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Yaakov the Bee ♿️😷
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Done x2 (for me and my trans kiddo). I like this idea.
Receipt showing a donation to Trans Lifeline for $130
December 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Trick-or-treat this afternoon, rocking our usual giant bowl of emoji keychains. It’s been really slow and my neighbors aren’t passing anything out this year, but the kids that have stopped have been ecstatic.
Black plastic bowl full of plush emoji keychains, several poop variants visible, sidewalk and some grass visible in the background
October 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Rough medical appt this morning, came home to find our elderly hedgehog Iroh died. He was slowing down a lot this morning and I’d planned to come home and have some time with him out on the deck, but he was already gone. This day can go fling itself off a high cliff. Rest gently, little friend.
Salt and pepper colored hedgehog peeking his head out of a light grey plush snuggle sack Salt and pepper colored hedgehog sleeping against my neck. I’m visible from the nose down, slightly smiling, white, with a ball chain necklace slightly showing and a navy tee with partial view of a plant themed design on the front. Salt and pepper colored hedgehog peeking out of a yellow towel after a bath Baby picture of Iroh, our salt and pepper colored hedgehog. He’s small and sitting on a white faux fur blanket, looking at the camera.
April 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (20/20)
Cover of The Days are Just Packed, A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Waterson, title in green. Calvin (young boy) is happily holding an orange water balloon while sitting on a tree branch next to his pet stuffed tiger come to life. Tiger is snoozing on the tree branch with a smile on his face.
March 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (19/20)
Cover of Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, title in lowercase at the bottom, background white, illustration of a balding man in a tan button up shirt and brownish khaki pants with browns shoes and a newspaper sitting on a park style bench with a yellow lab sitting near him. Birds are flying from the newspaper and behind this scene is an opening in the white background that shows a typewriter, a teacup, view of a city street and buildings all under water, on top of the water are three small rowboats, one with two people standing in it holding hands and facing each other.
March 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Parsha notes of years past for Parshat Vayakhel. My favorite line in this parsha is Exodus 35:26, which speaks of hearts spun up in wisdom. In a world that feels lacking in wisdom, may this Shabbat spin us toward a wisdom that can lead us to collective liberation. #shabbat #parshastudy #torahstudy
Digital art, black background, pink anatomical heart with a swirling yellow line around it and bluish purple petals outlined in the same pink bursting from behind it along with spray paint style pink behind all of it. The words “a heart spun up in wisdom” in orange surrounding the image. Art by Yaakov Akiva 5783/2023 Scanned handwritten notes from Torah study for Parshat Vayakhel from 5783 Some highlights: “G*d isn’t here to take everything from you.” - Liana I love this parsha (heavily underlined) “Whose heart spun them up in wisdom” - verse 26 (repeating in the Koren translation) “Spinning and weaving instead of melting. Doing it out of joy instead of fear.” - Mandie #tabernaclefandom The project model is healthy consent based trauma informed labor, including modeling of not laboring/giving beyond the need and not taking beyond the existing need. “Moses to G*d: the people are restless. G*d to Moses: let’s give them a project.” - Adlai Scanned handwritten notes from Torah study 5783, Parshat Vayakhel with Torah Studio. Highlights: “Let my people go” is incomplete, is followed by “that they may serve ME” – freedom sought in Torah isn’t individualism. - Rabbi Shai Held Exodus 35:1-36:7 Bezalel = in the shadow of God. Oholiab = my father’s tent “Everyone whose heart moved them” Moses teaches the rules of Shabbat + Bezalel and Oholiab - direction building the Mishkan Free will offering Stolen Moments Todd’s laugh is infectious Rabbi Akiva - What we make of divine creation is even more beautiful. Midrash Tanchuma Tazria 5:1
March 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (18/20)
Cover of DMZ by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, title “On the Ground” in white block letters in the middle, gritty black and white panels showing people in military attire, crowds, a city skyline, an orange ID card of sorts, a man with a bandaged nose, what looks like maybe a tank with I 🤍 NYC on it.
March 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (17/20)
Issue 1 of Girls by the Luna Brothers, dark rainy background with a pale nude woman standing in the foreground with long dark hair covering her chest, eyeing the viewer out of the corner of her eye with her hair covering much of her face as well.
March 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (16/20)
Cover of issue 1 of Irredeemable by Mark Wade and Peter Krause. Backdrop is a view of what looks like earth from space, in the foreground in a black and white view of a masc presenting hero hunched forward with head down, behind him is a color version of the same hero, uniform white black and red with red cape, the color version of the hero is looking up with clenched fists out.
March 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20)
Cover of Fables, Volume 1, title in red and black in center, figure playing a trumpet in the lower right seen from behind and facing a train/subway. There’s a feminine figure on the left possibly running to catch the train, the train looks crowded, there is a man visible from one window, and a second one in the next window with a wing coming through the car door, there is a woman visible through another car window, a figure behind her who has one hand on her shoulder, at the top of the image there are two legs visible, 1 foot bare, the other foot has a shoe on it, and there is an arm with a red cape winding around it as well. The scene is chaotic/crowded.
March 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (14/20)
Cover for Book One of Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. The title is in large white letters at the bottom of the cover, a church shown behind the title, mostly covered by the title, flames surround the church, and behind the flames is a pastor or priest (wearing a white collar), smiling strangely with his hands clasped, white man with dark brown, or black curly hair.
March 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Successful Cathflo treatment today after my Hickman line started to act up last week. My double prong outlet is back in tip top shape just in time for monthly labs. Side effect: I can now see through walls and lift cars. Finally, my superhero arc!
Close up of a consent form for Cathflo, indicating the consent is for medication and supplies.
March 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20)
Book 1 cover for Y: The Last Man, white background, title in red, man looking over his right shoulder with a monkey on that shoulder, whose fur is white and black, in the background, our chemical formulas and a beige tapestry of some type.
March 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20)
Cover of a Morning Glories issue, 6 prep school kids on the cover standing in a pyramid type formation, all in various states of school uniform dress, looking darkly at the reader. Front student is holding a grenade and one in the back is looking at the reader from the reflection in a knife. Floor is white, back wall is lavender with flowers. Image has an ominous feel to it.
March 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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It’s #LongCovidAwareness Day. We’re all aware. Some of us firsthand, some of us witnessing it in our loved ones and in our communities, some of us having lost loved ones to LC, and some of us pretending it could never happen to us and that Covid is long over. Every day we get to choose. #disability
Black background with white drawing, top half is a leafy tree, bottom, half shows the smudged and faded reflection of that tree. Text: long Covid awareness day, year after year, a performance of normalcy, with roots, nestled in the ongoing decomposition of community care. Black background with white drawing, top half is a leafy tree, bottom, half shows the smudged and faded reflection of that tree. Text: Who have you forgotten in order to have your normal? We may be forgotten, but we’re still here. Long Covid awareness day.
March 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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My Ki Tisa notes from Torah Studio class in 5782 and 5783. Golden calf is a banger. Shabbat shalom. #parshastudy #torahstudy #digitalnotes
Handwritten notes, the parsha “Ki Tisa” surrounded by snippets: This week in Torah: Jewish impatience and audacity immortalized bovinously and then de-immortalized in mandatory glittery hydration. “Aaron, my guy. This is not ideal.” (TBF, Moses ghosted everyone a little.) No one takes accountability, including Hashem “Crisis of leadership” - Nikkole “Hashem, slowwww down. I’m sure there’s an explana— OMG I LEFT YOU ALONE FOR FIVE MINUTES.” - Moses “Golden Calf Goldschlager” Liana - “ they were dancing to regulate their traumatized nervous systems” “ Buying the child the toy so they don’t scream in the supermarket“ - Ali “ after you left them in the supermarket for 40 days” - Liana Hand written notes scattered over a page: Torah study - Ki Tisa with Liana at Torah Studio This is how I imagine Mosha in this Parsha: “I leave you down here for five minutes… Months?… Years? OK, but still!“ … talking down Hachem, but then also losing his shit Chevruta partner: Jay! * pivotal moment of necessary separation – less direct dependence Note for later reading: The Sota Ritual End of portion - Moses’s version of washing mouths out with soap – or – bully making someone eat dirt on the playground Golden calf - idol or a coping item? Israelite security blanket… made only of earrings, remnants of slavery, at Aaron’s instruction 2nd tablets - more buy-in, Moses more invested Aaron, what the heck? - He is described as maybe a lenient parent (Hashem the strict, Moses the moderate) - Was Aaron also afraid? Wondering if Moshe is returning?
March 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20)
Cover of the deluxe edition of Pride of Baghdad, sepia toned art, the bottom showing family of lions walking in front of a wrecked urban area and the top half is an up close view of a lion’s face through steel cables and bars.
March 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Today is 5 years, this month is also 2 years, and all of it feel endless and I wrote things about it. #disability #covid #pandemic
White handwritten text on black background: I EXIST GINGERLY IN A LAND OF NAKED FACES, ALWAYS HIDING IN MY FAULTY-BUT-BETTER-THAN -NAKED FACE FORTRESS. I AM MYSELF NOW FAULTY LIKE MY FORTRESS- BAD WIRING POOR PLUMBING, SPOTTY POWER SUPPLY. I AM A NEW-TO-ME COMBINATION OF NOTEWORTHY IN MY OTHER-NESS AND INVISIBLE IN MY NEED AS I ROLL CAREFULLY THROUGH A WORLD THAT HAS TRAVELED OUTSIDE OF TIME. I AM EVIDENCE OF A SHARED DELUSION SO I MUST BE RELEGATED TO THE POCKET OF SPACE WHERE I AM A FRAGILE GLASS WINDOW. LOOK RIGHT THRONEH, BUT MAKE ME SICK BEFORE YOU GO. CARELESS COUGH TAP, SHATTER. WALK AWAY. @YAAKOV. AKIVA '24 Words highlighted in red: “I exist” “I am myself” “I am” “noteworthy” “I am” “Look” and author noted at bottom. Today is five years since my kid’s first day of suddenly virtual kindergarten due to the pandemic. They’ve never had one full school year that has been anything remotely normal. They are the only human being still wearing a mask in their school building this year and they don’t let a single person say a single sideways fucking word about it to them. This month is also two years since my first positive Covid test, when chronic health issues suddenly bloomed into life-changing disabilities with the help of a virus I had worked so damn hard to avoid (and still do) because I knew in every corner of my gut that I would not be a lucky asymptomatic patient, and I also didn’t want wonder who I might disable or hospitalize by not protecting the world on my end. I wrote this last year while grappling with a new baseline that included house modifications, an adapted van, and a power wheelchair. I’ve had 4 surgeries since I wrote it. I am still a glass window, one that can’t drive and sing at the same time without losing vision, one that gets stares in public when on wheels but can vanish from someone’s line of sight with one magic word: “mask.” Eyes slide right off me, ears stop registering sound. Five years ago, my family stepped into a reality and we have had the courage to stay present in it, meet it and bear it year after year, and so many naked faced people have opted to put heads in the sand and then express surprise at where we are right now in the world, having conditioned the collective to normalize needless mass death. This morning I compared it to being unable to be oblivious while surrounded by unwashed ostrich asses in the air. I’m going to hold onto that descriptive, and think of each naked face wielded in public as a bare unwashed ass. It’ll keep me glad to be wearing a mask for yet another reason. If you’re still in this reality with me, I love you and I’m sorry it’s hard. If you’re one of the unwashed asses, I hope your dreams are filled with sand-penetrating cries and the faces of people you’ve discarded or infected along the way. #wearamask #covid #pandemic #anniversary #lockdown #communitycare #disability #stillmasking #masktogetheramerica
March 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20)
Cover of Local by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly. Cover has a faint image in the background of a young woman walking past some buildings, above the title are two legs in jeans and black converse sneakers with a brown backpack beside them.
March 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20)
Issue 1 is Invincible, beige stone background with a cracked wall, in front of the wall is the superhero Invincible in a fighting stance. His superhero outfit is black, light blue and yellow, skin tight with light blue boots, yellow face mask with blue eye goggles built in. The man has dark brown or black hair, serious look on his face.
March 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (8/20)
Issue 1 or Who is Jake Ellis? from January 2011. Red black and white coloring, man in black suit and white/grey tie standing in water at the foreground with a close up of a man with sunglasses, short hair, and a gun in his hand in the background.
March 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)
Issue 1 of Superboy from the 90s, Superboy is misfit facing forward with a smile, wearing a black leather jacket and sunglasses over the typical Superman costume, beach scene in the background.
March 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (6/20)
Issue 63 of Witchblade, main character facing forward with torn red shirt, metal spikes overlaying upper arms and edges of face, long brown hair, fiery background.
March 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20)
Cover of issue 100 of The Walking Dead, titled Something to Fear. Faceless figure in a black leather jacket is holding a bat wrapped in barbed wire, lettering in red, background half black, half pale yellow.
March 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20)
Issue 2 cover of Shi, character facing forward with blue black hair, green eyes, white face makeup and red lips, left hand in red glove holding a sword with a green handle.
February 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM