SlightlyMorePleasant
@dailypleasant.bsky.social
Humorist. Cryptic crossword setter. Tabletop RPG fan. Undermonetized. #cartoons #poems #silliness
The new newsletter is up! Free as ever. This time with 150% more cartoons and poems than usual, plus an impossible crossword I expect no one to solve. You're welcome! Did I mention free? open.substack.com/pub/slightly...
WEEKLY PLEASANT: Game Shows, Sisyphus, and 150% More Cartoons and Silly Poems Than Usual
Also: Would You Please Advise Me on Housing if I Give You an Impossible Crossword?
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November 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The new newsletter is up! Free as ever. This time with 150% more cartoons and poems than usual, plus an impossible crossword I expect no one to solve. You're welcome! Did I mention free? open.substack.com/pub/slightly...
The new newsletter is out! Free as ever. Share if you wish! I'm trying to make it a happy place to relax from (gestures at everything) slightlymorepleasant.substack.com/p/weekly-ple...
Weekly Pleasant: Bach, Abecedary, Monday, Office Saga
And a quick reminder of who I'm doing this for
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September 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The new newsletter is out! Free as ever. Share if you wish! I'm trying to make it a happy place to relax from (gestures at everything) slightlymorepleasant.substack.com/p/weekly-ple...
New Weekly Pleasant Newsletter is up. Two silly poems, two cartoons, no stress. Free as ever! slightlymorepleasant.substack.com/p/weekly-ple...
Weekly Pleasant: Snowpersons, Lying Awake, Moby-Dick, Inspiration
Also, an easy cryptic crossword for newcomers that none of you asked for.
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September 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
New Weekly Pleasant Newsletter is up. Two silly poems, two cartoons, no stress. Free as ever! slightlymorepleasant.substack.com/p/weekly-ple...
The New Weekly Pleasant is out! FREE! (And it is, I'm told, #35 in Rising Humor on Substack.) Join the silliness! slightlymorepleasant.substack.com/p/weekly-ple...
Weekly Pleasant: Antimacassar, Little Teapot, Mothra, Background Music
Plus an EXTREMELY silly song for people from the '80s
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August 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The New Weekly Pleasant is out! FREE! (And it is, I'm told, #35 in Rising Humor on Substack.) Join the silliness! slightlymorepleasant.substack.com/p/weekly-ple...
The new Weekly Pleasant is out. Free! open.substack.com/pub/slightly...
Weekly Pleasant: Four Wonders, Lunch Outdoors, Salmon Pressure, and Zebras: The Movie Title
The Zebras thing is especially silly.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Timely poem I just wrote. It's just one sentence. And there's wordplay.
June 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Timely poem I just wrote. It's just one sentence. And there's wordplay.
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Monday Newsletter: No Kings, Callithump, Dead Kings, Corruption
And congratulations to all the fathers, who definitely got laid at least once.
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June 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Tired of my cartoons and poems? I wrote a short essay about why conservative Christians can't really make great art. FREE! (I don't think it's going to last long on the /ChristianMusic subreddit.) slightlymorepleasant.substack.com/.../post/165...
June 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Tired of my cartoons and poems? I wrote a short essay about why conservative Christians can't really make great art. FREE! (I don't think it's going to last long on the /ChristianMusic subreddit.) slightlymorepleasant.substack.com/.../post/165...
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What if fascism is just bad and your moral obligation to fight it is not in any way diminished or altered by what The Left did or didn't do?
January 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What if fascism is just bad and your moral obligation to fight it is not in any way diminished or altered by what The Left did or didn't do?
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David Lynch knew the essential secret of storytelling: you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you’re also trying to solve a murder
January 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
David Lynch knew the essential secret of storytelling: you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you’re also trying to solve a murder
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Good heavens, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, this paragraph
January 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Good heavens, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, this paragraph
Follow me for more jokes about hit songs from 1937!
January 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Follow me for more jokes about hit songs from 1937!
It just hit me that someone making a big deal about how you pronounce "tomato" is already kind of a red flag.
January 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It just hit me that someone making a big deal about how you pronounce "tomato" is already kind of a red flag.
MUSICAL WORDPLAY ALERT! Thanks to a post my Myq Kaplan, I have done a little research on Merriam-Webster.com and found the following word: POMATO. n. A hybrid of a potato and tomato. Also called "topato."
January 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
MUSICAL WORDPLAY ALERT! Thanks to a post my Myq Kaplan, I have done a little research on Merriam-Webster.com and found the following word: POMATO. n. A hybrid of a potato and tomato. Also called "topato."
Cartoon: worry
December 22, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Cartoon: worry
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I'm writing my own eulogy in Mad Libs form. Whoever is in attendance may fill it in as a group. If you don't know the difference between an adverb and an adjective, please remain silent; people are grieving.
November 26, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I'm writing my own eulogy in Mad Libs form. Whoever is in attendance may fill it in as a group. If you don't know the difference between an adverb and an adjective, please remain silent; people are grieving.
CARTOON: Seventeen
November 26, 2024 at 9:40 AM
CARTOON: Seventeen
POEM: The Irony of Opting Out of a Christian Thanksgiving
November 24, 2024 at 7:52 AM
POEM: The Irony of Opting Out of a Christian Thanksgiving
POEM: Unfulfilled
November 24, 2024 at 7:51 AM
POEM: Unfulfilled
POEM: Thanksgiving Plans
November 23, 2024 at 10:50 PM
POEM: Thanksgiving Plans
POPLAR OPINION: They are perfectly fine trees, I guess.
November 23, 2024 at 8:45 PM
POPLAR OPINION: They are perfectly fine trees, I guess.
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I wrote about the things I think are missing from the Dem discourse:
1) scope of the losses (you'd think this was 1984)
2) how media struggles to explain a second Trump win; easier to yell at Dems
3) there might not be a grand theory. it might be uninformed voters' vibes.
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1) scope of the losses (you'd think this was 1984)
2) how media struggles to explain a second Trump win; easier to yell at Dems
3) there might not be a grand theory. it might be uninformed voters' vibes.
njour.nl/s/726851?unl...
Decisive margin probably came from whims of low-information voters
Many swing voters only pay attention to politics long enough to cast their ballots.
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November 19, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I wrote about the things I think are missing from the Dem discourse:
1) scope of the losses (you'd think this was 1984)
2) how media struggles to explain a second Trump win; easier to yell at Dems
3) there might not be a grand theory. it might be uninformed voters' vibes.
njour.nl/s/726851?unl...
1) scope of the losses (you'd think this was 1984)
2) how media struggles to explain a second Trump win; easier to yell at Dems
3) there might not be a grand theory. it might be uninformed voters' vibes.
njour.nl/s/726851?unl...
Cartoon: Godzilla
(first cartoon from my new place!)
(first cartoon from my new place!)
November 23, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Cartoon: Godzilla
(first cartoon from my new place!)
(first cartoon from my new place!)
Cartoon: Still Life
November 17, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Cartoon: Still Life
Poem: Story
November 17, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Poem: Story