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Ethan Kocak
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NYT Best selling cartoonist, salamander enthusiast and aquarium nerd. He/him
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The Unfamiliars – ©2025 Ethan Kocak
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A double page update day for The Unfamiliars, wherein we finally meet Dirk and James.

theunfamiliars.site/comic/38/
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Nothing like your spouse being in a minor car accident (she’s ok, thankfully) and having to do insurance paperwork first thing in the morning
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I Shibuya Punk'd the Lady of Pain.

#dungeons&dragons #planescape
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@mementomorty.bsky.social did you get your rabies insurance fuckup sorted?
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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My timeline put this right below your post.
bsky.app/profile/pecu...
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

—Ursula K. Le Guin
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I think most artists hit a point where they’re like, well if I can’t be the best artist, I shall be the most ME artist.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Maybe it’s not a male loneliness epidemic, maybe it’s a female gregariousness epidemic

-podcasters I assume
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I went to feed Neel today and he bit my fucking shoe
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A minigame in my day to day life is if I can get all 3 of our cats to sit with/on me
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Uhoh had too much caffeine and now I’m sleepily having a panic attack
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Permit me a little maudlin gushing. I can’t tell you how good for the soul caring for animals is for me. The animals in question don’t even have to like me or acknowledge me, but spending time feeding and caring about something matters.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes, you just say, fuck it, give me chicken McNuggets
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I am about ten to fifteen pages away from finishing this graphic novel and I feel some kinda way about it
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Time to take my son to the orthodontist again, or as I like to think of it, time to drink as much free coffee there as possible until I recoup all the money spent at the orthodontist
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social @kithrup.bsky.social Thank you for the eel facts advent calendar, I needed a smile today
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I owe a bunch of people emails, trying to catch up on that, sorry
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Good Place (2016)
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Permit me a little maudlin gushing. I can’t tell you how good for the soul caring for animals is for me. The animals in question don’t even have to like me or acknowledge me, but spending time feeding and caring about something matters.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Permitting myself to wallow a bit today
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A comic about tapeworms where each panel is a segment of the worm
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Tell me I did a good job, it’s the only way I get seratonin now
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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50 years ago, today, a whale exploded on an Oregon beach. 20 years later, before social media or video sharing sights or smartphones, it would become the first viral Internet video.

We sent it to each other in the mail.

The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
My first whale video came in the form of a VHS tape mailed to me by a stranger from the internet.
www.vice.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Everybody talks about “kill your darlings” in writing, and sure it can be good advice, but you know what else rules about writing? You can put anything you want in there? Sword fighting? Newts? Ghengis khan reanimated by sentient guinea worms? You can put whatever you want, nobody can stop you?
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM