Spuds Turtle
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"our sunlight is not for franchise"
Doing doodles and art for fun occasionally. Making maps and map apps professionally.
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"our sunlight is not for franchise"
Doing doodles and art for fun occasionally. Making maps and map apps professionally.
🌳🚴🏻♂️🌲🐕🍁🗺️🖍️
he/him
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the whole larger interview is fantastic because its also the first time they introduced Dr Teeth as a character and Jim Henson was like "there's two things America needs to know about our new guy: 1. he makes catastrophic music and 2. he fucks" and johnny and the audience love it.
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 12, 2026 at 4:36 AM
the whole larger interview is fantastic because its also the first time they introduced Dr Teeth as a character and Jim Henson was like "there's two things America needs to know about our new guy: 1. he makes catastrophic music and 2. he fucks" and johnny and the audience love it.
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“It’s a solution to a non-existent problem. I don’t see where this is doing anything to help voters. It’s only going to disenfranchise people,” says an Ohio election official about the state’s new ban on grace periods for mail ballots.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 AM
“It’s a solution to a non-existent problem. I don’t see where this is doing anything to help voters. It’s only going to disenfranchise people,” says an Ohio election official about the state’s new ban on grace periods for mail ballots.
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purrfect balance
February 11, 2026 at 4:17 PM
purrfect balance
My dad introduced me to Harold and Maude when I was starting to try to be an edgy teen. It woke me up to being honest with myself and not trying to be someone else.
RIP Bud Cort
RIP Bud Cort
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
My dad introduced me to Harold and Maude when I was starting to try to be an edgy teen. It woke me up to being honest with myself and not trying to be someone else.
RIP Bud Cort
RIP Bud Cort
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This is some genuinely psycho shit...
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
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RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
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That's why we have to talk to them like this.
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
That's why we have to talk to them like this.
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anyway, i drew this for the nib in march 2023 lol
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
anyway, i drew this for the nib in march 2023 lol
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Relaunched my Patreon to help cover bills and afford to keep making Swan Boys. Swan Boy is -and will always be- a free comic but now you can get access to comics a day early, as well as behind the scenes art and bonus content.
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February 11, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Relaunched my Patreon to help cover bills and afford to keep making Swan Boys. Swan Boy is -and will always be- a free comic but now you can get access to comics a day early, as well as behind the scenes art and bonus content.
www.patreon.com/bransonreese
www.patreon.com/bransonreese
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There's an argument that Trump was constitutionally barred from holding federal office after Jan 6 and therefore all his public acts since then are void. He has spent the last year validating that notion every single day. Letting any of this stand and ~Moving On~ after it's over would be a mistake
February 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
There's an argument that Trump was constitutionally barred from holding federal office after Jan 6 and therefore all his public acts since then are void. He has spent the last year validating that notion every single day. Letting any of this stand and ~Moving On~ after it's over would be a mistake
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No appointee of this administration even bothers to create the appearance of doing their job anymore, just openly serving as the president's personal apologist and attack dog. Completely illegitimate government
wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.
February 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
No appointee of this administration even bothers to create the appearance of doing their job anymore, just openly serving as the president's personal apologist and attack dog. Completely illegitimate government
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So a guy hired to staff a new center for civic discourse demanded by the legislature assaults a guy for daring to ask a question. Incredible. OSU faculty are cackling.
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Angry assistant professor assaults curious cameraman at Ohio State's “intellectual diversity center”
Ohio State Assistant Professor Luke Perez assaulted a local documentarian for having the audacity to ask Vice President E. Gordon Gee a single question. Things only got more bizarre from there.
www.rooster.info
February 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
So a guy hired to staff a new center for civic discourse demanded by the legislature assaults a guy for daring to ask a question. Incredible. OSU faculty are cackling.
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www.rooster.info/p/ohio-state...
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www.rooster.info/p/ohio-state...
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Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
AI can replace you easily enough. Just reading shit off a teleprompter and being wrong about things. The perfect use for AI!
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
AI can replace you easily enough. Just reading shit off a teleprompter and being wrong about things. The perfect use for AI!
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One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
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Let’s recap just the past day at Ohio State University:
1) The head of their ObGyn department was found to be getting quarterly payments from international child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
2) OSU’s top donor was confirmed to be a co-conspirator of Epstein’s
3) Now this. 👇
1) The head of their ObGyn department was found to be getting quarterly payments from international child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
2) OSU’s top donor was confirmed to be a co-conspirator of Epstein’s
3) Now this. 👇
Tomorrow on The Rooster: A visit to Ohio State’s Right-Wing Free Speech Centers ends with a vicious assault from an … assistant professor?!?!
February 11, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Let’s recap just the past day at Ohio State University:
1) The head of their ObGyn department was found to be getting quarterly payments from international child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
2) OSU’s top donor was confirmed to be a co-conspirator of Epstein’s
3) Now this. 👇
1) The head of their ObGyn department was found to be getting quarterly payments from international child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
2) OSU’s top donor was confirmed to be a co-conspirator of Epstein’s
3) Now this. 👇
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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lol donald trump invaded venezuela and captured maduro all so that they’d stop sending oil to cuba and start sending it to israel jesus christ man its just too ridiculous
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 PM
lol donald trump invaded venezuela and captured maduro all so that they’d stop sending oil to cuba and start sending it to israel jesus christ man its just too ridiculous
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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It’s a nice day
February 10, 2026 at 10:04 AM
It’s a nice day
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Hey remember the 2009 Epstein email where he says “I loved the torture video.”
Turns out the video was from Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.
You’ll never guess who he’s been in business with (and influencing) since 2005.
(Pssst jk, you totally will.)👇
Turns out the video was from Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.
You’ll never guess who he’s been in business with (and influencing) since 2005.
(Pssst jk, you totally will.)👇
February 10, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Hey remember the 2009 Epstein email where he says “I loved the torture video.”
Turns out the video was from Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.
You’ll never guess who he’s been in business with (and influencing) since 2005.
(Pssst jk, you totally will.)👇
Turns out the video was from Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.
You’ll never guess who he’s been in business with (and influencing) since 2005.
(Pssst jk, you totally will.)👇