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Linda Watson
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Wildlife gardener and nature photographer by day, cartoonist by night. Sequential Artists Workshop student. Completed its Year-Long Program 24-25. If you don't know what else to do, create a wildlife habitat.
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Clear and useful poster that looks very official, wrapped up with that Beyoncé quote.
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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What's hard is drawing humans and putting in the right amount of practical information. Each strip links to a source site, so that provides more info for folks who want it. I'm happy if you just come to watch Mr. Smiggs get up to cat hijinks though.
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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It's fun to include cats, insects, frogs, and birds to say the serious stuff. Each human character is well-meaning but flawed, so there's lots of room for drama and exploration. I'm lucky to be studying at the @comicsworkshop.bsky.social with great mentors and other cartoonists.
December 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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I'm working on a hopepunk / solarpunk strip about a group who become friends while responding to the polycrisis. Various nonhumans chime in, like the cat Mr. Smiggs. Follow it @ourturning or www.ourturning.com Maybe next year this will be a weekly strip. Here are two of my favorites:
Cartoon strip. Panel 1: A tabby cat balancing on a windowsill talks about Joanna Macy's vision of The Great Turning, away from the jaws of industrial growth and into the arms of life-supporting sustainability. Panel 2: The cat is on tall cabinet and says "Step One: Stop letting bad things get worse." He knocks a ball of hot-pink yarn off the cabinet and thinks "whoops." Panel three: The cat is on the floor in the sun, playing with the yarn. He says "Two: figure out the structural problems and come up with better solutions. Make those systems real however you can, from art to practice." Panel four: Cat sleeping by a bookcase, with Joanna Macy's book Active Hope on top of the stack. The cat says "Three: shift your consciousness for this new way of being. Remember rest and recovery are part of the Great Turning. So sayeth Joanna Macy." The mood is cheerful. An Our Turning comic with four panels. Mood: funny and colorful. Panel 1: Two friends are in a wooded backyard. One says, "Alma, we can border this oak with Neville's rescued branches. As the leaves fall, we'll leave about six inches here as mulch. Caterpillars will shelter here, then turn into butterflies and birds." Panel 2: off panel, she continues "Less raking for you. No piles of slippery leaves in the street. Less work for yard-waste crews." We see a line of yard-waste trucks carrying leaves to a Mountain of Leaves. A man with a cap that says Solid Waste Manager says "We might finally have room to compost food scraps!" Panel 3: closeup of log. Willow says "Fungi start the party. Insects move in, such as roly-polies, fireflies, and emerald sweat bees." We see all those on the log, with the roly-polies singing "Rollin', rollin', rollin' down the old log." Panel 4: The closeup of the log continues, but it looks older. Willow says "Lizards and toads will live in the branches as they soften." A skink lizard says to a toad "Hey, that mosquito was mine!" The toad says "You snooze, you lose Skinky!"
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Following now! I love bugs and I love comics!
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Check out Alma's bookshelf from my strip Our Turning: Joanna Macy of course and @elizkolbert.bsky.social @edyong209.bsky.social @lloydalter.bsky.social @thanissara.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social @projectdrawdown.bsky.social @dan-nott.bsky.social @rutgerbregman.com
Panel 4: The cat purrs in the sun next to a bookcase with these books: Active Hope and Thinking Like a Mountain by Joanna Macy, plus The Sixth Extinction, A Plea for Animals, An Immense World, The Story of Upfront Carbon, Time to Stand Up, Fight Oligarchy, Under the Sky We Make, Walkaway, Peace in Every Step, The Overstory, Hidden Systems, Thinking in Systems, and Utopia for Realists. The cat says "Three: shift your consciousness for this new way of being. Remember rest and recovery are part of the Great Turning. So sayeth Joanna Macy."
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Yes. bsky.app/profile/gove...
governorwalz.mn.gov Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · Oct 28
Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.

It’s not about the money, Trump just wants Americans to go hungry.
October 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Just saw your incredible segment on the PBS series Bugs that Rule the World. Riveting! Hope you'll post more on Bluesky. (For those who haven't seen it, check out episode 1 about 26 minutes in.)
May 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Just realized that these are my 1499th and 1500th observations on @inaturalist.bsky.social #inaturalist
April 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Thank you, Nancy! Your kindness means a lot!
April 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Thank you for raising this important issue and protecting our votes!
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Just heartbreaking. And we are going to see / experience so many consequences of the New Cruelty ahead.
January 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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My "mom" was Glinda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz (pre-Wicked).
January 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM