011-07-13
www.smbc-comics.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social Assume I’m the ~10,000th person to send you this, but re: DH&J 419
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-0...
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-0...
Xtreme vicarious pride for my partner's Duolingo streak milestone
August 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Xtreme vicarious pride for my partner's Duolingo streak milestone
The best thing the internet’s produced in months
August 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The best thing the internet’s produced in months
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fuck this. i'm departing for the kingdom of prester john
February 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
fuck this. i'm departing for the kingdom of prester john
The time finally came to clear off several months' worth of my play group's @infinitokens.com. A sad farewell to many weird lil' friendos, and one terrifying monkee.
July 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The time finally came to clear off several months' worth of my play group's @infinitokens.com. A sad farewell to many weird lil' friendos, and one terrifying monkee.
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trump launched a politically motivated investigation into UVA's decision to admit nonwhite student and jim ryan folded in an immense disservice to the university
June 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
trump launched a politically motivated investigation into UVA's decision to admit nonwhite student and jim ryan folded in an immense disservice to the university
📯
June 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
📯
Never before have I been so acutely aware of getting the wrong message from a work of art as, upon viewing Sinners, immediately thinking “I should learn to play folk banjo”
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Never before have I been so acutely aware of getting the wrong message from a work of art as, upon viewing Sinners, immediately thinking “I should learn to play folk banjo”
@jamellebouie.net As a gamer of discerning taste, have you played Tactics? It’s extremely tight stuff, and the messaging is on point.
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
@jamellebouie.net As a gamer of discerning taste, have you played Tactics? It’s extremely tight stuff, and the messaging is on point.
Fuck yeah
June 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Fuck yeah
Unconscionable, cold-hearted myopia to completely defund NASA's STEM engagement office by claiming that we'll "inspire the next generation of explorers through exciting, ambitious space missions, not through subsidizing woke STEM programming and research"
We're also gutting those missions, btw
We're also gutting those missions, btw
May 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Unconscionable, cold-hearted myopia to completely defund NASA's STEM engagement office by claiming that we'll "inspire the next generation of explorers through exciting, ambitious space missions, not through subsidizing woke STEM programming and research"
We're also gutting those missions, btw
We're also gutting those missions, btw
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I used to be of the mind that any manner of story could swap mediums with acceptable fidelity. This page challenged that notion expertly. An artist's chosen method of expression had never struck me as so irreplaceable, so full of purpose, before, and I can so often recognize that, now.
Also, Kim. 💪🏻
Also, Kim. 💪🏻
April 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I used to be of the mind that any manner of story could swap mediums with acceptable fidelity. This page challenged that notion expertly. An artist's chosen method of expression had never struck me as so irreplaceable, so full of purpose, before, and I can so often recognize that, now.
Also, Kim. 💪🏻
Also, Kim. 💪🏻