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Kathryn Baecht @kathrynbaecht.bsky.social · Aug 15

What do real Texans think about redistricting? @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social and I let loose in @mcsweeneys.net

- - - Some people think this map looks gerrymandered, but we don’t see it. We also don’t see the innovation, economic growth, and kick-ass food sc...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Aug 15

@kathrynbaecht.bsky.social !

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Aug 15

I’m so thrilled to have a
comic in McSweeneys with Kathryn Baecht!! But also now my search history has *That Hat*, “DJT’s pubic hair signature,” and “sawed-off shotgun” in it so let’s see what ads I get now…

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

New Texas Congressional Districts

- - - Some people think this map looks gerrymandered, but we don’t see it. We also don’t see the innovation, economic growth, and kick-ass food sc...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 27

we really can’t have enough Michael Stipe if you ask me

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 26

my kind of people

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 26

Been going ham on this essay in my head since last week so thank you @marchxness.bsky.social for letting me go off!!!

March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 26

And picking 47th @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social takes Crash Test Dummies' "Superman's Song" (1991): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeyh...

Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song (Official Video)

YouTube video by CrashTestDummiesVEVO

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 26

I am so jealous - this was my 1st pick. Looking forward to your essay and also listening to it on repeat while flipping through yearbooks.

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 26

omg I did not know I’d come here to find fellow @marchxness.bsky.social essayists and stumble on a fellow Kate Braverman fan 😍😍😍

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 26

Personally I prefer “Do You Sleep” but just know you have the support of someone who wrote one of her favorite essays ever … about Live’s “I Alone” 😑

Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 26

I love this one!! Good grab!

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Kathryn Baecht @kathrynbaecht.bsky.social · Jul 10

The awesome @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social and I have a satirical cartoon in the @bostonglobe.com today about budget cuts at NOAA. We created this piece well before the devastating floods here in central Texas. I'm happy for the piece to run, but I also share it with a heavy heart. ❤️ Link in comments.

satirical cartoon titled animal folklore for predicting the weather without NOAA. Each picture is an animal with a small proverb.If cat hair fills the air, of heat ye must beware. Rat in puffer, deep cold we'll suffer. Rat with a glass, hail will soon pass, If a lizard be depressed, gray skies at best. Happy lizard be seen, apply full strength sun screen. Fizzy pomarianian, soon it will be rainian. Squirrel with an acorn, blue skies this fine morn. But with kite and key, lightening twill be. if a grackle spins round, a tornado you've found. Horse on wheels, hurricane at its heels.

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 26

Punching bad guys has, historically, not worked out well for me, so I cartoon instead.

Miriam Jayaratna @miriamjayaratna.bsky.social · Jul 12

The best satire sometimes predicts the future, as is the case with this terrific piece about predicting the weather. Thank you @kathrynbaecht.bsky.social and @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social

Kathryn Baecht @kathrynbaecht.bsky.social · Jul 10

The awesome @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social and I have a satirical cartoon in the @bostonglobe.com today about budget cuts at NOAA. We created this piece well before the devastating floods here in central Texas. I'm happy for the piece to run, but I also share it with a heavy heart. ❤️ Link in comments.

Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Mar 11

“We are the arsonists and the fire department.” An absolutely beautiful essay by my friend @beccaworby.bsky.social

The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record

On a summer afternoon early in the pandemic, the songwriter Will Stratton was riding his bike near where he lives in the Hudson Valley when he had an experience that felt strange at the time but ha…

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Mar 11

There’s the blurb for my memoir!

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Mar 11

@kathrynbaecht.bsky.social and I had a graphic op-ed in the LA Times and
1. I can’t mumble that I “sometimes do cartoons” anymore and instead must admit I want to do this and please like me and pay me to do more, and
2. rubella only *looks* this fun.

Kathryn Baecht @kathrynbaecht.bsky.social · Mar 5

Worried about the measles outbreak? I'm in the @latimes.com today with the brilliant Erin McReynolds asking that we please keep vaccine preventable diseases out of style.

Contributor: Vaccines are out, measles is in

Vaccination rates are falling and measles cases are rising. Here are a few more 'bugs' we might be seeing come back from the dead.

www.latimes.com

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Mar 11

I’m so sad not to have my essay in the anthology but so happy to see Danielle Evans, whom I lost to (and was a huge fan of before that — and since! 😆). It’s still one of my favorite pieces of writing though, so I’m glad I had the chance. March Xness 5eva!

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Nov 22

hi! 👹

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Erin @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social · Nov 17

The horrors persist but so does work.

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