Josh Kramer
@joshpkramer.bsky.social
JoshKramerComics.com
Writer // Illustrator // Cartoonist
Head of Editorial, @newpublic.substack.com
Writer // Illustrator // Cartoonist
Head of Editorial, @newpublic.substack.com
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📖Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 16: AMERICAN CULT edited by Robyn Chapman 🕯️
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
📖Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 16: AMERICAN CULT edited by Robyn Chapman 🕯️
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
The Wind Rises vibes
Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff from October 17, 1943. Known as “the Pilot’s Creed” or “the Creed of the Pilot,” this Sunday installment was read into the Congressional record on that day.
October 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Wind Rises vibes
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Have five minutes? Our own @joshpkramer.bsky.social has a lightning talk on Public Spaces Incubator and reconnecting public media to the public:
“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
Open Technology Institute Lightning Talks: “Reconnecting Public Media to the Public”
YouTube video by New America
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Have five minutes? Our own @joshpkramer.bsky.social has a lightning talk on Public Spaces Incubator and reconnecting public media to the public:
“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
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DC statehood now.
August 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
DC statehood now.
In "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes about how one way to show love on the internet, as opposed to just “liking,” is by revisiting things.
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
July 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes about how one way to show love on the internet, as opposed to just “liking,” is by revisiting things.
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”
What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”
What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
July 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”
What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”
What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
James Gunn seems to have learned a lesson from the Raimi Spider-Man movies: show regular people reacting to disaster and the emotions of the danger hit so much harder.
I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
July 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
James Gunn seems to have learned a lesson from the Raimi Spider-Man movies: show regular people reacting to disaster and the emotions of the danger hit so much harder.
I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
New comic!
What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬
www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬
www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
July 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
New comic!
What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬
www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬
www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
It's frustrating that ANC meetings are so long, and the minutes are approved months later.
However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:
docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....
However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:
docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....
docs.google.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It's frustrating that ANC meetings are so long, and the minutes are approved months later.
However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:
docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....
However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:
docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....
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join an org in your neighborhood to combat despair. bring someone some food. make some art about your pain. distraction doesnt work forever, okay?
July 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
join an org in your neighborhood to combat despair. bring someone some food. make some art about your pain. distraction doesnt work forever, okay?
AI has been able to generate Celery Man and Oyster without any issues, but so far it refuses to show me a nude Tayne
July 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
AI has been able to generate Celery Man and Oyster without any issues, but so far it refuses to show me a nude Tayne
Amazing thread
Thread of Robin Hood characters drawings!
First up: Robin Hood! "Unfairly/trecherously displaced noble" Robin is a later invention to make the stories more palatable to a moneyed audience; in the best versions he's a charismatic yeoman (i.e. commoner not legally tied to a noble's land) trickster.
First up: Robin Hood! "Unfairly/trecherously displaced noble" Robin is a later invention to make the stories more palatable to a moneyed audience; in the best versions he's a charismatic yeoman (i.e. commoner not legally tied to a noble's land) trickster.
July 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Amazing thread
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love finding these colorful little guys while tide pooling!! 🌊💕
June 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
love finding these colorful little guys while tide pooling!! 🌊💕
"We must have fast, frequent, reliable, and dignified transit from east of the river to downtown through the H Street and Benning Road corridor."
Hell yes
Hell yes
OPINION: "The District has, for two decades, slowly backed away from almost every project meant to address the problem of poor connectivity in this corridor, leaving riders waiting unsheltered in the rain for overcrowded and slow buses."
A manifesto for a “next-generation streetcar”
View this post on ggwash.org
ggwash.org
June 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"We must have fast, frequent, reliable, and dignified transit from east of the river to downtown through the H Street and Benning Road corridor."
Hell yes
Hell yes
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There's something about the idea of two billionaires sniping at each other from, as the NYT put it, "their own social media platforms" -- that is, the platforms they each own -- that encapsulates something deeply deeply off about the current era
June 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
There's something about the idea of two billionaires sniping at each other from, as the NYT put it, "their own social media platforms" -- that is, the platforms they each own -- that encapsulates something deeply deeply off about the current era
You can enjoy Mountainhead without a deep dive into the tech world its enmeshed in, but there’s a lot of fun stuff to unpack. So let’s dive!
Also, I offer my guesses for who everyone is supposed to be in real life.
Also, I offer my guesses for who everyone is supposed to be in real life.
Annotating the tech references in Mountainhead
"What we have is toxic, not terminal"
joshkramer.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You can enjoy Mountainhead without a deep dive into the tech world its enmeshed in, but there’s a lot of fun stuff to unpack. So let’s dive!
Also, I offer my guesses for who everyone is supposed to be in real life.
Also, I offer my guesses for who everyone is supposed to be in real life.
Yes, there's so much to learn from Mon Mothma
June 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Yes, there's so much to learn from Mon Mothma
Is google cal using AI?
It interpreted a receipt from my library, which included a book titled "Southwest road trip : drive the loop from Las Vegas to Santa Fe, visiting 8 national parks along the way" as a new calendar event called "Train to Santa Fe" complete w/ a fake departure and arrival time
It interpreted a receipt from my library, which included a book titled "Southwest road trip : drive the loop from Las Vegas to Santa Fe, visiting 8 national parks along the way" as a new calendar event called "Train to Santa Fe" complete w/ a fake departure and arrival time
April 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Is google cal using AI?
It interpreted a receipt from my library, which included a book titled "Southwest road trip : drive the loop from Las Vegas to Santa Fe, visiting 8 national parks along the way" as a new calendar event called "Train to Santa Fe" complete w/ a fake departure and arrival time
It interpreted a receipt from my library, which included a book titled "Southwest road trip : drive the loop from Las Vegas to Santa Fe, visiting 8 national parks along the way" as a new calendar event called "Train to Santa Fe" complete w/ a fake departure and arrival time
April 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
What happened to Ratatat? That Kid Cudi song rips
April 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What happened to Ratatat? That Kid Cudi song rips
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been waiting for the cow tools tiny desk
March 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
been waiting for the cow tools tiny desk
Ok so actually Greenland's flag ...rocks? Can someone make this a t-shirt, where the bottom half of the shirt is red?
March 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Ok so actually Greenland's flag ...rocks? Can someone make this a t-shirt, where the bottom half of the shirt is red?
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Are you a cartoonist who makes mini comics and hasn't had a solo work put out by a publisher? Apply to the CAKE Cupcake Award for a chance to win a free 1/2 table at the con, $400 to print a mini, and a cool party. Apps close on 3/28 so get it in! www.cakechicago.com/cupcake-award
Cupcake Award — Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE)
www.cakechicago.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Are you a cartoonist who makes mini comics and hasn't had a solo work put out by a publisher? Apply to the CAKE Cupcake Award for a chance to win a free 1/2 table at the con, $400 to print a mini, and a cool party. Apps close on 3/28 so get it in! www.cakechicago.com/cupcake-award
me at the post office: hell yes I want to spend $14 on the new Dungeons & Dragons stamps
March 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
me at the post office: hell yes I want to spend $14 on the new Dungeons & Dragons stamps
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Good news. Comics creator Rebecca Burke has finally been released by ICE after two horrific weeks in one of their gulags and is on a flight back to the UK.
Don't come here. Not for awhile, maybe years and years.
Don't come here. Not for awhile, maybe years and years.
British tourist detained at US border over visa released, family say
Rebecca Burke, 28, was denied entry into Washington State after US immigration officials accused her of travelling on the wrong visa
www.standard.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Good news. Comics creator Rebecca Burke has finally been released by ICE after two horrific weeks in one of their gulags and is on a flight back to the UK.
Don't come here. Not for awhile, maybe years and years.
Don't come here. Not for awhile, maybe years and years.