Young Pete Toms
@petetoms.bsky.social
A beloved cartoonist and writer who everyone likes and no one has ever been mad at (I’m typing this hooked up to a lie detector and the polygraph guy is saying this is the most truthful BlueSky bio he’s ever seen).
https://petetoms.itch.io
https://petetoms.itch.io
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the most essentially American beliefs are that effects do not have causes, causes do not lead to effects, your natural superiors are in power, and possessing any knowledge of how and why their decisions are made is both foolish and dangerous.
February 17, 2026 at 6:25 PM
the most essentially American beliefs are that effects do not have causes, causes do not lead to effects, your natural superiors are in power, and possessing any knowledge of how and why their decisions are made is both foolish and dangerous.
It’s rare for song lyrics to teach you something that you need to know to survive.
February 17, 2026 at 3:53 AM
It’s rare for song lyrics to teach you something that you need to know to survive.
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I've got a little poetry chapbook for sale today from the amazing Dancing Girl Press in Chicago. They were one of my favorite local presses when I was a baby poet and it's cool to work with them!
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WHEN I AM IN THE MIDST OF AN ENORMOUS SUNDRESS | Never Angel North
Ne Never Angeline North is author of the books Wolf Doctors (Artifice, 2014), Sara or the Existence of Fire (Horse Less Press 2014), Careful Mountain (CCM 2016), Sea-Witch (Inside the Castle 2020), Ra...
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February 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I've got a little poetry chapbook for sale today from the amazing Dancing Girl Press in Chicago. They were one of my favorite local presses when I was a baby poet and it's cool to work with them!
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Keep getting ads for Pete Davidson’s podcast (on Netflix?) that looks like it's filmed in the kill room underneath Club Random.
February 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Keep getting ads for Pete Davidson’s podcast (on Netflix?) that looks like it's filmed in the kill room underneath Club Random.
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Remember that these people make/do/produce nothing. Their productivity martyrdom, their bullshit asceticism, it’s all busywork nonsense in this empty edifice that exists to prop up a fake economy they expect you and your planet to die for haaa
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 16, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Remember that these people make/do/produce nothing. Their productivity martyrdom, their bullshit asceticism, it’s all busywork nonsense in this empty edifice that exists to prop up a fake economy they expect you and your planet to die for haaa
Had a couple p stressful weeks where I was having difficulty getting a handle on a bunch of cascading problems but now that I’ve thrown my back out and can barely move, I’ve regained perspective and can devote time to daydreaming about my dog becoming like an Air Bud Kevorkian and euthanizing me.
February 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Had a couple p stressful weeks where I was having difficulty getting a handle on a bunch of cascading problems but now that I’ve thrown my back out and can barely move, I’ve regained perspective and can devote time to daydreaming about my dog becoming like an Air Bud Kevorkian and euthanizing me.
tbf Musk probably says stuff like this by mistake just like he accidentally throws a nazi salutes and inadvertently stole all the usaid funding and killed a lot of people who coincidentally are some of the same people that nazis don't like
In the past month and a half at least two people in Minneapolis famously and specifically died defending a multicultural economic zone
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
tbf Musk probably says stuff like this by mistake just like he accidentally throws a nazi salutes and inadvertently stole all the usaid funding and killed a lot of people who coincidentally are some of the same people that nazis don't like
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This dog is so inspiring that even after she finally accomplished her goal of eating something poisonous (she’s mostly fine now) and was projectile vomiting, she never got off that grind of trying to eat other possibly poisonous items off the ground.
I envy my dog’s singular drive and focus in attempting to realize her lifelong dream of eating poison.
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
This dog is so inspiring that even after she finally accomplished her goal of eating something poisonous (she’s mostly fine now) and was projectile vomiting, she never got off that grind of trying to eat other possibly poisonous items off the ground.
Saw like 10 mins of the DOJ hearing at the laundromat and it was just a congressman reading out mean tweets people have sent him and then being like “Won’t somebody do something about these mean tweets?”
February 11, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Saw like 10 mins of the DOJ hearing at the laundromat and it was just a congressman reading out mean tweets people have sent him and then being like “Won’t somebody do something about these mean tweets?”
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portrait commissions are open :)
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
portrait commissions are open :)
Grateful that with everything in the news being so stressful and grim that my personal life is also p bad so I don’t have to spend time juggling my emotions.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Grateful that with everything in the news being so stressful and grim that my personal life is also p bad so I don’t have to spend time juggling my emotions.
In 2017, when The Patriots won the Super Bowl, a dude came running out of a bar draped in a Patriots flag and yelled “Wooo Pats Pats Pats” into the faces of me and my friends. We walked around him and I heard him quietly say, “Awww they don’t care.” Thinking of this guy today.
February 8, 2026 at 4:50 PM
In 2017, when The Patriots won the Super Bowl, a dude came running out of a bar draped in a Patriots flag and yelled “Wooo Pats Pats Pats” into the faces of me and my friends. We walked around him and I heard him quietly say, “Awww they don’t care.” Thinking of this guy today.
I have a few friends that have become ai evangelists (all in the exact same way) and I do have to admit that it does seem to be successfully democratizing psychosis and creating a lot of opportunities for people that didn’t previously have the ability or opportunity to lose their minds.
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I have a few friends that have become ai evangelists (all in the exact same way) and I do have to admit that it does seem to be successfully democratizing psychosis and creating a lot of opportunities for people that didn’t previously have the ability or opportunity to lose their minds.
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Sometimes wonder if only sleeping 3-4 hours a night for decades has had some negative long term effects (beyond being so tired that my life is essentially unlivable and my never fully awake brain operating as a conduit for creatures from the realm of nightmares).
February 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Sometimes wonder if only sleeping 3-4 hours a night for decades has had some negative long term effects (beyond being so tired that my life is essentially unlivable and my never fully awake brain operating as a conduit for creatures from the realm of nightmares).
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You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
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February 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Man, never expected Elon Musk to get milkshake ducked.
January 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Man, never expected Elon Musk to get milkshake ducked.
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I don’t remember the context for drawing the joker on Maury but it was prob a convo w @petetoms.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I don’t remember the context for drawing the joker on Maury but it was prob a convo w @petetoms.bsky.social
It’s not surprising that Aronofsky would make an AI history channel show since his last movie felt like it was written and directed by a guy who keeps dozing off while also half reading a Medium article on how to write a streaming tv show.
January 29, 2026 at 7:02 PM
It’s not surprising that Aronofsky would make an AI history channel show since his last movie felt like it was written and directed by a guy who keeps dozing off while also half reading a Medium article on how to write a streaming tv show.
Barefoot guy at the laundromat told me that he could see people’s auras from a block away and they were always either “nice” or “mean” and was like, “Watch I’ll prove it. That person walking in is mean.” And then he said hi to a woman that ignored him and was like, “See?”
January 27, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Barefoot guy at the laundromat told me that he could see people’s auras from a block away and they were always either “nice” or “mean” and was like, “Watch I’ll prove it. That person walking in is mean.” And then he said hi to a woman that ignored him and was like, “See?”
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I'm fundraising for families at the mpls high school where I teach. We've been hit really hard by ICE activity & are doing grocery runs every day and working towards rent relief. If you want any original art of mine, here is a great way to get it: flanland.com/fundraiser
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January 27, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I'm fundraising for families at the mpls high school where I teach. We've been hit really hard by ICE activity & are doing grocery runs every day and working towards rent relief. If you want any original art of mine, here is a great way to get it: flanland.com/fundraiser
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you’re never going to find a politician that’s anti-police state any more than you’ll find an arsonist that’s for fire safety, that’s kind of their whole point
January 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
you’re never going to find a politician that’s anti-police state any more than you’ll find an arsonist that’s for fire safety, that’s kind of their whole point
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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.