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Geek, Cartoonist, Jewish, Ace, Riffer. She/her/they/them ✒️My comics: https://bsky.app/profile/museum.of.emilyk.art 💎Patreon: https://patreon.com/emilyk 🏷️Shop: http://emilyk.art/shop 🎨Commissions open!

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · Mar 15

Stickers now in the shop!!!

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Thanks to @printinkling.bsky.social for the amazing work!

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Yiddish "Do Not Obey In Advance" sticker with a fist punching through "MAGA." Quarter coin for scale.

Parody of the Gadsden flag, with a black cat and a rattlesnake in its jaws, with "Back off, fascist creeps" below it. Quarter coin for scale.

Round sticker featuring a shiba inu with a fierce expression holding a crown in her jaws. Around her is the text "Sic Semper Tyrannis," and the same phrase in Japanese. Quarter coin for scale.

Sailor Moon punching Elon Musk in a sticker. It says "In the name of the moon, I'll punish fascists!" Quarter coin for scale.

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 57m

I believe you but verses would be especially helpful

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 58m

Yeah he kinda looks like it

Incidentally his book will probably do more to entrench Lefty Christian handwashing of their own complicity

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 59m

Jesus taught that assaulting bank tellers is righteous, fig trees that don’t fruit out of season should be cursed, and workers should be forced to work on Shabbat if he personally deems it necessary (as opposed to it being a dire situation requiring Shabbat violation)

John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 1h

MAGA Requirements:
1. Loud, pious, extremely public devotion to Jesus
2. Blinding hatred for everything Jesus actually taught.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

ICE GOONS shot an unarmed priest in the eye with a pepper ball, despite him and those around him posing no threat at all.

Source: John Pfaff.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 13h

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Chag Sukkot Sameach!

Charlie says, "I know! I'll go home and make one with my own hands!" Levi says, "I dunno, Charlie Baron. I don't think that's what Libby had in mind." "It'll be great!" he says. He gathers scraps of wood, branches, and fabric. then calls out, "Hey everybody! Come see the sukkah I built!" But the sukkah is a very sad, ramshackle structure, with barely enough walls and boxes and duct tape holding it up. A crowd of kids - and his dog - gather. "What kinda sukkah is that?" "It looks like leftover junk!" "Can't you tell the difference between a Kosher Sukkah and a BAD Sukkah?" "There's no WAY that counts!" Charlie says, "Oy." Levi comes over, sucking his thumb. Charlie says, dejectedly, "You were right, Levi. I guess I couldn't make a good sukkah. Isn't there anyone who can tell me what makes a good sukkah?!" Levi then puts his seccurity-blanket-tallis around his shoulders and says, "Sure, Charlie Baron, I can tell you what makes a good Sukkah."

Levi stands in front of the sukkah and says, "And Mosheh Rabbeinu spoke unto the people of Israel - 'After the ingathering from your threshing floor and your wine vat, you shall hold the feast of sukkot for seven days.' What is this 'ingathering?' The sages tell us it is not the pick of our harvest, but what is left over. This is the essence of the sukkah: It is the place where the presence of the Holy One dwells; not because it is made from our finest material, but because we take what is cast aside and say, 'This is also of value. This, too, is Holy.'" Levi then walks over to Charlie. "That's what makes a good sukkah, Charlie Baron." Charlie smiles. He then tries to hang a gourd on his sukkah, but the pole falls down instead. Depressed, he walks away with his head held low. "Everything I touch gets ruined!"

The other kids gather around and say, "You know, it's not such a bad little sukkah... maybe it just needs a little love." They then work to fix it up in the next panel, and in the panel after, it miraculously looks like a classic sukkah with lattice walls and a roof of leafy branches. Fruits hang on the walls and construction paper chains are on the ceiling. Charlie Baron walks back in frame. "Chag Sameach, Charlie Baron!" they all say. The final panel shows them in the sukkah saying the Shehechiyanu blessing, written in Hebrew. With Gratitude to: Charles Schulz, Bill Melendez, Lee Mendelson, Josh Rosenberg, and Yosef Goldman.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 13h

A Charlie Baron Sukkot

This comic is based on a friend's COVID sukkah building experience. He had very little to work with, and when he posted a photo, people said it looked like "Charlie Brown's sukkah." A kind rabbi reassured him, and I used his comment in the speech near the end.

A Charlie Baron Sukkot by Emily K.

A very simple entry to a sukkah is shown - two sticks on either side, and branches make a flat roof at the top. Fruits hang off of it. A lulav and etrog are below.

The whole comic is done in the style of Schulz/Melendez's "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Kids are playing in the fallen leaves. Two little boys, one with reddish hair and kippah, and another with a shock of blond hair, sit at a brick wall. The redhead holds a tallis as a security blanket as he sucks his thumb.

"Yom Kippur is over now, and Sukkot is arriving. I should feel happy, but I feel run-down. I know I should be celebrating, but I just don't feel excited."

The redheaded boy replies, "Only you could take a wonderful thing like sukkot and turn it into a problem. Maybe Libby's right. Of all the Charlie Baron's in the world, you're the Charlie Baron-est." He walks away. Charlie walks towards a red make-shift booth that says "Therapeutic Help 25 cents, The therapist is Very In." A girl with curly black hair sits at it. Charlie says, "My trouble is Sukkot. Instead of feeling happy, I feel anxious. What if I mess something up? What if, in feeling anxious, I don't fulfill the mitzvah of celebrating?" She responds, "How 'bout getting a sukkah kit for us to build? That would be a mitzvah." "Me? Are you sure?" "Sure, Charlie Baron. We need a Sukkah. You need a Mitzvah." He then walks away, but sees something that stuns him.

Charlie walks towards his dog's doghouse, and sees his dog decorating a very lush sukkah against it. The dog is a tri-colored beagle with brown fur, white paws, a white snout and belly, and black spots. "Good Grief." Then a friend shouts. "Over here, Charlie Baron!" It's Libby. She says, "I think we should have a Sukkahspiel tomorrow night." Charlie is taken aback. "A 'Sukkahspeil?!'" "Yes, a glamorous play in our glamorous sukkah!" "But that's for Purim!" Libby says, "and I can play the Shabbat Queen." Charlie: "It won't even be Shabbat." "Charlie Baron, you just need to get in a festive mood. Why don't you go get our sukkah?" He walks with the redheaded kid in the kippah, who says "Let's try over there." They find themselves in a big lot with allsorts of fancy lushly decorated sukkahs. "I dunno, Levi. None of these Sukkahs feel right."

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 2h

Re: Taylor Swift's "Wood," I'm with "Battlecar Compactica" here

User Battlecar Compactica says: "I do wish the lyrics hadn't been so derivative:

(quoting)

I like big wood and I cannot lie
You other singers can't deny
That when a guy walks in with a knack for playing sports
And a redwood in his shorts
You get hot, and your face is flushed
'Cause you noticed that wood was stuffed
Deep in the jeans he's wearing
I'm hooked and I can't stop staring
Oh baby, I wanna get half-drunk
And climb your tree trunk
My girlfriends tried to warn me
But that wood you got makes (me, me so horny)
(end quote)

At least give Sir Mix-a-Lot a co-writing credit!"

Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 2h

Huh, “Jews are the ones who murder Christians” and not the other way around, what a fresh take

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Kaitlyn @kiixlyn.bsky.social · 14d

i took tylenol while i was autistic and now my son is pregnant

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 12h

There were clear differences in each of these samples in how patterns were used in the writing that influenced my decision for each one. No matter who or what wrote them, there were obvious differences in the voice.

Of course, put googly eyes on a trashcan and humans will assign it a personality

Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 12h

You’re an op

Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 14h

holy moly... so much of our history (living and written) was literally incinerated during the Shoah, so finds like this are miracles

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h

"Dozens of rare Jewish religious books, some believed to have belonged to the legendary Library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, were recently discovered in the basement of a Jewish-owned building near the Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw." www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world...

Rare pre-Holocaust Jewish books found in Warsaw basement

Books bearing stamps from the legendary Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva—lost during the Holocaust—were found in poor condition in Warsaw; Polish experts are working to preserve the mold- and fungus-damaged te...

www.ynetnews.com

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 15h

careful saying that out loud on the internet

Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 15h

Did it go up?? I could've sworn it was 12

Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 15h

a nearly 14 point swing?! The average has been about 11-12 points, IIRC...

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 15h

Looks like all votes are in?

GOP total: 36,854 (54.3%)
Dem total: 31,002 (45.7%)

If this was the general that'd be a 13.7 pt Dem overperformance vs. Trump's margin in TN-07 last year, FWIW.

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 15h

I mean I definitely saw all those episodes before the originals! Hell, I haven't even watched the whole "Shining" but I know what happens, just because it's been so thoroughly referenced in so many places! But the Simpsons was definitely the first place I saw it!

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 15h

I think "The Simpsons" carries on while the things they parodied get less directly relevant in the minds of the youngest generations

Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 15h

A lot of people don't know that "Rosebud" was just a parody of "Citizen Kane" or that one halloween episode was literally just "The Shining" with yellow cartoon characters

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 15h

damn girl are you jesus

because there were a BUNCH of girls just in here who said all the good, useful things you just said and none of the bad egotistical harmful things

This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 15h

damn girl are you jesus

because everyone's always talking about you, but honestly I don't see what the big deal is

JonBOOnét Rumsfeld @jonbenetrumsfeld.blacksky.app · 16h

damn girl are you jesus
because i wanna misunderstand everything you say

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 15h

damn girl are you jesus

because everyone's always talking about you, but honestly I don't see what the big deal is

JonBOOnét Rumsfeld @jonbenetrumsfeld.blacksky.app · 16h

damn girl are you jesus
because i wanna misunderstand everything you say

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 16h

I like 99pi's take. They directly address the assumption that the student who made the call was a man. It was likely a woman. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/stru...

Structural Integrity - 99% Invisible

When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest building in the world. You can pick it out of the New York...

99percentinvisible.org

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

For example, Alabama in 1963. George Wallace in the schoolhouse door, that one. JFK federalized the *Alabama* National Guard. The general who ordered Wallace to step aside, he was Alabama ANG. Or Little Rock 1957, that was Eisenhower sending in the 101st, regular Army.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Lulavot by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 17h

She's a Lamedvovnik, say a Psalm or two

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 17h

Rudy the architect if Blacksky going public with his plans in this thread. He’s always wanted Blacksky to be independent, but organic growth takes time, money and vision. Thankfully he has all three

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 19h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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